so-soI loved I Am Pilgrim and was desperate to read this… however I have mixed feelings now that I am finished. Brilliantly written and a very well weaved plot, however I just found it too implausible to really enjoy this book as much as I did the first. A little disappointed but cannot deny that Terry Hayes is a fantastic writer.
😳 I‘ve been bailing left & right on audiobooks, including the tagged novel, The Wren the Wren, two Toibin novels, among others.
I‘m in an audio drought. 🏜️🌵
Starting this since I finished Station Eleven & learned that there are connections with that book, this book, and Sea of Tranquility. I must say I‘m not enjoying the audiobook narrator - she doesn‘t do mens‘ voices well. Oh well…
#AuthorAMonth
pickA few years ago my bookclub read Good Talk by Mira Jacob. I loved it so much that I ordered her novel, which then spent years on my bookshelf.
What a wonderful story. It‘s about a South Indian family living in Albuquerque. It moves from past to present and back, with a lot of focus on Amina and her father, who has a mysterious illness. The intricacies of love and different ways of expressing it, and the wedges grief can create. It‘s 5⭐️ for me.
pickSeeing such mixed reviews, I slept on this one for a long time. But I‘m glad I finally went for it because I completely loved it. The plot is ‘things were bad and then they got worse‘ told through a fanatical prior and two monks in 600s Kerry.
pickA reserved pick.
The Offing reminds me of the 1970‘s cult classic Harold & Maude, updated for modern sensibilities & ironically set in the past (1940‘s England, post-WWII).
A coal-miner‘s son leaves home in search of adventure & finds it in unexpected ways in Dulcie, a worldly, unconventional, & grieving septuagenarian tucked away in her home in a coastal meadow. She introduces him to poetry, wine, & simple luxury, & shows him what could be.👇🏻
Loved The Mapmaker‘s Daughter, #historicalfiction & The School of Mirrors #historicalfiction #literarycrew
Currently reading are all different genres: #literaryfiction #mystery #serieslove2024 #memoir
#readyourkindle
pickWow, what a fascinating masterpiece beautifully performed in #audiobook by Cassandra Campbell. A fictional biography that is just as much about its author (the subject's widow) as it is about X, the magnanimous subject. An incredibly real and thoroughly built alternative US history as setting, a charismatic and volatile artist, a laisse faire bisexual normative world, and queering of format/archives. Intellectually mesmerizing, thought-provoking.
This poor book! I don't think any of the posts about it are actually about it. 😂
Nothing wrong with this, it just wasn't holding my interest. I probably would've finished the audiobook except one of the narrators put way too much emphasis on everything and it irritated me.
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