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On the couch bundled up in blankets, book against my knees with a hand on top and my dog and cat on me or in bed on my side with the book on my bed. Both with YouTube ambience music playing and some tea ☕️ I try to make a nice moment when reading, it’s a little treat for me.

But I do listen to audiobooks as well doing literally anything and everything because I too have a very tiring day and fall asleep after like 3 chapters lol

I read sitting-up with my feet propped up. I use a folded blanket in my lap to hold my book so that I'm not required to actually hold the book with my hands. I just rest my fingers on the pages to keep them from flipping.

Reverse bookworm is my favorite.

Can’t wait to read that!

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I agree, I wish her being a poc played a bigger role!

That is so true! I just wanted to defend myself LOL but you and everyone else is right who cares! Definitely garnered an emotional response from me making the book a memorable one

Lying down on my side or back.

Yeah I wish I had DNFed that book. It gave me 2 panic attacks where I thought someone had broken into my house.

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Haha, I also read it while ill and got very confused! It definitely contributed to some fever dreams too.

just read

It's pretty cold where I am, so my favorite position is on the floor with my back to the radiator. Or with kindle completely buried under a pile of blankets

I read my college textbooks aloud for better processing and concentration, but I never considered doing this for fiction. Thanks for the tip!

I trained in nursing and work as a nurse. Apparently that's wrong lol

I didn’t read the book, but enjoyed the miniseries enough to suggest maybe just skip the book and watch the adaptation?

> Memory also departs a bit from the structure of the first two books

No kidding. I was coming down with the flu and taking some meds when I read it, and I seriously thought I was hallucinating because of that structure. I kept wondering "Is it me or the book? WTF?"

it was a good breather from heavy and complex books, and it did generate emotions enough for me to sob at Harry (he was my favourite and I would die for him). the writing had me hooked and i think it plays out beautifully, but I felt it was really messy at times and was covered loosely.

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1. Everytime >!Celia and Evelyn break up!< , it is always something that could have been easily avoided by just talking to each other. People in relationships don't leave out major details like the fact that >!you're going to sleep with the man when you seduce him or just not ask your s/o if you can film a sex scene with your first love!<. It seems unrealistic because they don't even talk but >!just separate immediately and then no contact/pining for years!<. But TJR covers for it by painting Celia as an immature nepo baby who overreacts and Evelyn as a grey character who will do anything to make things go her own way. And it makes sense, so you accept it, but when I accept it, personally, the plot just becomes so generic and cliche and I ask myself, is it an interesting book, or is it just >!gay? Because I swear if you replace Evelyn and Celia with a straight couple, their relationship will just be the same old drama to read!<
2. This is more of an opinion, but I feel like there was no need to put in LGBTQIA or POC struggles so vague and directly? It felt as if those moments were for the sake of the fact that TJR suddenly remembered 'oh yeah this too' because there are only brief mentions about these topics. Don't get me wrong, I liked how she wrote them needing to hide and protect themselves etc - it was natural. But there was no need for a >!The past few years, I’d watched Harry lose friend after friend, former lovers, to AIDS. I’d watched him cry his eyes red out of fear that he’d get sick, for not knowing how to help the people he loved. And I’d watched Ronald Reagan never so much as acknowledge what was happening in front of our eyes!< because that was all there was about the crisis... It sounds so out of place and forced for Harry because sometimes it felt like he's only there as a puppet for this representation. Same is with her Cuban identity - her race seems to play no part in her struggle in Hollywood, but when she talks about changing herself to fit into the industry, it suddenly becomes a very emotional moment for her as if that was the main reason for her problems all along. Maybe because the author is white and straight themselves, they felt like they need to include these things, but have no idea about how these people actually feel, so they could not write them well. So yeah, it felt like it was there for woke points.

Apart from that, the book was pretty good! I think art's purpose is not to be great, but enjoyable, and it was enjoyable! Definitely a book written to be a movie/show.

I'm the same as you, except I did read Evelyn first and enjoyed it purely because of the old Hollywood content but wasn't inspired to read any more. Then Daisy was a happy surprise. Much better writing style.

It's just occurred to me that there are a lot of plot parallels with Daisy Jones & the Six>!, a tragic death to pull it all together and validate these shallow people!<

There were a lot of those "purple" marriages in Hollywood around that era. Rock Hudson was marched off to get married before a newspaper could do an expose on his love life. And even someone like Cary Grant apparently lived long term with another man - but I have no idea how he fitted that in seeing he was married so often.

That book isn't a book about the Golden State Killer, it's a book about Michelle McNamara writing about the GSK, who she was fascinated by and through whom she was on track to realize her lifelong dream of becoming a book author.

Ultimately, she did not succeed in either identifying the GSK (apparently his name was not in any of her notes, much less the actual manuscript) or in finishing her book, and the friends and family who pushed for it to be completed after her death succeeded in what amounts to a vanity project, imo.

It is interesting from the perspective of real crime solving, especially from the civilian angle. A lot of us feel like we could solve these cases if only given the right access, and she did succeed in getting a lot of access.

I loved 7 Husbands, but I did assume it was the content rather than the author's style - I love all those all Hollywood autobiographies, so I can tell you that there were a lot of authentic little details in Evelyn H's life! But I wasn't tempted to read another book by her.

Then someone gave me Daisy Jones & the Six and the writing style is so much better, plus it's another completely authentic world. So maybe I'll try another one of her books.

Clive Cussler novels.

I am proud of everything I read, but with these I do carry a bit of shame. They are so damn fun though. Switch off my brain and just roll with it kind of fun.