Friday 10/11 - Reading Review

[ufcasey]

What have you been reading this week?

QOTW:

What is your favorite 'scary' book? (or movie or tv show if you don't have a book)

[abs]

I’ve been re-reading the HP series.

QOTW: I’m not too into scary stories now but I liked them as a kid. Loved Wait Til Helen Comes. Trick or Treat by Richie Tankersley Cusick was another favorite.

[travella]

I have had a busy week so I'm still reading Miracle Creek. I am really enjoying this book though; it will probably be a 4-5* book.

QOTW: I don't like scary books/movies. I might read a non gory book that gets good reviews. I cannot think of a scary book at the moment that I would recommend.

[meowmaps]

I finished The Lost City of Z earlier in the week. It was decent but disappointing. The topic was really interesting but it was presented in a way that made it boring.

I'm two-thirds of the way into The Gifted School. I'm really enjoying it. It's a fun, quick read and I imagine it will be 4*.

QOTW: I'm not a fan of anything really scary but when I was young I did read Lois Duncan books. They were borderline scary/creepy. I had never read anything by Stephen King because of his genre but I loved 11/22/63, which wasn't scary at all.

[tacokick]

Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family by Priya Krishna

How to Be a Family: The Year I Dragged My Kids Around the World to Find a New Way to Be Together by Dan Kois (I ended up really disliking him by the end of the book. Also, his insistence that they don’t wear helmets while biking in Denmark or when they come back to the US was odd)

One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski (better than expected)

Said Through Glass by Jona Colson (poetry)

QOTW: I don’t know if I’ve read a really scary book before! Maybe some Christopher Pike? Lois Duncan?

[Vespasia]

I finished Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix earlier this week and really enjoyed it. It even ended well, which is rare for a horror novel. It's a haunted house-style story set in an IKEA knockoff store in Ohio. 

I also read three books from the Forward Collection. I think they're more short stories than novellas but Goodreads (and Amazon) have them listed as separate books so I am counting them.
Ark by Veronica Roth
Summer Frost by Blake Crouch
Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin



QOTW: Horrorstör was really good but a tad bit gory. The only other really memorable horror book that I read somewhat recently was The Ritual by Adam Nevill. Unfortunately, the second half wasn't nearly as good as the first. 

[rainbowchip]

This week I finished
Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer - I found her to be a lit more mellow than her public persona. She told some good stories about herself and I really enjoyed (yet hated) the part about the shooting in the cinema during her movie.

Beneath The Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish by John Hargrove - I really liked this book. This was basically how he came to be a whale trainer and what made him stop and become an advocate against SeaWorld. The journey he went on mirrored mine in that I used to love SeaWorld but slowly came to realize how awful it is for those whales.

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo - I don't get the hype around this book. I thought it was poorly written and jumped around a bunch. The stories were probably more interesting than the author wrote them so it was a bit of disservice to the women she was writing about.

I'm currently reading Waiting For Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey.

QOTW: I read almost every RL Stein Fear Street book when I was a kid.
As an adult maybe Horns by Joe Hill. But I wouldn't really call that scary even though I think it's in the genre.

[wildrice]

I have not actually spent much time reading this week. I was reading Circe by Madeline Miller, but I was having trouble getting into it and realized my IRL book club is on October 20th, so I needed to start reading the book. So I bought City of Girls, by Elizabeth Gilbert, which is the book club book. So far it's good, but I'm only about 12% of the way through. I am going to have to find some time to actually read in the next 9 days because I really don't want to show up without having finished it and have it spoiled.

I'm also listening to Bad Blood, the book about the Theranos/Elizabeth Holmes company. It's good, though I think it is WAY too detailed. A lot of the science goes straight over my head so I'd rather skip over a lot of the details.

QOTW: I actually can't think of any scary books that I've read! At least not in recent years. I've read a handful of Stephen King books over the years but nothing that I actually found scary. I did really enjoy the Haunting of Hill House on Netflix last year.

[dontlook]

I finally finished the Harry Potter series. I have 3 books from the library but I can’t get into any of them. I think I need a small break.

QOTW: I don’t like anything scary. I’m a big chicken and will have nightmares.

[krystee]

I am reading The Most Fun We Ever Had and Oprah’s The Path Made Clear. I finished The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, which I enjoyed.

I think the scariest book I have read is Pet Sematary or Salem’s Lot. Wait Til Helen Comes was my favorite scary book as a kid.

[Gato]

I finished The Gifted School, which was great.

I’m starting Reader Come Home by Maryann Wolf.

QOTW: It by Stephen King was the scariest for me because his barely fictionalized Bangor, Maine is my hometown so I could picture everything vividly.

[mrspez07]

I just finished listening to Dearie (about Julia Child),
I started listening to The Keeper if Lost Things
I started reading Behold the Dreamers for my IRL book club.

I’m not big on scary stuff these days. Yet I read a ton of murder mysteries and suspense.
I liked the scream movies awhile back and I liked to read a book as a teen called dollhouse or dollhouse murders.

[meowmaps]

Oct 11, 2019 18:44:40 GMT -5 Gato said:

I finished The Gifted School, which was great.

I’m starting Reader Come Home by Maryann Wolf.

I finished The Gifted School today too.  Such fun!

[sassypants]

I'm about halfway through Circe and really enjoying it.

QOTW: It's so hard to pick one because I've read so many! I don't really find books scary per se because I feel like I have control over what's happening. Firestarter is my favorite of SK's works, though, with The Stand running a close second.

[Nonny]

Almost done with Atomic Habits (finally!).  Still working on Surprise, Kill, Vanish (months!), The Eyes of the Dragon, and I set Story Genius aside because I want to read it a little closer to NaNoWriMo.

QOTW: It's not scary, but my favorite vampire TV show is Forever Knight.  It was a Canadian vampire cop drama made in the '90s, and it took itself so seriously.  LOL!  But it was really good because the characters were very strong, with superb backstories.  Most depressing series finale ever though.

[ally]

I haven't posted in  couple of weeks.  What I have read recently:

The Dream Daughter, Diane Chamberlain 3* - I liked it for the most part.  For anyone who has read it - the mistake the brother in law makes at one point was so unbelievable, I almost stopped reading.
The Paris Vendetta, Steve Berry 4* - I just really like this series, it is an easy, quick read.
The Dutch House, Ann Patchett 3* - it was fine, I count this author as a favorite, but I think I missed the point, it just never went anywhere for me. 

Currently reading Betrayal in Time, Julie McElwain (book 4 in the series) also an easy, comfortable read for me. 

QOTW:  I really don't do scary.  When I was watching Supernatural I had to watch during daylight hours because I had nightmares!

[mie]

Oct 12, 2019 14:10:16 GMT -5 Nonny said:

QOTW: It's not scary, but my favorite vampire TV show is Forever Knight.  It was a Canadian vampire cop drama made in the '90s, and it took itself so seriously.  LOL!  But it was really good because the characters were very strong, with superb backstories.  Most depressing series finale ever though.

This sounds familiar. Was there a TV movie first with Rick Springfield as the vampire? 

[Nonny]

Oct 15, 2019 13:22:12 GMT -5 mie said:

Oct 12, 2019 14:10:16 GMT -5 Nonny said:

QOTW: It's not scary, but my favorite vampire TV show is Forever Knight.  It was a Canadian vampire cop drama made in the '90s, and it took itself so seriously.  LOL!  But it was really good because the characters were very strong, with superb backstories.  Most depressing series finale ever though.

This sounds familiar. Was there a TV movie first with Rick Springfield as the vampire? 

I had to look this up, and yes, but it was about 3 years before the TV show premiered. 

There was also a very similar show on CBS about a decade later called Moonlight, but it was kind of crappy and was cancelled after 1 season.

[tacokick]

Oct 15, 2019 14:18:59 GMT -5 Nonny said:

Oct 15, 2019 13:22:12 GMT -5 mie said:

This sounds familiar. Was there a TV movie first with Rick Springfield as the vampire? 

I had to look this up, and yes, but it was about 3 years before the TV show premiered. 

There was also a very similar show on CBS about a decade later called Moonlight, but it was kind of crappy and was cancelled after 1 season.

There is also Blood Ties