Recommend a good book you’ve read recently

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Anonymous wrote:Just finally read Where the Crawdads Sing, highly recommend if you haven't read it.

How much to you need to read before you liked this book? I’ve stared it at least 5 times.

I hated this book and am baffled by its popularity.

+1. I really don't understand it either. Completely implausible. I just couldn't get over how unrealistic it was.

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The Vanishing Half

Anxious People

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The Knowledge Gap
It should be really be classified in the horror genre.

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In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just finally read Where the Crawdads Sing, highly recommend if you haven't read it.

How much to you need to read before you liked this book? I’ve stared it at least 5 times.

I hated this book and am baffled by its popularity.

As a book discussion, I am curious why you hated it? I ended up really enjoying it, though I found it predictable. I kept hoping that I was wrong, but alas, I was right. Still, I enjoyed the characters and atmosphere.

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Such a Fun Age

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just finally read Where the Crawdads Sing, highly recommend if you haven't read it.

How much to you need to read before you liked this book? I’ve stared it at least 5 times.

I hated this book and am baffled by its popularity.

+1. I really don't understand it either. Completely implausible. I just couldn't get over how unrealistic it was.

Interesting. Having grown up in the late 60s and early 70s, I am constantly amazed at how loosely we were parented. Out of the house after breakfast, and don't come back until dinner. Either in school, or out and about during the summers. And I grew up the upper part of Middle Class to the lower part of UMC.

I think that's what made me suspend my disbelief regarding a very poor family with parents who clearly didn't know how, or want to parent.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just finally read Where the Crawdads Sing, highly recommend if you haven't read it.

How much to you need to read before you liked this book? I’ve stared it at least 5 times.

I hated this book and am baffled by its popularity.

+1. I really don't understand it either. Completely implausible. I just couldn't get over how unrealistic it was.

Interesting. Having grown up in the late 60s and early 70s, I am constantly amazed at how loosely we were parented. Out of the house after breakfast, and don't come back until dinner. Either in school, or out and about during the summers. And I grew up the upper part of Middle Class to the lower part of UMC.

I think that's what made me suspend my disbelief regarding a very poor family with parents who clearly didn't know how, or want to parent.

I thought it was an okay read but the dialogue was godawful

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Anonymous wrote:Such a Fun Age

I love the narrator for this book.

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Snow by John Bayville
Agree with The Vanishing Half

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*Banville*

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just finally read Where the Crawdads Sing, highly recommend if you haven't read it.

How much to you need to read before you liked this book? I’ve stared it at least 5 times.

I hated this book and am baffled by its popularity.

Same. I was hate-reading by the end. Pp, if you have to keep trying, you’re probably not going to like it.

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Jakarta Method by Bevins. Nonfiction, 2020.

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Just finished Transcendent Kingdom—it’s good! Another good book I’ve read this year is The Great Believers, which is sort of pandemic related. I also think A Gentleman in Moscow was very good and would be an interesting book to read for those more house-bound than they’d like.

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The Vanishing Half