Anonymous
Post 09/06/2023 09:27     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
I really loved yellowface. It took me a while but i'm so glad i stayed with it b/c the way the author brings it around is brilliant.

also, laying on the beach reading helps a lot.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2023 09:23     Subject: Re:What were your top summer reads?
Little Monsters, Hello Beautiful, Tom Lake, You Can't Stay Here Forever, The Lost Wife, The Garnett Girls, The Road to Dalton
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2023 08:01     Subject: Re:What were your top summer reads?
Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (my first time reading her books - fun summer reads)
Know My Name by Chanel Miller (rape victim's account - must read)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (reread)
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (set in a maternity ward during the 1918 flu epidemic)
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (her newest - I loved it - set on a northern Michigan cherry farm during the covid pandemic lockdown)
Drive Your Plow over the bones of the dead by Olga Tokarczak (nobel-prize winner, odd but engaging mystery of who is killing people in a small Polish village - is it the Animals??)
Midnight News by Jo Baker (her newest - WWI during the Blitz, the narrator is wrapped up in a mystery of her friends dying - is she losing her mind or is there a conspiracy lurking?)
Homestead by Melinda Moustakis (first novel set in 1950s Alaska about creating a marriage between virtual strangers with the backdrop of Alaska becoming a state)
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 18:40     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
Demon Copperhead by a mile

Also read & enjoyed:
Hello Beautiful
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
The Marriage Portrait
The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 18:35     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
Anonymous wrote:Really enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry

Then listened to the interview of the author to find out it is her first book and it is already being made into a show on Apple TV. Talk about instant success.


I came on to say this! I haven’t enjoyed a book this much in awhile.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 18:15     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
Anonymous wrote:Really enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry

Then listened to the interview of the author to find out it is her first book and it is already being made into a show on Apple TV. Talk about instant success.


This book was so annoying. I read it for a book club. I felt like they could have made the main character normal, but she was instead rude, unwavering, pompous, and I thought she was autistic, but the author didn't go there. I was waiting for the moment it gets better and I forced myself to read to the end. Such a disappointment. And I'm a scientist and really wanted to like this one. Such a waste of my time.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 17:49     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
Anonymous wrote:I resisted for as long as I could, but I devoured 28 Summers, its sequel (The Sixth Wedding?), Five Star Weekend, and the Paradise Trilogy. Summer of Elin!


I am a huge Hilderbrand fan, and I really loved Five Star Weekend (though I didn’t care for 28 Summers). If you’re a new fan, I highly recommend Love Season - I think it’s her best!
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 17:45     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
Anonymous wrote:I resisted for as long as I could, but I devoured 28 Summers, its sequel (The Sixth Wedding?), Five Star Weekend, and the Paradise Trilogy. Summer of Elin!


I read 28 summers a few years ago. I liked it. I didn't realize there was a sequel, so I will check that out.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 16:34     Subject: Re:What were your top summer reads?
Wonder drug by Jennifer Vanderbees. It’s about how thalidomide got into the market in various countries and how policy makers worked to stop it from being approved in the US. Great read!!
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 15:46     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
I resisted for as long as I could, but I devoured 28 Summers, its sequel (The Sixth Wedding?), Five Star Weekend, and the Paradise Trilogy. Summer of Elin!
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 15:24     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Adventures of Amina al-Surafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
Painted Devils by Margaret Owen
The Magician's Daughter by HG Parry
One Dark Window by Rachel Willig

Fourth Wing was crap writing and predictable, but for some reason the characters stayed with me and I do want to see what happens in the next book.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 14:11     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
I loved Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano.
Anonymous
Post 09/05/2023 13:59     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
Really enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry

Then listened to the interview of the author to find out it is her first book and it is already being made into a show on Apple TV. Talk about instant success.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 22:47     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
Not new but I read Catch and Kill for the first time and it was outstanding.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 22:44     Subject: What were your top summer reads?
Mine were The Five Star Weekend, Carrie Soto is Back, and Fourth Wing.

Seeing it written out, I guess I’m pretty basic but I don’t care haha. I really liked those 3 and I guess I like basic for light summer fun