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!

 

[cassiopea]

My BF got me a book on the bio of Agatha Christie written by my favourite historian. So good!

 

[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!

Currently burying my nose in Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses. Just 1/3 way into the book, but I love the descriptions of ancient forests and battle scenes!

 

[Tobermory]

Currently burying my nose in Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses. Just 1/3 way into the book, but I love the descriptions of ancient forests and battle scenes!

I’ve read all three of her series and really enjoyed them!

 

[Cat McCannon]

I’ve just finished Galaxy’s Edge on Audible. It’s military scifi. It has the best opening line of any novel- “The galaxy is a dumpster fire” I really enjoy this series.

Before that, I listened to The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein. One of the characters is Pete the cat. It’s a good story and they couldn’t have picked a more perfect narrator

 

[vampiric_conure]

If you're into Audible, the Iron Druid is funny. It's about a Druid that's got an amulet and he ticks off about every God in creation with his antics. Oh, and the amulet has helped him live over 1? Maybe 2 thousand years? He's living in the USA as of the story taking place. Like I said, very amusing. His dog, Oberon, is especially epic.

 

[Lari]

I'm reading Between Sisters, by Kristin Hannah, for my book club.

 

[PMousse]

This thread is helping me with reading consistently

I finished Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses. I liked some things about it (battle scenes and landscape scenes are very descriptive and atmospheric), but didn't like other things (the love story is weak), but will do want to read the second one in this series.

While I'm waiting for the second one from the library, I'm now reading the award-winning sci fi: Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem. I think it's gonna be a good one.