What are you reading this week? (11/14/2024)

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What book or books are you reading this week? We’d love to know!

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I finished up In Our Midst by Nancy Jensen for the BookBrowse book club. It’s about a German family in the United States as WWII breaks out. Great historical fiction!

I started The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman after that. It’s also historical fiction - divided into a section that starts in the 1920s and one set in 1987. Also very good, but definitely a lighter read than In Our Midst.

And still plowing through the Slow Horses series in audiobook; finished book 3, which was good but which I didn’t like as much as the first two, and on to book 4.

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I’m reading Dead Money, a Silicon Valley thriller coming out in January. I’m about a quarter of the way through and am really enjoying it.

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I’m currently reading A Council of Dolls. A very interesting book so far.

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I just finished reading James and Orbital and I’m thinking of starting The Bee Sting now. Happy that Orbital won the Booker Prize, but would have been equally happy if James had won!

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I’m reading Hello Beautiful. It’s my second book club’s pick for November. At 40% of the book I’m feeling sad!

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I’ll be reading Dungeon Crawler Carl this weekend. I don’t even know what I’m in for.

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Over one-half way through Eleanore of Avignon by Elizabeth deLozier. Wow! It is hard to believe this is her debut novel. It is the 1300’s and the plague is in France. Engaging, albeit not light and cheery, read. (Ebook and audiobook)

Also, started listening to The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong. I enjoy audiobooks but this narrator isn’t working for me so I will be shifting to the ebook or physical book.

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I’m finishing up A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko. Kevin is an outdoor/nature/adventure writer and this book is about hiking the Grand Canyon. His former book is The Emerald Mile about rafting the Grand Canyon and I loved it.

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I’m reading Time of the Child by Niall Willams (ARC) - it’s very good so far.

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I just finished the Grey Wolf. I love the series but this was not a favorite. But I always each year look forward to Louise’s new book. Next I read The Blue Hour, wow the ending!!! Now I am reading The Berry Pickers for the online bookclub. I actually listened to it in audio when it was first released. I did not care for it but I am not fond of audio books. So hoping with the book in my hands I will feel differently. Looking forward to the bookclub next week!

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@Anne_Glasgow once you’re done you’ll have to let me know which of the two you liked better. My husband loves that type of book.

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I’ve been catching up on some of the graphic novels I missed earlier in the year; this week I finished Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio, How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger, and Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy by Sacha Mardou. The first two are both YA, and the last one is decidedly not! I wasn’t sure if I would like a therapy memoir, but it was really absorbing and wonderfully drawn, too.

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I love that you reach for graphic novels. I struggle with them. I want words and to create my own images. Even when I try to read a graphic novel I find myself skipping the illustrations and just going for the words. I do appreciate when a book has an occasional image that gives clarity to a concept or a place.

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I am reading Lazarus Man by Richard Price. It was a tough start as so many characters. I am enjoying it now.

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I’m reading The Possessed by Dostoevsky and The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife.

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I just started Demon Copperhead yesterday which quickly grabbed my attention. The main character was introduced in such a creative way, that it made it hard to put the book down.

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Wager…reading for bookclub but having difficulty maintaining interest. Reads like a textbook to me. Has anyone else read this and can tell me it gets better?

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I just finished James and thought it was excellent. Almost finished with The Sequel by Jean Hanford Korelitz and can’t put it down! Next on the list is The Oceans and the Stars by Mark Helprin…a first read of this author for me.
Great new community, thank you Book Browse!

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I felt like you and didn’t finish it but I know several people who said it was excellent. I may go back and try again.