Reader’s Corner

[erstwo]

Hello - I feel like I’ve been absent from this thread too long. I’ve been keeping up with your recs- just haven’t been posting. I didn’t see any other reviews of Atmosphere in the last couple of pages?

Lots of buzz around this one for the last couple of months among my reading friends. I really enjoyed it.

I do feel that I liked The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo more, but I seem to be almost alone in that opinion. Atmosphere is a flashback book - so one twist is reveled immediately (and it’s a really good one - keeps you hooked) but I think *because I’d read Evelyn Hugo - I could see the other ‘twist’ coming?? That’s my only criticism Otherwise- it is SO well done. Worth a read.

 

[Songbird76]

Just finished book three of the Good Girl's Guide to Murder series. It's called As Good As Dead, and it's pretty freaky. By far the most suspenseful of the series. I liked it, but I have to be careful about where I stopped for the night so I didn't get nightmares. It's a pretty long one at 550 pages, but I am not allowed out of bed except to go to the bathroom, so plenty of reading time, so I was able to read it in 2 days.

As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

The finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series. By …

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[erstwo]

Very, very good. A murder mystery with endless twists and turns. Almost impossible to guess all of the plot lines.

 

[Songbird76]

I just finished Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts for book club. Not my favorite of hers, but it wasn't bad.

Now I started The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult, about a woman who was studying The Book of Two Ways in Egypt which is about the afterlife. She is involved in a plane crash and has to decide whether she wants to go back to the life she's been living, or to the life she gave up in Egypt. I'm not very far, but so far I like it.

And my daughter got me A Girl Named Sampson by Amy Harmon, I think? for my birthday.

 

[Tiggerish]

Anyone else deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Madeline Wickham/Sophie Kinsella?

I didn't really click.with any of the books she wrote under her own name--though I bought at least three of them, none are still on my bookshelf. Loved the Kinsella books. The first Shopaholic was SO perfect, that even though my lovely husband gifted me at least five of them, I couldn't bear to read any of the sequels, lest they be "less than" the original. I just don't see how anything could top.an entire page of Finnish.

Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me, Can you keep a Secret, and Party Crasher are all favourites. Undomestic and Remember Me were slow burns, didn't love them til second read.

RIP. Cancer sucks.

 

[Tiggerish]

Anyone else deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Madeline Wickham/Sophie Kinsella?

I didn't really click.with any of the books she wrote under her own name--though I bought at least three of them, none are still on my bookshelf. Loved the Kinsella books. The first Shopaholic was SO perfect, that even though my lovely husband gifted me at least five of them, I couldn't bear to read any of the sequels, lest they be "less than" the original. I just don't see how anything could top.an entire page of Finnish.

Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me, Can you keep a Secret, and Party Crasher are all favourites. Undomestic and Remember Me were slow burns, didn't love them til second read.

RIP. Cancer sucks.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Anyone else deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Madeline Wickham/Sophie Kinsella?

I didn't really click.with any of the books she wrote under her own name--though I bought at least three of them, none are still on my bookshelf. Loved the Kinsella books. The first Shopaholic was SO perfect, that even though my lovely husband gifted me at least five of them, I couldn't bear to read any of the sequels, lest they be "less than" the original. I just don't see how anything could top.an entire page of Finnish.

Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me, Can you keep a Secret, and Party Crasher are all favourites. Undomestic and Remember Me were slow burns, didn't love them til second read.

RIP. Cancer sucks.

I liked her early books, but hadn't read any recent ones. Shopaholic was great. It is sad about her passing, cancer does suck.

 

[DisneyFreak]

Has anyone else read Project Hail Mary?

I just saw the preview and that Ryan Gosling is the lead. That may actually be perfect casting. I liked the adaptation of the Martian too.

Going on a cruise in January and this is going to be my read. I want to read it before the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed The Martian the book and movie. Artemis was good as well but a bit of a let down after The Martian.

 

[DisneyFreak]

Currently reading....



Very cleverly done. Enjoying very much so far.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Going on a cruise in January and this is going to be my read. I want to read it before the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed The Martian the book and movie. Artemis was good as well but a bit of a let down after The Martian.

Project Hail Mary was much better than Artemis.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Anyone else deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Madeline Wickham/Sophie Kinsella?

I didn't really click.with any of the books she wrote under her own name--though I bought at least three of them, none are still on my bookshelf. Loved the Kinsella books. The first Shopaholic was SO perfect, that even though my lovely husband gifted me at least five of them, I couldn't bear to read any of the sequels, lest they be "less than" the original. I just don't see how anything could top.an entire page of Finnish.

Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me, Can you keep a Secret, and Party Crasher are all favourites. Undomestic and Remember Me were slow burns, didn't love them til second read.

RIP. Cancer sucks.

I read the Shopaholic series as a teenager. I was worried about her as I'd heard she'd had brain cancer and that one is just...not good.