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1brewergirl
Also see my ROOT (Read Our Own Tomes) thread.
January ... 12 books, 1 re-read ... see message 10
February ... 9 books ... see message 15
March ... 8 books ... see message 16
April ... 7 books ... see message 17
May ... 2 books ... see message 19
June ... 3 books, 2 re-read ... see message 20
July ... 5 books, 1 re-read ... see message 21
August ... 10 books ... see message 22
September ... 6 books, 1 re-read ... see message 23
October ... 13 books ... see message 24
November ... 5 books ... see message 25
December ... 7 books, 1 re-read ... see message 28
3thornton37814
Hope you have a great year of reading!
4PaulCranswick
Happy New Year
Happy New Group here
This place is full of friends
I hope it never ends
It brew of erudition and good cheer.
5FAMeulstee
Happy reading in 2018, Martha!
6libraryperilous
Hi, Martha. I left some suggestions on your SantaThing and found your library very interesting and genuinely eclectic. Looking forward to following your reading in 2018!
7The_Hibernator
Happy New Year! I wish you to read many good books in 2018.
8brewergirl
>6 libraryperilous: libraryperilous -- Thanks. One of my favorite parts of SantaThing is seeing the recommendations that people make besides just what the Santa selects.
9libraryperilous
>8 brewergirl: I kind of spammed recs this year. It was p. embarrassing, in retrospect, but the suggestions are my favorite part, too. I just assume everyone else will want them! (You're welcome. I hope you enjoy the books your Santa picked for you.)
10brewergirl
January progress
RE-READ: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi ... I re-read this for my book group. Wonderful story about 2 branches of a family down through multiple generations.
#1: They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen ... Got this through Early Reviewers. It was a bit too disjointed for me. I kept losing interest in the storyline.
#2: Missing Issac by Valerie Fraser Luesse ... Another book from Early Reviewers. Charming story of a young man growing up in the South and his extended community.
#3: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng ... Great story of 2 families whose lives intertwine. Each has a different outlook on life.
#4: Farthing by Jo Walton ... Got this through SantaThing. The first in a series set in an alternate history where England made peace with Hitler in 1940. The focus is a murder at an English country house but also has a darker tale of growing fascism in England.
#5: The Precipice by Paul Doiron ... Another entry in the Mike Bowditch series of murder mysteries set in the Maine woods.
#6: The Bronte Plot by Katherine Reay ... Got this through SantaThing. A young woman who loves books falls in love, loses him, and then goes travelling with his grandmother on a literary journey. Inspired me to pick up Elizabeth Gaskell.
#7: Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King ... Short but good story about a girl who receives a mysterious box from a mysterious stranger.
#8: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman ... A young girl goes on a scavenger hunt set up by her grandmother before the grandmother died.
#9: The Day The World Came to Town by Jim Defede ... True stories of how the people of Newfoundland opened their communities and homes to planeloads of stranded passengers whose flights were diverted on 9/11.
#10: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler ... Very interesting look at how people fail to make rational choices when it comes to money. Although I liked the book, it was too much like a textbook at times. I found myself skimming the parts where he talks about testing methodology.
#11: Ha'penny by Jo Walton ... Second in the Small Change series, set just a couple of weeks after Farthing.
#12: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles ... Charming story of a Count sentenced to live in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow following the Revolution.
RE-READ: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi ... I re-read this for my book group. Wonderful story about 2 branches of a family down through multiple generations.
#1: They Know Not What They Do by Jussi Valtonen ... Got this through Early Reviewers. It was a bit too disjointed for me. I kept losing interest in the storyline.
#2: Missing Issac by Valerie Fraser Luesse ... Another book from Early Reviewers. Charming story of a young man growing up in the South and his extended community.
#3: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng ... Great story of 2 families whose lives intertwine. Each has a different outlook on life.
#4: Farthing by Jo Walton ... Got this through SantaThing. The first in a series set in an alternate history where England made peace with Hitler in 1940. The focus is a murder at an English country house but also has a darker tale of growing fascism in England.
#5: The Precipice by Paul Doiron ... Another entry in the Mike Bowditch series of murder mysteries set in the Maine woods.
#6: The Bronte Plot by Katherine Reay ... Got this through SantaThing. A young woman who loves books falls in love, loses him, and then goes travelling with his grandmother on a literary journey. Inspired me to pick up Elizabeth Gaskell.
#7: Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King ... Short but good story about a girl who receives a mysterious box from a mysterious stranger.
#8: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman ... A young girl goes on a scavenger hunt set up by her grandmother before the grandmother died.
#9: The Day The World Came to Town by Jim Defede ... True stories of how the people of Newfoundland opened their communities and homes to planeloads of stranded passengers whose flights were diverted on 9/11.
#10: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler ... Very interesting look at how people fail to make rational choices when it comes to money. Although I liked the book, it was too much like a textbook at times. I found myself skimming the parts where he talks about testing methodology.
#11: Ha'penny by Jo Walton ... Second in the Small Change series, set just a couple of weeks after Farthing.
#12: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles ... Charming story of a Count sentenced to live in the Metropol Hotel in Moscow following the Revolution.
11thornton37814
Looks like you had a good month in January.
12ffortsa
>10 brewergirl: There's a musical on Broadway based on the events of The Day the World Came to Town, titled 'Come From Away' - quite lovely.
13brewergirl
>12 ffortsa: ffortsa: I hadn't realized. Thanks for the heads up!
14gennyt
>10 brewergirl: I've just obtained a copy of Farthing, looking forward to reading that, but not until I've finished Dominion by C J Sansom which also has an alternate reality, Hitler won the war setting.
15brewergirl
February progress
#13: Half a Crown by Jo Walton ... Final book in the Small Change series. I enjoyed all 3 books.
#14: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell .. My first introduction to her. Kind of like Jane Austen & Dickens.
#15: The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve ... Novel set in Maine during the fires of 1947. Multiple locations burned, including much of York County where this story is set.
#16: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri Nouwen ... Interesting read about the importance of remembering that we are beloved by God -- and how that can change your outlook and how you live your list.
#17: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami ... It was an okay read but beautifully written - but the story left me flat. Meh.
#18: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church by Rachel Held Evans ... Memoir of sorts about one woman's experience growing up in an evangelical church, becoming dissatisfied with how the church's beliefs diverged from her understanding of God, and searching for a church home.
#19: Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman ... Another quirky, funny, and touching story about odd people finding community.
#20: Pink Chimneys by Ardeana Hamlin Knowles ... Historical novel set in Bangor, Maine, in the 1800s -- about a midwife, a madam, and a seamstress.
#21: The Egg & I by Betty MacDonald ... I first knew this as the movie with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert. The book is a bit dated -- with less-than-politically-correct representations of native Americans. But I enjoyed it.
#13: Half a Crown by Jo Walton ... Final book in the Small Change series. I enjoyed all 3 books.
#14: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell .. My first introduction to her. Kind of like Jane Austen & Dickens.
#15: The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve ... Novel set in Maine during the fires of 1947. Multiple locations burned, including much of York County where this story is set.
#16: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World by Henri Nouwen ... Interesting read about the importance of remembering that we are beloved by God -- and how that can change your outlook and how you live your list.
#17: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami ... It was an okay read but beautifully written - but the story left me flat. Meh.
#18: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church by Rachel Held Evans ... Memoir of sorts about one woman's experience growing up in an evangelical church, becoming dissatisfied with how the church's beliefs diverged from her understanding of God, and searching for a church home.
#19: Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman ... Another quirky, funny, and touching story about odd people finding community.
#20: Pink Chimneys by Ardeana Hamlin Knowles ... Historical novel set in Bangor, Maine, in the 1800s -- about a midwife, a madam, and a seamstress.
#21: The Egg & I by Betty MacDonald ... I first knew this as the movie with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert. The book is a bit dated -- with less-than-politically-correct representations of native Americans. But I enjoyed it.
16brewergirl
March progress
#22: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman ... I actually finished this in January but left it off the list. Very good. Lead me to read Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler. I also have on my shelf Nudge by Richard Thaler and The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, which is about Kahneman and Tversky.
#23: Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz ... Read this for book group. Very interesting.
#24: Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters ... Interesting premise (that Civil War never happened). Reading some reviews lead me to the next book on this list.
#25: Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler ... I had only read one of her books before this. My library had the graphic adaptation on the shelf, so I grabbed that. Again, very interesting premise (that woman periodically goes back in time to meet an ancestor).
#26: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain ... Pretty good but not as good as I had expected from reviews.
#27: Knife Creek by Paul Doiron ... Another in the Mike Bowditch series.
#28: Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey ... The only other of hers that I had read was The Daughter of Time (which I loved), and this was a very good read as well.
#29: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote ... For a short audiobook it took me a while to finish it. Not bad.
#22: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman ... I actually finished this in January but left it off the list. Very good. Lead me to read Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler. I also have on my shelf Nudge by Richard Thaler and The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, which is about Kahneman and Tversky.
#23: Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz ... Read this for book group. Very interesting.
#24: Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters ... Interesting premise (that Civil War never happened). Reading some reviews lead me to the next book on this list.
#25: Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler ... I had only read one of her books before this. My library had the graphic adaptation on the shelf, so I grabbed that. Again, very interesting premise (that woman periodically goes back in time to meet an ancestor).
#26: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain ... Pretty good but not as good as I had expected from reviews.
#27: Knife Creek by Paul Doiron ... Another in the Mike Bowditch series.
#28: Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey ... The only other of hers that I had read was The Daughter of Time (which I loved), and this was a very good read as well.
#29: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote ... For a short audiobook it took me a while to finish it. Not bad.
17brewergirl
April progress
#30: Among Others by Jo Walton ... Unfortunately this did not keep my attention. Took me a while to finish it. Maybe too much magic?
#31: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah ... I got this through SantaThing. Very good read.
#32: Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles ... Another faith memoir. Worthwhile.
#33: One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson ... A charming great history by Bryson.
#34: Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
#35: News of the World by Paulette Jiles
#36: Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
#30: Among Others by Jo Walton ... Unfortunately this did not keep my attention. Took me a while to finish it. Maybe too much magic?
#31: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah ... I got this through SantaThing. Very good read.
#32: Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles ... Another faith memoir. Worthwhile.
#33: One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson ... A charming great history by Bryson.
#34: Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
#35: News of the World by Paulette Jiles
#36: Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan
18libraryperilous
>17 brewergirl: I think Walton is slightly overrated in the SFF community, but I think her sci-fi is much better than her fantasy. The first two books of the Thessaly trilogy are great. I agree that Among Others had a bit too much magic/airy fantasy/something.
19brewergirl
May progress
#37: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
#38: The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV by Robert Caro
#37: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
#38: The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV by Robert Caro
20brewergirl
June progress
#39: Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler
#40: Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor by Anne Edwards
#41: The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
RE-READ: Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
RE-READ: The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan
#39: Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler
#40: Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor by Anne Edwards
#41: The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
RE-READ: Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
RE-READ: The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan
21brewergirl
July progress
#42: Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin
#43: Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
#44: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
RE-READ: 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in my Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris
#45: Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman
#46: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester ... I read most of this back in 2017 but just finished it.
#42: Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin
#43: Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
#44: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
RE-READ: 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in my Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris
#45: Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman
#46: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester ... I read most of this back in 2017 but just finished it.
22brewergirl
August progress
#47: My Life with Bob by Pamela Paul
#48: God's Kingdom by Howard Frank Moser
#49: Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
#50: The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
#51: Beartown by Fredrik Backman
#52: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
#53: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
#54: In the Tall Grass by Stephen King & Joe Hill
#55: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
#56: Throttle by Stephen King & Joe Hill
#47: My Life with Bob by Pamela Paul
#48: God's Kingdom by Howard Frank Moser
#49: Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
#50: The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
#51: Beartown by Fredrik Backman
#52: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
#53: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
#54: In the Tall Grass by Stephen King & Joe Hill
#55: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
#56: Throttle by Stephen King & Joe Hill
23brewergirl
September progress
#57: Ten Lords A-Leaping by C.C. Benison
#58: This Land is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back by Ken Ilgunas
#59: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
#60: Embracing Our Final Days: A Journey of Care to the End by Lucy Ellen Smith, Rebecca McElfresh, and Mary Anne Evans
RE-READ: The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
#61: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
#62: Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo
#57: Ten Lords A-Leaping by C.C. Benison
#58: This Land is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back by Ken Ilgunas
#59: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
#60: Embracing Our Final Days: A Journey of Care to the End by Lucy Ellen Smith, Rebecca McElfresh, and Mary Anne Evans
RE-READ: The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
#61: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
#62: Three Floors Up by Eshkol Nevo
24brewergirl
October progress
#63: Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir
#64: Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer
#65: Stay Hidden by Paul Doiron
#66: Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town by Susan Hand Shetterly
#67: The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal
#68: A Taste for Nightshade by Martine Bailey
#69: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
#70: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
#71: A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie
#72: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
#73: Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
#74: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
#75: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
#63: Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir
#64: Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer
#65: Stay Hidden by Paul Doiron
#66: Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town by Susan Hand Shetterly
#67: The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal
#68: A Taste for Nightshade by Martine Bailey
#69: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid
#70: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
#71: A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie
#72: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
#73: Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
#74: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
#75: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
25brewergirl
November progress
#76: The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
#77: Mistress of the Art of Death by Arianna Franklin
#78: Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
#79: Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu
#80: In the Woods by Tana French
#76: The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
#77: Mistress of the Art of Death by Arianna Franklin
#78: Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
#79: Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu
#80: In the Woods by Tana French
27FAMeulstee
>24 brewergirl: Congratulations on reaching 75 and beyond, Martha!
28brewergirl
December progress
#81: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
#82: Elevation by Stephen King
#83: The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin -- follow up to Mistress of the Art of Death
RE-READ: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
#84: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
#85: Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King & Owen King
#86: Stephen King's N by Marc Guggenheim
#87: Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht
#81: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
#82: Elevation by Stephen King
#83: The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin -- follow up to Mistress of the Art of Death
RE-READ: Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
#84: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
#85: Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King & Owen King
#86: Stephen King's N by Marc Guggenheim
#87: Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht
