The Feast of All Saints

bailed

I read this 25 or 30 years ago and loved it, as I did all of Anne Rice's books I read at that time. This time round I DNF-ed. I got just over half way through and couldn't be bothered any more.

bthegood I have this issue with Stephen King books, first go around loved, second time harder to get through 🤔 (edited) 4w

DGRachel I read a lot of her books when I was in middle and high school. I know I owned this one, but I‘m not sure I read it. 4w

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LiseWorks

The Feast of All Saints | Anne Rice

November 2nd #DaysDevotedTo All Saints Day @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 2mo

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 2mo

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rwmg

The Feast of All Saints | Anne Rice

#coffeeandabook
#seasonalreading

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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TheSpineView

The Feast of All Saints | Anne Rice

#HumbleHarvest @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Feast

Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 👌🏼 13mo

TheSpineView @Eggs 🌞 13mo

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ImperfectCJ

The Feast of All Saints | Anne Rice

bailed

I hate to bail on yet another title this month, but I'm just not feeling this one. Even just in the first few dozen pages, the flashbacks and ambiguous character references (similar names, unclear antecedents) have made the story incredibly tedious to follow, and I'm just not interested enough to put in the effort of unraveling the threads.

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ImperfectCJ

The Feast of All Saints | Anne Rice

I'm trying to read, but the discussion about whether the Eagles' defensive line is more fit than the Cowboys' offensive line is distracting me. (When my family watches football with me, they accept that it's going to be an MST3K situation.)

Clare-Dragonfly I hope the Eagles won! (Philly girl here… that and Gritty are about all I know of sports 😂) 2y

ImperfectCJ @Clare-Dragonfly It was pretty close throughout the game, but the Cowboys pulled off the win at the very end of the 4th quarter. We weren't watching by then because we had family card games to play and we don't care very much about NFL (we watch mostly college ball, about which I feel conflicted... young people getting traumatic brain injuries for my entertainment puts a damper on my fun). 2y

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#DivineDecember @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Feast

Eggs Pretty💐🌿🪷 2y

TheSpineView @Eggs 💗 2y

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ImperfectCJ

The Feast of All Saints | Anne Rice

Today's modest library haul and a question:

As do most of you, I'm betting, I read a lot and enjoy engaging with ideas and the ways that stories/fiction can help us work through situations and emotions that are hard to get our heads around in real life. Books are a huge part of my life, and yet when I talk to most people, I rarely mention books/reading, and when I do, I feel almost embarrassed. I don't know why this is.

Does anyone else do this?

mcctrish I talk about what I read all the time. I‘m reading Cultish right now and it has a lot to say about multi-level marketing companies and brands like Peloton and how they use “cult speak” and I just need to talk about it. I‘m pretty sure people are used to me by now 🤣🤣🤣 2y

Aimeesue Depends on where I am. At work, people don't read, apparently, but I help run the book sale at my church, so I'm pretty well known as a reader there. And happily there are a lot of readers, so I'm always talking books or recommending to someone. (edited) 2y

ImperfectCJ @Aimeesue I guess this might be my issue, that I don't really have an IRL "reader" space. I should probably get in the habit of mentioning it to people I just meet so I can feel them out a bit. Who knows? They might be readers and are just waiting for an excuse to talk books. 2y

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ImperfectCJ @mcctrish That is an incredibly interesting concept! No wonder you always want to talk about it! That's a topic I'd have to tread carefully around, though, given the people I know. I used to bring up Timothy Snyder's The Road to Unfreedom all the time, but that's not a conversation that I find is usually welcome, either because people interpret it as political or because they find it boring. 2y

mcctrish Oh I might need to listen to that ( I love non-fiction on audio) and then share 🤣🤣 2y

ImperfectCJ @mcctrish The audio was great! I listened to it and also bought be the print book so I could underline and make notes (it's pretty dense). 2y

bthegood so glad you mentioned this - I work at a University so mentioning reading is not a negative although I tend to mention it in terms of texts, not for leisure - I am going to make a conscious effort to mention reading for leisure more often - #noapologiesforreading 😊 2y

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The Feast of All Saints | Anne Rice