Best Reads of 2023
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What are you reading? January 2023 Edition
Comments (152)I finished All the Broken Places by John Boyne. He is one of my favorite authors but this one was a miss for me. It was very readable in that I buzzed through it quickly. Unfortunately I had to suspend disbelief time after time. It also lacked the character development and brilliant storytelling I have loved in his previous novels. It had some interesting themes about grief, complicity, redemption but I did not find them to be adequately addressed. I haven't started a new "physical" book yet, but today while on a short road trip, I started listening to The Forever Witness by Edward Humes. It's nonfiction, about how a 30 year old cold case about two young Canadians murdered in Wash State is one of the first (or maybe the first case ever?) solved using DNA/geneology back when 23&Me, etc first came onto the market. It's quite interesting! I didn't want to arrive home as I was engrossed in the story and still only halfway through....See MoreJanuary 2023 - What are you reading?
Comments (77)I finished West With Giraffes, and although it took a while to get into it, I ended up liking it a lot, I mean, a LOT! :) I'm sure someone here mentioned it, so whoever it was, thank you! The historical setting is rendered so well - Dustbowl, Jim Crow attitudes, pre-interstate highways, train hobo traffic, and more. Then the intertwining of the 3 primary characters, even through the single POV of the first-person narrator, pulls the story together and drags you along. This one will stay with me a long time. Now I'm on to Death in Brittany, the first of the series mentioned by some of you in the Best of 2022 thread. Although the comments were for the most recent in the series, I like to start with #1 when checking out a new series. If I can finish it when it's due at the library next week, maybe I can start catching up with my borrowed books again. I've already had to renew Holton's Abigail Adams without even opening the cover yet. Tsk!...See MoreWhat are you reading? February 2023 Edition
Comments (79)I read The Personal Librarian and really enjoyed it. What an amazing story and a good read. I do kind of wonder if Marie Benedict is such a good writer, or is it because the lives of those women she writes about are so fasinating- kind of the chicken or the egg. Either way I like reading her books. I gave it 4 stars. I also did read Foster, which I enjoyed but also felt was not quite complete and sure did end abruptly. My book club met yesterday to discuss Anxious People, and the vast majority maybe 12 ,loved it. There was one other like me who was kind of in the middle about it ( 3 stars ) and 2 women who said they couldn't finish it and gave up....See MoreMay 2023 -- What are you reading?
Comments (59)Just finished Tomorrow will be a Good Day by Captain Sir Tom Moore (although he wasn't a 'Sir' when he wrote it as he was knighted by the late Queen after the book was written) He came to prominence during the Covid crisis when he raised a huge amount of money for an NHS charity (approx. £32 million in, I believe less than a month) by walking 'laps' around his garden . . . at the age of one hundred, having recently broken his hip. The book follows what appears an 'ordinary' life. Brought up in Yorkshire with a keen interest in things 'mechanical' (cars motor bikes etc) which stood him in good stead during WWII where he served in a Tank Regiment out in India and Burma. Perhaps the most difficult aspects of his long life was his first marriage to a woman who would never let him touch her. A psychiatrist so-called helped her by getting her to run-away with him . .. a happier second marriage followed but this woman also developed serious mental-health problems. Despite these setbacks he remained positive always holding true to his motto 'Tomorrow will be a good day'. Short Video about Sir Tom Moore...See Moredonnamira
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