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#12booksof2022 Father & son try to survive in a post apocalyptic world .Such a dark , powerful read . so my 12 days of Christmas Booklist now done , this was the book for December. I was blessed in December, in a sense, a three tie.”Joan is Okay “by Weike Wang & “Mrs.Palfrey at The Claremont “ by Elizabeth Taylor were brilliant!

What a beautifully written bucket of misery this book is.A father & son in a post apocalyptic world just trying to survive.Anyone would be assumed to be the enemy , they would need what you have.Bleak yet beautiful.I admired the fathers instincts & fortitude,how he makes the most of found objects,moves towards a temperate climate.It feels like a warning to us all.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Well , it has the word Christmas in it , but this book is definitely not very Christmassy!🫤😄

📚Road*Ripley Under Ground*Rebecca*Return of the King*Red Harvest*Rashomon & 17 Other Stories
🖋️ Rushdie*Rulfo*Rilke
🎬Roadgames*Raging Bull*Rear Window Rabbitproof Fence*Rosemary's Baby*Raid 2
🎙️ Radiohead*Roots**Rufus Wainwright*RTJ*Regina Spektor*Rachel's*REM
🎧The Rip (Porridge Radio)*Rock the Casbah (Clash)*Radio (Lana Del Rey)*Rock & Roll (Velvet Underground)*Remember the Day (Sibylle Baier)*The Rip (Portishead)*Running Up that Hill 👇

So hard to read, but so good 😩

#campfires #OminousOctober
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #scarathlon2022

1. I like both, but I‘ll go with post-apoc!
2. The tagged book is one of my very favorites, but I also love The Stand by Stephen King and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. There‘s just something so hopeful about a post-apocalyptic world that values Shakespeare! 🥰
#Two4Tuesday

1. I think I have enjoyed both but post-apocalyptic wins by a thread.
2. The Road, I gobbled it up and it still haunts me. When I worry about the state of the world, I thing of this book becoming reality, it‘s chilling. I‘m not sure I “recommend it” but it scared the hell out of me.
@TheSpineView You have a nice day too!☺️
Thank you for the tag @Kshakal #Two4Tuesday

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. Post-Apocalyptic, I suppose, although there's been a glut of those books recently.

2. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Works nicely as a parable about life and parenthood.

Tag @RaeLovesToRead @CBee @IuliaC @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm

With an understated tone, McCarthy managed to both shock me and move me to tears more than once. It‘s amazing how little you need in the background to tell a good story. This novel doesn‘t thrill, but I still sped through it, and I loved it enough to watch the movie the same day I finished

"The kind of breakdown of civilized living that happens, and could occur in an even more terrifying way, is described in McCarthy's novel The Road... What is so disconcerting is the fact that it did not seem to dawn on so many who read and 'enjoyed' this book that something like this really could happen. We human beings are fully capable of bringing such a situation about and behaving as described." - Richard Harries, The Beauty and the Horror

The Road makes you think about things from a different prospective. Looking back at the story I enjoyed it, but I also hate reading it. No quotations, fragmented sentences, no names, no character development or climax. It just exists. If you like world building and answers, this is not the book for you.

Wow, what a sad story.

A father who will go to the ends of the earth to protect his son in a post-apocalyptic world. You can really feel the soul destroying desperation as he struggles to keep himself and his son alive.

It‘s beautifully written, but heartbreaking.

Okay I think this is an unpopular opinion, but I didn't think The Road was boring at all. I think the pared back language set a bleak and pessimistic mood in a way that vivid imagery of a walk through a barren, post-apocalyptic landscape wouldn't have been able to accomplish. I think it's harder to forgo embellishments and trust one's reader. I give this book five stars, easily.

My sinus infection got the best of me today. I had to take a sick day, but I've gotten through most of this novel. 🙌 Also, I'm strangely craving chocolate so thank goodness these Raisinets were buried in my cabinet. 🤣

I've read it three times so far.

Book 107

What was all the hype on this one about? Sooo boring.

🎧 A man & his son survive some sort of cataclysmic catastrophe! His wife is gone. They are traveling a barren wasteland. A dystopian landscape.

This is a depressing book. No trust. All humans are bad. The two of them are just walk walk walk in their way to the coast. The man is so untrusting and the boy wants to trust so he is annoyingly whiny.

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 👇🏻

My most recent read was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Finished it a few days ago. I had always liked the film, but never read the book.

A father and young son walk through a barren, post-apocalyptic wasteland, journeying to the coast.

This tale is heart-rending, frightening, and bleak—but beneath the doom and gloom there lies an undercurrent of hope and pure love. A tragic yet touching story.

#ShortReview #CormacMcCarthy #PostApocalypse

"Okay."

The weight of "okay" in this book is astonishing.

Evocative, immersive and bleak, this Pulitzer-prize winning, post-apocalyptic despair-fest had it's moments, but overall I wasn't wowed.

Not much happens and there wasn't enough nuance in the characterisation for me to overlook the irritating postmodern lack of grammar.

I can see why so many people love it but, for me, it didn't add much to a genre that already has many works of art.

#2021Book35
This is one of my favorite books, and my seniors voted it their favorite book for this school year!

This won a Pulitzer and many of my Goodreads friends have 5 starred it... I'm 100 or so pages in and nothing is happening.
Really hope it gets more interesting. Maybe I've just been spoilt by all the amazing post-apocalyptic videogames I've played - The Last of Us, Fallout... and fiction too - The Day of the Triffids, Station Eleven... Will have to see how it all plays out.

Day 2

The son #Motivates the father to keep going because he is all that he has left in the post apocalyptic world that they live in.

#MayCharacters
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Another post apocalyptic novel, very bleak. A father and son walk the road dealing with starvation, lack of fuel and terrible people.

So insightful, so beautiful.

⭐⭐⭐.5/5

Probably Cormac McCarthys most famous work. A story of a man and his son as they trek across a bleak and unforgiving vision of the post apocalypse. Often viewed as a brutal and overwhelmingly grim, I found The Road to actually have a more uplifting message of hope and unconditional love especially when compared to the rest of McCarthys catalogue.

Just remember the things you put in your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.

Are you carrying the fire? 🔥❤

This book was probably not the best choice to read during a pandemic but my heart broke for this dad trying to keep his son safe in this post apocalyptic world. The style of writing took a little while to get used to (no quotation marks for dialogue).

A book like none other I have read, although bleak and basic to read, I couldn‘t put it down. Through descriptive writing, I was able to visualize this journey that father and son endured together, and feel the relationship these two had. Not a fluffy book for sure!

Beautifully dark, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy is a searing journey of a father and son in a post-apocalyptic America. The relationship between characters felt genuine in every aspect, with a very minimalistic/simplistic dialog. The vagueness of the world and the unanswered questions only add to the overall poetic and imaginative narrative. It's immersive, it‘s captivating. A must read.

This was an entertaining read of a father and young son surviving in a post apocalyptic world. This was my first Cormac McCarthy book. Although I've got to say I was put off at first that the book doesn't have any dialogue with quotation marks. But other than that, it was an enjoyable read.

Thanks for the tag, @EadieB ?
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget" - Cormac McCarthy, The Road.

#ThoughtProvokingThursday
@BayouGirl85

One of the darkest, bleakest, coldest, most poetic books I have ever read. Cormac McCarthy is brilliant, his prose visceral. This book makes me happy that I merely live in a Covid besodden, racially and politically divisive world.

#3books that made me cry. Sad, long, devastating sobs. 😢

The scenes are clear and so decadent, a very visual read. Though, perhaps not the best thing to read in a pandemic. It's a heartbreaker.

1. Sort of. I grew up in this state but was born a state over. I also live in a different town than where I grew up.
2. Delivery personnel 😅 They‘ve saved my bacon twice already. 😂🤣😂
Thanks for the tag @CBee !!
I tag @katy4peas and @RobStark92 if you guys haven‘t participated yet and want to! 😊👍

Thanks for the tag @MallenNC !

1️⃣ - A new hobby and de-stressor for me are jigsaw puzzles. 🧩 It‘s my way of introverting with both kids and hubby (working from home still) in the house. Bonus points if I can pop on an audiobook!

2️⃣ - I‘m thankful for my family and puppy, books, my chiropractor, and our YMCA for cautiously, and responsibly, opening the outdoor pool! 💦

@Booksnchill @ferskner if you‘d like to play.

#thankfulthursday

"In that cold corridor they had reached the point of no return which was measured from the first solely by the light they carried with them."
The Road starts out in a deceptively minimalist fashion. The day-to-day struggle for food & shelter of the father & son is carefully documented. It's soon apparent that this is so much more than an apocalypse story, or even a story about the relationship between the two characters. McCarthy seamlessly ?

Gripping.

#2020Book20
This is easily one of my favorite books and every time I read it, I find new things that I immediately want to discuss with everyone.