Weekend Reading Update

AshleyT121 · May 2014

Happy sunny Monday morning!

What books did you start, finish, totally neglect, or make good progress on this weekend?

AshleyT121 · May 2014

I got to the half way point of HP PoA (on audio), finished Me Before You (oy!), and just barely got started on Catch Me.

kpow · May 2014

Finished:

Frozen in Time by MItchell Zuckoff
Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

Started:
The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Continued:
Bad Company by Virginia Swift

I volunteered at our library book sale so I picked up some cookbooks and a few books for Baby B.

lab7979 · May 2014

Finished Sea of Tranquility

Started Shadow and Bone

WillyH19 · May 2014

I finished Fever by Mary Beth Keane. I enjoyed it, I felt it could have been shorter.

I started Attachments by Rainbow Rowell and having fun! I plan to fly through this in the next day or two.

SusieBW · May 2014

I made pretty good progress on Five Days at Memorial. It's pretty good. There's a lot in there about incident command structuring and the exercises they did to prepare for an emergency, and I have participated in a couple of those at work, and reading this makes me feel like maybe I need to pay closer attention next time.

jennbean79 · May 2014

I started and finished Open Road Summer by Emery Lord.

I've been in such a reading slump this year, it's taken me weeks to read each of the few books I've read. I read this one in 2 days. It was just such a fun read. Thanks for the rec @Young_Love!

AshleyT121 · May 2014

SusieBW said:

I made pretty good progress on Five Days at Memorial. It's pretty good. There's a lot in there about incident command structuring and the exercises they did to prepare for an emergency, and I have participated in a couple of those at work, and reading this makes me feel like maybe I need to pay closer attention next time.

@susieBW - I just finished a class on business continuity planning which had a huge focus on incident command structures and crisis management. Really interesting and VERY eye opening when you start going through cases. Important stuff.

packfan20 · May 2014

I finished Wish You Were Italian by Kristin Rae and got half way through Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen.

jlc1979 · May 2014

I made some good progress on Gone Girl and I started Blackberry Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke.

sneetches · May 2014

I'm listening to Drums of Autumn - I got a few hours in this weekend. I finished reading What Alice Forgot, which was interesting. I read all of Elizabeth the First Wife, and I read most of Lips Touch Three Times. A great reading weekend!

dmlk413 · May 2014

I started Growing Up Duggar and it is terrible. I have this weird fascination with the Duggars but I would never let my daughter read this book. I only keep reading it because I can't turn away from the train wreck.

SusieBW · May 2014

AshleyT121 said:

SusieBW said:

I made pretty good progress on Five Days at Memorial. It's pretty good. There's a lot in there about incident command structuring and the exercises they did to prepare for an emergency, and I have participated in a couple of those at work, and reading this makes me feel like maybe I need to pay closer attention next time.

@susieBW - I just finished a class on business continuity planning which had a huge focus on incident command structures and crisis management. Really interesting and VERY eye opening when you start going through cases. Important stuff.

ITA, I'm completely fascinated by ICS. I'm a lawyer, so my role in these things is very, very minimal and I've never completed a real ICS training course or anything like that, but I would love to get more into it. All I know is what I've learned from these couple of exercises, which have been about environmental emergencies, like invasive pest outbreaks, not life-threatening emergencies and natural disasters.

Menrandes · May 2014

I finished reading Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry. I started reading Starters by Lissa Price. I could finish it today and might if I can manage to avoid car sickness.

RiverPlate · May 2014

I just finished Letters From Skye. I need to process it before posting about it...

jkfranklin · May 2014

dmlk413 said:
I started Growing Up Duggar and it is terrible. I have this weird fascination with the Duggars but I would never let my daughter read this book. I only keep reading it because I can't turn away from the train wreck.

I would be interested in hearing more about this book. I, too, have a strange fascination with them.

jenndawnp · May 2014

I'm read a bit of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Call me Zelda, I wanted to read more but it just didn't happen.

I listened to a very little bit of The Stand, overall it wasn't a very productive reading weekend for me.

jkfranklin · May 2014

I started and finished Something Blue by Emily Griffin. I made some progress on The Wolf of Wall Street.

I made really good progress on rereading The Fault in Our Stars. I was listening while driving yesterday and at points could not see the road because I was crying so hard. I am almost done and will finish it on my drive home today.

SusieBW · May 2014

jkfranklin said:

I made really good progress on rereading The Fault in Our Stars. I was listening while driving yesterday and at points could not see the road because I was crying so hard. I am almost done and will finish it on my drive home today.

I don't think I could've listened to this book for exactly this reason. I think I started crying about 1/2 way through and didn't stop until after I was done with the book. It was so good, but OMG.

jkfranklin · May 2014

SusieBW said:

jkfranklin said:

I made really good progress on rereading The Fault in Our Stars. I was listening while driving yesterday and at points could not see the road because I was crying so hard. I am almost done and will finish it on my drive home today.

I don't think I could've listened to this book for exactly this reason. I think I started crying about 1/2 way through and didn't stop until after I was done with the book. It was so good, but OMG.

It took me forever to read because my eyes were full of tears and I had to wipe them away every other sentence. I feel bad recommending this book to people because i don't want to make then cry, but it is such a good book!

Young_Love · May 2014

jennbean79 said:

I started and finished Open Road Summer by Emery Lord.

I've been in such a reading slump this year, it's taken me weeks to read each of the few books I've read. I read this one in 2 days. It was just such a fun read. Thanks for the rec @Young_Love!

YAY! This makes my day! I love this book so much.

packfan20 · May 2014

RiverPlate said:

I just finished Letters From Skye. I need to process it before posting about it...

@RiverPlate Waiting on pins and needles....

mrsvedo · May 2014

I got further into Daughter of Smoke and Bone. Really need a solid block of time I can just sit and focus on this one. So good!

fabk · May 2014

I am thisclose to finishing Outlander.

I listened to Grand Finale by Janet Evanovich and Life's a Beach by Claire Cook.

julie37619 · May 2014

I started and finished Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (yep, geek) and made good progress on Hilter's Furies.

ZeusLBA · May 2014

I read about 15 % of Requiem. I had a very busy weekend with a Communion and a Wedding.

SRodi811 · May 2014

Zip, zilch, nada....

I was sick and just didn't get any reading done.

I'm about 150 pages into an ARC copy of Jackaby by William Ritter, a co-worker of mine.

Passanie · May 2014

Finished Kindness Goes Unpunished and The Gift of Fear. Days later and I'm still having a Longmire hangover -- and when I tweeted as much the author favorited my tweet

Normally I like to savor series, but I might just go right back to this one. I miss it.

jason&robin · May 2014

I finished Push Girl (YAY!) and started Dreams of Gods and Monsters. I'm only 20 pages in. I've been lazy in the reading dept the last few days, but I've done pretty well with the audiobooks. I drive a lot these days. I hope it will get better next year and I'll have more reading time at home.

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