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This. And also I buy poetry and books in Spanish so I can write in them and take my time getting through and I also buy a lot of comics/graphic novels although some I'll just read as ebooks via the library on my phone...

I had no idea this was a thing and just found out NYPL has digital accounts available to all state residents! So grateful for this thread! But seriously skimming a TV message board at 2am providing info that should be more widely available is something. And I'm currently reading The Five Wounds and The Bombay Prince. I just finished When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain the second book/story in the Empress of Salt and Fortune/Singing Hills Cycle and absolutely loved it as much as the first.

Oh, yeah, I think you might just want to give up then. It actually ends up being more like a Gothic horror with bone magic and the space stuff is like background. It was really different from what I expected but the beginning is kind of slow regardless of expectations. The second book, which I haven't started yet sounds like it's going to be more like a space opera but maybe not worth reading a whole book to get to. 😅

I'd say try sticking with it until the main action starts, it really picks up and I loved it but you definitely would have to be in the right mood for it. I think it's going to be a year of lots of myth retellings for me. Loved Song of Achilles and The Witch's Heart (I always thought Hel was the most interesting in the Norse pantheon and was disappointed that Cate Blanchett wasn't half rotting in Thor: Ragnarok) and just finished A Thousand Ships which wasn't quite as good but I still really liked it.

Cosign this completely. Currently reading Leave the World Behind. It's really good and really unsettling so far.

I just finished The Searcher and I'm not really sure how I felt about it. It was good in the usual ways Tana French's books are good. But I didn't like it as much as the Dublin Murder Squad series or even The Witch Elm. But part of me thinks I'm being a bit unfair because

Has anyone figured out what the shot is? I did some googling and couldn't come up with anything.

I read American Spy awhile ago and it's become one of those books that's really memorable to me and I think about a lot still. I was surprised it has such mixed reviews and didn't get that much attention despite being on the Obama list.

Katie Leung's response was pretty great too. Since people were also bringing up how not great her naming of the only East Asian character in the series was.

When I saw this topic had new replies I kind of thought it was going to be about a certain transcontinental divorce... Or the battle of the cookbooks... So much author drama going on right now.

Yet. Currently reading The Glass Hotel, only about 20% in but liking it so far.

If you're going to kill an immortal magician called the dark king who essentially has a tree horcrux then you at least double tap, if not decapitate, dismember, and separate. Oh, and I was thinking the same thing too re: the book spoiler in the above post. But

I haven't seen the film but I've felt, since it was announced, that the casting seemed totally wrong for just about every part, physically and like in essence... Eliza Scanlan basically already played a psycho version of Amy in Sharp Objects... I have no desire to see it and feel like I'm the only person in the world that feels that way. I watched the 1990's version recently and it just reinforced my feelings because that one was pretty much perfectly cast (Even though Meg is also brunette in that one). And I also liked the BBC/PBS one with Maya Hawke so it's not just being precious about my childhood version.

I hardly ever DNF anything, a combination of knowing what I like and bitter-ender-ing but I couldn't get through Jenny Slate's book I really like her but it was just way too much.

I don't know about audiobook availability but Tigresss of Forli about Caterina Sforza, Blood Sisters is a group biography of the women of the Wars of the Roses, Warrior Queens is about reigning women who waged war throughout history, and Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary is about the daughter of the last Maharajah of Punjab so it's not set so far in the past like Victorian through first half of 20th century but still good.

It's apparently in development at Amazon.

I'm on a hot streak right now. I finished The Water Cure and ended up loving it after being a bit iffy at first. I've just finished the 2nd book of the March graphic novel trilogy (John Lewis memoir) and am loving them . I'm halfway through The Luminous Dead and towards the beginning of Trail of Lightning and they're both seeming pretty great so far.

Thanks! I knew it must have been something. At first I thought she couldn't vote but then at the end I didn't think she'd commit voter fraud just to vote for Violet...

Does anyone in the UK or who "flew to England" know if something was cut out re: Lucille not voting initially. Or maybe I was just not paying attention... Because when they asked who was voting for Violet she didn't raise her hand and later Trixie told Fred if he wasn't going to vote he could 'hold down the fort' with Lucille. Then it was like a big entrance when she showed up at the polling place.

I just finished Part 1 of Book 1 so I haven't made it to the endless battles or agricultural philosophy yet. I have been making myself read the French parts in French before checking the translations when necessary which was fine until I got to the 2+ page letters... Reading it on my kindle at least makes it easier to go back and forth between translations and notes than flipping pages...

Currently reading this, about halfway through and love it. I just finished "The Evaluators", about a first contact and interaction with a new species that's almost an epistolary story told through log transcripts and emails, and am thoroughly creeped out. I especially love how many layers of meaning every story has.

Yeah, I was a bit disappointed by it too. It was just good enough that it was worth reading. I just went back to GoodReads to see what I'd rated it/if I reviewed it and I think I agree with Roxane Gay's review except the only story I didn't forget was Dumpster Diving with the Stars.

I just finished The Fifth Season which was incredible and just started There There and the prologue alone was so well-written and affecting I was crying by the end of it. This streak seems unsustainable.

Finished Circe a few days ago and I'm still thinking about how much I loved it. And living alone an a Greek Isle with tame lions seems really appealing right now.

The Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, Small Island by Andrea Levy