Books on the Nightstand discussion

Time is flying bad too quickly for me to catch up. I am listening to Smoke on my iPad and Rules of Civility in the car.

I'm hoping to beat a library due date by reading Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd and The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decodedand continuing through Glory and the Lightning and War and Peace

Linda wrote: "Time is flying bad too quickly for me to catch up. I am listening to Smoke on my iPad and [book:Rules of Civility|1..."

A Reader Dear to my heart!

Robin wrote: "Linda wrote: "Time is flying bad too quickly for me to catch up. I am listening to Smoke on my iPad and [book:Rules..."

I get there eventually, Robin.

I'm reading by Emma Donoghue. She spoke at our local festival of books yesterday and was wonderful.

I'm listening to Dracula and reading Dark Matter.

I'm starting The Queen of the Night tonight, while continuing to read the short stories in Her Smoke Rose Up Forever.

Taking my time to savor every word of Born to Run
Then it's on to Affinity
Commonwealth before I get to see her on the 20th!
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Dark Matter

My reading has taken a shot on all levels , paper, e book and sadly audible. It's been tough. I fall asleep at night, battled bedbugs (don't get them) during the day after getting home sprayed up and down. Now I'm moving books around because I'm moving to another room. That's not the end of it. Looking forward to digging out of this hole.

Robin wrote: "I'm reading by Emma Donoghue. She spoke at our local festival of books yesterday and was wonderful."

I saw her speak as well and she was lovely! I'm about to start Becoming Nicole, after seeing the author speak. Once again, it was a wonderful event!

I like the title and hope to read THE WONDER.

Gerald...I hope that things settle down for you. I always enjoy your comments!

Thank you

Welcome October! I'm still listening to and reading and listening to . I hope to read and . I'm trying to read some of the TBR books on my shelf before it collapses :)

Coleen wrote: "I'm trying to read some of the TBR books on my shelf before it collapses :) "

Right now I literally have 8 books stacked on by nightstand. EIGHT! Considering I only read four books last month, I'm not sure I'll get all of them read by the end of October, but I'm sure going to try!

On my Nightstand

Four books a month! You should be proud of that. Probably more then most people. Congratulations!

I agree! Four books in a month is awesome! I wish I could name 8 books on my nightstand. There are hundreds of unread books in my house and yet I keep buying them!

It looks like you've got some awesome choices there! I love, love, love Shadow of the Wind and The One in a Million Boy!

Right now I don't have a nightstand!

Gerald wrote: "Right now I don't have a nightstand!"

Me neither - my nightstand is a pile of books!

I just finished Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd. Flavia does not show up often enough. I need the next one.

Gerald wrote: "Four books a month! You should be proud of that. Probably more than most people. Congratulations!"

Colleen wrote: "I agree! Four books in a month is awesome!"

Thanks! Books are my TV, but I'm a slow reader. I'll be lucky to finish the five that I had planned on reading this month much less the extra three that hopped into my hand when I went to the library.

Finished two!

by Laura Lippman-- 2 Stars.

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

AND

by Carol Rifka Brunt-- 3 Stars

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Started Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power as if I don't already know he's not my choice.

I just finished The Nix on audio and loved it.

In the Country: Stories remains my palette cleanser between novels. I'm on the last story, but have a few other collections ready to go, including The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and Fortune Smiles .

In print, I'm halfway through Problems .

I will likely finish today -- I'm a sucker for a series and had to find out what happened to the characters. was on the new book rack at the library last night -- it sounds bizarre, from the little I've read about it, but I'm going to give it a go. :-)

If I could get my bookstand (which is by the computer rather than by the bed) cleaned and organized I might be able to figure out what I have to in my to be read pile. I do have a small bookcase by my bed though.

Just finished Homegoing. Loved it!! Now on to Before the Fall.

Took three mysteries to Vancouver last weekend and finished off two of them
which I had started reading earlier
which I read entirely over the weekend and
which I started but have yet to finish. May take it to bowling tomorrow.
I have also pulled up from downstairs to read

I am reading for my bookclub: Mycroft Holmes

For my other bookclub formed by friends at work: The Midwife of Venice

It's going to be hard with two bookclubs but I'm going to try

Listening on my phone: Little Women

And still listening in the car: The Goldfinch it's good but really long

Mycroft Holmes written by Jabber. The Goldfinch is a tough literary novel that I had a hard time reading and was grateful to finish. It was all over the place.

I still have Stephen King's IT on my Currently Reading list. I've been distracted by the books I find at my local library! I've just started Elizabeth Taylor's The Soul of Kindness.

I can sympathize with the library problem. Until my fines got too high I kept taking things out of our local library and not reading books I already own.

Finished off the last of the mysteries and a bit more than halfway through the book on Infant Baptism. Stared a book yesterday at bowling Venus In Danger. More light reading. Since I am doing some indexing for a comic book site I do not have a as much time to read as I used to.

Several books that I can recommend that I have recently read...some old and some new.
Never Let Me Go
Barkskins
Bel Canto
The Magician's Assistant
My Brilliant Friend
The Story of a New Name
I am looking forward to Book 3 and Book 4 of Elena Ferrante's Neopolitan Series. Did you hear that her identity has been outed?
I am currently listening to The Nightingale. Is it considered YA?

The House on Mango Street

Started a book today that is checked out of the library on my wife's card (she is the only one without a large amount of fines owing) so I figure I need to get it read also indexed a graphic novel that I think I shall add to my read this month (hopefully) stack.

Back from vacation so a couple to catch up on:

Finished by Jenny Lawson 4 stars. Another wonderfully funny and poignant account of the author's struggle with depression. Highly recommend the audio version read by the author.

also finished by Amy Gentry 3 Stars. I wanted this thriller to be as good as I had anticipated, but the ending fell apart for me, and the the chapter layout was confusing at times.

Pachinko I haven't gotten too far, but this is the book that was mailed to the attendees of this weekend's Hachette Book Brunch this Saturday.

Forgot to link my reviews to my last post- SORRY!!

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Good as Gone:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished by Rainbow Rowell-- 4 Stars.

This one brought back all the awkwardness of teenage love.

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished by Milan Kundera-- 3 Stars.

Simple story with philosophical undertones that I'm not entirely sure I understood.

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I started HOMEGOING on the plane to VA. last week, but I'll t will leak into November. So good so far!

Just finished . Here's my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...