And it's finished. 😭😭😭 why didn't i pace myself? I read this book in great gulps. Diving in whenever i found myself with five minutes. I could hop in and be back into the story within seconds. I will miss it so.

Nooo...it can't be over already!

This was great and i expect it to go far in #tob #tob2020. The writing is lyrical and gorgeous. The story has supernatural elements that i loved. I can't wait to see more fiction from Coates. Lots of gruesome parts though and i struggled with it

This was a tough read for it's awful Handmaids Tale dystopic material but it also just feels like snippets of a story pieced together to appease fans. Nothing more for me to add. Others have said it all. I don't think it will get far for #tob #tob2020

Just found out about #tob #tob2020 and I've read some already. This one was good, and i know it was a major blockbuster. I liked it and I'm finding several parts sticking with me. I wouldnt vote for it to go too far though because it was all so...normal?

Update on my first attempt at an audio book. Successful, mostly? It was a tough start TBH. The narrator was soothing and it was more like ASMR than my normal podcasts. However, i really have it a try and i eventually got into it. I've invested two hour long commutes and i don't regret a minute of it!

I've always preferred to read books that i can hold, but after a very successful try with ereading on my phone while nursing in the f middle of the night, I've decided to give audio books a try. Any suggestions for books that are especially good to listen to?

People deeply love this book and im starting to see why. I am wanting to habe a book going on my ereader and a paper book gong at the same time, but i can't put this one down (ereader). Vampires and chilly thrillers are not usually my thing, but i am absolutely loving the sumptuous descriptions of dreamy European cities hiding dark secrets.
#readingeurope2020 #istanbul #budapest #oxford

I loved this book when i read it, but i wonder how i would manage now as a mother. It was sweet and wistful and incredibly atmospheric.

Loved it and loved Tara Conklin. I'll read whatever she writes!

I don't think i have anything to add that people haven't said. It's wonderful :)

I really ended up liking this though it was often slow. The characters were all very self absorbed, but they were very interesting people, so why not. I loved the seeing and the time periods and learning about art and photography.

I know people were excited about this book, but i just thought it was all so obvious. I liked the worldbuilding and learning about the mythology and history of the story, though, so not a pan from me

This was really different from what i expected. I ended up loving it because the subject was so unfamiliar and i learned so much as one of the characters learned about themselves. Super interesting about car racing in the bush...who knew it could be so interesting?

This was fun to read. I liked the main character for her sarcasm and humor. Learning a bit about haiti as she learned was also great. I probably could have used more! Fun story and interesting setting

This one has been TBR forever but I've been afraid of it. I raced through it and only had to skip a few triggering pages. It was really lovely while tragic and frustrating. I learned a lot and would highly recommend. Not the best Book for 3am nursing sessions on my ereader, but nevertheless, i didn't mind getting up knowing i had this book waiting for me

I loved the history and the characters, but it really bugged me that the main character was portrayed as so primitive. It seemed over the top the way i was always supposed to be surprised she was so smart. I loved the matriarchy part and at times i cried and cried. There's good but it's troublesome. Worse that the author isn't Korean.

Maybe I'm not smart enough to find the narrative weirdness fun. I missed the point and couldn't bring the two/three parts together to make sense. There were moments i enjoyed very much as descriptions were cutting and visceral. I can't say I'm a big fan and maybe i won't seek out another novel by the author. Major book award, though, so I'm definitely missing something

First novel by the author and I'll be watching for her next one. I loved the detail and depth of each character and both loved was frustrated by each of them. The father is not given dimension until the end, which i was glad to read when i got to it, but i wished i knew more earlier. He probably had regrets too. Great modern family story

Loved this most recent Ann Patchett novel. I doubt she could write something i don't like. But this one was especially compelling with odd characters that were both endearing and frustrating.

Favorite book of 2019 (and i read it last January - so also my first book of 2019, lol) incredible lovable and flawed characters. The premise is complicated and sets high stakes at the beginning. The threat of the prophecy hands over their heads and changes them all. The depth and personal details of the aids crisis was particularly moving.

I loved this book. So completely different from 'the Last Romantics'. I loved the mix of time periods and how the art and art world were described

Loved this, though it want always easy to read. There's a sense of foreboding throughout, a strain of malice below the surface that i couldn't shake or wasnt supposed to. The magical realism was great and the setting incredibly vivid.

This was a great family narrative of four siblings who dealt with the absence of their mother during what they call "the Pause", an episode of depression for their mother, by becoming close and reliant on one another. The effects of this time in their life have reverberations as they become adults. I enjoyed each of the characters of the siblings and the sensitivity and love shown to the mother.

After reading too many WW2 books, this one was so very different. Female experiences of war is something I'm drawn to for reasons unknown. This one also had lesbian characters--a bit of a fresh story

This was entertaining, but frustrating. Understandably, the author would not want to mess with anne Frank and her story, but it felt timid and as though anne and her father did not evolve or learn.

Loved the story of this family and the wisdom of the mother/matriarch, Check. I also found the politics of cherokee life interesting as it was told as day to day facts of life rather than to exoticize or tell from an outsider's perspective.