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pizzakarin
Posted 2015-05-01 2:07 PM (#10393 - in reply to #10372)
Subject: Re: RYO challenge - end of April update		Quote Reply



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Location: Austin, Tx		Well, baby is out and doing great! But I haven't gotten much reading done.

In April I finished The Yiddish Policemen's Union which was part of my "12 in 12", "Clear the Shelves", and "Choose Your Own Winner" challenges. I definitely see the skill and literary merit of the book, but I just didn't enjoy it. I also read Mort(e) (part of "New Books of 2015"), which I also didn't enjoy. It was just nonsensical enough to infuriate me for being cohesively written and wonderfully narrated in the audiobook version. While I was in the hospital (at about 3:30 in the morning when I couldn't sleep and was bored of watching cable) I finished listening to The Golem and the Jinni (part of "12 in 12" and "Women of Genre Fiction") which was the bright star of April. Someone else described it as gentle and that is exactly how I feel. It made my brain relax because it was so good and told so well (and the narrator for the audiobook had such a soothing voice). I needed something that I could relax into.

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