It’s halfway through the year! What books have you read in the last 6 months? What are your thoughts on them? Also, what are a few books you want to read before the year ends?
What I’ve read in 2024 so far:
-When women were dragons by Kelly Barnhill. Excellent historical fantasy about women’s struggles, joy, and rage. Definitely recommend 9/10
-The Duke Undone by Joana Lowell. A pretty average historical romance. Mostly ok, not great, not bad. 6/10
-My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine. Mostly good, silly and fun. Underwhelming ending. 7/10
-Love is strange: tales of postmodern romance. Short story collection, various authors. A few stories were kinda entertaining, most were boring, a few were painful. Overall negative experience. 4/10
-House of Lincoln by Nancy Horan. DNF. I couldn’t get invested in the perspective characters. 🙁
-Maurice by E M Forster. Good and emotionaly investing, dispite cultural differences and the age of the prose making parts of it difficult to understand. 8/10
-One Last Stop by Casey McQuinston. interesting premise and satisfying mystery, but I ended up being more interested in that than the romance the story is centered on. Still good 8/10
-Fox 8 by George Saunders. Quite short, but still good. 6/10
-The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. My opinion might be inflated by me never having read a thriller before but I thought this was great. 9/10
-Open Throat by Henry Hoke. Was very interested in the first half but the second half took a surreal twist I didn’t like. Disappointed. 5/10
Currently reading:
Hope never dies by Andrew Shaffer. I’m really enjoying it so far. The characters are funny and the mystery is mysterious.
Some of what I want to read in the next 6 months:
-The 7 Year slip by Ashley poston
-Going bicoastal by dahila adler
-This is how you loose the time war
-Living with Hitler: 3 memoirs by various authors
-Tenth of December by George Sanders
by cornfuckz