Weekend Reading Roundup (18 September 2017)

[nanila]

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

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[nanila]

I bought Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree in the airport and finished it on the trip home. It was fantastic. I'm very excited about giving it to my eleven year old niece for Christmas.

[bonnefois]

Since I last checked in, I have finished:

What We Talk About When We Talk About God
by Rob Bell (audiobook)
Mindset: A New Psychology for Success by Caroline Dweck
Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes
The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard.

[nanila]

Wow. Congratulations on finishing all of those. I hope there were some useful nuggets of wisdom in there!

[bonnefois]

Yeah, I'm learning a lot!

[nou]

Ooh, gosh, I think I might like that, but I’m a bit concerned since The Guardian quoted the chair of the Costa judges as saying it’s “part horror story”. I have a very low threshold for “too much horror”. How would you say it compares to, say, our recently-discussed Coraline in terms of horror?

[nanila]

Ooh. Um, I would say it starts off with very little horror, but by the end, the horror factor's ramped up pretty high. I don't think you would much enjoy the last quarter of the book, especially since it involves the main character (who is herself still a child) defending her younger sibling (on her own) from horrible things.

[nou]

Thanks — I’ll give it a miss. Info much appreciated.

[singloom]

Read two books that ended up getting me all teary ~ "Gangsta Granny" (David Walliams) and "The Cat Mummy" (Jacqueline Wilson.)

[nanila]

Aw. I'm glad you were emotionally engaged with them, but sorry they turned out to be a bit draining that way.

[singloom]

Yeah, I'm the worst for getting drawn into a good story, book, film, video game, anything and I will get weepy. These two books in particular caught me off guard, but I don't regret reading them.

[alexseanchai]

Finished Between the Worlds reread (Sarah Kate Istra Winter). Lots to contemplate.

[nanila]

Excellent. I hope you enjoy the contemplation.

[batdina]

I actually managed to read what I was supposed to read. Unfortunately, that meant I didn't read the stuff I wanted to read. That either means I have too little time, or that I have too many obligations.

ETA: Martin Buber on Israel/Palestine, a few chapters in Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, and a chunk of a novel about the Ba'al Shem Tov.

[nanila]

Well done on getting the required reading completed, anyway! I hope you have time for the fun stuff soon.

[monkiainen]

I'm in the middle of Middlemarch - it's going to take me a while to finish it as it's so massive.

[nanila]

Yes, that one is a bit of a beast! I wave pom-poms as you trek toward the finish line.

[nou]

I recently read Middlemarch for the first time and am looking forward to having left it long enough that I can go for a re-read!