November 2022 Book Club - Remarkably Bright Creatures

I just got this audiobook from my library! Can't wait to start in the next few days!

 

This one was SOOO good! I think it might make my top ten of the year!

Spoiler: Simple Review

What a delight! Feel good fiction, hopeful with a sense of humor, flawed characters who come together in the ways they should. I really enjoyed this story. I would have loved more of Marcellus, the octopus's, point of view. Love, love, love!

 

I'm intrigued by octopuses. I'm 27th in line for the book at my library!

 

I got the book on Monday and just finished it around 7 a.m. today! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spoiler: spoiler

I found Cameron a little annoying, especially at first, and at the end I felt like his change of heart was too sudden and not explained. But I loved all the other characters. My favorite of course, was Marcellus.

I love that the octopus had his own chapters.

 

I loved this book. I did the audiobook checked out on Libby. I finished it in 4 days and then I did something I've never done before - started from the beginning and listened to the whole thing over again. I just wasn't ready to let go.

 

silly me I just had to look up how to do the spoilers

Spoiler: my spoilers

I thought the story was really well planned out, how they tied things from the past to the present. Like when Avery first takes Cameron out on the water and she tells him that she stopped a woman from killing herself at this spot. Then later meets up with Tova there and tells the story but adds in details like the woman looked strung out, kept talking about the big boom. Then Tova puts it together that if they were drinking on the boat and he got struck by the boom that is what pushed him over.

Another thing - she meets the man at the restaurant who wasn't a close friend of her son and never interviewed by police but he tells her that her son had a girlfriend and she keeps repeating over and over in her mind "there was a girl" I was right there with her! I would have been doing this too.

One thing that didn't make sense to me, the part about Daphne leaving California as a teen and going to the pacific NW. She gets there and enrolls in high school? Who was she living with? That part could have been better developed and I also thought aunt June knew more about Camerons dad than she was telling him. Like when he tells her he thinks its the real estate guy and June is telling him flat out no.

I was laughing out loud at the visual of Tova rolling Marcellus down to the water in that bucket. What a great ending!

 

Finally read this and loved it!!

 

I didn't know this was a TLP book club book! I read it last month and I totally agree... definitely a 5 star read from me. And like you, @Karen, I didn't want it to end. Just a beautiful book!

 

I read this one a couple months ago -- probably because the group picked it and I absolutely loved it. I've already recommended it to several people. It is just so unique and the story is beautiful.

 

I finished this one yesterday and I loved it. I love recommendations because sometimes I find really amazing books I would not have read otherwise.

 

I don't know how long this was on hold for me, but I finally got it and read it. I will say as it started, I was of thinking -- really? what is all the hype about this book? There was no connection obvious between these characters and they all seemed a bit sad . . . but, fortunately, I stuck with it.

Spoiler: good read

It wasn't too long before I became totally swept up by Marcellus, then you begin to see where the story is headed. I will say, that in some ways the characters stay a bit sad until the end. I don't know about you, but I found myself shedding tears just about every time Marcellus talked about his imminent doom. Needless to say, this was my favorite character in the story. I loved how Tova helped him have a happy end.

but, of my TLP book club reads, Lesson in Chemistry is standing out as my number 1.

 

This book has turned up on the reading list for three different book clubs of mine so I finally got the chance to read it. I totally loved it! I talked on the phone with my daughter today and told her that she needs to read it as well!