What have you been reading?

[aart]

It’s been one of those weeks where I start a book lose interest start a book, lose interest. So that’s why there’s so many started this week lol. I think I’m only 10-20 pages into each of them.

Ah, I wondered.
But you finished Herriot?

 

[saysfaa]

Ender's Shadow is much better than Ender's Game. It can stand alone, by the way.

I'm nearly done listening to Unfinished by Priyanks Chopra Jonas. It is very, very good.

Interluded with two new-to-me books by Don Coldsmith. The first (about the Pipestone Quarry) was very disappointing. I liked the story but It needed to be one tenth the length for the amount of story in it. Moon of Madness is better so far.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

I finished 97 books this year. Eight nonfiction and 89 fiction.

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

World War Two Women Incredible Stories and Accounts of World War Two Women Spies, Hero’s and Informers by Cyrus J. Zachery

World War Two Women True Stories of Women in Action by Cyrus J. Zachery

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Call of The Wild by Jack London

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Woe is I by Patricia T. O’Connor

Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss

The Hunger Game by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

MockingJay by Suzanne Collins

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Four by Veronica Roth

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

The Fever Code by James Dashner

The Death Cure by James Dashner

The Kill Order by James Dashner

The Maze Runner Files by James Dashner

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling

Percy Jackson: The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Beowulf

1984 by George Orwell

The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Resistance by Jennifer A. Neilson

Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

Bound For Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen

Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of the King by J.R.R Tolkien

The Book Thief by Zusak Markus

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt

The Tattoist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan

The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan

The House of Hades by Rick Riordan

The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

The Giver by Lois Lowry

If I Stay by Gayle Foreman

Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan

Falling Up by Silverstein

A Light in the Attic by Silverstein

Dead Towns of Alabama by Harris W. Stuart

Dear Evan Hansen

Deep Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Light in the Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

This is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Five Total Stranger by Natalie D. Richards

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit

Stars of Alabama by Sean Dietrich

Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean

Send by Patty Blount

Alice in Wonderland

War and Peace

Across Five Aprils

All Things Wise and Wonderful by James
Herriot

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Bible ESV

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Ah, I wondered.
But you finished Herriot?

Yes I did finish that one!

@saysfaa Ive heard that it’s really good! Unfortunately my library doesn’t have a copy but I’ve been keeping an eye out when I go thrift store hunting.

 

[Callender Girl]

@Artichoke Lover, you should be commended for both the number of books and the quality of your list!

A few years ago, I bought boxes of books from a school library and kept many of the classics you read in the past year. Your post has motivated me to include more of those in this year's reading list -- although I'm currently trying to catch up on all the books I've ordered online during recent sales. I think I only have eight or nine to go -- unless you count the two I ordered yesterday.

In any case, keep up the good work!

 

[topochico225]

Finished:
Blue Plate Special by Kate Christensen
The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
Life Without a Recipe by Diana Abu-Jaber
Together Tea by Marjan Kamali
Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi (didn’t like this one)
Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
The Iliad, again

Began:
Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
Histories by Herodotus

 

[Artichoke Lover]

My family got exposed to covid and the flu on New Year’s Eve and have spent the past week in quarantine and the weather outside has been icy and cold so I spent a lot of time reading this week. Finally got out of quarantine today and went and dropped foster kittens off and went by the thrift store and bought.... more books



Finished this week:

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Bridge to Terabithia by Kathrine Paterson

Forgotten Tales of Alabama by Kelly Kazek

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Messenger by Lois Lowry

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

My Antonia by Wills Cather

Started but will not finish:

The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (Just wasn’t my type of book)

Started:

A History of Alabama’s Deadliest Tornadoes: Disaster in Dixie by Kelly Kazek

Haunted North Alabama by Jessica Penot

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales by Scott F. Fitzgerald

Today’s book haul including one book from 1917

 

[Callender Girl]

I love the diversity of your reading list. I think you might enjoy looking over my home library. When I moved into this farmhouse, there was no doubt in my mind that a first-floor room, used as a bedroom by previous owners, was the perfect spot for my overgrown collection of books, a comfy chair and a side table.

The 1917 book looks intriguing; and congrats on surviving quarantine, shopping at a thrift store and for fostering kittens.

BTW, when I start a book that I just can't make myself finish, it's both disappointing and irritating. I WANT to be able to get something from all of them. Once in a while, I will put said book back on a shelf and try again. Rarely works the second time either, which means it's time to donate that book so someone can enjoy it.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

I love the diversity of your reading list. I think you might enjoy looking over my home library. When I moved into this farmhouse, there was no doubt in my mind that a first-floor room, used as a bedroom by previous owners, was the perfect spot for my overgrown collection of books, a comfy chair and a side table.

The 1917 book looks intriguing; and congrats on surviving quarantine, shopping at a thrift store and for fostering kittens.

BTW, when I start a book that I just can't make myself finish, it's both disappointing and irritating. I WANT to be able to get something from all of them. Once in a while, I will put said book back on a shelf and try again. Rarely works the second time either, which means it's time to donate that book so someone can enjoy it.

Your library sounds like my dream! I hope to be able to have one one day. At the moment I’m quickly running out of shelf space and I don’t have room for another bookcase... I may have to start getting creative.
I try to finish every book I start. My level of persistence tends to depend on the type of book though. With nonfiction and classics I tend to try to push through. But in the case of fiction I’m more likely to DNF a book. It’s still pretty rare though. Maybe 3 or 4 out of every hundred.

 

[Matejka]

Just finished
From Cotton Fields To Battle At Sea
Memoirs of Horace Hamilton Pearl Harbor Survivor

I know Horace. A most honorable man. He is 97-98
All proceeds from book goto
Quilts for vets.
Awesome account of his military life.