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This link up happens the second Tuesday of every month.
The next one is Tuesday, July 12, 2016
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2. Please visit a few other blogs who've linked up and get some book talk going!
Here's what I read since the last linkup. When the previous month ends on a Tuesday, SUYB always seems late but here it is, right on time, on the second Tuesday of the month like always.
Engrossing Reads
Red Rising (Red Rising #1) by Pierce Brown - I was unprepared to like this book as much as I did. I had to request the second one immediately. (see below) (library hardback)
The Girl in 6E (Deanna Madden #1) by A.R. Torre - A book about a psycho...my favorite kind. I found this very interesting and really good. And, shocker, I found the psycho likable. I'll read the second one. (library paperback)
Golden Son (Red Rising #2) by Pierce Brown - Solid second book in this trilogy, and I think I liked it better than the first book. Parts of it, anyway. I'm anxiously awaiting the third book. (library hardback)
The After Party by Anton DiSclafani - Fucked up people up in here! I loved the story though, even though the narrator was on my very last nerve by the end. I love reading about women in the 1950s and how different life was then from now. (library hardback)
You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan - I read this through the Orlando tragedy at the gay club...and this is a YA novel about gay kids and kids coming out. It was so full of love and hope. It was a comfort to me. A little wild fanciful week in the world of these kids. I enjoyed it. (free from Netgalley, e-book)
Passed the Time Just Fine
The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain - First of all, the cover on this book is awesome. I plucked it off the shelf, and I think it was a shocker when it first came out. These days, with what shocks, it was tame. I liked it though. (library hardback)
How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz - I liked Lutz's examination and chronicling of female friendship in this book. It's written non-linearly, which I know is a problem for some people. I don't think it could have been written another way and told as well. (library hardback)
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney - Eh. This reminded me of another book I read last year - the title escapes me - where I was waiting for something to happen and it never did. I didn't like most of the characters, I thought there was one extremely extraneous plotline that annoyed me, and it fell flat for me. (library hardback)
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn - Well written but not sunny in any way. My stomach hurt over the struggles in this book...all of them. The dialect was hard for me and it took me a little while to get into it, but once I was in, I was in. ( free e-copy from Netgalley)
Deadline (Virgil Flowers #8) by John Sandford - In addition to the awesome name Virgil Flowers and the even better nickname That Fuckin' Flowers, Virgil has a friend named Johnson Johnson. No shit. This crime series is also hilarious. Keep pumping them out John. (library hardback)
Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy - I thought it was okay. The subject was heavy. It was YA angsty on top of that. And I didn't like one of the main characters. I would have hated it if Murphy wasn't an excellent writer. But she is. Discussed on The Armchair Librarians here. (library hardback)
The Girl in 6E (Deanna Madden #1) by A.R. Torre - A book about a psycho...my favorite kind. I found this very interesting and really good. And, shocker, I found the psycho likable. I'll read the second one. (library paperback)
Golden Son (Red Rising #2) by Pierce Brown - Solid second book in this trilogy, and I think I liked it better than the first book. Parts of it, anyway. I'm anxiously awaiting the third book. (library hardback)
The After Party by Anton DiSclafani - Fucked up people up in here! I loved the story though, even though the narrator was on my very last nerve by the end. I love reading about women in the 1950s and how different life was then from now. (library hardback)
You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan - I read this through the Orlando tragedy at the gay club...and this is a YA novel about gay kids and kids coming out. It was so full of love and hope. It was a comfort to me. A little wild fanciful week in the world of these kids. I enjoyed it. (free from Netgalley, e-book)
Passed the Time Just Fine
The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain - First of all, the cover on this book is awesome. I plucked it off the shelf, and I think it was a shocker when it first came out. These days, with what shocks, it was tame. I liked it though. (library hardback)
How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz - I liked Lutz's examination and chronicling of female friendship in this book. It's written non-linearly, which I know is a problem for some people. I don't think it could have been written another way and told as well. (library hardback)
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney - Eh. This reminded me of another book I read last year - the title escapes me - where I was waiting for something to happen and it never did. I didn't like most of the characters, I thought there was one extremely extraneous plotline that annoyed me, and it fell flat for me. (library hardback)
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn - Well written but not sunny in any way. My stomach hurt over the struggles in this book...all of them. The dialect was hard for me and it took me a little while to get into it, but once I was in, I was in. ( free e-copy from Netgalley)
Deadline (Virgil Flowers #8) by John Sandford - In addition to the awesome name Virgil Flowers and the even better nickname That Fuckin' Flowers, Virgil has a friend named Johnson Johnson. No shit. This crime series is also hilarious. Keep pumping them out John. (library hardback)
Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy - I thought it was okay. The subject was heavy. It was YA angsty on top of that. And I didn't like one of the main characters. I would have hated it if Murphy wasn't an excellent writer. But she is. Discussed on The Armchair Librarians here. (library hardback)
Hard No
Flesh and Blood (Kay Scarpetta #22) by Patricia Cornwell - Time to put Dr. Scarpetta to bed, Patricia. The nit picking among her little crew is super annoying. (library hardback)
