Last Friday of May 5/28

[charlatti]

What have you been reading this week?

QOTW: Are you good at crossword puzzles?

[meowmaps]

I read Eight Perfect Murders. It was fine, nothing special. Now I’m reading Crying in H Mart.

QOTW: I’d like to be good at crossword puzzles but I don’t practice enough at all. My dad does them all the time and I seem to have a knack for helping him to fill in a blank or two.

I really like jigsaw puzzles and pre-kid when I could devote a lot of time to this hobby, I could complete a 1,000 piece puzzle in two afternoons/evenings.

[travella]

I finished The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager and am currently reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

QOTW: I love crossword puzzles! I do the Mensa games crossword every day.

[Vespasia]

Earlier this week I finished Project Hail Mary, which I was very pleased with.

Now I'm in a rare for me situation where I'm reading two non-fiction books:
The first is World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, the posthumous Anthony Bourdain book. The parts that are written in his own words are good but overall somewhat disappointing. I think organizing the destinations by alphabetical order was a very poor choice.
The second is Sugar High, a memoir by Alexandra Park about being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes shortly before beginning filming of The Royals. Not something I would normally pick up but I've always liked her for some reason and I enjoy her "voice" in the book.

QOTW: I used to be terrible at them until my dad introduced me to the New York times mini puzzle. Now I'm just okay. They really have their own special type of logic that took a while to get used to.

[rootbeerfloat]

I read Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert. I enjoyed all 3 books in this series.

QOTW: I used to be pretty good at them, but I can't remember the last time I did one, so maybe not anymore haha.

[minzy]

My kids and I read the YA book Front Desk by Kelly Yang (thanks lilac05). We just started the follow up book to that, Three Keys. (Did you know she’s got a third one in the series coming out in Sept?)

QOTW: I like crossword puzzles, but haven’t done any in long while. I know when I used to do them, there’s many clues that come up repeatedly. It would probably take awhile to shake the rust off and learn the tricks again.

[tacokick]

Can you tell I had trouble sleeping?!

A Double Life by Flynn Berry

Off the Record by Camryn Garrett

Girl in the Walls by A.J. Gnuse

Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung

Under the Hallow by Flynn Berry

Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins

God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney

The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

QOTW: I don’t think I’ve tried to do one since I was in HS!

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I am finishing The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller. It was one of Amazon's Read the World picks this year's and it's been very very good and very eye-opening about the realities of fleeing a war-torn country even when your family has the resources and opportunity to do so.

I am about to start either The Ten Thousand Doors of January or Transcendental Kingdom.

QOTW-I generally dont like games or crossword puzzles, so no, probably not.

[charlatti]

I’m reading Skyward by Brandon Sanderson, a YA sci-fi rec from my kid. I like it but it’s a little more action oriented than I prefer.

QOTW: I don’t like getting them started. My parents used to do them regularly and I enjoyed taking a turn when someone else got it going, but I don’t really like doing them on my own.

[aurora]

I just finished Trevor Noah's Born a Crime. I had had it on my shelf for a while but was avoiding it in favor of escapist fiction (and book club reads). Once I started it I flew through it. Highly recommended.

QOTW: maybe I'm average. I like doing them with H since he knows a lot of the music and sports trivia that I don't so we complement each other.

[turboteal]

May 29, 2021 6:02:03 GMT -5 charlatti said:

I’m reading Skyward by Brandon Sanderson, a YA sci-fi rec from my kid. I like it but it’s a little more action oriented than I prefer.

QOTW: I don’t like getting them started. My parents used to do them regularly and I enjoyed taking a turn when someone else got it going, but I don’t really like doing them on my own.

I love Brandon Sanderson! Haven't read Skyward but I highly recommend the Mistborn series and the Stormlight Archive books (starts with The Way of Kings).