Saturday, June 7, 2025

Saturday Reading Wrap-up - 6/7/25

It wasn't the busiest of reading weeks, since I only finished one book, but I did spend some time on a couple books I ended up DNF'ing.  

I picked up one new ebook this week - a suspense novel by an author I'd read before, but it was free, so yay.

Books Read:

23) Blade Runner (or Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep) by Philip K Dick (6/5/25) - dystopian - 5 stars. New to me but not underappreciated.  I picked this up at regular price from Amazon, so $7.48 for the paperback. (I needed to round out an order to get free shipping and this was it.)
No Review.  What could I say about this book that hasn't already been said?

DNFs:

6/5/25 - free - noir mystery - The beginning of this was written three different ways and they were ALL in the book I downloaded.  Like first draft, then second draft, then final draft.  By the time I got to the third iteration, I was confused and tired of it.  Too much work for what might've been an interesting story.

5/31/25 - free dystopian/SF - I made it over halfway through this and then it got weird, and not in a good way.  Which is too bad because I was really enjoying where it had been heading before it shot off down a murky, ill-advised path.  :shrug:  I paused this to read something else and then decided to just DNF it.  Life's too short.

Currently reading... A little underappreciated cozy mystery.  I'm not sure yet if I'll finish it.  The beginning has the same problem as that noir mystery I DNF'd this week - repeating info, which is annoying but not as bad as here as with the noir.  We'll see if it gets better.

What have you been reading lately?

1 comment:

  1. I'm not sure I finished a book this week. I sort of hit a reading wall. I stopped the paranormal I'd been reading at chapter 27 and went back to the fantasy and picked it up for a couple of chapters and then...I don't know. Stuff happened? I mean, I drove to Wallyworld and didn't turn the book on. Nor when I went to Starbucks or Ace Hardware. Weird. Anyway, I may shelve both of them for the time being and pick up something else. Mainly, I need to get my @$$ in geatr and write. Maybe if I start writing, I'll start reading. 🤷🏼‍♀️

    Happy reading. Hope the cozy works out for you!

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