Book of the Month April 2019 Selection Time + Free Book!

I picked Miracle Creek, Beyond the Point, and Lost and Wanted this month. I’m interested in Normal People as well. I think curation has been great for the last few months.

I read the quick takes and they almost all sound interesting. Ok going to goodreads to get the scoop.

Nothing appeals to me this month… I skipped

I got an early copy of Miracle Creek and it is excellent. I highly recommend it!

I always check out the BOTM site to read excerpts and reviews, Amazon, Good Reads, and a few other sites to get all the info I can on the all the choices (even the ones I might NOT normally gravitate towards). I don’t think think these “quick takes” via BOTM are really enough to go on. I almost always wind up picking two books. I can’t imagine skipping multiple months, though my wallet might like that! I picked Normal People and Miracle Creek.

Normal People has been getting a lot of buzz recently, but I personally have never read anything by Rooney before, so can’t offer my opinion. I’m suspicious that she may write too “breezily,” but without any evidence to support that, I am judging a book by its cover.

I’d go for the genre bending novel. A lot of books in this not well defined category tend to have what I look for in a book: meaningful character development along with an interesting premise that shows how some new technological advance, medical breakthrough, visit by aliens or an alien dome, or competing, simultaneous realities would change society and/or the individual. Like Ted Chaing’s short stories in The Story of Your Life or Ishiguro’s Once We Were Orphans.

I too will need to investigate further on Goodreads.

Skipping two months in a row now. Haven’t been impressed in awhile. Come on botm!

FYI Book of the Month now offers a YA sub and a non fiction sub. 😀

I chose Miracle Creek! It looks like a good one!

None of the quick takes are grabbing me, just like last month. Maybe GoodReads reviews will change my mind on one.

Second month in a row I’m skipping. Come on with the curation already! Two of the books come with “warnings” about challenging and slow going reads. Why would they think this would appeal to the masses?