Books you've read in 2022

Finally doing THIS

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I gave up hope of getting my hands on an affordable copy of the SNAKE version so I lumped for the rather BOOBY paperback which seems to be the only version available.
 
'Oh, Mr Hall, what an ungallant remark. Look at her lovely hair.'
'I like short hair best.'
'Why?'
'Because I can stroke it-' and he began to cry.

:cry:
 
OK so I've hit a bit of a wall. Have had 3 major false starts and I'm in a bit of a funk.
To Paradise by the Queen Of Pop Ms Hanya YANAGIHARA kind of finished me.
Maybe I need a hun choice. Or a 'comfort' read by one of my go-to authors.
I don't know really.
Help?
 
I’ve barely had time to read this week, just managed the first two chapters of Jazz. I have to say that I love her writing but after reading four books by her they all seem very similar.

@Suedey I find that the trick is to pick a book and stick with it until the end.
 
RaspberrySwirl said:
I’ve barely had time to read this week, just managed the first two chapters of Jazz. I have to say that I love her writing but after reading four books by her they all seem very similar.

@Suedey I find that the trick is to pick a book and stick with it until the end.
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I know but with so many titles still unread on my bookshelves (+ my addiction to just 'go to the charity shops and pick out a few paperbacks etc.' 'Oh look there's Waterstones' etc.) I find it all too easy to drift in & out and not commit. :(
 
I have about 100 inread books too, but once I pick one I stick with it no matter how painful it is.


God if only I could apply that kind of resilience to more useful things in life :eyes:
 
Frozen said:
On the final book of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. A brilliant set of books, I don't want it to end.
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Try as I have with King (and I'm sure we've had this convo before) I've never been able to become a proper fan.
I've ready (from memory) a good few the I was a teenager
 
I'm not going to finish Beloved. I'm just not adequately equipped. I'm interested to hear what the book club made of it

the to-read pile is plentiful. Yu Hua, Eduard von Keyserling, Dostojevski... @Beverley there's a new Tsushima translation out too!
 
One of the worst translations I've attempted to read in recent times was Olga Tokarczuk's 'Flights'. God it was horrendous to the point of total unreadability. Mercifully Antonia Lloyd-Jones has been given the task of translating most of her other books (including the marvellous 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' which was my starting point) rather than the clearly rather incompetent Jennifer Croft
 
I started THE PROMISE but I’m finding the writing style so jarring and I’m really not enjoying :(
 
Suedey said:
Oh noes. It's in my list and I'm really looking forward to it.
I have to say that Girl Woman OTHER - is absolutely wonderful thus far.
I may have found yet another Queen Of Pop

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Queen! And such a great interviewee too.

I LOVED most of GWO, but the final three characters and the Afterparty section really started to drag for me.
The non-binary character in particular seemed less of a character, and more of a backdoor way to educate about gender to the unfamiliar to me. Not OPPOSED to that at all (I actively support it), that section and character just felt a bit hollow to me as a result.

I REALLY loved some of the characters. The chapter on the character that moved to America I couldn't put down, nor the section of various interlinked characters around a school in Peckham.
 
Alias #23 said:
One of the worst translations I've attempted to read in recent times was Olga Tokarczuk's 'Flights'. God it was horrendous to the point of total unreadability. Mercifully Antonia Lloyd-Jones has been given the task of translating most of her other books (including the marvellous 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' which was my starting point) rather than the clearly rather incompetent Jennifer Croft
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Drive Your Plow is one of the best books EVER WRITTEN! I do love it so :disco:

For a reasonably long book, I can't remember all that much about Flights other than the woman who went missing in Greece. Maybe I need to reread/seek out another TRANSLATION!
 
jyxz said:
Just started reading the new Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain) book. So far, so more poverty porn, but its ever so readable.

*edit - its called Young Mungo!
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I WILL give a more in-depth review soon :eyes:

It honestly starts off like you’re in for a Shuggie Bain part 2, but once you get on board that that’s his schtick it’s a right rollicking read. Another 5/5 from me.

More to follow.

Currently reading ‘Beneath the streets’ by Adam Macqueen which sounded great but I didn’t realise it was based on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal that was recently filmed with Ben Wishaw
 
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