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Post by Miss Prudey on Jan 3, 2021 17:36:09 GMT -5
New year, new thread.
Any goals/challenges/lists?
My January book club reads are Heartless by Marissa Meyer, which I’m really enjoying listening to, & The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins, which I haven’t started yet. I think I bumped my Goodreads challenge to 75, & I’m still setting my goal of at least 6 non-fiction & 6 classics.
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Post by Inky on Jan 3, 2021 19:19:41 GMT -5
I am reading Liberace. It's by one of his former partners. Did you know he was gay??? Imagine that!
But I knew nothing really about the man, because he was too old when I was growing up and then died. Very interesting story though, and I looked up an old clip on youtube to see if he really was that charismatic. And he was! He really knew how to play to a house and who to play to. Just an interesting person, who unfortunately due to the stigma around AIDS and being gay in his time, received no proper send-off or burial. It truly shows how awful it must be to have to live a lie your entire life. Or even to live an open secret as he did.
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Post by coachgrrl on Jan 3, 2021 20:44:26 GMT -5
Just finished The Light kn Hidden Places which was excellent. I have a few samples to read hopefully I find something good to read
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Post by nansel on Jan 3, 2021 21:42:44 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of Invisible Women, which is interesting. Nothing too earth shattering, though.
And also The Cure for Everything by Timothy Caulfield. I love his writing (he's the "Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything?" guy).
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Post by Miss Prudey on Jan 4, 2021 1:09:19 GMT -5
I just signed up for a “50 books in 50 weeks” challenge with a local library. They have 50 categories & the goal is to read one book from each category by December 20th. Should be interesting.
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Post by maurinsky on Jan 4, 2021 11:09:33 GMT -5
I started reading Jennifer Weiner's Big Summer - I was intrigued by the introduction but she lost me after 4 chapters of the same character she's written over and over and over again.
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Post by junebug on Jan 4, 2021 15:20:12 GMT -5
On audio, I'm making my way through Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet. I don't love them, but I can't stop until I finish them! I'm taking a quick break to listen to the Julia Quinn Bridgerton book. The first one, I forget the name. In book books, I just finished Elin Hilderbrand's 28 Summers and am about halfway through Hilary Mantel's 3rd book in her Cromwell trilogy (The Mirror and the Light). I'm taking my time b/c I know how it ends  |
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Post by catspaw on Jan 4, 2021 17:45:14 GMT -5
My next door neighbor started a book club for the women in our neighborhood. We have only met by Zoom so far but I am enjoying it. We meet once a month and are currently reading Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver.
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Post by maurinsky on Jan 5, 2021 9:36:07 GMT -5
Picked up On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and the new Stephen King from the library yesterday.
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Post by coachgrrl on Jan 5, 2021 16:04:46 GMT -5
Outlawed is up next for me
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Post by maurinsky on Jan 6, 2021 8:23:04 GMT -5
I'm halfway through On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. It's an elegiac prose poem, lovely and sad.
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Post by Eli on Jan 6, 2021 10:16:13 GMT -5
I have two going right now, which is unusual for me. I'm typically a one book at a time girl.
Anxious People by Fredrick Backman and Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand.
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Post by junebug on Jan 6, 2021 14:17:38 GMT -5
I have two going right now, which is unusual for me. I'm typically a one book at a time girl. Anxious People by Fredrick Backman and Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand. I recently read Winter Street and now am working on Winter Stroll. They are fluffy, but fun! Anxious People is on my list. |
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Post by coachgrrl on Jan 6, 2021 14:32:32 GMT -5
Currently reading Outlawed
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Post by villanelle on Jan 8, 2021 19:34:12 GMT -5
I just signed up for a “50 books in 50 weeks” challenge with a local library. They have 50 categories & the goal is to read one book from each category by December 20th. Should be interesting. Have they released the entire list of categories? I'd love to see that! |
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Post by Inky on Jan 8, 2021 19:41:04 GMT -5
I'm reading a biography of George Carlin. It's a nice interesting read. I just finished 2 books on my Kobo that I had read before, but had absolutely no memory of, until I was halfway through. That sucks. I know I read fast sometimes, but to not actually RETAIN any of it until halfway through is a problem!
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Post by Miss Prudey on Jan 8, 2021 20:07:08 GMT -5
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Post by maurinsky on Jan 11, 2021 11:30:10 GMT -5
Finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and read the first story from Stephen King's If It Bleeds, which was a nice old fashioned and extremely moderate ghost story.
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Post by momof3b1g on Jan 12, 2021 19:37:53 GMT -5
Finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and read the first story from Stephen King's If It Bleeds, which was a nice old fashioned and extremely moderate ghost story. is one of the books dh got me for Christmas. I haven't started it yet. I have been so bad with time management lately and am too exhausted to read by the time I go to bed. |
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Post by Eli on Jan 13, 2021 11:07:18 GMT -5
I have two going right now, which is unusual for me. I'm typically a one book at a time girl. Anxious People by Fredrick Backman and Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand. I recently read Winter Street and now am working on Winter Stroll. They are fluffy, but fun! Anxious People is on my list. I'll have to check out the Winter Street series. I enjoyed Winter in Paradise too. It's nice to read something light and fun! Anxious People was really good! Backman always has lines in his books that hit me right in the feels. |
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