November! What are you reading?

[Bugsy]

I finished "Grace" a week or so ago. It was decent, but something about the writing just seemed "off" to me. Not as good as "Bodies of Water," that's for sure.

And now I'm about halfway through Judy Blume's "Wifey." I'd read it as a teenager, and wow...I knew it was largely about sex but forgot just how much that was true! It's super good reading though, like so many of her books, and I'm really enjoying it (though it makes me sad too...and I guess grateful to be living in an era of more relaxed social conventions/expectations).

[Sílvia]

You can read on the elliptical, Blush? Man, I'd be a much happier exerciser if I could do that.

The Girl on the Train is the newest member of the "hypes I don't get" club. I hate when that happens.

I'm reading Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend. It was cute at first, but I'm starting to get annoyed. I really should stop trusting hypes and start trusting my gut feeling.

[mellenhead]

I finished The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood. It was pretty good. The ending wasn't great but the overall story was good.

Now I'm reading The Witches by Stacy Schiff. I was excited for this book but I'm about 3 chapters in and BORED. I'll give it another 2-3 chapters and decided whether to bail.

[Sílvia]

Finished Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend. Meh. So not my thing. The idea was interesting, to have the story told from the point of view of an autistic boy's imaginary friend. But it got old after a while. And it was SO sugary. And LONG. I did not need 458 pages of that. It might have worked as a 60-page novella, though.

Now I'm torn between One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf and After You by Jojo Moyes. I think I'll read Ms. Gudenkauf. Her 2 other books I've read were very gripping, this book has been on my TBR shelf forever, plus I wanna save After You for later.

[Bugsy]

Finished "Wifey" and liked it. Her books are such easy reads. And then I started "Full Catastrophe Living" by Jon Kabat-Zinn. It's about mindfulness and was recommended by my therapist. I just barely started it last night, but it's good so far.

[mellenhead]

I sort of skimmed the rest of Witches. So dry.

Read Slade House by David Mitchell - it was excellent

Read Tour of Bones by Denise Inge - it's about this woman and her family that ended up living in a charnel house and then she ends up researching other houses and the background. It was pretty interesting.

Now I'm reading After Alice by Gregory Maguire. It's pretty good so far - wishing I hadn't read the Goodreads reviews because they are pretty bad. I usually love his books.

[Spudd]

Blush, Paris France or Paris Ontario?

I just finished "Should we Eat Meat" which let me tell you is EXTREMELY dry and boring. The upshot is, yes, we should eat it, but not very much, and we should only eat humanely raised meat. 25 kg per capita per year is the amount he thinks is sustainable. Now I saved you the effort of reading it.

Started "Child 44" last night.

[Rowan]

Finished The New Neighbor last night. I really enjoyed this and recommend it highly. I think what really grabbed me was that one of the main characters was a 90 year old woman. She had quite a history!

I also read Ally Hughes Has Sex Sometimes. Obviously an easy quick read but I enjoyed it.

[Sílvia]

Blush, so can you read When Will There be Good News? without having read the prequels? I downloaded the sample the other day, but the previous ones are not on kindle.

I read One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf. It was good enough, 3 stars. Less gripping than the previous 2 I'd read by her. Plus she seems to follow a formula that always involves children in danger. The first one I read, The Weight of Silence, had me on the edge of my seat for several pages. The second one, Little Mercies, a little less so, and this one even less. That's the problem with formulas. You know what to expect.

Then I read After You by Jojo Moyes. I really liked it. 4 stars. Didn't love it as much as Me Before You, but I never expected to. I thought it was a terrible idea to write a sequel to that book, but having loved it so much I couldn't NOT read it. I was fully expecting to hate it, so it's a nice surprise that I didn't. But be warned: there are a LOT of pissed off Me Before You fans on goodreads.

Not sure what's next.

[Sílvia]

Ok, thanks! And let me tell you, if I had a "don't remember a single thing about it" shelf on goodreads, it'd be the largest!

[Rowan]

Finished Pretty Baby by Mary kubica. Loved it!!! Highly recommend. Need to find her other book.

Not sure what's next.

[mellenhead]

Blush I just finished up the The Admissions by Meg Mitchell Moore too! It was really good despite some predictable parts.

Not sure what's up next. Probably Upright Beasts.

[Sílvia]

Oompf. You guys are making me bitter. The Admissions sounds interesting, but is 21 dollars on kindle. NO way.

I finished Remember Mia by Alexandra Burt last night. It was satisfying enough. It's a psychological thriller about a woman with post-partum psychosis whose baby goes missing. And she doesn't remember if she did something to her. The problem is those 2 sentences sum up the first 200 pages of the book! Holy slowness. It does pick up after that, but geez. And I did end up liking it, but it could have been 100 pages shorter.

Not sure what's next. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica was 2 dollars on kindle last night and I didn't buy it because I didn't have time to finish the sample, and this morning it's 6.20 I might not buy it just to spite them.