Reading Plans? Tell us what's upcoming on your list.

[Sandra]

I'm starting now Little Fires Everywhere. Not overly excited about this one but it is a real life book club pick.

[Martha]

I've read 6 books this year. All very enjoyable. Cold Wind is the 2nd in a mystery series set in Alaska & is probably my favorite so far although it's hard to say.

Currently reading Bunny Lake is Missing (the movie is a favorite noir movie & I thought it was time to read the book), The Cracked Spine (library book that needs to go back soon ... same author who wrote Cold Wind), & Speak (a touching & haunting story, very well-written).

[~~~Sue~~~]

currently switching off between erotica and witchy mystery type reads. I have really been into 2 witchy series..

[Angela M]

I finished The Soul of a Woman . 4 stars .

Started The Mission House

[Evelyn]

Sandra I was also not excited to read Little Fires Everywhere for my book club either, but I ended up loving it. I hope you do too!

[Linda]

Sandra (on my phone, can't tag directly), my niece preferred The Angel's Game (#2), I found it great, but without the same level of intensity. Losing him this year was hard. I used to go to the books in Spanish all the time to see if they had anything new by him. :(

[Sandra]

Evelyn wrote: "Sandra I was also not excited to read Little Fires Everywhere for my book club either, but I ended up loving it. I hope you do too!"

So far, so good. At least I am not "suffering" it.

[Sandra]

Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote: "Sandra (on my phone, can't tag directly), my niece preferred The Angel's Game (#2), I found it great, but without the same level of intensity. Losing him this year was hard. I used to go to the boo..."

I know many people starts the series in #2. I expect to read it in March.

[Angela M]

I read The Mission House . 3.5 stars.


I’m currently reading The Northern Reach

[Libby]

I finished Ordeal by Jørn Lier Horst 3.5 stars

I've started The Sea Gate by Jane Johnson

and I'm still reading Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt which is a very good book, but very detailed non-fiction, one that in my case will not be read quickly.

[Parker]

I'm currently reading 'White Fragility' by Robin DiAngelo.

[Sandra]

I finished Little Fires Everywhere and Bestiary.

I am just starting The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires and Cronopios and Famas

[Angela M]

I read The Northern Reach . 3.5 stars rounded up.


I started When the Apricots Bloom.

[Linda]

Sandra, I always loved both Cortázar and Quiroga

[Sandra]

Linda, I love Quiroga too. I've have read and reread him since my childhood.

[Karen]

Well - here it is - February already! Where does the time go?

I've read quite a few interesting books this year so far. Knocked four more Newbery winners off my list, probably the most notable being last year's winner, the graphic novel, , New Kid by Jerry Craft. Great largely autobiographical story by a great author. Can't wait to read his next one, .

Other great reads so far have been , The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot which I highly recommend, , Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne which was astonishingly good and I hated to see end, and , The Sun Also Rises, my very first Hemingway novel! Also excellent in a drunken, aimless, lost generation sort of way.

I read a lesser known William Golding book, , Pincher Martin for a classic author challenge and am about to embark on , The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges for the same challenge.

And I am still doggedly determined to finish New York by Edward Rutherfurd and Becoming by Michelle Obama both which I started last summer! Making progress in the former - not so much in the latter!

[Angela M]

I read When the Apricots Bloom . 4 stars .

Started Rhapsody

[Angela M]

I finished Rhapsody . 3.5 stars rounded up.

[Sandra]

I finished The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires and gave it 4 stars.

I'll start today a non fiction book, The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power. It is a book club pick.

[Sandra]

Karen wrote: "Other great reads so far have been The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, which I highly recommend,"

This one was a very good read, and it created a great discussion in my RL book club.

[Linda]

Just finished the last (?) Harry Hole in the series, going to start "Terra Alta", a mystery from Spain, for my (once upon a time) f2f book club

[Angela M]

I read The Incredible Winston Browne . 4.5 stars .

Starting today Sunflower Sisters

[Angela M]

I read Sunflower Sisters 4 stars.

Just starting We Begin at the End

[Libby]

I read The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott, 4 stars

And I am currently reading Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan

[Sandra]

I finished The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power, which was very interesting.

I'm reading now The Pull of the Stars. I'm not a fan of the first person narration in this one, but in the overall I'm liking it.

[Sandra]

I finished The Pull of the Stars yesterday. I'm kind of underwhelmed.

I started The Survivors.

[Janice]

I will be starting Through Black Spruce today on audiobook.

I'm also reading The Kingdom of Copper on hardcover.

[Jennifer]

So I just finished Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America which is a fairly typical (meaning horrifying) story of racism in the Jim Crow south except for the fact that a young Thurgood Marshall was heavily involved in the legal proceedings. I didn't know the Groveland in question was actually a city, not just a nickname of the case or something, and that it actually refers to the Groveland that is about 60 miles or so from where I live, AND that the place I work now would be mentioned multiple times. I had no idea any of that had happened around here. Great book but a little jarring as you can imagine.

[Angela M]

I read We Begin at the End .


Started Three O'Clock in the Morning

[Linda]

Finished "Terra Alta". It was good, kind of heartbreaking, the kind of heartbreaking that, in a mystery, tells you the author is setting up a series with that detective (I wasn't wrong). One beef with the way he structured part of it. Now reading Carlos Ruiz Zafón's posthumous (sob) book of short stories

[Libby]

I finished Good Neighbors - 5 stars for an edgy domestic thriller

and I'm currently reading The Nature of Fragile Things

[Angela M]

I read Three O'Clock in the Morning . 4 stars.

I’m currently reading A Town Called Solace by one of my favorite authors.

[Kirsten]

I'm hoping to start Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell soon.

[Sandra]

I finished The Survivors, which was another great read by Jane Harper.

I'm starting now The River.

[Angela M]

I read A Town Called Solace . 5 stars. Mary Lawson is one of my favorite writers.

I’m currently reading The Salt Fields: A Novella

[Sandra]

In my currently reading shelf:

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine.

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects

Leaf Storm

The Secret in Their Eyes

[Angela M]

I finished The Salt Fields: A Novella . 5 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Libby]

I finished The Nature of Fragile Things , 3.5 stars. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And also We Run the Tides , 4 stars. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I've started Miss Benson's Beetle

[Martha]

I've read 6 books this month.
The best ones was ... very creepy and scary. Is it real or not? Very good.

I also enjoyed , Bob Dylan's memoir.

[Angela M]

I read Foregone . 2.5 stars. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Starting Raft of Stars.

[Angela M]

I’m currently reading The Seed Keeper .

Just finished Raft of Stars . 4 stars .

[Lynn H]

I just finished (4 stars) and am about to start .

[Libby]

I finished Miss Benson's Beetle , 5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm reading Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal

[Angela M]

I read
The Seed Keeper.5 stars .My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....

I’m currently reading Chin Music Rhubarb

[Linda]

Just finished Uncle Stevie's latest, "Later". Next up is a rush through the next book club selection: "Mamá" (for Saturday)

[Parker]

Just started Now is Our Time by Stacey Abrams.

[Angela M]

I read Chin Music Rhubarb . 4 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just about to start Open Water

[Victoria (RedsCat)]

I'm a little scattered at the moment :)
Currently reading:
A Night At the Sweet Gum Head ; The Kitchen Front ; Jay's Gay Agenda ; Lights On the Sea ; and The Library of the Dead .
I'm really not sure what will be next :)

[Victoria (RedsCat)]

Kirsten wrote: "I'm hoping to start Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell soon."

I loved Hamnet! Beautifully written.

[Darren]

I am reading The Nothing Man at the moment by Catherine Ryan Howard. I live in Ireland so I generally don't like books that are set in places that I actually know (I don't know why but I just don't). However, I m really enjoying it and the way it is written as its about a book within the book.