Happy Friday October 21st Reading

[Vespasia]

It's an extra happy Friday for me because I survived my busiest week of the year at work.

What are you reading this week?


QOTW: What was the first concert you attended?

[charlatti]

I finished The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler — really fascinating sci-fi (maybe spec fiction? I’m not totally sure how that genre is defined). Just started Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. It didn’t seem like something I’d like but it has such amazing reviews from a huge variety of people, so I’ll give it a try.

(Perplexed by a very early minor plot point: a kid in the 80s gets a laptop to be able to complete schoolwork at home? What schools did that? What schoolwork was even on the computer at that point in time? I definitely did not use a computer for school until the mid 90s)

QOTW: I’m pretty sure it was 10,000 Maniacs. I grew up close to an amazing outdoor venue, so we went to a lot of great shows in high school.

[travella]

I finished Upgrade by Blake Crouch, 2*. I'm currently reading An Affair of Spies by Ronald Balson.

Qotw: Garth Brooks, I won free tickets.

[tacokick]

1979 by Val McDermid (solid)

Making a Scene by Constance Wu (good)

Scenes from My Life: A Memoir by Jon Sternfeld, Michael K Williams (he really went through it)

Rough Draft by Katy Tur (her parents were fascinating and horrible people)

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (I can never resist an And Then Their Were None remake!)

This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Crane (solid)

ETA: I’m really not sure! By the time I was about 14 was going to a lot of live music (often multiple times a week) and kept that up for decades. It’s all a blur. The perk of living in a major city that’s pretty close to several more major cities! I didn’t really go to any major concerts before that.

[dearprudence]

Finished Horseman and Not Good For Maidens, both of which were excellent and great for Halloween-ish reads. Would recommend.

Started Not Your Average Hot Guy which is about the Prince of Hell teaming up with a woman who runs an escape room to stop the apocalypse.


QOTW: What was the first concert you attended? I think it was probably Raffi. (Child of the 80s)

[travella]

Oct 21, 2022 15:56:09 GMT -5 charlatti said:

(Perplexed by a very early minor plot point: a kid in the 80s gets a laptop to be able to complete schoolwork at home? What schools did that? What schoolwork was even on the computer at that point in time? I definitely did not use a computer for school until the mid 90s)


Lol! I don't remember laptops until college which would have been around the mid to late 90s. In the 80s it was only typing class and playing Oregon Trail in the computer lab on the large computers (definitely no laptops).

[mrspez07]

I’ve got multiple books going.
Listening to Guncle, reading The Color of Law and All the Ever Afters.
I gave up on the Lilac Girls after trying it twice and only making it part way.

QOTW: I think it was actually an compilation of 60’s bands or cover bands put on by the local oldies station. LOL.
My family wasn’t much into live music, so I never went with my parents. We (and I still) live within 20 minutes of Red Rocks, it’s a crime we don’t go more. I made myself a promise about a month ago to go at least 1x next year.

[Vespasia]

Earlier this week I read Stockholm, a particularly terrible Kindle short by Catherine Steadman.

Then I finished The Village by Camilla Sten. I'd been saving this for October as part of my scary reads and really enjoyed it. Most horror stories kind of fall apart at the end but this one was pretty good.

Oddly enough both books referenced the same small Swedish town.

QOTW: My sister took me to see Debbie Gibson when I was 10. 🙂 I think the first one I saw on my own was Tori Amos.

[estrellita]

Finished Upgrade earlier this week - 4*.

Just finished The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez - 3.5*. I met the author last weekend and got 3 books signed, a picture, and got to meet her dogs (Stuntman Mike, who is in the book I just read, and Tess who my sister thinks was the inspiration for the dog in Part of Your World). Anyway, I liked the writing and characters but I didn't like the ending.

QOTW: LFO. I want to say I was 11 or 12 maybe?