Friday 3/20 reading thread

[meowmaps]

What did you read this week?

QOTW: I'm trying to be positive and think about the future - what's the first thing you want to do post self-isolation that you can't do right now?

[meowmaps]

I finished The Sun Down Motel earlier this week and really liked it. I'm sort of surprised since I'm a scaredy-cat and the paranormal stuff did creep me out a little. I also inhaled Such a Fun Age. I loved it!

Just started The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America. It's very good but a little dense. It might take me a little longer to get through.

QOTW: @ I need a break from my kid so anything that would involve a date day or night - seeing a movie, having a nice meal, or taking a hike.

[tacokick]

The Tenant by Katrine Engberg

Almost American Girl by Robin Ha (very good)

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (dark but good)

Brother & Sister by Diane Keaton (I’m not sure why this needed to be a book. Journal this, Diane)

Filthy Beasts by Kirkland Hamill (I don’t understand how he got a deal. I think it was supposed to be funny but wasn’t.)

Lost Restaurants of Baltimore by Suzanne Loudermilk

And half of 2-3 books I just gave up on.

QOTW: I really want to go out to a nice dinner! Our 15th anniversary is next week and I guess we will be here eating whatever has the closest expiration date.

[travella]

I just finished The Nickle Boys.

QOTW: See all my friends again and have my kids see all their friends again before we move.

[dontlook]

I read:
The Girl In Red by Christina Henry: 4 stars
I Think I Love You by Lauren Layne: 3 stars of fluff

QOTW: I’m going to the gym! I miss it so much.

[Vespasia]

I'm reading Now, Then, and Everywhen which I think was a Kindle First this month. I'm really enjoying it but because it involves time travel it is a bit confusing.

I meant to read the Nickel Boys this week but I couldn't handle anything depressing.

dontlook you're brave reading Girl in Red now!

QOTW: I am hoping we'll be able to open our summer cottage Memorial Day. It's my happy place. And my apocalypse plan. 😉

[dontlook]

Mar 20, 2020 18:36:47 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

I'm reading Now, Then, and Everywhen which I think was a Kindle First this month. I'm really enjoying it but because it involves time travel it is a bit confusing.

I meant to read the Nickel Boys this week but I couldn't handle anything depressing.

dontlook you're brave reading Girl in Red now!

QOTW: I am hoping we'll be able to open our summer cottage Memorial Day. It's my happy place. And my apocalypse plan. 😉

I almost quit because I didn’t want to read about a flu like pandemic but I’m glad I kept going. It was good. I had another book about a pandemic and I quit that one. I couldn’t do 2 books like that back to back. It was too much right now.

[charlatti]

I’m still working through my middle grade series, Keeper of the Lost Cities. Even with that I’m having trouble concentrating on reading much.

QOTW: yoga class, shopping for basics without anxiety. Mostly I want the normalcy of school back — I teach, and I miss my kids so much more than I would have expected. And I want to hang out with my mom.

[abs]

I'm really struggling to concentrate on anything right now. I read Open Book by Jessica Simpson and that was fine. Now I'm reading Big Lies in a Small Town and I'm pretty sure it's really good but I can't concentrate at all.

QOTW: I can't wait to see my friends again and have DD see hers. I'm way more of an extrovert than I realized. I also really want to plan a vacation.

[Nonny]

I'm behind the board, so I'm reading The Bookish Life of Nina Hill. 

QOTW: I want to go to the gym, but I also want to just be able to out to a restaurant, and eat there with my friends, and hang out chatting. 

[rainbowchip]

I finished The Nickel Boys. I also read Open Book by Jessica Simpson. I was surprised at how much I liked her story. She kept it really real.
I just finished The River by Peter Heller and it was really good. It's been a while where I've prioritized reading over sleep and this book did that. I stayed up way past my bedtime.

I'm going to start Frankly in Love by Daniel Yoon next and I'm still working my way through HP#1 with my kids.


QOTW: definitely normal shopping. I have a fever (no other symptoms) so I'm staying away from shopping right now and it's difficult to trust others to shop for me.

[aurora]

I just (finally!) got the Bookish Life of Nina Hill, so I'm going to try to finish it before the Nickel Boys discussion.

I'm also reading Kristen Hannah's The Great Alone. We used to vacation in Homer when I was growing up so I love reading about the places (and types of people) I remember.

QOTW I really want to meet friends at the local pub.

[sassypants]

Mar 21, 2020 16:01:38 GMT -5 rainbowchip said:

I finished The Nickel Boys. I also read Open Book by Jessica Simpson. I was surprised at how much I liked her story. She kept it really real.
I just finished The River by Peter Heller and it was really good. It's been a while where I've prioritized reading over sleep and this book did that. I stayed up way past my bedtime.

I'm going to start Frankly in Love by Daniel Yoon next and I'm still working my way through HP#1 with my kids.


QOTW: definitely normal shopping. I have a fever (no other symptoms) so I'm staying away from shopping right now and it's difficult to trust others to shop for me.

Feel better soon! A close friend of mine has exhibited signs of the virus and is finally fever free as of yesterday, but it still worries me!!

[sassypants]

I finished Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams. It was fine but completely predictable. I didn't get much out of it, sadly. I hate when I know the ending of something like that before I'm even 1/4 of the way in. I'm starting the first in the Witcher series, Blood of Elves. I liked the show so I hope I'll like the books. I was trying to go back to the Biltmore book but this hold came in the day after I finished SW so I've set it down again.

QOTW: I just really, really want to find a new and better job ASAP. I lost mine the week before the self-quarantine really took hold and NO ONE is hiring right now. It's a major stress for me even though DH can keep us going with his salary and we live in the parsonage. And I want to get back to the theatre and all my theatre friends.

[kelliebeans104]

I finished Daisy Jones & The Six last week, which was really good. It reads super fast and is a fun read. I already have my husband and one of our friends reading it.

I'm currently reading The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (author of The Night Circus). I only just started but I can already tell this is going to be really good. I loved the Night Circus and I'm excited that she's finally put out another book. Erin came to a local bookstore of mine back in December so I got to go to that and get my book signed. It was really fun.

QOTW: I would love to go out to eat. I don't think I've cooked this many days in a row maybe ever lol. I am thankful I can get grocery delivery where I live and things have been fairly well stocked.

[minzy]

I read The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious - A Memoir by Lori Jakiela. I liked the way she wrote. I also read the novel The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson. Few of the characters were likable but it makes me fear parenting during the teenage years with social media, my god. Though I wish there was more closure with the book. I am also reading the Little House on the Prairie series with my kids. Laura Ingalls Wilder isn’t perfect, but every time some sexism, racism or corporal punishment comes up, we talk about it and say how we think it’s BS.

QOTW: I think my upcoming milestone birthday is going to look a bit different than it might otherwise have, but that’s ok.