Julietta's window seat for 2024

[Julietta]

This is where I will post about the 40 books I'm reading in 2024.
JANUARY
1. Standard Deviation and
2. Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny, a new favorite writer. Unfortunately, she only has 4 books cause then she died. :( Next I finished
3. Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object because Laurie Colwin was supposed to be like Katherine Heiny...not true! Where were the hilarious situations? Only extensive rumination...
4. All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks, a non-fiction book about what love really is as it pertains to children, romance, friendship, society and humans in general!
FEBRUARY
5. The Bingo Palace I'm back on the quest to finish the whole "Love Medicine" 8 book series by Louise Erdrich! These are NEVER a waste of time!
6. Tales of Burning Love The saga continues with a new bumper crop of characters and the return of some faves!
MARCH
7. Folk Wisdom of Mexico: Proverbios y dichos Mexicanos Sayings and proverbs in Spanish, from Mexico
8. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir Lovely non-fiction book about the struggles of a mixed race adoptee to meet her birth mother. Saw the author last night on a Zoom talk/q&a about this very book!
9. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life It is and does what the titles says! Simple self-help.
10. Antología de la poesía mexicana moderna Poetry in Spanish to ponder and orate!
APRIL
11. Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States More poetry in English and Spanish and Spanglish by Latin American poets of the United States.
12. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Only 1 more Louise Erdrich book to read in the "Love Medicine" series!
13. The Way It Was Short book about the Black author's childhood trip from her home in California to the South in the 1950s
MAY
14. Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It Similar to "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff", but with more modern studies and suggestions.
15. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 7th hilarious book by David Sedaris!!
JUNE
16. The Wishing Game Another great, plot driven find on the new fiction shelf at my local library. TBR list will have to wait.
17. Calypso This time the author read it to me on a CD! Even better!
18. I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World What a brave girl she was to stand up for education for girls against the Taliban! And how lucky am I to have been born female in the USA!
JULY
19. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls Another book in the quest to listen to Sedaris reading his own stories!
20. The Painted Drum Last in the 8 book "Love Medicine" series by Louise Erdrich. This is bittersweet.
21. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar Only the second thing I've ever read by Cheryl Strayed after Wild. Wonderful life advice stuff in pseudo-story/autobiography form.
AUGUST
22. Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools: An Ethnographic Portrait Fascinating ethnographic 3 year study of rural Mexican families living in a small town in the USA border area near El Paso.
23. NAS Pocket Guide to Songbirds and Familiar Backyard Birds: Western Region Compact, practical guide to Western USA birds.
24. BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found Exactly what it sounds like with the author being someone with a lot of psych issues that need delving into.
25. Flesh and Blood is my third book by Michael Cunningham from my own bookshelves. 5 stars!
26. Women Holding Things Watercolors, short phrases about women holding literal or figurative things, paragraph level writing about famous figures and historic events.
27. Flesh and Blood Another modern classic by Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours and A Home at the End of the Earth!
SEPTEMBER
28. Crow Lake by Mary Lawson. What a find! Multi-generational family novel with Kingsolverish zoology and biology. Gonna need to read all of her's!
29. A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson. Book #2 by this wonderful author! Can't get it out of my head! Didn't want it to end!
OCTOBER
30. The Other Side of the Bridge Book #3 by Mary Lawson. Only 1 left!
31. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Bowing to peer pressure, I read this one and the peers were right!
32. The Hobbit Listened to this classic Tolkien tale in a fabulous audiobook rendition complete with music and singing dwarves!
NOVEMBER
33. Road Ends by the wonderful Mary Lawson. Unfortunately, this time I read the last of her 4 books in existence. Sniff!
34. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius A weird little comparison.
35. Go as a River by Shelley Read. Another debut novel recommended by a fellow Goodreads reader! 5 stars!
36. Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die Maya Angelou poetry!
37. Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well Another one!
DECEMBER
38. And Still I Rise the third Maya Angelou book of poetry!
39. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Looks like I've found another wonderful author in this adoptee/horrible childhood autobiography by Jeanette Winterson. How she got to Oxford and became an author with the background she had is absolutely amazing!
40. LAST ONE FOR 2024! An Afro-Indigenous History of the United StatesA non-fiction history book by a mixed race Afro-Indigenous scholar. Very thought provoking!