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Juli's 2020 Reading Journey (With Our New Kittens Tagging Along)
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I'm curious to see which books the kittens enjoy :)
Tiffany wrote: "Happy new year and happy reading, Juli!I'm curious to see which books the kittens enjoy :)"
Thanks Tiffany.
So far one kitten still runs away whenever you make any sort of motion (whether its toward her or just readjusting in your chair). The other thinks books are for biting, not reading. Lol!
January1) The Lifted Veil by George Eliot
1/11-1/12
3 stars
Classic Tales Podcast - 2.21 hours
Total Pages Read:
Total Hours Listened: 2.21
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hehehe
February2) The Disappearing Spoon: and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodical Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
1/1-2/1
5 stars
391 pages
3) On a Road - Jeffrey Kingman
2//6-2/7
4 stars
22 pages
Total Pages Read: 413
Total Hours Listened: 2.21
March4) My Mother was Nuts: a Memoir by Penny Marshall
2/11-3/1
5 stars
326 pages
5) Bathed in Prayer: Father Tim's Prayers. Sermons, and Reflection from the Mitford Series by Jan Karon
3/4-3/5
4 stars
226 pages
6) The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
3/6-3/22
5 stars
336 pages
7) Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker
3/22
4 stars
32 pages
8) Sacred Marriage: What if God Designed Marriage to Make us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? - by Gary Thomas
4/16/19 - 3/31/20
3 stars
271 pages
Total Pages Read: 1604
Total Hours Listened: 2.21
April9) After the End - by Amy Plum
3/22-4/9
4 stars
261 e-pages
10) Until the Beginning - by Amy Plum
4/10-4/23
5 stars
257 e-pages
11) Apple Confidential: the Real Story of Apple Computer, Inc. - by Owen W. Linzmayer
3/18-4/27
3 stars
268 pages
Total Pages Read: 2,390
Total Hours Listened: 2.21
May12) Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir - by Colleen Frakes
4/23-2/9
3 stars
195 e-pages
13) Leave it to Psmith - by P.G. Wodehouse
5/10-5/12
4 stars
Classic Tales Podcast - 10.3 hours
Total Pages Read: 2,585
Total Hours Listened: 12.51
June14) A Piece of the World - by Christina Baker Kline
5/20-6/11
4 stars
456 e-pages
15) The Tale of Peter Rabbit - by Beatrix Potter
6/25
5 stars
69 pages
16) The Tale of Mister Jeremy Fisher - by Beatrix Potter
6/26
4 stars
57 pages
17) Bear is Awake! An Alphabet Story - by Hannah E. Harrison
6/26
4 stars
31 pages
18) Cool Cuts - by Mechal Renee Roe
6/26
3 stars
24 pages
19) Key to the Treasure - by Peggy Parish
6/27-6/30
4 stars
154 pages
Total Pages Read: 3,376
Total Hours Listened: 12.51
July20) The Overall Boys in Switzerland - by Eulalie Osgood Grover
6/30-7/4
4 stars
160 pages
21) Ghost Walls: The Story of a 17th Century Colonial Homestead - by Sally M. Walker
7/4-7/16
3 stars
136 pages
22) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers
7/4-7/21
3 stars
143 pages
23) Explosion at the Poem Factory - by Kyle Lukoff & Mark Hoffman
7/18-7/22
4 stars
44 pages
Total Pages Read: 3,859
Total Hours Listened: 12.51
August24) Ten Thousand Doors of January - by Alix E. Harrow
6/13-8/22
5 stars
378 pages
Total Pages Read: 4,237
Total Hours Listened: 12.51
September25) Scaramouche - by Rafael Sabatini
8/30-9/2
3 stars
16.55 hours
26) Total Cat Mojo - by Jackson Galaxy
8/25-9/12
4 stars
471 e-pages
27) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
5/6-9/13
5 stars
Listened on the Wizarding World website, so am not sure how many hours of listening that was. Therefore my tally of hours below doesn't include this listen-through. It was great to re-visit Hogwarts during this very weird year.
28) The Wisdom of Steve Jobs - edited by Carol Kelly-Gangi
Finished 9/13
110 pages
3 stars
29) Love Comes Softly - by Janette One
9/15-9/30
240 pages
5 stars
Total Pages Read: 5,058
Total Hours Listened: 29.06
October30) Where is God in a Corona Virus World? - by John C. Lennox
10/3-10/4
63 pages
4 stars
31) Catification - by Jackson Galaxy
9/30-10/23
291 pages
5 stars
Total Pages Read: 5,412
Total Hours Listened: 29.06
November32) Native Son - by Richard White
504 pages
10/24-11/29
5 stars
33) Psmith in the City - by P/G. Wodehouse
Classic Tales Podcast - 6.1 hours
11/28-11/30
3 stars
Total Pages Read: 5,916
Total Hours Listened: 35.16
December 34) Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley - by Belle K. Maniates
279 pages
11/29-12/27
4 stars
35) The MacArthur Study Bible - John MacArthur, ed.
1/1-12/29
1995 pages ( excluded the introductory material)
5 stars
Total Pages Read: 8,190
Total Hours Listened: 35.16
That's a wrap on my reading for the year. Back around September I lowered my goal from 50 to 35 because I knew there was no way I'd make it to 50. Between too many podcasts and all the pandemic shut-down chaos it was a difficult year for reading. Still, I did enjoy some pretty good books this year (though, the kittens weren't as interested in my reading aloud and I'd hoped :) ). My top ten reads (books that stuck with me the most) are:
10) Until the Beginning - by Amy Plum
9) After the End - by Amy Plum
8) Bear is Awake! An Alphabet Story by Hannah E. Harrison
7) Explosion at the Poem Factory by Kyle Lukoff & Mark Hoffman
6) The Disappearing Spoon: and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodical Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
5) My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall
4) Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
3) Catificaiton by Jackson Galaxy
2) Native Son by Richard Wright
1) Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley.
Over the next few days I'll be catching up on The Reader's Digest and other magazines that've been stacking up. Then, I'll try again for 50 in 2021!
Happy New Year and Happy Reading everyone!
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Isn't it weird how many of us ended up NOT reading during the pandemic? It seems like so many of us were at home, not commuting to work (some of us even lost jobs), not going out with friends or families, we should have read MORE! I'm sure there were plenty of people who did read more, but a lot of us have said that something about the pandemic made us *not* read. I find it interesting.
"Still, I did enjoy some pretty good books this year (though, the kittens weren't as interested in my reading aloud and I'd hoped :) )."
*sigh* Those darned kittens! Maybe next year they'll be more interested :)
"Over the next few days I'll be catching up on The Reader's Digest and other magazines that've been stacking up. Then, I'll try again for 50 in 2021!"
Good luck in 2021! Enjoy your magazine pile (That's how I'm closing out my year, too!).
Thanks Tiffany! I agree about the not reading more even though I had more time what with not being able to work for a good three-four months. There were so many home and garden projects that needed doing that I kind of would have felt guilty reading all day (if that makes sense). Then too the library closed and it was harder to get books (even though I have so many books in my shelves...nothing seemed appealing somehow).
I'm thinking of also counting my Reader's Digest magazines. I read them cover to cover (as opposed to other magazines I get) and I feel they're kind of book-like...you know, a nonfiction anthology of sorts. We'll see.
Looking forward to another year of fun reading. My husband and I got ourselves kittens for Christmas and one of the suggestions I found for acclimating them was to read aloud to them. So, they may be tagging along on my reading journey.
Happy 2020 everyone and Happy Reading!
Juli