2PR Scrappy Book Club: documenting what we read in 2020

Seeing 'The Hyponist's Love Story' above, I think I have read all the Liane Moriarty books, they are a good "beach read". My favorite is What Alice Forgot, I saw that there may be a movie of it with Jennifer Aniston.

1. What kind of reader are you?
I listen to audiobooks on my drive to and from work.
I read both ebooks on my kindle and “real” paper books.
I used to be a voracious reader but life has slowed me down a bit. Now I read in spurts.
I mostly read nonfiction and business/leadership books for work. Every once in a while, I read a fiction book. I also read to my 8yo most nights.

2. Read anything you love this year (already)?
I’m currently listening to Radium Girls and it’s fascinating. I’m only about 10% in to it, but man it’s crazy to think about.

3. Got any reading goals for the year?
On goodreads, my goal is 24 books. It was 36 last year and I read 35, but I’ve slowed down already. I know I won’t keep up reading three books a month. Two is going to be pushing it.

4. Do you plan on documenting your reads? If so, what's the plan?
Tracking on good reads for sure. That’s easy. I’m also thinking about how to use my Cocoa Daisy reading kit and rather than document books I read this year and may or may not like, I’m thinking about documenting my favorite books from when I was a kid and what my ds’s favorites were and are. For example, I loved Encyclopedia Brown books, Choose Your Own Adventure, Nancy Drew, and Dr. Suess the Sneetches. That would be more fun to look back at over the years—vs what I happened to read this year. I also want to include some of ds’s favorites that we read over and over and over...like There’s a Wocket in my Pocket. I want to use that kit to document fond reading memories that may help my son continue his love of reading. I haven’t figured out how to do this yet (damn December daily!!) but I have some fun ideas. I definitely want to do something that isn’t a one year journal of what I’m currently reading. I want it to be more of a documentation of books that moved me and that I still remember over the years.


refugeepea I love those tags! I also love the fact that you make tags for the not-so-good books and it all isn’t just fluff, flowers, and rainbows! I’m not a fan of the everything is awesome journals or books. It’s like cmon— one of the books had to suck !! I like the range and the honesty of your book tags. Thanks for sharing!

1. What kind of reader are you? Really slow, I only really get a chance to read on the commute to and from work (although I'm sure I could make more time at home).

2. Read anything you love this year (already)? Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. A short and sweet book set in a cafe where you can travel back in time. At points, it reads like the play it originally was, but there's so many quirks and Japanese-ness (not a word, I know) that it kept me very happy. It has the main reminder of you can only change yourself and not others and that made for a very nice first book in the new year.

3. Got any reading goals for the year? I have such a large pile of books to read I want to get through those before I buy anything else. Testaments, Three Women, Queenie, and My Brilliant Friend are the first on the list.

4. Do you plan on documenting your reads? If so, what's the plan? They'll all be put into Goodreads, but that's as far as I thought. Maybe a traveller's notebook?

Wondering if anyone has any bookish podcasts that they like to listen to? Or bookstagrammers they follow? Please share.

Right now I am enjoying listening to:
Sarah's Bookshelves Live
From the Front Porch

Bookstagrammers I enjoy:
@tbretc
@jordys.book.club
@novelvisits
@shelfbyshelf
@thunreadshelf
@pieladybooks

I like the Summer / Winter Reading episodes of Another Mother Runner podcast.

The co-host Ellison can be found at @bookbully and she has great recommendations. She had a short-lived podcast of the same name that I enjoyed.

One of my favorite bookish podcasts is What Should I Read Next from Modern Mrs Darcy


I love bookstagram! I follow lots of people but here are a few:

@tarheelreader
@beritaudiokilledthebookmark
@readandwright
@lilacsandliterature
@kraysbookclub
@readwithjamie

Are you on Bookstagram? You can find me at @daffodilbookshelf.

Love how you document your books read!  Would look really nice on a ring.

1. What kind of reader are you? Fiction mostly. Mystery or thriller or something similar. Favorite author is Dean Koontz. I also very much love my library!

2. Read anything you love this year (already)? Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. Lots of pages at 782, but got it done in 6 days, and would have been happy to have had it go even longer!

3. Got any reading goals for the year? Originally wanted to read 20 books this year - but might up that a bit. I am not a huge fan of audiobooks - but I've got a couple under my belt this year and kind of like having one audiobook and one actual book going at the same time.

4. Do you plan on documenting your reads? If so, what's the plan? Not quite sure yet! I am using goodreads - so that is sort of like documenting it! (Friend me if you are a goodreads user!)

I read that book last year, and OMG! It was fascinating, disgusting, maddening, and I am very glad I read it. I also was very much extra paranoid about my TMJ for awhile after reading it!

1. What kind of reader are you?

I read pretty fast, so I tend to burn through several books and then take a break, then go back to reading non-stop for a while. I like a pretty mixed bag, scifi, fantasy, historical fiction, romance but nothing horror or gross. I dislike war stories and crime. I also LOVE some of the "documentary" kind of reads.

My absolute faves-Harry Potter, A Court of Thorns and Roses, Eleanor and Park, Just My Type, A Book About Fonts

2. Read anything you love this year (already)?

Soul of an Octopus was beautiful and I loved it. On a whim I read Cat Cora's biography (it was on a free shelf while I was at the coffeeshop) and also read the Martian as I loved the movie.

3. Got any reading goals for the year? Read more-don't get rid of books. I like to re-read stuff sometimes and I stupidly Marie-Kondo'd my books last year and now I feel like someone stole my library.

4. Do you plan on documenting your reads? If so, what's the plan? I don't know...not really probably.

Edited to add, I also reread "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" and let me say, this book makes a TON more sense to my post-40 self than it did to my 20 year old self!!!