I started reading The Wife Upstairs last night, and I keep laughing out loud at the way the author has updated the Jane Eyre characters. My biggest problem with the book so far is that the main character isn't actually much like Jane Eyre, imho.

I read the first book of the Green Bone Saga, which I enjoyed, and I'm trying to decide if I should reread it before I read the next two.

sj, I started reading the third book when I got it and after maybe a chapter or 2 decided I had better re-read the first two as I did not remember who any of the characters were in relation to one another. Reading all 3 one after the other was very satisfying

Thanks, -t. Maybe I listen the first one on audiobook. I'm usually better about listening to a book I've already read than rereading it.

That's a good idea

I tried to read Jade City and it was just too violent for me. Also that other one, The Poppy War? Just... I couldn't.

We read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for book club, which I mostly enjoyed, because it's so full of irony. ALL the men are tools. I'm not sure even the writer understood that...

Unnatural Magic by C M Waggoner is on sale for $1.99 per BookBub. I liked this bok a lot though I cannot recommend it quite as highly as the second book, The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry which is just immensely fun but not on sale right now

Eta: yeah, the whole Green Bone saga is pretty darn violent. I can totally understand not wanting to immerse one's self in that.

There are too many books, you guys.

I finished The Last Graduate yesterday (which I liked well enough to rec to my family), and I've got 6 ebooks out from the library, and 1 physical book (Because they had the first two in the trilogy in e-book, but not the third because...reasons?) And I was looking at them this morning to check how many of them have sequels, because then finishing that book just adds another book to the pile.

2 of the e-books are the final in a trilogy (Last Emperox and Empire of Gold). The physical book is (Acceptance). And one of the e-books is a stand-alone collection of short stories.

I'm also on 9 waitlists (one is ready to borrow, but I'm putting it off till tomorrow to buy me an extra day). At least 7 of them are part of a series.

There are too many books, you guys.

And more keep being written! It's a problem.

There are too many books, you guys.

I am sad to admit that not only do I have no hope of ever making it through my "to be read" pile, lately I have been noticing books on my shelves and realizing, "I know I've read that, but I don't remember it at all."

Being an adult reader sucks. I miss my younger days when I could just spend the weekend devouring a book or two without worrying about all the stuff I should be doing instead. My to be read pile is getting ridiculous, both with fiction and with RPG sourcebooks.