What have you been reading?

[cherrynberry]

I quite liked the goldfinch even if it's far-fetched. I liked all of Donna Tartt's books actually!
I'm finishing Cloud Splitter by Russell Banks. I really enjoy it. I loved Russell Banks in my youth but I only read him translated, so his recent death made me want to read his books in English.

Before that I read the Iron Council, which is the last book in the New Crobuzon serie by "weird fiction " steam punk writer China Miéville. It was good, but a bit of letdown compared to the first two books, Perdido street station and the scar, that made a very strong impression on me.

I totally judge a book by its cover and The Goldfinch was just too beautiful not to read. I like it so far, so maybe my method works. But then again, I once impulsively bought a book for its cover only to find out it was a children’s novel

 

[aart]

An apt read for the Ostara(Easter) season.
I read it each year.

 

[MaryJanet]

An apt read for the Ostara(Easter) season.
I read it each year.

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I unpacked my copy from a box of books last weekend, cleaned it, and put it on a prominent shelf. Sadly my reading list is too full for a re-read.

 

[aart]

I unpacked my copy from a box of books last weekend, cleaned it, and put it on a prominent shelf. Sadly my reading list is too full for a re-read.

Always time for a good re-read....
....unless you have some kind of deadline on your new reads(library due date?).

 

[MaryJanet]

Always time for a good re-read....
....unless you have some kind of deadline on your new reads(library due date?).

Bookclub reading list, reading for work etc etc. I do extremely little reading for pleasure. Maybe a few chapters of a novel a year. But I read and write all day long for work.

 

[ManueB]

An apt read for the Ostara(Easter) season.
I read it each year.

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Shame on me, I never heard of that book, nor of the film, as a french chocoholic ! I'll have to read it for sure now.

Bookclub reading list, reading for work etc etc. I do extremely little reading for pleasure. Maybe a few chapters of a novel a year. But I read and write all day long for work.

Having a lot of time to read for pleasure instead of for work, is one of the things I really enjoy about quitting my work.
It did have the surprising effect that I read more stupid stuff in the following three years than during my whole life.

 

[MaryJanet]

Shame on me, I never heard of that book, nor of the film, as a french chocoholic ! I'll have to read it for sure now.

Having a lot of time to read for pleasure instead of for work, is one of the things I really enjoy about quitting my work.
It did have the surprising effect that I read more stupid stuff in the following three years than during my whole life.

I hope that happens for me too one day!

 

[ManueB]

I finished Cloudsplitter. The ending was a bit long but still a very interesting and thought provoking read.

Then, I read "where the crawdads sing". I get the hype, it's a page turner, but it didn't really work for me. I rarely say this but it lacked descriptive writing, I couldn't visualise the environment of the marsh, which is so important in the story.

Next book now is another easy read, Jade legacy, the third and last of Fonda Lee's jade trilogy. I keep postponing reading it because it seems I have a curse with fantasy trilogy- whenever I really like the first two books, the last one is always disappointing.
I found her writing rather plain but the story line and development, the characters and the setting really make up for it in the first two books.

 

[MaryJanet]

I've finished In AI We Trust, which was densely phrased and a good stretch for me as a reader. I think it further developed my reading by making me more attentive. I really had to concentrate. It described some fresh thinking, which I appreciated as so few books in this field are as insightful, and it sparked a few ideas, so it was well worth the time.

I've just started The Data Gaze by David Beer, which is next on the bookclub list.

 

[SunriseChickers]

My grandmother reads a lot of books, so she let me go through and pick out ones I wanted that she was finished with. I got soooo many romance novels and I love them. They're all pretty country and Christian, so nothing sketch(and of course grandma approved XD). So far I've read "The Double S" book trilogy, and one book from the "The Montana Marshalls" five book series. Each about 300 pages, all in a week! I'm rather proud of myself.