It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - 17 April 2017

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Hosted by Kathryn from Book Date, this is a weekly event to share what we’ve read in the past week and what we hope to read, plus whatever else comes to mind. To learn more about each book, just click on the book cover!

I was hoping to finish more books with my free evenings last week, but that’s okay. I can’t win them all!

FINISHED SINCE THE LAST UPDATE:

Written in 1933, it is amazing how much of what Eleanor Roosevelt has to say still has relevance. I would happily recommend this gem to everyone.

M. L. Rio’s Shakespeare-filled mystery is amazing but not for everyone. If the Bard fills you with dread or gives you flashbacks to nightmarish high school English classes, this book might not be for you.

Finally having finished Sheri Fink’s expose, I now get why everyone raves about it. So much great food for thought but absolutely horrifying at the same time.

The latest Lidia Yuknavitch is…interesting. It is going to take me a few days to really formulate an opinion about it.

CURRENT READ:

I know that this is not going to be as good as The Historian, but I have a soft spot for Ms. Kostova because she wrote what is one of my all-time favorite books.

CURRENT LISTEN:

If ever I needed to re-read this horrifying tale, now is that time.

UP NEXT:

So, what are you reading?

6 Comments

Jenny @ Reading the End on April 18, 2017 at 6:23 PM

Ooh, I’m excited to hear more about the Boylan book! I’ve read two of her three memoirs and thought they were just great, but I’ve read not a word of her fiction so far.

Michelle on April 20, 2017 at 12:13 PM

I am very excited!
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Brandie on April 17, 2017 at 11:21 AM

Well, I bought a copy of Rio’s book, so I will have to at least try it. Seeing Sarah’s comment above gives me hope that I’ll still be able to read it and enjoy it, even if the Shakespeare stuff gets to me. Great reading for a week!

Michelle on April 17, 2017 at 4:01 PM

There is a lot of Shakespeare, and I do think understanding some of it is necessary to understand the characters’ actions and motivations. It is such a part of who they are that to skim any of the Shakespeare parts means you are ignoring that part of their character development. All I can say is good luck!
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Sarah's Book Shelves on April 17, 2017 at 6:26 AM

Yay – you finished Five Days at Memorial!

And – once I realized that you could absolutely skim the Shakespeare stuff and still not lose parts of the story, I was golden! That’s what I’ve been telling everyone I’ve recommended it to.

Michelle on April 17, 2017 at 4:00 PM

I think you cannot completely discount the Shakespeare sections. Some of it is necessary to understand why the characters feel the way they do. The end scene in particular requires being able to interpret the passage in order to understand why Oliver is so hopeful. Plus, if you don’t know King Lear, that whole section will be weird. I put a caution in my review and haven’t been wildly recommending it because of that.
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