Buddy Read-Hidden Bodies Starting 1.9.18!

[Char]

My friend Rachel and I are going to read Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes, starting on Tues. or Weds., 1.9.18 or 1.10.18.

I'm going to listen and I believe Rachel is going to read. Does anyone care to join us?!

[Char]

I'm also done listening to the audio I'm on now and I'm starting!

I was happy to see that this is the same narrator as YOU-Santino Fontana. I'd never heard of him before YOU, but he did a phenomenal job and he will always be the voice of Joe to me.

[Sadie]

I'm ready to start the book tonight!!

[Rachel]

I will be starting it tmrw morning!!!!!!!!

[Char]

Cool! I started this afternoon after lunch and I'm already hooked.

I'm at 10% and (view spoiler)[ California is just not ready for the likes of Joe! Woe to Amy Adam. (hide spoiler)]

[Rachel]

I started! I got to page 50 in the book, which is 11%. I'm gonna click your spoiler Char :D

[Rachel]

Char wrote: "Cool! I started this afternoon after lunch and I'm already hooked.

I'm at 10% and [spoilers removed]"

HAHA I love it already. (view spoiler)[I was wondering where their little romance was gonna go. This is great. Excited to see what happens! Also: it was a while since I read You, so I had forgotten about the mug of urine. (hide spoiler)]

[Char]

Rachel wrote: "Char wrote: "Cool! I started this afternoon after lunch and I'm already hooked.

I'm at 10% and [spoilers removed]"

HAHA I love it already. [spoilers removed]"

He's REALLY obsessing about that isn't he?

[Char]

Rachel wrote: "I started! I got to page 50 in the book, which is 11%. I'm gonna click your spoiler Char :D"

Yeah, I figure if we preface our posts with our page number or percentage, we should be able to see if we're there or not, so we can click the spoiler.

[Sadie]

I stopped at page 50 too. I’m already loving it.

[Char]

25% First off, I'm probably never going to look at blueberries in the same way again.

(view spoiler)[ Poor Henderson-even though he was a douche! And now Joe is stuck with Delilah who texts to tell him she loves that her bathroom still smells like him? After he pooped in there? I can't stop laughing. LMAO (hide spoiler)]

[Char]

27% I am already sad that this book is going so quickly.

I wonder if you guys are wondering about Joe's childhood? I think we're going to be needing a book about that.

[Char]

30% The dinner at Chateau...(view spoiler)[ OMG once Love has him come up to her suite? $25,000 of champagne in the bathtub? Can you imagine? (hide spoiler)]

[Char]

33% (view spoiler)[ It's good to have goals! (No oral sex from Love.) (hide spoiler)]LMAO

[Rachel]

OK i couldn't comment last night so I will update now

I'm currently at page 188 or 43%

[Rachel]

Char wrote: "30% The dinner at Chateau...[spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[I KNOW RIGHT. lol. I loved that he wasn't into it. That whole Chateau part was so fun. I hate MILO (hide spoiler)]

[Rachel]

ok so yeah i stopped at 43% this morning, can't wait to read it on my way home from work lol. i'm really liking it so far, it's so dark and funny. (view spoiler)[i feel bad for delilah, lol, but why in the world did she want her mom to meet joe??? poor girl needs help lol (hide spoiler)]

also (view spoiler)[i can't wait to see what happens btwn him and Love. Something's gotta give. Right now they're in Malibu. I hope Milo is next to go, lmao. (hide spoiler)]

(view spoiler)[Can't wait to see what happens when he runs into Amy next. I wonder if it really was her who left that YouTube comment!!! (hide spoiler)]

[Char]

Rachel wrote: "ok so yeah i stopped at 43% this morning, can't wait to read it on my way home from work lol. i'm really liking it so far, it's so dark and funny. [spoilers removed]

also [spoilers removed][spoile..."

I need to read a little more before I click on those.
I'm addicted to Joe! LOL

[Rachel]

Char wrote: "Rachel wrote: "ok so yeah i stopped at 43% this morning, can't wait to read it on my way home from work lol. i'm really liking it so far, it's so dark and funny. [spoilers removed]

also [spoilers ..."

lmao i am too.

[Char]

43% (view spoiler)[ ( I was wondering too if that was really her posting on the You Tube video.)

Forty is kind of a loser, isn't he? (hide spoiler)]

[Sadie]

I’m not adding spoiler tags because you’re all ahead of me. Like Char said: Blueberries. Wow. And I like how Joe says words like “cunty”. I laugh out loud so much. And he’s so nuts! He flips on a dime!

[Char]

Sadie wrote: "I’m not adding spoiler tags because you’re all ahead of me. Like Char said: Blueberries. Wow. And I like how Joe says words like “cunty”. I laugh out loud so much. And he’s so nuts! He flips on a d..."

He does!

[Char]

About 50%

"Do you think you'll feel better by then?" LOL

(view spoiler)[ I think Joe is starting to turn on Love. Here we go... (hide spoiler)]

[Matthew]

Ooh! I've been meaning to read this... is it too late to join?

[Rachel]

Char wrote: "About 50%

"Do you think you'll feel better by then?" LOL

[spoilers removed]"

i usually go on a walk during my lunch break but after going to the library to drop off books i went back to work so i could read! LOL. I'm about 51% and yep (view spoiler)[HAHAHA here we go. Even I'm turning on Love now, WTF! And I haaaate Milo. Forty really is a loser, but at least he means well? IDK. He's still a privileged snob too. Monica is a moron. (hide spoiler)]

[Rachel]

Matthew wrote: "Ooh! I've been meaning to read this... is it too late to join?"

join us :D

[Matthew]

Rachel wrote: "Matthew wrote: "Ooh! I've been meaning to read this... is it too late to join?"

join us :D"

Great! I'll start it tonight.

[Char]

Matthew wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Matthew wrote: "Ooh! I've been meaning to read this... is it too late to join?"

join us :D"

Great! I'll start it tonight."

Hi! Welcome, Matthew!

[Char]

Rachel wrote: "Char wrote: "About 50%

"Do you think you'll feel better by then?" LOL

[spoilers removed]"

i usually go on a walk during my lunch break but after going to the library to drop off books i went bac..."

I know exactly what you mean! I took a late lunch today so I could have the lunchroom to myself while I was reading/eating. But then a bunch of people came in and insisted on talking to me. Dammit!

[Sadie]

23%
“I love that my bathroom still smells like you” lol

[Char]

LMAO I’m listening on audio and I know I sound like a crazy person laughing all alone in my office.
Joe’s logic is just... so messed up.

[Sadie]

Hahahah he’s so messed up, and we love it!!!

[Char]

The man does seem to know how to a please a woman, I’ll give him that. Lol

[Rachel]

Sadie wrote: "23%
“I love that my bathroom still smells like you” lol"


LMAO

[Rachel]

Char wrote: "LMAO I’m listening on audio and I know I sound like a crazy person laughing all alone in my office.
Joe’s logic is just... so messed up."

I laugh while I'm reading it on the train LOL

[Rachel]

82%!!! I almost missed my train stop bc i was so engrossed!!!

[Char]

You're moving right along!

[Char]

65% (view spoiler)[ Fincher the jerk cop shows up at Axl Rose's house, expecting to meet Megan Fox and he brings condoms? He really is a douche. LOL (hide spoiler)]

[Rachel]

Char wrote: "65% [spoilers removed]"

lmao that part killed me.

[Char]

67% Joe: "I think you have to give yourself time and space to celebrate the work you do."

The context this was in? LMFAO

[Char]

77%-Joe is driving (view spoiler)[ down the highway with Forty in the car and he just wants to toss him out and keep going. Except for, Joe thinks), Forty is on so much coke he'd probably turn into the road runner and run down the highway and catch up with him. (hide spoiler)]

LMFAO I nearly fell out of my chair.

[Char]

I'm right at the end. It's killer, so to speak!

[Rachel]

YES! i finished it last night but i was too tired to come back to the post or write up a proper review lol

[Char]

I haven’t written anything yet but I had a great time with this book!

[Char]

So what did you all think?

I LOVED it! What I would love to know at this point, (view spoiler)[ other than if Joe goes to jail, if he and Love stay together, etc.. is more about his past. Did he grow up with Mr. Moody? All we know about his mom is that she liked to gamble and she had a Nirvana T-shirt. (hide spoiler)]
I Tweeted Caroline and asked if we would ever learn those things but I haven't received an answer.

[Rachel]

omg i loved it too!!!

and YES to what you wrote. I would love to know that too. OMG I need more Joe books already lol.

[Rachel]

The scene near the end:(view spoiler)[ where he's on the beach and Amy comes out of the mist with the dog was very tense. I had almost forgotten about Amy LOL. I really thought he was gonna kill her. I'm glad he didn't, it was another great turn in what I thought was an unpredictable story. Like, I would not have thought Love would support him and stay by his side after him confessing everything to her! (hide spoiler)]

[Rachel]

Ohh, also: (view spoiler)[Remember when Love told Joe about the dog they had growing up, and she said Forty killed the dog?

And then when Forty happened to bring up the dog, he didn't mention anything about killing the animal. The stories were totally different. Who do you think was lying? Forty was a total selfish buffoon, but I'm not sure if I believed Love? I was actually thinking maybe she hurt the animal? Or maybe just made up the part about the dog being killed? IDK... (hide spoiler)]

[Char]

Rachel wrote: "The scene near the end:[spoilers removed]"

I KNOW!!! (view spoiler)[ I thought FOR SURE he was going to kill her! And then when he didn't, I was all "Way to go, Joe! You're growing as a person and a soon to be father." And then he gets arrested! I didn't see that coming either! (hide spoiler)]

[Char]

When Love (view spoiler)[ locked Joe in the bathroom, I thought for sure the police were coming! When she ever came back and gave him his blue mug of piss, I almost fell down I was laughing so hard!
I did note that Forty told him something different, so I don't know who to believe-but I'm going to go with Love.

When they found Forty and Joe heard the news, I couldn't even believe it! Then I was thinking that Forty didn't remember, and then he did remember! UGH! (hide spoiler)]This book had me all over the freaking place!