Friday October 7th!

[ufcasey]

What have you read this week? Any ratings/reviews/recommendations?

QOTW:
If you had to choose between getting $100 that you can't share or giving someone else $200 and that person couldn't share it - which would you choose? What if it was the reverse (getting $200 that you can't share or giving someone $100 they can't share)?

[tacokick]

I tried the new Celeste Ng and can’t get into it.



Read plenty of other books though:

Where We End & Begin by Jane Igharo (ok)

Stay True by Hua Hsu (ok)

Walking In My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis With Natalie Guerrero (her first memoir was interesting but this one was sort of all over the place)

My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family by Nabil Ayers (why do people write memoirs if they don’t seem to have done any real reflection in their life??)

The Year of Miracles: Recipes About Love + Grief + Growing Things by Ella Risbridger (this is a book of essays that is sort of a sequel to her first book. Not as good and if you didn’t read the first one, I’m not sure if it would make sense)

The Furrows by Namwali Serpell (interesting)

The Clown Egg Register by Helen Champion and Luke Stephenson (interesting in a different way)

Blackmail and Bibingka by Mia P. Manansala (I’m just reading these for the food but it was 100% better than the last one)

Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World by Clara Parkes (I’m not sure how she got a book deal for this. It was ok but basically a surface level travelogue? A woman in my weaving guild recommended it as an audiobook. Maybe that was better?)


QOTW: at this point in my life I’d give it away if someone else got $200. Same with the $100 I guess!

[travella]

I finished Things We Do in The Dark by Jennifer Hillier, 2.5*. I found the book boring. I'm currently reading The Winners by Fredrik Backman and I am enjoying it.

Qotw: Sorry, I got called to tend to my sick son and forgot to come back and answer.  I think it depends a lot on who the other person is and if I knew they needed it.  I cannot see myself giving Bill Gates money for the heck of it.    

[estrellita]

Almost done with Elektra by Jennifer Saint.

QOTW: I feel like it would depend on a lot of things. It probably sounds selfish, but I wouldn't mind extra money. It could be helpful for a lot of things. But if I thought the other person could use it more, I'd give it to them then.

[dearprudence]

Currently reading The Thirteenth Witch. I like it, but it's very similar to Rivers of London and not quite as wonderful. I'd definitely like it better if I hadn't read Rivers of London.

Also listening to The League of Gentlewoman Witches which is just as wonderful and delightful as the first in the series. It makes me so very happy.



QOTW:
If you had to choose between getting $100 that you can't share or giving someone else $200 and that person couldn't share it - which would you choose? What if it was the reverse (getting $200 that you can't share or giving someone $100 they can't share)? I feel like I can't answer this question without knowing more about the other person. If it's a person who needs the money, I'd pick them on both counts. Some wealthy mogul? Yeah, I'd keep it.

[mrspez07]

I started Nightcrawling and it’s so consumingly bleak it’s hard to continue. On the heals of finishing The Sentence, which was ok but a slog for me. I need to go back to some lighter stuff.
I’m not one who shies away from dark storylines, but maybe they need to be more like fiction or more like a novel, I’m not sure that makes sense tho. I’m trying to figure out why I’ve been struggling with some books lately.

[sju]

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. I enjoyed and recommend it even if a few sections were a bit too tedious. 

QOTW: Right now, give it away. 

[charlatti]

I’m close to finishing Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng — good and distressingly plausible, as dystopians so often are. I’m not sure if I think it’s as good as her previous books, but definitely one I’d recommend.

QOTW: As others said, I want more details — who’s offering it and who would be receiving it if I didn’t take it? I definitely could find a good use for the money, but maybe someone else needs it more. (This sounds like an interesting book concept!)

[Vespasia]

I've been reading The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik. I'd been waiting very impatiently for this since I finished the last book and so far it does not disappoint.

QOTW: I'd probably keep it! I feel like this is the kind of question people answer the way they think they're supposed to.