Books you've read in 2022

Phoenix said:
Oh my god enough about that boring bitch. Aren’t there other books around?



Did a 6 hour marathon of reading to finish this today, excellent first read for the year 5/5

@Mats you would probably enjoy the series, it’s very much a family/crime saga with a lot of plotting and scheming (the magical parts are really more of a flavor).
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thank you! might be my fantastical pick for 2022. you know, I never did resume reading of Oathbringer... the story and characters are really interesting but the writing just didn't hold up in my opinion
 
Mats said:
thank you! might be my fantastical pick for 2022. you know, I never did resume reading of Oathbringer... the story and characters are really interesting but the writing just didn't hold up in my opinion
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I’m not the type of person who would notice the writing unless it’s terrible but it’s been said before that his prose is not his strongest aspect. He’s more of a plot/world builder so I understand.

Still the ending of Oathbringer is quite epic.
 
Finished this yesterday:

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I just finished this...

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Yes it’s essentially a gay version of Harry Potter, but I did love it :shy:
 
I re-read Snow Country on my vacation - still great. Kawabata's prose is like watching a movie sometimes

I've begun Maurice, thought I'd like something gay before diving back into the void that is Brothers Karamazov. entertaining so far!
 
So I read Convenience Store Woman (I think it might have been a @Mats recommendation..?) and I loved it.

Currently halfway through Olive Kitteridge and struggling to be honest. I think it's so overrated.
 
Mats said:
I'm also reading Toni Morrison's Beloved for book club. I'm on page 50 and don't understand anything at all :D
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I've read quite a bit of Morrison (Bluest Eye, Sula, Jazz etc.) but Beloved I always start and put aside. It's difficult.
My next Morrison will probably be Song of Solomon.
 
it's extremely difficult! I don't know why those basic bitches I read with chose it :D the first couple of pages I was like "ooh, a horror story" and then I just completely lost all sense of direction or coherence

I'm giving it 50 more pages before I quit
 
Mats said:
it's extremely difficult! I don't know why those basic bitches I read with chose it :D the first couple of pages I was like "ooh, a horror story" and then I just completely lost all sense of direction or coherence

I'm giving it 50 more pages before I quit
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I read it at school, so I had quite a lot of help. But it’s basically a circular story, so it goes back and back around to things from the past, and then adds more detail to it. There’s a movie with Oprah and a very naked Thandie Newton. Watch it!
 
Beverley said:
I read it at school, so I had quite a lot of help. But it’s basically a circular story, so it goes back and back around to things from the past, and then adds more detail to it. There’s a movie with Oprah and a very naked Thandiwe Newton. Watch it!
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Fixed.
 
Almost finished Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca for book club.

Simultaneously reading Down There On a Visit by Christopher Isherwood which I'm much more invested in.
 
Beverley said:
I read it at school, so I had quite a lot of help. But it’s basically a circular story, so it goes back and back around to things from the past, and then adds more detail to it. There’s a movie with Oprah and a very naked Thandie Newton. Watch it!
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watching the movie might be a good help, thanks.

wait, are you reading anything at the moment, profesora?
 
A couple of days ago I did something I thought I’d never be able to do; I finished the fucking Karamazov Brothers.

Now I feel so free and almost never want to read again. But I have already started with this sad and sweet classic The Call of the Wild which is be about a kidnapped dog. :)
 
Next week I might start reading Jazz by Toni Morrison (the others I have unread by her are much longer). Those I’ve read by her haven’t been as difficult as your description of Beloved.
 
Anyway I think I might venture back to the EAST after Olive Kitteridge.
I'm thinking Naguib Mahfouz!
 
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Mats said:
watching the movie might be a good help, thanks.

wait, are you reading anything at the moment, profesora?
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Hey beauts. :disco: I’m finishing up The Right to Sex at the moment, which is v good, and before that I read a fantastic novel called A Shock, by this queer Irish writer Keith Ridgway. Planning to start Howard’s End tonight for a fun little class I’m taking.
 
I would want to join but I’m trying not to buy more books.


I think I’ll read Madame Bovary after Jazz. Or one of the Japanese collection.
 
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