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Daisey
The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri
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It took a long time for me to become invested in this story of a Bengali couple that moves to the U.S. and starts their own family. Yet, in the end I really enjoyed reading Gogol‘s story.

#audiobook #1001books #Reading1001 #TBRTakedown March 2024

KadaGul @Daisey Have you see the movie 🎥 The Namesake? It has Kal Penn https://youtu.be/_sOaA-4Y8tI?si=NqRR8Ik072SiQizH #KalPenn 3w
Daisey @KadaGul I haven‘t, but it does look good. I may need to see if I can find it. 3w
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Daisey
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Mehso-so

There are some wonderful descriptions in this memoir, but I didn‘t quite get any point besides sharing of a particular time in English history. Without any connection to the author, I would prefer a story to experience a period of time.

#memoir #nonfiction #1001books
#Reading1001 #TBRTakedown February 2024

Bookwomble Sorry you didn't like this. It's one of my all-time favourites. I read it at school and fell in love with it (though I'd never have expressed it that way then!). 1mo
Daisey @Bookwomble It‘s not even that I didn‘t like it. I enjoyed individual passages, but I admit I appreciate plot more than separate nostalgic reminiscences. 1mo
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Daisey
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Mehso-so

I didn‘t particularly like this book, but I found it written in an interesting way that worked well on audio. I was intrigued enough to look up more about Kesey and the 2011 documentary using some of the Merry Pranksters‘ video footage. I‘m slightly more interested in reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo‘s Nest with this background on the author but still baffled by the idea of a continuous acid trip road trip and parties offering basically free LSD.

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Daisey
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I completed 45 books from the #1001books list this year for an updated total of 253 out of 1,318!

A few were rereads but from long enough ago that I didn‘t have dates in Goodreads. As usual, there were books I just pushed through to finish as well as fantastic reads.

Several were read for the #Reading1001 group, including 13 for #TBRTakedown. Many others were read with or for various readalong groups and challenges listed in the comments.

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Daisey
Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf
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Mehso-so

I‘m just not a fan of Virginia Woolf‘s style. This is beautifully written with detailed descriptions from the perspective of various characters, but I was again disappointed by the lack of plot. I didn‘t especially care about any of the characters except for the story of Septimus and Rezia, and theirs is just sad.

I read most of this on #SerialReader but also listened to an #audiobook version. It was easier to follow the characters in print.

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Daisey
Sexing the Cherry | Jeanette Winterson
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Mehso-so

I‘m really not quite sure what I read. This is a strange novel that includes different timelines, mostly in the 1600s but also the 1990s, as well as a fairy tale retelling. We get this story mostly through the alternating perspectives of Jordan, a boy rescued from the Thames, and Dog Woman, the woman who rescues and raises him. Their stories include sex, violence, humor, and some quotable lines.

#1001books #Reading1001 #TBRTakedown

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Daisey
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Mehso-so

I seem to feel much the same as many other Litsy reviewers about this book. There were descriptive parts I thoroughly enjoyed, like the section about riding a motorcycle on the salt flats, but overall it was a long listen that often lost my full attention. I‘m not sure what I was supposed to get from it, and it definitely jumped around confusingly at times.

#audiobook #1001books #Reading1001
#TBRTakedown September 2023

Daisey 📷: Photo from my #audiowalk a few days ago with Luthien 6mo
Ruthiella I love Rachel Kushner, but I can‘t put my finger on why she works for me and not for others. 6mo
dabbe Hello there, Lovely Luthien! 🖤🐾🖤 6mo
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Kristelh
Posthumous Memoirs of Brs Cubas | Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
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TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 8mo
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Daisey
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#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
🎧 Hamlet is Not OK
🎧 The Prodigal God
📖 The Hobbit #FellowshipOfTolkien #LotRChapterADay

#CurrentlyReading
📖 #Clarissa - still playing catch up
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
🎧 Vanity Fair #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade
🎧 Shame #AuthorAMonth

#WeeklyForecast
📚Continue current books
📚 Start August #TBRTakedown, which might be too much to take on right now.

Cinfhen I love the hashtag #TBRtakedown 😁but it does seem like a daunting task 🫶🏼 8mo
Daisey @Cinfhen It‘s a specific challenge in the #Reading1001 group. You make a numbered list of 24 books at the beginning of the year, and one is randomly drawn each month. It‘s been a good way to get some of the books on the list read. 8mo
Cinfhen Ohhh, cool! 8mo
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