What are you reading right now?

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I wish that I could get a sentence or two about a book or why someone likes/dislikes it vs just posts with the book and author only.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish that I could get a sentence or two about a book or why someone likes/dislikes it vs just posts with the book and author only.

Yes! Same goes for a lot of these threads. I can Google/goodreads titles but the *why* is what’s most interesting. Why do you love it, hate it, couldn’t finish it? Why did it change your life?

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The House at Sea's End by Elly Griffiths

This is the third book in the Ruth Galloway mystery series. I've read all the other books, but this one was not readily available so I'm just getting to it now. I enjoy this series because of the relationships between the characters. This is a series in which time passes, characters age and evolve, and life happens. The mystery is secondary to the characters for me.

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Currently reading Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

I read the previous book in the series (Winter's Orbit) and I'm really enjoying how the new one explores a different corner of the worldbuilding. I enjoy the series because it's more magical sci fi than hard (no one explains how anything works in much detail) and the books are very focused on the emotional aspects of the romance between the primary couples (the first book has one non-explicit sex scene, the second has none). I find them fun and easy reads.

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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

I’m enjoying it. I liked her other books too.

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The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn. I am loving it.

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Anonymous wrote:Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

I'm reading this now as well. It's really depressing.... I love Kingsolver, and this is well-written, but I have to force myself to read it because it's so dark. Just one terrible event after another.

I just added this 5 minutes ago to my wish list based on a "top 10 books of 2022" list, but yeesh! Sounds like I may not make it through, but will give it a try.

I’m the first PP who is reading it, and I’m enjoying it (I do also love Dickens), but I am currently taking a short break because yeah, it gets dark. I just need to pause a bit before I go on.

I'm the PP who found it depressing. I finished it and think it's a true 5 star book, but it's bleak. It really picks up around the second half. I think one of the most bleak parts about the book is that Kingsolver doesn't sugarcoat the reality of the opioid crisis in SWVA. It made me want to learn more, and there is some hope at the end. Overall, I recommend it even though there were times I had to put it down and walk away.

I'm the PP who had to take a break, and I finally finished it. I agree with you entirely. The other thing I will say is that I grew up not too far from where the book is set (in Knoxville, actually), and it feels really true to the setting to me.

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I'm reading Sam Shepard's The One Inside. I love his narrative writing, its just sublime. It's a shame he's not around to produce more...

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Anonymous wrote:The Winds of War.
Old but really, really good!

One of my favorite books ever, along with it's sequel War and Remembrance.

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Anonymous wrote:Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

I loved this book so much! Completely original.

Awesome book!

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DCUM

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Anonymous wrote:Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

For the first time? How old are you? I read Never Let Me Go when my daughter had to read it for a class and was struggling with writing a report. If you like The Bell Jar, you should and read her poetry and then Ted Hughes, The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein.

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I just finished "redshirts" by John Scalizi. Fun and quick read.

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Mini-forest Revolution Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World by Hannah Lewis Along with prairie restoration, I can’t stop reading about re-treeing places!!

To Find a Pasqueflower by Greg Hoch I’ve gotten really into prairies and prairie ecology lately as it’s the native plant biome where I live. The more I read about how native plants work in their environment, how they benefit the ground, the pollinators and how they bury carbon, I just can’t stop learning about them.

Crooked House by Agatha Christie I’m so sad that I have just a handful of Christie’s books left to read.

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Anonymous wrote:The Winds of War.
Old but really, really good!

I read that years ago. The book haunted me. It was so powerful. And of course I also read war and remembrance .