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What are you reading this week? (March 30-April 2)
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Mar 30, 2020 09:15AM
Hi everyone! We'd love to hear from you about what you're reading this week-- share what you're loving, what you're not so into, and how you're doing.
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Hi! great idea. I finally had the chance to read The Most Fun We Ever Had and really enjoyed it. I just started The Starless Sea. It's not my usual genre, but I've heard good things! I also grabbed Finding Dorothy and The Oysterville Sewing Circle at random right before the closure and both were enjoyable, quicker reads! I also picked up The Blinds, which had a lot of hype, but I wasn't a big fan.
I am about 19/29ths of the way through
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
(listening to the audio but also have the print version to review). It's... A lot. Sobering, scary, written in an academic style....I also began Six of Crows for the Forever YA book club. I'm afraid I may have trouble getting into it. The type of fantasy genre that it is, plus they are setting up for a romance..... Not my usual wheelhouse, but keeping an open mind.
My pleasure reading book right now is Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes. It's an anthology of short fiction by trans women and trans feminine writers. The stories I have read so far are primarily fantasy based. I'm really enjoying it and it should be a pretty quick read.My work reading is The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind and Body in Healing Trauma & Know My Name: A Memoir. I kind of bounce back and forth between these two depending on where my head is at.
Sam wrote: "I just finished Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, and am about to begin Pachinko!"Sam, what did you think of the Goldfinch? I read it a year or so ago and had mixed feelings about it.
Mirkat wrote: "I am about 19/29ths of the way through The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (listening to the audio but also have the print ..."Hi @ Mirkat. I am glad you were able to get a copy of the book. I am waiting for a copy myself so I have not started it yet. Keep an open mind! I can't wait for the group discussion.
Sam wrote: "I just finished Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, and am about to begin Pachinko!"I really enjoyed Pachinko! I hope you do too!
I am looking at this time as a way to read the books that have been sitting in a pile in my basement for yeeeeaaarrrs. I just finished Spider's Bite, a paranormal thriller romance. Lots of fun.
Katie wrote: "Hi! great idea. I finally had the chance to read The Most Fun We Ever Had and really enjoyed it. I just started The Starless Sea. It's not my usual genre, but I've heard good things! I also grabbed..."Hi Katie! I just started The Starless Sea as well. I am listening to the audio. I am enjoying the full cast narration. Have you read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern?
I forgot to put up my own books, too-- this week I've been reading only old British authors-- I just finished The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie , and now I've moved on to The Curse of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse. Nothing like some light escapism!
Recently finished Isabel Allende’s Long Petal of the Sea. Great read.
I'm reading Echo park by Michael Connelly. My mom got me interested in the Harry Bosch novels and am looking forward to the return of Bosch to TV in April.
I just started The Falcon Thief, by Joshua Hammer. It is very good, a quick read, a true-crime adventure about the international black market for wild raptor eggs, particularly peregrine falcons. (Hammer also wrote The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, so I just had to check out his newest book!)
Rebecca Angel wrote: "Spider's Bite"I have to say Spider's Bite looks like just what I am in the mood for right now!
Kate wrote: "Keep an open mind! I can't wait for the group discussion."Oh, I will--and same here! I miss our group!
Would really like escapist fiction now, but since I am on a computer all day, I don't feel like reading ebooks, so am reading what I have on hand. Am currently readingHow to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy which seems oddly appropriate right now.
Susan wrote: "Would really like escapist fiction now, but since I am on a computer all day, I don't feel like reading ebooks, so am reading what I have on hand. Am currently reading[book:How to Do Nothing: Resis..."Susan, that seems like either the best or worst thing to be reading right now!
Lauren wrote: "Susan wrote: "Would really like escapist fiction now, but since I am on a computer all day, I don't feel like reading ebooks, so am reading what I have on hand. Am currently reading[book:How to Do ..."I'll let you know. So far, it talks a lot about how we need to measure ourselves and are lives by something other than our productivity, which seems like a good message at the moment. There is also a fair bit of discussion about bird-watching. Oh, and that using social media isn't the problem - lots of good things about it - but the lack of context in social media IS a problem if that's all you use to get information, so spend time diving deep.
So. . . Maybe a pretty good thing to be reading now, except for the discussions about interacting with people in your community in person.
I was lucky to grab my hold of The Mirror & the Light right before APL closed! Mantel is great as always. Also loving a lighter option, Open House (a cute romance novella set in NYC, if you're missing the city).
Just finished The Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times and Trouble Is What I Do. I've got a stack of Walter Mosley books to make it through the month.
Diana wrote: "I was lucky to grab my hold of The Mirror & the Light right before APL closed! Mantel is great as always. Also loving a lighter option, Open House (a cute romance no..."Open House looks like just what I'm in the mood for- thanks for the recommendation!
Happy to see everyone using their time to catch up on reading! I left a bunch of books at my desk at the library, but I'm keeping up thanks to ebooks and some unread books I own at home. I'm currently reading Steel Crow Saga, which is kind of like if Avatar: The Last Airbender met Pokemon. I also have The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home checked out through OverDrive, which I would suggest for listeners of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast or anyone who generally enjoys creepy science fiction.Edit: The audiobook of The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home is read by Mara Wilson. She is a wonderful narrator. There are currently holds on the audiobook version, but I heartily suggest it if you aren't in a hurry to get it.
I just finished the Jenny Han series, The Summer I turned pretty, and started A Nantucket Christmas
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I am currently reading Idaho by Emily Ruskovich, a character-driven novel that moves like a glacier: slow but brutal. It opens in the present and you spend the book determining what happened in the past and why. Ruskovich flips back and forth through time and shows the reader, in pieces, the link between action and consequence, and the strangeness inherent in human relationships being permanent and tenuous all at once.
Meg wrote: "Thank you all for sharing what your reading this week! All these titles are giving me thoughts for what I may want to read next! Right now I've got a few books home that I'm reading including Helen..."I read River of Fire a couple of months ago. Was so excited to see Sr. Prejean at UAlbany in March. :-(
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Hi Susan, I was also looking forward to hearing Helen Prejean speak! Not sure if you saw, The Writers Institute shared a Q and A with Helen! Here's the link! Hope she can visit another time! yhttps://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/p...
Kristin wrote: "I am currently reading Idaho by Emily Ruskovich, a character-driven novel that moves like a glacier: slow but brutal. It opens in the present and you spend the book determining what happened in the..."What a description! I sometimes become frustrated reading stories that switch between time periods. It takes a skillful author to navigate that kind of storytelling. I hope you enjoy it.
Meg wrote: "Susan wrote: "Meg wrote: "Thank you all for sharing what your reading this week! All these titles are giving me thoughts for what I may want to read next! Right now I've got a few books home that I..." Thanks! It also says they plan to have her back later when things settle down. Fingers crossed.
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I will look forward to that, Susan!
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