pickI didn‘t particularly like the characters in this short book, but it was a fairly light listen that did give me a few laughs.
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pickI didn‘t particularly like the characters in this short book, but it was a fairly light listen that did give me a few laughs.
#1001books #audiobook
May was a great listening month, and I finished a few print books as well. I‘m happy with the variety of books, and I got multiple bingos! Both The Drover‘s Wife & The Last Ballad were great stories, and I loved Counting by 7s. Of the 16 completed, 4 were #1001books.
#BookSpin 18 The Drover‘s Wife by Leah Purcell
#DoubleSpin 4 Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
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pickI really enjoyed the history and mystery aspects of this story, but there was too much theological discussion to keep my full attention.
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I made a breakfast quesadilla this morning to have alongside a few pages of my new book. This is my pick for Spain this month.
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“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, a potting shed, a wall where peaches ripen, than to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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pickThis book took me a long time to read but only because I set it aside a few times when life was busy. I‘m not generally a fan of Woolf‘s style, but I liked this the best of her books I‘ve read so far. It‘s an intriguing take on life, gender, and time. I found it fascinating how Orlando seemed perfectly able to fit into every period of time, and no one questioned these random people living hundreds of years.
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pickThis was a reread for me, and I appreciated the story more this time. I also really enjoyed the audio narration.
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pickI‘m not quite sure how best to describe this tragic romance wrapped up in a slave narrative. Although seeming strangely uneven to me in the way Oroonoko was treated, it details the brutality of slavery. I can appreciate its impact when written by a woman and published in 1688.
I had this in my TBR for #ReadingTheAmericas2023 but just got to it today. #Suriname
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pan✅ Another strange book marked off the 1001 list! Thankfully, it was short & fairly easy to follow at double speed. It‘s a disjointed mishmash of stories with way too much graphic M/M sex for me. Some scenes were interesting in how they were repetitively told with slight variations, but I didn‘t get the point. It wasn‘t as difficult of a read as de Sade‘s Justine, but I‘m giving it the same kind of rating.
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pickThis was a disturbing story. I was fascinated throughout the first part as Grenouille learned all about scents (and horrified by one scene), then a bit lost by the hermit in the hills portion, and again intrigued by the next section. Then things got crazy! I have no words for the ending, but I was completely engaged in listening.
📷: Happy beagle photo to balance out the creepy murders in this story.
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