September Reading

[eb777888]

What'cha reading???

[eb777888]

I'm about 10% into Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Too early to tell but it has my attention! There is a bit of video game talk but I'm not bored by it since so far it's very pertinent to the story.

[bears]

Did someone here recommend the Lake House? It was on my list, but I'm hating the first few chapters and I'm trying to figure out if I should quit.

[sunshineluv]

I finished Lessons in Chemistry today, and loved it!!! It is going to be an Apple TV series, which is nuts since it was just published in April.

[shopgirl07]

Sept 1, 2022 12:38:22 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

I'm about 10% into Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Too early to tell but it has my attention! There is a bit of video game talk but I'm not bored by it since so far it's very pertinent to the story.

I loved this book! I also wasn’t bored by the video game talk even though I’m not into games at all.

[wildrice]

I just finished This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub. I think someone (a couple of people) here said they didn't like it, so I guess my expectations were low but I thought it was pretty good. I guess if time travel is a problem for you you may not like it, but I did.

I also finished listening to The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel. It was ok. I liked lots of parts of it but I felt like it focused on too many characters and didn't really have a satisfying ending IMO.

I just started to try to listen to The Paper Palace but I stopped. It jumped back and forth way too much between timelines and I found it kind of crass, which maybe it means I'm just a prude but I felt like there were a few things said or described that really didn't need to be the way they were. So now I need a new audiobook.

I also started The It Girl by Ruth Ware but I've probably read 2% so far so I can't say much about it either way. My mom just read it and thought it was great, so I'm expecting to like it. I have liked most books by this author anyway.

[isabel]

Currently reading True Biz by Sara Novic on a recommendation from NPR’s book list. Really enjoying it.

So freaking many books on my holds list that are coming available. And I want to re-read the Bear Town series before The Winners comes out.

On tap:
Half Broke Horses by Jeanine Walls
Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
Tomorrow x3 by Gabrielle Zevin
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer

[RoxMonster]

All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers. She hosts some true crime podcasts. I’m about halfway done and the book is pretty good so far (the book is fiction).

Just finished The Perfect Family by Robyn Harding and I loved it. Very creepy and suspenseful.

[scm1011]

I'm about 60% through Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I really liked it at first but I've lost interest a bit. I'll slog on though.

Next up is the new Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) book, which I'm excited about. I know JKR is trash, but I've invested like 6,000 pages into the series at this point and I need to see how it ends.

[expectantsteelerfan]

Sept 1, 2022 12:57:26 GMT -5 sunshineluv said:

I finished Lessons in Chemistry today, and loved it!!! It is going to be an Apple TV series, which is nuts since it was just published in April.

I just started Lessons in Chemistry last night after waiting for it quite a bit from the library, and I'm excited for it and hope it lives up to the hype.

My book club is also insisting I finally get around to reading the follow up to Beartown by Fredrik Backman (they are all much bigger fans of his than I am.  I loved A Man Called Ove but was only meh on the rest of his books and didn't particularly like Beartown) because they want to try to attend his book tour and read the 3rd book when it comes out, but I keep finding other books to start before I do start it.

[rupertpenny]

I’m in Cape Cod now so I read The Summer I Turned Pretty and am about halfway through The Paper Palace because the first is set in a cape-like place and the second is set here.

For TSITP I preferred the show but it was fine. I will finish The Paper Palace but it is veering towards trauma porn.

[tacokick]

Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore was cute. I really just got it out of the library because of the name but I enjoyed it. Sister drama and the world of magic!

[tacokick]

Sept 1, 2022 12:57:26 GMT -5 sunshineluv said:

I finished Lessons in Chemistry today, and loved it!!! It is going to be an Apple TV series, which is nuts since it was just published in April.

I think it got optioned before it even went to print! I think it will be a fun show.

[mcppalmbeach]

Sept 1, 2022 14:38:00 GMT -5 tacokick said:

Sept 1, 2022 12:57:26 GMT -5 sunshineluv said:

I finished Lessons in Chemistry today, and loved it!!! It is going to be an Apple TV series, which is nuts since it was just published in April.

I think it got optioned before it even went to print! I think it will be a fun show.

Loved this book! I hope apple does it justice!

[mcppalmbeach]

Sept 1, 2022 14:34:52 GMT -5 rupertpenny said:

I’m in Cape Cod now so I read The Summer I Turned Pretty and am about halfway through The Paper Palace because the first is set in a cape-like place and the second is set here.

For TSITP I preferred the show but it was fine. I will finish The Paper Palace but it is veering towards trauma porn.

I hated the paper palace so so much lol.

[rootbeerfloat]

I just finished Remarkably Bright Creatures, which lived up to the hype.

Before that I read Jennifer Grey's memoir, which was fine, but kind of made me like her less. Also, I usually keep track of these things, but I had no idea who she was married to.

[mcppalmbeach]

I am still reading Homewreckers and Book Lovers. They are taking me forever which is weird because they are both quick reads. I’ll finish Homewreckers soon. It’s kind of a mindless read, but there is something I am hating about it so if anyone has read it let’s discuss

[toepick]

Sept 1, 2022 13:26:52 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

I'm about 60% through Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I really liked it at first but I've lost interest a bit. I'll slog on though.

Next up is the new Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) book, which I'm excited about. I know JKR is trash, but I've invested like 6,000 pages into the series at this point and I need to see how it ends.

You know it’s 1000 pages? And features a transphobic person who gets stabbed to death? I dropped that series because she is such an asshole.

[ny96]

I finished the Cartographers yesterday and was a bit bored by it. I started Tracy Flick Can’t Win and I’m enjoying it so far.

[isabel]

Sept 1, 2022 13:27:59 GMT -5 expectantsteelerfan said:

Sept 1, 2022 12:57:26 GMT -5 sunshineluv said:

I finished Lessons in Chemistry today, and loved it!!! It is going to be an Apple TV series, which is nuts since it was just published in April.

I just started Lessons in Chemistry last night after waiting for it quite a bit from the library, and I'm excited for it and hope it lives up to the hype.

My book club is also insisting I finally get around to reading the follow up to Beartown by Fredrik Backman (they are all much bigger fans of his than I am.  I loved A Man Called Ove but was only meh on the rest of his books and didn't particularly like Beartown) because they want to try to attend his book tour and read the 3rd book when it comes out, but I keep finding other books to start before I do start it.

If they don’t already have tickets that’s probably not happening. It’s pretty well sold out.

[underwaterrhymes]

Sept 1, 2022 15:20:53 GMT -5 toepick said:

Sept 1, 2022 13:26:52 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

I'm about 60% through Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I really liked it at first but I've lost interest a bit. I'll slog on though.

Next up is the new Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) book, which I'm excited about. I know JKR is trash, but I've invested like 6,000 pages into the series at this point and I need to see how it ends.

You know it’s 1000 pages? And features a transphobic person who gets stabbed to death? I dropped that series because she is such an asshole.

Not only that, but Robert Galbraith Heath was an anti-LGBTQ therapist who did terrible things (like electric shock therapy) to gay people. She says the name choice was not intentional, but I don’t believe her.

She’s garbage and her books written as Galbraith are transphobic bullshit.

[scm1011]

Sept 1, 2022 17:05:52 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Sept 1, 2022 15:20:53 GMT -5 toepick said:

You know it’s 1000 pages? And features a transphobic person who gets stabbed to death? I dropped that series because she is such an asshole.

Not only that, but Robert Galbraith Heath was an anti-LGBTQ therapist who did terrible things (like electric shock therapy) to gay people. She says the name choice was not intentional, but I don’t believe her.

She’s garbage and her books written as Galbraith are transphobic bullshit.

Oh yikes, I knew neither of those things. Thanks for letting me know.

[lilac05]

I’m finally finishing Nowhere Girl. It’s taken me forever.

Just finished Love Matters More on Audiobook and loved it. (Faith-related book, calling out the people who say they’re “Speaking the truth in love” when they’re really just being judgmental and hurtful. Highly recommend for those who grew up Evangelical/Conservative Christian and no longer tolerate many of the things that were taught in those spaces.)

[toepick]

Sept 1, 2022 17:10:30 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Sept 1, 2022 17:05:52 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Not only that, but Robert Galbraith Heath was an anti-LGBTQ therapist who did terrible things (like electric shock therapy) to gay people. She says the name choice was not intentional, but I don’t believe her.

She’s garbage and her books written as Galbraith are transphobic bullshit.

Oh yikes, I knew neither of those things. Thanks for letting me know.

I read the first four books of the series and liked them OK. But not enough to get past her abhorrent beliefs. 

Here's what the new book is about: www.out.com/books/2022/8/30/jk-rowlings-new-book-about-creator-doxxed-over-transphobia

[DotAndBuzz]

"Mother Country," By Jacinda Townsend

A brief synopsis, from her website (@ and TW):

" Mother Country is told in the voices of an American woman struggling with infertility who kidnaps a young Moroccan girl, and the young mother, escaped from Mauritanian slavery, who loses her."

Not a light topic, but different from anything else I've recently read.

Just finished "All Good People Here" by Ashley Flowers, and couldn't put it down. Left me with my jaw on the floor.

[kaneen]

I just finished The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and loved it! I always see the twist at the end coming but this one slapped me right in the face.

I need to read The Spanish Daughter next for my book club.

[okla]

I finished Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey for book club. It’s weird af. I don’t like horror at all and never would have touched this if it wasn’t for book club. I’d guess if you’re a fan of the genre, it might be good. Ringing endorsement, I know.

[TR]

Sept 1, 2022 19:39:39 GMT -5 okla said:

I finished Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey for book club. It’s weird af. I don’t like horror at all and never would have touched this if it wasn’t for book club. I’d guess if you’re a fan of the genre, it might be good. Ringing endorsement, I know.

Very much did not like this one. I don’t mind horror, necessarily, but this was weird af, indeed.

[brooke77]

I recently finished The Paris Apartment. I liked it! A quick read and kept my attention.

Reading A Man Called Ove. Only about a quarter of the way through, but I like it so far.

Last month I read This is Where I Leave You and enjoyed that.

[rupertpenny]

Sept 1, 2022 18:06:16 GMT -5 toepick said:

Sept 1, 2022 17:10:30 GMT -5 scm1011 said:

Oh yikes, I knew neither of those things. Thanks for letting me know.

I read the first four books of the series and liked them OK. But not enough to get past her abhorrent beliefs. 

Here's what the new book is about: www.out.com/books/2022/8/30/jk-rowlings-new-book-about-creator-doxxed-over-transphobia

Jesus she is really committed to trolling. A thousand pages of fan fic about her own alleged persecution?

I also read the first few books and I think Strike is an interesting character but the books have diminishing returns even aside from her awful transphobia.