What are you reading January, 2017

[Linda]

I'm almost done listening to two books. In the car is A Christmas Story and on my iPad I have The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Then I have two books Glory and the Lightning. I started The Complete Persepolis.

[Miggsy]

To start off the new year, I'm reading Ali Smith's Public Library and Other Stories .

[Kathy]

I finished S&S and Knopf editor-in-chief/New Yorker editor Robert Gottlieb's fascinating Avid Reader: A Life early enough yesterday to be able to count it toward 2016. Next up: Dean Burnett's Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To, a biography of children's author Howard Garis by his son, and Paul Jordan-Smith's For the Love of Books: Adventures of an Impecunious Collector. If my editing schedule will allow it, I may even indulge in some fiction!

[Deb]

Starting off with:

The Magnolia Story

Faithful

The Forever Bridge

The Woman in Cabin 10

[Julie]

Starting with ' When Breath Becomes Air. But I am really in the mood for a classic . . any suggestions? Probably Fitzgerald, since he was a 'local' and I missed reading him, somehow, in >50 yrs of books!

[Michelle]

I am midway through Christodora by Tim Murphy. I saw it on a couple of lists for an overlooked great book of 2016 and I have to say that I concur! Finishing up Incarceration Nations by Baz Dreisinger on audio-giving me lots to think about.

[Jillian]

Listening to The Woman in Cabin 10, and started Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi which is amazing so far! Happy new year!

[Michelle]

Julie wrote: "Starting with ' When Breath Becomes Air. But I am really in the mood for a classic . . any suggestions? Probably Fitzgerald, since he was a 'local' and I missed reading him, somehow, in >50 yrs of ..."
The classic that I have reread several times is The Housr of Mirth by Edith Wharton.

[C. John]

Reading . The author kindly provided copies to the baseball book club I am involved with. Also have two books from the library I need to finish and .

[Katherine]

Currently listening to Talking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between and reading Faithful. My January book club book is The Valley of Amazement, so as soon as I can get that from the library I'll start that. Next up on deck for audio is The Handmaid's Tale.

[Katherine]

Oh yeah - I'm also reading The Scribe of Siena on my phone - free book from Jellybooks.com. I'm enjoying it, just not a fan of reading on my phone and I couldn't load it on my nook - the free book offer requires an e-reader app where you can check in with them as you finish chapters so that they can get data on how readers are interacting with the book.

[Susanne]

I finished Garden Spells on my kindle yesterday.
For my IRL book club, I reading Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything for January, and I'm listening to A Man Called Ove for February.
I'm also reading The Shadow of the Wind. I had wanted to finish this book in December, but it was misplaced and just found. My reading is already scheduled for January, so I'm hoping to squeeze this one in.

What I'm reading now...

[Linda]

I started listening to Hush and Love Warrior and reading Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

[Joan]

Currently listening to , reading , , and finally .

I set an ambitious reading goal for me this year and need to get busy!!!

[Shona]

Finished Dear Amy which was just OK for me. But today started The Crossing Places - the first in a series about an archeaologist in England that helps solve crimes. Really great so far and am excited that there are 7 more books in the series.

[Linda]

The Complete Persepolis

[Connie]

I just finished Locally Laid. Great read! Just started Sleeping Giants and am doing the audio of Bittersweet by Ockler.

[Jumana]

I am reading Britt-Marie Was Here really good.

Listening to Swing Time I'm not sure if I like it or not so far

[Gerald]

Well after a long long personal drought I received a book for Christmas that I will read. It is An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America. Its the story of the build up to the American Revolution from Vintage Books. Its my first paperback in a long time and I am very excited about it.Thank You Terry my brother.

[Marion]

I just started reading by Michael Chabon and liking it so far. Chabon can write some beautiful sentences. Wow....

[Linda]

I just finished reading Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk. On a 5 point scale, I would give it 10 stars. I LOVED THIS BOOK. The writing is lyrical, original and poked at me so often.

I also finished listening to Hush by the marvelous Jacqueline Woodson.

In their places I'm reading Belle Cora and listening to Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. I've listened to almost everything Flagg has written, but missed out on this one - until now.

[Britany]

Finished by Ruth Ware-- 3 Stars.

MEH- I did turn the pages quickly, but the depth was lacking.

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Britany]

Finished my first 5 Star book of 2017: by Ruta Sepetys

All the feels- I stayed up til 4am last night because I had to finish it to see how it ended. I woke up with a major book hangover and bleary, red eyes.

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Gina]

I just finished listening to The Summer Before the War, which I LOVED, and I was listening to Britt-Marie Was Here, which I had started over vacation but didn't finish until the 4th. Also loved. My current audiobook is Sweetbitter, which I remember Michael really liked, but I'm not sure yet. I'm not in instant love but it's early too so I'm keeping an open mind.

Reading wise, I finally got to read 84, Charing Cross Road, which I've been wanting to read forever. My only complaint was that it was too short! What a sweet book. Currently I'm reading The City Baker's Guide to Country Living, which is fairly light but such a good story. I am a sucker for foodie books and she reminds me of Jenny Colgan, who I just adore. So far it has been a great year in reading/listening!!

[Gina]

Jumana wrote: "I am reading Britt-Marie Was Here really good.


The audio is even better!! I loved it! Did you read My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry? That one was great but you have to persevere through the fairy tales, because there's a reason for them.

[Jumana]

Gina wrote: "Jumana wrote: "I am reading Britt-Marie Was Here really good.


The audio is even better!! I loved it! Did you read [book:My Grandmother As..."

Sounds Great! Thanks Gina

[Readnponder]

Thanks for the recommendation of Ruta Sepetys' book. It's on my TBR and you've moved it up a notch. Thank you, too, for the term book hangover. That's new to me and so perfect.

[Susanne]

I read my first Fredrik Backman this month with A Man Called Ove. I liked it, but the premise of a grumpy widower who can't commit suicide because his new neighbors keep stopping by didn't sit quite right with me. I felt that aspect could have been handled differently rather than being playing for laughs, but overall I enjoyed the story. I'll have to add Britt-Marie Was Here & My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry to my TBR pile (but it might take me a while to get to them. My TBR is pretty big. I should stop buying books, or at least read the books I have before I buy more. Of course I say this when my library's annual book sale is in two weeks, knowing I'm going to buy even more books).

I'm currently reading The Shadow of the Wind and Zer0es.

[Susanne]

Britany wrote: "Finished The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware -- 3 Stars.

MEH- I did turn the pages quickly, but the depth was lacking. "

This book is on my 2017 TBR pile. I'll go into it with lower expectations, but I am looking forward to the how the plot is resolved.

[Britany]

Readnponder wrote: "Thanks for the recommendation of Ruta Sepetys' book. It's on my TBR and you've moved it up a notch. Thank you, too, for the term book hangover. That's new to me and so perfect."

Anytime Readnponder! ;) Looking forward to your thoughts on Sepetys!

[Deb]

Linda wrote: "I'm almost done listening to two books. In the car is A Christmas Story and on my iPad I have [bookcover:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man|194943..."

We read The Complete Persepolis in our first round of our Postal Book Club ... my first graphic novel and I was enchanted. Surprising amount of narrative among the gritty graphics.

[Nadine in California]

Just an fyi that one of my favorite books A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz is a $1.99 ebook deal from BookBub today (1/22). This is his first book, and I think it is much better than his second Quicksand which came out 7 years later, in 2015. It was short-listed for the Man Booker. The reviews focus on how 'nutty' it is, and it is that but so much more too. And I'm not his publicist or his mother ;)

[Britany]

Finished Two:
by Luanne Rice-- 2 Stars. My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

AND

by Pat Conroy- 3.5 rounded up to 4 Stars. My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Miggsy]

Omigod, this mothertrucker of a book by Haruki Murakami, . I'm only on page 49, Only 560 pages to go!

[Gina]

So I didn't end up loving Sweetbitter but I adored The City Baker's Guide to Country Living. I'm now listening to Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and reading History of Wolves, which just came off library hold. I'm liking Pettigrew but not as much as her other novel, which I read earlier (noted above), and it's too early to tell about the new book.

[Marion]

I'm currently reading by Richard Ford, the third Frank Bascombe book. I have one Frank Bascombe novel each of the past two years and I have enjoyed reading in this time frame. Frank Bascombe is a jerk but Richard Ford can write and I find Bascombe's life very interesting.

[Britany]

Finished by Blake Crouch-- 4.5 stubborn stars rounded up to 5

I really didn't want to read this one, I'm so glad I did.

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...