Anyone remember the Pizza Hut Book It reading program? Did you know it’s still around? I had no clue. I was thinking about writing a post on the books I’ve read lately and it popped into my head. My sister and I were champion Book It-ers. It was a treat to go to Pizza Hut when we were young, so having our Book It coupons was great. Pepperoni personal pan pizza please!
Which made me wonder, what if we had a grown-up Book It program? Where the reward was free wine instead of free pizza? That would be awesome! Count me in!
Until that happens, I guess I’ll have to settle for paying for my wine.
Every six weeks or so a group of us get together to talk books. We meet a restaurant (or resternaunt as Peach likes to say) so no one has to cook or prep or chase after kids and we chat about the book we read. We gather around with our Nooks, Kindles and iPads pulling out favorite quotes and questioning character’s decisions. I think each of us has our own genre that we tend to read the most, but we all come together to pick out something that we may not have picked on our own.
Since joining this lovely group of ladies, we’ve read:
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
A Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
The Giver by Lois Lowry
There are some goodies in that list. And a couple that I wasn’t a fan of <cough (House of Sand and Fog) cough>. But they have all helped me to branch out into books I may not have read otherwise. Our next two books are Defending Jacob by William Landay and The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch.
Along with the book club books, my Kindle has been getting a workout recently between traveling for work and vacation (Ah, Mexico, how I miss you!). Here’s what I’ve read lately:
Sarah Addison Allen is one of my favorite authors. I gobble up her books as soon as they come out. Right now I’m reading The White Queen by Philippa Gregory. I’ve had it and The Red Queen on my list for quite a while and finally bit the bullet. (To see what else is on my to-read list, check out my GoodReads page.)
Whew. That’s a lotta books. I deserve a glass of wine just for writing about all of them!
Oh, one last thing…so excited about the new Outlander series on starz! Loved those books by Diana Gabaldon.
What books are you reading? Anything I should add to my list?
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