Still alive, still reading: 2025

The Godwulf Manuscript – Robert B. Parker*
Graveyard Plots: The Best Short Stories of Bill Pronzini
Highlander – Garry Kilworth
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Hi, the only author I recognise is Jane Austen and have Sense and Sensibility lines up for this year, so I am intrigued about the others.

>2 AnishaInkspill: Hello! "Godwulf" is the first in Parker's Spenser PI novels; "Highlander" is a tie-in novel to the 1986 movie. Pronzini is a crime fiction writer. I rated all but "Highlander" 3.5 to 4 stars, and can really recommend them; the tie-in expands a bit on the film, but was also apparently based on an earlier script.

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Island of the Lost - Joan Druett
The Boy Who Sang the Birds - John Weston

Lifeboat - John R. Stilgoe
The Thanatos Syndrome - Walker Percy
The Appaloosa - Robert MacLeod

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Haight - Peter Moreira
All the Colors of the Dark - Chris Whitaker

How come I did not write anything here to welcome you back, BD. I really thought I covered everyone's thread. It's good to hear you're still alive and reading!

Nice reading so far! Happy ROOTing

>7 connie53: And I'm equally glad to see that you're also still among the living & reading. Have a terrific 2025 (if anyone can)!

We have to make the best of it, BD.

A Thousand Steps - T. Jefferson Parker
The Case of the Mischievous Doll - Erle Stanley Gardner
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. LeGuin

>9 connie53: Indeed we do. As the kids used to say (do they still?), "Hang in there!"

>11 BookDoc16: I really don't know, BD.

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad*
Fools Crow - James Welch
Hallowe'en Party - Agatha Christie
Case and the Dreamer and Other Stories - Theodore Sturgeon

Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler
The God of the Woods - Liz Moore
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
The Bullet That Missed - Richard Osman

Dog Company: The Boys of Pont du Hoc - Patrick K. O'Donnell
Titan - John Varley
The Case of the Phantom Fortune - Erle Stanley Gardner
Whoever Fights Monsters - Robert K. Ressler

Light in August - William Faulkner
Beat Not the Bones - Charlotte Jay
Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery & Detection - Reader's Digest Books

Doing great, BD.

>17 connie53: Apparently, so are you! If I counted correctly on your group page, you have read over 40 books so far? Wow! I'm usually doing well if I can do more than 50/year. Carry on the good work. Oh, and I also commented on your granddaughter photos.

Over the Threshold to Manhood (1911!) - Mary Morrison
Once There Were Wolves - Charlotte McConaghy

>18 BookDoc16: I did see you visited my thread. Thanks for the compliment.
In fact I've read 64 books by now!

Anima Rising - Christopher Moore
Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming*
Ordinary People - Judith Guest

The Complete Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
The Return of Ellie Black - Emiko Jean
Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations - Elton Brown
The Case of the Daring Divorcee - Erle Stanley Gardner
The Duke and the Veil - C. J. Stevermer
The Grand Jubilee - Suzette Haden Elgin

A Sand County Almanac & Essays from Round River - Aldo Leopold
Earthbound - Richard Matheson
The Colors of All the Cattle - Alexander McCall Smith

Ellensburg - James M. McCracken
Topper - Thorne Smith
Just Desserts - Tim Heald

Shalako - Louis L'Amour
Work Song - Ivan Doig
The Book Shop - Penelope Fitzgerald

The Last Good Kiss - James Crumley*
How We Die - Sherwin B. Nuland
Cloudcry - Sydney J. Van Scyoc
The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle*

The Toughest Indian in the World - Sherman Alexie
The Artificial Elephant - Eric J. Hull
The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore*

Hi BD, Happy Days for you and your family.

>29 connie53:
And the same back to you, Connie53 -- well, except for the "Happy Birthday"!