Friday 12/14 - what are you reading?

[ufcasey]

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

QOTW:
If you could only drink one thing for the rest of your life that is NOT water (regardless of nutritional value/harm), what would it be?

[meowmaps]

Read:

The Widows of Malabar Hill 3.5*
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 5*

Currently reading:

Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home (I was catching up on This is Life with Lisa Ling and was reminded how much I love her so I thought I'd give this book a try.)

QOTW: I'm a big water drinker but if I drink anything else it's hot chocolate, coke, or a mimosa. The rest of my life is a long time...I guess coke.

[tacokick]

I finished My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew by Abigail Pogrebin and
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi this week. I enjoyed them both.

I’m in between books now. I think I’ll start The Last Thing I Told You by Emily Arsenault today. I wish it was on the kindle but the library only had physical copies.

QOTW: I can only drink this? I guess soda. I love it more than I should.

[ufcasey]

Read:
Becoming A Vincent by C.M. Owens
4 stars/ contemporary romance
Some crazy town antics and some romance, this was fun!

Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham
3 stars/nonfiction
It had some good parts but wasn't particularly insightful or memorable

Mist's Edge (The Broken Lands, #2) by T.A. White
4 stars/fantasy romance
This series keep surprising me with how much I enjoy it despite itself almost. Great lead character and world building

Sustained and Sidebarred by Emma Chase
4 stars/contemporary romance
Male POV + six kids = really enjoyed this! The second book is a novella but really is more like an extended epilogue

Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
3.5 stars/contemporary romance
Hazel is supposed to be 'quirky' but really it was mostly her saying inappropriate things at times which made me laugh

Total so far for the year: 153

QOTW:
Sprite - it's caffeine free and won't stain my teeth. I would probably develop a bad chocolate habit though to get some caffeine some days LOL

[sassypants]

I finished Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. It was great, and I felt it was very accessible to laypeople.

I'm a little over halfway through The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman. I've read other AH before, including Practical Magic, and disliked it all (though I love the PM movie), but this one is really good and I'm enjoying it so much.

QOTW: I drink mostly water, but I could never ever give up my morning coffee.

[Vespasia]

I'm on vacation so I have had more time to read than usual.

Finished:
Hope Never Dies: an Obama Biden Mystery - this was a bit slow to start but a lot of fun. Hardly great literature but it was entertaining and some parts were so funny I made MH read them.

Wild Card (sequel to Warcross) - really enjoyed this. It was a quick read and I like where the author went with the story. Better than the first book.

Abandoned:
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters - this book had a lot of potential but it was painfully slow and I really didn't care about the characters. I gave up around 60% and just read the synopsis on Wikipedia.

Getting ready to start Sharp Objects. I'm also still listening to Becoming, which is fantastic, but I just don't have much time for audiobooks.

QOTW: I guess I am the only lush here because I would definitely pick wine! I usually only drink water anyway.

[travella]

I am still reading A Discovery of Witches, but I'm on the fence on whether to force myself to continue the book or throw in the towel. My interest in the book is waning fast. The author threw in everything, even the kitchen sink! Too many details! The book would have been better had it been trimmed down.

QOTW: I usually drink water, but if I had to choose I'd choose Pomegranate Bai.

[minzy]

I read Florida by Lauren Groff, P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han, (YA fluff but a palate cleanser), You Better Not Cry by Augusten Burroughs (holiday stories which veered from laugh out loud funny to as sobering as a lover dying from AIDS). 73 books read so far this year.

QOTW: After water, my second choice would be milk. Especially if I could flavor the water with an Arnold Palmer mix and the milk with hot chocolate. 😀

[bex]

I'm back to the Death of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware. I couldn't get into it for the longest time so I went and read the last 10 pages LOL and now I'm intrigued to see how we get to that ending, so I'm into it now. So spoilers work sometimes ha.

After water - am I going to live in a magical word where I wont always be drunk? Because if so, champagne. I love champagne, ha.

[mx27]

Still reading "Kindred" by Octavia Butler. The premise is more captivating than the actual story thus far, but I'll continue on for now...

QOTW: lemonade or some other kind of juice

[abs]

Finished Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand last night.

QOTW: coffee!!!!

[litskispeciality]

This was a bad reading week. I'm still chipping away at When We Were Worthy, but The Woman in the Window finally came up so I think I'll switch to that.

QOTW: I drink a lot of water, so I guess I'd have to pick coffee.

[krystee]

I finished One Day in December (good light read if you're looking for a break between heavy books!), made progress on Becoming, and I'm partway through An Anonymous Girl by the authors who wrote The Wife Between Us. I am enjoying it so far!

I would drink iced tea (plain, no sugar or lemon). I love it. Diet Coke would be a close second.

[mrspez07]

I’m reading Transcription and Just started listening to The Marsh King’s Daughter.

I would choose chai tea. I crave creamy warmness and the caffeine is also necessary!

[charlatti]

Psst, ufcasey, I think you’re a week behind! We have two 12/7 posts 😆

I’m reading the last in a YAish trilogy, The Dark Days Deceit. It’s pretty good but overly long — could have used some more editing, I think.

Qotw: I can live without coffee but I don’t want to, so that’s my pick.

[meowmaps]

Dec 15, 2018 6:13:46 GMT -5 charlatti said:

Psst, ufcasey , I think you’re a week behind! We have two 12/7 posts 😆

I’m reading the last in a YAish trilogy, The Dark Days Deceit. It’s pretty good but overly long — could have used some more editing, I think.

Qotw: I can live without coffee but I don’t want to, so that’s my pick.

I guess a lot of us are out of it because I didn't notice either!  Lol

[ally]

I finished The Bookshop of Yesterdays, Amy Myerson, 3* - it was fine, I love a book about books/bookstores, but I did not like the heroine much, it was predictable, overall not great.

This week my loan of We Were Eight Years in Power was over and I never got through it.  I still have the audio of Dare to Lead, we'll see if I get any further.  I am currently reading One Day in December, Josie Silver - it is fine, also not great.  I do have two paper library books and a hold has come in, so I need to move on to those.


QOTW:  It is a toss up between coffee and champagne - they serve two very different purposes in my life, so I think it depends on time of day when such a question in asked!

[Gato]

Feel Free by Zadie Smith: it's essays and reviews and speeches, all of them good, that I read. I could only get through about half, so back on the request list it goes.

I just started Transcription by Kate Atkinson, then got a super bad stomach bug yesterday. For my suffering yesterday, DH gave me this today off, so I hope to read the whole thing - Kate Atkinson is usually addictive.

QOTW: this is lame to everyone but me, but I definitely would chose milk. I LOVE milk! Especially with pasta and pizza. I literally have strong cravings for it when I eat those things, so I can't imagine going without it.

[tacokick]

Dec 15, 2018 13:28:00 GMT -5 Gato said:

QOTW: this is lame to everyone but me, but I definitely would chose milk. I LOVE milk! Especially with pasta and pizza. I literally have strong cravings for it when I eat those things, so I can't imagine going without it.

That’s so funny! We had milk at every meal growing up EXCEPT if it was pasta or pizza!

[ufcasey]

Dec 15, 2018 6:13:46 GMT -5 charlatti said:

Psst, ufcasey, I think you’re a week behind! We have two 12/7 posts 😆

I’m reading the last in a YAish trilogy, The Dark Days Deceit. It’s pretty good but overly long — could have used some more editing, I think.

Qotw: I can live without coffee but I don’t want to, so that’s my pick.

Copy & Paste fail. I fixed it, but now we have two 12/14 posts lol

[ssmjlm]

For those that have read December's pick: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, does it get better? I'm on chapter 5 and very confused.

[tacokick]

Dec 19, 2018 9:13:38 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

For those that have read December's pick: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, does it get better? I'm on chapter 5 and very confused.

I’ve been trying too! I thought it was just me. It’s a bit of a slog so far.