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Happy New Year! I am back from all of my travels, and I've missed the last couple check-ins - but it's been a rather hectic time lately, so I haven't gotten in quite as much reading as usual.At last check-in, I was finishing up Doctor Sleep, which I enjoyed. I never used to be much of a Stephen King fan, but he seems to be growing on me in my old age - I always have to be different. :)
I then moved on to Song of Solomon for IRL Book Club #3. I wasn't looking forward to it, because of having had multiple Toni Morrison books beaten to death over the years in school for symbolism, literary techniques, etc. - but I actually liked this one. Maybe because I was just able to read it as a story without having to over-analyze every word. It's kind of unfair that the more famous a book is, the more likely it is to be presented in an unappealing way in school - there are probably a lot of books that would be more widely enjoyed under other circumstances.
I needed a break from the required reading, so I read The Beholder on vacation - it was a lot of fun, and I enjoy quest stories. I'll be interested to read the sequel when it comes out to see how everything ends.
I'm now back to Steven King, because the book for the online alumni book club from the third quarter of 2019 finally came in at the library - apparently there is a movie of it coming to HBO soon, so it is quite popular. The Outsider is not a quick read - I've been at it for a couple weeks now, and I've still got about a third to go. It's certainly action-packed, but the lead up to the big surprising plot twist after the first third took me a while to get into. I don't want to say too much, in case anyone here hasn't read it and plans to, but it's definitely kept me guessing the whole way so far.
QOTW: I think you do a great job with the group, Sheri - I lurked for a long time before I got into the habit of posting regularly, and I suspect that there are many other lurkers who enjoy reading the posts even if they don't respond. So keep up the good work!
Happy New Year, Everyone!Less reading happening this week, as I was trying to make a strong dent in a certain book-related FoE-saturated cross stitch project that I have going on.
Working on Innocence. Aaannnd that took a direction that I wasn't expecting. Completely in character, but not where I thought this was heading after book 2 . Dear goodness, I love a good plot twist! So far I'm really enjoying it, and it's good to have the Admiral back after his odd absence in book 3.
Read Hateful Things and will likely knock off Wasteland tonight. After a strong first book, it's turning into a bit of a train wreck and I'm curious to see if it can pull itself back out. Does the trope "I'll just hide my pregnancy, he's better off not knowing for now" EVER work out like she thinks it will??? Overall it hasn't been terrible, and it's at least been entertaining, even though we're far from Terry Goodkind at his best. At least they're short....
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I agree that this has been a wonderful group, and you do a great job moderating! The group reads have been great, and l love how the questions are spaced out so you don't have to have finished to book before participating. I sort of fell off the wagon on the current selection since the library's copy of it has been almost continuously out, and it's been too long since I read it to be able to do too much analyzing from memory (but that's on me, not you).
I think my biggest hope is to see this group grow, and our cozy little circle of regular posters to get bigger and more diverse. I'd also love to see people start and engage in more general book and reading related conversation, hopefully helping our lurkers feel safe becoming more active. It occurs to me, it may seem intimidating or weird to come into the weekly conversations if your reading pace is slow/sporadic, and you're not knocking off multiple books a week.
All that said, if you'd like help with moderating or helping pitch our group over on the Mothership, I'd be happy to help in either capacity.
I finished Pie in the Sky (so many feelings!) and Lifetime Kindergarten (project-based/making-based education for the win) and am currently reading The Tiger at Midnight.I've also read Shannon Hale's latest Princess in Black book The Princess in Black and the Bathtime Battle. Love the hero princesses fighting monsters together.
QOTW: I've been a member of this group for a while, but been completely inactive. Hoping to change that this year.
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Last week I read Parable of the Sower for my other book club, and that was kind of heavy and depressing so I needed something light to follow it up. Prudence and Imprudence did the trick nicely! Love Gail Carriger!
I couldn't decide what to read next, so I started browsing the unread folder on my kindle and landed on After Alice by Gregory Maguire (same author who wrote Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which I read YEARS ago but remember really enjoying). I'm not very far into it yet but will report back next week!
QOTW: I just joined in the fun last month, so I don't know that I have any specific feedback, but I do enjoy just the informal book talk! I'll ponder book club suggestions!
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Happy New Year everyone!Last year, my updates here grew more infrequent as I stopped tracking my reading for specific challenges. I will try to be a bit more consistent in that regard, and try to up my posting on the Mothership spinoff group as well. Sheri, if you need help with anything, please reach out!
My first two finishes for 2020 were audiobooks as I traveled back home from visiting the family:
The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests, which fills the One PHRC Ravenclaw/Luna Lovegood prompt for an unusual book. The format is odd, with very little narration and very heavy on quotes from Jon Stewart, the Daily Show staff, and correspondents. In audiobook form, it's also unusual in that the quotes are read by a full cast, but none of the actual people quoted - it's weird listening to the words of Stewart, Colbert, Carrell, Oliver, Bee, Black, Noah et al. and it not being their voices we know so well.
Long Way Down A very quick but engaging audiobook that the author describes as "Boyz N the Hood meets A Christmas Carol". Used for the Gryffindor/Ron Weasley prompt for a book about brothers.
2/60 books for the One PHRC reading challenge.
I love the QOTW, and I agree that this group is great in that it feels more intimate and we have a better flow of conversation due to the group's size compared to some challenge groups.
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Shel wrote: "....I needed something light to follow it up. Prudence and Imprudence did the trick nicely! Love Gail Carriger!"
Ooh, Shel. I love Gail Carriger, too. I think I'm caught up on all her stuff, including what she's published under G. L. Carriger (except for the short story that's only out in an anthology so far).
I’m currently reading Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev. It’s an Austen inspired (obviously) story with a neurosurgeon from a wealthy Indian family that immigrated to San Francisco when she was a child as the lead. I’m only a few chapters in so far but it’s looking like it’s going to be a good one. QOTW: I just joined after seeing the post about this group in FoE so it’s my first time visiting this group.
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I like the format of these posts and the question of the week. Even when I'm not doing a reading challenge, it's a lot of fun to see what everyone else is reading. I get so many ideas from reading everyone's check-ins and short reviews.I think since the last check-in, I only finished a couple of comics: Goddess Mode, Vol. 1 and Noragami: Stray God, Vol. 10.
I'm still working on The Lady Rogue. I like it well enough so far; I just don't really get much reading time over the holidays, so I barely made any progress with it over the last two weeks. I should have plenty of time today to hopefully get more into it.
Hi everyone, I'm new to the group after having seen the post in the Mothership. Currently, I'm reading Child of a Mad God by RA Salvatore. But I got to a scary, very tense, part and it's difficult for me to pick the book up again. I last read it on my nightshift on my break at 3AM, and I couldn't get past the part - I may have to try reading it in the daylight, haha.
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Although I've been commenting regularly for a few years now (2017!! Yikes, how can it be that long already!) I'm definitely one of the ones that Sarah mentions. I don't do challenges, although I've been eyeing them more as time passes. I read slow primarily because I only read for about 20-30 minutes before bed. I listen to audiobooks on walks. And that's about it for me. But I love participating here!
I'm slowly reading The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. I'm about 100 pages in and it hasn't really grabbed me yet. I'm hoping it gets more compelling before I run out of renewals at the library.
I am listening to, and almost done with, The Collapsing Empire. I think I might only have an hour or so left. I am really enjoying this and have the 2nd book lined up to listen to next. I have really enjoyed all the Scalzi books I've listened to, narrated by Wil Wheaton. He writes characters who behave in normal ways (similar to Nora Roberts), particularly women, and I've enjoyed them.
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I'll again throw accolades to Sheri for starting off the posts each week. I know I, or anyone, can do, but I appreciate you taking that initiative all the time.
I am happy to see new people posting. I have a couple wishlist items, since you asked. First, would be for more interactive discussions. It is hard and doesn't quite work like FB. It isn't quite conversational. But reading other comments above, it is better than other places (I'm not in other groups on GR.)
Second, I miss the detail that long-ago Stephanie (are you still out there!?) would put into her postings. I rarely add a book to the list just by a title or "I liked it" but her postings would add in detail I need to choose (or not) to add it to my list. I often think of that and try to do that when writing my own posting here when I finish a book.
But overall I am happy to have this space to read others, write up my own and have this community.
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Hello! I've been lurking a bit, but my first post here. This week I read/am reading non-fiction which is unusual for me.
I finished The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe after a trip to Buckingham Palace this summer got me interested in the royal family. It was okay but it read more like a vanity piece to the author rather than having much depth.
I'm currently readingDaughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate, by the author of Birth house and The Virgin Cure. It's a medical memoir of sorts as she explores her family's history of cancer - they contributed to a long-term study that helped prove that cancer can be hereditary. It also explores McKay coming to terms with learning she carries the gene, her life as a "previvor" knowing cancer is inevitable at some point and waiting to find out if her son carries the gene. Despite the subject matter, it is really hopeful and McKay's skill as a novelist shows; it is well written and quite readable.
QOTW - being relatively new I'm just looking forward to talking about books!
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If you like the medical type nonfiction, I really liked The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which is about the woman who was the source for hela cells which form the foundation of a ton of modern medical research and treatments. Was a fascinating read!
Sheri wrote: "Welcome Cassandra! If you like the medical type nonfiction, I really liked The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which is about the woman who was the source for hela cells which form the foundati..."
Thanks Sheri! I did read and enjoy that! Another great read along the same lines was The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women about the young women employed to paint dials with luminous paint, and their ultimate trial against the company who covered up the risks.
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Hi I'm CJ and new here.
This week I've finished the very end of The War of the Worlds and War of the Air (dual book) by HG Wells. I enjoyed both, although I might have liked the latter more if I wasn't chasing it to the end of the year.
Then I read The Wombles by Elisabeth Beresford which I rediscovered last year and was adorable. The illustrations are so cute.
I'm reading Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith which is about book 17 in the No1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series. Another easy going book for the start of the year. And trying to clear the 'borrowed from mum' backlog!
I'm also reading Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly. That's an ebook. Spying and underworld and politics in an alternate vintage era. It feels kind of roaring twenties ish and I think there's still a big bit of plot to drop in. Still feels like set up is happening with only preliminary plot.
This week I've finished the very end of The War of the Worlds and War of the Air (dual book) by HG Wells. I enjoyed both, although I might have liked the latter more if I wasn't chasing it to the end of the year.
Then I read The Wombles by Elisabeth Beresford which I rediscovered last year and was adorable. The illustrations are so cute.
I'm reading Precious and Grace by Alexander McCall Smith which is about book 17 in the No1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series. Another easy going book for the start of the year. And trying to clear the 'borrowed from mum' backlog!
I'm also reading Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly. That's an ebook. Spying and underworld and politics in an alternate vintage era. It feels kind of roaring twenties ish and I think there's still a big bit of plot to drop in. Still feels like set up is happening with only preliminary plot.
New to the group, thanks so much for having me! I just finished Blackfish City which was so very novel of a novel (my first finish of 2020!), and am now onto Nexus by Ramez Nama which has gotten some great reviews. I have a fabulous line up of books I own, borrowed from the library, and ebooks on my kindle that I’m excited to tackle this year!I’ve never been great with forums/groups but I’m excited to see what everyone is reading and discussing.
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Angel, I got Amberlough cheap or as a freebie a while ago, still haven’t read it. Should give it a shot! Once I finish a couple holds for my library, going to try to focus on reading books I already own for challenge prompts.
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Blackfish City is another of those, haha. I’ll hopefully also get to it this year.
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So, I'll just talk about what I'm reading right now rather than what I've been reading for the last few months (but I can summarize some of that at the end). I didn't do Popsugar last year bc I knew it was going to be a busy one. I'm still not up for it this year, but Sheri prompted me to have a look at the Book Riot list and I've decided that 24 books is a lot more manageable. Plus, my office is located in the biggest library on my campus and it's also the one that houses a lot of our fiction, so it's easy for me to find the types of reads on that list. Okay, enough pre-amble: here goes!
Currently I'm reading a physical copy of Blood & Beauty: The Borgias, and I'm about a third of the way through it. This counts as the "historical book not about WW11" prompt. It's about the Borgia Pope (Alexander VI) and his children, and yes, I 100% picked it because I was a huge fan of the TV series a few years back. This book has been sitting in my eReader for a few years now, so it seemed like the time to break it out. I have to say, I'm really enjoying it and finding it hard to put down. It's enough of a fictionalized history that it reads a bit fluffy, but it's clearly meticulously researched and these people--these people!--seriously, you couldn't make up such an outrageous combination of politics, corruption, sex, art, wealth, war, and religion if you tried. I give mad props to this author for taking a plot that was already rich and stamping her own narrative style and voice on it. She's doing a great job. I'm also fascinated by her choice to write this (lengthy) novel in present tense. It makes me feel like I'm right there inside the character's heads. If you like fictionalized history and can take large douses of corruption in the Catholic church, I recommend this one. Also, she's doing a wonderful job of drawing Alexander VI as a complex character and showing all the shade of him from one of the more corrupt Popes living in a corrupt time to a man who is devoted to family and nation. I love a good non-black and white protagonist.
The other book I have on the go right now is Indian Horse, and I'm listening to the audio version. Oh, did I say, "I'm listening to the audio version?" What I meant was I'm slowly having my heart ripped out while listening to this story about the impact of the residential school system on Canada's indigenous peoples as told through the eyes of a young Ojibway boy living through it in the 1950s. I want to read more indigenous perspective books this year, and this one was a free download from Audible, so when the Read Harder prompt for "Read a book in any genre by a Native, First Nations, or Indigenous author" came up, I knew it would be this one. I believe that it is so very important for all Canadians to be hearing the stories told in books like Indian Horse, but it is tough. But that's the point. From what I read on the book description, the books is also about hockey and how it serve as a "ticket" for the protagonist to escape the residential school system, but he still encounters systemic racism even as he becomes a professional player. I'm all in on this listening experience, but you may need to pass me some virtual tissues as I go through this process. From a writing perspective, the book is also very good--the description of the protagonists experience, both when he was still at home and living off the land, and while he is at the school are rich and vivid, and he conveys so much of the pain and suffering he's experiencing through these descriptions.
Okay, that's it for summaries. I did a lot of audiobooks in the time since I last posted since I only had time for those while walking back and forth to work. Here's some of what I covered:
I finished the "how to train your dragon" series (narrated by David Tennant) and 12/10 would recommend listening to them that way.
I finished Behemoth and Goliath by Scott Westerfeld and LOVED them. (Narrated by Alan Cummings, are you sensing a pattern of how much I love male Scottish narrators?)
I listened to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Oh Yes, my FoE friends. You may not have known it, but I was reading along with you in spirit during your last read. I didn't post in any of the forums, but I did REALLY like this book and I plan on listing to others in the series.
I also listened to Fangirl and Bossypants. Both enjoyable experiences. I actually liked Fangirl more than I thought I would, but it was a bit longer than it needed to be. I would recommend for YA girl readers who feel they are a bit outside the "cool" norm and a bit nerdy. I though the protagonist in this one was pretty great.
From a physical reading point of view, I didn't do much, although over the holiday break I ripped through the Twenty-Sided Sorceress books up to book 7. They were a welcome brain break and my geeky heart enjoyed all the geeky references in them. I also burned through The Testaments when it came out and found myself very disappointed. How did this book win a join-Booker? Pfft. I didn't think it was anywhere near the quality of the first book and it felt like more of cash grab. But then, I have a long, hot-and-cold history with Margaret Atwood. I either love her stuff (Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake) or can't stand it (I'm looking at you, Surfacing).
Some other books that I read since I was gone that, without going into detail, I though were of note and worth sharing as books of potential interest were Son of a Trickster and it's sequel Trickster Drift; The Saturday Night Ghost Club, Birdie, and If Beale Street Could Talk.
Phew--when it rains it pours! That's my update after almost 8 months off the boards. I promise not to be so long in making my next one!
Hi all, I was excited to find out about this book group and the BookBots FB group, I am so excited to talk about books with people! I see several books to add to my infinitely long reading list...I got into a rut in 2019 of easy reads...I read/re-read *everything* by Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Edmund Crispin, then at the end of the year started on Donald Westlake and PG Wodehouse. I did branch out a little and really enjoyed Spinning Silver, Uprooted, Curse of Chalion, and Circe.
I looked through all the various reading challenges for this year, and ultimately I decided to do my personal unofficial one--one book from each category in NPR's 2019 Book Concierge list (32, not counting Staff Picks), and no picking books I would read anyway! Starting with Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (Cookbooks and Food) and The Bride Test (Identity and Culture), which I feel like is cheating since I read and enjoyed The Kiss Quotient also by Helen Hoang but it was available at the library...I put a lot of books on hold, I can see this challenge will be all about balancing the loan requests of popular new books.
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And Sheri, mostly I meant more back and forth. I think you do an awesome job with the QOTW. I don't think we need more of them, each week. One is enough to think about and read from others. Sourcing them from other forums is fine with me.
And, while I'm here, I just (like in the last 5 minutes) finished listening to The Collapsing Empire. My first finish of 2020. This is the first book in the Interdependency series and it ended with a clear setup for the second book. I have the 2nd book ready to listen to and will begin reporting on that next week. This book ended a bit like the first Star Wars trilogy in that the good guys sort of won the first one and the bad guys sort of were caught, but you can see the setup for an "Empire Strikes Back" theme to the 2nd book. I cannot wait to see where this goes.
I am now a total Scalzi fangirl and very much like his writing style. I very much enjoy Wil Wheaton's narrations too. I like his style, like NR, in that all his main characters are generally strong people and women are well portrayed as intelligent and competent people. This is my 5th Scalzi novel that I've listened to, 100% narrated by Wil Wheaton. I've never read them in book form, has anyone else done both and can compare?
Again, welcome back Stephanie. I hope this group is a reprieve from your busy life, not a stressor piling on to it!
Hello, all! I've been a member since somewhere near the beginning, but I have never ever posted in the group. It definitely wasn't anything personal, Im just not a fan of the goodreads site in general so it always seemed out of my way, which sounds weird and lazy since its as near as everything else on the internet. One of my goals for this year is to be better about reviewing books. I went through 81 books last year and reviewed exactly ZERO. As an aspiring author myself I know how important reviews and engagement are so I'm trying to be better. I'm using this group as the honey to attract me to the site more often in hopes that I will keep up my reading list and review at least most of what I read. I hope that's ok!
Today I finished "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" by Iain Reid. It is one of those books that the less you know going in, the more effective it is, so I won't say much. It's classified as a psychological thriller/horror although I would put it in a category all on it's own labelled (lovingly) "Weird as %$#@". It wasn't bad, and the end pulled things together in a satisfying manner, but I spent the entire length of the audio book with a weird crease in my forehead and often spoke sarcastically to the audio book. The beginning was ok, but the characters were odd and not really likeable. The middle really amped up the weird and I'm still not sure about everything that happened. The end was a wild ride that did eventually end up making sense, at least in a big picture way. I started to get an idea of what was going on early in the book, then I changed my mind several times throughout. I don't think I actually "got it" until precisely the moment I was supposed to.
Overall it was unsettling, frustrating, and confusing, but in a good way? I don't even know if that makes sense. It was short, so that helped it stay out of "slogging through the muck" territory; the audio book was about 5 hours and I listen on 1.5 speed.
I also finished "Writing Great Fiction" by James Hynes this week. I started it before my family visited for a late Christmas and New Year celebration. It's part of a nonfiction series called "The Great Courses" which are supposed to be University-type lectures on all different subjects. I found this one interesting and the "professor" was very fun to listen to. He used a lot of examples from classic literature that I had never read before but it never felt stuffy. I really enjoyed it!
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I feel you on reviews. I always MEAN to write more, but a lot of times i'm just marking a rating and as read on my kindle as I finish, or on my phone. Neither are conductive to writing a review, so I have to think to go back later and write a review separately.
And yay, I hope to see you post more Stephanie!
Hi everyone! I haven't posted in a while because I felt like I wasn't living up to my reading challenge last year, but this year I'm not trying to do a challenge, but just to read a lot of good books, some of which wouldn't necessarily be ones that I would usually pick up.
Right now I am trying to finished up The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. It's a non-fiction book that was recommended to me that is a sort of history of what human manipulation of the Great Lakes has done to the ecosystems there. It is fascinating, but looooong. I'm nearly done though and my self-imposed deadline is Friday so that I can still turn off airplane mode to read some new library books that were automatically checked out for me. I like the book a fair amount, but I think it would have been just as good if it were 2/3 as long.
I recently finished Warcross and Wildcard, which I really enjoyed. Then I got as a stocking stuffer for myself Skyward which I devoured in a few days. I really like Sanderson's snappier stuff (I also like his epic stuff, but again, loooong).
After I finished my current read, it's on to Guards! Guards!, which I started reading a few months ago but forgot that my kindle wasn't on airplane mode, and it got deleted when I was 3/4 of the way through it. :( I also added a bunch of other books to my "to be read" list for the new year. :) Yay! Books!
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Reading challenges aren't for everyone, and there's no point in doing them if they just stress you out. I cut down on mine, just doing my two favorites this year rather than trying to get them all :)
I'm a couple of hours away from finishing "Kings Cage" by Victoria Aveyard. Its a YA dystopian/speculative fiction (I'm honestly not sure what the difference is) and while it isn't bad......its exactly the same as every other YA dys/specfic that I have read in the last few years. How do I go about rating these? Do I take a star away and comment about how it isnt very original, do I leave the stars and just make the comment, or do I just pretend it isn't the 20th series I've read with basically the same premise/story and ignore it in the comments and rate it higher? I know I shouldn't keep reading them but other people like them, so I keep thinking one of them has to have something really good. I'm not hating, its really not bad it just isn't that good either. Do people enjoy reading the same story multiple times with only the slightest variations? Again, this is an honest question, I'm not calling anyone out. I just need to know the best angle from which to approach the review and rating as I have several to catch up on. I am NOT the reading police.
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Amy wrote: "I'm a couple of hours away from finishing "Kings Cage" by Victoria Aveyard. Its a YA dystopian/speculative fiction (I'm honestly not sure what the difference is) and while it isn't bad......its exa..."I can't dispute Sheri and Shel's point that any review is based on the reviewer's personal perspective, preferences, etc. However, I think it is helpful to state those things right up front. So if you would have given the book five stars if it was the first you'd read of that series/author/genre, but you gave it two or three because of the lack of originality/repetition, just write a sentence or two to that effect to go along with your star rating. That way, someone who hasn't read the other things you've read will quickly understand that your review isn't addressing the things that they're looking for, such as the overall theme of the series. But I wholeheartedly agree that you should never feel like you have to enjoy something just because a certain group of critics has deemed it worthy - they all come in with their own biases, too.
thanks y'all! I probably should have made a new topic, I just dont know how we do things here yet. I appreciate the insight!
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Welcome to all the new FoE readers!I really appreciate the effort Sheri takes to keep us going here, and am happy with the format. I may not always post but I always read them. I have found a lot of book suggestions here and at the FoE motherpage that I have really enjoyed.
John Scalzi is now one of my favorite authors after an initial FoE recommendation, and I follow his blog pretty regularly. He seems to really appreciate everyone who has helped his career and helps to promote new authors. I havent' read all of his stuff yet, because I'm trying to ration them so I can read 2-3 a year. I'm really looking forward to The Emperox.
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While I have read a bunch of his blog, I cannot say I truly follow it. More that I visit it whenever it has been a while and I think about it.
Cassandra I loved Daughter of Family G so much. I might have gone out and bought two copies to give as gifts right after finishing it in one night. Also hi everyone! I joined after this group was mentioned in the mothership. I've never done a group on GoodReads before so I've been catching up a bit on the threads. This seems like a lovely space you've created!
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Hope everyone had a good holiday season.
I mostly finished up comics, and then a short book.
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark Vol. 1, Blade Runner 2019, Vol. 1: Los Angeles plus a bunch of marvel catch up.
River of No Return - didn't realize there was a new one of these, picked it up and finished it just before midngiht on new years eve. Nice to start the year fresh.
Currently reading: Finale, it's alright so far. I don't love the Caraval series as much as other seem to. Possibly because so many people compare it to The Night Circus but they really aren't all that similar aside from there being performers and a game. Feeling wise, way different. But I liked it enough to finish up, it'll be my Read Harder last book in a series, and probabably my popsugar book with over 4 stars on goodreads.
QOTW:
Is there anything else you want from these check-ins, or the goodreads group on the whole?
I plan to start a thread for the book club next selection after this. But do you want anything more specific from me? Do you like the format, the questions of the week? Wish there was something else or different?
Thanks everyone who posts, i like having a place to talk about what i'm reading! I post in the Popsugar group, but it's so big.