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Liked it till the third act and then after that it just felt very contrived.
@Yash - The last 4 aren't. The rest are new.
Janhavi wrote: "
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Bought these 2 recently. Can't wait to start Neverwhere."
Let me know how Malice is! :D
Haha, okayyy! So this month I have bought: 1 - The Bees by Laline Paul
2 - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
3 - Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
4 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
5 - The Fishermen by Chigoize Obioma
6 - The Vegetarian by Han Kang
7 - The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
8 - The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Che Guervara
9 - Quidditch Through the Ages by The Queen a.k.a JK Rowling
10 - Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut
11 - How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
12 - The Color of Magic by Terry Prachett
13 - The Guide by RK Narayan
14 - The English Teacher by RK Narayan
15 - Self by Yann Martel (of Life of Pi fame)
16 - The Red House by Mark Haddon
I've had an eventful month, to say the least.
I haven't read Sharp Objects yet. But damn, Dark Places - what can I say? I stayed up all night reading it. Literally.
godavar wrote: "finished Gone Girl. All I'm thinking is we humans are so addicted to morality: truth vs lie, good vs evil, etc."Read Dark Places. :O
3. Read a dark love story - Does The Girl on the Train count? 6. Listen to an audiobook - Mindy Kaling's Why Not Me?.
9. Read a book recommended by your grandparent or a person above the age of 70 - How Will You Measure Your Life?
10. Read a book which has won an Indian literary award - What about an Indian that won the Booker Prize? The God of Small Things
11. Read a book from one of India’s neighbouring countries - I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Pakistan)
12. Read a book/series, which has been adapted into a movie or TV series, and then watch the movie/TV series - Hector and the Search for Happiness
That's 6/12.
Yeah! That's exactly what I wrote. In fact, I wrote - "Ian McEwan is either an author you love or you hate. You either want to throw his book aside and wonder what came over you to buy it or you want to reread it again immediately because 'MYGOD! The man is a genius.'"I think Ian McEwan is an amazing author. I still really like Solar. However, I feel like it was too stretched out and had too much jargon in it which I wasn't quite comfortable with considering it was a lot to with theoretical physics and the effects on climate change. So no, it wasn't a complete waste of time. The next Ian McEwan book I would like to read (apart from Atonement) would be Enduring Love or Sweet Tooth.
As for my next book, I'm conflicted between The Graveyard Book or Train to Pakistan. Let me know if any of you have any suggestions! :)
Hey S., I really want to read Atonement. I just finished Solar and I think it was a bit stretched to be honest. I've read Amsterdam and For You which is a shortish book and a play respectively. They were both short but Solar just kind of dragged on.
Don't get me wrong, it had a nice plot and a lot of 'WTF' moments as Ian McEwan usually does, but still.
