Happy Friday! Reading thread 8/25

[charlatti]

What have you been reading this week? 

QOTW: Have you always been a reader? Have life circumstances changed your reading habits?

[travella]

I finished:

Just Another Missing Person by Gillian Mc Allister, 2.5* (most of this book was boring, however there was a twist that made it slightly more interesting for a short time).

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett, DNF (dreadfully boring, I've never spent such a long time trying to finish such a short book).

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi, 3.5* (entertaining as long as you don't analyze it too much).

Currently reading The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry.

Qotw: I started reading a lot as a teenager. I stopped reading for fun during grad school and when my kids were newborns.

[tacokick]

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent (could use editing but was surprisingly funny?)

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland (good!)

Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, Collected wisdom from her Sunday Times Style Column by Dolly Alderton (fine)

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll (liked a lot)

How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum, translated by Daniella Zamir (blah)

A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon (ironically a bad, rushed ending)

The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti (this felt very familiar to me)

Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley (another bad ending)

QOTW: yes, pretty consistently!

[Vespasia]

I started Broadway Butterfly by Sara DiVello earlier in the week. It was fine but didn't really grab my attention. I received a few books off my hold list from the library and decided to put it down for now. 

Last night I started Hide by Kiersten White. I haven't made it very far but it's interesting. 



QOTW: I was an only child who moved a lot so I've always been a reader!

[estrellita]

I finished Tower of Dawn and just started the last Throne of Glass book, Kingdom of Ash. ToD was fine. Some people hate it but I didn't mind it.

QOTW: I read a lot as a kid! I was always reading ahead of my level. My son is the exact same way 😊 Somewhere around late middle school-early high school, I stopped reading for fun. I tried to start again as I got older but it really took off when I joined Book of the Month. Since then, I've read TONS more books, both BOTM and others. Now I read nightly!

[charlatti]

I finished yet another enjoyable Michael Connelly, The Reversal, and am struggling with Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson. I normally like her stuff but I just can’t get into this one — it switches characters a lot and I don’t have a good sense of any of them. It has great reviews so I keep trying and putting it back down. Will probably start All-Night Pharmacy.

QOTW: In high school and college my fun reading dropped off dramatically, but before and after that I’ve always read a lot.

[dearprudence]

Finished The Daydreams and The Stand-Up Groomsman. The Daydreams ended up being more about young women in Hollywood and it was interesting. The Stand-Up Groomsman was fine - I didn't really connect with either character or buy them as a couple, but I thought it was a good portrayal of how family relationships can impact romantic relationships.

Started reading There's No Coming Back from This which is making me very anxious because this woman has lost everything and keeps getting herself in bad situations.

Started listening to The Boy Toy which has a plot that makes no sense and seems like it's just there to get two characters to have lots of sex.


QOTW: Have you always been a reader? Have life circumstances changed your reading habits? I've always been a reader but slowed down substantially in law school/ after kids. I just started really getting into it again during the pandemic when a friend started a book club.

[krystee]

I finished Just Another Missing Person. 3 stars.

I am now reading Mister Magic by Kierstin White.

QOTW: I have always been a reader and have always read a lot, but these past two weeks, I only finished one book, which is very unusual for me. The have been working super late and crashing the second I could finally close my laptop.

[minzy]

I read On Rotation by Shirlene Obuobi. It’s a novel about a Ghanaian medical student and the author herself is a doctor. It was easy and just what I was in the mood for.

I read a ton as a kid, I loved libraries and would also save my money to buy books at the local shop. It got harder to read for fun in school, but when I stayed at home with my kids, I picked it back up. Now that I’m back to work reading and writing dense stuff, it is tough, but I’m still trying.

[Gato]

I read The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon. Hemon is such a great writer; no one else I've read this year compares as far as ambition and dexterity with language. Having said that, I did fall asleep a lot because the writing asks a lot of you and maybe I didn't have that these past two weeks!

On to Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

I've always been a reader. I can't imagine life without reading and writing. Those have just always been my passions and my go-tos for comfort as well.