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Anonymous
Have you read her book, Man Walks Into a Room? That's my favorite of her novels. |
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I have started Mick Herron's Slow Horses - the book on which the new Gary Oldman / Kristin Scott Thomas TV show has been based.
There are 8 books and I've got copies of the first three, so far it is fantastic and the "tone" of the writing is almost a perfect match for Oldman's way of speaking during the show. |
Anonymous
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Lisa Jewell - The Third Wife: DNF. I really enjoyed her mystery Watching You, but I could not get into this one at all.
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Anonymous
Ugh I hated that book. I listened to the audiobook and I kept waiting for it to make any sense, and it never did! I've just started Aesthetica by Allie Rowbottom. A couple of chaps in and really enjoying it so far. Will come back and give a real grade once I finish. |
Anonymous
I love your breadth! |
Anonymous
Ooh I really enjoyed The Plot - I will have to pick up this one now, too. |
Anonymous
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Fight Night by Miriam Toews (that Women Talking movie that's out is based on one of her books).
I didn't like this. Described really difficult situations with an sense of humor that I couldn't stomach. 2/10 stars |
Anonymous
thank you for the warning I will avoid it |
Anonymous
| I just finished the Court of Thorns & Roses series. The first 2 I thought were awesome. Book 3 was okay. Book 4 was a bit more disappointing. Book 5 I feel like it didn't really wrap much up. Plus there was so much freakin' sex. Like way more than any of the other books. I'm not prude by far, but it felt like half the book involved some sort of sexual act. |
Anonymous
No, this was my first time reading her. When I was done with History of Love I went to read old reviews of it, because I like to do that after finishing a book, and I was blown away by how sexist and nasty this NY Times review was (written by a woman but still)—it was VERY HUNG UP ON the fact that at the time she was married to Jonathan Saefer Foer. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/books/review/the-history-of-love-under-the-influence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare I wonder if that sort of sneering coverage is what kept me from reading her stuff previously. |
Anonymous
yeah I think there was a lot of jealousy surrounding that pair and their individual successes. Man Walks Into a Room is excellent, probably her best work, regardless of what the NYTimes thinks. |
Anonymous
| Read the book “Diagnosis” and would give it a 1/10. Not entertaining in any way whatsoever at best, and made me even more anxious at worst. |
Anonymous
| This is your brain on music, 9/10. Recommended by someone on this board and I had a New Year’s goal of reading more nonfiction, so it worked out for me. The audiobook is narrated by the author and includes some musical additions that help with understanding. Surprisingly absorbing, this book is challenging intellectually and addresses a lot of questions about why certain musical pieces are more emotional than others, why we get “ear worms” (songs stuck in our head) and more. |
Anonymous
| Just finished Chris Pavone's "Two Nights in Lisbon." 7/10 - a tightly written engaging thriller set in Portugal's capital city about a wife whose husband goes missing while on a business trip. This was the first book I've read by Pavone and I will definitely return for more. It also made me want to visit Lisbon; Pavone's a great descriptive writer. |
Anonymous
I read this one also and enjoyed it. I've read a couple others by Pavone and those were good too. |