Happy Friday! (4/12) What are you reading?

[duckduck]

I'm reading First, There is a River by Kathy Steffen. It's meh.

I'm listening to The Scarlet Pimpernel, and it's great!


QOTW: What's your favorite kind of music?

Mine's country.

[charlatti]

I'm reading The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. I read The Bartender's Tale by the same author a month or so ago and loved it, so I have high hopes for this one. It took me a little longer to into this one, but I'm liking it now.

QOTW: My tastes are pretty much stuck in the late '90s. Alternative-ish music, I guess, would be the category. (I like plenty of current music, just stuff that would probably fit well into the 1998 scene.)

[5kcandlesinthewind]

I'm about halfway through Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, and it's really sweet. I also picked up the latest Walsh sister book from Marian Keyes and the Rob Lowe autobiography from the library last night.

QOTW: I am also stuck in the 90s, and I am pretty sure that aside from Adele and Amy Winehouse, there aren't any artists on my iPod who weren't around back then.

[mdgirl]

I'm tearing through Where'd You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple. It's set in my neighborhood, and as someone who moved to Seattle a few years I find the descriptions from a fictional Seattle transplant hilarious.

QOTW: My favorite band is Weezer, so any kind of music along those lines if good with me. I also saw Walk the Moon open for the Kaiser Chiefs last year and I've been obsessed with them ever since.

[Deleted]

Alice James: A Biography by James Strouse. She was the sister of the novelist Henry James and she suffered from the Victorian disorder of neurotic hysteria. Basically a psychosomatic disorder that was a way of getting special attention. It's pretty interesting.

QOTW: Pop music like Taylor Swift and Pink. Yeah, my musical tastes are lame, lol.

[mel726]

I am about 1/3 of the way through Moloka'i by Alan Brennart. It is sad, but a good read so far.

I am stalled on A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin. I plowed through the first three Game of Thrones books with no problem, but this one just isn't holding my interest very well.

[duckduck]

Apr 12, 2013 11:02:37 GMT -5 mel726 said:

I am stalled on A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin. I plowed through the first three Game of Thrones books with no problem, but this one just isn't holding my interest very well.

I had the same experience. I'm taking a break to read some other stuff before I move on to Dance with Dragons.

[rootbeerfloat]

I finished Beautiful Creatures last night, so Beautiful Darkness is next.

QOTW: My ipod is stuck in the early-mid 2000s, but that's because I spend more money on books than music My taste is pretty mainstream, though (e.g., Pink, Fun, Maroon 5, etc).

[rootbeerfloat]

Apr 12, 2013 9:53:42 GMT -5 5kcandlesinthewind said:

I also picked up the latest Walsh sister book from Marian Keyes and the Rob Lowe autobiography from the library last night.

He was a better writer than I expected. I loved The West Wing, so I was a bit disappointed to read that section.

[AJL]

I just finished reading today One Day by David Nicholls. I'm not sure what I'm going to read next. I might pick up back into the Outlander series.

I'm looking for something that will really suck me in.

QOTW: I hate to be a cliche, but I like them all. Lately I've been listening to Young the Giant, Black Keys, Sun Volt, the 80s station on Pandora, some Willie and George Strait.

[Deleted]

Reading: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

QOTW: Country!

[dorothyinAus]

I'm reading A Carol for a Corpse (a holiday Hemlock Falls mystery).  It's pretty good so far, but I guessed the sub-plot secret on the first page!

QOTW:  I'm equal-opportunity music wise, with the exception of rap and techno.  But if you look at the most played genre on my iTunes it would be easy listening.  Bing Crosby, Marc Cohn, and a couple of Australian bands, My Friend the Chocolate Cake and The Whitlams top the list.

[christy082]

I'm reading The Beggar King: A Hangman's Daughter Tale (book 3 of the series).  So far I like it.  

QOTW: favorite music is pop, rock, 80s and 90s (alternative and otherwise)

[whitepicketfence]

I'm about to start The Diviners by Libba Bray. I've had it checked out from the library for awhile. I need to finish and get it back soon!

QOTW: I'm a big country music fan.

[MrsAxilla]

Life After Life. I should be reading Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank for my book club in two weeks, but it's not available on kindle or nook and my library doesn't haven't (WTF?) and I've been too lazy to go to a bookstore.

[booknerd]

Debating between Jewels of the Sun, the first in the Gallaghers of Ardmore trilogy by Nora Roberts. Or Sweet Revenge by NR. Or holding out for her newest, Whiskey Beach, which comes out on Tuesday.

Yeah. I'm on an NR kick.

QOTW: Country and Rock.

[ally]

I am reading A Prayer for Owen Meany.  It is highly recommended, I am halfway through and intend to finish, but I am not getting why it is so good yet.

 

Music - I listen mostly to country or 80/90s. 

[dorothyinAus]

Apr 14, 2013 8:57:23 GMT -5 ally said:

I am reading A Prayer for Owen Meany.  It is highly recommended, I am halfway through and intend to finish, but I am not getting why it is so good yet.

 

Music - I listen mostly to country or 80/90s. 

It took me a long while to get into that book.  I think most of my problem was my annoyance with Owen's all-caps voice.  By the end it was definitely worth it for me, but it took me months to get through because I would get annoyed with both Owen and John, the narrator.

[msmerymac]

Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Braun.

QOTW: Classic rock, 90s Alternative rock, and probably what would be considered hipster music.

[aurora]

Apr 14, 2013 18:28:09 GMT -5 dorothyinAus said:

Apr 14, 2013 8:57:23 GMT -5 ally said:

I am reading A Prayer for Owen Meany.  It is highly recommended, I am halfway through and intend to finish, but I am not getting why it is so good yet.

 

Music - I listen mostly to country or 80/90s. 

It took me a long while to get into that book.  I think most of my problem was my annoyance with Owen's all-caps voice.  By the end it was definitely worth it for me, but it took me months to get through because I would get annoyed with both Owen and John, the narrator.

I had some issues with Owen, too.  In the end I liked it but thought it was overhyped. 

[naldridge]

I'm listening to The Lonely Polygamist and am seriously sad that it is almost over. It was a random library find for me and I love, love, love it. Fighting my way through physically reading Strong Motion - I love Jonathan Franzen but this is not my favorite of his. It's due back to the libary later this week though, and I have over 300 pages to go.

[kasi]

Apr 12, 2013 11:02:37 GMT -5 mel726 said:

I am about 1/3 of the way through Moloka'i by Alan Brennart. It is sad, but a good read so far.

I am stalled on A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin. I plowed through the first three Game of Thrones books with no problem, but this one just isn't holding my interest very well.

I enjoyed Moloka'i.  I preferred Honolulu though.  Have you read that?

[kasi]

Apr 22, 2013 15:46:21 GMT -5 naldridge said:

I'm listening to The Lonely Polygamist and am seriously sad that it is almost over. It was a random library find for me and I love, love, love it. Fighting my way through physically reading Strong Motion - I love Jonathan Franzen but this is not my favorite of his. It's due back to the libary later this week though, and I have over 300 pages to go.

I read or listened to The Lonely Polygamist.  I went back to GR to see what I thought.  I gave it three stars and said that it had it's funny parts, sad parts, and serious parts.  It wasn't a bad book but I felt like it dragged on and on at times. 

It was a completely random library pick.

I am currently reading A Game of Thrones.  I started it many many many months ago and kept finding other books to read instead.  I couldn't get into it at all until I watched two episodes of the show.  I started reading it again the other day and now love it.