Happy Friday - 9/4

[ufcasey]

It's Friday! What have you been reading this week?

QOTW:
Would you rather have the super power of invisibility or would you rather have the ability to fly?

[minzy]

I read Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero (horror). It’s just not my genre.

I also read Untamed by Glennon Doyle. I wasn’t too aware of her going in and thought it might be like Eat, Pray, Love (which I did not like) since she is such good friends with Elizabeth Gilbert. There’s definitely a lot going on in the book, but I really enjoyed it and would recommend it.

QOTW: I’d rather be able to fly than be invisible. I often have dreams that I can swim across the tops of rooms through air and it seems so cool, haha.

[Vespasia]

I finished On the Come Up last night. I will eventually put my thoughts in the discussion thread but overall I liked it. 


QOTW: Fly! I could summit cool mountains without all that pesky hiking. 

[Vespasia]

minzy the "Readers Also Liked" books for Meddling Kids are all by one of my favorite authors. I will have to check it out because it definitely sounds right up my alley. I will probably save it for next month though since I am always looking for good horror books going in to Halloween.

[meowmaps]

I read Happy & You Know It. It was a fast, decent read but nothing too deep or memorable.

Now I’m reading Mexican Gothic. I really like it so far but haven’t been able to read as much the past few days. Hopefully that will change over the long weekend.

QOTW: Neither? Sometimes I feel like I already have the power of invisibility and I think I’d be afraid to fly unless I had a ride like a magic carpet.

[charlatti]

I’m almost done with Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld. This is the third of her books I’ve read and I always feel like I only sort of enjoy them but find them very readable. They suck me in even though I don’t actually like them all that much. Up next is All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny, which I’m very excited to start.

Qotw: definitely fly — that has always been my most desired superpower.

[jwright]

I'm about to finish The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan (the GoFugYourself blog girls); it's the second one they've done as a fictionalized story about the British royal family. The first one was much better; this is too long! For a "spoof" it's 900 pages on my Kindle app. I'll probably end up giving it 2.5 stars.

QOTW: Fly. I assume that means I could take myself places that I currently can't go during the pandemic.

[wesleycrusher]

minzy Vespasia My book club read Meddling Kids a few years ago. The premise was so good! But the execution....meh. No one enjoyed it.

Know My Name by Chanel Miller- 4
The Answer Is...Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek (audio)- 4
Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales by Tamora Pierce- 3
The New One: Painfully True Stories by a Reluctant Dad by Mike Birbiglia (audio)- 4

[minzy]

Sept 4, 2020 15:17:49 GMT -5 wesleycrusher said:

minzy Vespasia My book club read Meddling Kids a few years ago. The premise was so good! But the execution....meh. No one enjoyed it./quote]

Spoilers:

I didn’t love the repeated attempts to make a physical lesbian relationship happen when one character said it wasn’t for her. And the fixation with the red curly hair, almost as if it were its own character. I rolled my eyes with the line about how horror writers don’t get laid. And the spooky stuff that was so ridiculously farfetched.

[meowmaps]

Sept 4, 2020 15:17:49 GMT -5 wesleycrusher said:

minzy Vespasia My book club read Meddling Kids a few years ago. The premise was so good! But the execution....meh. No one enjoyed it.

Know My Name by Chanel Miller- 4
The Answer Is...Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek (audio)- 4
Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales by Tamora Pierce- 3
The New One: Painfully True Stories by a Reluctant Dad by Mike Birbiglia (audio)- 4

I’m glad you liked the Mike Birbiglia book! I’ve seen him perform his show The New One. I heard the book kind of expands on it. He’s so funny and a great storyteller.

[rootbeerfloat]

I finished The Glass Hotel. The first few chapters were slow, but it eventually got going. I dislike books in which none of the characters are worth rooting for. This was one of those books.

charlatti , I find Sittenfeld readable, but not enjoyable. She suffers from the problem I mentioned above (the main characters are often insufferable white women), and something bothers me about how she writes POC characters.

QOTW: Flying

[tacokick]

When I Was You by Amber Garza

The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert (really cute middle grade/YA book)

Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram (excellent!)

Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker

Playing Nice by JP Delaney

Easy books because it was a rough week.

QOTW:

Invisible! The concerts I could go to! The free flights!

I don’t like heights so no thanks to flying.

[travella]

I finished The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron, 5*. I had read a glowing review for this book months ago and finally got around to reading it. For a YA book I felt this was well written.

I'm currently reading From Scratch by Tembi Locke and with my son I'm reading George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl.

QOTW: Invisibility, but only if I had the power to turn it off and on. I'm scared of falling from heights so I don't think I could handle flying.

[fernweh]

I finished Little Fires Everywhere on Thursday and haven’t started anything new yet.

QOTW: definitely fly. I would save so much money on vacations if I didn’t have to by plane tickets.

[rainbowchip]

I had a really slow reading week thanks to virtual school starting. I finished Oona Out of Order. When I first started it, I was skeptical but I ended up really enjoying it.

I'm currently reading You Should See Me in a Crown and I just can't get into it. I think I'm not really in a YA mood right now. Or maybe I'm just not in the mood to read with all the stress of figuring out school.

QOTW: my first thought is invisibility because I'm super nosy and I would love to be a fly on a wall for stuff.

I also am getting too technical about the flying thing. How fast could I fly? If airplane speed, what would I need to protect myself from bugs and birds and stuff? Or would I have to fly super high to avoid them? If so, would I need oxygen? Would there be other effects to being at a high altitude?