EPBOT Readers discussion

Hello everyone,

I hope you all had a good week. I'm home from my mother's. She had two procedures and is now home and on her own again and much better than before. Sometimes it is hard to get issues of the elderly taken seriously.

Anyway, on my 7 hour drive home I finished listening to Margo's Got Money Troubles. I gave this 3 stars. It held my interest and took interesting turns. I liked her relationship development with her dad. I thought it asked or pointed out interesting cultural things to consider. But it was clearly written by someone who doesn't know much about babies and the baby was kind of just a prop in the story.

I'm still reading The Fourth Daughter. I am liking it more, the more I read. Usually I don't like books with timelines that jump back and forth. But this one is done in a way that makes a lot of sense, does its job, and then gets back to the main story. The timeline jumping is probably 25% of the book, not 50%.

Today I just started listening to Burn for Me. It was recommended by someone here (I think) or on the Book Nerds group maybe.

QOTW:
What is the weirdest book you’ve ever read (for however you define weird)?

Off the top of my head the only one that comes to mind for me is The God Engines. This was a very strange and un-Scalzi like story, but by John Scalzi. I didn't like it and that has stuck with me.

I went through my "Read" list on GR for the last few years. Other weird books that stand out as weird, but in a good way, are the various ones by Mary Roach. My faves are Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal.