What Are You Reading? Chapter Two

[jenna]

Thanks mrspickles and tabby! I think this may be my fave part of this site. Somewhere to discuss books. My husband loves to read but generally dislikes certain books that I like ("chick lit" as it's sometimes called ) or anything written around during the Georgian period (Dickens, Jane Austen, etc). But he likes Agatha Christie and he is going to re-read the ones I picked up. If you like British mystery authors Martha Grimes is worth checking out!

[Carolinian]

I just finished Talia Hibbert's latest, Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute. It's her first YA book. I don't think it was a good as her previous books. Even though the setup offered a lot of external potential conflict/obstacles to overcome the two characters find themselves battling their personal brain weasels (for lack of a specific term, I don't want to spoil anything) and the plot skates past challenges outside their own brainboxes.

[chiqui]

I'm reading Joan Didion's The White Album. I thought it would be about recollections of the 1960s, but it's actually a set of essays about California, including architecture and politics. Interesting stuff!

[scarlet]

Aug 17, 2022 8:34:23 GMT -4 groovethang said:

Just finished The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager, which was very good - up until it took a weird turn. I kept reading, though, and somehow he pulled it off because I thought he made it work and it didn’t take away anything for me.

The turn it took was something I wasn't expecting, but I agree, it actually worked really well. Before that, I was enjoying it, but thinking it wasn't doing anything different, for lack of a better word, than a basic thriller.

Just finished The Inmate, which is my fourth Freida McFadden book in the last few months. I can't say they're the best written books ever, but they're all quick, enjoyable reads.

[laurenj]

I stumbled across a new author, Daisy Wood and loved both of her books. I was so bummed out to realize she'd only written 2 books, but perhaps she'll be writing more.

My only complaint about both books is that she puts a disclaimer in the front of the book that kind of acts as a spoiler to the plots, especially in The Clockmaker's Wife. I can't understand why you'd put that kind of a message in the front of a book when it would be just fine at the back of the book AFTER the person has finished reading. So if you read them, skip over the pages at the front if you want to be unspoiled.

But I really enjoyed the books, they were in the vein of Kate Quinn or Kate Morton books, which are my favorite types.

[Carolinian]

According to Fantastic Fiction She has one coming out next spring, The Royal Librarian.

Lauren Willig, Karen White and Beatriz Williams jointly have written several books in the same vein.

[Auroranorth]

Death on the Nile is one of my favorite Agatha Christie books. I'm not a fan of the movie versions as a rule, though. They all took terrible liberties with the story.

[mojogirl]

Jun 23, 2023 0:00:53 GMT -4 jenna said:

New here and this is my first post!
I just picked picked up gently used books from a thrift store.

3 Agatha Christie novels, Death on the Nile, Passenger to Frankfurt, and The Man in the Brown Suit
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Partner by John Grisham

These are next on my reading list after Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

I just finished two YA mystery novels by Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson: The Agathas, and its sequel, The Night in Question.
The Agathas is so named because one of the two protagonists is obsessed with Agatha Christie. When her former best friend goes missing, she teams up with another girl at school to solve the mystery.

While my son was in the hospital I read Legends and Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes by Travis Baldree and true to it's title it is a very fluffy fantasy novel, perfect for the situation. It's about an orc mercenary who retires and opens the first coffee bar in town.

[hamhock]

Rereading the J.R. Rain Vampire for Hire 1-10, and reading the newer ones that I missed. And all the novelas and "Case Files" that go along with the series.

[Carolinian]

My tolerance for fiction I'm not enjoying has lessened. I listened to 2 of 15 hours of In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune and gave up. The "humor" of a couple of the characters was stuck in 14-year-old boy mode and got tiresome quickly. I checked GoodReads and it doesn't let up so I returned it. I began reading The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley, got 40% through and decided I didn't like any of the characters. Spent 5 minutes skipping through the rest of the book and reading the last three pages, then returned it to the library.

Next is The Making of Another Major Motion Picture. Please don't disappoint me, Tom Hanks. I'm currently listening to Abby Jimenez's latest, Yours Truly, which I'm enjoying. The revenge one character takes on her cheating ex is pretty funny.