Book review time! 🙂
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Y’all this book was long and tedious. Over 600 pages of just verbiage. It was hard for me to get through this book to be honest with you and I skipped a lot of pages. I loved the storyline but the characters were nauseating and the writing was cumbersome. I feel like this author could have cut the word count in half, and still would have been able to get her point across. It was disappointing because I really enjoyed Quinn’s The Huntress, but c la vie.
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
I loved this book so much! The Thursday Murder Club revolves around a group who meet each Thursday to discuss unsolved crimes, only to have a real life murder fall into their laps which they are determined to solve. Did I mention the group that meets each Thursday lives in a retirement community in England? This book was a fantastic read!!
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
I decided last year that I wanted to reread some books from my childhood and this was one of them. Passed the time just fine.
A is For Alibi by Sue Grafton
I love me some Kinsey Millhone! If you have not yet read one of the beloved “alphabet mysteries”, you are missing out! I have read all of them before, but I am starting over again with rereading this one.
That’s it from me! What did you read this past month? 🙂
Starting over the alphabet books is swoonworthy.
600 pages come the freak on. Unnecessary.
600 pages is excessive. There was no need for it, pure verbiage.
The alphabet books are so good 🙂
On the last blog I visited I said the Rose Code sounded great but I can’t do 600 pages. I read the Kinsey Milhone books (I petered out at M) a long time ago. Maybe it’s time again!
The Rose Code sounds great in its premise, but actually finishing it is another story altogether. It makes me wonder if the book actually had an editor, lol.
I haven’t read any of the alphabet books. I don’t have a reason why other than I never felt drawn to them.
We all like different things 🙂
I do want to read The Thursday Murder Club. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I loved it! I hope you do as well 🙂
I don’t mind 600 pages that have earned those 600 pages but when it’s all blah, blah, blah. No thank you. I grew up very near Walnut Grove which is where a portion of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books took place. And I believe a significant portion of Little House on the Prairie did as well. As you can imagine, they hype it up. 🙂 And man, I devoured those books as a kid.
I tried one or two of the alphabet books but I have this – frankly annoying – issue where I struggle with books that are “modern” in their most recent/current books but book 1 takes place 20 years ago. Like, why don’t you use your iPhone kind of thing. If I had read it closer to the time period when the series began, then no issues but back tracking is inexplicably difficult for me. Like if the entire series was set in the 80s. Fine. No problemo. But starting a series 20 years after it began, my brain can’t process properly. It makes zero sense but the struggle is real! LOL!
That book was overkill with that many pages. So. Many. Words.
I enjoy the Little House on the Prairie books. I vaguely remember watching the television show version as a child.
I understand about the alphabet books. I started reading them when I was in high school I think, so the 80’s weren’t too far away at that point (that makes me feel old just to type that, lol)
But they really are good so maybe give them one more try? 🙂