Dee’s Comments (group member since Dec 16, 2021)

Dee’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

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I had this on my TBR, so...Jane Austen: A Life Revealed - read 5/14

Thriller

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I'd prefer Classics, but do have a sports book planned for 2024...

I have a group read-along planned for The Phoenix Crown - read 4/16/24 - very good!!

I read - √ and √

Historical fiction too

several new ones planned:
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Planning on: - - 3/8/24√

Planning on: √ √ √ √and √

mystery, thriller or horror - all good :)

Dee's Nonfiction Challenge
Books Read: 15 /15

1. Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con - 1/5/24√
2. The Art of Home: A Designer Guide to Creating an Elevated Yet Ap
proachable Home - 1/7/24√
3. Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You - 1/15/24√
4. Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene - 1/31/24√
5. The House of Hidden Meanings- 3/11/24√
6. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out - 2/27/24√
7. The Ballad of Speedball Baby: A Memoir - 2/17/24√
8. Notes on a Nervous Planet - 4/19/24√
9. Jane Austen: A Life Revealed - 5/14/24√
10. The Space That Keeps You: When Home Becomes a Love Story - 6/28/24√
11. On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - 7/4/24√
12. How to Keep House While Drowning -- 7/11/24√
13. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma - 8/10/24√
14. I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America - 10/8/24 √
15. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey -9/21/24√

Black Sheep is my Feb. choice - read - 2/7/24√

Planning on , which is a feminist retelling of 1984 - finished 1/13/24 √

I agree w Denise - Romance for Feb.!

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I also really enjoyed this one & thought it was a great holiday read, lots of quirk & charm

28/28 complete - DONE!!

1. A humorous book - Zilot & Other Important Rhymes - 1/2/24√

2. An autobiography/ biography - The Ballad of Speedball Baby: A Memoir - 2/17/24√

3. A locked room mystery - Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect - 1/31/24√

4. A children’s classic -A Wizard of Earthsea - 6/30/24√

5. A fairytale/retelling -The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale - 2/19/24√

6. A Nordic noir (not my favorite prompt!) - Death at the Sanatorium: A Mystery - 9/5/24 √

7. Banned or challenged book - Heartstopper: Volume Two- 2/14/24√

8. A survival or nature story - Open Throat - 1/4/24 √

9. About a historical figure - The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel - 2/20/24√

10. A book with indigenous people - Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene - 1/31/24√

11. A holiday or celebration story -The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story 1/1/24 √

12. A novella under 100 pages - The English Understand Wool - 9/7/24√

13. Snow/Winter in the title - Snow Going Back: A laugh-out-loud enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy - 10/21/24√

14. Any color in the title - Black Sheep - 2/7/24√

15. A title with more than 4 words -The Woman on the Ledge - 2/11/24√

16. An animal on the cover Last Call at the Local- 3/18/24 √

17. A house on the cover - The Fiction Writer - 1/9/24 √

18. An authors debut -The Excitements by C.J. Wray - 2/6/24√

19. A book you meant to read in 2023 -Julia - 1/13/24 √

20. A place you always wanted to visit - Darling Girls - 5/8/24√

21. Book has four or more stars on GR - First Lie Wins - 1/26/24 √

22. Winner of the GR awards of 2023 - The Housemaid's Secret - 8/8/24√

23. Bought from a second hand store or borrowed from library - Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con - 1/5/24√

24. First book in a series -How to Solve Your Own Murder - 4/2/24√

25. A book translated from another language - Kitchen - 6/10/24 √

26. - 1. Set in Paris - A Murder Most French - 4/29/24√
2. "Leap" in the title - Once Upon a Leap Year - 2/13/24√
3. Happens over course of 24 hrs - Orbital - 3/3/24 √

covers:

Just recently found out that Beautiful Ugly is not releasing till Jan 2025, but will hope for an ARC in the Fall...