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*** Favorite Reads for Q2

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1This-n-That
Modifié : Juil 4, 2017, 9:43 am

What were your favorite books read between April and June 2017? Did you discover any new favorite authors? Others you didn't like at all?

2thorold
Modifié : Juin 30, 2017, 3:55 am

My Q2 seems to have been mostly rediscovery - not many authors who were really new to me, but quite a few I had been neglecting and came back to with pleasure.

Among the few "new" authors, The sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen) and Harvest (Jim Crace) were disappointing, but I got a lot of fun out of La septième fonction du langage (Laurent Binet).

Best novels of Q2 were La place (Annie Ernaux) and Frost (Thomas Bernhard) - no surprises there.
Angus Wilson's The middle age of Mrs Eliot was a fortunate rediscovery.

Apart from novels, Stanley Fish and Christopher Hill on Milton were both excellent, whilst Jonathan Raban's Old Glory turned out to be an excellent travel book, just as I'd been hoping.

BTW: Mr Trump doesn't seem to have succeeded in blocking the export of seasons to elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere yet - we are currently enjoying summer in Europe as well. :-)
Not sure about Canada, I expect there will be a few spots even there where the snow has melted...

3Nickelini
Modifié : Juil 1, 2017, 12:35 am

>1 This-n-That: Happy summer to those residing in the US and happy reading to everyone!

Huh?????

> BTW: Mr Trump doesn't seem to have succeeded in blocking the export of seasons to elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere yet - we are currently enjoying summer in Europe as well. :-)

Indeed. Also very summery over here in Canada.

Not sure about Canada, I expect there will be a few spots even there where the snow has melted...

Seriously????

I came here happy to share my Q2 reading, but now I'm peeved. I'm sure I'll be accused of being overly sensitive, but I just expect more from a ClubRead conversation than tired old ignorant jokes.

4thorold
Juil 1, 2017, 8:35 am

>2 thorold: Sorry, didn't mean to derail the thread. Couldn't resist poking fun at that phrase in the OP that obviously came out saying something different from what was intended, but I was obviously in too much of a rush when I posted myself. Should have realised how tedious those old jokes can be. No offence intended, especially not since it's Canada Day!

5ELiz_M
Modifié : Juil 3, 2017, 11:34 am

It took me six weeks to read, finishing mid-April, so I am going to count it in this quarter -- Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann. Also, more fun than I expected, Mythology by Edith Hamilton.

6japaul22
Juil 3, 2017, 2:43 pm

I've had a lot of great reads this quarter. My stand-outs are:

volumes 2 and 3 of Proust's In Search of Lost Time
Eline Vere by Louis Couperus, a Dutch 19th cent classic
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris, suspenseful book built around the Dreyfus affair
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
The Vanishing Velazquez by Laura Cumming

7This-n-That
Modifié : Juil 4, 2017, 10:02 am

>3 Nickelini: Not meaning to leave anyone out but I know some members probably live else where, and might be experiencing a different season or weather than in the US. Removed the sentiment. Good grief, I am not sure how wishing fellow members residing in the US a good summer and happy reading to everyone somehow was interpreted as any type of political commentary relating to Trump or the US either. I just didn't have the time or inclination to include every country and the corresponding season. My apologies....

8This-n-That
Juil 4, 2017, 10:03 am

Also, in the upcoming months, if someone else would be so kind as to post the Favorite Reads topic for Quarters 3 and 4, I would appreciate it. Thank you!

9AlisonY
Juil 4, 2017, 2:06 pm

The Miniaturist and the Elena Ferrante Neopolitan books were faves for me in Q2.

10bragan
Juil 6, 2017, 3:22 pm

My four-and-a-half and five-star reads for the quarter:

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt
Places No One Knows by Brenna Yovanoff
The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, Volume 2 by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Feet of Clay and Jingo by Terry Pratchett
Dragon Springs Road by Janie Chang
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Tinkers by Paul Harding
City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
On the Beach by Nevil Shute

Wow, that's a pretty good reading quarter, when I look at the best of it all listed out like that.

11Simone2
Juil 6, 2017, 8:20 pm

Three 4,5 stars reads this quarter:
- Grief is the Thing with Feathers
- The Mothers
- A Lesson before Dying

No 5 stars yet. Still hoping and wishing for one!