Ingrid’s Comments (group member since Dec 30, 2013)

Ingrid’s comments from the CPL's Book a Week Challenge group.

I have Daisy Jones & the Six on hold. Also heard it was good.
Currently listening to Anonymous Girl in my car. Let's all hope we don't have any people like this in our lives!

Started The Line between & the 2nd Planetfall book.

I am listening to Armada which is read by Will Wheaton.
For reading it’s After Atlas which is the 2nd book after Planetfall. Planetfall reminded me of Annihilation, but in space.

Such fun options! Maybe after life is less hectic, at the end of April, I will have time to concentrate on these mini challenges.

I’d cry all the way through if I had to get rid of books. Even now I’m having a hard time parting with my many children’s books even though my children are teenagers.
If it had to happen though it would be the books I read more than once.
Harry Potter, Jane Eyre, annihilation...and I sure hope cookbooks are a separate category of 30. Ha ha

I have tried reading this book twice and then a third time has a book on CD and for some reason it is not my favorite and I never finish. It makes no sense because I love to read, I’ve read other books on time travel and everyone else loves this book.

The Witch Elm was good. It’s not the usual type of book I read. I did like it a lot better than the Goldfinch which really wasn’t my cup of tea even though the rest of the world really liked it.

So sorry you are sick. Keep up with medicine so you don’t get REALLY sick. I’m battling headcold #2 of the season & trying to keep it out of my lungs.
I’m listening to NOS4A2 by Joe Hill in my car. I finally checked an audio book out from the library on my phone!!
If I didn’t know better, I would swear his father, Stephen King, wrote it. Great book if you are a fan.
Also I am reading Planetfall by Emma Newman. Just started.
Feel better soon!

These are fun options!

I’m almost finished with The Witch Elm. Good writing. I think a lot of people will like that. Not really my cup of tea though.

I like to reread certain classics periodically. Count of Monte Cristo, Jane Eyre, Phantom of the Opera & a few more.
Currently I am reading The Witch Elm. I thought it had to do with witches. Nope. It’s more like The Goldfinch, which I did not like. I found The Goldfinch depressing. This book is fine & good writing, but still not what I was expecting.
I am finally trying an audible book through the library system! NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. Good audible! It plays out of my car speaker. The only thing I have to figure out is why I start it sometimes & it goes to the beginning again.

When I was young I used to climb up in a tree and read. My favorite was to go in my uncle’s raft out on his lake & read.
Now I like to read in my La-Z-Boy with the fireplace going or I’ll sit out at my neighbors pool in the summer and watch the kids swim while I read.
I just started The Witch Elm. Totally sucked in already and hope it stays that way!

I have my library pile on my coffee table.
In the office I have so many on the bookshelf from the DAV or other bargains I got. Then I keep going to the library to get new releases or continue a series so I never get back to this pile.
On my bookshelves in the den I have some classics I picked up to reread. We’ll see if that ever happens.

I just finished Dry by Neal Schusterman which was really good & thought provoking. Have plenty of water nearby when you read it. I was so thirsty the whole time.
Now I am finishing New York 2140 which is about NY being flooded after climate change.
So I went from no water in one book to too much water in the next.

Okay I finished Whiskey in a Teacup so count that one for me.
I really enjoyed it too! Not necessarily for the recipes, but for reading about being a southern lady. Although O never really considered Tennessee as the south. Ha ha. I thought she was going to be writing about GA or SC.

How do we know how long a book has been on the best seller list?
I am reading Whiskey in a Teacup by Reece Witherspoon & it’s been on the bestseller list.

I’m not sure my memory goes back far enough to know how long the books have been on my shelves. Ha ha.
I’ll pick up a bunch of paper bucks at the Goodwill and think I will read these, but instead I’m always trying to get the new releases from the library so the paperbacks sit there.

Congratulations to the winners!

I am in the middle of two home organization\cleaning challenges so it’s cutting into my reading time. I don’t like to clean or declutter so it takes me a little extra time.

This week I am reading New York 2140. Haven’t fully decided how I feel about it. Each chapter is a different character.

I haven’t done the challenges in the past.
Do I just post that I read The Darkest Secret as a Knock Down the Stack book? Is that how I get a point?
Thanks!

I broke a record in 2018 & read 69 books!
I’ve started reading & have a book on CD in the car as well. There is a pile of books on my coffee table, so many on my kindle & we won’t even talk about my bookshelves.
I’m ready for the new challenge!

Right I’m picking knock a book off my stack. If I picked that every week I might make a tiny dent in my To Read pile.