Weekend Reading Roundup (07 August 2017)

[nanila]

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

Comments

[ayebydan]

I'm still reading my mafia book but making good progress. Having the control of reading on my commute is helping me refrain from getting worked up about my progress.

[nanila]

Hooray for having specific time set aside for reading, and minimising reading-related stress!

[ironed_orchid]

I started and finished The Hanging Tree and am now in the "when is the next book out?" phase of my relationship with the Rivers of London series.

[nanila]

I know this feeling, too. *taps foot impatiently*

[fred_mouse]

I started on my goal of finishing reading all the books I can find that I've started. I don't remember which ones I was reading on the weekend, but there were a couple close enough to finished that I've now finished three!

Plus, I picked up 'Homeward Bounders' by Dianna Wynne Jones, while sitting on a friend's couch waiting for them to be finished with the task I wasn't allowed to distract them from, and then found my copy and finished it Sunday night. Still on my favourites list -- need to find a couple more of hers that I adore, and reread them and see whether they have also stood the test of time.

[nanila]

Wow! Congratulations on finishing three, and for thoroughly enjoying a re-read. I'm glad its appeal endures.

[fred_mouse]

Diana Wynne Jones is one of those authors I appear to have loved at any time and with almost any of her books -- there are a couple that I didn't particularly enjoy, but there are so many good ones. And she did such amazing things with presenting people, rather than avatars or ciphers or cardboard cut-outs, which, yes, lots of other authors were doing, but soooo many weren't.

[azurelunatic]

She remains among my favorites as well. I'll have to do a re-read on the one that I suspect was Too Old For Me at the time I read it -- I loved it, but I felt things whooshing over my head. A Sudden Wild Magic, it was...

[fred_mouse]

..I don't remember that one at all. *resists temptation to go and drag it off the shelf*

My three absolute favourites are probably Power of Three, Witch Week, and Homeward Bounders, but I have soft spots for Eight Days of Luke and Dogstar as well. I know lots of people like the Chrestomanci ones, and I do enjoy them, but I'm not as enamoured of them.

[bonnefois]

Since I last checked it, I read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin.

[nanila]

Hurrah! Are you compiling another box for a friend?

[bonnefois]

Nah, these are library books.

[azurelunatic]

More Game of Thrones, and some Dreamwidth stuff as well! I seem to be re-entering society.

[nanila]

Go you! I'm glad you have time for reading again.