Mid-July Friday, What Are You Reading?

[dorothyinAus]

How's the winter going?  It's the end of the coldest week here in over 20 years -- and it has been COLD!  What are you reading curled up in front of the fire?

(No, I'm not in the wrong season. I'm in the Southern Hemisphere where it's the middle of winter.)

QOTW:  What was the most unusual item in your grocery basket this week (or the last time you went shopping)?

[charlatti]

I'm reading The Animals by Christian Kiefer. I really loved his first book, The Infinite Tides, so I'm hopeful about this one.

Our summer has been very un-summery. Constant rain, temps mostly in the 70s. Ugh. Real summer is my favorite and I love the heat, so this is miserable for me.

QOTW: I can't think of anything unusual. Maybe Epsom salts for a project with DD, but that's fairly normal.

[fatamy]

Reading: At the Water's Edge, but literally just started

Weirdest thing: My amazon basket currently has the Loch Ness Monster ladle thanks to P&CE! I'm obsessed with it - waiting for my amazon GCs to arrive to purchase.

Also, it's kind of fitting given the book I'm reading!

[sparrowsong]

Just about to finish Heresy by SJ Parris. It was ok. It's a mystery set in Tudor England. Mysteries aren't my favorite genre but I like historical fiction set in the time period so much I thought id give it a try.

Also rechecked out The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, an audio book that I didn't finish before it expired. So I just need to listen to the last few chapters.

Next up is Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. A recommendation I got from here.

[rainbowchip]

I'm still reading the Fiery Heart. I'm listening to Lover At Last.

It's gonna be really hot here this weekend. We had one cool day this week but it was humid and rainy. I don't mind the heat though. Better than snow!

Weirdest thing I bought last week was PB2. That's not very weird though.

[SpartanGirl]

I just finished Ready Player One this week which I really enjoyed.

I started Go Set a Watchman, but I'm having trouble getting into it.

[mrspez07]

Re-reading Fiery Cross. About to call it quits in Bad Feminist.


My son has been asking about snowy mountains and snowshoeing so maybe he's in a southern-hemisphere frame of mind!

[dorothyinAus]

I'm reading Vampires, Bones, and Treacle Scones. I'm enjoying it, but it's not really grabbing me the way others in the series have.

QOTW: Dehydrated Peas -- I was looking for peas to put in my ramen soup, and the freezer section of the grocery was off limits -- they had had a problem with the coolant and everything had thawed. So I had to find something else. I saw the dehydrated peas and thought, why not? They were going in a soup anyway. (Dehydrated peas are not the same as dried peas; they are like the peas in dry soup mixes and can cook in as little as 5 minutes.)

[msmerymac]

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows

QOTW: grout sealer?

[MrsAxilla]

lol dorothyinAus! I definitely did a double take at the date.

I'm reading My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayor's memoir. The beginning was great, but the middle is kind of dragging.

[IIOY]

About to start Suffer The Children.

QOTW: I don't buy terribly weird stuff, so...rice cakes?

[aurora]

I just finished Shutter Island, which was quick and interesting. I'm listening to Catching Fire (a re-"read").

Gosh, I'm not sure what is weird in my grocery cart. My purchases have been pretty boring lately.

[spedrunner]

I just finished Paper Towns, which I really did not enjoy

I started Jane Eyre and We are All Completely Besides Ourselves (both for book club, BOTH i really like so far)

Also reading Hostile Witness which is a nice easy read (so far)

QOTD
prob my unsweetened coconut yogurt which I returned bc it was too lumpy.... mmm

[itsme]

Finished The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon and now reading With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge.