This weekly meme is hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words and all you need to do to participate is answer the following three questions:
What are you currently reading?
I’m still behind on my readalong of War and Peace. I have gotten past the part where I am taking constant notes though and can just read through a few chapters so it’s starting to speed up. It’s hard for me to concentrate on it when everyone is home so I only read this one when I have the house to myself. Hopefully, as I get more into the story I can pick it up when there is stuff happening in the background.
Since I don’t read synopsis’ I didn’t really know what In the Garden of Spite was about. I just copy and paste them and maybe glance through what they are about. I put In the Garden of Spite on my TBR after I finished Camilla Bruce’s other novel, Let Me In. So I was pretty shocked the further I got into the story and the more unlikeable and cruel the main character became. So, I actually looked up the synopsis and realized this is a fictional account of a real female serial killer. This is an intriguing story that I think only works because of Bruce’s writing. I only have two hours left in the audiobook and I honestly have no idea where this is going except for the main character eventually being caught.
I’m slowly taking my time with If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler because I’m loving the story and writing so much that I don’t want it to end. I’m over half way so I do think I’ll finish it before the month is up. I have since added every other Calvino book to my TBR.
The Luminaries is my IRL book clubs pick that I almost forgot to start. Last year we read her newest release, Birnam Wood, and I am now firmly a huge fan of Catton’s work. The Luminaries takes some work to get into but it reminds me so much of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. I am loving the way the story is being laid out and told. I will for sure be finishing this book up soon because of it’s length and format it does need to be read pretty quickly or else important details will be lost.
What have you recently finished?
I read There Are No Saints for this month’s buzzwordathon. You need to read a book with a form of “there” in the title. I went through a list I have on my phone of Kindle Unlimited books I want to read and this was the first one I saw with the word on it. I knew it was a dark romance but I didn’t realize that it was serial killer romance. It was pretty interesting and I liked the way Cole and Mara built their relationship. I will hopefully pick up the second in the duology sooner rather than later.
I’m not a fan of Alix E. Harrow’s novels but I do enjoy this novella series, Fractured Fables. I still have Starling House to read by her and I’m hopeful that it will work for me. If not, I think I will close the doors on her novels and just stick to her shorter work. I find her take on fairy tales and her analysis of them fascinating and refreshing.
I finally finished Queen of Shadows and I’ve taken a break from that series. I don’t really enjoy anything that is happening or the characters. I do want to finish them for a few different reasons but I just can’t do it at the moment. I’m going to read House of Flame and Shadow as soon as I get my hands on it and hope that it reinvigorates me to go back and finish this series. And to motivate myself I’m going to save rereading Crescent City until I get through TOG. Which means that I plan on reading House of Flame and Shadows twice this year so I hope that I love it!
What do you think you’ll read next?
*I never got a chance to pick this up the past week but I’m planning on picking it up and hopefully finishing it tomorrow. It’s only 125 pages so I feel like that’s a reasonable goal.
The crew of the Six-Thousand Ship consists of those who were born, and those who were made. Those who will die, and those who will not. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew is perplexed to find itself becoming deeply attached to them, and human and humanoid employees alike start aching for the same things: warmth and intimacy. Loved ones who have passed. Shopping and child-rearing. Our shared, far-away Earth, which now only persists in memory.
Gradually, the crew members come to see their work in a new light, and each employee is compelled to ask themselves whether they can carry on as before – and what it means to be truly living.
Structured as a series of witness statements compiled by a workplace commission, Ravn’s crackling prose is as chilling as it is moving, as exhilarating as it is foreboding. Wracked by all kinds of longing, The Employees probes into what it means to be human, while delivering an overdue critique of a life governed by the logic of productivity.
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