Susannah’s Comments (group member since Aug 13, 2014)

Susannah’s comments from the All About Books group.

How to Survive a Summer by Nick White
4/27/18: 214-306 (92 pages)
4/28/18: 307-352 (45 pages)

The Alienist by Caleb Carr
4/28/18: 1-36 (35 pages)

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
4/29/18: 172-291 (119 pages)

Total: 291 pages

Friday, Nov. 24: 67 pages
Saturday, Nov. 25: 42 pages
Sunday, Nov. 26: 144 pages

Total: 253 pages

Books:
Party Girls Die in Pearls by Plum Sykes
John by Cynthia Lennon

Saturday, Sept. 23: Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World, 10 pages
Sunday, Sept. 24: Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World, 77 pages

Total: 87 pages

Friday: Vanity Fair-32 pages
Saturday: How to Repair a Mechanical Heart-92 pages
Sunday: How to Repair a Mechanical Heart-99 pages
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane-62 pages

Total-285 pages

Saturday and Sunday: Modern Lovers, 68 pages
Sunday: The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 3: Commercial Suicide, 62 pages

Total: 130 pages

I'm so sorry to be so late! Here are my stats for last weekend:

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (audiobook): 16 pages
You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour: 142 pages
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Eight, Volume One: The Long Way Home by Wheadon, Jeanty, et al (comic bind-up/trade ppk): 136 pages

294 pages total

I love this book. I don't currently have a copy of it, but I'll try to find one and read it this month. I love how unaffected it is compared to other books about reading. For me, it's the best book about books there is. :)

So sorry for the delay! I read 243 total pages last weekend.

Sorry for the delay! I forgot the read-a-thon was last weekend until I re-read the email about it. :-(

My total for this weekend was 114 pages:

Dodsworth (audiobook): 34 pages
A Wrinkle in Time: 50 pages
The Persians and Other Plays: 30 pages

Sorry to be late. I read 195 pages total this weekend.

Oh my word, I totally forgot to post my total earlier today! I'm sorry. My total was 217 pages.

I hope this is ok to post: The Hangman's Daughter is the Daily Deal on Audible for Monday, November 3 (possibly US only; I apologize that I'm not sure how Daily Deals might work outside of the United States). It's available for $4.95.

http://bit.ly/1ty2a9W

241 pages total for me:

Oryx and Crake: 83 pages
Gone Girl (audiobook): 15 pages
The Westing Game: 18 pages
The Culling (Kindle book): 125 pages

My weekend total was 261 pages. I'm really enjoying these read-a-thons. Hope we do another one in October!

My weekend total was 231 pages.

Never Change: 158 pages
Outlander: 73 pages

Apologies for the delay to my post!

Greg wrote: I'll post some info on some of my favorite venues for plays & musicals in LA county under the plays & musicals thread later this weekend, and I'll try to post a link here too so it's easier to find...."

Thanks, Greg! Sounds great. And I'll definitely post if I see anything I'd like to recommend.

Chrissie wrote: "Susannah, Magritte was Belgian and in Brussels there is a whole mu..."

Thanks, Chrissie. I'm traveling to Chicago in October to, among other things, go to the Magritte exhibit currently on at the Art Institute. I'm really looking forward to it.

Greg wrote: "Welcome Susannah! I actually work in Orange County (Irvine) myself although I live in Los Angeles County..."

Leslie wrote: "Welcome Susannah! Glad to have another fan of drama join us :)"

Thank you all for the warm welcome! I really appreciate it.

Greg, I work in Aliso Viejo, so I'm just down the 5 from Irvine. :-D My condolences to you for what must be a wretched daily commute. I take the toll road from work to north Orange County where I live and fuss the entire way.

I'd love to know if you can recommend any of the smaller theater groups in Los Angeles. I look at the listings all the time, but I haven't been adventurous enough to try any of them out. I have been to the Geffen though and I saw Gatz at Redcat in November 2012. Do you know about this show? It's presented by a company out of New York called Elevator Repair Service. I've linked to their site, but essentially the show is an 8-hour, complete reading/dramatic presentation of The Great Gatsby. It was phenomenal.

I am a big fan of modern art, and, to a slightly lesser extent, contemporary art. My favorite painting is The Treachery of Images (Ceci n'est pas une pipe) by Rene Magritte.

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I saw it at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art a couple of years ago, and I was totally taken in by it - the message it sends and, especially, how clean it looks. I love the way this bright, straightforward image throws all your perceptions into disarray.

Hi everyone, my name is Susannah, and I am a project manager living in Orange County, California.

I've been trying to expand a bit lately with Goodreads reading groups, but I've wanted to be sure that the group is active and reading books that I think I'll want to read too. All About Books definitely meets both of those criteria! I can't believe how active the group is! I am looking forward to reading more of the discussion threads and discussing the group's selections with all of you. I'm especially happy to see that there is a regular play selection, as I love dramatic literature and think there is so much fodder in them for discussion.

As for favorites, I am a total evangelist for The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. I have been known to give this one as a gift whether friends and family have expressed interest in it or not. ;) Also, my very favorite non-fiction book is The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theater by Leah Hager Cohen.