Book Lovers Unite!

Scarlett830 · July 2016

I'm a huge bibliophile and love hearing about a good book, no matter the genre. So who's reading what? Any recommendations? Summer reads? Share it here!

ladyoriza · July 2016

I just finished Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King. Absolutely loved it.

liepertsm · July 2016

I just finished Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. I thought it was pretty good. I also recently read Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. It started off kind of slow for me, but once it picked up I really enjoyed it.

Scarlett830 · July 2016

liepertsm said:

I just finished Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. I thought it was pretty good. I also recently read Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. It started off kind of slow for me, but once it picked up I really enjoyed it.

I'm waiting for my mom to finish Me Before You so I can take it. I tried Big Little Lies but just couldn't get into it. It kills me to not finish a book once I pick it up, but that is one of just a small handful that makes the list.

GoldenTMama · July 2016

Scarlett830 said:

It kills me to not finish a book once I pick it up, but that is one of just a small handful that makes the list.

I 2nd this. I hate leaving a book once I start it.

I am currently reading What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. I really like it, it's very well written.

****TW and Spoiler Alert****
There is discussions of MCs and infertility.
It hit me kind of hard because when I started reading this book I was TTCAL. So I think it's important to give people a heads up.

Scarlett830 · July 2016

I'm re-reading Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult. Such a great book, and I love how she alternates chapters between characters and uses elephants to highlight grief and mother/child relations.

JAGinMI · July 2016

@scarlett830 and @liepertsm - I also have such a hard time quitting a book and the list that I have quit is very small! Also, did you two cry your eyes out over Me Before You?? That one killed me!

Right now I am slowly getting through Miss Emily by Nuala O'Connor. It's a fictional story about Emily Dickinson that's cute so far. Before that I read The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene. Another super heartbreaking one!

Next I am thinking about going back to Outlander. I was on Drums of Autumn a few years back and it was soooo boring that I had to put it down. Voyager is one of my fave books ever so that was very upsetting. Everyone tells me that it picks up again and gets good again so I'm hoping I can just get through some of the staleness and get back into it!

Schumerator · July 2016

@GoldenTMama I've been wanting to read what Alice forgot! I need to go pick it up, I think I'll do that this weekend

coffeeandcookies84 · July 2016

Love all the books!

I just started Me Before You, about a quarter of the way through...so far so good! Next up I have All The Light We Cannot See. I've always got my nose in a book...hoping to pick up one or two more during first tri

MrsNap_515 · July 2016

I'm a book nerd, and was doing reviews for a book blog on the side for fun (and free books!) haha I'll read anything, but I love smut/romance LOL I'm friends with many of the authors I love from being involved in their street teams, big ol' nerd here hahaha if anyone hasn't read anything by her, Colleen Hoover is an amazing author. She has a few series out and some stand alones, Hopeless was amazing, but if anyone needs recs on romance I'm your girl

Luckycharm1068 · July 2016

I read Me Before You and the sequel After You. Surprisingly I think I liked the sequel better!

Also recent reads are Everything I Never Told You and Brooklyn (loved the movie so I had to read the book. Still can't decide which I like better! Usually read the book before movie and it's easy to pick book!)

irishrose54 · July 2016

Right now I'm reading The Disater Artist (if any of you have ever watched The Room, it's a book about the making. It's half hilarious and the other half just makes me feel bad for tommy). Another one I renently read that was a good summer read was Ms Perigrines Home for Peculiar Children. Its a YA book but a good one. In fact Tim burton is doing a movie of it- it comes out in sept.

JDMRS · July 2016

I just finished The Diver's Cloths Lay Empty. It was a really good novella. I recently read The Sandcastle Girls, by Chris Bohjalian, which is a sweeping romance set during the Armenian Genocide.Some of my favorite authors are Barbara Kingslover, Tom Wolfe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I have a love/hate relationship with Joyce Carol Oates.

Spartanrd4 · July 2016

@GoldenTMama I read two books- *TW* one before my MC and one after and I really wish I had known that there was miscarriage in the plot beforehand. I wasn't too triggered by them and they were really good books but good idea to give a heads up. One was called "A light between Oceans" and the other was "The Nightingale".

Recently I read "When Breath Becomes Air" and it was very good- sad but good so be ready for that. This month for my book club we are reading "The boys in the boat" which is about the 1936 Berlin US Olympic Rowing Team.

Schumerator · July 2016

Spartanrd4 said:

@GoldenTMama I read two books- *TW* one before my MC and one after and I really wish I had known that there was miscarriage in the plot beforehand. I wasn't too triggered by them and they were really good books but good idea to give a heads up. One was called "A light between Oceans" and the other was "The Nightingale".

Recently I read "When Breath Becomes Air" and it was very good- sad but good so be ready for that. This month for my book club we are reading "The boys in the boat" which is about the 1936 Berlin US Olympic Rowing Team.

That's hilarious, those are the two on my night stand right now!

liepertsm · July 2016

@JAGinMI I definitely cried my eyes out during Me Before You. I read Outlander a few years ago and loved it. I've made several attempts at reading Dragonfly In Amber but have not been able to finish it. I'd put it down for a bit but then kept having to restart because i forgot what happened and just gave up after a while.

JAGinMI · July 2016

@liepertsm If you can get yourself through Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager is the next one and it SOOOOOO beyond good!!!

Scarlett830 · July 2016

My mother has read the entire Outlander series and has been bugging me for years to start them. It took me a few tries to really get into the first book. Once I finished it, I thought it was decent, but when I picked up the second one I read about 4 pages and then immediately proceeded to throw it across the room while screaming "you have got to be kidding me!" I hate Frank, and the beginning of the second book was a real letdown. I haven't tried picking it up again yet.

Luckycharm1068 · July 2016

@Spartanrd4 are you in my book club?! Ha! That's our book too.

ea112808 · July 2016

I love Liane Moriarty! I have really enjoyed all of her books, but Alice is my favorite, maybe because I read it during my first pregnancy and found it timely.

Me before you broke my heart and I immediately read the sequel which wasn't quite as good.
I just finished A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman and it was really outstanding.
I am currently reading The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton and I am really enjoying it so far.

Always looking for the next one though; love any recommendations!

afbaby0715 · July 2016

Just started (and finished) Emily Giffin's new book First Comes Love. It's such a good summer read.

irishrose54 · July 2016

@JDMRS I have never heard of The Sandcastle Girls but I am interested after you described it!

Bluebird2318 · July 2016

I love books but I'm never current enough for recommendations! The last book I read cover to cover was The Song of Achilles. If comics count, I'm currently in the middle of reading The Walking Dead compendiums that DH got for me this past Christmas. If I didn't have kids and/or love sleep I don't know how I'd be able to put those down.

EnglishTeacherMama · July 2016

Yay books!!! Thanks for starting this post!

I love Liane Moriarty -- Big Little Lies was my favorite of hers. **TW** pregnancy is a huge theme in many of her novels though, many times with miscarriages too, so I second the warning on "What Alice Forgot." Also be careful with "The Hypnotist's Love Story" and skip "Three Wishes" if you have experienced a MC -- my mom lent it to me the week after my MC and FORGOT TO WARN ME about that scene (whyyyyy), so when the character had one, I sobbed until I was sick.

If you like quirky, "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" and "Helen of Pasadena" are both great. I laughed out loud at parts of Bernadette. I think it's being developed for a movie, too!

If you like fantasy, Sarah J. Maas' "Throne of Glass" series (still in the process) is absolutely spectacular. She based it on the idea that a girl who likes dresses and being pretty could also be a bad@$$ assassin. The backstory and magic keeps building and I'm really loving it. I also thought the "Daughter of Smoke & Bone" series was amazing -- starts off dark, but has so much redemption and a very powerful love story.

If you want to catch up on some classics, definitely read "Pride & Prejudice" (always so much funnier/more sarcastic than people expect) and "Les Miserables" -- there is much more meat there than what the movie/musical portrays.

If you like YA, "Eleanor & Park" is adorable and "My Lady Jane" is super creative.

I don't know how to best describe the next two, but I was really struck by them. "Station Eleven" is a slow-to-unfold, deep story about a realistic apocalypse--no zombies or comets, just a bad flu strain that gets out of hand--and how people either separate or band together to get through it. "The Girl With All the Gifts" is a zombie story, but not too weird... scientists are trying to figure out how to defeat zombies, but there is one girl who, while technically a zombie, shows love and understanding, so they figure she's the key to healing them all. This one is being filmed right now and I'm really curious how they're going to pull it off in movie form.

I looooove to read (in case you couldn't tell), but I haven't been in the mood to read new things while dealing with morning sickness. So I've been playing it safe and re-reading Harry Potter for the millionth time... and guess what? The part of the sixth book that I reached last night reveals that Ron Weasley's birthday is March 1st! My baby's due date just got extra awesome!

JDMRS · July 2016

@EnglishTeacherMama YES! Where'd You Go Bernedette was amazing!

catrb89 · July 2016

I started "The Library at Mount Char" since I've heard great things. It's just getting a little too weird for me, so I'll pick it up some other time. I'm starting "The Girls" by Emma Cline this weekend. Definitely loved "What Alice Forgot" and "Leaving Time" also!!

msirni0 · July 2016

@ksw1013 I just finished All the Light We Cannot See. It's a little slow at first, but I love books written in WW2 era, and it's told from 2 interesting perspectives.

@spartanrd4 how good was the nightingale??? It was so sad, and definitely got in my head, but I just thought it was beautiful.

Spartanrd4 · July 2016

@msirni0 I loved the nightingale....I read all the light we cannot see. I love the WW2 era too. Did you ever read The Book Thief?

msirni0 · July 2016

No but it's on my list!

JAGinMI · July 2016

EnglishTeacherMama said:

If you like quirky, "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?" and "Helen of Pasadena" are both great. I laughed out loud at parts of Bernadette. I think it's being developed for a movie, too!

I thought this was such a quirky and fun book, too!

ihateusernames* · July 2016

I'm into a lot of different genres and usually cycle through all of them.
Right now I'm reading "guns, germs and steel". It's really good if you like anthropology and history...
Just finished "the evolution of Adam" and "Middlemarch".
I love the goodreads app!!!

onechoctawgirl · July 2016

I'm hooked on "The Dresden Files"

librarymom917 · July 2016

I just start Anansi Boys by Neil Gailman, I've got a To-Read list a mile long I just haven't had to time to sit down and get into a book lately. I'm impatiently waiting for my copy of The Cursed Child , I will lock myself in a room and ignore my husband and kids when that gets here.

khbear · July 2016

I just finished The Nightingale, which was just beautiful. It was a great read! I guess I'll throw a *TW* on it - it does involve a MC, but it's not during the course of the story, it's in the past of one of the main characters.

I just started a book in a cozy mystery series I read in between serious books. It's called the Gaslight Mysteries, and they are really cute if you enjoy cozy mysteries! After that I'm probably going to read the next book in the Highland Gaurd series by Monica McCarty, which I definitely suggest to anyone who likes romance novels!

Schumerator · July 2016

@librarymom917 same here I keep adding so many books to my list! What is the cursed child about?

Im currently reading Lily and the Octupus, I'm going to be a blubbering mess at the end of this one! Then I'm starting the girl with the dragon tattoo, anyone read that series?

Spartanrd4 · July 2016

@librarymom917 I'm excited about the cursed child too....I need some Harry potter in my life. I'm so excited about the Fantastic Beasts coming out this fall, even though it's a movie not a book

Scarlett830 · July 2016

@Schumerator I read The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo and the two sequels, but to be honest, I only remember the first one. Stieg Larsson came up with some pretty messed up stuff.

librarymom917 · July 2016

@Schumerator. The Cursed Child is a Harry Potter sequel about his son, it's actually the screenplay since it's a play but I would read anything HP related. I've read The Girl with the Dragon tattoo and the other two, I liked them!
@Spartanrd4 I am ridiculously excited about Fantastic Beasts!

iceandsnowflakes29 · July 2016

Right now I'm reading "I've got your number" by Sophie Kinsella. It's very light, fluffy, and funny. I'm almost done, so I need to make a trip to the library!

Phil413 · July 2016

I'm working through Outlander right now and in between books in the series I go for other books that I want to read. Currently reading The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. About 2 years ago I read The Invention of Wings by the same author and it was FANTASTIC. A girl gets a slave for her 11th birthday and teaches her how to read, ends up becoming an abolitionist.

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