Wednesday Reading Meme
What I Just Finished Reading: Since last week I read two books, My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall and Murder Past Due by Miranda James. Unfortunately, neither of them was really my cup of tea. Reviews below.
What I'm Reading Right Now: I'm halfway through The Book of Flora by Meg Elison, the third book in the Road to Nowhere trilogy. I'm really enjoying it. It makes me think!
What I'm Planning to Read Next: Tomorrow night at midnight our dice roll with happen for the Super Series challenge. If we land on 24 I intend to read Lucky Charm by Annabel Chase, the 4th book in the Spellbound series. Otherwise I'll read the 2nd book in the Charm of Magpies series, A Case of Possession.
12. My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall
I think I need to stop reading memoirs. This one starts out well, and I very much enjoyed Penny’s stories of growing up in the Bronx and her positive spin on a difficult childhood with mostly absent parents. Penny got pregnant while in college, married the father who she barely knew, and when Hollywood beckoned she left her child behind… supposedly because both sets of grandparents told them that they’d gone to court and got custody. What?? What follows is Penny’s abandonment of her child as she makes TV shows, does a lot of drugs, and travels the world. She eventually gets her daughter Tracy back when she marries Rob Reiner, when the child is about 10 or so, and it seems this is only because there’s jealousy issues with Tracy’s new step-sibling at her dad’s house
I just found myself getting more and more angry with Penny as she talked about her exploits because I was always thinking, where is your daughter while you are doing this? Who is watching her? I don’t know. I have nothing against drugs or strings-free sex, but a lot of this just rubbed me the wrong way.
Dates Read: January 31 to February 03, 2023
Page Count: 354
3 out of 5 stars
Around the Year in 52 Books - Prompt 46 - title contains a world often found in a recipe (12/52)
Lost Challenges Pyramid of Books - Task 5 - read 5 books that have at least 3 colours on their cover (01/05)
Lost Challenges A to Z Covers - B - Baseball Glove (12/26)
Challenge Factory Dusty Bookshelf - February pick
13. Murder Past Due by Miranda James
A famous writer returns to his home town to donate his works to a library and to claim the 18-year-old son he didn’t know he had… and then he promptly gets murdered. Charlie, the librarian, and the cat that he takes with him everywhere get involved because the teen is his boarder, and because his housekeeper asks him to, and because he’s really just pretty nosey. There was a good mix of suspects to keep the reader guessing.
However, I just couldn’t get into this one, mostly because the writing was just so precise. Charlie can’t just “clean up.” He has to take his cup to the sink, rinse it, squirt some dish soap in it, give it a wash, rinse it out, put it upside down in the dish drainer. I MEAN. It drove me batty. And I love cats, but the fact that he brought this one everywhere just didn’t make sense. A funeral? Really? I’m sorry, Diesel the cat. I’m sure you’re lovely.
An average rating for the mystery, but I won’t be reading the rest of the series.
Dates Read: February 04 to 06, 2023
Page Count: 303
3 out of 5 stars
Around the Year in 52 Books - Prompt 43 - involves a murder (13/52)
Lost Challenges Pyramid of Books - Task 9 - read 9 books that have a cover you like (04/09)
Lost Challenges A to Z Covers - E - Eyes (13/26)
Challenge Factory Super Series - “17” - first book in series
LJ BookBingo - recced by spikedluv (03/12)
Thank you for the rec, spikedluv! I appreciate it even though this one didn't work out.
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What I'm Reading Right Now: I'm halfway through The Book of Flora by Meg Elison, the third book in the Road to Nowhere trilogy. I'm really enjoying it. It makes me think!
What I'm Planning to Read Next: Tomorrow night at midnight our dice roll with happen for the Super Series challenge. If we land on 24 I intend to read Lucky Charm by Annabel Chase, the 4th book in the Spellbound series. Otherwise I'll read the 2nd book in the Charm of Magpies series, A Case of Possession.
12. My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall
I think I need to stop reading memoirs. This one starts out well, and I very much enjoyed Penny’s stories of growing up in the Bronx and her positive spin on a difficult childhood with mostly absent parents. Penny got pregnant while in college, married the father who she barely knew, and when Hollywood beckoned she left her child behind… supposedly because both sets of grandparents told them that they’d gone to court and got custody. What?? What follows is Penny’s abandonment of her child as she makes TV shows, does a lot of drugs, and travels the world. She eventually gets her daughter Tracy back when she marries Rob Reiner, when the child is about 10 or so, and it seems this is only because there’s jealousy issues with Tracy’s new step-sibling at her dad’s house
I just found myself getting more and more angry with Penny as she talked about her exploits because I was always thinking, where is your daughter while you are doing this? Who is watching her? I don’t know. I have nothing against drugs or strings-free sex, but a lot of this just rubbed me the wrong way.
Dates Read: January 31 to February 03, 2023
Page Count: 354
3 out of 5 stars
Around the Year in 52 Books - Prompt 46 - title contains a world often found in a recipe (12/52)
Lost Challenges Pyramid of Books - Task 5 - read 5 books that have at least 3 colours on their cover (01/05)
Lost Challenges A to Z Covers - B - Baseball Glove (12/26)
Challenge Factory Dusty Bookshelf - February pick
13. Murder Past Due by Miranda James
A famous writer returns to his home town to donate his works to a library and to claim the 18-year-old son he didn’t know he had… and then he promptly gets murdered. Charlie, the librarian, and the cat that he takes with him everywhere get involved because the teen is his boarder, and because his housekeeper asks him to, and because he’s really just pretty nosey. There was a good mix of suspects to keep the reader guessing.
However, I just couldn’t get into this one, mostly because the writing was just so precise. Charlie can’t just “clean up.” He has to take his cup to the sink, rinse it, squirt some dish soap in it, give it a wash, rinse it out, put it upside down in the dish drainer. I MEAN. It drove me batty. And I love cats, but the fact that he brought this one everywhere just didn’t make sense. A funeral? Really? I’m sorry, Diesel the cat. I’m sure you’re lovely.
An average rating for the mystery, but I won’t be reading the rest of the series.
Dates Read: February 04 to 06, 2023
Page Count: 303
3 out of 5 stars
Around the Year in 52 Books - Prompt 43 - involves a murder (13/52)
Lost Challenges Pyramid of Books - Task 9 - read 9 books that have a cover you like (04/09)
Lost Challenges A to Z Covers - E - Eyes (13/26)
Challenge Factory Super Series - “17” - first book in series
LJ BookBingo - recced by spikedluv (03/12)
Thank you for the rec, spikedluv! I appreciate it even though this one didn't work out.
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