Weekend Reading Roundup (18 September 2017)

[nanila]

How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it?

Comments

[nanila]

I bought Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree in the airport and finished it on the trip home. It was fantastic. I'm very excited about giving it to my eleven year old niece for Christmas.

[bonnefois]

Since I last checked in, I have finished:

What We Talk About When We Talk About God
by Rob Bell (audiobook)
Mindset: A New Psychology for Success by Caroline Dweck
Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes
The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard.

[nanila]

Wow. Congratulations on finishing all of those. I hope there were some useful nuggets of wisdom in there!

[bonnefois]

Yeah, I'm learning a lot!

[nou]

Ooh, gosh, I think I might like that, but I’m a bit concerned since The Guardian quoted the chair of the Costa judges as saying it’s “part horror story”. I have a very low threshold for “too much horror”. How would you say it compares to, say, our recently-discussed Coraline in terms of horror?

[nanila]

Ooh. Um, I would say it starts off with very little horror, but by the end, the horror factor's ramped up pretty high. I don't think you would much enjoy the last quarter of the book, especially since it involves the main character (who is herself still a child) defending her younger sibling (on her own) from horrible things.

[nou]

Thanks — I’ll give it a miss. Info much appreciated.