Friday - November 8

[Nonny]

What's everyone reading this week?

QOTW: There are only 53 days left in 2019, so how are everyone's reading goals going for the year?  

[Nonny]

Same as last week for me, Your Perfect Year and Story Genius. 


QOTW:  I'm not doing so hot this year.  I set my goal to be 60 books like I've done the past few years, but Goodreads has been taunting me with being 8-9 books behind for the past month or so, and today I gave up and set it 50.  Now I'm back on track!  

[travella]

I'm currently reading Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane. I'm about 45% of the way through the book and not sure how I feel about it at the moment.

QOTW:52/45, I'm ahead of my goal, but I set it low knowing I'd probably read more than 45. I set it too high one year and I didn't want that frustration again.

[rainbowchip]

I am almost done with Know My Name by Chanel Miller. I knew this story generally but reading the whole thing with all the details has made me even more angry and sad.

QOTW: I'm at 56/52 for the year. I ended up with a few months of important but not really brain engaging work at work so to help pass the time I listened to a bunch of audiobooks which blew my goal out of the water. I hope to read a few of the goodreads choice nominees and then I really need to try to read at least one Outlander book. I have only read through Fiery Cross and want to finish the series but each book is such an investment of time.

[meowmaps]

I read Those People and Red at the Bone this week. I’m in the middle of The Secrets We Kept and enjoying it so far.

QOTW: I’m at 66/60 at the moment. If I keep up at this pace I think I could hit 75 by the end of the year. I recently got a slew of library holds and they’re all Goodreads nominees. I look forward to voting in the next round with more of the nominees under my belt.

[charlatti]

I’m reading The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith. It started strong but is dragging a bit in the middle for me. Hopefully it will pick back up again, because I’d like to finish it but I’m picking up a few highly anticipated holds at the library today (The Starless Sea!!).

Qotw: I’m at 78/80, so I probably should have aimed higher.

[dontlook]

I read Catching Fire and The Mockingjay. Catching Fire was so good but the ending of Mockingjay was really bad. I’m not sure why it ended that way. I also read 13 minutes by Sarah Pinborough which was good.

I’m at 73/52 for the year. I’ll have to set a higher goal next year.

[Vespasia]

I finished Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny. This is probably my favorite of the series so far. It totally made me cry a few times.

Now I am reading The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. It's good but I am still trying to get used to the world/terminology.

QOTW: I am at 46/50 for the year. This is the first time I have exceeded 35 books (no more grad school!) so I am pretty happy.

[Gato]

I ended up reading The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life, which was great but NOT light reading! So many insights, though. I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

I think I'm starting Olive, Again next? But so many library books that came in at once, something else might catch my eye.

I reached my goal of reading 50 books published in 2019 last week.

[tacokick]

Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn (as excellent as I remembered as a kid)

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan (well written true crime)

Enough: Notes From a Woman Who Has Finally Found It by Shauna M. Ahern (really bad, I think she made up or exaggerated almost all of it)

What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics by Rachael Denhollander (very good!)

The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief by Nora McInerny (fine)

It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too): A Memoir by Nora McInerny Purmort (I don’t remember why I requested all her books. This one is fine too.)

QOTW: I just finished book 189. I don’t have a goal but I’m way behind last year. I think by about 50 books. In my defense, my mom was diagnosed with brain cancer this summer and that wrecked my attention span.

[ssmjlm]

The Silent Patient - awful, 2*
Book Boyfriend - it was ok, it was sort of an odd premise and written ok
The Real Deal (Dublin Nights 3) - Loved this book, although the plot was a bit much. I'm a huge Brittney Sahin fan.
Watching You - DNF - did not GAF about any character

Currently Reading - Your Perfect Year, but it's kind of meh

QOTW: I'm at 86/90 for the year.

[Nonny]

Nov 9, 2019 22:15:51 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

Currently Reading - Your Perfect Year, but it's kind of meh

I thought it was going to be a light hearted comedy, and it's so not that at all.