Final Friday Reading of 2019 (12/27)

[Vespasia]

What have you read this holiday week?


QOTW: What are your NYE plans?

[travella]

I'll finish The Satapur Moonstone tonight, #2 Perveen Mistry series. I'm enjoying it and will probably continue with the series.

Qotw: We don't have any NYE plans besides having a nice dinner at home. We haven't startted awake for the ball drop for years.

[minzy]

I finished my 52nd book of the year yesterday, We Are The Weather - Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer. It was... wow. Basically an existential crisis about personal responsibility/culpability in the climate crisis. I am there myself, so could relate to so much of it. There is a lot to think about, though really, it’s pretty simple. Pretty much the easiest and most effective thing an individual can do to curb their emissions is to stop eating animal products. I highly recommend it, though it may make people feel uncomfortable (but it should).

QOTW: We don’t have any New Years Eve plans yet except that during the day, the kids are doing my Meals on Wheels route with me (they don’t get to see “my people” that often because of school). We’ll probably be in bed by 10.

[meowmaps]

I read Euphoria. Decent but not great. Now I’m reading Commonwealth. It’s my 80th book of the year so I’m determined to get it done by Tuesday night.

QOTW: No plans. Maybe we’ll watch a movie and eat grapes.

[sassypants]

I've finished Voices by Ursula K LeGuin. I liked it much beter than that first one in the trilogy. I am starting The Institute by Stephen King.

QOTW: A bunch of local theatre friends have banded together to throw a NYE Prom at one of the theatres. I found a dress on my first stop into a Goodwill and I am STOKED I didn't have to go all over creation and/or spend a lot on it.

[tacokick]

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren (okay, very light)

Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption by Ed Levine (I like him and Serious Eats less now)

Our Little Secret by Roz Nay (bad)

All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn (okay)

Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) by Ella Risbridger (loved)

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home by Tembi Locke (loved)

QOTW: We always have a themed movie night.

[charlatti]

I finished an ARC of A Good Neighborhood, which I didn’t like all that much. Now flying through Stephen King’s The Institute — his books are so long, but I always forget how fast they move.

Qotw: Nothing planned. Sometimes we have family over just for dinner but that isn’t going to work this year.

[Vespasia]

I finished two books again this week.

A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny - This was good. Not the best of the series but not the worst either.

The Oracle Year by Charles Soule - I ended up enjoying this more than I expected. Definitely a quick read.

QOTW: We usually do a nice dinner in but friends invited us over. We haven't decided what to do yet. We also have a NYD brunch to go to.

[expectantsteelerfan]

I just finished Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak. It's a book set over Christmas, and I wanted to pick it for my IRL holiday book club, but another member had read it and said it was too depressing for that, so we went with a cheesy holiday book that no one liked at all instead. Now I wish we had picked this, because even though it was depressing, it would have made for much better discussion!
I'm excited now to read The Institute. I got it from the library right before the holidays, but it was new and only a 7 day loan, so I returned it without starting because I wanted to read holiday books. I ended up with 104 books for the year, which is more than I imagined I'd read.
QOTW: Nothing other than taking the kids to get their passports. We might not even stay up till midnight (usually only do so if we're invited to something, and nothing has come up this year).

[Nonny]

Currently (actively) reading The Farm, it's good but upsetting.  I've put Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor and Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins aside because I've pretty much been only reading at bedtime, and these are both terrible bedtime books.


QOTW: We'll be staying in. I plan to take a CBD/THC "sleeping" pill that doesn't actually make me sleep, and enjoy that it takes the edge off the fireworks that will be going off like bombs in our neighborhood, and then eat a bunch of junk food.  

[rainbowchip]

I'm reading A Breath of Snow and Ashes. I well exceeded my goal this year (66/52) so I finally am picking this one up.

QOTW: I really want to go out to eat somewhere so I don't have to cook or make my own drink.

Then we will come home and watch Forest Gump. A tradition that we started when I was pregnant with DS 10 years ago and hung out with the ILs. It was on TV so we all just sat and watched and then went to bed.

[ally]

I expect to meet my goal of 52 books before the New Year - winter break from work has allowed so much reading time.

Read:
Of Blood and Bone (#2), Nora Roberts - 4*- I like the series
Vox, Christina Dalcher - 5* - I read it in a day, infuriating, but I liked it
Euphoria, Lily King - 3* - it was fine, not bad enough to quit, but I didn't really like it
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, EL Konigsburg, 4* - I am not sure how I didn't read it as a kid, cute story

Currently reading:
What She Ate, Laura Shapiro - one story left
The Lost Book of the Grail, Charlie Lovett
The Rise of Magicks (#3), Nora Roberts - my hold just came in, excited to finish the series.

QOTW:  We will have friends over for bubbly, Asian food, games, and general revelry!  It is the only way I will stay up until midnight!

[dontlook]

I read Royal Holiday: 4 stars. I liked it. I liked the slightly different angle of this book with the older couple dating.

QOTW: We will take the kids out. A few places have fun activities and 8 pm balloon drops. I think the kids will enjoy that.