Lonesome Dove was awesome! Great to re-read it and participate in the DB book club! Also read "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro which was incredibly moving.
"The Thursday Murder Club." I have, literally, never laughed so hard in my life! And on every single page (until the last chapter or two). Not just laughed, but OUT LOUD! Belly laughs! On book #3, now. My daughter has stopped asking me "what's so funny?" and has learned to just ignore me. How anyone can possibly be SO FUNNY is beyond my comprehension. But I sure am glad that Richard Osman is!
My best book for July was a re-read, actually a listen. Sovereign by C J Sansom; I love the series and especially this book, which is set in York, one of my favourite locations 😊
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham. It did an excellent job of explaining nuclear plant construction and operation and the Chernobyl meltdown in plain language. I also appreciated the personal stories of the impact on plant employees, their families and others.
Suggest to Jane that she read When Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen. It's a truly moving and lovely story narrated by an older man nearing the end of his life.
Lonesome Dove is in my TBR, was hoping August but it is being pushed back as it will be a reread for me(haven't read it since my senior year of high school) and a first time read for my Dad and we will be doing a buddy read of it. But he's not set to start yet as he's working through 2 other books at the moment, but hopefully this fall!
As for my own favorite July read(s) I think it's a tie between Perdido Street Station by China Mieville and The Blade Itself(First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie. Very different books, very different writing styles, but both immensely enjoyable from both a story/character standpoint and from a "I just adored the writing style" standpoint!
I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Verne between the LD club. This was a surprisingly modern action book for the 19th Century. Have to skim some of the passages on types of fish though.
I really enjoyed both JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation by Steve Thomas and Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man - there was some pretty “modern” political ideas in there for a book from 1792
Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild about the abolition movement in Britain. I went into it thinking it would basically be about William Wilberforce. It was really eye opening about all the "other" people you don't hear about who did the footwork to make it happen.
Lonesome Dove was awesome! Great to re-read it and participate in the DB book club! Also read "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro which was incredibly moving.
I’ll have to check it out. Never read Ishiguro.
Remains of the Day is superb. As is the film adaptation.
Ishiguro is so good! Please do pick up one of his books!
Two of my all-time favorites.
Land by Maggie O'Farrell. She is a beautiful writer, and her storytelling in this novel may be even better than Hamnet.
I'm finishing it up today❤️haunting, heartbreaking, and beautifully written (and yes I think maybe better than Hamnet)
Nice, good to know! I’ve really enjoyed her writing in the past.
Best book for July: Whistler by Ann Patchett.
I’ve heard good things!
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett was SPECTACULAR. It's huge but still I wanted more.
Good to know! I’ve heard really good things.
"The Thursday Murder Club." I have, literally, never laughed so hard in my life! And on every single page (until the last chapter or two). Not just laughed, but OUT LOUD! Belly laughs! On book #3, now. My daughter has stopped asking me "what's so funny?" and has learned to just ignore me. How anyone can possibly be SO FUNNY is beyond my comprehension. But I sure am glad that Richard Osman is!
Nice! I’ve heard great things about that series.
Enormously helpful during this time of enormous political disruption.
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
Very high on my list.
I finished Lonesome Dove!
Fiction: Richard Aldington's Great War novel, Death of a Hero
Non-fiction: John Lewis Gaddis' On Grand Strategy
I’ve not heard of Death of a Hero — I’ll look it up.
My best book for July was a re-read, actually a listen. Sovereign by C J Sansom; I love the series and especially this book, which is set in York, one of my favourite locations 😊
I love York, too!
Nice, never heard of it. I’ll look it up.
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham. It did an excellent job of explaining nuclear plant construction and operation and the Chernobyl meltdown in plain language. I also appreciated the personal stories of the impact on plant employees, their families and others.
That one is so so good. Funny enough, I’m in the last 10 minutes of HBO’s Chernobyl series right now.
That was also great!
Now I have to read Higginbotham's Challenger book.
That was an easy favorite of mine last year. Loved it.
Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer
Suggest to Jane that she read When Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen. It's a truly moving and lovely story narrated by an older man nearing the end of his life.
Will do!
Lonesome Dove is in my TBR, was hoping August but it is being pushed back as it will be a reread for me(haven't read it since my senior year of high school) and a first time read for my Dad and we will be doing a buddy read of it. But he's not set to start yet as he's working through 2 other books at the moment, but hopefully this fall!
As for my own favorite July read(s) I think it's a tie between Perdido Street Station by China Mieville and The Blade Itself(First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie. Very different books, very different writing styles, but both immensely enjoyable from both a story/character standpoint and from a "I just adored the writing style" standpoint!
1873 by Liaquat Ahamed. Best book I’ve read all year long!
Oh nice, that one is waiting for me on my shelf.
I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Verne between the LD club. This was a surprisingly modern action book for the 19th Century. Have to skim some of the passages on types of fish though.
Nice! I think I’ve only read kid-focused abridgements of his stuff.. I’ll have to revisit the real versions!
I really enjoyed both JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation by Steve Thomas and Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man - there was some pretty “modern” political ideas in there for a book from 1792
Interesting mix there! I'll look up the JonBenet book — we lived somewhat close to there when we were in CO.
Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild about the abolition movement in Britain. I went into it thinking it would basically be about William Wilberforce. It was really eye opening about all the "other" people you don't hear about who did the footwork to make it happen.
Interesting, he's a great writer. I'll have to check it out.