TELL ME TUESDAY
LAST. NOW. NEXT.NUMBER THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT
WHAT'S BAZ READING
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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.
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I am curious why people read what they read, so tell me!
★★★★★
MEMOIR
IRISH HISTORY
IRISH CULTURE
THE GREAT BLASKET ISLAND
Published 1929 - Own Ebook
An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, where living was "raw, real and extremely challenging" yet full of family, faithful friends, love, fun times, and community.
★★★★
MEMOIR
ADOPTION
ECONOMIC DISPARITY
HEALTHCARE
Published April 4th 2023 - Edelweiss ARC
This would have been a five star read for me, but in the last quarter of the book she started moaning about how difficult and life-wrecking being an author is. Do authors think this makes people buy more books out of pity? I never get that. You are supposed to do what you love, so if you don't love it don't do it. She also kept talking about how having "remote learning" for a year, because of Covid, has permanently scarred her children. Get a grip. If that were true home-schooled students would be severely traumatized. *insert huge eye roll* However, the parts about the main subject of the book, United States healthcare inequality, are brilliant. It's a smooth, easy and relatable read, so if you usually shy away from Nonfiction socio-political subjects... this book might be for you.
DUOLOGY ONE
REALISTIC CONTEMPORARY
DIVERSE
PHYSICAL DISABILITY
Published 2017 - Hoopla Borrow
This was my first book for April Diversity Month. My first fault found was that it is supposed to be Middle Grade (ages 7-12) but the MC is 13 and in 8th grade. There were so many smallish problems with this book that the negative impact became significant. First there were the mixed messages when it came to the public's reaction to seeing people with noticeable physical differences, as in the MC having no arms. First it was look, but don't stare, then it was don't look at all, but then she said she hated it when people looked away. She then goes on to say, yes, ask questions, but every time someone did ask a question it was the wrong question. Good grief. She also demonized children's natural curiosity. I don't think the author knows anyone with a serious physical disability. And then there was all the "like" fillerism. In their grasping at straws to make books more relatable to tweens and teens, authors are perpetuating bad grammar, usage, and diction; which is in turn destroying full, meaningful expressive communication.
"MIDDLE GRADE"
GOODREADS
DUOLOGY BOOK TWO
PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
FRIENDS - FAMILY - ADOPTION
BULLYING
Published 2019 - Hoopla Borrow
Again, this book was published and promoted as Middle Grade, but the MC is now fourteen and in 9th grade, so it should be Young Adult. There are not quite obscenities in it, but there is coarse teenage language and similes, and sexual tension/thoughts, so it definitely is not MG in my opinion. There's also ageism; the seniors in a nursing home are depicted as gross, dull, disheveled, and silly.
ADULT FICTION
STANDALONE
FANTASY - HORROR
HISTORICAL FICTION
CATS
Published March 7th 2023 - Edelweiss ARC
I also won a hardcover from Goodreads. It's described as Dickensian, so I should like it.
I bought a used paperback for Baz to read last summer, but at that time he couldn't get into it so he set it aside. We had our annual Vonnegut buddy read in December, it was pushed back from our usual November because he hadn't been in a reading mood. The book, Galapagos, threw him into an existential crisis, so he was reading it in small doses. I don't know exactly when he finished because I didn't want to bring it up, but believe it or not, he started reading The Name of the Wind right after the Vonnegut book! He finished a couple of weeks ago and he loved it, so I found a used paperback of the sequel for him. There's only one paperback edition for the series so they match!
However... there is the same problem as with George R.R. Martin. The third book, The Doors of Stone, has been being promised since 2013!
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