All Things Books and Reading Thread - 2024

[misty8723]

So you find the Kindle Unlimited worth it? I had it years ago, but we recently got a new library here.

I get Kindle Unlimited at a discount and I have a hard time finding books I want through the library (to download to my tablet/kindle).
And if anyone is interested, I finished Any Lifetime, but skimmed through lot of it toward the end since it got repititious. It was an interesting concept, traveling through diminsions, but I think it could have been presented better.

 

[Margot Lane]

Finished Other Rivers by Peter Hessler. A very good and sensitive take on what’s it’s like to teach in China as an American. (Recommend reading his first book River Town first though).

 

[PMousse]

I finished reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. It was an engrossing story!

I also read a rom com book The No-Show by Beth O'Leary, selected by my book club as folks wanted a light-hearted summer read. For the rom com category, it's actually quite good.

Now I'm trying to finish the non-fiction book Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love that I started eight months ago! It's a great book; it just takes me a lot longer to read a non-fiction.

 

[Lari]

I finished reading None of This is True, by Lisa Jewell before my book club met.

I'm...not sure I liked it. It took a while to get into, and I couldn't put it down at the end because I had to know what happened, but even though I was intrigued, I can't say I enjoyed it. Weirdly ambivalent I guess.

 

[PMousse]

So I'm done with Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love finally! It's a super informative book in helping me understand myself and others' actions and behaviours in relationships.

I've just started I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. I've been wanting to read Maya Angelou for a while, so I'm looking forward to diving into this book!

 

[PMousse]

River Town

I added River Town to my library book list thanks to your post!

 

[PMousse]

I got sidetracked from reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, instead read A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson. It's about an old lady, a grown man, and a young girl, neighors to each other in different decades, linked together by their unique struggles. It's a beautiful read, and here's a bonus: it features a cat and has uber cute and accurate descriptions of him!

 

[Tobermory]

I’m just starting An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. It was recommended by a friend with this comment:

You may think that you inhabit the same world as a butterfly, elephant, whale, finch, or clam, or vole. But they all sense the world differently and their sensory experience is completely different from yours and mine. Yong does a fantastic job of how this evolved, as senses developed primarily to find food to eat, to keep from being eaten, and to facilitate procreation.​

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You may think there are only five senses, but he has eleven chapters devoted to different senses, with a twelfth devoted to sensory fusion. Reading this book makes me look at my own sensory system in a different light.​

 

[PMousse]

I’m just starting An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. It was recommended by a friend with this comment:

You may think that you inhabit the same world as a butterfly, elephant, whale, finch, or clam, or vole. But they all sense the world differently and their sensory experience is completely different from yours and mine. Yong does a fantastic job of how this evolved, as senses developed primarily to find food to eat, to keep from being eaten, and to facilitate procreation.​

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You may think there are only five senses, but he has eleven chapters devoted to different senses, with a twelfth devoted to sensory fusion. Reading this book makes me look at my own sensory system in a different light.​

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Cool!! I'll also add this to my to-read list!