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I'll be reading Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
COYOTE MOON by John A. Miller makes 60.
Just started this group, but my June book is The Fortune Teller's Daughter by Lila Shaara.
I am starting Insurgent by Veronica Roth and I plan to finish Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.
22. Harry Schearer: Not Enough Indians. Great thing about #Read26Indy is that it is getting me to get out those books that have been sitting around way too long and read them. Harry Schearer is better as a satirical actor. Book reads like a movie he might be in but loses something for being in the wrong medium.
THE MASCOTS OF 1911, my 62nd book, is the worst book I've read in 2014.
Finished The Fortune Teller's Daughter today. Didn't end like I expected, but was good nonetheless.
My 63rd is Tim O'Brien's IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS.
THE SUMMER OF '64 by William A. Cook makes 64.
Finished numbers 15 and 16 of the year: The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials by James Dashner.
I've got a stack to conquer that I've been eager to get to. Had to wait until I was done with school. Here goes...1. The Element by Sir Ken Robinson
2. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
3. Creativity: the psychology of discovery and invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
4. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
5. Straitjacket: How Overregulation Stifles Creativity and Innovation in Education by George Goens and Philip Streifer
Will I get to all of them this month? Possibly. Summer is my time to devour books. :)
My 65th book is ZIM: A BASEBALL LIFE by Don Zimmer.
Aubrey Hirsch's WHY WE NEVER TALK ABOUT SUGAR is my 66th book.
I just finished Tim O'Brien's TOMCAT IN LOVE. Highly recommended. Funny too.
Robin Sloan's MR. PENUMBRA'S 24-HOUR BOOK STORE makes 68.
My 69th is THE NATURAL by Bernard Malamud. It shares resemblances to the motion picture which starred Robert Redford but the novel is a different, darker tale
Dana Roeser's THE THEME OF TONIGHT'S PARTY HAS BEEN CHANGED makes 70.
And Alan Weisman's THE WORLD WITHOUT US makes 71.
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King and Servant of the Empire by Raymond Feist. Also, listening to Argo.Michael - do you have a final goal number for the year? At this rate you should get close to 200! I see you just read Mr. Penumbra - I just listened to that - weird but good.
Matthew, I'd like to hit 200. This is the first time I've ever spent counting read books. Being off for the summer should help me up the ante before school resumes in August. I like the Penumbra novel and novella I read but it gets to be the same old same old after a bit. I like quirkier books best but some of what I read is for book clubs I'm in. Another thing I like about this challenge is that it forces me to vary my selections. If I get into a pattern of reading political books, I break away to read science or history or a biography. I realize, perhaps, that I need more diversity in my reading so I read younger authors or authors from a different ethnic or cultural background. Lately, I've thought I should add a bigger book like THE GOLDFINCH or something by Stephen King or John Irving. My choice will probably be Margaret Atwood's trilogy and/or Ben Winter's trilogy. There are so many books that call to me and we are living in a golden age of American letters. I wish I wish I could get paid to do this.
How was Mr. Mercedes? It's also on my to-read list.
It is good so far . . . it is not what I would call "normal King", but that is not necessarily bad - I will leave it at that to avoid spoilers.Two fantastic books that I have read this year are Lightning by Dean Koontz and The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. I think you would be very satisfied with either (or both) of these.
I read THE POWER OF ONE several years ago. Maybe I'll dig it out again. My copy is an old mass-market paperback, a book type which I rarely read anymore as I tend to read ebooks, quality paperbacks and hardbacks more often. Maybe it's because I'm 64 and the print in the other editions is easier to read.
My 72nd book is Joe Posnanski's THE MACHINE a history of the '75 Cincinnati a Reds.
And SIMPLE DREAMS: A MUSICAL MEMOIR by Linda Ronstadt makes 73. She focuses on her passion for music of many genres and keeps her private life private except when it intersects with music. She had an intelligent and breezy style that reads quickly.
My 74th book is JULY, JULY by Tim O'Brien.
WRESTLING LI PO FOR THE REMOTE by Kevin Stein is. 75.
Number 76 is Daryl Brock's TWO IN THE FIELD.
Just finished the second Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) detective story The Silkworm in the Cormoran Strike series. I am a minor anglophile and love all the cultural and geographic references. The main characters and well-developed and the murder victim is an author -- lots of literary suspects. A fun summer romp through London (although it is winter in the book!) No. 36 for me.
A Better World - The Brilliant Saga - very good!
Haven't really been keeping track, but thankfully posting here once in while helps. #13 - The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz, #14 - Big Sur by Jack Kerouac (having seen the film adaptation prompted me to re-read this book), #15 Letters from Yellowstone by Diane Smith, #16 - Writing Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon. Next up #17 - From Germany to Germany: Diary 1990 by Gunter Grass.
THIEVES IN THE AFTERLIFE by Kendra DiColo makes 77.
Timothy wrote: "Finished numbers 15 and 16 of the year: The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials by James Dashner."So far, you're the only person I know who's read The Maze Runner. What did you think of it? I was shocked at the ending!
I have read Shopgirl by Steve Martin. Great read. Quick and funny material. Good for singles. I am currently reading another summer recommended read The Dud Avacado by Elane Dundy. Another single gal in Paris. Great recommendation. Finished The Secret History by Donna Tartt. It kept me intrigued but was not my type of book. Reminded me of Lord of the Flies.
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I am starting off June with Deception Point by Dan Brown.