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JANE'S 2022 READING CORNER
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JANUARY ROUND UP*Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2022
3/21 completed
How to Lose Everything: A Memoir
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
The Big Green Tent
Hindsight is 2022
2/14 completed
Natasha and Other Stories
Naked Imperfection: A Memoir
Genre Bingo 2022
The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood
FEBRUARY ROUND UP*Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2022
5/21
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Hindsight is 2022
3/14
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
Other
Abigél by Magda Szabó
CCCP Cook Book: True Stories of Soviet Cuisine by Olga Syutkin
MARCH ROUND UPHindsight is 2022
2020s: Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily R. Austin
Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2022
Heritage & Culture: Russia
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Memoirs, Biographies, Autobiographies
Will by Will Smith
Other
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
APRIL ROUND UPHindsight is 2022
6/14 completed
1900s: When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill - 3 stars
1930s: Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia
Ginzburg - 5 stars
1950s: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles - 2 stars
Genre Bingo 2022
Memoir: Untamed by Glennon Doyle - 3 stars
Other
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry - 5 stars
MAY ROUND UPHindsight is 2022
11/14 completed
Sashenka by Simon Sebag Montefiore - 4 stars
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler - 3 stars
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden - 5 stars
Snow in August by Pete Hamill - 4 stars
Genre Bingo 2022
The Maid by Nita Prose - 2 stars
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett - 5 stars
Happy Go Money: Spend Smart, Save Right and Enjoy Life by Melissa Leong
OTHER
The Push by Ashley Audrain - 4 stars
The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel - 3 stars
JUNE ROUND UP*Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2022
10/21
Travel: Books About Traveling: Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad - 5 stars
Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, Biographies: The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper - 5 stars
Genre Bingo 2022
Nonfiction: A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You by Donna Cameron - 2 stars
Science: Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience by Pim van Lommel - 4 stars
Graphic Novel: Patience by Daniel Clowes
Paranormal: This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno - 2 stars
Other
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - 2 stars
The Ocean In Winter by Elizabeth de Veer - 3 stars
JULY ROUND UP*Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2022
13/21
Mediterranean Countries: Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival by Atka Reid - 2 stars
Book Length 500+ pages: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki - 4 stars
Genre Bingo 2022
1/2 BINGOS done
Humour: How to Ruin Everything: Essays - 3 stars
Historical Fiction: I'm Staying Here by Marco Balzano - 3 stars
Other
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle - 4 stars
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave - 3 stars
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon - 5 stars
AUGUST ROUND UPBookworms Take Shelfies - 2022
16/21
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken - 5 stars
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary - 3 stars
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker - 5 stars
Hindsight is 2022
12/14
The Lost Ones by Anita Frank - 3 stars
Other
Mrs. March by Virginia Feito
SEPTEMBER ROUND UP*Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2022
18/21 completed
The Beach by Alex Garland - 3 stars
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya - 2 stars
Hindsight is 2022
13/14 completed
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Other
When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain - 3 stars
What Makes You Not a Buddhist by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse - 4 stars
The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation: Mindfulness, Concentration, and Insight by Richard Shankman - 5 stars
Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories by Pam Houston - 2 stars
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan - 4 stars
OCTOBER ROUND UP*Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2022
20/21 completed
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom - 5 stars
Hindsight is 2022
14/14 completed
1960s (Olympic Host Country - USA): White Oleander by Janet Fitch - 5 stars
Genre Bingo 2022
2/2 Bingos done!
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann - 5 stars
OTHER
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante - 2 stars
Tanqueray by Stephanie Johnson - 4 stars
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
My Life in France (other topics)The Lost Daughter (other topics)
White Oleander (other topics)
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (other topics)
Tanqueray (other topics)
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*** BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES - 2022 ***
(message 65)
21/21
Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, Biographies
1.
Will by Will Smith2.
How to Lose Everything: A Memoir by Christa Couture3.
The Beauty in Breaking by Michele HarperBook Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
1.
My Life in France by Julia Child2.
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker3.
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan EigHeritage & Culture: Russia
1.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy2.
The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya3.
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning by Alex HalberstadtA Feeling: Grief
1.
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken2.
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow3.
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy BloomBook Length: 500+ pages
1.
The Big Green Tent by Lyudmila Ulitskaya2.
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki3.
Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammonPlace: Mediterranean Countries
1.
Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival by Atka Reid (Croatia)2.
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle3.
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary (France)Travel: Books About Traveling
1.
The Beach by Alex Garland2.
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad3.
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert*** HINDSIGHT IS 2022 ***
(message 52)
14/14
Pre-1900s:
When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill (takes place in late 1800s)1900s:
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden (author born in 1907 & set in France - Olympic host country)1910s:
Sashenka by Simon Sebag Montefiore (takes place in 1916)1920s:
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (set in France - Olympic Country)1930s:
Journey into the Whirlwind by Evgenia Ginzburg (takes place in 1930s)1940s:
The Lost Ones by Anita Frank (Set in one of the Olympic host countries: UK)1950s:
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (takes place in the 1950s)1960s:
White Oleander by Janet Fitch (Set in one of the Olympic host countries: USA)1970s:
Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis (author born in 1973)1980s:
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (published 1982)1990s:
Snow in August by Pete Hamill (published 1997)2000s:
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes (published in 2000s)2010s:
Naked Imperfection: A Memoir by Gillian Deacon(published 2014)2020s:
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily R. Austin*** GENRE BINGO ***
(Message 24)
2/2 BINGOS
Self-Help -
Happy Go Money: Spend Smart, Save Right and Enjoy Life by Melissa LeongNonfiction:
A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You by Donna CameronLiterary Fiction:
The Dutch House by Ann PatchettScience:
Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience by Pim van LommelMemoir:
Untamed by Glennon DoyleMystery/Thriller:
The Maid by Nita ProseHistory:
The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood by John LorincComing of Age:
December Park by Ronald MalfiGraphic Novel:
Patience by Daniel ClowesParanormal:
This Thing Between Us by Gus MorenoHumour/Comedy:
How to Ruin Everything: Essays by George WatskyHistorical Fiction:
I'm Staying Here by Marco BalzanoNarrative Nonfiction:
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann