What are you reading? - 2021 Showing 151-200 of 1,104

[Dem]

Finished When She Was Good by Michael Robotham

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3788669777

[Cherie]

I started listening to The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History last night, Ughhhh! It really is hard to imagine the filth and living conditions pre-1900s when city leaders refused to spend money on sewage treatment and clean water controls and isolation, if they thought they would loose money by keeping visitors away... I am in Cuba in Nov 1900, waiting for the testing to be done by Dr. Walter Reed and his team of Army doctors. They used soldier volunteers.

[Ayacchi]

I'm on my way finishing The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. Surprisingly, it's so similar with the movie (though the latter is more dramatic and there's a romance).

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished The Persimmon Tree this afternoon. It was a re-read because my irl bookclub will be discussing it in March.

I will start The Garden of Letters tomorrow. It will be for my museum challenge. I've only read one of Alyson Richman's books and I loved it so I'm hoping for a repeat.

[PattyMacDotComma]

So much to choose from! Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer is full of sample chapters of upcoming books, some by established authors and some by those who are also up-and-coming.
5★ Link to my Buzz Books review with some of my picks

[PattyMacDotComma]

This is designed for little kids, but adults will enjoy seeing how Charles Darwin made the scientific discoveries that changed our understanding of the world. Need I add that every school should have this one?
5★ Link to my review of Charles Darwin with several illustrations from the book

[Cherie]

Janice wrote: "I will start The Garden of Letters tomorrow. It will be for my museum challenge. I've only read one of Alyson Richman's books and I loved it so I'm hoping for a repeat..."

I read The Mask Carver's Son and liked it, Janice. I have two of her other books, including the one you are going to start, on my TBR list. I will be waiting to hear your thoughts about it.

[Janice, Moderator]

So far it's good if a bit generic. Hopefully it will pick up soon.

[Dem]

Finished The White Tiger Aravind Adiga

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3809435900

[Sharon]

Reading Maisie Dobbs for my college alumnae bookclub.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Roz]

I'm reading Darling Rose Gold. I was supposed to read it last month for the January Group Themed Read, but didn't get to it. This is really a disturbingly creepy book. Part of me says to put it away, but I keep reading. Like I'm peeking at a scary movie thorough my fingers.

[Dem]

Finished The White Tiger Aravind Adiga

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3809435900

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished reading The Garden of Letters for my interactive challenged designed by Cherie. It started out fairly generic but was quite endearing at the end with a few tears shed in between.

I will start Fool's Assassin tomorrow for a buddy read.

[Cherie]

Sharon - I loved the Maisie Dobbs stories! I finished the last one last year.

[Dem]

FinishedThe Member of the Wedding

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3786371913

[Dawn]

Cherie wrote: "Sharon - I loved the Maisie Dobbs stories! I finished the last one last year."

I love them too. And there is a new one out in March!!

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished One Word Kill and didn't really enjoy it. Oh well, next... Which is The Weight of Lies for the monthly challenge.

[Cherie]

Too bad, Janice. Are you going to finish the trilogy?

Thanks, Dawn! I have it marked now. 😊

[PattyMacDotComma]

February is Black History Month, and I found James Baldwin's long story/novella Letter from a region in my mind online from 'The New Yorker Magazine'. Still relevant and worth remembering.

5★ Link to my review of Letter From a Region...

[PattyMacDotComma]

February is Black History Month.
Alexander McCall Smith is a white author who created the wonderful Mma Ramotswe in Botswana and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. She features in The Cleverness of Ladies, a lovely little novella.
3★ Link to my Cleverness of Ladies review

[Janice, Moderator]

Cherie wrote: "Too bad, Janice. Are you going to finish the trilogy?"

No. I'm not interested enough to continue on. I have enough series that I want to read and can't seem to fit them in as it is.

[Sandra, Moderator]

I will start Little Fires Everywhere today. This book was everywhere a few years back when it won the GR Choice Award 2017, but it never appealed to me and I never added it to my TBR. It was picked by my book club and that is why I'm reading it, but initially I am not overly excited about it. I hope I am pleasantly surprised.

[Margo]

Janice wrote: "Cherie wrote: "Too bad, Janice. Are you going to finish the trilogy?"

No. I'm not interested enough to continue on. I have enough series that I want to read and can't seem to fit them in as it is."

I abandoned the series half way through book 2. The maths was too much!

[Lilisa]

Sandra wrote: "I will start Little Fires Everywhere today. This book was everywhere a few years back when it won the GR Choice Award 2017, but it never appealed to me and I never added it to my TB..."

I hope you are pleasantly surprised, Sandra - fingers crossed. I enjoyed LFE as well as her other book.

[Sharon]

I started Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness today. I am hoping to get it finished before the weekend and the Topplers begin.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Gopher Golf: A Wordless Picture Book by Karl Beckstrand is exactly that - many pages of pictures. There are enough varied scenes for a little kid to follow as a story and then be encouraged to "tell" a story themselves. Lots of laughs!
3.5★ Link to my Gopher Golf review with several illustrations to give you the idea

[PattyMacDotComma]

Mick Herron, when interviewed about his latest spy thriller, Slough House, recently said "I look at Jackson Lamb and think: My God, did I write that? My mother reads this stuff!" Well, on behalf of mothers and grandmothers everywhere, I say - Keep up the good work!
5★ Link to my Slough House" review (with a link to the article quoted)

[Lilisa]

I have three going - Butter Honey Pig Bread (print)The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q (ebook) and Shuggie Bain (audio).

[PattyMacDotComma]

Lilisa wrote: "I have three going - Butter Honey Pig Bread (print)The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q (ebook) and Shuggie Bain (audio)."

I loved reading Shuggie Bain, Lilisa. I hope you're enjoying the audio.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Alexander McCall Smith offers a monthly short story on his website. I got a kick out of February's Doctors, Detectives, Common Sense, about the "traditionally-built" Mma Ramotswe, the founder of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana, and her annual medical check-up.
4★ Link to my Doctors, Detectives... review with a link to his site

[PattyMacDotComma]

A Suspicion of Silver is the latest (#9) in the terrific Sir Robert Carey historical mystery series set in Elizabethan England. P.F. Chisholm simply cannot leave us with that cliffhanger ending!
4.5★ Link to my review of A Suspicion of Silver

[Lilisa]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Lilisa wrote: "I have three going - Butter Honey Pig Bread (print)The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q (ebook) and Shuggie Bain (audio)."

I loved reading..."

Enjoying the Glaswegian accent for sure, Patty, and thinking fondly of my Glaswegian friends! 😊

[Suzanne]

Currently reading Carpe Corpus by Rachel Caine (Book 6 in the Morganville Vampire series). Also read Love you to Death by Meg Cabot (book one in the mediator series). And finally, The Lifeguard, a point horror story!

[Renee]

I am enjooying this. I am not finding it as funny as his other books. It may be because I am not familiar with the shakespeare play it is based on

[Sandra, Moderator]

I finished Little Fires Everywhere and gave it 3 stars. I also finished listening to Bestiary.

I am just starting The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. And my audiobook for when I have my hands busy is Cronopios and Famas

[Dem]

Finished The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3829616028

[Kristie, Moderator]

I just finished We Begin at the End . If you haven't read this one and you like realistic, gritty characters, this is definitely worth a read.

my We Begin at the End review

[Kristie, Moderator]

I'm about to start The Rose Code by Kate Quinn. I've read a couple other books by her and loved them, so I'm really looking forward to it.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Fluffles: The Brave Koala Who Held Strong Through A Bushfire is a very cute Vita Murrow picture book about the unbelievable 2019 Australian bushfires. Fluffles was rescued in South Australia.
4.5★ Link to my review of Fluffles with several illustrations

[PattyMacDotComma]

I always love Kate Atkinson's complex stories that ex-detective Jackson Brodie has to untangle while generally making more of a tangle of his own life. Big Sky is the 5th in the series and is terrific!
5★ Link to my Big Sky review

[Dem]

Finished: Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3775252182

[Sharon]

Not too far in, but I am reading The Ice Storm. This part of the February Toppler Challenge. I have had it on my shelf for a while so glad to be getting it done!

[Esther]

I just started This Is How You Lose the Time War. I is strange and a bit confusing but in a good way. I am only at the beginning but I has the potential to make it to my best of 2021 shelf. Time will tell.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I decided to start The House in the Cerulean Sea before The Rose Code. I am enjoying it.

[Roz]

I've read a couple of Kate Quinn's books (none of the series books) and really liked them too, Kristie. I have The Rose Code on hold but it won't become available until March. I'm #25 for 1 copy, so it'll be a while. In the meantime my hold on The Four Winds came available so I'll start listening to it today in between my Toppler obligations.

[Cherie]

I just finished listening to The Last Passenger this morning. This book was the last published book #13 or 0.3) in the author's pre-quell trilogy for the Charles Lenox Mysteries. His new book is being released today. An Extravagant Death. I can hardly wait for the new audiobook!

On the series front - I have been listening to The Lady Trent Memoirs the last couple of weeks as they are all available from my library. I am currently on In the Labyrinth of Drakes.

I finished the second book in the Cotton Malone series The Alexandria Link, and I have the published book #13 downloaded to my tablet. The Bishop's Pawn has jumped onto the front of the series chronological order as book #1 though, so I figured that I better read it first before moving on.

[Roz]

I haven't read The Bishop's Pawn and didn't realize there was a chronological order. My next one is The Lost Order (#12).

[Janice, Moderator]

I always seem to forget coming to this thread during topplers. I think it's because we report the books we've read in our teams' threads.

I have finished:
The Book of Lost Things
The Lost Man
Tell Me Lies

Currently reading:
Kade's Dark Embrace

Will start tomorrow:
The Buried Book

Temporally on hold:
The Weight of Lies
Fool's Assassin

[Ayacchi]

I'm reading The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. The blurb, about a girl lives with her father－or so she said, and having guests come and go every now and then. I didn't know that it's quite famous and had a movie adaptation in '76 (?). Only know that the genres (horror, thriller, suspense, halloween) attracted me. It's creepy at some point, making it hard to finish.

[Renee]

I finished It was okay. I did not laugh as much as I thought i would