ccookie will give it a go for 2013

I was involved in this group but just on the periphery last year. I participated in the TIOLI 2012 has 12 months challenge and wound up reading many books that I would not otherwise have read. So for 2013 I thought I would actually come up with some categories. Some of you are so clever and I can't think of any creative way to label my challenge but will come up with something before the 1st.

Categories for challenges

Based on my all-time favourite books

1. Love you Forever by Robert Munsch – books by Canadian authors

2. The Cat Who Went to Paris by Peter Gethers - non-fiction books

3. Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel – books that fit the RTT Challenge and / or the RTT Chronological themes

4. The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey – books primarily by Anne McCaffrey but may include some other science fiction / fantasy authors

5. The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier - contemporary fiction – whatever seems popular right now

6. Looking for Rachel Wallace by Robert B. Parker - detective / crime fiction. Books by my favourite mystery authors Lawrence Sanders / Robert B. Parker / Lawrence Block / Michael Connelly

7. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – books from ‘1001 Books to Read Before I Die’

8. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich – something light, fluffy, just for fun of it!

9. Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark - books I would never read except for a challenge issued (TIOLI / CAT)

10. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - prize winners (or nominees). Booker / Pulitzer / Giller etc.

11. The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence - Virago Modern Classic Fiction / Classic Fiction

12. The Whiteoaks of Jalna by Mazo de la Roche – I really want to revisit the Jalna Series by Mazo De La Roche, another Canadian author that I read in the 70’s

13. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff - Children's Books

1. Love you Forever – books by Canadian authors

Completed 6

1. The Cat's Table - Michael Ondaatje (Audiobook/Kobo) Jan 6
2. The Crystal Towers by Mobashar Qureshi (Kindle LTMG) Aug
3. Elephant Winter Kim Echlin (Kobo) Feb 7 (I also would not have read this without the 13 Category Challenge: 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 so it also would fit my Category 9: Books I would never have read if it wasn't for a LT challenge)
4. I Am Algonquin by Rick Revelle (ROOT LTER) Aug
5. Redesigning Rose - Lydia Laceby (Kindle) Aug
6. The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt (Kobo) (Feb 28)

Planned reads / Possible reads:
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (ROOT)
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam (? Library) (Also Non-fiction - Category 2)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Kobo)
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford (ROOT)
Marion Bridge by Daniel MacIvor (Mic / ROOT)
Farley Mowatt
Margaret Atwood

2. The Cat Who Went to Paris - non-fiction books

Completed: 4

1. The Cat Who Went to Paris by Peter Gethers (ROOT) July 3
2. Debbie: My Life by Debbie Reynolds (ROOT)
3. Life by Keith Richards (Audio)
4. Losing My Mind: Dark Secrets of a Wounded Healer by David Mirich (Kindle LTER) Aug

Planned reads / Possible reads:
Adult Children of Alcoholics by Janet Woititz (ROOT)
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures - Vincent Lam (? Library) (Also Canadian author - Category 1)
The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown (2009 Trillium) (Kobo)
A Cat Abroad by Peter Gethers (ROOT)
The Cat Who'll Live Forever by Peter Gethers (ROOT)
The Climb - Anatoli Boukreev (?)
Codependent No More by Melody Beattie (ROOT)
The Devil in Pew Number Seven - Rebecca Nichols Alonzo (Kobo)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby (ROOT)
Proof of Heaven - Eben Alexander (Cynthia)
In Pursuit of Spenser - Otto Penzler (ROOT)
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer - (ROOT)
Three Cups of Deceit - John Krakauer (?)
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson - (KOBO)

3. Clan of the Cave Bear – books that fit the RTT Challenge and / or the RTT Chronological themes

Completed: 4

1. The Crucible - Arthur Miller (April-June Time Period - 17th Century) (Kobo)
2. Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy (Jan time period: Cold War) (Kobo)
3. The Queen's Witch by Karen Chance (March Time Period - The Tudor Era) (Kobo)
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Feb theme: Civil Rights) (Pulitzer 1961) (Kobo)

Planned reads / Possible reads:
Mistress Shakespeare - Karen Harper (Jan to March -Renaissance) (Kobo)
Hood by Stephen Lawhead (April theme: Heroes and Vagabonds) (Kobo)

4. The Dragonriders of Pern – books primarily by Anne McCaffrey but may include some other science fiction / fantasy authors

Completed: 2

1. Catalyst by Anne McCaffrey (ROOT) March
2. Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (Kindle) Aug

Planned reads / Possible reads:
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke (Kobo)
Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey (Kobo)
Fledgling - Octavia Butler (Kobo)
Get Off The Unicorn - Anne McCaffrey (ROOT)
Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson (ROOT)
Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley (Kobo)
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay (Kobo)
The Valley of Horses - Jean M. Auel (Kobo)
The Winter King (The Arthur Books #1) - Bernard Cornwell (Kobo)

5. The Girl with a Pearl Earring - contemporary fiction – whatever seems popular right now

Completed: 6

1. The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (ROOT) July 1
2. Fifty Shades Darker - E. L. James (Kindle) June 12
3. Fifty Shades Freed - E. L. James (Kindle) June 21
4. Fifty Shades of Grey - E. L. James (Kobo) Jan 28
5. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (Kindle) June 22
6. The Shekinah Legacy by Gary Lindberg (Kindle LTMG) Aug

Planned reads:
The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman (KOBO)
First Man in Rome - Colleen McCullough (Kobo)
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin (Koo)
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larson (Kobo)
The Hunger Games -Suzanne Collins (Kobo)
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (Kobo /ROOT)
Still Alice - Lisa Genova (? Library)
Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur - Ruth Nestvold (Kobo)

6. Looking for Rachel Wallace - detective / crime fiction. Books by my favourite mystery authors Lawrence Sanders / Robert B. Parker / Lawrence Block / Michael Connelly and others

Completed: 12

1. Anarchy and Old Dogs by Colin Cotterill (Audio) May
2. The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill (Audio) April 7
3. Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill (Audio) May
4. Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill (Audio) May
5. Gone West by Carola Dunn (ROOT LTMG) Aug
6. Love Songs from a Shallow Grave by Colin Cotterill (Audio) June 10
7. The Merry Misogynist by Colin Cotterill (Audio) May
8. Playmates by Robert B. Parker (Kobo) Jan 6
9. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry by Harry Kemelman (Audio / ROOT) July 10
10. Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman (Audio / ROOT) July 15
11. Thirty-three Teeth by Colin Cotterill (Audio) May
12. This Rough Magic by Mary Stweart (ROOT) Aug

Planned reads:
1st to Die - James Patterson (Women's Murder Club #1)(Kobo)
Burglars Can't be Choosers - Lawrence Block (Rhodenbarr #1) (ROOT/ Kobo)
Cat Striking Back by Shirley Rousseau Murphy (ROOT)
Edenville Owls - Robert B. Parker (ROOT)
Hit Man - Lawrence Block (Keller # 1) (ROOT/ Kobo)
The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo (Kobo)
Sins of the Father - Lawrence Block (Matt Scudder #1|) (ROOT/ Kobo)
Stardust - Robert B. Parker (Spenser #17) (ROOT/ Kobo)
Survivor in Death - J. D. Robb (Kobo)
Tenth Chamber - Glenn Cooper (Kobo)
Trunk Music - Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #5) (Kobo)

7. Of Mice and Men – books from ‘1001 Books to Read Before I Die’

Completed: 1

1. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

Planned reads:
Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery (Kobo)
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (? Library)
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (Kobo)
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (Kobo)
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Kobo)
The Red and the Black - Stendhal (Kobo)
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx (ROOT/ Kobo)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John le Carre (Kobo)
Villette - Charlotte Bronte (Audiobook)

8. One for the Money – just for fun of it!

Completed: 4

1. Are You Afraid of the Dark - Sidney Sheldon (ROOT) Aug
2. Dog On It - Spencer Quinn (Audio) Aug
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling (Audio) April
4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling (Audio) Aug
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling (Audio) Feb
6. Jimmy the Kid by Donald Westlake (ROOT) July
7. A Little Hair of the Dog - Jane McBride (Kindle/ LTMG) Aug

Planned reads:
Stolen - Kelley Armstrong
Ten Big Ones - Janet Evanovich (Kobo)
Visions of Sugar Plums - Janet Evanovich (Kobo)

9. Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - books I would never have read except for a challenge issued (TIOLI / CAT)

Completed: 6

1. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson - June TIOLI #21 - Read a book by one of the US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature
2. Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger - Jan TIOLI #4 - Read the debut work of an author born in January (Kobo)
3. Death: The High Cost of Living - Neil Gaiman (Deanne) (Sandman year long group read)
4. Miracle in the Rain by Ben Hecht (ROOT)
5. Bang the Drum Slowly - Mark Harris - Spring Training Challenge (ROOT) (March31)
6. Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman (Deanne) (Sandman year long group read)

Planned reads:

Blindness by Jose Saramago (Kobo)
The Empty Family by Colm Toibin (Kobo)
Foundling by D. M. Cornish (Kobo)
Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt (Kobo)
Palindrome - Stuart Woods (Kobo)
Survivor in Death -Nora Roberts / J. D. Robbv(Kobo)
Sandman II: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman (Deanne)
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay (also Canadian so Challenge #1) - Fantasy February Group read (Kobo)

10. The Road - prize winners (or nominees). Booker / Pulitzer / Giller etc.

Completed: 7

1. Beloved - Toni Morrison (Pulitzer Prize - 1988) (Kobo)
2. Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (Edgar - Nominee for Best Novel - 2008|) (Kindle)
3. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler (Pulitzer finalist 1983) (ROOT)
4. Friday the Rabbi Slept Late - Harry Kemelman (Edgar - Best First Novel - 1965) (Audio)
5. A Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George (Edgar - Nominee for Best First Novel - 1989) (ROOT)
6. The Help - Kathryn Stockett (Orange Prize Long List - 2010) (Kobo)
7. May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes (Women's Prize for Fiction - 2013) (Library)
8. The Naked Face - Sydney Sheldon (Edgar - Nominee Best First Novel - 1971) (ROOT)

Planned reads:
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett (The Orange Prize for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction) (Kobo)
Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler (Pulitzer Prize - Fiction, 1989) (Calibre)
Empire Falls - Richard Russo (Pulitzer Prize - 2002)(? Library)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer (IMPAC Dublin 2007 Morning News 2006)(Kobo)
The Falls: A Novel by Joyce C Oates (Orange longlist 2005)(ROOT)
Fifteen - Beverly Cleary (The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award -1958) (ROOT)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (Booker2005) (Kobo)
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (Pulitzer Prize 2000) (Kobo)
Late Nights on Air - Elizabeth Hay (Giller 2007) (ROOT)
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy (IMPAC Dublin 2007)(Kobo)
Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Booker - 1993) (Kobo)
The Sea - John Banville (Booker 2005) (Kobo)

11. The Stone Angel - Virago Modern Classic Fiction / Classic Fiction

Completed: 0

Planned reads:
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (ROOT / Kobo)
East of Eden - John Steinbeck (Kobo)
In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck (Kobo)
Light in August - William Faulkner (Kobo)
Tortilla Flat - John Steinbeck (Kobo)
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - Betty Smith(Kobo)
A View of the Harbour - Elizabeth Taylor (Virago)(ROOT)

12. The Whiteoaks of Jalna – I really want to revisit the Jalna Series by Mazo De La Roche, another Canadian author that I read in the 70’s

Completed: 1

1. Jalna by Mazo de la Roche

Planned Reads:
The Building of Jalna by Mazo de la Roche

<13. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff - Books for Children and Young Adults

Completed: 17

1. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (ROOT) March
2. Animals Pray Too: Dear God… Twenty-six Caught-on-Camera Prayers for Children(Children's book) by James Mayrose (Kindle / LTMG) July
3. Animals Say Wacky Things: Forget the Chocolate...I Want Bacon! by James Mayrose (Kindle / LTMG) July
4. Ants: Fun Facts and Cool Pictures by James Mayrose (Kindle / LTMG) Sept
5. Baby Animals (Children's book) - Garth Williams (ROOT) Jan
6. Beatha: A Badger's Story by Louise J. Hastings (Kindle LTMG) Aug
7. The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food by Stan and Jan Berenstain (ROOT) Feb
8. Bicycle Bear by Michaela Muntean (ROOT) Feb
9. The Big Red Button by Max Candee (Kindle / LTMG) Sept
10. The Cat's Pajamas by Ida Chittum (ROOT) Feb
11. The Country Mouse and the City Mouse by Patricia M. Scarry (ROOT) Feb
12. A Ducky Cure for the Hiccups by Max Candee (Kindle / LTMG) Sept
13. I Don’t Want to Go by Justine Korman (ROOT) Feb
14. Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss (ROOT) Feb
15. The Jungle Book (Disney The Jungle Book) (Little Golden Book) by R.H. Disney (ROOT) Feb
16. Knock Knock and Fart Jokes by Laura Marie (Kindle / LTMG) Sept
17. The Midsummer Banquet – Tales from Fern Hollow by John Patience (ROOT) Feb
18. My Christmas Treasury by Gale Wiersum (ROOT) Feb
19. The Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore (ROOT) Feb
20. The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear (ROOT) Feb
21. Pigs in the House by Steven Kroll (ROOT) Feb

Planned reads:

Great categories. I like the prime of miss jean Brodie category. I have definitely read a few that would fit in that one over the last couple of years

Welcome!! Looking forward to following along - hope you have a great reading-year!

> 18
Thanks, Eva!!

Great categories! Good luck with your challenge. Looking forward to seeing what you think of the books you read over to fill your categories!

I'll be lurking ;)

I love your idea of the opposing points of view and your choices for the first two. I look forward to your comments.

> 22 Mamzel. I stole that idea from someone else but did not make note of who is was. It would have been nice to acknowledge the originator!

Book 1 completed. Baby Animals (Children's book) - Garth Williams - Non-fiction - Zoology

Review is here: http://www.librarything.com/work/178992/reviews

Hi Cathy, great to see you are going for the full challenge this year. Lots of great categories for you to fill. I am especially interested in your return to the Jalna series as I have been toying with the idea of reading that series as well.

> Judy
Thanks. I read the Jalna series one summer when my then husband was away, training for a couple of months with the Canadian Armed Forces. I worked and read and worked and read. Got through all of them that summer. I think I read them in published order and am thinking about reading them in chronological order this time. How did you read them?

I actually haven't read them at all. I remember watching the CBC dramatization that was on in the early 1970's (I think), but never thought to read them then. I noticed they are available for the Kindle and thought that would be a great series to read. I think there are 16 books in the series, but I am unsure of the reading order as there is a narrative order and a publishing order.

> 27
Maybe someone else has a suggestion?

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)

I don't even know what the Jalna series is, so I am not much help. I will have to go and have a look now my curiosity is getting the better of me.

I remember The Cat Who Went to Paris. I read it years ago. I can still picture him taking his Scottish Fold along with him.

When making a reservation at this favorite hotel in Paris, the manager asked Peter Gethers "Will that be with cat or without?" They were used to Norton travelling with Gethers. Love that! I am planning to read all three books again

I love your categories, especially the opposing points of view one.

Sweet memories - I loved reading Love You Forever to my children.

On Jan 6 I finished listening to The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje.

Review is here: http://www.librarything.com/work/11263429/reviews

Today I finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Full review is here: http://www.librarything.com/work/8019757/reviews

I have considered reading The Cat's Table but never committed to it. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Next time I see it at the library I will pick it up. Unfortunately that doesn't mean I will read it. I am always borrowing way more from the library than I ever have time to read.

I have also considered reading The Help but as I have already seen the movie I'm not sure I would enjoy it as much as I would have without having seen the movie.

> 37
Ro, give them both a chance. I did enjoy them and I found the book The Help even better than the movie and the movie was great!

I always prefer to see the movie first and then read the book. If the movie was good the book is ALWAYS better. And if the movie is bad the book is often way better too.

My son prefers it the other way around because he likes to use his imagination to visualize the characters, scenery etc and if he sees the movie first he can only see the actor who portrays the character etc. Different strokes!

I also enjoyed both the book and the movie of The Help, which is a bit of a rarity for me... usually there is a very definitive line between the two!

I was going back and forth on The Help. So far I hadn't been interested enough to give it a chance. But I've just heard the audiobook is very well done, with 4 different narrators, so I think I'll try it that way.

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 our 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 the 75r's 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 short 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 finished Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaimanin 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: Vol 2

I think I commented in one of the Sandman threads that I'm not sure why someone would suggest reading about Death before reading Sandman. That just seems incredibly backwards to me.

I haven't read the free-standing Death stories yet, but I too think it a bit backward to start there - hope restarting with Preludes and Nocturnes helps!

> 44, 45
I'll let you know what I think!

> 43 - Well, here is hoping that Preludes and Nocturnes will help make some sense of Death: The High Cost of Living.

Very nice review of Elephant Winter. I am going to try to get to that one this month. I was quite impressed with Echlin's book The Disappeared, which is a very different type of story about the Cambodian genocide.

Well the premise for Death, the high cost of living isn't mentioned till season of mists but I'm guessing at least reading the first collection would give a better idea of what's going on...ESP the sound of her wings

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

Looking forward to hearing how the audio version stacks up!!

> 50
The reader, John Pruden, has an excellent voice.

Well, I just finished Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman 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.

Oh dear. Well, it will get easier. But, remember, it is allowed (yes, I say this with a lot of reluctance) to not like Sandman. :)

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

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.

I think I will actually add a Children's Books Category and remove the Opposite Points of View. I will still look into reading the four books that I had identified for that category but I will just move them to non-fiction.

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

Finished another children's book

The Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore
Review is here

>52 ccookie: - I'm sure it'll be clearer the more you read

>53 -Eva-: - wash your mouth out ;-)

It is allowed to not like Sandman, or to not understand everything Gaiman is trying to present in the serials. A fair bit of it goes over my head! I take comfort in the fact that Gaiman must have been even more frustrated to discover the limitations of the text and artwork in conveying what he was able to visualize in his head. Personally, I know that would drive me crazy!

These books were read this month, March 2013:
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (Children's Book)
review here:
http://www.librarything.com/work/29144/reviews/89096954

Reviews for these wil be posted later:
The Cat's Pajamas by Ida Chittum (Children's book)
My Christmas Treasury by Gale Wiersum (Children's book)
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)
Life - Keith Richards (Audio)
Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss (Children's book)
The Queen's Witch by Karen Chance (Kobo)
Catalyst: A Tale of the Barque Cats by Anne McCaffrey (BOMB)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Kobo)
Beloved by Toni Morrison

Here are my reviews for my March reads:

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)

Finished Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

->62 ccookie:
Is the book good? I've seen the film-version, but I don't know how much they correlate.

>63 -Eva-:
I did see the movie many years ago. As always there are differences and I enjoyed both very much. You can't beat the cast of the movie! I appreciated the snapshot of a different time and place in the novel.

Thanks, maybe I'll give it a shot then.

I would hazard a guess you enjoyed Dr. Siri and his adventures, huh?

> 66
Love Dr. Siri and the other characters. And I do mean characters! I laugh right out loud. It is interesting the way Cotterill weaves humour, history, spiritualism and detective work together. The mysteries, for me are secondary. What I love is that these people have become family for me. I have two more to go and will be so sad when I am done!

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...

Since the beginning of July I have read:
The Cat Who Went to Paris by Peter Gethers
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

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!

AND

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!