August! What are you reading?

[mellenhead]

I'm about 3/4 done with The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Bizarre but good. It's short, Rowan (178 pages).

Another vote for the Wool Omnibus. I couldn't put it down.

[Rowan]

Thanks for the suggestions ladies. Of course they had none of those checked in. I did score a nice pile...I think I'll start with The Mothers.

I went on Monday and still haven't started. Tonight....tonight....

Attachments /
by Rowell, Rainbow.

The mothers : a novel /
by Gilmore, Jennifer.

Rage against the dying : [a thriller] /
by Masterman, Becky.

Snow White must die /
by Neuhaus, Nele.

What Alice forgot /
by Moriarty, Liane.

[mellenhead]

I finished The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaimen. It was a strange, lovely book.

I started Lost Girls: and unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker today. And I have the The Rathbones waiting at the library for me.

[Rowan]

I started The Mothers last night. It's fiction account of the adoption process - so far so good.

[Sílvia]

I just finished Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende. Silvia recommended it--thank you Silvia! It took me a while to read the first half because I didn't seem to have as much time as normal but once I got to the middle I finished it in a day. It was very very good.

Yay! Glad you liked it. It's so frustrating when you hate a book somebody else was raving about.

[Rowan]

I finished The Mothers yesterday. I don't really recommend it....

Next up is Race Against the Dying. Lots of hockey practice this week so should get lots of reading in. Hopefully.

[Sílvia]

Finished Sharp Objects. Dark and depressing, but good. Then I started Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Fabulous title and cover, promising start. Fingers crossed! Mellen, I saw that you gave it 5 stars. Hope we agree!

[Rowan]

I'm liking Race Against the Dying so far. Older female lead which is nice for a change.

[Spudd]

I just finished "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi. It was pretty good, along the lines of Robert A Heinlein if you know his stuff. Sci-fi.

Now I'm reading "Findependence Day" by Jonathan Chevreaux, which is a personal finance book. It is my huge goal to become financially independent and that's the theme of this book. So far it's kinda cheesy, though.

[mellenhead]

I finished Lost Girls: and unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker. Meh. It was interesting but so disjointed. I kept waiting for everything to sort of come togeter but it never happened.

I have a bunch of books on the hold shelf cause everything came in at once. I need to sort through them and see what I want to read next.

[Malanee]

Wool was good, but dragged a bit for me in the end. I did not like beautiful ruins at all. This month:


The troupe - very inventive. Reminded me of the Night Circus.

Sun of suns / - sci fi

The shadow tracer / Meg Gardner

Some kind of fairy tale : a novel /

[Rowan]

I finished Rage Against the Dying. I liked it. Good thriller, fairly well written.

Up next is Cuckoo's Calling. I went through the Amazon reviews and it's interesting to see the split of tone before/after the reveal of the pseudonym.

[mellenhead]

I just started Night Film by Marisha Pessl. I'm totally hooked. I see a few hour reading binge in my future tonight.