Weekly Reading Thread: October 16-22

I finished In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware and just like her other book I recently finished (The Woman in Cabin 10) I loved it. I hope she will write another within the next year. They are great page-turners!

I also keep going back to my Mary Higgins Clark book, The Melody Lingers On, in between my other books. I'm about halfway or so though and it's typical MHC. I know her books are cheesy with one dimensional characters but yet I still cannot stay away. I also have a few books from the library that are in to read pile: Smoke by Dan Vyleta, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehad and The Arrivals by Meg Mitchell Moore on my Kindle (This one hasn't captured me yet and I was ready to fall in love because I loved her other book, The Admissions). And now I've added that Couple Next Door book or whatever it's called. I have to get to reading!

For my audiobooks (because I always have one of those going on in my car) I just finished listening to Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. I thought it was very well done, kept me engaged. I agree with some of what the other peas said about some of the sexism--macho, powerful men, in control and rather weak or at least under-utilized women. Despite that though (and I'm going to say it wasn't intention--just a male writer who doesn't write women as well ). I saw several people complain about the ending though, and that made me very nervous. I actually thought the ending was really well done. Now my newest audiobook (I'm about two hours in) is I Let Go by Clare Mackintosh. I think I'm really going to like this one. Has anyone read it? I almost got Snow Child instead--hope I made the right choice (Snow Child is still on my "to read" list).

I finished In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware and just like her other book I recently finished (The Woman in Cabin 10) I loved it. I hope she will write another within the next year. They are great page-turners!

I also keep going back to my Mary Higgins Clark book, The Melody Lingers On, in between my other books. I'm about halfway or so though and it's typical MHC. I know her books are cheesy with one dimensional characters but yet I still cannot stay away. I also have a few books from the library that are in to read pile: Smoke by Dan Vyleta, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehad and The Arrivals by Meg Mitchell Moore on my Kindle (This one hasn't captured me yet and I was ready to fall in love because I loved her other book, The Admissions). And now I've added that Couple Next Door book or whatever it's called. I have to get to reading!

For my audiobooks (because I always have one of those going on in my car) I just finished listening to Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. I thought it was very well done, kept me engaged. I agree with some of what the other peas said about some of the sexism--macho, powerful men, in control and rather weak or at least under-utilized women. Despite that though (and I'm going to say it wasn't intention--just a male writer who doesn't write women as well ). I saw several people complain about the ending though, and that made me very nervous. I actually thought the ending was really well done. Now my newest audiobook (I'm about two hours in) is I Let Go by Clare Mackintosh. I think I'm really going to like this one. Has anyone read it? I almost got Snow Child instead--hope I made the right choice (Snow Child is still on my "to read" list).

I would be interested in your book club's reactions to Underground Railroad. I could not finish it. It is the most horrific, violent and disturbing book I've ever attempted to read. I'm not saying it didn't tell the real truth about slavery, just saying I couldn't read it. I've read a lot about the subject. I guess the others  just glossed over the horrors.

I finished Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller. It was one of the Amazon Prime Reading books. It's her memoir about growing up with a father (and sometimes mother) who were hoarders- fascinating. I'm a sucker for memoirs though!

I also read American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin that was recommended here. I enjoyed this one too! 

Next up is Liane Moriarty's Truly Madly Guilty and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls. I'll have to read both of those this week since they are only 7 day checkouts at the library! 

Wow, I never heard of 7-day checkouts. Ours are always 21 days.

We have seven-day checkouts, too, for brand-new books. We have 14-day checkouts as well. But most of them are 21-day checkouts.

Lisa