Friday 6/19 - Reading Recap

[ufcasey]

What have you been reading this week?

QOTW:
Would you rather have the ability to know when someone is lying to you or have the ability to lie to anyone without them finding out?

[litskispeciality]

I'm still plugging away at "The Vast Fields of Ordinary" and "Open Book" by Jessica Simpson. Hope to finish Vast Fields this weekend.

QOTW: I guess know when someone is lying as to avoid future consequences.

[travella]

It was a good week. I finished:
The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey, 4*
Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey, 4*
What is the story of Scooby Doo? by MD Payne, 4* (read with my son)

I'm currently reading The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James and reading Get to Work Hercules by Kate McMullan with my kids.

QOTW: I'd probably choose knowing when others are lying because I don't have many instances where I feel I need to lie.

[charlatti]

Quite a few this week:
Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin, 3 stars
Mercy House by Alena Dillon, 4.5 stars
The Bear by Andrew Krivak, 4.5 stars

Now reading Above the Bay of Angels, a fun and very light Rhys Bowen historical mystery. My library re-started circulating more books between branches, so a ton of my holds came in. I need to read faster!

QOTW: I guess I’d like to know when someone is lying, but I’m pretty good at that already. I don’t lie often enough to worry about getting away with it.

[meowmaps]

I read An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena 4* and A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende 4*.

I'm about to start another Shari Lapena. I'm craving mystery/thriller fluff.

QOTW: I guess I'd want to know when someone is lying. I've never been able to lie (no poker face) but I'm OK with that. It's not something I'd want to be good at.

[dontlook]

I read The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo: 2.5 stars. Has anyone read this one? I really want to discuss it. The book had short chapters which I normally love but they were extra short in this one and seemed cut short. The main character is HORRIBLE. The book may have been good but I couldn’t stand the main character by the end so I couldn’t be objective.

QOTW: I’d rather know if someone was lying.

[mrspez07]

I’ve just finished Fly Girls. It’s about the early female pilots and it was really well written and easy to read.
I finished listening to We’re going to need more wine by Gabrielle Union. I really enjoyed it, she grew up in an area very familiar to me and overall enjoyed her perspective and writing approach.

I’m reading The 7.5 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and listening to Doing Harm.

I had put like 30 books for our family on hold for a scheduled pickup at the library. I got 1 for DH and one for the kids, the other 4 that came in were mine. I better get reading!! I wish I could read in the car, we’ve got a road trip ahead of us.

I think I would choose the being able to lie, though I would hope I wouldn’t use it much. If I could detect everyone else’s lies I would be very disappointed all the time. In them, in the situation.

[wesleycrusher]

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - 2
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day by Joel Selvin (audio) - 3
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal - 4

QOTW: know if someone was lying.

[minzy]

I finished Not Without My Father - One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace by Andra Watkins. It’s in the same travelogue vein of A Walk in the Woods and Wild, but in part about her evolving relationship with her parents, and her dad in particular. It made me want to go hug my own dad. Then we finished The Long Winter (Little House #6) by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

QOTW: I can’t lie at all so I guess if I had to pick, I’d want to know when others lie. However, I’d probably become much more jaded if I knew what people were really thinking, and that’s not how I want to be. I guess then I’d rather not know after all. It’s the same reason why I haven’t joined the snarky neighborhood Facebook page, and just keep to the vanilla one, haha. Rose colored glasses, party of one.

[krystee]

I recently finished The Starless Sea and wanted to love it because it is such a vividly imagined world, but I was kind of confused and still don’t quite know what happened.

I also just finished One to Watch, about a plus size bachelorette contestant. As a plus size person myself, I feel a compulsion to buy every book with a plus size character so that books featuring larger characters continue to be made. I enjoyed it.

I am currently reading The Vanishing Half.

QOTW: I don’t think I want to know when people are lying to me. I’d pick me being able to lie and not get caught, and then I would do my best never to use that superpower.

[tacokick]

All easy books this week! No real standouts. All 2-3 stars.


Even If It Kills Her by Kate White

Bad Trust by Michael A. Kahn

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones

The Sea of Lost Girls by Carol Goodman

QOTW: the ability to lie. I think I’m pretty good at telling when people are lying and I think being able to tell a lie and have it be believed could come in handy.

ETA: I asked my husband the question and he said that he’d know how I’d answer and then told me my answer practically verbatim. I guess he knows me too well lol

[Vespasia]

I'm reading A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight. It's pretty good, better than a lot of other books in that genre.

QOTW: I would only want to know if people were lying if I could turn it off. Sometimes I don't actually want to know!

[rainbowchip]

I finished Un-Trumping America by Dan Pfeiffer. It was pretty good. I think he's talked about most of it on PSA.

I'm reading Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi and A Black Women's History of The United States by Diana Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross.

QOTW: Lying is probably the thing I hate the most so I would definitely go for being able to tell when people are lying.

[tacokick]

Jun 20, 2020 7:58:41 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

I'm reading A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight. It's pretty good, better than a lot of other books in that genre.

QOTW: I would only want to know if people were lying if I could turn it off. Sometimes I don't actually want to know!

I think it’s being turning into a show!