June - what are you reading?

[Rowan]

I read Crazy Rich Asians today. I liked it -not sure whats next.

[mellenhead]

I finished The Good Nurse, it was interesting and scary (I never want to stay in the hospital) but the writing wasn't anything great.

Also read Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. Holy unsettling book. I thought it was better than Gone Girl.

I am officially out of books to read for the night. A trip to the library has to happen tomorrow night.

[Rowan]

I started The 5th Way by Rick Yancy this weekend. I like it so far but I seem to keep putting it down to do something else. Will probably finish it at hockey tonight.

[Sílvia]

I finally finished The Stand after 2 long months! I thought I was going to need a support group to help me finish it, but no! The first 300 and the last 200 pages were interesting, but the 900 inbetween were booooring. And I kept falling asleep after 5-10 pages every night. Hence the 2 months. It was interesting enough that I wanted to see how it would end though, so I kept reading, but geez. It's SO juvenile and silly, I can't believe all the hype (sorry, Rowan). The guy can write when he wants to, so why can't he 1)be less wordy and 2)skip the foolishness. A "devil" who can levitate and read people's minds? Give me a break. I only kept reading because I liked the apocalypse scenario.

Now on to Room. I hope I like it. I haven't liked a book this year yet. I don't even mean love, just like

[Annie]

I finished "What Alice Forgot". It wasn't bad. Nothing amazing but it held my attention.

Started "American Wasteland" about food waste in America. I got through one chapter last night. It's interesting but you know...sort of sleep inducing too.

[Bugsy]

Not sure if I posted that I finished "Among Others" by Jo Walton. It's for this month's book club, which meets on Sunday. I enjoyed this--cute story, and a sympathetic protaganist. It would have been even better if I were more experienced with sci-fi authors and books, because those were referenced A LOT in this book.

I've long wanted to re-read the entire Harry Potter series from start to finish, but I've elected to do so on audiobook instead. First book finished yesterday, second begun. So fun to re-experience these books!

And I've just barely started the 5th book in "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. It's called "A Dance with Dragons," and it's looong. It's gonna take me a while to get through!

[mellenhead]

I started The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud last night. It's kind of giving me Notes on a Scandal (only saw the movie, not sure if it's based on a book) type vibes.

[Annie]

"American Wasteland" is turning out to be a terrible book. The writing is awful and jumps around a lot. It's like making sense of scribbles. THANK GOD, I got an email that 2 of my holds are in at the library. One is "What the Nanny Saw", the other is "Brain on Fire". Which to start first??

[mellenhead]

Brain on Fire is good! I haven't read the other, it's on my hold list.

[Spudd]

I'm a ways into the nanny book and it's just okay to me. It starts off really confusing because she tells it in backflash format so the first chapter is in the future and we have no clue who any of the people are.

[Annie]

I'm a ways into the nanny book and it's just okay to me. It starts off really confusing because she tells it in backflash format so the first chapter is in the future and we have no clue who any of the people are.

Oh great. I bet I'll quit this book too. But it's a 14 day loan so I'll start it first.

[mellenhead]

The Woman Upstairs was quite good. I'm still thinking about it, I thought it was pretty complex.

I just picked up: Someone Could Get Hurt - a Memoir of 21st Century Parenthood - Drew Margary, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris, Revenge Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger and Worlds Strongest Librarian - Josh Hangarne.

Not sure what I'm in the mood for first.