Happy Friday 6/24!

[ufcasey]

Happy Friday! What have you been reading this week? Any reviews/ratings/recommendations?


QOTW:
If everyone in the world was simultaneously given one wish to be granted by a genie, what would your wish be? (question brought to you by the premise of a graphic novel called Eight Billion Genies that I heard about thanks to this TikTok: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdo7ArTK/?k=1 )

[tacokick]

The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand (ok)

Kings of B'More by R. Eric Thomas (disappointing)

Flying Solo by Linda Holmes (fine)

Can't Look Away by Carola Lovering (wacky)

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager (might be a contender for worst book of the year)

The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark (one POV was much better than the other)


QOTW: what a fun idea for a graphic novel! If I was going for something just for me, I think I’d go for health. If I was choosing for the world, maybe universal basic income?

[travella]

I should finish The Naked Don't Fear the Water tonight. It is an enlightening and interesting book even though it isn't quite what I was expecting.

QOTW: I was going to choose good health. However, I think that wishing to void anyone's wish that would detrimentally affect myself and loved ones might be a good idea as well. If everyone gets a wish you know there is going to be at least one person out there that will wish ill will or has a wish that will intentionally or unintentionally have detrimental affect on others.

[dearprudence]

Finished The Rose and the Dagger and Big Summer. The Rose and the Dagger was a good conclusion to the duology with more fantasy than the first. I really liked Big Summer as a light summer read.

Currently listening to Olympus,Texas and I keep going down rabbit holes about which mythology each person relates to. Reading Four Aunties and a Wedding which is just as ridiculous as the first book.


If everyone in the world was simultaneously given one wish to be granted by a genie, what would your wish be? (question brought to you by the premise of a graphic novel called Eight Billion Genies that I heard about thanks to this TikTok: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdo7ArTK/?k=1 )
There's a line in Lessons in Chemistry that says "if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon." Honestly right now that would be my wish. Every man having to spend a day being a woman in America. (But not the same day, so they'd have to deal with the other men the same way we do)

[minzy]

I’ve actually been reading a tiny bit this week! Yay for a couple of days of riding the train for part of my long ass commute. I’m working on What’s Yours is Mine by Naima Coster, this year’s One Maryland, One Book: www.mdhumanities.org/programs/one-maryland-one-book/

Also reading Anne of Avonlea with my kids at night, if the timing works.

I’d wish for world peace, which would no doubt encompass a lot of things. And/or substantive action on climate change. (My Secret Santas have been exasperated with me in the past, heh.)

[charlatti]

Tons of reading this week but I’ll save the full list for the monthly roundup. I just finished The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray, which was light and fun. Currently rereading the Night Circus.

QOTW: I can’t come up with a good wish. Something to make the world better, but there’s just so much to tackle.

[litskispeciality]

I'm still chipping away at The Inheritance Games. Finally passed 50% (hooray!)

QOTW: After Friday's events I'd wish that all females, and female presenting, were treated as equal human beings. Otherwise that no one ever faced food insecurity.