Ben Saufley - Reading

Books I've Rated 3 / 5

Ratings Breakdown

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1.5

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2.5

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4.5

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How to Write Best-Selling Fiction

by James Scott Bell

Finished 2021-12-28
The Emotional Craft of FictionHow to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

by Donald Maass

Finished 2021-12-19
Shards of Earth

by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Sophie Aldred

Finished 2021-12-14
Too Like the Lightning

by Ada Palmer

Finished 2021-10-28
The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

Finished 2021-09-12

I really liked Station Eleven . This one, I found interesting, but I’m not sure I got it. I feel like I might be too dumb to understand the subtext or the … point? of the story. Or even why it’s named The Glass Hotel .
The Empress of Salt and Fortune

by Nghi Vo

Finished 2021-08-06
The Memory of Souls

by Jenn Lyons

Finished 2021-07-30
Caught

by Harlan Coben

Finished 2021-01-23
Daisy's Run (The Clockwork Chimera #1)

by Scott Baron

Finished 2020-10-15

It was fine. My biggest annoyance is that about half the book is spent running from the obvious truth that the protagonist is misjudging the situation and she absolutely refuses to consider the possibility. That might be a spoiler I guess but it’s so, so obvious the whole time. I feel like it’s written that way intentionally. But then… it’s just annoying.
Axiom's End

by Lindsay Ellis

Finished 2020-08-13
Snowflakes

by Ruth Ware

Finished 2020-08-11
Please See Us

by Caitlin Mullen

Finished 2020-07-09
The Flight Attendant

by Chris Bohjalian

Finished 2020-06-04
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe

by Alex White

Finished 2020-05-30

I would expect that I’d have enjoyed this more than I did. It was fun enough and relatively novel, magic and sci-fi in an interesting blend, but I found myself regularly losing interest.

The audiobook is frustrating because at least one character is clearly written as British (or whatever fantasy world equates to British here), with obvious Britishism regularly injected into the dialog—at one point they even pointedly express confusion about “the can” before realizing it means “the loo”—and yet the reader read every character with the same bland and indistinguishable American accent. For such a dynamic and colorful world, the reading was pretty blah. It may have contributed to my disinterest. It wasn’t outright BAD reading but it wasn’t very good either and ignoring obvious speech pattern cues is annoying.
Children of Ruin

by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mel Hudson

Finished 2020-04-20

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Books I've Rated 3 / 5

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#frontCover { fill: currentColor; } #spine { fill: color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 45%, #000 55%); } #backCover { fill: color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 78%, #000 22%); } The Empress of Salt and Fortune

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#frontCover { fill: currentColor; } #spine { fill: color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 45%, #000 55%); } #backCover { fill: color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 78%, #000 22%); } Daisy's Run (The Clockwork Chimera #1)

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Snowflakes

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How to Write Best-Selling Fiction

The Emotional Craft of FictionHow to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

Shards of Earth

Too Like the Lightning

The Glass Hotel

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

The Memory of Souls

Caught

Daisy's Run (The Clockwork Chimera #1)

Axiom's End

Please See Us

The Flight Attendant

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe

Children of Ruin