December 2025. What are you reading?

[Anonymous]

I am 33% in to Broken Country and I don't love it yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

Listening on audio (Audible), and so far I really like it. The MC has an interesting “voice”, and the audio reader is good, too.

Fingers crossed it keeps my attention. I’ve been in a slump lately when it comes to finding books that grab me - lots of DNF last month.

I think this is a love it or hate it book. I hated it but know I was in the minority. I did not finish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

Listening on audio (Audible), and so far I really like it. The MC has an interesting “voice”, and the audio reader is good, too.

Fingers crossed it keeps my attention. I’ve been in a slump lately when it comes to finding books that grab me - lots of DNF last month.

I think this is a love it or hate it book. I hated it but know I was in the minority. I did not finish.

The only people I know who love it love it because they listened to it on audio book. Evidently it’s amazing in that format.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

Listening on audio (Audible), and so far I really like it. The MC has an interesting “voice”, and the audio reader is good, too.

Fingers crossed it keeps my attention. I’ve been in a slump lately when it comes to finding books that grab me - lots of DNF last month.

I think this is a love it or hate it book. I hated it but know I was in the minority. I did not finish.

The only people I know who love it love it because they listened to it on audio book. Evidently it’s amazing in that format.

Hard disagree. I read a hardback copy. I also purchased 5 copies for the library I run, book talked the heck out of it to HS students, and couldn’t keep the book on the shelves.

That said, I have heard the audio is amazing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

Listening on audio (Audible), and so far I really like it. The MC has an interesting “voice”, and the audio reader is good, too.

Fingers crossed it keeps my attention. I’ve been in a slump lately when it comes to finding books that grab me - lots of DNF last month.

I think this is a love it or hate it book. I hated it but know I was in the minority. I did not finish.

The only people I know who love it love it because they listened to it on audio book. Evidently it’s amazing in that format.

The audio version is what I did not finish.

[Anonymous]

Dutch House audiobook was narrated by Tom Hanks, who is of course a great narrator. I thought the story itself was ok, but I enjoyed his narration so much I kept at it.

[Anonymous]

I’m about 2/3 of the way through The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. I love it. The scene in the Roman villa haunts me days later.

And I just read that Guillermo del Toro is adapting it into a stop motion animation film!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m about 2/3 of the way through The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. I love it. The scene in the Roman villa haunts me days later.

And I just read that Guillermo del Toro is adapting it into a stop motion animation film!

I really really struggled with the slow pace and repetitive nature of this particular Ishiguro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dutch House audiobook was narrated by Tom Hanks, who is of course a great narrator. I thought the story itself was ok, but I enjoyed his narration so much I kept at it.

This kind of thing makes me wonder about the financial status of celebrities.

--actress who has done book narration (it can be sort of fun, but it is actually pretty tiring and a bit tedious and not interesting compared to making films).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m about 2/3 of the way through The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. I love it. The scene in the Roman villa haunts me days later.

And I just read that Guillermo del Toro is adapting it into a stop motion animation film!

He is such a genius. I need to read this, I haven't read it yet despite having read most of his work.

[Anonymous]

Started The Lion Women of Tehran today. So far really enjoying it.

[Anonymous]

Finishing up Bread of Angels. I am not liking it anywhere near as much as Just Kids.

I think part of what is bothering me is what she isn't saying/writing. I get that it is her life, and she can share only what she wants to and everything else is no one's business especially any struggles. But most of us, at least those of us reading Patti Smith, know what the culture was at certain times and places ( for example the Chelsea Hotel in 1978 ... or whatever). If you don't mention certain things, it seems like you are carefully avoiding them. And to avoid certain things here seems almost like prevarication or something. And that becomes distracting. But I'll finish reading it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m about 2/3 of the way through The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. I love it. The scene in the Roman villa haunts me days later.

And I just read that Guillermo del Toro is adapting it into a stop motion animation film!

Oh wow I went through an Ishiguro phase earlier this year, and this was one of the ones I read and really enjoyed. I was so charmed by it.

[Anonymous]

I just finished “A Marriage at Sea,” which I really enjoyed. Definitely not one of my top books of the year (the New Yorker has basically anointed it as that, which I find interesting) but a good read nonetheless. Before that was “On the Calculation of Volume I,” which I read quickly and was sad to find my library does not have the second book yet!

I’m in between books so am going to read an ARC called “The Children” by Melissa Albert. I have not heard of her but I often find great authors this way so we will see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

Listening on audio (Audible), and so far I really like it. The MC has an interesting “voice”, and the audio reader is good, too.

Fingers crossed it keeps my attention. I’ve been in a slump lately when it comes to finding books that grab me - lots of DNF last month.

I think this is a love it or hate it book. I hated it but know I was in the minority. I did not finish.

The only people I know who love it love it because they listened to it on audio book. Evidently it’s amazing in that format.

Hard disagree. I read a hardback copy. I also purchased 5 copies for the library I run, book talked the heck out of it to HS students, and couldn’t keep the book on the shelves.

That said, I have heard the audio is amazing

Agree. Dh who has dyslexia and barely reads books devoured it as did hs age ds.

I’m reading Flashlight by Susan Choi. So different from Trust exercise! I’m mesmerized by the intertwining stories. The lives we live and leave and the secrets we keep and cultures and repression and the time period (post ww2 in Japan and US). All so good.