I’ve been busy this week getting back on the healthy train (more about that tomorrow!), but I haven’t done a book update lately and I’ve still been reading a lot.
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April/May/June was a little busy so I slowed down some, but I’m back in full swing now! I’m on my 19th book at the moment (The Beginning of Everything), but let’s discuss the ones I’ve read since the last update.
Everywhere I turned people were raving about Gone Girl, so I finally broke down and read it. The story, in a nutshell is…a missing wife, with signs pointing to a struggle and the husband as the prime suspect. Now, it’s much more than that, but I found myself having to push through the pages at times. Up until about 50% through I was really needing it to pick up the pace and that’s exactly what it did. It gave the mother of all plot twists and then I was hooked for the next 30 %. In the end it was just an okay read.
If you’re into memoirs (I didn’t realize I liked them so much until I started this challenge and noticed that some of my favorites were the memoirs) , Love With a Chance of Drowning and Wild are good ones. I liked Wild more than LWACOD. If you’re a hiker and you want to read about hiking, that is NOT what Wild is about. It’s a memoir of how she got back to the person she once was…hiking just happens to be how she got back there. I was hooked within the first chapter! LWACOD is about an Australian expat who meets a charming man and decides to spend the next several months with him crossing the Pacific Ocean even though she hates the ocean and gets seasick. It got slow at times, but overall I enjoyed it.
Orphan Train, Out of the Easy (YA) , Blur (YA) and Dead Like Me were all great fiction reads! 3 out of the 4 are murder/mystery, which I’m a big fan of. Orphan Train is more historical fiction so I was surprised I enjoyed it, but it was interesting and kept me engaged the whole time.
I wasn’t a fan of Long Gone. I’m not extremely picky in my reading (except that I need it to keep me engaged or I won’t be able to read and comprehend it), but this is one that I could have done without reading. It took me several chapters to get into it, but then it kept me somewhat entertained. Unfortunately, there were several things that left me scratching my head as to why they were even included in the story line.
I love Goodreads for keeping up with what I’ve read so far and what I want to read. I have a ton on my to-read list, but I’m always game for adding to my ever growing list. So tell me…
What are some of your favorite books or ones you read lately that you enjoyed?
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I feel the same when it comes to Gone Girl – It took me 2 weeks to get in to first 50% of the book then in two days I red next 30% then another week for 20%. I did not understand what the hype is/was all about – Karin Slaughter books are WAY WAY better mystery than that, Will Trent is a great character. I’ll have to check out some of the others you mentioned.
Shew! Glad to hear I’m not alone. I was starting to think I was crazy because everyone seemed to love it. I’ll definitely look into the Karin Slaughter books. I love a good mystery! Thanks! 🙂
Another good one I recently finished is I Am Pilgram. It is one that took me a bit to get into, but there was something that kept drawing me back.
Coolio! I will check it out. Thanks! 🙂