EPBOT Readers discussion

Hello everyone,

I hope everyone had a great first week of September. If you're in the US I hope you had a good long holiday weekend. There is definitely a fall feel in the air and the days are noticeably shorter here.

I finished reading The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts. It was a very fast read as about half the book is describing a symptom, how it presents, why it happens and offering some solutions. So that half was very fast for me.

On my kindle I finished two short stories Eerie Basin: A Short Story and Bad Date: A Short Story. They were both Amazon first read bonus stories and were okay. Of the two I liked Eerie Basin more because it was a more complete story even if I don't usually care for the horror-like genre.

I restarted Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations. I like essays because they're short and offer a lot of easy stopping points.

I'm still listening to Project Hail Mary. I'm still loving it as much as the first time but now in the different format.

QOTW:
Did anyone else watch The Thursday Murder Club movie last week?

We watched it on Thursday and had been eagerly anticipating it. We enjoyed it. But I would have preferred a mini-series as 2 hours felt far too short to do enough character development. More time would have added depth to the story.

Hello, all. I'm officially on vacation. We're heading out on Tuesday.

Finished:
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders - 4 stars - not for a prompt. A contemporary fantasy about a trans grad student who teaches her mother how to do magic to try to bring her out of her depression after the death of her mother's wife. This is a story about trauma, grief, and healing. I quite enjoyed it.

Currently reading:
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed - not currently for a prompt

Upcoming/Planned:
Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher - not currently for a prompt

A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna - not currently for a prompt

QOTW:
No, I haven't read the book and had no idea it was going to be a movie.

I had a nice Labor Day weekend but then work was A Lot so I feel like it was a wash.

I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir - I happened to see an old clip of Harvey Fierstein on a late night show talking about his memoir, which he apparently wrote because he was bored during lockdown. Celebrity memoir from a fascinating person who is also a writer? Yes, please! I thought it was great. I'm sure if you're an audiobook person that would be the way to go, but his voice comes through just fine in the text.

QOTW: I did not love the book as much as some, and I don't watch much TV, so it's a no from me. I did hear the same complaint elsewhere (that it would be better as a series). Mirren and Brosnan are always great, though, and omg Richard E. Grant is in it??