What did we read in April? Here’s my list: Galveston, Crooked Letter, Manhattan Beach, Sunburn, Tangerine
So, what did we read in April? Here’s my list:
Galveston – Nic Pizzolato
A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter – Tom Franklin
Manhattan Beach – Jennifer Egan
Sunburn – Laura Lippman
Tangerine – Christine Mangen
The Emperor of Maladies – Siddhartha Mukherjee
(I love these, I find so many new, good books this way 🙂 )
Here’s mines:
A gentleman in Moscow – Towles
Alone in Berlin – Fallada
Do androids dream of electric sleep – dick
Phantom of the opera – leroux
Alan Quatermain – Haggard
Gilead- Robinson
A bend on the river – Naipaul
My cousin Rachel – du Maurier
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – capote
Three men in a boat – Jerome
Death of a salesman – miller
Franny and Zooey – Salinger
Death of the Nile – Christie
A monster calls – ness
Alone in Berlin is Amazing !
@Lena yes I loved it! It got added to my re-read shelf ?
@Sean there’s another one called “letters from Berlin by xx Otto, a short and good read
@Lena thanks I will add this to my tbr list
@Sean sorry, it’s News from Berlin by Otto de Kat
@Lena Goodreads new what I was looking for lol thanks again
I thought crooked letter was so good!
Wow!! This is a great list, @Sean!! You’re making me want to re-read Capote, Naipaul, Dick, and du Maurier 😉 And I’m def gonna check out Alone in Berlin!!
I really enjoyed it, too, @Maudia 🙂
Maudia Dee Lanzotti I still think of the lonely isolation of the main character in Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter who ran the garage. Been a few years since I read it. I liked a lot.
You are my kind of reader. A nice mix-up of good books.
@Stephanie thank you ?
3 books by Dennis Palumbo – Fever Dream, Night Terrors & Phantom Limb; A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles; Reasons to Stay Alive – Matt Haig; A Country of Vast Designs – Robert W. Merry; The two new novellas in Diana Gabaldon’s Seven Stones to Stand or Fall; The Gilded Hour – Sara Donati; The Amerian Heiress – Daisy Goodwin (gave up about 3/4 the way through … and if I play my cards right I will be finished with Fortune’s Children by Arthur T. Vanderbilt before May 1st begins.
Seems like A Gentleman in Moscow was popular this month!! 🙂
The Vinyl Detective by Andrew Cartmel, The Vinyl Detective 2, Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay, SIft by Hugh Howey, Dust by Hugh Howey, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, Dave Mustaine’s autobiography, Making Thinking Visible ( a textbook for my third Masters), and a boatload of graphic novels and children’s books
I have A Gentleman in Moscow on order at my local public library. 🙂
I hope you like it. I did 😉
little fires everywhere, turtles all the way down; sing, unburied, sing; roses of May; the tuscan child; what made Maddie Run; the smell of other peoples houses; the comforts of home, the end of everything; the child finder, the north water, . I loved little firest everywhere – The North Water was my least favorite. IDK how to delete the emoji but it was for what Made Maddie run – a very haunting book?
Little Fires is on my tbr, as is Sing, Unburied, Sing. What Made Maddie Run sounds good! I’ll check it out 😉
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehasi Coats, The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian, I’ll Be Gone Before Dark by Michelle McNamara and Poison by John Lescroart
I just got The Flight Attendant, I’m looking forward to reading it. 🙂
The immortalists, love and gravity, double fudge brownie murder, before we were yours and the lady and the panda.
Holy smokes you guys have me beat! I’ve only read 2 all month! Binti by Nnedi Okorafor and its sequel, Binti: Home. I’m currently on the third and final in the trilogy: Night Masquerade. All 3 have ranged from 80 pages to 200, so it’s definitely been a slow month. But probably because it took me all of March to read the monster that is 11/22/63!
That one is looongg! Did you like it? Was it worth it?
@Laurie it was totally worth it! It just about killed me and I was burned out and possibly in withdrawal afterwards, but it was such a great story!
Read or listened too?I don’t consider listening to be the same as reading.
Myself, I like to read, but, many people enjoy audiobooks, and that’s just as valid, IMO.
Absolutely an amazing way to enjoy a book but I don’t consider it reading.
What does IMO stand for?
In my opinion…
Thank you.
How was Galveston? I just got it recently but haven’t started it.
I enjoyed it, Melissa Gedatus, but I love noir. Also, we’ve been spending some time in Houston and Galveston, so that made it fun too 🙂
In my Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Ida Guy Opdyke
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimimanda Ngozi Adochie
Alone by Lisa Gardner
The Almost Moon by Alice Seibold
Faith by Jennifer Haigh
These all sound great, @Chelsea 🙂
I forgot one! Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward. I love her writing!
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman; Cal by Bernard MacLaverty; We’re Going to Need More Wine – Gabrielle Union; Locking Up Our Own – James Forman Jr.; An American Marriage – Tayari Jones; Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly – Adrian McKinty; Air Traffic by Gregory Pardlo.
How did you like An American Marriage?
@Laurie I think the book was well written but it left me unsettled. It was a challenging book because you can’t help but think about how you behave in a similar situation. Both of the main characters were flawed and they probably shouldn’t have married in the first place. The book really makes you think about marriage and how we choose our mates.
@Debbie that sounds like my kind of book. Thanks for the info! 🙂
Do philosophical readings for college count lol
Everything counts 🙂 Who / what did you read, @Jade?
I read some Brene Brown, Plato and Socrates and also a few letters between Queen Elisabeth and Descartes.
I adore Brene Brown, but it’s been quite a few years between me and the Greeks, lol! Descartes, tho, always interesting…
Dating the Undead, Fahrenheit 451, Allegedly.
Amazing how prescient F451 was…
Exactly! I even like the way it’s written. I was going to try to pull a few quotes from there for my blog but there were just too many i loved.
This is my stack of read books from April, plus Crazy Rich Asians and I’ve started Little Fires Everywhere.
1. Denial of death – Ernest Becker
2. Skin in the Game – NNT
-Something In The Water by Catherine Steadman (an ARC I won)
-No Less Than Victory by Jeff Shaara
-Why I Jumped: My True Story Of Postpartum Depression, Dramatic Rescue & Return To Hope by Tina Zahn
-The Martian by Andy Weir
-South Toward Home by Julia Reed (another ARC win)
-A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle
-Ready Player One by Earnest Cline
-Rescue Of The Bounty: Disaster And Survival In Superstorm Sandy by Michael J. Tougias & Douglas A. Campbell
-The Rape Of Nanking by Iris Chang
-The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
-The Adventures Of Reddy Fox by Thornton W. Burgess
Did you like Ready, Player One? It looks good, but I see a lot of mixed reviews on it…
@Laurie, I loved it. But, I was born in the 70’s and grew up as a geek in the 80’s. I played many of the games mentioned in the book. As I’ve told others, it was like a futuristic trip down my memory lane lol.
@Ruth Thanks!!
Great explanation @Ruth.. I absolutely loved Ready Player One and didn’t want it to end!
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Martian by Andy Weir; Ill Wind by Kevin Anderson; The Darwin Elevator by Jason Hough; The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillps and The Kremlin’s Candidate by Jason Matthews
Sounds like some good ones I’ll check out, thx!!! 🙂
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, Less by Andrew Sean Greer, The Comedown by Rebekah Frumkin, Red Clocks by Leni Zumas, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, Train Dreams & Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
Reading is only one of the many things I enjoy so I don’t make lists, or goals or turn it into a job because I also work full time. I’d have to be a hermit to read 20 books in a month and I’m much to social for that.