Kiddo is sick, so it‘s a lazy day here. Tea and audiobook while we have cuddle time.
This is a relisten for me. I love this book!
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The Secret History | 
Kiddo is sick, so it‘s a lazy day here. Tea and audiobook while we have cuddle time.
This is a relisten for me. I love this book!
What did you read in November? Have you read any of the above?
I clearly went on a bit of Sailor Moon kick but also read some other excellent things and managed 3 books over 500 pages and to read both my poetry book of the month and the classics for bookclub for two consecutive months (Dracula and the Secret History).
#readingrecap #monthlywrapup #novemberreads
Yay for the ThriftBooks app!!! #bookmail
“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
I might never go outside again.
Weekend reread in honor of my college Classics professor who recently passed away. She was brilliant and wacky and passionate and unforgettable. 💔
1. Anything set in an east coast college town is perpetually November-ish, eh?
2. I had a lovely post-baby shower thrown by my library co-workers
3. Dinner out at a local restaurant that closes soon for the winter.
4. 6, I think?
5. 👍
#FriYAYintro @howjessreads
#friyayintro @howjessreads
1. 👍 College-set books with a creepy edge make me feel fall like....🍁🍂
2. My Dad arrived from the UK for a month...
3. Grilling out... I have some artisan Cumin Cashew butter that I got at Borough market in London, that I‘m going to make some kinda chicken thigh satay thing with!
4. 2... one in London, one in South Africa...
5. 😊💕👍
Changed up my location for a bit! Snuggled up in bed with books, kitties, and snacks! It's supposed to be very cold and snowy later today and into tommorrow! Brrr! ❄🌬 I'm really enjoying all this reading today! Happy Sunday, littens! 💕📚
#mrbookoneinamillion #litsypartyofone #24b4monday @MrBook @Clwojick @Rachel.Rencher @Lucas.Rencher @TheReadingMermaid @Alisnazzy @jb72
panQuarter of the way through, I was sure this book would become an all time favorite and I wouldn't be able to stop thinking about it. It was broody, atmospheric, a little mysterious. And then things went downhill. There were hundreds of pages with people just drinking, smoking, rambling about stuff which had nothing to do with anything. All the mystery and atmosphere gave way to utter tediousness and boredom. I hate to do this but it's 2/5 🌟
My Book of the Month box arrived yesterday! 🎉📚💕 I'm really excited for my choices, I love Jojo Moyes and Kiersten White! But I'm especially happy to finally have a copy of The Secret History as it's ine if my absolute favorites! 😍 What did you littens choose this month? #bookmail #bookhaul #botm
I so enjoyed building my stack last weekend, that I‘ve decided to make it a weekly thing.... #SundayStack
This week it‘s #adozenfavorites .... tried to narrow it to ten but just couldn‘t!
Feel free to tag me and #showmeyourstack 😊
#wondrouswednesday
Not too sure ..around Springtime 2017 🤔
A Bookclub member
More times a million ... I was searching everywhere for books .... Litsy had/has the answers
Crime / literary fiction / ( reading The Wych Elm - Tana French - now ... a perfect combination )
@Cinfhen ♥️ always liked my posts , encouraged me & brought me in , showed me the ropes @TrishB @batsy & my first Litsy book gift & friend ♥️ @erzascarletbookgasm
pickAfter finishing The Goldfinch, this book was not disappointing. This book takes the reader into the hidden world of a classic‘s teacher small group of students at a small College in New England. Opening with a death and then back tracking to the events that led to the death. Reminded me of Crime and Punishment because you could experience all of the fears the students loved with and how it affected their lives. There is a period of seeming utopia.
Day 19 - #FavoriteFallRead
What‘s more perfect to read for fall than a book about students at elite New England prep school? A book where those students become embroiled in a dark conflict of cult-like obsessions, secrets, and murder. Though author Tartt‘s novel The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2014, The Secret History has a much stronger following. Pick up this chilling campus novel and learn what the hype is all about.
Starting this birthday off right!
All my bookish podcasts and the bookstagram accounts I follow have been bringing this book up recently, so I found myself a copy and moved it up my TBR. I‘m counting on you to start my 36th year in books off right, Donna Tartt!
pickTook me forever to finally get to it, but totally worth it!
pickI loved this! Even though we know from the very beginning who was killed and by whom, this novel set at a small and remote liberal arts college still manages to create foreboding and suspense throughout. These college students, “friends” with each other, were not at all endearing. But young people, even college kids, don‘t always make good choices in friendships or actions (hopefully not leading to murder IRL). Highly recommend!
#1001Books
The writing and storytelling of this is great, but I keep having this nagging feeling it‘s reminding me of another author. But who? Not that Tartt is trying to imitate anyone, if that makes sense. It‘s driving me crazy. I keep glancing up at my books hoping it‘ll come to me.
(Popcorn with truffle salt...yum!)
Sunday morning PJs, coffee, and this. So far, totally pulled into the story! @Liberty ‘s recent #litsy post about this convinced me to finally get it out of the TBR.
Also, #1001Books
“It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.” I was 16 when I first read The Secret History, and it mesmerized me. Here was this lush, sinister novel filled with drugs and sex and murder and love, all being perpetrated by six humans not much older than me, who had recently achieved their freedom from their homes. (Cont. below in six comments)
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1. Tagged!
2. Not so far. I travelled a whole lot in summer so I‘m happy just to be around England in autumn, I may take small trips to Cardiff or Cambridge to visit friends if I manage to organise it.
3. Nope, I‘m a ways off having kids! I have a few friends starting grad degrees this autumn tho
#RedRoseSeptember
(Day 8 - #History)
*10 reasons why we love this book (from John Mullan):
1 Starts with murder
2 Loves Ancient Greece
3 Great campus novel
4 Full of quotes
5 Charismatic Classics prof
6 Obsessed with beauty
7 Believes in fate
8 Possessed by Dionysus
9 Classic lonely narrator
10 Lets the reader in on secrets
- from “The Guardian” (Oct 18, 2013)
pickDid a combo book and audio for this one. I rather enjoyed this and looked forward to my commute to get back to the story. Loved all the quirky characters and had several extreme cringe worthy moments. No spoilers here. That‘s a sign of really being into a book. 4 🌟🌟🌟🌟
1. Tagged
2. The ability to stop time so I could get more reading in
3. Libra
4. Soccer and the first band show of the year!
5. TGIF everybody! 👋
#friyayintro @howjessreads
pickThis book was actually between so-so and pick for me. The story basically centers around a group of ethically challenged, hipper-than-thou types at a wannabe Ivy League college. The story was engaging and I did have a hard time putting it down because I was curious what these insufferable pseudo-intellectuals would do next. 😂 Fun, soapy little read action-packed with characters you will love to hate!
I went to the #college that these two novels are based on. (Reading them was a surreal experience.) #letstravelaugust @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
#letstravelaugust
#college
One of the very few books that I‘ve ever re-read, this tells the story of a group of students at a college in Vermont....
Loved this book, about a group of classics students in Hampden College, a small, elite private #college in snowy Vermont.
#LetsTravelAugust
(Background photo of University of Vermont).
a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs
pickAn outcast all his life, Richard falls in with a close-knit group of friends who study Greek at a small Vermont college — only to be pulled in to their deeply troubled secret lives.
Read June 23-28
Book 35/55
so-soI don‘t love this book as much as most people. The highbrow academic language left me 🤷🏻♀️all the time. But there are parts of it that stay with me.
Oof. It‘s been a long day of painting prep, and unfortunately it‘s gonna spill over to tomorrow because I agreed to help with something else tonight. Damn.
At least I got my primary bookshelf back together. I rearranged things so it‘s mostly hardcovers and trade paperbacks. The rest of my mass market paperbacks will hopefully fit on floating shelves on the opposite wall. I do NOT want to put back the ugly mounted shelves I took down today.
pickWell, finishing this in the glorious afternoon sun was a well-deserved way to end this long but fulfilling reading experience. I had previously read Tartt's The Goldfinch and I can now reiterate that she is a master of crafting novels. She understands the concept of the novel as an epic encompassing curated language, plot, flawless character development and, of course, she impeccably wraps it all up. Somehow, she does all that.
Did anyone see the article in Esquire about Bennington College in the 80s? It heavily features quite a few authors including Donna Tartt and Bret Easton Ellis. It was fascinating.
Not a bad view
#wondrouswednesday @eggs
Thanks for the tag!
📚 I usually go for the kind if theme that I feel I need. Which is usually my most recent purchase despite the books I have waiting on my tbr!
📚 When I take the train yep.
📚 TV or other talking.
📚 Coffee. Black, no sugar!
📚 Tagged in comment ☺
This weekend I'm looking forward to finish this book a d starting a new one (or few) as I head to Spain.
In the middle of this one and I‘m loving it so far! I really enjoyed The Goldfinch when I read it a few years ago, so I‘m pleased with this! I‘m finding myself both fascinated and repulsed by the characters, and the atmosphere of Vermont is lovely. Should be done soon since I can‘t put it down.
pickOne of my all time favourites. The book I push on everyone I know. Donna Tartt has that rare magical gift of combining compulsive storytelling with intricate attention to word craft.
Current read
Thrilled to see Vermont make an appearance - one of my fave states so far. Beautiful place!
Hopefully the storyline won't ruin idyllic memories 🙊
so-soI gave this book 3.5 stars!
I loved Donna Tartt's writing, but it's not really at the top of my 'must-read' list. Read my full review over on:
https://nowonmars.home.blog/2019/04/15/review-the-secret-history-by-donna-tartt/
#books #bookreview #blog #aprilreads #art #fanart #illustration
“One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
#AnglophileApril | 27: #NeverGoingToGiveYouUp
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