Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen. Part satire of reality tv, part horror. I liked it enough to read it all the way through, but I’m not sure the horror and satire parts gelled together the way I think was intended.
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The Colony by Audrey Magee.
Literary Fiction, set on an Irish speaking island off the coast of Ireland in the summer of 1979, when an English artist and a French linguist arrive to spend the summer there.
Beautifully written. Strong narrative. Lots to think about.
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Slow Horses by Mick Herron- Spy Fiction
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Dora: A Headcase, by Lidia Yuknavitch. I really enjoyed it, and am going to add more of her books to my TBR list.
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A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
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The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard a sci-fi story about a sentient pirate space ship and a captured scavenger who team up to investigate the death of the spaceship’s previous wife.
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Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut – finished in 48 hours.
I don’t exactly know how to explain the genre other than ‘Satire’
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The Lost City of The Monkey God: A True Story – Douglas Preston
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Emily Wilde’s map of the other lands, I gave it 4 stars. I enjoyed it as much as I did the first book.
It’s set in a world where the folk / fairy’s of various European mythologies are real and the MC is a professor who studies them and so often gets into situations involving them and uses her knowledge of folktales to solve.
This isn’t sexy Fae like Sarah J Maas btw.
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Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck. Turned out to be one of my favorite novels ever probably (not surprisingly)
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Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
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Sonny Boy by Annejet van der Zijl
It is based on a true story and is about a Dutch-Surinamese couple (Rika and Waldemar Nods, and their son Waldemar ‘Waldy’) in WW2, they lived in Scheveningen and helped jews hide from the nazi’s. Because of this they ended up in concentration camps themselves.
Not only does it show the obvious troubles of the war, but also shows what it must have been like to be a divorced woman trying to keep her kids and what it’s like to be an interacial couple in that time.
I liked it, but I expected it to be more like a novel, while it was more like a biography (which makes sense because it is about real people and events).
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Wither by Lauren DeStefano, YA dystopian fantasy romance. I went in for the dystopia but got more of the fantasy romance. Meh. Liked the MC though and next book is a different setting, so I will continue on to the second book of the trilogy and see if it improves for me.
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Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, literary fiction
Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen. Part satire of reality tv, part horror. I liked it enough to read it all the way through, but I’m not sure the horror and satire parts gelled together the way I think was intended.
The Colony by Audrey Magee.
Literary Fiction, set on an Irish speaking island off the coast of Ireland in the summer of 1979, when an English artist and a French linguist arrive to spend the summer there.
Beautifully written. Strong narrative. Lots to think about.
Slow Horses by Mick Herron- Spy Fiction
Dora: A Headcase, by Lidia Yuknavitch. I really enjoyed it, and am going to add more of her books to my TBR list.
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard a sci-fi story about a sentient pirate space ship and a captured scavenger who team up to investigate the death of the spaceship’s previous wife.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut – finished in 48 hours.
I don’t exactly know how to explain the genre other than ‘Satire’
The Lost City of The Monkey God: A True Story – Douglas Preston
Emily Wilde’s map of the other lands, I gave it 4 stars. I enjoyed it as much as I did the first book.
It’s set in a world where the folk / fairy’s of various European mythologies are real and the MC is a professor who studies them and so often gets into situations involving them and uses her knowledge of folktales to solve.
This isn’t sexy Fae like Sarah J Maas btw.
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck. Turned out to be one of my favorite novels ever probably (not surprisingly)
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
Sonny Boy by Annejet van der Zijl
It is based on a true story and is about a Dutch-Surinamese couple (Rika and Waldemar Nods, and their son Waldemar ‘Waldy’) in WW2, they lived in Scheveningen and helped jews hide from the nazi’s. Because of this they ended up in concentration camps themselves.
Not only does it show the obvious troubles of the war, but also shows what it must have been like to be a divorced woman trying to keep her kids and what it’s like to be an interacial couple in that time.
I liked it, but I expected it to be more like a novel, while it was more like a biography (which makes sense because it is about real people and events).
Wither by Lauren DeStefano, YA dystopian fantasy romance. I went in for the dystopia but got more of the fantasy romance. Meh. Liked the MC though and next book is a different setting, so I will continue on to the second book of the trilogy and see if it improves for me.