Thanks to Deb at Readerbuzz for hosting The Sunday Salon. Stop over there or at the Facebook Group to participate.
Week’s Highlight:
We spent the weekend at Pymatuning Lake and had a nice time. We went to a couple of antique shops, ate too much, and just hung out with friends.
Amber took this photo, but it’s on my phone, so I can steal it.
Reading:
I finally set aside Woman on the Edge of Time. Maybe I’ll pick it up again sometime, but now I’m just not in the mood now I guess. It made me look at all the other books I have set aside to hopefully come back to. Any comments on them? Any you love? Any you think I should just take off my list altogether?
My “to get back to” list:
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
- Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
- The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
- The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom
- The Heavens Rise by Christopher Rice
- The Case of the Displaced Detective by Stephanie Osborn
- The Red Queen Dies by Frankie Y. Bailey
- Leaving Annalise by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
- Red by Kate SeRine
- What Happens at Christmas by Victoria Alexander
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
- The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
- Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- A Clockwork Christmas edited by Angela James
- The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman
Last week’s book review:
Looking forward to:
Next weekend is the 24 in 48 Readathon, so I’m hoping to get some reading in obviously.
Next Saturday, there’s a food truck festival that we might stop by. It sounds like fun.
We all have DNF lists. I doubt most have actual lists they hope to get back to.
I certainly have a DNF list too. But some books I think I’m just trying to read at the wrong time or when I’m in the wrong mood and I don’t want to write off entirely.
Your weekend sounds wonderful. I need to get better at setting books aside.
Our weekend was really nice. We didn’t get any fishing in though, to my husband’s disappointment.
I like your idea of a “get back to” list. I’ve read a couple of the ones on your list and here are my thoughts: Don Quixote is better abridged (it has lots of repetition that I found a little annoying); Dune was a fascinating book from a philosophical viewpoint, but it did seem to go on and on; In the Garden of the Beasts is good, but it isn’t Erik Larson’s best work; and Empire Falls is good but not great. Just my two cents.
That picture is lovely!
Have a good week!
Thanks for your thoughts. I’ve read several of Larson’s other books, so maybe I’ll just skip this one. A new Dune movie is supposedly coming out next year and a reprint of the board game is set for next month, so I may have to give it another shot soon.
I’m not sure how I feel about reading an abridged version.