What Are You Reading? Friday, Dec. 4

[dorothyinAus]

How is the last month of the opening, reading wise?

QOTW:  What is your least favorite holiday song -- that one you would be perfectly okay with never hearing again?

[Vespasia]

I'm reading Bird Box. It's good but after all the hype on ML it's not quite living up to expectations.

Almost done with the Audible version of Felicia Day's autobiography. I love it but I just don't have time to listen to audiobooks so it's taken forever to get through.


QOTW: All of them? I really don't like Christmas music.

[msmerymac]

Listening to American Gods. Reading Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.

Least favorite is Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney.

[charlatti]

I'm reading Alice by Christina Henry, which at least a couple of people here recommended, and it's really good.

QOTW: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus are both tremendously terrible.

[doxies]

Dec 4, 2015 10:20:45 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

I'm reading Bird Box. It's good but after all the hype on ML it's not quite living up to expectations.

I just started this.  I'll be sad if it doesn't live up to the hype although I don't really know what to expect.

I just finished Vanishing Girls, which I didn't love.  I think I knew the whole time what the "twist" was after having read We Were Liars and realizing that was a thing she does.  I liked it though.

I also just finished The Cuckoo's Calling and am mad at myself for not having read it earlier.  It was wonderful!  I am looking forward to reading the rest of the books.  

I have A Window Opens up next.

QOTW:  I hate Wonderful Christmas Time.  It is on all the time and it grates on my nerves.

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I just started Bird Box...but there is a sentence on THE VERY FIRST PAGE that's grammatically driving me crazy. I don't know if I can continue. Do you keep reading books with bad editing/grammar?

[charlatti]

Dec 4, 2015 19:46:25 GMT -5 @allezhop said:

I just started Bird Box...but there is a sentence on THE VERY FIRST PAGE that's grammatically driving me crazy. I don't know if I can continue. Do you keep reading books with bad editing/grammar?

I have a three strikes policy. If a book has three annoying things before I'm invested enough to not mind them, I stop reading.



(What's the sentence, out of curiosity? Never mind, I read the other post. Miso is correct -- it's a somewhat awkward sentence but the subject/verb agreement is correct. "The bottom ... is" -- prepositional phrases don't change whether the subject is plural or singular.)

[aurora]

Dec 4, 2015 10:20:45 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

I'm reading Bird Box. It's good but after all the hype on ML it's not quite living up to expectations...

Oh, hey, I've just started listening to this.

[aurora]

Reading: Interview with the Vampire (for the book challenge: book I started but never finished)

Listening to: Bird Box. So far I like it. But I am surely less likely to notice grammatical errors listening.

[BlackCanary]

Currently reading Doctor Sleep, I'm really enjoying it so far.

QOTW: Last Christmas. I HATE that song.

[dorothyinAus]

I'm reading Daisy McDare and the Deadly Directorial Affair. For a Kindle freebie, it's not terrible and it's light and fluffy which is what I was in the mood for. I'll probably finish the series, as they're pretty quick reads and so far I like the characters.

QOTW: I cannot stand The Twelve Days of Christmas, or any of the variations on that theme.

[mrspez07]

I'm reading Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley.
Pretty predictable and cheesy so far, but I've read a lot of dark stuff recently, so this was a good change of pace.

QOTW: mommy Kissing Santa Clause, blech!

[Deleted]

I'm reading Hamlet since I haven't read it since high school and a friend and I are going to see a broadcast of Benedict Cumberbatch perform it! (It's a recording of him doing it in London)

QOTW: Hate "It's Cold Outside."

[secretlyevil]

Blood Kiss, the first in the spin off series of BDB. I like it.

ETA: Butterfly kisses which isn't a Xmas song and yet it's played constantly during the holidays.

[hurricanedrunk]

Reading: The Girl in the Spider's Web and enjoying it so far. It is much the same style of the first 3 books despite a different author.

Listening: Winter Garden -its early but I think I will really line once the story gets going

QOTW - I'm not a huge Christmas music fan so I'm going with all of them.

[Nonny]

I am also reading Bird Box - I'm about 25% of the way through it, and it's definitely interesting and creeping me out, but I'm not reading it as ravenously as some of the people on ML were when they got it.  That might also be because I'm reading too many things at once right now...

In Cold Blood - my first experience with Truman Capote; I'm enjoying it because the writing it good and the story is interesting, but OMG, that poor family.

Death of a Red Heroine - this is alternating between boring as hell and super interesting, I keep putting it down to read other things.

Zombocalypse Now - a choose your own adventure book for grown ups, wherein you are a pink stuffed bunny trying to fight and survive a zombie apocalypse.  It's hilarious, and I've worked my way through maybe 25 of the 100+ possible endings.  So far I haven't hit any of the 7 where you live, but I did find a path where instead of dying immediately I turned and got to make some choices as a zombie.