As most people know, I have been on vacation to the United States. While this has a great six weeks off, it did come with some disadvantages. I may talk about all the bookshops I visited while in America in a future post but I am sad to say during this holiday I only managed to finish three books. While away, the book club read the true crime classic In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, a book I read before vacation so I wouldn’t miss out. I wasn’t able to get involved with the discussions but it was good to see it happening while I was enjoying myself.
Looking at the Literary Exploration book club, it is great to see things happening without my involvement. It looks like next month we will be preparing for the movie adaptation of Gone Girl for our Thriller theme. Obviously I’m talking about our great book club but if you are not aware, the book discussion and everything else happens over on the Goodreads forums, so feel free to join in there.
While I’m not happy with the amount of books I read, I really did enjoy the three books anyway. Cannot pick a highlight from The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters, The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller and Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill; you’ll just have to wait for the reviews. What have you been reading and what have your highlights been?
Monthly Posts
- Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’d Give To Readers Who Have Never Read Graphic Novels
- Tigerman by Nick Harkaway
- Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
- Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’m Not Sure I Want To Read
- Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
- Plot, Character, Style, and Themes
- Time for some Cultural Studies
- Top Ten Tuesday: Books People Have Been Telling Me I MUST Read
- Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
- just_a_girl by Kirsten Krauth
- Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Really Want To Read But Don’t Own Yet
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Monthly Review – August 2014
You may have only read 3 books but at least you enjoyed your vacation, right? 🙂
Happy September reading!
the vacation was great, but books are very important.
I didn’t like The Paying Guests as much as I thought I would. Have you read her other novels? I mean, this one was good, but i felt it dragged at places. It took my while to get into it and then I thought it would never end.
I’ve only read Tipping the Velvet and really enjoyed it, more then The Paying Guests. I heard she moved more away from the lesbian themes in recent novels so I’m glad she returned to it for The Paying Guests