Friday Again, What Are You Reading? (4/15)

[labellabarv]

On audiobook I'm listening to The Evolution of Mara Dyer, so far so good. 
On digital I'm reading A Study in Charlotte, which is supposed to be a take on sherlock homes (his modern relative), I like it so far but I'm not very far in but the concept is intriguing to me.
Print I started  The Girl on the Train- I haven't gotten far and tbh this is the hardest form for me to pick up when I don't have a lot of time so it's been put off.

 QOTW: I don't make notes in books ever, but if something is noteworthy I will make a note on Goodreads.

[spedrunner]

Apr 15, 2016 2:32:51 GMT -5 dorothyinAus said:

Are you enjoying it?  Do you find it easy to put down when the buzzer for dinner or the cake dings?

QOTW:  Do you write notes in the margins of your books?  Do you keep a journal of thoughts while reading? (making notes on a e-reader counts)

I just finished The Forgetting Time. It was ok. I would have gladly put it down to get dinner

Currently reading into the darkest corner which I love so much! I was up way too late last night reading

And listening to the ocean at the end of the lane which I am enjoying so far

Qotd. I do not make notes in the books ,yet I teach my students to do so (lol). I do log my books and do reviews on goodreads and am in a few book clubs bc I love discussions

[dorothyinAus]

I'm about half-way through Murder on the Celtic, the last of Conrad Allen's George Porter Dillman & Genevieve Masefield mysteries set on classic ocean liners. I've really been enjoying re-discovering the series, and I am surprised at how little I remember of the books. This one features Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as a passenger, which is interesting. I'm going to be a bit sad when I finish the series. But I have a box of 14 new books to keep my interest.

QOTW: No, I do not write in books. I'm envious of people who journal about their books, because I want to be able to, but I don't know what I to say or write.

[marigoldgirl]

Apr 15, 2016 8:28:40 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

Apr 15, 2016 8:13:35 GMT -5 marigoldgirl said:

I just finished Me Before You. I loved it so I started the next yesterday. After You.

I have taken notes, highlighted and written in a few of my self help books, Sometimes I will in other books if there is a passage or quote that speaks to me and I want to retrieve it again. I do journal but not about the books I read.

Are you hungover from it? I know I was when I finished!

Not to bad, I wanted to go straight into After You so I can keep on with the characters. 

[marigoldgirl]

Apr 15, 2016 10:22:48 GMT -5 suzannesugarbaker said:

Apr 15, 2016 10:06:54 GMT -5 lab7979 said:

I just finished After You which I really liked.  I'm starting Darkfever next.

Oh, I loved the Fever series! Hope you enjoy it. 

I enjoyed this series also.

[charlatti]

Apr 15, 2016 12:34:42 GMT -5 CheeringCharm said:

The longest Night by Andria Williams


www.amazon.com/The-Longest-Night-A-Novel/dp/0812997743


QOTW: Nope

I really enjoyed that book. I'd love to hear what you think of it!

[charlatti]

I'm rereading again: The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde. It's fun but now that life is a little calmer I'm itching to start something that isn't a reread.

QOTW: no, but I kind of wish I did. I feel like I sometimes get more out of books when I read closely enough to jot thoughts.

[dorothyinAus]

Apr 15, 2016 18:34:29 GMT -5 charlatti said:

I'm rereading again: The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde. It's fun but now that life is a little calmer I'm itching to start something that isn't a reread.

QOTW: no, but I kind of wish I did. I feel like I sometimes get more out of books when I read closely enough to jot thoughts.

I really enjoy the episodes when Thursday Next is in book world.  It's such an imaginative idea.  I really love thinking my characters are just waiting for me to read the book.

[spedrunner]

Apr 15, 2016 6:46:02 GMT -5 abs said:

I'm reading Harry Potter book one right now. After the emotional reads of You and Ugly Love I needed a comfort novel! Up next is The Glittering Court.

I do not take notes on books. The closest I get to journaling my thoughts about them is coming here!!

I just started reading Harry Potter to my students

[spedrunner]

Apr 15, 2016 8:13:35 GMT -5 marigoldgirl said:

I just finished Me Before You. I loved it so I started the next yesterday. After You.

I have taken notes, highlighted and written in a few of my self help books, Sometimes I will in other books if there is a passage or quote that speaks to me and I want to retrieve it again. I do journal but not about the books I read.

loved this book so much, can NOT wait for the movie!!

[10nille]

Just finished All the Light We Cannot See, and thought it was very good. I'd read The Nightingale right before and it was interesting to compare the two since they both were World War II fiction.

I don't make notes, but I have highlighted quotes I wanted to remember to tell someone about later.

[ally]

I am reading The Great China Zoo by Matthew Reilly.  It is a library book, pretty predictable, but it is also kind of fun.  Very Jurrassic Park, which I am sure I read 20 years ago!  It is easy enough to put down to get food (I don't let much interfere with eating!), but very easy to pick back up. 

QOTW: other than text books I don' tend to highlight or take notes.  Sometimes on the Nook I highlight a word to remind myself where I left off.

[ufcasey]

Apr 15, 2016 23:44:30 GMT -5 10nille said:

Just finished All the Light We Cannot See, and thought it was very good. I'd read The Nightingale right before and it was interesting to compare the two since they both were World War II fiction.

I don't make notes, but I have highlighted quotes I wanted to remember to tell someone about later.

Which did you like better? I've read the Nightingale but I'm on the wait list at the library for All the Light We Cannot See.

[marigoldgirl]

Apr 16, 2016 10:14:46 GMT -5 ufcasey said:

Apr 15, 2016 23:44:30 GMT -5 10nille said:

Just finished All the Light We Cannot See, and thought it was very good. I'd read The Nightingale right before and it was interesting to compare the two since they both were World War II fiction.

I don't make notes, but I have highlighted quotes I wanted to remember to tell someone about later.

Which did you like better? I've read the Nightingale but I'm on the wait list at the library for All the Light We Cannot See.

I would love the hear also. I read both close together and really liked The Nightingale but did not enjoy All The Light We Cannot See near as much.

[rootbeerfloat]

It's been a slow reading month for me, but I finally started Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander #8). Some of the plots/characters and the more recent books really bore me, so it can take me time to get through them, but I need to know what happens lol.

I don't write in books.

[mrspez07]

Late to the game, yesterday was packed full.

Reading the Likeness by Tana French.not very far into it, but captivating so far.

I don't write in books! I don't really write about what I read, unless required to for school or work.

[10nille]

I did not like the ending to All The Light We Cannot See, so I'd say The Nightingale was better. They both would be great movies.

[BlackCanary]

Still reading Yes Please by Amy Poehler. Work has been crazy busy, so I haven't had a lot of time to read.

QOTW: No, I do not.

[susiebw]

I'm late to the game, but I still want to play.  I also cannot wait for the Me Before You movie.  I think the trailer looks great!

I just finished listening to Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman this morning.  It was understandably dry at times, but overall really interesting.  I know more about the constitution than I ever imagined I would, and I'm glad for it.  I'm really glad I listened to this instead of read it, though, because it did get a bit dry and I liked being able to sort of tune it out from time to time.  I wish it had included more about the development of the amendments (it did discuss Bill of Rights, but not any of the others), but that would have really been too much for one book.  I ended up doing a bunch of research about current voting laws and the electoral college and everything because that has changed a lot since the constitution was written.  But I can finally say that I understand the electoral college system, which feels like a big deal to me. 

I'm finally nearing the end of The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger.  Before I started reading about the presidents, I knew just about nothing about Monroe, and now I find that he is one of my favorites.  He really never engaged in the drama like Adams/Jefferson/Hamilton/Burr, he was humble, he wasn't a very strong believer in the party system, believing instead in whatever was best for the country, and he did a lot of really awesome things.  He reminds me a lot of George Washington in a lot of ways, but I think his humility was more real than Washington's ever was.

QOTW: I fold down pages a lot to mark passages that interest me, but I rarely have a pencil handy when I'm reading.  I'm too lazy to make notes on my Kindle, but I book mark on there the way that I fold pages in print books.

[lab7979]

Apr 15, 2016 10:22:48 GMT -5 suzannesugarbaker said:

Apr 15, 2016 10:06:54 GMT -5 lab7979 said:

I just finished After You which I really liked.  I'm starting Darkfever next.

Oh, I loved the Fever series! Hope you enjoy it. 

I like it!  I started Darkfever on Friday and now I'm on book 3 Faefever. 

[suzannesugarbaker]

Apr 19, 2016 13:45:09 GMT -5 lab7979 said:

Apr 15, 2016 10:22:48 GMT -5 suzannesugarbaker said:

Oh, I loved the Fever series! Hope you enjoy it. 

I like it!  I started Darkfever on Friday and now I'm on book 3 Faefever. 

Yay! I'm glad. This is making me want to do a reread. 

[snshne322]

Apr 19, 2016 15:05:03 GMT -5 suzannesugarbaker said:

Apr 19, 2016 13:45:09 GMT -5 lab7979 said:

I like it!  I started Darkfever on Friday and now I'm on book 3 Faefever. 

Yay! I'm glad. This is making me want to do a reread. 

I did a reread in February, I think.  SO WORTH IT.  The tension is just as good the second time.

[suzannesugarbaker]

Apr 19, 2016 15:08:41 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

Apr 19, 2016 15:05:03 GMT -5 suzannesugarbaker said:

Yay! I'm glad. This is making me want to do a reread. 

I did a reread in February, I think.  SO WORTH IT.  The tension is just as good the second time.

Man, my reread list is starting to stack up. lol. I still haven't started my reread of The Raven Cycle series and I wanted to have that done before the 4/26 release of The Raven King. That's not gonna happen unless I take all my vacation days and read all day long, which would be awesome, but not possible. 

[litskispeciality]

Apr 16, 2016 20:41:36 GMT -5 10nille said:

I did not like the ending to All The Light We Cannot See, so I'd say The Nightingale was better. They both would be great movies.

I haven't read ATLWCS but I loved the Nightengale, only book to bring me to physical tears in a long time. I agree it would make a great movie (pending they didn't change it). The whole time I read it I kept picturing what the movie would look like.

[Wallflower]

Apr 16, 2016 20:41:36 GMT -5 10nille said:

I did not like the ending to All The Light We Cannot See, so I'd say The Nightingale was better. They both would be great movies.

Same here - I was just sad for everyone at the end of the book.

[snshne322]

Apr 19, 2016 18:38:44 GMT -5 Wallflower said:

Apr 16, 2016 20:41:36 GMT -5 10nille said:

I did not like the ending to All The Light We Cannot See, so I'd say The Nightingale was better. They both would be great movies.

Same here - I was just sad for everyone at the end of the book.

Agreed.