What Are You Reading Today? 2/5

[dorothyinAus]

Are you enjoying it?  Would you recommend it to your best friend?

Q(uote)OTW:  What's the first full sentence on the page (of your current book) you are reading right now?  If you're listening to an audiobook, what's the last full sentence of the last part you heard?

[dorothyinAus]

I'm reading The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma. It's good so far, but I'm just getting into the book. I would recommend it to my best friend, but she'd wonder why as she recommended the series to me.

QOTW: Suddenly Milligan's voice rang out.

[charlatti]

I'm reading The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie. It seems good but I'm not far enough to recommend it to anyone yet.

QOTW: "But they would never allow that."

[frog]

Reading - My Antonia. I realized I'd never read it, so far I'm enjoying it. I'm listening to Fool Moon, one of the Dresden Files. Meh.

[spedrunner]

I am reading
After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid

I also started " the longest ride" by nicholas sparks and will be abandoning it. Just not into it 


I read another book of her last week and really enjoyed it, so YES I would recommend it to a friend although I am not that far in......but to the right friend that is lookign for an easy breezy read

[aurora]

I'm still listening to Grisham's Grey Mountain and enjoying it for the type of book it is.

I have been trying to start a more serious book but apparently don't have the concentration ability for it, so I was pleased when I got the library notice that Throne of Glass was available for my Kindle. I'll be starting that tonight. I think it was MrsAxilla who recommended it here?

First sentence: "After a year of slavery in the salt mines of Endovier, Celaena Sardothien was accustomed to being escorted everywhere in shackles and at sword-point."

[rootbeerfloat]

I'm reading The Heir, which is the fourth book in The Selection series. I'm annoyed by the premise and pretty much all of the characters so far, though I liked the previous books well enough (for being juvenile dystopian romance lol). I wouldn't recommend to my BFF, but maybe to her tween daughters.

QOTW: The next morning, I skipped breakfast with my family so I could compose myself.

[Wallflower]

I'm reading "Every Secret Thing" (Susanna Kearsley) and while it's good, it's one of her earliest and I will probably not recommend it to my friends. I have one particular friend who is also an avid Kearsley fan and I'll specifically tell her not to bother.

But, here's the first sentence ... "I've been told, by people more experienced at writing, that the hardest part of telling any story is the search for its beginning, and its end."

[Wallflower]

Feb 5, 2016 9:02:53 GMT -5 frog said:

Reading - My Antonia. I realized I'd never read it, so far I'm enjoying it. I'm listening to Fool Moon, one of the Dresden Files. Meh.

I'm a Willa Cather fan, though My Antonia was never one of my favorites. Overall, I think Death Comes for the Archbishop is a much better book.  But my favorite is O Pioneers ... I love the main character in that book. 

[frog]

Feb 5, 2016 14:16:24 GMT -5 Wallflower said:

Feb 5, 2016 9:02:53 GMT -5 frog said:

Reading - My Antonia. I realized I'd never read it, so far I'm enjoying it. I'm listening to Fool Moon, one of the Dresden Files. Meh.

I'm a Willa Cather fan, though My Antonia was never one of my favorites. Overall, I think Death Comes for the Archbishop is a much better book.  But my favorite is O Pioneers ... I love the main character in that book. 

I'll have to check that out. I'm liking the writing style a lot.

[Wallflower]

Feb 5, 2016 14:30:26 GMT -5 frog said:

Feb 5, 2016 14:16:24 GMT -5 Wallflower said:

I'm a Willa Cather fan, though My Antonia was never one of my favorites. Overall, I think Death Comes for the Archbishop is a much better book.  But my favorite is O Pioneers ... I love the main character in that book. 

I'll have to check that out. I'm liking the writing style a lot.

I read My Antonia in high school, where they liked to emphasize female writers when they could. I think I expected a female writer to create a strong female lead.  The way I remember it, though, the whole book is about a boy's perception of the female character; it really isn't about Antonia at all and that bugged me.  O Pioneers, however, is all about the strong female character. 

[AJL]

Reading Written in My Own Heart's Blood.

QOTW: "Jaime shoved through the brush, heedless of the ripping brambles and slapping branches."

[marigoldgirl]

I finished The Girl in the Spider's Web yesterday. I loved this series. I haven't picked a new book yet.

[mrspez07]

The Rosie Project. I'm reading it for book club and its overdue by nearly a week because I couldn't renew because of holds. I would recommend it to a friend, so far. I've laughed out loud a few times.

First sentence of current page: maybe a spoiler!!!!!



Based on the Bianca Disaster I revised the questionnaire, adding more stringent criteria.

[whitemerlot]

I'm reading The Good Girl and am enjoying it.

Sentence: Instead I tell her what I know about Dalmar.

[Nonny]

I finally finished The Pillars of the Earth! I've since moved on to Fudging the Books (cozy mystery), and Chocolat.

QOTW: The weather turned cold again last night. -Chocolat

[Wanderista]

Hi, I haven't posted on this subsection of GBCN before but I was given a Kindle Paperwhite for my birthday not long ago and I've been burning the midnight oil with it frequently ever since.  One of my new year's resolutions was to get into reading more again like I used to love so much when I was younger. So far, I have made good on this and I'm loving to read again. 

Err, today I just finished a guilty pleasure read but it was very enjoyable. I read Unequal Affections by Lara Ormiston. Being snowed in recently had the effect of unleashing my inner English romanticist and the genie won't seem to go back into the bottle. I've been debating whether to see Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which brought to the fore memories of my old love of the original Austen work. Unequal Affections was pretty good and I'd enjoy a sequel if Ormiston decides to go there. She does need to discover synonyms for "felicity" though, way too much felicity going on there.

Eh, I would recommend the book to someone who enjoys Jane Austen. I've decidedly avoided the Austen follow up genre before but this one is decent. I wanted something light and pleasing, this did the trick.

QOTW: Err, since I just finished it, I'll end with a quote I'd recently read from near the last page. "Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes." Yeah, that pretty much sums up this book.