Drama-Lovers Book Club

 penel:

Unfortunately, due to my long recuperation from some health issues I faced last month, I spent time reading mostly work-related stuff, so I didn't make much progress with my books - I only re-read some familiar, inspirational and comforting poetry collections from three of my most fave greek poets:
C. P. Cavafy, Odysseus Elytis and Kiki Dimoula.

So my plan for June is to start one of the following books I wasn't able to start in May:
Una Madre by Alejandro Palomas, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo and
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson.

Poetry is not my thing...

Hope you get back to 100% health yourself!

May->June update!  I am still slowly getting through Possession and though it has grown on me quite a bit, it's still not exactly a page turner.  I'm a bit more than halfway through at this point, so maybe by the end of this month?

Potentially complicating that plan, though: I started reading (accidentally? long story) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.  I borrowed it from a friend an embarrassingly long time ago and I feel like a terrible friend and a terrible person for leaving it for so long.  So I guess it'll join Possession and I'll go back to my old habit of having an upstairs book and a downstairs book, and I'll slowly get through them both, or never get through either one :)  Current progress: 10/1088 (what have I done, haha)

I didn't finish A Court of Silver Flames last month. Read 300+ pages (from 757) and suddenly lost interest and binge-watched various dramas instead. :p Hopefully I'll be able to finish it this month. 

I've also downloaded some danmeis from E. Danglars website. I like his translation of Silent Reading by Priest, and he generously provides the e-book variants of his translations, so I can read them on my Kindle, which is much more "eye-friendly" than reading on the phone. I might pick up one of these if I can find the mood to read.

 zeamays:

May->June update!  I am still slowly getting through Possession and though it has grown on me quite a bit, it's still not exactly a page turner.  I'm a bit more than halfway through at this point, so maybe by the end of this month?

Potentially complicating that plan, though: I started reading (accidentally? long story) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.  I borrowed it from a friend an embarrassingly long time ago and I feel like a terrible friend and a terrible person for leaving it for so long.  So I guess it'll join Possession and I'll go back to my old habit of having an upstairs book and a downstairs book, and I'll slowly get through them both, or never get through either one :)  Current progress: 10/1088 (what have I done, haha)

Oof that's the way it is with book borrowing haha Good on you for actually trying to read and return it! I just assume I'll never see a book again if I lend it to someone haha

 zeamays:

Thanks!  Yeah, "book a month" is going out the window for a while, I think ;)

Does it have tiny writing and is printed on A5 paper? Cause I got plenty 1000+ on the shelve at home, for example every book in Brandon Sandersons' ongoing fantasy series "The Stormlight Archives". The words on the bind of the first book are unreadable by now because of all the creases from constantly opening the book widely. XD

I guess the secret to 1000+ pages books is to read only up to where you want and not force yourself to continue because you got to finish in a certain time limit.

 JJChastity:

On June, I will read a thicker book (305 pages) but I don't know can I finish it or not. I wish I can if it's good. I don't know will I dump it and look for thinner book again or finally able to read over 300 pages book.

Good luck! Fighting!!

 Skyesinger:

Does it have tiny writing and is printed on A5 paper? Cause I got plenty 1000+ on the shelve at home, for example every book in Brandon Sandersons' ongoing fantasy series "The Stormlight Archives". The words on the bind of the first book are unreadable by now because of all the creases from constantly opening the book widely. XD

I guess the secret to 1000+ pages books is to read only up to where you want and not force yourself to continue because you got to finish in a certain time limit.

It's average-ish, I would say, for font size and book size in general :)  I had a conversation recently with someone about the decision making process that must go into what size/thickness of paper and what font size to choose for various books when they get published (both of us were reading similar length books in terms of # of pages that nevertheless were totally different sizes due to font and paper differences).  The publishing industry is a mystery to me, haha.

I have definitely read 1000+ page books before, but it's been a while.  I am not scared of length at all, but this particular book I find a little daunting because I want to love it, or at least I have to get far enough into it to be able to return this book to my friend without feeling like I stole it from her for years and then didn't even give it a chance.  Argh.

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Anyway, I have made another terrible mistake and started yet another book because I couldn't wait!  I love Japanese Breakfast and Michelle Zauner wrote a memoir.  I bought it intending to wait until I finished one or the other of the two very long books I am working on already, but then I watched her interview from this weekend on CBS This Morning or some such thing on youtube (it was this one if anyone is interested) and she made me tear up just from that interview, so that was it!

The book is Crying in H-Mart, and I will definitely update with my thoughts on it soon!  It's going to go much faster than my other two current reads, I think.

Omg how do I join? :)