Friday 10/4 Reading Recap

[ufcasey]

What have you been reading this week?

QOTW:

What magical power would you rather have: the ability to transport yourself into the past or the ability to transport yourself into the future (both would only let you return to the 'current' timeline; you wouldn't be able to change the past or the future, only view it)?

[travella]

I finished A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne, 3*. I started Miracle Creek by Angie Kim.

QOTW: Travel to the past. I wouldn't want to see the future and not have the power to be able to change it if I didn't like what I saw. If I could travel back in time I could always see those whom I've lost again.

[meowmaps]

I read of Forces of Nature (4*) and Ayesha at Last (5*) this week. I highly recommend Ayesha at Last, especially for fans of Pride & Prejudice.

In West Mills is next on my list but I haven't started it yet.

QOTW: Definitely the past. What if something bad happens in the future and when you return to the present that's all you can think about? I feel like that would be a cloud hanging over the rest of your life. I'd like to return to the past and relive happy memories and reunite with people and pets who have since passed.

[dontlook]

I read HP 6. I’m currently reading HP 7.

QOTW:
Future. Good or bad I just want a peak at the future.

[rainbowchip]

I finished Finale (Caraval #3). It wasn't great. I think the story was fantastic but the execution was horrible.

I'm still reading The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo on audio and I started Three Women.

QOTW: as much as I want to know how everything turns out, I also hate spoilers so I'd probably choose the past. Especially if I could go back to find out what actually happened in an event. Solve some mysteries and stuff even if I can't do anything about it.

[pandora89]

Currently reading The Last Guest House & The Rumor. I am liking both of them so far.

The future.

[Gato]

I DNF On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. It got repetitive after about page 75 or so. I might go back to it since it got such great reviews.

I did read Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher, which was just okay. It’s advice for women after menopause, kinda good, inspirational stuff but nothing new. Meh.

On to The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger.

QOTW: I’d love to go back in time to see my grandparents’ childhoods. I’m pretty sure the future would be too depressing!

[tacokick]

Know My Name by Chanel Miller (very good!)
Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok (eh)

In the Shadow of Power by Viveca Sten (I enjoy this series but one of the motives was very similar to one in an earlier book)

The Arrangement by Robyn Harding (bad)

Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory (ok but it seemed like a stretch to make it a book. I think it would have made a cute short story in some Christmassy anthology)

QOTW: the past because why bother with the future if you can’t change it?

[krystee]

I read The Bookish Life of Nina Hill and really enjoyed it, and I’m 3/4 through My Lovely Wife, which is awfully disturbing. I think I figured out the twist, but we shall see!

QOTW
I would like to get a look at the day after Election Day 2020 to see if I should get my hopes up or not. But I think the past wins...I want to see my kids as tiny babies again. Or see my grandparents. Or see my parents as kids.

[mrspez07]

I’m reading the Huntress and really liking it, just not enough time to read!
I’m also listening to Dearie about Julia Roberts. It’s a very thorough book of her life and I’ve had to recheck the audio out at least 2x. I like it though, especially when I upped the speed to 1.25x.

Go to the past. Could it be outside my own past or only mine? I love history and wouldn’t mind traveling around in various eras to get a sense of things. I’d have the same answer if it was just my own past.

[Vespasia]

I finished The Address by Fiona Davis. I thought it was better than her other book that I read, The Dollhouse.

QOTW: Definitely the past. I would like to solve some big mysteries.

[sassypants]

I started Circe and I'm really liking it so far.

QOTW: I'm a historian, so the past is my jam. I'd absolutely go back. In fact, not being able to change anything would help avoid creating a paradox, so I could be that proverbial fly on the wall.

[charlatti]

I just finished The Dutch House by Ann Patchett, which I loved, and started an ARC of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins.

QOTW: I definitely don’t want to see the future if I can’t change anything. I’m not sure where I would want to go to in the past — so many interesting options!

[minzy]

I read Red Notice - A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder. Let’s just say that I have no desire to ever go to Russia.

QOTW: I’d go back in time for sure if I couldn’t make a difference to the future. I need the hope that I can make a difference to keep me going forward and I think I am going to be devastated about the state of the future anyway (climate change). I’m glad actually seeing the future is not an option! Plus, I usually like reminiscing and would love to hypothetically hang out with my mother again.

[Nonny]

Is anyone surprised to hear that I am still working on Atomic Habits and Surprise, Kill, Vanish?  LOL.  I'm close to being done with Atomic Habits though.

I've also started a reread of The Eyes of the Dragon (because I needed something familiar and comfortable) and Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere) to prep for NaNoWriMo (and yes I copied that title from Goodreads because damn, is it long).


QOTW:  I guess if I can't go forward to Biff Tannen the stock market for personal gain, I'd go to the past and see cool things.  

[msmerymac]

I'm in the middle of a million books at the moment. We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, Catch-22, and a book called Born to Rule, which is about Queen Victoria's 5 granddaughters who became queens consorts of various European monarchies (Maud of Norway, Marie of Romania, Victoria-Eugenie of Spain, Sophie of Greece, and Alexandra of Russia). It reads kind of like this woman's PhD dissertation, but it's fine.

QOTW: The future. I have an MA in history, but actually experiencing the past is something I'm not interested in. I feel like I know too much, lol. I just find history interesting because it really is about normal people living their lives and events happening or influencing them that would go on to become important - you just don't know that when you're living it necessarily. So to go to the future to see what is going on in my own life that will affect the world would be really insightful.