pickWow. Thank you @batsy for getting me to give this another try because I loved it. It took 200 pages for it to really click, but I totally would go back and read it again. There is not much coherent plot, and you don‘t get answers to some plot-based questions. But it was a very clever way for the author to grapple philosophically with life, the way your past comes back to haunt you, and what you have to give up to move forward. #tob23 Ice storms!
BkClubCare, Cinfhen, MicheleinPhilly, Aimeesue, Suet624, merelybookish, squirrelbrain, BarbaraBB, RebelReader, Addison_Reads, Ruthiella, sarahbarnesMegabooks Sorry if I missed anyone on the tag list! I‘m a bit foggy brained today, but I‘m already 19% into Stella Maris and enjoying it too!![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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Stella MarisBkClubCare Awesome. I admit, I found it quite readable but couldn‘t quite reconcile the WTF-ness with liking it! I will read Stella Maris. Someday. 1y
MicheleinPhilly 200 pages to get into it?? I‘m too old for that. 😉 1y
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Ruthiella @MicheleinPhilly 👍💯% 😂 1y
BarbaraBB Kudos for trying again! I am starting it as we speak but I tend to think like @MicheleinPhilly and @Ruthiella , 200 pages?! 1y
squirrelbrain Still don‘t think I‘ll try it again…. 1y
Cinfhen Glad it worked for you but I don‘t have the patience to get to 200 pages….😅 1y
Megabooks @BkClubCare SM is much more straightforward. I hope you like it! 1y
Megabooks @MicheleinPhilly lol! 😂😂 1y
Megabooks @Ruthiella 🤣🤣 1y
Megabooks @BarbaraBB I‘m very interested to read what you think! I had to grapple a lot, but it was worth it. 1y
Megabooks @squirrelbrain fair enough 👍🏻 1y
Megabooks @Cinfhen 😂😂 we‘ve been feeling so differently about books lately, I‘m not even sure what to recommend to you! 😬😬 not this though! 1y
Cinfhen Hahaha - noted!! 1y
batsy I'm super glad to hear it!! ❤️? I agree with you, it's not easy to say what is "about", but it's certainly about a lot! If that makes sense. Lol. 1y
BkClubCare @Megabooks - grapple! 💯 1y
Megabooks @Hooked_on_books and @Chelsea.Poole sorry I missed you!! #brainfogsucks 1y
Chelsea.Poole @megabooks -- totally ok... I just tried to tag everyone in a recent post but experienced multiple malfunctions....also, I can never remember who exactly to tag, so most of the time I just leave it off all together. However! I'm on a mission here to read many from the TOB this month, so I thought I'd do some tagging lol. Also, you make me curious about this book (I had previously written it off). Have you tried audio for it? 1y
Chelsea.Poole also, great photo! 1y
Megabooks @Chelsea.Poole thanks! Yes, I tried audio initially, but despite two great narrators (Whelan and Macleod Andrews), the format didn‘t work for me AT ALL. V hard to follow, so I went back with the ebook. 1y
Chelsea.Poole Ok, very helpful! I hope to get around to this before the tournament! 1y
Hooked_on_books It‘s so great that you ended up liking this! 1y
Megabooks @Hooked_on_books I‘m so pleased. I think I feel opposite of you. I prefer this to SM (I‘m almost done), but I‘m definitely going to read more McCarthy. I have a $69 credit at the used bookstore, and I‘m thinking of picking up one by him. 👍🏻 1y
Hooked_on_books That‘s interesting how our opinion are opposite! I really liked the ruminating on science and philosophy in SM. I also appreciated this article that talks about distinct phases in McCarthy‘s career. It might be useful for picking your next read from his books: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-12-02/cormac-mccarth... 1y
Hooked_on_books I should also say, regarding SM, that I really appreciated seeing a man write not just a brilliant and complex female character, but then dedicate an entire book to her. That just doesn‘t happen very often. 1y
Megabooks @Hooked_on_books that is an excellent point about SM with a female protagonist in STEM! That said, both books tied me up in knots as far as difficulty, but I preferred the changes in locales and multiple conversation foils in TP. It just read more dynamic. I read the article you suggested before I went to the used bookstore. I think I‘d like to read his southern books because of my connection to Knoxville. 1y
Megabooks @Hooked_on_books and I would love to see more men with that excellent an insight into female characters. I love how he expressed her breakdown and suicidal ideation. 1y
Hooked_on_books He painted a very convincing portrait of her. I really appreciate the care he took in doing so. 1y