#1430

I finished The Glass Hotel (really enjoyed it) and the Washington Irving stories (not as Gothic as I was expecting and I think Nathaniel Hawthorne is a better writer). I also started and finished Prince Caspian which has continued my remarkably consistent reviewing of Narnia by not being that good, even by the measure of boy’s own (fuck off Roland Keeting) stuff from the fifties.

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#1431

He was in Narnia before joining Boyzone? Wow.

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#1432

Hyped for this, reading an earlier novel of hers rn seeing as I’m a way away from a bookshop that’s likely to have it

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#1433

We read this at book club. Some people absolutely loved it, best book of the year etc.

I was kind of indifferent. Liked some aspects, but it just went on and dragged in parts, and just didn’t really grab me. Didn’t actually finish.

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#1434

I definitely felt it dragged, was quite repetitive and I found the description of mixing plants and stuff for spells boring tbh.

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#1435

Bought a book ( Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola) for my bestie but I would really like to read it, might not be seeing her until mid October.

Reading it before I give it to her…

  • Not on! :no_entry_sign:
  • Fine, just don’t read it in the bath or while eating :nerd_face:

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#1436

Although that did remind me of pretending to be a witch when I was younger :woman_mage:

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#1437

Hahaha. So not all bad! :slight_smile:

#1438

I didn’t like Station 11 at all (just found it too vague and I hated the characters and story) but found this worked for me. I’m not totally sure the context of reading it on a laptop screen while I should have been working didn’t make it seem better than it was though.

#1439

No, obviously not.

The period of time between Boyzone and his solo career came about because he found a way through a magic wardrobe and became Roland The Terrible for seventy years or so. It was only when Shane Duffy staged a daring coup that the badgers regained some kind of autonomous power again.

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#1440

I’m overdue a re-read, but the sections where Woland and his crazy entourage are creating chaos around Moscow are a lot of fun!

Agreed on The Trial. The whole book is so detatched and dispassionate in style that it really adds to the banality of evil theme.

100 Years of Solitude is the only Marquez I’ve attempted, and I think I only made it about half way through unfortunately.

#1441

Love in the time of cholera is a much easier read than 100 years. It’s got dialogue in it and not everyone is called Segundo.

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#1442

Love a bit of Isherwood. His Berlin novels of the 1930s are remarkable, capturing the zeitgeist of Europe’s cultural capital. Along with Waugh, he’s my favourite British interwar novelist.

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#1443

I re-read 100 years of solitude a few months ago and…

whispers

it didn’t hold up as well as I remembered.

It’s an absolute joy reading through the first generations of the family but I found myself becoming less interested as it goes on.

#1444

I’m just getting stuck into this

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#1445

Google books recommends 99p reads to me and usually they are good, the one I’m reading now is pachinko. I really like historical novels as they usually give a really good insight into things I only know vaguely about, in this instance, Korean-Japanese relations around the world wars

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#1446

Tried to reread Harry Potter and the shine has honestly been taken off it, I try to separate the art and the artist but I’m not good at it. Racist tamora pierce ruined her books for me which I liked a lot but I love Harry Potter so much, fuck u jk rowling :sob:

#1447

I absolutely loved this book!

Like you say, also really interesting to learn about different cultures/history through the lens of the characters.

I read a true crime thing, ‘people who eat darkness’ about a murder in Japan with Korean suspects which touched on a lot of the same elements shortly after which was also really interesting and painted a similar picture.

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#1448

I thought Pachinko was really good. Been encouraging my wife to read it, but she is resistant.

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#1449

Finished with Don’t Touch My Hair and it was absolutely brilliant - incredibly readable, highly insightful and got such a perfect blend of all the different strands it was trying to braid together.

Now on to An Unkindness of Ghosts which I am quite excited by.

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