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Apr 20, 2017 01:07PM
HOLY SMOKES!!! I got 5 loans from OD/Carnegie Library at once so I am now officially overwhelmed. As I have waited some time for a couple of these, I need to read them now. And doing an audiobook with a friend. Its fun, but BOY-HOWDY I do not have time for games or FB or anything. LOL
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MAGNUS CHASE YA'LL!!! O M GOSH!!!!!
55. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe ~C.S. Lewis[Narnia #1]
May 1 - May 2, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 10
2017 26 Book Challenge: #2
Kindle/Hoopla Audiobook
5++ Stars
56. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories ~Robert Olen Butler
May 1 - May 15, 2017
2017 Yearly Reading Plan: May
Kindle/Carnegie
3 Stars
57. The Hunchback of Notre Dame ~Victor Hugo
May 2 - May 22, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year Challenge: Wk. 50
2017 26 Book Challenge: #20
The Literary Classics Online Book Club [Facebook]: May/June
Kindle
4 Stars
58. Prince Caspian ~C.S. Lewis
[Narnia #2]
May 2 - May 4, 2017
Kindle [OWN]/Hoopla Audiobook
4 Stars
59. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ~C.S. Lewis
[Narnia #3]
May 4 - May 6, 2017
2017 26 Books In A Year: #14
Kindle [OWN]/Audible
5 Stars
60. Between the World and Me ~Ta-Nehisi Coates
May 5 - May 20, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 8
Kindle/Carnegie Library
5 Stars
61. Hail to the Chef [White House Mystery #2] ~Julie Hyzy
May 5 - May 8, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 1. #6
2017 Read Around The Year Challenge: Wk. 21
Read What You Own
62. Fortune's Daughter ~ Consuelo Saah BaehrMay 8 - May 31, 2017
NetGalley ARC
Read Around the World: El Salvador
Kindle
4 Stars
63. Quilt or Innocence [Southern Quilting Mystery #1] ~Elizabeth Craig
May 8 - May 20, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 3, #3a
Borrowed From Friends: Joy Walsh
4 Stars
64. Christmas Caramel Murder [Hannah Swensen #20] ~Joanne Fluke
May 9 - May 10, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 1, #7
Kindle/Carnegie
3 Stars
65. Death of a Mad Hatter [Hat Shop Mystery #2] ~Jenn McKinlay
May 9 - May 15, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 3, #17
Kindle/Carnegie
4 Stars
66. Dead Cold Brew [Coffeehouse Mystery #16] ~Cleo Coyle
May 15 - May 26, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 24
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 3, #6b
Kindle/Carnegie
4 1/2 Stars
67. Mum's the Word [Flower Shop Mystery #1] ~Kate Collins
May 20 - May 26, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 3, #18
Kindle/Carnegie
3 Stars
I am now truly quite insane. ;-)
Mod
Aren't we all?! :)
Elyse wrote: "Dawn Michelle wrote: "I am now truly quite insane. ;-)"Aren't we all?! :)"
Apparently! LOL ;-)
68. We Have Always Lived in the Castle ~Shirley JacksonMay 23, 2017 [ODR]
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 43
2017 26 Book Challenge: #10
Carnegie Audiobook
4 Stars
69. A Killer Plot [Books by the Bay #1] ~Ellery Adams
May 23 - May 28, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 13
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 2, #7
Kindle/Carnegie
5 Stars
70. A High-End Finish [Fixer Upper Mystery #1] ~Kate Carlisle
May 23 - May 25, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 2, #8
Kindle/Carnegie
5 Stars
When you realize that you have been doing one of your challenges wrong and you fix it and then realize now that ALL your numbers are wrong/different....yep, that just happened to me this week. I will be changing them all later.
Mod
Oh nooooooo!! :( :(
Aaaaaaaaand I am back to reading 5 books at once. :-)
71. A Deadly Cliche [Books by the Bay #2] ~Ellery AdamsMay 29 - May 31, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 2, #9
Kindle/Carnegie
5 Stars
72. Caleb's Crossing ~Geraldine Brooks
May 31 - June 25, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 19
Book Club Read
Read What You Own
5 Stars
73. Another Brooklyn
June 13, 2017 [ODR]
2017 Read The Year: June
Carnegie Book Club Discussion Group
Buddy Read : Joy Walsh
Kindle/Carnegie
5 Stars
74. Season of Migration to the North ~Tayeb Salih
June 1 - June 4, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 37
Buddy Read: Joy Walsh
Read What You Own
Read Around the World: Sudan
75. In the Market for Murder [Lady Hardcastle #2] ~T.E. Kinsey
May 31 - June 1, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 4, #5a
Kindle
4 Stars
76. The Last Word [Books by the Bay #3] ~Ellery Adams
June 2 - June 3, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 2, #10
Kindle/Carnegie
5 Stars
77. Death Around the Bend [Lady Hardcastle #3] ~T.E. Kinsey
June 2 - June 6, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 29
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 4, #5b
NetGalley ARC
Kindle
5 Stars
78. CSI: Nevada Rose [CSI #10] ~Jerome Preisler
June 4 - June 9, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 16
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 3, #10b
Read What You Own
3 Stars
79. The Magnificent Flying Baron Estate ~Eric Bower
June 8, 2017 [ODR]
NetGalley ARC
Kindle
2 Stars
Okay, I have everything up to date; what a mess that challenge was. It is all in order now and so is my list and I feel better. LOL
80. Murder Past Due [Cats in the Stacks #1] ~Miranda JamesJune 8 - June 12, 2017
2017 Reading Around The Year: Wk. 22
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 3, #19
2017 26 Book Challenge: #24
Read What You Own
5 Stars
81. The Diary of Nobody ~George Grossmith
June 15 - June 16, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 23
Buddy Read: Joy Walsh
Kindle/Philadelphia Free Library
2 Stars
82. Written in Stone [Books by the Bay #4] ~Ellery Adams
June 13 - June 20, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 3, #20
Kindle/Carnegie
4 Stars
83. Not My Father's Son: A Memoir ~Alan Cumming
June 14 - June 17, 2017
2017 26 Book Reading Challenge: #8
Kindle/Hoopla Audiobook
5 Stars
84. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride ~Cary ElwesJune 18 - June 26, 2017
2017 26 Book Challenge: #5
Read What You Own
Carnegie Audiobook/Paperback Book I Own
5+ Stars
85. Poisoned Prose [Books by the Bay #5] ~Ellery Adams
June 25 - July 1, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 4, #10a
Kindle/Carnegie
5 Stars
86. Cat About Town [Cat Cafe Mystery #1] ~Cate Conte
June 25 - June 29, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 4, #10b
NetGalley ARC
Kindle
1 Star [THIS book was torture!]
Mod
June 18 - CURRENTLY READING/LISTENING
2017 26 Book Challenge: #5
Read What You Own
Carnegie Audiobook/Pape..."
I loved As You Wish!
Elyse wrote: "Dawn Michelle wrote: "84. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride ~Cary ElwesJune 18 - CURRENTLY READING/LISTENING
2017 26 Book Challenge: #5
Read What You Own
C..."
I am totally and completely loving this book; I remembered that you loved it too. So much fun to learn all the fun things about the movie and how much they all still really enjoy each other.
87. The Great Passage ~Shion Miura & Juliet Winters Carpenter [Translator]June 25 - July 13, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 26
NetGalley ARC
Kindle
4 Stars
88. We Were There: Revelations from the Dallas Doctors Who Attended to JFK on November 22, 1963 ~Allen Childs, MD
June 26 - June 27, 2017
Carnegie Library Book
1 Star
I like to listen to audiobooks while I am playing games on my computer [makes me feel like I am not totally wasting my time] and Audible has a Masters of Fiction channel that is perfect for that; a bunch of short stories that all flow into one another. I only listened to two today as I was unfamiliar with the other ones. I am really glad that I got over my [all-in-my-head] weirdness about audiobooks; I totally love them now. 89. The Oblong Box ~Edgar Allan Poe
June 27, 2017 [ODR]
Audible - Masters of Fiction Channel
Story: 3 Stars
Narrator: 1 Star <--It was like he was lecturing. Meh.
90. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge ~Ambrose Bierce
June 27, 2017 [ODR]
Kindle/Audible - Masters of Fiction Channel
4 Stars [for both story and narrator; he was marvelous]
91. The Art of War ~Sun Tzu
June 28, 2017 [ODR]
Audible - Celebrity Voices: Classic Stories
5 Stars
92. Sinbad ~Kurt Vonnegut
June 29, 2017
Audible - Masters of Fiction
4 Stars
That narrator shouldn't do any more Poe. He totally destroyed it.
IKR? He was hideous. TOTALLY. I think he was worse than the Magnus Chase narrator. Blech.
Joy wrote: "That narrator shouldn't do any more Poe. He totally destroyed it."I didn't like this one either- his narration was so stilted. Such a shame. But, on the bright side: you reminded me that I listened to this one too and forgot to log it ;)
Stacie wrote: "Joy wrote: "That narrator shouldn't do any more Poe. He totally destroyed it."I didn't like this one either- his narration was so stilted. Such a shame. But, on the bright side: you reminded me t..."
Well, I am glad something "good" came out of all that Stacie!! ;-)
I'm I reading this right? 91 books so far? Great job!!!!
Yes, It is pretty crazy. I have had an excellent reading year. Its amazing what grief and loneliness will do to your reading list. :-)
Do I see Trixie Beldon!! Omg...when I was young and I would get in trouble that's what my mother would ground me from: Trixie Beldon and Nancy Drew, Lol
I LOOOOOOOOOOVED Trixie. Amazingly enough, I never got grounded from my books. Considering how much I read you would have thought that would have been the first thing she would have taken away from me!! LOL I had a whole set of Trixie Belden books and gave them to my "friends" daughter [on the condition I'd get them back if she didn't want them] and she gave them all to goodwill; including my first edition one that was the very first book of the series I got when I was 10 [and didn't know that I had even GIVEN her]. Sigh.
A very good friend of mine is now [slowly] replacing them for me as a gift. Because she is awesome. And I am grateful.
93. This Old Homicide [Fixer-Upper Mystery #2] ~Kate CarlisleJune 29 - July 3, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 3, #7b
Kindle/Carnegie
4 Stars
94. Homicide in Hardcover [A Bibliophile Mystery #1] ~Kate Carlisle
June 29 - July 4, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 4, #11
Kindle/Carnegie
3 Stars
95. Happily Ever After [The Selection Novella's: 0.4, 0.5, 2.5, 2.6] ~Kiera CassJuly 3 - July 8, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 51
Kindle + Hoopla Audiobook
4 Stars
96. The Elite [The Selection #2] ~Kiera Cass
July 4 - July 7, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 51
Kindle/Carnegie
4 Stars
97. Woof at the Door [Call of the Wilde #1] ~Laura Morrigan
July 4 - July 6, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 49
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 3, #2a
Read Around The World: Costa Rica
Read What You Own
5 Stars
Now I can finish Happily Ever After and move on to Book 3 of The Selection. WHOOOO-HOOOOO!!!98. A Piece of the World ~Christina Baker Kline
July 7 - July 15, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 25
2017 Yearly Reading Plan: July
Carnegie Library Book Club
Kindle
5+ Stars
The Little Paris Bookshop ~Nina George
July 7 - DNF
Read Around The World: Germany
Book Club Read
THIS book was just awful for me and after 132 pages I had to quit. Ugh.
1 Star [For Catherine, who deserved a better book for her lovely character]
99. A Wrinkle in Time ~Madeleine L' Engle
July 8 - July 9, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 30
Kindle
5 Stars
100. Dog Dish of Doom [Agent to the Paws #1] ~E.J. Copperman
July 10 - July 12, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 4, #2a
NetGalley ARC
Kindle
3 Stars
101. Nothing ~Janne TellerJuly 13 - July 20, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 15
Read Around the World: Denmark
Read What You Own
4 Stars
102. Aunt Dimity and The Widow's Curse [Aunt Dimity #22] ~Nancy Atherton
July 13 - July 15, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 40
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 4, #4b
Read What You Own
5+ Stars
103. Jackaby ~William Ritter
July 14 - July 13, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 45
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 4, #4a
Kindle [Own]/Hoopla Audiobook
5 Stars
Mod
July 14 - CURRENTLY READING
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 45
Kindle/Hoopla Audiobook..."
Oh man I have all the Jackaby books and haven't read them yet!
OMGOSH Elyse!!! The first one is so good!! And if you can get it in Audio [hoopla has it], it is even better!!! I adore the narrator!! I bought the second book today because I know I am going to want to dive right in after this one is done. You should think about bumping them up in your TBR! ;-)
A Piece of the World is seriously the second time I have read a perfect book; I highly recommend this book to EVERYONE.
Mod
I know there's a very small chance I get to them this year. :/
Elyse wrote: "Dawn Michelle wrote: "OMGOSH Elyse!!! The first one is so good!! And if you can get it in Audio [hoopla has it], it is even better!!! I adore the narrator!! I bought the second book today because I..."I totally get that. I have a list a billion miles long and it just grows longer each day....
104. The Chocolate Falcon Fraud [Chocoholics #15] ~JoAnna CarlJuly 16 - July 18, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 2, #1
Read What You Own
3 Stars
105. The Princess Academy: Palace of Stone ~Shannon Hale
July 16 - July 19, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 35
Kindle [OWN]/Hoopla Audiobook
4 Stars
The Fortress of Solitude ~Jonathan Lethem
July 22 - DNF
Kindle/Carnegie
ZERO STARS
**This book was awful.
106. Stolen: A Letter to My Captor ~Lucy ChristopherJuly 23 - July 25, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 34
Read Around The World: Wales
Kindle [OWN]/Carnegie Audiobook
5 Stars
107. The Cat, The Collector and The Killer [Cats in Trouble #8] ~Leann Sweeney
July 22 - August 1, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 2, #2
2017 26 Book Challenge: #4
Read What You Own
4 Stars
108. The Marriage Pact ~Michelle RichmondJuly 23 - August 1, 2017
NetGalley ARC
Kindle
2 Stars
I have massive book hangover from "Stolen". It really messed with me and makes me question everything. The last time a book did this was when I read "Nineteen Minutes" by Jodi Picoult. I am really struggling getting into ANY book right now [I had three massive books all in a row with Piece of the World, Nothing and Stolen], and its bumming me out totally.
109. The Silver Chair [The Chronicles of Narnia #4] ~C.S. LewisJuly 26 - July 27, 2017
2017 Read Around The Year: Wk. 46
Kindle [OWN]/Hoopla Audiobook
5 + Stars
110. The One [The Selection #3] ~Kiera Cass
July 29, 2017 [ODR]
Kindle/Carnegie
4 1/2 Stars
Mod
Find something short and light, or something you've read before that makes you smile/laugh. Jodi Picoult books always do that to me, I can only read 2 in a row before I need something funny. Maybe I'll wait on Stolen and Piece of the World. I don't need heavy right now. lol
Piece of the World isn't heavy - it is a beautiful, lyrical book that I loved from page one until the last page. Every single second of that book was glorious for me. I had book hangover from it because it [to me] is the perfect book. Nothing and Stolen on the other hand are dark and deep and VERY heavy. And really challenge how you think and what you feel and believe. I would steer very clear of both if you are not looking for heavy right now, though I highly recommend Stolen [at a later date of course].
I am reading a cozy [because typically they are light], but this one has a character with Alzheimer' and so not as light as I was hoping.
I am starting "The One" from The Selection series today so that should lighten SOMETHING up. LOL
Mod
Oh The One is a really good choice for light and fluffy! :)
Elyse wrote: "Dawn Michelle wrote: "Piece of the World isn't heavy - it is a beautiful, lyrical book that I loved from page one until the last page. Every single second of that book was glorious for me. I had bo..."OMG the narrator for The One is H I D E O U S!!! Skipping that and moving on to just reading it. Meh.
111. Murder on the Orient Express [Hercule Poirot #10] ~Agatha ChristieJuly 29 - July 31, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozies Challenge: Level 1, #8
Read What You Own
Paperback [OWN]/Hoopla Audiobook
5+ Stars
Mod
lol I read all of them except the novellas I listened to.
112. Uncle Tom's Cabin ~Harriet Beecher StoweAugust 1 - August 18, 2017
Buddy Read: Joy Walsh
Kindle [OWN]/Hoopla Audiobook
5 Stars
THIS book has completely wrecked me. Completely. I am heartbroken from this book. If you have not read this, I highly recommend you read it immediately; we need to make sure this NEVER EVER happens again.
113. Gone Gull [Meg Langslow #21] ~Donna AndrewsAugust 2 - August 7, 2017
2017 Cruisin' Through The Cozy Challenge: Level 4, #3a
NetGalley ARC
Kindle
4 Stars
