Finished The Vacationers by Emma Straub and really enjoyed it.
Also read:
Savage Drift (final book in the Monument 14 trilogy) - I liked it - good ending for the series
The Demon of Brownsville Road (book about a haunted house less than a mile from me). OMG, it was so poorly written. Terrible.
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay - Excellent
Right now I'm reading Metro 2033 (or 3023..? IDK the numbers. It's a dystopian book - people living in the tunnels of the underground trains in Russia. Sounds good right? Ugh, it's not. Apparently there is a video game based on this that Jeff loved and he kept telling me to read it. Now I feel like I have to finish it even though I don't care about any of the characters and I have a bunch of other books from the library that I WANT to read.
September already! What are you reading?
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Re: September already! What are you reading?
Spudd, I liked 11/22/63 as well. I've got a JFK "thing" anyway...not sure why.
Mellen, so jealous you've got so much reading in.
Still on The Fever.
Mellen, so jealous you've got so much reading in.
Still on The Fever.
Re: September already! What are you reading?
Yesterday I finished the audiobook of "Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer" by Novella Carpenter. Loved it. This topic is right up my alley, and the writing was really entertaining.
This morning I started "Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail" by Jennifer Pharr Davis. Seems good so far and is also a topic right up my alley. I'm a little worried it'll be a lot of overlap with "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed but am guessing it'll still be good.
This morning I started "Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail" by Jennifer Pharr Davis. Seems good so far and is also a topic right up my alley. I'm a little worried it'll be a lot of overlap with "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed but am guessing it'll still be good.
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Re: September already! What are you reading?
Finished Metro 2033. Looooong and not very good.
Tried to read A Girl is a Half Formed Thing. Couldn't do it. The writing is very "stream of consciousness", which I found incredibly annoying.
Now I"m reading Station Eleven - it is excellent so far.
Tried to read A Girl is a Half Formed Thing. Couldn't do it. The writing is very "stream of consciousness", which I found incredibly annoying.
Now I"m reading Station Eleven - it is excellent so far.
Re: September already! What are you reading?
Mellen I just read about that book in Entertainment Weekly. It definitely sounded good.
Re: September already! What are you reading?
I finished that King book last night - 11/22/63. I really enjoyed it.
I'm not sure what's next... need to peruse my Kindle and see what I have lying around.
I'm not sure what's next... need to peruse my Kindle and see what I have lying around.