Friday 7/22 reading thread

[charlatti]

What have you been reading this week? Rants, raves, reviews?


QOTW: What were some of your favorite childhood toys?

[Vespasia]

Earlier this week I finished Signal Moon, a Kindle Short by Kate Quinn. I really enjoyed it!

I started Rivals (American Royals #3) by Katherine McPhee. I have very low expectations for this series but they're usually mindlessly entertaining. I'm going to give it a but before I decide whether to read the whole thing or skip it for now. I have quite a few other books on my Kindle that I am more interested in and this one should have already been returned.


QOTW: I enjoyed Barbie dolls but I mostly just tried to make clothes for them out of my mom's knee highs. I also loved my collection of She-Ra action figures. 

[charlatti]

Just started The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman, but I’m only a few pages in. Finished this week: Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert and Halsey Street by Naima Coster. Both were good, not amazing.

QOTW: I remember being so thrilled to get a Cabbage Patch Kid when they were the super hot toy because a family friend had a relative in Alabama, and for some reason you could get them in Alabama. I had a pretty good My Little Pony collection, and my Monchichi was well loved.

[litskispeciality]

I've been chipping away at "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" and "Lucky". Need to finish both before they expire.

QOTW: I loved Barbie, I had figure skating Barbie that I would make skate on a mirror. I was a Rainbow Brite mega fan, Moon Dreamers and My Little Pony. I was so mad when my brother cut off the ponies hair, lol.

Also, I have 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Reminders of Him (Colleen Hoover) coming up. Any recommendations for which one to read first? I don't love TJR, but someone at work loans be Hugo so I figured I'd give it a try.

[Vespasia]

charlatti , I was just telling MH about how I had a knockoff Cabbage Patch Kid a the height of the craze. Apparently there was an issue with them being flammable or otherwise toxic. My mom let me keep mine...

I thought this might be something my brain made up but I found an article online!
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1984/12/12/cpsc-fbi-probing-cabbage-patch-caper/a32887c8-2fc5-4dc0-841b-b8221a140952/

[rootbeerfloat]

I read The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn this week.

QOTW: I had a lot of stuffed animals, esp bears. I also liked to play with Lego.

[litskispeciality]

Vespasia, I think I had one of those. I was so mad at my parents for messing up it's hair. It was a newborn baby one, and they said it matched the way my hair looked. I was always so jealous I never had a "Cab Patch" as I called them, but I didn't know the horror of getting one.

I also remember when they came out with the premie dolls. I kept calling them "premium" because I didn't know they were premature. My mom thought that was cute, that the premies were just the best, lol.

[dearprudence]

Finished Our Crooked Hearts, The Party Crasher, and Minor Feelings. I really enjoyed the first two, and thought Minor Feelings was okay. It was an audiobook which the author narrated, which I usually think is great, but she had a very flat affect which took away from the writing itself. I think I'm going to check it out from the library and do a re-read before my bookclub.

Started Jameela Green Ruins Everything, and I hate the main character, but I think you're supposed to and I'm enjoying the overall book itself.

QOTW: What were some of your favorite childhood toys? Barbies and My Little Ponies. I probably played with Barbies for a little too long, but they were my "theater troup" and I used them to act out plays.

[tacokick]

Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

Groupies by Sarah Priscus (bad!!!!!)

Mr Nobody by Catherine Steadman

Guest: A Changeling Tale by Mary Downing Hahn (not my fave, Mary!)

This Is Not a Pity Memoir by Abi Morgan (if you watch The Split, this is the creator/writer of the show—her husband went into a coma and when he woke up, he thought she was an imposter!)


The Community by N. Jamiyla Chisholm (should have been essays)


QOTW: We really didn’t get toys or anything except on holidays but my grandpop surprised me with a Cabbage Patch Doll one day and I was so excited! Then he’d get me one for my birthday and Christmas every year. My mom and his sister would make us matching outfits.

[travella]

I'm still reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

Qotw: cabbage patch and barbie