February RandomCAT -- Mine, Yours and Ours

MINE, YOURS AND OURS

For this month's RandomCAT, the challenge is to read a book with a possessive word in the title. Whether it's his, hers, its, ours, or any other possessive pronoun or apostrophized word indicating possession, as long as it's in the title, it fits.

Here are some possibilities:



Have fun and let everyone know what you're planning on reading, have read or just think would be a good book choice.

I could keep looking, but a couple that I found right away that I might go with:
Trust Your Eyes / Linwood Barclay
Your Water Footprint / Stephen Leahy

Think I'll read Ruth's Journey since I've had that on my shelf for over a year now.

I saw this one this right away, A Stranger in My Grave.

>3 LittleTaiko: Someone in my book club read that and loved it.

I have a few I can choose from on my TBR. My Sunshine Away is a mystery that's gotten good reviews and Rick Bragg's My Southern Journey is a possibility. At the urging of a friend I started Her Highness' First Murder a few days ago but I think I'll save it until next month too since I have a couple of other things going right now.

Great challenge! And my Canada Reads selection will fit this one, too! I didn't manage to squeeze in Someone Knows My Name when everyone else read it a few months ago, so it's at the top of my February reading list.

I think I will go with Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy Sayers.

I'm thinking about Ender's Game.

I discovered to my consternation that I had not read His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, so I'll read that for this challenge. It will also fit the "published in 1917" square on the BingoDOG.

And as an unofficial choice I may read my oldest unread Gideon novel, Gideon's Week, by J.J. Marric.

I think I'm going to plan on My New Romanian Life...

I think I'll be reading Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene and also The Bee's Kiss by Barbara Cleverly.

I'm planning to read Sorcerer's Legacy by Janny Wurts.

I've got My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman on my nightstand at the moment just waiting to be read. I think I'll probably go with that one.

I have found just the thing, languishing on my Kindle: Until Thy Wrath Be Past, by Åsa Larsson.

There are a lot of possibilities for this CAT. I'm thinking of starting with Smilla's Sense of Snow.

I was surprised to find that I have numerous titles for this category. I will probably finish reading My Century by Günter Grass. It contains a separate story for each year of the 20th century. We read some of the years for a 20th century German literature class I took last spring. It will be interesting to read the rest of the stories and see if I can figure out what events they are commemorating. Many of the stories refer to German history.

If I read something else, it will probably be a nonfiction book concerning women's history.

I have His Bloody Project in my TBR priority bookshelf, so I will tackle that one.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is on my list.

On my virtual TBR shelves is Justinian's Flea by William Rosen, which I've just realised would also fit the CultureCAT and AlphaKIT.

I'm planning to read Haut nah: Alles über unser größtes Organ by Yael Adler for the CultureCAT in February - and I am happy to say that it also fits the CATWoman and now the RandomCAT. Yay! ("unser" = "our")

Edit: Ok, not so much the CATWoman, but anyway...

It's amazing how many books I was able to find, even putting my own parameters on top, ie nonfiction, books I own.

I'm thinking about Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris and The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Hey, look at that -the topic could also be authors with three names!

>1 RidgewayGirl: Love the kitties!

I plan on reading Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

>22 sushicat: Thanks! It was a challenge to come up with a picture to illustrate possession.

Great challenge, with so many possibilities. Your header picture of kitties is perfect!

I'm thinking about Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key which I always meant to read but never did.

I have narrowed (!!!) my list down to the following. If I was choosing one today it would probably be John le Carré but who knows which one will jump out at me in February.

Chaon: Await your reply
Sparks: Three weeks with my brother
Carey: His illegal self
le Carré: Smiley’s people
Obreht: The tiger’s wife
Sobel: Galileo’s daughter
Bannister: The hireling’s tale
Galland: I, Iago
Hage: De Niro’s game
Shreve: The pilot’s wife

>26 muddy21: I listened to that one on audio last year. I really liked it!

>26 muddy21: - I read that last year and it was one of my top books of the year.

I'm going to choose from my TBR shelf and read Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield

I'm planning to reread Charlotte's Web by E.B. White which would count as the author using initials in the BingoDOG. I'm also planning to read Stormy, Misty's Foal by Marguerite Henry. I will probably not be reading My Century by Günter Grass this month (message 16).

This sounds like a good excuse for me to read My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows. I just got it for Christmas, and it looks like a fun read!

I'm planning to read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams from my TBR shelf.

Starting Alexander at the World's End by Tom Holt

I'm going for the chunkster this month, When Christ and His Saints Slept. I love Sharon Kay Penman's works, and have a load of them sitting here, unread!

I also have the audio of Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin which is part of my personal challenge this year. I may read that instead of His Bloody Project this month.

I just checked out Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person-- fits perfectly!

I reread Charlotte's Web by E.B. White today. At the beginning, I wondered whether it was becoming too dated with mentioning specific items such as Frigidaire and some car types no longer being made (Studebakers, Packards, and De Sotos), but by the end of the story, I decided it is still an charming story. (In the late 1960s we read it in a children's literature class, and our instructor thought the book might get dated since it talked about sneakers as something that might go out of style.)

Finished His Last Bow. I particularly enjoyed "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans".

>35 fuzzi: I've heard so many good things about Sharon Kay Penman! I hope you enjoy! When Christ and His Saints Slept and The Sunne in Splendour are favorites of my friends, however they love all her books. Sadly, I find myself in a significant historical fiction slump so I have deferred starting any of her works (since they all seem to be "chunksters"). Hopefully this year!

>40 bluebird_: they don't read like chunksters!

However, Penman has also written some medieval mysteries that are smaller, and quite good. Look for The Queen's Man, as it's the first in a four book series, and very enjoyable.

COMPLETED Alexander At The World's End by Tom Holt

Starting "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" by Dava Sobel

Changing my planned read this month to finish Pandora's Star, which will also fit the SF/SFF Kit.

COMPLETED Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

I have completed Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy Sayers for this months RandomCat.

Completed Sorcerer's Legacy by Janny Wurts. An early work of hers.

I am reading Herland - would this work, do you think?

>47 leslie.98: Absolutely!

>41 fuzzi: Thanks! The Queen's Man sounds like a good way for me to get started with Penman. I've been reading lots of mystery books lately, so will be a good fit.

I finished The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis.

I finished The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson. Still processing, have yet to review, but I am quite convinced that Jackson was a quiet genius.

Finished My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout. Will be reviewing later.

I read Her Highness' First Murder by Peg Herring. The Highness is 13 year old Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of Anne Boleyn. I wasn't sure that I would like it but I did and will continue the series.

I've just started The Queen's Captive by Barbara Kyle. Surprise, surprise, it's part of a series that I am part way through.

I finished Cover her face, P.D. James' debut.

Realized that I hadn't read a book for this CAT yet - which is embarrassing since it's my idea. So I've started My Lover's Lover. I always like anything I read by Maggie O'Farrell and this one has two possessives in the title.

Just dropping in to say that that cat picture at the top of the thread cracks me up every single time. Excellent choice.

>49 bluebird_: do let us know what you think of The Queen's Man. I've reread it, I liked it that much.

Trust Your Eyes / Linwood Barclay
4 stars

Ray’s father has died in an accident. He father lived with and took care of Ray’s adult schizophrenic brother, Thomas. Thomas spends all his time online, memorizing city maps/streets – all cities around the world. He thinks he is helping the CIA. When Thomas thinks he sees a murder in one of the windows from the street map/view he is memorizing, he insists Ray go check out what happened. In the meantime, Allison has had an affair with a politician’s wife and is now blackmailing her. It doesn’t take long for this to go horribly wrong.

It took a little while to set this one up, but about 1/3 of the way in, it really got going and with 1/3 of the book left, it cranked up another notch. There were an additional couple of surprises at the very end.

March RandomCAT is posted:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/249067

Rainbow's End by Ellis Peters

This is a George Felse Investigation, written in the seventies and set in an English village. Readable, but that's all. Too snobbish for me.

Ooh! I inadvertently read a book that meets this challenge: Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield

I've finished reading Stormy, Misty's Foal by Marguerite Henry. I didn't read many animal stories as a child, and didn't read any of Marguerite Henry's books. I have become interested in the Misty books since we live in Virginia now and enjoy going to Chincoteague. I enjoyed reading this story about Misty's giving birth during a bad storm which wiped out a lot of ponies on Chincoteague and Assateague Islands, in addition to destroying many homes and killing chickens in Chincoteague.

Starting Justinian's Flea by William Rosen

>62 sallylou61: I loved the Misty books as a child. I live in the middle of the US and have never been to the islands but hope to get there in the next few years.

I've finished The Queen's Captive, set in the reign of Queen Mary in England. It had plenty of adventure, some romance, revenge and betrayal.

>62 sallylou61: I read that one before I read Misty of Chincoteague, appreciated the resourcefulness of the people.

I've never been to Chincoteague, heard it's a major touristy area now. However, there are less-known barrier islands here in NC that also have wild ponies in residence:

http://www.ncwildhorses.com

>66 fuzzi: Maybe we'll get to the barrier islands in North Carolina sometime. We usually go to Chincoteague in the offseason: the weekend after Thanksgiving after visiting my sister and her family in DC for Thanksgiving Day, and sometimes in mid-March between A and B sessions of OLLI just to get to the shore. Unfortunately, the last time we were at Assateague Island (last March), there was a lot of taking down of trees (some of which had fallen) and digging. We might not like the place so much next time we visit.

Just finished My New Romanian Life, though I'm afraid it didn't quite meet expectations. There's a full review written, though...

Over the weekend, I read My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows. It was a very fun read, although lightweight -- and definitely NOT the right book if you're looking for anything approaching historical accuracy! But if you're a fan of The Princess Bride and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, you may enjoy this one.

I just finished The Mapmaker's Children. I've written a short review for those interested.

COMPLETED Justinian's Flea by William Rosen

Just finished For your eyes only: Ian Fleming and James Bond by Ben Macintyre that I really enjoyed. 4.5*

This was my second for the category. The first was Three weeks with my brother by Nicholas Sparks that I didn't much care for.

>72 VivienneR: Ooh, is that a new Ben Macintyre book? I hadn't heard of it before, but I've really enjoyed several of his other books.

>73 christina_reads: I hadn't heard of it either until my daughter-in-law picked it up at a FOL booksale. I managed to get my hands on it first! It's a few years old I believe.

I've finished The Bee's Kiss by Barbara Cleverly, a book in her Joe Sandilands series that I quite enjoy. THis one has Joe out of India and back in London.

I've read My Lover's Lover by Maggie O'Farrell. This was an odd book - the first third was not good and it didn't need to be so odd. But the rest of the book was excellent. It was about a woman who begins a relationship with a man who is still mourning his previous girlfriend, who seems to have died suddenly.

Finished The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton, which also fits this month's Alpha Kit. Loved it.

Realized I forgot to note that I had read Behind Her Eyes for this challenge.

I read Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris, The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, and Captured Hearts: New Brunswick's War Brides by Melynda Jarratt. All were nonfiction, and I owned three of them which are some of the parameters I am using to pick books this year.

I ended up listening to A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf which I absolutely loved. I'm also reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi. I should finish up by tomorrow. I started Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin, but I won't finish it up this month.

The Fools in Town Are On Our Side by Ross Thomas

Just before the stroke of midnight I finished Gideon's Sword by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.

I also finished Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson.

I finished Pandora's Star on Monday, an epic alien invasion story. It was a bit of a slow starter because there were sooooo many characters to follow, but it ratcheted up to a rip-roaring finale!