January - Book You Meant to Read in 2022

[Stina]

Even if you don't have a huge long list of 2022 reading fails like I do, surely there is something you can consider a missed reading opportunity. Carpe Libris! (Yeah, that's almost assuredly wrong. I never studied Latin.)

[Dawn]

Finally got into my list of reads downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
Read John Locke's Second treatise on government. I felt that it was an important read, as a great deal of his philosophy was used to argue for our government/rebellion against the British crown. Unfortunately, some of his arguments are still being used as foul excuses for racism, repression, and red lining 200+ years on.

[Cheryl]

Already crossed one off the list with The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik.

[Cheryl]

And a second hold-over from 2022, Borrowing Life, about how organ transplantation became possible.

[Cheryl]

One that I was supposed to read for book club last year -- The Last Cuentista. Highly recommend this YA sci-fi story.

[Jacqie]

Last Cuentista looks good!

I read Long Range by CJ Box. I enjoy his modern Western mysteries but I've fallen behind on him. This one was reliable CJ Box entertaining with action, murder mystery, and current Western issues.

Box lives in Wyoming and writes about that state. I live in Colorado now and once did live in Wyoming and recognize a lot of what he writes about. He's now 20+ books into the Joe Pickett series and still going strong!

[Stina]

I finished a book club book (Light from Uncommon Stars), a road trip book that was longer than the trip (New York 2140), and an Audiobook SYNC download from last summer (No-No Boy). They were all good, but that's descending order of my enjoyment of them.