LastTenBooks

#lasttenbooks @vivastory

Thanks for this really fun prompt, Scott! 💕📚

📖 1. Last Book I gave up on: that new Joyce Carol Oates book! 😩 I just cannot with her writing! I have tried and tried to enjoy her as an author but I think it's time I finally throw in the towel!

📖 2. Last Book I reread: I'm currently (and foolishly!) rereading the whole Stormlight Archive again before the next book comes out in December. Send thoughts and prayers! 😂

Branwen 3 📖 Last Book I bought: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay! I loved his newest book so much I decided to go back and try one of his older works! 2mo

Branwen 4 📖 Last Book I said I read but didn't: NO! I never do this! 5 📖 Last Book I wrote in the margins of: Devotions by Mary Oliver! I really just love her writing so much! 2mo

Branwen 6 📖 Last Book I had signed: Of Jade and Dragons! My newest Illumicrate book! 7 📖 Last Book I lost: One time I left one of my copies of Mrs. Dalloway in a hotel while on vacation! 😭 2mo

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Branwen 8 📖 Last Book I had to replace: My original mass market paperback copy of Good Omens finally fell to pieces and I had to get a new one! 🫠 9 📖 Last Book I cried over: The new Lois Lowry book - Tree Table Book. 10 📖 Last Book I couldn't find: My copy of But her & Blackbird! And then I remembered I had loaned it to a co-worker to read! 😂 2mo

Ruthiella I actually find it encouraging that there are at least a few books/authors you don‘t like to read. 😂 You read so much and so widely! 2mo

Branwen @Ruthiella Oh my goodness, thank you so much! 🥹 That is such a kind thing to say! 💕 Especially since I often do feel a twinge of shame for not enjoying Joyce Carol Oates as an author. I know she's a great author, and so many people love her, I just have never been able to enjoy any of her books! The other big name author that I really don't enjoy is Nicholas Sparks! 🙈 2mo

vivastory I do like JC Oates, but I admit that I DNF'd the last book of hers I started “Neon Nights.“ Which book did you try? Good luck w/ yr Stormlight project!! Headful of Ghosts was the first Tremblay that I read. Enjoyed seeing your answers! 2mo

mcctrish I‘m with you and Nicholas Sparks 😫 I love this prompt ❤️ 2mo

mcctrish I‘ve only read ( and I did love it)

We Were the Mulvaneys

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Branwen @vivastory It was her most recent book, Butcher. It came in the library and I thought I would give her ONE last try....alas! I gave up about 40 pages in! The one before that that I absolutely hated was the Hazards of Time Travel. It was just awful! 😩 I really wish I could get into her writing! 2mo

Branwen @mcctrish I'm so glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like Nicholas Sparks! 🥳🎉 2mo

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CSeydel

Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany | Jane Mount

Adding my #LastTenBooks to the discussion. I couldn‘t finish King Lear when we read it in my college Shakespeare class, so I watched the movie adaptation over Christmas break 😬
I don‘t know that I‘ve ever lost or couldn‘t find a book that I own? My house is … small.

Thanks for posting! Fun.

vivastory

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RaeLovesToRead

The Last Murder at the End of the World: The dazzling original new high concept murder mystery from the author of the much loved, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton

Part 2/2 #lasttenbooks

Actually, in terms of books I passed on and then regretted it and bought a new copy of, the last one I re-bought was Station Eleven. They were changing the cover and I kinda liked the old one.

Also, I replaced my copy of A Little Life because I wanted the original UK cover before it became obsolete.

I'm always arguing about books, but I remember proper disagreements about Nod by Adrian Barnes at a book club long ago.

vivastory #8 😂 (Me in a used bookstore “Do I own this?“) 3mo

RaeLovesToRead @vivastory The amount of times I've accidentally duplicated purchases 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ (I have occasionally been known to buy a second copy just because I've loved a new cover too 🤭) 3mo

vivastory @RaeLovesToRead A new cover is 100% valid IMO 3mo

RaeLovesToRead @vivastory Yes! This is what I keep trying to tell people... I hope that soon I can get my own place so that I can properly display them 😊 3mo

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RaeLovesToRead

Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome

Great prompts @vivastory
Part 1/2 #lasttenbooks

Let me say this... once I've properly started a book, I hardly ever DNF it.

Swallows and Amazons is the exception.

Also, I didn't really "lie" about Harry Potter 5... I read most of it, but didn't finish in time for the film. Then I just... didn't bother with the rest. It's still on my Goodreads "read" shelf though...

Shame on me!!!!! Shame!!!!

vivastory Happy to see your answers! I'm with you on the DNF. I like the term that we have agreed upon on Litsy for books that are put to the side because the time isn't right but we might return to is “hibernating“ but there are DEFINITELY books that I DNF. I very rarely DNF a book & what is funny is that typically it will be so close to the end of the book that I will either look online & read the ending or just skim read the last few pages. Funny (CONT) (edited) 3mo

vivastory enough I did start Swallows & Amazons last summer & put it to the side. Not sure if it's hibernating or a DNF. 3mo

RaeLovesToRead @vivastory It was one of the few books that I genuinely thought "life is too short" while reading it. Apparently there is a whole series of them. Gave my copy to charity. I think if I'm going to be reading old kids books I'll re-read Nancy Drew or The Magic Faraway Tree. Books where stuff happens. 3mo

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TheBookHippie

Nancy's Mysterious Letter | Carolyn Keene

Thanks for sharing the prompt, @vivastory #lasttenbooks

vivastory Terrific answers! Dorothy Parker is timeless! I have a few poems memorized & I have had a few people in my life be surprised by that, but I think that Parker is a great example of a writer whose work you could memorize & carry with you with not too much effort. 3mo

TheBookHippie @vivastory I love her so. ♥️ 3mo

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TieDyeDude

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil | V E Schwab

Thanks for sharing the prompt, @vivastory
#lasttenbooks

vivastory I admire your shelf organization! 😂 Love your answers, esp #4 & #9. Your answer to 9 seems to embody the spirit of Litsy 3mo

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Aimeesue

Bibliomania | Gustave Flaubert

#LastTenBooks
1.Last book I gave up on:Honestly can‘t nt think of one. I‘ve learned to pick wisely.
2. Last book I re-read:REBECCA
3. Last Book I Bought: Perceval Everett‘s JAMES
4. Last Book I said I read but didn‘t:zip, zero, zilch. Never happens.
5. Last Book I wrote in the Margins of : 100 Poems to Make You Cry
6. Last book I had signed: can‘t remember - it‘s been YEARS
7. Last Book I Lost: Charlie ate Riddley Walker this week
@vivastory ⬇️

Aimeesue 8. Last Book I had to Replace: I guess that will be Riddley Walker (edited) 3mo

Aimeesue 9. Last Book I Argued Over: I don‘t really argue over books, so that is lost to the mists of time. 3mo

Aimeesue 10. Last Book I Couldn‘t Find: I know where all my books are, so the only books I can‘t find are the ones my library hasn‘t acquired yet or that there‘s a wait list for, so maybe You Like it Darker? I think that‘s the last hold I placed. (edited) 3mo

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vivastory Rebecca 💙 Riddley Walker is on my TBR., I loved Hoban's Turtle Diary. I also have Everett's “James“ is waiting on my shelves. I'm curious, are you going to revisit Huck Finn beforehand? I can't wait to read the new King, but plan on reading this King story collection beforehand

Everything's Eventual

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Aimeesue @vivastoryDef going to re- read Huck Finn before James. Everett tucks a lot of references into his books, and I don‘t want to miss them. I love, love, love Riddley Walker for the language - such a thrill when you GET it! Any King is good King as far as I‘m concerned. Love his shorter stuff! (edited) 3mo

vivastory @Aimeesue I am a bit tempted to revisit Huck Finn. I remember when I read it in middle school that I did not care for it, but I have since read other Twain writings & really enjoyed them esp.

Letters from the Earth

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Aimeesue @vivastory Twain was so witty! I enjoy his stuff. Everett said that he read HF fifteen times in a row before writing James. And now he will never pick it up again 😂 3mo

Tamra I‘m so enjoying Secret Voices! 3mo

Aimeesue @Tamra it‘s really excellent! 3mo

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