I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!
#ABookADay2023
This was such an epiphany moment - and a perfect description of what it feels like when I‘m picking my next book.
(The tweet is written by the author of the tagged book - which I haven‘t read but this tweet suggests good things)
https://youtu.be/1h4pgQqW5xo
Rónán Hession (the author of Leonard and Hungry Paul, and Panenka) is one of the most passionate readers I know, and he speaks so darned eloquently about what he reads. Here, he shares an hour‘s worth of recent reading as well as teasing the heck out of us about his forthcoming novel. Do check it out!
pickA humorous and enjoyable book full of good people muddling their way through life. It made me laugh out loud. A gentle, life-affirming read.
pick1st week of the year, back to work, dark damp mornings , so this gentle book has added a bit of sunny sky back into my week as I fell in love with the story of two men in their 30's, somewhat at odds with the world but close friends bonding over board games, and with ancillary characters (esp Paul's parents). As changes happen to both men the relationship shifts slightly. Lots of so so reviews on litsy but already one of my bks of yr
I had retired from my 2-year temp job helping to run elections. Yippee, summer! 3 weeks later an employee called & asked if I would PLEASE return for the summer primary election & possibly through the November elections. Staff were leaving her to do it alone in the largest city in Vermont. I said yes. 😳 My reading will go downhill. 😩
This is a photo of kids picking cucumbers. In my teen years I laid on one of these for three summers, picking.
panNope.
Just didn't do it for me.
Too much unnecessary narrative and quite saccharine sweet characters.
I finished it purely because it was my friend's choice!
A good friend has picked this for our book club. A few chapters in and I'm not feeling the love...
panI really wanted to like this; heck, I enjoyed the first half of it. It has a gentleness in both the story telling and the characters that I enjoyed for a while. I have a hard time warming up to a character like Hungry Paul. He‘s a middle-aged man who can‘t be bothered to work more than one day/week and who undeniably mooches off his parents. Yes, there‘s a lot of love in the familial relationships, but they‘re also enablers.
#bookspinbingo
