What are you reading in January?

[Beth]

What books are you reading this month? Share your current reads and reading plans here!

[Joy]

Finishing my hidden gem, . I’ll also be reading the new Andy Weir book for book club (which likely has language if his last was any indication, so I won’t link it) and I will start a nonfiction book about Lyndon B Johnson called . Or I may wait until February to start that one.

[Staci, Book Awards Specialist]

I plan to read:

[Beth]

My list is pretty much the same as it was in December since the library has not seen fit to bring in any of the books on my request list. I will add to it these three at least, from my Kobo, which will be the first three I read for the January TBR.



Beth - ;)
in Calgary

[Caroline]

Planning to read:

[Beth]

I'm trying to hold loosely to plans, so I don't get all frazzled, but here are my hopes -

Currently reading/listening:

(last one is mainstream YA)

Up next...

[Andrea, Hospitality Coordinator]

Read:


Did Not Finish:


Currently Reading:

[Rebekah]

Currently reading & (non CF)

Plan to read for Jan:

[Cheryl]

( neighborhood book club) and and - don't know if I will hit all of it, but I will try oh and one more-

[Susan]

I just completed

I hope to read and .

If time permits:

[Windi]

Can someone tell me how to link a book into comments? Thanks.

[Courtney]

I am reading a bunch this month, I like to start out the year right! :)

Already Read: and

Currently Reading:

Up Next:

To Come Later:

[Courtney]

Windi wrote: "Can someone tell me how to link a book into comments? Thanks."

Look above the box where you are going to leave a comment. You should see comment, a space, add book/author (in blue ink), and then (some html is ok) [also in blue ink]. Clink on add book/author, then type in the book you are looking for and click add. If you want the cover photo instead of the link, scroll to the bottom of the listed titles and authors, click the circle beside cover and then add the book.

I hope this helps.

[Kalena]

Currently reading:


Considering:

[Andrea, Hospitality Coordinator]

Windi, I'm sorry I missed your question. Courtney explained it really well. If you need further guidance, let us know, and we'll give it another try.

[Shash]

Ok - January - It will probably not go anything as planned, but for now I'm thinking...

[Hannah]

Finished:


Current reads:

[Windi]

Courtney and Andrea... thanks. I don't see the options described , but that may possibly be because I'm using the goodreads app on my phone. Maybe that option isn't available on the app.

[AlegnaB †]

Windi wrote: "...I don't see the options described , but that may possibly be because I'm using the goodreads app on my phone. Maybe that option isn't available on the app."

It probably isn’t. I don’t see it on the mobile version of the website. I always use the desktop version of the website, even on my phone, because the mobile version and app don’t have full functionality. I can’t think a website I visit that I’d rather use a mobile version or app instead of the full site. I hate mobile and app versions, but unfortunately, some of the sites I visit now have only a mobile-style version. That is very frustrating to me, especially when I can no longer do things I used to do regularly.

[Deon]

Currently Reading:

[Kriste]

Just finished A New Song, planning Lady and the Lionheart next, then In this Mountain and Before We were Yours.

[Beth]

Mauro wrote: "Any recommendations of historical Christian fiction?"

Any particular time period that you're interested in?

[Andrea, Hospitality Coordinator]

Windi, I have heard from others that the "add book/author" button is only available on the desktop, but not the app. I hope there will be a time when you're on the desktop (or laptop, as I nearly always am) and can check out the button.

[Andrea, Hospitality Coordinator]

Mauro wrote: "Any recommendations of historical Christian fiction?"

Here are a few of my favorite historical Christian fiction books:

[Natalie]

I am currently listening to . Hoping to give and chance and contniue . I might also start or .

[Kate, Challenge Fun Distributor]

Currently reading:
Will be reading: , , , and .
Hopefully will be able to get to , , and .

[Loraine]

Finished:

Currently reading:

Plan to read:

[Sherri]

I just finished A Veiled Reflection by Tracie Peterson which finished off The Westward Chronicles series.
I'm about to start No Christmas Like the Present by Sierra Donovan. This a new-to-me author so I'm hoping it's a good find.
I'll also be reading 4 of Lynette Eason's books for the 2018 Author Challenge:
Also I just bought the Shadows Over England series by Roseanna White . I'm really looking forward to those so I hope to get to them in January.
Others on the agenda are:

[MKay]

My first plan is to finish the ones I have put on the back burner. Those are Madame Bovary, Ivanhoe, and A Room with a View.

[Elizabeth]

I'm working on finishing and a secular fantasy that rolled over from last year and then a few I want to get to this month are
and maybe

[Sarita]

Currently reading:

Then either the rest of that series or

[Angie H]

Currently reading:

(secular)

Next up:
(when library gets it in)

[Windi]

So i have a general question of opinion regarding books that readers do not finish or abandon and i wonder which is the best thread or topic on which to post such a question?
~ A newbie still trying to get the hang of how things work here 😊

[Andrea, Hospitality Coordinator]

The Just Talk thread would work for that. You could also use this one (What are you reading? thread).

What's your question?

[Windi]

Well i was wondering how people track or don't track the books they put down with no intention of finishing? Do you count them as read? Does it depend on how much you have read? I know its likely different for different folks but i am curious.

[Hannah]

If I make a long enough effort to form a real opinion about the book, I count it read (Goodreads policy says that ratings are allowed for all reasons, even if you've perhaps just read one story out of an entire anthology). However, if I only barely started it, I have a custom "did not finish" shelf. When you go into the "edit shelves" there is a column where you can make a custom shelf "exclusive" so it won't count to either the to-read or read shelves.

[Andrea, Hospitality Coordinator]

I have a "did not finish" shelf too (exclusive), as Hannah mentioned, but I still put in dates of when I started and "finished" it, leaving my thoughts of why I stopped reading it in my review. It counts as part of my official Goodreads challenge because I put dates in, but I don't count it toward any other challenge since I didn't read the entire story.

I just DNFed one yesterday, I believe, and you may see my review of it here if you like: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Let us know if you have further questions, Windi.

By the way, I hardly ever DNF a book. Only when I'm really not connecting well with it or am really disgusted by its content. But normally, I finish every book I start.

[Crystal]

Currently Reading: Small Town girl by Ann Gabhart. Next up will be its sequel.

[Paula]

Currently reading A Song Unheard
Next is Across the Blue
Then a Dee Henderson that’s waiting at the library
Then a Lynette Eason since she is the author this month in a challenge.
And I have yet to pick one for the mystery challenge.

[Windi]

Thanks Hannah and Andrea. I also have a DNF shelf that is exclusive, I think this will help a great deal. I just was curious how others counted or didn't count their books if not finished.

[Windi]

So what I am reading in January:
I just finished

Currently reading: on kindle, hard copy, and on audio

[Lauren]

Just finished Roanoke (The Keepers of the Ring Book 1) by Angela Hunt that somehow Goodreads doesn't have in their collections :/ I recommend it for its gripping suspense, romance in a marriage sense, and exposing marriage as a gift of love rather than keeping appearances. I don't know if I will ever get to reading the series though (living on a budget), and this book was on sale.
Currently reading: Eat, Pray, Love, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, and Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation all on Kindle.
I tried to finish "Ladies of Liberty" a while ago, but my attention span on historical books only goes for a short time before I take a break on them lol The other 2 books though, I'm highlighting a bunch of stuff in them and even taking notes so I highly recommend them! Elizabeth Gilbert isn't overly religious even though she was raised Protestant. But her experiences help her see God in a whole new way through meditations, yoga, and learning to forgive herself for a rocky and nasty divorce is incredible.
"The Food Lab" is great for me as an aspiring cook still trying new things :D I'm a 20-something who loves science too so this is a neat spin on a cookbook. Kenji explains what happens to our food when we cook it in a scientific light, and even shakes up traditional ways of cooking food based on the molecular level.

[Emily]

I've already read several middle grade novels, and a nonfiction book, but my currently-reading in Christian Fiction is , and I hope to read soon!

[AlegnaB †]

Lauren wrote: "Just finished Roanoke (The Keepers of the Ring Book 1) by Angela Hunt that somehow Goodreads doesn't have in their collections..."

It's here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8.... I've had it on my GR shelf since I got a free Kindle copy in 2012.

[AlegnaB †]

I finished three books which I started in Dec: Holiday Lights!: Brilliant displays to inspire your Christmas celebration, The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Tragedy, and Bath Tangle.



I also read Appointment with Death, Animal Farm, The Ghosts of Williamsburg...And Nearby Environs, A Silent Terror, and A Daughter's Inheritance.

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I'm currently reading An Unexpected Love, P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman, A Silent Fury, Archie's Americana, Vol. 1: Best of the 1940s, The History of Underclothes, Kidnapped, and Knowing God.

. I'm reading the Archie comics because I used to read them as a teen, and I wanted to see what they'd be like to me now. I'm reading the P.T. Barnum book because I saw The Greatest Showman (it was very good), figured that Hollywood changed a lot of the story, and wanted to find out the truth.

I'm planning to read the three books in The Bride's Prerogative: Fergus, Idaho, Becomes Home to Three Mysteries Ending in Romances and listen to A Surrendered Heart and The Selection. If I like The Selection, I'll probably continue with the series. I should be able to listen to quite a few more books, but I haven't yet picked them out. I'll probably listen to some Agatha Christie.

[Caitlyn]

I just finished:

Currently reading:

Up next:

[Maria Clara]

I've read: (ARC) (ARC)

Currently reading:

Next, I might read: - I'm on the second book

[Lila]

I finally finished my first book of 2018!! I've been working on 5 all at the same time:
I finished .
I'm still working on , , and a GF - not Christian. I still also plan on finishing eventually.

[Rebekah]

Mia wrote: "I've read: (ARC)(ARC)





I read last year and really enjoyed it! I want to read more of her books soon :)

How was ??

[Tamara]

I just finished reading Rule of Law by Randy Singer, and it was awesome! I couldn't get enough of it.