It's Friday! (10/5) Weekly Reading Check-in

[ufcasey]

What have you read this week? What are you currently reading?

QOTW
Let's cheer people up this week - share a joke or a funny meme!

[ssmjlm]

My prime day KU deal is almost up, so I have unabashedly been reading every cheesy romance available get my money's worth.

Ironically none of my library books have come up as available, or I might feel just a tad bad about it, lol.

QOTW: Every day yall, every day...

[wesleycrusher]

Read:

The Power  by Alderman, Naomi 3.5

Murder on the Orient Express  by Christie, Agatha  4 - audiobook narrated by Dan Stevens. He was excellent and I would rate his performance a 5. The story itself was probably a 3, so I averaged to 4.

The Things That Keep Us Here  by Buckley, Carla 3.5 - I spoke about this in the other thread. Pandemic fiction.  I really liked the storyline, but thought it could have been executed better.  It also made me realize that my family is woefully unprepared for a situation like this.

Circe by Miller, Madeline 5  

Beyond the Castle: A Guide to Discovering Your Happily Ever After by Dreyer, Jody Jean 3. I wish this was less self-help and more her biography.

The Boy in the Suitcase (Nina Borg, #1) by  Kaaberbøl, Lene- 3.  I can't imagine what else they have to write about Nina Borg that they created a series of books.  

Currently Reading:

The Zookeeper's Wife by Ackerman, Diane- it's non-fiction, but I feel parts are written like it's fiction? and parts non-fiction. 

It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs  by Dangerfield, Rodney- I just started this so am only a few pages in

[ufcasey]

Read:
Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven
3 stars/fantasy romance
This author always has a great premise, but has a drawn out plot that is kind of boring at times

Savage Prince (Savage Trilogy, #1) by Meghan March
3 stars/romance
First book in a "trilogy" but really it's just the first third of one book despite it's length (275 pages) which pisses me off honestly. I can handle cliffhangers, but this was just not even a complete story by any stretch of the imagination

Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier
4.5 stars/mystery thriller
This book is REALLY different than the typical fare in this genre and I absolutely loved it, even with it's crazy ending.

Total so far for the year: 116

QOTW:
How much does it cost for a pirate to get his ears pierced?
A buccaneer.

[travella]

I finished The Girl You Lost by Katherine Croft, 3* and It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, 4*. I started Lethal White by Robert Galbraith.

QOTW:

If you are lonely, dim all the lights and put on a horror movie. After a while it won't feel like you're alone anymore.

[rainbowchip]

I finished All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover. As someone who suffered from IF and had a miscarriage, this book hit me pretty hard.

I'm currently reading The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter. I'm really liking it.

QOTW: This Twitter account is hilarious.

[msmerymac]

I'm reading Latte Trouble, the third book in the Cleo Coyle Coffeehouse mystery series. They're basically a series of American-based cozy mysteries (the main character's last name is legitimately Cozi). They're... fine? They're cute, but they were written 10-15 years ago and some stuff already feels dated. Not just the technology the characters use, but, like, societal views of sexuality. One character in this book woke up not remembering what happened the previous night but then realizes she's naked and had sex. She continues to feel uncomfortable about it for quite a while (until she can talk to him about it). Not only is it cliched, it's really disturbing to throw that into a glib little feel-good mystery book.

But for that and other reasons, I might just bail on the series. I have no real need to stick with these characters when there are other things out there to read.

[rootbeerfloat]

I'm reading Us Against You. I loved Beartown and am having anxiety that bad things might happen to some characters.

ETA: funny meme

[monkeyfeet]

I’m 15% into Still Me and think it’s meh.

QOTW: where do pencils go on vacation? Pennsylvania!

[minzy]

I read Body of Work - Meditations on Mortality From the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montross. It’s about her experience as a first year med student dissecting a cadaver. I thought it was excellent and she was so reverent and grateful for the process. It probably won’t appeal to everyone, but anatomy was basically my favorite class ever, so I loved it.

I’m only a tiny into each but have started both Us Against You by Fredrik Backman and The Senator Next Door - A Memoir From the Heartland by Amy Klobuchar. (I was impressed by her exchange with Kavanaugh last week and since there’s some buzz about her being a potential 2020 contender I want to read up on her a bit.)

QOTW: From about 30 seconds with my kids’ new joke book (and I’m probably failing the task with this one)... “Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” “Brett.” “Brett who?” “Brett you don’t know who this is.”

[Gato]

I fished Winners Take All, and give it 4/4. Really explains what’s going on in the world right now.

I’m reading The View from Flyover Country by Sarah Kendzior. This is a collection of essays and blog posts, very well-written. It kind of gives an overview of *everthing* that’s going wrong with the country in bite-sized pieces.

And as if those weren’t depressing enough, I’m also reading There There by Tommy Orange, which is an excellent but bleak cycle of stories about a Native American family in Oakland.

I think I need some light reading after all this!

Twitter QOTW: I want to skip to the end of the Trump movie where it fades out and captions tell us how long they each got in prison.

[mrspez07]

Listening to Then She Was Gone. I keep wanting to listen, I think I igured it out but I want to know how it ends.
Started reading Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

QOTW: a favorite around our house:

Knock knock
Who’s there?
Lettuce
Lettuce who?
Lettuce IN! We have to go pee!

[sassypants]

I jumped on the Crazy Rich Asians bandwagon. It's enjoyable, but if Nick and Rachel weren't so down to earth these people would really piss me off with their 1% privilege.

[aurora]

Much slower week than last week.

I picked up GRR Martin's A Storm of Swords (a re-read, but it's been a couple of years so I've forgotten a lot) but I'm not very far in yet.

I just finished Julian Fellowes' Belgravia, which was definitely Downton Abbey-esque but enjoyable via audiobook.
Then, I started the audiobook version of An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. I'm not far enough into it to have an opinion yet but I've heard good things.

QOTW: Lately I've been smiling at the dog_feelings Twitter account. For example:

[aurora]

Oct 5, 2018 9:59:01 GMT -5 travella said:

I finished The Girl You Lost by Katherine Croft, 3* and It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, 4*. I started Lethal White by Robert Galbraith.

QOTW:

If you are lonely, dim all the lights and put on a horror movie. After a while it won't feel like you're alone anymore.

I legit LOL-ed at this.

[sassypants]

Oct 5, 2018 20:51:09 GMT -5 aurora said:

Oct 5, 2018 9:59:01 GMT -5 travella said:

I finished The Girl You Lost by Katherine Croft, 3* and It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, 4*. I started Lethal White by Robert Galbraith.

QOTW:

If you are lonely, dim all the lights and put on a horror movie. After a while it won't feel like you're alone anymore.

I legit LOL-ed at this.

I *may* have swiped this to post on facebook...

[charlatti]

I’m about halfway through Lethal White by Robert Galbraith, which I’m really enjoying. I’m listening to The Long Way Home by Louise Penny. I’ve read it before but I’m new to audiobooks and thought a re-read would be a good way to ease in, plus it was enough in the past that I don’t remember it all in detail. I really like the narrator.

qotw:
 

[ally]

This week I finished:
Dinner with Edward, Isabel Vincent 4* - I listened to this and found it quite enjoyable.
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 2 1/2* - I chose this from my IRL book club, it was recommended highly and has general 4* reviews - I just didn't really like it.  I would have stopped reading if it were not my choice. 

I stopped reading Death Class, Erika Hyasaki - also for an IRL book club.  I just didn't like it enough to finish where there are so many other books out there!

I started reading The Stone Sky, NK Jemisin, book #3 - I have found this series hard to read at a quick pace, but also very enjoyable - hard to explain!

QOTW:  I have no idea how to include a meme....