It's Friday, What are You Reading? (April 24)

[dorothyinAus]

Is it an easy, fast-moving read, something you'd stay up late to finish?

QOTW:  It's a gorgeous afternoon and you are at the park, do you take a turn on the swings, see-saw, or merry-go-round?

[spedrunner]

TGIF!!

Currently reading

Dragonfly in Amber (I like it but its a bit slow)

My Sisters Keeper (love love love it!)

QOTD:  Hands down SWINGS!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Emerald1486]

STILL on Breath of Snow and Ashes. I'm taking a break from the book for a bit. I'm redoing my office at the moment.

QotD: SWINGS! My sis and I take DS to a playground near our parents house. While he runs around the playground, we are usually on the swings

[msmerymac]

I just started The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit. It's good, but the intro is first person plural. Which is great for intros. But apparently the whole book is like that, as a way to tell of the collective experience of the women at Los Alamos in the 1940s. I don't really want the collective experience, I'd prefer research into individual stories, but okay. It's not too long, so we'll see how I like it.

I'm also going to try to read the Wastelands by Stephen King before the end of the month, but that might not be realistic.

[Yankees21]

I'm finally hopping on the Outlander train; I'm maybe 40% through the first one. Also reading In Cold Blood.

Swings! I still love to go on the swings, lol.

[charlatti]

On Immunity by Eula Biss, which is essays, not at all fast paced but very interesting, and re-reading Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde, which is a lot of fun.

QOTW: Swings, definitely.

[hopecounts]

Finishing up HP and The Goblet of Fire for Monday

QOTW: swings

[rootbeerfloat]

I re-read HP and the Goblet of Fire this week.

Swings!

[MrsAxilla]

I'm back to Gone with the Wind (I had to take a break for my book club, which you'll all be happy to know I DID finish in time! I was the only one - lol.). It's taken probably four weeks to read, but I do feel like it went pretty fast. I could easily read fifty or sixty pages during my little reading breaks, it's just a long book and I don't get enough breaks!

QOTD: swings! I don't even know of a park with a merry go round

[Nonny]

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

It's very good, and the descriptions are phenomenal, but it's not a fast paced read that I just can't put down (although I do find myself reading quite a bit because the sub-chapters are pretty short, so I justify "just one more" several times before I put it down. 

QOTW:  Swings for sure.  I've hated the tailbone jarring thump of a see-saw ever since I broke 100 lbs, and I've always hated playground motion-sick-o-whirls.

[marigoldgirl]

I am still reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I am really liking it but with the warmer weather I have less time to read as my yard work has multiplied.

QOTW: Swings! I still love to swing.

[SpartanGirl]

I just started Live From New York last night. It's a quick read so far. I'm stalled on The Solitude of Prime Numbers. It's good, but I needed something a little less dark this week.

QOTW: Definitely the merry go round!

[mrspez07]

I am all over the place this week, magazines, trashy novel, non fiction. Nothing is really striking me.

Swings, don't make me dizzy and don't need a partner.

[AJL]

I started and finished All the Bright Places last night. It's a YA novel that's been compared to the Fault in Our Stars and Eleanor and Park. I cried like crazy, so there's that.

I'm reading The Fiery Cross right now and OMG it's taking FOREVER (but I love it.)

QOTW - The swings.

[dorothyinAus]

I'm reading An Old Betrayal by Charles Finch, I'm enjoying it but it's taking a while to get the story moving.


QOTW: I'll always have a try on the swings and the merry-go-round, and if I can talk someone else into it, I'll play on the see-saw as well. I'm really just a big kid anyway. Before they replaced all the slides with the super-safe ones I'd have a go down the slide too, if no-one was looking.

[ally]

Reading Loss of Innocence, Richard North Patterson.  I have already read a book in the series, I expect to like it.  It won't keep me up late reading!

QOTW: I would be found on the swings!

[BlackCanary]

Just finished Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. About to start Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore.

QOTW: The swings!

[sparrowsong]

The Bones of Barbary Coast - Cree Black mystery #3

I don't like it as much as the first two but it's ok. It's about an unusual skeleton found in San Fran, and whether or not werewolves exist.

[itsme]

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - I like it. It's taking me forever to get through because I usually read in bed and I keep falling asleep.

QOTW: Merry go round. They don't have those at parks here anymore.

[aurora]

I'm almost done with Pillars of the Earth. Regardless of how much I like a book I am incapable of staying up late to read/finish - I just fall asleep holding the book with the light on and then my H comes in and laughs at me.

I'm also listening to A Memory of Light on audiobook. So many of the pronunciations are different than what I had expected when I read the book on paper. But, I've decided I really like listening to an audiobook that I've already read - if I miss something I don't have to go back and find it.

QOTW: like almost everyone else, swings

[apelila]

I'm reading Inferno by Dan Brown. I like it but sometimes I feel stupid with all the Italian phrases (the ones not translated) and the art/historical references. I just have to take Langdon's word for it, I guess.

QOTW: If it's an honest to goodness merry-go-round (and not the sick-o-whirl like someone else called it, LOL), I'm all over that. Otherwise, I'll take the swings.

[charlatti]

Apr 27, 2015 21:54:50 GMT -5 apelila said:

QOTW: If it's an honest to goodness merry-go-round (and not the sick-o-whirl like someone else called it, LOL), I'm all over that. Otherwise, I'll take the swings.

Wait, which is which?

[apelila]

Apr 29, 2015 12:03:31 GMT -5 charlatti said:

Apr 27, 2015 21:54:50 GMT -5 apelila said:

QOTW: If it's an honest to goodness merry-go-round (and not the sick-o-whirl like someone else called it, LOL), I'm all over that. Otherwise, I'll take the swings.

Wait, which is which?

The merry go round is the one with horses and all, like at Disney. The sick-o-whirl is the one with just the handles that spins as fast as someone can push it. At least in my experience!

[dorothyinAus]

Apr 29, 2015 23:17:34 GMT -5 apelila said:

Apr 29, 2015 12:03:31 GMT -5 charlatti said:

Wait, which is which?

The merry go round is the one with horses and all, like at Disney. The sick-o-whirl is the one with just the handles that spins as fast as someone can push it. At least in my experience!

I was thinking the self-pushed spinning thing at the park as a merry-go-round, because I think of the ones with horses as either carousels or "flying horses."  But either way, I'll take a turn.

[Emerald1486]

Apr 30, 2015 3:09:47 GMT -5 dorothyinAus said:

Apr 29, 2015 23:17:34 GMT -5 apelila said:

The merry go round is the one with horses and all, like at Disney. The sick-o-whirl is the one with just the handles that spins as fast as someone can push it. At least in my experience!

I was thinking the self-pushed spinning thing at the park as a merry-go-round, because I think of the ones with horses as either carousels or "flying horses."  But either way, I'll take a turn.

I saw the self pushed spinning one as the merry go round, and the one with the horses as a carousel. 

[apelila]

Apr 30, 2015 14:43:34 GMT -5 Emerald1486 said:

Apr 30, 2015 3:09:47 GMT -5 dorothyinAus said:

I was thinking the self-pushed spinning thing at the park as a merry-go-round, because I think of the ones with horses as either carousels or "flying horses."  But either way, I'll take a turn.

I saw the self pushed spinning one as the merry go round, and the one with the horses as a carousel. 

Okay, I can see that. Those terms have always been synonymous for me!