April book club - open to all

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Anonymous wrote:Very close to being done The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois. Planning to finish it tonight before bed - very long but totally engrossing. Might be my first five-star of the year on Goodread (and it's book 27 for me this year).

as fellow goodreads user I feel the thrill of the first 5* book of the year! But also apparently loose with my reviews because I have four 5* books so far this year (and I'm behind your pace):

Mercia's Take - Daniel Wiles
The Children of Dynmouth - William Trevor
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (reread, to be fair)
Patience - Toby Litt

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Anonymous wrote:Reading "It Ends with Us." At 20% - does it get better?

I did not enjoy that book.

Finished. Hated it but intrigued by Verity from a review on WaPo. Cannot believe how many books this woman has sold.

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Anonymous wrote:Never by Ken Follett, pretty fascinating so far

I’m glad that I read this one *before* the war in Ukraine and the current tensions between China and Taiwan. That story seemed so frighteningly plausible!

So I finished it today and have to say it was very disturbing. Kept me interested all the way through though.

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The IT Girl
By Ruth Ware

A little slow but good

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Still Midnight, Denise Mina. Scottish detective fiction. So, so good. Would probably appeal to readers of Harry Bosch, Harry Hole, Kinsey Millhone.

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Anonymous wrote:Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Can’t put it down!

Just finished this for my book club. Would never have picked this book in a million years, but enjoyed it. That’s why I love my book club, I end up enjoying books I never would have read.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading "It Ends with Us." At 20% - does it get better?

I gave up on it.

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Anonymous wrote:Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Can’t put it down!

Just finished this for my book club. Would never have picked this book in a million years, but enjoyed it. That’s why I love my book club, I end up enjoying books I never would have read.

That is also why I am in a book club!

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I've been reading The Great Believers. The story is good, but the pacing is pretty slow. It had two major plot lines - one in the eighties during the AIDS crisis and another in recent times, and the eighties plot line is much stronger than the other. I would have kept going, but have too many books I want to read, so DNFd it. Still recommend if you don't mind a slower paced book.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading "It Ends with Us." At 20% - does it get better?

I hated that book. And there's a sequel called It Begins With Us. You couldn't pay me to read it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading "It Ends with Us." At 20% - does it get better?

I did not enjoy that book.

Finished. Hated it but intrigued by Verity from a review on WaPo. Cannot believe how many books this woman has sold.

Same. This was my first book by her and I will never read another.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been reading The Great Believers. The story is good, but the pacing is pretty slow. It had two major plot lines - one in the eighties during the AIDS crisis and another in recent times, and the eighties plot line is much stronger than the other. I would have kept going, but have too many books I want to read, so DNFd it. Still recommend if you don't mind a slower paced book.

I read that in the last few years and remember liking it a lot. Maybe it’s bc I’m from Chicago and went to the same bars etc at the same time as the character.

I just read A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney… a funny book a father wrote about the death of his 3 year old son. Sounds impossible but he did it. Crying. Laughing. Really good.

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Read two in April so far:
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister. Thought it was a pretty good take on a murder with time travel thrown in surprisingly successfully.
They're Going to Love You by Meg Howrey. Loved this one - relationship between a woman and her parents, all in the world of professional ballet, 80s to present.

Currently reading Finley Donovan Is Killing It. Way goofier than I thought it would be but it's starting to grow on me.

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Anonymous wrote:Read two in April so far:
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister. Thought it was a pretty good take on a murder with time travel thrown in surprisingly successfully.
They're Going to Love You by Meg Howrey. Loved this one - relationship between a woman and her parents, all in the world of professional ballet, 80s to present.

Currently reading Finley Donovan Is Killing It. Way goofier than I thought it would be but it's starting to grow on me.

I liked that Finlay Donovan was set in NOVA. I should read the second one, one of these days.

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Anonymous wrote:Read two in April so far:
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister. Thought it was a pretty good take on a murder with time travel thrown in surprisingly successfully.
They're Going to Love You by Meg Howrey. Loved this one - relationship between a woman and her parents, all in the world of professional ballet, 80s to present.

Currently reading Finley Donovan Is Killing It. Way goofier than I thought it would be but it's starting to grow on me.

I liked that Finlay Donovan was set in NOVA. I should read the second one, one of these days.

I liked the NOVA angle, too. And the whole murder for hire thing on a local moms’ chat site made me think of DCUM. I liked the first one a lot, the second not as much but the third was ridiculous and a DNF. It got too slapstick, with too much potential will-they or won’t-they romantic subplots (for me).