https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520 Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:46:29 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2123500 Tue, 26 May 2020 19:59:19 +0000 Laurie 2123500@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Xtabay - just popped here to say I'd just finished&nbsp;<i>American Dirt&nbsp;</i>and saw your review from 3 weeks ago. Riveting, and horrifying. I have some people in my life whose stories I need to learn more about. I think this book is an important read. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2123299 Mon, 25 May 2020 18:28:15 +0000 JAileen 2123299@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I’m reading the latest Maisie Dobbs novel, The American Agent. &nbsp;It’s by Jacqueline Winspear. &nbsp;I love this series. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2122912 Sat, 23 May 2020 23:52:48 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 2122912@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I had both The Glass Hotel and A Gentleman in Moscow out as ebooks from the library, and let them expire without finishing. The Glass Hotel had an interesting set up, kind of a mystery and moving between POVs, but all the characters felt so contingent and I just need some stability even in my fiction right now. A Gentleman in Moscow is timely, as it's about a former nobleman in Russian forced to live in a small room in a hotel in Moscow by the Communists, and never allowed to leave. Cool period details but again this sense of despair and stuck-ness I just couldn't handle.&nbsp;</p> <p>I find the more my mental state is sketchy, the less I'm able to handle literary fiction. I've been reading romance and light nonfiction, when I have been reading books. Mostly it's still the news and then TV for a distraction.</p> <p>Our library is supposed to open for curbside pickup soon, which will be a big morale boost for me.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2121305 Sun, 17 May 2020 18:39:52 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 2121305@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I really like Penny Reid - her Beards series grabbed me more than Knitting in the City (I know they're all related, but the newer books seemed less manic).</p> <p>I just finished Trust Exercise by Susan Choi - set in a performing arts HS in the 90s, and then present day looking back at it. Major 'me too' trigger warnings but well-crafted and an interesting take on how POV shifts perception and the issue of consent.&nbsp;</p> <p>I'm partway through Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino's book of essays, and would recommend. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2121205 Sun, 17 May 2020 05:54:32 +0000 rachylou 2121205@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I’m still plugging away at the Witcher books. I find them sorta intriguing and yet I can’t read many pages at a time... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2121179 Sun, 17 May 2020 01:49:40 +0000 Carla 2121179@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>High five Echo! &nbsp;DH and I have co-DM’d D&amp;D campaigns online in the past, and DS#1 is keeping his campaign going (and his friends socializing) via a Face Time event every second week! &nbsp;He and DS#2 are playing as I write. &nbsp;</p> <div><br /></div><div>FWIW, Ed Greenwood (original creator of the Forgotten Realms) is a librarian at our local library! &nbsp;After DS#1 played in one of his ‘one shots’, and attended a writing workshop he ran, DS got invited to run a ‘one shot’ for ‘youths’ at the local library last summer!</p> <p>Oh! &nbsp;‘Wheel of Time’ (Robert Jordan) is going to be on Prime. &nbsp;Rosalind Pike is playing a lead.<br /></div></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2120957 Sat, 16 May 2020 06:10:48 +0000 Echo 2120957@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think in the last thread I had just mentioned that I was ordering the Annotated H.P. Lovecraft books. I have now ordered both, and while I received the second first, and they are all relatively short stories, so it shouldn't matter which was read first, it DOES matter. So I am now reading the first annotated edition of H.P. Lovecraft's stories, including the Call of Cthulhu and At the Mountains of Madness. These stories (in addition to a few other shorter stories) really describe the ideas and thoughts of H.P. Lovecraft, and give a person a firm grounding in the Great Old Ones and other mythic beings. Reading these stories has given me a huge amount of insight into the games my DS1 and DS2 are playing.&nbsp;</p> <p>Of course, Dh and I are into D&amp;D; we have been since long before we met and long before we had children. Our kids have taken to the game greatly, and both DS1 and DS2 DM their own games with friends (while Dh DMs at home). However, reading Lovecraft has made me realize the similarities with the many video games the boys are familiar with, especially games like Bloodborne and the Witcher.&nbsp;</p> <p>I highly recommend HP Lovecraft's stories to anyone who would like to better understand references to Cthulhu, R'yleh, the Necronomicon, etc. in games and modern parlance.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2120892 Fri, 15 May 2020 22:47:23 +0000 Gretchen 2120892@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@SaraL and @Laura, I’m so glad to hear the love for Fated Mates. I hadn’t read Kresley Cole, but love Sarah MacLean’s writing, so I jumped in on the podcast and reading IAD last year. The books are bonkers, but I love them as a complete reality break (especially the one that includes a paranormal version of the Amazing Race!) </p> <p>Right now, I am listening to Penny Reid’s Knitting in the City series. I think Beauty and the Mustache is my favorite, </p> <p>I also recently read Such a Fun Age. Really liked it - some good topics for Book Club. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2120719 Fri, 15 May 2020 10:58:36 +0000 April 2120719@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@Carla and others - many years ago in my Ph.D. program, I had a supervisor who told me she had to read herself to sleep at night *and* that she had to read something she'd read before.&nbsp; (If it was new material, wondering about the plot might keep her awake.)&nbsp; For that reason, she was on her tenth or twelfth trip through the Harry Potter series.</p> <p>At the time, this did not resonate with me at all.&nbsp; Now it seems brilliant.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2120697 Fri, 15 May 2020 05:22:01 +0000 AJ 2120697@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Into week 3 of War and Peace....still very enjoyable!&nbsp; (I'm reading from the Norton Critical edition.)&nbsp; This week's reading introduced the more serious war sections rather than the lighter high society gossip and romance of the previous two weeks.<br />I was intrigued by the sections depicting the frustrations of war, especially when opportunities/blunders presented themselves due to communication delays of having to wait for orders to be physically delivered.&nbsp; (My how far we have come!)<br />Yes, I have to keep a running list of characters so that I don't get confused, but I am enjoying it and thankful for the weekly discussions with my book club.<br />Definitely would encourage anyone to read it!</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2120628 Thu, 14 May 2020 23:13:42 +0000 Carla 2120628@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@ April - before retirement I worked in disability management and serious injuries for a gov’t insurance regime. &nbsp;I could&nbsp;<i>never &nbsp;</i>get into ‘serious’ reading and escaped into light topics and historical romance with predictable story arch. &nbsp;2 years post retirement I was <i>just&nbsp;</i>getting I to some meatier books, but once Covid hit, and those horrible death statistics and stories of survival - I was back into needing ‘light’ and escapist material.</p> <p>FWIW - I sleep better if I <b>read&nbsp;</b>for an hour before bed, rather than do ‘online’ stuff. &nbsp;I don’t watch TV. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2120614 Thu, 14 May 2020 22:06:15 +0000 April 2120614@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am finding since the pandemic lockdown began that I am almost incapable of reading books.&nbsp; It's much like when I had a newborn, 23 years ago: I thought I'd have so much "downtime" for reading, but in reality I was too anxious - thought I'd get caught up in a book and completely forget I had a baby.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>Kind of like that now - I have three extra members in my household and all day long they need things, and then they need a huge dinner at the end of the day.&nbsp; If I get sucked into a book, I might be ignoring an important need, or that huge dinner might not get made.</p> <p>Or something.&nbsp; Anyway, I'm ready for things to be slightly more normal.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2120372 Wed, 13 May 2020 20:22:05 +0000 JAileen 2120372@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just finished a juvenile book - the first of the Percy Jackson series. &nbsp;I read about the NYT best selling author (Rick Riordan), and had never heard of him. &nbsp;The book reminded me of Harry Potter series. &nbsp;I enjoyed it, just as I enjoyed the Harry Potter books. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2120327 Wed, 13 May 2020 17:41:36 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 2120327@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sara, I just heard about Fated Mates and put it on my podcast TBR. I grew up sneaking my mom's romance novels, back in the day when gender roles, etc., were different, so it'll be interesting to revisit some of my nostalgic favorites.</p> <p>I'm partway through Four Days Gone, which is a memoir about the author's mother's childhood and how she went missing for four days at age three in the 1920s in a small British town. Absorbing story but her mom's family situation was so repressed and emotionally abusive it's hard to get through.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2120283 Wed, 13 May 2020 14:42:14 +0000 Sara L. 2120283@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just realized I never answered the question about what I'm reading.&nbsp; I'm currently reading Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo.&nbsp; I'm also working my way slowly through Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series.&nbsp; They're totally crazy sauce paranormal romance.&nbsp; I'm also listening to a podcast called Fated Mates (one of the hosts is Sarah MacLean who writes historical romance) that analyzes each book in the series.&nbsp; It's so much fun! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2120280 Wed, 13 May 2020 14:34:06 +0000 Sara L. 2120280@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura - I thought a Discover of Witches was boring too. I finished it but I haven't read any of the other books in the series. So many pretentious discussions about wine!&nbsp; I've read all the Witcher books.&nbsp; The author has some interesting takes on classic fantasy tropes (his elves are guerrilla fighters not always on the right side) but the books are VERY male gaze.</p> <p>RunCarla - I've read all of Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series and I'm curious about the TV show. I'm especially excited since the casting is much more diverse than the original books. Older historical romance is very white. Some of the newer authors, like Courtney Milan, are writing more diverse stories.</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520/page/2#post-2119525 Sat, 09 May 2020 23:32:55 +0000 Sal 2119525@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura - some of the Georgette Heyer have relationships that are a bit dubious (older worldly man with inexperience ingenue)....&nbsp; some of them have much more equal relationships.</p> <p>It is interesting reading older books with a modern lense.&nbsp; "Gone with the Wind" being a classic example (that I won't comment on as I feel the US readers will have a much more informed view than I do) that I adored as a late teen but there are a few issues.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2119508 Sat, 09 May 2020 22:20:34 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 2119508@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Plowed through The Year of Living Danishly last night when I couldn't sleep, all about the author and her husband moving to Denmark from the UK and adjusting to the different style of life. It's part of Kindle Unlimited. Funny and not dry. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2119348 Fri, 08 May 2020 19:56:24 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 2119348@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>One of my goals a few years ago was to read War and Peace. I started it and it was pretty engaging (I think it was the recent translation by the Russian-American couple whose names escape me at the moment) but it got put aside and never completed. I should see if it survived my recent moves.</p> <p>The Wolf Hall trilogy is on my TBR - to be honest, as someone who's got a master's in history the fact that a series of long books about Oliver Cromwell has been so popular cracks me up. You never know what will next be trending I guess.</p> <p>I enjoyed Eleanor Oliphant a great deal. Resonated much more for me than My Year of Rest and Relaxation or Where'd You Go Bernadette.</p> <p>I've read romances since I was a kid but the couple of Georgette Heyer books I've read bugged the tar out of me. I don't even know how to explain, exactly, it's just that no character seemed worth knowing and there's a lot of icky behavior.&nbsp;</p> <p>I should reread Anne of Green Gables or The Chronicles of Narnia or something along those lines. That's about where my brain is at the moment; all the ebooks I've gotten from the library are languishing on my Kindle in favor of watching HGTV or Superstore on Hulu. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2118822 Wed, 06 May 2020 22:09:04 +0000 Anonymous 2118822@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Started on "A Coming of Age". Its a sci fi book about kids that have telekenisis but lose it at puberty. I don't like how they change perspectives w/ no warning during chapters, but unique premise (that I've seen). </p> <p>Committing to "War and Peace" is not gonna happen! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2118813 Wed, 06 May 2020 21:23:25 +0000 Sal 2118813@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Carla - I love The Corinthian.&nbsp; My favourite Georgette Heyer novels are The Grand Sophy, Regency Buck, Frederica and The Corinthian.</p> <p>I might try and chase down a version of War and Peace with larger words or try it on my ipad!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2118735 Wed, 06 May 2020 16:56:17 +0000 JAileen 2118735@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>AJ, when I was in 4th or 5th grade, the vice principal at our elementary school came in our classroom after lunch every day, and read us War and Peace. &nbsp;I don’t remember any of it.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2118719 Wed, 06 May 2020 15:46:22 +0000 Suz 2118719@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just finished a memoir called <i>Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism</i>. It's by Elizabeth Tallent, an author whose short stories I admired in the 90s and then who disappeared for decades.&nbsp;</p> <p>Also read <i>Girl, Woman, Other</i>, by Bernadine Evaristo, and<i> Cleanness, </i>by Garth Greenwell.</p> <p>Oh, and I am reading <b>SO MANY STUDENT MANUSCRIPTS</b>.&nbsp;</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2118621 Wed, 06 May 2020 02:22:05 +0000 Roxanna 2118621@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Also wondering the same about Untamed!</p> <p>Currently reading ‘Everyone knows you go home’, an #ownvoices alternative to American Dirt, which has received a lot of controversy for its marketing. I’m loving it. Also reading more of Louise Penny (finally got into it in Book #5!) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2118618 Wed, 06 May 2020 02:09:56 +0000 Carla 2118618@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My guilty pleasure is regency romance novels. &nbsp;I own, and am re-reading the entire Georgette Heyer output. &nbsp;Just finished ‘The Unknown Ajax’ and have ‘The Corinthian’ lined up. &nbsp;I adore her use of language,&nbsp;</p> <div><br /></div><div>You could have knocked me over with a feather when I learned Shondra Rhimes (of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ and other hits) optioned Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series of novels and already has one season of 8 episodes in the can for Netflix. &nbsp;I haven’t watched TV in ages, &nbsp;but I’ll check this one out. &nbsp;<br /></div></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2118601 Wed, 06 May 2020 00:51:19 +0000 Anonymous 2118601@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Helena - I have Untamed on my list to order, or to buy in the kindle version . Someone recommended I start with her first book before dipping into Untamed - so that's what I'm doing. Have you read her other/first one ? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2118583 Tue, 05 May 2020 22:54:01 +0000 AJ 2118583@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm in a book club and we are on our second week of War and Peace.&nbsp; I was dreading it, but so far the beginning reads like a soap opera!&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2118576 Tue, 05 May 2020 21:45:59 +0000 Sal 2118576@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just finished "Where the Crawdads Sing" and Flytigress - thanks for the link to the author's past - fascinating.&nbsp; I enjoyed the book in some ways especially the writing about nature.&nbsp; And the last 1/3 was gripping and kept me going.&nbsp; I can understand the unease about the voice of the Black American's in the book although the characters are sympathetically written.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>I am thinking of tackling "War and Peace" which I have never read.&nbsp; Jon loved it.&nbsp; My copy has very small writing though which puts me off!!&nbsp; I do try and read a classic that I have missed every so often. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2118553 Tue, 05 May 2020 20:26:36 +0000 L'Abeille 2118553@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>At last I have something new to contribute, and it isn't even fantasy or scifi! I just finished The Alice Network, staying up late last night to do so before my library ebook expired. Highly recommended! Historical fiction, involving a female spy in WW1, plus an unwed mother in 1947, most of the action taking place in France. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-are-you-reading-520#post-2118552 Tue, 05 May 2020 19:55:30 +0000 Flytigress 2118552@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Deb, I really enjoyed the PBS Wolf Hall series. </p>