It's Friday what are you reading?

[litskispeciality]

I hope I'm not stepping on toes here...just a little unmotivated at work before a 3 day weekend and love to get new ideas for books. What did you read/finish this week? What are you reading this weekend? Any plans for the long weekend?

QOTW: What's your favorite cookout/BBQ side dish?

[monkeyfeet]

I finished Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy. I just started Holding Up the Universe and am enjoying it.

QOTW- shell salad.

[litskispeciality]

I just started "The Summer that Everything Melted", so far so good.

QOTW: potato salad.

[travella]

I just finished I'll Be Seeing You by Suzanne Hayes. It was a Goodreads recommendation based on other books I have liked and I was drawn to it since part of the book takes place where I grew up. It didn't meet my expectations, but it was ok.

Qotw: pasta salad

[sassypants]

I've recently started The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova. It's long and the print is tiny and the margins are tiny and I highly doubt I'll be able to finish it by next Saturday with everything that's going on. Poo.

QOTW: Tomato cucumber salad.

[rainbowchip]

I finished The Hate U Give and Born a Crime. Both were really good and I couldn't put them down. I'm currently reading The Summer That Melted Everything for the discussion next week.

QOTW: My mom's potato salad or any kind of pasta salad.

[mrspez07]

I finished One Perfect Lie by Lisa Scottoline this morning. It was a quick read we had picked for our book club.
I'm still listening to The Summer that Melted Everything as well as reading The Improbability of Love, which I started before One Perfect Lie.

I like making and eating the cabbage ramen salad. It's also good with chicken as a meal.

[anglashly]

I finished Eleanor and Park this morning

Now I'm deciding between
Summer secrets- Jane Green
By your Side- Kasie West
Rules of Summer- not sure on author I picked it up off the bargain table today

QOTW: pasta salad or cheese potatoes

[dorothyinAus]

litskispeciality , no problem at all in starting the thread.

I've been busy this week -- annual rental inspection with a 15-point cleaning checklist, including things like moving furniture to vacuum/sweep baseboards, dusting ceiling light fixtures, and cleaning the shelves in the cabinets. It's a huge list with lots of nitpicky stuff.  And then the manager at the centre where DH works was asked to resign and that left him as acting manager and meant he had to make an unscheduled trip to attend a conference -- with about 3 hours notice, so it's been fun around here.
/rant

Anyway, I'm reading The Laws of Murder and enjoying it. I like to read series mysteries because I come to like the characters and think of them as friends and it's been far too long since I've had a visit with these friends.

It's not a long weekend here in Australia, and I have no real plans but getting the checklist finished for the inspection on Tuesday.  And they better do more than a cursory walk-through.  I will be so unhappy if I put in a month of work getting everything clean and sparkly and then they come in and leave in less than 5 minutes!

QOTW: Corn on the cob, I seriously cannot get enough corn on the cob.  I could just eat that and desserts at BBQ's/Cookouts.

[tacokick]

Guiltless by Viveca Sten

And I love deviled eggs!

[charlatti]

I'm reading The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan. I feel like I maybe read it before but if I did I don't remember much at all so I'm probably confusing it with something else. There's some book where the younger sister impresses the older sister's friends by knowing the background part Garfunkel sings in Scarborough Fair -- is that a book? A movie? I can't place it.


Qotw: probably pasta salad. monkeyfeet, what's shell salad?

[monkeyfeet]

May 26, 2017 20:16:33 GMT -5 charlatti said:

I'm reading The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan. I feel like I maybe read it before but if I did I don't remember much at all so I'm probably confusing it with something else. There's some book where the younger sister impresses the older sister's friends by knowing the background part Garfunkel sings in Scarborough Fair -- is that a book? A movie? I can't place it.


Qotw: probably pasta salad. monkeyfeet, what's shell salad?

Similar to pasta salad. I also put hard boiled eggs in it because that's how my mom made it! So many good things though. It's been years since I've had the ramen cabbage salad!

www.google.com/amp/www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/garden-shell-salad/amp

Scarborough Fair is a song. Is that what you're asking?! Don't want to state the obvious.

[rainbowchip]

Reading everyone's responses I've realized that I don't think there's a side dish I don't like.

[CheeringCharm]

I just finished The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck. It's soooo good but also really sad. It's great though, I highly recommend it. It's about the wife of a Nazi resister who was executed for his role in the plot to assassinate Hitler and how she takes in her fellow widows and their children after the war. What I really liked about it is that the author takes a very nuanced look at the gray area between right and wrong. She is also not afraid to explore the mindset of Germans who went along with Hitler and how they felt about that after the war.

I'm starting Love, Africa by Jeffrey Gettleman today.


QOTW: corn on the cob!

[charlatti]

May 26, 2017 21:10:36 GMT -5 monkeyfeet said:

May 26, 2017 20:16:33 GMT -5 charlatti said:

Scarborough Fair is a song. Is that what you're asking?! Don't want to state the obvious.

I was looking for the book with that scene in it (or maybe it's a movie scene). I can only remember that little bit but no other context.

[MrsAxilla]

litskispeciality , anyone is free to start the Friday post! dorothyinAus is in Australia, so she usually beats everyone. 

I just finished Clean Sweep, and now I'm reading A Matter of Glass (smock ).

QOTD: does beer count?

[booknerd]

I was reading The Rose garden by Susanna Kearsley on Friday, which I finished yesterday and LOVED.

I'll be starting a re-read of Harry Potter soon as well as start reading Tell The Wolves I'm Home.

QOTW: All of it? I'd probably say my most favorite is good potato salad or watermelon.

[darnkatz]

Still reading Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin by Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton. It's so infuriating and heartbreaking.
Also reading Human Acts by Han Kang, which is... disturbing. It's giving me nightmares. It's fiction based on the 1980 Gwangju Uprising in South Korea, and it is completely brutal.

Other books I've started but haven't finished yet:
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenburg
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Gulture by Pamela Haag
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri


QOTW: I love my mom's German potato salad.

[oliviapope]

I just finished Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn. It was a slow start but I ended up liking the book.
(Warning, sexual abuse is prevalent in the book)

QOTW: I love potato salad.

[bex]

I'm reading "All the President's Men." It's so eerie to read it 45 years later, and to know how the saga ends (the book was published before Nixon resigned). It's also really creepy because for many of the passages you can literally just swap out Nixon for Trump, Russia for Watergate, etc. It's really bizarre. The distrust of the press, the WH pushing the angle that no one cares about the scandal, the competition between the Post and the Times to get the best story.....it's a lot more exciting than I had expected, lol.

[ufcasey]

*waves hi* I was on vacation in Mexico for a week so just now able to check in.

Read last week
Day Zero by Kresley Cole (#3.5 in series) - YA/fantasy/dystopian; 3 stars; while not absolutely required reading, it does help understand who all the players are. Honestly this should have been naturally included in the real novels, but oh well.
Arcana Rising by Kresley Cole (#4 in series) - YA/fantasy/dystopian; 3 stars; this was almost 100% love triangle drama. I'll read the next book in the series when it comes out but I won't be excited about it.
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick - non-fiction; 4 stars; I rooted for the whales and other sea life the whole time ha!

Currently reading
The Summer that Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel - fiction; I have four more chapters left, so I have some reading to do tonight in time for tomorrow's discussion!
The Awakening by Kate Chopin - classic; so far this is reading as a pretty modern sounding book surprisingly enough

QOTW
Mac n' cheese all the way

[Nonny]

Currently reading The Dream Thieves (second in the Raven Cycle) and The Woman in Cabin 10.  The Raven Cycle books are so weird, and not that well written, but I'm still finding myself drawn to them.  I'm also really liking The Woman in Cabin 10, but I'm not sure it's quite as good as In a Dark, Dark Wood. 

QOTW:  I love potato salad if it's not too oniony, but I also love if someone has high quality homemade baked beans.