LA LA IN THE LIBRARY: TELL ME TUESDAY #321

LAST. NOW. NEXT.

NUMBER THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE

TELL ME TUESDAY is a floating feature, depending on your reading style, where you tell us what you read last, what you are reading now, what you will be reading next from your tbr pile, and why. I am curious why people read what they read, so tell me!

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Kwante from KWANTE IN WONDERLAND
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LAST WEEK'S TMT

GOODREADS

MIDDLE GRADE

SERIES BOOK #2

NEWBERY AWARD

Published 1922 - Own Kindle Library

This was my October Newbery Award reading challenge title and it also counts toward my 2020 A Year of Classic personal reading challenge. I haven't rated it yet because it is dated, but still a good story if you pre-read it, and do some editing before reading it with, and I stress WITH your MG age child. There are racist labels, but only in name and not intent. The story is actually anti-racist and anti-colonialism. I wish publishing houses would go through classic Middle Grade and update the terms used and the outdated take on history. I also need to look for a copy with the illustrations. The free Kindle Classics edition I own didn't have the drawings in it.

MY GOODREADS REVIEW

★★★

(3.5)

ADULT FICTION

CLASSIC

Published 1818 - Hoopla Borrow

I listened to a Hoopla audiobook. I liked it, but I don't consider it Horror. It's more like a philosophical treatise on the human condition. I love the Monster point of view parts to the story, but the Dr. Frankenstein threads were almost boring. See my Goodreads review for the details.

MY GOODREADS REVIEW

★★★

(2.5)

MIDDLE GRADE

STANDALONE

CLASSIC

Published 1970 - Hoopla Borrow

This story was too chaotic and disconnected. It felt strangely dated for a book from 1970. It read more like a book published in the '50s. It's like an Adult Fiction writer thought he could write any old thing, as long as it was crazy, and it could be a children's book... oh, wait...

MY GOODREADS REVIEW

★★★★★

ADULT FICTION

STANDALONE

CLASSIC SCIFI

Published 1949 - Hoopla Borrow

This was my first book read for November SciFi Month. I read it in my 20s and loved it and I still love it. It makes statements about Colonialism and Expansion Capitalism which still resonate today. It also qualifies as one of my classic reads.

GOODREADS

ADULT FICTION

HAINISH CYCLE #4

SCIFI

CLASSIC

Published 1969 - Hoopla Borrow

This is my second title for SciFi Month. It is identified as the fourth book in the series, but I have been told they are more like companion books, and can be read in any order.

GOODREADS

ADULT FICTION

STANDALONE

Published 1973 - Own Kindle Library

My son and I are doing our third annual Vonnegut buddy read. It was my choice this year, and I didn't remember it being this sexually saucey. Yikes! Ha ha. There are plenty of other elements to discuss, though, so we are doing okay, so far.