these are books I want to read. probably going to be mostly fiction, but I’ll push for other genres. just, never SCI Fi.
I’m reading slower then I wanted to because of the amount of books I’m expected to read simultaneously at school. I’ll make up for it in the summer, but right now I just can’t read a book a week.
if anyone has read any of the books on this list and has any recommendations I’m all ears because I’ve read a few pages of some of them and am starting to get nervous at the slow beginnings…but I picked them all because they seem like the kind of character stories that would interest me. if one particularly spoke to you, please do tell.
Having read The Lovely Bones, I understand your apprehension about her writing style. I also consider very few books not worth consuming, but after I was done it I wished I could get those precious hours of my life back. I can’t imagine her style would be that different in Lucky. I had similar problems to yours with The Shipping News, but you might enjoy it all the same.
On a sidenote, I would recommend Vikram Seth’s superb ‘A Suitable Boy,’ which I haven’t had time to finish yet but have been thoroughly enjoying for the past few months.
EDIT: I just realised you wrote elsewhere that you did enjoy The Lovely Bones, so you can disregard my comments in that matter entirely. Oh, and hurrah for Joyce!
I’ve started reading the shipping news, and I really adore the characters and setting but it seems very business oriented, which bores the hell out of me. hope I can hang in there.
a book would have to be pretty bad for me to consider it “not worth consuming.” like, I was not that into Lucky, but it was definitely worth consuming. it gave me a new and important vantage point, which I think is the generally the only requirement of a book worth reading.
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