tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post8727443048108952730..comments2024-03-27T21:15:22.992-07:00Comments on Heart of Light: Reading, latelyRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06819528155575569595noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-1647574908373419722015-09-10T12:21:11.934-07:002015-09-10T12:21:11.934-07:00Damn it. I'm halfway through The Little Friend...Damn it. I'm halfway through The Little Friend and the end is disappointing?!Towelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227902601091189522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-27898609634818448662015-08-18T10:54:01.786-07:002015-08-18T10:54:01.786-07:00I loved Housekeeping! It really got to me. I loved Housekeeping! It really got to me. Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06819528155575569595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-83791414134157279672015-08-18T10:53:37.650-07:002015-08-18T10:53:37.650-07:00Thank you! Adding it to my list. Thank you! Adding it to my list. Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06819528155575569595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-46978070247036213142015-08-18T10:52:47.919-07:002015-08-18T10:52:47.919-07:00I WOULD GO TO THAT ART INSTALLATION!I WOULD GO TO THAT ART INSTALLATION!Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06819528155575569595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-4696057540140088502015-08-18T10:52:11.639-07:002015-08-18T10:52:11.639-07:00Oh, I loved the Dog Stars, which was also written ...Oh, I loved the Dog Stars, which was also written by Peter Heller! My library doesn't seem to have Kook, so I'll have to add it to my "eventually" list. Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06819528155575569595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-9285185289913394602015-08-18T10:50:36.085-07:002015-08-18T10:50:36.085-07:00OMG - there are so many Sherwood Smith books! I...OMG - there are so many Sherwood Smith books! I'll have to sort through them to figure out which ones are which, but they look fun! <br /><br />To be honest, I haven't read Tolkien in years. I read them all growing up and loved them but haven't revisited in ages. Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06819528155575569595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-25883224301045277282015-08-18T10:46:41.382-07:002015-08-18T10:46:41.382-07:00Thank you for all these recs! And it's so swee...Thank you for all these recs! And it's so sweet of you to offer up the books! I just added these to my library list so I think I can get them without imposing on you! Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06819528155575569595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-12702501975283095062015-08-18T10:44:27.865-07:002015-08-18T10:44:27.865-07:00Life after Life is great! Hope you love it. Life after Life is great! Hope you love it. Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06819528155575569595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-30396217213185933192015-08-18T10:43:00.970-07:002015-08-18T10:43:00.970-07:00I am never opposed to young adult!
And I do stil...I am never opposed to young adult! <br /><br />And I do still have Mud Vein on my list! Thank you for the recs! Added a bunch to my library holds!Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06819528155575569595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-51385818453239414972015-08-06T17:01:08.091-07:002015-08-06T17:01:08.091-07:00I read Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson - sort o...I read Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson - sort of a memoir of childhood like To Kill a Mockingbird, but creepier.<br /><br />A super light read is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society<br />Novel by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer (posthumously published) <br /><br /><br /><br />starbelliedsneedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852960762549782189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-37945767229452053392015-08-05T08:47:29.463-07:002015-08-05T08:47:29.463-07:00Oh! I just thought of a really good one. "All...Oh! I just thought of a really good one. "All the birds, singing" by Evie Wyld. It completely overwhelmed me in the best way possible. I read it huddled in front of the woodstove this winter and literally could barely put it down. It was in the Tournament of Books and lost out early on, sadly, but was quite the book. Emily Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13793132635495754787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-49172974174547977362015-08-05T07:23:20.587-07:002015-08-05T07:23:20.587-07:00Finding this late, but I love reading through your...Finding this late, but I love reading through your list of books and everyone's recommendations! I've had a similar list of books read over the past year or so - I love that you're reading the Kingkiller Chronicles, they're such engaging books! I read through the first two so quickly, and then re-listened as audiobooks this past year, which is another great way to read them. Every so often I check on his blog to see if he's said anything but... nope (though it does look like Big People are talking about adapting the books for the screen...)<br /><br />I wish I had some recommendations, but it looks as though you've read through most of what I would recommend! I'm about to re-read The Secret History for my (tiny) book club, which I'm inordinately excited about. We just read both Life after Life and God in Ruins back to back, which was an interesting way to do it - it really let me realize how much I preferred the former. I took the (giant!) Rogues book out of the library to read the Rothfuss story The Lightening Tree, and there are some fun (and some odd) short stories in there by other big-name fantasy writers.Emily Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13793132635495754787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-55277565463320671482015-08-05T07:01:23.934-07:002015-08-05T07:01:23.934-07:00Night Film was fun - I think I liked Special Topic...Night Film was fun - I think I liked Special Topics in Calamity Physics, but I think I'm also a sucker for campus-y novels. It was a highly entertaining one though!Emily Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13793132635495754787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-55463058216598097702015-08-04T19:43:08.101-07:002015-08-04T19:43:08.101-07:00i stumbled upon glow when i was shelving fiction a...i stumbled upon <i>glow</i> when i was shelving fiction at my volunteer gig and was intrigued by how many times it had bounced between the science fiction / fantasy / horror and crime / thriller sections - and, well, because of foxes. and because ned had inscribed my copy to someone who'd let him crash at their house? i'm a sucker for inscribed books someone has decided to give away; someday i want to do a terribly depressing (or terribly uplifting?) art installation about them. anyway: i quite liked it, though 1) i have a very low tolerance as it were for cyberpunk-adjacent books about drugs - looking at you, jeff noon, even though you probably don't deserve it - and 2) i decided early on that cherish was actually FKA twigs, which made both the book and our FKA-twigs-heavy road trip confusing. he's nimble, in a somehow salman-rushdie-ish way, and very funny. i wish his host hadn't given away his book, but i'm glad she did? laurenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03429404210444847213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-84751976384726276892015-08-04T16:05:58.589-07:002015-08-04T16:05:58.589-07:00I liked the Interesting s but found myself jumping...I liked the Interesting s but found myself jumping pages. Ugh. Read Kook. It's a wonderful story about chasing your dream life but being happy right eye re you are.Tiffanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00389070802896900292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-11804469803129558252015-08-04T14:51:51.426-07:002015-08-04T14:51:51.426-07:00Thank you fo these posts! Normally I just sort of ...Thank you fo these posts! Normally I just sort of free range read, re reading or hoping to bump into good reads. These posts (and fabulous comments) have encouraged me to step up my book game, and I feel like I'm in middle school agson, just bouncing from book to book. <br /><br />I picked up 'the Name of the Wind' a couple of days ago, and have just been loving it, thank you Rachel!<br /><br />Madeleinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-46878766129914464062015-08-04T10:12:44.866-07:002015-08-04T10:12:44.866-07:00Ugh, when I recommended "The Little Friend&qu...Ugh, when I recommended "The Little Friend" I totally forgot the let down at the end. But it is so gorgeously written that it's still one of my favorite books! Loved your list of reads this time around. I'd never heard of the Kingkiller Chronicles before, but I checked the first one out from my library and read it over the weekend and was riveted. Since you like The Kingkiller Chronicles and The Game of Thrones books I think you'd also like the Inda books by Sherwood Smith. They focus on a young boy growing into adulthood and the people around him. It is pretty epic in scope and the world building is amazing, but the characters are the best part. No, the best part is that each book is several hundred pages long, so the ending takes a while to come! I've never read Tolkien, always thought it would be a bit of a slog--would you recommend?Yuliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07402179460519913489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-12609889396796889832015-07-28T16:59:31.766-07:002015-07-28T16:59:31.766-07:00Update: signed up for Overdrive through my local l...Update: signed up for Overdrive through my local library and you can rent Kindle books through Amazon. So easy, so convenient, so FREE. Highly recommend to anyone else considering it! emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588962763257611246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-36934819099262633292015-07-28T07:02:00.689-07:002015-07-28T07:02:00.689-07:00I love your "reading lately" posts. I lo...I love your "reading lately" posts. I look forward to them and then go through and mark them all as "want to read" on my goodreads list. MJWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09586613435199462843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-62268304268269559752015-07-27T19:01:59.806-07:002015-07-27T19:01:59.806-07:00I read "A Beautiful Place to Die" by Mal...I read "A Beautiful Place to Die" by Malia Nunn a few years ago (a murder mystery set in aparthied South Africa), and really liked it. Some other old favorites are The Seduction of Water and the Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. I also recently read The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman and loved both!<br /><br />If you want to borrow/have any books let me know - I live in the Beverly Grove area. We've got a baby on the way so we need to make room! I''ve got all of the books mentioned above, and Night Film, which another reader recommended.CourtinLAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13256388383004801112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-52348563368189237162015-07-27T05:41:12.384-07:002015-07-27T05:41:12.384-07:00I have read Everything I Never Told You and really...I have read Everything I Never Told You and really liked it. I really enjoy your book reviews when you post them. I am currently reading the Wayward series by Crouch-there are 3 of them. Wanted to check them out after watching the TV show. They are ok-like you though-I have to finish the series since I started it and I am on book 3. Looking forward to reading Life after Life next-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-19330593517093245612015-07-27T04:02:40.584-07:002015-07-27T04:02:40.584-07:00Nice list, will check some up if they area availab...Nice list, will check some up if they area available at my local bookstores as well :)<br /><br />xxJoy Della Vitahttp://joydellavita.com/fashionable-gym-bags-travel-gear-shopping-tips/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-29780207991646403722015-07-23T19:24:13.880-07:002015-07-23T19:24:13.880-07:00I am about a third of the way through Station Elev...I am about a third of the way through Station Eleven and I love it so far. I'm going to add some of your recently reading to my list! stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05236399150738812466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-53529922363506530052015-07-23T18:12:51.789-07:002015-07-23T18:12:51.789-07:00May I recommend "My Brilliant Friend" or...May I recommend "My Brilliant Friend" or on the opposite end of the spectrum "Night Film?" I loved them both and selfishly want to hear your opinion! alouehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04982304924332774503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1452621549434169941.post-46662140434299537952015-07-23T14:15:56.708-07:002015-07-23T14:15:56.708-07:00I'll try that! I actually didn't know you ...I'll try that! I actually didn't know you could even check out e-books. I just looked on Overdrive and it looks like they do!emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588962763257611246noreply@blogger.com