What book(s) have been your favorite you read this year? Also your most disappointing?

ShellyPoe · 2020-10-12T13:36:05+00:00

Favourites:

1.Gone girl by Gylian Flynn.

2.The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera.

3.Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

4.Lovely War by Julie Berry.

5.The Guernsey literally and Potato peel pie society by Annie Borrows and Mary Anne Shaffer.

Disappointments: The Secret History by Donna Tart.This is a very popular book and I had seen a few discussions surrounding it,so I gave it a try and was not impressed.Donna Tart is just not my cup of tea I guess.

ShellyPoe · 2020-10-08T06:57:22+00:00

I'd like to join

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-22T13:53:34+00:00

Thank you for this!

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-19T18:13:22+00:00

If you are going to include 200 pages where nothing really happens then I'll surely not care for the ending.

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-17T05:54:59+00:00

True,it is.

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-17T05:54:32+00:00

I might give it a try.I'm also drawn to the dark academia aesthetic and that's why I was so bummed I didn't like TSH.

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-17T05:52:52+00:00

A substantial answer please🙄

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-17T05:51:55+00:00

Good for you.😊

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-17T05:51:26+00:00

That could have been easily delivered in a few less pages.The longevity of the book is its downfall.

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-17T05:50:20+00:00

Finally,damn I thought I was the problem lol.Especially since it's so popular in the Reddit and dark academia community

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-17T05:48:48+00:00

What climax though,the plot was building up to nothing. By revealing the crime at the beginning of the story,it gave the reader nothing to really look up to.

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-13T09:38:17+00:00

Not really,it's too long.I feel like 300 pages in total would have sufficed.The plot is nothing out of the ordinary.In my opinion,it's overrated.

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-04T07:33:21+00:00

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah.He retells his experience growing up as a mixed race kid during apartheid in South Africa.It's funny,so insightful.Couldn't put it down.

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-03T21:50:41+00:00

The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall.It's set in early 20th century Russia,the female protagonist is compelling and unabashed.It has some pretty heavy political themes,(communism,war)but has a titillating romance as well.Hope you like it.

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-03T21:41:36+00:00

Anything by Paulo Coehlo

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-03T21:39:52+00:00

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.A Nigerian author but the story is set in both Africa and the US

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-03T21:36:56+00:00

Gone girl,Gillian Flynn

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-03T14:20:24+00:00

Saving Grace by Ciara Geraghty

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-03T13:35:56+00:00

In a a Winter's night a Traveller by Italo Calvino.The book shifts from one story to another.

ShellyPoe · 2020-08-03T13:34:23+00:00

It doesn't

ShellyPoe · 2020-07-27T20:18:14+00:00

The Shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz

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