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Laurel wrote: "#46 Wuthering Heights - Audible, read by Joanne Froggatt5 stars.
No link for this one because I couldn't find one. I'm still reading the Norton Critical Edition and will take more time with it, p..."
I think that this book is what some call a "marmite" book - you either love it or hate it. I'm glad that you were in the 'I love it' group; I am sadly in the 'I hate it' group (lol).
It's getting down to the wire with three days left in the year. I may count books finished on Jan. 1 as part of this year, just because...Here's what I have left:
READ The Map of Salt and Stars - Listening to this on the way home from Rapid City - 1 hour, 58 mintutes left.
READ Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet - been reading small sections of this all year - 57 pages left.
READ White Birch, Red Hawthorn - been reading a chapter a day, but I'm one chapter behind to finish - 47 pages left.
READ Many Waters - 5 1/2 chapters left. Children's book. I'll finish it today.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Next up in the series. I should be able to get it read.
Christmas Bells - Just started. Only read two chapters. 287 pages to go. It may carry over to the 1st, but we shall see!
#47
Many Waters4 stars
#3 in the series according to internal chronological, although it is the fourth book written. Interesting blend of Biblical story with mythological creatures. Science takes a backseat here.
#48
White Birch, Red Hawthorn5 stars - A short but very powerful book about ancestry, and honoring not only the places they came from, but the people and places they conquered. My favorite book of the year. Or one of them, anyway!
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Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet3.5 stars - Excellent writing, but it would have been greatly enhanced by at least a few photos.
Almost there, and only one more day to go. 3 books to finish. I'll finish two of them tomorrow, and the 3rd may carry over onto Jan. 1 but I'll still count it for 2019.
#50
The Map of Salt and Stars5 stars
Didn't finish the other book, so I'll end the year with a nice round number. 50 isn't bad! I came close...
Some random stats:Books read: 50
Pages read: 15,604
Goal #1 Random Reads: Only 4
Goal #2 Daytimers: 11 (the 12th book was read in a previous year)
Goal #4 Author Madeleine L'Engle: 3
The leftovers and A Good Yarn themes are hard to count, since one was a catch-all, and the other listed books more than once...
4 books were rereads
11 Non-fiction
5 historical fiction (not counting the 20th century)
Audiobooks - at least 14
Ebooks - 4
New series started - 8
Next in series - 11
Children's books - 12
Fantasy/SciFi - 11
Chunky books (over 450 pages) - 5
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5 stars.
No link for this one because I couldn't find one. I'm still reading the Norton Critical Edition and will take more time with it, probably into January. But for now I have finished listening to this rendition. Ms. Froggatt was marvelous, and of course she knows the Yorkshire dialect. One of those books I've always supposed I must have read long ago, but now I know I never did! Loved it!