What are you reading January, 2016

[Kathy]

I'm editing two university press books and indexing a third and don't have much time for pleasure reading. However, during breaks and the half-hour before bed I'm getting in bits and pieces of "something completely different." Last week I thoroughly enjoyed Clarence Budington Kelland's short stories about the consummate Yankee trader, Scattergood Baines. At the moment I'm killing time with a tacky mystery on my e-reader while I wait for OhioLink to acquire some titles from distant public libraries, including Stanley Elkin's The Dick Gibson Show, Edward Weeks's 1959 memoir In Friendly Candor, and James L.C. Ford's Magazines for Millions: The Story of Specialized Publications.

[Robin]

Becky wrote: "Reading Brooklyn & still reading a carry over from 2015-Avenue of Mysteries.

A is for Alibi & The Turner House are on my list"

A is for Alibi is wonderful - you'll love Kinsey Millhone! :)

[Robin]

I read The Kind Worth Killing and Divers clothes lie empty earlier this month. Now I'm into Fates and Furies, enjoying Groff's beautiful writing so far!

[Margie]

I just finished Our Souls at Night; currently reading The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories and The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress.

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Just finished The Kind Worth Killing and LOVED it. Now reading A Killing at Cotton Hill and am enjoying it as well. Kind of a modern day western cozy. :)

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And continuing to study my lines for this:


And trying to read this over and over:

[Susanne]

I currently have two books queued up on Audible.

1) Ancillary Justice - I started reading this at the beginning of January. I'm 65% through (4 more hours left) and I hope to finish by month-end. It's enjoyable but I only listen to it when I'm by myself in the car, otherwise the kid insists we listen to The True Meaning of Smekday.

2) The Name of the Wind - I'm 75% through, but I actually haven't listened to it for the past month, so I think I should probably pick it back up. I've really enjoyed it so far, but I still have seven hours left.

So far this month, I've started AND finished five books, and there are still more days left in the month ~ I feel like a ROCK STAR! I've read The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, Uglies (for book club), Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (there is some messed up stuff in here), Fangirl (fun girly book), and Ella Minnow Pea.

I'm waiting on Between the World and Me to come in at the library (currently "In Transit" so I should get it soon).

[Carol]

I rarely post on this thread but always read it. I tend not to post as I comment on most of the books I read on my GR account. Michael reminded me that our BOTNS Group is special and deserves more of my attention.

I've read and enjoyed many of the books mentioned this month, The Kind Worth Killing, Fates and Furies, Our Souls at Night, etc. though not this month. I haven't taken on either of Linda's reads, War and Peace or Middlemarch.

In keeping with my reading plan I read the first in the Josie Gray Series The Territory. Gray is the Chief of Police in the fictional West Texas border town of Artemis. The cartel is very active and is keeping Gray busy. I'm in for another.

Read the exquisitely illustrated, harsh, poetic Ruins, Hen Frigates about women who follow their men to sea, two thrillers, The Verdict, What She Knew, The Magician's Lie, about a really talented female magician who is accused of murdering her husband in a most horrific way, After Her in which two sisters involve themselves in finding a serial killer, more about their relationship than the killing, and Downton Abbey - A Celebration: The Official Companion to All Six Seasons, self explanatory.

For book group I read The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia. What struck me about this one is how different it is from most of what I've read about Nicholas and Alexandra as the focus is their family life with their children, servants and pets and then presents the pov of peasants and soldiers who live outside the palace gates through their diaries, letters and writings. Excellent and suitable for older YA.

I'm listening to Long Man which is alive with lush language of nature, people and locale of Yuneetah, Tennessee. Loving every minute of this.

More to come I'm certain.

[Jolynne]

I finished The Water Knife , it was pretty good. I'm about 30 pages into Slade House. I think I'll have time to get started on The Ghost Bride.

[Judy]

I'm sinking into Middlemarch at last and loving it. Listening in the car to The Girl in the Spiders Web

[Merry]

Reading A Little Life recommended by Ann - book not so little - hope to finish soon! So many books so little time in my little life!

[Kacy]

I just finished Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavidge Hill and The Dinner by Herman Koch, which was the selection for my book group.

I'm currently reading Middlemarch by George Elliot with the Classics Impossible Facebook group.

And I just started Any Human Heart by William Boyd

[Hannah]

Listening to The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick for book group and The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente in the car. Also reading The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz, Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine, Forest of Ruin by Kelley Armstrong (ARC), and Invincible Vol. 1: Family Matters by Robert Kirkman.

[Maureen]

Recently started THE EXPATRIATES by Janice Y. K. Lee. I really enjoyed her debut (THE PIANO TEACHER), and so far, her latest is outstanding.

[Esther]

I have just finished Cold Magic which took me a ridiculously long time to read. It was only marginally better than 3 stars for most of the way but the last quarter picked up the pace and it ended as a 4 star even though I was slightly miffed that it is not a stand-alone.
Now I have started Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split which is light and funny.

[Sherry]

I'm reading LOVING DAY by Mat Johnson in book form, and I'm listening to FINDERS KEEPERS by Stephen King. I'm enjoying both. LOVING DAY is about mixed race families and finding your racial identity in the world, and FINDERS KEEPERS is the second in a series by King about a retired police detective. I like his thrillers more than the horror now that I am older.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Kacy wrote: "I just finished Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavidge Hill and The Dinner by Herman Koch, which was the select..."

Oh wow I read this immediately after watching Going Clear and it was frightening!

[Mary]

I'm listening to "The Nightingale" and reading "Everything I Never Told You".

[SpookyBird]

"Uprooted," by Naomi Novik
"Paddle Your Own Canoe," by Nick Offerman
"Gris Grimly's Frankenstein," by Mary Shelly and Gris Grimly

[Andreas_55]

After I just finished "Unaccustomed Earth" which I liked a lot, I started reading "Gilead".

[Lacey]

This month, I finished The Sparrow (slow for me in the beginning but cannot get the characters out of my head!), read all of the Locke & Key graphic novels, tore through Damned (this book changed my thoughts on Palahniuk from "meh" to ready for the next one!), and devoured Girl in the Dark in one long plane ride. Since I'm spending the final week of the month in Seattle, I'm excited to read Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist next!

[Esther]

I am reading Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split.
I use to love reading her blog. One of my favourite posts was when she wrote to her car mechanic in jail to get advice about fixing her car..

[Stacey]

The blizzard was good for my reading life this past weekend. I finished The Handmaid's Tale and Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life and have started The Verdict -listening- and The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain.

[AmberBug]

Working through the Tournament of Books picks - The Sympathizer and The Sellout. Just finished Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel and Oreo.

By the way - did anyone else catch on that Books on the Nightstand will be a guest commentator during the event? This excites me!

[Yoni]

Finished A Known World and High Fidelity and reading Empire Falls and How to be Good

[Suzanne (Chick with Books)]

I've had quite a few books in my hands this month, but the one I'm reading right now is so much fun. It's called "Beat, Slay, Love" (it's a play on Eat, Pray, Love) and it's a Culinary mystery written by 5 mystery authors under one pseudo name, Thalia Filbert, which is a play on their publisher. It's about a foodie person/cook getting revenge on TV chefs that have personally slighted her. Anyone who's ever watched the Food Network or any of those foodie shows would love this!

[Margie]

I'm reading The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry; I finished The Wife, the Maid, and The Mistress.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Suzanne (Chick with Books) wrote: "I've had quite a few books in my hands this month, but the one I'm reading right now is so much fun. It's called "Beat, Slay, Love" (it's a play on Eat, Pray, Love) and it's a Culinary mystery writ..."
Sounds hilarious!

[Karen]

Reading Ariel Lawhon's new book, Flight of Dreams. Love it so far!

[Connie]

Just started Dog Master. Recommended by BOTN.

[Connie]

Just started Dog Master. Recommended by BOTN.

[Kathryn]

Just finished the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas, young adult books. Not my favorite genre, but was good enough I had to finish all four books.

[SibylM]

I try to stay away from threads like this because my TBR shelf is already creeping towards 900 books and things like this just make me add to it! You people are evil! Anyway, right now I am reading Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary and absolutely loving it -- may be my first five star book of the new year.

[Sue]

So far for January I've finished:

Gold Fame Citrus
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Eileen
The Past
Room - audio
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - audio

I'm about half-way through The Tsar of Love and Techno and plan to start Boy, Snow, Bird on audio this afternoon.

Of the books I read this month, I think Eileen was my favorite and, for sure, The Past was my least favorite.

[Ebb]

Currently I'm reading


Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

This book is both humorous and a little creepy.

[Damien]

Currently Reading: Station Eleven

[Esther]

I finished Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split yesterday morning which meant that due to lack of forethought I was left without a read for the commute home! Disaster!
I downloaded the short story Goliath by Neil Gaiman which is set in The Matrix universe. It was good and I finished up the commute listening to podcasts.

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

I'm currently juggling:

The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner (a mighty tome from 1972)
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi (a book I discovered during a speed dating project and couldn't wait to get back to)
Rising Strong by Bréne Brown (in audio)

[Linda]

The Maze Runner on audio

[Anna]

I am currently enjoying The Hours by Michael Cunningham, have read Scott McCloud's The Sculptor, Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark and Oliver Sacks Gratitude.

[Trenton]

I'm currently reading after she's gone

[Karen]

So far this month I've read and enjoyed:
Signs Preceding the End of the World
Woman with a Blue Pencil
Oreo 2016 Tournament of Books
The Whites 2016 TOB
The Invaders 2016 TOB.

[Susan]

Just finished The Nightingale and loved it. Just started The Frontiersmen by Allan Eckert.

[Valerie]

Just finished Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow which was wonderful.

Now reading The Girl in the Spider's Web which I like very much as far.

[Linda]

Finished the graphic novel Moose. It is powerful and sad. Thanks, Mark for suggesting it.

[Ebb]

Currently reading: 172 Hours on the Moon
Currently listening: Horns
Reading next: In the Unlikely Event

[Gerald]

Linda, who wrote Moose?

[Melissa]

Just finished Sophie's Choice. Currently reading The Brothers about the Tsarnsev brothers and Drums if autumn

[Gerald]

Linda I saw your review.thanks

[Linda]

Gerald wrote: "Linda I saw your review.thanks"

I'm on the road, Gerald, so I just found this. I would have answered.