Not gonna lie, the first book in particular was a slog to read. Not because it's bad, but because it's rather challenging to followkura2ninja:
Thanks for pointing this out! I'm still on the first book. There's just so much I've got to absorb and it's taking a lot of effort and energy to research everything. Hopefully, I'll return to the Dune series and finish it soon.
Book Update for March-April:
This month I read three books and started a fourth one, yay!
I finished reading "People We Meet on Vacation", the 2nd book of Emily Henry recommended by my daughter, which I enjoyed more than the 1st, "Beach Read", read last month.
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After that, I read a duology by Camilla Läckberg I bought recently: "The Golden Cage" and "Silver Tears", which I found disappointing, after having read some really good crime stories of hers.
This was supposed to be a women-centered revenge thriller, but I found the whole story rather impossible and the heroine a person and a woman I couldn't sympathize with.
Currently reading Sophia Nikolaidou's book "The Golden Bracelet", a collection of real stories about people who struggled to acquire a university diploma in order to be regarded as successful in life.
Next, I will probably return to crime/mystery stories, or read one more of my daughters' recommendations!
Have a great reading month, dear Book Club family <3
Bullet Train was seriously fun to read. I loved it. The YouTube trailer doesn't do it serve. Read the book instead. It's suspenseful, cometic, and highly entertaining. 5/5
She Who Became the Sun - was good up until the end and then it wasn't. 3/5
Fault Lines by Emily Itami - very interesting story, complex and looks at first generation immigrants and the traumas associated with immigration that affect the whole family. 4/5
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo. I'm not sure how to respond to this book. The ending left me confused. I think this book would be well suited for a study group. It is thought provoking. Read the book first if you are going to see the movie. 4/5
I didn't do a wrap for February; I wasn't feeling well that month and my reading was mostly light and escapist. I read 16 books in all, 7 of them being Harlequin romances. I completed the Stariel fantasy series (3 of the 4 books), which is about the coexistence of fae and mortals, with the interesting concept of faelands, which are sentient beings in their own right. I loved the two main characters, Hetta and Wynn. I see myself wanting to reread this series in the future.
The other books I completed (below) were mostly okay, except for The Long Call, which is a great mystery in many ways (plot, characterization, setting etc); that one I gave 4 stars. Speaking of which, I have yet to come across a 5-star read for 2022.
fiflydramalover:
I liked parts of it, but I don't think it needed to be as long as it was. The writing of their physical chemistry was really good. 
LucianYaz:
For the month of March, I finally took some time to read, I read a classic The Bagpipers from the 19th century and the contemporary novel, At the beginning.
A few time ago I had read a lot of French romanticism of the 19th century, George Sand was one of them, I read some of her novels and even if I find that those are sometimes unequal, I really liked "Mauprat" and "Consuelo", so I wanted to rediscover it a little with "Les Maitres Sonneurs" (The Bagpipers ) which takes place in the rurality of central France and tells the meeting between two campaigns, the peaceful Berry of the plains and the Bourbonnais of the forests, the land of dreams. It is a beautiful country novel, a beautiful testimony of the time that depicts friendships and romances with as a backdrop the difficult life of loggers, muleteers but also bagpipe players.
Otherwise I also read the beautiful novel "Au début" (At the beginning) by the French author François Bégaudeau, which tells 13 stories of gestation. It is a very tender novel about stories lived by women who have a desire for a child and do everything to make it happen, a single story tells the story of a man who uses a surrogate mother. Among all these stories the author is inspired among others by the story of his own mother as well as the story of one of his girlfriends. These stories so sensitive with sometimes suspense and other times a lot of humor I liked a lot, the themes of motherhood are really approached in a very realistic way.
 | MARCH I read sweet bean paste it's originally written in Japanese translated to English It's about a man with a criminal record working in a confectionary shop just passing by each day until an aged woman comes along with disfigured hand and takes up a part-time job there. there's just something about Japanese authors being able to write calm and heartwarming stories. I was fully relaxed and in my element, while reading it my only problem is i want to try dorayaki and sweet bean paste so bad |
foxyjo:
