Chores are done and I found this at my library today!

This was written in 1996. Ugh. We haven't changed at all.

Subway reading

I have waited a long time to get this beautiful book at my library. Some books just need to be held and not sideloaded into an ereader.

Simone > Jake. Simone > New Girl. Simone > all of us.

I keep imagining the main character skipping around NYC like an ingenue in a musical. Clutching a bottle of wine while singing "Sixteen going on Seventeen. "

The 19th century version of the Quarter-Life crisis. (Given the year it's probably mid-life)

I requested that my library get this ebook and it actually did! Thanks, Philadelphia Free Library!

This book is just the best of everything !

Two female-authored STEM-focused books in a row? Self high-five!

The life of a library hold person is a never ending tale of feast or famine.

Of course, of course, as soon as I start the giant Disney book one of my holds becomes available. Switching gears. :)

I've read so many Disney bios I don't remember if I read this or not. (Plus bonus Jersey-girl animal print coat)

Fixer Upper is my guilty pleasure. I should not like the Gaines but ... I can't help it. They make me smile. I also want to have hair like Joanna's) I don't expect anything remarkable from this book but that's okay.

I loved it. I loved each and every broken character. Even the car. ;) Yes they (were/are) clueless rich people but even the clueless laugh, cry, love, and fear like the rest of us. I was sorry to see it end.

I love every beautiful, broken member of this family.

Ugh. Don't remind me of my youthful folly and naïveté, Jade Chang.

I love my nook but boy did I get hosed wth regard to cheap ebooks. This is the Kindle version so either I have to break DRM to get it on my nook or read it on my tiny phone while on the train. Hmmmm. 😈

Loved it!! The crime was much darker than the first book's crime, but it moved faster. I wish the author would leave magic and fantastic creatures behind for good and concentrate solely on writing Cormoran Strike books for the rest of the author's life.

It was redundant in places (Strike's knee, Robin's hair) but I think the author is used to padding things in order to create heavy tomes. I'm looking very forward to book 3!

Back to reality. Back to reading on the train. Happy 2017, Litsy!

I'm torn about this book. It was beautifully written, although really heavy on the sadness. I was crying every three or four chapters. Just when I came up for air, we hear another sad story. It was well-done and everything comes together in the end, but if you're a weeper, beware. Not a good public transportation book. Also, there is a dog on the cover.

If. This. Dog. Dies. I. Will. Lose. My. Ever. Loving. Crap.

I work for a healthcare organization. One of our members (a doc) left the staff a bunch of books to read. I have no grandparents alive so I suspect I will shed some tears.

You win, Pratchett. I am sucked in.

Time to refill my overdrive hold list!

About halfway through it began to become redundant. I had some good takeaways from the first half though.

This books was heaps of fun. Lots of snappy banter among the 3 Kopp sisters, and it's based on a true story to boot. I liked that despite the darkness of the mystery, the book itself wasn't depressing. Can't wait to get my paws on the next one on the series!

An excellent commuting book because it's light and fun. An awful commuting book because it's so good almost finished and have to find a new commuting book!

Like The Vacationers, it was a fluffy, non-life-changing read. Unlike The Vacationers, I actually cared about most of the characters, despite their privilege, money, etc. This book is the story of three couples and how their relationships change over a summer in their Brooklyn neighborhood. Things happen, consequences don't, navels are gazed at.

In the end, everything is wrapped up in a pretty bow. Best to read this in summer.

I loved this book so much that I started to grieve when there was only a few chapters left.

It's just ... beautiful. Laughter, tears, and love. Families of birth and families of choice. I'm going to buy a hard-copy of this so I can re-read it every Thanksgiving.

Book for a chilly work commute. My legs are cold just looking at the cover

I experienced a perfect example of this while reading this book. I remember being on my sofa with coffee and in sweatpants and realizing the toilet was upstairs. It was cold and dark, and footing was often uneasy.

Ms. Gale was the opening keynote at a conference I attended in June and I was impressed enough to put her book on my ever-growing "to read" list.

This is part 2 of Rincewind and Twoflower's adventures. This is my 3rd Terry Pratchett book (3.5 if you count Good Omens) and ... now I get it.

The books aren't deep, but they have lots of smiles and laughs and at least one sniffly part (for me, anyway). Perfect pleasure reading, and even though there are orcs, elves, wizards, etc, they're all human.

I think these books will serve as a fine palate cleanser after sad books. Plus there are dozens.

Based on the premise I really should have loved it. But the characters were flat (the housewife, the church lady, the gay couple, the one African-American guy in town, the evil ex-wife, etc) the and the ending was super unrealistic and it spoils dozens of books. Parts of the book read like they were lifted from Wikipedia entries. Given all of the above and the unlikable male romantic lead, I should have HATED the book.

But I didn't. It was cute.

Hoping this distracts me from the kid kicking the seat behind me.

I keep saying I'm not a sci-fi/ fantasy reader, but as long as I come across books like this one I might change my tune. This is a delightful time-traveling book, as opposed to tinge four ones I've read before. I'd describe it as a cozy sci-fi book. And safe to read for dog/cat lovers.

But I can tell you firsthand that 40 is when I laughingly stopped caring about what people expected from me. Hoping Caroline gets there too.

Laughing about the protagonists' awful train ride while I take my own subway ride to work.

My weekly listening while I prep food for the upcoming week. @bookriot

My dog, Ollie, has ear infections in both ears and I'm under the weather myself. So tonight I'm comforting him and starting this library pick. I heard of it through MetaFilter as an upbeat time travel book. I hope neither the dog in the title nor the cat on the cover meet their ends. (So does Ollie.)

I love a smart self-help book. You'd think that Shonda Rhimes had it all together, but she bravely admits that she didn't and bravely decided to do some things that she'd normally say no to. And these aren't measly #sobrave things, but actual brave things, like give a commencement address and lose a bunch of weight. These are things that the non-Shondas like us can replicate on a smaller scale.

PS: Everyone needs a Delorse in their lives. :)

I read Good Omens a while back and really liked it. Then I read The Wee Free Men and really liked that too. So I decided to start at the beginning of the Discworld series.

And it was okay. Poor Rincewind and the ferocious Luggage made me smile but I wasn't wowed. Others say #1 isn't a great book to begin with so if you have any suggestions where I should go now in the series I'm all ears.

New commute read. I got tired of waiting on the library so I just bought it. Yes!

Um, what the heck, Goodreads?

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk. There were too many of them, too.

When I was in elementary school I checked out the library's copy of a Salem Witchcraft book at least 3 times a year so I was very excited about this book. The beginning was great. The last chapters were amazing. But I had to drag myself through the middle part. It seem especially redundant and a bit scattered. If the Salem Witchcraft trials intrigue you, try this book. If not, this book might not grab you.

Okay. This is a bit braggy, I'll admit. It's the last day of a work trip and I'm trying my best to extend summer.