Favorite book you've read this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
A wonderful story about family, forgiveness and unconditional love.

Runner-up: The Wedding People by Alison Espach -- a story about crawling out of depression and starting over, which actually manages to be funny too

I loved Hello Beautiful, and also Elinor Oliphant, as someone noted on the previous page.

I'm not having the best year of reading. Some that I've *liked* are Nora Goes off Script, James, The Sentence.

I've read a few popular books that I did not like at all: Malibu Rising; Red, White and Royal Blue; Pineapple Street

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the Light We Cannot See. I got so attached to the characters and hated to see it end.

+1
I didn't get attached to the characters but loved the beautiful writing.

[Anonymous]

An oldie - My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. Also God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An oldie - My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. Also God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam.

The durrell book has recently been debunked on the basis that there was massive abuse within that family

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An oldie - My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. Also God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam.

The durrell book has recently been debunked on the basis that there was massive abuse within that family

I haven’t heard anything about the “book” being “debunked.” I know there have been assertions—probably true, who knows—of violence in the family (including by Gerry) and sexual abuse of Sappho Durrell by her father Larry. It’s not that I don’t think these are abhorrent things, I’m just not into canceling valuable literature because of mistakes made by authors, particularly when they’re dead (although I also still read Alice Munro).