What book are you reading?

[pinetreelover]

I was just about to add The Leavers to my TBR when I read your update, Dawn. I should have known that a book titled The Leavers would be just too easy to make puns about when you decided to ditch it!

[DawnMTL]

Originally Posted by pinetreelover

I was just about to add The Leavers to my TBR when I read your update, Dawn. I should have known that a book titled The Leavers would be just too easy to make puns about when you decided to ditch it!

Hahaha! It's probably me, though, not the book -- it got great reviews.

[ylisa7]

Originally Posted by DawnMTL

I've had Christodora for a while, on Jay5835's (I think that's the right string of numbers) recommendation. And now, since The Leavers has left my Kindle -- blech! not enjoyable at all; leaving at 12% -- and since you're pushing this AND comparing it to The Nix in terms of goodness, I'm tempted. I'm just... worried. It's almost 500 pages. It features AIDS in the storyline (not my favorite topic). Some reviews have said that it jumps in time and has a lot of characters to keep track of. Sigh... Okay, I'll give it a shot.

Uh oh...don't hold me responsible. It does jump a lot but I got used to it, lol.



Ehh....I'm not thrilled with either one of my books right now. I lived through the first one and while the author is funny the whole real life thing was like a bad reality show.

The second one has too much poetry and not enough grit for me. Some people say it is lovely and all that but I think I will skim to see what happens. I'm not sure if the protagonist will get anywhere if she doesn't get her head out of la la land, lol.

[DawnMTL]

Originally Posted by ylisa7

Uh oh...don't hold me responsible. It does jump a lot but I got used to it, lol.



Ehh....I'm not thrilled with either one of my books right now. I lived through the first one and while the author is funny the whole real life thing was like a bad reality show.

The second one has too much poetry and not enough grit for me. Some people say it is lovely and all that but I think I will skim to see what happens. I'm not sure if the protagonist will get anywhere if she doesn't get her head out of la la land, lol.

I'd never do that! I got through very little last night. I'm worried, too, because it's very dense. Sometimes I need a lot of dialogue to keep me going. We shall see. If not this time, then another...

As for your two books: I'm so happy that I lived in the States during the Obama reign. That was a very special time in your country's history and I was glad to be there for it. The second book is poetic? It just got removed from my list. No can do.

Have a great weekend, Lisa!

[ylisa7]

I just started and finished And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman while on the treadmill. What a sweet sad little novella about a grandson and his grandfather as he deals with losing his memory. I love the relationship they share It made me cry...I'm such a sap sometimes

“Our teacher made us write a story about what we want to be when we're big," Noah tells him.
"What did you write?"
"I wrote that I wanted to concentrate on being little first."
"That's a very good answer."
"Isn't it? I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh."
"Did you write that?"
"Yes."
"What did your teacher say?"
"She said I hadn't understood the task."
"And what did you say?"
"I said she hadn't understood my answer.”

[DawnMTL]

Originally Posted by ylisa7

I just started and finished And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman while on the treadmill. What a sweet sad little novella about a grandson and his grandfather as he deals with losing his memory. I love the relationship they share It made me cry...I'm such a sap sometimes

“Our teacher made us write a story about what we want to be when we're big," Noah tells him.
"What did you write?"
"I wrote that I wanted to concentrate on being little first."
"That's a very good answer."
"Isn't it? I would rather be old than a grown-up. All grown-ups are angry, it's just children and old people who laugh."
"Did you write that?"
"Yes."
"What did your teacher say?"
"She said I hadn't understood the task."
"And what did you say?"
"I said she hadn't understood my answer.”

I can't wait to read that!!! I have it on hold at my library.

ETA: Never mind. I just got it. I'm going to read it this weekend. I'm in the mood for a story like this.

[Phil A. Delphia]

The Emancipation of Robert Sadler, autobiography. True story of an African-American man who was born in the early 1900's in Anderson, SC and sold (along with his sister) at a young age into slavery by his own alcoholic father. Powerful story of the illegal slave trade that existed well after the Civil War ended. This book reminds me a lot of Twelve Years A Slave, which I read many years before the movie came out.

[phonelady61]

I'm currently reading the two lauras by sara taylor it is for a review so I will let you all know .

[Peony321]

the missing by c.l. taylor

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

I am at page 124 of Barbara Tuchman's Practicing History.

Yet another interruption in reading the Tuchman book. Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign by Allen, Jonathan (Jonathan J. M.), author came off reserve so I'm reading that one now.