What are you reading for July?

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Anonymous wrote:I recently got off the hold list for Fourth Wing, and I'm going to start it today! I just finished Carrie Soto is Back yesterday, and liked it (but I posted about this in the June thread).

I picked Fourth Wing because it seems very popular in a FB book group I am in, and my sister and her friend read it and both liked it.

Glad you liked Carrie Soto, I had heard mixed reviews. What is the fb book group you’re a part of?

FWIW - I like Carrie Soto, Daisy Jones and Evelyn Hugo all pretty equally - & more than I liked Malibu Rising.
Peloton Moms Book Club - I love that group. You can join even if you're not a mom or have a peloton, I believe.

Me again - sorry to keep posting, but I wanted to add that I am glad I read Malibu Rising, because Carrie Soto is a character in it. Also - Carrie Soto is Back is a lot of tennis, more tennis than I was expecting. I don't play tennis but as a general matter, I like sports and books about sports. It was a good beach read - I read it while in Hilton Head this past week.

That sounds like a great vacation! I liked Open by Andre Agassi a lot, The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (fiction), and Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (also fiction) if you’re looking for other sports books.

Thank you! I loved art of fielding so I’ll have to check out your other two recommendations! My other two recs for you would be boys in the boat and born to run (both non fiction) if you haven’t read either!

I loved Art of Fielding, too. Also highly recommend We Ride Upon Sticks, by Quan Barry. It's fiction - about a girl's field hockey team at a high school in Salem, MA. Quirky and really, really good. (For anyone who's read it, just thinking about The Claw cracks me up even now, a few years after reading the book!)

I finished Hello Beautiful from Ann N. and that had basketball references weaved in for another sports fiction book plus family saga

Yes! I read it last month and thought it was great. (The basketball piece wasn't the focus, but it truly added depth to the character, including a psychological element. Really well done.)

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Anonymous wrote:What is everyone reading this month?
How did you like it?
What was it about?
Why did you pick that particular book to read?

Blood Meridian

Because Cormac McCarthy kicked it.

It’s good but hard and I am not really a fan of Westerns but I am committed

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a quarter of the way into Romantic Comedy, by Curtis Sittenfeld. Different than her other books - lighter and less cynical, IMHO. I'm definitely enjoying it so far.

I feel like her writing has taken a nose dive? I loved Prep and American Wife (my favorite), but the few I’ve read have been disappointing. They’ve gotten a little too light and formulaic.

I think her writing is as strong as ever. It's the tone that has loosened up some, at least in her most recent book. She doesn't seem to be taking herself so seriously (not trying so hard to write a Literary Novel - capital L, capital N) and instead is just focused on developing compelling characters and telling an interesting story well.

I also really like the dialogue in her current novel. I'm listening on audio, and it seems more realistic than most books in this girl-meets-boy genre - more like how the characters would actually talk with each other (and think to themselves) IRL. For me, that's her quality writing in action - just in a different genre.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently got off the hold list for Fourth Wing, and I'm going to start it today! I just finished Carrie Soto is Back yesterday, and liked it (but I posted about this in the June thread).

I picked Fourth Wing because it seems very popular in a FB book group I am in, and my sister and her friend read it and both liked it.

Glad you liked Carrie Soto, I had heard mixed reviews. What is the fb book group you’re a part of?

FWIW - I like Carrie Soto, Daisy Jones and Evelyn Hugo all pretty equally - & more than I liked Malibu Rising.
Peloton Moms Book Club - I love that group. You can join even if you're not a mom or have a peloton, I believe.

Me again - sorry to keep posting, but I wanted to add that I am glad I read Malibu Rising, because Carrie Soto is a character in it. Also - Carrie Soto is Back is a lot of tennis, more tennis than I was expecting. I don't play tennis but as a general matter, I like sports and books about sports. It was a good beach read - I read it while in Hilton Head this past week.

That sounds like a great vacation! I liked Open by Andre Agassi a lot, The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (fiction), and Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (also fiction) if you’re looking for other sports books.

Thank you! I loved art of fielding so I’ll have to check out your other two recommendations! My other two recs for you would be boys in the boat and born to run (both non fiction) if you haven’t read either!

I loved Art of Fielding, too. Also highly recommend We Ride Upon Sticks, by Quan Barry. It's fiction - about a girl's field hockey team at a high school in Salem, MA. Quirky and really, really good. (For anyone who's read it, just thinking about The Claw cracks me up even now, a few years after reading the book!)

I finished Hello Beautiful from Ann N. and that had basketball references weaved in for another sports fiction book plus family saga

Yes! I read it last month and thought it was great. (The basketball piece wasn't the focus, but it truly added depth to the character, including a psychological element. Really well done.)

Absolutely! Kent was a great character and I think it showed how much the team showed up for one another.

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I just finished The House of Eve and really liked it. Highly recommend.

It's a Reese Witherspoon book club pick - I find her picks really hit or miss but this was really good (didn't love the The Last Thing He Told Me, or The House in the Pines, absolutely loved Wrong Place Wrong Time).

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I just finished Loving Frank about Frank Lloyd Wright. All I could think about was how he and his mistress were incredibly selfish people. I liked the book but not them.

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Counterfeit
The Boys' Club
Suburban Dicks and the Sequel the Self Made Widow

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i loved suburban dicks! So excited there’s a sequel.
i’m currently reading Nora goes off script and its great. Funny, strong sense of character, romantic. Really good.

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Anonymous wrote:What is everyone reading this month?
How did you like it?
What was it about?
Why did you pick that particular book to read?

Blood Meridian

Because Cormac McCarthy kicked it.

It’s good but hard and I am not really a fan of Westerns but I am committed

I have it on my stack of "to reads". Have you read Power of the Dog?

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The Late Americans. I’m about 3/4 of the way through. It’s holding my attention but I don’t love it.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently got off the hold list for Fourth Wing, and I'm going to start it today! I just finished Carrie Soto is Back yesterday, and liked it (but I posted about this in the June thread).



I picked Fourth Wing because it seems very popular in a FB book group I am in, and my sister and her friend read it and both liked it.

Glad you liked Carrie Soto, I had heard mixed reviews. What is the fb book group you’re a part of?

FWIW - I like Carrie Soto, Daisy Jones and Evelyn Hugo all pretty equally - & more than I liked Malibu Rising.
Peloton Moms Book Club - I love that group. You can join even if you're not a mom or have a peloton, I believe.

Me again - sorry to keep posting, but I wanted to add that I am glad I read Malibu Rising, because Carrie Soto is a character in it. Also - Carrie Soto is Back is a lot of tennis, more tennis than I was expecting. I don't play tennis but as a general matter, I like sports and books about sports. It was a good beach read - I read it while in Hilton Head this past week.

That sounds like a great vacation! I liked Open by Andre Agassi a lot, The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (fiction), and Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (also fiction) if you’re looking for other sports books.

Thank you! I loved art of fielding so I’ll have to check out your other two recommendations! My other two recs for you would be boys in the boat and born to run (both non fiction) if you haven’t read either!

I loved Art of Fielding, too. Also highly recommend We Ride Upon Sticks, by Quan Barry. It's fiction - about a girl's field hockey team at a high school in Salem, MA. Quirky and really, really good. (For anyone who's read it, just thinking about The Claw cracks me up even now, a few years after reading the book!)

I finished Hello Beautiful from Ann N. and that had basketball references weaved in for another sports fiction book plus family saga

Yes! I read it last month and thought it was great. (The basketball piece wasn't the focus, but it truly added depth to the character, including a psychological element. Really well done.)

Also really liked, Hello Beautiful. Currently loving A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a quarter of the way into Romantic Comedy, by Curtis Sittenfeld. Different than her other books - lighter and less cynical, IMHO. I'm definitely enjoying it so far.

is it funny?

NP - I wouldn't say it's laugh out loud but she's always got a wit to her writing. This one def does read like a meet cute romance, with some literary groundings. I found the epistolary section really tedious and mostly skimmed it - didn't quite buy the resolution, but still enjoyed the book. Tore through it in like two days.

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Anonymous wrote:i loved suburban dicks! So excited there’s a sequel.
i’m currently reading Nora goes off script and its great. Funny, strong sense of character, romantic. Really good.

Never heard of Suburban Dicks but it looks SO FUN. Going to go download it now.

I just started Scent of a Garden by Namrata Patel, about a perfume maker who loses her nose, and with it her sense of purpose. Just very very beginning but so far I am enjoying it. She's just been sent away from her job in Paris and has returned home to her boisterous, wealthy Indian family in California - where I trust plenty of hijinks will ensue.

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I mentioned this in the June thread (right at the very end of it) but I'm reading

The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandell

It's much better than Station Eleven in terms of pace / plot / emotional pull.

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Suburban Dicks - what a fantastic title. Just put a tag on it for my library, hopefully they’ll acquire a copy.

I finished Heartsong, TJ Klune. Third in the Green Creek series. I think I’ll love the first one the most; still have the final book to go. Heartsong was fairly anxiety inducing, though interestingly written.I like how much we readers feel of the MC’s feelings. Almost first person, in third person.

I’m about to read We Could Be So Good, by Cat Sebastian.