Friday Reading July1st

[Vespasia]

What have you been reading this week? 



QOTW: How do you feel about fireworks?

[travella]

I'm currently reading Under the Whispering Door. I finished reading Sparring Partners by John Grisham.

Qotw: I don't really like them, but my husband and kids love them so I put up with them. It's their big summer fun when we visit my family because we currently live somewhere where it is too dry to have real fireworks.

[tacokick]

I just started an ARC of the new Megan Miranda book.

I read:

Cover Story by Susan Rigetti

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Hippie Woman Wild: A Memoir of Life & Love on an Oregon Commune by Carol Schlanger

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han

The Jenny Han books are cute but they feel like short stories or novellas. Not a ton happens but they are still like 300 pages long? It’s a mystery.

The Inheritance Games books are cute too but I don’t understand why it is important that Emily died on that date. I get it’s Avery’s birthday but why does it matter? They keep saying it matters but why?

QOTW: they can be fun in the abstract but end up being stressful

[mrspez07]

I finished Life and Other Inconveniences by Kristin Higgins yesterday.
Almost done with Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny on Audio, and
started Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson.

I like fireworks if I choose them or expect them. Choose to watch them, choose to be a part of a group shooting them off, shooting them off myself (when I was younger), but dislike the random booms and pops when people in the neighborhood do it and it isn’t expected. But that’s more annoying than anything.

[Vespasia]

I'm reading A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow. It's more of novella so I am hoping it will help me out of my reading slump.


QOTW: I enjoy watching larger shows from a distance but could do without the week or so of late night, noisy fireworks in my neighborhood!

[mx27]

Just finished, "A Man Called Ove," by Fredrik Backman. 3.5 stars. It was an endearing story that could have been a little shorter, IMO.

QOTW: I like them!

[charlatti]

I finished The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian, which I would not recommend, and am now reading Aurora by David Koepp, a sci-fi-ish thriller.

QOTW: I like the safe, scheduled city-run displays. I dislike random people setting them off — maybe if we lived in a less densely populated area it would be ok, but it’s just annoying and dangerous here.

[dearprudence]

I finished Olympus Texas and Four Aunties and a Wedding. Both were enjoyable. I started Wrath Goddess Sing which I was really looking forward to, and it's a slog to get through. I'm about 2/3 in.



QOTW: How do you feel about fireworks? I like the professional ones. Less interested in the neighborhood ones that go on for weeks.

[minzy]

I finished What’s Mine and Yours and am slowly plucking my way through Anne of Avonlea with my kids.

I grew up in SW PA, near where Zambelli fireworks are headquartered, so I grew up watching well-done, professional stuff, and I guess have some nostalgia for it. For my own purposes, sparklers are more my speed.

[litskispeciality]

This weekend I finally, finally finished The Inheritance Games. - I'll go over to the group discussion for more

I started "Verity" by Colleen Hoover, and made amazing progress, although now I'm starting to see the comments from other posters.

QOTW: I love seeing live fire works, but them getting shot off when I'm home is getting really stressful. I also won't touch them myself, even sparklers.