Comments on: Feel Good Reading: Mini-Reviews

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:09:07 +0000

In reply to Susan. The Obamas!! The Barack crowd size comment?! I loved it. I'd like to be optimistic, but I'm not. Conservatives have the country in a chokehold. They don't care about the candidate they just want the power and Project 2025 and they'll get it. Even if she wins there's no guarantee some state electors will certify her win. It really is frightening.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:01:45 +0000

In reply to Chris G. Yes! It was good, but I wanted great.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:59:20 +0000

In reply to Lisa’s Yarns.

I also got the Paxlovid. I cannot even imagine what it would have been like if I weren’t vaccinated or able to take the anti-viral.

I’m so glad you loved Mrs. Quinn’s Rise. It was exactly what I needed (I almost wrote “kneaded”; I can’t help myself). 😉

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:57:15 +0000

In reply to Jan. It's a bit dark, but in a funny way. Sometimes I need that!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 20:55:34 +0000

In reply to Sally Mentzer. Thank you! I'm better, I just need to buckle down and write some reviews!

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:58:35 +0000

I hope you feel better. Wasn’t that DNC electric? So many good speeches … now we just need to vote her in. I’m fired up & pumped up & we won’t be denied this time. No way, no how. As for the books, I have read the Monica Wood book … and liked the parrots part in the book except for the head guy there. But the parrots were cool. take care.

By: Chris G

Chris G — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:55:09 +0000

Hope you feel better soon! I had a similar response to How to Read a Book, which I wanted to love because I’d really enjoyed The One in a Million Boy. I also found the book a bit too tidy and ending seemed abrupt to me. I loved the endnote/epilogue, but prior to that, the conclusion seemed to come in a rush and added an element (the woman who escaped from prison briefly) that I didn’t think was necessary.

By: Lisa’s Yarns

Lisa’s Yarns — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:20:55 +0000

I’m sorry to hear you have not been feeling well. That sounds like my first experience with covid in May of 2022. It was brutal and I was sick for a good 2 weeks. I had the prophylactic antibody injection so thought I would be fine. I learned that I should have gotten a paxlovid rx! So when I tested positive this past fall, I got paxlovid and my case was very mild – whether it was mild because that strain of covid was mild or the paxlovid did its trick, I’ll never know. Those of us with suppressed immune systems can have a really tough go when we get viruses like Covid!

I just finished “Mrs. Quinns Rise to Fame” which I read because of you! I love GBBO so it was such a delight to read! So thank you for bringing it to my attention!

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:26:51 +0000

Hope you feel better soon. I appreciate your recommendations here and on the podcast. I just finished You’d Look Better As A Ghost due to
your endorsement and I really liked it. It’s outside of the kind of book I usually read but your recap interested me so I took a chance on it
and was glad I did. Thanks!

By: Sally Mentzer

Sally Mentzer — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:23:05 +0000

Thank you for these book suggestions; I enjoy a lighter read every once in a while. I’m sorry to hear you are struggling with the after effects of COVID. Take care, and I hope you feel better soon.