Next up in #MissionReadAllTheLibraryBooks
All these three are due back shortly and can't be renewed 😬 I also want to read the play Our Town before reading Tom Lake.
I might just return Razor Blade Tears unread for now, as I need a revenge story for next year's #52BooksIn52Weeks challenge.
I managed to return some books in the nick of time and rescue the three books the library had withheld. 😅 Currently I have these 14, with another 6 on hold but only 2 of them are remotely likely to come in anytime soon.
First up -The 7 Moons, because I have to return that in 4 days.
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I had a bunch of library holds come in and it turns out that their 15 book limit is absolute. So I had to leave three books behind for the time being. 😫 It's probably good that they are cutting me off tbh 😆 Clearly it's time for another round of #MissionReadAllTheLibraryBooks Or at least 3 of them.
I have some big ongoing reads, but for expediency I've dug out the three shortest books. Now, how fast can I get through them? Ready, set, read!
Moving Day is upon us and #MissionReadAllTheLibraryBooks has come to an end. Because getting ready to move is ridiculously time and energy consuming the mission was only a partial success. The books on the left I have completed, the books on the right are being returned unread. But fear not! All of those are available in my new location. I checked. 😅
panNo. Wtf? 200p of nature musings and info about the behaviour of bonobos, interspaced with on-the-nose metaphors about fog and fungi, a vaguely menacing mood, delusions, the juxtaposition of how we create synthetic patterns to make sense of the world but miss the hidden connections in nature. Then 100p of sudden action, death, trauma, grief, mundane explanations Vs possible paranoia. And then a non ending (I can infer, but I'm not impressed). 😒
175 pages in this book seems to me to be 70% nature description and/or philosophising/angsting about the immediate environment, 25% describing and angsting about the characters' inner life, and 5% fungus analogy/plot. I don't entirely hate it, but I'm getting impatient.
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pickThis was funny, sweet, entertaining, and even though the main character annoyed me at times, very bingeable. Thank you #CampLitsy I would have never chosen this book on my own but it turned out to be the perfect light summer read.
(Will it go on my Best of 2023 list if I make one? No.
Will I remember it a year from now? Doubtful.
Did I thoroughly enjoy it? Absolutely.)
pickWhile the other 3 books in the series are stand-alones, Summer is the continuation of the previous seasons. It brings together characters from the other books and also links them in ways that the reader will discover but the characters themselves remain ignorant of. This is clearly meant to show how we are all connected even though the country is divided, and it does stretch the ability to suspend disbelief. But I enjoyed revisiting the characters
#MissionReadAllTheLibraryBooks is progressing.
2 Read: The Final Girl Support Club, In The Lives of Puppets
2 will be returned unread, Trust because I bought it for 99p on Kindle, Empire of the Vampire because it is the first in a series and book two isn't even out until next year
Progress on Lonesome Dove: 458/843 pages.
8 other books remaining.
#20in4 goal: As much as I can manage.
In approx 3 weeks I'm moving to a different library area and all these books must be returned. Ideally after I read them. I'm currently in p.300/843 of Lonesome Dove and haven't started any of the others. 😬 I might have to prioritise. 😣
(I have cancelled my remaining holds so nothing will be added to this stack)
#MissionReadAllTheLibraryBooks starts now. Because that hashtag is as chunky as my book stack 😂
