Tag - BOTM

I found this beautiful stained glass image of Circe online. It resonates with me, it’s visceral. Circe wrecked me. So so beautifully ...

On to CIRCE we read! I’m quite excited for this book! I am now at Chapter 8, having our first discussion today! I am in love with ...

Our October read was well, horrible. The language is beautiful. There IS a beautiful story in there but WHERE??? The book was way too ...

Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man’s path to ...

I’ve FINISHED our September BOTM BuddyRead. I have so many thoughts. I wanted to throw the book when I got towards the end of the ...

SEPTEMBER BUDDY READ RULES OF CIVILITY BY AMOR TOWLES This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman ...

I thoroughly loved these three books. Reading all three together gave them all such depth and differing opinions of the same events. It was ...

I’m excited about our August Book Of The Month BuddyRead. Beryl Clutterbuck  Markham was a British-born Kenyan aviator (one of the ...

An American Marriage Oh this book. It broke my heart. No one won. There really are no winners. However I can say at least one person truly ...

Finally a GOOD READ!!! The first section has been read and discussed and we have a good one again! PHEW. Red Clocks was such a HUGE ...

OH I so wanted this to be a good read. I really did! We, as a group of buddy readers, struggled with this one.  No one liked it too much ...

This is an interesting book. The format is such that you read slowly and purposeful. Reading a section a week and then discussing it makes ...