Friday the 13th reading thread

[charlatti]

What have you been reading this week?

QOTW: If you cook, where do you look for new recipes? If you don’t cook, where do you look for new eating ideas (restaurants, recipe suggestions for your chef , whatever)?

[rootbeerfloat]

I'm reading the sixth Bridgerton book.

QOTW: DD cooks dinner most nights, and every weekend we brainstorm the meal plan together, which typically involves her rejecting 90% of our suggestions, then Googling the ones she wants to try.

[meowmaps]

I read Not a Happy Family this week. Quick and good read.

Now I’m reading The Guncle. Really like it so far.

QOTW: I generally employ google to find recipes and from there rely on cooking blogs.

[Vespasia]

I've been reading The Searcher by Tana French. I'm about halfway through and it's fine. I'm not sure that I'm terribly invested in the outcome of the mystery so far though.

QOTW: I follow a few food bloggers. Smitten Kitchen is probably my favorite. I also swap recipes with friends and family. Lately I've started getting a food box once or twice a month so I don't have to think about it at all!

[charlatti]

I’m reading Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee (author of Pachinko), which is really good.

QOTW: I need new recipe ideas, hence the question. I used to be able to follow a bunch of recipe bloggers on Pinterest, but they don’t let you see just the people you follow anymore, so it’s pretty much useless if I just want ideas and not something specific. I follow a few food blogs through Facebook, but I would love something like what Pinterest used to be. It must exist somewhere.

[minzy]

I’m still reading the Alex Trebek book, The Answer is. It’s okay.

QOTW: I am a horrible cook, that is not one of my strengths or interests. I have snagged a few recipes from other people when they’ve made something good at a party though.

[travella]

I finished:
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I'll wait to give my rating for when we discuss it later.

The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel, 5*

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) by Bess Kalb, 2.5*

I started The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin

QOTW: I usually search Pinterest for recipes. If I'm bored I'll check out some of my favorite bloggers or food gawker. If we go out we usually settle on a place we know the kids will like or that we think the kids will like.

[charlatti]

Aug 13, 2021 21:45:36 GMT -5 travella said:

QOTW: I usually search Pinterest for recipes. If I'm bored I'll check out some of my favorite bloggers or food gawker. If we go out we usually settle on a place we know the kids will like or that we think the kids will like.

You just made my day. I had not heard of foodgawker, but it looks exactly like what I was looking for — lots of different bloggers in one place. Thanks!

[aurora]

Aug 13, 2021 18:13:59 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

I'm reading the sixth Bridgerton book.

QOTW: DD cooks dinner most nights, and every weekend we brainstorm the meal plan together, which typically involves her rejecting 90% of our suggestions, then Googling the ones she wants to try.

This made me chuckle. I hope her ideas end up tasting good nonetheless.

[aurora]

I've been really tied up with work so I haven't picked up a new book in several days (unlike me). I have The Invisible Life of Addie Larue on my Kindle for next.

I'm listening to The Dark Tower (7th book in Stephen King's series). I read it a few years back and have been doing a gradual re-read (listen) to see if I pick up other things I missed the first time through. It's still kind of on and off for me (love book 4 and parts of some others, think he could have used more editing in places).

[dontlook]

I read 2 books:
- Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: 2 stars
- It Happened One Summer: 3.5 stars

I originally gave Finlay one star but I upped it a little bit. I think I was too harsh. I don’t know what I expected but it’s clear my expectations were way off.

It Happened One Summer was a basic rom com book.

QOTW: I’m on a skinny tastes kick right now. Really enjoying most of the meals I make.

[tacokick]

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Herd by Andrea Bartz

The Husbands by Chandler Baker

The Perfect Family by Robyn Harding (not good)

Everything I Have is Yours by Eleanor Henderson (this was hard to read because it is billed as a love story and medical mystery and I really think her husband is just gaslighting her with most of it)


QOTW:

Mostly food websites and newsletters. Newspapers.

[ssmjlm]

The Unhoneymooners - super cute, but did not like the Dane storyline
Blindsided - 2.5 stars, apparently part of a "series," but also a "standalone." I really dislike when authors do that.
The Locker Room - I love Meghan Quinn and am sad I just discovered her. She can write like you're in the room with the characters.

Currently reading: 44 Chapters about 4 Men
This is the book Sex/Life was based on and it seems both the show and the book aren't great. I'm going to put it down, but I might DNF.

QOTW: I'm so over cooking that at this point, cooking instead of cereal or take out is a win.

[sarapocalypse]

Finished The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah this weekend.

QOTW: DH does almost all of the cooking, but I typically look for new recipes for him to try by browsing blogs.