Reading recap Friday 8/2

[charlatti]

What have you been reading this week?

QOTW: What is your usual eating schedule? Three meals a day? Several smaller meals? Intermittent fasting?

[abs]

Happy Friday!

I finished Before She Knew Him earlier this week. Super creepy and twisted but entertaining. Now I'm reading Next Year in Havana and can't put it down. I can already tell I'll want to read the sequel.

QOTW: 3 small meals a day plus snacks.

[charlatti]

Lots of light reads this week:
Paw and Order by Spencer Quinn, a Bernie and Chet mystery (3.5*, mostly because I love dog characters)
Graceling by Kristin Cashore, YA fantasy — looks like everyone else read this a long time ago. I really loved this world and the characters. 5*
Re-read of HP and the Sorcerer’s Stone — always reliably good. 5* 

I’m about to start Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson.

QOTW: three not-huge meals plus snacks (often fruit or veg snacks, but sometimes I just need empty carbs)

[travella]

I started and gave up on One Day in December by Josie Silver. I just couldn't get into that book; there were too many things that bugged me about the story. I finished When All is Said by Anne Griffin, 3.5*. It was good, but too much like A Man Called Ove so I compared it to Ove and it was nowhere near as good. I started Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield last night.

QOTW: I eat three meals a day with lunch being my biggest meal for the day. I try not to eat three hours before bed.

[meowmaps]

travella I couldn't get into One Day in December either. I quit very early on.

I read Daisy Jones & The Six. I didn't love it. I like the author and her writing style, but following a rock band's trajectory did nothing for me. I probably shouldn't have read it.

I started Searching for Sylvie Lee two nights ago. I'm intrigued so far.

QOTW: I eat three meals a day with little snacks in between like a banana or some nuts.

[rainbowchip]

I finished Recursion. If you liked Dark Matter, you will probably like Recursion too.

I'm currently reading P.S. I Still Love You.

QOTW: I work from home so I eat basically when I'm hungry. Which isn't the best because somedays I end up just eating all day. I always do a larger dinner for the family each night.

[msmerymac]

I'm working on Empire of Storms, mostly, and have a few more going on in the background.

QOTW: I will eat a small breakfast and/or drink coffee or tea on my way to work or when I get to my desk between 8-8:30. I might have a snack around 11, and then lunch around 1. I'm usually fine (although my coworker has a terrible habit of making us baked goods for the afternoon) until dinner around 7.

[wesleycrusher]

Ten Tiny Breaths by K.A. Tucker - 2. started good, ended up being predictable with just an awful ending.
Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir by Kambri Crews - 4. Similar to Educated.
Sarah's Child by Linda Howard - 2. I rated this a 2 only because it very typically of the romances of the time (published 1985). Which basically means the male lead is an awful, sexist jerk.
The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts by Tessa Fontaine - 4
The Rules (Project Paper Doll, #1) by Stacey Kade - 3
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman - 3. I'll stick to his fiction from now on.
Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater - 4

QOTW: Lunch and Dinner during the week while I work, but will eat breakfast Sat and Sun with the family. AW alert: I cut out breakfast a few months ago and have lost 20 lbs.

[Vespasia]

I'm reading Knife, the twelfth Harry Hole book by Jo Nesbo. It's very good but a bit hard to read for reasons I want go into because they're spoilers. We also just finished watching the latest season of Luther so I'm surprised I am not having terrible nightmares!


QOTW: Usually just three meals a day, rarely snacks unless MH talks me into making popcorn to watch a movie or show. 

[sarahswim]

This week I read Little & Lion (Brandy Colbert) and All the Beautiful Lies (Peter Swanson). I hated the ending of Little and Lion and actually liked the ending of All the Beautiful Lies.

Currently I'm at 3 meals a day. Once I head back to school (two weeks from today), I'll go back to intermittent fasting, which usually looks like eating from noon-7pm and fasting from 7pm-noon.

[mx27]

This week, I finished "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine." After the first few chapters, the story really picked up for me. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Currently reading "Where the Crawdads Sing." I think I'm about half way through. It's just okay so far.

QOTW: I usually eat 1 to 2 meals per day.

[krystee]

I am reading Us Against You by Frederick Backman and Do It Scared by Ruth Soukup.

QOTW: I had weight loss surgery this year so I tend to eat three very small meals (about half a cup and I’m stuffed) and two or three snacks. I have lost 80 pounds so far.

[Gato]

I just read Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley. It was a little slow during the middle hundred pages, but the ending contained some truly outstanding writing. I’ll have to read more of her stuff.

QOTW: I eat breakfast between 7-8, lunch around 11:30-12:00, a snack with my kids at 4:00, and dinner from 6:30-7:00. I try not to eat after that; I’m not really a big stacker. My weakness is the bakery, which is just two doors down from me. Overall, food is one of my biggest pleasures, and I eat heartily and well. Dieting will never be my thing.

[minzy]

Aug 2, 2019 22:58:25 GMT -5 Gato said:

I just read Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley. It was a little slow during the middle hundred pages, but the ending contained some truly outstanding writing. I’ll have to read more of her stuff.

Ooh, I’ll have to check that one out. I don’t remember everything about it now, but I know I loved The Past by Tessa Hadley. (I also read The Master Bedroom though didn’t like it as much.)

[minzy]

I finished Sustainability Made Simple - Small Changes for Big Impact by Rosaly Byrd and Lauren DeMates. This is a short (157 pages of text) but thorough summary on sustainability. It’s extremely well sourced, which always gets a thumbs up from me. Everyone should read it!

QOTW: I am not as strict about three square meals, but tend to “graze” throughout the day.

[sassypants]

My loan for Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History) ran out so I have to wait until I'm up next again. It was slow getting into it, plus I had other books ahead of it, so I didn't get very far. I'm reading Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel right now, and that should be pretty quick.

QOTW: I do the three meals thing for the most part.

[Nonny]

I feel like I haven't been keeping up with the weekly reading check ins, and I'm like 6 books behind schedule for the year too, so that isn't helping.

I've finished A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson, and To the Bright Edge of the World, and I've went back to reading on Sandmand Vol. 7 (finally!) today, and started Tell the Wolves I'm Home last night.


QOTW: The only meal I eat consistently is dinner, because for some reason my H insists on eating every day. LOL!  Most of the time I just kind of nibble and graze all morning/afternoon, depending on what I'm doing.