Hooked on Books discussion

Members Starting the BR: Teddie, Vicki, Heather, Trisha
Challenge: Book Quest Adventures
Book: The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis

Anyone is free to join in this Buddy Read! Happy Reading!

through Part or chapter 5 (stopped at six) / 28%

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so far I like the idea of emotions coming out of books but wow, I don't know if I'd love that in actual real life.

and I like this story within a story. I wonder what happened to these two and why they each have their own set of. . .it's almost like a diary than a book, but I like that we're getting both sides.

curious to see what she finds out about this couple
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I'm done with this one.

I swear, I don't hate all books - just. . .these ones are not my jam. lol

I did not love this one, lost interest at maybe half way and just muscled through listening to it.

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I guess I am odd man out again because I liked this one. I do get frustrated with books that switch from English to another language, in this case Spanish, without providing the translation.

I really appreciated the historical aspects of the book and felt like I understand that culture better than I did before reading this.

Mel's search for her daughter kept me fully engaged and the ending...wow! I did not expect that!

I'm kind of with you on this one Trish - I think I've OD'ed on magical reality this month. I need a bit of edge next month - lol. I'm listening to the audiobook here, but have jammed a bunch of books in between.

I do love the idea of a used book having echoes, but, and I don't know whether this is because of audiobook or the writing, but the chapters with Regretting Belle are the hardest for me right now.

Starting this now. 🤔

@Heather - lol!

Maybe we should make a concerted effort to try to start these BRs at the same time.

I can get on board with that.

I know it's tough - sometimes my reading is based on getting a book at the library or something. Or, we check into the BR and say we're reading or have read and start the discussion when there's a quorum of at least 3 of us ready to start discussing? There have been a few books where I've been late to the party and then kind of dreaded reading it - lol.

Yeah, let's try for a quorum. Like you, my hands are sometimes tied because I'm waiting for a book on Libby. But if it's available, I'm fine with putting whatever I'm currently reading aside and starting a BR book at the same time as other team members.

And apparently I had started this book a while ago and then sent it back to KU. Because Audible wanted to start where I left off. So I wasn't into it the first time...

All that being said, I'm at 6: Ashland and sadly care nothing for any of these people so far. But I'll continue on.

6: Ashlyn (autocorrect!)

I'm all for scheduling or kind of gauging with a group on when we'll get to a buddy read! It's much easier to push through when I know someone else is reading with me! lol

I'm down to try scheduling dates more next month!

So far i think the author is.trying to do too much and hasn't succeeded in fleshing out any of the characters well.

Heather wrote: "So far i think the author is.trying to do too much and hasn't succeeded in fleshing out any of the characters well."

Preach.

I finished it this morning and was happy to move on...