June 2021 Moms
disgruntled_pelican
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Book Worms- Gather here!
disgruntled_pelican
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Hey there! I am a book worm, I love to read and am usually reading 1-3 books at a time. I was just wondering who else here is a reader and some other things... this format seems popular so here ya go:
Current Read:
Last Read:
What is on your TBR List/Stack:
Do you have any reading goals?
Recommendations:
Current Read:
Last Read:
What is on your TBR List/Stack:
Do you have any reading goals?
Recommendations:
Married 
August 2010
DD1 August 2011
DD2 August 2013
DD3 February 2017
August 2010DD1
August 2011DD2
August 2013DD3
February 2017
Re: Book Worms- Gather here!
Last Read: You by Caroline Kepnes
What is on your TBR List/Stack: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Stephen King) is most likely what I'll read next, my stack is quite large right now.
Do you have any reading goals? My goal this year was 30 books, but to do 15 off my "Book-et List", i.e. books I've always intended on reading but never got around to. I think I am at 29 and 12 of those were from the list. I don't think I'll get to 15.
Recommendations: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. It was so heartwarming and just all around lovely.
DD1
DD2
DD3
Current Read: Just started JD Robb’s Creation in Death (In Death #25) but Robert Galbraith’s newest book just came to me from the library so I’ll probably start that tonight and pause ion JD.
Last Read: Innocent in Death (In Death #24) The one before that was #23...and the one before that was #22
Do you have a reading goal? To read every night before bed. On Goodreads I said I would try and read 30 books this year. I’m at 22 and not all
of them are JD Robb books.
Current Read: Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Last Read: When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal
What is on your TBR List/Stack: I'm not sure, open to suggestions! I'd like a good romance... I read the Bronze Horseman a few months ago and loved that it was really in depth historically but still a steamy romance.
Do you have any reading goals? Not really! I read so much for work (I'm a lawyer) that I try to read fluff whenever possible.
Recommendations: I really loved Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
On a non-book recommendation, I recommend unlinking your Goodreads account from your Amazon account if they're currently linked and you buy any baby books. I got a text not too long after I bought What to Expect that it had popped up on Goodreads...oops!
Last Read: Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
What is on your TBR List/Stack: It is almost empty, I only have a Robyn Carr one right now and Lies My Teach Told Me
Do you have any reading goals? No, it is one area of my life I keep goal free. I think I am at around 35 for this year. I use our county library app and read them using Kindle. Has saved me so much $$.
Recommendations: Recently read Little Fires Everywhere. As an 80s kid it was interesting reading a story about high schoolers during the same time period I was in high school. Lots of politics woven in.
Current Read: A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell #2) by Deanna Raybourn and Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orïsha #2) by Tomi Adeyemi.
Last Read: A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1) by Deanna Raybourn and The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert.
What is on your TBR List/Stack: Circe by Madeline Miller, Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor.
Do you have any reading goals? I haven't really set any, other than keep reading while I am enjoying it. Sometimes I burn myself out and go a few months without picking up a book.
Recommendations: I am really enjoying the Veronica Speedwell series. It is charming and easy to read. It kind of reminds me of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.
DD1
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ETA nm- I continued reading 🤦🏻♀️
Last Read: last personal read was Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
What is on your TBR List/Stack: there’s a new book out in my Rose Gardner series (same as above by Denise Grover Swank) that I want to read, but I’m rereading the whole series so want to finish that first.
Do you have any reading goals? Not really. Some months I read more than others but I read for a brain escape.
Recommendations: so many!
**TW Living Child**
BFP 2/2014 - DS - 10/2014
@disgruntled_pelican I love that you made a goal to read 15 off your list! I own a lot of books at home I haven't read (always get mine from the library) and I need to make this one of my goals for next year
@Omie_Wise I loved Daisy Jones too! Did you read Evelyn Hugo? I liked that over even more!
@pickle-chips I loved Circe!! Enjoy when you get there!!
@hillbillywife I loved the whole Chronicles of Narnia series! YS is the perfect age for them. What does he think of the house and his boy?
@ramzlau I stopped Crawdads the first time I tried (child neglect really gets me). Friends encouraged me to push through and it did get better. I'm glad I read it- the main character really sticks with me- but I do think it's over hyped.
Last Read: The Searcher by Tana French, Mexican Gothic (doing spooky/suspenseful reads for October). Last listen was the Starless Sea.
What is on your TBR List/Stack: Pet Sematary, Heart Shaped Box
Do you have any reading goals? I try to read for 30 minutes a day. My reading has really amped up since covid started. It's been a good escape, and I'm thinking I'll get to 75 this year. I listen to audiobooks too, and add those in my year number.
Recommendations: always Outlander!!! One of my favorites for eyes or ears. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was good and took me out of covid stress. Books by christina lauren for good romance/light stuff, gill paul for historical fiction.
Last Read: A Girl Betrayed by A.L. Aborn (my friend 😊)
What is on your TBR List/Stack: I have so many Elin Hilderbrand books I am trying to read
Do you have any reading goals? Honestly just to read more consistently. I find that I will get sucked into TV and social media instead of reading often
Recommendations: Check out A Girl Betrayed it is really good!
Married: 8/10/13
BFP- 12/18/15, D&E- 4/8/16 @ 21w5d- confirmed Thanatophoric Dysplasia
BFP- 11/7/17, M/C- 11/18/17 @ 4w6d
BFP- 8/25/18 ~ EDD- 5/9/19 ~ DD born 5/2/20 *Lillian Hazel*
BFP- 10/9/20 ~ EDD- 6/21/21
Current Read: When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton; also Resistance by Tori Amos and I know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou both on Audio
Last Read: Troubles in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
What is on your TBR List/Stack: My TBR is out of control. The Hilderbrand book I just read is the 2nd in a series so I need to read the 3rd. I'd like to finally read Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert is also sitting on my shelf.
Do you have any reading goals? I set a goal of 35 books on Goodreads this year which has proved to be aggressive but also I realized earlier this year that I was pretty much exclusively reading books by white women so I made it a goal to diversify my reading.
Recommendations: My favorite book I read this year was Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett; I also loved Crawdads but have heard that the abandonment story is a trigger for a lot of people.
@_orchid_ I also liked Evelyn Hugo a little more than Daisy Jones. She has a new book that comes out next year that looks really fun.
2017 - egg retrieval #1 - 3 eggs, 0 embryos appropriate for transfer; ER #2 2 eggs, 0 embryos on day 3; ER #3 1 egg 0 embryos
moved to donor egg in summer 2017; 35 eggs retrieved; 19 fertilized; 9 total embryos
Fresh transfer Dec 2017= BFP! baby boy born 8/22/18
May 2019 - surprise natural pregnancy ended in MC
Nov 2019 FET; MC at 9 weeks
May 2020 FET; BFN
July 2020 FET; CP treated with methotrexate
Oct 2020 BFP!
Take a look at my blog
@laurad75 Pachinko is super good. I loved it. Not as good but another historical Korean novel Everything Belongs to Us was also good.
2017 - egg retrieval #1 - 3 eggs, 0 embryos appropriate for transfer; ER #2 2 eggs, 0 embryos on day 3; ER #3 1 egg 0 embryos
moved to donor egg in summer 2017; 35 eggs retrieved; 19 fertilized; 9 total embryos
Fresh transfer Dec 2017= BFP! baby boy born 8/22/18
May 2019 - surprise natural pregnancy ended in MC
Nov 2019 FET; MC at 9 weeks
May 2020 FET; BFN
July 2020 FET; CP treated with methotrexate
Oct 2020 BFP!
Take a look at my blog
2017 - egg retrieval #1 - 3 eggs, 0 embryos appropriate for transfer; ER #2 2 eggs, 0 embryos on day 3; ER #3 1 egg 0 embryos
moved to donor egg in summer 2017; 35 eggs retrieved; 19 fertilized; 9 total embryos
Fresh transfer Dec 2017= BFP! baby boy born 8/22/18
May 2019 - surprise natural pregnancy ended in MC
Nov 2019 FET; MC at 9 weeks
May 2020 FET; BFN
July 2020 FET; CP treated with methotrexate
Oct 2020 BFP!
Take a look at my blog
@nlc_atx I liked The Girl With The Louding Voice, but it took me a bit to get used to her voice but once I did I flew through it.
Also liked Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Dr Ibram Kendi, and So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Olio if you want some nonfiction.