Hi Fellow book worms, so what book/books have you read for the month of January?
Hi Fellow book worms, so what book/books have you read for the month of January?
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Hi Fellow book worms, so what book/books have you read for the month of January?
So far this month I have read 6 books. The Giver by Lois Lowry, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson, and The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens.
Elizabeth, wow! So tell me how did u like Murder on the Orient Express?
@Cleo it was excellent! My first Agatha Christie novel. I requested a few more of her books at the library. My goal is to read 100 books this year, so I am trying to stick to shorter novels.
Wow! Good for you i havent read any of her books but i heard Death on the Nile by her is really good 🙂
I loved “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie!
Elisabeth Sergeant be sure to try And Then There Were None – my favorite Agatha Christie mystery.
Animal Farm & Secret Garden are fantastic <3
Murder on the Orient Express, The Extinction Trials, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race, and halfway through A Tale of Two Cities.
Apasara, how did you like The Husband Secret?
Actually I don’t really know ?it was slow to begin with. But overall I guess it was pretty good. Not going to be a favorite. But reading reviews most people liked it.
So far I have read 9 books ?
How did u like Me before you?
Loved every single book she has written. I also watched the the movie me before you after I had read the book. I’m such a soppy cow the book made me cry.
@Cleo have you also read her books?
Lol! I have never read her books? but now since you told me i just have too?
@Cleo start with me before you as that’s the first one then read the other two that follow. You will enjoy it! Let me know how you get on 🙂
Will do thank you so much ?
My two favorites were She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb and Personal Story by Katharine Graham ( publisher of the Washington Post ). A couple of others that were / meh
By far my favorite was The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
So far for 2018, ive read the Night Circus and Gentleman in Moscow. I enjoyed both! ?
Loved the Night Circus!
LOVED Gentleman…
The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe
Milk and Honey by Rubi Kaul
The Sound of Glass by Karen White
A Long Time Gone by Karen White
A Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille
Fallen Home by Karen White
Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah
CURRENTLY READING
Crown of Blood by Nicola Tallis
I totally agree with you i have never been able to get into her books
I started My Lobotomy by Duffy around xmas and finished it after new year. I followed it with Cesar’s way by Cesar Millan.
Nudge by Thaler is what am currently reading.
Not all novels. But all volumes of comic books
This month I’ve read, The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, #3), The Book Jumper, The Fortune Teller, Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America, Darker, The Lost Gate, Those Girls, and, Never Let You Go
Never Let You Go was great
So far I have read: the Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny, Year One by Nora Roberts, and March by Geraldine Brooks. I also read Acts of the Apostles, commentary and actual text for a class. I am currently readin, and will definitely finish before the end though f January “When I’m Gone” by Emily Bleeker.
How was “Year One”?
Is March good? I read one of Geraldine Brooks’ other books, Year of Wonders.
@Dawna, “Year One” was different from what I expected. I honestly expected “chick lit” but it is not “chick lit”. Its kind of post-apocalyptic, dystopian, journey novel. I’m looking forward to the next in the series.
I never read “Year of Wonders,” so I cannot make a comparison. This is my first read by Geraldine Brooks. I, personally, like that she used a 19th Century writing style that conveyed time and place. It offered a look at the Civil War that I hadn’t really had before. And it fleshed out a character from one of my most favorite books from my youth.
Exactly. It made the family more real.
I just finished Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice. Now I’m enjoying Rose My Life in Service to Lady Astor by Rosina Harrison
This Dark Road to Mercy, The Little Paris Bookshop, Fallout (Sara Paretsky), and just started Something Wicked This Way Comes, which I read probably 55 years ago.
I loved Hillbilly Elegy. It gave me a lot to think about. I love when a book stays on my mind.
Fire &Fury- Michael Wolfe, Disgrace-Jm Coatzee
The tea girl of hummingbird Lane, before we were yours, sweet girl, they left us everything, an orphans tale. I’m trying very very hard to get through the Hour I first believed.
Oh, I loved Orphan’s Tale!
Trying
Grandma gatewood takes a walk
Invisible man
Sourdough
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
Bellevue
September
The thirteenth tale
The last two I think I read mostly in December but finished them in January
All great reads.
Right now I’m reading The Stolen Marriage
(1)”Gone Girl” – Gillian Flynn, (2) “If I Stay” – Gayle Forman, (3)”The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” – L. Frank Baum, (4)”The Breakdown” – B. A. Paris, (5)”Salem’s Lot” – Stephen King, and (6)”The Year of Less” – Cait Flanders (reading now)
Wow! Gina u have read 6 books already ? So how did u like Salem’s Lot?
@Cleo I really enjoyed “Salems Lot” It was not as horrifying as I thought it would be. That was my first horror book and first book by Stephen King. I will read more now that I am over the fear.
Believe it or not i have never read his books ?
Sarah’s Key, drama high, time machine, run mummy run, tiger’s tale. Halfway through The Bear and the nightingale and a third through 1984.
Hi Danielle how did you like Sarah’s Key
The ones we trust. and now reading the marriage lie.
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie and currently reading Anne of Avonlea
Hi April how did u like Big Little Lies?
It was a quick read, definitely one of those that you want to keep reading, but I didn’t love the book. It was okay
I just picked up the fancy new illustrated edition of Neverwhere to re-read!
Gone by Mo Hayder, The Dry by Jane Harper, and The Alice Network by Kate Quinn. I really enjoyed The Alice Network! I’m currently reading The Anatomist’s Apprentice by Tessa Harris.
Before We Were Yours (loved it!), The Librarian of Auschwitz (so-so, a bit of a disappointment for me) and The Alice Network which I am currently reading and loving!
Currently in Spring Warrens Turpentine and Station Eleven
Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger, History of Wolves
by Emily Fridlund, The Chalk Man
by C.J. Tudor,The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn. I am currently reading The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and The Dry by Jane Harper
What did you think of The Chalk Man?
It was worth the read. I have 4/5 stars.
Mostly Danielle Steel.
Hi Denise do u have a favourite if so which one?
I read the below books just recently and thoroughly enjoyed. I have read almost all of her books and the only two I remember not enjoying were one about Vietnam and one blind girl. Might have been my mood at the time? Don’t remember titles, sorry.
Mine are here:
http://www.50bookpledge.ca/user/209257640r/r/2018
Strange Weather by Joe Hill, The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, A Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin and currently reading Lolita and Devil in the White City. It’s been a busy month! ?
How was The Glass Castle? It’s been on my list.
@Jessica I really liked it. I have a friend who grew up in a similar situation and could relate.
I’m the only person who doesn’t like it. I thought it was overdone and repetitive.
I just finished Open by Andre Agassi.
What Remains True by Janis Thomas, Sweet Tea Tuesday by Ashey Farley, Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman, and currently reading Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng.
I loved Eleanor Oliphant!!
Me, too!
1 The Map; 2 Beastly Bones; 3 Ghostly Echoes; 4 The Dire King – all by William Ritter
5 The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
6 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
7 Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
8 The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Currently reading Mr Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva and Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Woman in the Window is my latest. Finished it yesterday.
I gave it 3/5 stars. Whatever that means!!
This month so far….
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Thin air
Dark matter
And currently reading if I die tonight, I’m looking forward too my next book, the 5 people you meet in heaven.
5 people you meet in heaven was such a good read i hope you enjoy it?
Loved dark matter!
Far From the Tree before that. 4/5!
Heart Shaped Box before that….scary!!! Fun!!
I’ve read A Man Called Ove, The Remains of the Day, and Racing the Devil.
The Home Place before that. Meh
I Spy, I saw her die.
I am reading living magically by Gill Edwards
Christmas, a Biography by Judith Flanders: Lady Fanshaw’s receipt Book by Lucy Moore: Septimus and the Danedyke Mystery by Stephen Chance : Septimus and the Minster Ghost by Stephen Chance: A Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh: Services of All the Dead by Colin Dexter: Morse’s Greatest Case and Other Stories by Colin Dexter: Hitler ‘s Last Army, German POWs in Britain by Paul Quinn. Currently rereading Excellent Women by Barbara Pym.
Burial Rites and Six of Crows. Almost done with the sequel to Six of Crows; Crooked Kingdom
Loved Burial Rites!
Eleanor Oliphant, The Wonder Spot , and currently reading Radium Girls ( ugh! So sad!) and trying to get into Red Clocks.
I just finished Gather the Daughters. Very thought provoking.
I read Eleanor Oliphant, A Wrinkle in Time, Noah’s Compass (Anne Tyler, for a book club), and I’m now reading The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn and listening to Slaughterhouse-Five on audiobook.
I need to re-read Wrinkle in Time before the movie comes out in March!
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (absolutely fabulous); The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller (fun and laugh-out-loud funny); Q is for Quarry (in honor of Sue Grafton’s passing); The Biggest Elvis by PF Kluge (excellent)
Love the Absolutely True… !!
The Center Cannot Hold by Elyn Saks
Every Last Word by Tamara Stone
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Not With the Band by Kelli Warner
The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert
Hope for Garbage by Alex Tully
Back to Us by Teresa Roman
The Rarest Rose by H. A. Robinson
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Faust by Goethe.
Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky.
Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki.
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Lincoln In the Bardo by George Saunders.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe.
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder.
How was the Saunders novel? I’ve heard mixed reviews.
I gave it 2/5. Didn’t like it much. ?
@Syed thanks.
@Syed Oy! Reading it for book club this month
@Alicia Some people do like it. Do not let my comments affect your judgement. 😛
Read so far: The Mother of Black Hollywood by Jenifer Lewis; The Leavers by Lisa Ko; Blessed Life by Kim Fields; I’ll Take You There by Wally Lamb; Stay With Me by Ayolami Adebayo. Currently reading: City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America’s Urban Future by Mark Pendergrast. Currently Listening to (I’m always doing both): The Magnolia Story by Chip & Joanna Gaines.
Dreaming of Florence by T.A . Williams.
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore.
Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris.
204 Rosewood lane by Debbie Macromer.
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
If I die before I wake by Emily Koch
The Maid’s Room by Fiona Mitchell.
The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan.
Currently reading In love and war by Liz Trenow.
So far all 4★reads… ?.
Wow! Andi u have read all these in January?
Yes…grown up children, work part-time. .. only a big daft dog to sort out and a even dafter husband who is happy for my little indulgences ?. I am a lucky lady.
Lol!
Enjoy and Happy Reading?
Ahh thank you @Cleo ?
I read the Child Finder this week too!
Did you like it @Katerina?
I’ll grab my Goodreads review…
Did you?
Goodreads seems to have eaten my review! ?
Very cool that you got sent a copy for review!
I know! Was nice to have an actual book as opposed to using a kindle!
Homegoing and Future Home of the Living God have been my favorites so far this year. Read a few that were just so so. Just started Practical Magic and love it so far.
All three are on my tbr list.
Future Home of the Living God has been on my TBR since November ?
Milk and Honey, Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, Hillbilly Elegy, Men Without Women, by Murakami. I’ve read more, but these were the most memorable.
Autobiography of Malcolm X is one of my favorite books of all time.
Red Sparrow #1 by Jason Matthews.
The perfect girl by Gilly Macmillan.
These things hidden by Heather Gudenkauf.
Final girls by Riley Sager.
Tom Hanks Uncommon Type, The Woman in the Window, and Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
So far in January I’ve read:
– The Graves’ a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley
– Shadow Play by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
– Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
– The Gate Keeper by Charles Todd
– The Island by M.J. Trow
I’ve read alot. Mr Penumbra’s 24 hour book store, End of Watch, The Martian, Ready Player One, Practice to Deceive, Lincoln in the Bardo, The Art Forger, The Defenceless, Hondo, Hate to Want You, Station Eleven and Heidi. Currently listening to Dead Wake, last crossing of Lusitania, reason The horse and His boy by CS Lewis.
Did you like Lincoln in the Bardo? Reading it for my book club this month
How was The Art Forger?
No I didn’t like Lincoln in the Bardo at all. It was an audio book or I probably would not have finished it. One person commented that it was “avant garde”…just weird
The Art Forger was ok, not a barn burner but interesting enough.
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton, The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano, and The Language of Trees by Ilie Ruby
Well this month I have read about 24 books, a couple of them were comics but I think one of Janet Evanovich’s book will be my 25th book this month. So you can say that I’ve read a lot.
Macbeth (audio read by Alan Cummings), Pachinko, Name of the Wind, Night Circus (audio), Artemis.
Hi Jan so what did u think of Artemis?
@Cleo I liked it, but not as much as The Martian. I do enjoy how he makes the scientific side of things plausible.
Read : News of the World, Persian Pickle Club, now listening to Love and Other Consolation Prizes a
Reread all of Sarah Addison Allen
The Children Act + The Woman in the Window
Finished The Heretic’s Daughter — good book BTW. Now working on The Zoo Keepers Wife.
1- Drums Along The Mohawk, 2- Bird Box, 3-Thirteen Moons, 4-The Strange Man.
But the months not over yet?
So Roger what did u think of Bird Box?
@Cleo I thought it was terrible. I wanted to ask for my credit back on audible but I did listen to the entire book so felt it wouldn’t be right.
@Roger they let you do that.I’ve done it only once, but it was no problem.
@Barbara yeah I’ve done it a couple times. I guess I didn’t feel like the book was THAT bad, even though I was pretty disappointed.
January Reads:
• “Present Over Perfect” by Shauna Niequist | 3 stars
• “March: Book One” by John Lewis | 5 stars
• “The Death of Bees” by Lisa O’Donnell | 4 stars
• “The Notorious RBG” by Irin Cameron | 5 stars
• “Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore” by Robin Sloan | 4 stars
• “AJ Penumbra 1969” by Robin Sloan | 4 stars
Current Reads:
• “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders
• “Promise Me Dad” by Joe Biden
Lady Death – Stalin’s Sniper. Definitely one of the top five books I’ve read in my life.
The princess dairest, Ready Player One, little fires everywhere, and finishing up the first 3 books of a twisted tale series. So far I’m a little behind on my count but I just could not get easily through little fires everywhere
I read the reviews for Little Fires Everywhere and they sound great but the plot just doesn’t grab me.
Copied from the list I keep on Goodreads:
1. Britt-Marie Was Here – Frederik Backman 1/4/18
2. The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion 1/8/18
3. Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty 1/12/18
4. Secondhand Souls – Christopher Moore 1/18/18
5. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie 1/21/18
6.Hillbilly Elegy – J. D. Vance 1/22/18
Currently reading The Snowman – Jo Nesbo
The Beautiful Struggle (Ta-Nehisi Coates), The Glass Castle (Jeanette Walls), Just Kids (Patti Smith), The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseni), Beneath A Scarlet Sky (Mark Sullivan), The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Gabrielle Zevin), I Am Watching You (Teresa Driscoll), Close to Home (Robert Dugoni), Say You’re One of Them (Uwem Akpan).
I’ve been trying to read The Glass Castle, but haven’t had time! Hope to get too it soon, though.
I’ve finished eclipse by Stephanie Meyer and read breaking dawn by Stephanie Meyer! Started the Harry Potter series again!
Wow! I feel behind! Soulful simplicity, Before we were yours, The 5 love languages of children
Origin Dan Brown
Seducing an angel Mary Balogh
And two Arabic books
Hi Reham so how did u like Origin by Dan Brown?
The reading was full of excitement but I didn’t like the scientific part as it was the main idea of the book which was the goal of each character to hide or revel it was poor
And for the final part it was brilliant may be the best scenario for a computer takes control.
In general it was good
Did u read it ?
No i didnt read it yet to be honest i havent read any of Dan Brown books ?
They are good u would be delighted
Which book would you recommend to start with
Inferno if u didnt watch the movie
But i thought u had to read them in order
No no they are not related except in the main character Rober langdon
Oh ok ill need to buy that book ? so what r u reading now?
A secret affair by Mary Balogh and another Arabic book
The Woman in the Window…a fantastic mystery!
Currently reading Veronika decides to die Paulo Coelho
For all those who read more than 2 books, are you known to be a super fast reader or do you not have jobs or do you not watch TV?
Full time job but mostly I don’t watch TV.
Full time job, and some days there are not things that I want to watch on tv so it’s a reading night instead 🙂 I only have a few shows that I really want to watch.
Usually if I was working I would do a book a week but I’m at home for two weeks hence the number of books.
Full time job , no TV,
I’m retired but usually only read for about 1 1/2 hours before bed.
I work, FT; school FT; limited tv watching but more than anything, designate intentional reading time just for sanity purposes.
Full time job. Super slow reader. No TV. 1/4 audiobooks.
@Siham You sound like me. I too am a slow reader. After I wrote this I recalled that I read a book a week with a full time job while I was waiting for my TV to arrive. It’s about choices.
Artemis by Andy Weir
Hi Angela how is that book?
It’s so good. I read it for a book club
How was 13 minutes? I loved Behind Her Eyes and have been wondering if her others are as good.
Yikes! Lol
Revival -Stephen King
Joyland- Stephen King
Currently reading unspeakable not sure of the author right now
The Other Mrs Walker by Mary Paulson-Ellis
Brokeback Mountain – short story
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Woman in Cabin 10
Reykjavic Nights….
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Brooklyn Rose by Ann Riladi
White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages
Unforgivable by Philippe Dijan
The Owling by Robert Elmer
Displacement by Thala Chaltas (Currently Reading)
G is for gumshoe and h is for Homicide by sue gafton, step on a crack James Patterson and David walliams the midnight gang. I have now started crazy house by James Patterson xxx
Autumn – Ali Smith
Is it good?..I’m thinking of reading the set..
I like them …
Crazy Rich Asians.
Sisters, Ruby, Hillbilly Elegy, Ready Player One and Winter Men. Now reading The First Fifteen lives of Harry August.
I have read parts of Neil Gaiman’s, The View from the Cheap Seats. I have never read anything before from Neil Gaiman but after this book I am certain that I will look to read other books by him as well. I also started just yesterday to read Louise Penny’s, A Great Reckoning. Only got through the first chapter but so far it looks like a page turner. Then again, most of Louise Penny’s books are. And I am slowly getting through Viktor Frankl’s The Meaning of Life. Maybe if I stick to one book I will get through it.
The Quants
Britt-Marie Was Here
Royal Assassin
Assassin Quest
The Alice Network
The Life She Was Given
Follow the Crow
Beyond the Veil
The Music Shop by Rachel Spencer Buddha Attic by Julie Otsuka Golfing with God Roland Merrill’s Never Change Elizabeth Berg
dipping in and out of various short story books thrillers and whodunnits
Pachinko, Into The Darkest Corner, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, The Boys in the Boat…quite eclectic don’t you think? LOL
Economics: a user’s guide by Ha-Joon Chang
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Capitalism and freedom by Milton Friedman is almost over
@Cheryl I’ve recommended it to several people. Indeed it stays with you and give you plenty to think about.
I could totally relate also. I was raised my a Meemaw in Alabama.
Lost and Found by Brooke Davis
Still Life With Breadcrumbs by Anna Quindlen
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
Currently reading The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I finished Keep Her Safe by Sophie Hannah and read Dark Saturday by Nicci French. Now I’m reading The Secrets You Keep by Kate White
Behind Closed Doors by B.A Paris, The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn and now starting The Husbands Secret by Liane Moriarty
The Husbands Secret is my favorite of hers.
Cirque Du freak the vampires assistant
Just finished Little Fires Everywhere and starting Manattan Beach.
Foucault’s The Archaeology of Knowledge, Jung-Myung Lee’s The Investigation, Haruki Murakami’s The Hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world, Shi Naian’s The Water Margin, Mo Yan’s Republic of Wine.
Read Archaeology after Madness and Civilization a couple of decades ago. Wish you luck in your excavations.
Thanks! ?
In the Garden of Beasts, Nine Women, One Dress. Currently reading Eleanor Oliphant. Work full time but my New Years resolution was to read more. Loved both of these books and Eleanor is enchanting.
Our Love Beyond The Skies – (Galuoko Secivo).
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens — The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle — Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward — The 39 Steps by John Buchan
Super fast ?. But also retired so can read more books faster ?
Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance
Artemis – Andy Weir
The Midnight Line – Lee Child
Missing You – Harlan Coben
The Blue Ocean Strategy
The Maze Runner trilogy and The Last Olympian
A couple of Agatha Christie paperbacks for holiday reading. Its summer here and been hot. Started Lincoln in the Bardo.
I just checked I read 14 so far.
I’m in the reading challenge also. May I send you a friend request on Goodreads?
I just finished “News of the World”
Love that book. Quite a story, huh?
Me too!
That’s on my Wish List!
Origin by Dan Brown
The Mistake by K. L. Slater
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
I am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll
Death Wears a Beauty Mask by Mary Higgins Clark
The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
Currently reading The Snow Child, Radium Girls and Down a Dark Road by Linda Castillo.
Sven Hazzell books 1-3
Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
And
Pretty Girls Dancing
by Kylie Brant
Reread The Immigrants, ditto The Help. Now reading In The Name Of The Family.
The Golden Compass, Bone Clocks, Norwegian Wood & Slade House
The Invention Of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Did you like it? I enjoyed Dance of the Dissident Daughter and Secret Life of Bees but didn’t like The Mermaid Chair
the first half dragged but the second half was good.
I have read several books about Therese of Lisieux-very interesting saint
Final Girls by Riley Sager, Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire, The Hating Game by Sally Thorne, Saga Vol 3 (Graphic Novel) and 2 novellas Tiger in the Cage and Stormcrows by Rachel Caine.
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng . I am glad I finally picked it up!
I have it on hold at my library. I am in a long line for it 🙁
Got inspired to re-read every short story by Dahl and Ray Bradbury. Also finally reading and loving Ready Player One! ???
I’ve read more this year but this is what I’m reading this week
The Snow Child and The Hift of Goodbye A Story of Agape Love
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby–laugh out loud on the bus funny essays– and My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris. I’m not a graphic novel fan but this is absolutely gorgeous and so much text that it still reads like a novel. Such an intriguing narrative. Both fellow Chicagoans. Both friends of friends. And lots and lots of cookbooks.
Read the entire Shetland series by ANN Cleeves. Sorry I’m done.
The Confusion of Languages by Siobhan Fallon and The 40 Rules of Love by Zelig Shafak
I’m reading What Alice Forgot
♥️
I’m reading Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff and The Ancient Alien Question by Philip Coppens
I’m reading Fire and Fury also.
I’ve already ground my teeth down enough in the past year — I can’t bring myself to read that book.
It’s hard.
Many
Last Gentleman in Moscow and Little fires everywhere?
Last Gentleman is the book next month in my book club, did you like it?
I liked it.
Lives of the Monster dogs, one thousand Splendid Sons and now I am reading Pachinko
?Magpie Murders,
Anthony Horowitz
?Practical Magic,
Alice Hoffman
?Object of My Affection, Stephen McCauley
?Harry Potter #3, J.K. Rowling
?The Vanity Fair Diaries,
Tina Brown
?Every 15 Minutes,
Lisa Scottoline
?I’ll Take You There,
Wally Lamb
?Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
I’ve only read M.C. Beaton’s ‘The Witche’s Tree’ ?
I’ve read the first three of the ghost bird series and I’m halfway through spirited by C.M. Stunich
The Known World
Binti, Akata Witch, Home, (all by Nnedi Okorafor). Born a crime, Trevor Noah. We need new names, Noviolet Bulawayo. Princess, Jean Sasson…. Currently on my last book of January, Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor.
-Sing, Unburied, Sing
-Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
-Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
-Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
-News of the World by Paulette Jiles
-Magpie Murders
-The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
-Women & Power by Mary Beard
-Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Book of Judas
Not as good as “The DaVinci Code”
Turtles all the way down, Harry potter and the philosopher’s stone, and Harry potter and the chamber of secrets (currently reading)
This Could Hurt by Jillian Medoff
Rich dad poor dad
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
How did you get on with Homegoing? It’s our Book Club book for this month
Entrepr3neurship by Rajeev! So good book for anyone not necessarily for entrepreneurs.
Tom Baily, Vicki Lane, Nevil Shute, Karen Maitland.
Lilli de Jong.
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Not in this order but Young Jane Young, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and The Power. And right now I’m reading The Alice Network.
I just read The Alice Network this month also. I really liked it.
I am reading Fablehaven by Brandon Hull. I’m on book 4 now…started the series a couple of weeks ago.
Reading: We Were The Lucky One’s
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger. Letterman by Jason Zinoman.
The Art of Hiding by Amanda Prowse, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng and Midnight by Dean Koontz
The Bible every day!
Angels Walking!
Just starting The Maze at Windermere!
I just finished The Woman in the Window.
The Couple Next Door and The Girl With All the Gifts.
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. Loved it!
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Just finished The Little Prince yesterday.
I am reading a Spanish book now. It is call ” Romper las Cadenas de la autoestima” breaking the chains of depression.
The Truest Pleasure (a Robert Morgan novel), Madame President (Edith Wilson taking over when Woodrow Wilson had his stroke), now reading SPQR (a history of the Roman Empire).
A Winters Tale
The Woman in Cabin 10
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Queen of the Night
Just started The Woman in the Window today 🙂
Richard Wright
Native Son
Judy Blume Are you there God it’s me Margaret
Lucy Dawson
You sent me a letter
Close to home
Cara Hunter
Insomniac
Paper girls. Milk and Honey (utter crap). The song of Achilles. Born a Crime. Like family. La solitude Lumineuse.
Why didn’t you like Milk and Honey? I hope you’ll share.
@Elizabeth do you want me to be honest or diplomatic?
@Siham please be honest, but please be respectful.
…and maybe if you identify which critical lens you’ll be using, that might help.
Thank you.
Game of thrones & buttons an lace
A Wrinkle in Time, Conspiracy Club, and God:A Human History. Just started Demon Crown.
Little fires everywhere, Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, Persepolis, A room of one’s own, The year of the flood, Maddaddam and I’ve just finished Wuthering Heights.☺
I still haven’t finished the Goblet of Fire ?
That’s the best book in my opinion that’s when It starts to turn really dark.
I remember how confused I was about the end, where the villain was revealed.
I just finished Lilac Girls and now I’m reading Column of Fire.
I have Lilac Girls on my list. Thumbs up? Or down?
?life’s too short to read anymore tragedy. But that’s just me.
this is WWII month for me. a lot of good deep reads
Aaah Chen Chen’s book! My cousin is an editor at the publisher BOA Editions, which published Chen Chen.
Personal History by Katharine Graham; Christmas, Present by Jacqueline Mitchard; and (currently) One Man’s Meat by E. B. White
Midnight in the Bright Ideas Bookstore, The Inquisitor’s Tale, Estranged, Class Mom, Be Love Now, and probably more that I am forgetting.
I read 18 books start to finish in January. I also read pieces of numerous business books in preparation for presentations. This volume is unusual for me. I usually read about 2-3 a month. I typically read very thick books. This month I ventured into Amazon Unlimited and read books of a new genre for me that were mostly only 220-300 pages each. I have a full time job, work 2 hours most evenings, but I sit in the living room and read each evening, while my family watched tv.
Wow! 18 books Happy Reading and Enjoy?
What is your favourite thick book?
@Cleo I love Neal Stephenson’s books. SevenEves and Reamde are two of my favorite thick books. Also, the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Fangirl & Behind its perfect smile( now reading)
The Color of Water
Highly recommend!!
Artemis, Ready Player One, Station Eleven, The Lost Island, No Country for Old Men, Heidi, The Girl on the Train, Punishment, We Should All Be Feminists, Hate to Want You. I’m doing the Read Harder challenge and the Popsugar. This great for me. I haven’t been reading for a while but I’m in the groove!
Sourdough
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
The Watcher by Belka Jewel
Dirty Laundry by Amanda Green
Is It Ends With Us good? I’ve had it sitting on my bookshelf since it came out
@Rhye-Lilly
Yes of course. I really liked and love it. At the end of the story what happened was not what I expected. You should read it. I hope you will really like it.
After I finish the story I’m reading I’ll give it a go and let you know what I thought ??
@Rhye-Lilly
Good. I am waiting to hear what you got to say.
journey to the centre of the earth by julvern