Comments on: February Reading Wrap-Up

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:51:57 +0000

In reply to Nancy E. Whitlatch. Thank you for the credit, but I haven't read Horse. I'm curious about it because so many people I know have loved it.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:51:13 +0000

In reply to susan. I feel the same way about Ryan- I'm very curious to know what else he's written.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:50:24 +0000

In reply to Susan. I got to the scene involving the cop and literally dropped the book. I couldn't read it anymore.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:49:17 +0000

In reply to Debbie. You did have a great month! Those are some outstanding books. Here's hoping your March continues the same way.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:48:04 +0000

In reply to Lisa of Lisa’s Yarns.

I tried that one and had to stop. It was so painful. I know I’ll go back to it, but the time was wrong.

I have several friends who feel as if 2022 was such a stellar year for books that we’re all suffering from a book hangover now.

By: Nancy E. Whitlatch

Nancy E. Whitlatch — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 01:24:37 +0000

I read “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks on your recommendation and loved every morsel of it. Then I read “The One” by John Marrs, that was a Sarah recommendation and it was a three star for me.

By: susan

susan — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 22:57:27 +0000

Yeah I loved the Donal Ryan novel and hope to read some of his backlist sometime. He’s a great writer. I read the Lawrence Wright novel early during the pandemic and thought it was a 3 star read. It had potential but some characters & plotlines weren’t developed enough. Still it was what it was! Hope you have a great March too.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:16:19 +0000

Thank you for sharing…the good, and those that didn’t work. Your reviews are so bang on. Trauma porn is the perfect description for On The Savage Side. It was the most grim story.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:15:07 +0000

My February was much better than yours. I read some amazing books that I had trouble putting down: River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer; Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid; Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson; Maame by Jessica George; Honor by Thrity Umrigar; Trust by Hernan Diaz; The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes; and Horse by Geraldine Brooks. Of course, I read others that weren’t so great, but all and all February was a great month.

By: Lisa of Lisa's Yarns

Lisa of Lisa's Yarns — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:30:18 +0000

In a recent post you mentioned that your reading has felt lackluster – that is how I am feeling, too. My average rating through the end of Feb was 3.8 – last year it was 4. I’ve read a couple of 5-star books, but I didn’t love them as much as the 5-star reads in early 2022. My 2022 reading was so very stellar so I feel like I was maybe set up to be disappointed? But I’ve also been very busy at work and traveling more than usual and that might be impacting my reading… But I exclusively read ebooks from the library so I read what is available and don’t have a ton of control over what I read so maybe the wrong books are becoming available? That said, I finished “In Love” by Amy Bloom which was beautiful and heartbreaking – it’s about her husband’s decision to end his life at Dignitas in Switzerland after he is dx’d with Alzheimer’s. I thought it was very good.