Books you've read in 2022

I had to stop Black Leopard Red Wolf. I get that he’s an award winning author but the book was just not fun.

Started The Paris Apartment which I didn’t have high expectations for but it’s really quite poor. I’ll power through but 2 bad books in a row is annoying.
 
I had read Under the Banner of Heaven before and it was fantastic even for me who usually doesn’t read non fiction.

I just want a solid thriller where every chapter is longer than 2 pages and it doesn’t end on a silly cliffhanger.
 
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Thank you for your help Mopster Readers. I’m having coffee with Les Didion & Angelou and it’s lovely
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I'm a real bttm for books this summer. so far I've read Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun (<3), and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Mishima

getting prepped for Waves by Eduard von Keyserling which I'm really looking forward to
 
add to that We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. not as great as I had been led to believe...
 
I haven’t read anything new at all. The newest book I’ve read this year is from 1992; Jazz by Toni Morrison and we all know how hateful that was.
 
I’ve just done The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveinstrup- who was a writer of The Killing. Exceptional crime novel- I have hammered it in three evenings at the beach, basically. Couldn’t put it down.
 
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I’ve just read ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ which I really didn’t like at all and now started Wuthering Hights which I’ve been wanting to read since forever
 
Sheena said:
I’ve just done The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveinstrup- who was a writer of The Killing. Exceptional crime novel- I have hammered it in three evenings at the beach, basically. Couldn’t put it down.
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Did that get a Netflix series? Killer leaves little chestnut men at the scenes of the crime?
 
Just read this one in one sitting. A prize winning French sensation (allegedly).

It is the end of August and the long summer holidays are drawing to a close. Seventeen-year-old Leonard is on a camping holiday with his family in the South of France. Awkward and ill at ease, he is an outsider who creeps away from parties unnoticed after a couple of drinks.

On the final Friday of the trip, unable to sleep, Leonard goes for a walk and sees one of the boys from the campsite, Oscar, hanging from the rope of a playground swing. Leonard watches as the rope slowly strangles Oscar. Then, unable to think straight, he buries the body in the sand, and returns to his tent.

The next day is the hottest in seventeen years. Disoriented by the oppressive heat, and distracted by his desire for a girl named Luce, Leonard spends the ensuing hours trying not to unravel.

A literary sensation in France, Heatwave is an unsettling and evocative novel that examines our darkest impulses.

Perhaps it was missing something in the translation? Very quick read of just over 100 pages.

Catcher in the rye / The tell-tale heart mashup

3/5

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Gay sex? How vulgar!

In this stunning book that I’m reading the biggest scandal so far is about this middle class girl being kissed (against her will) in a field of violets in Italy by an atheist/socialist nobody. :o le shock!

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I think I can now call myself an E.M. Forster fan.
 
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