It's book club selection day! Yippee!! It's time for another batch of books to read together! We have another round of voting completed and we have another batch of great books to read together. The book for October 2024 is All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker. Feel free to read our book club books in any order that you choose and when you've finished reading, come back here and tell us what you think. Please label spoilers. We have a new trick for hiding spoilers. Type whatever you want and then highlight the spoiler portion and click the + button above and select Spoiler. If that doesn't work (seems to be funky on Macs) just highlight your text and change the color to white >>>This is a super secret spoiler alert!<<< like I did right there. Spoiler I loved the last book by this author, so I'm excited about this selection! Just a note, anyone is welcome to join in with our book club reading at any time and join in the discussion! The more the merrier! Happy reading!
Wow! I just finished this a couple days ago. I'm still trying to collect my thoughts on this one. It was long, but without dragging on. The chapters were short and easy to get sucked into. I loved the connection between Saint and Patch so much. I loved how Saint never gave up on Patch even when everyone else told her to just give up and accept that he was gone. There were also so many other great characters in this book. I really loved Charlotte's sassy behavior and she made me laugh out loud a couple times. There were a LOT of names of the girls. I wish I'd jotted them down as I went along because after brief mentions, you wouldn't hear their name again until MUCH later and I'm old and can't remember that many details over the course of few weeks! I did start this one as an audiobook at the beginning of September while I was working on a painting, then when I finished the painting, I finished another book first and then finished reading this one. The time break between didn't do me any favors and I did have to flip back to remember some of the details. But I really did enjoy this book a lot. I almost want to go back and read the whole thing again now that I know the ending. SPOILERS: Spoiler Did you think Grace was real? I almost always did think she was real, but then when Patch found her at the end, I didn't like it. I didn't understand why she never left her Dad if she knew what awful things he was doing. I didn't like that she stayed with him that whole time, but I guess I've never been in that position to understand what that would be like. That's part of why I want to reread from the beginning again. It was a total shocker (and weird to me) that they revealed at the end that Saint didn't get an abortion and had given her baby up for adoption. How did that even happen without anybody knowing? I mean... where did she go for many months to hide that she was pregnant without anyone seeing? That was weird. I didn't love that Patch shot Eli Aaron at the end either... I didn't want him to get off that easily. I wanted him in jail on death row! I loved that Patch escaped from jail because I was just so sure he was going to die in there after finally finding out the name of the town where Grace was from.
I read this maybe a month ago and had mixed feelings. I loved the beginning but thought the later parts of the book dragged - especially Patch searching.
Yeah, it did drag on a bit while he was searching... but I guess that drag was how it probably was for all of them, so I guess it felt authentic to me? Although, I must say I was painting while listening to the middle part, so I was doing something else and didn't mind the drag?
I was looking for something to read, this looks like something I might like. I'll be back once I've finished it.
I just finished this book, and WOW ... I loved it. So beautiful and dark at the same time. Slow pace, interesting characters, and twists and turns. I literally finished it 10 minutes ago, and I will miss Saint, Patch and all the others so much. When I love a book this much, I always end up missing the characters so much. I think Sammy was my favorite. There were a few surprises along the way, and I will have to read this book again. I borrowed it at the library, but I will have to buy my own copy. I want to high light some parts. There were some truly beautiful gems (quotes) in this. Also: I need to read his other books. They have to be good too! This is the kind of book that makes me realize I don't have what it takes to be an author!
Yay! I'm so glad you loved it! I did too. My book club is reading this one for next month, so I think I'm going to re-read it because I already can't remember much of the detail, but I do remember loving Saint and Patch and their friendship. I have read one of his other books and really enjoyed that one too.
