I'm doing a slow read of The Comfort of Crows in 2025. Great to read your review! I added "BoyMom" to my TBR, as I'm the mom of two boys, ages 11 and 8. This book sounds great.
This weekend, I positively inhaled the debut novel The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. If I had to describe it in one sentence, it's a repressed lesbian love triangle with a hint of WWII historical fiction, though most of it takes place over the summer of 1961 in a small Dutch village. It's about a 3 on the spicy scale, and the last section takes an unexpected turn that really brought it all together. I absolutely loved it and it will be a favorite of the year for me.
I finished Comfort of Crows last week ... and might be reading it again, one week at a time. I live in Atlanta, and agree that the similarity of our seasons was delightful - and Renkl and I are about the same age, so there's synchronicity in our stages of life, too.
Finished Comfort of Crows today and enjoyed it. Did not do a slow read. But still loved starting the year with it and thinking about the seasons from a nature perspective.
I'm doing a slow read of the Throne of Glass series with a friend, and I just sent her your statement that "I love the way it allows you to enjoy the reading of a book, instead of being consumed by the finishing of a book." It's so true! I hadn't been able to articulate why I'm loving the books so much more this time around, but I think that's it!
Never Let Me Go -- a surprising story that I hadn't anticipated from the Remains of the Day author, yes! A masterpiece, yes!
I read The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler in the first half of the month, a future story that starts in the year 2025 sounded interesting. A worthy read but a bleak tone to begin December.
I'm doing a slow read of The Comfort of Crows in 2025. Great to read your review! I added "BoyMom" to my TBR, as I'm the mom of two boys, ages 11 and 8. This book sounds great.
This weekend, I positively inhaled the debut novel The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden. If I had to describe it in one sentence, it's a repressed lesbian love triangle with a hint of WWII historical fiction, though most of it takes place over the summer of 1961 in a small Dutch village. It's about a 3 on the spicy scale, and the last section takes an unexpected turn that really brought it all together. I absolutely loved it and it will be a favorite of the year for me.
I finished Comfort of Crows last week ... and might be reading it again, one week at a time. I live in Atlanta, and agree that the similarity of our seasons was delightful - and Renkl and I are about the same age, so there's synchronicity in our stages of life, too.
Finished Comfort of Crows today and enjoyed it. Did not do a slow read. But still loved starting the year with it and thinking about the seasons from a nature perspective.
I'm doing a slow read of the Throne of Glass series with a friend, and I just sent her your statement that "I love the way it allows you to enjoy the reading of a book, instead of being consumed by the finishing of a book." It's so true! I hadn't been able to articulate why I'm loving the books so much more this time around, but I think that's it!
I would also love to know more about these slow reads, that has me curious!
Never Let Me Go surprised me so much! It was so good!
Never Let Me Go -- a surprising story that I hadn't anticipated from the Remains of the Day author, yes! A masterpiece, yes!
I read The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler in the first half of the month, a future story that starts in the year 2025 sounded interesting. A worthy read but a bleak tone to begin December.