June 2025 - What are you reading?

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Just finished "Good Girl, Bad Blood" which is the sequel to "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder." It's YA fiction, so a quick read. Not the greatest thing I've ever read, but I liked it enough that I'll read the third book in the series.

Currently reading "All the Colors of the Dark" which I'm mainly just finding really sad at the moment.

(Just added half a dozen books to my library hold list based on this thread.)

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I just started Black Cake. It was a Hulu limited series so I know the story but I’m still enjoying it.

[Anonymous]

The Gifted School, by Bruce Holsinger. I couldn't put it down. It felt sort of like the DCUM AAP forum transplanted itself to Colorado and became a novel.

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Anonymous wrote:Just started Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. It’s violent. I won’t likely finish.

lol, what did you expect it would be? I love CMC but it's always violent!

I’ve read some of his other work. Thus one is hitting me as particularly gratuitous in its violence, but perhaps I’m just at a place in my life where I no longer have the patience for content like this.

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Anonymous wrote:Broken country by Clare Leslie hall!

Finished this. It was really good. Reminds me of god of the woods, the frozen river, style of writing.

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Anonymous wrote:just started Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I'm really enjoying it so far.

Please report back! I’m 40 on the library list! I love TJR.

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Anonymous wrote:Just started Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. It’s violent. I won’t likely finish.

I couldn’t finish it. I liked The Road and No Country for Old Men (also pretty violent!) but this one turned my stomach. There was a particular scene where I was like, yeah I’m done.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just started Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. It’s violent. I won’t likely finish.

lol, what did you expect it would be? I love CMC but it's always violent!

I’ve read some of his other work. Thus one is hitting me as particularly gratuitous in its violence, but perhaps I’m just at a place in my life where I no longer have the patience for content like this.

Yeah. I’m a big McCarthy fan and Blood Meridian is beyond what I have the stomach/taste for. I actually felt it was gratuitous in the way that his other works aren’t.

[Anonymous]

Almost done with Intermezzo. There are points where it’s felt like a slog and other points where I’ve been really into it. So, don’t know yet how I feel.

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Anonymous wrote:thats easy, im reading captain underpants and diary of a wimpy kid at the same time (I'm 58 years old)

Ha Ha! I like to read kid books once in a while also. In fact, I recently read "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman. It was about an 8th grader who was supposed to get his name put on the "in trouble" list but accidentally gets put on the gifted kids list and gets sent to gifted school.

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Anonymous wrote:Almost done with Intermezzo. There are points where it’s felt like a slog and other points where I’ve been really into it. So, don’t know yet how I feel.

I'm usually hit or miss with Sally Rooney, in the sense that I thought Normal People was the best book ever while Conversations with Friends was the most banal, boring, useless book. And then Intermezzo was just fine, I had no strong feelings about it either way. Which seems to match up with exactly how you feel.

[Anonymous]

Just started Dear Edward. So far I like it.

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Anonymous wrote:Almost done with Intermezzo. There are points where it’s felt like a slog and other points where I’ve been really into it. So, don’t know yet how I feel.

I'm usually hit or miss with Sally Rooney, in the sense that I thought Normal People was the best book ever while Conversations with Friends was the most banal, boring, useless book. And then Intermezzo was just fine, I had no strong feelings about it either way. Which seems to match up with exactly how you feel.

Yes, I just finished it. It was okay. It had moments of moving writing, and she has such a knack for describing a particular feeling or mood. I liked the sections about the younger brother and his relationship. I completely did not buy the older brother’s struggle with his “situationships” at all. (Neither woman’s thoughts/actions made much sense to me, except as purely in service to the brother. I found both poorly written, particularly for Sally Rooney! And the “conflict” at the heart of it all wasn’t well explained.)

I’m being deliberately vague so as not to ruin it for others but I may go look at past threads.

[Anonymous]

I read Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid and absolutely loved it. I can see myself reading it again before the end of the year and I rarely reread books.

I just started The Devil's Advocate by Steve Cavanagh. It's part of the Eddie Flynn series. If you enjoy crime/legal fiction, I high recommend this series! Eddie Flynn is a con man turned defense attorney.

I'm also listening to Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez.

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Anonymous wrote:What is everyone reading this month?
What is it about?
What do you think about it?

I just discovered the author J. Courtney Sullivan and loved so far Maine and the cliffs. I am reading one of her earlier works..i think it is friends and somerhing

Really good

Ohh, I read The Cliffs and struggled with it a bit. Did you think Maine was very similar?