Fermina and Twisted's Playground Book Club

[Bookishleigh]

Stop in! Tell us what you're reading, share a sexy book pic or favorite quote, ask for a book recommendation. This is a place for all the bibliophiles in the playground and all things book-related!

 

[AllyRose]

Currently reading Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya.

 

[kimbalee]

Just finished "Big Little Lies" by Liane Moriarty. It was pretty awesome. Looking for something new now.

 

[cowslinger64]

Just finishing this one by one of my favorite authors....this is the second time I've read it



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[Bookishleigh]

Currently reading Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya.

I had not heard of that and had to look it up on GoodReads! Sounds very moving. What made you decide to read it?

I've been stuck on Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics for almost a month now. I also picked up one of my comfort books (Great Gatsby) again recently. I was telling Twisted last night how I'm a sucker for romance novels where the protagonist does NOT get the girl in the end.

Twisted is a romantic though so blegh

 

[Iceprincess12]

I haven't read anything since finishing the Odd Thomas series. I would recommend the first few books but not the last 2. I am waiting for Ashley Bell from Koontz which is set for release Jan. 16th, 2016. I have a King book I need to read, but not really looking forward to it.

 

[*Twisted*]

I had not heard of that and had to look it up on GoodReads! Sounds very moving. What made you decide to read it?

I've been stuck on Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics for almost a month now. I also picked up one of my comfort books (Great Gatsby) again recently. I was telling Twisted last night how I'm a sucker for romance novels where the protagonist does NOT get the girl in the end.

Twisted is a romantic though so blegh

Woot well done Fermina.. Just finished Erin Colfer's adult novels, Plugged and Screwed. Working my way through the most recent James Carlos Blake "Wolfe" family novels.

 

[Bookishleigh]

Just finished "Big Little Lies" by Liane Moriarty. It was pretty awesome. Looking for something new now.

That's on my "to-read" list and I've heard it's really good.

Just finishing this one by one of my favorite authors....this is the second time I've read it

Never heard of it - I'll have to Google it.

I haven't read anything since finishing the Odd Thomas series. I would recommend the first few books but not the last 2. I am waiting for Ashley Bell from Koontz which is set for release Jan. 16th, 2016. I have a King book I need to read, but not really looking forward to it.

Which King book? I've got a couple of his on my to-read list too I haven't read.

 

[Bookishleigh]

Woot well done Fermina.. Just finished Erin Colfer's adult novels, Plugged and Screwed. Working my way through the most recent James Carlos Blake "Wolfe" family novels.

Hey, this is your place too - So welcome home

 

[AllyRose]

I had not heard of that and had to look it up on GoodReads! Sounds very moving. What made you decide to read it?

I tend to read a lot of cultural novels (Behind the Beautiful Forevers, The Underground Girls of Kabul, Devotion and Defiance, etc.).

 

[kimbalee]

That's on my "to-read" list and I've heard it's really good.

I read it on a friend's recommendation. He hasn't steered me wrong yet. He said "The Husband's Secret" by her is really good, too. I couldn't put the other one down.

 

[Bookishleigh]

I read it on a friend's recommendation. He hasn't steered me wrong yet. He said "The Husband's Secret" by her is really good, too. I couldn't put the other one down.

That's right! She did write the Husband's Secret, which I read for my real life book club.

 

[kimbalee]

That's right! She did write the Husband's Secret, which I read for my real life book club.

what did you think of it?

 

[Iceprincess12]

Dr. Sleep, I can't get into it. I have been unimpressed with king since the gunslinger series ended, but I have read him since I was young so I just need to buckle down and do it. I am sure it is good, if I can just get past the first chapter.

 

[Bookishleigh]

Dr. Sleep, I can't get into it. I have been unimpressed with king since the gunslinger series ended, but I have read him since I was young so I just need to buckle down and do it. I am sure it is good, if I can just get past the first chapter.

I was JUST talking about the Gunslinger series with someone. I'm kind of mad at King for coming out with book 4.5 after the series ended (grrrrr). And I have to admit I am in love with Roland, have been ever since Wizards and Glass *sigh*.

I did read Dr. Sleep - I think it was a slow start, but it did eventually pick up. I really liked 11/22/63. It was telling Twisted it was more like "time travel" than the Kennedy assassination - how traveling back to change things would affect other areas of life.

But yeah, the Gungslinger series...he was in his prime with those.

 

[Iceprincess12]

I was JUST talking about the Gunslinger series with someone. I'm kind of mad at King for coming out with book 4.5 after the series ended (grrrrr). And I have to admit I am in love with Roland, have been ever since Wizards and Glass *sigh*.

I did read Dr. Sleep - I think it was a slow start, but it did eventually pick up. I really liked 11/22/63. It was telling Twisted it was more like "time travel" than the Kennedy assassination - how traveling back to change things would affect other areas of life.

But yeah, the Gungslinger series...he was in his prime with those.

Omg! Finally someone else who understands that gunslinger was complete and no new stories were needed!! I was completely offended that he wrote the sisters story. I own it but won't read it. I don't care that it's an offshoot, the series is about Roland and just because it was popular doesn't mean he needs to keep revisiting it.

I do wish he would go back and write more with, john saul, I think that was him. I used to read saul a lot, but the black house was really good. I liked the departure from the "king" tone but having the elements of both authors.

I didn't buy 11/22, for some reason it sounded like "the girl who loved Tom Gordon" that book almost made me quit reading all together. Maybe I will take another look at it since it's more time travel.

 

[Bookishleigh]

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[Bookishleigh]

Omg! Finally someone else who understands that gunslinger was complete and no new stories were needed!! I was completely offended that he wrote the sisters story. I own it but won't read it. I don't care that it's an offshoot, the series is about Roland and just because it was popular doesn't mean he needs to keep revisiting it.

I do wish he would go back and write more with, john saul, I think that was him. I used to read saul a lot, but the black house was really good. I liked the departure from the "king" tone but having the elements of both authors.

I didn't buy 11/22, for some reason it sounded like "the girl who loved Tom Gordon" that book almost made me quit reading all together. Maybe I will take another look at it since it's more time travel.

Okay, I LOVE baseball - and baseball players, yummy. But the girl who loved Tom Gordon made me want to find King and ask him, "Why? What was that? I don't understand!!!!" And I think I must have blacked out Black House (no pun intended) because you're the second person in days to mention that book and I have no recollection of it! So adding it to my GoodReads list pronto!!!

 

[Bookishleigh]

Sorry guys - this is for the ladies who love men who read!

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[Iceprincess12]

Sorry guys - this is for the ladies who love men who read!

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Book porn, I'm in!

 

[Bookishleigh]

Book porn, I'm in!

Um, book porn is a necessity - please feel free to share your own!!! This is a place to share anything book/reading related.

Not a book but I read The Riley Messenger earlier today, it is awesome how the care they give has impacted the lives of some young children.

Is the Riley Messenger the newsletter produced by Riley Hospital? I think it's great you read that and contributed to our thread! My son sadly has had his fair share of visits to Riley Hospital with his history of RSV and need for breathing treatments when he was young and fought the nebulizer.

 

[Bookishleigh]

Shit Book Nerds Do - by Kelly Jensen

I lifted these from the Book Riot website...let me know if you're guilty of any of them (because I know I am)!

“I can’t remember if the book is in my car, if I donated it, or if I lent it out and never got it back” – as shared in an email to a friend.

You hold off on re-reading the end of a beloved favorite (again) because you don’t want it to end (again).

Wait! Wash those hands before you pick up that book!

You pet book covers before you read them.

Policing random people in bookstores because they’re breaking the damn spines.

Constantly rearranging your bookshelves in different ways because you haven’t found the “perfect” system yet. By author? By genre then author? By color? By most loved?

You ruin everyone’s movie watching experience by pointing out all the differences between the original book/source material and the film. (Husband won’t watch anything with Greek Mythology with me any longer.)

You have responded to your partner’s amorous advances with, “Just as soon as I finish this chapter.”

You consider quietly reading in a coffee shop to be an excellent 1) idea for a date, 2) idea for a friend hangout, 3) idea for yourself any day of the week.
You collect hard copies of series in the format in which you got the first one.

If you got the first one in hardback, the rest of them are acquired thusly as well (even if you know you’ve got no chance of reading it before it comes out in paperback).

You make sure to only buy purses/bags that are big enough to store a paperback. You can’t go out for drinks without taking a book along too.

You bring print books AND a stocked ereader on vacation. If you’re close to finishing your current book, you bring a back-up along, just in case you finish.

You do not have a single room in your home lacking a book or fifteen of some kind. Kitchen reading. Bedroom reading. Office reading. Bathroom reading. Guest bathroom reading. Guest bedroom reading. Den reading. You’re covered in any and all situations.

Your brother lost some of your complete collection of Animorphs book, and, if you’re being honest, you’re probably never going to get over it.

 

[Bookishleigh]

This is completely how I feel when I meet someone and they tell me they don't read...

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[thejabber27]

rereading coiling dragon by I like tomatoes roughly translated. It's a chinese translation.

 

[Bookishleigh]

rereading coiling dragon by I like tomatoes roughly translated. It's a chinese translation.

I should probably note I will Google every book everyone lists if I haven't heard of it - and that is something I've never heard of!!!!