Whatcha Reading?

hoosiermama-2 · July 2018

I think it's been about a month since the last book thread.

What have you finished up since then? (Bonus points for grade/star rating.)
What are you working on now? What's on your list?

hoosiermama-2 · July 2018

I was off this week and got to finish up a book I started nearly a month ago–
Exit West by Moshin Hamid - 3 out of 5. I liked it, but it was average to me.
AND I started and finished (!!) Someone You Love is Gone by Gurjinder Basran - 4/5; great quick read

FFC - My Goodreads goal for the year is to read six books.

That last one put me at five!

PensiveCrayon · July 2018

I finished Slouching Toward Bethlehem during my long OB wait on Tuesday, and it was fine. Took me forever to actually get through though.

Currently one chapter into Gulliver’s Travels. I brought it and A Passage to India for trip reading, because they’re on my Read Harder list for the year, they’re paperback, and we had them in our library. I ordered Smilla’s Sense of Snow for an appropriate read through Scandinavia but it arrives tomorrow, and we’re already in Newark.

katy0990 · July 2018

I’m working on If You Only Knew by Jamie Ivey. I’m having trouble getting through it and I have a bunch of others in life be I am excited about.

Jens_Hoes · July 2018

How do you guys find the time to read? I have like zero down time.

hkom · July 2018

I just started QB VII, which is the last of the nine Leon Uris books on my shelf that I have yet to read. I'm making it my mission to finally go get a library card this week so I can have something after I finish this one.

katy0990 · July 2018

@Jens_Hoes Typically, I stay up way too late so I can read, but this pregnancy has been kicking my butt!

runrinserepeat · July 2018

Rounded halfway today on The Woman In Cabin 10. I’m dying to finish, but my knitting project is a competing priority at the moment.

katy0990 · July 2018

@runrinserepeat I loved that book!

kadeephd · July 2018

I finished Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, which took me longer to get through than I expected. I enjoyed it -- 4/5 stars. I also finished Happiest Baby on the Block. Omg that was an excruciating read. I think the basic idea is fine, but the writing was just awful and it was so drawn out. The entire thing could have been summed up in 5 pages. I also reread (or actually listened to this time) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I thought that was a good book when I read it back in college, which may have partially been because I was crushing on this guy and it was his one of his favorites. This time it was nearly intolerable.

I just picked up two used books to read on vacation in two weeks -- Labyrinth by Kate Mosse and one other that I can't remember the name of. Hopefully they are good beach reads! Normally I'd go to the library, but I lost my library card and accidentally didn't pick up five books I put on hold, so I'm too embarrassed to go in there and request a new card right now.

hkom · July 2018

Also finished Bringing Up Bebe last week. It was an enjoyable read and had some really good insights. Could kick myself for not highlighting / taking notes but I guess I have 4-5 more months to go through it again!

kadeephd · July 2018

@hkom I read Bebe last year before I knew I'd be pregnant now and I definitely think I need to read it again. Same goes for First Bite: How We Learn to Eat by Bee Wilson.

hkom · July 2018

@kadeephd Ooo I forgot about that one. Maybe I'll try to find that next.

lexidawg · July 2018

I just finished Something In The Water by Catherine Steadman. SO SO SO good.

@runrinserepeat I read on my work commute since it's over an hour each way and I take the subway.

hkom · July 2018

@Jens_Hoes We typically turn the TV off around 830 or 9 and go upstairs and read in bed before going to sleep. We also read while "watching" TV most evenings. BUT, we currently don't have kids, so that's probably gonna change

hoosiermama-2 · July 2018

@Jens_Hoes Since DD (11/2016), I almost exclusively only read before bed. The trouble is, when I get in bed it's because I'm ready to SLEEP! So, a lot of the time I reread the same 1-2 pages over and over until I fall asleep.

That's why I made my goal for the year only six books, two months per, haha!
Sometimes I'll get into bed an hour early for extra reading time.

The other day, I read in DD's room while DH gave her a bath. It was only 10 or so minutes but it felt good to squeeze something in.

@hkom @kadeephd If you decide to reread, please share your notes!

erose625 · July 2018

@runrinserepeat @lexidawg I was called for jury duty on Wednesday and every time I get called, I end up sitting in the waiting room all day and get dismissed at the end without being picked so I'm looking forward to a day of reading. Both The Woman in Cabin 10 and Something in the Water are on my to read lists, now to pick one!

coybig · July 2018

I'm reading The Butcher's Trail. It's about the massive manhunt for war criminals from the Bosnian War in the 90s.

PensiveCrayon · July 2018

I’ve never heard of First Bite but I’m definitely interested. Especially given that I’m determined that this next kid will love green vegetables. Where did I go wrong??

antsangel1118 · July 2018

I just read Behind Closed Doors in 2 days. It was a scary and intense read, but easy and couldn't put it down! There are two others by B.A. Paris that I have on my list, but right now I'm reading Sometimes I Lie. I'm only about 50 pages into it, but it's starting to draw me in.

@kadeephd, I'm a librarian, and trust me, there's no shame in needing a new card! And tons of people request stuff that they never pick up. Your librarians won't judge you for that! Lol

@runrinserepeat as I mentioned, I'm a librarian, and it's embarrassing how few books I've actually read over the past few years! Since having kids, I almost never have time to read at home. Now I read primarily on my hour lunch break, but for a while I was working half days and didn't have time to read at all! Unfortunately, being a librarian doesn't mean I get to sit and read all day. Lol

runrinserepeat · July 2018

haha, I don't really have trouble finding time to read. I can't tell if people are confusing me with someone else or trying to give me tips on how to scrape out more time when I'm not knitting? My project is seriously going to take 2 days, LOL.

antsangel1118 · July 2018

Oh, I also read the Me Before You series by Jojo Moyes. After you took me a while to get into. I actually put it back after 20 pages or so, but when I saw the third book was out, I decided to try again. It took about 50 pages to get I to it (I think page 52, to be exact, was the page I started feeling like I really wanted to know what was next), but it ended up being pretty good, and Still Me, the final book, I breezed through. I really liked the series as a whole!

kadeephd · July 2018

@antsangel1118 I used to be a librarian and I totally would judge someone who requested a ton of books and never showed up for them! That's why I'm avoiding requesting a new card for a little while. Though I worked in a private school where getting a loaner book from another library was quite work intensive (it was basically me driving to pick books up...), and I know it's not like that in public library system. Maybe I was also a judgey librarian

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hoosiermama-2 · July 2018

@antsangel1118 Whaaaat... I didn't know it was a series! I read Me Before You before it was made into a movie (which I haven't seen). I'll have to check the others out.

Erinka · July 2018

I’m reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain for my ladies bookclub. I’m really liking it esp bc I used to work in restaurants back in my 20s and that world is just so different than what most folks experience. This book is not for the faint of heart though—lots of sex, drugs and foul language.

mag1cbeli3ver · July 2018

@antsangel1118 I just bought Behind Closed Doors and can't wait to read it! It will have to wait until I'm done reading A Column of Fire, which I'm working on right now and only about 1/3 of the way through.
I started reading the Kingsbridge series a few years ago after a friend recommended The Pillars of the Earth. I really liked the first two (simply the fact that I read the entire books at about 1,000 pages each speaks volumes for me, b/c I usually can't get/stay into anything that long), but so far I think this one is actually my favorite. I'll update once I've finished it!

antsangel1118 · July 2018

@kadeephd that's funny! We can be judgy sometimes, but there are way more stupid things people do to be judged for than not picking up a few holds. In our system (countywide, and no big deal to get books from one library to another) it's not uncommon for several holds for one person to go unclaimed. We do special holds for our patrons by getting materials from outside our county or even state, and THOSE we judge hardcore if the patron doesn't pick them up! That's a service that costs us money, but costs our patrons nothing!
@hoosiermama-2 yes! You need to read them! But don't bother with the movie, IMO. The book was so much better than the movie. It took me ages to finally get through the movie. I kept falling asleep.
@mag1cbeli3ver it's SO good! Scary, in a psychological thriller kind of way, and disturbing to imagine the events happening in real life, but I know it happens.

tunnel · July 2018

I'm "reading" (via Audible) Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhoob by Trevor Noah. I really recommend the Audible version. Trevor Noah's narration is excellent and really brings the book to life!

ab_canada · July 2018

Okay so after reading The Wheel of Time series for the past half a year, it has started giving me weird dreams. I am on the last book now, yey!

For those who don't know the series, the main character is in love with three women, and of whom also love him, so it's full of "I don't want to share, but I guess I will deal with it" type of thing. Well, I had a dream that DH had another woman and, even though I was very hurt, I was going to let it go. Like WTF brain? I woke up and crawled over my snoogle to snuggle with DH (he was surprised since that dang pillow doesn't really allow for that!).

omnommer · July 2018

@ab_canada Ha! You're dreaming about it. I've read up to book 8 or 9 before and I'm currently going back from the beginning to finally get through it. I'm listening to them on tape, so maybe an hour a day while I drive to and from work. (On tape, they are about 40 hours long, so that's like one book a month if I'm lucky. I'm on book 4 now.)

I'm currently reading the Outlander Series on my kindle, and I have the paperback of Ina May's Guide to Childbirth on my bedside table.

rocketmom88 · July 2018

@omnommer I'm reading/listening to the Outlander series too. I started them years ago but always got stuck on The Fiery Cross. I'm less than 50 pages from the end though!

@ab_canada have you read the Stormlight Archives series by Brandon Sanderson? So good!

ab_canada · July 2018

@rocketmom88
No I haven't. But I am enjoying what he did for the Wheel of Time, so I will definitely look for some of his books for my next read!

omnommer · July 2018

@rocketmom88 Nice! I started book three last night. I really love reading books before watching their shows, and my sister says the Outlander TV series is pretty good.

And for all the Wheel of Time fans... I saw an article last month that says Amazon is looking to turn it into a TV series.

mschill22 · July 2018

I just started “The President is Missing”, I originally thought it was non-fiction (just hearing about it here and there)...it’s actually fiction. It’s good so far but there are short chapters and I’m only about 60 pages (out of 500) on Kindle. Anyone else read it?

maureenmce · July 2018

I'm still (very slowly) reading Winter is Coming, which is about Vladimir Putin's rise to power, why he's so dangerous, etc. Seems uh, very appropriate reading today! Perhaps the news will motivate me to get through another chapter before bed.

katy0990 · July 2018

I stayed up the other night (way too late) and read The Couple Next Door. It was excellent! I highly recommend it!

hoosiermama-2 · July 2018

@katy0990 Is that the one about the baby? If so, yes! I really liked it too.

@mschill22 That's the Clinton book, yeah? I've been meaning to add it to my to-read list.

mschill22 · July 2018

@hoosiermama-2 that’s the one. Writing credit is for Clinton and James Patterson. My guess on reading it is it was predominately James Patterson with insight on presidential workings by Clinton.

erose625 · July 2018

@katy0990 I read The Couple Next Door this past spring and thought it was great! If you like books like that I highly recommend The Sister by Louise Jensen and I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh.

katy0990 · July 2018

@hoosiermama-2 Yes, it is.

@lippy625 Thanks for the recommendations.

hoosiermama-2 · July 2018

Last night I finished Another Brooklyn (YA) by Jacqueline Woodson. I give it 2.5/5.
It ended soon after I finally started to get interested in it. And there was something (many things) that I didn't like about the writing style. I'm interested in reading another one of Woodson's books to see if I like it better.

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