pick“Wounded” is a compelling read. It‘s a quick one too. There‘s a lot happening in 207 pages.
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pick“Wounded” is a compelling read. It‘s a quick one too. There‘s a lot happening in 207 pages.
so-soThis was just ok for me. The ending was satisfying, but it took a long time to get there. The amount of fatphobia was very annoying. The characterizations in general felt a bit shallow. It passed the time, though (most of it I listened to as an audiobook at work but read the last third at the airport/during my flight - last third was the strongest part).
Early morning flight. A little over an hour before boarding for me to read and have my iced dirty chai.
pick2025 Expand Your Horizons Task - a book by author Walter Farley. This was the first in a series and was honestly so, so good. I really wasn't expecting that but the plot is fast and keeps you interested from beginning to end, suitable for any age.
pick@dabbe #ThreeListThursday #TLT
Posting a bunch that I did earlier!
Utterly baffled by how 50 Shades,Ready Player One and Flowers in the attic can be on a list along with Their eyes were watching God,Things fall apart and Lord of the Rings.I have read Mills&Boons category romances more nuanced than the former three.So that's my 3 against 3!My review of Steinbecks Red pony(not in this list
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578188800
pickA story of the greatest American race horse and race in America. A freed slave breeds a horse that can run fast with extraordinary endurance. His enslaved son is the horse‘s trainer and caretaker. Freedom for the man is out of reach until a Civil War confrontation. A contemporary grad student finds a dingy horse painting and his research revives the legend, but racism is still only thinly veiled. A slow starter, but worth the journey for 4/5 ⭐️.
“But after a time, he had stopped seeking such dialogue. They were, all of them, lost to a narrative untethered to anything he recognized as true.” Private Thomas J. Scott (artist) p. 337
pickGive him another Nobel Prize, just for this perfect novella.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7578188800
pick(1877) I understand this was one of the first books to use first-person perspective from an animal's viewpoint, and that choice was brilliant for Sewell's project of exposing cruelties toward animals. It won't be among my favorites -- too plotless and polemic and I'm probably just too old -- but I admire Sewell's aim and her effortless prose. I get why it's a classic.
Where I talk through the love/hate of Loyal Creatures by Morris Gleitzman
https://www.suzs-space.com/loyal-creatures-morris-gleitzman/
