August: what are you reading?

[Rowan]

I read a few books on the plane this weekend.

Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis (not my favorite of hers)
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (this was excellent; trigger warning for domestic violence)

I'm also 1/2 done And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie and 1/2 done The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead.

[Sílvia]

Finished The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer! I liked it. It was a little tiring at first, with dozens of characters, jumps in time and points of view, but after I got used to the format I was hooked.

[Rowan]

I finished The Nickel Boys and read The Chain. Both were 3 star not amazing although there's a lot of buzz about The Nickel Boys.

I have Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman on my pile next. It's technically already due but at 20 cents a day I'll pay for it because it will take forever to get it again.

[Sílvia]

You just pay for the days you're delayed? At my library you don't pay, but then you're "grounded". You can't borrow for a while.

[Spudd]

I finished Anne of Avonlea and now I'm on to Anne of the Island. It's really the "will they or won't they" of Anne and Gilbert that is keeping me going. I don't remember how it turns out.

[Sílvia]

I finished Close Enough to Touch. It was sweet and predictable.

Then I read Flowers for Algernon, which I'd always dreaded reading because I thought it would be so sad. Well, it is. But it's fantastic. Read it if you haven't.

Now I have Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde. I've never read one of her books, I just saw the movie Pay it Forward based on one of them and found it super mushy, and I expect this book will be too. But I'll try. It's such a gorgeous edition! I got it from the library.

[Sílvia]

Ok, gorgeous edition but soooo not for me. Started Vox by Christina Dalcher.

[Rowan]

I've read a few just meh books but I just finished Miracle Creek by Angie Creek. I loved it - 4 stars no question. I think I waited on this one for a while because of the title just sounded boring. Courtroom drama/mystery.

[Sílvia]

I loved Then She Was Gone! It was a bit predictable, but good anyway. Now that takes talent!

Finished Vox. Utterly unimpressed.

I started a Brazilian dystopia written in 1981 about a future in which the Amazon has turned into a desert, the heat is unbearable and the air is unbreathable Timely, but I'm not sure I can handle it. Here, if anyone's curious: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207 ... earch=true

[Spudd]

That sounds super depressing, Silvia. Too close to home!!

[Rowan]

Syl - I thought the premise of Vox was good but the story just veered and never came back. I was fairly disappointed too.

I read It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover - not my typical book - alpha male-ish romance but I was surprised by liking it. It was an easy read.

I'm reading The Bride Test which is decent.

[Sílvia]

Spudd, I could maybe stomach it, but up to the point I read, I was starting to get bored. Yeah, I get it, everything's bleak. Now what happens? Is there a plot? I put it aside for now.

Ro, agree on Vox. Interesting promise, sucky execution. I read It Ends With Us, too, but just because I had to know what the big deal was. It has a goodreads rating of more than 4.4 or so. That's pretty impressive. Then I realized people were impressed simply because of the major theme (domestic violence, for those of you who haven't read it). Oh well. It was readable.

I started Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf. I've read most of her books and they're usually satisfying thrillers about kids in danger. Yeah, it's a bit of a formula, but it works for me.