It is September, what are you reading?

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Anonymous wrote:I just finished "The 100 year old man who climbed out a window and disappeared".
The book tells of the wild adventures the old man has after he escapes from his nursing home, and of the wild adventures he had in his life before he came to the nursing home.
I thought it was a lot of fun.
I downloaded it from my library website.

I read that one a few years ago and really enjoyed it too.

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Peyton & Isabelle.
Excellent so far- just started it.

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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.” So very good. Not a new release so easy to get from the library.

“Margot’s Got Money Problems,” is next.

I'm reading this now. I don't get the hype. I only added it because I liked the title of the book. I do not like Margo and assume many DC folx wouldn't either. She is young and dumb and has no personality.

I loved Margot's Got Money Problems. The protagonist is certainly not DC. She is what this board would call LMC, derisively. Reading Margot would open some eyes here.

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Everest, Inc. It's no "Into Thin Air" but it's good (and I'm not even a climber)

I'm excited there's a new Liane Moriarty! It sounds great!

DNFed the Lion Women of Tehran. It was fine, but my loan ran out and I was ok with that.

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Anonymous wrote:I am about halfway through Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow and think I will DNF. Unless there is some big payoff at the end that makes it worth it? I just find myself not really caring about the story and characters.

That was me in August. I posted here and others advised me that there is no great payoff or anything more to glean from it. So I DNF. Absolutely did not get the hype around it.

Ha, I was another of the August "Tomorrows doubters." Halfway through and still haven't picked it up, but still not sure whether I'm declaring DNF.

Currently reading Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe) about Ireland's Troubles. It's great but my trouble is that I am pretty ignorant of that historical period. The book is written in a very narrative, "story"-like format which I usually enjoy, but because I know so little about the "when, where and who" of the time period, I am having trouble placing all the "characters." I think I will have to brush up on some Wikipedia history before continuing!

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Anonymous wrote:I am about halfway through Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow and think I will DNF. Unless there is some big payoff at the end that makes it worth it? I just find myself not really caring about the story and characters.

This is one of my favorite books of all time precisely because I cared so, so much about the characters. They got deep under my skin and really tore at my heart. I'd say if you're having the exact opposite reaction, it's simply not the book for you.

Reading experiences are intensely subjective.

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.” So very good. Not a new release so easy to get from the library.

“Margot’s Got Money Problems,” is next.

I'm reading this now. I don't get the hype. I only added it because I liked the title of the book. I do not like Margo and assume many DC folx wouldn't either. She is young and dumb and has no personality.

I loved Margot's Got Money Problems. The protagonist is certainly not DC. She is what this board would call LMC, derisively. Reading Margot would open some eyes here.

Lower middle class? She is lower class. Nothing middle about her financial status.

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Anonymous wrote:I started The House of Eve. I love it so far and one of the locations is Howard University.

PP here. I finished this and LOVED it. I would love to read other stories by this author but they sound really heavy. Anyone read the Yellow Wife?

It's finally my turn at the library for The Women so I'm getting that today. Finishing up Margo's got money troubles which I'm struggling to read, it's lame.

I read Yellow Wife. It is very interesting, but definitely heavy, cruel, sad.

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Anonymous wrote:I started The House of Eve. I love it so far and one of the locations is Howard University.

PP here. I finished this and LOVED it. I would love to read other stories by this author but they sound really heavy. Anyone read the Yellow Wife?

It's finally my turn at the library for The Women so I'm getting that today. Finishing up Margo's got money troubles which I'm struggling to read, it's lame.

The Yellow Wife is excellent. It's difficult subject matter, but you'd know that from reading the description.

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Anonymous wrote:The Remains of the Day!

My favorite book from this author. I hope you enjoy it!

It's wonderful. But my fave Ishiguro is Never Let Me Go. I'm a big lover of sci-fi.

One bleak and depressing book. I almost DNF.

I also almost DNF. In fact I would have, but I figured since it was written by a Nobel laureate that I would give it a chance. It wasn’t so much that it was “bleak and depressing” (that’s kind of the point of the book IMO), but the fact that it wasn’t very interesting. Not much happened, and the characters spent so much time setting up the supposed important points, and then you get there and it’s like - that was the big deal they spent five pages setting up? The concept itself was interesting, but the execution and the exploration of said concept was lacking.

lol, “execution” doesn’t get much better than Ishiguro.

lol funny how we can disagree on that, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Everest, Inc. It's no "Into Thin Air" but it's good (and I'm not even a climber)

I'm excited there's a new Liane Moriarty! It sounds great!

DNFed the Lion Women of Tehran. It was fine, but my loan ran out and I was ok with that.

I loved Lion Women of Tehran.

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I guess I am on a grief bend right now -
The year of magical thinking
When breath becomes air
Stay true

Also finished 3 body in Chinese, very good and concise. Waiting for the 2nd and 3rd books.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read The Goldfinch. Looking forward to reading Gilead when I finally come off the waitlist, in at least 6 weeks… In the meantime, I’ve just started Behind the Beautiful Forevers.

I still have not finished The goldfinch. Stuck in Las Vegas.

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Anonymous wrote:I just read The Goldfinch. Looking forward to reading Gilead when I finally come off the waitlist, in at least 6 weeks… In the meantime, I’ve just started Behind the Beautiful Forevers.

I still have not finished The goldfinch. Stuck in Las Vegas.

I set it down about 6 years ago...probably time to admit I'm not picking it back up.