emmjay
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Post by emmjay on Jun 22, 2019 15:02:55 GMT -5
I have been at the American Library Association annual conference for the last two days and now I have like 50 ARCs to read this summer.  Plus today I met Jason Reynolds, Eoin Colfer, and Angie Thomas, and tomorrow I’m going to a breakfast event with a bunch of YA authors like Laurie Halse Anderson and Marie Lu (amongst others). I have I idea what I’m going to do with all of these books because I can’t carry all of them back to the UK. My siblings are both teachers, so I’ll probably unload most of them on them. |
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jun 22, 2019 18:17:20 GMT -5
My library doesn't have it  Interlibrary Loan I read ebooks which don't work on interlibrary loans. And Ontario is having their interlibrary loan budget slashed thanks to our idiot Premier. (When I said my "library" doesn't have it what I really meant was "my libraries" ) |
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Post by marianparoo on Jun 23, 2019 2:23:45 GMT -5
I read ebooks which don't work on interlibrary loans. And Ontario is having their interlibrary loan budget slashed thanks to our idiot Premier. (When I said my "library" doesn't have it what I really meant was "my libraries" ) FUCK THEM! |
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Post by marianparoo on Jun 23, 2019 2:24:57 GMT -5
I have been at the American Library Association annual conference for the last two days and now I have like 50 ARCs to read this summer. Plus today I met Jason Reynolds, Eoin Colfer, and Angie Thomas, and tomorrow I’m going to a breakfast event with a bunch of YA authors like Laurie Halse Anderson and Marie Lu (amongst others). I have I idea what I’m going to do with all of these books because I can’t carry all of them back to the UK. My siblings are both teachers, so I’ll probably unload most of them on them. Lucky you!!!! I haven't been at ALA since 1999 |
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Post by emmjay on Jun 23, 2019 15:57:24 GMT -5
I have been at the American Library Association annual conference for the last two days and now I have like 50 ARCs to read this summer. Plus today I met Jason Reynolds, Eoin Colfer, and Angie Thomas, and tomorrow I’m going to a breakfast event with a bunch of YA authors like Laurie Halse Anderson and Marie Lu (amongst others). I have I idea what I’m going to do with all of these books because I can’t carry all of them back to the UK. My siblings are both teachers, so I’ll probably unload most of them on them. Lucky you!!!! I haven't been at ALA since 1999 It’s my first time and it is overwhelming. I got another 60+ books today! I am going to one panel about international libraries tomorrow morning and then I’m leaving! |
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Post by Miss Prudey on Jun 24, 2019 18:24:55 GMT -5
We listened to Hamilton: A Revolution & The Wizards of Once audiobooks on our drive to & from Las Vegas. Yesterday, I read Wonder for book club. I think my next reads will be The Grapes of Wrath & The Gifts of Imperfection. I’m behind on my classic & nonfiction reading goals for the year.
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Post by junebug on Jul 1, 2019 19:36:04 GMT -5
I read a ton over vacation, but I have to say I am loving The Overstory.
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Post by marianparoo on Jul 3, 2019 6:40:43 GMT -5
Have just discovered the short stories of Elizabeth Walter. Good, creepy stuff!
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Post by villanelle on Jul 3, 2019 10:12:30 GMT -5
Because I love everything I've ever read that was mentioned by WOG, I read the Shades of Magic trilogy. The first was slow-going initially, but as usual, Wise Old Goat , you didn't disappoint. I've now downloaded the first in another of her series (something about monsters?). |
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Post by junebug on Jul 3, 2019 10:41:38 GMT -5
Because I love everything I've ever read that was mentioned by WOG, I read the Shades of Magic trilogy. The first was slow-going initially, but as usual, Wise Old Goat , you didn't disappoint. I've now downloaded the first in another of her series (something about monsters?). Me too! I read the first two books (liked the second on better) and can't wait to get the third! Great recommendation! |
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jul 3, 2019 16:02:39 GMT -5
Because I love everything I've ever read that was mentioned by WOG, I read the Shades of Magic trilogy. The first was slow-going initially, but as usual, Wise Old Goat , you didn't disappoint. I've now downloaded the first in another of her series (something about monsters?). I'm glad you liked them  . The only other VE Scwhab I've read is Vicious which I loved (it was reading Vicious that made me pick up Darker Shades again) - I'm hoping to read Vengeful soon. She writes YA under the name Victoria Schwab but I've never read any of that.
ETA if it is Vicious beware that it's more sci-fi than fantasy.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jul 19, 2019 10:58:08 GMT -5
I'm reading Vengeful by VE Schwab and I'm loving it. I'm spending July reading through books that I have physical copies off - mostly subscription box books. I have this pin that has a bunch of genres on it and when I finish a book I spin it and let it pick the next genre for me I also read Wicked Saints by Emily Duncan which is a YA Fantasy that takes place in a fantasy Russia. There are two countries at war with different forms of magic and beliefs and the heroine of the story has to work with the enemy to try to stop the war. It has a very Leigh Bardugo Grishaverse vibe without being too derivative and I quite liked it. Probably my favourite subscription box book. And Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson - it's about a young woman raised in a library! With magic! It was fun - the book wasn't light but it felt light if that makes sense. The main character was bad ass but also naive and I appreciated that. Some YA books are very dark with little optimism so I liked the change of pace. It appears to be a stand alone which is nice and somewhat unusual in the YA world. |
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Post by junebug on Jul 19, 2019 11:58:21 GMT -5
Just finished Melmoth by Sarah Perry (audiobook). Definitely a slow build, but I was hooked by the end. Narration is excellent. Just started 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret (audiobook) which seems kind of catty, but fun. Re-reading Anthony Bourdain's A Cook's Tour because I am missing him |
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Post by Miss Prudey on Jul 21, 2019 18:24:23 GMT -5
Just finished The Grapes of Wrath. Still figuring out what I think about it. But I definitely will read something a little lighter next!
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Post by marianparoo on Jul 30, 2019 6:08:59 GMT -5
Bright-Sided: How the relentless promotion of positive thinking as underminded America by Barbara Ehrenreich. Just up my alley
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Post by junebug on Jul 30, 2019 10:16:40 GMT -5
Reading the first book of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend. Wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I do like the characters, and it's quick, easy read.
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Post by maurinsky on Jul 31, 2019 11:55:44 GMT -5
I'm taking a break from AP Stats to read Ben Folds autobiography - A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
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Post by shaena on Jul 31, 2019 13:53:39 GMT -5
it was "fluff month" for my book club. If you are looking for fun beach or bath tub read. try "The Unhoneymooners".
It reminded me of Bridget Jones, and Shopaholic, type fun stuff.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Jul 31, 2019 17:30:39 GMT -5
I read Stolen Time by Danielle Rollins which is the first in a YA time traveller series. It was okay. I'll read more in the series. And I started Recursion by Blake Crouch - and I'm as hooked as I was on his Dark Matter a few years ago. The book seems to be taking place in two time lines that I assume are going to intersect. In 2007 a woman is working on a project to preserve memories - her mother has Alzheimer's and in 2018 there are cases of False Memory Syndrome where people wake up one morning with memories of full lives lead that they didn't actually lead - along with the memories of the lives they actually lived. No one knows how it's transmitted or what causes it - but some of the people who suffer from it kill themselves because they can't live with out the children/spouses/etc that just never really existed.
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Post by Wise Old Goat on Aug 5, 2019 9:55:44 GMT -5
Highly recommend Recursion - especially if you liked Dark Matter - similar themes of roads not traveled and regrets but a little more of a global feel than Dark Matter - yet still an incredibly personal story. Mind bending though - and it definitely gave me weird ass dreams |
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Plus today I met Jason Reynolds, Eoin Colfer, and Angie Thomas, and tomorrow I’m going to a breakfast event with a bunch of YA authors like Laurie Halse Anderson and Marie Lu (amongst others). 
. The only other VE Scwhab I've read is Vicious which I loved (it was reading Vicious that made me pick up Darker Shades again) - I'm hoping to read Vengeful soon. She writes YA under the name Victoria Schwab but I've never read any of that. 
