2024 - Your Favorite Five Reads of Q2 (April - June)
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1PaperbackPirate
Another quarter gone, and half the year is over already!
What were your 5 favorite books, fiction or non-fiction, you read in the last 3 months? Please share with any comments you care to add.
What were your 5 favorite books, fiction or non-fiction, you read in the last 3 months? Please share with any comments you care to add.
2Shrike58
The Tainted Cup (so far my favorite novel published this year), Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (a top five from novels published last year), The Wizard and the Prophet (a good examination of the roots of current debates over global climate change), Proving Ground (a group biography of the first computer programmers; who all happened to be women), and Conquering the Pacific (true history of the Spanish navigation of the Pacific Ocean).
3ahef1963
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
A Very Private School by Charles Spencer
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Charles Spencer's memoir of boarding school should have a content warning. It is very open about the child abuse (mental, physical, sexual) that he experienced at school. It is extremely good, but made me cry several times and rage with anger for most of it. Please be careful if you decide to read it; it is certainly not a book for everyone.
Gone with the Wind was my mother's favourite book. I wish I had read it in her lifetime. I can see why it is so well-regarded. What characters!
Independent People is excellent. I've been to Iceland and cannot imagine what it must have been like to live there before running water and electricity and paved roads were introduced. It's a very bleak tale, but so rewarding.
Lady in Waiting fascinated me at every turn. I'm a huge fan of the British Royals and love sneak peeks into the lives behind their public face. The author and Princess Margaret were very close friends and I learned a lot about her through this memoir.
The Housemaid is a thriller, one of the best I've read. The twists and turns never stopped and I did nothing else but read for a day or so. Lots of fun!
A Very Private School by Charles Spencer
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Charles Spencer's memoir of boarding school should have a content warning. It is very open about the child abuse (mental, physical, sexual) that he experienced at school. It is extremely good, but made me cry several times and rage with anger for most of it. Please be careful if you decide to read it; it is certainly not a book for everyone.
Gone with the Wind was my mother's favourite book. I wish I had read it in her lifetime. I can see why it is so well-regarded. What characters!
Independent People is excellent. I've been to Iceland and cannot imagine what it must have been like to live there before running water and electricity and paved roads were introduced. It's a very bleak tale, but so rewarding.
Lady in Waiting fascinated me at every turn. I'm a huge fan of the British Royals and love sneak peeks into the lives behind their public face. The author and Princess Margaret were very close friends and I learned a lot about her through this memoir.
The Housemaid is a thriller, one of the best I've read. The twists and turns never stopped and I did nothing else but read for a day or so. Lots of fun!
4PaperbackPirate
Thank you both for sharing your lists!
>2 Shrike58: I'm adding The Tainted Cup to my wish list. It sounds like just the type of book I would like.
>3 ahef1963: I loved Gone with the Wind as well. I read it on my honeymoon 25 years ago.
I had 6 books I really enjoyed this quarter, all for different reasons. In the order I read them:
Later by Stephen King
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Billy Summers by Stephen King
A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Cress by Marissa Meyer
>2 Shrike58: I'm adding The Tainted Cup to my wish list. It sounds like just the type of book I would like.
>3 ahef1963: I loved Gone with the Wind as well. I read it on my honeymoon 25 years ago.
I had 6 books I really enjoyed this quarter, all for different reasons. In the order I read them:
Later by Stephen King
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Billy Summers by Stephen King
A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Cress by Marissa Meyer
