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Happy holiday season and new year to come to all of my Goodreads friends. This year has flown by. I have celebrated family milestones- my oldest child starting high school and me hitting a big birthday. After a so-so year in 2018, I decided to make 2019 a nonfiction reading year to jumpstart my reading and what a year it has been. The Nonfiction Book Club is about to complete its first ever yearly group reading challenge, completing over 500,000 pages read as a group. From this challenge, I have...
Classics:☒ The Iliad☒ Bleak House☐ Atlas Shrugged☒ Their Eyes Were Watching God☒ Old Goriot☒ Don Quixote2019 Releases - Must-Read:☒ In an Absent Dream☒ The Winter of the Witch☒ King of Scars☒ On the Come Up☒ Superman: Dawnbreaker☒ Shout☐ The Deepest Blue☒ Dig☐ The Place on Dalhousie☒ Wolfhunter River☒ The Bride Test☐ The Dragon Republic
UPDATE: Well, I still haven’t finished last year and I’m not going to finish updating my books this year. I started out good by posting everything I read AND THEN, I was over it. Most of my friends on here know I battled cancer last year. Obviously that changed my life. Things just don’t matter as much as they used to and I’m trying to do more with my charities and cancer group. Goodreads, over the years, has become a stupid competition to see who can get the most likes (by book bumping or makin...
2019? Another year is almost gone, the Christmas presents are wrapped and patiently waiting under the tree, and so the time has come again to honour the tradition that Fionnuala has coined, inviting us to reflect on this year’s life with books. No point beating around the bush, these fifteen books (or stories) stood out for me in 2019 (in no particular order):1. Gabriel Josipovici, Infinity: The Story of a Moment2. Ida Jessen, A Change of Time3. Nikolai Leskov, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk4. Patrick
As usual I started using this link to compile my to read list for the year and after that year, it turns into a review. So here’s my review of 2019 in books!My personal year 2019 has been still tough due to personal circumstances, but it is getting better now, without getting into much detail. I hope to read a lot in 2020, pick up a new education, maybe a master, find new work challenges and do more fitness and swimming 😊Here’s my list of the highlights of 2019 in reading. To be clear, I hardly
➽ Thanks to the amazing Brock at Let's Read, here are some 2019 reading statistics that I was able to gather from his amazing spreadsheet:My Top Ten Favorite 2019 Publications:➽ 10.) Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston➽ 9.) The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum➽ 8.) Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle #3) by Jay Kristoff➽ 7.) Holy Sister (Book of the Ancestor #3) by Mark Lawrence➽ 6.) The Hod King (The Books of Babel #3) by Josiah Bancroft➽ 5.) The Shadowglass (The Bone Witch #3) by Rin Chu...
Every Rating & Review for 2019Aquaman, Volume 7: Exiled by Cullen Bunn(C+) 64% | Almost Satisfactory | ⭐ – 01/03/2019Notes: Allegedly Aquaman, it paints pictures with pond scum: a murky morass, waterlogged with cringe and dank edginess.Aquaman, Volume 8: Out of Darkness by Dan Abnett(B+) 77% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 01/05/2019Notes: A bubblegum sitcom: scaled-down and shallow. It hooks with humor, stems the tide and floats with jokes and action.Deadly Class, Book Two: The Funeral Party by Rick Remender(A-...
I read 73 books in 2019. Many were outstanding. For various reasons, here's my list of favorites. Click each title to read my review.Best Memoir (Drama)Carmen Maria Machado - In the Dream House (2019)Best Memoir (Comedy) David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)Best Movie Novelization Michael McDowell - Clue (1985)Best Cult Classic Robert Devereaux - Santa Steps Out (1998)Most Fabulous Elizabeth Gilbert - City of Girls (2019)Best Short Story Sylvia Plath - Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
What a bad reading year it has been for me. Instead of crashing through mountainranges of rock-hard literature armed only with a pearl-handled knife and a trusty llama called Delphine what did I do? I got distracted. Yes, it was the dreaded B word. Brexit.The real world interfered with my reading. How could I have let that happen? The thing is, we have had a lengthy political crisis going on here in the UK – all year! - and it turned out to have more surprising plot twists and unlikelier charact...
I am hopeless at writing about my reading year, but rest assured I had a fabulous time with books in 2019. However, it was a tough year healthwise but this made books so much more important and necessary. What it did mean is that I struggled to cope with writing good reviews, keeping up with updates, replying to comments and messages, so if I didn't reply to you, and I know there are so many of you, I apologise. I want to toast our amazing Goodreads family and community, for enriching the world
2019 has been one the longest reading years I've had in a while if I count it not in weeks but in titles read—more than eighty. But if I count it in authors sampled, it might be the shortest year ever because I read less than thirty-five authors in all. The best of those authors make for neat divisions of the year into Author Months so I'm celebrating the shortest day of the year (in my part of the world), or Reader's Day as I like to think of it, since the long dark evenings offer more time for...
Doing an end of year recap is fun!! I love looking back over all the great books I discovered, remembering the pleasure they brought me. It is also hard to pick the top two or three in any given category. I started a list of notable books in each of the categories or genres I read this year- but I ran out of steam and decided to make it short and sweet this year. Reminder: This list is of the notable books I READ this year- not all of them were PUBLISHED in 2019. So, without further ado-My favor...
2019 was a really interesting year for me, both in general and reading-wise.*Updated with links to my reviews for the books listed, in case you are interestedMy reading tastes have definitely been changing and broadening over the last few years, and this year I really found myself wanting to read across a lot more genres and subjects. When I first joined goodreads back in 2012, I pretty much read strictly romance, paranormal/fantasy romance, and straight up smut, with the occasional memoir or no...
Top Ten of 2019This is a monthly list of all of the books that I rated between 4 and 5 stars in the year of 2019.Best of January Best of February Best of March Best of April Best of May Best of June Best of July Best of August Best of September Best of October Best of November
Life has a way of constantly changing, doesn’t it? I suppose that can be a good thing (sometimes), especially for a restless spirit like mine that gets bored with routine rather easily. Last year at this time I was talking about the chaos of the college search process and less reading time. With that process successfully over, other changes were on the horizon. I began a new job in the summer and once again my reading suffered a bit as a consequence. However, I will take quality over quantity in...
I loved looking through the list of books that I read this past year because it brought back so many of the characters and stories that I was fortunate enough to spend time with. I mostly read new releases, but I tried to get to some other titles that I own. In an effort to do that, I focused on reading the rest of the books by a few very favorite authors that I had not read. I was mostly successful having read all of Colum McCann and Maggie O'Farrell. I’ve read every novel and short story colle...
JanuaryThe Nowhere GirlsThe Bear and the NightingaleI Let You GoMr. NobodyThe Odyssey (REREAD)Beautiful DarknessDear Evan HansenUs Against YouThe Gracekeepers (REREAD)Winter TrialsTwo Can Keep a SecretThe GloamingTotal read: 12Fave(s): The Nowhere Girls Least fave(s): The GloamingFebruaryThe Penelopiad (REREAD)Only HumanThe Darkest Part of the ForestCirceIncarceron (REREAD)The Five People You Meet in Heaven (REREAD)A Conjuring of LightThe Shape of WaterS.T.A.G.SBird BoxTotal read: 10Fave(s): Cir...
once, i had a review-in-progress posted here, charting my monthly progress, and goodreads deleted it. now that they have reduced the available review space, i probably won’t be able to repost it, and if i end up doing an end-of-year reading post, it will likely just be on my blog. this year was hard. i just barely met my reading-challenge, i’m a million reviews behind, and i’m tired like i’ve never been before. maybe i will put more here later, but for now, i'm glad to have at least reached my r...
I read, or at least reviewed or re-reviewed (view spoiler)[(I do that a lot, my thoughts change or I have new information I want to add) (hide spoiler)], a lot of books in 2019. This is because I do not have a life, reading substitutes. These are the books I rated 10-star. They were so far above absolutely-excellent, a wonderful read 5 star, that I doubled the rating. There are 18 of them, I didn't read them all in 2019, but I reviewed them then. Sometimes it takes a while for what I want to say...
For me, 2019 was a remarkable year. So much joy in reading books, reading reviews, exchanging comments and posting my own Goodreads reviews. My hearty thanks and thanks again to all my Goodreads friends.Here's a list of the Goodreads reviews I posted this year - all 156 and counting. I will post reviews on M. John Harrison's Empty Space Trilogy and another book or two before 1/1/2020. Thanks again, all!! Gargoyles – Thomas Bernhard The Mrożek Reader – Slawomir MrożekThe Unicorn Girl - Michael Ki...