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.

 

[lisak09]

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.

It's so sad she won't get to write any more books she was so talented.
Loved her work, particularly Can You Keep A Secret?(so funny!) and the shopaholic series. I was always delighted to see a new release from her, I will miss that.
Rip Sophie

 

[Songbird76]

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 hadn't heard she passed, but I've never read any of hers. I'm pretty sure I have shopaholic on my want to read list from years ago, but never got it. I take it I should read it?

 

[Songbird76]

Out of curiosity, do any of you have a sort of database for all your books? I LOVE lists, and I make google documents for everything, but I have an excel spreadsheet with my books in it so I can look up if I already have a book or not when I come across one that I want to get, and whenever I buy new books, I add them to the list and re-filter them by author's first and last name. But I just realized that I don't have all my books in there....I forgot to put in the books in my upstairs bookcase, which is kind of my guilty pleasure bookcase. It's where I keep all my Nora Roberts, for example. So I'm going to have to update my list now. I knew I hadn't entered my husband's books on the list, but I forgot to add a lot of the books of my own, too. But it just got me thinking....how do other people organize their books and ensure they don't buy doubles?

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Out of curiosity, do any of you have a sort of database for all your books? I LOVE lists, and I make google documents for everything, but I have an excel spreadsheet with my books in it so I can look up if I already have a book or not when I come across one that I want to get, and whenever I buy new books, I add them to the list and re-filter them by author's first and last name. But I just realized that I don't have all my books in there....I forgot to put in the books in my upstairs bookcase, which is kind of my guilty pleasure bookcase. It's where I keep all my Nora Roberts, for example. So I'm going to have to update my list now. I knew I hadn't entered my husband's books on the list, but I forgot to add a lot of the books of my own, too. But it just got me thinking....how do other people organize their books and ensure they don't buy doubles?

I don't buy a lot of physical books. Most of the physical books I buy are Disney/Disney History type books because the library doesn't usually get those. So I have dedicated bookcases for those. I will buy books, for the right price under $4, on my Kindle. So my kindle organizes them. I'm mostly concerned now about keeping track of what I read and I use GoodReads for that.

 

[Songbird76]

I don't buy a lot of physical books. Most of the physical books I buy are Disney/Disney History type books because the library doesn't usually get those. So I have dedicated bookcases for those. I will buy books, for the right price under $4, on my Kindle. So my kindle organizes them. I'm mostly concerned now about keeping track of what I read and I use GoodReads for that.

That makes total sense. I think if I lived in the US, I probably wouldn't have as huge of a library as I do because I'd just get a library membership. But here, library memberships are about 60 euros a year now I think? And their English section here isn't very large. I have probably almost as many books in my personal home library as the library has in English, and of course, they have to have a wider variety, so a lot of what they do have doesn't appeal to me. So I don't have a library card here.

I do have goodreads to keep track of what I have read and to list books I WANT to read, so if I'm in a bookstore, I can always refer to that to see if there are any books they have that are on my list. I also have the kindle books in my spreadsheet...I list the book and author, how many copies I have, whether it's a kindle or physical book, and whether it's part of a series and which number within that series.

I actually created the list because when A was in his last year of school, it was a requirement that each student had to read 4 English language books from this list they have. It has all different genres, but they had to read at least one book written before 1900, they could only read one YA book, and they could only read one per genre. But their school had 30 English language books. 30. And they only had one book written before 1900, and that was Shakespeare. I made the database and highlited the ones I had that were on the list they could choose from, and I know I had over 100 of them, so I gave the list to the teacher and offered my library to them to borrow anything I had in my personal library, and I went to a 2nd hand book store and bought copies of several of the titles from the list to donate to the school to increase their library for after A graduated. They needed it!! But that's why I made the list in the first place. And of course Nora Roberts wasn't on that list of approved books, so I guess I just didn't bother to put them into the database because they also didn't live in the bookcases downstairs. E and I reorganized the bookcases this past summer because now that A's out of school, I don't need the shelves dedicated to his book list. He knew he could grab any book on these 2 or 3 shelves. But now I can organize them by genre, so we redid them, but I still haven't added the ones from the upstairs bookcase.