It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journey meant to highlight books you read in the past week, and what you’re planning on reading this week.
I got through a few more good books this week, so I’ve pulled ahead on my Goodreads reading challenge, buying time for the weeks I’ll have visitors during the next few months and won’t be able to read. I also listened to a bit of the audiobook of Deliriously Happy: and Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle and decided it was not for me. I marked it as a DNF. BUT now I’m onto a much better audiobook: Chime by Franny Billingsley.
In non-book news, I went to see Raiders of the Lost Ark in the theater today, and it was as amazing as ever! I like this trend of bringing back GREAT movies to play in theaters, rather than many of the mediocre to bad movies we’ve had lately.
Finished:
The Giant and How He Humbugged America by Jim Murphy
Beyond by Graham McNamee
By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
Pale by Chris Wooding
Continuing to read:
Chime by Franny Billingsley
Hoping to finish:
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman (reading on iPod when I walk to the bathroom at work book)
Big Ray by Michael Kimball
Family by Micol Ostow
What are you reading this week?
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What a nice variety of books. I am most intrigued by your “walk to the bathroom” book. Just how far away is that bathroom? My Monday Report is here. Happy reading!
The bathroom is a bit too far when you really have to go! It’s in the next building over on campus. I walk through a basement tunnel.
Those are all new to me. My favorite book this week was the audio of Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. Please come see what I’m reading now.
What a great idea, our own theatres don’t do that though.
Have a great reading week,
Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out
They haven’t started doing that in movie theaters where I live, but I think it’s a great idea! There are so many older movies I would love to watch on the big screen!
They’re supposedly going to have E.T. on October 3rd, for one day only. That’s my favorite movie of all time, so I’m definitely going to that!
I hope Raiders Of The Lost Ark comes our way… that would be a fun one. Currently it is not here. Have a good reading week!
I guess it didn’t show everywhere. It was in IMAX, so I was surprised to see it was also playing at my regular theater.
I love scary books, but especially at this time of year. I am definitely going to read Beyond and Chime as soon as I can!
I’ve been in the mood for scary, too! Horror is really my favorite genre, and the coming of fall has me in the mood for it.
Really looking forward to the By the Time You Read This I’ll Be Dead and Pale reviews!
I can say now that I didn’t care for By the Time You Read This I’ll Be Dead. The main character was too selfish and annoying. I had some of the same issues with it that I had with 13 Reasons Why. Both books make you try to feel sympathy for suicidal characters, but their problems just don’t seem big enough to justify the suicide, and they use suicide as a way to get back to people who wronged them, either truly or in their imaginations. I just couldn’t go along with it after a while and wanted to tell the main character to get over herself.
I’m really loving the trend of all the new Grimm books
My last name is Grim so it definitely is fun to read and recommend them to my friends!
Have a wonderful reading week
Whatcha readin’ this week @ the Brunette Librarian
How fun! Grim is a really cool name. I like this book because it’s a straightforward interpretation of the original stories, without too much elaboration. Pullman gives references to similar stories in other collections, tells when the Grimm brothers originally heard the story and from whom, and then gives Pullman’s own insights.
I love that theatres are showing old movies. I just saw that my theatre is showing Sesame Street’s “Follow That Bird.” It was the first movie I saw in theatres! I’m definitely going to have to take my kids to it.
Hope you have a great reading week.
Here’s My Monday
That’s adorable! I’ve never heard of Follow That Bird, but I hope your kids enjoy it as much as you did.
Great list of books! Pale sounds really good to me
Happy reading!