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What are you reading? - 2020
Sandra wrote: "Janice wrote: "I'll start Death in August later today. It has a pretty low ra..."It is set in Florence, Italy, it fits a task for next year. Although I agree that is is better to ..."
I've got Beneath a Scarlet Sky for my Italy task. I've heard lots of good things about it.
Janice wrote: "I've got Beneath a Scarlet Sky for my Italy task. I've heard lots of good things about it."I'll take a look. It has an impressive 4.40 average rating.
I had The Awakening slotted for my dragon task but it came from the library quicker than I thought. Needed a nice easy book right now so I caved and started reading it. Fortunately, I’m a fan of dragons so will find something else for next year.
Janice wrote: "I've got Beneath a Scarlet Sky for my Italy task. I've heard lots of good things about it."I own that one and forgot about it when I was gophering for the Italy task. I think that's one of my badge 2 museums (or maybe it'll be badge 1 now). I just added Beneath a Scarlet Sky to my options and it is probably the one I'll go with since I've been wanting to read it for a while. Thanks for the reminder.
Marnie wrote: "I had The Awakening slotted for my dragon task but it came from the library quicker than I thought. Needed a nice easy book right now so I caved and started reading it. Fortunately,..."I've got a few dragon books. I've slotted Tooth and Claw into that task.
Kristie wrote: "Janice wrote: "I've got Beneath a Scarlet Sky for my Italy task. I've heard lots of good things about it."I own that one and forgot about it when I was gophering for the Italy tas..."
I hope to read it sooner than later this year. I think I'll focus on Museum 30 for my second badge.
I have just finished The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley and adore his 11-year-old experimental poisoner/investigator, Flavia de Luce. This is the first of what seems to be a terrific mystery series - can't wait to find the rest! 
5★ Link to my Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie review
I'm going to start Age of Legend for no reason at all, except that I'm enjoying this series a lot and am looking forward to reading book #4.
That is an excellent reason, Peggy.
I agree. Enjoy! I hope you can sneak in the final book before the end of the year too, Peggy..
It is Sandra! Too bad I only use it a few times a year.Janice, it would be nice to get the series wrapped up this year!
I also loved The Broken Girls, Sarah. I feel like The Toymakers is a great idea for a December read.
Kristie wrote: "I also loved The Broken Girls, Sarah. I feel like The Toymakers is a great idea for a December read."I agree. I think Margo mentioned in her review that it was the perfect Christmas book.
I won't be adding anything this month, but I'll try to remember for next year. I'll have to leave myself a note.
I started listening to Senlin Ascends. It is definitely not what I was expecting. The only fantasy/sf element so far it the setting: the Babel tower. It is on the silly side, I am enjoying it.
I bought Senlin Ascends aa while back after reading one of Mark Lawrence's reviews. I haven't gotten to it yet.
I bough Senlin Ascends as while back. I've plugged it into my museum challenge. So maybe I'll get to it sooner than later.I finished Farthing. It took a long time to get into the story until the ending ramped up. I'm not going to read the next two books in the trilogy.
I don't know what I'll start next.
Shirley wrote: "I’m reading 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List. More books for my TBR list!"Oh, no. I'm staying as far away as I can from this one.
I am on tenterhooks now, waiting to see where Gregg Hurwitz takes the Nowhere Man next! Terrific, disturbingly real warfare concerns in Prodigal Son.
4.5★ Link to my Prodigal Son review
Rainbow Colors by words&pictures is a cute little book for very young kids to enjoy with an older friend to help them find the things that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
4★ Link to my Rainbow Colors review
I'm currently reading The Eyre Affair which has been on my TBR list forever. I am enjoying it, but am a little tired of all the play on words - I am learning a lot indirectly about Shakespeare, Bronte, and Milton though. I will finish the year with Piranesi before starting my New Year party reads.
Oh I loved that book Jayme. I am a person who can never hear enough puns
Jayme wrote: "I'm currently reading The Eyre Affair which has been on my TBR list forever. I am enjoying it, but am a little tired of all the play on words - I am learning a lot indirectly about Sha..."I’ll be interested to hear what you think of Piranesi. I have on my TBR.
Finished A Woman of Intelligence - review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... Debating whether I should start a book now or start fresh in the new year?
Lilisa wrote: "Debating whether I should start a book now or start fresh in the new year?"I was debating the same yesterday at bedtime and ended downloading the 6th book in the Ruth Galloway series, The Outcast Dead :)
I'm not sure the last time I updated. I'm in the middle of Her One Mistake
. I am hoping to finish it by tomorrow night for a RL (zoom) book club. Next up is The Wife Upstairs
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Ooh, I read that with the local club last year Kristie. I kept over, and under, thinking that one, be interesting to hear what you think of it
Sandra wrote: "Lilisa wrote: "Debating whether I should start a book now or start fresh in the new year?"I was debating the same yesterday at bedtime and ended downloading the 6th book in the Ruth Galloway seri..."
Lol Sandra! I have The Midnight Library from the library and it’s under 300 pages, but it has a small plane on the cover so may qualify for the New Year party. I also have V2: A Novel of World War II or I may just Netflix the next few days...tomorrow’s problem!
I’m at 84%, Jenn. Really enjoying this one! It’s one that I would stay up late to finish if I wasn’t so tired and busy tomorrow. I will definitely finish it in the morning.
Jennifer just wanted to kill someone, make the world a better place, but Judy Fitzwater's aspiring murder mystery writer, who was Dying to Get Published, had a lot of (amusing) trouble getting her act together in real life.
3.5★ Link to my Dying to Get Published review
Frederik Backman's thought-provoking short novella, The Deal of a Lifetime is about a meeting between a somewhat estranged father and son that happens to take place on Christmas Eve. Loved it!
5★ Link to my Deal of a Lifetime review
I’ve messed up. I still have to read 9 books before the end of the year.
Lol Abby, there will be some sleepless nights for you ;-)
I’m thinking of listening to some LeVar Burton Reads episodes and borrowing some of my brother’s graphic novels to finish up.
I finished Death in August. Two stars reflects that I didn't enjoy it. I began to wonder if the book is actually a mystery because there was so much filler that I began to wonder if it was intended to be something else. That in itself is the mystery. Ugh! But at least it is gone from my tbr.Two days left before the New Years party. I can't start any of the books I'd planned for January because they all have to be started in January. The next book on my tbr is a chunkster and I would never finish it. So, my mind drifts over to Miss Fortune. I think I shall start Fortune Hunter.
I finished reading The Plum Tree a couple of days ago. This was a book that has been sitting on my tbr for a few years and I finally had a real occasion to read it. It was pretty good. I gave it 4 stars (it caught me at the right moment, I guess). I started reading The Orphan Collector by the same author and I have to say, I'm disappointed. I'm finding the writing overblown and melodramatic and it's getting on my nerves. I don't understand how an author's style can change so much from book to book. I read The Life She Was Given several years ago and enjoyed that one too (4 stars).
So, I've set the Orphan book to the side and now I've started reading This Magnificent Dappled Sea. It's short and will take me to the end of this year so I can start 2021 fresh.
And in the mean time I'm tightening up my choices for next year's challenge. So much to do!
Janice wrote: "Margo wrote: "Well done Sandra! I recently bought it on audio and it's 47 hours long. I read it in print years ago an loved it but I'm nervous about starting it.."I've got one that is over 60 hou..."
I think you really, really have to enjoy listening to the narrator for those long, long audiobooks.
Renee wrote: "I have been meaning to read both of those books. Thank you for the comment on how good they are. I will help me make choices"I read both of them, Renee. I had to do it more than once to really decide that I loved them though. For me, the first time through was a struggle just to keep up with the characters and their quirks. The second time was to pick on things that I had missed when I was trying to figure things out, and the third time was to really enjoy them, once I had figured out the story. I had a harder time with One Hundred Years because of all of the similar names, but once I could determine the time line and figure out who was who, it was so much easier. I have had Sandra's short one on my TBR for a long time. I should read it this year. I plan on reading "short" books in February.
Cherie wrote: "I think you really, really have to enjoy listening to the narrator for those long, long audiobooks."Shogun is narrated by James Clavell and Mists of Avalon is narrated by Davina Porter. I like both of them.
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Jane Harper's Tasmanian coast in The Survivors is just as compelling as her outback in The Dry and The Lost Man. Evelyn Bay is such a..."I have been waiting for The Survivors to be published, Pattty. I guess you got an advanced copy, since the expected date is not until February 2021. I have really enjoyed her other books.
Janice wrote: "I've got Beneath a Scarlet Sky for my Italy task. I've heard lots of good things about it..."I think you will like it, Janice.
Janice wrote: "Cherie wrote: "I think you really, really have to enjoy listening to the narrator for those long, long audiobooks."Shogun is narrated by James Clavell and Mists of Avalon is narrated by Davina Po..."
He is narrating his own book?
I could listen to Davina Porter anytime! I read all of the Mists of Avalon books years ago. I keep finding copies to re-read at book sales though.
I finished the Charlotte Holmes series books over the last week. We read the first one as a group read book a year or two ago, and I bought the second one to see what had happened after the first one ended in a cliff hanger. I will never learn though, because the second one did too. The third and fourth book were better stories because there was finally some background and not so much crazy running around.
I also finished the second book in The Sherlock Holmes Adventure series, Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder, after re-reading Art in the Blood. I purchased the third book, The Devil’s Due for my museum challenge (hat). I re-listened to Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson last night, after listening to The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. the night before. Can you tell, I have been getting a SH/JW "fix" these last two weeks? I think I am over it now.
I am going to read some Ian Doescher/William Shakespeare Star Wars books for the toppler. They are never long enough for regular challenge books.
Cherie wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Jane Harper's Tasmanian coast in The Survivors is just as compelling as her outback in The Dry and [book:The Lost Man|398634...I guess you got an advanced copy, since the expected date is not until February 2021. "
I actually missed getting an advanced copy before it came out a few months ago in Australia, (where I live), and it's already in my local library with 23 reserves! But I managed to get an ARC when it was offered again on NetGalley before the US release. It's not long till February, now!
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It is set in Florence, Italy, it fits a task for next year. Although I agree that is is better to finish any potentially meh reading this year.