3/17 Friday reading thread

[charlatti]

What have you been reading this week? Any standouts or stay-aways?

QOTW: What’s your favorite green food or drink? (I’m not Irish in the slightest, but I thought I should at least nod to the date.)

[travella]

Porcelain Moon by Janie Chang, 2* (first half was ok, last half was dull)

Passing by Nella Larsen, 4* (reminded me of The Vanishing Half, only better)

Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf,5* (Bittersweet and packed with emotion)

Currently reading They Went Left by Monica Hesse. I should finish tonight and then I'll start Remarkably Bright Creatures.

Qotw: roasted green beans

[charlatti]

I’m off this week, so lots of nice reading time. Finished Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson, which was meh (I guess I rarely enjoy books about excessively rich people), and Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall, which I really enjoyed — definitely not amazing literary merit, but a great story and elements that were just right for me right now. Now reading The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff — interesting, feels a bit like starting in the middle of the conversation.

QOTW: I really like microgreens and sprouts.

[tacokick]

Perfectly Nice Neighbors aka Those People Next Door by Kia Abdullah (eh)

Music for Wartime: Stories by Rebecca Makkai (I like her novels better)

Other People's Secrets by Louise Candlish (bad)

The Vanishing by Wendy Webb (laughably bad)

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano (very quick to read but felt flat)

Künstlers in Paradise by Cathleen Schine (ok, the grandson was the worst and it also felt flat)


QOTW:

Mint ice cream

[Vespasia]

I finally finished A Day of Fallen Night! It was very good but I didn't love it as much as Priory. I had a crazy busy work week though and it was perfecrt escapism each evening. 

I'm starting A Kind Worth Saving now. I have pretty low expectations going in. I liked the earlier book but have been disappointed in most of his other stuff. 


QOTW: Kind of lame but I really like all green vegetables!

[dearprudence]

Finished Remarkably Bright Creatures and it was really sweet. I would recommend.

Still reading Troy and Arrow to the Moon, and enjoying both.

Started The Light Pirate and it's a hard read for me. Especially with the weather this past week.


QOTW: What’s your favorite green food or drink? (I’m not Irish in the slightest, but I thought I should at least nod to the date.) roasted Brussels sprouts

[estrellita]

Finishing up Georgie, All Along. Hopefully this weekend for sure!

QOTW: Someone else mentioned ice cream.. mint chocolate chip is definitely a favorite! Otherwise I think green peppers, or green beans, but they have to either be fresh and air fried, or the frozen breaded ones air fried. Basically just air fry everything! 😂

[minzy]

I read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and thought it was very well done. I’m now partway through Remarkably Bright Creatures. I love that it was written by a GBCN poster! Incidentally, one of my daughters is also reading another book about an octopus this week.

Favorite green food is hard to say - several kinds of vegetables I guess. Cucumber, green beans, asparagus, arugula…

[mrspez07]

Still reading Babel. Still Listening to the Girl fr Guernica and finally got How the Light Gets in from the holds so I can finish the audio book.

QOTW:
I like cooked spinach in food (my family does not), I also like broccoli (cooked)

ETA: I am going to an event with Kate Quinn today (Sat), I’m looking forward to it but have no idea what to expect.

[sju]

Mar 18, 2023 6:23:41 GMT -5 minzy said:

I read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and thought it was very well done. I’m now partway through Remarkably Bright Creatures. I love that it was written by a GBCN poster! …

That’s so neat! :-) I loved the book. Marcellus was my favorite.

[sju]

Just started Legends and Lattes. We were on Spring Break so it was a slow week. 

QOTW: green grapes 

[Gato]

I really enjoyed The Years by Annie Ernaux. It’s not at all a plotted novel, more a series of recollections that form a narrative. She’s super honest about the female experience, maybe that’s why she won the Nobel Prize?

QOTW: I really like roasted green veggies; Brussels sprouts are my favorite

[CrazyLucky]

I just finished the House in the Cerulean Sea. I absolutely loved it and gave it five stars. And then I read some of the other reviews and see that it is based on indigenous children in Canada being removed from their homes and I need to think about that a little more.

QOTW: I like salad, especially that someone else has prepared!

[litskispeciality]

I'm still in such a reading slump. I finally finished "The Day He Left", and I'm kind of mad at the ending. I feel like I missed something, but I think the writer just gave up.

I went back to Lessons in Chemistry, but didn't finish.

I started "How to Survive Your Murder" and "The Other Girlfriend", and I hope to read those by end of month if I can find time.

QOTW: I love, love spinach, Mint Choc. Chip ice cream, and broccoli.