It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? Button
" data-orig-size="474,356" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" aperture="aperture" /> 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. Here is what I read the week ending 24 September 2018. To learn more about each book, just click on the book cover!Jim did not return from his business trip until the middle of the week, and you can see my reading took a hit with his absence. A demandingly playful puppy makes it highly difficult to read. Hopefully, as we settle back into our normal routine, that will change this week.
FINISHED SINCE THE LAST UPDATE:
Book Cover Image: #murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil
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Book Cover Image: Prudence by Gail Carriger
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Book Cover Image: Temper by Nicky Drayden
" data-orig-size="265,400" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" aperture="aperture" />Holy hell. Gretchen McNeil’s novel is amazing – good, old-fashioned gory horror complete with messed up rules and an entirely unique premise. It was SO intense that I did something I have never done before in my life – I skipped to the end and read the last few chapters. Then I went back and enjoyed the story because I was not so obsessed with what would happen to these characters. Plus, there is a sequel. This fact is squeal-worthy in my mind.
Continuing my audiobook feast of all things Gail Carriger, I started her Custard Protocol series with much excitement and anticipation. Unfortunately, there are one or two continuity issues that bother me. The most egregious in my mind is the fact that Ms. Carriger changed the name of a key character. Rather, she starts using his real name rather than the nickname she used through the previous five Alexia Tarabotti books. Since this is an important character in this series, the change is jarring. The rest of my concerns have more to do with the narrator than Ms. Carriger’s writing. Moira Quirk picks up the series where Emily Gray left off, and you can tell the two did not discuss anything. Nor did Ms. Quirk listen to the previous audio performances. Her pronunciations of names differ. She provides an accent to a character who never had one. She adds levels of imperiousness to Alexia and makes her sound like an absolute harridan rather than the pragmatic and unemotional but loving woman she is. These changes were almost enough to make me want to stop listening, even though I chose to continue. I finish the audio and move on to the next one still not happy with the choices Ms. Quirk makes as narrator, but the story is still charming, and I love catching glimpses of Lord and Lady Maccon. Plus, they are fun and easy listens, so when I have to constantly listen in snippets, I can pick up the story where I left off even if having listened to a few minutes at a time.
Nicky Drayden’s new novel is just as quirky as her previous novel. I cannot say I enjoyed it as much either. There are shifts in narrator perspective which are abrupt and difficult to discern at times. Plus, the point of the story is not very apparent at times. You have to wade through a lot of detail to understand what point she is trying to make. Still, I continue to give her props for something completely unique as well as highly inclusive and diverse.
DID NOT FINISH:
Still going strong.
CURRENT READ:
Book Cover Image: The Kill Jar by J. Reuben Appelman
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Book Cover Image: The World of All Souls by Deborah Harkness
" data-orig-size="309,400" sizes="(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px" aperture="aperture" />CURRENT LISTEN:
Book Cover Image: Imprudence by Gail Carriger
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August Review Copies:
Book Cover Image: Vox by Christina Dalcher
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Book Cover Image: Playing to the Gods by Peter Rader
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Book Cover Image: Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
" data-orig-size="263,400" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px" aperture="aperture" />September Review Copies:
Sigh.
Book Cover Image: Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan
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Book Cover Image: Foe by Iain Reid
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Book Cover Image: Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird
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Book Cover Image: Summer Cannibals by Melanie Hobson
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Book Cover Image: The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
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Book Cover Image: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
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Book Cover Image: A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti
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Book Cover Image: We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
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Book Cover Image: Strange Grace by Tessa Gratton
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Book Cover Image: Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness
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Book Cover Image: The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum
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Book Cover Image: Transcription by Kate Atkinson
" data-orig-size="258,400" sizes="(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px" aperture="aperture" />So, what are you reading?
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