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May 2018 Moms
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Bookworms!
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Let's discuss! Bookworms always need more book ideas. What sort of genres do you like to read? What are some of your all-time favorite books or authors? What about overrated books, what books have you read and really not liked?
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I disliked the Divergent and Twilight Series.
I really love Patricia Briggs books right now, as well as Butcher and Correia.
I thought the first divergent was good, but the second was lame and the third was awful. Which is pretty much how I feel about Hunger Games.
When given the choice I read Mysteries but as a middle school English teacher I mostly read Young Adult Literature. Once you learn to ignore the awkward love triangles that always seem to happen, there are some really good ones out there!! Let me know if you need YA recommendations
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And I recommend The Story of Edgar Sawtelle to everyone. One of my favorite books of all time.
All time favs:
1) "The Flying Troutmans"
2) The Outlander series
3) "The Gargoyle"
4) "Shantaram"
5) "Carrie"
6) "Molo'kai"
Disliked: so I'm really particular about writing style and also have a rule that if you don't grab me within the first 100 pages I'm closing the book with no guilt. Here's a few I tried, some I managed to finish, but did not enjoy.
1) "Love in the time of Cholera"
2) "First Grave on the Right"
3) "Mr. Mercedes"
4) "Life After Life"
5) "We the Drowned"
6) "Fifty Shades of Grey"
I'm currently reading "We Are Not Ourselves" and it had me until about 60% through and now I'm really struggling to motivate myself to finish it. Which sucks.
I didn't mind the Divergent series ... Well ok I liked the first two books but aside from the Outlander series I dislike most series. It just feels... Stretched out for the sake of making more books most of the time and not because the story just needs that much space to be told.
Twilight I liked the first 2, hated the 3rd, came back around for the last one. I also read it when I was in my early 20s and in a different headspace. I'm not sure I'd like any of it now (31).
I love books!
I did just finish the Handmaid’s Tale and thought it was just okay. I’m trying to get through All the Light We Cannot See.
I lean toward historical fiction and my favorite book is The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. I love Diana Gabaldon’s books, too, and am dying for the next in the Outlander series.
@tincupchalice ITA with you on the Allegiant and HG series!
I don't really have a specific genre I like. But some of my favorites.
The history of love
The time travelers wife
The Invisible girls
The thirteenth tale
The hunger games
Aldous Huxley
Tolkein
of course Harry Potter
The Martian
Ready Player One
Gone Girl
Girl with the Dragon Tatoo
Animal Vegetable Miracle
Right now I’m reading Leviathan Wakes
I love pretty much every genre but i probably read sci-fi/fantasy the most and murder/mystery and nonfiction the least.
Neil Gaimen is my all time favorite- Neverwhere is the best book ever. With the popularity of American Gods I'm hoping they look for another book of his to turn into a series, i would def watch that.
Outlander is the best series. I have read the entire series multiple times.
Also a huge Harry Potter fan!
My tastes are all over the board, too, it kinda depends on the mood I'm in. I LOVE Sandra Brown romances, and really enjoy the longer ones that have some kind of mystery or other plot other than the normal "couple hates each other because they love each other so much" storyline, but she's always a quick, easy read for me and I've always loved her.
I love love love Outlander, but honestly, I think she needs to end it. It's been dragging on for too long, and it's starting to feel like a soap opera. How many times can these terrible things happen to the same family? I've read the first seven books once, tried to re-read them all when my friend lent me the 8th and got about halfway through the fifth before I got bored, and tried to re-read them again recently and I'm currently stuck about halfway through the third. The first one is one of the best books I've ever read and I could read it 100 times. But like I said, I feel like the subsequent books start to get boring and too drama-y (in a bad way).
I've been enjoying some of the bestsellers from recent years, Gone Girl, Girl on the Train, Room, The Lovely Bones, etc. But I've also been oddly into non-fiction books recently as well, especially true crime (Ann Rule is one of my favorite authors), memoirs (Into the Wild, Sunlight on my Shadow) and historical accounts of major events (Dead Wake-the sinking of the Lusitania, In the Heart of the Sea). One of my friends makes fun of me because I've been reading a lot of depressing stuff lately.
Some of my favorite books of all time are the early V.C. Andrews (the Ruby, Heaven, and Flowers in the Attic series), Sidney Sheldon (Master of the Game and A Stranger in the Mirror are two I've read countless times), and Sandra Brown-of course (French Silk and Breath of Scandal are probably my favorites of hers).
One of the most over rated books I've ever read was Fifty Shades of Grey, and I always tell people if you want some really good erotic fiction, read the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Anne Rice.
I belong to a website called Book Bub, and they email me a list of free and very cheap books every day, so I have a ton of random stuff on my kindle waiting to be read. Every once in a while there will be some well known authors/best sellers on there, but mostly it's random things just trying to get some exposure. Sorry this turned out so long, I love to read!!
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I usually love historical fiction and stick with that, but I also throw in an occasional mystery/thriller (gone girl, girl on train, girl with dragon tattoo, apparently only ones with the word girl in the title) or one of the YA series (hunger games, divergent, ms peregrine). I also break it up with some non fiction every once in a while (usually economics, decision making/decision science, or social sciences related, but I recently read sh*t my dad says which is technically non fiction but reads like a magazine article and is so funny!).
I really loved the Kitchen House and Glory over Everything by Kathleen Grissom (might be misspelling her name). I could probably spend a day listing favorite books.
I'm sure people will hate me but I thought The Fault in Our Stars was way overrated.
Right now I'm rereading the Lunar Chronicals series, by Marissa Meyer. It's a YA retelling of a few different fairy tales, including Cinderella, Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood but it's dystopian kind of and just so so good!
My all time favorite author though is Francine Rivers. She writes Christian Fiction, and the Mark of The Lions trilogy is just amazing! It's about a jewish slave girl in Rome right after Jesus' time. It's just really good. I read it like every other year.
I've been renting ebooks from the library nonstop lately. I just finished Where'd you go, Bernadette? It was a fun easy read, and i think the movie is being released next year.
Another recent favorite was The Nightingale
For Hunger Games, I actually really liked the second book, but disliked the third. I felt like she forgot her book was due the next day and had to come up with an ending.
@justsuzie I've added The Story of Edgar Sawtelle to my reading list
I really enjoyed A Court of Thorns and Roses series. I am also making my bff read The Raven Boys. Magical realism and relationships at their finest. I am a sucker for fractured fairy tales and loved the Lunar Chronicles. I am trying to get my hands on The Beast's Garden by Kate Forsythe. Beauty and the Beast in WWII Germany.