ccookie tries again - 2013

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My favourite books

Children's Books

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Are You My Mother by P.D. Eastman
The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Just Grandma and Me by Mercer Mayer
The Little Fat Policeman by Margaret Wise Brown
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Adult Books

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Cat Who Went to Paris by Peter Gethers
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (read in 1980's and again in 2012)
Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (June 2012)
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Looking for Rachel Wallace by Robert B. Parker (years ago and again in 2011)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (read years ago and again 2012)
The Road by Cormack McCarthy
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (May 2012)
Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman (years ago and again Aug 2012)

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Onward we go!!

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**** Books read so far - 2013 ****



1. Baby Animals (Children's book) - Garth Williams (ROOT)
2. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (Kobo)
3. The Cat's Table - Michael Ondaatje (Audio / Kobo)
4. Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman (Deanne)
5. Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James (Kobo)
6. The Help - Kathryn Stockett (Kobo)
7. Playmates - Robert B. Parker (Kobo)

Total Books Read for January - 7 (1 children's book)



8. Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food by Stan and Jan (ROOT)
9. Bicycle Bear by Michaela Muntean (ROOT)
10. Elephant Winter by Kim Echlin (Kobo)
11. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (Audio)
12. The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy (Kobo / Audio)
13. I Don't Want to Go by Justine Korman (ROOT)
14. The Midsummer Banquet by John Patience (ROOT)
15. Pigs in the House by Steven Kroll (ROOT)
16. Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman (Deanne)
17. The Sister's Brothers by Patrick deWitt (Kobo / Audio)
18. The Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore (ROOT)

Total Books Read for February - 11 (6 children's books)



19. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (ROOT)
20. The Cat's Pajamas by Ida Chittum (ROOT)
21. My Christmas Treasury by Gale Wiersum (ROOT)
22. The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear (ROOT)
23. The Jungle Book (Disney The Jungle Book) (Little Golden Book) by R.H. Disney (ROOT)
24. The Country Mouse and the City Mouse by Patricia M. Scarry (ROOT)
25. Life - Keith Richards (Audio)
26. Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss (ROOT)
27. The Queen's Witch by Karen Chance (Kobo)
28. Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats by Anne McCaffrey (ROOT)
29. Beloved by Toni Morrison (Kobo)
30. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Kobo)
31. Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris (ROOT)

Total Books Read for March - 13 (7 Children's books)



32. The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
33. Miracle in the Rain by Ben Hecht (ROOT)
34. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (AUDIO)

Total Books Read for April - 3



35. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (KOBO)
36. Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
37. Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
38. Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
39. Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
40. The Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)

Total Books Read for May - 6



41. The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Kindle)
42. Fifty Shades Darker by E. L. James (Kindle)
43. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Audio)
44. Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James (Kindle)
45. Love Songs from a Shallow Grave by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
46. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (Kindle)

Total Books Read for June - 6



47. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (ROOT)
48. The Cat Who Went To Paris by Peter Gethers (ROOT)
49. Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman (ROOT /Audio)
50. A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George (ROOT)
51. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry by Harry Kemelman (ROOT / Audio)
52. Debbie: My Life by Debbie Reynolds (ROOT)
53. Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman (ROOT / Audio)
54. Animals Say Wacky Things: Forget the Chocolate...I Want Bacon! by James Mayrose (Kindle)
55. Animals Pray Too: Dear God… Twenty-six Caught-on-Camera Prayers for Children (To Inspire and Make Them Smile) by James Mayrose (Kindle)
56. Jimmy the Kid by Donald Westlake (ROOT)
57. Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (Kindle)
58. The Naked Face by Sidney Sheldon (ROOT)
59. May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes (Library)

Total Books Read for July - 13 (2 children's books)



60. Gone West by Carola Dunn (ROOT / LTMG)
61. This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart (ROOT)
62. I Am Algonquin by Rick Revelle (ROOT / LTER)
63. Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (Kindle)
64. The Crystal Towers by Mobashar Qureshi (Kindle / LTMG)
65. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (ROOT)
66. Beatha: A Badger's Story by Louise J. Hastings (Kindle / LTMG)
67. Losing my Mind: Dark Secrets of a Wounded Healer by David Mirich (Kindle / LTER)
68. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (Audio)
69. A Little Hair of the Dog by Jane McBride (Kindle / LTMG)
70. The Shekinah Legacy by Gary Lindberg (Kindle / LTMG)
71. Are You Afraid of the Dark by Sidney Sheldon (ROOT)
72. Dog On It by Spencer Quinn (Audio)
73. Redesigning Rose by Lydia Laceby (Kindle)
74. Jalna by Mazo de la Roche (ROOT / Kindle)


Total Books Read for Aug - 15



Total books read in September:



Total books read in October:



Total books read in November:



Total books read in December:

Welcome back!

Reading now:

The 12 Step Prayer Book by Bill P (Kobo)
Alcoholics Anonymous: Large Print (ROOT /(Kindle)
Adult Children of Alcoholics (ROOT)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (ROOT)
A Beautiful Place to Die Malla Nunn (Kindle)
Candide by Voltaire (Kindle)
Columbine by Dave Cullen (Kindle)
Come to Grief by Dick Francis (ROOT)
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (Kindle)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Kindle)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (Audio)
In Pursuit of Spenser by Ottto Penzler (ROOT)
Jalna by Mazo de la Roche (Kindle)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (Kindle)
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (Kindle)
This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart (ROOT)
To the End of the Land by David Grossman (Kindle)
Twenty-four Hours a Day by Anonymous (ROOT)/ Kobo)
Villette by Charlotte Bronte (Audio)

FOR LATER:

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (Kindle) (Kindle)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cat Striking Back by Shirley Rosseau Murphy (ROOT)
Codependent No More by Melody Beattie (ROOT)
The Devil in Pew Seven by Rebecca Nichols Alonzo (Kindle)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (Kindle)
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman (Kindle/ROOT)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Kindle)
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (Kindle)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Kindle)
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates) (ROOT)
Fifteen by Beverley Cleary (ROOT)
First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
(Kindle)
Fledgling by Octavia Butler (Kindle)
Get Off the Unicorn by Anne McCaffrey (ROOT)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (ROOT / Kobo)
Hood by Stephen Lawhead (Kindle)
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford (ROOT)
In Dubious Battle By John Steinbeck (Kindle)
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Kindle)
Light in August by William Faulkner
(Kindle)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (Kindle)
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Kindle)
Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson
(ROOT)
Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper (Kindle)
Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley (Kindle)
No Country for Old Men by Cormack MacCarthy (Kindle)
Palindrome by Stuart Woods (Kindle)
Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander
The Red and the Black by Stendhal (Kindle)
The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo (Kindle)
Sandman:The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman
Stories: All New Tales by Neil Gaiman (Audio)
Shipping News by Annie Proulx (Kindle)
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Survivor in Death by Nora Roberts / J.D. Robb (Kindle)
The Tenth Chamber by Glenn Cooper (Kindle)
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré (Kindle)
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck (Kindle)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (Kindle)
Valley of the Horses by Jean M. Auel (Kindle)
A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor (ROOT)
The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell (Kindle)
Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur by Ruth Nestvold (Kindle)

What about "The Road" Did you like? It's been recommended to me but I have not read it.

> gagirl101. I loved The Road. I found parts of it very hard to read but the love and sacrifice that is detailed in its pages left me feeling inspired and uplifted. I seem to really like books about triumph over adversity!

I'm pretty much open to reading anything.
I'm just not sure where to put the book on my book list haha (which is huge).
What other genres do you typically like to read?

> TJ - My literary tastes run all over the place but I suppose that my very favourites are mysteries by the likes of Robert B. Parker, Michael Connelly, Lawrence Block etc.

Since joining LT and participating in challenges I have been dabbling in a lot of other genres and reading books that I would not otherwise read:

Classics like The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe; Witch and Werewolf fiction like Bitten and Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong (a Canadian author who you might enjoy since you like paranormal fiction) and modern classics like Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (also Canadian).

> 2 Thanks, Jim! I was MIA for a couple of months but I am back!

I'm not familiar with Kelley Armstrong. Hmm I should explore their works.

Robert Parker is not bad I read Potshot when i was younger, if you like mysteries have you read the Millennium Series by Stieg Larsson?

Glad to see you back with us again, Cathy!

Thanks, Stasia!!

>9 OMBWarrior47: I have just read the first one of Stieg Larsson's books. Loved it! Have the other two on my Kobo

He's a very good author I'm currently on The Girl Who Played With Fire it's a shame he couldn't finish the series. :( and what is a Kobo? O.o

It is my e-book reader, similar to a Kindle but available in Canada through Chapters / Indigo. My son has a Kindle and my other son is getting some kind of e-reader from his employer as a Christmas gift. There was some kind of a delay so he is not receiving it until the New Year. I love having it. It is light and easy to carry and since I like to read many books at the same time it means that I can carry them 'all' with me. Of course, I do still like to read Real Books also.

oh I see so its like a nook/kindle....aha i'm too old fashioned. I love holding a book and flipping pages.

I gave up on being purist after a three week reporting trip in China (followed by Xmas in Thailand) which required me to carry about 20 books along with me each step of the way -- and each step of the way to pay overweight baggage charges. Nevermore.... We won a prize for the project, and my share of the moolah went to a first generation Kindle, and I have never looked back.

btw, love the name of your chat, Jean-Luc... :-)

Hi Cathy, I love those colorful banners for the months. Also, some great reading lists. I read Infinite Jest last year. It made quite an impression on me.

Hi Cathy, welcome back to another wonderful year of reading and a Happy New Year to you and your family!

Like Donna, I am enjoying those monthly banners. I won't have any trouble remembering whose thread I am on this year!

I too love the name of your cat.
Did you know that with a Kobo you can download free books from your library? Unfortunately, Kindles don't work with the system in Canada.

> Dee

My son has a Kindle and when I was deciding which reader to get he was really pushing me to get a Kindle also. The reason I went with the Kobo was so that I could download books from the library. I love it.

Several months ago I also got an MP3 and now download audio books from the library! That is amazing! Now, when I am doing housework or driving somewhere I can listen to books. Great fun!

Planned reads for January:

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - ongoing
✔ Baby Animals by Garth Williams - completed Jan 2
✔ Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger completed
✔ The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje (Audio) completed Jan 6
✔ Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James completed Jan 28
Get Off the Unicorn by Anne McCaffrey - ongoing
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling - ongoing
✔ The Help by Kathryn Stockett completed Jan 14
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien - ongoing
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy - ongoing
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace - ongoing
Life by Keith Richards(Audio) - ongoing
Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper - did not start
Palindrome by Stuart Woods - did not start
✔ Playmates by Robert B. Parker (Kobo) - completed Jan 6
The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo - ongoing
Stories ed. by Neil Gaiman (Audio) - ongoing
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt - ongoing
A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor - did not start
Villette by Charlotte Bronte - ongoing
Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur by Ruth Nestvold - ongoing

I just finished Playmates by Robert B. Parker. I enjoyed it but it certainly is not my favourite of the Spenser books.

Review is here: http://www.librarything.com/work/74072/reviews

(3.5 stars)

Later today I finished listening to The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje on my MP3. Boy I love that thing!!

I loved this book! Ondaatje skipped around the topics much like I expect an 11 year old boy on his own, on a sea voyage, would have skipped around the ship. Real characters with real lives peopled the pages and the book was by times outrageously funny and outrageously sad. Beautifully written. A mystery of sorts. A Coming of Age Story. Well done. I would like to read more of his work.

(4.5 stars)

Hi Cathy, I was given a Kobo for Christmas which really pleased me. i have a Kindle and love it, but couldn't download Canadian library books to it. Now I can download library books to the Kobo.

Also wanted to say, The Road is one of my all time favorite books for the very reasons you mentioned. I am always surprised when people say it was depressing and/or bleak.

Judy,

Enjoy your Kobo! I love being able to access all the books at the library.

And The Road - not depressing at all for me. I felt the same way about Angela's Ashes

I also read a children's book Baby Animals which has beautiful illustrations

review here: http://www.librarything.com/work/178992/reviews

What a fantastic-looking thread! I just love your month headings. It looks like you have some fun reading ahead of you.

Karen O.

(I seem to be following you around the threads, Karen.)

Love the colorful headings, Cathy! I haven't read any Parker for awhile. I think I liked A Catskill Eagle best.

Thanks, Karen and Ren.
My favourite Parker books is Looking for Rachel Wallace. Wish I knew a man like Spenser!

I'm a big baseball fan, so I loved Mortal Stakes the best of the Spenser books.

Both of those Spenser stories are really good too. Did you read Parker's Poodle Springs? Or was it a sequel to the Chandler book?

I liked Mortal Stakes also. Well, let's face it I liked them all. I have read them ALL. And I am re-reading them all. I just love Spenser. But I also have read all of Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall. I love the lead characters in all these books and the supporting cast also. There are a few Parker books I have not read including Poodle Springs which he finished for Chandler. I received Edenville Owls for Christmas but have not read it yet.

Cathy, I think I've read all of the Spenser books and agree with you about their general high quality. I've only read one Jesse Stone and none of the Sunny Randall series, but I should do that someday. Last year I read the four-book Western series that he wrote featuring Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole, and I thought those were fantastic.

>34 rosalita:
I forgot about Cole and Hitch. I have read only the first one. It was also a fun read!

Earlier today I finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I listened to this on my MP3 and really enjoyed it.

I completed this book this month for the Jan 2013 Category Challenge 'AwardCat' to read a book nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (Orange long list 2010) and also for the RandomCAT challenge - to read a 'new to me author'.

It also fit the 75'rs TIOLI Challenge #6 - to read a book that has been downloaded onto your electronic reader at least six months ago.

And it fits my own category to read prize winners and nominees. I downloaded it back in Sept 2011, right after I saw the movie, which I loved. However, I stalled out and never actually started it.

Review is here: http://www.librarything.com/work/8019757/reviews
4.5 stars

I dropped off a thumb for your review, Cathy. I really liked 'The Help' when I read it, but it sounds like the audiobook was quite rewarding.

> 37
I just started 'listening' to books last year and The Help was, probably, the best so far although I am enjoying listening to the Harry Potter books.

I'm planning on finally reading The Help next month. I don't really know why I have been dragging my feet on this one, I think I saw a couple of less than favorable reviews, but lately I have being seeing a lot of satisfied readers so now I am looking forward to seeing what I think of this book.

Finished Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

I completed this book for the January TIOLI Challenge #4 - Read the debut work of an author born in January AND for the 13/ 13 RandomCAT Challenge - read a new to me author AND for my 13/13 category - books I would never read except for a challenge issued.

Short review is here:
http://www.librarything.com/work/4053418/reviews/92675513
(3.5 stars)

I never read that one in my teens either - it is not quite so much required reading in the UK as in America, I think. I read it finally three years ago, and I too found Holden very irritating: I think he was meant to be - or perhaps, he was written so that someone his age might well feel much sympathy and older people would see him very differently. But I also came to realise towards the end of the book how much it is a study of someone dealing (with very little adult understanding or support) with profound grief, rather than just being an obnoxious teenager - and that made me more sympathetic towards him in retrospect.

Planned to read in February?:

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Beloved by Toni Morrison
✔ Elephant Winter by Kim Echlin
Get Off the Unicorn by Anne McCaffrey
✔ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (Audio)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
✔ The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy (Audio)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Life by Keith Richards (Audio)
Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper
Palindrome by Stuart Woods
The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo
✔ Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
✔ The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (Audio)
Stories: All New Tales by Neil Gaiman (Audio)
Survivor in Death by Nora Roberts / J.D. Robb
Tigana by Guy Favriel Kay
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

It's great to see an even more ambitious proposed February Reading List that I have! You've got some really good books on your list, Cathy, and I wish you luck.

Thanks, Judy. It may look good, but I know, in the grand scheme of things, I will only get a fraction of them actually read!! It is always fun to dream though.

Yesterday I finished my read of Elephant Winter by Kim Echlin.

I was looking for a book to meet the February RandomCat Challenge out of the 2013 Category Challenge Group, to read a book with a title, author, or character that brings to mind some of the weather events we typically experience during the month of February, and I found this.

BONUS, it also fit into our TIOLI challenge #7, to read a book with an arthropod in the title or the author's name - Elephant.

BONUS, it also fit my personal challenge to read books by Canadian authors. YAY!

Loved this book!

full review is here:
http://www.librarything.com/work/599445/reviews/93695248

Yesterday, I also finished listening to The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy.

I started this book in January for the RTT Challenge (read a book set during the Cold War); for the January RandomCAT (new to me author); and for the 75r's January TIOLI #6 (Read a Book That Has Been Downloaded onto Your Electronic Reader at Least Six Months Ago).

However, I did not finish it in January and so I carried it over into February for the 75r's Feb TIOLI #4 (Read a book with a common SFF title word in the title - “red”)

It was a fun 'read' and I found it fascinating and really enjoyable.

Full review is here:
http://www.librarything.com/work/828677/reviews

I don't think I've ever read any Tom Clancy, amazingly because I really like spy/thriller novels. I do remember liking the movie of 'The Hunt for Red October' very much, though.

I listened to it while I was doing housework and driving and I especially liked the narrator, J. Charles. Actually, when I first started I didn't like him at all but I very quickly adjusted. He has many different voices for each of the characters and it made it really easy to know who was speaking and gave a richness to the listening experience. Apparently he has has more than 40 years experience in professional theatre, radio, television, and film and he has narrated dozens of books.

I finished Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman in January. Borrowed it from my Dtr in law to participate in the Sandman group read. She recommended that before I read the Sandman series, I read this one.

My review: I don't get it!

I plan to read Preludes and Nocturnes before I read Death: The Time of Your Life

Started listening to The Sister's Brothers by Patrick deWitt. It is very funny. I am enjoying it a lot!

Well, I just finished Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes and I repeat my comment after reading Death: the High Cost of Living...I don't get it. I really don't get it!

I don't know who these people are. I don't know what they are doing. It seems to jump all over the place with no connection between characters or stories. The illustrations are awful!

I do love the graphics on the title pages and I have to say that I did like 'The Sound of Her Wings' which seemed like the first part of the book that actually was a story.

I will keep going though, since a lot of you make reference to the fact that it does become clearer as we go along.

Jan 21 I finished Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James. It was an interesting, thought provoking read. Full review is here.

Stopping by!

::waves::

Hi Fuzzi!

I am downsizing with the idea of moving sometime later this year and so am going through books. It is so hard to get rid of books!

I read these tonight before planning to release them.

The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Review is here

Bicycle Bear by Michaela Muntean
Review is here

I Don’t Want to Go by Justine Korman
Review is here

The Midsummer Banquet – Tales from Fern Hollow by John Patience
Review is here

Pigs in the House by Steven Kroll
Review is here

<accepts stray books that need a home

Hard to get rid of kid's books, huh? Memories!

My mother had about 2 dozen kids books from my childhood.

Every time we went to visit, the first thing my sons James (now 30 yrs old) and Michael (now 25), would do is go to the cupboard, get out a Dr. Seuss book and climb into her lap so she could read to them.

I have no grandchildren as yet with none in the foreseeable future and I have 92 books that I just can't part with. And I have given away hundreds over the years. Oh, andBTW those 92 are JUST Dr. Seuss. Walt Disney, Little Golden Books. For the youngest children.

Then I have 60 of the children's classics like Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Jules Verne etc. And some modern ones Like Lemony Snickett. All of which I would like to re-read (and some of them read for the first time)

And then there are 80 Nancy Drew / Hardy Boys / Roald Dahl / and Cherry Ames (Drew and Ames from my childhood)

I would like to move from my 3 bedroom townhouse with a finished basement to a 2 bedroom apartment.

I THINK I HAVE LOST MY MIND!!!

@ccookie, use the second bedroom as your library...wall to wall, floor to ceiling shelves!

I actually plan to have the Billy cabinet bookshelves from the rec room put in my bedroom. It is quite a large room. They don't match the other furniture but that is of no significance to me. Got to have my books!

This is assuming of course, that an apartment comes available in the building I want to move in to.

She says, again, g,ot to have my books!!

If I had my way, our 'living room' would be sans television, and wall to wall bookshelves.

But I'm married, and he likes his television...:sigh: ;)

***sigh***

Like this:

YES! YES! IYES! 'll have what she has!

Potential reads for March

✔ Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (ROOT)
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (ROOT)
✔ Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris (ROOT)
✔ Beloved by Toni Morrison (Kobo)
Cat Striking Back by Shirley Rosseau Murphy (ROOT)
✔ The Cat's Pajamas by Ida Chittum (ROOT)
Codependent No More by Melody Beattie (ROOT)
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George (ROOT)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (Audio)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (ROOT/Kobo)
✔ Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss (ROOT)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (Kobo)
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Kobo)
✔ Life - Keith Richards (Audio)
Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper (Kobo)
✔ My Christmas Treasury by Gale Wiersum (ROOT)
✔ The Queen's Witch by Karen Harper (Kobo)
Sandman:The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman (Deanne)
Survivor in Death by Nora Roberts / J.D. Robb (Kobo)
Tigana by Guy Favriel Kay (Kobo)
✔ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Kobo)

Some good possibilities in that March book list! I really liked 'Alias Grace; and the Keith Richards bio, although I'd be hard-pressed to think of two books less alike than those!

Back on Feb 19 I finished listening to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling and here is my review, such as it is.

http://www.librarything.com/work/2742161/reviews/89097190

End of Feb I finished listening to The Sisters Brothers and thoroughly enjoyed it. I finally posted my review today.

http://www.librarything.com/work/10895978/reviews/84186967

Nice review, Cathy! I dropped a thumb for you.

> 69 Thanks!

Other books finished this month:

The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear (Children's book)
The Jungle Book by R.H. Disney (Children's book)
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse by Patricia M. Scarry (Children's book)
Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats by Anne McCaffrey

Hello. I found your thread and will visit more often.

Thanks, Linda!

Here are my reviews for my March reads:

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
http://www.librarything.com/work/29144/reviews/89096954

The Cat's Pajamas
http://www.librarything.com/work/29144/reviews/89096954

The Country Mouse and the City Mouse
http://www.librarything.com/work/1858318/reviews/91870973

The Jungle Book
http://www.librarything.com/work/2945549/reviews/94597451

Horton Hears a Who
http://www.librarything.com/work/22979/reviews/89095549

Life
http://www.librarything.com/work/9950264/reviews/87531399

My Christmas Treasury
http://www.librarything.com/work/1662044/reviews/94429191

The Owl and the Pussycat
http://www.librarything.com/work/12783429/reviews/91870897

The Queen's Witch
http://www.librarything.com/work/9721135/reviews/95569936

Catalyst
http://www.librarything.com/work/8531094/reviews/89216555

To Kill a Mockingbird
http://www.librarything.com/work/3092/reviews/84378114

Beloved
http://www.librarything.com/work/2182/reviews/90313443

Bang the Drum Slowly
http://www.librarything.com/work/171824/reviews/89107155

I am waaaayyy behind on my threads so here is what I have read since the end of March

April

The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
Miracle in the Rain by Ben Hecht (ROOT)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (AUDIO)

May

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (KOBO)
Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)
The Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill (AUDIO)

June
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (AUDIO)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (KOBO)
Fifty Shades Darker by E. L. James (Kindle)
Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James (Kindle)

Just checking in...I am waaay behind on my threads, and reading, too...

Just finished Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg ... wonderful!

I just finished The Accidental Tourist and loved it! Am trying to decide whether to keep it one the favourite shelf OR release it for someone else to enjoy ... hmmm...

(78) That was a movie, wasn't it?

Got a review coming?

Come to think of it, wasn't the book in (77) also made into a movie?

> fuzz

yes, both The Accidental Tourist and Fried Green Tomatoes were made into movies, both of which were good!

As for reviews, I am so far behind that it is ridiculous!

Today I finished two books:

The Cat Who Went to Paris by Peter Gethers
This was a re-read of one of my favourite books, EVER and it is still one of my favourite books, EVER!

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
This one I inherited from my mother and am so glad that I read it . Fun, fun, fun and educational too.

I did enjoy Gethers book when I read it years ago.

Just finished A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George which I loved.

After reading Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, by Harry Kemelman, I moved right on and just finished Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry. Enjoyed them both!

I've not read that series, although I am familiar with it.

Ever read any of Stuart Kaminsky's Rostnikov mysteries? I have read and enjoyed most of them...but his books are hard to find at the used bookstores. :(

> 85 - fuzzi
I have not heard of Kaminsky. I am now reading Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home I have to say that
I am getting tired of the sexism etc reflected from the 60's. Time to head back to Dr. Siri, I think!

Oh, you MUST try some! Death of a Dissident is the first in the Rostnikov series. See if your local library has it.

I just finished Debbie: My Life by Debbie Reynolds .

This was a lot of fun to read for someone who loves movie stars and entertainers. What a tough life she lead, with Eddie Fisher leaving her for Elizabeth Taylor and disappearing from her and her children's life almost completely and then her second husband Harry Karl gambling away all of his millions and hers too.

At the end of this book she has married for the third time and seems happy.

I will now read her second book Unsinkable: A Memoir.

I also have the DVD of Wishful Drinking which is daughter Carrie Fisher's one woman show based on her book of the same name, which I was able to see last year, here in Toronto, and was hysterically funny. I will have to watch the show again soon!

AND

Finished listening to Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman and although I am enjoying the character development, the mystery, and the Judaism pieces, I am getting a little tired of the sexism and racism even though I know it is a reflection of the time it was written. Time to head back to Dr. Siri, I think!

Today I finished Jimmy the Kid by Donald Westlake which was just what I expected it to be. Fun, Fun, Fun!
My short review is here:
http://www.librarything.com/work/337513/reviews/89137907

And earlier this week I completed two children's books (photographs):

Animals Say Wacky Things: Forget the Chocolate...I Want Bacon! (Share a Laugh Books) (Animals Like Us)… by James Mayrose
review is here:
http://www.librarything.com/work/14046904/reviews

Animals Pray Too: Dear God… Twenty-six Caught-on-Camera Prayers for Children (To Inspire and Make Them Smile)… by James Mayrose
review here:
http://www.librarything.com/work/14046925/reviews
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@ccookie, look here:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=10606171563&searchurl=kn%3D...

Only $3.75 with s/h. :)

Thank you fuzzi but I do NOT need to be buying any more books, repeat. I do NOT need to be buying any more books! It doesn't seem to be working!

Finished Christine Falls by Benjamin Black and The Naked Face by Sidney Sheldon. Both fun reads.

Why have I never made it to your thread here?
I'm with you on Kaminsky and Westlake and George, but I've never been able to read S. Sheldon.
I'm too lazy to see whether you like Reginald Hill's caper books like A Fairly Dangerous Thing. Do you? That called somebody else to mind, but it's gone now.

>Peggy,
I actually haven't read Kaminsky but fuzzi says he is good. George, just read the one, and loved it. Westlake always makes me laugh. Sheldon - try him! Good for a lighthearted romp. A little over the top but a great 'beach read' as they say!

Well, I finished May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes this afternoon. WOW! Loved it, loved it, loved it!

It was riveting. I am a slow reader and I read it in just a few days . Could not put it down! Everything else had fallen by the wayside.

Dark, but touching and laugh-out-loud funny! Darkly funny! If you find adultery and murder difficult to read about and can see no humour in these topics, do not read this. But it is handled so well that I feel like I am part of this family.

I've added May We Be Forgiven to my reading list. Darkly funny sold me!

Dee, Let me know how you like it when you get to it.

Darkly funny has sold me as well, May We Be Forgiven has landed on my wishlist!