May Wrap Up: some great books & a few DNFs!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- All the books I read in May!
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Books mentioned:
The Bookseller of Kabul, Asne Seierstad
The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada
The Gathering, CJ Tudor
The Discomfort of Evening, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Sinister Spring, Agatha Christie
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Imogen Hermes Gower
Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
You Should Have Left, Daniel Kehlmann
The Black Spectacles, John Dickson Carr
Alex, Pierre Lemaitre
Joy, Samantha Leigh
Dead Relatives, Lucie McKnight Hardy
The Doll's Alphabet, Camilla Grudova
Detective Stories, ed. Philip Pullman
The Idiot, Elif Batuman
I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman
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I know I've read The Bookseller of Kabul, but I don't remember a single thing about it...except there is a bookseller and it is is Kabul!
I recently ordered I Who Have Never Known Men, looking forward to reading it
I liked Dead Relatives when I read it. I don’t even like that genre so it must be good. Great wrap up as always. Xx Favourite book of May was Far From The Madding Crowd.
Discomfort for Evening definitely sounds like a miss for me. I can't read gross books. I think Exit West is on my TBR. I'm glad you enjoyed it
43:56 - publisher spoiling theor own book makes no sense! 💜📚
Oh, goodness, I loved Jonathan Creek! Haven’t thought about that series in years! Thanks for the memory.
I still enjoy watching the reruns!
Best wises with what you choose to read. I hope you get some great stories.
The only one on your list that I’ve read ( and loved) is
The Mermaid of Black Conch
I have
I Who Have Never Known Men
on my TBR.
What’s your June reading going?
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I hope you enjoy I Who Have Never Known Men, I thought it was a really interesting book. My June reading is getting off to a slightly slow start but reading some good stuff, just finished a reread of The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex for a book club and I'm currently reading The Tattoo Murder by Akimitsu Takagi.
do you have Sherlock Holmes books and do you love mystery novels
I do own a few Sherlock Holmes books and I do really like mystery novels!
I tried the Discomfort of Evenings too and dnf'd it very early on because it was too disturbing. And I can't see the point in that kind of book at all. But obviously a lot of people do, since it has been praised practically everywhere! Which too me is a bit disturbing in itself!😅
Haha, yes, I think it's kind of odd that such a disturbing book (and polarising) book won the international booker, it's definitely not a crowd pleaser!
I don't know, Jennifer. You say that the Discomfort of Evening must be well written as it was capable of making you feel uncomfortable and disgusted but if you were to read the half witted ramblings of a deranged serial killer, I'm guessing they would have the same effect.
I think it is easier to make a reader feel disgusted and uncomfortable than uplifted-any fool can write about bodily functions or appalling things in order to make the rest of us think, 'yuk'.
That's a good point, I think aside from the gross stuff The Discomfort of Evening is pretty well written but that's a fair point that just by making the reader feel really uncomfortable doesn't in itself mean the reading must be good.
Oh Yes, I was curious about The Hole a few years ago but maybe it's ok that I never got to it hearing you review it here. I loved The Idiot but Gemma hated it l🤣 I Who Have Never Known Men was such an odd one to me.
I'll probably give The Idiot another go when I'm in the mood for it. I knew Gem hated it which is why I thought I would like it!
Really enjoyed watching this and hearing about your May reading. My best books were 2 Middlegrades, Keedie and The Secrets of Haven Point 💜📚
Thanks Chattie! 😊
am so behind on commenting on videos !!! but i def agree w what u said about the mermaid and mrs hancock, i felt like it didnt know what it wanted to be /didnt rly work... im glad u said u might return to the idiot bc i rly enjoyed it and i hope u do too!!
@@actual-spinster yes, I definitely do want to return to The Idiot at some point! I just wasn't in the right mood for it.