What are we reading in August?

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What are we reading in August?

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1christina_reads
aug 3, 2017, 10:40 am

I started off this month by finishing Arabella and the Battle of Venus by David D. Levine, and now I'm reading Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy. What are you reading this month?

2LittleTaiko
aug 3, 2017, 12:14 pm

I'm about halfway through The Beekeeper's Apprentice. It started out strong but is now dragging for me. Maybe it'll pick up in the second half.

3sturlington
Redigerat: aug 3, 2017, 4:19 pm

I started The Underground Railroad for my RL book club.

4DeltaQueen50
aug 3, 2017, 6:00 pm

I am reading one of my long neglected mysteries. An Unhallowed Grave by Kate Ellis, which is the third in the Wesley Peterson series. I am also starting Five Days At Memorial by Sheri Fink for the August CultureCat.

5cbl_tn
aug 3, 2017, 7:09 pm

I am reading Larry's Party a bit late for last month's AwardsCAT and RandomCat. Better late than never!

6dudes22
aug 3, 2017, 7:53 pm

I finished my Aug Award book The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman and I've also finished The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey and I'm going to start Katie Up and Down the Hall by Glenn Plaskin for my Random book next.

7rabbitprincess
aug 3, 2017, 8:05 pm

Just finished Tsunami: The Newfoundland Tidal Wave Disaster, by Maura Hanrahan, for the CultureCAT.

8pamelad
aug 3, 2017, 11:42 pm

Just finished Rebecca Solnit's short collection of feminist essays, Men Explain Things to Me. Liked it a lot.

Currently reading Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs.

9LittleTaiko
aug 4, 2017, 10:22 am

Wasn't in the mood last night for my current book so started Dombey and Sons by Charles Dickens and The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse.

10pamelad
aug 6, 2017, 11:54 pm

Reading Drown by Juno Diaz for book group, Magnus Mills's A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked in from the bedside table, and August Folly by Angela Thirkell on the bus to and from the Melbourne Film Festival.

Liking them all.

11christina_reads
aug 7, 2017, 10:25 am

I just breezed through Jenny Colgan's The Café by the Sea and really enjoyed it...looks like I've found a new chick lit author! Now I'm starting the eighth Poldark book, The Stranger from the Sea. Apparently the sea is a recurring theme for me this month!

12VivienneR
aug 7, 2017, 12:19 pm

Right now I'm reading The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan for AwardCAT. It was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2014. Good, but details of the treatment of POWs forced to build the Burma "death railway" are graphic.

My other current read is Not the end of the world by Kate Atkinson, which is brilliant! I always say I'm not a fan of short stories, but in future I'll add "except Kate Atkinson's".

13lsh63
aug 8, 2017, 7:27 am

I haven't been to visit here in a while, work is crazy busy, but I have been reading: I'm in the home stretch of Marlena, and I need to get to Trajectory, Persons Unknown, and The Girls before they all have to go back to the library.

Only Trajectory will actually fit one of my challenge categories:)

14LittleTaiko
aug 8, 2017, 10:36 am

15DeltaQueen50
aug 8, 2017, 7:02 pm

The last couple of days I have been enjoying The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I had no idea that it was going to be such a fun read. I am just about to pick up another long neglected mystery series with The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths.

16donan
aug 10, 2017, 12:25 am

Just started Hidden Figures and enjoying it so far.

17Jackie_K
aug 10, 2017, 4:32 am

>16 donan: I think quite a few of us have read Hidden Figures this year - I read it a couple of months ago and really enjoyed it.

I'm currently reading The Poisonwood Bible for this month's CATWoman, am finding it a bit slow-going but am hoping to get more into it as I progress with it. Also for this month's RandomCAT I'm reading The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks, which I am absolutely loving - it's beautiful, inspirational, stark, and just stunning.

18dudes22
aug 11, 2017, 1:10 pm

>16 donan: - I've been hoping to get to that this year. Maybe that will be the next one I request from the library.

I just picked up Matchup edited by Lee Child from the library. This is an anthology based on gender. A male and a female author have teemed up to create a group of thrillers. (From what I understand...more after I read it)

19rabbitprincess
aug 11, 2017, 8:32 pm

After unceremoniously dumping The Case of the Dangerous Dowager, by Erle Stanley Gardner, I'm switching gears in a big way with Queens' Play, by Dorothy Dunnett.

20LisaMorr
aug 14, 2017, 5:07 pm

I finished The Optimist's Daughter and have started on The Passion of New Eve, which is very weird.

21leslie.98
aug 14, 2017, 10:19 pm

>23 LittleTaiko: I will be interested in hearing what you think of The Passion of New Eve. I remember several years ago looking at the blurb and thinking it would be too strange for me.

I just finished Heads You Lose, the first Inspector Cockrill mystery by Christianna Brand. Not up to the standards of her later mysteries but still a good read. Now I am starting The Chimes by Anna Smaill.

22VictoriaPL
aug 15, 2017, 8:23 am

So excited to be starting on the new Karin Slaughter book, The Good Daughter.

23LittleTaiko
aug 15, 2017, 11:09 am

Finished The Dollhouse which was okay and am now trying to get back into Lab Girl - only 100 pages or so to go.

24whitewavedarling
aug 15, 2017, 4:24 pm

I'm currently reading Red Nexus, which I'm having a hard time getting into, and The Underworld, which I'm having a hard time putting down! I'm also reading The Darkest Kiss, but accidentally left it at home while traveling for a weekend, so the other two books have jumped ahead in terms of what I'll likely finish first.

25christina_reads
aug 15, 2017, 11:35 pm

I'm about to start my July ER win, Lady Jayne Disappears by Joanna Davidson Politano.

26leslie.98
aug 16, 2017, 12:08 pm

Still reading The Chimes but in the meanwhile, I have finished Black Money, a Lew Archer mystery, and The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent, a humorous sci fi novella in audiobook.

27rabbitprincess
aug 16, 2017, 6:08 pm

Currently gearing up for my Wales trip by reading Marc Morris's Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain.

28pamelad
aug 17, 2017, 2:04 am

Reading Death and the Penguin, a Ukrainian black comedy.

29LittleTaiko
aug 17, 2017, 2:21 pm

Should wrap up The Book of Strange New Things in the next day or so. Still trying to figure out where this one is going.

30DeltaQueen50
aug 17, 2017, 5:14 pm

Currently I am reading The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett and Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville. Although very different, both are holding my attention and seem very promising.

31dudes22
aug 18, 2017, 8:04 pm

I've finished Matchup edited by Lee Child which is a collection of short stories written by a male/female collaboration combining their characters. Very good - recommended if you enjoy mysteries.

32LisaMorr
aug 19, 2017, 2:22 pm

Just finished The Passion of New Eve and will be starting on The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard for the AwardsCAT.

>24 whitewavedarling: The Passion of New Eve was indeed weird. I'm usually a fan of the weird, and I really like futuristic dystopian novels, but I didn't really enjoy this. Just too surreal!

33rabbitprincess
aug 20, 2017, 10:54 am

Finishing off a book that I asked the library to purchase: The Sea Was in Their Blood, by Quentin Casey.

34leslie.98
aug 20, 2017, 10:25 pm

>35 pamelad: That was my impression from the blurb! I will continue to give it a miss...

35pamelad
Redigerat: aug 21, 2017, 3:31 am

Reading The Dry, an Australian crime novel set in a drought-stricken country town, 500 km from Melbourne. Very good so far.

36dudes22
aug 21, 2017, 5:25 pm

I picked up Blood Orange Brewing by Laura Child's over the weekend for a quick read and have decided to continue with the next one in the series Dragonwell Dead.

37VivienneR
aug 22, 2017, 4:51 pm

38leslie.98
aug 22, 2017, 5:53 pm

I am listening to the audiobook of Burning Bright for the August CATWoman & reading The Last Unicorn for the RandomCAT.

39sallylou61
aug 22, 2017, 9:45 pm

So far this month I've read Ape House by Sara Gruen for the RandomCAT, Commonwealth by Ann Patchett for my book group, Lucky by Alice Sebold for CATWoman, and Wild Things: the Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult by Bruce Hardy which gave me some additional ideas of books/authors I might read for next month's CATWoman. All the books fit into some square on a BingoDOG card.

40whitewavedarling
aug 24, 2017, 12:28 pm

I'm currently reading Reign of Serpents (YA Fantasy around Alexander the Great, theoretically), which I think will be my last book in the series. I'm also reading Hunters in the Dark (literary fiction), which I'm having a hard time putting down, and No Ordinary Heroes as my nonfiction.

41sturlington
aug 24, 2017, 2:31 pm

I am currently reading The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson.

42christina_reads
aug 24, 2017, 4:04 pm

I'm rereading Robin McKinley's Spindle's End for the third or fourth time and enjoying it immensely!

43rabbitprincess
aug 24, 2017, 6:07 pm

Steadily working my way through Queens' Play, by Dorothy Dunnett.

44VivienneR
aug 31, 2017, 3:27 pm

I'm trying to catch up on some series and just finished In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson. This is the story that introduces Annie Cabbot, a great character, although in this one Chief Constable Jimmy Riddle's plan to pair Annie with Banks is intended to be punishment for both of them. Very enjoyable.

45LisaMorr
aug 31, 2017, 4:06 pm

Finished The Great Fire (excellent!) and I'm planning on finishing Fingersmith today.

46dudes22
aug 31, 2017, 8:17 pm

I've just finished Band of Sisters by Cathy Gohlke about two sisters who come to America from Ireland in the early 1900s. Next up is The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg.