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I gave up on Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami at around the 25% mark. It got such rave reviews -- people said that they had read it multiple times, that it was their favorite book -- but I couldn't keep at it. I'm not sure why -- maybe I was still too distracted from my move and my work, or maybe it was because the characters and story felt flat for me.
Anyway.
I just started The Furies by Natalie Haynes and I'm hooked. The writing style is very light-handed. I'd expected, because it had been compared to The Secret History by Donna Tartt, it to be a denser read, but I'm happy with the conversational tone of what seems will turn out to be a heavy story. I'm barely 5% in, but I'm hoping that it'll stay enjoyable until the end.
I finished Gwen Terasaki's book Bridge to the Sun. I hated for the book to end. It's the kind of book that kept calling to me to quit doing the laundry or cooking and come read more of it. Needless to say it is an excellent book, IMHO. It ends so abruptly that my breath caught in my chest.
I highly recommend it. I feel emotionally destitute now that I've finished it. I have close to 900 books on my kindle and I'm feeling destitute? What a spoiled brat!
I am in the middle of reading 2 different books: "Saving Grace" by Pamela Fagan Hutchins and "The Litigators" by John Grisham.
My mother bought me that book- last year or the year before, and it has some funny scenes in it, I was stoked beyond reason, when my city was mentioned in it. Makes me proud to read Louisville, KY, without sports, or derby with it.
I've been reading the -In Death series, though not so much reading, as collecting them, once I found out it was an actual series. About two years ago(long since I read and stole the first one in high school), I saw a book with "in death" in the title, thought it sounded familiar, read the back, flipped to the series list page, with mouth on floor at the hundreds(actually about thirty to forty, or something) of titles, quickly bought it. I want to read them in order, just bought another one thursday. Mind you, the first was in 1991.
Just finished Save Me by Kristyn Kusek Lewis. Good reading!!
FYI: my reading pleasures lie in the every-day-life novels, maybe with a mystery, court case or murder or two thrown in. Nothing that would be life-altering for anyone, just plain old enjoyable novels. I don't read fantasy and please (!) nothing political! So any recommendations from me are pretty much easy reading, for pleasure only.
Anyway, if you want a quick "yeah, this could be real life" type of book, Save Me could do it for you!
I gave up on Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami at around the 25% mark. It got such rave reviews -- people said that they had read it multiple times, that it was their favorite book -- but I couldn't keep at it. I'm not sure why -- maybe I was still too distracted from my move and my work, or maybe it was because the characters and story felt flat for me.
Anyway.
I just started The Furies by Natalie Haynes and I'm hooked. The writing style is very light-handed. I'd expected, because it had been compared to The Secret History by Donna Tartt, it to be a denser read, but I'm happy with the conversational tone of what seems will turn out to be a heavy story. I'm barely 5% in, but I'm hoping that it'll stay enjoyable until the end.
I haveThe Furieson hold. Hope it's as good as The Secret History.
Location: Montreal -> CT -> MA -> Montreal -> Ottawa
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Originally Posted by tigerlily
I haveThe Furieson hold. Hope it's as good as The Secret History.
I'm at 30% now. I don't remember The Secret History well at all, just that I loved it and that it was a dense read that involved a lot of concentration. This one is not like that, but I'm enjoying it. I think that the comparison was made only because of the teacher/students relationship, combined with Greek mythology.
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