Weekly Reading Thread: October 7-13

I read Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell. I really really loved the writing. I just wished there was a twist at the end as it was a tiny bit predictable. The characters were good as was the story and I did enjoy it. Gave it 4 stars


5 of my reservations from the library have come in at once. I wish I had more time to read! I have just started Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty, so far so good. Also have Circe by Madeline Miller, Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon, Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager and  The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir. I'm sure all of them have been recommended here. I am so glad this thread still exists. Thank you everybody for contributing, I love it.

When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger. If superficial, privileged white women with eating disorders are your thing then I guess you should pick this one up?

This book keeps popping up—I’m going to have to buy it and read it soon. 

I’m reading Lead Yourself First since (as many of you know) I’m reading leadership books for work. 

I also want to thank a RefuPea—I wish I could remember who you are— for recommending Leaders Eat Last.  I’m about halfway through it and it is quite an interesting book.  It started off a bit slow for the first couple of chapters, but now I am totally sucked in!  I really liked Simon Sinek’s concept of “Start With Why” so this has been a great follow up!  

Did anyone watch John Green on 60 minutes last night. It was very interesting.

I've been on a Melanie Dobson spree this week. Enjoying her christian historical fiction..plan to read all of them.

I did watch! He's a good dude. When he was first writing (Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns), he came to my school a few times on book tours. Really fun person, really kind to high school kids. I have all of his books signed. 

If you haven't read his earlier books, do!

I read that last week and was not a big fan.

This week I read The Woman in Cabin 10 which I read in its entirety on a plane ride so I guess I liked it

Now I really need a new good book....

An after school book club for kids? What a wonderful idea!

This is the first time I've ever even heard of one. I love it!


When I was a kid, there was a bookmobile that would come to our school once a year and it was always such a thrill for me.

Did anyone else ever have a bookmobile come to their school?

Two for me !  One AWESOME and one very disappointing.

A SPARK OF LIGHT BY JODI PICOULT.  2/5 Stars.  Sooo disappointing !  Boring.  Only made it to 60% and then started jumping chapters to get it over with.  I felt nothing for any of the characters.  It didn't even feel like Jodi's writing style.  

On A Fall morning a gunman enters a women's reproductive health clinic and begins shooting. The book spools backwards an hour earlier each chapter, tracking the lives of the people involved.

THE HOME FOR UNWANTED GIRLS BY JOANNA GOODMAN.  5++/5 Stars for me.  Many recommendations from my TwoPeas Readers !  You all came thru again !  What an AWESOME book !  This writer can sure make you feel part of the journey.  I did wish it went on further or had an epilogue 12-24 months down the road.  Sooo special !  A book I'll never forget and will highly recommend to all my "reader" friends. 

Canadian orphanages get turned into insane asylums to get more money per patient.  Based on real facts from the 50s & 60s.

I'm reading All We Ever Wanted - Emily Giffin and it's pretty good!

Also have

The Girl Friend - Frances
Baby Teeth - Stage
The Neighbors - Mc Kinnon

Just picked up 4 books at the library that I had on hold. They look so good!

Her Pretty Face - Robyn Harding
Good Neighbors - Serling
Not That I Could Tell - Strawser
Before and After - Delinsky

I started Educated but couldn't get into it and gave up.
Now I'm reading Where the Crawdad's Sing by Delia Owens and am liking it so far!

I'm anxious to finish so I can start The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton, which comes out tomorrow.

Two books for me this week.
First was an audio book that I preordered Spark of Light by Jodi Piccoult. I was disappointed in this one. It begins with an active shooter holding his hostages in the only abortion clinic in Mississippi. Throughout the story we learn how all these characters got to this moment. The alternating timeline was very confusing as an audio. It just jumped around way too much and then add that one of the characters was named Beth and another Bex and I was kind of struggling. I read and enjoyed Nineteen Minutes by her and it had a similar timeline and didn't find it nearly confusing so I'm not sure why this just didn't work. In addition, each of the characters and their back story represented the myriad of arguments for and against abortion and in the end the book felt more about the arguments than it did about the characters. And I should mention given the topic of the book, if that is something that could be a trigger for you, I'd suggest you skip this one. Sadly, this was a miss for me.

The next book was Class Mom by Laurie Gelman. This book was chosen for my book club which is a much lighter read than is normally selected. However, if you want a quick and funny read, this fits the bill. I have a large age gap between my second and third child so I could relate to the main character in several instances. I loved the letters she wrote and class mom and wish I had the guts to send similarly worded letters.

My next book is The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain. She's another author that can be hit or miss for me and the summary seems much different than other books she's published so we will see.

Finished...

Us Against You by Fredrick Backman - I liked Beartown better. I had a hard time following this one for some reason. I think there were too many smaller characters for me to keep track of on an audiobook .

Started...

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown - I've watched her TED talks and am familiar with her research, but decided it's time actually read the whole book.

For me, definitely 5 books. You just happen to have them in one edition.