May 2025 -- What are you reading?

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Anonymous wrote:I got Say You'll Remember Me on the lucky day shelf at MCPL. I love Abby Jimenez books.

I had seen Abby Jimenez recommended here, and just forced my way through The Friend Zone, which was easily the worst book I ever made myself finish. I checked Reddit, which suggested she has dreadful books and very good ones. I’m now wondering if there is some sort of writing conglomerate that uses her name?

I hated the one book of hers that I read - but I've come to realize that romance just isn't my genre.

I used to hate romance. So boring! So predictable! So cheesy! But now I am 51 and I enjoy it have added some into my reading mix.

Agree, I need to switch up my genres every book and romance is a good way to do that.

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Julie Chan is Dead and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Liking them both so far.

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Anonymous wrote:I got Say You'll Remember Me on the lucky day shelf at MCPL. I love Abby Jimenez books.

I had seen Abby Jimenez recommended here, and just forced my way through The Friend Zone, which was easily the worst book I ever made myself finish. I checked Reddit, which suggested she has dreadful books and very good ones. I’m now wondering if there is some sort of writing conglomerate that uses her name?

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I hated the one book of hers that I read - but I've come to realize that romance just isn't my genre.

Same, I find romance insufferable.

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Just got done with "After Life" by Gayle Forman.
It is about a 17 year old girl who rides her bike home from school, but when she shows up at home her mom freaks out because the girl has been dead for seven years.
I liked it.

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I read Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney and thought it was weird, but well written.

Then I read Women's Hotel by Daniel Lavery. It was awful. Pages of drivel. Unremarkable characters and almost devoid of plot. Had it not been my only option on a plane for hours, I'd have probably abandoned it.

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Anonymous wrote:The Correspondent on audio. Absolutely love and slowing down at the end on purpose because I’m enjoying it so much.

I read this in one fell swoop yesterday. What a special, special book. I just love an ornery, yet likeable main character. When I heard it was epistolary I though that would become grating after a while but it didn't at all. I finished it in the afternoon and when I was ready to pick up the next book for bedtime reading I couldn't yet as I felt like I had a reading hangover. I had to sit with this one.

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Anonymous wrote:Just started The Story She Left Behind by Patty Callahan Henry. She wrote The Secret Book of Flora Lea which I liked and this one has better reviews, so hoping it's good!

I liked The Story she Left Behind much more than The Secret Book of Flora Lea. I may have already said that in last month's thread? Enjoy your reading!

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I just finished The Daydreams by Laura Hankin and loved it! Really sucked in this Millennial with a bit of nostalgia from the early-mid aughts, and actually pretty twisty (not in a suspenseful way). Really loved it!

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Reading “Intermezzo” and have mixed feelings. Can’t quite decide how I feel about Sally Rooney.

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My book club just finished "The Girl Who was Taken". I liked it. The ending literally left you hanging though, terrible. The one last month was "The Midnight Library" and I didn't like that one at all

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Anonymous wrote:Just got done with "After Life" by Gayle Forman.
It is about a 17 year old girl who rides her bike home from school, but when she shows up at home her mom freaks out because the girl has been dead for seven years.
I liked it.

Oh, that one sounds interesting

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Just started Dream State after finishing Long Bright River which I really liked.

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Anonymous wrote:I just started Possession, based on a recommendation from a "best fiction" thread on DCUM.

So far I'm finding it very difficult to get into, but the other authors that poster recommended are some of my absolute favorites, so I'm hoping this one clicks soon.

Omg, I love Possession so much. One of my all- time favorites.

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I just finished Hail Mary, which wouldn't normally appeal to me but was recommended by a young person I know and I didn't want to blow it off. It took me a little while to get into it but I ended up really enjoying it.

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The wedding people.

I had heard it was great and very funny and then ( spoiler alert) when the premise was revealed I was like wtaf? But it somehow is very funny and enjoyable!