pick3-9 Aug 22 (audiobook)
Booker longlist #1
A soft pick. May have been better to read than listen.
I did appreciate the concept of the cancer having its own increasingly strong voice and the depictions of teenage Agnes and Lia - dealing with emerging independence and grief.
I expect aspects of this book will stay with me for a while but I did not love it.
so-soMem is set in an alternate history where scientists have discovered a way to extract memories from your mind. These mems are shells of the person in which they just relive the experience. Except one - Dolores Extract #1 can think and speak for herself. The story follows her life when she is recalled to the 'Vault' of mems after living on her own for years. It's an interesting story but I felt like some things could have been explained more
1. Not really anyone, although I had a wonderful 10th grade teacher who encouraged me. I‘m a late reader. Basically someone handed me the right book at the right time (when I was 17)
2. No autobuys unless I‘m collecting their works (currently Muriel Spark, Edith Wharton, and Richard Wright)
3. Here: #shakespearereadalong #whartonbuddyread
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Thanks @Ann_Reads for the tag. @TheBookHippie @Louise - want to play?
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1. Both my mom and dad, but mainly my dad. He read to me every night. I also credit Scholastic Books classroom orders and a couple of others I can‘t remember. Ordering books at school and then getting them handed to you by the teacher was somehow magical to me. ❤️
2. Stephen King❤️
3. No- I do buddyreads sometimes, but otherwise no. Litsy is my book club!!❤️
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1. I've always liked to read, but I wasn't really an avid reader until my late 20's. My goal used to be "read 3 books a year" and I NEVER met that goal. Then I read "And Then There Were None". Soooo I'm gonna say, Agatha Christie gave me my love for reading. She's a close personal friend of mine, duh.
2. Blake Crouch
3. Sadly no. I was part of a Silent Book Club before COVID. But it never picked back up.
@eggs
1) My father who loved to read the daily newspaper and my first grade teacher who instilled the importance of reading, although I was already hooked on books by that point. 📖
2) Siddhartha Mukherjee & Ed Yong
3) I‘m in several online book groups but I participate sporadically
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Tagging @Graywacke, @batsy, @sprainedbrain
https://youtu.be/zxkCfH4ccC0
A playlist of all episodes in the Bite-sized Book Chat series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-61cZp1pQdBH5V0Zb9q-2ujl4PY8nhf
Chat #1: with Curtis from Cambridgeshire
The Complete Firbank by Ronald Firbank
Prancing Novelist: A Defence Of Fiction In The Form Of A Critical Biography In Praise Of Ronald Firbank by Brigid Brophy
#AlphabetGame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#LetterI
Two books are tied at the #1 spot.
📘 Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
📘 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue bu V. E. Schwab
Want to play? @klou @bthegood @PageShifter
pickThe #1 most banned/challenged book in America over the past year is a beautifully illustrated, vulnerable, and kind graphic memoir about self-discovery, gender, and sexuality. This is a moving memoir, but I also appreciated the informational elements in the text—whether that was about biology and the brain or what books Maia Kobabe was reading as a child or in college. I would have loved more info about the Spivak pronouns (ey/em/eir) ey uses!
📚 Probably 98% of the time. If I don't I definitely don't feel like my normal self.
📚I don't watch TV, outside of movies & the occasional binge watch of a season. Reading is important to me, so I make time for it like people make time for important things in their lives.
📚 Probably thrillers or mysteries.
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