I’m not going to spoil, but I am going to explain a smidge. I say that I should have read the marketing copy for Lore because maybe I’d have understood more and my expectations would have situated me to enjoy the experience more. While that’s sad, it’s also really exciting because I’m never going to run out of books to read, and the odds of enough of them being the right books for me feel good (it’s a feeling, and based on absolutely no data). I know, I need to focus more on that because I definitely lean towards “let’s read all the things,” but as Anne Bogel points out periodically, there are more books published in a given day than I can possibly read in a year (at least I think that’s the statistic, regardless, SO many books). The best part though, it was about how they determine if a book is for them or not before putting it on their TBR stack. In the spirit of The Lazy Genius, these sisters were talking about their summer reading plans and how they organize their TBR stacks. I also listened to The Lazy Sisters book episode today (yes, there’s a paywall, sorry, but also, Hannah and Kendra are worth it). (See also: Downton Abbey Movie #2 – I’m going to see it and all those that follow and it just doesn’t matter so long as the cast is there.) For me, Lore is one of those times when I should have had more expectations. Usually when I know I’m going to read a book, I don’t look for more information because I don’t want to spoil the experience. My littlest reader is currently reading The Battle of the Labyrinth). Melora, Lore’s full name, is my new favorite literary name, and I may or may not be looking for hunters (and hashashins for that matter) any time I leave the house (not that I expect any at the library, grocery store, or my office, but that’s not relevant), and wondering if they were hiding in the mist last week. Lore is a gorgeously written, creative story about a familiar pantheon that reinvents it in a really interesting way. I haven’t read Alexandra Bracken before but I am now interested, very interested, in her backlist. I knew my local librarians read and loved it, that it was everywhere, and had something to do with the Greek gods. I had NO idea what I was getting into with Lore by Alexandra Bracken. You don’t have to finish the book, or even start it, to join us, but you do have to be ok with spoilers!ĭear readers, sometimes no expectations is the perfect situation, and sometimes it’s not. If you’ve read, watched, or just want to discuss American Gods by Neil Gaiman, then sign up here and plan to join us THIS Friday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m. I’m only a third or so in, but it is off the wall, interesting, gorgeously written, fantastically creative, and bound to be great fodder for an amazing book club conversation. When we don’t, sometimes I wonder what in the crazy we’ve gotten ourselves into. Readers, sometimes we pick a known, loved book for book club, and other times we don’t.
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