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I'm still on a memoir kick -- the slice of life variety -- and have a bunch of them waiting for me in the wings. From that big long list, I just started The Glass Eye by Jeannie Vanasco.
^^ I didn't finish The Glass Eye. I knew it would be choppy -- more vignette-like than narrative -- but I didn't know how repetitive it would be. Very. Very. So I got bored and gave up. Because it was very repetitive. Very. Very, very repetitive.
I just bought My Sister's Bones by Cathi Hanauer -- a $1.99 Kindle special. It's from 1996 so it's almost a classic, right? Anyway, it's a coming-of-age story -- a novel; not a memoir -- and seems almost YA in its easy-read style.
I am currently listening to "The Lying Game" by Ruth Ware and I don't know if I'm just getting older and crankier, but it takes so long to get to any action! I've been listening for 2 1/2 hours and nothing has really happened, just a lot of boring detail. I'll slog through it anyway.
I think some books are not meant for audio.
Up next is non-fiction, "Killing England", I really enjoyed the "Killng Patton" one
ALso, just bought the latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid book. I originially bought the series for my son, who lost interest after the first book, but I'm a devoted fan. The first few books gave me some much needed belly laughs while I was going through my divorce
I finished listening to Blake Crouch's "Dark Matter" and though it did become ridiculous toward the end, it ended on an optimistic note. The ridiculous aspect is actually the flaw of the underlying theoretical physics the story explores as the plot reveals what happens to a family when the roads not taken overtake them.
Next up on audio: The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell, read by Jonathan Keeble
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Originally Posted by DawnMTL
^^ I didn't finish The Glass Eye. I knew it would be choppy -- more vignette-like than narrative -- but I didn't know how repetitive it would be. Very. Very. So I got bored and gave up. Because it was very repetitive. Very. Very, very repetitive.
I just bought My Sister's Bones by Cathi Hanauer -- a $1.99 Kindle special. It's from 1996 so it's almost a classic, right? Anyway, it's a coming-of-age story -- a novel; not a memoir -- and seems almost YA in its easy-read style.
^^ Never mind. Another one bites the dust. If I was 15 years old, maybe.
I just saw that my loan period for Dan Brown's "Origin" is in three days, and I am only at 40%. I COULD put everything else aside and complete it in that time, but I am just not that into it. My friend in our sewing group insisted it was great. Does anyone here have any thoughts about it?
I don't remember exactly what it was about but I do remember that it turns out to be deeper than I thought it would be. The gist of the book was quite different than what the lighthearted beginning indicted. I enjoyed the book a lot.
Finished Swamplandia! and was quite taken with it. It takes a dark turn toward the end which was not totally unexpected. Ultimately it's about the love of family and what people will do to protect family members. I'll definitely read more by Karen Russell.
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Anyway, it's a coming-of-age story -- a novel; not a memoir -- and seems almost YA in its easy-read style.