Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine discussion

Come introduce yourself. Tell us something about what you love to read or what books we definitely should check out.

Try starting off with some of these questions:

Favorite book of all time. (Yes, you must pick one)

Best book you've read this year?

Where's your favorite reading spot?


Speed Rounds This or That:

Coffee or Tea

Wine or Soda

Popcorn or Cookies

Shoes or Bags

Hi!

My fave book of all time is the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.

The best book I have read so far this year is The Witches of New York by Ami McKay.

My fave reading spot is the couch in my living room.

Speed round:

Tea
Wine
Popcorn
Shoes

Cheers!

I think my favorite book of all times is Replay by Ken Grimwood.

Best book I have read so far this year: City of Thieves by David Benioff

My favorite reading spot is the reading nook in my room.

Coffee
La Croix
Popcorn
Shoes

Favorite book: Harry Potter series (I read them with my girls growing up before bedtime- best memories ever!)
Best book this year: The Last Mrs Parrish
Favorite reading spot: My hammock in back yard

This or that:
Sweet Tea
Dr Pepper
Popcorn
Bags

Hi! I'm Kori and I'm so happy you are starting to use this more. Instagram is nice but it's hard to keep up with what everyone is saying.
I do not have a favorite book but I love anything by Augusten Burroughs.
Best book I've read this year, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate: Viewer Guide
Favorite reading spot is in bed.

Tea, Wine, Popcorn, Shoes.

I'm also Kori! I really enjoy suspenseful thrillers and mysteries; Gillian Flynn, B.A. Paris, Ruth Ware, etc. I don't think I have a favorite book, but my favorite book from this year would either be "In a Dark Dark Wood" or "Woman in the Window." And my favorite reading spot is curled up in the corner of the couch, next to my living room window.

Coffee/Wine/Cookies/Shoes

Favorite book of all time: Still Alice
Best book of this year: Galway Bay
Reading Spot: the beach

Coffee
Wine
Popcorn
Bags

Hello. Jeniece here. Excited to connect with everyone.

Favorite book of all time - Brighty of the Grand Canyon
by Marguerite Henry

Best book you've read this year - Nutshell by Ian McEwan

Where's your favorite reading spot - Couch in my living room by the bay window

Coffee
Wine
Cookies
Bags

Hi! I'm Jayne and I'm excited to share different reading experiences with you.

I love reading sci-fi and fantasy, but this year I'm trying to read other genres and I'm really happy with the books I read so far.

If you haven't read them yet (but I doubt it) and you want to start reading sci-fi and fantasy you should definitely read Pebble in the Sky, by Asimov (this is the base for Foundation - the serie that made him famous!), The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K. Dick, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and Harry Potter, of course.

- Favorite book of all time.
I have to say is Harry Potter (and the Order of the Fenix - because it is the one serie that taught me enjoy reading and made me the bookwarm I am today)
- Best book you've read this year?
I am Malala (hands down!)
- Where's your favorite reading spot?
My quiet and comfortable bed/room ♥

Speed Rounds This or That:
Coffee
Soda
Popcorn
Converse allstar (classic black and white Chuck Taylor)

Hi everyone! Nice to be here! I’m Erin from the Bay Area, but I just moved to DC in January.

My favorite book of all time is I’m Down by Mishna Wolf—it makes me laugh so hard. So far, the best book I have read this year was This Will be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins, and my favorite reading spot as of late, has been on the Metro during my commutes.

For the fast rounds:
Coffee girl.
I love a nice red wine
I would like popcorn with cookies on top if possible, and I’m a bag over shoe girl.

Erin! Cookies ON popcorn!? You just blew my mind!

Hello all! I'm Kate from Montana. I grew up in a library (my mom ran our local one) and have loved to read pretty much my entire life. I work in software development.

I read pretty much everything and enjoy pushing myself out of my comfort zone. My favorite book of all time... such a tough question. I have always enjoyed Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth series. This year my husband finally talked my into reading Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings which might be my favorite book so far this year. It also happens to be the longest book of the year thus far.

I love reading in the hammock or by the fire with a glass of wine. Or curled up on the couch with some music and a cup of tea on a cold day. But really anywhere works.

Excited to read with all of you.

Cheers!

Speed Rounds This or That:

Tea

Wine

Popcorn

Shoes

Jamie-Lee wrote: "Erin! Cookies ON popcorn!? You just blew my mind!"

Lol right? I was like that would be amazing. I'm sure exists at least with chocolate chips or something lol.

Hello, Nicole here! I’m excited to read along and connect with everyone!

I have always loved to read. I tend to gravitate toward contemporary fiction, fantasy, classics, and travel memoirs (have to fuel my wanderlust!). Over the last few years though I’ve been pushing myself to read more outside my comfort zone, so I’ve been reading a lot of nonfiction too.

Favorite book: My heart says Harry Potter, my head says The Alchemist
Favorite book this year: Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Favorite place to read: anywhere I can curl up with a blanket

Fast round:
Coffee
Wine (or a beer!)
Popcorn
Shoes

Hi
Favorite book - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Best book this year so far - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Fave place to read- in front of a fireplace where it is snowing outside with a great cup of coffee

Coffee
Soda
Popcorn
Bags

🙂

Hi!

Favorite book of all time. (Yes, you must pick one)
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Best book you've read this year?
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Where's your favorite reading spot?
Our Guest Room is also my library... I have set it up so cozily that I can be found often wrapped up in a blanket, drinking wine and reading a book in the bed.

Speed Rounds This or That:

Tea
Wine
Cookies
Shoes

Best book you've read this year? Under the Scarlet Sky

Where's your favorite reading spot? The beach


Speed Rounds This or That:

Coffee or Tea - coffee

Wine or Soda - red wine

Popcorn or Cookies - both and sometimes together

Shoes or Bags - shoes

Samantha wrote: "Hi!

Favorite book of all time. (Yes, you must pick one)
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Best book you've read this year?
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Where's your favorite readin..."

Man, I am so doing that with my guest room now. Great idea!

Nanette wrote: "Hi
Favorite book - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Best book this year so far - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Fave place to read- in front of a fireplace where it is snowin..."

I am reading Shadow of the Wind right now! So hooked :)

Favorite book of all time. (Yes, you must pick one): So hard! But I will have to go with Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

Best book you've read this year? The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

Where's your favorite reading spot? Couch or bed. I have dreams of one day having a reading nook/library, but I will need at least one fewer kid at home before that happens. (So close!!)


Speed Rounds This or That:

Coffee or Tea - Tea

Wine or Soda - Neither (Tea again)

Popcorn or Cookies - Popcorn

Shoes or Bags - Shoes

Favourite book of all time: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Best book I've read this year: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

Favourite reading spot: In bed with a cup of tea

Speed Rounds This or That:

Coffee or Tea - always tea
Wine or Soda - Wine
Popcorn or Cookies - Cookies if you mean what I would call biscuits (UK)
Shoes or Bags - Bags! Must be big enough to hold a book though

Favorite book of all time. (Yes, you must pick one)
the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Best book you've read this year?
the Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman

Speed Rounds This or That:

Coffee or Tea
Coffee

Wine or Soda
More Coffee!

Popcorn or Cookies
Popcorn

Shoes or Bags
Bags

Hi Everyone! I'm Shanna!

I love reading dramas, thrillers, historic fiction and mysteries.

Favorite book? (since 2016) - The Last Days of Night. - I highly recommend it.

Best book you've read this year (so far)? The Storm King

Where's your favorite reading spot? Outside on the backyard deck.

Speed Round:

Coffee & Tea
Soda
Popcorn with M&M's
Shoes

Hi Everyone!

I'm a book blogger who loves to read a bunch of different genres, but I really enjoy historical fiction, memoirs, young adult, and contemporary literature. I love talking books with other readers, and expanding my reading horizons!

My favorite book of all time...gah this question... the Harry Potter series is hard to beat.
The best book I've read this year has to be a toss up between Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover and The Sun is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon.
My fave reading spot is my hammock in warm weather, and my bed in the cold weather!

Speed Round:

Coffee
Wine
Cookies
Bags

Hullo, there. I love historical fiction and have a penchant for time travel books—and if you mix the two, then I'm totally in. Amnesia books have been a late time travel-esque discovery of mine. Otherwise, I also enjoy mystery, suspense, detective, chick-lit (though I abhor this label), and many other genres. Be it Adult or Young Adult, if it's a good book, I'm in.

Favorite book of all time: Pride and Prejudice (I'm trying not to roll my eyes with how typical it is, but there you have it.)

Best book you've read this year? The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Where's your favorite reading spot? Outside, once it's warm enough. Otherwise at my breakfast table.

Speed Rounds This or That:

Coffee or Tea

Wine or Soda

Popcorn or Cookies

Shoes or Bags

Favorite book of all time: Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier

Best book so far this year: The Things we do for love by Kristin Hannah

Coffee and lots of it.

Red Wine

Popcorn

Shoes- but not obsessively.

Jean Leisses

Hi everyone! My name is Jaclynne :)

My favorite books tend to be of the following genres: contemporary fiction, psychological thrillers, suspense and historical fiction! I like some chick lit but it needs to have depth for me find it enjoyable.

Favorite book of all time. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (so looking forward to the movie)

Best book you've read this year? The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Where's your favorite reading spot? My couch


Speed Rounds This or That:

Coffee
Wine
Cookies
Shoes

I read The Light we Lost this year also! Loved it.

Hello, I am currently a 32yr old undergrad and mom of three. I have loved reading since I was a kid. My parents had to make rules about when and where I could read because if allowed, I’d have my face in a book at all times, at the dinner table, under the covers with a flashlight at 2am, family gatherings, weddings, birthday parties, etc.

My favorite book of all time is Hero of Lesser Causes by Julie Johnston.

The best book I read this year was Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. It was required for a History class but it was fantastic.

My favorite reading spot is in a hammock outside when it’s not too hot out.

Coffee
Wine
Popcorn
Shoes

Hello, I'm currently reading Hitman Anders and the meaning of it all. I liked the 100-year old man that climbed out the window but I found The Girl who saved the King of Sweden a bit tedious. So far I'm liking this one by Jonas Jonasson.

My favourite book of all time is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It takes a while to get into it but the character development is amazing. I actually cheered out load at the end!

The best book I read this year was The One Man, by Andrew Gross.

My favourite reading spot is my porch swing when it's not too cold!

Coffee/Wine/Popcorn/Shoes

Hello, I’m Stephanie and I really enjoy mysteries, but I do read some chick lit and some historical fiction. I’m not much into the classics even though I wish that I did.

My favorite book of all time is In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware.

My favorite book so far this year is The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah.

I guess the couch would be my favorite place to read although I read a lot in bed too.

I don’t remember the order of this and that, but I prefer tea, cookies, wine and it’s a tight race between shoes and bags with shoes narrowly beating out bags.

Hi all, I've just turned half a century and live by the sea in the UK on the south coast.

My favourite book of all time is Wuthering Heights. I have enjoyed many books this year but the best one was Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.

I like to ready anywhere but my favourite spot is on the beach.

Speed round:
Coffee
Wine
Popcorn
Shoes & Bags (not going to make a choice... I need/want both!)

Jox

Hi there! I'm 59 and 4/12ths and avidly waterski and wake surf in NC.
My favorite book of all time is Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner and my favorite book so far this year is The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

My favorite place to read is outside on the porch.

Speed round:
Coffee
Wine
Popcorn
Shoes, shoes and shoes!

Hi

I am Lisa, I am from Brisbane Australia.

Thinking about my favourite book of all time, I can't decide between Little Women by Louisa May Alcott or Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery, I have reread both so many times and I still have a good cry whenever I do.

Favourite book of this year, A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.

Favourite reading spot, anywhere outside.

Tea
Wine
Poporn
Shoes

Hi! I'm Shirley, I'm a game developer from San Mateo, California.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin has been my favorite book since high school (it's still a common book to be assigned as school reading). It was a feminist text before feminism was even a label and feels more of a category with psychological, moody novellas, like a mix between The Metamorphosis and The Yellow Wall Paper, but set in this lush Louisiana setting near the Gulf of Mexico.

I know I'm late to the party with this book, but I finished The Nightingale early this year. The sister relationship resonated with me, and I went through the book speedily because Kristin Hannah's storytelling is well-paced.

I'd have to say my favorite place to read is outdoors, by trees, although to be honest most of my reading happens in bed.

Coffee
Wine
Popcorn
Shoes

Hi everyone I’m Tiffany! I love fantasy, horror, and science fiction the most, but dabble in a little of everything.
Favorite book of all time: The Witching Hour
by Anne Rice

Favorite book of the year: The All-Souls trilogy by
Deborah Harkness...( A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life)

Favorite reading spot: stuffed in the chaise of our big sectional.

Speed round:
Coffee
Soda with my popcorn
Shoes

My FAVORITE book is by author Stuart Woods - Chiefs. It was his first and he won the Edgar Award for it. He is a prolific writer and I own everything he has written, but his latest stuff is not that good. I'm just a loyal fan. (Also, Palindrome and Sante Fe Rules of his are fantastic.) Also The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah!!!

Best book this year, so far is The Ghost Writer by Allesandra Torre

My favorite reading spot is on our screened porch, in my favorite chair at our lake place.

Coffee
Wine
Popcorn
Bags

favorite book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling. I can (and have) read this book again and again 😊

best book this year so far: The Favorite Sister, Jessica Knoll. But I’m about to start The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware and I know I’m going to love her latest thriller! 📚

favorite reading spot is in a lounge chair by the pool, but the reality most days is sitting on the bus commuting to work 😕 📖

Tea ☕️
Wine 🍷
Cookies 🍪
Bags 👛

Keeping Portland Weird, I'm a woman of a certain age who's been reading my whole life. . . .in childhood our big weekly event as a family was walking to the library and my first biggest achievement in life was graduating from 1 book to 3 at the library. Librarians were the wonder workers of my world. . . .I've loved lots, sung lots, worked hard. I've cried easy, talked fast, embarrassed my kids, divorced their father, and quilted. I love people, stories, music, spirits, faith and laughter. I am rich in hope and and bothered by worry about ridiculousness more than I should be. Grandmothering is my best gig. I might write a book one day. . .that is on my bucket list, but I have learned that you need to listen louder than you sing. . .the longer I live the more that whispers up and down my spine. . . .

Favorite book of all time. (Yes, you must pick one) Gone With The Wind.

Best book you've read this year? 12 Christmas Stories by Jeanette Winterson. . .I finished it in mid January. . .and it hung with me til late spring. . .

Where's your favorite reading spot? On a quilt and under one. . .

Coffee or Tea. . .H20
Wine or Soda. . .H20
Popcorn or Cookies. Both
Shoes or bags. Both😍

Shoes or Bags. Both

Hi! I’m Mindy, a professional explainer (writer, editor, instructional developer, etc.) from Ohio. I’m also a social media manager for a successful author whose books are being turned into movies. I’ve loved reading for as long as I can remember. I love it so much that I have three degrees in literature.

I’m going through some health challenges, so at the moment, I read mostly audiobooks. I like most genres (really all but romances and graphic novels), but my favorites are thrillers and historical fiction.

My favorite books are Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

My favorite reading spot on our screened porch.

Both coffee and tea
Neither wine nor soda
Neither popcorn nor cookies
Neither bags or shoes

Hi y’all I’m Corina from Toronto.

My favourite book of all time is A Court of Mist and Fury tied with A History of Love.

Best book this year The Girl in the Tower

My favourite reading place is on the couch next the bookcase.

Tea
Wine
Popcorn
Shoes!

Hi, I'm Roseanne, a Librarian, from Elburn, IL

I'd have to say my favorite book of all time would be Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

The best book I've read this year is Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks

My favorite reading spot as a kid and still to this day is outside on a lounge chair on a perfect day. I also listen to books on audio so my favorite listening spot is in the car!

Coffee
Soda
Cookies
Bags

Favorite book of all time. Child me, Witch of Blackbird Pond. Tween me, Flowers in the Attic. Teen me, Jane Eyre. Adult me, ironically something YA like Simon and the Homo Sapiens Agenda or Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.

Best book you've read this year? Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. I can't get it out of my head.

Where's your favorite reading spot? Bed, ideally not my own bed. Er, that sounds wrong. I like to do hotel weekend getaways, and before checking in I like to buy lots of books and candy.


Speed Rounds This or That:

Coffee or Tea: Coffee!!! But I was more into tea for several years.

Wine or Soda: I haven't done soda (pop!!!) in a few months. Wine!

Popcorn or Cookies: Popcorn

Shoes or Bags: Neither, unless it's a book bag.

What else? I own a restaurant. I love animals. I'm married. I like reading in all the formats. I enjoy most genres, but a scifi book's synopsis has to really wow me for me to be interested. I'm politically liberal. I digitally borrowed 1Q84 from the library to find it has 1332 pages, and I'm doubting I'll finish it in time since I like to skip between books instead of dedicate myself to just one. Oh, I just hit another decade of life, and I'm ... no longer in my 40s.

Damn.

Favorite book of all time: Water for Elephants and Harry Potter series

Best book this year: Educated, The Great Alone, and Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine... can’t choose!!!

Favorite reading spot: outside in the garden with my dogs and a glass of 🍷

Tea, allllll the time!

Wine, and whether white or red, the answer is yes!

Popcorn

Nice to get to know everyone!!

Hi All,

Favorite book of all time is tough for me: My 1st book ever given to me is Charlotte's Web (I still have it). I love to reed Mystery, Thrillers, Romance and Fiction. The past year or so I have joined several book clubs to try and expand my reading horizon, so far so good. Best book of the year is Woman in the Window.
My favorite spot is anywhere I am. I always have my phone so I can read or listen to my current selection. The beach, back porch or den by the window are my current favs.

Tea
Soda
Popcorn
Matching shoes and bags

Women in the window was great!!! I could not stop listening to it (I was using audible). :)

Hi,
I'm Erika and I'm from The Czech Republic. I love reading since I can remember. My mum worked for a while in a bookshop so she was bringing me books very often :-)

Favorite book of all time. - 1984 by George Orwell

Best book you've read this year? On Writing by Stephen King

Where's your favorite reading spot? Somewhere in nature like a park or by the river.



Coffee or Tea - 50/50

Wine

Popcorn

Shoes

Hello there! Favorite book of all time - Well the first book that jumps into my head is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but as an adult it is literally impossible for me to have one jump out at me.

Best book you've read this year? The Breakdown by B.A. Paris - I liked this one all the way to the very last of the story! (sometimes I get bored with the end when the author is tying up all the story threads)

Where's your favorite reading spot? Literally anywhere. In my dreams I am sitting in a large armchair with my feet up with the evening sun coming in the windows. I have not been able to do that in years! Where I end up doing most of my reading? In the kitchen - while dinner is being prepared (water boiling, oven heating, waiting for dinner to be ready, etc), while the kids are doing homework (12, 11, and 9). I am fidgety and lost when I do not have something to read, so I fit it into my busy life whenever I can!


Speed Rounds This or That:

Coffee or Tea: Tea! Iced Sweet please!

Wine or Soda: Diet Coke

Popcorn or Cookies: Cookies!

Shoes or Bags: Bags!

I am always looking for good books and have liked several of the books on this list so far!

Hi -

Favorite book of all time: To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Best book this year: Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng

Favorite reading spot: outdoor patio

This or that:
- Coffee
- Wine
- Cookies
- Bags

Hello to My Fellow Book Worms,

Favorite Book of all time: All the Ugly Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood.

Favorite Book this year: Close call between The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen and The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah.

Favorite Spot to read: On my back deck with my dog and a glass on lemonade.

Coffee
Soda
Cookie
Shoes!

Love any book recommendations from those with similar interests. Thrillers, Suspense, Fiction, etc.