Friday Five 12-March-2021 #1

[elusivek]

The following questions are from thefridayfive

1) Have you read more books, or fewer books, this past year than usual?
Since we are talking about books, I think this year (2021) I will have read more than 2020, because, according to my Goodreads account, my 2020 was a lazy year, and I read a grand total of 3 books. Whereas this year, 2021, I am well on my 3rd book already, LOL. But I was reading a lot of online stuff, articles, blogs, fanfiction, but I suppose those don't account for books.

2) What book are you reading now (or what book did you read most recently)?
The book I'm currently reading is The Cobweb Bride by Vera Nazarian. The premises is quite interesting. Death decided to go on strike, so nobody dies, no matter how sick, or injured, how butchered you are. Death requires his Cobweb Bride in order to start working again. Having said that, the happenings in the book are a bit of a drag though... and I'm struggling... I thought a YA book would be an easy read, but it's just got too many story lines and so interspersed that I'm starting to find it annoying.

Most recently I read The Fireraisers (review) which honestly was quite good and I liked it enough to consider continuing the series.

3) What is the best book you read in the past few years?
I'm still singing about Never Let Me Go (review) by Kazuo Ishiguro, but only if you haven't read that yet, because the big reveal is just ooomph! When at that one point to finally understand it, it's just so chilling. But it won't happen on your second read, so I'll move on. I quite Enjoyed All Creatures Great and Small (review) by James Herriot

4) Do you read more than one book at a time, or just one?
I tend to focus on one book at a time, but I do have a few "open" books. I have one Chinese book on "open", it's surely going to take me a few years to read it. Same for a Japanese book. I have a couple of started books on my Kindle but they just don't grip my attention...

5) How big is your to-be-read pile (or list)?
Weeeeeelllllll, there's only 57 books on my "Want to Read" list on Goodreads, but there's still a pile of books on my shelf and a pile of books in my Kindle that I never really catalogued into Goodreads, AND there's 646 unread books on my Amazon cloud (but I have to check if indeed they are all unread as I'm not sure if my old Kindle synced the read status to the cloud or not) so.... I really should get a move on and start clearing all that.

Comments

[kurikuribebi]

You know, when I finished Never Let Me Go, I was blown away by the ending. When I re-read it, I was looking at it in a different light... but yeah, it's not really a book to re-read over and over again.

[deepseasiren.livejournal.com]

I have really got to start reading again. Watership Down is on my reread list.