Friday! 12/3

[charlatti]

What have you been reading this first December week?

QOTW: What is your favorite holiday cookie? (Any holiday that has an associated cookie in your world — doesn’t have to be this time of year)

[travella]

I'm currently reading Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.

QOTW: I don't really like cookies. I'll eat them if they are around, but I cannot say that I have a favorite.

[tacokick]

The Sweetest Remedy by Jane Igharo

You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn

Humans of New York: Stories by Brandon Stanton

The Year I Stopped Trying by Katie Heaney

Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

QOTW: homemade sugar cookies!

[meowmaps]

I read No Cure For Being Human earlier in the week. Now I’m reading Tender Is the Flesh. Very interesting.

QOTW: I don’t know that there’s a holiday themed cookie I like.

[rootbeerfloat]

I'm reading Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas.

QOTW: Snickerdoodles are my favorite any time of year.

[dancingirl21]

I’m reading Cloud Cuckoo Land and really enjoying it! It’s long - over 600 pages and I’m just over halfway. But it’s keeping my interest.

QOTW: Peanut butter blossoms are my favorite this time of year.

[charlatti]

I just finished They Both Die at the End (sweet and thought provoking) and started Sankofa (too soon to tell, but seems interesting).

QOTW: I looooove cookies. There are very few I don’t like. My favorites are a family recipe — walnuts, lots of butter, rolled in sugar, very delicate.

[litskispeciality]

I made outstanding progress on "Her Perfect Life". I picked "Unfollowed" again (I will finish before the end of 2021 lol).

QOTW: I'm not a big holiday cookie fan, but I feel oatmeal chocolate chip is popular at Christmas.

[Gato]

I'm reading Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. I'm always conflicted about him. On the one hand, he can write. On the other, he writes too much. He could try harder to capture the essential, telling details, instead of ALL the details. And he's always sort of perched above his characters, a little superior, instead of embodying them.

I'm starting On Freedom by Maggie Nelson tomorrow. She's so brilliant; I've been looking forward to this!

ETA: good old-fashioned Molasses cookies, my grandma's recipe