Friday February 16th Reading

[Vespasia]

Happy Friday! What are you reading this week?


QOTW: Do you celebrate Valentine's Day?

[charlatti]

I’m almost finished with To Kill a Mockingbird. I loved it in high school but haven’t read it since, and my kid is reading it for school right now. It’s as enjoyable as I remembered it being.

QOTW: nope, not at all.

[tacokick]

The Last Time She Saw Him by Kate White (not great!)

Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra (expectedly good!)

Monsters We Have Made by Lindsay Starck (solid)

Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema by Odie Henderson (entertaining)

Out of Bounds by Val McDermid (good)

Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin (good)

Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering (a little odd)

The Unwedding by Ally Condie (also surprisingly good!)

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen (feels ripe to be made into a series or adapted for tv)

QOTW: yes! Anything to break up winter!

[Vespasia]

I read Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children #9) by Seanan McGuire. I have liked all of the books in this series but this one was a bit better than most. 

I also started What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier #2) by T. Kingfisher. I've only read the first chapter but the description of the setting is really well done. 



QOTW: Our dating anniversary is today so we celebrate this instead of Valentine's Day. We use it as an excuse to go out for fancy dinner. 

[travella]

I finished:

The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff, 5* (difficult to read, very emotional)

Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman, 3* (It was ok, I don't like graphic novels so that may be most of the reason it didn't really work for me.)

I'm currently reading The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn. I'm not really enjoying it, but I'll finish.

Qotw: I buy small Valentines for the kids and my husband. We have a nice family dinner, but that's about it.

[dearprudence]

Finished A Lady's Guide to Fortune Hunting and The Secret Service of Tea and Treason. Both were good, but I did love Secret Service.

Started reading Of Manners and Murder about a woman who writes to a "Dear Abby" type column, then turns up dead and the Dear Abby wore tries to solve the mystery. I'm about halfway through and I've already figured it out.

Started listening to Something in the Hei, a romcom about a woman who invents children to be able to keep her family home, then needs to find actual children when her grandfather wants to meet them. I thought the book would be snappier and funnier than it is.


QOTW: Do you celebrate Valentine's Day? [/quote] I get the kids boxes of candy and we order a heart shaped pizza, so I guess we celebrate?

[sadie]

I'm almost done A Court of Thorns and Roses.

Not a Valentine's Day fan.

[krystee]

I read a lot for me last week!

Becoming Ted by Matt Cain (sweet and heartwarming)

The Women by Kristin Hannah (loved it, but recognize that the melodrama was a bit much)

Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (quick and entertaining)

North Woods by Daniel Mason (beautifully written but totally not what I expected. I am still deciding what I thought!)

All That Is Mine I Carry With Me (I don’t like that it was structured as a friend writing a novel about another friend’s family because it is not clear to me if the events really happened or if the novel decided they ended that way)

QOTW: we celebrate, but not extravagantly. I put hearts on the kids’ bedroom door and give them a blind date with a book (wrap a book and put clues about it) and some candy. H and I give each other small gifts.

[litskispeciality]

Super late to this thread...I finally finished "The Woman in Me" and made really good progress on "Girls With Bright Futures". Hope to finish that tonight or tomorrow.

QOTW: DH and I usually exchange smaller gifts and go out to dinner, however schedules usually have us push it off a week or two, or sometimes all together.