What are you reading? November edition

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The Wedding People, Alison Espach

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Also did not like or finish Creation Lake. Super odd and not interesting.

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I just finished Iron Flame and will start A Fate Inked in Blood tonight.

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DNF: Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner. I do not understand the hype at all on this one. It was just bizarre. I gave it a good run and got 50% of the way through, then gave up.

I HATED this book, and I did finish it. It's the type of book that is just trying too hard to be esoteric.

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Just finished We Solve Murders. Fun but not as great as the old folks. Starting Intermezzo by Sally Rooney.

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Anonymous wrote:The Wedding People, Alison Espach

I just finished this! Fun and entertaining

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Anonymous wrote:I just finished listening to Lily and the Octopus.
It is about a lonely gay man with a 12 year dog that is dying. Lily is the name of the dog, and he is calling the tumor the dog has the octopus.
I thought it was okay. A bit fanciful.
I downloaded it from my library website.

I couldn't finish this. Fanciful is the right word. It was all too much for me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Wedding People, Alison Espach

I just finished this! Fun and entertaining

I just finished as well. It really made me root for every character.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just finished listening to Lily and the Octopus.
It is about a lonely gay man with a 12 year dog that is dying. Lily is the name of the dog, and he is calling the tumor the dog has the octopus.
I thought it was okay. A bit fanciful.
I downloaded it from my library website.

I couldn't finish this. Fanciful is the right word. It was all too much for me.

I am the PP who just finished this book. I had heard good things about the Guncle, which the same author wrote. Since there was a wait list on Libby for that book, I decided to listen to Lily and the Octopus just to check out what else the author had written. I was disappointed. Not motivated to listen to or read anything else this author wrote at this point.

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I tried to read Sea of Tranquility since I liked Station Eleven (didn’t love, was disappointed by the conclusion). But I DNFed it. It was too navel gazing to me. All the stuff about the pandemic in the moon just sounded like her working out her feelings of being stuck home during Covid with a young kid and it made me roll my eyes.

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The Boyfriend by Frieda McFadden.
Just started but sucked me in right from the start

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Anonymous wrote:I tried to read Sea of Tranquility since I liked Station Eleven (didn’t love, was disappointed by the conclusion). But I DNFed it. It was too navel gazing to me. All the stuff about the pandemic in the moon just sounded like her working out her feelings of being stuck home during Covid with a young kid and it made me roll my eyes.

Yes, I also struggled with SofT. I loved Station Eleven the TV version which had drawn out minor characters from the book to make an emotional connection between them that did not exist in the book. All that aside, when I was on Twitter I had some minor conversations with Emily St. John Mandel and that was pretty cool.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm reading Michael Connelly books, Detective Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series. Some of the better written crime fictions.

If you haven’t already thought of it, I also recommend going waaaay back to his 90s stuff. I read them decades ago, so hard to compare directly at this point, but I think The Poet and Blood Work were my favorites of his books.

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Anonymous wrote:I have this book on hold at the library.
But my favorite Shafak book is 40 Rules of Love in case you haven't read that.

Thanks - I haven't read that one yet.

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Anonymous wrote:I tried to read Sea of Tranquility since I liked Station Eleven (didn’t love, was disappointed by the conclusion). But I DNFed it. It was too navel gazing to me. All the stuff about the pandemic in the moon just sounded like her working out her feelings of being stuck home during Covid with a young kid and it made me roll my eyes.

I did finish it, but didn’t care for it. Much weaker than Station Eleven which I loved. If you care to search for it, there’s at least one if not several threads on SoT on here and many people felt the same. I liked the premise (minus the pandemic stuff), but I felt it needed a lot more fleshing out. It almost read like an early draft than a completed work.