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Anonymous
| I just got a copy of Eileen Myles' AFTERGLow. Genius. Expect to read it in about 3 days. 10/10 already |
Anonymous
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Impossible Us by Sarah Lotz - 6/10
I found the initial setup lacking, and the pace dragged a bit, but overall enjoyed |
Anonymous
I thought so and I usually shy away from magical realism and the like. |
Anonymous
Yes, I LOVE this book! |
Anonymous
| Tess Gerritsen's Body Double - 7/10. Fun read, nothing remarkable for the genre. |
Anonymous
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The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
This one is taking me forever to get through. I'm just past the halfway point, and I keep wanting to be done with it. I've read other Lisa Jewell books that held my interest, but I'm struggling with this one. |
Anonymous
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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism by Fumio Sasaki
I listened to the audio book and now have the book book from the library. I wanted to re-read some sections and be able to more closely contemplate the chapter three items in print. The book is written by a young man (mid thirties at the time), and usually I would think he's too young to have relatable ideas. That was true for some things, and he is more extreme than I ever want to be, but other ideas are thought provoking and identifiable in my quest to downsize. For example, one tip is to not get creative: you're cleaning things out and see an item and think of ways you could use the object (I could store things in this tin!) but in reality you will never do that. |
Anonymous
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I just finished Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow on NYE. I liked it, didn’t love it. 6/10
Currently reading Rust in the Root and love it. Will give a rating when I finish. |
Anonymous
Feel free to DNF. It's not that great. |
Anonymous
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Recently finished Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 8.5/10 and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 7/10
Up next is Demon Copperhead |
Anonymous
| I just finished History of Love, by Nicole Krauss. I liked it very much. Ingeniously intertwined stories, funny and moving writing, beautiful. 8.5 or 9/10. |
Anonymous
| Babel, 9/10 |
Anonymous
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The Marriage Portrait, 9/10
House of Fortune, 6/10 Hester, 5/10 Currently reading the Poppy War trilogy by RF Kuang. |
Anonymous
| The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz -- I'll give it 7/10. It's a devastatingly acute novel of manners with enough cliffhanger chapter endings to keep you reading. OTOH, it's a kitchen sink with a few too many story arcs that weren't sufficiently developed. Even worse, the foundational story has some pretty big holes in it. If you're familiar with the NY/NJ area, especially Brooklyn, and you have a long plane flight coming up, it's perfect. |
Anonymous
| Thanks for this - just the motivation I need to sit down and read my TBR pile instead of mindlessly flipping through streaming channels. |