Leslie's Print Climb

[Fay]

I am in awe of the quality of books you have got through this year. I hold my hands up to sometimes phoning it in with the standard I'm reading ( because my tbr is either trashy or classy, no in betweens; I read them sraight away lol). Well played!

[Leslie]

Fay wrote: "I am in awe of the quality of books you have got through this year. I hold my hands up to sometimes phoning it in with the standard I'm reading ( because my tbr is either trashy or classy, no in be..."

The quality of my reading increased dramatically when I started working on the Guardian's list about 4 years ago! ;)

[Leslie]

#42 is another Travis McGee book - The Long Lavender Look, which I have had since 2009 or so... A decent entry in the series. 3*

[Leslie]

#43 was a great book about aging singles in 1970s London - Quartet In Autumn. 4*

[Leslie]

5 left -- I have one in progress. Fingers crossed that I can make it!

[Leslie]

December Progress: 6 Print, 10 total {acquired: 10}
Year to date: 49 print, 121 total {121 acquired}

Paperback books (and hardcovers!)
44. *Silence (12/4)
45. The Age of Doubt (12/6)
46. *The Plague (12/10)
47. The Three Hostages (12/15)
48. *Cider With Rosie (12/29)
49. *The Hanging Garden (1/2)

and additional formats:
Kindle books
47. *Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard (12/2)
48. Phaedra (12/4)
49. Death on an Autumn River (12/5)
50. *The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (12/31)

Audiobooks
28.

* means the book is on the Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Should Read list

[Leslie]

Book #44 is the Japanese novel Silence. While well written, it wasn't really my kind of thing being very much about religion & faith. 2½*

[Leslie]

I am almost done with The Age of Doubt, another Inspector Montalbano mystery off my shelf so I am posting now :)

After this one is done, only 3 more to go!

later - Done! 4* for this Montalbano :)

[Leslie]

Finished paperback #46 -- The Plague by Camus, a book I got last Xmas as a gift. Not as dark or existentialist as I had anticipated! 4*

[Leslie]

I am currently reading book #47, The Three Hostages (the 4th book in the Richard Hannay series) & have the next (& last) one picked out -- Cider With Rosie. So it looks like I might make it to the peak after all :-)

[Leslie]

Finished my Hannay book -- why did I wait so long to continue this series?? Wonderful adventure/spy-type story (though no actual espionage in this one) -- 4½*

[Leslie]

Woo hoo! I have reached the top with my 48th print book -- Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee. A story of village life in the 1920s - charming but not as good as Lark Rise to Candleford...

I am now embarking on Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin - either it will take me a bit above the top or it will be my first for 2017.

[Laura]

Leslie wrote: "Woo hoo! I have reached the top with my 48th print book -- Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee. A story of village life in the 1920s - charming but not as good as Lark Rise to Candleford..."

Yay!!!! *TossesConfetti*

[Leslie]

Thanks Laura :-)

[Leslie]

I am counting one final book, as it was 90% read in 2016 -- an entry in the Inspector Rebus series, The Hanging Garden. Very good (though dark) 4½*