Books read in February 2019

[nou]

As previously, by default I’m just stating whether I’d recommend the book (yes/maybe/no), whether I decided not to finish it (DNF), whether it’s a re-read, and whether I can remember there being any content that needs to be warned for (cw).

I’m wondering though whether it would be better (as in, more interesting to those of you reading this, and more likely to inspire comments) if I stopped doing the content warnings and instead wrote a sentence or two about what I thought about the book. (I don’t have the energy to do both.) What do you think?

Poll #21488

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 31

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I think...

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Yes — write opinions instead of content warnings
13 (41.9%)

No — stick with the content warnings
9 (29.0%)

I have a more complicated opinion which I will state in a comment
1 (3.2%)

I have no opinion that I wish to express on this matter
3 (9.7%)

Hello Kake!
21 (67.7%)

I like ticking boxes
18 (58.1%)

I hate ticking boxes
1 (3.2%)

I'm going to tell you to do whatever you want even though you're asking in order to gather data and a response such as this adds no useful data
8 (25.8%)

Definitely recommend:

• Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower (cw: suicide, murder)

Maybe recommend:

• Once Upon A River, Diane Setterfield (DNF) (cw: suicide)
• The Breath Of The Sun, Rachel Fellman (cw: miscarriage, descriptions of dead bodies, reanimated dead bodies)
• The Rig, Roger Levy (DNF)
• The Overstory, Richard Powers (DNF) (cw: domestic violence)
• Shades Of Grey, Jasper fforde
• Murder At The Vicarage, The Body In The Library, The Moving Finger, A Murder Is Announced, They Do It With Mirrors, A Pocket Full Of Rye, 4:50 From Paddington, A Caribbean Mystery, At Bertram’s Hotel (all re-reads) (cw: racism, classism, ablism, homophobia, fatphobia, murder)
• The Edge, Dick Francis (cw: suicide, animal death/mutilation, violence)
• To The Hilt, Dick Francis (cw: violence, kink-shaming)

Wouldn’t recommend:

• The Synapse Sequence, Daniel Godfrey (DNF) (cw: vomiting)
• Origamy, Rachel Armstrong (DNF)
• Icefall, Stephanie Gunn (DNF)
• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (cw: “really intense fatphobia that the author definitely agrees with”, child death, murder, violence, torture, rape, suicide)
• Concrete Faery, Elizabeth Priest (cw: cultural appropriation, dubious consent)

Comments

[fluffymormegil]

Under the stated metric of betterness, and my own tastes, opinions seem clearly superior to me.

Admittedly, I have the good fortune to not be a person who feels the need for content warnings.