I’ve read good books recently but I haven’t encountered one that really consumed me since last year. I’m talking about those that make time fly, that you want to drop what you’re doing to read, and that haunt you for months after. What’s the last book you read/listened to that made you feel like that?
by legendary-cookie
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The Wager – David Grann
Wolfsong by TJ Klune, completely sucked me in the story and I kept on wanting to read it, but had to take a breather it was so intense and angsty!
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Cattan
I was late to the party, but I read Fourth Wing during christmas. And after that ACOTAR. And now I’m apparantly addicted to romantasy. Who would have thought…
The Will of the Many by James Islington absolutely destroyed me earlier this year. I stayed up late to read, forgot about plans and dinner and everything, and I couldn’t pick up another book for like two weeks after I finished it. Even now I keep staring at it on my shelf and wondering if I should just reread it or something, because I’m still mad at other books for not being that one…
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov. Probably a top five SciFi book for me, I couldn’t put it down
lol, if a book does not suck me in by page 5 or 6 i put it down and find another…i am too old to rest something that does not hold my interest…. i am in the middle of the kingsbridge series by ken follett…..pillars of the earth, world without end, a column of fire, and i have book 4 ready to go… looking for the fifth book, used,
i have a long long list of books that i might read, depending on those first 5,6 pages….
“how far the light reaches” by Sabrina Imbler. I read it for a book club and didn’t expect to like it much but absolutely loved it and read it in 2 sittings.
I’m currently reading “a day of fallen night” and although I’m taking my time, I’m super into it!
Home Going by Yaa Gyasi.
Probably one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking, harrowing but hopeful books I have ever read regarding the slave trade from the very first British colonists in Africa and the descendants to present day.
Following two family trees, you see the absolute tragic start that some of these African people have had to endure and the resilience and determination to get where they are now.
As a Caucasian British woman I was inspired and full of awe at the pure brilliance of this ethnic race of human beings and I was in tears on more than one occasion.
Please please please read if you see this comment, it will not disappoint – I swear.
Suffer the Children – Craig DiLouie