What are you reading/what have you recently read?

[14joa31]

The Oprah needs to know.

Since I'm a Baltimorean, I'm currently reading some Laura Lippman - "What the Dead Know."

Before that I read Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, Modern Romace by Aziz Ansari, and Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling. I think that Mindy's second book was wayyy better than her first book. And Aziz Ansari's book on modern dating/social media dating was super fun and super interesting.

[NellieOleson]

Reading? What is this "reading" you speak of. Hahahaha.

No, but seriously. How do you find the time for all that you do? 14joa31 is a super woman. Oprah could learn some tricks from you, lady.

[NellieOleson]

The only book I've read since dd2 was born was the Ferber book, and I only got about a third of the way through it.

I'm looking forward to having some reading time again in the future, but it will probably be a while.

[silverspoon]

I read a lot of fanfiction. It's free and I don't feel bad if I become uninterested and quit to read something else.

Actual books? I mostly just read light stuff like British Chic Lit. Something that if I put it down, there's not a lot I have to remember if it's a week before I can pick it up again. I just finished Twentie's Girl by Sophie Kinsella.

[valie]

Jun 28, 2016 9:50:08 GMT -5 14joa31 said:

I think that Mindy's second book was wayyy better than her first book.

Squee! This makes me so excited. The last book I read was Mindy's first. Now I NEED to get the second ASAP.

[14joa31]

NellieOleson - I read on my commuter train ride - otherwise I would never have the time. If I don't read on the train, I go a little stir-crazy because it's sooo boooring!

On that note, I am going to be opening an all-girls Leadership Academy in South Africa ... yeah, no.

[NellieOleson]

Jun 28, 2016 11:52:56 GMT -5 kelltothekell said:

I used to read 10-15 books a year before I got pregnant. Sigh. In the last year I've read: The Martian, Wild, All the Light We Cannot See, The Alchemist and Station Eleven. Since the babe has been born, I've just read Station Eleven and baby books. I really want to pick the habit back up. I'm thinking of getting a book when we go to story time again and hopefully just making that a habit.

I've read all those except The Alchemist. Book twins!

[NellieOleson]

Jun 28, 2016 12:23:14 GMT -5 14joa31 said:

NellieOleson - I read on my commuter train ride - otherwise I would never have the time. If I don't read on the train, I go a little stir-crazy because it's sooo boooring!

On that note, I am going to be opening an all-girls Leadership Academy in South Africa ... yeah, no.

I actually miss my old commute for that reason. An hour a day of built in reading time wasn't so bad at all.

[tinydancer]

All I've read since the baby was born is chapters here and there in baby books (and board books with the baby). I read the NYT a lot, if that counts. Also, I read and write all day at work. I'm halfway through Mother Toungue by Bill Bryson. I usually (used to?) like to have one fiction and one nonfiction book going at a time.

silverspoon, I used to read trashy romances on my kindle - the free ones - in bed before falling asleep.

[silverspoon]

I was wrong.

This is the last book I finished.

That little bunny is so darn adorable.

[14joa31]

silverspoon - LMAO!! Awesome!

[crimsonandclover]

I actually still read a lot, even after having kids. I love epic fantasy series but have run out of books by my favorite authors and have recently gotten into urban fantasy - so much fun and there's usually a strong, sassy female lead told from 1st person POV. It took me a bit to get used to that, but anymore it seems really common. I recently re-read the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews. Now I'm re-reading Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series, which is definitely more paranormal romance. I liked her Fever series better.
I usually don't read the kind of literature that makes you think. I read to unwind. I just want a good story, and it's even better if I get to laugh sometimes while reading.

[Lollipop]

I'm still slogging through the Magic Kingdom of Landover series. The first book was awesome! The second one is a little slow. I've been reading a lot of Kristin Hannah when I'm at my mom's house, I finished The Things We Do For Love a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't started another one yet.

[scorpioscuba]

I miss reading!! I got back into it early last year finally and once again post baby I'm struggling to find the time. I love when I can get lost in a good book.

[NellieOleson]

Jun 28, 2016 12:43:32 GMT -5 silverspoon said:

I was wrong.

This is the last book I finished.

That little bunny is so darn adorable.

Nicholas! I love that guy.

[Lollipop]

Jun 28, 2016 12:43:32 GMT -5 silverspoon said:

I was wrong.

This is the last book I finished.

That little bunny is so darn adorable.

My mom still has the copy she got when I was a baby.

[Lollipop]

And I was wrong. I have started a new one at my mom's, it's called Angel Falls by Kristin Hannah. I'm about halfway through it. Mom brain made me forget