What are you reading August, 2015

[Margie]

Thanks, Sue, good to know. I'm loving it so far.

[Janet]

Linda wrote: "Janet wrote: "Bought a copy of All My Puny Sorrows...haven't gotten far but looks promising"

Okay, okay, okay, Janet. You're reading All My Puny Sorrows. We got it.

(Love you!)"

HaHa! I am not responsible for my iPhone's stutter.

[Denise]

Stutter or not, I really enjoyed All My Puny Sorrows.

[Linda]

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride seems as if it will be a quick read then back to Petoskey books (or one of the 19 books I'm in the middle of - Janet!).

[Adore]

i picked this up on a whim and it's incredible (and incredibly scary):

Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection

[Lacey]

I just finished the Young Adult novel Sabriel, which was excellent. Picked up the next one in the series, but first I need to read Eleanor & Park before my Kindle library loan expires!

I also have The Water Knife on my nightstand, so I'm having a good second half of August. :-)

[Margie]

I finished The Kite Runner which I enjoyed; reading Hollow City now.

[Linda]

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice and listening to My Losing Season: A Memoir

[Gerald]

Finally got Alice Hoffman, Marriage of Oppositesonto my ipod after days of struggle. Good old Microsoft did it to me this time but they also saved me. I decided to try Edge instead of Chrome to transfer audible files to ITunes. It worked! After some ITunes help I got it.PTL!

[Stacey]

Now reading The Secret River and listening to Dry Bones. Have to get to Sight Unseen for mystery book club at my local library by Tuesday.

[Stacey]

Just bought The Admissions the other day. Need to finish the Cinderella murder first

[Cindy]

Chris ... hope you love Still Life by Louise Penny. I've grown to love these quirky mysteries/police procedurals...plus I definitely have a thing for Armand Gamache. I savor these books and wait until I can give them the full attention they deserve to start reading one.

[Cindy]

If you like to listen to audiobooks, Sissy Spacek (sp?) narrates a recent version (50th Anniversary) of that book and hits the mark right on. Definitely worthwhile to track down.

[[deleted user]]

Just finished . I was not prepared for how this would move me. Weeping, and I suppose I'll be thinking over the themes of guilt and grace for some time to come.

[Lisa]

My Goodreads currently reading shelf says I am reading more, but right now I am reading two books: a book of short stories The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards and (finally)All the Light We Cannot See by anthony Doerr.

[Margie]

Just finished and have started

[Linda]

Finished Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice (recommend, recommend, recommend) and started The Wright Brothers

[Linda]

Started listening to Skink--No Surrender

[Louise]

I came across this Stories and Pictures on Gutenberg.org and so far I'm really enjoying it :-)

[Chanda2426]

Just started The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.

[Kate]

I have been mostly lurking here all summer, but reading too! I finished Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, which finished a three book challenge for the Northshire Bookstores. I took a 24 hour vacation with a friend and we went up to Saratoga Springs which was beautiful and I was able to spend about 45 minutes in Northshire ( not enough time :)). I redeemed my Summer Book challenge for a $15 dollar gift card which of course I promptly used to help defray the cost of 3 new books! I am currently reading , The Martian for one of my book clubs. I know Michael loved it and Simon of The Readers (along with all the cohosts of Hear..Read This) disliked it so I am interested to see my opinion will fall.

[Linda]

Kate wrote: "I have been mostly lurking here all summer, but reading too! I finished Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, which finished a three book challenge for the Northshire Bookstores. I took a 24 hour va..."

I know you can't answer this, but I hope you're reading that for the book club we share.

[Becky]

I rarely post here but felt compelled to tell you all about Fog Island Mountains
Set in the mountains of Kyushu island in southern Japan, it's about a South African man diagnosed with terminal cancer and how his heartbroken family responds, all over the space of a week as a typhoon bears down on them. There is very poetical language, and fox spirit folktales. This book was short, only 170 pages, it will stay with me for a long time. Dreamlike, mesmerizing, poetical. . . just fantastic.

[Cindy]

Kate ... both my husband and I read The Martian and loved it. (We rarely read and/or enjoy the same books.) He is an engineer, so I think he got caught up thinking about all the engineering stuff. I just love the pace amd story of the book. Perhaps too predictable an ending, but that didn't spoil it for me.

[[deleted user]]

I read The Martian and my husband is reading it now. I did not think that I would like it, but I did. It is a fun beach read.

[Linda]

Started reading The Water Museum: Stories - one of the Petoskey authors AND I got John Glenn: A Memoir on CD from the library because I HAVE to have something in the car. I own that book and was surprised the CD only had 5 discs. Guess what? I now know it's an abridgment. Oh, well, I was thinking of reading the book next - as soon as I'm done with The Liars' Club.

[Janet]

Listening in the car to The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases and on my phone have picked up The Paying Guests again. Not making any progress with my Petoskey reading, am I? The problem is my 3 remaining Petoskey books are all in print form so I can't multi-task.

[Susan]

I've been binge reading all summer. Top read for August (so far) was RULES OF CIVILITY. Currently reading THE LAST TIME I WAS ME and listening to THE POSTMISTRESS.

[Linda]

Gail wrote: "Finally reading a book I can rave about, A Little Life is everything that I look for in a novel. I am also listening to A Spool of Blue Thread."

I really enjoyed Spool!

[Linda]

I'm looking forward to starting Jane Smiley's SOME LUCK

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

This weekend I'm having a bit of a non-fiction readathon, all of these books I had previously started just needed to finish.

All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists by Terry Gross
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

[Linda]

Finished listening to Skink--No Surrender (I love Skink AND Carl Hiaasen's books) and started listening to The Girl on the Train.

To look at the list of my friends on GoodReads who have already read this, I must be the last person on earth to read it.

[Julie]

Just finished Abigail Thomas' What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir. I expected better from this writer, but oh well . .

[Stacey]

Just finished The Truth According to Us but didn't like it as much as The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Societyher prior book. Now listening to The Girl with All the Giftswhich is very good with a great narrator. Also just began reading Saint Mazie and enjoying it so far.