Books you’ve read in 2021 (1 Viewer)

foopy said:
Ooh i just read this and it was good, especially the beginning.

Now I'm reading The Testaments. it's just booker booker for foops x
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I haven't started The Testaments yet but have read the entire synopsis so feel I can't now. Might try the audiobook at some point.

@Beverley just noticed Whereabouts by Lahiri is available to buy now. :disco:
 
So this is making quite a bit of a splash on gaybookstagram/gaygoodreads

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@Barnacle @jivafox @RaspberrySwirl @Beverley & everyone else


“Stylish, smart, and scary as hell.” Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"A nightmarish white-knuckler." O, The Oprah Magazine

Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they've made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. But through the entrance he goes, and it's a line crossed. Inside, he follows a man into a private room, and it's the final line. Whatever happens next, Nathan can never know. But then, everything goes wrong, terribly wrong, and Oliver barely escapes with his life.

He races home in full-blown terror as the hand-shaped bruise grows dark on his neck. The truth will destroy Nathan and everything they have together, so Oliver does the thing he used to do so well: he lies.

What follows is a classic runaway-train narrative, full of the exquisite escalations, edge-of-your-seat thrills, and oh-my-god twists. P. J. Vernon's Bath Haus is a scintillating thriller with an emotional punch, perfect for readers curious for their next must-read novel.
 
Looks great @Suedey!

I have a book club book to read for Thursday that I still haven't so much as glanced at. I feel it looming over me like a bear. I just want to start the new Lahiri. 😩
 
Must be the year for gothic pot boiler gay books.
Count me IN!

Got this the other day but haven’t started it yet.
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A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and an idyllic Hamptons home where things take a nightmarish turn.
 
22! :disco:

But this week started reading Anna Karenina which by the size of it should take weeks to read.
 
Suedey said:
This was more of a winter book for me but I really enjoyed it.
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I started it over Christmas and was enjoying it but put it down to binge my gay cooks series, then promptly forgot about it :D I was reminded of it after King Édouard mentioned it in a podcast the other day :disco:
 
RaspberrySwirl said:
22! :disco:

But this week started reading Anna Karenina which by the size of it should take weeks to read.
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You know - it's been on my list to read for years. I might join you! (I probably won't though as I really want to hit 10 sooner rather than later and I need something easy to slide ( :ken: ) into).
 
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We did indeed! I have started slowly and I have no idea what it’s going to be about (because I don’t like any spoilers) but it seems lovely so far. I love the setting; Russian aristocrats and drama.

The list of characters is FOUR pages. :)
 
Tell me more!

It reminded me of my Vintage Classics Birds & Bees series of which I’ve only read one book and it was shit. (Poems about bees)
 
Well I started yet another Pamuk last night, I know how boring of me but I get a bit obsessive like that.

If/when I finish this later this/next week then I may join @RaspberrySwirl 's book bed with Anna Karenina :horny:
 
Suedey said:
So yes - this is what I'm currently reading:

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how is it? I should get my life back on the Pamuk track this year

I, too, am reading a Russian classic (apparently), A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov but I think I am going to abandon it. the first chapter was too confusing, I couldn't focus, and I'm not going to re-read it

instead I'll move on to Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua. it'll be my first Chinese novel :o
 
Mats said:
how is it? I should get my life back on the Pamuk track this year

I, too, am reading a Russian classic (apparently), A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov but I think I am going to abandon it. the first chapter was too confusing, I couldn't focus, and I'm not going to re-read it

instead I'll move on to Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua. it'll be my first Chinese novel :o
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Yeah it's pretty good but, as with most authors, once you read a lot of their oeuvre you discover that they have certain elements/plot devices/tools etc. but I'm still enjoying it. I think maybe it's because I just read 3 Coetzee books back to back and I'm still in that zone for a bit.

I've only read Tolstoy's Hadji Murat and Pushkin's The Commander's Daughter when it comes Russian Classics but I like them both.

Never read any Chinese fiction I don't think! Well except for 'Do Not Say We Have Nothing' but not sure if that really counts... does it @Beverley ?
 
I haven't read any Russian classics but I bought a fresh translation of The Brothers Karamazov last month and I just know I am going to love it like I loved Mann's Buddenbrooks. I live for ye olde style

I've been reading mostly Scandinavian lit lately, partly due to a book club I've joined, which is a bit too navel-gazing to share in this INTERNATIONAL chat room

I've heard great things about Yu Hua, he better fucking deliver!
 
Suedey said:
I'm about a third of the way into ( :ken: ) Pamuk's The New Life, so I will be ready for sexy time with Anna & @RaspberrySwirl most likely over the weekend.

Please join us @jivafox @Barnacle @Beverley @jyxz & everyone else. It'll be fun and I predict it may well be my first DNF of 2021!
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The blurb isn’t really getting me going, but The Red-Haired Woman sounds promising

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