mreads Great book 9h
35 likes1 comment
I should be getting some cleaning done. I should be going to the gym, or doing the laundry. Instead, I'm enjoying a huge cup of tea and my new library book that I'm super excited about! 😍💕📚 #librarylove
Idaho | 
I should be getting some cleaning done. I should be going to the gym, or doing the laundry. Instead, I'm enjoying a huge cup of tea and my new library book that I'm super excited about! 😍💕📚 #librarylove
pickThis is a beautifully written story of a family tragedy. It‘s told from various points of and a timeline that jumps around. What really happened? I don‘t know . . .
#ReadingUSA2019 #Idaho
Hooked_on_books, NatalieR, LapReader, Kaye, megnews, Librarybelle, Laughterhp, squirrelbrain, Bookishgal71, BarbaraBB, Samplergal, jessinikkip, MirrorMask, tdrosebud, AnneFindsJoy, Marina_h
Next up , IDAHO ... 🤞🏻☀️&📖....
Something beyond awful in this book happens #behindthewheel. Through jumps back and forth in time we learn about the events leading up to the episode and the consequences which follow after.
#MayMovieMagic
pick#ReadingUSA2019 #Idaho. Loved this book.
pickI stayed up late and got up early to finish this one. I loved it. Such great writing and what a story! #MayMadness #mayScavengerHunt #floweroncover #withadoginit
so-soThe writing in this book is beautiful. The descriptions transported me to a secluded, forested area in rural Idaho where the lives of several individuals diverge in many different ways after an unspeakable tragedy occurs.
The book lost me though with the time jumps between past, present, and future. Each storyline never seemed to reach its full potential, which left the book feeling unfinished to me at the end.
#ReadingUSA2019 @Librarybelle
pickA little bizarre yet strangely appealing. Generations of family members affected by a horrendous crime, each in his or her own way, are presented as vulnerable, caring, manipulative and hateful, depending on the situation. Ending is surprisingly touching if somewhat implausible...but that could be said for many fiction novels, right? 4/5 ⭐️
This book kept me thinking about it long after finishing, and ended up a top read for 2018. On sale today for Kindle for $1.99! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F0ZK7F2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_JoouCbACF711J
so-soI gave this book 3 stars. It jumps around everywhere. Different years, different POVs it's a lot to take in. However I still loved this book I'm glad I read it! Have you read it what did you think?
so-soGreat writing and very descriptive but so slow. I really got lost quite a few times with the way it jumped around from one time to another. It just was hard to stay focused on when reading.
Through this book, Wade is #FallingSlowly more and more into his dementia, while we as readers slowly learn about a terrible tragedy involving Wade‘s two little girls. This is a beautiful book, and one I would like to revisit at some point
#MusicalNewYear
pickThis was such a gorgeous book, so slow and sad, but it had a lot of hope in it as well. Very still, full of character, I adored how meditative and beautiful it was instead of just being dark and bleak.
Next book from my library pile! I know very little about this, I just had it recommended to me, so I‘m gonna plunge in and see what happens. I‘ll start it properly on the way to work tomorrow but just a few pages before bed
pickI had to wait an eternity for some MONSTER to return this to the library (they'd had it overdue for THREE MONTHS. The rage!). But it was worth the wait. I'd heard many good things about this and it really got me in the gut. What a sad, powerful story about the fallout from a senseless, violent crime. So lyrical. Reminds me very much of Marilynne Robinson and Alice Munro. My only little criticism is I felt the middle could have been trimmed a bit.
DAY 9: The writing in this debut is so gorgeous, but that one inexplicable, gruesome moment is so fucked up. It totally ruined the book for me.
#debbiedowner #nofemmeber
so-soThe writing is beautiful and it made for a rich reading experience. I liked the imaginings of the second wife as she‘s tried to figure out what happened. The author really rounded out the characters - even giving minor characters a brief part from their point of view. It started so well but I did feel like it slowed down in the middle so much I had to push myself to finish. I‘ll be interested in what she writes next.
pickRead all of Idaho in one sunny weekend on the beach! Gripping and evocative, I didnt want it to end and am still thinking about the characters a week later! Warning, you will want to move to Idaho after reading.
Book 26 of #52Booksin2018
so-soWhile this had a really masterfully built suspense I was trying to speed through it to be done with it. I knew the premise of a wife trying to find out how his previous husband‘s daughter died wasn‘t going to be a mystery. I knew this was going to be literary fiction about characters and none of the characters but Jenny really grabbed me? The woodsy setting though...on point.
I went to check out Scruffy City Books today and picked up just a couple. (Tiny bookhaul thanks to my husband being there... tried to keep myself in check since he was paying and also didn‘t want to make him stay there too long, no reader that he is.)
Super affordable place to shop if you‘re ever in Knoxville- $3 or under for most books, and they had a pretty good selection!
Trying to relax on vacation, nice drizzle of rain in the background. The book might be a little too heavy for relaxation. Gonna switch to Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan. Just want to zone out for a few days....
Ann could use a lot of #help. With a husband with rapidly loss of memory and a dark past, she tries to keep everything together, all alone, on top of a mountain.
#HeyJune
pickThis was so well done, a slow suspense. I really liked the way she switched between time and characters.
pickBeautiful prose, flawed characters. I had some problems with this, mostly with how the author tried to make me feel sympathy for Jenny. I don't care if it's accidental or not I cannot feel sympathy for a mother who kills her child. But overall this was an interesting read about what makes us the people we are.
bailedThis one was just not for me. I read about a third of the book and couldn‘t get through it. The different POVs didn‘t lend anything to the story and I was confused throughout. I wanted to like it but 🤷🏽♀️
pickJust my kinda novel! Looking forward to reading what Ruskovich writes in the future. She might become an auto-buy.😁
It struck me that she references an “oosik”, a word I haven‘t heard or seen in print since my Alaskan childhood AND Grangeville, ID, a tiny town where my husband‘s family is from. 😄
Oh my, the tension created in the scene between Jenny & Elizabeth in their cell. 😯 Two very, very fragile beings.
Enjoying the bank holiday Monday with some sunny reading in the garden. It‘s times like these though that I really wish I had a kindle paper white! The brightness is on full on my kindle fire and I‘m struggling 🌞
Excited to get into Idaho, I‘ve heard good things!
Well, this one starts out with an attention grabbing thrust! Feels like my kind of writing off the bat - I hope it holds out. 🤞🏾
pickThis was a story full of broken people. Broken people who sometimes do inexplicable things. This story could have been maudlin or needlessly titillating, but, in Ruskovich's hands, it is a sometimes jarring, deep dive into the heads of these broken people. Their unfiltered thoughts. 👇🏼
It‘s the best time of the year for patio reading in MN - no humidity or mosquitoes yet. Here are my favorite reads of 2018, out of 22 read so far. My current read, Jerry Coyne‘s latest, might become the fourth musketeer.
bailedI just can‘t care about any of these characters. Is it the writing? Is it the forlorn sounding narrator? The seemingly constant descriptions of feelings with what I feel is a weak plot that doesn‘t compel me to flip pages I find boring. This sort of writing could easily step into the world of a romance novel. Not for me. I‘m not in the mood for this now, and unsure this would be a book to try again.
Good month of reading. Now looking forward to taking it outside until Old Man Winter arrives. #aprilwrapup
pan
