We’re getting to close out October and that means it’s time for our second Whatcha Reading of the month! It’s tattoo day for me and I’m bringing a book. Will I be able to concentrate? We’re going to find out.
Now let’s talk about what we’ve been reading!
Carrie: My current bathroom book is Metazoa by Peter Godfrey-Smith ( A | BN | K | AB ). I also just finished Volume One of Something is Killing the Children ( A | BN | K ) which was WHOOOAAAA overwhelming and addictive.
Lara: I finally read The Intimacy Experiment by Rosie Danan and it gave me so many feelings! All of them excellent!
Catherine: Ooh, I loved that book! Must give it a reread! I have just finished The Brightest Star in Paris by Diana Biller ( A | BN | K ) and a) it is haunting and beautiful and sweet and b) I now want to go to Paris, but since I always want to go to Paris that may not be Ms. Biller’s fault.
And I am a third of the way into Boyfriend by Sarina Bowen, and it is just making me smile goofily like a goofy thing and it’s adorable.
Elyse: I just started Everything We Didn’t Say by Nicole Baart ( A | BN | K ) but I’m only two chapters in so I don’t have any opinions yet.
EllenM: I’m reading Lady of Ashes by Christine Trent ( A | BN | K | G | AB | Au ) but I might DNF. It’s about a Victorian lady undertaker which is sooooo soo interesting and cool but there’s a significant B plot about the Civil War (like, the US Civil War) which is just…SOOOO boring and random compared to the undertaker stuff. Like I just wanted to read about corpse preparation in Victorian London, why is an irrelevant John Adams descendent here talking about blockade running??
Shana: I’m still reading Office Hours by Katrina Jackson. It’s my hot professor happy place.
Sneezy: I’m reading Dancing for Stalin by Christina Ezrahi
I started it a while ago, ran away because I got scared, but now I’m dead inside and want to read about how a ballerina went through shit and come out brilliant and undiminished on the other side
I don’t know much about ballet so I don’t entirely understand what Nina Anisimova means to the ballet community, but so far she sounds like an irrepressible woman who was able to thrive after intense trauma. I’m hoping my lily livered ass can get through the book in one go.
What are you currently reading? Let us know!
Just finished First Comes Scandal by Julia Quinn. If you need a low-stakes, low-angst story of friends thrown together in an arranged marriage neither of them wants, and turning out to be exactly right for each other, this is the book for you. I enjoyed it on the whole, but it rather lacked the snap-crackle-pop of wit I am used to getting from Quinn.
Not sure what I’m reading next, but looking at ordering a bunch of Burrowes off Alibris, where I can get more of the series I’ve fallen into for a buck a book. Building up my winter TBR.
I’m super late to this party but I did want to share that I have fallen firmly down the Kate Daniels rabbit hole. After an iffy start with book 1, I blew through books 2 and 3 and now it’s all I want to read. Unfortunately I’m on the library hold list for book 4 and resisting the (very strong) urge to just one-click it due to impending expenditures of a less-fun nature. Library promises a 2-week wait, so I’m distracting myself with a reread of Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress series to celebrate “spooky season” with some vampires. I wanted to love those books just as much as I did when I first read them in like 2012, but I…don’t think I do. Either my reading tastes have evolved in the last 10 years or the books seem a bit dated now, or both. However the library has just come through with IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER by Tessa Bailey, so I might switch to that instead. Who says you can’t read a summer book at Halloween? Except I honestly just want to read more Kate Daniels!
Just finished ‘The Vampire Who Loved Me’, by Teresa Medeiros. I’m a slow reader, and not one who is that much into paranormal or vampire romances. But, I absolutely LOVED this two-book series, and I read this novel in about four days. I wish the author had written more of these.
I’m about to start ‘My Plain Jane’, by Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows, and Cynthia Hand. It’s a loose, YA retelling of ‘Jane Eyre’. I’ll be watching the 2011 adaptation, to reacquaint myself with the story before reading it. (I have read the original novel, but it took me two years to do so.)