[Buddy Read] A Discovery of Witches

[Julia]

Erin and I will be reading A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness in October and discussing it here. Feel free to join in!

[Erin]

I'm still waiting on a copy of this from the library, but hopefully I'll have it by the end of the week.

[Julia]

Sounds great to me. That will give me a chance to finish reading Best Food Writing 2010 before it needs to go back to the library.

[Erin]

Ok I finally picked up A Discovery of Witches yesterday and am ready to start it whenever you are.

[~Leslie~]

Can I join this discussion. I just received a copy of this on my kindle app from the library. Would love to chat with others about it.

[Julia]

Leslie, please join us. The more readers the merrier. I'm ready to start tonight.

[Erin]

Excellent, I'm excited to start reading this.

[Erin]

Really liking this so far. I had trouble putting it down last night.

[Julia]

I'm really enjoying this book too. I like how the author is doing the world building. I'm learning about some things at the same time as the heroine is.

[Erin]

Yeah, I love the world building. It's really interesting. I believe the author is a history professor and it shows.

[Julia]

I didn't realize the author was a history professor. I wish some of the professors I had would have written this well. One of the other things I'm liking about this book is that I don't feel like I can anticipate where the story is headed.

[Gracie]

Leslie wrote: "Can I join this discussion. I just received a copy of this on my kindle app from the library. Would love to chat with others about it."

Yes do join us!

[~Leslie~]

I won't be able to get to this book until this weekend but I am enjoying reading your comments and really looking forward to reading it. Thanks!

[Erin]

Julia wrote: "I didn't realize the author was a history professor. I wish some of the professors I had would have written this well. One of the other things I'm liking about this book is that I don't feel like I..."

Yeah, that would have been nice back in college. This is certainly one where I can't anticipate what is going to happen next. I'm about 3/4 of the way through now, but I'm still not sure where the story is heading. Enjoying it a lot though.

[~Sara~]

I just picked up this book from the library last week but haven't started it yet. I need to get my butt in gear so it's not due back before I finish reading it! Joining you all in reading it is great incentive to do so! I'll post again with my first impressions once I've read a bit more (I'm currently on page 6 of 579).

[Erin]

~Sara~ wrote: "I just picked up this book from the library last week but haven't started it yet. I need to get my butt in gear so it's not due back before I finish reading it! Joining you all in reading it is gre..."

I hope you enjoy it. I just finished it today and really liked it.

[Julia]

Erin, I just finished it this evening. I'm really looking forward to reading more from this author.

Sara I hope you like it as much as Erin and I have.

[Erin]

I'm looking forward to more by this author as well. Looks like it might be a while until book two comes out, but I look forward to reading it when it does. Glad you enjoyed it too Julia. Gracie and Sara, hope you both like it!

[~Leslie~]

Just started this book this morning and so far really enjoying it. I'm about 10% done-that's what kindle app says!

[Julia]

Leslie, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

[~Leslie~]

I'm about 70% done and loving this book. I really didn't expect to like it this much. I love historical fiction, so the fact that the author is a history professor really shows. Really interesting world she has created here and I love the romance.

[~Leslie~]

Finished the book this morning. Really loved it though I had a few problems- gave it 4 stars but it was closer to 5. Just some little things that bothered me. Looking forward to the sequel.

[Erin]

Glad you liked it Leslie. I love that the author was a historian, you could really tell. I gave it the same rating, and now wait impatiently for the next book. I always say I'm not gonna pick up a new series until there are at least a couple of books already written, but once again I couldn't resist.