Off-Topic Summer Reading

[Laura S.]

I finished The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. It was really good. I did not see the ending coming. (Thanks for the referral, Alison.) I also finished The 10-Year Reunion by Susan Wiggs. It was pretty good for a light romance.

Now, I'm reading Window on the Bay by Debbie Macomber and I just started The Art of Inheriting Secrets by Barbara O'Neal.

[JezthePuff2]

Just finished The Silent Patient....LOVED IT! I did not see that coming!

[bee]

I just zoomed through The Unhoneymooners after seeing it mentioned here. Very easy read, fairly predictable though there was something a little unexpected that happened.

I've now started listening to NOS4A2 by Joe Hill after hearing my local radio DJ's talk about it on air for years.

[alisoncooks]

Just finished rereading The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson. Such a good book. (Most def a grown-up novel...)

On deck is The Stolen Girl by Marsha Skrypuch, which is the follow up to Making Bombs for Hitler. (novels for kids/teens.)

[try2bfit]

I finished reading "Same Kind of Different As Me" and "What Difference Do It Make?" by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. I am currently reading "Working Our Way Home" by Ron Hall. They are about the friendship between a homeless man and a millionaire. Great books.
Jody

[BunnyHop]

Originally Posted by lreidgreen

In the memoir category, I highly recommend “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah and “Angela’s Ashes” by Frank McCourt which as been around for ages. Both are excellent as audio books which I usually don’t care for. “The Color of Water” by James McBride is also excellent.

Thanks for the recs! Our library had Born a Crime, so it's up next for me.



Oh, and I think I unfairly insulted Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed.

I'd also been listening to an audio book of Faith's Harper's Coping Skills, and I think that was the book I'd meant to criticize for being kind of crude. It's been a few days, but I went back and listened to the second disc and realize that she's the one who frequently uses the f-word and other such stuff. Unless I'm really wrong, Gottlieb's much less casual, for all that her work is wonderfully approachable.

It's not a deal breaker when somebody has something to say, but lots of times I just find it an unnecessary distraction.

Video-wise, I've begun re-watching the Midsomer Murders on dvd from the library. Hadn't seen these since they first started. Not sure I've seen anything beyond the first five seasons.

[Laura S.]

I'm reading John Grisham's The Reckoning. It's really good so far even though it has been a slow read for me. There is a lot of information about WWII in southern Asia, something I've never read much about.

[Carol K]

Still on Les Miserable, almost 4/5 of the way through. Margaret Atwood has a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale coming out and Alice Hoffman and Jesse Burton have new books coming out too.

[Gams]

I just finished My Lovely Wife (thanks to the recommendation here). I thought it was very good, although I did have one little issue with the ending.

[wendug]

Originally Posted by Carol K

Still on Les Miserable, almost 4/5 of the way through. Margaret Atwood has a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale coming out and Alice Hoffman and Jesse Burton have new books coming out too.

I'm excited for Margaret Atwood's new novel as she is one of my favorite authors! I've been watching the Handmaid's Tale on Hulu and my husband noticed that Hulu was having a giveaway of hand-painted Levis jean jackets to promote the Handmaid's Tale. He put in a request for me and to my surprise...I received one! Each is unique and hand painted with latin phrases from the novel/show. There are patches, too, with phrases from the novel/show. I'm so shocked I got one as I usually don't get lucky enough to receive things like this!