Weekend reading roundup (20 Feb 2017)

[nanila]

How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it?

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[heliopausa]

I began the book about The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (a bit stodgy so far), and I read a preface (by Julian Barnes) to Elizabeth David's A Book of Mediterranean Food, which was informative, clever and funny!
And also inspired me to make her fresh tomato soup, but that's another story. :)

[nanila]

I had asked for (but not received) The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu for Christmas. Sorry to hear it's not living up to the promise of its title yet. Hope it improves!

[heliopausa]

It has. I'll keep you posted! :)

[fairytalewitch]

I read the first couple of chapters of Murphey's Luck by Benjamin Laskin (which is cute in a schadenfreude kind of way) and did some research.

[nanila]

That sounds like a nice combination. :)

[bonnefois]

Since I last checked in, I finished Strange Neighbors by Ashlyn Chase and Shopaholic takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella.

[nanila]

Hooray for finishing! I hope they were enjoyable reads.

[alexseanchai]

I meant to read Sarah Kate Istra Winter's newest, whatever it's called—Between the Thresholds, I think—but didn't get to it.

[nanila]

*fist-bump of solidarity for good intentions* I brought Chris Mullin's Hinterland with me on our trip to North Yorkshire but there was so much interesting stuff in the flat we were staying in that I didn't touch it.

[monkiainen]

I've been reading Black Dahlia by James Ellroy - so far so good.

[nanila]

Oh, excellent. I remember enjoying it years ago - though if you asked me anything about it now, I couldn't tell you a thing. :P

[chickenfeet]

I breezed through the late Stuart Hamilton's memoir "Opening Windows". For someone in the Toronto opera scene it's an interesting insight to how we have ended up where we are. For good and not so good.

[nekhbet_love]

I love weekends when I read. It is always unpredictable. Last weekend I was immersed, by chance, in a book about the first inhabitants in the Atlas Region of south Morocco :) It got me so intrigued that I had to search for names and places on youtube. It was not easy but I found about four interesting documentaries that even added more mystery to all that I was reading about origins, myth, etc.

[ironed_orchid]

It was a comfort reading week and I read a couple of Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci novels.