Early March reading (March 4)

[aurora]

What are you reading? Is it fabulous?


QOTW: if you could change the ending of any book you've read, what book and how would you change it?

(I'm really proud of myself for thinking of this one so if we've already done it please don't burst my bubble. )

[aurora]

I am finally making some reading progress!

Re-reading Robert Jordan's New Spring: The novel
Listening to Stephen King's The Shining but I have only 9 min left and I'm ready to jump into Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me this afternoon.

Enjoying both.


QOTW: the first one that comes to mind is Stephen King's Under the Dome. It was such a cop-out. But I want to think further about this...

[kiminky]

Just started A Light Between Oceans because I had seen so many recommendations for it on here. I'm having trouble getting into it, the beginning is pretty slow.

[rootbeerfloat]

I'm reading How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Witt. It's pretty interesting so far.

QOTW: There are lots of books in which the ending ruined it for me. I usually don't like ambiguous endings, so The Giver or Eleanor and Park are two I would change.

[hurricanedrunk]

Just finished Scarlet by Marissa Meyer. It was okay, the first book in the series was much better. Will start Hopeless by Colleen Hoover tonight.

Listening to Golden Son by Pierce Brown and I am loving it so far. I want to drive around in my car all day to see what happens!

[Nonny]

I'm reading Orphan #8 and Bucking the Sarge, but I'm not far enough into either of them to have formed a complete opinion yet.

QOTW: Under the Dome for sure -- I would have been happier with an ambiguous ending than the stupidity that was the actual ending.

I'd also like to have the entire 3rd book of the Divergent series be re-written. 

 

[Nonny]

Mar 4, 2016 14:18:08 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

QOTW: There are lots of books in which the ending ruined it for me. I usually don't like ambiguous endings, so The Giver or Eleanor and Park are two I would change.

Have you read the sequels to The Giver? Especially the most recent one (I think it's called Son), because that helps to clear up a lot of the ambiguity in the ending.

[charlatti]

I just started Be Frank with Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson. I think I will like it but it's too soon to tell.

I'm stuck on the QOTW. I'll come back when I think of something.

[dorothyinAus]

I'm reading Murder on the Mauritania. It's a re-read, but I haven't read it since 2002 and I am surprised at how little of the actual story I remember. I cannot remember who the murderer is, but I do remember the supporting characters that I really enjoyed.

QOTW: Honestly, the books that I have read that I really want to change the ending are non-fiction and changing those endings would mean going back in time and changing history. But for fiction, and DH says I'm missing the point when I say this, it would have to be 1984. I would put some happy in that ending, and some hope in the book.

[rootbeerfloat]

Mar 4, 2016 15:36:22 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Mar 4, 2016 14:18:08 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

QOTW: There are lots of books in which the ending ruined it for me. I usually don't like ambiguous endings, so The Giver or Eleanor and Park are two I would change.

Have you read the sequels to The Giver? Especially the most recent one (I think it's called Son), because that helps to clear up a lot of the ambiguity in the ending.

No, but that's good to know

[aurora]

Mar 4, 2016 15:57:59 GMT -5 dorothyinAus said:

I'm reading Murder on the Mauritania. It's a re-read, but I haven't read it since 2002 and I am surprised at how little of the actual story I remember. I cannot remember who the murderer is, but I do remember the supporting characters that I really enjoyed.

QOTW: Honestly, the books that I have read that I really want to change the ending are non-fiction and changing those endings would mean going back in time and changing history. But for fiction, and DH says I'm missing the point when I say this, it would have to be 1984. I would put some happy in that ending, and some hope in the book.

This has happened to me before. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one! Case in point: I don't precisely remember the end of 1984, either, although I remember it being depressing.

[frog]

Mar 4, 2016 16:44:08 GMT -5 aurora said:

Mar 4, 2016 15:57:59 GMT -5 dorothyinAus said:

I'm reading Murder on the Mauritania. It's a re-read, but I haven't read it since 2002 and I am surprised at how little of the actual story I remember. I cannot remember who the murderer is, but I do remember the supporting characters that I really enjoyed.

QOTW: Honestly, the books that I have read that I really want to change the ending are non-fiction and changing those endings would mean going back in time and changing history. But for fiction, and DH says I'm missing the point when I say this, it would have to be 1984. I would put some happy in that ending, and some hope in the book.

This has happened to me before. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one! Case in point: I don't precisely remember the end of 1984, either, although I remember it being depressing.

I believe "He loved Big Brother" is the last line of the book. It's a haunting end.

I've read about 4 pages of The Raven Boys. I have no idea why, it's not something I'd normally pick up.

I'm not sure about QOTW, I'll have to think on it.

[spedrunner]

I JUST finished The Interestings, which I really enjoyed. Very different from the suspense and drama i am typically drawn towards. This was a flat read BUT good

I am currently reading

Number the Stars
Wonder
Winn Dixie
(I am a 3rd grade teacher its for school BUT also for me)

i am started I AM Malala next 


QOTD:  none! I kind of enjoy reading books for what they are. I have to be creative enough, so I enjoy leaving the endings up to thte authors and do not think much about different endings.......sometimes I feel a bit disappointed and want MORE but, hey!

[mrspez07]

I'm still reading Shadowy Horses. Good so far.

Also reading a quilt book I just got. Just geeking out on the how-to.

Nothing is coming to mind on the QOTW.

[Wallflower]

I'm about 1/3 of the way through "All the Light You Cannot See" and it's OK. I can't help feeling a low-level but constant dread about what will happen, and that's impairing my enjoyment some. I had to stop reading last night because I'm just certain that something bad is about to happen to two different characters that I like.

As for the QOTW, I'll have to look up the book, but the first time I really remember being upset about an ending, I was probably 16 or so. It was one of Madeleine L'Engle's books (maybe Arm of the Starfish?) and there was a character I had a crush on. He died at the end of the book and I remember being so upset (as only a teenage girl with a crush can be). I would have changed that ending in an instant.

[itsme]

I'm reading In Cold Blood and listening to Lawless.

In Cold Blood is good but I haven't really sat down to get into it. I usually read while I'm in bed and I always fall asleep a few pages in.

Lawless is pretty good but I'm having trouble paying attention. Not sure if it's the readers voice but I think that's th problem. His voice isn't catching me. I listened to another book before this which wasn't nearly as good but it kept my attention because whoever read it had a voice that didn't make me want to snooze.

[badtzmaru22]

The Fiery Cross (Outlander book 5). I can't put these down, even when they are slow at times.

I don't know if changing the ending would help, but I didn't like the last Hunger Games book.

[BlackCanary]

The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

QOTW: Where the Red Fern Grows. They win, they go home, and they live happily ever after. The end. That's it. End of story.

Also, I want a follow up to the end of A Tree Grows in Brookyln. Is she a writer? What about Ben?

[NewOrleans]

I just read Salt to the Sea by Ruta Setepys. It was beautiful.  

[aurora]

Mar 7, 2016 9:08:13 GMT -5 Wallflower said:

I'm about 1/3 of the way through "All the Light You Cannot See" and it's OK. I can't help feeling a low-level but constant dread about what will happen, and that's impairing my enjoyment some. I had to stop reading last night because I'm just certain that something bad is about to happen to two different characters that I like.

As for the QOTW, I'll have to look up the book, but the first time I really remember being upset about an ending, I was probably 16 or so. It was one of Madeleine L'Engle's books (maybe Arm of the Starfish?) and there was a character I had a crush on. He died at the end of the book and I remember being so upset (as only a teenage girl with a crush can be). I would have changed that ending in an instant.

Oh, I read that one. Well, I can't remember which book it was, but I remember being pretty devastated about the awesome guy dying. I read a lot of Madeline L'Engle growing up.

[aurora]

Mar 7, 2016 17:10:01 GMT -5 BlackCanary said:

The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

QOTW: Where the Red Fern Grows. They win, they go home, and they live happily ever after. The end. That's it. End of story.

Also, I want a follow up to the end of A Tree Grows in Brookyln. Is she a writer? What about Ben?

Gah! Even thinking about that book brings tears to my eyes. Little Ann and Old Dan!

[gibbinator]

I recently discovered Heather Graham. I think I've read 5 of her crime/paranormal mystery novels already in the past few weeks. Really excellent writing. I particularly enjoyed "Dead on the Dance Floor".

QOTW: I'll second under the dome. Worst ending ever. Completely out of left field. Just about any other resolution would have been better.