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Post by Q-pee on Sept 4, 2019 6:30:01 GMT -5
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 4, 2019 6:31:29 GMT -5
I'm interested in
(1) The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
(3) Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
(4) An Orchestra of Minorities - Chicozie Obioma
For sure
I'm curious about
(6) 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Elif Shafak
I love her writing, but the subject of this is tricky I might need to do a free read to see if I do want to read it.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Sept 4, 2019 6:35:22 GMT -5
Just read an extract of The Testaments.
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Post by lillielangtry on Sept 4, 2019 8:54:16 GMT -5
I think I probably will go out and get The Testaments as soon as it Comes out, even though I almost never do that.
I probably won't read any of the others. Ducks, Newburyport does Sound interesting but it's so Long and I've got so many other books to read... but if it wins maybe I'll think again!
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 4, 2019 17:49:59 GMT -5
Nope - most of these aren't even out yet here, I don't think.
Of course I'll read The Testaments! And will look for the other ones, though I saw that the NY Times was sort of over Salman Rushdie with this new one (and I wasn't impressed with the last one I read by him).
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Post by scrubb on Sept 4, 2019 19:05:43 GMT -5
Haven't read any of them. I like most of Atwood's books so will read The Testaments, but she occasionally disappoints badly.
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Post by lillielangtry on Sept 5, 2019 1:00:08 GMT -5
She does. She's quite prolific and varied so I think it's natural that I don't like everything she writes, but there is a huge weight of expectation for The Testaments. That's what makes me wary of the Hype. Very different circumstances, but I wasn't sorry I didn't bother to read the Sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 5, 2019 12:17:02 GMT -5
though I saw that the NY Times was sort of over Salman Rushdie with this new one (and I wasn't impressed with the last one I read by him). One of the podcasts I listen to was also a bit negative www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000825fI haven't been a fan since "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" which was 1999, although I enjoyed his memoir Joseph Anton. I like the density of prose but after a while I get a the feeling that that the cleverness is performative. |
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Post by shilgia on Sept 5, 2019 18:42:46 GMT -5
Nope, none of them.
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Post by sophie on Sept 5, 2019 21:48:17 GMT -5
Just got the Rushdie book out of the library today. Stay tuned.
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 6, 2019 2:39:06 GMT -5
Just got the Rushdie book out of the library today. Stay tuned. Oh good - we can go by your review  |
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Post by lillielangtry on Sept 6, 2019 4:10:30 GMT -5
I think if I was going to read a Rushdie I'd go for Midnight's Children, which won the Booker. But not rushing to try him. Interested to hear Sophie's verdict though!
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 6, 2019 4:43:37 GMT -5
Midnight's Children is definitely my favorite of the handful that I've read.
I remember MacademiaNut talking about Haroun and the Sea of Stories, but I still haven't read that.
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Post by sprite on Sept 6, 2019 6:21:37 GMT -5
haven't read any, and now they're on the list, will be impossible to get them on the library app.
my reading has dropped right off this summer, not sure why. i usually read before bed, and i think i've been too tired, so it's a bit of killer sudoku and then lights out.
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Post by Q-pee on Sept 6, 2019 6:57:14 GMT -5
I liked Moor's Last Sigh the best of all his fiction
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Post by Oweena on Sept 6, 2019 9:43:29 GMT -5
Haven't read any of them.
The Ducks book sounds tedious. I think the blurb in the article Q linked made me have flashbacks to my recent painful reading of Anne Tyler. I'll wait for someone braver to read it and report back.
The only Rushdie I've read is Midnight's Children and I hated it so it's likely I'd dislike any thing else of his. And I read that NYT review of his latest, it was unsparing.
The only one that interests me a little is the Girl, Woman, Other.
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Post by scrubb on Sept 6, 2019 10:44:38 GMT -5
The first Rushdie I read was Midnight's CHildren, and I found it a real slog. I thought parts were great, but I really didn't enjoy it overall. So I left Rushdie alone for a looooong time.
But a couple years ago I picked up Shalimar the Clown, and I really, really liked it. So now I do want to read more Rushdie, but don't know how to choose which ones so that I don't get stuck wading through another Midnight's Children.
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Post by Liiisa on Sept 6, 2019 18:50:03 GMT -5
Actually it turns out that I DID read "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," and it was just in 2017! Oops, obviously didn't make a huge impression.
Like I said I LOVED "Midnight's Children," but then I'd just gotten back from India & therefore was in the throes of India Fever.
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Post by cakemonkey on Sept 8, 2019 12:10:38 GMT -5
I loved Haroun and the Sea of Stories. My ex-boss bought it for me as a Christmas gift one year. Loved it. I don’t think I’ve read midnights children but I think I bought it recently on my kindle. I’ll have a look.
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Post by sprite on Sept 9, 2019 4:48:07 GMT -5
i've put a hold on 'girl, woman, other' so hopefully this will up the calibre of the books i've been reading lately!
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Post by scrubb on Jan 4, 2024 18:35:03 GMT -5
Was just scrolling through some threads and found this - since it was posted I've read 3 of them (below) and really liked them all.
Anyone else have comments, or read the other 3?
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 4, 2024 21:45:24 GMT -5
Oh yeah I definitely read Ducks, Newburyport; I think it was my #1 book that year. I also read the Elif Shafak, which was not quite as strange but also very stirring and good (reminds me I want to read her new one).
I didn't read "The Testaments," for some reason. Well, I guess because I thought "The Handmaid's Tale" told the story well enough and didn't need a sequel.
Re the others - oh yes, that reminds me that I never did read "Girl, Woman, Other."
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