〰️Beth〰️’s Comments (group member since Dec 10, 2021)

〰️Beth〰️’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

Finished my first pick a spicy historical romance. Colleen Hoover is up next. With all the reading I do I have never read one of her books. Now I see her books everywhere!

You are doing great Joy📚💖📚 It looks like it’s been some great reads. I need to get my copy of Independent People out of storage and finally read it.

Welcome back, you are doing great on this challenge. I loved his other book, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, but I never got past the first chapter of Anxious People. I have been afraid to try A Man Called Ove because everyone seems to love that one also.

Best wishes on the rest of your challenge.

Bill wrote: "Ann wrote: "I guess I’ve got a book in each of the 5 categories now but I’ll keep adding anything else I read that fits."

I do like these challenges as they get me thinking about and attempting ot..."

Now that essays are on my radar I find myself checking more out to see if I want to read them. I have found that collections of short (25 pg. or less each) stories is less to my liking. I have only found one so far that kept me invested in each story.

Faouzia wrote: "Next in line would be Pines.
I'm finally getting to it and i am clearing my reading schedule for its sequel to be read immediately after (I take the warnings of Alondra seriously when it comes to b..."

I agree, stopped everything after book one to read the rest. Thank goodness they were already published.

Patty wrote: "ok so this one Amazon lists as 496 pages. 4 pages short - sue me! lol

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🤣😂🤣 lmao…. Hate when that happens! Didn’t the author know if you are that close you need to add some more dialogue or descriptions to reach at least a count of 501 because we have goals!

Laurel wrote: "June plans:
The water issue is almost resolved. It was a hole in the water tank, and the tank has been replaced. The old one is draining and will be taken out tomorrow. No more new water is there, ..."

Happy to hear the landlord solved the issue. You have a great mix of reading for June. I just started rereading the Owen Archer series a few months ago. Have book 3 slated for July or August and hope to read them all by new year. Think I have only read the first 4-5 so there will be some new mysteries. Have you read the entire series?

Faouzia wrote: "Thank you Lea. and I think you saved me the trouble of reading any more Vonnegut, at least in the foreseeable future :)"

I have not read that yet but I really enjoyed My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry and it’s sequel . Looking forward to your review.

You have a great variety on your reading list. I also loved The Book of Tea. Happiness is the Wrong Metric: A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism sounds very interesting.

Thanks Alondra, I will definitely look the read along videos.

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I am late to the party on this series but starting it this month. Great to know the later books are also great reads.

Have a happy June!

Sounds like a great May. I have to add The Walk series to my TBR. Several people I know rave about the series.

Hope June is filled with more good books!

Anne wrote: "I didn't get much read in May, but it was for a good reason: I went to Europe for 2 weeks. I had a great time. I still have plenty of time to get caught up with my reading goals.

End of May summar..."

Sounds like you had a wonderful trip! I have always wanted to go to Croatia, on my bucket list.

Hope you have a great June.

What a great reading month. Added Crying in H Mart to my TBR. I have to agree about The Bell Jar in my 20’s it was good, late 40’s reread didn’t hit the same.

Hope you have a wonderful June!

This book has been out for a year but it must be considered a good summer read because over 50 physical copies are checked out of our library system and I am on the hold list for a digital copy. It was understandable that our buddy read was back logged since it’s only published two weeks ago, but what the H E double hockey sticks is up with this book?

May Update

Second month in a row I didn’t finish my color challenge. My genre challenge was Literary Fiction/ Classics and I just wasn’t in the mood when I tried to start a few. I did finally read The Master and Margarita and loved it!

I caught up on a few series and finished a 12 volume box set so it was still a great month of reading. Think I am going to move my LitFic/Classics next year to February or March and see if I can keep on track.

I also managed to hit 50 books read in my Cleaning out My TBR challenge. That was my goal for 2022 (all books were on my TBR at least a year). This is the first year I actually hit my goal so I am going to raise the number. As of May 31 I have read a total of 100 books, 9 were boxed sets! In this respect insomnia rocks📚

Number books read for May= 21 (1 box set), 9 new authors!

Total number of pages read is 9,313🤯

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June is my Non Fiction month. I have a pile to select from so just going to start a book and if I don’t like it within a chapter move on. I did just get a book of essays I won from a GR giveaway last month so definitely reading that. I also have a ton of romance books this month so it will hopefully be a nice balance. Plus I need a break from YA fantasy/ SciFi since I have been sucked into 5 series I had not planned to read this year.

Alissa wrote: "〰️Beth〰️ wrote: "Still waiting….patiently….. for the library notice that I can pick it up."

and I'm sure, like me, you'll get 6 other books that come in at the same time! =)"

Lol, I have 7 @ home right now.

Still waiting….patiently….. for the library notice that I can pick it up.

It just released May 22nd so maybe the library was late in processing. Delaware is a small state but the bigger branches usually have multiple hard copies of new books if there is big demand prior to release. I have never had to wait for a digital (Hoopla) copy before so I am leaning towards late in uploading into the system.

Glad to see so many great reviews for Crows. I have had the duo set for ages and need to read it. Hope you enjoy Divergent. I read it years ago, the whole series in about a week. I remember liking it and passing the books on to a neighbor to read. Unfortunately I can no longer remember why I liked it, but I remember they were fast reads. Hopefully your review will jog my memory.