This was just okay for me. It felt like the story just dragged on. More character driven than plot driven, and I just prefer plot!
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This was just okay for me. It felt like the story just dragged on. More character driven than plot driven, and I just prefer plot!
#bookspinbingo
#readordonate
#pop24 - book about a writer/author
#readaway2024
#24in2024
I finished this book because I wanted to know the murderer‘s identity. And now that I think about it, I can‘t remember who that was. I only finished a short time ago. 😳 I didn‘t much care for the characters, and I won‘t be reading any more in this series. This is the first book in the series.
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1) Leaving with 4 or so books. My mom would drop me off at the library while she went to the grocery store around the corner. Every Saturday morning.
2) ARCs and various online bookstores.
3) Currently reading The Busy Body. It‘s not wowing my sock off or anything, but it‘s a good read. Will pass it on to my daughter when I am done.
I picked this up on a Kindle sale today (in the US) for $1.99. It looks really good, and I‘m looking forward to digging into it. #correspondence #letters
I honestly don‘t know how I feel about this… part of me liked it and part of me didn‘t… I also figured it out pretty early on… not sure I would have finished if wasn‘t a book club choice.
Obviously I‘ll read anything by Jason Reynolds. This is an ode to the “King of Letters” Langston Hughes of Harlem Renaissance fame and it happens at the Schomburg Library (qv The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford). The guests include Angelou, Baldwin, Butler, Brooks, DuBois, Walker, Morrison and the like. Reynolds‘ 1st picture book.
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Jean Hanff Korelitz‘s The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book.
I really loved the dynamic between the two main characters. The way they got along, I really liked. The mystery aspect was very okayish. I guessed pretty much the whole thing. But the romance was just very dull. No build-up at all, just boom bam. Also, there were some fatphobic comments I did not appreciate. 3/5