I’m just figuring out there’s a whole world of non-college threads on CC! Love this one as a lover of books (100+ per year) and a newly minted bookseller at my favorite indie bookstore!
Best book of the year so far was This Book Made Me Think of You. This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page | Fonts Books & Gifts
I’m contemplating leaving GoodReads and have heard there’s a way to import your books over. Good to hear positive reviews. I use it mostly for tracking but do like the GR feature of seeing what friends are reading to get ideas for my TBR list.
I forget how, but I definitely was able import my book lists from Storygraph.
Welcome to the thread! 
I finished Franny and Zooey (JD Salinger). It’s not my cup of tea, especially all the mother/son family ranting. So I was glad it was short (short story + novella). Still as usual with something new I’m glad to have read it, expanding my horizons.
For several years after college, I had a pair of cats named Franny and Zooey. Thanks for the reminder; they were good kitties.
(The next pair were Wally and Beaver. When our son was old enough for a pet, he got Potter and Weasley.)
When I was a kid, I was only allowed to have fish for pets. But I had a couple goldfish, a couple neon tetras, etc. I named them Adam and Eve, Samson and Delilah, Romeo and Juliet – and Jack and Diane.
When I was growing up, we had German Shepherds. They were called Brutus and Cleopatra (named by my parents). At some point 7- or 8- year old me was allowed to name our new Dobermann puppy and I thought I was being very original by naming him Caesar 
I had cats that I named Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar.
Sorry to get us off topic. Sometimes trying to keep a CC conversation on track is like herding cats. 
Speaking of, our current cats are named Mango and Dragonfruit (although we just call her Dragon). Our younger daughter has been lobbying to get an orange cat for years that she can name Papaya.
DH has vetoed any more critters.
Sorry, sorry back to the regularly scheduled book talk…
I just finished Taipei Story, R.F. Kuang’s newest book. If you’re looking for a plot with lots of twists and action, this isn’t for you. It’s the story - almost a diary - of an American-born Chinese girl’s post-freshman summer in Taipei studying Chinese. The writing is excellent, and the drama is primarily within the protaganist as she tries to connect with/understand herself and her heritage. Without being at all sentimental, it’s touching, and it explores the experience of being raised in one culture by parents of another.
I really enjoyed this and would recommend it, particularly if you like stories about young people.
You can definitely bring over your Good Reads database to StoryGraph. I use StoryGraph to recall what I’ve read, in case a friend asks for recommendations. I also like a “to read” list that I can go to at the library or when picking my next book.
For those who do not do book business with Ama$on, if you don’t have a local indie bookstore, you can order through Bookshop.org and indies benefit. Bookshop also has Ebooks!
If you listen to books, check out Libra.fm. Or of course your public library!
Just realized I mistyped this. What I had meant to say was that I imported my book lists from Goodreads TO Storygraph. Duh.
Has anyone else read Margo’s Got Money Troubles? I tried to search but can never get that to work. I expected to hate it based on topic/description but ended up really liking it. I listened to the audiobook which is narrated by Elle Fanning (who stars in the TV adaptation). Lots in there that might be interesting to discuss!
I tried reading “Margo” and couldn’t get into it. Passed the book on to my S who reads a lot.
I liked it and I am enjoying what I call “Hot Mess Girl” books like that, try some of these similar books:
I loved” Big Little Lies” by Liane Moriarty , but I’m finding “Big Little Truths “ a slog. It’s been awhile and I only watched a few episodes of the series. Just keeping track of who is/ was married to who, who had a child with who, etc. I need to make a chart ( seriously).
My book club read Margo’s Got Money Troubles. I did not really care for the writing style or the plot, but it did allow for interesting discussion when my book club met. There were several people who really liked it, but it just wasn’t something I would finished reading if not for bring able to participate in discussion.
Our current selection is Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy. I know this one has been around a while and maybe already mentioned here. I really like McConaghy’s writing style - you can tell she does a lot of research about the setting/subject matter. I look forward to discussing it. Several years ago I read another book by McConaghy called Once There Were Wolves set in Scotland. I think I liked it more than Wild Dark Shore as I loved the setting, as well as learning some interesting things about wolves.
I’m currently listening to You’ll Love it Here while on the treadmill. I listened to I Hope This Finds You Well not long ago; It brought up a lot about my working years.