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Book haul #2 from Friday

Am I too late? Sorry I was flying, no internet 🤭#australianreadinghour

 @LapReader thanks for the tag

This picture makes my huge Australian book look so small. Great reading an Australian book while flying home towards it, great timing! 👏🏻😍

If it's not too late in turn I tag @Freespirit 💚💚

I was worried. I really didn‘t enjoy Truly, Madly Guilty, and I was afraid I wouldn‘t like this either. Reader, I had nothing to be worried about! Thoroughly enjoyable with excellent pacing, fun dialogue and an engaging premise.

Yesterday, my frustrations with my life came to point, and now, I‘m trying to clear my head. It was really great to finish a book this morning about people getting on with life. Sometimes shit works out! 👍🏻

I was extremely disappointed in this book! I absolutely loved Big Little Lies and had high hopes for this story, but it unfortunately fell flat. The storyline was so ridiculous that I found myself just trying to get to the end. Also, the fact that there were nine main characters and points of views made it hard to build a connection with any of them. It was just an all-around terrible book.

I‘m so surprised that it seems readers either love or hate this book. I loved it! Moriarty‘s snarky look at real people and real lives always seems so funny and honest to me. Then there‘s the twist- and it became a thriller! I listened to most of it on audiobook and it is excellent!

This book took me by surprise. I had to readjust my expectations a few times, and actively decide to lean into its more farcical elements or they‘d have seemed too ridiculous to take any of the rest of it seriously. But it was an easy, enjoyable read, with several characters who I found myself rooting for affectionately. Didn‘t charm and fascinate and move me, like Big Little Lies managed to do. But still fun.

Storyline took a while to develop for me, just meh on this one.

Nine perfect strangers check into a health retreat, where their “protocol” is a little unusual.... this book was half way between a pick and so so for me. It‘s the type of novel you read when you don‘t want anything too “heavy” - such as when you‘re at the beach or between bigger books that need a bit of brain power.

Not her best work, sadly. I liked the premise; self help and personal improvement is a huge market and who doesn‘t want to be transformed?! But the twist is a bit daft, the back stories take up the bulk of the book so it seems to take forever to actually get going, and the characters themselves are a bit on the nose, tbh. A quick and fairly absorbing read, but Moriarty has written better. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Absolutely loved this. It took me a little while to get into, but once the proper story started, I couldn't stop listening to it.

I keep trying to give Liane Moriarty a chance but I just cannot love her writing style. I will finish this book since I have so much time invested so far. I just dont understand why she drags her story out for so long before she gets to the big moment (which ends up being so anticlimactic)

My inner thriller genre lover is very suspicious of the smoothies and five days of silence, however I don‘t think this‘ll be a thriller type of book 🤔

Did manage to get some concentrated #reversereadaton hours in this afternoon and finished the second half of this! I enjoyed it, although sometimes it was spread a little thin amongst so many characters. I had also expected this to be a locked room mystery for some reason and that's really not it at all. Typical LM, the only mystery aspect is what really drove these characters to the Tranquillum House spa in the first place.

This was a very strange book . . . Readable, didn‘t get bored . . . But very weird story.

This book is between a Pick & a So-So. It was a weird strange road but I enjoyed reading it. Masha was very over the top and didn‘t seem like a real person. There was a lot going on with everyone‘s back stories, but it didn‘t get confusing. Everyone was a very distinct character.

I think I liked Big Little Lies more. This book was just all over the place. Not in a messy way. A health resort I never want to go to.

TW: discussion of suicide.

#BFCR2 Wk 5 check-in. Still on my 3rd book, I lost my momentum after I got back from vacation at the end of June. Average weeky 8k step goal, result 6k. No excuses but the life of a work at home techie makes it very hard. On a side note I've lost 11 lbs during this time period so I'm claiming success, lol.

#teamnewbie @wanderinglynn @laurar311 @crazyspine @WriterAtHeart @BookishBelle @mc916 @jmtrivera @Honeybeegirl

Misty! Thank you so much! What a truly wonderful surprise in my mailbox today! Thank you, my friend, for thinking of me! 📬💌😊 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Just finished this one instead of watching one of my favorite tv series with my husband because I just couldn‘t put it down. Did I love it as much as her other books? No. But it was an enjoyable read and I wasn‘t able to guess how everything was going to work out. There were parts that heart my heart, but I would still recommend this one #booked2019 #bookgiftedtoyou (a wonderful Christmas gift from my husband)

Nine people from different backgrounds and experiences plan a stay at a health resort for a variety reasons and put their well being in the hands of a woman who has some unique ideas on how to help them reach their goals.

I feel Frances here! Having to give up wine and books! Yikes!!

I started this book this weekend, because I needed a “beachy” read.

Currently they are at this resort where they can‘t read, write, talk or touch for 5 days! I feel like I would go crazy! 🤪

Hour 42 challenge- my favorite book so far has been Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty. Her books are hit or miss for me, but I‘m always a sucker for “locked room mysteries”, which this book kind of is, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! #24in48

This was so good but too long! I ended up skipping to the end at around Chapter 66 or so. I didn‘t feel that I needed to go back, I felt like I knew what had happened. #nofomo

Unexpected road trip today and tomorrow. I had been looking forward to (hopefully) finally achieving 24 hours for #24in48, but alas, life happens. I will attempt to get some reading in this weekend and am so looking forward to this one.

This quote stood out to me because I feel like entitled new money people also have a very creamy vibe.

The more Jessica changed her face and body, the less secure she got.

DEAL ALERT 🚨- Barnes & Noble is having a huge sale right now!

They have hardcovers for $5 and paperbacks for $4! I just got 7 books for $32!! They also have 20% off and free shipping if you get $35 worth of books (I think)! I was able to get free shipping!

You need to check out this sale!

#bookhaul #barnesandnoble #bn

📚 Tagged. Maybe because of the resort 🤔
🎥 Life as a Mermaid
🎵 Havana by Camila Cabello
#ManicMonday
Btw Jody! @JoScho I finally got my confirmation from Brooklyn Public Library today! 🤗♥️ so I‘m all signed up!! I borrowed an ebook on cloud library... but I can‘t figure out how to send it to my Kindle 🤔

#BookFitnessChallenge @wanderinglynn @crazyspine

It's been a hard week, back from vacation on Sun; book 2.25 of 6. Back to work on Mon. Got sun poisoning on my lips on vacay. Pain in such a small area but I actually felt very sick. My company was the only company in the US open on Friday, longest day ever, ugh.

Still reading my same book from Saturday. Step average around 6k goal was avg of 8k.

Good news Nine Perfect Stranger is good so far!

I enjoyed it. The author wrote some funny lines interspersed with some poignant moments. May return to read more titles at some point.

Definitely enough to put you off going to a spa for a week to recoup. The nine perfect strangers who did got more than they bargained for. The back stories of the characters are key to the success of this for me. The bizarre events took half the book to reveal .It was not what I expected and the reveal did make me feel less enthusiastic but
it moved on much faster and many threads that had been unravelled, ravelled up nicely by the end.

Read this for a book group I‘m in, and I really enjoyed it. There was definitely some twists in the book that I wasn‘t expecting, but it was good.

#wellnesswednesday #selfcare #livingmybestlife

Because Panera has been so disappointing lately, oatmeal and teavana iced tea at Starbucks, and a new library book!

Amazing package of books and goodies for #summersantagoespostal! Thank you so so much @mirsophie I have not read any of these yet and they all look like great summer beach books! The treats look yummy and the unicorn bookmarks are so cute. I am so excited about everything! @BookishMarginalia

I laughed and smiled so much! Why don‘t people like this?

My only experience of this author is through the watching of Big Little Lies. Which I love! So here's hoping for good things.

An entertaining listen but way too long, and it took quite a dark turn there after the halfway point. Not my favorite Moriarty. But the narrator was excellent.

⭐️⭐️ This book is tough to review. The first half was good and easy to read. After an odd twist I lost interest and felt the characters weren‘t easy to like. There were too many points of view and the whole book felt kind of disjointed. The ending felt rushed and unsatisfying. Overall, not my favorite.

Well I guess it‘s good that I‘ve moved from 1095 in line to 456!!

Hopefully this book is worth the wait!

Anyone else out there waiting to borrow a book and still have months to go?

Started off okay, took a turn towards weird, then smoothed out all the wrinkles. Quirky characters, a spa setting, a very unusual spa treatment plan, and nine strangers all looking for change. Ended up enjoying this more than expected.

It may be January for Nine Perfect Strangers, but it‘s #Summer in Australia!

Day10 #30JuneBooks with #Summer
@HowJessReads
#CurrentReadMatchesDailyChallengeAgain

One of the first book club selections this year, and I liked it but found the pacing to be slow and the characters to be frustrating.

Inspired by all you audio walkers, I got off my couch and went for a walk! Thanks for your posts!

This is definitely not my favorite from this author, however it held my attention. Slow start to the book, but I am glad I kept on going. It had a pretty good stretch the last 3rd of the book.

Finishing this one up today, and to be honest....I‘m a bit disappointed. I really enjoyed other titles of hers, but this one isn‘t quite for me. And it‘s forever turned me off from visiting a health resort 😂😂

A nice light summer read which makes me think it might actually finally be spring. It kept me reading and chuckling and sometimes that is all you want from a book on a Holiday weekend.

It was the ending that brought the overall review of the book, I did enjoy the beginning but towards the end just felt rushed and quick to wrap up. I still recommend it, not a bad read.