Happy Friday! June 24

[dorothyinAus]

Well, the world hasn't quite ended, but it may be pretty close -- if you're listening to the news regarding the BrExit.

And if you're not listening to the news, tell me what are you reading to escape from the real world?

QOTW:  Tell me a quirky fact -- just something you find amazing, like elephants can't jump or something similarly interesting.

[monkeyfeet]

I had an early dr. Appt and totally forgot about brxit. I'm intrigued.

Currently reading A Desperate Fortune by susannah Kearsley and enjoying it.

I've been wanting to look this up, but at a recent book club, the host mentioned her neighbours have pet turtles and put them in the freezer during winter to hibernate. As you can imagine, that created several follow on questions!

[abs]

Just started The Darkest Minds last night. It sucked me in pretty quickly so hopefully it remains good!

I need my DH here to give me an interesting fact...he is the trivia guru! For me it's too early. More coffee needed.

[willyh19]

I will finish The Name of the Wind today (finally!) and plan on starting Bloodfever (Fever #2) this weekend.

QOTW: You cannot snore and dream at the same time

[dorothyinAus]

Jun 24, 2016 6:50:59 GMT -5 willyh19 said:

I will finish The Name of the Wind today (finally!) and plan on starting Bloodfever (Fever #2) this weekend.

QOTW: You cannot snore and dream at the same time

That is very interesting, and something I never really considered.

[dorothyinAus]

Jun 24, 2016 5:45:49 GMT -5 monkeyfeet said:

I had an early dr. Appt and totally forgot about brxit. I'm intrigued.

Currently reading A Desperate Fortune by susannah Kearsley and enjoying it.

I've been wanting to look this up, but at a recent book club, the host mentioned her neighbours have pet turtles and put them in the freezer during winter to hibernate. As you can imagine, that created several follow on questions!

I know people who have had crabs & crawfish frozen while still alive crawl around their kitchen when thawed, but I never considered the freezer for hibernation.

[Wallflower]

I just started The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde). It's one of my challenge reads, where I'm trying to stretch out of my reading comfort zone and read more "classic" books. They don't have to be classics, but I want to take some of those "100 books everyone should read" type of lists and do better.

QOTW: The largest living entity on the Earth is an aspen grove in Utah - well, there's some discussion about that, but this article agrees with me ... www.pri.org/stories/2015-05-05/earths-biggest-living-thing-might-be-tree-thousands-clones.

[pandora89]

I hadn't read anything in a few months so I powered through a few, this week I read

- I Take You
- Summer Sister
- Hidden Bodies
- Confessions of a Shopaholic

Mostly all super light, easy reads. I really enjoyed Confessions of a Shopaholic lol. Starting "The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes" today. I leave on vacation on Thursday and I am already in vacation mode, as can be seen by my reading list.

There is a part of Canada that has less gravity than the rest of the world.

[charlatti]

I'm reading The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. It's fun so far and not as heavy as the cover design led me to think.

QOTW: Chickadees keep little fur blankets in their nests to cover their eggs so that when they fly off for food, the eggs can stay warm.

[rainbowchip]

The Brexit is freaking me out. I'm worried something similar might happen here in November...

I'm reading In The Garden of Beasts and it's not helping me escape what's going on in the world now. I'm constantly finding parallels and it's terrifying!

Speaking of elephants, they have a prehensail penis. So when they are mating, it like fails around until it finds its "home". I saw a documentary about a year ago and I will never look at elephants the same way again.

[ufcasey]

I just finished listening to The Cuckoo's Call, and picked up a silly historical Romance "The Chief" by Monica McCarty. Oh, and I am reading Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson which will probably take over a month to finish.

QOTW: Most people can't lick their elbows and most people reading that will try to do it anyways

[travella]

I'm about half way through Zookeeper's Wife. It's OK. I wish I would have kept it for another time. Given what's going on in the world and just finishing "You" I could have used something more upbeat.

Wednesday was National Onion Ring day. That's all I got. I had no idea that there was an onion ring day before being informed that I was ordering onion rings on onion ring day.

[snshne322]

I'm reading The Rosie Project and listening to I'll Give You The Sun.

I'm going to crawl into a hole because of world new right now.

Random Fact:  A bolt of lightning is six times hotter than the sun.

[Wallflower]

Jun 24, 2016 9:52:10 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

I'm reading The Rosie Project and listening to I'll Give You The Sun.

I'm going to crawl into a hole because of world new right now.

Random Fact:  A bolt of lightning is six times hotter than the sun.

I posted this on another thread, but this is my baby, hiding from the world. I want to join her.

[snshne322]

Jun 24, 2016 9:57:21 GMT -5 Wallflower said:

Jun 24, 2016 9:52:10 GMT -5 snshne322 said:

I'm reading The Rosie Project and listening to I'll Give You The Sun.

I'm going to crawl into a hole because of world new right now.

Random Fact:  A bolt of lightning is six times hotter than the sun.

I posted this on another thread, but this is my baby, hiding from the world. I want to join her.

I want to pet her! Hi cutie!

[Nonny]

I finished English Creek for my book club this week - it was boring, the characters were flat and one-dimensional, and it had zero sense of urgency or suspense for something that cumulated in a giant forest fire (I guess that's a spoiler, but it was so heavily foreshadowed that I don't know how you couldn't know it was going to happen by the first 10% of the book). 

I'm currently reading Girl in Hyacinth Blue, and I'm about a quarter of the way in; it's following the history of a maybe/maybe not Vermeer painting back from it's current owner (the son of a Nazi who stole it) through it's past owners.  The concept is rather fascinating, but the writing style is a little iffy.

QOTW:  France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars premiered in 1977.

Also, if you haven't seen me begging on other boards, I have entered my cat in a cute pet photo contest to try to win a $500 gift card to a local hardware store. I would really *really* appreciate it if you could take <30 seconds and vote for her - woobox.com/277hdh/gallery/CJkgjEDzcQ4 - you need a Facebook account and to be over 18, but you don't have to like any pages or give any of your info.  I'm currently in 3rd place, but I'm falling way behind the 2nd and 3rd place kitties right now.  Thanks!! 

[snshne322]

Jun 24, 2016 10:18:03 GMT -5 Nonny said:

I finished English Creek for my book club this week - it was boring, the characters were flat and one-dimensional, and it had zero sense of urgency or suspense for something that cumulated in a giant forest fire (I guess that's a spoiler, but it was so heavily foreshadowed that I don't know how you couldn't know it was going to happen by the first 10% of the book). 

I'm currently reading Girl in Hyacinth Blue, and I'm about a quarter of the way in; it's following the history of a maybe/maybe not Vermeer painting back from it's current owner (the son of a Nazi who stole it) through it's past owners.  The concept is rather fascinating, but the writing style is a little iffy.

QOTW:  France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars premiered in 1977.

Also, if you haven't seen me begging on other boards, I have entered my cat in a cute pet photo contest to try to win a $500 gift card to a local hardware store. I would really *really* appreciate it if you could take <30 seconds and vote for her - woobox.com/277hdh/gallery/CJkgjEDzcQ4 - you need a Facebook account and to be over 18, but you don't have to like any pages or give any of your info.  I'm currently in 3rd place, but I'm falling way behind the 2nd and 3rd place kitties right now.  Thanks!! 

 

Done!  How adorable!

[Wallflower]

Nonny, I'm bummed that you can only vote once!

[itsme]

I'm reading The Golden Son.  I am still very early into this one but I enjoyed the first book, Red Rising, so I have high hopes for this one.  Someone here mentioned it was the best of the series.

I am listening to The City of Mirrors.  It started out drab but now I am at a part where there is backstory.  I haven't quite figured out what this backstory has to do with anything but there are a few key facts that lead me to conclude this is the beginning beginning of all hell breaking loose and how it came to be. 

I have nothing for QOTW

[Nonny]

Jun 24, 2016 13:14:42 GMT -5 itsme said:

I'm reading The Golden Son.  I am still very early into this one but I enjoyed the first book, Red Rising, so I have high hopes for this one.  Someone here mentioned it was the best of the series.

I haven't read the 3rd one yet, but I liked Golden Son a lot better than Red Rising. I felt like Red Rising was a rip off of a bunch of other story plots that had been shoved in a blender, and that Golden Son was more unique.  I also thought the writing was better in the second book.

[aurora]

I'm shocked by Brexit! So reading a lot of news today.

I'm also reading The Twelve and listening to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - my library recently got all of the HP books on audio!

I'm in something like stage fright with the fun facts at the moment...nothing is coming to mind!


ETA - whoa, that's a lot of exclamation marks.

[sassypants]

I'm reading Jen Lancaster's new one By The Numbers. I hate the characters (entitled much?) but I hope it gets better.

QOTW: Some railroad cars have signs on them indicating No Humping. It's not dirty, unfortunately. It just means you can't use a hump yard to let gravity carry it downhill over the hump as it couples up to a train--it has to be done by a powered locomotive or slug. This usually applies to volatile substances. Also, everybody thinks Henry Ford (with regard to the Model T) said that you could have your car painted any color you wanted as long as it was black, but this didn't actually apply until the 1914 model. Model Ts came in gray, red, green and blue from 1908-1913.

The crap I've learned working at a transportation museum.

[aurora]

Book related Fun Fact from Mental Floss:

In all of Shakespeare's works, only one word starts with an "X" - Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates. He uses her name in The Taming of the Shrew.

[suzannesugarbaker]

I finished Cursed by Jennifer Armentrout and started Cinder last night.

QOTW: A blue whale's penis is called a dork and the average size for an adult male is 15ft.

[itsme]

Jun 24, 2016 13:21:20 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Jun 24, 2016 13:14:42 GMT -5 itsme said:

I'm reading The Golden Son.  I am still very early into this one but I enjoyed the first book, Red Rising, so I have high hopes for this one.  Someone here mentioned it was the best of the series.

I haven't read the 3rd one yet, but I liked Golden Son a lot better than Red Rising. I felt like Red Rising was a rip off of a bunch of other story plots that had been shoved in a blender, and that Golden Son was more unique.  I also thought the writing was better in the second book.

Red Rising left a lot out and didn't have enough development.  Chunks were missing from the story that I felt could have added to it.

[spedrunner]

I just finished Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah (5 stars!!!!)

Currently reading:  Dumplin' (cute, light, YA fiction, for my bookclub)

Hausfrau. Woah, pretty good so far, but woa, sex much!/


QOTD:  Rhodesian Ridgebacks were bred to hunt LIONS!

[dorothyinAus]

I'm reading Anne of the Island to finish the first part of the series (in my mind at least), but I took The Alpine Traitor with me to the vet's office because I knew I'd be waiting a while and only have a few chapters left in Anne.  Both are good, but they are very different kinds of books.

QOTW:  I kind of blew my wad with the elephants can't jump example, so I'll have to think of something else.  But it's been very interesting and informative to read the responses.  Thanks!

[aurora]

Jun 24, 2016 9:04:59 GMT -5 ufcasey said:

QOTW: Most people can't lick their elbows and most people reading that will try to do it anyways

I tried.
And failed.

[revjen]

I started an audiobook called The Ruby Brooch which has time travel and Scotsmen so far.

QOTW: Benjamin Franklin invented daylight savings time in order to give agricultural focused states more light in which to work. That's why Arizona doesn't switch.