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What is everyone reading for June?
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What are you reading this month?
What is it about? What did you think about it? Why did you pick that particular book to read? How did you acquire the book? |
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"I've got your number" by Sophie Kinsella.
It is about a woman whose cell phone was stolen. An hour later, she happens to see a different cell phone in a trash can and decides to keep it. Then she learns from incoming calls and texts that her found phone is a company phone that used to belong to the personal assistant to the boss of a company. She begs the boss to please let her keep it for a few days and promises to forward all messages related to the company to him. Next thing you know, they are both heavily involved in each other's lives. I thought the book was fun and sweet. I downloaded it from my library website. This is the fifth book by Sophie Kinsella I have read this year. |
Anonymous
| I'm reading Funny Story by Emily Henry. She's one of my fave rom com writers so I was looking forward to this one that was just released a few months ago. Her stories are all predictable but she makes very likable characters. Not my gave EH book so far, but Its a good "palate cleanser" after reading heavier books. |
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I was lucky enough to snag this from the library and I just started. I am excited to read it because it’s easy and enjoyable. Never high lit, but always worth it to me. I just finished Pineapple Street, which was fine. I expected more because it was a Reese pick. |
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I'm also in an Emily Henry/easier book phase right now (too much going on in real life to want to dive deep when I relax and read). I just finished Happy Place and liked it. It's about an old group of friends that are undergoing growing pains, both at the friendship and the romantic level. I thought it was an easy read and the characters were pretty likeable. I'm not a huge rom com person but right now they hit the spot so even the sort of silly parts were fine. Right now I'm reading Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez. It's a sequel of sorts (different main character but same general cast and location) to Part of Your World. Yours Truly is about ER doctors who don't like each other when they meet but will likely end up together (I'm 20% of the way through right now). Part of Your World was a different main character who was also an ER doctor who met a country boy and how they navigated their relationship. PP if you like Emily Henry you should check out Abby Jimenez as well. The first book of hers I read was Just For the Summer, which was about two characters whose exes meet their happily ever after once they break up so the two decide to date to reverse the curse for both of them. Her books are written smartly enough that they don't feel too trite and the characters are interesting enough that they feel real-ish, not like cartoon people who don't act like normal people would. She also gives them enough depth that they're relatable. |
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| "My Beloved Monster" by Caleb Carr. It literally arrived the day before he died. So sad. |
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I'm listening to The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson on Audible.
I chose it because I enjoyed Nothing to See Here and Now is Not the Time to Panic and I had heard good things about this one. It's about a family of performance artists, where the parents would set up these elaborate situations intending to create havoc and then they call it art. They involved their young children in their escapades and the book goes back in forth in time between when the kids were little and when they're grown up. I'm probably a quarter of the way through it and I hate the parents. The are the kind of people I wouldn't even want to have a conversation with (just the opposite of my personality in every single way). The kids I don't hate but I don't like them. I'm really hoping I'll start to change my mind as the book goes on because I liked his other books and characters a lot. I've listened to all three books - the first one I chose because it's my favorite narrator and then the second had an actress I liked and this one has a narrator that I didn't know but I really like her voice, so I don't think it's that. I just don't really like the characters. |
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| I just finished The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, the intertwined narratives of Sarah Grimke (of the Grimke sisters) and "Handful" one of the Grimke family slaves. I hadn't read the author before was surprised by how good it was--both compelling subject matter and well-written. I am not sure why I had such minimal expectations, perhaps because the little I heard of the Secret Life of Bees movie seemed a little "Hallmark"-ish? Anyway, I def recommend, and will probably go off to read other Kidd books in the next months. |
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I just started "All the Dangerous Things" by Stacy Willingham.
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Anonymous
| Trying to listen to "The Measure," as recommended by last month's "What are you reading" thread. I'm finding it a bit of a slog (now 39% through per Libby). The premise is interesting (as are some of the broader societal ramifications of the "longevity threads"). But the characters (thus far?) are such a dull set of stereotypes. It's getting so I just don't care what happens: die/ don't die, short thread/ long thread, whatever! Does it get better? I could imagine that the author might start to subvert some of these types, and perhaps I am just not there yet? |
Anonymous
| Getting very close to the end of “Heart’s Invisible Furies” which I’m enjoying, but I think the pacing has dragged a bit towards the end. Trying to decide what to read next from my pile: “Birnam Wood” or “Real Americans”. |
Anonymous
I'd like to read that one. I had no relationship with Caleb Carr - never even read The Alienist - but I felt so sad when I heard he'd died. That book looks wonderful - come back and tell us how it is? I'm reading The Paris Apartment and it's dumb and fun and engrossing, which is exactly what my brain can handle right now. |
Anonymous
This is my favorite book ever. The Four Winds was a good follow up I'm reading What Alice Forgot now. Alice hits her head and forgets 10 years of her life. The story is good, now that I'm 75% done with it. I felt very lost the first few chapters (I hate those kinds of books where you learn more about characters after reading for an hour.) I also don't like how long the chapters are. It's much easier to read 2-3 five minute chapters than a 15 minute long one. I got the book through the Libby/Kindle. |
Anonymous
I hope you pick Real Americans because I want to read it and want to hear your review. |
Anonymous
Had a friend just recommend Real Americans......... on my list |