What are you reading? - 2020 Showing 351-400 of 1,457

[Kristie, Moderator]

Jayme wrote: "I'm currently reading The Sun Down Motel and it is spooky scary, but very good."

I'm glad you're enjoying The Sun Down Motel, Jayme. I really want to read that one. I have the next hold through my library, but I need to wait until I have some time to enjoy it. I enjoyed the last book I read by her, The Broken Girls.

[Travis]

I decided in the middle of a pandemic to read Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

Pretty scary stuff

[Sarah]

I'm struggling to hold my attention at the moment. I am still working my way through my graphic novel The Doll's House though.

[Gavin]

Started Odd Girl Out

[Sandra, Moderator]

I'm struggling to focus and read. I would have said that being in quarantine would be a reader's paradise, but I spend more time reading the news than actual books.

I gave up on Fly by Night, which I was buddy reading with Janice and Bash. After 10% it was obvious I was not connecting with the story or the characters.

I started Britt-Marie Was Here a couple of days ago.

[Grainne]

I finished Dare to Lead and thought she made some good points. Her writing style has a great flow to it and I find it easy to understand.

I finished the The Murmur of Bees for the monthly read. I really enjoyed its style, flow and characters. It was written very well and treated historical topics with gentleness.

I am also reading The Water Cure which is not my usual choice. It's for an-in-person book club that I go to.

I also have Everything I Never Told You and The Testaments on loan from the library so I hope that I can get to them.

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Sandra, I am the same! I thought I would be reading so much more.

Currently reading The Murmur of Bees, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel and Before I Fall.

[Lilisa]

I’m reading The Summer Book and Foresight and listening to The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey.

[Jayme, Moderator]

@ Sandra & Anna. Same here. I can't seem to focus on what I'm reading, so I'm putting all the deep,heavy stuff aside and focusing on no-brainer or light stuff for the time being.
I am currently reading Me.

[Sarah]

I finished The Doll's House for the monthly challenge. I ditched The Broken Girls, not because I didn't like it but because i need some fluff. So started reading Firefight.

[Renee]

I am readingThis is How It Always Is. It is for my F2F book group. It is so familiar. I think I may have read it before. It seems like a waste of time to keep reading it. I know we wont meet.

[Janice, Moderator]

I had so many books on the go, that it felt like I wasn't accomplishing anything. I finished them all within the last couple of days:

Preludes and Nocturnes: Dream a Little Dream of Me for the Monthly Challenge
Fly by Night for a buddy read
The Murmur of Bees for the group themed read.

I will start The Tell-Tail Heart for my trivia challenge tonight.

My audiobook is almost finished and will be tomorrow's post. I hope.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I need to get through a few that I’ve got going at the moment too, Janice.

[Dem]

Finished The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3230976723

[Lilisa]

Finished one of the three I’m reading - Foresight set in Hong Kong and China, which I’m using for the year-long challenge - it’s set in the 1980s. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished Golden Fool on audiobook. It feels great to have all new content to read. I was getting bogged down. I think for me, having two many books on the go at one time bogs me down.

Tomorrow, I will start Clockwork Angel. It's a re-read for me. I've forgotten too much of the story to move on. I have all three books slotted into my trivia challenge and hope to kill off that series soon.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Janice wrote: "Tomorrow, I will start Clockwork Angel. It's a re-read for me. I've forgotten too much of the story to move on. I have all three books slotted into my trivia challenge and hope to kill off that series soon."

I own that one, but haven't read it yet. I may have to peek at your challenge to see where you end up slotting them. Maybe I'll finally start it this year too.

[PattyMacDotComma]

I recently enjoyed the prequel (#.7) to Aussie-Irish author Dervla McTiernan's excellent Cormac Reilly mystery series. The Roommate is delightfully creepy.
4★ Link to my "Roommate" review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Loved Death in Delft! This is the first of a brand new series from Graham Brack, (creator of my favourite Czech detective, Josef Slonsky). Master Mercurius is already another favourite character.
5★ Link to my review

p.s. The Kindle copy is on sale at AmazonUS for 59c and can be pre-ordered at AmazonAU for AUD 99c.

[Janice, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "I own that one, but haven't read it yet. I may have to peek at your challenge to see where you end up slotting them. Maybe I'll finally start it this year too. "

Clockwork Angel - Card 4, Entertainment Nay, Angel in title
Clockwork Prince - Card 20, Sport Yay, Cover has Torch, Flashlight, or Lantern
Clockwork Princess - Card 30, Geography, Nay, Cover has landmark/historic building (St Paul's Cathedral London)

[Kristie, Moderator]

Janice wrote: "Kristie wrote: "I own that one, but haven't read it yet. I may have to peek at your challenge to see where you end up slotting them. Maybe I'll finally start it this year too. "

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I have two of those tasks to fill. I'd just have to find something else for Clockwork Prince. Hmmm... maybe I'll move it up my list of series.

[Grainne]

I am reading Something New. It’s a graphic novel for this month’s challenge.

[Margo]

Finished Golden Fool. Starting The Glass Woman.

[Sarah]

Struggling to read. I put down Firefight due to its dystopian genre. Not up for that right now. So I moved on to The Human Division as it's a fun series. Struggled to get into it although I'll persevere. But I also started a book of short stories as I might find I can concentrate better on those. So I'm reading Rogues. I also got another graphic novel, SPY×FAMILY 1 as that seems like a good call at the moment.

[uncomfytomato]

Starting reading
I'm enjoying the mystery so far :)

[Gavin]

Just starting Hyperion

[Peggy]

I haven't read chicklit in ages, but I came across Forget About It on my TBR and it sounds light, silly and uncomplicated, so it might be just what I need.

[Roz]

I'm reading The Sea of Lost Girls. This is my 4th book by this author. So far I like it.

[Dem]

Finished The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3241519695

[Sarah]

I read SPY×FAMILY 1 for a netgalley review. It was great escapism and held my attention well.

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished The Tell-Tail Heart for the trivia challenge. I didn't really enjoy it all that much.

Hopefully Silver Borne will pick me up. I'll start it tonight.

[PattyMacDotComma]

I can't resist a visit to Canadian author Louise Penny's Three Pines, so I recently enjoyed The Long Way Home. Now looking forward to the next one!
3.5~4★ Link to my Long Way Home review

[Jayme, Moderator]

I am currently reading The Gustav Sonata, but like PattyMacDotComma I will be heading back to Three Pines very soon.

[uncomfytomato]

I'll start reading Blue Lily, Lily Blue today, I finally received them from amazon~

[Sandra, Moderator]

I started yesterday Charming Billy, and so far so good.

[Renee]

I just started The Murmur of Bees I love the rich poetic writing.

[Peggy]

I loved that too about that book Renee.

[Sarah]

I read another graphic novel for a netgalley review Something is Killing the Children #1 which has a stranger things vibe to it. I really liked it. I just received The Last Emperox on netgalley so I'll read that now and put the other Scalzi book I'd started on hold.

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished a re-read of Clockwork Angel. I felt I needed a refresher before I go on to the remaining 2 books in the series. It's a good thing I did. I'd completely forgotten the story!

A hold came available for download so my next read will be World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.

[Dem]

Finished The Other People by C.J. Tudor

My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3239158338

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished Silver Borne in the wee hours of the morning. I'm determined to finish this series, and I'm not even half way through.

I started Mutant Message Down Under today. I understand that there is some controversy about the validity of this book. The author notes that it is a book of fiction and that is the way I intend to approach it, not as a memoir and not as a new age how-to manual. It's a short book and hopefully will fill in the gap between now and Apr 1st.

[Renee]

I read mutant a long time ago. It was a 1 star for me. I don't remember much of it. That goes along with my one star. One stars are books I typically find not worth remembering. I have the book in the same category as The alchemist and Eat Pray love. Both are 1 star for me. I think if you liked those books you will like Mutant Message.

[Lilisa]

Finished The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey - about the Armenian genocide around WW I - - well done and absorbing portrayal of one man's (the author's grandfather) harrowing story. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. It was an okay read.

I will start Son of the Black Sword tomorrow.

[uncomfytomato]

I started reading I'm so excited~

[PattyMacDotComma]

I recently read the perfectly titled Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls. Young summer love, Shakespeare, and much ado about lots of things, romantic and otherwise.
Link to my review

[Don]

Finished reading The Chalk Man, excellent debut novel by CJ Tudor
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

I loved Aussie author Tabitha Bird's debut novel A Lifetime of Impossible Days. It does cover a lifetime, and it is impossible, but I was happy to suspend disbelief and enjoy her fine character/s!
4.5~5★ Link to my Impossible Days review

[Dem]

I Just finished Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3106174858

[Dem]

Finished and enjoyed The Foundling by Stacey Halls

My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3246909794""