Friday, April 5 - week's books?

[Nonny]

I think I missed last week.  I finished Nine Perfect Strangers last week (really enjoyed it, but I need to do a better review because I was super sick when I finished).  I also just finished Rich People Problems today.

I'm not sure what I'm going to start next.  I have Sarah Kendzior's The View from Flyover Country on my kindle, but that doesn't feel like a book I want to read while winding down for the night.

[aurora]

Apr 5, 2019 23:35:20 GMT -5 sassypants said:

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

Oh, man, I don't know this one.

[sassypants]

Apr 6, 2019 9:02:13 GMT -5 aurora said:

Apr 5, 2019 23:35:20 GMT -5 sassypants said:

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

Oh, man, I don't know this one.

Let's wait a day or two and see if someone else gets it. 

[Nonny]

Apr 6, 2019 9:58:05 GMT -5 sassypants said:

Apr 6, 2019 9:02:13 GMT -5 aurora said:

Oh, man, I don't know this one.

Let's wait a day or two and see if someone else gets it. 

I think I do know this one, even though I haven't read it.

SPOILER: Click to show

A Discovery of Witches?

I don't know the King Arthur one, or the specific Obama era memoir, but I know the rest.

[estrellita]

Apr 5, 2019 18:54:47 GMT -5 krystee said:

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!

What BOTM books did you get? I ended up skipping this month!

[krystee]

estrellita I forgot I actually got three! Beyond the Point, Normal People, and Daisy Jones and the Six.

[msmerymac]

Nonny, that is my guess as well

[sassypants]

Apr 6, 2019 12:30:50 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Apr 6, 2019 9:58:05 GMT -5 sassypants said:

Let's wait a day or two and see if someone else gets it. 

I think I do know this one, even though I haven't read it.

SPOILER: Click to show

A Discovery of Witches?

I don't know the King Arthur one, or the specific Obama era memoir, but I know the rest.

Yep, A Discovery of Witches.

[spedrunner]

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls I have heard many wonderful things about this book, but quite honestly I am ready to give up on it. It’s not that it is terrible or bad, it just does not have a grasp on me. I will give it a few more chapters, but if not will add to my DNF list!



A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty – Contemporary Fiction. I like it! I am interested and invested!



The Heart’s Invisible Furies – I feel like this is a great book but I just can’t get into it! The length is unsettling and I am impatient! Going to DNF but hope to pick it up again one day.



Got my mom to read both Verity and The Idea of You. She was hooked on BOTH as well! Verity is the cause of my lack of interest in other books I am currently reading. It’s a book you think about AFTER reading it. I have even found the author facebook page and read through her Q&A’s, but she leaves a lot of unclarity! Grrrr

[spedrunner]

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 ONE, one vowel, one syllable

[aurora]

Apr 6, 2019 12:30:50 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Apr 6, 2019 9:58:05 GMT -5 sassypants said:

Let's wait a day or two and see if someone else gets it. 

I think I do know this one, even though I haven't read it.

SPOILER: Click to show

A Discovery of Witches?

I don't know the King Arthur one, or the specific Obama era memoir, but I know the rest.

The King Arthur one is from a long time ago. I think I first read it when I was in high school.

[estrellita]

Apr 6, 2019 14:11:33 GMT -5 krystee said:

estrellita I forgot I actually got three! Beyond the Point, Normal People, and Daisy Jones and the Six.

I considered Normal People but I read the preview they have on the site and it didn't really pull me in. You'll have to let me know how those ones are!

[tacokick]

Apr 7, 2019 7:29:01 GMT -5 spedrunner said:

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls I have heard many wonderful things about this book, but quite honestly I am ready to give up on it. It’s not that it is terrible or bad, it just does not have a grasp on me. I will give it a few more chapters, but if not will add to my DNF list!

I finished it but didn’t love it. I was disappointed because I too heard great things and even suggested the library buy it.

[dontlook]

Apr 8, 2019 7:30:24 GMT -5 tacokick said:

Apr 7, 2019 7:29:01 GMT -5 spedrunner said:

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls I have heard many wonderful things about this book, but quite honestly I am ready to give up on it. It’s not that it is terrible or bad, it just does not have a grasp on me. I will give it a few more chapters, but if not will add to my DNF list!

I finished it but didn’t love it. I was disappointed because I too heard great things and even suggested the library buy it.

I also didn’t care for the book. It had a great premise and it could have been great but the story kind of went nowhere in the end.

[spedrunner]

Apr 8, 2019 7:53:21 GMT -5 dontlook said:

Apr 8, 2019 7:30:24 GMT -5 tacokick said:

I finished it but didn’t love it. I was disappointed because I too heard great things and even suggested the library buy it.

I also didn’t care for the book. It had a great premise and it could have been great but the story kind of went nowhere in the end

Ok good to know!! I may DNF it!

[tacokick]

Apr 8, 2019 7:53:21 GMT -5 dontlook said:

Apr 8, 2019 7:30:24 GMT -5 tacokick said:

I finished it but didn’t love it. I was disappointed because I too heard great things and even suggested the library buy it.

I also didn’t care for the book. It had a great premise and it could have been great but the story kind of went nowhere in the end.

Exactly. I finished it but didn’t feel like it lived up to what it could have been and then sort of forgot it. I’d check out her next book (if there is one though, I feel like it had promise and maybe with a better editor, it would have been good.

[dontlook]

Apr 8, 2019 8:09:23 GMT -5 spedrunner said:

Apr 8, 2019 7:53:21 GMT -5 dontlook said:

I also didn’t care for the book. It had a great premise and it could have been great but the story kind of went nowhere in the end

Ok good to know!! I may DNF it!

It’s one of those books you could scan, get the idea and put it away. I won’t remember it by the end of the year.

[Vespasia]

Apr 5, 2019 17:41:56 GMT -5 aurora said:

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

I was going to pick this book but I don't know how to write a haiku. 😉