Jennifer’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2021)

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

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Good luck, I don't think I've heard of any, never mind read any!"

yep (she says smugly), that's me, bursting those dangerous new frontiers....

LOLOLOLOL

. 1400 pages and I wish he'd written a second volume, that's how good it was.

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Vikki wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "Karol wrote: "Hello to all! I enjoyed reading everyone's introductions (yep - I've read them all). Nice to see people from all over the world here.

I live in Michiga..."

Keeping you too. AND your cats.

Alondra wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "Lea wrote: "Oh, Great and Benevolent Moderators, would it be OK to set up a place for buddy reading? :-)"

well, since you asked so nicely. LOLOL. I'll do it!"

I was just thinking..."

Good because I couldn't come up with any. :)

Vikki wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "Karol wrote: "Hello to all! I enjoyed reading everyone's introductions (yep - I've read them all). Nice to see people from all over the world here.

I live in Michigan, in a small ..."

Nah, I think we'll keep you. :-D

Karol wrote: "Hello to all! I enjoyed reading everyone's introductions (yep - I've read them all). Nice to see people from all over the world here.

I live in Michigan, in a small village of about 1,100 people. ..."

Heh. We should make a requirement that in order to join this group you have to have a connection to Evanston. The membership would be exactly the same size....lol.

Gail wrote: "Hi everyone, my name is Gail and I was born and raised in NJ but I now live in FL. I’m a middle school teacher, I have 3 children and 3 grandchildren.
My favorite genre is historical fiction. I re..."

My mom was born and raised in NJ and I live in Florida now. We're practically twins. LOL

This section will be for buddy read threads. Please let a moderator know if you have any questions about how to set up a buddy read.

Lea wrote: "Oh, Great and Benevolent Moderators, would it be OK to set up a place for buddy reading? :-)"

well, since you asked so nicely. LOLOL. I'll do it!

Yeah, you sound sorry!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Well, I'm tempted to say that adding to my TBR is really unnecessary regardless of what year it is...... just sayin (she says as she adds it)... :-)

Kim. E. wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "Kim. E. wrote: "I added three of these to my tbr list. I love nonfiction. I just wish it didn't take me so long to inhale the information so they take me much longer to read than I..."

I'm fortunate in that I work in an office by myself and wind up with a lot of time at work where I can listen to books and still get things done. Otherwise, I assure you, I would not have gotten through 1/10 of what I've read this year and probably would have left some "monster" books alone. I "read" The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72 on audio this year and it turned out to be one of hands down the best books, fiction or non, I've ever read. But even on audio it clocked in at 57 hours, and I listen "faster" than 1x speed and it still took several days to get through! But SOOOOOOO worth it.

Anytime!

My understanding is it’s a self-determined challenge: you challenge yourself to read X NF during 2022. But it might not be much of a challenge from your perspective because you read almost all NF. There’s also the quarterly you started, and the “other” you started as well. both are here now.

Alexandra wrote: "Hi everyone! I am Alexandra (Alex) and I live in the state of Oklahoma with my husband of 15 years and our 6 1/2 year old daughter Zoe. We are originally from California but I wanted to move closer..."

What part of Indiana? My folks lived in Ft. Wayne for about 25 years.

I've seen your posts on LOBA and you've ended up weighing down my TBR somewhat....

Alondra wrote: "Stick a crowbar where!!!??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh, Jen! You're a bibliophile; all hope is lost!! I try not to buy too much; but then I cave, because i feel like I deserve it. 😩😩🤦‍♀️"

DUDE! You have no idea how many books I can buy and *still believe* I've spent less than 100 bucks. Math-challenged! Seriously, some days I think I'm lucky if I can count to 12 without lifting my shirt.

In 2021 I tried about three times to read 100 books I own before buying any. EPIC FAIL. All I accomplished was book-binge-buying beyond my wildest dreams. SO! Here I will read 100 books I already own without buying any new. Maybe public embarrassment can save me from myself.

Any book posted has been read.

1 We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
2 The Riesling Retribution
3 Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
4 Magical Midlife Madness
5 Magical Midlife Dating
6 Killer Comfort Food
7 The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
8 You Made Me Kill You
9 Muffin But Trouble
10 Double or Muffin
11 Malibu Rising
12 Death, Taxes, and Cheap Sunglasses
13 Cooked Goose
14 The Name Below The Title: 20 Classic Movie Character Actors From Hollywood's Golden Age
15 Death, Taxes, and a Chocolate Cannoli
16 Jingle Bell Bark
17 The Best of Friends
18 I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
19 In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators
20 Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction
21 Death on the Nile
22 The Final Days
23 Track of the Cat
24 A Catered Mother's Day
25 A Catered Tea Party
26 A Catered New Year's Eve
27 Killer Stuff
28 A Catered Book Club Murder
29 Hounded to Death
30 Raining Cats & Dogs
31 Savannah Breeze
32 The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II
33 Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries
34 The Eustace Diamonds
35 Drop Dead Divas
36 The Marriage of Opposites
37 The Mountaintop
38 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
39 The Collector's Daughter
40 Grounds for Murder
41 Rivers of London
42 Death in the Stacks
43 Off The Grid
44 The last piecechang
45 Hard Hit
46 The Last Correspondent
47 If this was happiness
48 Normal People
49 One Lavender Ribbon
50 Unhinged
51 Murder and Metaphors
52 Moonshine and Magic
53 Everything my mother taught me
54 Watchdog
55 Death of a Dog Whisperer
56 Bark before Christmas
57 Riviera House
58 In every moment we are still alive
59 Magical Midlife Invasion
60 Dance of the Winnebagos
61 Sorry I missed you
62 Doggie Day Care Murder
63 Eden Mine
64 Subway people
65 Righteous
66 Sister to Sister
67 Every Body on Deck
68 Duchess
69 Dog eat dog
70 Hair of the Dog
71 Hot Dog
72 Krakatoa
73 Hush Puppy
74 Chow Down
75 Gone with the Woof
76 Social Graces
77 Reading between the Crimes
78 Hotel Riviera
79 Meet me in venice
80 Invisible Client
81 40 Love
82 this pen for hire
83 letters from home
84 At Random
85 Valentino will die
86 The Bishop’s Wife
87 Dixie Diva Blues
88 Inside the white house
89 Poisoned Prose
90 Sugar and Spite
91 Ordinary life
92 How to Start a Fire
93 Matriarch
94 There’s Something about St. Tropez
95 90 minutes at entebbe
96 Nasty Breaks
97 Second Mrs Astor
98 Bodily Harm
99. Killing Patton
100. Killing Lincoln

Ioana wrote: "I love your list, lots of variety. I haven't read any of these, only the original The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, whi..."

I read The Informant a couple of years ago and what I remember is that I found a part of it so interesting I stopped what I was doing to listen. Of course, I was standing in the produce department (and no doubt in someone's way) at the time....

I've read several by her and liked them all. I want to get to this one too this month if I can!