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Post by Liiisa on Mar 24, 2024 5:48:15 GMT -5
15) Ben H. Winters, Big Time
I read a blurb about this saying that it was about a US Food & Drug Administration medical device regulator, and because of my job-related long familiarity with the agency I thought "ok well I have to read this," so I did.
So how do I describe this. It's a thriller where this woman who works reviewing new medical device applications is presented with a question from a doctor about a patient, which spirals into a surreal plot that I can't begin to describe. Highly amusing, especially since the patient had been in a DC punk band that was described as having played at the American Legion hall that's down the street from our house!
Not great literature, but lots of fun.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Mar 24, 2024 6:03:19 GMT -5
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods. A novel about a bit of a magical bookshop in Dublin helping some characters discover their own stories. Meh. I read that, from a recommendation from Hal I think. I just finished the 8 lives of a Century Old Trickster. Wow. Confusing storyline but extremely complex. Covering everything from the Japanese Invasion of Asia through to the current century. Many stories of abuse and assault. But truly complex. I wouldn't have recommended Lost Bookshop one, as I found it average. I wanted to like it more than I did. I did put it on instagram possibly, but didn't come back to say I had issues. I did love 8 Lives though, had a great conversation about it with a friendly librarian recently.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Mar 27, 2024 6:32:16 GMT -5
15 Kill Your Husbands, Jack Heath. Murder mystery set in rural Australia. Definitely not cozy, lots of interesting twists and turns.
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Post by lillielangtry on Mar 27, 2024 14:29:47 GMT -5
Ann Patchett, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage After I loved Patchett's essay collection These Precious Days, I wanted to read her other one. I adore the way she describes her relationship with her loved ones (human and canine). This book didn't reach the same heights as TPD for me because of the two essays in that one I loved so much - the one about her three dads and the one about taking in Tom Hanks' assistant during lockdown. But it was still excellent, and she reads the audiobook herself. As before, some of these pieces have been published previously elsewhere so may be familiar.
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Post by scrubb on Mar 28, 2024 13:42:26 GMT -5
The Centre by Ayesha Menazir Siddiqi.
I liked it a lot.(lillie's recommendation and i think sophie really liked it too).
I wasn't at all thinking along the plot lines that it ended up following. Honestly, I think my favourite thing was her feminist commentary.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Mar 29, 2024 6:14:14 GMT -5
16. The Casual Vacancy, J K Rowling. I nearly abandoned it halfway through, as it moved so slowly. All of the characters are flawed, and many unlikeable. I was a bit shocked at the βGuidance teacherβ who told a teenager to stop swearing in a counselling session. What training do they get in the UK? The last quarter moved much faster, and the ending was quite moving.
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Post by riverhorse on Mar 29, 2024 13:44:09 GMT -5
Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day. Basically a series of musings on the nature of friendship. I identified so many aspects of myself in said musings. It also reassured me that not being part of a strong local friendship group is relatively normal in this day and age, and that many of you lot form a cherished part of my 'inner friendship circle'.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 30, 2024 7:19:42 GMT -5
16) Lori Fox, This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working-Class Queer
Fox is a nonbinary queer journalist who has lived a pretty rough life in various parts of Canada, alternately working service industry and agricultural jobs while doing journalism part-time. These are essays about their experiences, which illustrate the working conditions and constant stress that people suffer when they're living on the edge because of lack of resources. The "war" in the title comes from the very strong final essay.
They're a great writer - I'm glad to have been recommended it.
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Post by lillielangtry on Mar 30, 2024 7:34:48 GMT -5
Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day. Basically a series of musings on the nature of friendship. I identified so many aspects of myself in said musings. It also reassured me that not being part of a strong local friendship group is relatively normal in this day and age, and that many of you lot form a cherished part of my 'inner friendship circle'. Ah I was given this by an old friend and I really liked it too.
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Post by scrubb on Mar 31, 2024 19:43:30 GMT -5
Lilies of the Field, by William E. Barrett.
An old book. Gentle. I think it's a Sidney Poitier movie, too.
A man from a Carolina drives to a new part of the US and ends ip building a church for some nuns who don't speak English.
Most of the book takes place in his head. I'm not sure how the movie would get across how important his freedom is to him without too much dialogue, but I bet Poitier did it well.
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Post by Liiisa on Apr 4, 2024 19:48:12 GMT -5
17) Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Silver Nitrate
In Mexico City, a woman who's a movie sound technician and a man who's an out-of-work telenovela star have been friends since childhood. They meet an elderly man who'd been a horror movie director, and this gets them involved in a strange plot involving movies and ceremonial magic. Gripping, imaginative, and enjoyable!
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Post by lillielangtry on Apr 5, 2024 1:05:17 GMT -5
17) Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Silver Nitrate In Mexico City, a woman who's a movie sound technician and a man who's an out-of-work telenovela star have been friends since childhood. They meet an elderly man who'd been a horror movie director, and this gets them involved in a strange plot involving movies and ceremonial magic. Gripping, imaginative, and enjoyable! Are we still in March? ;-) I'm going to start an April thread!
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Apr 5, 2024 1:31:36 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Apr 5, 2024 5:11:41 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 8, 2024 17:37:56 GMT -5
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 8, 2024 17:41:41 GMT -5
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