Amy D. > Recent Status Updates

This might become a DNF. It has been interesting enough, but I feel like I get the gist and may not be interested enough in business to continue.

Eek. This is disturbing. Should be a must-read (although I'm sure plenty of people would say women are overreacting!)

I'm liking it more than I was when I was a third of the way in, but I'm still not getting the hype. Was the hype because of her other books? I like it enough, but so far it's no where near my top memoirs.

Quirky book, fun characters, wacky mishaps.

I found this at a book fair. I am not usually drawn to this time period, but because I know the author (but was unaware of the book), I was drawn to it. What a great way to make me learn about the American Revolution. And a WOMAN'S story during the Revolution? Even better!

How old is Whitley? Should I keep trying to figure it out, or just accept that I don't know!

How soon is too soon to decide this will be a 5-star read?

I may DNF this one. I love the premise and the book would have been very helpful in my 20's. I am now at a point where I'm more interested in the history, policy, and societal forces rather than needing these reminders.

I hesitate to admit it, but so far this isn't holding my attention like I anticipated. Perhaps unfairly I thought it may be similar to a Nora Ephron series of essays, or that of another second-wave-feminist writer, but so far, I'm not feeling it.

Glad I found this entertaining little book while searching my library app for Fahrenheit 451 (which currently has a waiting list of "several months.") The concept is a librarian talking to (or writing letters to) lots and lots of well known books, so a good, light choice for people who love books.

Reading this so shortly after Weyward was not planned, but so far it seems as though there are a lot of similarities.

I keep going back to reread sections. If I knew ahead of time how detailed and historic this would be, I wouldn't have read it. I'm glad I didn't know because I'm learning a LOT.

So far irreverent, brilliant, absurd and on a tightrope precariously suspended above fantastical.

I think I'm going to DNF this one. Too much chemistry-type stuff for me. Not quite holding my interest. Separate from it not totally holding my interest, it does seem a lot like the Sackler family just decades earlier!

The women in pink suits gave me the impression that this would be more focused on women. While there are frequent reminders that some businesses recruited women to sell and the one woman's story is woven throughout the book, there sure seems to be a lot about the history of men in Amway.

Glad I kept going after not loving the first couple long chapters. I'm enjoying it more now that the author is telling her story and not history from hundreds of years ago (no offense to explorers of hundreds of years ago!)

Returning to a childhood favorite to balance out all the heaviness of recent books.

Fascinating! This book puts into words a lot of thoughts I've had in the last few decades (starting with an early '00s reflection that I was lucky to go through my 17-22 years in a time of grunge and flannel). Listening to audio but definitely want to reread paper/ebook.

Perhaps a bit early to commit to 5 stars, but it's sure seeming like it. Not many people can share a story of infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. Fascinating.

I keep being reminded of Keiko from Convenience Store Woman, although the main characters have plenty of differences.

I wish he'd quit calling her "Violence!"

This book could be 200 pages shorter if we could skip the scenes where Violet is lusting after Xaden. Gets old for me.

Totally not my genre, but I guess I'll try it to see what all the fuss is about!

What are the chances that I read two completely unrelated books (one fiction and one nonfiction) that both mention the Waxwing bird?

How is it that Kate Dicamillo can use such everyday words, and yet strung together they are so beautiful?

I know this was among the Goodreads Award nominees. not sure if it was for memoir or audiobook, but I sure wish I had started it earlier so I could vote for it! I love hearing him narrate his own story.

Wouldn't usually start the Christmas books until after Thanksgiving, but my two current nonfiction books are so intense that I need a break.

So frustrating and disturbing (and truthful). I'm needing to take a lot of breaks into cozy mysteries@

Doing a reread prior to reading James. Good thing too, since it's shocking how little I remember.