NancyJ's Winter Reading Challenge Dec1 -Feb 28 - DONE

[NancyJ]

I was hoping to get all three, but it looks like I'll only get two of them.

DREAMING OF SNOW = Complete!!
WINTER WONDERLAND = Complete post 3 or 4

✅ D - Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips, Mystery, Russia, 4 Stars
✅ R - Regency/romance - Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas Goose,by Stephanie Laurens, Romance/Regency, Historical Fiction,, 3.5 stars
✅ E - Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, genres: Feminism, short stories, literary, LGBTQ, race. 4 stars
✅ A - Atonement by Ian McEwan, historical, literary fiction, 4.5 stars
✅ M - The Mountain and the Sea by Kwame Dawes, Romance, Audio, Caribbean, 3 stars
✅ I - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab , Fantasy, Historical Fiction, 3.5 stars
✅ N - Nature/Nonfiction, Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. Non-fiction, Nature, Memoir, Ecology, 4 stars
✅G - The Guest List by Lucy Foley, Mystery, Ireland, 3 stars

✅O- O'Farrell - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, historical fiction, literary, 4.5 stars
✅F - Fantasy - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, Fantasy,

✅ S -Sayaka = Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Japan, Literary Fiction,
✅ N -Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson - N nothing, W Wilson
✅ O - Olga - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczak, Poland, nobel prize, 4 stars
✅ W - Winterson -Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Winterson, Jeannette, Holiday, Short stories, fantasy, 3.5 stars

[NancyJ]

BOOKS COMPLETED December 1- February 25

🔅✔ = DREAMING of SNOW
✨✔ = WINTER WONDERLAND

DECEMBER 2020

🔅✔Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. Genre (Non-fiction, Science, Memoir, Ecology, Biology, Autobiography), 5 stars

✨Paper Wife by Laila Ibrahim, Genre (Historical Fiction, Immigration, Asia, China) , 4-4.5 stars

✨Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky, Genre (Historical Fiction, War, France, Europe, Audio) , 4- 4.5 stars

🔅✔Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Genre (Literary Fiction, Japan, Asia, 4 stars

✨The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fjord, Genre (Satire, SciFi Fantasy, Dystopian, Animals,British, England), 3.5-4 stars

✨The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss, Genre (romance, holiday), 3 stars

🔅✔Lady Osbaldestone's Christmas Goose,by Stephanie Laurens, Romance/Regency, Historical Fiction, Audio, 3.5 stars

✨Lady Osbaldestone and the Missing Christmas Carols -by Stephanie Laurens, Romance, Regency, Historical Fiction, audio, 2.5 stars

🔅✔The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, Fantasy, LGBTQ, Romance, Adult, audio, YA, 3.5 stars

✨The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare, Nigeria, 3.5 stars

🔅✔The Mountain and the Sea by Kwame Dawes, Romance, Audio, Caribbean, 3 stars

🔅✔Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days by Jeanette Winterson, Genres (Holiday Christmas, Fantasy, Cookbook, Food and Drink, Short stories), 3.5-4 stars

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JANUARY 2021

✨Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, Genre (Fiction, Sweden, Mental Health, Humor) 3.5 stars

✨✔Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy, Environment, 5 stars

✨Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Genres: Fantasy, japan, time travel , 3 stars.

✨The Girl Who Wrote in Silk, by Kelly Estes
Genre Historical fiction, 3.5

✨In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren,
Genre Romance holiday fiction, 3.5 stars

Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Ghasi,
literary fiction, Neuroscience Ghana , 4 stars

✨Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Vargas, (Nonfiction, autobiography, memoir, politics), 3 stars

🔅✔Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, historical fiction, literary, novels - OFarrell, , 4.5 stars

🔅✔The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab , Fantasy HF, LBGTQ, 4 stars

✨The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, by Dalai Lama, Genres (Nonfiction, Spirituality, Religion) , 4 stars

✨Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Genres: Literature, classics, novels, European, 5 stars

The Silent Patient by Alex MIchalides, genres: Mystery, thriller, suspense, psychology, 4 stars

FEBRUARY 2021

🔅✔The Guest List by Lucy Foley, Mystery, Ireland -

🔅✔Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, genres: Feminism, short stories, literary, LGBTQ, race

✨A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, Genres: Literary fiction, Japan, Asia - O Ozeki

🔅✔Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczak, literary mystery, nature, nobel prize, poland - O Olga, N Nature/Nobel

🔅✔Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips, Mystery, Russia

🔅✔Atonement by Ian McEwan, historical, literary fiction, war, 4.5-5 stars

🔅✔Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, 4 stars

✨What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon, historical fiction, fantasy, 5 stars

[NancyJ]

DREAMING OF SNOW is Complete (post 1)

[NancyJ]

✅WINTER WONDERLAND is complete!


W –Woolf- Mrs. Dallowayby Virginia Woolf, Literature, 5 stars
I – Ibrahim - Paper Wife by Laila Ibrahim, Historical Fiction, China, 4-4.5 stars
N – Nonfiction - Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, by Jose Vargas, Nonfiction, memoir, 3 stars
T – Toshikazu - Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Fantasy, japan, time travel , 3 stars.
E – Estes - The Girl Who Wrote in Silk, by Kelly Estes, Historical fiction, 3.5 stars
R – Romance - In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren, Romance, holiday, 3.5 stars

W - What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon, historical fiction, fantasy, 5 stars
O - Ozeki - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, Genres: Literary, fantasy, Japan. 4.5-5 stars
N - Nonfiction - The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, by Dalai Lama, Nonfiction, Spirituality, 4 stars
D – Dare - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare, Nigeria, Contemporary, Africa, 3.5 stars
E – Environment - Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy, Environment, 5 stars
R – Romance, The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss, romance, holiday, 3 stars
L - Lady Osbaldestone and the Missing Christmas Carols -by Stephanie Laurens, Regency, 2.5 stars
A - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, Sweden, Mental Health, Humor. 3.5 stars
N - Nemirovky - Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky, Historical Fiction, War, France, 4- 4.5 stars
D – Dystopian -The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fjord, Dystopia, Satire, 3.5-4 stars