I just finished the audiobook - it was sweet, moving and perfect for the A&A month readings.
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I just finished the audiobook - it was sweet, moving and perfect for the A&A month readings.
pickIf you can cry and laugh within a few lines and want to have a fictional family adopt you, you've got a winning novel on your hands.
All I did was listen to her speak and I cried. I can't imagine what the collection is like!
Have you read Citizen?
pickI mentioned to @Liberty that I hadn't read anything by Lethem so she lent this to me. Mind-blown! So sad and mind-bendy - another book I have to own so I can re-read it at my leisure.
pickWhen @Liberty heard I hadn't read this, she lent me her copy. As a big sister myself - I absolutely loved the sisters and their story. I have to buy my own copy now!
pickI loved this! Gorgeous and lyrical and sad - everything I love in lit.
pickA great capture of the anxiety of teendom, friendship, siblings and the early 90's. Clear and unsentimental- it was a good read.
pickI enjoyed this book but so much happens to these two, I can't believe it all fit into one book especially knowing it's a series!
We're on book #4 #hangingwithliberty
Going to bed with book #2 while #hangingwithliberty - another on my #TBR for years and a rec for this trip!
Ok for the first book started this weekend, I wanted something light and funny. Ms.Marvel has been on my TBR forever, so this was perfect! #hangingwithLiberty
Whew! Finally finished - had to take a nap and listen to music for breaks, but I did it! #hangingwithliberty
Finishing this up - hopefully I'll be done before we leave the state. I'm going to keep a tally of how many books I complete this weekend! #hangingwithliberty
As you guys know I'm headed out to visit @Liberty for a few days. As I'll be busing it out there, I need some reading recs for the travel time (about 12 hours total)?
I think I'll need about 4 books to be safe. Any genre is welcome except: biographies and non science non fiction. Feel free to browse my TBR or suggest your own!
Hey! I'm going to the "eat, drink and be literary" with Maggie Nelson on March 23 at BAM in Brooklyn. Is anyone else going? #nycbookevent
This is where I read. It's not super comfy but sometimes a wild old lady cat cuddles next to me and it's the best! #riotgrams #bookriot
I started this as my last #24in48 but I got so lost in thinking about the book I stopped reading! This also counts as my #diverseathon pick!
pickI loved this book. A short novel written almost in verse, it portrays what life is like for young women in a changing neighborhood, decade and bodies try to navigate life. A wonderful and honest look at women's friendship and familial relations.
I'm going to bed but I finished this book and omg I just want to read it again!
pickI loved shadowshaper so a continuation of the story was excellent! Focusing more on Sierra's friends this time around, a new mystery is uncovered and the events from the first book allow a way to solve it! Funny, insightful and so real, this is a good tide over until the second in the series drops this summer. Book 2 for #24in48
pickHow does someone you've never met get inside your head and body so well? Raw and often written as if for the stage or screen these stories describe an inner life I rarely get to read but experience every day. Book 1 for #24in48 #readathon
I started late today for #24in48 #readathon #diverseathon 🙍🏾but the first choice of reading is exquisite please read this when you get a chance.
Whew! Finished this just in time for a clean slate for #24in48 #readathon! I'll post a review soon.
pickThis book made me sick to my stomach, it made me hope for a character that doesn't exists, it made me angry, it made me think about my body. All that to say, I really enjoyed this book, the writing and the plot. Well done apocalypse and post apocalyptic story telling. Thank you Netgalley!
pickSo tbh I never read YA, so I signed up for a YA litbox from @owlcrate so I don't have to worry about including it in my reading. But....then I never read any of the books I got! So in an effort to clear out my TBR I chose this one from a 2015 box to start. Suspenseful, hilarious and honest to how I remember HS, this is the story of Zoe. She is a teen who has moved to a small town after her parents divorce and falls deep into its mysteries.
pickIf you are looking for a straight forward WWII - this isn't the book for you. Instead, this novel reads like interconnected short stories about a musician and his complicated life. I really enjoyed the novels insight into living in New York from the 30's into the late 60's. Threaded with unexpected and interesting characters, I can definitely recommend this as a solid piece of historical fiction.
I wasn't here for my birthday, so as a belated birthday treat my mother took me to the Library Bar in the NoMad hotel in NYC. It's a book lover (and drinker) Dream.
pickHow would a dog narrate his life? Enzo, with the help of his owner, his wife and child, learn all the beauty, wisdom and pain life has to offer. Touching. If you are looking for a heart warming book, you can't go wrong with this one.
Honestly, part of the pleasure of re-reading Harry Potter is affirming Snape hate. I know loads of people see him how Harry sees him in the end but the more I re-read the more I hate him! How could you say you loved someone and then treat their child like literal garbage when you could just ignore them? He was such an abusive person. I do feel awful about his growing up but it doesn't excuse his behavior. I feel disappointed in him. #hpchapteraday
I rarely DNF a book - I will put down a book for a few months and then go back to it when I'm in between books. I can only remember 1 true #dnf and that's The Swan Book - no idea what was going on. It just keep repeating the same parts of the story and it was lyrical beautiful but too dense.
A Christmas present from my mom was this book. It delves into the Star Trek 'verse, starting from TOS, it includes the most recent movies. Perfect catch up before the new series starts!
Anyone else a huge Trekkie?
bailedThis book had lovely, complicated writing but the repetition of the story stopped me from making any progress. Maybe one day.....
pickI'm pretty new to the world of retellings of classic works. This book is a stand alone from the Lunar Chronicles- a series of re-tellings of fairy tales. Heartless explores the back story of Wonderland and its blood thirsty Queen. Cath is a young girl struggling against the confines of her stifling upbringing who yearns to bake to her heart's content. The plot and interesting characters made this an enjoyable read.
pickThis is amazing. Lyrically written with deep emotional resonance, sweeping history and so much soul searching, this is everything I want in a novel. Reality blends into a story within a story, a struggle within a struggle. A young man enters adolescence and adulthood as the Communist party in China does as well, with all the passion, pitfalls and danger you may expect. I'm counting this as one of my best reads of 2016 (I started this then!)
pickI enjoyed this book - it was a great exploration of a world of which we've only scratched the surface. The plot is what kept me invested along with interesting characters and a magical backdrop. This was my first Marissa Meyer so I'm going to tackle the rest of Lunar Chronicles now.
A telling sign of loneliness is the lack of belonging. Although Harry lived with the Dursley's longer than anywhere else, it was not his home. #hpchapteraday
pickI loved the writing and the people described before the current time of the story. Parts of the books left me confused as to why some actions happened which made me not like the book as much as I would have otherwise. A good read especially if you like magical realism and ghost stories. Trigger ⚠️
A good read for when you have issues with your bikini!
bedtime reading for our first night of vacation
Guys - I need help! I want to bring one more novel on vacation with me. Any short novels you can recommend I can bring? You can check my stack - I try to stack only what I own to read.
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Please note I was told I could only bring 2 books - so I'm thinking 2 novellas and a play count as one right?
Little does he know how many books are on my kindle -- *evil laugh*--
Maybe you should start eating every meal with your hands, bent over the trash can.
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Definitely contemplated this a few times. Anna (yes we're on a first name basis!) gets me.
Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
Above all I had to let go of my objection to the love tribulations of women.
It is not my place to pick and choose the mad that you defend. But I cannot agree that he is among them. If it's childish reasoning that brings him to his actions, it is reasoning all the same. A child learns the difference between right and wrong, and violating that is exactly what brings him pleasure. He knows what he does, Doctor. He knows and revels in the doing.
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