Happy Friday! Reading thread 11/4

[charlatti]

What have you been reading this week?

QOTW: In what ways do you consider yourself to be creative?

[tacokick]

Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution by Nona Willis Aronowitz (not great!)

Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison (disappointing)

Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial by Rabia Chaudry (poorly written and weird inaccuracies)

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry (better written but disturbing)

Dying of Politeness by Geena Davis (great!)

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry (I am not sure how he realizes how he comes across at all. Disturbing)


QOTW:

I am in a creative field of work and I also weave and do other fiber arts

[dearprudence]

Finished The Date from Hell and Leech, both had disappointing endings that knocked them down a star in my opinion.

Currently reading Once More Upon a Time which is a delightful and silly fairy tale about a King and Queen who have lost their love for each other and are on a quest to retrieve a potion for a witch with the help of a cloak that thinks it's a horse. Listening to Honey and Spice, a rom-com enemies to lovers book I picked up because I loved Bolu Babalola's other book.




QOTW: In what ways do you consider yourself to be creative?[/quote]


I went to school for theater and think I would have been a phenomenal director, so I have a creative... eye? Thought process?

[charlatti]

I finished Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (excellent) and just started The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin — it’s the second in a duology and I haven’t quite remembered/settled in to its world , but it’s definitely interesting so far.

QOTW: I think I’m a creative thinker — I like figuring out new approaches and fiddling with details to make things better or more interesting.

[estrellita]

Still working on Take My Hand. Hopefully this weekend I can finish it!

QOTW: I crochet, but really I just follow patterns, not making stuff up on my own. But I enjoy it! I also love photography although I wouldn't say I'm that good!

[mrspez07]

I just started Upgrade by Blake Crouch this week and started the audio book of The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain.

I’m in a design field as a profession but was probably the most practical of my whole class, and usually my companies. So I have some creativity in that regard. I’ve always done various crafts, photography, drawing, watercolor, crossstitch and quilting, to name a few.
I feel like I’ve got an eye for color, which comes into play in my job and my crafts.

[travella]

I should finish Forsaken Country by Allen Eskens tonight. I'll start Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister next.

Qotw: I don't consider myself very creative, but I enjoy crafting and scrapbooking. I really enjoy making my kid's Halloween costumes ever year.

[minzy]

I read Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It was light and engrossing enough that I got through it fairly fast, even with pretty limited time to read. The main character wasn’t super lovable and I felt a little beat over the head (with a tennis racket 😉) with some of the themes, but I liked it well enough.

I don’t think of myself as traditionally creative much at all, but I feel like I really hum when I can connect people and make something better as a group. I don’t know if that counts for anything haha.

[Vespasia]

I'm reading The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. This was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I only found out it was based on a novel a few years ago. It's better than I expected and so far the plot seems pretty similar to the movie. Or at least as far as I can remember, I haven't seen it in ages.

QOTW: I don't consider myself particularly creative. Unless you count coming up with justifications for things!