RightBookWrongTime

Pachinko | Min Jin Lee

I rolled over last month‘s #doublespin to my September TBR, but I should have put it back on the shelf last month. From the little I‘ve managed to read I believe all the praise, but this is a case of #rightbookwrongtime. For months now I haven‘t been able to concentrate on this type of quiet narrative with lots of characters, but it‘s waiting in my audible library and I plan to come back to it someday when I can keep the cast straight in my mind.

TheAromaofBooks

Amiable I loved this book. But you‘re right —you need to be in the right headspace to read it. 1y

TheAromaofBooks Gorgeous cover!!! But yes, some books you just have to wait until the right moment to read!! 1y

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julesG

Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking | T Kingfisher

bailed

It's me!!! Truly! I had somehow not seen it's #middle-grade and I just wasn't up for mg right now.

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GingerAntics I didn‘t know this was MG either. I almost got this thinking it was an adult book. Thanks for the heads up. 4y

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julesG

Untitled | Unknown

Tried getting into these two books but I fear my brain is not interested in #Romance set in the US at the moment.

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squirrelbrain

Summer Book (Revised) | Tove Jansson (Intro by Esther Freud)

pick

This was a case of #rightbookwrongtime for me. I‘m a speed-reader anyway but currently I‘m being even more #superduperspeedy for some reason. This book deserves to be savoured and I know I missed much of its beauty.

So, yes, read this book but ensure that you‘re relaxing in the sea-salty air of a chilled-out beach holiday to give it the time and thought space it deserves.

#readingeurope2020
#finland

Librarybelle, BarbaraBB

BarbaraBB Great review and I know what you mean about the speedy reading without absorbing all 5y

Crazeedi I know what you mean, sometimes I speed and think maybe I should have slowed down. Sound like a book to take slowly though 5y

Caroline2 Yep!! I am racing through books lately and I don‘t know why really?! I think it‘s the pressure & excitement of having so many tbr books that I‘m dying to get to next. 😆 5y

squirrelbrain I agree @caroline2 - too many TBR books, but then I go to the library and get even more out! 🤷‍♀️ 5y

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Suet624

Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent's Expectations | Ron Fournier

This book! I kind of want to throw it across the room. I don't like many of the people he writes about who push their children and measure their own success by what their kids do. And it seems to take him so long to truly appreciate his own son. His son seems like someone I'd love to hang out with. I stare longingly at the ten library books that await. Only once in my life have I given up on a book. I must carry on....

Libby1 Give yourself permission to give up or even skim if you're having a tough time with it. Sometimes I'll skim and be grateful I didn't spend as much time on it. ☺️ 8y

Lindy What @Libby1 said. 8y

Suet624 @Libby1 and @lindy, thanks. I have this nagging suspicion with all books that I will miss out on something great if I abandon it. It's happened to me before that I've been thankful I finished the book. But I hear you. I may try the skim approach. 8y

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mcctrish I hear you!! I have a hard time bailing too ( sometimes I think it could be just my mood #rightbookwrongtime or not my genre so keep on with it, and I am often happy I finished) skimming sounds like win win 8y

Suet624 @mcctrish 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 8y

charl08 Only once? Wow. 8y

Suet624 @charl08 apparently it's a compulsion of mine. 8y

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