As I mentioned in my January 21 blog post, starting in 2025, I'm suggesting book titles you might be interested in reading, but I'll no longer follow my Book Recommendations format with a written review of each title. After five years of writing reviews for 446 books, I was over it.
So today - and near the end of each month - I'll give you the title, author's name, and the score I've given each book, out of a possible 5.0.
No more written reviews.
This is my list, in score order, of eight books listened to in January.
I'll just mention that the book I gave the lowest score - Same as it Ever Was - was a hard slog of 18 hours and 22 minutes. I thought it would get better... then I thought I needed to hear it all the way to the end. It wasn't worth that much listening!
Books that I gave 4.0 and higher.
If you don't listen to any other book, I recommend the Music of the Bees, by Eileen Garvin. For some reason, I haven't gotten that one out of my mind. Linda
I did get to listen to The Music of Bees recently and enjoyed it. I gave it a 4. On Goodreads we can only score even numbers-- 1-5. A question I have is, if you thought the bottom book wasn't worth listening to, why didn't you give it a 1 or 2?
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about keeping at something because you expect it to get better! My husband and I once went to a movie like that and still laugh about it. (It was an Andy Warhol film.) I now "just say no" to finishing such books!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this Linda. I was able to find a couple of them on Libby.
ReplyDeleteLinda - seems totally fair to stop posting full reviews. That is very time consuming. I did read Everyone in My Family Killed Someone a while back. It was ok - maybe not my favorite. As with Mary above, I quit reading something that doesn't draw me in. There are just too many books out there to finish one I am not truly enjoying! I will take a look for the Music of Bees. Hope all is well!!
ReplyDeleteI don't blame you for not wanting to write reviews anymore. It was surely a lot of work. But I will still check out some of the books on your lists.
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