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Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham works really well. The author is a former financial journalist and all three main characters are journalists.
Happy Thursday. Yesterday was Canada Day and it was beautiful out. Hope 4th of July goes good for you guys in the states. I knocked off a few more summer prompts this week but the books were only so so.Finished:
Love, Creekwood 4 stars
This novella was super cute but it was just emails between friends so there really wasn't a plot.
Chinese Voices: Classical Poetry 3 stars
This was very shiny and pretty so it left the book store with me. A couple stand out poems that I really liked but most were just okay.
The Night Country 2 stars
I probably shouldn't have bothered to read this but I hoped it would be better than the first... not so much. It wasn't bad it was boring.
The Worst Best Man 2 stars
I thought this looked like an entertaining rom com/beach read but it was more rom than com. It jumps between two perspectives but they seemed like the same person for a bit. I wanted to like the book more.
PS 2020 41/50
PS Summer 2020 8/20
PS 2016 32/40
Goodreads 112/150
Currently Reading:
Cocktails for Three
Blood Heir
QOTW:
I don't consistently read reviews. I have some reviewers I follow that rarely steer me wrong. However a favourite reviewer gave The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires 5 stars and said it was the best thing they had read all year. I haven't hated a book so much for a very long time. I also made the mistake of reading reviews of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and they turned me off to reading a 500 page book about Snow right before I was going to start it.
Chandie wrote: "Only one book this weekBook about a book club
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vamprires" by Grady Hendrix. (CW: sexual assualt). The QOTW is a good one in regards to this book because ..."
The same thing happened to me. I lost all respect for the main character at the half way point but finished the book to accomplish this challenge.
Jun 30, 2020 01:15AM
So all you need to do for this one is go to a beach and read a book, thus it becomes a beach read.
Lilia wrote: "Would What to Say Next fit this prompt?"Looks summery drink like to me.
Wow Summer has hit, there is only one page of checkins by the time I'm reading through. I just got back from visiting my grandma and I'm feeling very grateful for my library. My grandma has recently lost her vision and relies on audiobooks which I am in charge of suppling her with. We are in the same province but I feel like my library actually wants to serve the public. Anyway what matters is she has a bunch of books until I can get back up there.Finished:
Thick: And Other Essays 5 stars
The writing is really compelling and I didn't want to put the book down. Still, I took my time with this one in hopes that I actually absorbed her points.
Happily Ever After & Everything In Between 3 stars
This wasn't as good as Book Love but still enjoyable.
House of the Rising Sun 3 stars
I read a series by her years ago and thought I give one of her other series a try. Turns out this is set in the same world and there's cameos by a couple of characters. This was middle of the road urban fantasy. I don't know if I'll continue the series.
Herding Cats 3 stars
It came from my library whoo. Anyways, the first in the series is still the best. This is next best. There was one comic that killed me but the rest were okay. Found out there's a fourth in the series being published in October.
Serpent & Dove 4 stars
This was a surprise. I really enjoyed it and stayed up late reading it because I couldn't put it down. It is confusing because this seems like paint by numbers ya but the writer made the difference and 500 pages went quick. September for the next one seems to long to wait, so silly.
PS 2020 41/50
PS 2016 31/50
PS Summer 2020 6/20 (using what I've read from the star of June to the end of August)
Goodreads 108/150
Currently Reading:
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World I'm half done and I don't want to quit on it but I'm not making progress.
Blood Heir
QOTW:
Yes I am. I'm pretty close to finish the Popsugar challenges I've started thanks to lockdown (I kept track and I've read 50 books from when the library closed until when it reopened) so I might as well give it a shot but I'm not going to stress to finish it. I've reached the point when I the prompts have become challenging so naturally I'm starting a new challenge.
The UnhoneymoonersI'm going to use Chaos Reigning which is a little bit of a stretch but I may change it later.
poshpenny wrote: "Nadine wrote: "I LOVE to read on the beach!!! My mom lives at the beach, I go to stay with her for a few weeks every summer, and I bring an enormous grocery bag full of books with me."OK. Maybe. ..."
Beach reads seem to be something special you've saved to read when you finally have down time on vacation or really easy on the brain to enjoy while drinking. That's just my impression I'm sure other people will have a better explanation.
Stacey wrote: "Drakeryn wrote: "Though some of these are very specific...I'm not sure I've ever read a book with sunglasses on the cover"I've read a couple in the last year and have a few more on my TBR with su..."
Thanks I just read Leah On The Offbeat and totally didn't notice the sunglasses. I was trying to decide if she was drinking a slurpie. It's more likely a frappacino from Starbucks.
poshpenny wrote: "Anyone looking for an additional 20 prompts?2020 POPSUGAR Summer Reading Challenge
https://www.popsugar.com/entertainmen..."
Awesome! Thanks for posting this.
Why would I finish the main challenge when I could start a new one. Besides all the unfun challenges are left for me to complete.
To those in the US happy Juneteenth!
Nadine wrote: "Kendra wrote: "... Books I made progress on:The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars, #1) by Rob Thomas ..."
If you like audiobooks, this is a fantastic one, because Kristen Bell reads it!!..."
That ending was utterly heartbreaking.
Drakeryn wrote: "Cendaquenta wrote: "Although I'm not really sure why Amberlough is classed as "fantasy" - it's set in a country that doesn't exist in real life, but there's no actual magic. I'd call it more altern..."Wouldn't an alternate reality/history be science fiction?
