July 2025 -- What are you reading?

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Anonymous wrote:Fleishman Is in Trouble

Are you enjoying it? I expected to hate this book but ended up really enjoying it.

DP. I enjoyed it as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading Dream State (Oprah's Book Club) 100 pages in... well written and I like it, but waiting for something to happen...

Next up will be Isola.

Both are excellent reads. Enjoy!

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Wild Dark Shore

Loved it. It’s set on an island between Tasmania and Antarctica that is populated by a father and his 3 children, and a woman mysteriously washes up on the shore. Very descriptive climate fiction/mystery, changing pov each chapter.

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My oldest is a rising junior in HS and I am listening to The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make
Book by Ron Lieber. I think the topic is self explanatory

I have Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid from the library but haven't started it yet. I don't know what it's about yet but I *think* the main character is a woman who works at NASA in the 1980s. I try not to read much about books before I start them because I've accidentally read some spoilers that way!

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Anonymous wrote:I just finished Pachinko about Koreans in Japan up to, during, and after WWII. I know many love it but it really fell flat for me.

I am flabbergasted. It’s a top 10 book of all time for me.

I thought the start was very, very promising. But some of the turns it took were just unrealistic for something purporting to shine light on the Korean experience in Japan. And I found the later chapters/final third flat. I'm glad you found it so wonderful, though! Different strokes and all that.

DP, but I felt the same way about Pachinko. The first third was beautifully written and compelling and I got myself lost in Sunja’s story. Then the narrative shifted gears to the future generations, and I started losing interest. An uneven read overall.

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I just finished Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame. I really adored it. I also love baking so I loved all the recipes.

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I just finished Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger. If you are interested in art I really enjoyed hearing about the techniques he used to replicate works of art and about the art itself. I did not enjoy the way he spoke about other people, such as women in general. He also thinks very highly of himself, which is obvious by the title.

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Just finished two quick reads- Beautiful Ugly and the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

Hated Beautiful Ugly. It had so much potential. Wife goes missing while talking on the phone with her writer husband and a year later his agent sends him to a remote Scottish island to try to jump start his writing again. The plot had holes you could drive a truck through and I closed it at the end and said to my family, “well, that was stupid.”

Addie LaRue is pure fantasy fiction. Woman from 1690s makes a deal with the devil so she doesn’t have to marry, and the devil makes it so that she’s immortal but that no one will remember her if she leaves their sight. It spans 300 years going back and forth from old days to present, when someone can finally remember her. I enjoyed it.

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Nevermoor series. Yes, it's middle-grade fantasy and I'm an adult. Do I care? No. It has a similar appeal to Harry Potter but isn't quite as dark.

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Anonymous wrote:I am listening to "The Wedding People" but I don't know if I will be able to finish it before my Libby library time runs out.

A couple weeks ago I decided to get in line on the Libby website for my library for this book, since many on here have mentioned that they enjoyed it. Libby said I was number 168 in line to be able to access the book and it would be a 14 week wait. Then, 4 days ago Libby said I could skip to the front of the line right away, but only if I keep the book for one week only. Of course I downloaded it, but I am pretty busy this week and I am almost resenting this 12 hour long book just because it feels like yet another obligation on my list of things that need to get done.

So far I have listened to about 2 hours of it. I am at the part where they are waiting for room service to bring them some dental floss.

The book is about a woman who checks into a hotel and finds that she is the only guest at the hotel who is not part of a wedding party.

I really enjoyed this, but my main question is what library system do you use where they say you can skip to the front of the line on Libby? I’ve never encountered that.

I just finished Jane and Dan at the End of the World, a quick, kind of quirky read. Anyone else read it?

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Anonymous wrote:I am listening to "The Wedding People" but I don't know if I will be able to finish it before my Libby library time runs out.

A couple weeks ago I decided to get in line on the Libby website for my library for this book, since many on here have mentioned that they enjoyed it. Libby said I was number 168 in line to be able to access the book and it would be a 14 week wait. Then, 4 days ago Libby said I could skip to the front of the line right away, but only if I keep the book for one week only. Of course I downloaded it, but I am pretty busy this week and I am almost resenting this 12 hour long book just because it feels like yet another obligation on my list of things that need to get done.

So far I have listened to about 2 hours of it. I am at the part where they are waiting for room service to bring them some dental floss.

The book is about a woman who checks into a hotel and finds that she is the only guest at the hotel who is not part of a wedding party.

I really enjoyed this, but my main question is what library system do you use where they say you can skip to the front of the line on Libby? I’ve never encountered that.

I just finished Jane and Dan at the End of the World, a quick, kind of quirky read. Anyone else read it?

I am the person who got the skip to the front of the line copy of the Wedding People. The answer to your question is Department of Defense.

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Anonymous wrote:The new Wally Lamb book!

Title?

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Because of the hilarious back and forth between Veronica Roth and Sarah Maclean, I'm reading the Lorraine Health "gorilla twins" book, The Early Takes All.

It's second in a series, so I read the first one yesterday and it was a good, fast read. Basically, a woman who is considered "on the shelf" in the regency era decides to have a one night stand at a club where everyone wears masks (because breaking societal rules would ruin you). She doesn't go through with it initially, but winds up meeting someone who has a bad reputation that is somewhat unwarranted (the impact of his dyslexia is a subplot). The female main character is smart, strong, and self-confident. Not the typical lonely, single female character.

I understand the appeal of older historical romances. They're entertaining while also having some good social commentary, especially about gender roles.

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Anonymous wrote:Fleishman Is in Trouble

I loved this one. It got better and better for me as it went on.

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Anonymous wrote:Nevermoor series. Yes, it's middle-grade fantasy and I'm an adult. Do I care? No. It has a similar appeal to Harry Potter but isn't quite as dark.

I read these along with my son and we both thoroughly enjoyed them.