so-soWomen's Prize long list book that I am just getting to. This was fine. I want to be a True Crime Girlie but I just don't think I am. I need more focus on the victims. This I think fails in marketing, the book is much more focused (IMO) on journalism. What information is given, how it is relayed. I think there are a lot of interesting tid bits in here but overall I didn't find the book itself interesting, it seemed a bit direction less.
pickA quiet yet engrossing tale of female friendships. Three Mexican girls have in common their love of embroidery. As Mila plans a memorial service for one of them, she looks back on their lives, especially how they began to grow apart during a trip to Europe in their late teens. #Translation by Christina MacSweeney #LGBTQ
“Citlali was a very selective and slow reader, managing only one chapter at a time—she hated books without chapters.”
[Note: this novel isn‘t divided into chapters. Instead, long and short sections are separated with images of a threaded needle.]
Echinoderms—starfish—can regenerate lost arms, an ability not shared by mammals. To some extent, but by no means totally, we have compensated for this lack with needles and thread.
#10BeforeTheEnd Week 5
How is everyone doing??
I am glad I put enough nonfiction on here to get me through Nonfiction November! All the NF is ticked off (finishing Peepshow today) I now have some chunksters while I also look at #ToB
Anyone else feel like they are running out of steam??
#WeeklyForecast
#10BeforeTheEnd this week is Peepshow
#Bookspin The Frozen River
And a couple of small nonfictions one very local about the Oregon cheese industry and one about the amazing Nina Simone
#10BeforeTheEnd
4 weeks in
I am right on track - wishing I was a bit ahead. Going to tackle Peepshow (from the Women's Prize Long list this last year) next.
pickPage. Turner.
Gillian McAllister has a gift for coming up with the most interesting plots and then telling them in unique ways. The first chunk of this is just so gripping and then you jump to another point in time and this "where can this be going?!" and then you find out and you are just here for it.
One of my #CastTheDie books (that I did actually read in October!)
