February book thread - last, current, and next reads

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where can I join a bookclub online? I am not on Facebook.

thanks!

Maybe you can find one on Instagram? I'm not on it but there's a huge book community there. My online book clubs are through Facebook.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last: The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell - kind of long, but I really wanted to know what happened, so I kept with it. Really needed a good editing.

Current: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - Loving it

Next Up: Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner

Crying in HMart is GREAT as an audio book. It’s read by the author.

NP. The author is so monotone. I'm only on Chapter 2. Will the audio book get better or should I switch to the ebook?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have ideas for a March book thread topic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have ideas for a March book thread topic?

I'm responding to myself - but one idea: what is your favorite book of 2022 so far? And also what are you currently reading? But I am happy for other ideas!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have ideas for a March book thread topic?

Best book you've read in 2021 with a brief description of why

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have ideas for a March book thread topic?

Best book you've read in 2021 with a brief description of why

Do you mean 2021 last year or 2022 this year ? sorry just checking!!

[Anonymous]

I finally read the guest list (Lucy foley) per dcum rec and it was just ok. I am waiting to read the second tana French book after really liking in the woods (another dcum rec). I also just read project Hail Mary which was pretty good… I did a lot of skimming as I got towards the end because the sciency stuff was too in the weeds for me! Im waiting for the library for bath haus.. a dcum rec. thanks all!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I finally read the guest list (Lucy foley) per dcum rec and it was just ok. I am waiting to read the second tana French book after really liking in the woods (another dcum rec). I also just read project Hail Mary which was pretty good… I did a lot of skimming as I got towards the end because the sciency stuff was too in the weeds for me! Im waiting for the library for bath haus.. a dcum rec. thanks all!

I also only thought the guest list was just OK. I still need to read in the woods.

[Anonymous]

I'm really enjoying My Life in Full - memoir from the former CEO of PepsiCo (one of the first and few Indian/immigrant women to lead a global company).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last: I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir - 4 stars
Current: The Secret Life of Addie Larue
Next: Maus - 8th grader is reading it in school, and I remember hearing/knowing about it as a teen but never actually read it. With the recent controversy, I figured I'd get myself a copy.

What do you think of Addie Larue? I just finished it and was disappointed.

NP - I found it such a frustrating book. I couldn't stand the main character. I found her so dull. It was so repetitive. I wanted more time with Luc - like what's the rest of his life like, when he's not slumming it with that drip Addie?

I just started Lily King's Euphoria. Really liking it so far. Before that I read a silly cozy mystery called Brownies and Broomsticks: A Magical Bakery Mystery - about some witches who run a bakery and have to solve a murder. It was ok - I liked the setting and some of the characters, but the plot fell a little flat. The baked goods all sounded delicious tho.

In a light, insidious way, this book turned into one of the darkest I have ever read. To the point that I wish I had not read it (it really should have come with a trigger warning!) So just FYI, it certainly is not witches and baked goods (which sounds lovely by the way).

Last: Wintering, Katherine May (4.5, don't think I've ever felt more "seen" in a memoir)
The Least of Us, Sam Quinones (about current Fentanyl/ new Meth crisis; 5+ for content, 3.5 for writing which was a little all over the place)

Currently: Stolen Focus, Johann Hari (basically why modern life, including, but hardly exclusively the internet, is destroying our attention/capacity; 4, very persuasive but sort of everything you already know on some level about this problem)

Next: Red Famine, Anne Applegate

[Anonymous]

Last: Not All Diamonds and Rose. About the Real Housewives. Absolute popcorn entertainment

Current: Black Cake. Already sad that it is going to be over in a few days.

[Anonymous]

Last: The Guncle (loved)
Current, almost done: Life, Interrupted (loving)
Next: Thinking something by Colleen Hoover....I like to mix it up.