Currently Reading

[Jackie]

Reading Paper and Fire as well as This Savage Song.

[C.P.]

Planning to pick up Paper and Fire today. Also reading Golden Son, The Path of Daggers, and should finish The Start of Me and You.

[Jackie]

Nice job.☺️

[C.P.]

Reading Truthwitch right now. Wasn't really into it at first, but it has improved.

Also reading The Moon and More, which I'm enjoying quite a lot.

[Jackie]

Glad the book has improved. Glad you're enjoying that other one.:)I'll have to get to it at some point.

[C.P.]

Finished Truthwitch today. It was pretty fun but I didn't love it. I did enjoy that the characters grew throughout the story, but none of them were fantastic to me. And the "epic" female friendship was lacking for me.

[Kylara]

C P wrote: "Finished Truthwitch today. It was pretty fun but I didn't love it. I did enjoy that the characters grew throughout the story, but none of them were fantastic to me. And the "epic" female friendship..."

Courtney, that's pretty much exactly how I felt about Truthwitch.

[C.P.]

Kylara wrote: "C P wrote: "Finished Truthwitch today. It was pretty fun but I didn't love it. I did enjoy that the characters grew throughout the story, but none of them were fantastic to me. And the "epic" femal..."

I was really hoping to LOVE it. But alas, it was just a fun bit of forgettable YA fantasy.

[Jamie (The Kansan Reader)]

Last night I started . Truth be told I judge a book by the cover. I wanted to know what was between this cover. Now I am kicking myself for not reading the blurb.

[C.P.]

I'm guessing you aren't enjoying it?

[Jackie]

Oh, sorry it's not going how you wanted.

[Jamie (The Kansan Reader)]

It's not that I'm not enjoying it. More as it's a really messed up book. The blurb at the bottom says to read the Author's disclosure carefully. I knew that it was going to be in the Dark genre from the cover, but to date it is the darkest book I've ever read.

But props to the author. She has amazing writing.

[C.P.]

Ah, I see.

[Jamie (The Kansan Reader)]

C P wrote: "Ah, I see."

Yeah... I may or may not have nightmares from this.

[C.P.]

Yikes. That must be really dark. Hope you don't have any nightmares though!

[Jackie]

Wow, that sounds really dark.

[Jamie (The Kansan Reader)]

Jackie wrote: "Wow, that sounds really dark."

It's pretty graphic.

[C.P.]

Finished rereading Life Expectancy. It's such a wonderful book.

[Jamie (The Kansan Reader)]

I DNF . It got way to dark for me.

[C.P.]

Sorry to hear that. But I think that's a good thing, we all have limits and knowing when they've been met is always best.

I'm reading Crooked Kingdom now. :D Fairly good so far.

[Jamie (The Kansan Reader)]

C P wrote: "Sorry to hear that. But I think that's a good thing, we all have limits and knowing when they've been met is always best.

I'm reading Crooked Kingdom now. :D Fairly good so far."

That's great. I started The Queen of All That Dies by Laura Thalassa. I loved her series Unearthly so I decided to give another of her series a try.

[Jackie]

Glad you're enjoying your next book better than the dark one. Good on you for recognizing your limits.

[C.P.]

Hope you enjoy it, Jamie!

[Jackie]

Glad you're enjoying Crooked Kingdom Courtney.:)

[C.P.]

Thanks, Jackie. :) I'm about halfway now. Some things I like a lot, others not as much. It's a crazy read though.

[C.P.]

I've started rereading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Hoping to finish it and Crooked Kingdom tomorrow. I'm really enjoying this reread. I'll probably continue and reread the whole series over the next few months.

[C.P.]

I finished Crooked Kingdom yesterday. I did really enjoy it, but not as much as Six of Crows. There was a certain event near the end that I found completely unnecessary and disappointing. I guess it could be argued that it made things more realistic, but I found it the main down side to the novel.

I also finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It was really nice to revisit this book. Hopefully I will be rereading the rest of the series over the next few months. And you know, I don't remember liking Ron, but he actually wasn't bad in this.

[Jackie]

Sorry it wasn't as good as you were expecting.:/
Also, I want to reread the series as well.:)

[Anna 'Bookbuyer']

I'm currently reading Japanese From Zero 3 which is teaching me Kanji!!! ^-^

Also The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting (re-read) and The Black Key!

[C.P.]

It was still really good, Jackie. I rated it 4 stars. :) And you should! I've been meaning to read them again for years.

You're working on a lot, Bookbuyer! I hope you enjoy them! Glad to hear you're learning!

[C.P.]

You're reading both? Or you're finishing off the first and starting the second? Glad ro hear you like it! I know a lot of people enjoy that series.

[C.P.]

Haha, that's always the problem! I am becoming quite picky about what I read for that reason.

[Jackie]

Glad you are enjoying your books everyone!:)

[C.P.]

I've started the tenth Wheel of Time book. It's off to a pretty interesting start, but I've heard lots of bad things, so I'm not sure how long that will last.

[Jackie]

Oh, I hope it's not too bad. Hope it goes okay for you and you enjoy it, even if it doesn't turn out to be your favorite.

[C.P.]

Thanks, Jackie. I hope so too.

[C.P.]

I also started Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, which is a novel about a man who obsessed over solving Goldbach's Conjecture. So far it's really interesting. It was translated from Greek.

[C.P.]

I'm reading Insignia now (it's been on my tbr forever) and it's so good!

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I am reading Wink Poppy Midnight. It's good so far.

[C.P.]

Glad you're enjoying it, Lisa!

[C.P.]

I think Trisha was interested in buddy reading that, if you want to set something up with her. :)

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Thanks! I'll check.

[C.P.]

I just finished Vortex, the sequel to Insignia, and it was really good. I'm really excited for the third one, which I will probably start tomorrow.

[C.P.]

I just finished reading and cannot recommend it enough. If you like YA sci-fi at all, read this series! This is one of the best series conclusions I believe I have ever read. S J Kincaid is a new favorite, I'm pretty sure.

[Courtney]

hi ya'll -- I'm currently reading

I'm finding it rather topical as well with all that is going on (living this close to DC makes everything and anything to do with politics at the forefront of most everything on the news)

Anyone else read it?

[C.P.]

No, I haven't read that. Or even heard of it.

[Skylar]

I'm currently reading Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, it's absolutely fantastic so far, but sadly it's the last book to the series and then I have to obsess over a new series.

[Courtney]

C P wrote: "No, I haven't read that. Or even heard of it."

It's from the late 70's. An interesting read to say the least.

[Skylar]

I'm a fan so far, but the ending is the most important part in my opinion, so we'll see!

[C.P.]

Skylar, I love that series! Glad you're enjoying them. I don't know that many people who do.