December Review and the end of 2023!

 

Goal Books for December

1. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction/Shelves)
2. Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (Mystery/Library)
3. Superfan by Jen Sookfong Lee (Non-Fiction/Library/Book Club)
4. Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood (Mystery/Library)

Books read in December

1. DEI Deconsructed by Lily Zheng (Non-fiction/Library/Book Club)
2. Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (Mystery/Library)
3. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (YA/Audio/Library)
4. Allies by Shakirah Bourne and Dana Alison Levy (Non-Fiction/Essays/Shelves)
5. Stay True by Hua Hsu (Memoir/Library)
6. Superfan by Jen Sookfong Lee (Non-Fiction/Library/Book Club)
7. Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood (Mystery/Library)
8. The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett (Mystery/Library)
9. None of This is True by Lisa Jewell (Mystery/Library/Book Club)
10. Biting the Hand by Julia Lee (Memoir/Library)
11. How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis (Non-Fiction/Library)
12. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Fiction/Library)
13. Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen (Fiction/Library)
14. The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange (Fiction/Library)
15. The Celebrants by Steven Rowley (Fiction/Library)
16. Poverty by Matthew Desmond (Non-Fiction/Library)

Goals for 2024

1. Read books from my shelves!
2. Listen to more audio books
3. Make a plan for getting some of those longer books read over time!
4. Keep enjoying reading as a hobby and not as a chore.

Happy reading in 2024,

Anne

November Review and December Preview

 

Goal Books for November:

1. Trust by Hernan Diaz (Fiction/Book Club/Library)
2. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction/Shelves)
3. The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton (Memoir/Library/Bookshelves)
4. Someone Else's Shoes by JoJo Moyes (Fiction/Library)

Books Read in November:

1. Trust by Hernan Diaz (Fiction/Book Club/Library)
2. Walking with Sam by Andrew McCarthy (Non-Fiction/Library)
3. The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton (Memoir/Library/Bookshelves)
4. Someone Else's Shoes by JoJo Moyes (Fiction/Library)
5. The Marlow Murder Club  by Robert Thorogood (Mystery/Library)
6. Finding Me by Viola Davis (Memoir/Audiobook)
7. The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger (Fiction/Library)

Goal Books for December:

1. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction/Shelves)
2. Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (Mystery/Library)
3. Superfan by Jen Sookfong Lee (Non-Fiction/Library/Book Club)
4. Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood (Mystery/Library)

Happy Reading!  Only one more month in the year to go!

~ Anne

October Review and November Preview

October was a slow month for reading and I'm not quite sure why.  It seems like the weather and waning daylight would be more conducive to crawling into bed with a book early each evening.  But, instead the days seem to be flying by with too many activities on the calendar and obligations to tend to before the holidays and the year get away from me.  But, while I haven't been reading that many books, I have certainly been buying and borrowing them, so there is so much to choose from and I'm looking forward to find time here and there in the next month to sneak more reading in!

Goal Books for October:

1. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction/Shelves)
2. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Fiction/Shelves)
3. Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Fiction/Library)
4. School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan (Fiction/Library)

Books Read in October:

1. Solito by Javier Zamora (Memoir/Shelves/Book Club)
2. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Fiction/Shelves)
3. School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan (Fiction/Library)
4. Nevada by Imogen Binnie (Fiction/Library)

Goal Books for November:

1. Trust by Hernan Diaz (Fiction/Book Club/Library)
2. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction/Shelves)
3. The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton (Memoir/Library/Bookshelves)
4. Someone Else's Shoes by JoJo Moyes (Fiction/Library)

Happy Fall Reading!

~ Anne

September Review and October Preview

 

Moving into the cozy reading months.  I'm taking some time here and there to go through my bookshelves - try to give away the ones I've read - and make room for the stacks I've brought back from bookstores and the library.  Hoping to find more time to curl up for a few hours and make my way through them.

Goal Books for September:

1. True Biz by Sara Novic (Fiction/Library)
2. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Fiction/Shelves)
3. The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (YA Fiction/Library)
4. The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland (Non-Fiction/Book Club)

Books Read in September:

1. True Biz by Sara Novic (Fiction/Library)
2. The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (YA Fiction/Library)
3. The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland (Non-Fiction/Book Club)
4. Everything's Fine by Cecilia Rabeas (Fiction/Library)
5. Boxers  by Gene Luen Yang (Graphic Novel/Library)
6. Saints by Gene Luen Yang (Graphic Novel/Library)
7. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (Romance/Shelves)
8. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer (Non-Fiction/Library)
9. Welcome to St. Hell by Lewis Hancox (Graphic Memoir/Library)

Goal Books for October:

1. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction/Shelves)
2. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Fiction/Shelves)
3. Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Fiction/Library)
4. School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan (Fiction/Library)

Happy Reading!

~ Anne

August Review & September Preview

 

Goal Books for August:

1. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Vergese (Fiction/Book Club/Shelves)
2. Something New by Lucy Knisley (Memoir/Graphic Novel/Library)
3. The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (YA Fiction/Library)
4. L'Appart by David Lebovitz (Memoir/Library)

Books Read in August:

1. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Vergese (Fiction/Book Club/Shelves)
2. Something New by Lucy Knisley (Memoir/Graphic Novel/Library)
3. L'Appart by David Lebovitz (Memoir/Library)
4. Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune (Fictin/Shelves)
5. Happy Place by Emily Henry (Fiction/Shelves)
6. Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory (Romance/Shelves)
7. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (Fiction/Shelves)
8. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll (Fiction/Shelves)
9. The Way of the House Husband, Vol. 1 by Kousuke Oono (Graphic Novel/Library)
10. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse W. Sutano (Mystery/Library)
11. Dear Ann by Bobbie Ann Mason (Fiction/Shelves)

Goal Books for September:

1. True Biz by Sara Novic (Fiction/Library)
2. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Fiction/Shelves)
3. The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (YA Fiction/Library)
4. The Country of the Blind by Andrew Leland (Non-Fiction/Book Club)

July Review and August Preview

 

Goal Books for July:

1. Something New by Lucy Knisley (Memoir/Graphic Novel/Library)
2. The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (Fiction/Shelves)
3. Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan (Fiction/Shelves)
4. Good Rich People by Eliza Jane Brazier (Fiction/Shelves)

Books Read in July:

1. Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Fiction/Library)
2. The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (Fiction/Shelves)
3. Good Rich People by Eliza Jane Brazier (Fiction/Shelves)
4. Housekeeping v. The Dirt by Nick Hornby (Non-Fiction Essays/Shelves)
5. The Wonder Test by Michelle Richmond (Fiction/Shelves)
6. The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (YA Fiction/Shelves)

Goal Books for August:

1. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Vergese (Fiction/Book Club/Shelves)
2. Something New by Lucy Knisley (Memoir/Graphic Novel/Library)
3. The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (YA Fiction/Library)
4. L'Appart by David Lebovitz (Memoir/Library)

Happy Reading,

Anne

June Review and July Preview

The start of summer means it's time for a little reading competition.  Only one of my kids is interested in reading as a part of a competition - and I don't want to push the other two, who read enough, but definitely at a slower (and some may argue, more enjoyable) pace.  As usual, I am also trying to read books off my own shelves rather than borrow too many from the library.  I haven't succeeded too well on this front.  I seem to just keep buying more books for my shelves and then going to the library! 

Goal Books for June:

1. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (Fiction/Shelves)
2. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (Fiction/Library)
3. The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz (Mystery/Library)
4. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Delila Harris (Mystery/Library)

Books Read in June:

1. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld (Fiction/Shelves)
2. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (Fiction/Library)
3. The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (Fiction/Library)
4. The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz (Mystery/Library)
5. The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz (Mystery/Library)
6. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Delila Harris (Mystery/Library)
7. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (Fiction/Shelves)

Goal Books for July:

1. Something New by Lucy Knisley (Memoir/Graphic Novel/Library)
2. The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (Fiction/Shelves)
3. Paris by the Book by Liam Callanan (Fiction/Shelves)
4. Good Rich People by Eliza Jane Brazier (Fiction/Shelves)

Happy Reading,

Anne