Did I miss the What Are You Reading thread? 4-9-17

I just finished Dumplin - it was a young adult book. I really liked it for a light read and it was a feel good book.

I read Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas I loved this one, a really well written story of family dysfunction, lies and a twisted mother child relationship.
Also, Five on Brexit Island by Bruno Vincent The Famous Five are all grown up and have differing views about Brexit. Not as funny or clever as I'd hoped.

I have read all 6.  I think the trilogy (4,5,6) easily stands alone and are also the best books of the series.


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I think the series has actually gotten better. I have really liked the latest books.

I recently finished Tiny Little Thing by Beatriz Williams. As I read it, I thought it was OK. Once I discovered it prompted an engaging discussion at book club, I had a new appreciation for it. General story is a girl who tries to be the perfect wife for an aspiring politician back in the 1960's and what social mores dictated.

This is one of my favorite podcasts, and they interview Jemisin in this episode: www.wbez.org/shows/nerdette/the-past-present-and-future-of-sci-fi-with-nk-jemisin/3aed7a8c-4de4-4f97-8bb9-8dcd5044c450

I finished Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum. It was the story of a girl whose mother dies and father quickly and unexpectedly remarries so she is force to move across country. She starts school at a new "high class" private school and gets an email from a person calling them self Somebody/Nobody offering her advice navigating the new school. She decides to take the advice and the two become friends even though they never meet in person. I loved the voice this was written in. There were great lines that I want to remember and while it was certainly not an intellectual book, I just loved it and would recommend it.

I also got an ARC of I Found You by Lisa Jewell that will come out at the end of the month.. I had never read anything by her before but I enjoyed this for the thriller that it was. There were several story lines - a woman who finds and takes in a man on the beach, a newlywed whose husband disappears, and a family in decades past who meet a mysterious young man while vacationing. I enjoyed guessing what was going to happen and reading how the stories played out and converged.

I am almost done with the audiobook of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore which was recommended here. I think it will be five stars for sure! I am really enjoying it. I am reading Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty which I asked for and got for Christmas. Then I saw a lot of not so great reviews so I put off reading it. But now I decided I have it I should read it so I am. It is going ok so far.

I love Will Trent and all the  characters in Karin Slaughter's books and look forward to spending time with them . Also like CJ Box's  game warden and his family and fiends... looking forward to getting this one soon

I have read Pretty Girls, that's the first of her books I read!   Thanks for the info about the series, I had no idea they overlapped so much.   I don't want to ruin any, so I'll stick to the Grant County series for now.

I finished this book this week and I loved it as well. Can't put my finger on exactly why I liked it so well, but I thought it brought up a multitude of high school issues without being in your face. I'm a sucker for text/email exchanges and there were plenty of them. And yes, I agree there were many great lines. I ended up checking out another book by this author which I'm currently enjoying as well.