Friday 6/12 - What are you reading?

[ufcasey]

What have you been reading this week? 

QOTW:
With BLM being on the forefront of people's minds - name a Black author that you like (bonus points for also naming a book by that author). You can pick more than one author/book

[travella]

I am 30 pages from finishing The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey and my son and I are close to finishing What Is The Story of Scooby-Doo?

[rainbowchip]

I finished Rodham by Curtis Sittenfield and Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins.
Rodam was really good! Ballad was meh. I'm currently reading Un-Trumping America by Dan Pfeiffer.

QOTW: Jasmine Guillory The Wedding Date series is really great. I'm excited for the 5th book coming out this month.

[tacokick]

Wonderland by Zoje Stage
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Lethally Blond by Kate White
So Pretty It Hurts by Kate White

QOTW:

Nafissa Thompson-Spires was new to me this year!

[minzy]

I actually read some this week, woohoo.

Rust - A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach. She was a Cleveland steelworker and it’s kind of a millennial/political/cultural coming of age, has elements of both Educated and Hillbilly Elegy, but isn’t quite like either. I liked it.

Weather by Jenny Offit. My very first “cli-fi” (after reading a couple dozen nonfiction climate books). You might think because it’s short and fragmented that it doesn’t pack a punch, but it does. I think it was pretty skillfully done.

We are still reading The Long Winter (Little House #6) by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

QOTW: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has some quality stuff out. I thought Americana was really good.

[minzy]

Jun 12, 2020 11:05:56 GMT -5 tacokick said:

Nafissa Thompson-Spires was new to me this year!

I just put her book on hold, thanks for the rec!

[rootbeerfloat]

I'm reading The Ten Thousand Doors of January (finally).

QOTW: Tayari Jones (An American Marriage), Jasmine Guillory (The Wedding Date series), Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give, On the Come Up), Kwame Alexander (Booked, The Crossover), Jason Reynolds (All American Boys). Last three are all YA authors.

[mrspez07]

Listening to We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union and trying to finish reading Fly Girls. I’m only getting to that at bedtime though.

Tayari Jones. American Marriage was a 5* book for me.
I haven’t read them but they all look great for my boys: Jason Reynolds, All American Boys; Look Both Ways; As Brave as you, are the3 I have on the list for my 11yo

[meowmaps]

I read Hidden Valley Road earlier in the week. Fascinating but grim. I’m working on The World That We Knew right now. Loving it.

QOTW: American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson. It’s one of my favorite books this year. I think it might become a series. I hope so!

[wesleycrusher]

-The Dutch House by Ann Patchett- 4
-Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella- 3
-The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones by Rich Cohen (audio)- 3
-Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad by Alison Wearing- 4
-Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters- 2
-Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2) by Martha Wells- 3


QOTW:
Fiction- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi was excellent. She has a new book coming out later this year that I'm excited to read.
Nonfiction- What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young (from Very Smart Brothas). He lives in the same city as me

[charlatti]

I’m reading The Invited by Jennifer McMahon. It’s ok, not really grabbing me but interesting enough.

Qotw: N.K. Jemisin— I loved her Broken Earth trilogy and her newest, The City We Became, was fantastic.

[Vespasia]

Finished:
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfield This was very well done but a little hard to read since it meant reliving a version of the recent past.

Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson I had high expectations for this, a mystery set in northern Iceland. Unfortunately, it was boring and I never really cared about the characters or solving the murders.

Currently reading:
Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid I'm enjoying this so far. It reminds me a lot of Sliding Doors but I really liked that movie.

QOTW: Justina Ireland. I loved Dread Nation and Deathless Divide. Zombies and commentary on racism in a post-Civil War alternate version of history.

[aurora]

I'm reading World Without End by Ken Follett and finding it meh. I like the genre (historical fiction with architecture) but his characters all feel very flat.

Listening to The Starless Sea and very lost. I'm going to have to read a primer to be able to talk much about it in book club.

QOTW: NK Jemisin was the first who came to mind. Love her Broken Earth trilogy. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a very powerful writer in the non-fiction realm.

[sassypants]

I finished A Court of Thorns and Roses and was able to move on to A Court of Wings and Ruin almost immediately (had to wait for that library hold to come in), both by Sarah J. Mass. I like this second one a bit better because it seems like Feyre has managed to regrow her spine and quit being pitiful Bella Swan-like helpless. I won a GR book this past week as well, so I'm looking forward to that. It's called The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History.

QOTW: I love Roxane Gay's essays. Her book Bad Feminist is incredible. I also love NK Jemisin. She writes fantasy with a female POC protagonist. I've finished the books in the Broken Earth series, but I cannot find the third book in the Inheritance Trilogy at the library here so I may have to suck it up and buy it because I prefer that series to BE. Her world building is AMAZING!!

[litskispeciality]

I had a pretty good reading weekend. Made progress on "The Vast Fields of Ordinary" and "Open Book" by Jessica Simpson.

QOTW: I really liked The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory (nice and fluffy!) and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, learned a lot. I realize I need to expand my author's!