Martin Marten sounds good. I am currently reading "How to Read a Book," by Monica Wood.
Martin Marten sounds good. I am currently reading "How to Read a Book," by Monica Wood.
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already!
Toggling a couple of books:
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry.. a classic
Belonging by bell hooks
and a book I got from my Secret Santa DIL: I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine by Daniel J. Levitan. So far an interesting read!
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
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I finished out 2024 with the following:
Barkskins by Annie Proulx - this one was disappointing, since I loved some of her other work so much. It was a generation saga related to the timber industry/plunder of our continent. I often don't love generational sagas because they don't give me the chance to get invested in characters before they move on to the next generation. It was a long slog.
Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center - kind of the direct opposite, a quick, fluffy little romance. By the time I realized there was no substance to it, I was finished, so at least it was a fast read, and to be honest, kind of fun.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman - this was a weird little young adult fantasy book. I forget where I got the recommendation. It was OK, but again, lacking in depth. I probably would have liked it a lot more if I was a YA instead of an OA, lol.
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel - this was a really good one, about a girl of mixed race (Native American and white) growing up in an impoverished family. There was a lot of brutality, rape and incest, and some animal cruelty that was pretty disturbing, but it was well written and there was good character development.
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch - really good science fiction novel based on the idea of the multiverse. This is the second book I've read by him, and his stuff is just really a lot of fun, kind of like Andy Weir.
I read Coraline years and years ago. I thought it set up a very creepy situation, but yeah, not not much depth. But still creepy.
Rereading Sloan Wilson novels, just ordered The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit and A Summer Place. Did not realize A Summer Place took place in Maine so that should be fun reading (I now I read the other two but not sure if I read A Summer Place) when I was a teenager. I'll remember when I start it.
I am trying to keep power failure novels on hand to read when there is no power. Started Under the Dome but too depressing as a power failure novel since it is set in Bridgton which is one town over and they lose power in that novel, too.
Now reading "Solito," by Javier Zamora. He is a poet who's written his memoir of his migration from El Salvador as a nine-year-old. Alone except for his "coyote" and other strangers on the same journey.
ETA---should we begin a 2025 thread?
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already!
I agree that we should start a 2025 thread. I just posted in 2024 because those were the books I read in 12/24.
okay----hopefullt, nonuvya will be reading fiction books in the new year. In fact---make it a resolution. Stsy away from fiction, and make sure the non-fiction is not too propagandistic. But see---alla that fiction is based on stuff coming out of the authors head, and it is VERY biased. Lookahat Steven KKing---no way would I read ANYA his stuff! BTW, has he left the country, yet? Hope so. But yeah---I've accumulated a stack o' books---ALL nonfiction, and I needta get started on them. To be continued..............
Too late, just polished off The Last Picture Show.
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