Book Bingo! discussion

Comment book suggestions, the book you plan on reading, or the book you did read and a small review!

Just finished A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

My review below :)

A woman haunted a family tragedy has to relive horrific events as she uncovers the truth about the people around her. #onesentencesummary

My first read of the year and it was a worthy one. It wasn't as predictable as I was expecting it to be. The writing definitely kept me turning pages.

I just finished Conversations with Friends. Which is the debut novel of Sally Rooney.

I like the build up of the characters. Almost none are likeable. A book that I read in one breath as I was always curious what comes next.
You can see where Normal People comes from, the feel, the mood, the narrative, the self esteem, the characterizations are exactly the same. I like Sally's stories and looking forward to read the next one.

I just finished volume 1 of The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, which is the debut series by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. Originally, it was actually a web series that was published in Mandarin, but now has an official English translation in novel form, which was released this past December.

I really enjoyed it! The story follows a man that dies and finds himself inhabiting the body of the main villain of a novel that he just finished (leading to an interesting novel-ception format). To avoid meeting the original fate of the villain, he has to figure out how to change the story with his knowledge of the novel. I'm very excited for Volume 2 to come out in April!

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski - 5

"Endless snarls of words, sometimes twisting into meaning, sometimes into nothing at all" "hunt[s] for moments, pearls of the particular,...which might elicit from us an emotional spark and perhaps even a bit of human understanding." "what’s real or isn’t real doesn’t matter here. The consequences are the same."

I read Hotel Magnifique and it was a good read!

Read: Remedial Rocket Science by Susannah Nix

Finished: February 24, 2022

Length: 8 Hours 35 Minutes

Rating: 3.5 Stars

Comments: This story was interesting. Enjoyable but not the cat's pajamas. I will likely continue the series but not right away.

I read Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine for this box. I was very surprised that I found myself looking forward to read this book as the first few chapters confused and bored me a little, however I soon found Eleanor Oliphant to be completely charming and not fine as we are made to automatically let society believe for ourselves.
The varying themes (loneliness, alcoholism and child trauma in particular) were fascinating as we learn more about her and her simplistic view of the world. I understand Reese Witherspoon's production company has won the film rights for this - I look forward to seeing this on screen and do not want to be disappointed! What a wonderful, unpredictable and thought-provoking read!

I just finished reading The Historian for this square.

I loved this book. The story was well paced for me and the subject matter kept me interested the whole way through.

I gave this book 5*