2025bestreads

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes | Clay McLeod Chapman

My sixth selection for #2025bestreads is the most unhinged horror book that I have read so far this year. This book has a very important message one that seems that to have been missed as it is currently sitting at 3.38 on Good Reads. This is is Chapman's boldest book to date. Old school Stephen King for our current dysfunctional era.

TrishB Added to my list! 1mo

Reggie I got to page like 70 something but was like okay I don‘t think we need a 10 page fight between him and his mom. lol it just got on my nerves. I will try again. 1mo

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Monica | Daniel Clowes

According to Ye Olde Goode Reads, I have read 4 of Clowes' books since 2016, but Monica is the first 5 star. This one truly had the capaciousness, & complexity, of a fleshed out novel. , This has much in common with other Clowes works I have read but it was def. a step beyond. One of the first books that I read after my move back in Feb. & I specifically recall it breaking through my mental fatigue at the time as a special work.
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Reggie Moving sucks, man. 1mo

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Stone Blind: A Novel | Natalie Haynes

Day 2 of #2025bestreads was my first book of the year. What was unusual about this one, is I don't recall when my first read of the yr was an audio book (my audio tends to happen on work commutes; at the beginning of the yr I'm on holiday) but I was so riveted by both the story & Haynes narration that I simply couldn't stop listening. This added a lot more to the Medusa story, which I already felt familiar with & genuinely surprised me.

BarbaraBB I had no idea she wrote another book! Thanks for the recommendation 1mo

vivastory @BarbaraBB Glad to add to yr TBR! This is the only Haynes I've read, but am planning on reading Pandora's Jar soon. 1mo

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Nutshell | Ian McEwan

Since it is a bit under the halfway point of the yr, I have made a list of my 15 favorite reads so far. I will be posting these, in no particular order whatsoever.
First up is a retelling of Hamlet with a very unusual POV. The narrator is the unborn child of Trudy & John and is made aware of a plan between Trudy & Claude to get rid of John. The narrator, a bit of a sommelier, & very much aware of the state of the world they are about to (CONT)

vivastory enter makes for a memorable character. A lyrical & sly version of one of my favorite Shakespeare plays, I loved this book. This is only the second McEwan that I have read (the other one is not Atonement, that is going to be the next I read), but he is someone I plan on reading much more of.
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Reggie May Cassidy was on Books in the Freezer and he talked about Hamlet because he‘s been in so many productions of it but he made me interested in revisiting it. This also sounds fascinating! 1mo

vivastory @Reggie I feel like it's a play that you should read once you've had life experience. It's not really a good play to have HS students read. The McEwan is relatively short, think you;d dig it. I have Cassidy's latest from aardvark, def. looking forward to checking it out (Also: have you seen Sinners?!) 1mo

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Reggie @vivastory I have not seen Sinners. Is it good? You know when we read Hamlet? In 11 grade. Could‘ve cared less. You know when we read MacBeth? In 7th grade. And I keep remember her not being able to wash her hands clean of blood. She was so ambitious and they killed those kids. It was crazy!!!! But Hamlet, all I remember is Mel Gibson made a movie. I should watch it. 1mo

vivastory @Reggie Sinners is the best movie released this year I've seen. Just absolutely phenomenal. I do think that MacBeth is a great play to teach HS students, also a few of the history plays. There's a fantastic barebones production of MacBeth adaptation with Patrick Stewart that is honestly one of the best Shakespeare adaptations I have seen. If you do watch Hamlet I would rec the Hawke or the Tenant versions. 1mo

sarahbarnes So interesting - I haven‘t heard of this one. I did really like Atonement but haven‘t read any of his others. 1mo

AnneCecilie @vivastory @Reggie Funny that you should talk about Sinners since I just saw it at the movies. I was a little worried about the horror element, but that wasn‘t too bad. Great music. 1mo

vivastory @AnneCecilie I feel like it was a historical movie with horror elements added in. The scene when “Preacher Boy“ plays is the best scene of any movie I have watched all year (edited) 1mo

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