Friday, April 5 - week's books?

[aurora]

I never remember to come in here early on Friday. Excited to start the thread!

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

QOTW: Write a Haiku about a book you love. Or, heck, one you hate. How about a book you feel strongly about?

[aurora]

I'm reading

The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar. I found this one on our monthly book club voting list and, even though it didn't win, thought it looked really interesting. It's even better than I thought! An impressive mix of modern and historical in a region of the world I don't read very much about. The only thing that is bugging me is that I'm reading it on Kindle so it's hard to follow the historical adventure on the map, and I can't find a good picture of the historical map online, so I'm a bit lost from a geography perspective.

Listening to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for fun distraction.


QOTW:

Childe Roland ventures
Stephen King inserts himself
But who will survive?

[tacokick]

Read:

My Lovey Wife by Samantha Downing (campy, beach read)

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young (at times funny and makes serious points)


Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (liked this a lot!)

Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now so I Can Correct it? by Patricia Marx and Roz Chast (cute)


Good Talk: A Memoir in Coversations Mira Jacobs (very topical)


Reading: As Long As We Both Shall Live by Joann Chaney

QOTW: (Books I hate)

Daisy kills a woman
Driving Gatsby’s yellow car fast
Everything implodes


Wizards and goblins
Sauron’s eye and Gollum
It’s not my precious

[rainbowchip]

aurora can you pull up the map from the book on the kindle app on your phone?

[abs]

I read the entire The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy this week. I don't know what made it such a compelling read for me but I couldn't put them down. Now I'm reading Dreamland by Sarah Dessen. Apparently I'm not ready to be a grown up in my reading choices yet.

[dontlook]

I finished my reread of The Giver: 5 stars
The Ladder to the Sky: 4.5. Thanks for the recommendation! The last paragraph of the book was amazing! The only reason I didn’t rate is 5 is because I found a bit of it repetitive. I would love to discuss the book more.
I listened to The Gratitude Diaries: 4 stars. I don’t love audio books as I find it too easy to zone out and not listen. I’m pretty sure I fell asleep through 2 parts but I’m still counting it.

I’m currently reading Matilda with DD and reading The Other Woman by Sandie Jones.

[travella]

I read There There by Tommy Orange, 3*. I am currently reading and enjoying Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter.

17/45

[estrellita]

I finished the 2nd Harry Potter book on Audible (reread, read it a looong time ago)

Currently reading Circe and liking it so far!

[meowmaps]

I finished Our House earlier in the week. Really good.

Currently reading Where the Crawdads Sing. It's reminding me of To Kill A Mockingbird for some reason. Not so much the plot but the dialect, I think.

[aurora]

Apr 5, 2019 10:11:05 GMT -5 rainbowchip said:

aurora can you pull up the map from the book on the kindle app on your phone?

I guess probably, though I don't actually have the Kindle app on my phone because I strongly prefer to read on my actual Kindle. That would alleviate my issue with the difficulty going back and forth on the Kindle, though, and maybe it would be higher quality/more zoomable?

[rainbowchip]

Apr 5, 2019 11:18:38 GMT -5 aurora said:

Apr 5, 2019 10:11:05 GMT -5 rainbowchip said:

aurora can you pull up the map from the book on the kindle app on your phone?

I guess probably, though I don't actually have the Kindle app on my phone because I strongly prefer to read on my actual Kindle. That would alleviate my issue with the difficulty going back and forth on the Kindle, though, and maybe it would be higher quality/more zoomable?

That's what I was thinking. You could look at the map on your phone while reading the book on your kindle.

I get not wanting to read on your phone. I'm not a fan of it either!

[mx27]

Just started "Surprise Me" by Sophie Kinsella. Too early to tell, but I am looking forward to reading more!

[msmerymac]

Nice, I've guessed all the haikus so far.

I didn't finish any this week. Still reading Sharp Objects and started listening to The Remains of the Day.

[aurora]

Apr 5, 2019 13:18:55 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Nice, I've guessed all the haikus so far.

I didn't finish any this week. Still reading Sharp Objects and started listening to The Remains of the Day.

We need more!

Holden. The Angst!
Who can stand him? Oh, not I!
No motivation.

[wesleycrusher]

Read:
Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss (audio) 3
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes (audio)- 4
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore- 2
A Song for the Stars by Ilima Todd- 3
Jell-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom- 4

Currently Reading:
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala

[Gato]

This week I read Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. A great, if weird, read.

Now I’m starting Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li. I don’t love it yet; it’s a little potboiler-y for my taste. And I was expecting more food in it (there’s non so far).

[wesleycrusher]

Apr 5, 2019 13:30:42 GMT -5 aurora said:

Apr 5, 2019 13:18:55 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Nice, I've guessed all the haikus so far.

I didn't finish any this week. Still reading Sharp Objects and started listening to The Remains of the Day.

We need more!

Holden. The Angst!
Who can stand him? Oh, not I!
No motivation.

Legit question- is angst one or two syllables?

Obama staffers

Memoirs that make me miss him

In highest office

[msmerymac]

Apr 5, 2019 14:00:23 GMT -5 wesleycrusher said:

Apr 5, 2019 13:30:42 GMT -5 aurora said:

We need more!

Holden. The Angst!
Who can stand him? Oh, not I!
No motivation.

Legit question- is angst one or two syllables?

Obama staffers

Memoirs that make me miss him

In highest office

This applies to probably 5 books I've read in the last year!

[gibbinator]

I finished Sleeping Beauties by Stephen/Owen King. Great book. Caused me a great deal of anxiety and sadness, mixed with some good hearty schadenfreude. Ended appropriately (I actually think a lot of my anxiety was because the story was so good that I was worried I'd be horribly let down at the end).

On a desert world
Sandworms rumble underground
Muad'Dib's plans take shape

[tacokick]

Apr 5, 2019 14:00:23 GMT -5 wesleycrusher said:

Apr 5, 2019 13:30:42 GMT -5 aurora said:

We need more!

Holden. The Angst!
Who can stand him? Oh, not I!
No motivation.

Legit question- is angst one or two syllables?

Obama staffers

Memoirs that make me miss him

In highest office

I say it as one

[wesleycrusher]

Apr 5, 2019 14:18:15 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

Apr 5, 2019 14:00:23 GMT -5 wesleycrusher said:

Legit question- is angst one or two syllables?

Obama staffers

Memoirs that make me miss him

In highest office

This applies to probably 5 books I've read in the last year!

Same! My favorite was Thanks, Obama by David Litt.

[aurora]

Apr 5, 2019 14:00:23 GMT -5 wesleycrusher said:

Apr 5, 2019 13:30:42 GMT -5 aurora said:

We need more!

Holden. The Angst!
Who can stand him? Oh, not I!
No motivation.

Legit question- is angst one or two syllables?

Obama staffers

Memoirs that make me miss him

In highest office

I think just one, which means I fail at Haiku writing.

[aurora]

Apr 5, 2019 16:21:20 GMT -5 gibbinator said:

I finished Sleeping Beauties by Stephen/Owen King. Great book. Caused me a great deal of anxiety and sadness, mixed with some good hearty schadenfreude. Ended appropriately (I actually think a lot of my anxiety was because the story was so good that I was worried I'd be horribly let down at the end).

On a desert world
Sandworms rumble underground
Muad'Dib's plans take shape

This is a fair concern with King!

Also I realize it's been a very long time since I read

SPOILER: Click to show

Dune.

[aurora]

Children in danger
Are the odds in your favor?
Forever haunted


Bullet in her head
Wanted her education
An inspiration

[wesleycrusher]

Apr 5, 2019 17:24:51 GMT -5 aurora said:

Apr 5, 2019 14:00:23 GMT -5 wesleycrusher said:

Legit question- is angst one or two syllables?

Obama staffers

Memoirs that make me miss him

In highest office

I think just one, which means I fail at Haiku writing.

I was going to do a Harry Potter one, but couldn't decide if Hermione was 3 or 4...

[aurora]

Apr 5, 2019 17:38:05 GMT -5 wesleycrusher said:

Apr 5, 2019 17:24:51 GMT -5 aurora said:

I think just one, which means I fail at Haiku writing.

I was going to do a Harry Potter one, but couldn't decide if Hermione was 3 or 4...

I think it's officially 4 - at least the way she say it to teach Krum in book 4 - but I think it's really said with 3.

[aurora]

At King Arthur's court
A woman's story is told
Lady of the lake

[ssmjlm]

Got quite a few finished since it's spring break and I took the week off.

Mister Romance - Prime freebie: Cute book, decent storyline
Duke by Default - meh, not sure how it ended up on my TBR list
Tumble - Prime freebie: high school sweetheart book. The end was decent.
Then She Was Gone - awful, again, no clue how it ended up on my TBR list. I finished it and was like "WTF did I just read and how did this woman get a writing deal?" It was the oddest book with an even weirder storyline. I kept waiting for the main character to wake up, because it seemed like a bad dream she was stuck in.

Currently reading: Hudson (Book 4), not far enough along, but I got hooked when I read the trilogy.

[krystee]

I read A Man Called Ove, and I loved it. Some of the lines in there just GOT me and I was all choked up.

I just ordered two books from Book of the Month, got an ARC in the mail just from submitting my email address to get one, and got five books from the library. And I’m three books behind on my Books of the Month. My goal is to make this a big reading week!

[sassypants]

I'm about 3/4 of the way through Becoming and I love it so much while it makes me miss like hell the last administration. I identify so strongly with Michelle. I'm also rereading Good Omens just because.

Witches Daemons Vamps
Which one will find the book first
Creature origins