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Ugh, couldn't get into it. It sucks because I am still sort of curious about the next books in the series, but this first one is about their childhood and so far is about little kids fighting, little kids at school, etc. I might force myself through a bit more to see if it gets better.

Then I started Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven and am totally hooked.

Ugh, disappointing!

Loved Holding up the Universe! Makes me wanna read her All the Bright Places, which I'd skipped because it was compared to The Fault in Our Stars, but about depression instead of cancer, and I wasn't too crazy about that one. I'm not a huge fan of sick-lit. But now I'm curious.

Started The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan. It took me 2 days and about 15 samples before I committed to something. I don't know if it's kindle or old age, but lately if a book hasn't grabbed me by page 3, it's history.

I just finished reading The Book Thief. Wow. So good.

Next is Moonlight over Paris by Jennifer Robson.

I stopped "The Republican Noise Machine." It was interesting but getting repetitive so early into it that I just couldn't bear the thought of continuing. A hold just came in for "Man's Search for Meaning," by Victor Frankl, so that's next.

I finished Moonlight Over Paris. It was fine. I gave it to my Mom to take home on Tuesday because she likes that author.

ETA: now I have Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll.

Normal by Warren Ellis - eh. It was ok.

Mischling by Affinity Konar - Excellent but also very sad. It's written from the point of view of twin girls that are in Auschwitz and experimented on by Josef Mengele.

I just started Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein. It is short stories, the stories remind of the show Black Mirror. Really good so far.

Hey I read Mischling recently too. It was sad. Haunting even.

I need to update....

Here's my update:

7 Ways We Lie – YA – this was fine
One – YA -- fine
The Year We Turned 40 – coulda skipped
The Best of Us -- usually like this author but didn’t like this; I have an issue with cheating in books, I need to learn to stay away
Queen Takes King – again liked something else from this author but not this one

I just read a book M just finished so elementary level. It was good. Out of Her Mind. About a 6th grader with cerebral palsy who is very bright but nobody knows because she can't communicate.

Not sure what's next...

Just finished Leah Reminis book Troublemaker about leaving Scientology, it was good.

I need to read Divergent, Evan ate it up and als I need to read A Separate Peace before I have him read it, it's been since 1990 that I read it.

I loved A Separate Peace!

Blush is there a suicide in it?

I don't think so, just unnerving accidents.

Ro, I loved Out of My Mind. Didn't like The Year we Turned Forty.

Finished The Perfect Girl last night. It was intensely boring. I was very disappointed because I LOVED her first book, What She Knew, but this just dragged and dragged. I really should give the psychological thriller/drama genre a break. I'm pissed at wasting my time much more often than I'm entertained.

Now I'll either read the second in the Bridgertons series by Julia Quinn (the first was super fun, don't be put off by the cheesy pink cover) or a Brazilian rom-com.

Finished Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein. I am not usually a short story collection fan but these were excellent. If you like future sci/fi, Westworld, Black Mirror, etc give this book a try.

I finished The Luckiest Girl Alive. It had promise but was just OK.

Next is one I found on the library cart here at the resort: Happily Ever After by Harriet Evans. Of course I'm just noticing that Jilly Cooper endorsed it and I can't stand her books...

Thanks for the recommendation, Mellenhead!

Just finished "Man's Search for Meaning," by Victor Frankl. Oof...Heavy reading but such a great book. Easily 5 stars. I will read more by him for sure. Highly, highly recommended.

That brings me to 26 books this year. Goal is 30, so I will just miss it. If I hadn't paused to peruse Amsterdam guide books I'd probably meet it, but that is quite OK. Will just try again next year!

Next is probably "Night Road," by Kristin Hannah. It's the next selection for book club.

I read a short story by Sarah Pekkanen called Love, Accidentally. I was underwhelmed. It felt like a first chapter of a longer novel, then it ended.

Then I started Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281 ... g-midnight Sucked me right in. I love a good post-apocalypse tale. Hope it lives up to the first 50 pages.