Kristel's Reading 75 in 2023, 3rd quarter

A half a year has gone by. I made 75 books in June.

I've been a part of 75 Books Challenge since 2018. I am a recent widow (15 months), recent retiree, and a lover of lists and books. I try to read 1001 books, Pulitzer, Booker, SFF, and horror and particicpate in various challenges here and there. I am on GR and moderate the group Reading 1001. I also am on Litsy and enjoy Bookspin, Double Spin and Bookspin Bingo. I spend time in Florida and Minnesota but mostly Minnesota which is where my family resides.

I also enjoy Wordle, Antiwordle, and Quordle.

2023



I also have been working at reading 1001 books which really is more than 1001 books now. I started running a group on Shelfari before Amazon took them down. We then migrated to Goodreads which unfortunately is badly neglected by Amazon as well. Our group is Reading 1001.

Here's my ticker for 1001 books. It's probably not accurate but close enough.

Booker
1. 1969: P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For - Own
2. 1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member - Wishlist
3. 1970: J. G. Farrell, Troubles (awarded in 2010 as the Lost Man Booker Prize) -OWN
✔4. 1971: V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
5. 1972: John Berger, G. - OWN-K
✔6. 1973: J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur - READ
7. 1974 ✔ The Conservationist and Holiday - Stanley Middleton
✅ 8. 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust -
9. 1976: David Storey, Saville
✔10 . 1977: Paul Scott, Staying On read 2021
✔11. 1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea READ
12. 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore -
✔13. 1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage - READ
✔14. 1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children - READ
✔15. 1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark - READ
✔16. 1983: J. M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K READ
17. 1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac - OWN
18. 1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
19. 1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils -
20. 1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger -
✔21. 1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda OWN
✔22. 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day READ
✔23. 1990: A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
✅24. 1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
✔25. 1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient READ
... and Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
26. 1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha OWN
✔27. 1994: James Kelman, How late it was, how lateREAD 2021
28. 1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
✅29. 1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders
✔30. 1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things READ
✔31. 1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam - READ
32. 1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace - OWN
✔33. 2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin READ
34. 2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang-
✔35. 2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi READ
36. 2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
✔37. 2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty READ
✔38. 2005: John Banville, The Sea - READ
✔39. 2006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss OWN
✔40. 2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering - OWN COMPLETED 3/22
✔41. 2008: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger - READ
✔42. 2009: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall - READ
43. 2010: Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
✔44. 2011: Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending - READ
✔45. 2012: Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies - COMPLETED 3/2020
46. 2013: Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
✔47. 2014: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North - READ
✔48. 2015: Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings - READ
✔49. 2016: Paul Beatty, The Sellout - READ
✔50. 2017: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo READ
✔51. 2018: Anna Burns Milkman
✔52. 2019: Margaret Atwood, The Testaments, or Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
✔53. 2020. Shuggie Bain Douglas Stewart COMPLETED 3/24/22
54. 2021, The Promise by Damon Galgut
55. 2022, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilakaurns
2023

Read in 2023
Heat and Dust (1975) - 2/27/23
The Famished Road (1991) - 7/10/23
Last Orders - 9/3/23

Booker International
✔ 2016- The Vegetarian - Han Kang South Korea, Read
✔ 2017- A Horse Walks Into a Bar - David Grossman - Israel Read
2018 - Flights - Olga Tokarczuk - Poland
2019 - Celestial Bodies - Jokha al-Harthi - Oman
2020 - The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld - Netherlands
2021 - At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop - France
2022 - Tomb of Sand - Geetanjali Shree - India
✔2023- Time Shelter - Georgi Gospodinov - Bulgaria READ
3 of 8 books read

Pulitzer
1. 1918 HIS FAMILY - Ernest Poole
✔2. 1919 THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS - Booth Tarkington Hoopla, 11/20/22
3. ✔1921 THE AGE OF INNOCENCE - Edith Wharton
4. 1922 ALICE ADAMS - Booth Tarkington
5. 1923 ONE OF OURS - Willa Cather
6. 1924 THE ABLE MCLAUGHLINS - Margaret Wilson
7. 1925 SO BIG - Edna Ferber
8. 1926 ARROWSMITH - Sinclair Lewis (Declined) library
9. 1927 EARLY AUTUMN - Louis Bromfield
10. ✔1928 THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY - Thornton Wilder
11. 1929 SCARLET SISTER MARY - Julia Peterkin
12. 1930 LAUGHING BOY - Oliver Lafarge Own
13. 1931 YEARS OF GRACE - Margaret Ayer Barnes
14. ✔1932 THE GOOD EARTH - Pearl Buck
15. 1933 THE STORE - Thomas Sigismund Stribling
16. 1934 LAMB IN HIS BOSOM - Caroline Miller
17. ✔1935 NOW IN NOVEMBER - Josephine Winslow Johnson 5/27/21
18. 1936 HONEY IN THE HORN - Harold L Davis
19. ✔1937 GONE WITH THE WIND - Margaret Mitchell
20. 1938 THE LATE GEORGE APLEY - John Phillips Marquand
21. 1939 THE YEARLING - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
22. ✔1940 THE GRAPES OF WRATH - John Steinbeck
23. 1942 IN THIS OUR LIFE - Ellen Glasgow
24. 1943 DRAGON'S TEETH - Upton Sinclair
25. 1944 JOURNEY IN THE DARK - Martin Flavin
26. 1945 A BELL FOR ADANO - John Hersey
27. 1947 ALL THE KING'S MEN - Robert Penn Warren
28. 1948 TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC - James Michener
29. 1949 GUARD OF HONOR - James Gould Cozzens
30. 1950 THE WAY WEST - A.B. Guthrie
31. 1951 THE TOWN - Conrad Richter
32. 1952 THE CAINE MUTINY - Herman Wouk
33. ✔1953 THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - Ernest Hemingway
34. 1955 A FABLE - William Faulkner
35. 1956 ANDERSONVILLE - McKinlay Kantor
36. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY - James Agee
37. 1959 THE TRAVELS OF JAIMIE McPHEETERS - Robert Lewis Taylor
38. ✔1960 ADVISE AND CONSENT - Allen Drury 3/27/21
39. ✔1961 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Harper Lee
40. 1962 THE EDGE OF SADNESS - Edwin O'Connor
41. 1963 THE REIVERS - William Faulkner
✅. 1965 THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE - Shirley Ann Grau OWN audible play 3/23
43. 1966 THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER - Katherine Anne Porter READ some
✔44. 1967 THE FIXER - Bernard Malamud
45. 1968 THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER - William Styron
46. 1969 HOUSE MADE OF DAWN - N Scott Momaday
47. 1970 THE COLLECTED STORIES OF JEAN STAFFORD - Jean Stafford
✅. 1972 ANGLE OF REPOSE - Wallace Stegner OWN 2/11/23
49. ✔1973 THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER - Eudora Welty
50. 1975 THE KILLER ANGELS - Jeff Shaara
51. ✔1976 HUMBOLDT'S GIFT - Saul Bellow
52. 1978 ELBOW ROOM - James Alan McPherson
53. 1979 THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER - John Cheever Read some
54. ✔1980 THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG - Norman Mailer
55. ✔1981 A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES - John Kennedy Toole
56. ✔1982 RABBIT IS RICH - John Updike
57. ✔1983 THE COLOR PURPLE - Alice Walker
58. 1984 IRONWEED - William Kennedy OWN
59. 1985 FOREIGN AFFAIRS - Alison Lurie
60. 1986 LONESOME DOVE - Larry McMurtry
61. 1987 A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS - Peter Taylor
62. ✔1988 BELOVED - Toni Morrison
67. 1989 BREATHING LESSONS - Anne Tyler OWN
68. 1990 THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE - Oscar Hijuelos70.
69. 1991 RABBIT AT REST - John Updike
✔70. 1992 A THOUSAND ACRES - Jane Smiley OWN 4/20/21
71. 1993 A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN - Robert Olen Butler
72. ✔1994 THE SHIPPING NEWS - E Annie Proulx
73. ✔1995 THE STONE DIARIES - Carol Shields
74. 1996 INDEPENDENCE DAY - Richard Ford
75. 1997 MARTIN DRESSLER - Steven Millhauser
76. ✔1998 AMERICAN PASTORAL - Philip Roth
77. ✔1999 THE HOURS - Michael Cunningham
78. 2000 INTERPRETER OF MALADIES - Jumpha Lahiri
79. ✔2001 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY - Michael Chabon
80. 2002 EMPIRE FALLS - Richard Russo
81. ✔2003 MIDDLESEX - Jeffrey Eugenides
✔82. 2004 THE KNOWN WORLD - Edward P. Jones
83. ✔2005 GILEAD - Marilynne Robinson
84. ✔2006 MARCH - Geraldine Brooks
85. ✔2007 THE ROAD - Cormac McCarthy
86. ✔2008 THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO - Junot Diaz
87. ✔2009 OLIVE KITTERIDGE - Elizabeth Strout
88. 2010 TINKERS - Paul Harding
89. ✔2011 A VISIT FROM THE GOOD SQUAD - Jennifer Egan
90 ✔2013 ORPHAN MASTER'S SON - Adam Johnson OWN
91. ✔2014 THE GOLDFINCH - Donna Tartt
92. ✔2015 ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE - Anthony Doerr
✔93. 2016 THE SYMPATHIZER - Viet Thanh Nguyen
94. ✔2017 THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - Colson Whitehead
95. ✔2018 LESS - Andrew Sean Greer READ 12/22/21
✅. 2019 THE OVERSTORY - Richard Powers OWN
97. 2020 THE NICKEL BOYS - Colson Whitehead OWN
✔98. 2021 The Night Watchman (hoopla, audio) COMPLETED 1/3/21
99. 2022 The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
100. 2023 Trust - Hernan Diaz & Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver.

Read in 2023
Angle of Repose 4/11/23
The Overstory 4/23/23
The Keeper's of the House 3/25/23

SFF and Horror
Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books August 11, 2011 https://www.npr.org/2011/08/11/139085843/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fant....

✔1. The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien, Read
✔2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams read
✔3. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card READ
4. The Dune Chronicles By Frank Herbert, READ 1
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series by George R.R. Martin
✔6. 1984 A Novel y George Orwell READ
✔7. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury READ
8.The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov READ 2
✔9.Brave New World by Aldous Huxley READ
10. American Gods By Neil Gaiman
11. The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
12.The Wheel Of Time Series by Robert Jordan, At 13 volumes and counting
✔13. Animal Farm by George Orwell READ
✔14. Neuromancer By William Gibson READ
✔15. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons READ
✔16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov READ
✔17. Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein READ
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles BY by Patrick Rothfuss READ
✔19. Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut READ
✔20. Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley READ
✔21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick READ
✔22. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
23. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King Book 1, 11/21
✔24. 2001: A Space Odyssey BY by Arthur C. Clarke
✔25. The Stand By Stephen King READ
✔26. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson READ
✔27. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury READ
✔28. Cat's Cradle By Kurt Vonnegut READ
29. The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman 75-issue comic book series, now collected in ten trade volumes. READ VOL 1
✔30. A Clockwork Orange BY by Anthony Burgess READ
✔31. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein READ
✔32. Watership Down by Richard Adams READ
✔33. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey READ
✔34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein READ
✔35. A Canticle For Leibowitz By Walter M. Miller Jr. READ
✔36. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells READ
✔37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea By Jules Verne READ 8/20/21
✔38. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes READ
✔39. The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells READ
40. The Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny READ 1
✔41. The Belgariad By David Eddings 5 VOLUMES, READ
✔42. The Mists Of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley READ
43. Mistborn Trilogy Brandon Sanderson
✔44. Ringworld by LARRY NIVEN, READ
✔45. The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
✔46. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien READ
✔47. The Once And Future King BY by T.H. White READ
✔48. Neverwhere by NEIL GAIMAN READ
✔49. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke READ
✔50. Contact by Carl Sagan READ
✔51. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons READ
52. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
✔53. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson READ
54. World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
✔55. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle READ 1/24/21
✔56. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman READ
57. Small Gods A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. READ 4
60. Going Postal A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
62. The Sword Of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind
✔63. The Road BY by Cormac McCarthy READ
✔64. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke READ
✔65. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
66. The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series by Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz
69. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb, read book #1 10/21 # 2 1/22
✔70. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger READ
71. The Way Of Kings y Brandon Sanderson
✔72. Journey To The Center Of The Earth by Jules Verne READ
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series by R. A. Salvatore READ 1M https://www.goodreads.com/series/49134-the-legend-of-drizzt
74. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
75. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
✔76. Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke READ
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey
✔78. The Dispossessed An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin READ
✔79. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury READ
✔80. Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire READ
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen series by Steven Erikson READ 1
✔82. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde READ
83. The Culture Series by Iain Banks READ 1,2
✔84. The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart READ
✔85. Anathem by Neal Stephenson READ
86. The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe A SERIES
88. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
90. The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
✔91. The Illustrated Man By Ray Bradbury short works collection READ 5/5/21
92. Sunshine by Robin McKinley
✔93. A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge READ
94. The Caves Of Steel by Isaac Asimov
95. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
✔97. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis READ
98. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
99. The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

Horror100 Favorite Horror Stories https://www.npr.org/2018/08/16/632779706/click-if-you-dare-100-favorite-horror-s...
✔1. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley READ
✔2. Dracula by Bram Stoker READ
✔3. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne READ
✔4. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe READ
✔5.Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu READ
✔6. The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James READ
✔7.The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen READ
✔8. The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs READ 3/9/21
✔9. The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
✔10. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman READ
11. Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad by M. R. James and Darryl Jones
12.The Werewolf Of Paris By Guy Endore
✔13. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson READ
14. Let The Right One In By John Ajvide Lindqvist
✔15. The Vampire Chronicles (First Triology) by Anne Rice READ
16. Minion (Vampire Huntress Legend Series) by L. A. Banks
✔17. The Hunger by Alma Katsu READ 12/21
18. Those Across The River by Christopher Buehlman
✔19. Bird Box by Josh Malerman
20. Feed (Newsflesh Series) by Mira Grant
21. World War Z by Max Brooks
✔22. The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey
23. The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
✔24.The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle
25. The Fisherman by John Langan
26. Laundry Files (Series) by Charles Stross READ 1
27.The Cipher By Kathe Koja
✔28. John Dies At The End by David Wong READ 12/21/21
✔29. At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft READ
30. All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts by Sonya Taaffe
31. Uzumaki by Junji Ito
32. Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber OR Majestic by Whitley Strieber
33. The Repairer Of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
✔34. The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
35. The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
36. Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
✔37. The Shining by Stephen King
38. House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
✔39.The Elementals by Michael McDowell READ
✔40. The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
41. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
42. The Bone Key by Sarah Monette
43. Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
44. Infidel by Aaron Campbell, Jose Villarrubia, Pornsak Pichetshote and Jeff Powell comic
45. The Ruins by Scott Smith
✔46. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier READ
47. 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates
48. The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan
✔49. Swan Song by Robert McCammon READ
50. 'The Screwfly Solution' by James Tiptree Jr.n short story
51. 'Left Foot, Right' by Nalo Hopkinson
52. Come Closer by Sara Gran
53. Furnace by Livia Llewellyn
✔54. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter READ
55. Through The Woods by Emily Carroll
56. Sandman by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III and Sam Kieth graphic novel
57. Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado collection
58. White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
59. 'Goblin Market' by Christina Georgina Rossetti
60. Experimental Film by Gemma Files
61. 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson READ
✔62. The Collector by John Fowles READ
✔63. The Terror by Dan Simmons
64. Intensity by Dean R. Koontz
65. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
66. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
67. "Night They Missed the Horror Show" by Joe R. Lansdale
68. Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
69. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
70. 'Bloodchild' by Octavia E. Butler
✔71. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding READ
✔72. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood READ
✔73. Beloved by Toni Morrison
74. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Octavia E. Butler, John Jennings and Damian Duffy
75. The Devil In America by Kai Ashante Wilson
✔76. 'I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream' by Harlan Ellison
77. Books Of Blood by Clive Barker anthology
78. The October Country: Stories by Ray Bradbury collection
79. The Weird: A Compendium Of Strange And Dark Stories by Ann Vandermeer and Jeff VanDermeer
80. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
81. Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991 by Ramsey Campbell
82. Things We Lost In The Fire by Mariana Enriquez collection
83. Shadowland by Peter Straub
✔84. A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
85. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
86. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
87. 'The Body' by Stephen King
88. 'It's A Good Life' by Jerome Bixby
89. The Other by Thomas Tryon
90. The Troop by Nick Cutter
91. Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall
92. Please, Momma by Chesya Burke
93. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell - children
94. Goosebumps (Series) by R. L. Stine children
95. Rotters by Daniel Kraus children
96. ✔Jumbies
Rise Of The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste children
97. The House With A Clock In Its Walls by John Bellairs children
98. Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh children
99. Coraline by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean children
100. Down A Dark Hall by Lois Duncan children

Another list!!! Walter Scott Prize (Historical Fiction)
READ 2010 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
2011 The Long Song by Andrea Levy
2012 On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry(Libby)
READ 2013 The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
READ 2014 An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris READ
2015 Ten Thousand Thing by John Spurling
2016 Tightrope by Simon Mawer e-b, Hoopla
2017 Days Without End by Sebastian Barry e-b Hoopla ✅
2018 The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers e-b
2019 The Long Take by Robin Robertson
2020 The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey e-b
2021 The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel -Libby’s
2022 News of the Dead by James Robertson
2023 These Days, Ludy Caldwell

January - NORTH AFRICA https://www.librarything.com/topic/347131
The Thief and the Dogs Naguib Mahfouz
The Golden Ass Apuleius

February - LUSOPHONE LIT
https://www.librarything.com/topic/348039
A General Theory of Oblivion = José Eduardo Agualusa

March - ADICHIE or EMECHETA
https://www.librarything.com/topic/348955#n8081025
Purple Hibiscus
April - THE HORN OF AFRICA https://www.librarything.com/topic/349799 All Our Names - Dinaw Mengestu
Black Mamba Boy Nadifa Mohamed

May - AFRICAN NOBEL WINNERS https://www.librarything.com/topic/350564
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing (South Africa)

June - EAST AFRICA - https://www.librarything.com/topic/351192 The Dance of the Jakaranda Peter Kimani

July - ACHEBE or Okri
Reading The Arrow of God - Achebe
Plans The Famished Road Ben Okri

August - FRANCOPHONE AFRICA
September - SOUTHERN AFRICA
October - MUKASONGA / NGUGI WA THIONG'O
November - AFRICAN THRILLERS / CRIME WRITERS
December - WEST AFRICA

British Author Challenge
January -
Rosemary Sutcliff - The Eagle of the Ninth
Fred D'Aguiar - Year of Plagues: memoir of 2020

February - Novellas & Short Stories -
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

March -
Vita Sackville-West - The Land
Tariq Ali

April -
British Queens - Queens of the Crusades

May -
Jan Morris - Hong Kong

June - Time Travel/Alternate History

July
Tim Holt When It's A Jar
Nadifa Mohamed read Black Mamba Boy earlier in the year.

August - Francophone Authors

September -

American Author Challenge
January - Children Classics

February - Richard Powers
The Overstory

March - Poetry -
Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

April - Ursula Hegi -
The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls

May - JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN

June - Mary Gordon
Reading Jesus

JULY: US Presidents as authors
Rough Riders - Theodore Roosevelt

AUGUST: Percival Everett
The Trees
So Much Blue

SEPT: American Ladies of Crime
A Death of No Importance

OCT,: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

NOV.: Canadian authors

DEC.: Benjamin Alire Saenz

WILD CARD: AAC 2014 REDUX

July Reading Plans
1001 Books
Arrow of God - Reading 1001, ANC COMPLETED
Ratner's Star - Don Delillo COMPLETED
Vineland - Pynchon
The Hive - for August READING
Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady READING

American Author Challenge
US President
Rough Riders - Teddy Roosevelt COMPLETED

British Author Challenge:
When It's a Jar - Tim Holt COMPLETED

African Novel Challenge
The Famished Road COMPLETED
Arrow of God COMPLETED

Jewish Book Club
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
The Living and the Lost - Ellen Feldman

Revolution
Doctor Zhivago

Canada
Anil's Ghost COMPLETED

SFF & Horror
The Space Between Worlds
The Thief
Exit Strategy
Duma Key COMPLETED

F2F
The Bandit Queens COMPLETED

Others
The Magic Barrel Bernard Malamud COMPLETED, just the short story
The Body Snatchers and other stories Robert Louis Stevenson COMPLETED
Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan COMPLETED
Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros - Chabon COMPLETED
The Final Solution - Chabon READING
Independence Day - Richard Ford

July 1st, Saturday. It’s summer. I’ve enjoyed a couple of Sandhill cranes hanging around yesterday and today. Otherwise pretty quiet here. Partly cloudy/sun and temps in the 80s,

Wordle 742 5/6

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Arrow of God
Duma Key
Clarissa

Happy new thread, Kristel!

>9 Kristelh: The Famished Road is on my list for July too.

Happy new thread, Kristel.

I made 75 like you in June and also have The Famished Road lined up.

Happy New Thread, Kristel!

>12 PaulCranswick:, Thank you Paul. I am looking forward to reading The Famished Road.
>13 vancouverdeb:, Thank you Deb, Happy Canada Day!

Sunday

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Made progress in my books but no first book yet for July. At 78% in Duma Key

Happy new one, Kristel!

84.
Book Duma Key - Stephen King
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2008
Acquisition date/place: June 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: paranormal artist takes on evil
Challenge(s): horror; beach read
American: yes
British:
List book: Bram Stoker Award
Genre paranormal horror
Liked: I liked the MN/FL connection, I liked how the head injury was depicted
Disliked: I disliked one aspect for sure that I did not think was necessary for the book to be good.

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Currently reading Clarissa (year long) and keeps getting pushed to the side. Arrow of God which I find easy to read but the names are confusing. And I have Ratner’s Star ready to start.

Happy Independence Day! Tuesday. We should get some rain today and it is much needed.
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Still reading Arrow of God. On chapter 5.
Also reading Ratner’s Star, about 33% done.

Happy new thread, Kristel!

>16 drneutron:, Thank you Jim.
>20 bell7:, Thank you, Mary.

Wednesday, back to routines today. Yesterday time spent with daughter and granddaughter shopping and eating, a good day all in all. Got a very nice book journal.

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Ratner’s Star: 64%
Arrow of God: 31%

Thursday, and a very nice day. Cooler temps and less humidity. I need to be outside catching up on those chores that the heat keeps me from doing.

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Book Ratner's Star - Don DeLillo
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1976
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla, 7/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.5 stars rounded to 3 stars.
Book description/summary: Twillig goes down a rabbit hole.
Challenge(s): TBR takedown; Reading 1001
American: yes
British:
List book: 1001
Genre Science Fiction/novel
Liked: I liked the start of the book, it was ingenious in many ways
Disliked: lost me with the excess of characters, sexual content and body secretions.

Friday; a cool morning today. Mostly cloudy today.
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Finished Ratner’s Star. An interesting book, while I didn’t find it a 5 star book it did deserve its place on the 1001 list (did it keep its place?).
57% done with Arrow of God.
Started The Rough Riders - Theodore Roosevelt. A story of the Spanish American War which I know very little about.

86.
Book The Rough Riders - Roosevelt
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1899
Acquisition date/place: 7/2023, Hoopla
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: military history, volunteer calvary, Cuba
Challenge(s): read something written by president (AAC)
American: yes
British:
List book:
Genre nonfiction
Liked: learned about Spanish American War
Disliked: a bit redundant but isn't war?

Saturday
We got some rain last evening and today is predicted to be a nice sunny day with temps warmer but still bearable. Woke to a deer in yard and the skunk was also out in the field.

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Arrow of God and started Famished Road. I think it’s good to read Achebe before you read Okri’s book. Okri’s book is “magical realism” but knowing some of details in Achebe’s book is helping me get the later book.

87.
Book Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
Format: e-book (trilogy).
Original publication date: 1964
Acquisition date/place: 5/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 5 stars
Book description/summary: somethings are in God's hands, not ours
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm, ANC, Chinua Achebe
American:
British:
Other Nigerian
List book: 1001
Genre African Realism
Liked: I liked it mostly
Disliked: I liked it a lot and other than the sexual content which was appropriate to the book I cannot say I disliked anything.

Sunday evening. It was quiet day. Took several walks. Windy and temperature is warming back up.
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Reading The Famished Road for ANC, ROOT, Booker. I am not appreciating it.
Reading Bookends by Chabon for TIOLI and Doublespin.
To start A Civil Campaign soon for SFF and + or > then 7 in a series, TIOLI.

88.
Book The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Format: audiobook read by Hugh Quarshie
Original publication date: 1991
Acquisition date/place: July 2022
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.6 of C+
Book description/summary: the road is certainly famished
Challenge(s): ANC
American:
British: Nigerian/UK author
List book: Booker winner, 1991
Genre genre bending
Liked: I liked it a little but not much
Disliked: overwhelming use of mythology and too much action, lack of any plot. The road was certainly famished.

Tuesday
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Currently reading The Civil Campaign and Bookends: collected intros and outros

So far Civil Campaign is just too silly and I regret giving time to it. Hope it gets better. It’s a comedy.

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Book Bookends: collected intros and outros by Michael Chabon
Format: book (ER)
Original publication date: January 2019
Acquisition date/place: Oct 2018
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: intros, outros, oneliners, next read?
Challenge(s): read a nonfiction/fiction combo. ROOT
American: yes
British:
List book: no
Genre nonfiction
Liked: I liked finding more books worthy of "TBR" mountain
Disliked: heavy on comics which I don't plan to take up but when you consider it's Chabon, it's only right

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Reading
Civil Campaign at 70%
Clarissa 38%.

Friday and sun and poor air quality today. Hmmm.
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Civil Campaign 91% should finish today
Clarissa at 39%.

Saturday. Very smoky here from the Canadian fires. The sun is shining but you can hardly see it.

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Finished Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. Not my favorite but if you’re into Regency Romance this might be one you’d love. There’s romance, politics, science (touching on economics and gender).

I will start The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff.

90.
Book Civil Campaign - Lois McMaster Bujold
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1999
Acquisition date/place: Libby, July 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.8 stars or C-
Book description/summary: soapy space opera romances
Challenge(s): read a series/trilogy and TIOLI
American: yes
British:
List book: NPR top 100 SFF
Genre Sciene Fiction, space opera.
Liked: good reader
Disliked: a lot of sexual topics and swearing that isn't needed

Sunday, 55 degrees this morning. A mix of sun, clouds, wind, and smoke from Canada.

Recap of the week
Read 3 books.
Currently reading The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff. Not sure what I think of this book that is set in India, written by an American author with Indian origin and not enough information about the author to make an informed decision about this book. This book is set in India and features a single woman whose husband has “disappeared”.

- poor India, slums, unclean villages
- Hindu vs Muslim
- upper castes vs lower castes
- patriarchal society, women abuse
- Hindu symbols, customs, rituals

91.
Book The Bandit Queens
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2023
Acquisition date/place: July 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4
Book description/summary: something black in the lentils
Challenge(s): WCf2f July 2023 book
American: Yes, maybe, not sure
British:
List book:
Genre fiction, progressive author of Indian origin
Liked: fun characters
Disliked: there is a lot of cusswords and Indian proverbs and apparently you would hear women talking this way in rural India.

Monday morning
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Starting The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud

92.
Book Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
Format: audio by LATW
Original publication date: 1950
Acquisition date/place: 5/27/2021
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: a reach into the barrel
Challenge(s): ROOT, TIOLI #1 2023
American: Jewish American author
British:
List book: National Book Award
Genre short story
Liked: Jewish culture
Disliked: short stories always seem "short" but the ending is ambiguous.

93.
Book The Body Snatchers and other short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1896
Acquisition date/place: 7/8/2021, AudioFile Sync Summer Program
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: Body Snatchers, poor thing, Bottle Imp.
Challenge(s): ROOT, TIOLI #6 Atheist author
American:
British:
Other Scotland
List book: no
Genre short stories, horror
Liked: I liked the bottle imp best, body snatchers is too true. Imp reminds me of the Monkey Paw
Disliked: the Poor Thing didn't stick in my mind but it did involve a "spirit" (horseshoe) that wanted to "born" as the man's son.

Tuesday, a sun shiny day mostly. Out to lunch with ladies. Cool morning but will be warming up to more normal July tempts.

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Currently reading
Anil’s Ghost 13%
Clarissa or history of a young lady 40%. The author can make you really dislike Lovelace. At first you think Clarissa is just stupid but then you realize that Lovelace is the stupid one and cruel in his self-centeredness.

Wednesday. Awoke to a thunderstorm. We needed rain and got 0.7 inches. Have to mow on Friday I bet.
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Book Anil's Ghost = Michael Ondaatje
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 2000
Acquisition date/place: 4/15/2022
Decimal/ Star rating: C+ to B-
Book description/summary: skeleton tells all
Challenge(s): Alpha O.P. ROOT, Canadian author (TIOLI)
American:
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Other Canadian/Sri Lanka
List book: no
Genre Fiction
Liked: forensic pathologist/Anthropologist
Disliked: it is slow moving with a feeling of fragmentation.

Friday, a day for catching up on all the chores.

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Happy ( almost) weekend!

I remember reading Manhattan Beach....I know I enjoyed it but can't remember what it was about ;)

Excellent wordling!

Top Authors. Have you read?
SFFH (SF, Fantasy, Horror)
1. J D Robb 0
2. Stephen King 9
3. Patricia Briggs 0
4. Ilona Andrews 0
5. Jim Butcher1
6. Dean Koontz 0
7. David Weber 0
8. Laurell K Hamilton 0
9. Sherrilyn Kenyon 0
10. Brandon Sanderson 2
11. Charlaine Harris 0
12. Mercedes Lackey 0
13. Kelley Armstrong 0
14. Shelly Laurenston 0
15. Faith Hunter 0
16. Eric Vall
17. Naomi Novik 4
18. Robert Jordan 0
19. Logan Jacobs 0
20. Jeaniene Frost 0
21. Joshua Dalzelle 0
22. George R R Martin 0
23. Seanan McGuire 1
24. Kim Harrison 0
25. Isaac Asimov 3
26. Terry Brooks 1
27. Joe Abercrombie
28. Orson Scott Card 1
29. Anne McCaffrey 1
30. John Ringo0
31. Simon R Green 0
32. Jack Campbell 0
33. Michael Anderle 0
34. Frank Herbert 1
35. Karen Marie Moning 0
36. Anne Rice 3
37. Dante King0
38. Will Wight 0
39. Terry Goodking 0
40. TJ Klune 0
41. Terry Pratchett 7
42. Anne Bishop 0
43. Lois McMaster Bujold 6
44. Paula Brackston 0
45. Jennifer Estep 0
46. Keri Arthur 0
47. Kevin J. Anderson 0
48. James S A Corey 0
49. Martha Wells 3
50. Robin Hobb 2

And I considered myself somewhat well read in this category but I also don’t know if I even agree with the list. I think it excludes a lot of the classics for some newer authors. I’ve read 15 of 50 authors. And my top authors are Terry Pratchett and Lois McMaster Bujold.

It’s a list I can use as a go to when looking for authors of SFFH,

Top Authors: Mystery & Thriller, have you read them?
1. James Patterson (2)
2. David Baldacci (1)
3. Stuart Woods (0)
4. Louise Penny (2)
5. Michael Connelly (1)
6. Lee Child (1)
7. C J Box (0)
8. John Standford (0)
9. John Grisham (4)
10. J A Jance (0)
11. Clive Cussler (0)
12. Harlan Coben (0)
13. Craig Johnson (0)
14. Iris Johansen (1)
15. Kyle Mills (0)
16. Karin Slaughter (0)
17. Lisa Gardner (0)
18. William Kent Krueger (1)
19. Anne Perry (0)
20. Ann Cleeves (0)
21. Rhys Bowen (0)
22. Douglas Preston (0)
23. Jonathan Kellerman (0)
24. Brad Thor (0)
25. Robert B Parker (0)
26. Vince Flynn (0)
27. Jeffrey Deaver (0)
28. Robert Crais (0)
29. Kathy Reichs (0)
30. Elly Griffiths (0)
31. Daniel Silva (0)
32. Charles Todd (0)
33. Steve Berry (0)
34. Diana Gabaldon (0)
35. Patricia Cornwell (2)
36. James Rollins (0)
37. Ace Atkins (0)
38. James Lee Burke (0)
39. Liane Moriarty (0)
40. Jacqueline Winspear (0)
41. Mark Greaney (0)
42. Ken Follett (2)
43. Tess Gerritsen
44. Tom Clancy (0)
45. Lisa Scottoline (0)
46. Robert Dugoni (0)
47. Nelson DeMille (0)
48. Dan Brown (2)
49. Allison Brennan (0)
50. Agatha Christie (7)

12 of 50 authors, really? It seems like there are authors that should be on this list, is this really the top Mystery/Thriller authors. Obviously not my favorite genre according to this list.

>49 figsfromthistle: Thanks for stopping by Anita. Best to you too.

Top Romance Authors; have you read them?
1. Nora Roberts - 0
2. Christine Feehan - 0
3. Janet Evanovich - 14
4. Catherine Coulter - 0
5. Debbie Macomber - 0
6. Robyn Carr - 0
7. Elin Hilderbrand - 0
8. Heather Graham - 0
9. Danielle Steel - 0 Pretty sure I've read her
10. Susan Mallery - 0
11. Lynsey Sands - 0
12. Fern Michaels - 0
13. lisa Kleypas - 0
14. J R Ward - 0
15. Sandra Brown - 0
16. Julia Quinn - 0
17. Diana Palmer - 0
18. Jude Devaraux - 0
19. Jayne Ann Krentz 0
20. Nicholas Sparks - 1
21. Linda Howard - 0
22. Linda Castillo - 0
23. Nalini Singh - 0
24. Julie Garwood - 0
25. Kristin Hannah - 2
26. Lisa Jackson - 0
27. Amanda Quick - 0
28. Sherrilyn Kenyon - 0
29. Johanna Lindsey - 0
30. Ruby Dixon - 0
31. Kat Martin 0
32. Mary Balogh 0
33. Sharon Sala 0
34. Lora Leigh 0
35. Jayne Castle 0
36. Sherryl Woods 0
37. Lori Foster 0
38. Kristen Ashley 0
39. Stephanie Laurens 0
40. Jennifer Ashley 0
41. Carolyn Brown 0
42. Gena Showalter 0
43. Janet Daily I know I've read something
44. Linda Lael Miller 0
45. Mary kay Andrews 0
46. Jill Shalvis 0
47. Maya Banks 0
48. RaeAnne Thayne 0
49. Brenda Novak 0
50. Laura Griffin 0

I've read 5 of 50. Romance is not my favorite genre.

To Authors of General Fiction.
1. Danielle Steel 0
2. Jeffrey Archer 0
3. Alexander McCall Smith 1
4. Anthony Doerr - 1
5. Jodi Picoult - 2
6. Amor Towles - 3
7. John Banville - 2
8. Jennifer Chiaverini 0
9. Patrick Taylor 0
10. Fredrik Backman 1
11. Viola Shipman 0
12. Jonathan Franzen 3
13. Elizabeth Strout 2
14. Fannie Flagg 2
15. Sally Rooney 1
16, Richard Powers 2
17. Kristy Woodson Harvey 0
18. Taylor Jenkins Reid 1
19. Maeve Binchy 1
20. Katie Winters 0
21. Elizabeth Berg 0
22. Miss Read 0
23, Jean grainger 0
24. Lauren Groff 1
25. Adriana Trigiani 0
26. P.G. Wodehouse 1
27. Joyce Carol Oates 3
28. Delia Owens 0
29. Catherine Ryan Hyde 0
30. Anne Tyler 4
31. Rosamunde Pilcher 2
32. Ann Patchett 3
33. Carlos Ruiz Zafon 0
34. Jane Green 0
35. Colm Toibin 2
36. Abdulrazak Gurnah 0
37. Barbara Kingsolveer 4
38. Barbara O'Neal 0
39. Cormac McCarthy 4
40. Miranda Cowley Heller 0
41. Stephen Fry 0
42. Christina Baker Kline 1
43. Freya Sampson 0
44. Jane Austen 6
45. Chuck Palahniuk 1
46. Celeste Ng - 2
47. Michelle Gable 0
48. Ruth Ozeki 0
49. D E Stevenson 0
50. Marian Keyes 0

I've read 26 of 50. I haven't even heard of some of these authors.

Saturday, no particular plans. Maybe a trip to the library for some trivia.
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Reading Manhattan Beach, Clarissa, and need to start The Hive.

Sunday, 59 degrees mostly sunny.
Past week summary
4 books read, total for month 11
Currently reading:
Clarissa 40% of page 411.
Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan, 67%
The Hive by Cela at 5%.

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Church and pot luck on Sunday
Visit with friend either at lake or out for lunch
Hair/Pedi
Bible Study with Granddaughters/Grandmothers

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Book Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
Format: Book and audiobook
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: 12/19/2017
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.4 stars
Book description/summary: in and out of water
Challenge(s): ROOT and TIOLI#3
American: yes
British:
List book: no
Genre historical fiction
Liked: interesting, strong female character
Disliked: too many characters and plot line all over the place

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Tuesday. Hot again.
Hair cut/pedi today and Rockin Robin this evening.

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The Hive
When It’s a Jar
Clarissa

Wednesday
Lots of storms during the early morning hours. Nothing scary but did get 3 inches which we badly needed. Then again, now I will have to mow.

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Friday is here. A slight break from the humidity. Much appreciated.

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And I am reading The Hive which I really am enjoying. The end of July is approaching and I’ve read 12 books but no bingo yet. My plan is to read a Chabon before the end of the month.

96.
Book When It's A Jar by Tom Holt
Format: audiobook read by Ray Sawyer
Original publication date: 2013
Acquisition date/place: 7/2023, Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating:
Book description/summary: multiverse in a donut
Challenge(s): Read British Author Tom Holt
American:
British: yes
List book: no
Genre SFF, humor
Liked: I thought it was funny enough and I stayed engaged
Disliked: The cover art

Saturday, a cooler and nicer day than we’ve had for awhile. Been so hot and humid. Beginning of a week without my family near by. They are on their way to Wyoming.
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97.
Book The Final Solution: a story of detection - Chabon
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2004
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital 7/2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2, C
Book description/summary: Bee keeper seeks bird
Challenge(s): read F/NF author (Chabon)
American: yes
British:
List book: no
Genre pastiche, mystery
Liked: liked the Pastiche, liked the cover art
Disliked: some things left unsaid

Sunday, sun, clouds, nice temperature. Church today.
Currently reading:
The Living and the Lost by Ellen Feldman. I will finish this in July and it should be my last book for July. Will summarize July later but looks like 15 books read in July.
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Book The Living and the Lost by Ellen Feldman
Format: audiobook, read by Barrie Kreinik
Original publication date: 2021
Acquisition date/place: July 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.6 or C-
Book description/summary: seeking forgiveness or revenge
Challenge(s): Jewish BC mod pick
American: yes
British:
List book: no
Genre hostorical fiction
Liked: I liked the setting of Post WWII Berlin
Disliked: too descriptive sexual scenes

Monday, last day of July.
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Summary of July
Total Books Read: 15
Fiction: 13
Nonfiction: 2
1001 Books: 2
Arrow of God
Ratner's Star
ANC - 2
Ben Okri
Chinua Achebe
Booker: 1
The Famished Road
Pulitzer: 0
TIOLI
#1: The Magic Barrel
#2: Don DeLillo; Ratner's Star
#3: Manhattan Beach - Jennifer Egan
#4: The Famished Road - Ben Okri and ANC
#5: Canadian Author - Anil's Ghost - Ondaatje
#6: The Body Snatchers and Other Stories, Robert Louis Stevenson
#7 --
#8 Bookends and The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
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11. The Civil Campaign
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14. The Living and the Lost

Others:
AAC - Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders
BAC - Tim Holt, When It's a Jar
Bookclub: The Bandit Queens
SFFH:
Duma Key
Ratner's Star
When It's A Jar
Civil Campaign
Jewish Bookclub:
The Living and the Lost

August Plans
TIOLI Challenge
Challenge #1: Read a book blurbed by one of your favorite authors - started by SqueakyChu
Empire of Wild (Margaret Atwood) - Cherie Dimaline ROOT
✅Challenge #2: The “A Rose by Any Other Name” Challenge: Read a book in which either the title or the author’s name contains the same name as a Shakespearean character - started by AlcottAcre
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan, ROOT, Alpha M
Challenge #3: Read a book whose cover includes the word august or its synonym - started by dallenbaugh Krakatoa: the Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 Simon Winchester (Shared Read) NF
Challenge #4: Read a book that is tagged “Adventure” - started by DeltaQueen
West with the Night - Beryl Markham ROOT, Alpha M
Challenge #5: Read a book with a profession in the title or author's name - started by quondame
Bad Ass Librarians or Magician: Apprentice, ROOT
Challenge #6: Read a book by an author you have not read in 3+ years - started by lindapanzo
The Crane Husband - Kelly Barnhill; read her in 2017 The Girl who Drank the Moon
Challenge #7: Read a book with a title that includes a contranym - started by Morphidae Singled Out ROOT and Alpha
Challenge #8: Read a book with an eating utensil on the cover or in the title - started by wandering_star either Killers of a Certain Age (knife) or Fork over Knives
Challenge #9: Read a book with one or more wings on the cover - started by susanna.fraser Nature Obscura Kelly Brenner (shared read)
Challenge #10: Read a book with a word in the title suggesting death - started by lyzard
The Posthumous Memoir of Bras Cubas
The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi
Death in the Family
Challenge #11: Read a book (F or NF) about espionage or the Cold War - started by Chatterbox The Russia House
Challenge #12: Read a book that shares its name with another piece of creative art (not another book) - started by helenliz
The Trees by Percival Everett (the Trees; song by Rush)
✅Challenge #13: Read a book where the first word of the title is an article - started by FAMeulstee
The Hive by Cela
Challenge #14: Read a book that has something to do with a medical condition affecting yourself or someone in your family - started by Citizenjoyce
Mondays Not Coming - ROOT
Challenge #15: Read a book by an author that you read in the previous August of this decade (20,21,22). McEwan (2020), A Child In Time
Challenge #16: Mini Rolling Heat Wave Challenge: Read a book with a hot temperature or location in the title - the next book needs a cool word or location - started by streamsong

Others:
The Prey of Gods SFF
The Summer of My German Soldier

Currently reading
The HiveCOMPLETED
Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady
Altered Carbon COMPLETED

Tuesday and the first day of a new month.

The Hive: 60% completed
Altered Carbon 12% completed
Clarissa 41% completed

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>70 Kristelh: Looks like August is going to be a very good reading month for you, Kristel!

>72 alcottacre:. Hopefully I will get most of them done but unlikely to get them all, Stasia

Wednesday, mowed grass yesterday. Today should be a good one for reading.
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Thursday; busy day today. Gym, take dog for her allergy shot, Bible study, Bookclub.
Finished Altered Carbon yesterday. I can’t say that I liked it but I will review it today. Almost done with The Hive. Starting The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cuba.
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Friday has arrived. Yesterday was a busy day.
Bookclub reads for next 6 months
August is The Death of Vivek (Nigerian author)
September: A Death of No Importance - Mariah Fredericks
October: The Shadow of the Wind
November/December: Little MonstersAdrienne Brodeur
January: The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir Ruth Wariner
February: Lessons in Chemistry

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Currently reading
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cuba
The Hive by Cela
Clarissa (year long read)

To review:
Altered Carbon

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Book Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan
Format: book/audio
Original publication date: 2002 Barnes and Nobles
Acquisition 4/17/2018, Barnes and Nobles
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.2
Book description/summary: Would you choose to live forever?
Challenge(s): ROOT, Alpha M, TIOLI #2
American:
British: yes
List book: no
Genre Cyberpunk, crime, noir
Liked: it begs the question of what it will mean if man could "live forever" by his own creation
Disliked: graphic sexual content, a lot of violence

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Book The Hive - Camilo Jose Cela
Format: book
Original publication date: 1950
Acquisition date/place: July 2023 MnLink
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.2 stars
Book description/summary: Madrid is the Hive
Challenge(s): Reading 1001 botm, August 2023.
American: no
British: no
Other: Spain
List book: 1001 books
Genre experimental, social realism
Liked: I liked the prose, I like the picture of life
Disliked: I want to know more

Saturday, a cloudy day with maybe some rain later. Cooler too.
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Currently reading:
Clarissa (year long). I am a bit behind at 42%.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis.

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Book The Posthumous Memoir of Bras Cubas - Machado de Assis
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1881
Acquisition date/place: August 2023 Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.4 stars
Book description/summary: don't take yourself so seriously
Challenge(s): reading 1001, TBR takedown, TIOLI #10
Author Brazil, male,19th century
List book: 1001, Guardian
Genre realism
Liked: liked the humor
Disliked: that I didn't have a book to read along and take notes

Sunday morning, maybe a rainy day. We can use the rain. I would like a walk before church. Maybe?
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The Crane Husband 18%. Feels sinister. “The crane came in through the front door like he owned the place.”

Also reading Clarissa at 43%. Letter 53, May 25.

Starting The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi. Book club read for September.

Monday morning.
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Currently reading
The Crane Husband (daughter)
The Death of Death of Vivek Oji (male)
Clarissa (young lady, daughter)

Tuesday
I did get the lawn mowed yesterday and some other chores so not a lot of reading.
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I finished The Death of Vivek Oji and will review it later.
The Crane Husband 44%

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Book The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: 8/2023, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.7 stars
Book description/summary: finding self
Challenge(s): bookclub read, TIOLI #10
Author: Nigerian, Malaysian living in the US. Nonbinary, trans
List book: its made several list, was a finalist in the Dublin Literary Award
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked the setting of Nigerwives in Nigeria and their children
Disliked: the nonlinear format

Wednesday, no special plans. Gym and some housework.
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Book The Crane Husband Kelly Barnhill
Format: book
Original publication date: 2023
Acquisition date/place: July 2023, WPL
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 or C+ or B-.
Book description/summary: Sometimes you have to knot the thread and pull it tight
Challenge(s): TIOLI #6
Author: USA, Minnesota
List book: no
Genre horror, fairy tale, retelling
Liked: I liked the sinister feeling of the story
Disliked: mother fails her children, so sad

Thursday, it’s lightly raining today which we need though it also means I will have to mow the grass sooner than later.
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Empire of Wild 16%
Clarissa 44% Started Volume 5 last night.

Friday. Yesterday started with rain and ended with rain.
Empire of Wild 56%.

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Book Empire of Wild - Cherie Dimaline
Format: book, audiobook
Original publication date: 2019, Canada
Acquisition date/place: 1-17-20, Indiespensable Box.
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars, C
Book description/summary: Joan loses Victor, finds rogarou
Challenge(s): TIOLI #1, Blurb by favorite author. ROOT
Author: Canadian, Metiz
List book: no
Genre speculative fiction, horror, indigenous
Liked: learning about the rogarou
Disliked: violence to a little gerbil could have been skipped, it is violent, bloody, lots of cussing and sexual content.

Saturday
Looks like a nice day. May go to the gym and then visit the bookstore.
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Currently reading Singled Out by Andrew Maraniss
And Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady.

Book obtained The Collected Stories of Katherine
Anne Porter.

>73 Kristelh: I never get to them all either, but we can dream, can't we?

>77 Kristelh: >84 Kristelh: >86 Kristelh: >89 Kristelh: I think I will give those a pass.

>78 Kristelh: >80 Kristelh: Adding those to the BlackHole. Thanks for the recommendations, Kristel.

Have a wonderful weekend, Kristel!

>91 alcottacre:, Thank you so much for stopping by and you're welcome. Hope you enjoy them if and when you get to them. So far a good weekend but not much reading getting done.

Sunday, summing up the week. We got some rain, three days this week. We did not get the bad hail that areas not that far away got. Ruined lots of property and probably destroyed crops. County fair is done for another year. Made a trip to St. Cloud and picked up copies of Middlemarch and the The Illiad for my shelves. And also The Wind in the Willows which I don’t think I’ve ever read.

Today it is cloudy and we will probably get some rain. I did not sleep last night so it might be a day of falling asleep rather than reading but I did make some progress last night because of not being able to sleep.
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Completed this week
The Death of Vivek Oji not recommended unless….
The Crane Husband I did not mind this one about a creepy crane and mom who did not mother.
Empire of Wild its okay if you’re looking for an indigenous author, Canadian, who writes about rogurue and you don’t mind swearing, sex, and cruelty to small animal.

Currently reading
Singled Out 21%, not enjoying this one so much (true story of Glenn Burke)
Clarissa pg 824, 47%, Vol 5, letter 14.

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Book Singled Out, the true story of Glenn Burke by Andrew Maraniss
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2021
Acquisition date/place: 6/2022, AudioSync Summer Program
Decimal/ Star rating: 2 stars, I simply didn't care about the main character
Book description/summary: a good resource for historical data and to study more about Gay Rights Movement
Challenge(s): ROOT, TIOLI, Alpha
Author: Andrew Maraniss, a sports writer, American
List book: no
Genre nonfiction, biography, history
Liked: I liked the overview of history and I learned
Disliked: I just did not care about Glenn Burke

Monday, yesterday was a slow rain day and today is predicted to be a mixed bag with drizzly windy, cloudy and even a bit of sun later. Cool too.
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This is my Thingaversary day. 13 years with LT.

Good morning Tuesday. A cool morning, stars are bright.
Reading: Krakatoa and Clarissa

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Thursday. Windy, cooler, smoke from the north.
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Book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 - Simon Winchester
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2003
Acquisition date/place: August 2023 Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.5 stars
Book description/summary: journalist explores effects of volcano
Challenge(s): TIOLI #3
Author: British
List book: it made some "best lists"
Genre journalism/documentary
Liked: liked learning new to me info
Disliked: a far stretch to conclude that a volcano caused Islam to rear up against Christians.

107.
Book Defined: Who God Says You Are - Pricilla Shirer
Format: book/video series
Original publication date: 2019
Acquisition date/place: June 2023, Amazon
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 to 4 stars
Book description/summary: mentoring young ladies
Challenge(s): bible study with grandmother's and granddaughters
Author: USA
List book: no
Genre Christian Living
Liked: nice to spend time with small group studying identity
Disliked: basic stuff for person's my age but it is about mentoring

>100 Kristelh: I just finished my re-read of that one a few minutes ago - I was listening to it on audio this time around. I like it slightly better than you did, giving it 4 stars.

Have a wonderful weekend, Kristel!

>102 alcottacre:, Stasia, have a great weekend too. I read through it fast and I had audio. If I had book and audio maybe I would have liked it more. I struggle with rating nonfiction. I would honestly say it is between 3 and 4 for me.

108.
Book Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson.
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2018
Acquisition date/place: 4/30/20, AudioSync summer reading program
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.5 stars
Book description/summary: YA book with some tough subjects
Challenge(s): TIOLI; read a book about with a medical condition affecting yourself or family
Author: USA
List book: no
Genre YA, Realistic
Liked: I liked the mystery
Disliked: I found the time line confusing.

Summary for the week of: August 13 - 19.

Books read this week 4
Krakatoa
Singled Out
Monday's Not Coming
Defined: Who God says you are.
The best one this week is Monday's Not Coming.
Currently reading: The Trees which I am enjoying.

Happy Sunday!
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Currently reading The Trees by Percival Everett. And chipping away at Clarissa at Letter 21 (vol 5). 48%. I was at letter 14 and now 21, 7 letters in a week, a letter a day.

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Book The Trees - Percival Everett
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2021
Acquisition date/place: 2023, 8, 19
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.6
Book description/summary: an eye for an eye equals equality and justice
Challenge(s): read AAC, Percival Everett
Author: American author
List book: short listed for Booker 2022
Genre crime, horror
Liked: I liked most of the story
Disliked: I did not like the latter part of the book when it became a revolution and revolt and making it okay to kill others for the crimes of the fathers. "Familial Complicity"

Monday’s here again. Today is gym, lunch with friends and then back home this afternoon.
Woke up too early because my dog is suffering with allergies which she always does in August. Hopefully it will be get better soon.
Currently reading
The Summer of my German Soldier. A bit odd book imo. German POWs brought to the US? Girls talking about robots. Did we have awareness of robots in the 40s? It’s a coming of age book. At 18%.
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Steamy, hot Tuesday here in Minnesota. Almost the same as my place in Florida. Maybe hotter here today.
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Currently reading My German Soldier. An interesting YA novel from the 70s. Historical fiction. Jewish.
Read a couple letters in Clarissa yesterday as well.

110.
Book The Summer of My German Soldier - Bette Greene
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1973
Acquisition date/place: 2023/8, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.2
Book description/summary: still relevant today
Challenge(s): JBC, TIOLI #5
Author: American/Jewish
List book: no
Genre YA, historical fiction
Liked: I liked the story
Disliked: characters were a bit stereotyped.

My Thingaversary was 8/14. I joined in 2010 so I am 13 years with LT. I always miss this date until I see someone else post.

>111 Kristelh: Bealated happy 13th Thingaversary, Kristel!
Any plans for a Thingaversary haul?

>112 FAMeulstee: Thank you Anita. I’ve been acquiring some books lately. I think I will count them and see how many more to go before August is past.

Wednesday, another extreme hot day, maybe a bit better than yesterday. Minnesota is competing with Florida for steamy.
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Currently reading West with the Night for TIOLI Adventure.

Also reading a really long letter in Clarissa. I’m finally past 50%.

Books obtained in August
1. The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
2. Wind in the Willows
3. The Iliad and the Odyssey for the shelf
4. Iliad, translated by Robert Fagles, for the shelf
5. Middlemarch read this but want copy on shelf
6. Shylock is my Name
7. a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, for the shelf
8. D H Lawrence Four Short Novels
9. Enduring Love
10. Chronicles Volume one - Bob Dylan
11. History of the Peloponnesian War
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Thingaversary 8/14/2010 (13 years) - 2 books to go.

Thursday, another steamy day about the same as yesterday. Spending time with younger granddaughter today.

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West with the Night - Beryl Markham 85%
Clarissa or the History of a young lady 51%, this one is so so soap opera, it has me fuming.

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Book West With the Night - Beryl Markham
Format: audiobook/kindle
Original publication date: 1942
Acquisition date/place: 2019, March
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: she has a wonderful way with words and quite the story for a woman
Challenge(s): TIOLI - Adventure, ROOT, alpha
Author: England/Kenya
List book: no
Genre memoir
Liked: she is an interesting woman
Disliked: sad about killing of elephants but glad they're smart

Yesterdays additions
Leaves of Grass
Aeneid
Hamlet
Catcher in the Rye
Between the Acts

my thingaversary is more than complete now and I found 4 of the top 50 books I want on my shelf in real time.

Friday is here and weather is a bit cooler. I should finish my lawn mowing today. Also have a pizza date with some friends this eventing.

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Saturday and a quite pleasant morning with a morning temperature of 58. Will take a walk this morning.
Plans for today. Working on what to read in September.
My 1001 reads for September are
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Book of Daniel by Doctorow
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Book Club read
A Death of No Importance - Mariah Fredericks

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Currently reading
A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War by Albert Marrin.

Sunday, another delightfully cool morning. So appreciated after this hot ones. I finished to books yesterday and need to get them reviewed here.
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A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War by Albert Marrin. Good
Nature Obscura Kelly Brenner, gave this one 5 stars because I liked it. I like observing nature but she really observes nature.

Still working on my September plans but this I know
Book of Daniel
Manhattan Transfer
Nostromo
World According to Garp a reread
If I survive you
A Death of No importance - Mariah Fredericks
Agents of Dreamland
The Nickel Boys
Boundary Waters
Willa Cather, possibly A Lost Lady
The Shadow King - Mazda Mengiste
Remarkable Bright Creatures
Days Without End

I need 7 more for my Bookspin bingo card.

Monday morning
Today will be gym, cleaning, reading.

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Clarissa, vol 5, letter 33, 53%
Killers of a Certain Age 84%. Should finish this one today. It has been enjoyable.

>117 Kristelh: Dodging that BB as I have already read it.

>118 Kristelh: I found 4 of the top 50 books I want on my shelf in real time. That is terrific!

112.
Book A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War -Albert Marrin
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: March 2021
Acquisition date/place: Audio Sync File summer program, free download
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: what it says, hx of communism and cold war in the US
Challenge(s): read a book about cold war/espionage, ROOT, Alpha
Author: US
List book: no
Genre nonfiction
Liked: I liked learning about hx but also how it is still present today
Disliked: it was okay, I can't think of anything to dislike. I was glad it did not appear to be taking a left or right stand, it seemed to be reporting accurately

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Book Nature Obscura - Kelly Brenner
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2020
Acquisition date/place: August 2023, libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.5 stars
Book description/summary: an urban naturalist writes about her observations
Challenge(s): "wings on cover"
Author: US
List book: no
Genre nonfiction, science
Liked: I liked the joy of observing your environment
Disliked: I listened to this and I am sure I missed out on a lot by not actually having the book to look at.

114.
Book Killers of a Certain Age
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2022
Acquisition date/place: August 2023, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.2 stars
Book description/summary: old women still got it
Challenge(s): read for TIOLI
Author: US
List book: no
Genre thriller
Liked: it was entertaining
Disliked: too much reference to being old at 60 - it's not that bad. Who really has the right to set themselves up as judge, jury, and executioner? It's fun tho.

Tuesday. Should be a nice day in Minnesota but watching Idalia and where it heads in Florida. Hope it stays away.
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Wednesday! I finished The Child in Time yesterday and started So Much Blue which I should finish before the end of the month but it can work for next month too.
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Book The Child in Time - Ian McEwan
Format: kindle/audio
Original publication date: 1987
Acquisition date/place: August 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.2
Book description/summary: parenthood in Thatcher's England
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, ROOT, TIOLI
Author: British
List book: 1001
Awards Whitbread Novel Award
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked the themes of loss, parenthood
Disliked: I like books about time but I don't think this book did a good job of exploring time.

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Book So Much Blue - Percival Everett
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital, August 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: the effects of secrets
Challenge(s): TIOLI, AAC
Author: American
List book: no
Genre Fiction
Liked: liked a story built around art
Disliked: a bit too much details of sex and profanity

Thursday, last day of August. Where did August go?
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I will be setting up my reading plans for September and posting my summary for August hopefully later today.

Summary August 2023

Total books read 18.

TIOLI Challenge
✅Challenge #1: Read a book blurbed by one of your favorite authors - started by SqueakyChu
Empire of Wild (Margaret Atwood) - Cherie Dimaline ROOT
✅Challenge #2: The “A Rose by Any Other Name” Challenge: Read a book in which either the title or the author’s name contains the same name as a Shakespearean character - started by AlcottAcre
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan, ROOT, Alpha M
✅Challenge #3: Read a book whose cover includes the word august or its synonym - started by dallenbaugh Krakatoa: the Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 Simon Winchester (Shared Read) NF
✅Challenge #4: Read a book that is tagged “Adventure” - started by DeltaQueen
West with the Night - Beryl Markham ROOT, Alpha M
✅Challenge #5: Read a book with a profession in the title or author's name - started by quondame
Summer of My German Soldier
✅Challenge #6: Read a book by an author you have not read in 3+ years - started by lindapanzo
The Crane Husband - Kelly Barnhill; read her in 2017 The Girl who Drank the Moon
✅Challenge #7: Read a book with a title that includes a contranym - started by Morphidae Singled Out: the true story of Glenn Burke
✅Challenge #8: Read a book with an eating utensil on the cover or in the title - started by wandering_star either Killers of a Certain Age
✅Challenge #9: Read a book with one or more wings on the cover - started by susanna.fraser Nature Obscura Kelly Brenner (shared read)
✅Challenge #10: Read a book with a word in the title suggesting death - started by lyzard
The Posthumous Memoir of Bras Cubas
The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi
✅Challenge #11: Read a book (F or NF) about espionage or the Cold War - started by Chatterbox A Time of Fear
✅Challenge #12: Read a book that shares its name with another piece of creative art (not another book) - started by helenliz
The Trees by Percival Everett (the Trees; song by Rush)
✅Challenge #13: Read a book where the first word of the title is an article - started by FAMeulstee
The Hive by Cela
✅Challenge #14: Read a book that has something to do with a medical condition affecting yourself or someone in your family - started by Citizenjoyce
Mondays Not Coming - ROOT
✅Challenge #15: Read a book by an author that you read in the previous August of this decade (20,21,22). McEwan (2020), The Child In Time
✅Challenge #16: Mini Rolling Heat Wave Challenge: Read a book with a hot temperature or location in the title - the next book needs a cool word or location - started by streamsong So Much Blue

1001 Books Read
The Hive - Cela
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cuba -de Assis
The Child in Time - McEwan

ROOTS: 7

No Booker, Pulitzer.
American Author Challenge: Percival Everett 2 books read

British Author challenge; seafaring, 0

Best book:
Fiction: The Trees
Nonfiction: Nature Obscura

>132 Kristelh: Great numbers for August, Kristel!

You forgot to mention your book for Challenge #7: Singled Out by Andrew Maraniss
Congratulations on reading a book for each challenge!

>133 FAMeulstee:, Thanks and thanks for catching #7, Anita.

September Reading Plans
TIOLI
My Tentative plans, subject to change.
Challenge #1: Read a book tagged "racism" - started by SqueakyChu
The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter - Tom Franklin

Challenge #2: Read a book with a headline character count of 23 or less - started by Chatterbox
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad 8.5 i think

Challenge #3: Read a book with a word in the title from the September Songs List - started by Morphidae
Last Orders - Graham Swift

Challenge #4: The "Three's the Bees Knees" Challenge: Read a book whose author's either first or last name is 3 letters
The Grip of It Jac Jemc or
The Family Chao - Lan Samantha Chang

Challenge #5: Read a Debut Novel First Published Since 1 January 2020 - started by PaulCranswick
Remarkable Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt

Challenge #6: Read a book whose title would fit as a name for the posted picture - started by DeltaQueen
Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger

Challenge #7: Read a book about contact with extraplanetary aliens or alien abduction - started by Citizenjoyce
Agents of Dreamland - Caitlín R. Kiernan
*The Road to Roswell - Connie Willis placed a hold 8 weeks out

Challenge #8: Read a book you were planning to read for one of the August 2023 challenges Death In The Family (death in the title)

Challenge #9: Read a book with a place name in the title
Manhattan Transfer - Dos Passos

#10: Read a book, fiction or nonfiction, about a war that took place before you were born
The Shadow King - (Mussolini - WWII) or
Days Without End Civil war - Sebastian Barry

Challenge #11: Read a book with 5 or more words in the title, at least two of them the same length
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree - Ann Weisgarber
or The Cowboy and the Cossack

Challenge #12 Read a book, F/NF, where either the word libraries or librarians is included in the initial tags section The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu

Challenge #13: Read a book where you can make a word, with at least three letters, with the first letters of title and/or author
If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery (YES)

1001 Books
Manhattan Transfer
Book Of Daniel
Nostromo
World According to Garp

SFF work, not in English The Memory Police
Horror: Haunted House The Grip of It

Western Theme
The Cowboy and the Cossack
Days Without End
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

Booker:
Last Orders COMPLETED

Pulitzer:
Death in the Family

BAC
The Maidens

AAC
A Death of No Importance - Mariah Fredericks

ANC: SOUTHERN AFRICA, maybe Disgrace
The Promise. Booker Winner.

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Today, no gym. My knee needs a long rest. It is better today. I will meet up with some ladies to discuss a possible trip.
Currently reading Remarkable Bright Creatures 18% and Clarissa, or the history of a young lady at 54% and letter 36.

>125 Kristelh: That one sounds interesting. I will have to see if I can locate a copy.

>126 Kristelh: Dodging that BB as I have already read it.

>129 Kristelh: That one too.

>130 Kristelh: And that one.

>135 Kristelh: The Nickel Boys is good, but not Whitehead's best IMHO. I will be curious to see what you think of If I Survive You.

Have a wonderful weekend, Kristel!

>137 alcottacre: , Thank you, Stasia, I might read Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter instead of The Nickel Boys as it has been on my shelf longer.

>137 alcottacre:, Stasia, curious, what is your favorite Whitehead novel?

117.
Book Remarkable Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2022
Acquisition date/place: August 2023, Libby
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.4 stars
Book description/summary: a quest for family/relationship
Challenge(s): Read a recent debut novel
Author: US
List book: no
Genre fiction
Liked: I liked its emotional tones
Disliked: it was a bit too perfect to be believable but it was an easy read

>139 Kristelh: My favorite is The Underground Railroad, but not by a wide margin.

>140 Kristelh: I am scheduled to read that one this month, but the last couple of reviews of it I have seen here in the group were not all that enthusiastic. Hmm.

>141 alcottacre: Stasia, it is a feel good book with touching characters you can care about. I am not sad that I read it and it goes fast.

I've read Zone One I did not care for this one that much. Zombies. and Underground Railroad which I liked better.

>142 Kristelh: I have not read Zone One and likely will not, although I have enjoyed some zombie books, but they seem a trifle overdone these days.

Sunday morning. The days are much shorter. This might be our last very warm stretch of weather. Was low 90s yesterday and 94 predicted for today.
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Monday Labor Day in the US
LT is having problems so hard to do much.
Currently reading
Boundary Waters -William Kent Kruger
The Grip of It - Jac Jemc

Finished Last Orders yesterday. Not reviewed yet.

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118.
Book Last Orders - Graham Swift
Format: audio book
Original publication date: 1996
Acquisition date/place: Audio play (free)
Decimal/ Star rating: 4 stars
Book description/summary: men make journey in memorial
Challenge(s): Booker winner, TIOLI (September word)
Author: British
List book: Booker
Genre literary fiction
Liked: the idea of old men honoring one of theirs
Disliked: sexual content

Tuesday, I guess it’s officially fall now. Schools back in session. Cooler days coming. Leaves to deal with. Apples to pick soon.

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Book Boundary Waters - William Kent Krueger
Format: book/audiobook
Original publication date: 1999
Acquisition date/place: ? some time in the 21st century (husband's book) used
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.4 stars
Book description/summary: greed, murder, renewal
Challenge(s): TIOLI #6
Author: US, Minnesota
List book: no
Genre mystery
Liked: the ending, the setting
Disliked: overly detailed about setting with inaccuracies

starting Agents of Dreamland - Caitlin R. Kiernan, obtained Hoopla Digital. Shared read TIOLI #7.

Wednesday, so happy LT is accessible for the moment. Going through painful withdrawals.
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I finished Agents of Dreamland - Caitlin R. Kieran. Not a long book but can’t say I enjoyed it and will not be reading any further in the series.

120.
Book Agents of Dreamland - Caitlin R. Kiernan, Tor publisher
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: 9/5/23, Hoopla Digital,
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.2 or D+
Book description/summary: jigsaw narrative, Pluto, microbe?
Challenge(s): TIOLI #7
Author: US
List book: no
Genre horror, SFF
Liked: it was quick
Disliked: F* might have been the most frequent word in the total word count

>146 Kristelh: I own that one. I need to get it read one of these days.

>151 Kristelh: I feel no qualms at all in giving that one a pass!

Have a wonderful Wednesday, Kristel!

Thursday, cool morning, 48 degrees. Going to be a nice day.
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Clarissa (year long) 55%
The Grip of It SFFH, haunted house 22%
Nostromo TBR takedown, 1001, 24%

Happy Thursday, Kristel!

Friday, September is flying by. A bit warmer today but not humid.
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Saturday. Temps in the 50s in the morning but today we have clouds so hopefully rain later today.

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Currently reading
Nostromo 69% done
The Grip of It 55%.

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Book Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Format:audiobook
Original publication date: 1904
Acquisition date/place: Hoopla Digital, Sept 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6 or B-
Book description/summary: political picture of South America
Challenge(s): TBR takedown, Reading 1001, TIOLI #2 Sept 23
Author: Polish/British author
List book: Best fiction of the 20th Century, Modern Library, Reading 1001
Genre modernistic novel, early 20th centruy, Post-colonialism global capitalism
Liked: I enjoyed the last half of the story - it does need a reread.
Disliked: backstory sooo soporific

Nobel Prize Winners I've read, inspired by Paul
1901 Sully Prudhomme -
1902 Theodor Mommsen -
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson -
1904 Frédéric Mistral -
1904 José Echegaray y Eizaquirre -
✅ 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz -
Quo Vadis
1906 Giosuè Carducci -
✅ 1907 Rudyard Kipling -
Kim
The Jungle Books
1908 Rudolf Christoph Eucken -
1909 Selma Lagerlöf - 1001 author
1910 Paul Heyse -
1911 Count Maurice Maeterlinck -
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann -
1913 Rabindranath Tagore - 1001 author
1915 Romain Rolland -
1916 Verner von Heidenstam -
1917 Karl Adolph Gjellerup -
1917 Henrik Pontoppidan -
1919 Carl Spitteler -
✅ 1920 Knut Hamsun -
Growth of the Soil
Hunger
1921 Anatole France - 1001 author
1922 Jacinto Benavente
1923 William Butler Yeats - I've read something but too long ago to remember
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
✅ 1925George Bernard Shaw -
Pygmalion
1926 Grazia Deledda -
1927 Henri Bergson
✅ 1928 Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter
✅ 1929Thomas Mann -
Death in Venice
Buddenbrooks
Magic Mountain
✅ 1930 Sinclair Lewis -
Main Street
It Can't Happen Here
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
✅1932 John Galsworthy -
The Forsyte Saga, Vol 1-3
1933 Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin -
1934 Luigi Pirandello -
1936 Eugene O'Neill -
1937 Roger Martin du Gard
✅1938 Pearl S. Buck -
The Good Earth
Sons
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1944 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
1945 Gabriela Mistral
✅ 1946 Hermann Hesse -
Siddhartha
The Glass Bead Game
✅1947 André Gide -
The Immoralist
The Counterfeiters
✅1948 T.S. Elliot -
The Waste Land
✅ 1949 William Faulkner -
As I Lay Dying
Light in August
Absalom, Absalom!
The Sound and the Fury
1950 Bertrand Russell -
✅1951 Pär Lagerkvist -
Barabbas
✅1952 François Mauriac -
Viper's Tangle
1953 Sir Winston Churchill -
✅1954 Ernest Hemingway -
The Old Man and the Sea
Farewell to Arms
To Have and Have Not
✅1955 Halldór Laxness -
Independent People
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez 1001 author
✅1957 Albert Camus -
The Plague
The Stranger
1958 Boris Pasternak - 1001 author
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1960 Saint-John Perse
1961 Ivo Andric -
✅1962 John Steinbeck -
The Grapes of Wrath
The Winter of Our Discontent
Of Mice and Men
East of Eden
Cannery Row
Travels with Charlie
The Pearl
Red Pony
1963 Giorgos Seferis
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre - 1001 author
1965 Michail Sholokhov
1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon - 1001 author
1966 Nelly Sachs -
1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias
✅1968 Yasunari Kawabata -
Thousand Cranes
✅1969 Samuel Beckett -
Waiting for Godot
Watt
Murphy
How it Is
✅1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Cancer Ward
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The First Circle
1971 Pablo Neruda -
✅1972 Heinrich Böll -
The Safety Net
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Portrait with Lady
1973 Patrick White
1974 Eyvind Johnson
1974 Harry Martinson
1975 Eugenio Montale
✅1976 Saul Bellow -
Herzog
Humboldt's Gift
The adventures of Augie March
Falling Man
1977 Vincente Aleixandre
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer -
1979 Odysseas Elytis -
1980 Czeslaw Milosz -
✅1981 Elias Canetti
Auto de Fe
✅1982 Gabriel Garciá Márquez -
A Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
Autumn of the Patriarch
✅1983 William Golding -
Rites of Passage
Lord of the Flies
1984 Jaroslav Seifert -
1985 Claude Simon -
1986 Akinwande Ouwoe
1987 Joseph Brodsky -
✅1988 Naguib Mahfouz -
Midaq Alley
The Thief and the Dogs
✅1989 Camilo José Cela -
Journey to the Alcarria
The Hive
1990 Octavio Paz 1001 author
✅1991 Nadine Gordimer -
July's People
Burger's Daughter
Conservationist
1992 Derek Walcott -
✅1993 Toni Morrison -
Jazz
Sulu
Song of Solomon
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
A Mercy
1994 Kenzaburo Oe -
1995 Seamus Heaney -
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1997 Dario Fo -
✅1998 José Saramago -
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
The Siege of Lisbon
Baltasar and Blimunda
Cain
✅1999 Günter Grass -
Cat and Mouse
The Tin Drum
2000 Gao Xingjian
✅2001 V S Naipaul -
A Bend in the River
In a Free State
The Enigma of Arrival
2002 Imre Kertész -
✅2003 J M Coetzee -
The Life and Times of Michael K
Elizabeth Costello
Waiting for the Barbarians
Slow Man
✅2004 Elfriede Jelinek -
The Piano Teacher
2005 Harold Pinter -
✅2006 Orhan Pamuk -
My Name is Red
Snow
✅2007 Doris Lessing -
The Grass is Singing
The Golden Notebook
2008 J.M.G. Le Clézio
2009 Herta Müller -
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa -
2011 Tomas Tranströmer -
2012 Mo Yan
✅2013 Alice Munro -
Runaway: Stories
Lives of Girls and Women
The Beggar Maid
2014 Patrick Modiano -
2015 Svetlana Alexievich -
2016 Bob Dylan -
✅2017 Kazuo Ishiguro -
An Artist of the Floating World
Never Let Me Go
The Remains of the Day
✅2018 Olga Tokarczuk -
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
2019 Peter Handke -
2020 Louise Gluck -
2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah -
2022 Annie Ernaux -

read: 41
works: 99

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Yesterday was a productive day. Cleaned out the laundry room and cleaned foyer and took care of some hot spots. Finished one book.

>158 Kristelh: Impressive nonetheless, Kristel.

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Book The Grip of It - Jac Jeme
Format: book
Original publication date: 2017
Acquisition date/place: Indiespensible box 8/1/17
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.6 or D+
Book description/summary:
Challenge(s): haunted house trope
Author: US
List book: Unbound Worlds 100 Best Horror Books of All-Time
100 Best Horror Books of All Time (2017)
Genre horror
Liked: it was no too scary
Disliked: it never made a lot of sense to me

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Tuesday, cooler weather, sweatshirt weather. Got a small amount of rain yesterday. Busy week. Twins game tomorrow. Bookclub Thursday at my house.
Currently reading Manhattan Transfer and Clarissa.

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Book Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 1925
Acquisition date/place: August 2023, Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6, or B-
Book description/summary: New York on the move
Challenge(s): Reading 1001, botm, TIOLI #9
Author: US
List book: 1001
Genre literary fiction
Liked: I liked it the characters
Disliked: it was easy to get lost

Wednesday and Happy Birthday #70 to me. Amazing number.

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Today I am traveling to the cities to watch a Twins Game.

Check back later.
Currently reading The Book Of Daniel which I do not like.

Thursday and another very full day. Twins lost yesterday but it was a good game. Temperature was cold though. Didn’t break 70 yesterday.

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Friday, and family should be gathering to celebrate mine and SIL birthdays this weekend.

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Finished The Book of Daniel yesterday. Reading The Personal History of Rachel DuPree - Ann Weisgarber and of course Clarissa.

>161 Kristelh: Sounds like one I will gladly skip!

>163 Kristelh: Adding that one to the BlackHole. Thanks for the mention, Kristel!

Have a fantastic Friday!

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Book The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow
Format: book/audiobook
Original publication date: 1971
Acquisition date/place: 7/5/2016, ?
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: trauma in leftist politics vs capitalism
Challenge(s): 1001, botm 2023, Sept
Author: US
List book: 1001, Guardian 1000
Genre postmodern, literary, political, historical
Liked: liked the Disney section
Disliked: sexual explicit sadism

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Currently reading The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

Sunday morning.
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Still reading The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

Monday morning
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Did not make it with Combinations today.

I will finish The Personal History of Rachel DuPree today.

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Book The Personal History of Rachel DuPree - Ann Weisgarber
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2008
Acquisition date/place: 2/2022
Decimal/ Star rating: 3.6
Book description/summary: Hard life in the Badlands
Challenge(s): read Western, read a book with a person's name, ROOT
Author: US
List book: no
Genre historical fiction
Liked: I liked learning about black homesteaders
Disliked: I didn't like the ending

Tuesday morning.
Currently reading
If I survive You - Jonathan Escoffery. 35%
Clarissa 58 %

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Today is a stay at home day. Cleaning, walks, reading.

A mix of cloud and sun. Highs in the 80s today.

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Wednesday. Temps in the 80s. Maybe the last 80s. This weekend is predicted to be cold and rainy.

I did finish If I Survive You yesterday and currently reading The Maidens - Alex Michaelides. 14%
Clarissa at 58%

>173 Kristelh: I hope you liked If I Survive You more than I did, Kristel.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

>175 alcottacre: Stasia, I think I rated it about the same as you did.

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Book If I Survive You
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2022
Acquisition date/place: September 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 3 stars
Book description/summary: Jamaican/American searching for identity
Challenge(s): long listed Booker, TIOLI
Author: Jonathan Escoffry
List book: long list Booker 2023
Genre connected short stories
Liked: I liked the exploration/search of/for identity
Disliked: it was disjointed making it hard to follow

Thursday, another 80 degree day but cooler than yesterday.
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Currently reading The Maidens and Clarissa. Clarissa Vol 6, letter 26.

The Booker short list
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo (UK) audible
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch (Ireland)
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (Ireland)
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein audible
If I survive You by Jonathan Escoffery (US) read
This Other Eden by Paul Harding (US) audible
and I've actually read one of them.

Friday
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Currently reading The Maidens and Clarissa.
Weather is cooler, mostly clouds today.
Plans: make cake for funeral, meet with travel friends to plan our trip. Of course read. Watch Jeopardy.

Saturday it is, cloudy and rain storms predicted. Added “Happy Fall” Equinox.

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Still reading!

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Book The Maidens - Alex Michaelides
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2021
Acquisition date/place: Sept 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.4 stars D+
Book description/summary: Red herrings and loose ends galore
Challenge(s): BAC, Academia setting
Author: British
List book: no
Genre mystery, thriller
Liked: I liked the idea of the book
Disliked: I did not like that there were loose ends never closed and too many secondary characters that added little.

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Book A Death of No Importance - Mariah Fredericks
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2019
Acquisition date/place: Sept 2023
Decimal/ Star rating: 2.6 or C-
Book description/summary: Lady's Maid and Journalist solve the who dun it
Challenge(s): AAC, Lady's of Crime, WCf2f
Author: US
List book: no
Genre historical fiction/mystery
Liked: liked the main story, it is free of sexual detail and bad language.
Disliked: author was off on tangents that did not need to be a part of the story

It’s Sunday morning. We did get a bit of rain yesterday but not as much as they were predicting.

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Summary for past week
I read 4 books and none of them stood out much. My highest rating went to The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, higher than the Booker Short listed If I Survive You. To be fair, I think Jonathan Escoffery has better writing than Weisgarber does, I think the short story format and that it was Booker long list book brought down the scoring.

Currently reading:
I will be starting Days Without End.
This week hopefully I will be leaving on a trip with some friends heading toward South Carolina. Not sure what that is going to do to my reading time or ability to be on line.

Monday morning and my brain isn’t so good today. Did not get any of the Connections.

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Only got to 8 words on antiwordle and on quordle I only solved 2 of the 4.

I did get my sudoku today but it got dumbed down recently because it was getting too hard.

Struggling with a head cold and flank pain that is probably some kidney stone again.

Currently reading Days without End 33% and Clarissa at 61%.

Tuesday, clouds again today.
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Book Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Format: audiobook
Original publication date: 2016
Acquisition date/place: September 2023, Hoopla Digital
Decimal/ Star rating: 4.2 stars
Book description/summary: fights war, finds love
Challenge(s): TIOLI, #10 Read a Book about a war before I was born
Author: Irish
List book: Guardian top 100 books of 21st century
Genre Western
Liked: excellent writing
Disliked: too much use of God's name as curses

Good morning Wednesday! Tomorrow I leave on my little trip with friends. I mowed the grass yesterday. Lots of loose ends to take care of today plus I have Women’s Bible Study and then I volunteer at Kidz Church tonight.

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Currently reading
1. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter - Tom Franklin
And Clarissa.

Thursday and I leave for my short trip with friends. I won’t be on much and will probably not be able to read much. Weather looks like it is all good.

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Currently reading Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. This has been on my shelf since 2012. Time to get it read. 60% done.