so-soVery informative. Long-winded, reads like a Victor Hugo novel--but shares a lot of historical facts and inspires wanderlust. It can get confusing on who's perspective you're reading when there's stories within stories within letters.
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so-soVery informative. Long-winded, reads like a Victor Hugo novel--but shares a lot of historical facts and inspires wanderlust. It can get confusing on who's perspective you're reading when there's stories within stories within letters.
Here we go, another month spinning. This is such a fun and effective way to finally getting round to those long neglected books on the dusty tbr shelf.
Trying to think of ways to condense reading challenges, so this months picks include ones for my nature writing and read harder challenges.
@TheAromaofBooks
#bookspinbingo #bookspin
pickI read this book on the priviso it would be a scary read. Although it was an enjoyable read, it didn't have that fear factor
bailedNope.
Done.
I reached 47% and finally had to skip to the end to see if it was worth pushing through. I know this gets high praise from some people but I can‘t get around the plodding plot, cardboard characters, unexplainable coincidences, unrealistically detailed letters or the humorlessly non-threatening antagonists.
so-so#unpopularopinion This was such a big disappointment for me. For about 500 pages, I was enjoying it immensely, I loved the rich details, and the mystery kept me guessing. Between pages 500-600 I began to lose my patience, I felt like the author was artificially holding back information, tossing me bits and pieces, then making me read lots of unimportant stuff. During the final 100 pages, when the big reveal came, I couldn't believe my eyes 🤦♀️
Probably only going to get to this chunkster this weekend despite my high hopes of squeezing in two more reads before the end of the month. We‘re visiting family today and running multiple errands all day tomorrow, so my reading time will be much shorter than I originally hoped/planned.
Book 4 of 2022
“My dear and unfortunate successor”
I love a good Dracula story
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
(1) I'm reading The Historian. It's long and slow, but I'm enjoying it a lot 😊
(2) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick
(3) Bluescreen, by Dan Wells
Thanks for the tag @DannyDan ☺️
Would you like to play @Ast_Arslan @JessBookNerd ?
#BookCoverChallenge
Day 140.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.
Day 15 of #21DaysofHorror
In my review of this I said that it was more of a historical fiction tinged with horror rather than a horror novel. I stand by this assessment. This was one of the most immersive reads that I have experienced. Recently someone on social media asked for a recommendation for a horror movie where the majority of the movie was the research scenes. I feel like The Historian is the perfect book recommendation for this question.
pickThis was a great reread/first-time listen. I really loved this book when I read it 4-5 years ago. I saw the abridged audiobook with full cast recording was available on Hoopla and thought it would be a great option for spooky season. I didn‘t mind it being abridged, since I‘d read the book before, and I was still surprised a few times since I didn‘t remember all the details of the plot.
#Scarathlon2021 #Screamathon #LittenListen #TeamHendrix
pick#FallTreasures - Slow Burn: I feel that this is considered a slow moving story by many. Readers seems to have a polarized opinion of its merit. It‘s love or hate with no middle ground. I thought that it was captivating not in a thriller sense which is maybe what most folks are seeking being that it is supposedly a vampire story. Its hypnotic trance is in the writing. It is lush and brooding.👇🏽
#SeptemberSundays - books and football 🏈📚
It‘s the first Sunday so I‘m excited. Ask me again in December 🤣
My #SuperSeptember goals are pretty simple. I‘m about 225 pages into the tagged book. I‘m hoping to finish it this weekend but we‘ll see.
I‘m listening to the first Agatha Raisin on audio. It‘s pretty good so far.
If I finish the Historian, I‘m hoping to start my 2 library books, but we‘ll see.
Work has been crazy busy and I haven‘t had a ton of reading time lately.
Hope you start feeling better soon Andrew.
My Dark Academia bookmark arrived today! 💀📚 Thought this would pair nicely with these books, especially the tagged one, which is my favorite book in the world. 🖤
bailedJust not a book I could get into. I guess I needed more rom coms at the time…#doublespin from Feb is now off my list!!
I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it. Some will be old, some will be new - don't judge me, I have a lot of books.
Day 77th
Join the fun if you want!
#tbrpile
#thoughtfulthursday
1. Three or more reads each (probably at least 5+ reads each): tagged, Dracula, Rebecca
2. Absolutely. A great cover pulls me in to see if the book might be good. I generally ignore awful covers
3. The Hobbit, especially Mirkwood
This novel was suggested to me when I was looking for books similar to Anne Rice VC
After reading the description I‘m pretty excited to start it🖤
bailedI tried, I really did but this book is so boring! Halfway through and I stopped caring about any of it. Also, telling the story through someone's letters but not formatting it as a letter is really annoying. Does she find Dracula in the end? I don't know and I don't care. DNF.
Sometimes I read my books out loud and pretend I'm the narrator of it's Audiobook.
Has anyone read this? Opinions please!
I am posting a book every day from my TBR.
Day 15
#tbrpile #bookstoread
1) The Historian
2) Let the Right One In
3) Either of the above. I also really liked 30 Days of Night.
#SpookySaturday
It‘s my “Vlad the Impaler” night. I happened upon this fascinating tv show about Vlad. See my previous post about the “Vlad the Inhaler.” I have the weirdest coincidences around this, one of my favorite books.
Couldn‘t resist this one!!
#wintergames #merryreaders @Clwojick
pickNo real book review here since this was the umpteenth reread of this book, one of my top 3 favorites ever. It still is in my top 3. Read for #readingeurope2020 #Slovenia and #novelnovember
Update for #novelnovember!
Finish:
✅ Attachment for #authoramonth
✅ A Freak of Freedom for #readingeurope2020 #SanMarino
✅ Midnight in Chernobyl for #Ukraine
✅ The Historian for #Slovenia
Make progress: The Dogs of Riga for #Latvia
@Andrew65
Page 566, slightly less than 100 pages to go. I‘m finally at my favorite part of the book: the incomparable description of the one place we‘d all want to visit if we could (safely). I‘m being as vague as I can to avoid spoilers but gee I‘ve been rereading this book since late September & here it is, late November, & I‘m finally at the best point in the book. Share your favorite parts of the book in the comments (with spoiler warning).
So apparently Dracula, the book is way more recent than what I thought ;)
Another photo of the gorgeous Rila Monastery in Bulgaria, which the main characters are currently visiting.
Our characters are now visiting the beautiful Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. The author described it as absolutely beautiful but it‘s even more gorgeous than imagined.
“Everywhere I saw sunlight touching old vellum, old leather, tool bindings, hints of gilt, crumbling page corners, knobby bindings -– red and brown and bone-colored wonderful books — books and scrolls and manuscripts in a working disarray. Nothing was dusty, nothing heavy was heaped on anything fragile, and yet these books, these manuscripts were absolutely everywhere...”
One of the best things about this book are its many libraries.
“We joined a line of silent Bulgarians filing past Dimitrov‘s open coffin. The dictator‘s face was waxen, with a heavy dark mustache... I thought of Stalin, whose body had reportedly joined Lenin‘s the year before, in a similar shrine on Red Square. These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.”
In my v*e*r*y slow reread of one of my most favorite books, we‘ve finally reached another country, #Bulgaria. Of course I‘m using the book for #readingeurope2020 #Slovenia. But it‘s the perfect book for this challenge! If I recall correctly we have at least one more country to go.
And since I‘m into book coincidences lately in the books I‘m reading, this book (at least partially) and Midnight in Chernobyl are both set in Cold War Europe.
#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94
Thanks for the tag, @Eggs ! 🤗💖
🍁 The Historian reminds me of Autumn! I always try and reread it this time of year!
🍁 I usually have a fall book list I put together, but I keep getting off track with it this year! I blame all the great new releases that keep coming out! 😁
🍁 I'm working late tonight, so probably something quick, like waffles!
🍁 Good Omens! 💕
Such a lovely description of a library. “It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home...”
You know how when you‘ve read a favorite book many times, and seeing the characters introduced is like meeting old friends? That‘s how I feel about Aunt Eva. As one of the main characters says: “Aunt Eva was certainly one of this vivid people, someone my memory and imagination have conspired to preserve in living color for twenty years.”
It‘s been a while since I‘ve read it, but as I recall there‘s quite a bit of this sort of education in the tagged book.
@KVanRead #LitFortuneCookie
Want to play? @hermyknee @Alfrazier21 @4thhouseontheleft
A lovely quote indeed!
On my #bookquilt because I love reading this book in the Fall/Winter time. I couldn't fit it on this past October, but I plan on reading it November!
pan#Unpopularopinion but this did not work for me at all. For the first two hundred pages I was intrigued but soon after I was bored and waiting for less reading letters about research and more excitement. After 900 pages of research and travel I expected a more thrilling ending but was amusingly underwhelmed. My sister loves this book so I am looking forward to calling her tomorrow. #booked2020 #gothichorror
I love when we meet Turgut in this book. At this point we don‘t know if he‘s good or evil. He‘s introducing some of the main characters to a librarian, Mr. Erozan. What I‘d forgotten from previous reads was how Turgut charmingly assassinated English!
#scarathlon #teamslaughter #screamathon #sbooktober #gothtober #ripreadathon #trickortreadathon #nameinthetitle #ghostathon #gothicreadathon #slaughterthon @Clwojick @4thhouseontheleft
