Book Club

[Lilysmom1]

I took a look at some of the books I enjoyed in this last year.  I am notoriously bad at remembering titles.  Here is my list from the first six months of the year.

Love this thread.  S aka Lilysmom

Home Before Dark, Riley Sager

The Secrets Between Us, Thrity Umrigar

Three Day Road, Joseph Boyle 

Cemetary Road, Greg Isles

Before She Knew Him, Peter Swanson

One Thousand White Women, Jim Ferguson

caught, Harlan Coben

Dear Edward, Ann Napolitano

Saint X, Alexis Schaitkin

The Stand, Stephen King (what a year to read this one!)

[insomniac2]

My favorite books during 2020 were Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs (non-fiction) and Christine Baker Cline's The Exiles (fiction).

[Judaline]

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@smoky22 wrote:

This Tender Land (William Kent Krueger)

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk)

The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)

Anxious People (Fredrik Backman)

The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)

Piranesi (Susanna Clarke)

The Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman)

Gods of Jade and Shadow (Sylvia Moreno-Garcia)

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Hi,

I'm reading Anxious People right now (after months of waiting for it) and I'm perplexed. It's nothing like it sounds. Readers are saying it's his best book to date. I dunno. I laugh on every page, practically. But I feel like it's the meanderings of his thoughts, and he puts them down, then combines them into a book. I can't explain it. It's like, is there a point to this book? Is there?? It's not a 'I can't wait to get back to my book' book. Did you feel that way? Is something wrong with me 'cause I just don't get it yet I keep on reading.

[abbalulu]

@Judaline  At first I too felt that Anxious People was very meandering. But then I just kind of relaxed into it and followed along and ended up enjoying the book very much. Keep going, it ends up putting you in a positive place.

[smoky22]

@Judaline  I agree it feels very disjointed ar first (meandering is a good word).  It all comes together in the end and it's so worth it.  At least I hope you will feel that way when you finish it. 

[Judaline]

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@smoky22 wrote:

@Judaline  I agree it feels very disjointed ar first (meandering is a good word).  It all comes together in the end and it's so worth it.  At least I hope you will feel that way when you finish it. 

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Thanks, smoky. You and @abbalulu  have convinced me to keep going. (he's funny, isn't he? I kinda think like he thinks, hahaha).

[abbalulu]

@Judaline  He is funny, in kind of a subtle, understated way that appeals to my personal sense of humor.

[ALRATIBA]

Mostly non-fiction ... but managed to squeeze in ....

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

The Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow

Toward the Gleam by T. M. Doran (and the two sequels - The Lucifer Ego, and Kataklusmos

[sunala]

I forgot to list The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali. I read it the first day of January 2020. It was a tough book to beat, but I read several in 2020 that I loved as well.

[sweetwater]

Those were two of the BEST books I have ever read.  I read often as possible as our local library is still closed due to Covid.  I order books online thru their website now.  They bring them to your car but I have a love to be in the library.  I love to look thru the books, see what might catch my eye.  But for now I have to do what's necessary to get my hands on a good book (or sometimes not so good