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Some planning - it feels like there is a disconnect between my planning and what I want to read next year, so we'll see what comes to pass.B1: 20th Century The Glimpses of the Moon
B2: Your Native Language Skoenlapper
B3: New Country The Guyana Quartet
B4: Chosen by the Cover
B5: Ancient/Old or Future The Iliad
I1: Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2026 The Odyssey
I2: Prize Winning Author
I3: Science The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms with Observations on Their Habits
I4: From Your TRB Shelf
I5: Book From the Group's Favorite 2025 Reads The Woman in White
N1: The Americas or Oceania The Song of the Lark
N2: Action & Adventure
N3: Free Choice — Classic or Not
N5: Africa, Asia, or Europe Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
G1: Group Poll that Did Not Win Doomsday Book
G2: Missing From the Group’s Shelf
G3: History Queens of the Conquest
G4: Recommended to You
G5: Group’s 2026 Bookshelf
O1: Birth Year The Farthest Shore or Tyler's Row
O2: New-to-You or Favorite Author
O3: Somewhere Else Raising Steam
O4: Translation The Radetzky March
O5: 19th Century The Way We Live Now
Good luck with planning books you want to read! I hope you're joining us for the My Brother Michael buddy read in April. :)
Wobbley wrote: "Good luck with planning books you want to read! I hope you're joining us for the My Brother Michael buddy read in April. :)"I am, I inherited a box full of Mary Stewarts from my mother-in-law and the buddy reads will be a good excuse to read them!
Carolien wrote: "I am, I inherited a box full of Mary Stewarts..."A love of Mary Stewart is a very nice thing to pass along. :)
I always enjoy shopping your lists, Carolien. 😊 Your new-to-you favorite author choice is really intriguing and I'll be looking for it. Have fun!
Several in your list that I will need to check out! Have fun, Carolien.
Ahhh, Carolien, Allison Weir! I first fell in historical attraction to her when I read The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir way back in the 1990s! If you want a buddy read of Allison's book about the Queens of Conquest, let me know.
Carolien, I read The Farthest Shore many years ago and very much enjoyed it. I wonder how you will find it.
Carolien, The Ghost Map blew me away. What you did you think of it?
Cynda reads little. Welcomes prayers for health. wrote: "Carolien, The Ghost Map blew me away. What you did you think of it?"I loved it, it was fascinating to understand how the different personalities interacted to get to the final understanding of the outbreak. I was in London for an event a month ago and made a point to go and walk in the area.
I am adding The Ghost Map. There was a very small segment about this in a documentary I saw on Queen Victoria's reign. I always meant to find out more about it.
That's two bingos with a diagonal too--bravo, Carolien!
Kathleen wrote: "That's two bingos with a diagonal too--bravo, Carolien!"I didn't notice, thank you! Always nice to get the first ones!
Congrats! You are right, the first is always lovely.
That's row G done. I chose Under Milk Wood for Missing from the Group's Shelf and Woman at Point Zero did not win a poll. Both are excellent.
Glad you enjoyed them both! Under Milk Wood I find intriguing -- it's listed as both poetry and a play?? Woman at Point Zero looks harrowing!
You bingo card is filling up, Carolien! Very nicely done!
Woman at Point Zero is harrowing, but it is only 100 pages. The hardest part of Woman at Point Zero is to know that it is based on the life of a real woman, someone who was failed at every step of the way by society. A clever girl who loved learning and whose main ambition was to find a good job never had the opportunity through circumstances. It's told very factually by the main character in a very long one-person form which makes it all the more tragic. It should be much wider read.Under Milk Wood is gorgeous, it's a play written as a poem in sections with lots of alliteration (it doesn't rhyme if that is your thing). To give you an idea, the first sentence: "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, crawblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea."
I've just discovered Under Milk Wood is being performed this weekend at the local theatre in Mold, north Wales and am now planning on going on Saturday evening.
I have added Woman at Point Zero. I can brave up for 100 pages. Several of friends and following have said they appreciated it.
I also added "Woman" to my TBR. I wonder that I never came across it before, since I found several reviews I ought to have already read. Thanks, Carolien.
I read Bramton Wick for the cover. I thoroughly enjoy Elizabeth Fair, one of the reviews of the book when it appeared in 1952 described it as "perfect light reading with a dash of lemon in it...". If you are a fan of Angela Thirkell and comedies of manners, you will enjoy her writing.
I've never heard of this author, but it sounds like she's definitely worth trying. Great progress!
Bingo, second row done as I added My Brother Michael and A Traveller in Time this month. I know what the others will be, just need a bit more time.
B1: 20th CenturyThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir Completed 10 February 4 starsB2: Your Native Language
B3: New CountryWhy Do You Dance When You Walk? (Djibouti) Completed 20 March 4 starsB4: Chosen by the CoverB5: Ancient/Old or Future
I1: Group’s Bookshelf Prior to 2026Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power Completed 12 February 3 stars (Short Story Shelf, read January 2024)I2: Prize Winning AuthorNot After Midnight, and Other Stories Completed 26 February 4 stars (Anthony award 2000, Edgar Award 1978)I3: ScienceUndersea by Rachel Carson Completed 14 January 3 starsI4: From Your TRB ShelfA Traveller in Time Completed 14 April 4 starsI5: Book From the Group's Favorite 2025 ReadsMy Brother Michael (Wobbley) Completed 22 April 4 starsN1: The Americas or Oceania
N2: Action & AdventureThis Rough Magic Completed 5 March 4 starsN3: Free Choice — Classic or NotThe Uncommon Reader Completed 11 January 3 starsN4: Mystery, Suspense, or ThrillerBlue Genes Completed 9 January 3.5 starsN5: Africa, Asia, or Europe
G1: Group Poll that Did Not WinWoman at Point Zero (June 2022 New School) Completed 30 March 5 starsG2: Missing From the Group’s ShelfUnder Milk Wood Completed 29 March 4 starsG3: HistoryThe Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World Completed 23 January 4 starsG4: Recommended to YouSarah's Key Completed 18 January 4 starsG5: Group’s 2026 BookshelfHowards End Completed 18 January 4 starsO1: Birth Year
O2: New-to-You or Favorite AuthorIvor the Engine by Oliver Postgate Completed 11 April 4 starsO3: Somewhere ElseThe King of Elfland's Daughter Completed 31 January 3 starsO4: Translation
O5: 19th CenturyThe Dead Secret: The Classic Victorian Mystery of Secrets and Betrayal Completed 27 February 4 starsXOXXO
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