Books you've read in 2022

Iris Murdoch's The Bell? I do love it so, such a surreal delight. I must re-read it one day.

The Transgender Issue is essential, and should be given out in schools IMO. I bought a copy to educate an elder female relative who was confused by all the TERF debates :disco:
 
I am reading The Vegetarian.

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And it is GREAT.
 
About one quarter left of The Bell. I’m loving it but wtf is this cover, it doesn’t reflect the story and it’s embarrassing for a 42 year old queen like me to carry it in public.

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I'm reading this and almost done:

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. It's his memoirs he wrote while training for the New York Marathon. He's more famous as an author, but its equally about his writing and running. it's very good so far
 
I’m on my second attempt to get through Shuggie Bain after giving up on it last year. I think I’m going to give up again. The relentless misery just isn’t doing it for me. I’m 120 pages in and losing faith that anything else is going to happen in it.
 
I’m on my second attempt to get through Shuggie Bain after giving up on it last year. I think I’m going to give up again. The relentless misery just isn’t doing it for me. I’m 120 pages in and losing faith that anything else is going to happen in it.
It gets better. It took me a couple of attempts as well to finish it off. I had to resort to alternating between the audiobook and the paperback to get through but somewhere around the 150-page mark I was hooked. I really enjoyed it. But then I do enjoy 'misery porn' as it were. See also: A Little Life.
 
It’s just so repetitive! Not just the plot but the descriptions. If I read the phrase ‘milky tea’ or somebody searches their dry lips with their tongues one more time…

It reminds me of the sort of stuff that was super popular around the time of ‘a child called it’.
 
It’s just so repetitive! Not just the plot but the descriptions. If I read the phrase ‘milky tea’ or somebody searches their dry lips with their tongues one more time…

It reminds me of the sort of stuff that was super popular around the time of ‘a child called it’.

I wouldn’t bother continuing if you don’t like it! It’s kind of relentless in its misery. I like the bloke, but did think the book had some very noticeable flaws.
 
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I'm not picking up anything TOO heavy now until Shuggie Bain 2 comes out next week :tongueout: So I'm going to do my FIRST Agatha Christie*


*except for that time I read The Murder on the Orient Express and the last few pages were missing :eyes:
 
I’ve just finished ‘Circe’ which left me a crying mess at the end .. incredibly moving and beautiful
 
It gets better. It took me a couple of attempts as well to finish it off. I had to resort to alternating between the audiobook and the paperback to get through but somewhere around the 150-page mark I was hooked. I really enjoyed it. But then I do enjoy 'misery porn' as it were. See also: A Little Life.
I tried to read A Little Life but it was making me so sad. I want to try again at some point
 
Agatha’s books are pure joy. Hardly literary masterpieces, but that’s not the point.

@Suedey just so you know, I finished The Bell (4/5) and I’ve lost count of how many books you were supposed to read with me but didn’t. :bad:
 
How did you finish The Bell so quickly @RaspberrySwirl ?! I'm so sorry. I should finish this piece of trash Crawdads things this week after which I will throw it into the trash.
 
How did you finish The Bell so quickly @RaspberrySwirl ?! I'm so sorry. I should finish this piece of trash Crawdads things this week after which I will throw it into the trash.

Quickly? It took me about three weeks to read. Read most of it on the plane to and from Vienna.

I really enjoyed it. I love her style and I see some similarities to The Sea, the Sea (which was even better). I didn’t know what it would be about (as I avoid all spoilers) and so I was very surprised when it turned out it had a gay theme.
 
Quickly? It took me about three weeks to read. Read most of it on the plane to and from Vienna.

I really enjoyed it. I love her style and I see some similarities to The Sea, the Sea (which was even better). I didn’t know what it would be about (as I avoid all spoilers) and so I was very surprised when it turned out it had a gay theme.
No spoiler please! It's next on my listette
Unless of course we go for Agatha Hun Club
I like the ones she did in BAGHDAD or EGYPT
Slightly problematic I'm sure but
still fun
 
There’s nothing problematic about them. :altaf:

Have I mentioned before that Agatha Christie’s (second) husband who was an archeologist in Iraq once had tea at my grandparents’ house in Mosul? :disco:
 
I have just downloaded the audiobook version of Lessons in Chemistry to my Audible app.
 
And I am currently reading:

Because Of You - Dawn French
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error - Kathryn Schulz
 

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