Friday June 21st Reading

[Vespasia]

It's officially the first Friday of summer! What have you been reading?


QOTW: What is your favorite summer beverage?

[charlatti]

I’m sticking with fairly light stuff this week. Just finished The Body in the Garden by Katharine Schellman (fun, but I like the others in the series better) and started Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal, which is taglined as Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan.

QOTW: I love a good gin and tonic, though I don’t really drink alcohol these days. A local boba shop makes this amazing purple citrus tea that’s very summery.

[Vespasia]

I finished Merciful Crow by Margret Owens. It suffered a bit in comparison to her Little Thieves series but it was still quite good. I already have the sequel saved on my Kindle. 

I also read A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose, #2) by Charlaine Harris. Really enjoying this series and glad a friend told me about it because it never would have been on my radar otherwise. 

Now I am reading How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann. It's weird and I am not sure that I like it but it is holding my attention for now. 

QOTW: Gin and tonic is definitely my go to summer cocktail. For non-alcoholic, I have really been craving iced peach black tea lately. 

[travella]

I am reading I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai. I had to buy it for my daughter's English assignment last year so I thought I'd read it.

Qotw: I used to drink Bai, but they changed it and I no longer like it. It was probably a blessing. I drink mostly water with lemon now.

[dearprudence]

charlatti - I thought Unmarriageable was a really good interpretation of P&P. So many concepts don't translate into modern society, but Kamal found a way where they did.


Vespasia - I was waiting to see what you thought of Merciful Crow. I loved Little Thieves, but wasn't as sure about the story in this series.

[dearprudence]

Finished Morally Gray and The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale. Both were fine.

Also fine was Cruel to be Kind which was about a woman who runs off when she finds a letter and thinks her husband is cheating on her/has a child with another woman. It just felt disjointed.

Started listening to The Cheat Sheet, a romcom about best friends who each like the other more than friends but are afraid to tell the other. I like the characters, but am very frustrated by their lack of communication.



QOTW: What is your favorite summer beverage? alcoholic = margaritas non-alcoholic= iced tea