It’s Friday! 2/25 reading thread

[charlatti]

What have you been reading this week? 

QOTW: How do you normally get around? Drive, carpool, public transit, Uber, walk? (Brought to you by my distaste for driving and annoyance with my city’s lack of useful public transit options)

[travella]

I finished The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova, 3.5*. I found the sections about the psychological study of risk taking very interesting, but I didn't care for the sections that were mostly about her learning to play poker. I'm currently reading The Reading List. I need to finish it quickly because this morning I got a bunch of books in at once from the library.

Qotw: I drive.

[Vespasia]

Finished:
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett I actually liked this a lot more than his Century trilogy. It was still way too long though. 

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark This actually would have been better if it was a bit longer and fleshed out but I liked it. 

Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis The ending was a bit too neat and heartwarming but I would recommend it if you like her other books. 

Currently reading:
The Quarter Storm bv Veronica Henry I think this was a recent Kindle First. It's an interesting premise but there are two things I don't like about it. One might resolve by the end of the book but the other is the whole "woman without kids in her 30s must be obsessed with having a baby" crap. I doubt I will read any further books in this planned series. 

QOTW: Drive or walk depending on where I am going. 

[rootbeerfloat]

I'm reading The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsely.

QOTW: Drive and (very occasionally) walk

[mrspez07]

I just finished City of Girls last night. I’m going to start Go Tell the Bees That I’m Gone, tonight. I also need to add an audio book to the queue, but haven’t been listening much lately.

QOTW: drive. I would love to do any of the others more, but a busy suburban life makes it difficult, and the public system in Denver metro needs some improvement so it doesn’t take 2-3x longer than driving

[tacokick]

She Memes Well: Essays by Quinta Brunson

By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

Gentrifier: A Memoir by Anne Elizabeth Moore (one of those memoirs where they tell you something about themselves that I don’t think they realize)

Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Stein (not good)

Wish You Were Gone by Kieran Scott

QOTW:

Mostly driving! I wish we had better transportation. I live off a major road but we don’t have great bus service here period and it’s especially bad since I live off in a further out section of the city and not downtown. A lot of the places (library, salon, bakeries, pharmacy, small grocery, makers market) I go to regularly are right on that major road but are too far to comfortably walk. Even at peak times the buses are about 40 minutes apart so it is not very practical for pretty much anything.

There are some new gentrifier shops I could walk to but they don’t really sell anything I’m interested in.

[charlatti]

I finished The Fifth Season, which was a reread but I remembered almost nothing from my first read. Started and abandoned The Paradox Hotel, now reading The Verifiers by Jane Pek. I started it last night and stayed up too late reading, so that’s a good sign.

QOTW: Drive, unfortunately — I hate driving. I walk as much as possible but that’s not always practical. Can someone get that teleport invented?

[minzy]

I finished The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I know people rave about it but it was just meh for me.

QOTW: Mostly I drive (electric car), but we carpool a bit for school drops and it is not terribly unusual for me to run or ride a bike to do an errand.

[litskispeciality]

I finished The Girl Before.

I picked up "The Turnout" and "Local Woman Missing"

QOTW: I drive, and agree I'm not a fan of driving. My city has *some* public transit, but not enough to get me where I need to go. DH and I have talked about getting bicycles again, more for fun, but never get around to it.

[dearprudence]

Vespasia I chose a Quarter Storm for prime this month too, but haven't read it yet. I wasn't thrilled with the selection. I feel like everytime we get 1 pick there are multiple good choices and everytime we get 2 picks they're all not great.

[dearprudence]

Finished:
North and South - I'm really glad I read this. It had bypassed my radar until now, but it's such an amazing social commentary of the 19th century.

My Fine Fellow - a gender-swapped "My Fair Lady" retelling with Higgins and Pickering being culinarians teaching a street food-hawker how to cook like the upper class. It was really fun, and I didn't realize what it was going into it.

Incense and Sensibility - I enjoyed this so much more than Recipe for Persuasion!

Started The Wedding Date over the weekend.


QOTW: How do you normally get around? Drive, carpool, public transit, Uber, walk? (Brought to you by my distaste for driving and annoyance with my city’s lack of useful public transit options) Where I am now, I really have to drive everywhere. I miss the location of our last place where I could walk to the supermarket, post office, doctor's office, my kid's school...