Final book of 2020

[Sallys]

What will your final book of 2020 be?

[Sallys]

I think mine will be A Man Called Ove. Seems like a good way to end he year!

[Jenni Elyse]

I think mine will be The Family Upstairs. I'm currently reading it. I wanted to get another Harry Potter reread in, but it's not going to happen.

[John]

It will probably be The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas.

[NancyJ]

It might be Migrations, which is really great so far.

[Joanne]

Mine will probably be Pawn of Prophecy-as I am buddy reading within another group, so it is (no matter what my currently reading list says) is all I am reading right now. I have not read just one single book in so long, that I feel a little naked!😄

[Jason]

I'm trying to finish Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

[Joy D]

Probably The Girl with the Louding Voice

[Hayjay315]

I'm planning to end the year with The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

[Hebah]

I think mine will be A Prince on Paper, or possibly a volume of a manga series I'm reading. Timing is a toss-up.

[Theresa]

Mine will likely be Double, Double, Oil and Trouble: An Emma Lathen Best Seller so I finish my BINGO non-winning draws. I also need to start The Priory of the Orange Tree to finish it in time for Feminerdy Book Club a couple weeks from now.

[Hebah]

Theresa wrote: "Mine will likely be Double, Double, Oil and Trouble: An Emma Lathen Best Seller so I finish my BINGO non-winning draws. I also need to start [book:The Priory of the Orange Tree|2977..."

What is this Feminerdy book club you speak of?

[Jgrace]

Right now I'm reading A Fatal Grace, but I'll probably fit in one more after my daughter leaves tomorrow. It will be either This Tender Land or The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz.

[Theresa]

@Hebah

Feminerdy is a book club that discusses Fantasy and SciFi novels from a feminist perspective. Meets once a month for about 1,5 hours on a Sunday afternoon. Some of the books discussed: A Game of Thrones, Binti, The Fifth Season, Harrow the Ninth, The Bear and the Nightingale and last time was The Bird King . I am not a huge fantasy reader but attend whenever the book interests me and it is always a lively discussion. Since I come to fantasy with a very eclectic reading background and far less fantasy than most in the group, I often throw a different reaction or reference in triggering some fun discussions.

Started as an in person book club at Astoria Book Shop in Queens NYC, it is now of course totally virtual, meeting to discuss the month's pick on Facebook Room linked on the Feminerdy Book Club FB page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/31257... should get you there. It is a public group. Also here on Good Reads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/....

Activity is all in the monthly meetings. New members welcome and you don't have to be in NYC. Nor attend regularly.

Next meeting is Sunday Jan 10th at 1 pm EST. via FB room on Feminerdy Book Club page. To be discussed: The Priory of the Orange Tree. Will also be picking the next couple of month's books. Would love to get a few PBT fantasy readers attending!

[Shelly]

I finished Once Upon a River which is likely to be my last. Started something that I will not finish before the new year.

[Barbara M]

I'm trying to finish either The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane or Us Against You. Its a race to see who wins. One is audio and the other an e-book.

[Ellen]

I should be able to finish both Mexican Gothic (audio) and Afterlife (print) in the next few days.

[Rachel N.]

It looks like Locked Rooms will be the last book I finish this year. After that I'm going to start The Girl With All the Gifts but I doubt I'll finish it in the next 3 days.

[Sue]

I'm just finishing Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland and I'm not likely to finish another book before the end of the year.

[Charlotte]

I have a few books that I'm finishing up but not sure which will be the last one will end up being...
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
The Stationery Shop

another might sneak in...

[Jen K]

@Ellen, I just finished Mexican Gothic last night. So creepy!!

@Theresa, I really enjoyed The Priory of the Orange Tree and should make for a really interesting discussion!

Currently I'm reading In a Holidaze and Untamed which are fun end of year reads.

[Book Concierge]

Not sure which I'll finish last, but the three I'm currently reading / listening to are:

Friends Like Us by Lauren Fox
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
A Nantucket Christmas by Nancy Thayer

[Olivermagnus]

I'm finishing up The Reckoning but am not rushing since it's the final book of the Welsh Princes Trilogy and I'm sad to finish.

My last planned book is The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

[Joanne]

Olivermagnus wrote: "I'm finishing up The Reckoning but am not rushing since it's the final book of the Welsh Princes Trilogy and I'm sad to finish.

My last planned book is [book:The Samurai's Garden|51..."

I have read #'2 and 3 of The Welsh Princes, I never read # 1-I think this year I will read the entire trilogy

[Jason]

Well I finished Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

I an now starting Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, which I should finish this month.

[KateNZ]

I’m listening to the audio of “Just One Damned Thing After Another” (a reread, with an eye to working my way through the rest of the series). I am looking after a toddler all day today which doesn’t bode well for finishing 4 more hours on audio, but tomorrow may work as I have a lot of stitching to do if this needlepoint cushion is ever to get finished.

Also part way through an e-print copy of “Hidden” by Megg Jensen (fantasy, dragons) from the library, which I need to finish though it is a bit slow so far. Backlit on phone, so if insomnia strikes (and the book doesn’t make me fall asleep), it might get done.

The delight that I might well finish though is my Christmas present from my lovely friends in DC - “World of Wonders: in praise of fireflies, whale sharks and other astonishments” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. A complete gem in short episodes. I am trying to savour it rather than gobble. Now I have to find her poetry too.

[LibraryCin]

Shelter: Lost & Found by R.A. Conroy. I am planning to finish a different one today, and hope I can finish this last one, as well.

[Kimber]

I'm working on my next-to-last book of the year now, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, which will complete my row for PBT bingo. To meet my goal of reading 50 books this year, I'll need to finish one more. I've decided on The phantom white hare and other stories because it's been on my shelf for quite some time and also, unlike many of Dumas' other works, it's short.

[Booknblues]

I changed my mine and wanted something super quick and light and read Winnie-the-Pooh and as I had never read it before I enjoyed it a great deal. It really seems a shame that a preschool teacher had never read that, so I am glad to make up for it and complete my book challenge for the year.

[Olivermagnus]

Joanne wrote: " Olivermagnus wrote: "I'm finishing up The Reckoning but am not rushing since it's the final book of the Welsh Princes Trilogy and I'm sad to finish.

My last planned book is"

The first one was my favorite. It was nice to reread them over the past year and a half. I have rereads of The Sunne in Splendour and When Christ and His Saints Slept in 2021 since they are on my Unofficial Trim list.

I had a chance to read The Land Beyond the Sea a couple months ago and liked it more than you. I'm not a big fan of Crusades historical fiction, but I listened to the audio, which forced me to slow way down and I had low expectations due to the setting. I did love Baldwin, the Leper King, but I know it won't ever be a reread for me.

[Joi]

Pretty sure mine is going to be Bridget Jones's Diary because it's taken me almost 3 weeks to finish the damn thing. Review to come, but I REALLY don't get the love for this?!

[Robin P]

KateNZ wrote: "I’m listening to the audio of “Just One Damned Thing After Another” (a reread, with an eye to working my way through the rest of the series). I am looking after a toddler all day today which doesn’..."

I love that series on audio. After the first one, I knew I would only do them by audio.

It looks like my last book will be The Worst Best Man, which I must have gotten as a nook/kindle deal sometime this year. It's a bit original as a romcom, because the heroine is of dark-skinned Brazilian ancestry and there is quite a lot about her family traditions, foods, etc. I usually read historical romances from the Regency and Victorian times. Although there are plenty of sex scenes in some of them, the characters don't talk about sex the way modern people would. So it was a bit of a surprise for me to have the main characters talking and thinking in graphic terms. Of course it's obvious that the 2 who are enemies to start with end up together. I wanted something light before taking on some reading plans for 2021.

[Robin P]

Joi wrote: "Pretty sure mine is going to be Bridget Jones's Diary because it's taken me almost 3 weeks to finish the damn thing. Review to come, but I REALLY don't get the love for this?!"

I loved that series too, but the audio was a big part of it. I think it was rather original at the time but since then lots more books were done in the same vein. I can definitely see why it could come across as annoying. It is appropriate for this date in that it starts on New Year's and goes through the year.

[Amy]

Great choices, Hayjay and Barbara especially. And Charlotte is in the Hearts Invisible Furies - yay!

I am in the smack middle of And They Called it Camelot by Stephanie Marie Thornton. About Jackie O and JFK. And I want to finish it by tomorrow night. Not sure. But that is my plan.

[Joanne]

Amy wrote: "Great choices, Hayjay and Barbara especially. And Charlotte is in the Hearts Invisible Furies - yay!

I am in the smack middle of And They Called it Camelot by Stephanie Marie Thornton. About Jacki..."

Cannot wait to see your review Amy,. this one has been on my radar

[DianeMP]

I'm finishing the year with The Green Mile by Stephen King. Don't know if I'll make it before midnight tomorrow, but I'm going to give it a try.

[Karin]

What a wonderful variety of books everyone is reading :). This is one of the lovely things about PBT.

Since I am waiting for January 1 to start a number of reads for various things, I am probably going to end with one or two more holiday reads--light, easy and the just arrived at the library so I picked them up this afternoon.

But what to start on Jan 1 is hard since there are a few here I am itching to begin.

[NancyJ]

This was my annual "pajamas and classic movies" week, though I've been in soft clothes all year so it didn't feel like much of an indulgence.

My last book will be Jeanette Winterson's Christmas Days. I have 2 stories to go.

I slept away most of December, and I hope that tomorrow I'll wake up to a brighter new year.

[LibraryCin]

NancyJ wrote: "This was my annual "pajamas and classic movies" week, though I've been in soft clothes all year so it didn't feel like much of an indulgence...."

A New Year's Eve movie "tradition" I've done a few times (when I can find it on tv) is all three "That's Entertainment!" movies. I love those.

[Charlotte]

Amy wrote: "Great choices, Hayjay and Barbara especially. And Charlotte is in the Hearts Invisible Furies - yay!
..."

I am just over halfway.. it's probably not going to be my last book of 2020, but my first book of 2021.

Just finished The Stationery Shop

[Cheryl]

The Cuckoo's Calling is my last book for 2020. I wasn't sure I would be able to finish it, but I read all day until I did. 2020 was a different reading year for me. I read many books I wouldn't have normally chosen. There were quite a few I just couldn't finish. The pandemic definitely had an affect on my reading.

[LibraryCin]

Yay! I finished my last book about half an hour ago. And it will make my top 10.

Book review to come - probably tomorrow. Top 10 also to come tomorrow.

[Karin]

My last one was a disappointing one, but tomorrow is a brand new year: :).

[Cora]

My last book of the year was Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones. It basically was 2020 in a book (not in a good way).

[Amy]

Charlotte, how was the Stationary Shop? That has been circling on my list....