y2pk's Moving up from 50 to 75 for 2010

1. The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
2. The Price of Silence by Kate Wilhelm
3. Fraud by Anita Brookner
4. The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English from Shakespeare to South Park by Jack Lynch (DNF)
5. Consider This, Senora by Harriet Doerr
6. A Nice Class of Corpse by Simon Brett
7. The Scold's Bridle by Minette Walters
8. Man's Illegal Life by Keith Heller
9. The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty
10. A Death In the Barrens by George Grinnell
11. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
12. Some Deaths Before Dying by Peter Dickinson
13. Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
14. Valley of the Kings: A Novel of Tutankhamun by Elizabeth Eliot Carter
15. The Snow Geese: A Story of Home by William Fiennes
16. The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
17. No Instructions Needed: An American Boyhood in the 1950s by Robert G. Hewitt
18. The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin
19. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
20. Crossing the Gates of Alaska: One Man, Two Dogs, 600 Miles Off the Map by Dave Metz
21. The Skeleton in the Closet by M. C. Beaton
22. The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey
23. The Firm by John Grisham
24. The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
25. Fatal Gamble by JP O'Donnell
26. The Exile of Sara Stevenson by darcihannah::Darci Hannah

27. Sleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir by Bill Hayes
28. Midnight Fires by Nancy Means Wright
29. Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup
30. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
31. Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs #3)
32. The Duke of Cleveland by Les Roberts (Milan Jacovich #6)
33. Deadly Codes by JP O'Donnell (Dan Gallagher #2)
34. A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch (Charles Lenox #1)
35. Cold Flat Junction by Martha Grimes (Emma Graham #2)
36. Belle Ruin by Martha Grimes (Emma Graham #3)
37. Night Passage by Robert B. Parker (Jesse Stone #1)
38. A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey (Alan Grant #2)
39. Truman Capote: The Story of his Bizarre and Exotic Boyhood by An Aunt Who Helped Raise Him by Marie Rudisill with James C. Simmons
40. Shattered by Dick Francis
41. The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez
42. A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny (Three Pines/ Armand Gamache #2)
43. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (Three Pines/Armand Gamache #3)
44. A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny (Three Pines/Armand Gamache #4)
45. Pepper Pike by Les Roberts (Milan Jacovich #1)
46. The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Armand Gamache/Three Pines #5)
47. The Floating City, A Novel of 19th Century Hawaii by Pamela Ball
48. Full Cleveland by Les Roberts (Milan Jacovich #2)
49. Mystery of the Dead Police aka X v. Rex by Philip MacDonald
50. Death by Chocolate by G. A. McKevett (Savannah Reid #8)
51. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin
52. Lolly Willowes, or the Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner
53. Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle
54. Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe by Jennie Shortridge
55. A Shock to the System by Simon Brett
56. Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man by Pat Hitchcock O'Connell & Laurent Bouzereau
57. Pop Goes Religion: Faith in Popular Culture by Terry Mattingly
58. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
59. Deep Shaker by Les Roberts (Milan Jacovich #3)
60. Chasing Oliver Hazard Perry: Travels in the Footsteps of the Commodore Who Saved America (Early Reviewer) by Craig J. Heimbuch
61. The Southwest Corner by Mildred Walker
62. Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival by Owen Matthews
63. Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
64. The Road Home: A Memoir by Eliza Thomas

I'll fix the touchstones later...
Editing to fix touchstones.
Easier said than done. I've done a group of them twice and... nothing.

Sorry about the incomplete touchstones. I give up! They're there when I edit, but not when I save.

Welcome!

Thank you!

Wow! You're almost there already!

This is the first time ever that I've kept track book by book, and I find it's been a real incentive. I'm reading more than I have in years and enjoying it a lot.

#6: That is cool!

65. Ruth Gordon: An Open Book by Ruth Gordon
66. Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece by Noah Charney
67. High Latitudes: An Arctic Journey by Farley Mowat

Look at you! I'd say that you have found your true home here, and you are most welcome. You put me to shame with so many wonderful books!!!! You are also the second person to mention Farley Mowat this week.....Never Cry Wolf!!

#9: I love Never Cry Wolf, Peggy.

I think I have a copy of Never Cry Wolf, but haven't read it yet. High Latitudes is the first of Farley Mowat's books I've read. Took me a while to get into it, but it's one of those that grows on you the farther into it you get.

Thanks for the welcome. ;-)

68. Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
69. Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
70. The Archivist: A Novel by Martha Cooley

I see you gave The Archivist only 1 1/2 stars. I hope your next read is much better than that!

It is! I'm reading The Twelve Little Cakes: Memoirs of a Prague Childhood by Dominika Dery. I almost gave up on The Archivist, but occasionally there'd be a scene that pulled me back in, and I wanted to see how it ended. Unexpectedly, as it turns out, but a good ending.

I will be interested in seeing what you think of the Dery book when you have finished with it.

71. The Twelve Little Cakes: Memoir of a Prague Childhood by Dominika Dery
72. Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley

#16: So, what did you think of The Twelve Little Cakes?

I see you've posted a review of Twelve Little Cakes - I looked at the home page for more information eg period when it was set. Although you've given a critical review, it still sounds very interesting.

Yes, Twelve Little Cakes was interesting. But I don't think my review was overly critical. I stated what I liked about the book and what I didn't, and rated it four stars out of five.
It got me to thinking of other books & topics I'd like to read about, and that's never a bad thing.

73. The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real by Margery Williams
74. The Book of Fred by Abby Bardi
75. A Six-Letter Word for Death by Patricia Moyes (Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett #17)

Thanks!

76. My Russian Yesterdays by Catherine De Hueck
77. Fatal Light by Richard Currey
78. To War With Whitaker: The Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-1945 by Countess of Ranfurly
79. Brigadier: Gentle Hero by Judy Andrekson

#23: To War with Whitaker looks very good. Did you like it?

>23 y2pk:. Yes, I did. Very much. Hermione Ranfurly worked as a secretary for a series of British generals stationed in North Africa (Cairo, Tripoli, etc.) during World War II. For much of the same time, her husband was a prisoner of war in Italy. The book is her diary (edited for length) for the years 1939 to 1945, an interesting cross of her day-to-day life and world events.

I need to post a review, because it's fascinating reading.

#25: Thanks for the input! I will have to look for a copy. It sounds right up my alley.

80. Portrait of An Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe by Laurie Lisle
81. Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

82. Rose in A Storm by Jon Katz
83. The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders, (Edward X. Dulaney #1)

84. Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters, (Amelia Peabody #1)
85. Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford by Thomas M. DeFrank
86. The Sky's the Limit: Passion & Property in Manhattan by Steven Gaines

#29: I hope you enjoy the Peabody books. I love that particular series!

Thanks! A friend gave me the Peabody book and I liked it a lot. I want to find more of the books in the series so I can read them in order.

#31: Yes, I definitely recommend reading them in order. I am glad to see that Amelia has another fan!

87. Trouble in Paradise by Robert B. Parker (Jesse Stone #2) (Reviewed)
88. The Lady Be Good: Mystery Bomber of World War II by Dennis E. McClendon (Reviewed)
89. Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower

90. No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Reeve Lindbergh
91. The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez

#34: How was No More Words?

92. The Mistress of Abha by William Newton
93. Wells Brothers, The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams
94. The Cleveland Connection by Les Roberts (Milan Jacovich #4)

95. Lost & Found by Jacqueline Sheehan
96. Raven Black by Ann Cleeves (Shetland Islands #1)
97. The Misalliance by Anita Brookner
98. The Lake Effect by Les Roberts, Milan Jacovich #5
99. The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
100. I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson by Osa Johnson
101. The Seance by John Harwood
102. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir
103. Dr. Norton's Wife by Mildred Walker