Friday 6/14 - What are you reading?

[ufcasey]

What have you read/are currently reading?

QOTW:
Which would you choose: Be able to fly on planes anywhere for free for life (plus one guest) OR have a moderately priced vacation house for free (you get to pick the house but you could only use it for vacation, no one can live there full time, you can't rent it out, and you could never sell it)

[meowmaps]

I read A Place for Us. It's one of my favorite books of the year.

Currently reading The Satapur Moonstone. I'm really enjoying it so far.

QOTW: Definitely flying for free for life. I'd like the flexibility to go wherever I'd want to go, whenever.

[tacokick]

Read these three yesterday

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen Anthony

And reading now:

They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Howe

It’s adult summer reading time in my city so I’m going for it!

QOTW:

I guess plane tickets? The house is tempting but if just for vacation and never maybe actually living there, I’d pass.

[rainbowchip]

I missed last weeks post so I'll put it here.
I read Restore Me and Shadow Me (Shatter Me #4 and 4.5). I really like Tahereh Mafi's writing. Even if the books don't have the best plot ever.

I'm currently reading The Savior (BDB #17) It's probably going to be predictable but I can't stop these books!

QOTW: Definitely free air travel. I have such a list of all the different places I want to visit all over. And, to me, vacation is staying in a hotel and not having to cook and clean. Having a vacation house is the opposite of that.

[Gato]

I finished Women’s Work by Megan Stack. It was a little bit different than I was expecting, since it’s mainly a memoir without much reporting. However, her observations are sharp and she’s self-aware, so I liked it.

This week I’m reading The Wall by Jon Lancaster, a dystopian fiction about life after huge climate change.

QOTW: I already live in my vacation home, so I chose plane tickets.

[msmerymac]

Still working on Queen of Shadows. 80% done.

QOTW: This is hard, because my brother and I hope to inherit our family vacation house someday already (but not for free, that thing requires $$$ property tax - because NY - and utilities). But since my H and I love Cape May and try to go at least once a summer, AND our jobs will probably evolve to something where could mostly work remotely, if I had an awesome house in Cape May, I figure we could do what my mom used to do with us when we were little and just go to the summer house for pretty much the entire summer. It's just a few hours from us (like 2.5) whereas my dad's house is 4.5 hours away, minimum. 

I mean LOOK AT THIS STUFF. These are in an adorable town right on the beach. These houses cost millions. I would never have one unless I got my QTOW magic wish.

[Vespasia]

I'm about halfway through Daughter of Smoke and Bone. I was enjoying it a bit more before they started explaining things. 

QOTW: Definitely plane tickets. I'm very good at finding cheap places to stay so that's always less of an issue. Plus we already have a family vacation home. 

[meowmaps]

msmerymac I love Cape May!

[travella]

I finished Children of Blood and Bone. I am nearly half way through Daughter of the Moloka'i by Alan Brennert.

QOTW: Definitely free airfare! I love to travel! My parents have a lake house and while it's nice; I'd rather go somewhere new and different.

[krystee]

I am reading Mrs. Everything.

QOTW: I would pick free plane tickets. I grew up going to the same place for vacation every time (my parents’ cabin), so I want to see the world.

[wesleycrusher]

We Must Be Brave by Frances Liardet - 4

The Rose & the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh - 3

The Wrath & the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh - 4

Normal People by Sally Rooney - 5

The Yankee Widow by Linda Lael Miller - 4


QOTW: Fly. We do not live close enough to vacation anywhere that I would want to go on a regular basis (within a few hours drive).

[dontlook]

Jun 14, 2019 10:51:42 GMT -5 meowmaps said:

I read A Place for Us. It's one of my favorite books of the year.

Currently reading The Satapur Moonstone. I'm really enjoying it so far.

QOTW: Definitely flying for free for life. I'd like the flexibility to go wherever I'd want to go, whenever.

I love A Place for Us. Maybe one of my favorite books ever.

I started 2 different books this week that I DNF. I just couldn’t push myself to keep reading either.

QOTW: free plane tickets. My H has a connection for cheap hotels so we could use that to find a place to stay.

[charlatti]

I’m reading Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner. It’s good but not great; I think it could have been edited more tightly.

Qotw: If taxes and upkeep are included in my free house, definitely a vacation home on the beach. I don’t love traveling but I do love the ocean.

[aurora]

Do the free plane tickets come with absolution of guilt for all the carbon dioxide emissions? Because that's the only thing that's prevention me from picking that otherwise.

[abs]

Finishing up Jane Green’s newest right now. Good but not great.

QOTW: plane tickets for sure!

[minzy]

I’m still reading The Nature Fix by Florence Williams. One of the big ideas covered is that to see stress reduction/calming/health benefits, you should spend at least five hours outside a month.

QOTW: I’m with aurora on the strong guilt over the plane miles, though I have loved traveling in the past.

[mrspez07]

Listening to Harry Potter order of the Phoenix with my boys.
Listening to Beach club by Elin Hildebran
Reading Everywhere that Mary went by Lisa Scottoline

Plane to fly anywhere.

[sassypants]

I'm nearly finished with The Stone Sky. I had to let my hold for Elevation go in order to read this, but it was worth it.

QOTW: Definitely plane tickets. There are so many places I want to go to that I can't afford to because of the cost of airfare.

[charlatti]

Jun 14, 2019 20:00:17 GMT -5 aurora said:

Do the free plane tickets come with absolution of guilt for all the carbon dioxide emissions? Because that's the only thing that's prevention me from picking that otherwise.

I think if my imaginary beach house can be tax- and upkeep-free, your tickets can be magically environmentally friendly. Solar powered air travel?

[ssmjlm]

Finished: Becoming, loved it, cried, laughed, great book!

I signed up for the KU 2 month for $.99 deal. So I've read a couple books from that. I really enjoy The First Wives Club series. Finished book 4 from there.

Currently reading The Cactus, slow start.

QOTW: Plane tickets because we already have a beach house that we don't rent out and can anytime.

[fernweh]

Reading: You
QOTW: definitely free flights!

[Nonny]

I finished Circling the Sun late last night, and started Children of Blood and Bone.

QOTW:  Plane tickets for sure.  I assume they are also first class. 

[krystee]

I finished Mrs. Everything and totally agreed with a Goodreads comment I saw that said 5-star concept, 3-star read. I averaged the two and gave it 4, but 3.5 is probably most accurate.

[tacokick]

Jun 16, 2019 17:50:07 GMT -5 krystee said:

I finished Mrs. Everything and totally agreed with a Goodreads comment I saw that said 5-star concept, 3-star read. I averaged the two and gave it 4, but 3.5 is probably most accurate.

Yes. It is basically the story of her mother so maybe she was too close to the story to really flesh it out?

[wildrice]

I'm reading Origins by Dan Brown. It's basically exactly what you'd expect from one of his books. I do enjoy that he adds a bunch of historical stuff that I don't know anything about to his novels.

QOTW: Plane tickets for sure. I have absolutely zero interest in a vacation home at this point in my life. It's hard enough to balance seeing family and seeing new parts of the world, I just don't have time to also travel to a vacation home frequently. Unless maybe somehow my family and friends could just meet me there and I wouldn't have to visit them at their homes? But that sounds unnecessarily complicated because then we would BOTH have to fly instead of just 1 party flying to see the other.