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Post by Liiisa on Apr 28, 2023 17:27:59 GMT -5
I do like Saramago and I did very much like "Blindness," so I'll probably read that at some point! But I know what you mean, I have to read him when I have energy to focus - it's not something I can't put down.
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Post by Liiisa on Apr 29, 2023 6:10:26 GMT -5
39) Sam Lipsyte, No One Left to Come Looking for You
It's the early 90s post-punk scene in lower Manhattan. The bassist's bass has been stolen, the singer has disappeared, and there's a chance it's all somehow related to the Orange Menace and the mob.
This felt like a dumb pulp detective novel but it was amusing, especially if you're a music nerd like me and enjoy lots of sly music and literary references. And it did a good job of evoking that lost era before the East Village got fancy. Title is from a Come lyric, which makes me realize I haven't listened to that Come record in 15 years or so.
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Post by riverhorse on Apr 29, 2023 7:15:00 GMT -5
"Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus. Loved this book. I can't to see what Reese Witherspoon makes of it for the upcoming series. At times I was grinding my teeth in rage at the way women were treated in the book and wondered just how much things have really changed in the meantime?
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Post by Q-pee on May 2, 2023 8:17:45 GMT -5
The Mad Women's Ball
Victoria Mas
So much potential! Ultimately so dull!
1850s Paris women are hard done by and often locked up in the Salpetriere Asylum because Patriarchy.
Once a year they have a ball, where the cream of society comes to the Asylum and dances with the crazy women - who get to dress up for one night.
Quite a promising start.
The protagonist is beautiful with luxuriant hair and dark eyes, with a fleck across one iris. She is locked up by her father because she sees dead people.
The whole denouement is obv going to happen at the ball and it does.
But everything is too simple, too explained... the writer apparently hasn't heard "don't tell me - show me".
Anyway apparently it's now a film which is better than the book but meh.
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Post by lillielangtry on May 2, 2023 8:55:16 GMT -5
I've just bought Lessons in Chemistry as a gift.
Yes I read that Q and I kind of liked it, but I agree - imagine what Sarah Waters could have done with that potential setting.
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Post by sophie on May 2, 2023 9:21:34 GMT -5
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad. Fabulous but so painful to read… almost a novela rather than a novel, it follows the life of a 9 year old Syrian migrant as he is caught up in the vortex of human movement and smuggling. Recommended but with a caveat: emotionally challenging.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on May 3, 2023 4:43:14 GMT -5
26. Death by Dark Roast,Kate P Adams. An OK mystery set in an English stately home open to the public. I finished it on the 30th.
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