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I'm still reading Her Fearful Symmetry. I like it. I haven't had much time to read this week.

There's a decent list of 29 books to read this summer on NY Post. I tend to like these if you want to google. Building the ever increasing TBR list....

I'm at 378 books on my TBR.

I stopped adding books to mine, otherwise I start hyperventilating. I keep my goodreads shelf at about 70 and my kindle samples at no more than 50. Because what happens is no matter how many samples I have, I never seem to be in the mood for any of them when I finish a book!

I finished The Book Thief last night. I ended up giving it 2 stars, "it was ok". I found it too weirdly written for my taste.

My TBR list is out of control. I have secondary lists so I don't add it to my main list to make it worse. In my head that makes it better.

Finished The Hatching by Ezekiel Boone. It's about man-eating spiders that are trying to take over the earth. Sounds bizarre but it was really quite good and I enjoyed it. Was pleasantly surprised to find out it's part of a trilogy and the second book is already out! Love it when that happens.

Thanks mellen...now I'm at 379!

I started "The Wife's Tale" last night. So far I'm into it. And I love that it's set around here (well, closer to my hometown than here, but still, in my province!).

Spudd wrote:I finished The Book Thief last night. I ended up giving it 2 stars, "it was ok". I found it too weirdly written for my taste.

Thank you! I knew I couldn't be alone. Oh, and I loved The Wife's Tale.

Finished Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain last night. Loved it. The ending could have been a liiiittle less neat, plus some things weren't explained properly, but overall this was a great read. I had no idea people were being sterilized against their will in the U.S. until the 1970s. That's insane!

Not sure what's next.

I finished History of Wolves last night. I didn't really like it and was a bit lost.

I've had a bad run of books lately.

I tried The Last One by Alexandra Oliva, which had been on my list forever and had a fabulous premise: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272 ... earch=true, but I was bored after 40 pages. For one thing, it's confusing. The show team calls the contestants made-up nicknames, while the contestants themselves use their real names, obviously. Plus it was super slow up to page 40. Sorry, next.

Then I started Best Kept Secret by Amy Hatvany, which is about a woman who becomes an alcoholic and loses custody of her 5-year-old child to her ex-husband. I seem to be in the mood for family drama. So far it's engaging.

I read The Fall of Lisa Bellows yesterday. Meh.

I have The Hatching in my bag. Thanks mellen!

Finished two books over the weekend:

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich - it was really well written but so sad. The murder part was based on a true story, but it wasn't non-fiction.

Skitter by Ezekiel Boone - second book in a trilogy to The Hatching. I enjoyed it, hopefully the final book will be decent.

I started Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan. I loved his first (I think!) book Crazy Rich Asians but his last two have kind of been stinkers. Not sure I'll finish this one.

I finished Best Kept Secret. It was a bit melodramatic, but I liked it. Didn't love it. 3 stars.

Then I started I Let you Go. I was afraid of picking it up because several people on GR were saying the first half was slow (I really need to stop reading people's opinions before I read a book), and you guys know how impatient I'm getting in my old age. But I'm liking it! I'm on page 108 and it is indeed a little on the slow side in that the crime investigation is not going anywhere so far, but I like the characters and the writing enough that I'm enjoying it anyway. Yay!

I finished Woman No 17 tonight. I was really into finishing it but felt just ok about it. Is that weird?

I have Into the Water by Paula Hawkins next. I also got a ton of High school nutmegs that had just come out. I'm excited!!!

Rowan, maybe because so many (pretty much all) of the characters were so unlikable? I couldn't put that book down but didn't necessarily LOVE it when I was done.

What are high school nutmegs?

I have the same question as Mellen about the high school nutmegs!

I finished The Wife's Tale the other night. I mostly enjoyed it - it was a page-turner, and I liked the main character quite well. There were a few minor plot points that bothered me but I gave it 4 stars because I had fun reading it.

Now I'm reading "A Jest of God" by Margaret Laurence. I don't think I've ever read a Margaret Laurence book before, which is awful, since she's one of Canada's most cherished authors. So far it's pretty good but I only finished the first chapter.

Spudd, tell me what bothered you about The Wife's Tale on a pm or separate thread? I loved that book!

Ok Mellen that makes sense. That's exactly how I felt.

I'm reading Into the Water right now.

ROWAN! Spudd and I need to know WTF high school nutmegs are!!

Oops sorry! I thought they were a national thing but then I realized that CT is the nutmeg state so duh it's only in CT. They are YA novels nominated for this nutmeg award. They are usually great and they have a special section in the library and they are all new never been touched yet.

I'm weird....

I'll be sure to share which I really like if anyone is in the mood for YA.