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I'm assuming this starts in January. Are you planning to finish all 7 in 2017?
11. Here are some books I've started at one time or another, so I'm listing them here. They all overlap other categories...1. Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
2. The Plover
Read 3. Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
4. The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty
5. Wolf Hall
6. The Pillars of the Earth
7. And Ladies of the Club
8. Palace of Treason
9. The Wine of Angels
10. King Hereafter
11. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
12. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
10. Understanding Politics, AKA How the Hell did Trump Win?White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
8. Oldest TBR:A Game of Thrones - Song of Ice and Fire #1
The Bronze Horseman
Juliet
A Rose for the Crown
His Majesty's Dragon
The Cold Light of Mourning
Night Birds' Reign
Sea Witch
Never Buried
A Discovery of Witches
11/22/63Awen: Powys/Mercia, Offa's Dyke, Canu Heledd, 793-796 Ad
9. Newest TBR, AKA Library books that I need to return:
Constance
The Kashmir Shawl
The Red House
London Bridges
The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise
The Pigeon Pie Mystery
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth
Pies and Prejudice
Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints
Once Upon a Crime
7. Next in series:Read Dec 2016 Palace of Treason - Red Sparrow #2
The Wine of Angels - Merrily Watkins #1 - currently reading
Career of Evil - Cormoran Strike #3
The Butcher Bird - Somershill Manor #2
Come Rain or Come Shine - Mitford series
Bloodline - Wars of the Roses #3
Library of Souls - Peculiar Children #3
White Nights - Shetland #2
Speaking from Among the Bones - Flavia #5
His Dark Lady - Lucy Morgan #2
The Kalahari Typing School for Men - No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #4
The Headhunter's Daughter: A Mystery - Amanda Brown #2
Bertie Plays the Blues - 44 Scotland Street #7
Written in My Own Heart's Blood - Outlander #8
The Endless Forest - Wilderness #6
Poison, Your Grace - Simon and Elizabeth #2
The Dark Rose - Morland Dynasty #2
Moon Over Soho - Peter Grant (Rivers of London) #2
7a. Mrs. Murphy rereads:
Read Dec 2016 Cat on the Scent - Mrs. Murphy #7
Read Pawing Through the Past Mrs. Murphy #8
Claws and Effect - Mrs. Murphy #9
5. Walter Scott nominees (historical fiction):Wolf Hall
Hodd
Conspirata - also Next in series (below)
Sacred Hearts
The Long Song - also Black Lives Matter
Heartstone - need to read previous in series first (see below)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Merivel: A Man of His Time - need to read Restoration first (see below)
The Luminaries
The Miniaturist
The Paying Guests
A God in Ruins
Dictator - need to read Conspirata first, see above
6. Other Historical Fiction:
Restoration
King Hereafter - currently reading, group read with Open Seas Yahoo group
The Island House
Hild
Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare's Dark Lady
The Butcher Bird - also Next in series
The Pillars of the Earth - started, need to finish
And Ladies of the Club - started, need to finish
His Dark Lady - also Next in series
Bloodline - also Next in series
4. Medieval Non-fiction:Last year's theme ended up being The Plantagenets, but there were some other things that got left out in narrowing down that topic for my MLA presentation, so this included books I didn't finish and books that got left out that I still want to read.
Read Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors - started, need to finish
The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty - started, need to finish
The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe
The Edge of the Empire: A Journey to Britannia: From the Heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall
Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
Blood & Roses: the Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The War Of The Roses
Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England
3. Leftover Themes:Speaking of themes, there are always books from previous years themes that I didn't get to that I still want to read.
Moby Dick:
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer (also for the Wife titles theme)
The Art of Fielding
The Rathbones
The Movement of Stars
Railsea
Wife titles:
The Twentieth Wife
The River Wife
The Fugitive Wife: A Novel
The Tiger's Wife
Bird titles:
The Plover
The Sparrow
Peregrine
1. Daytimer's Book Club:I'm a librarian and the selector for the group. There are nine of us, so I have to pick books that we have at least nine copies of...
Here is our 2017 list. I like to include a mini-theme and this year I have two: an aviation theme, and a civil war/slavery/civil rights theme. I've already read a couple of the books I chose for the group.
Read 2015 January: The Nightingale (Women)
Read February: The Wright Brothers (Biography)
March: Circling the Sun (Romance)
April: All the Light We Cannot See (Prize Winner)
May: Brown Girl Dreaming (Children's)
June: The Woman in Cabin 10 (Mystery)
July: The Invention of Wings (Historical)
August: The Underground Railroad (Literary)
September: Small Great Things (Current Interest)
October: Homegoing (Foreign Culture)
November: Heart of Darkness (Classic)
Read 2014 December: The Aviator's Wife (Minnesota)
2. Black Lives Matter
6 of the book club books above fit this theme, which is more than usual. I like to have a theme for my own reading anyway of about 10 books, so I'm hoping I'll manage 4 more from this list...
1. Uncle Tom's Cabin
2. Between the World and Me
Read 3. An Untamed State
4. Glory over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
5. The Long Song
6. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
7. The Book of Negroes
I think I'm challenged when it comes to challenges, so we just aren't going to label it such this year! :-) I love to set out "pyramid" goals every year, but I can't seem to make it work with my grouping this year. So this will be more general. Except for the first category which is my monthly f2f bookclub, I'll consider it good if I manage to read two or three books from each category. I'll set my annual goal at the usual 48 books though I rarely make that either...If I do make it a pyramid, with 12 categories, I'll allow some overlap among them, with some exceptions...
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10 Books: Daytimer's Book Club (#1)
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8 Books: Newest TBR (#9)
1. An Untamed State - 3 stars
2. Upstream: Selected Essays - 4 stars
3. Midnight Riot - 4 stars
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It was also made into a song by Yoko Ono.
Yes, I'm way behind with updating my own thread, but I've added 10 books to read for a presentation at the Minnesota Library Association annual conference in October. I've done the Reader's Advisory fiction panel for a couple of years. This year I decided to be on the non-fiction panel. We have 5 speakers each doing 10 books on a theme of their choice in one hour - hence the title 50 in 60 Non-fiction. My topic is Blood and Roses: Life in Medieval England and my 10 titles are...
1. The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty
Read 2. The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones - 5 stars
3. Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England
4. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
5. 1381: The Year of the Peasants' Revolt
6. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
7. Blood & Roses: the Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses
8. Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The War Of The Roses
9. Red Roses: Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort
10. Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation
For book club:The Tall Pine Polka (July 7 meeting)
The Boston Girl (for August meeting)
On audio:
Finishing Murder, She Meowed for my rereading project of the entire Mrs. Murphy series.
On ereader:
Finishing The Wine of Angels - Really liking this series so far, and plan to read more.
For MLA (Minnesota Library Association) talk in October:
10 books on British history: Monarchs, Mayhem, and Madness. Or something like that. Currently reading She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
July color challenge (for another GR list): orange
Have to pick a cooking mystery series author for Dec. book club and I haven't decided yet. It turns out all three authors I have checked out have orange covers, so maybe this challenge will get me to start on them...
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth
A Deadly Grind
and I can't remember what the third one is ....
The Odyssey is one of my goals this year, and I've kind of forgotten about it, so I third or fourth it or wherever we're at...
8. Wish You Were Here - 4 starsA reread of a cozy mystery series on audio. They go by very quickly. I hope to catch up with the series by the end of the year.
Edited message #11 above. I am abandoning the Costa/Whitbread Awards and changing it to the Walter Scott Prize nominees.
7. A Siege of Bitterns - 4 starsProbably also over-rated, but good enough that I want to continue with the series. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
