Happy Friday! Reading thread 3/12

[charlatti]

What have you been reading this week?

QOTW: How do you feel about daylight savings time changes? Spring forward  this weekend...

[rootbeerfloat]

I finished the first 3 Bridgerton books.

QOTW: No DST where I live, so indifferent.

[tacokick]

Inheriting Edith by Zoe Fishman

Again, but Better by Christine Riccio (so bad)

Girl A By Abigail Dean

Yolk By Mary HK Choi


Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South by Regina Bradley

Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson with Michelle Burford (I liked reading about her childhood especially)

QOTW I am thrilled because I love sunshine. I hate setting the clocks back and it getting dark early.

[rainbowchip]

The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn - the plot was very similar to Ths Duke and I.

Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan - I also love food so I related to this book. But it wasn't LOL funny for me.

QOTW: I have strong feelings about time changing! I hate it so much! I want the changing to stop! I would rather we stay with the time we are on right now because I don't like that it's light out at 9pm in the summer, but I won't care which one is picked if it just stops changing.

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I finished China Dolls by Lisa See. 4/5 stars. While i didn't love it as much as some of her other work, i really enjoyed it, especially once i realized how much research went into it.

Just started Bringing Down the Duke. Seems ok so far. Enjoyable but not life-changing, so about as expected.

QOTW-I think DL savings time is dumb. I'm in AZ and we dont change. I can't believe it's that time again already!

[estrellita]

I finished Take A Hint Dani Brown. It was cute, but I didn't like it as much as Chloe Brown!

Currently reading Uprooted. I like it so far.

I wish we had daylight time all year. I prefer it lighter later!

[meowmaps]

I read Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America. It presented a lot of interesting points. This is a short book but I didn’t read more this week because I started and stopped something else.

QOTW: I like springing forward because I like more daylight. The only thing I like about falling back is gaining that extra hour of sleep. But having a kid around kind of makes that irrelevant nowadays.

[charlatti]

I just finished We Begin at the End by Chris Whittaker, which was really good. Now starting either The Gilded Ones or The Upstairs House. Lots of good library holds coming in lately.

QOTW: mixed feelings. I wish we would just pick one and stick with it. I’m not looking forward to my morning drive being dark again, but the evening light will be nice.

[travella]

I'm still working on Troubled Blood.

QOTW: I usually don't look forward to Daylight savings time in the Spring. However, this year it's right before the kid's Spring break so it should be an easy transition.

[Vespasia]

Earlier this week I finished The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey. I was very pleased with this one. It reminded me a bit of Blake Crouch's work with the science I don't understand backed by a good story.

Now I am reading The Rose Code by Kate Quinn. It's quite good but I feel like a few things that are supposed to be twists will not be. We shall see though!

QOTW: I wish we would pick a time and stick with it.

[aurora]

I'm listening to The Power by Naomi Alderman, which I hadn't heard of until I saw it recommended on Twitter by Margaret Atwood. It is slightly reminiscent of Handmaid's Take in the storytelling but a very different premise where the women have all the power. I'm really enjoying it.

I'm re-reading the Outlander series in anticipation of the next book hopefully coming out this year. Not back-to-back, but intermittently. Right now I'm on Voyager. Gabaldon's web site says she's almost done with book 9 but it's said that for a very long time now so who knows.

QOTW: I don't love the change, especially tonight when we lose an hour!

[ufcasey]

This week I read:

Tangled Threads (#4 in series) by Jennifer Estep - urban fantasy; I liked the overall plot developments, but there weren't any interesting twists or reveals particularly in this book

Your Dad Will Do by Katee Robert - basically all smut (daddy-kink) and no plot, but it was well written *shrug*

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob - graphic novel; I really enjoyed this, recommended!

QOTW: I like that it gets dark later, I just wish we would stick with this time and not do the whole 'fall back' time adjustment later in the year. Also, we do this spring ahead time change two weeks ahead of when the UK does it, which makes some work meetings a scheduling nightmare until they 'catch up' to us.