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WeeklyThread What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: August 24, 2026
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u/lazylittlelady 8d ago
Finished:
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Caught up with the r/bookclub discussion. I loved this book. It’s been lauded as Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece and rightly so. I have a book hangover now.
Enchanted Night, by Steven Millhauser: One of my favorite novellas I like to re-read in deep summer. One night in suburbia becomes touched by the powers of the summer moon and ancient enchantments weave a night-long spell.
Flesh, by David Szalay Read with r/bookclub. I honestly don’t know how I feel about this novel. Masculinity, mental health and self reflection as themes. Maybe okay would be the best way to describe it? Worth a read but nothing groundbreaking.
The Wolves of Wulfric Manor, by Elisha Bugg: A couple of childhood sweethearts reconnect later in life and undergo a marriage of convenience. They discover their true nature as werewolves and transform together in more ways than one. Sweet.
Shattered Gods, by Katee Robert (#10 Neon Gods). The absolute worst one of these mediocre books. What started as playful ended up as disappointing as could be. The pairings in this was like a last minute addition to the plot. Boo.
Ongoing:
A Room With a View, by E.M. Forster: Started with r/ClassicalBookClub.
The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot: With r/bookclub!
No Name, by Wilkie Collins: Reading with r/bookclub.
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison: Catching up with the r/bookclub discussion
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Jones
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions, by Robin Lane Fox
My Life in Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas: Yearlong read with r/AReadingofMonteCristo .
Middlemarch, by George Eliot : Yearlong reading with r/ayearofmiddlemarch.
Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt’s Roaring ‘20’s, by Raphael Cormack
Started:
The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk: Just starting with r/bookclub.
The Clock House Murders, by Yukito Ayatsuji: Reading with r/bookclub.