I do not intend to have a dedicated reading update each week. It just worked out last week and this week… and maybe next week…
- I finished The Alice Network. My thoughts are the same as what I said here. I wasn’t in love with this book, but loved how much of it was real history! I tend to remember more about history when I read it in novel form then look it up on my own.
I don’t have two Kindles. I have Photoshop.
- I started and finished Light from Other Stars, which I greatly enjoyed. It’s set in two timelines – 1986 and the future – and both stories are about the same woman. She’s an eleven-year-old in 1986, and on the same day as the Challenger disaster, her scientist dad turns on a machine he designed that alters everything in their town. In the future story, she’s on a space ship headed to a new planet for humans to colonize (because Earth is failing). I love space stories and human relationship stories, and this book is both.
- Side note: it seems like a lot of the books I read lately go back and forth between different timelines. Sometimes I like this, and sometimes I prefer a linearly told story.
I need to find a good way to show my Kindle reads back to back!
- Now I am reading An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, and whoa, the writing style is super conversational compared to the sometimes scientific and stiff writing of Light from Other Stars. I like the style, but it took a minute (or two) to get used to. In this book, a 23-year-old woman discovers a giant metal Transformer-esque statue in NYC and she and a friend upload a video of it on YouTube and become famous, as they were the first to discover this “statue.” As it turns out, sixty of these statues appeared at the same time around the world, and the statues may be more than just statues. So far the story is heavy on identity, social media, and how you frame and tell your story. It’s super millennial-ly (I am a technically a millennial) and current (which makes me think it will be dated soon).
- In true Kim fashion, I stayed in the same genre between books, by accident. According to the internets, the last book and the book I am reading now are both coming-of-age fiction.
- Now that I have a Kindle, I’ve been looking on Libby (our state’s digital library app) for what is available now to read. And then I totally, 100% pick things based on their covers!!! That is how I ended up with An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. I actually bought Light from Other Stars for $1 (big spender) after BookBub recommended it, and I would totally read it again!
I liked an absolutely remarkable thing. Hank Green (the author) is the brother of John Green (who wrote the fault in our stars). I have read several of his books and really enjoyed them!
I actually had forgotten I read this book until you wrote about it!
Ahh, I had no idea! I haven’t read any of John Green’s books! I will have to look in to his stuff too.
It’s so easy to forget what you’ve read! That is why I started tracking it this year 🙂
My oldest son and his girlfriend are huge Hank and John Green fans and really liked Hank’s book…
I think the second book you mentioned sounds like something I would like, I am going to see if the library has it!
Oh cool! I am liking it. It’s a fun easy read!
I bet you would like it! It was such an interesting story!
Be aware that AART has a pending sequel, so the ending might leave you a bit wanting. I do not believe there is a timeframe for the sequel as of yet.
Thanks for the warning! I saw that in the comments on Goodreads and it’s good to know!!!
That Hank Greek book was a Book of the Month selection one month and I thought about choosing it, but I haven’t enjoyed many of John Green’s (his brother) books so I wasn’t sure about Hank. John writes female characters in a really weird way (IMO) so I was waiting to hear from other people about AART! If you like it, I might bump it up my list!
I read a comment saying they thought Hank Green wrote this female character weird but she doesn’t seem weird to me because she is SO similar to someone I know IRL. So far, the book is a very relevant commentary on people’s needs to be relevant and liked. I will let you know my final thoughts, of course!
Hahahaha I love your comment below your picture about not having two Kindles 😛
I always find it jarring to read books that make so many obvious references to current technology. I feel just like what you’ve mentioned: that it’ll be dated very quickly – like if you were reading a book from the 80s and the main problem was that someone lost all their floppy disks or something, haha (I’ve never read a book like that, but now I kind of want to find one that is!).
Ha! I thought people needed to know! 😉
OMG! Yes with the floppy disk reference! It would be so funny to find a book that said something like that. HA HA HA. It’s like when you watch old movies and they show advanced coding or hacking with these huge desktop monitors. Ha.
If yours a kindle fire? If not, is there a way to use Libby with your kindle?
It’s a Kindle Paperwhite. I use the Libby app on my phone and push it to my Kindle through Amazon.