It's a 5 -2017 version

[Booknblues]

How is your reading as compared to last year. What are your 5 star books.

[Booknblues]

Last year, I thought that there were so many good books, but at the end I didn't have many 5 star books.

This year which almost doesn't seem to have as good of choices of new books may just seem that way to me as I already have 5 , 5 star books:

We Were the Lucky Ones
Consider This, Senora
Exit West
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Etta and Otto and Russell and James

I have quite a few strong 4 star ratings as well.

[Denizen]

Booknblues wrote: "Last year, I thought that there were so many good books, but at the end I didn't have many 5 star books.

This year which almost doesn't seem to have as good of choices of new books may just seem t..."

I have been impatiently waiting for my hold on the audio of Exit West to come in. You would think such a short book would move quickly but it hasn't. I'd like to try Consider This, Senora but it's not available in either Kindle or audio so will probably not get around to it.

[Lesley]

Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Last year, I thought that there were so many good books, but at the end I didn't have many 5 star books.

This year which almost doesn't seem to have as good of choices of new bo..."

Consider This, Senora is another one my SLQ doesn't have as an option to recommend. That's on Overdrive, but I will look on Wheelers as I saw a whole lot of new books that had been advised to me by Allen and Unwin on my email news feed.

[Lesley]

I couldn't recommend for purchase, Exit West, but could for How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.

[Denizen]

I went back and looked through my books read this year and found 3 I had rated 5.
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[Story]

Like BnB, I hardly had any 5 star reads last year but have already had 5 this year:
Consider This, Senora
Golden Hill
Baba Dunja's Last Love
Swing Time
Autumn

I'm looking forward to Exit West.

[Blueberry]

These are my 5 star books for 2017. They seem to fall into two categories. Those that I felt they were 5 star maybe because I couldn't put them down while reading and those that a few months later are still WOW, that was a good, thought-provoking book.
Those in the second category were:
A Man Called Ove
A Place Called Winter
The Dog Stars even though I gave it 4 stars.

The first category of 5 stars were:
Me Before YouMe Before You
Another Man's Moccasins
Anna and the Swallow Man
People of the Book
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto

[Booknblues]

Blueberry wrote: "These are my 5 star books for 2017. They seem to fall into two categories. Those that I felt they were 5 star maybe because I couldn't put them down while reading and those that a few months later ..."

You have several I loved: A man called Ove, The Dog Stars and Irena's Children.

[Booknblues]

Denizen wrote: "I went back and looked through my books read this year and found 3 I had rated 5.
a..."

The woman who wrote A Shadow of the Banyan just came out with a new book. It is on my radar list. Music of the Ghosts

[Booknblues]

Lesley wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Last year, I thought that there were so many good books, but at the end I didn't have many 5 star books.

This year which almost doesn't seem to have as good of c..."

Lesley, I had to get a paperback copy of Consider This, Senora, I couldn't find an ebook for it unfortunately.

[Lesley]

Booknblues wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Last year, I thought that there were so many good books, but at the end I didn't have many 5 star books.

This year which almost doesn't seem to ha..."

I can't even get this one to register on any of the catalogues. Thanks . Nor 'Swing Time' EBOOK. Won't complain as I don't pay for so many wonderful EBOOKS.

[Lesley]

This years 5 stars reads :


( re-read)

(re-read)

I can't find any others. What is the best way to find one's 5 star books ?

[Blueberry]

Booknblues wrote: "Blueberry wrote: "These are my 5 star books for 2017. They seem to fall into two categories. Those that I felt they were 5 star maybe because I couldn't put them down while reading and those that a..."

A lot of them were in April, along with The Kitchen House and Death Without Company. I had a really good month.

[Booknblues]

Blueberry wrote: "had a really good month. .."

I love when that happens. My April was pretty good as well.

[Denizen]

Lesley wrote: "This years 5 stars reads :


( re-read)

(re-read)

I can't find any others. What is the best..."

Do you have a 2017 Reading Challenge set up? Scroll down on your home page to find your challenge on the left side and click on "XX books completed". It shows the covers of the books you've completed this year. Sort by rating (on the right above the books). Your 5 star books will be listed first. I discovered that if I wait about a minute, the book description and my rating appear when I hover the cursor over the book covers.

Hope that helps.

[Denizen]

Booknblues wrote: "Denizen wrote: "I went back and looked through my books read this year and found 3 I had rated 5.
[bookcover:Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Cr..."

I'm definitely interested in giving this second book a read.

[Lesley]

Denizen wrote: "Lesley wrote: "This years 5 stars reads :


( re-read)

(re-read)

I can't find any others. W..."

No, I haven't tried that. Thanks . Off to 'Mindfulness Workshop', then Reading at school, then Flying doctor for flu shots.. WHEW.

[Karin]

So far these are the books that are either a full 5 stars or rounded up from a strong 4.5 or so (at least one was a surprise).

rounded up. re-read

rounded up-totally surprised at my enjoyment of this

rounded up

re-read (liked it better the second time when I wasn't expecting it to be like Daddy Long legs)



rounded up,( this was a surprise as I only expected it to be a 3)

[Karin]

Lesley wrote: "This years 5 stars reads :


( re-read)

(re-read)

I can't find any others. What is the best..."

You can rank them by rating under my books, but then it's no longer by date read, so you have to go through all of your 5 star reads to find all of the ones from this year.

[Lesley]

Karin wrote: "Lesley wrote: "This years 5 stars reads :


( re-read)

(re-read)

I can't find any others. W..."

Yes, thanks, this is what I did. Pity you can select for 5 stars, then sort for date.

[Karin]

Lesley wrote: "
Yes, thanks, this is what I did. Pity you can select for 5 stars, then sort for date. ."

I agree! I also wish we could to shelf searches, and then do one with two shelves as we were able to do with tags on Shelfari.

[Lesley]

Karin wrote: "Lesley wrote: "
Yes, thanks, this is what I did. Pity you can select for 5 stars, then sort for date. ."

I agree! I also wish we could to shelf searches, and then do one with two shelves as we wer..."

OOPS meant pity you CAN'T select.. but you got what I meant.

[Karin]

Lesley wrote: "OOPS meant pity you CAN'T select.. but you got what I meant..."

Wow, that's quite a typo I made! I am in silent or semi-silent migraine season, or simply just addled allergy brain. I have been making all sorts of weird typos today, as well.

[Lesley]

Karin wrote: "Lesley wrote: "OOPS meant pity you CAN'T select.. but you got what I meant..."

Wow, that's quite a typo I made! I am in silent or semi-silent migraine season, or simply just addled allergy brain. ..."

Oh I'm sorry to hear that. I have had so few migraines in my life that I can tell about each one, and know how horrendous they are. Can you still read with them, or is it the whole dark room with cucumbers slices on your eyes? (English remedy .)

[Karin]

Lesley wrote: "
Oh I'm sorry to hear that. I have had so few migraines in my life that I can tell about each one, and know how horrendous they are. Can you still read with them, or is it the whole dark room with cucumbers slices on your eyes? (English remedy ..."

For most of my life I've been able to read with them once the whole eye thing is done (when I get that). However when I was a preteen and teen, I couldn't read for about 3 days even when I could see again. The were at their worst then for the most symptoms.

[Lesley]

Karin wrote: "Lesley wrote: "
Oh I'm sorry to hear that. I have had so few migraines in my life that I can tell about each one, and know how horrendous they are. Can you still read with them, or is it the whole ..."

Feel better, soon.

[Blueberry]

To add to my earlier in the year post:
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
The Whistler
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

[Story]

The 100 YO Man was so much fun! The movie is pretty good too.

[Blueberry]

I actually wish I hadn't seen the movie. It followed the movie for the first half and then went all crazy changing the storyline that it blurred the book storyline for me, which was soo much better.

[Story]

I guess I saw it quite a while after I read the book so didn't notice the differences so much. I think they would have had to make a mini-series to get it all in. Anyway, I'm happy you enjoyed the book.

[Blueberry]

Oh, a miniseries would have been awesome! The story would have been so easily broken into segments also.

[Story]

Here are my 5 star reads for 2017:

The Essex Serpent Dazzlingly imaginative
Baba Dunja's Last Love An old lady moves back to Chernobyl to live out her last days...
Exit West Found his storytelling voice very immediate and unique
Consider This, Señora Atmospheric...the feeling from the story lingered for days after I finished. Thanks Fran!
To The Bright Edge of the World Magic
Autumn I loved the characters and the way this story was told so much

[Booknblues]

Storyheart wrote: "Here are my 5 star reads for 2017:

The Essex Serpent Dazzlingly imaginative
Baba Dunja's Last Love An old lady moves back to Chernobyl to live out her last days...
..."
Two of yours are on mine, Exit West and Consider This, Senora. To the Bright Edge of the World was on mine last year.

I might use the one of the others to finish up my year. Baba Dunja is on my TBR.

[Story]

I think you'll enjoy it, BnB.

[Lesley]

So far, seems to be the most common favourite.