Books #43

[Carapop]

That has to hurt tbh, I'm torn

You may very well be! 🫣

 

[daisynoon]

Hay Festival announced a "Pleasure List"



and most of the comments are like this:

 

[LaBlonde]

the new kindle store interface made me accidentally buy two books yesterday (first one by accident, second one to test how the first one had happened, don’t question my logic) so that’s how my tbr pile reduction plan is going

i realise i could have retuned them but

 

[Harlot O'Scara]

I'm about 80 pages into a book where sweet FA has happened so far.

I'm going to persist but the female lead is entranced by this man she's met and her POV keeps going on about how beautiful and captivating he is.

Except, the first physical description we get of him is that he has a little ponytail

 

[OhhBacon]

This is my current list but am sure there are some I have forgotten. Where I have highlighted the author it's because there was more than one of their books I could have picked!

The Island -Victoria Hislop
My Friends- Frederik Blackman
Wild Swans- Jung Chang
Memoir of a Geisha-Arthur Golden
Life after Life -Kate Atkinson
The Lion Women of Tehran -Marjan Kamali
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Half of a Yellow Sun- Chimamanda Adichie
The Goldfinch- Donna Tart
There are Rivers in the Sky- Elif Shafak

 

[AllieBee]

Has anyone read This Is How We Are Human by Louise Beech? Omg what a beautiful book

Just found this thread 5 pages in, didnt realise a new one had started, but just to say I also loved Gone With The Wind, read it twice but that was a long while ago. I really struggle with any book being called 'problematic', I think all books are important to show our progression as a society and how life was in the Deep South in the 1860s is a story that needs to be told and learned from. I think as adults we are perfectly capable of deciding not to read a book if we dont like the content.

 

[veronica71]

We’re all doing awesome - we just have lots of hobbies

 

[daisynoon]

Had a great reading month! Already spoke about East of Eden, so my other favourite books this month were After Hours at Dooryard Books and The Nickel Boys. I already owned the latter, but seeing it on a few Tattlers' lists made me pick it up, and wow - extremely impactful.

Hated Audition.

 

[CommentBelow]

Just to check - is there anybody still working on their Top 10?

I was going to give it a full week but if that's it, I can try and post the results a bit earlier?

Here’s mine -

Handmaid’s Tale
Life After Life
One Day
Wild Swans
Girl, Woman, Other
Pachinko
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Cloud Atlas
Beartown
I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

I feel bad for the 9 I had to cut 🫣

 

[veronica71]

There’s just too many books and I want to read them all

 

[Chocolategoggler]

Posting my June reads as I'm not going to get another book in by the end of June:

I'm still on with The Count of Monte Cristo - another 450 pages to go.
The hot weather slowed me down. The book is an absolute tome. Bigger than a J K Rowling, and a mega chunky paperback is not easy to hold. Especially if you have to hold it away from your body. Putting it on a cushion/pillow or resting it against your body just makes you combust in the heat.it's left me with pain in my wrists and arms, but I'm so addicted I can't put it down!
Why did I not read it when the weather was cooler!
Thank you for listening to my whinge Ted Talk.

 

[LaBlonde]

You could have warned me The Count of Monte Cristo was nearly 1300 pages!
Oh well, think positive. I might race through it like I do the J K Rowling's...

and not a page of it is wasted!!!

i’m legally obliged to call it a masterpiece whenever i post about it so masterpiece

 

[CommentBelow]

I won't quote the post because it's massive, but thank you so much for doing the list @Harlot O'Scara !

Echoed!

It’s exceptional - thank you!

Does anyone know how we can create/add to a thread Wiki? I think this epic list needs to be pride of place/easy for me to refer to ahem 🫢

 

[pinkmug]

I support the quarter stars, if I had my way Goodreads would have a slider rating system rather than stars Sometimes you just hate a book a little bit.

 

[veronica71]

nah don't know anyone like that do you?!!?

 

[CommentBelow]

I'm going in...........pray for me to like it, so I don't get hounded off the thread

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I confessed I didn’t love In Memoriam and I’m still here so there’s hope

 

[Harlot O'Scara]

A quarter of a star?!? Tell us alllll!

I just looked the book up. The male love interest is described as having "major golden retriever energy". I haven't even read it and I want to give it 0.25 stars just for that.

 

[QueenBW]

Finished Yesteryear and what was that? I do not get they hype, it did not work for me as satire or as commentary on trad wife culture. The big twist actually diminished the story and the villain character the author had built the main character to be.

 

[ToolaRoola]

Foyles have been inspired by the Guardian’s top 100 books and have created their own Top 30 via their booksellers recommendations

Foyles have been inspired by Tattle to create their own top 30!

 

[LaBlonde]

They definitely need to rename it. Many from that list would be better labelled quietly devastating.

hammet?! small things like these?! the book thief?! this is not a “bookshelf to spark joy”