Laurel County Public Library discussion

QOTD: This is the last week of August! Are there any current reads or projects that you're wanting to finish before the end of the month?

I want to finish Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins. Finishing this book will complete an August book challenge I am doing.

I'd like to finish my three current reads before the end of the month.

I would like to finish the book Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera.

QOTD: What is one of your favorite meals and/or treats to make? (Since fall is quickly approaching, these can be fall recipes for inspo.)

I love making chicken alfredo for a meal. Homemade alfredo tastes so much better than out of the jar. For a treat, I really love making pumpkin cream cheese muffins, which are perfect for fall.

I always liked to bake. Chocolate chip cookies being one of my favorites to make...and eat.

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: This is the last week of August! Are there any current reads or projects that you're wanting to finish before the end of the month?"

i'm reading no name in the street by james baldwin & horror movie by paul tremblay. i'll definitely finish no name but i would really like to finish both

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: What is one of your favorite meals and/or treats to make? (Since fall is quickly approaching, these can be fall recipes for inspo.)"

This is the time of year I like to make fresh breads, either loaves, rolls, or similar. and soups.

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: What is one of your favorite meals and/or treats to make? (Since fall is quickly approaching, these can be fall recipes for inspo.)"

I love to bake. I'd say cinnamon rolls, chocolate chip cookies, or banana bread are my favorite treats.

I found some vegetarian apple & sage sausages that I like to fry up and eat with peppers, onions, sriracha, and kewpie mayo. As a side I'll usually make mac n cheese. That's been a new favorite meal to make.

QOTD: Wednesday Wins – Share something you've accomplished this week or are proud of this week.

I finished one of my current reads, and I meal prepped lunches for the week to save time and not spend extra money on eating out.

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: Wednesday Wins – Share something you've accomplished this week or are proud of this week."

I went clothes shopping and actually found a few pieces I really liked.

I also got a cool desk chair that was on sale.

QOTD: What movie(s) do you enjoy watching during the fall season?

I watch TV shows quite a bit, but I feel like in the fall and winter is when I watch the most movies. For fall, I really love watching:
You've Got Mail
Practical Magic
Halloweentown
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Hocus Pocus
Coraline
Casper
Corpse Bride
When Harry Met Sally
Scream
Sleepy Hollow
The Hobbit
LOTR
Harry Potter
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Legally Blonde
Sweet Home Alabama
Twilight (all 4)
Beetlejuice

Some movies on my to-watch list for the fall:
Autumn in New York
Good Will Hunting
Dead Poets Society
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Beetlejuice 2

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: What movie(s) do you enjoy watching during the fall season?"

i enjoy re-watching the evil dead movies in the fall/around halloween

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: What movie(s) do you enjoy watching during the fall season?"

I don't really watch movies based on the season/holiday. I do tend to watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles around the last part of the year. I also plan to re-watch Beetlejuice before the new one comes out in theaters!

I don't watch movies based on season/holiday either. Occasionally, I pick out something special for Halloween. So maybe, Practical Magic, Beetlejuice, Poltergeist or The Exorcist.

QOTD: Do you have any fun, exciting plans this weekend? Cozy, bookish plans?

I plan on getting some reading done and probably going to try a new-to-me restaurant for some good Indian food.

QOTD: What's on your September TBR?

My September hopefuls:
A Court of Mist and Fury
The Book of Doors
The Road To Oblivion
Fall Into You
Legends & Lattes
A Court of Wings and Ruin

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: What's on your September TBR?"

Circe by Madeline Miller
Simpatia by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon
Coexistence by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Giant Days vol 7 by John Allison

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: What's on your September TBR?"

TBR - September

Continuing from August
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
✔ Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart

Planned
- Lifeblood by P.N. Elrod
- The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner
- Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii by Lee Goldberg
- Slade House by David Mitchell
- Reading the Ceiling by Dayo Forster
- Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
- Lone Women by Victor LaValle

Maybe
- Weyward by Emilia Hart
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (on hold)
- Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
- The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
- Pied Piper by Nevil Shute
...

QOTD: How many books did you read last month? What were your favorite and least favorite reads?

I finished 3 books in August. 2 were graphic novels and 1 was a novel I listened to on audio. I'm also in the middle of 4 other books that I carried over into this month.
Favorite read of the month: Until I Get You
Least favorite read of the month: Cat + Gamer Volume 4

I only finished one book last month, The Roaring Days of Zora Lily, so it will be my most and least favorite lol

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: How many books did you read last month? What were your favorite and least favorite reads?"

Finished: 12
Favorite: First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston ... (Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, was a very close second.)
Least favorite: Fangs by Sarah Andersen

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: How many books did you read last month? What were your favorite and least favorite reads?"

I read six books in August.
My favorite was either If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga or Giant Days vols 5 & 6 by John Allison.

My least favorite was definitely The Wall by Marlen Haushofer. Genuinely, one of the most boring books I've ever read.

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: How many books did you read last month? What were your favorite and least favorite reads?"

I read 3 books last month.
Favorite: Fondant Fumble by Jenn McKinlay
Least Favorite: Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell

QOTD: What is your favorite fall scent?

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: What is your favorite fall scent?"

Warm vanilla scents for candles or perfume.

If I'm baking, it's the smell of cinnamon rolls or banana bread.

I love warming scents for fall. I love warm vanilla, sandalwood, cinnamon, apple, pumpkin, brown sugar, bonfire, anything that smells like autumn.

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: What is your favorite fall scent?"

Maple, cinnamon, apple, vanilla, and pumpkin!

QOTD: Are there any September releases you're excited for?

Some September releases on my radar:
The Cursed
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
A Dark and Drowning Tide
A Fire in the Sky
An Academy for Liars
The Life Impossible
Immortal Dark
The Games Gods Play
The Cottage Around the Corner
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping
So Thirsty

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: Are there any September releases you're excited for?"

Nothing that i've come across so far.

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: Are there any September releases you're excited for?"

- Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
- Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: Are there any September releases you're excited for?"

Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
The Playground by Richard Powers
Not a Speck of Light by Laird Barron

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: Are there any September releases you're excited for?"

The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave
Nothing Like the Movies by Lynn Painter

QOTD: What are you most excited for this September?

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: What are you most excited for this September?"

I'm most excited for a trip I have planned at the end of the month.

Going to Boston to see friends, sight-see, and attend two Pearl Jam shows!

QOTD: What's on your autumn bucket list?

Autumn Bucket List

• Fall Trip
• Go to an apple orchard
• Read outside in the park with fall foliage
• Read in my hammock on a beautiful fall day
• Bake pumpkin cream cheese muffins
• Watch fall and Halloween movies
• Make a new fall playlist to enjoy for the season
• Go on a fall nature walk
• Have a bonfire, roast marshmallows & make s'mores
• Try a new soup recipe
• Make chili
• Collect fall leaves
• Visit the farmer's market
• Find new fall boots

QOTD: Share a song, or songs, that remind you of autumn.

Autumn Town Leaves by Iron & Wine
Halloween by Novo Amor
Forever Halloween by The Maine

All My Days by Alexi Murdoch
Any older song by Norah Jones
Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden

I don't know why these scream Autumn to me.

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: Share a song, or songs, that remind you of autumn."

Scarborough Fair by Simon and Gurfunkel reminds me of autumn.

LCPL wrote: "QOTD: Share a song, or songs, that remind you of autumn."

Into The Mystic- Van Morrison