What are you reading?

sabby2

I am lying here wide awake and DH is snoring.  I love reading! It's how I spend time for myself and relax. I thought it might be fun to talk about books we're reading or books we've loved in the past. 

So, what are you reading?

Dashaina

Oh! Join dpgroup.org! I have been a member for like 3 years and their selection and members are amazing and they have sooooooooo many books. It's a book share community. It's free or donations (not required) and they have adults and children books. 

Dashaina

Currently in my to be read section (I use an app reader) Electronic Books

The love that split the world 
and
A million Junes
By Emily Henry 

And The Mountain Echoed 
By Khaled Hosseini 

The House at the End of the Street 
By Stephanie Evans Kusiak

Mrs. Raffle 
By John Kendrick Bangs

A Tale of Negative Gravity
By Frank R. Stockton 

Lady Susan
By Jane Austin 

emjeve

I’m currently reading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. I just started book #4 this week! 

sourkim

I have a group on FB called Divas who read you are welcome to join! I just finished  Pillars of the Earth and I'm currently reading the spell shadow Manor. I read a book a week!

emjeve

@Dashaina that group sounds amazing! I’ll have to check it out! Was The House at the End of the Street made into a movie (I feel like I’ve seen a movie by that name...)? I hate when I don’t know that a movie is based on a book! I like to read the book before I see the movie!

krash_

I’ve been a little focused (read obsessed) with TTGP, pregnancy, birth and babies soooo I’ve started:

Expecting Better

Ina Mays Guide to Child Birth

What to Expect When You’re Expecting (skimming through this one) 

I need this thread. 

Dashaina

@emjeve I LOVED The Outlander series and read several of the novellas and actually have Virgin or is it Virgins on my app list as well to read.   I can't wait until Sunday for the next episode to come out for Season 3!!  And I agree about book before movie. I actually started watching Outlander before I knew it was a book.  Ha!  But honestly they are doing a fantastic job with the series.  I'm actually not sure about if it is a movie or not (the house as the end of the street) and now I'm intrigued and want to look it up right now!!

@sourkim I LOVED Pillars of the Earth and World without End...and equally enjoyed watching the mini series for both after reading the books.

@krashke I enjoyed Ina May and Hated WTEWYE .  It just seems so filled with how everything will go horribly wrong!

emjeve

@Dashaina some women from my M16 BMB recommended Outlander and I’m so glad they did! I haven’t watched the show yet- I want to finish the series first, but I CAN’T WAIT to see it!!! Although we don’t have Starz... so hopefully I can rent it somewhere! Or maybe it will be on netflix soon... 

melly204

@emjeve the first 2 seasons of outlander are on Netflix, when I saw that I got really excited because I don't have Starz either :P

Edited because words...

izza2

@krashke - Loved Expecting Better. I wasn't impressed in the beginning with the TTC stuff because I felt like it was all stuff I'd already read over and over, but I definitely suggest it for the pregnancy parts.
I love that she lays it out and gives resources but let's you really choose whether you think they're worth following or not. That was my biggest complaint with TCOYF. I felt like there was no scientific evidence cited for what was being presented.

emjeve

melly204 said:

@emjeve the first 2 seasons of oitlander are on Netflix, when I saw that I got really excited because I don't have Starz either :P

Last I heard it was not on Netflix in the US, but was in Canada and some other countries. Did they add it recently??

chocomom2

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah again (obsessed)
firefly lane by Kristen Hannah (I loved her book Nightingale)

other recs: Night Circus (so good!) 
Ready Player One (sci-for dystopian)

The recs above are adult but I read a lot of YA lit because I am a high school teacher so if you like YA - I'm your girl. Haha. 

melly204

@emjeve Oh I'm sorry, I'm in Canada so I'm not sure if it's on the US Netflix... my bad

emjeve

@melly204 no worries! I just hope it means that it will be on in the US soon!!

Dashaina

@emjeve  actually season 1 & 2 of Outlander is on Netflix!!  I don't have stars either but I found a website that shows all TV shows for free and you can download them or stream.  I usually just download because my internet with their streaming doesn't work.  Anyway if you Google "Watchseries it " and then whatever show you are looking for chances are they have it.  They definitely have outlander because that this where I am watching it.

Dashaina

@emjeve I just saw that @melly204 already answered the Outlander thing.  Yeah I am in Panama.  Well you should do the website I mentioned, because it does have ads to get to it (per click ads) you just close the ad.  I only use the link for openload.co .  Because all the others don't function for me.  Here is the link for the 3rd season of Outlander and you should be able to find 1 & 2  from there https://watchseries.do/series/outlander/season/3

Dashaina

@emjeve and outlander was added to Panama Netflix some time within the last year.

sabby2

@chocomom2 I love YA!  Ready Player One was a great read!

Have you read The Book Thief? It is one of my all time faves!

Dashaina

@chocomom2 I loved Night circus! I think I read it last year. I also played the online game they made for it.. It's like text based. 

meagster13

I'm currently reading eat pray love. 

I love everything I've read by Jodi Picoult! I have most of her books! 

Excited to see what else is recommended

Dashaina

@meagster13 me too!! 

chocomom2

@meagster13 I love Jodi Picoult too. I really enjoyed small great things but it nearly killed me reading it too. Ugh. 

I loved Book Thief too. All the tears! I got John Green's latest book in the mail and is on my shelf to read next. I really enjoyed All the Bright Places which I read a couple months ago and I am reading Salt to Sea right now which is pretty good. 

I'm obsessed with Sherman Alexie and Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. 

doxiemoxie212

The John Russel series (zoo station, etc)

reikotxm

I have recently found The Thing About Love by Julie James on the new books shelf at the library probably last month and since then I’ve read 2 other books by her- Just The Sexiest Man Alive and Practice Makes Perfect

Looking here for any new recs as I’ve over done it on reading her books within the last month lol

sabby2

My all time favorite book to recommend is Attachments by Rainbow Rowell.  So cute and so good!!

Dashaina

I miss the library in Vermont where we lived before... Here it's only open after 2p in the town I only visit twice a month at most... And I am gone by noon.. Waaaaah... To tope it off it has a very small English section. 

mytinc

I love reading.  Here are a few recommendations:

Non-Fiction
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Sci-Fi
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Court of Thorn and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

General Fiction
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Historical Fiction
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Dystopian
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Madd Addam trilogy by Margaret Atwood
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

llamamama14

Belgravia by Julianne Fellows (He created Dowton Abbey) It's a detailed historical fiction.