Ann’s Comments (group member since Dec 20, 2013)

Ann’s comments from the CPL's Book a Week Challenge group.

My first book destination would be Middle-Earth, of course, my second is a tie between Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter. I would love to spend a year or seven wandering around Hogwarts, checking out the library. As for Narnia, I would love to explore all of Narnia, as well as the house they stayed in, you just know the library would be amazing. And of course, it helps that Middle-Earth and Narnia were both filmed in New Zealand, definitely high on my bucket list.

I recently finished reading Mindfulness (from the library's professional collection), am currently about 100 pages in The Alice Network (good book), and also reading The Strangers on Montagu Street by Karen White (on Nook), and still working on Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert. I even checked the Wolfpack audio out from Overdrive and listened to it (okay, I checked it out while talking a patron through issues with Overdrive).

I forgot Harry Potter! Just shows how discombobulated I was this morning.

1- Wolfpack
2- The House on Tradd Street by Karen White
3-Untamed by Glennon Doyle
4- Outside the Lines by Kate Christie
5- Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
7- Kiss Number 8 by Colleen Venable

My favorite books. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: adventure, mountains, beautiful writing, mountains, courage, conflict, humor, mountains (very important for someone who grew up in Florida), and a surprising amount of hope for a book whose ultimate theme is death.

The Beekeeper's Apprentice- great book, smart, witty, great setting and time, and come on, it's got Sherlock Holmes(!).

Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books- characters with and without magic trying to find their place in the world and be who they are.

Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries (especially the ones with Harriet Vane)- smart, witty, with an incredible sense of place and time.

Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody mysteries- I love that family (and who doesn't love the title The Last Camel Died at Noon?)

I've read Untamed by Glennon Doyle (about how she met her wife, Abby Wambach- and turned her whole world upside down), more books about soccer, Her Royal Highness (a YA book- a fun read), and The House on Tradd Street (a mystery set in Charleston). Next on the reading list is The Alice Network.

I definitely fall into a couple of these categories-
1-The Series Junkie- mystery, science fiction, fantasy, graphic novels. I love series fiction.
2- literary snobs- not so much but I will read it if it sounds interesting (I tried to read Proust, but never finished Swann's Way).
3- Polygamist- currently reading two novels and two nonfiction works, and will probably go to Barnes & Noble tonight (3 books I've been waiting for were released yesterday).
6- Rereader- two words- Tolkien junkie.
7- Not tied to physical books- in part because I'm addicted to the under 2.99 sale at B&N.
9- nonfiction- yes, please.
10 Fiction- but, of course.
11- YA- certainly.

At home, I've started reading Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl, but I've also started reading What We Talk About When We Talk About Books, and also Under the Lights and In the Dark: Untold Stories of Women's Soccer. Then on my Nook, I found a series of novels about soccer players, the first one is titled Training Ground.

1. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2. The Girls of Summer- Jere Longman
4. Food Pharmacy- Lina Aurell and Mia Clase
5. Forever Red- Margaret Stohl
7. Black Widow: No More Secrets- Mark Waid

I'm currently reading Murders and Metaphors by Amanda Flower, and almost finished with Food Pharmacy by Lina Aurell and Mia Clase. After that, I've got several books checked out from the library: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman, as well as two graphic novels and two ya novels, all about the Black Widow. I'll try to get those read and turned back in.

Of the ones you listed, I've read Geekerella and Red, White, & Royal Blue. I'm also a fan of historical romances (and mysteries and history itself), as well as contemporary, paranormal, etc.
I've never read Persuasion, but I loved Sense & Sensibility (book and movie).

I'm almost finished with The Girls of Summer, and will then start reading The Water Dancer. I also need to figure out what graphic novel to read next.

1. Celebrate Black History Month- The online book club is reading The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates this month.

1) City of Girls- Elizabeth Gilbert
3) Hidden Figures-
5) Butterfly in Frost- Sylvia Day

I've had quite a few 5 stars, some of them nonfiction: The Mutual Admiration Society, Wolfpack, Becoming, The Jazz of Physics, Find Me Unafraid, and Alexander Hamilton. The 5 star fiction included some new to me authors, as well as new authors and some old favorites (mostly mystery or fantasy authors). The new to me authors included Elizabeth Gilbert, KateQuinn, Amanda Carmack, and Susan Elia MacNeal.



Not many duds, and only 1 did not finish that I remember: Fifty Shades of Grey (DNF) and Twilight.

I've finished Hidden Figures, and am now working on two nonfiction books: The Girls of Summer: the U.S. Women's Soccer Team and How It Changed the World and also Go the Way Your Blood Beats: On Truth, Bisexuality, and Desire. After this is The Water Dancer for next month's book club.

I finished reading the Huntress by Kate Quinn and am now reading Hidden Figures, after a brief binge of graphic novels this weekend.

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. :)

My goodreads goal is 100. I want to read more graphic novels and more nonfiction... and to trim down my to be read pile.

2. The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton.
3. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
5. Six Cates a Slayin' by Miranda James
6. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
8. Becoming by Michelle Obama