Comments on: October Reading Wrap-Up

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 02:32:50 +0000

In reply to Susie | Novel Visits. I bought my first Christmas present yesterday and am so happy about it. We are opposites- This is How It Always Is nudges out Heart's Invisible for me. Both 5 stars, but I feel as if This is so topical. IDK, I just feel as if it is a critical book right now. I wish I would have met her when she was here!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:50:56 +0000

Interesting month, you were really swinging back and forth between losers and winners. I have been saving your review of This Is How It Always Is for when I really have time to dig into what you wrote and my response. I felt the same way you did, it will definitely be on my Best Of list for the year. So darn good.

I am a loather of long books, but some are worth it, and Liberty Hardy’s raves about Infinite Furies made me select it as one of my Books of the Month. I haven’t gotten to it yet, but your response spurs me to want to do so sooner rather than later. Do you belong to BOTM? I think you might really like it. I am not a joiner or a fan of anyone telling me what to read, but I agreed to be a test subject when they were starting out and I fell in love with the format, which is much better than the old timey BOTM format.

I just know I had Lookaway Lookaway on a list somewhere. Not sure how or when it fell off, but if it has prompted you to read it twice I might have to rethink the fact that it slipped off the edge of my TBR somewhere.

Hope your reading November is even better!

By: Eva @ The Paperback Princess

Eva @ The Paperback Princess — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 15:27:28 +0000

In reply to Catherine. I haven't read any Roddy Doyle! Let me know how they are!

By: Susie | Novel Visits

Susie | Novel Visits — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:37:08 +0000

Yay, to two fire star books! So glad you loved The Heart’s Invisible Furies. It was brilliant, with humor and seriousness wrapped together so beautifully. It nudges out This Is How It Always is for me, but they’re definitely close.

October truly did fly by, and I just bought my first couple Christmas presents which is sort of freaking me out!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:49:55 +0000

In reply to Tara. I'm going to try and participate in NNF, but not sure I can really handle more reality these days!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:48:15 +0000

In reply to Eva @ The Paperback Princess.

LOL- yes, that could count, but I watched it again as well and the book is much better. The movie got kind of dopey.

The Boyne was perfection. A librarian I know has now recommended Roddy Doyle and I seem to remember you reading him. Any book you recommend?

You might be in the mood for the Roy. I’m just tired of fiction that switches narrative from one person to another. I want to sink in and stay!

By: Eva @ The Paperback Princess

Eva @ The Paperback Princess — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:35:37 +0000

AH your review of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness worries me! That’s our next book club book and we don’t have a date for our meeting but I feel like I have been avoiding this book because this is my fear! I remember reading a few pages and being blown away by the writing but thinking that the plot was going to be hard going for me.

I can’t tell you how relieved I am that you loved the John Boyne book! It was really something special!

I just watched Practical Magic again. Do you think that will work for me instead of reading the book?

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:16:54 +0000

Once again, thank you so much for the recommendation on The Rules of Magic; definitely my favorite book of the month! I had to laugh out loud as I began reading this post; I lamented on a similar experience of discovering that we are now in the month of November, and wondered whether this is because I am getting older – ha! I’m reading nonfiction this month, for Nonfiction November, but I can hardly wait to get to The Heart’s Invisible Furies; I’m so glad you enjoyed it!