So thankful for this. Especially considering I JUST looked up whether or not a dog gets hurt in the last book I read.

Cross My Heart by Megan Collins

Part of my horror and thriller reads for this month.

I’m so excited to read this. I’m sorta intimidated by the size of the book but I’ve read The Stand, It, The Way of Kings, so I’m not completely new to a 1000+ page book. I do have a question. How have you guys gone about reading this one? My plan is to get a few hundred pages in, read The Running Man, get another few hundred pages, read To Kill a Mockingbird, then finish the book. What do you guys think? Anyway, wish me luck.

Let’s ignore the fact that I’m in bed at 3pm on a Saturday. Putting my phone down and starting little women today.

My New Year’s resolution this year was to read more books. I engage in a lot of activities but the ones that take up a majority of my time are movies, video games, and music, with the thing I do the least being reading. I wanted to change that, the only time I read books was for school and never on my own time. I’m someone who enjoys consuming content that’s more on the dark and disturbing side. So I thought that I’d have to best chance of sticking to my resolution if I sought out books that were disturbing. Christmas was just around the corner and my sister asked if I wanted anything in particular. I gave her a short list of books I was interested in and I asked if she could get me just one. She chose Blood Meridian. I’m so proud of myself for finishing the book on my own time and I’m happy to say that reading will now be a permanent activity for me! I already have my next book in mind and I’m excited to start it!!

Always been a fan of sci-fi and read fair share of weird stories. But this is disgustingly creepy and unexpectedly modern ( considering the time when it was written) . Undoubtedly this is going to be my favourite book this year.

It's Day Six with this gem, and oh boy!

I've had this on the TBR for a while. Totally regret not getting to this sooner.

If this is on your TBR, may this be a sign.

Gus and Lorie, 'I god...

Without going into spoilers, who's been your favorite character, and why?

I’m currently on chapter 46, and I can’t stop reading this book! So many people told me it was one of the best books they’d ever read, but I put it off for a while because of how long it is.

Now that I’ve started, though, I can’t put it down. If you’ve avoided it because the length feels discouraging, I highly recommend giving it a chance. You won’t regret it!

I’m not a particularly speedy reader but I could not put this down. I finished it in about 6+ hours. It touched me and took me to so many different places emotionally. This book touched my heart and as I closed the back cover tears ran down my cheeks. So many times I just wanted to hug little Charlie.

Tbh, I’m a fairly new reader even tho I’ve been a resident of this planet for 50 years. I always found myself falling asleep or having a hard time concentrating, (oh you know, audhd has its a life of it’s own). But when I turned 50 this past year, I suddenly became a voracious reader. I think I’ve devoured 40 or so since Sept.

Thank you interwebs for suggesting this absolutely beautiful piece of fiction.

What a wonderful reminder to make sure to always continue to love and nurture your inner child. Be the person they needed then, now.

first book of the year btw, anyone read it? any thoughts ? sorry if this post isn't super relevant

I just finished Open Season by Cj Box and am currently listening to hondo by Louis L’Amour. I think I finally am ready to start reading lonesome dove. I’ve read dead man’s walk so I know Gus and cal are awesome.

After being on my TBR for literally years…I’m jumping in. I started this last night and all I want to do is read this (especially as it’s going to be a cold and rainy week). I travel for work all next week and have a bunch of airport time and some downtime between conference stuff, but I’m anticipating reading this at a rapid pace. My whole life I’ve been told “Read Lonesome Dove”…and it seems like the perfect time to do it. Hope everyone is having a good Monday (and a dry one if you’re on the East Coast/US)

Allow me to do the honours - a thousand splendid sun by Khaled Hosseini .

I’ve been working on it for 3 weeks already and still have another large book’s worth of reading to go but I’m absolutely loving the story and how it’s unfolding.

Loving the atmosphere. I know nothing about this book, and have never seen the film, but I’m loving the vibe so far. Have you read Rebecca?

There was a post on the bookshelfdetective subreddit and they had the series Red Rising, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Dune, The Expanse, everything written by Brandon Sanderson, et al.

So I commented that those are all my favourites and people downvoted me. Is it lame to like these books? I don’t understand why people roll their eyes so hard when I say I like to read popular YA fiction

After reading lots of Cormac McCarthy last year, and really enjoying The Border Trilogy, I keep seeing this one posted by others so I decided to give it a read. I hope it stacks up!

I tried to go Kindle…

& then I brought my happy ass right back to a book store ❤️

It has taken me a bit to get back into reading as a hobby, but when I came across this book in January, it hit something I didnt know I needed. Sadly, it has taken me 2 months to finish it as life happens. But, I'm hopeful now that Ive started I can knock out the rest of my list.

If anyone has read this, or plans on reading it I would love to get your thoughts and pick your brain.

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I’ve wanted to read this since I got back into reading. Anything I should know before diving too deep? Comment something I won’t understand til later but no spoilers.

I kind of fell in love with Siddhartha Mukherjee’s lyrical prose lol. I shed more than a few tears while reading Stoner. I would love recommendations, and please let me know if I read one of your favorites!