Friday 2/28 weekly reading thread

[wesleycrusher]

What did you read this past week?

QOTW: Would you rather live the rest of your life as a monk or followed continuously by paparazzi?

[travella]

I finished The Secrets of Lost Stones
by Melissa Payne, 3*. I started A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd.

QOTW: I'd rather live like a monk.

[meowmaps]

This week I read You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington and Followers.

Eta: I'm about to start Uncanny Valley.

QOTW: Without a doubt I would live like a monk. I'm a pretty private person. I don't even have social media accounts unless you count this.

[dontlook]

Feb 28, 2020 19:28:39 GMT -5 meowmaps said:

This week I read You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington and Followers.

Eta: I'm about to start Uncanny Valley.

QOTW: Without a doubt I would live like a monk. I'm a pretty private person. I don't even have social media accounts unless you count this.

I’m next in line for you never forget your first. I’m excited. I also just finished Followers.

I finished The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell: 4 stars.
I’m half way through Insurgent.

QOTW: paparazzi

[charlatti]

I read The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell, which I didn’t really like but I think it was just not my style of book. Now reading another of my middle grade Keeper of the Lost Cities series. I finally finished my audiobook, Brian Jay Jones’s Jim Henson biography. I really liked the narrator and found the end of the book surprisingly moving. I’m now listening to American Gods. It has a different actor for every character, which is pretty cool.

Qotw: definitely monk.

[Vespasia]

I struggled through The Good People by Hannah Kent for over a week and only made it about 1/3 of the way through. It's well written but just more depressing than I am in the mood for.

QOTW: Monk. They make beer and cheese so I could be happy!

[sassypants]

I'm reading The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, and I love it so much! I want to crawl into Morgenstern's worlds and live there. I loved The Night Circus for the same reasons.

QOTW: That's a tough call. I like my privacy but I also like attention. It would be hard to pick. I guess paparazi because I'd still be able to live my life and have DH and my cats.

[minzy]

I finished The End of Ice - Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail. He visited several places worldwide where effects are visibly underway, including two places I visited when I studied biodiversity in college. This one made me really sad. 😢

QOTW: I’d need to be with my family, so that probably precludes me from being a monk? Though I would really not want a paparazzi lifestyle.

[rainbowchip]

I finished The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. Still reading She Said (only have about an hour and a half left on audio so I'll finish today) and Rich People Problems

I also started Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone with my kids last night.

QOTW: my first instinct is monk but I'm not 100% sure what that all entails.

[wesleycrusher]

-Page (audio) by Tamora Pierce
-The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
-First Test (audio) by Tamora Pierce
-The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife (thanks to sassypants who recommended this- it was a topic I knew nothing about, and now I'm following him on social media!)
-The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human by Noah Strycker


QOTW: paparazzi. My first instinct was monk, but honestly I'd miss having money too much, and presumably if the paparazzi were following me, I'd be rich, so...

[sassypants]

Mar 2, 2020 10:39:03 GMT -5 wesleycrusher said:

-Page (audio) by Tamora Pierce
-The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
-First Test (audio) by Tamora Pierce
-The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife (thanks to sassypants who recommended this- it was a topic I knew nothing about, and now I'm following him on social media!)
-The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human by Noah Strycker


QOTW: paparazzi. My first instinct was monk, but honestly I'd miss having money too much, and presumably if the paparazzi were following me, I'd be rich, so...

Oh yay! I follow him too! I love the ravens so much, especially Merlina. I'm such a nerd about it now that when a segment with author Hilary Mantel aired on BBC World News that was filmed at the Tower, at the beginning of the piece there was a distinct Grok Grok and I turned to DH and said "Did you hear that?! It was one of the Tower ravens!"