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Post by angelashly on Aug 29, 2021 13:29:54 GMT -6
We met my aunt at Barnes and noble Starbucks so I of course bought the $5 book named 14 ways to die. My dd asked why I read such harsh books 😂 I recently got one called In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and my husband was like….you ok? Mine said that once and I said this coming from the man who watches the first 48
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Post by caer on Aug 29, 2021 13:31:09 GMT -6
We met my aunt at Barnes and noble Starbucks so I of course bought the $5 book named 14 ways to die. My dd asked why I read such harsh books 😂 I recently got one called In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and my husband was like….you ok? 😂 I just added this one to my list yesterday. I clearly also have issues.
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Post by imapenguin on Aug 29, 2021 13:38:14 GMT -6
I recently got one called In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and my husband was like….you ok? 😂 I just added this one to my list yesterday. I clearly also have issues. I haven’t read it yet, but soon!
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Post by caer on Aug 29, 2021 16:47:13 GMT -6
The Other Mrs. was just ok for me. It had one of my least favorite thriller tropes and I had most of the twists figured out ahead of time. But I thought the setting was cool and spooky and it was a fast read, so not all bad.
I’m going to read The Good Sister next.
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Post by jrun2013 on Aug 30, 2021 5:41:03 GMT -6
I finished listening to the Midnight Library yesterday. It was so good. I love thinking about how are decisions impact our life and thought this was really well done.
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Post by angelashly on Aug 30, 2021 8:16:04 GMT -6
September BOTM books are up
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Post by nelzie on Aug 30, 2021 8:51:04 GMT -6
I have no idea what to get for BOTM, there are 4 this month I've been looking forward to! Love Hypothesis, Rock Paper Scissors, The Sweetest Remedy, and The Neighbor's Secret. And I also want The Night She Disappeared from the add ons.
Question- if I skipped last month can I get two BOTM books this month since I have a credit?
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Post by imapenguin on Aug 30, 2021 8:54:06 GMT -6
I have no idea what to get for BOTM, there are 4 this month I've been looking forward to! Love Hypothesis, Rock Paper Scissors, The Sweetest Remedy, and The Neighbor's Secret. Question- if I skipped last month can I get two BOTM books this month since I have a credit? Yes, you can always get up to 3–add ons are $9.99, so I always pay for the extras since that’s cheaper than my credits. ETA, and you can get the current month titles for your add ons
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Post by nelzie on Aug 30, 2021 9:11:30 GMT -6
Thanks! I went with The Love Hypothesis, The Neighbor's Secret, and The Night She Disappeared.
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Post by junch817 on Aug 30, 2021 9:54:49 GMT -6
I think I am going to get Beautiful Country for my BOTM and adding some of the others to my library request list!
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Post by snowyowl on Aug 30, 2021 10:29:07 GMT -6
I randomly Google the 100 best books of all time and choose from there. I bought Lolita and Anna Karenina. I am almost done with Lolita and while very well written, it's content is very triggering. Anna k. will be my first Tolstoy novel but I'm known to like a long read so hopefully I will enjoy. I think Nabokov is an absolutely brilliant writer, but Lolita is definitely a difficult read. My personal favorite of his is The Real Life if Sebastian Knight. It was his first novel in English.
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Post by bearfootzcontinued on Aug 30, 2021 10:37:13 GMT -6
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner was my vacation read and while not going on my favorites list hit the spot.
Currently readin Her Last Flight by Beatriz Williams and also have Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil on loan.
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Post by peaseblossom55 on Aug 30, 2021 11:21:52 GMT -6
I finished The Splendid and the Vile it was meh. I also finished Bag Man that I liked, now back to fiction with The Flight Attendant.
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Post by snowyowl on Aug 30, 2021 12:32:39 GMT -6
Just read two LGBTQ romance books in a series, Conventionally Yours and Out of Character. I think the first one is better, but both are SO CUTE. Charming, escapist, nerd romance.
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Post by cdnfroggy on Aug 30, 2021 12:42:50 GMT -6
Currently working my way through a YA horror called Undead Girl Gang and I am enjoying it so far
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Post by byjove on Aug 30, 2021 13:32:50 GMT -6
Anyone reads The Exiles by Kline, The Last Night in London by White or Fifty Words for Rain by Lemmie? I think someone recently read Fifty Words.
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Post by caer on Aug 30, 2021 14:11:10 GMT -6
I raced through The Good Sister and thought it was terrific. It was such a good mix of genres and very well written.
I’m going to read We We’re Never Here next.
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Post by angelashly on Aug 30, 2021 14:52:01 GMT -6
I’m half way through The Dilemma and I’m not sure how I like it
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Post by thatgolfb on Aug 30, 2021 22:06:05 GMT -6
I finished The Seven Day Switch, and I liked it. It definitely held my interest, and I enjoyed the story, even if parts of it bugged me.
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Post by Bookshelves on Aug 31, 2021 7:27:56 GMT -6
I am doing a buddy read of Wuthering Heights and just got to the part where Cathy dies and OMG everyone in this book is terrible. I hate them all. Except maybe Ellen? Thankful to be halfway done. Lordy.
I actually don’t know anything that happens, although there’s a family tree in the front of my copy with birth and death years, which in and of itself is quite a spoiler.
Basically only finishing it because I’m halfway there.
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Post by byjove on Aug 31, 2021 7:33:10 GMT -6
Well this sounds amazing! Coming out a year from now.
Authors include • Naomi Alderman • Leigh Bardugo • Alyssa Cole • Lucy Foley • Elly Griffiths • Natalie Haynes • Jean Kwok • Val McDermid • Karen M. McManus • Dreda Say Mitchell • Kate Mosse • Ruth Ware
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Post by caer on Aug 31, 2021 7:43:59 GMT -6
Well this sounds amazing! Coming out a year from now. Authors include • Naomi Alderman • Leigh Bardugo • Alyssa Cole • Lucy Foley • Elly Griffiths • Natalie Haynes • Jean Kwok • Val McDermid • Karen M. McManus • Dreda Say Mitchell • Kate Mosse • Ruth Ware Oh wow! This sounds fun. Great list of authors.
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Post by CestLaVie on Aug 31, 2021 8:08:32 GMT -6
I started Local Woman Missing yesterday and am definitely into it. I was going to say August was a slow reading month but I am on book #10 so maybe not lol. It has felt slower. The most books I have read in a year was 56 before this year (usually its a challenge to hit 52). I've read 78 this year and am aiming for 100 now. that's wild to me. I think being back in the office and constantly driving + getting scribd has really upped that number. Plus all the camping.
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Post by Lakes on Aug 31, 2021 10:32:02 GMT -6
My kids won book raffle drawings from our library’s summer reading challenge 🎉🎉 The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill and Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown. Ds is pretty excited for the Star Wars one. It looks cool, like a mix of chapter book and comic. I’m excited for the Girl & Moon book and figure it will make a good bedtime book for them. We just started Grace Lin’s Where the Mountain Meets the Moon so it will take a while. I’ll have to read it on my own first since I don’t want to wait.
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Post by tatorhead328 on Aug 31, 2021 10:32:54 GMT -6
I finished The Maidens on audio and am glad I got it from the library and didn't buy the actual book because it was mostly lame. I also finished The Invisible Husband of Frick Island which I LOVED. It was just what I needed. I can't believe September BOTM picks are out, I haven't read any of my August ones yet!
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Post by adelbert on Aug 31, 2021 10:40:49 GMT -6
Lakes My boys love the Jedi academy books!
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Post by snowyowl on Aug 31, 2021 10:43:11 GMT -6
Read Helen Hoang’s new book today, The Heart Principle. My feelings are a bit mixed. On one hand, she’s a very good writer, and I loved Anna. On the other, it felt like the two main characters (and really there was only one) were living in different books. Minor spoilers: Anna is in a super heavy family drama while going through a major mental health crisis, Quan is in a romance novel. They spend so little time together that we see. He goes through a variety of conflicts and crises in the book and as far as I know, doesn’t tell Anna about basically any of them? I suspected, and it was confirmed in the author’s note, that the author put a ton of herself into Anna. But Quan didn’t feel as fully realized. And the cover doesn’t remotely match the book, IMO. Like the publishers really wanted this to be a light romance novel and kept pretending that’s what it was.
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Post by thatgolfb on Aug 31, 2021 10:49:11 GMT -6
Bookshelves do you see why I hate Wuthering Heights so much?! Lol
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Post by thatgolfb on Aug 31, 2021 10:53:02 GMT -6
I started Blood Defense by Marcia Clark, since it was on my Kindle. Seems interesting so far. I’m a fan of legal thrillers (I have read almost all of John Grisham’s books, at least pre 2015 or so), but I haven’t read one in a while. I guess The Good Daughter sort of counts.
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Post by justbecause on Aug 31, 2021 11:29:19 GMT -6
I’m reading Evil under the sun and looking for more books. I really should not visit the weekly used book sale but I might.
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