You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

2016

I usually don't do this but I have to try something new in 2016 to be more focused and clear out some of my bulging shelves. I figure if I keep a (some) list(s) in one spot I can make better and quicker choices. Or at least I can try.

>> currently reading
✔ completed

Series I have started and want to finish:

✔ 24/24Decker / Lazarus Faye Kellerman in 2017
3/20 Jack Reacher Lee Child
15/22 Alex Cross James Patterson
7/45 Spenser Robert Parker
4/14 Elvis Cole Robert Crais
2/18 Anna Pigeon Nevada Barr
5/5 Fox & O'Hare Evanovich, Janet and Lee Goldberg complete
✔ The Job 1/7/16
✔ The Scam 1/25/16
✔The Pursuit 7/7/16
2/9 Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels Konrath, J.A.
2/32 Stone Barrington Stuart Woods
7/8 Outlander Diane Gabaldon (I'll probably have to reread the first 7 or at least 5-7 before tackling the 8th installment)
1/15 Pendergast (Douglas Preston
1/10 Harry Hole Jo Nesbø
1/17 Temperence Brennan Kathy Reichs
1/5 Department Q Jussi Adler-Olsen
1/5 Dublin Murder Squad Tana French
1/13 Ender Orson Scott Card

Maybe:

2/11 Archeological Mysteries Lynn Hamilton

That's a total of 208 books. Yikes!

Series I haven't started yet but want to:

3 The Bronze Horseman Paullina Simons
3 The Kingkiller Chronicle Patrick Rothfuss
14 The Wheel of Time Robert Jordan
12 Jason Bourne Robert Ludlum
3 Kane and AbelJeffrey Archer
3 The First Law Series Joe Abercrombie
3 The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson (read 1 in the '80s, starting over)
3 Millenium Steig Larsson
7 Odd Thomas Dean Koontz
3 Chocolat Joanne Harris
1/15 No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith
1/3 Cemetery of Forgotten Books Carlos Ruiz Zafón
15 Sword of Truth Terry Goodkind
3 Passage Trilogy Justin Cronin
3 The Cairo Trilogy Naguib Mahfouz
3 Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien (read them yrs ago, so a reread)
3 Southern Reach Trilogy Jeff VanderMeer
6 Song of Ice and Storm George R.R. Martin (need to start over since it's been so long ago)
3 Century Ken Follett (starting over)
11 Rizzeli and Isles Tess Gerritsen
6 Asian Saga James Clavell (long forgotten, starting over)
1/24 Alphabet Mysteries Sue Grafton
3 The Poland Trilogy James Conroyd Martin
23 The Scarpetta Series Patricia Cornwell
1/4 His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
6 Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds
5 Ancient Egyptian Wilbur Smith
4 Harry Rabbit Angstrom John Updike
1/11 Cotton Malone Steve Berry
5/9 Temeraire Naomi Novik
4 Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
7 Flavia De Luce Mystery Alan Bradley
5 46. Ascending

I'm sure there are others but it'll take more than this year to get through these.
That's 549 books for new series.

Here's another:

The Inkheart Trilogy: Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke

"Orphans" that are now available for series I finished before they were published:

✔ Tricky Twenty-Two 1/10/16
✔Devoted in Death 1/16/16
✔Brotherhood in Death 2/8/2016
✔Apprentice in Death
✔ 15th Affair 6/18/16

Only 5books in this category, so far.
I'm sure there'll be more as the year goes on.

Books I meant to read in 2015 for various monthly reads, but never got to:

Horns
You
The Three: A Novel
The Burn Palace
City of Women
A Head Full of Ghosts
In the Woods
The Miniaturist
Euphoria
Pompeii
Something Wicked This Way Comes
✔ The Bees 7/28/2019
The Heretic Queen
✔ The Winter People 1/3/16

Total of 14 books.

Books languishing on my Kindle:

The Absent Woman
Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer
Alas, Babylon
American Gods
Anathem
The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
Armageddon
✔ The Bees
The Bird Eater
The Birth House
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Brimstone
The Bronze Horseman
Care of Wooden Floors
Caribbee
✔ Clara's War
Cockroaches
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Devil's Star
Dust
Elizabeth Street: A novel based on true events
The Execution
The Falls
Family Deceptions
A Feast for Crows
Finding Rebecca
The Finkler Question
Flight Behavior
The Four Feathers
The Fox
A Game of Thrones
The Ghost Bride
The Ghost
The Girl Who Came Home: A Titanic Novel
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Golem and the Jinni
The Good Neighbor
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
The Gravedigger's Daughter
The Hangman's Daughter
Heart-Shaped Box
The Hellbound Heart
Horns
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
The Kite Runner
✔ The Kitchen House
The House Girl
The Lacuna
The Last Days of Dogtown
Last Train to Istanbul
The Misremembered Man
Mister B. Gone
Mystery Walk
The Name of the Wind
Nemesis
Odd Thomas
Old Town
Pearl of China
Peony: A Novel of China
Pig Island
The Poisonwood Bible
Push Not the River
The Quest
The Redbreast
Resurrection
River God
The Round House
Russian Winter
Sashenka
The Seventh Scroll
Serena
The Shipping News
The Shoemaker's Wife
Somewhere in France
The Son
Speaks the Nightbird
A Storm of Swords
✔ Time and Again
The Time in Between
Timebound
True Evil
Warlock: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
The Way of Kings
We Are Not Ourselves
The Wind in the Willows
Wolf Hall
Wizard's First Rule
Wool Omnibus
x0
y1
z2
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
65 Proof

That's 97 of them. The rest can languish a little longer.

Print books gathering dust on bookshelves around the house:

Father of the Rain
Time Walkers 2 Book Bundle: The Legend of the Bloodstone, Return of the Pale Feather
Mystic River
Red River
The Glass Castle
Cutting for Stone
The Street of a Thousand BlossomsThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Heart of the Matter
Suite Française
The Dovekeepers
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Gone with the Wind
The Castle in the Forest
The Passage
A Gift Upon the Shore
Brooklyn
Palace Walk
Winter of the World
The Once and Future King
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
✔ Skeletons at the Feast
The School of Essential Ingredients
Little Bee ( I think I borrowed this one from a friend so I better read it and return it soon)
The Ruby in Her Navel
✔ Annihilation
The Name of the Rose
Gone with the Wind
London
My Name Is Asher Lev
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Thirteenth Tale
The Man with the Golden Gun
Michelangelo's Notebook
Roma
The Art of Fielding
The Valley of Amazement
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Bridge of Sighs
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Instrument
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Heidi
✔ The Grapes of Wrath
Cane River
The Pillars of the Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings
Alias Grace


It's a start. I didn't check the attic yet.

Reserved for geocaching sites (12 so far) 3 books / site:

✔ France:

1 All the Light We Cannot See ✔ 7/12/16
2 The Painted Girls ✔ 6/11/16
3 The Timekeeper's Son ✔

Austria:

1. The Castle in the Forest (op)
2. Marrying Mozart (p)
3. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (e)

Germany:

1. The Plum Tree (p) and (oe)
2. Medicus ✔
3. Aztec (p)

✔ Italy

1. The Light in the Ruins ✔ 4/19/16
2. The Rossetti Letter ✔ 4/24/16
3. Inkheart ✔ 3/3/416

Netherlands:

✔ 1. Girl With a Pearl Earring
2. Gone with the Wind (op) or The Name of the Wind (e)
3. The Samurai's Garden (pgc), The Blind Contessa's New Machine

Poland:

1. Clara's War ✔ 5/23/16
2. Finding Rebecca (oe) or Fatelessness (p)
3. My Name Is Asher Lev (op) or Pope Joan (p)

UK (3)

A. 1. The Lake House ✔
2. The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise (pgc) or The Sunne in Splendour (p)
3. The Crown (pgc) or The Eagle's Daughter (p)

✔ B. 1. Minding Frankie ✔
2. The BFG ✔ 3/26/16
3. A is for Alibi ✔ 5/31/16

C. 1. ✔ Letters from Skye
2. Oliver Twist (op)
3. Wool Omnibus (oe) or The Woman in the Photograph (p)

Denmark:

1. The Absent One (pgc) or Smilla's Sense of Snow (pgc)
2. ✔The Last Policeman
3. Tyrannosaur Canyon (p) or Remarkable Creatures (p)

Greece:

1. Corelli's Mandolin (pgc) or The Island (p)
2. Gods Behaving Badly (p)
3. The Moche Warrior (p) or Stealing Night (p)

✔ Spain:

1. ✔ The Shadow of the Wind 7/17/16
2. ✔ Away
3. ✔ The Shell Seekers

A total of 36 books to complete all 12 sites.

Library wishlists
I have books on wishlists that I will probably borrow from my library but I always forget which format is available so this will help keep them safe.

Ebooks

Lottery
✔Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
A Desperate Fortune
Thicker Than Blood - The Complete Andrew Z. Thomas Series
The Name of the Wind
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Martian
✔ Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
✔Away
The Book of Lost Things
✔ Girl With a Pearl Earring
✔The BFG
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Serpent of Venice
A Thread of Grace
The Last Van Gogh
✔ The Elegance of the Hedgehog
A Thousand Acres
✔ The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Secrets of a Charmed Life
The Marriage of Opposites
The Bookseller
✔ The Boston Girl
✔ Circling the Sun
At the Water's Edge
The Wise Man's Fear
Various books in the Anna Pidgeon series by Nevada Barr
The Killer Next Door
✔ Various books in the Decker/Lazarus series by Faye Kellerman
✔ The Seduction of Water
✔ The Lake of Dead Languages
The Scarlet Gospels
The Heart Goes Last
✔ The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A Little Life
Fates and Furies
✔ My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
✔ Me Before You
After You
A Spool of Blue Thread
✔ Our Souls at Night
✔ The Lake House
The Architect's Apprentice
The Gilded Hour
✔ My Name is Mary Sutter
✔ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A Great Deliverance
Lucy
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Stephen King books
✔ When We Were Strangers
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
✔The Last Policeman
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Bitter in the Mouth
✔ His Majesty's Dragon
✔ Skeletons at the Feast
On Canaan's Side


Print Books

✔Brotherhood in Death
The Neverending Story
Ireland
Cashelmara
Haunted Ground
Pomegranate Soup
The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise
The Sunne in Splendour
An Instance of the Fingerpost
The Crimson Petal and the White
Fatelessness
Mila 18
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman
The Samurai's Garden
✔ A Fall of Marigolds
The Winds of War
The Casual Vacancy
Alibi
Jacob the Liar
✔ Tyrannosaur Canyon
When Worlds Collide
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
The Report
Sunflowers
✔ The Painted Girls
Revelation Space
The Last Ship
The Camel Bookmobile
The Names of Things
The Quincunx
Q & A
QB VII
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
The Woman in the Photograph
The Eagle's Daughter
The Crown
The White Princess
The Richest Season
Remarkable Creatures
By Fire, by Water
The Haj
Gretel and the Dark
A Death in Vienna
Marrying Mozart
The Blindness of the Heart
The Plum Tree
Under the Eagle
Aztec
Pompeii
✔ The Rossetti Letter
Gillespie and I
Indigo Slam
numerous books by Lyn Hamilton
✔ Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Last Seen Leaving
All Clear
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The Secret River
Little, Big
A Fraction of the Whole
Lisey's Story
Watership Down
The Book of Lost Things
The Echo Maker
✔ Time and Again
The Mosquito Coast
The Gods Themselves
The Map of Time
Paris
Andersonville
The Secret Scripture
The Pilot's Wife
Waiting for Columbus

Looks very organized Roz!

So far, without looking at my kindle (about 200 there), I have 825 books earmarked. I only read about 70 or so in a year, so that represents over 11 years!! It's doable.

I have six orphan books to start off with. I guess that means there has to be on on-going series list AND a list of series to kill. Too many lists!

Too many lists, too many books, not enough time. I'm afraid to look at other people's shelves or suggestions anymore because I add more that I subtract.

Roz wrote: "So far, without looking at my kindle (about 200 there), I have 825 books earmarked. I only read about 70 or so in a year, so that represents over 11 years!! It's doable."

That's what I call optimism. :)

Monthly challenges, group reads, buddy reads:

January

Hide and Seek
✔ Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 1/23/16
Cutting for Stone (o)
Lottery (e)

Book Group: Unique/Unusual Words in the Title

The Sherlockian (p) (didn't finish in time)
Oryx and Crake (e)

Buddy Reads did not participate

The Nightingale (e) read already
Jurassic Park (e)

Stephen King Recommends

January - February

The Killer Next Door (e) (didn't get to it)

February

By the Numbers

Possibilities: The Hundred-Foot Journey(e)
The Seventh Stone (p)
The Twentieth Wife (p)
The Thirteenth Tale(op)(not in time)
Instances of the Number 3 (p)
The Hundred-Year House (p)
Thirteen Moons (p)
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (op)

Book Group: One Word Titles

Rebecca (p) (I'll finish but probably not in time)

Geocaching

✔Away 2/24/16 (Spain)
✔Inkheart 3/3/16
✔The Last Policeman 2/28/16

Series Books

✔Stalker (Decker/Lazarus) 2/24/16
✔The Forgotten (Decker/Lazarus) 3/12/16

March

Buddy Reads

March 1: The Lake House still on hold and 6 in line
March 6: Cockroaches

Monthly Challenge

✔ The Gift of Rain 3/31/16

Geocaching

✔ The BFG 3/26/16

April

Geocaching

Finish selections from previous months:
✔ The Light in the Ruins (Italy) 4/19/16
The Blind Contessa's New Machine (Netherlands)
The Plum Tree (Germany)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Austria)
The Absent One (Denmark)
Tyrannosaur Canyon (Denmark)

✔ The Rossetti Letter (Italy) 4/24/16

Series

✔ Stone Kiss (#14 Decker/Lazarus)4/12/16
✔ Street Dreams (#15 Decker/Lazarus) 4/30/16

May

Murder at the Vicarage
Death on the Nile
✔The Lake of Dead Languages (Kenya)5/8/16
✔ The Lake House (England) 5/18/16
✔ Clara's War (Poland) 5/23/16
✔ The Burnt House (Decker/Lazarus #16) 5/28/16
✔ A is for Alibi (UK) 5/31/16

June

✔ Circling the Sun (Kenya) 6/28/16
The Flight of Flamingo (Kenya)
✔ The Painted Girls (France) 6/11/16
✔ Minding Frankie (Ireland) 6/5/16
✔ The Mercedes Coffin (Decker/Lazarus #17) 6/13/16
✔ 15th Affair (final) 6/18/16
✔ Murder on the Orient Express (India b) 6/28/16

Every time I see Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, I want to reread it. On the other side of that, every time I see The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, I remember how a angry I was at the author over the ending. I will be interested on your take on it.

I've decided to read Written in My Own Heart's Blood this year. I've put off reading it for quite some time. I don't want to say goodby to Claire and Jaime or see the story end. The thought of them dying is awful. I'll probably have to reread the first 7 installments to refresh my memory but that's really no hardship. I've done it at least twice before.

Funished my first book of the year. The Winter People bu now I have to read other books by this author.

I want to read more of her books as well. That was a good introduction to her work.

I finished The Job and only have one more to go to close out the Fox/O'Hare series.
I just downloaded Tricky Twenty-Two. That'll take care of one of my orphans.
My goal is to read 70 books this year. 68 to go. I'm liking this way of tracking what I'm reading. I can see what I want to read and where I can find it ( already on my kindle or on a shelf in my house or which library has a book I need).

Finished Tricky Twenty-Two so now I have 3 orphans left to finish. Devoted in Death was available so I downloaded it onto my kindle. That'll take care of anothe orphan.
I've also started The Sherlockian I'll check out that thread.

Finished Devoted in Death so another orphan bites the dust.

I had intended to read Cutting for Stone for the January Hide and Seek challenge, but changed my mind and started Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe instead.

Finished Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and absolutely loved it. 5 stars. This was an absolute gem of a book that had me laughing out loud at times and was so touching at others that I was brought to tears. A new favorite that I'll definitely read again.

Glad you loved FGTatWSC, Roz!

How was Tricky Twenty-Two? I keep saying that I am going to stop reading this series and then a new one comes out and I buy it.

Hope you like The Sherlockian.

I finished Tricky Twenty-Two about 2 weeks ago. Not a long time, right? But I had to look it up and read the blurb to refresh my memory of the plot. What does that say? I found that the series was enjoyable at the time of the reading but not good enough to stay with me for very long. Unfortunately I kept reading and after a while I was so far into the series, I felt obligated to complete it. I'm sure this has happened to others. It's the same with the In Death series. Now with that one, I thought I was done when I finished Devoted in Death, only to find out there are 2 more in the works! Stop the maddness!!

I've started the In Death Series but I'm not sure how long I'll last. Same with Stephanie Plum. I haven't read the first book yet, but I own it.

They aren't books I've bought. I just borrow them. They're a quick fix for a light read. Plum and her crew make me laugh (love Grandma) and Roark is ...... Interesting. But I'll be happy when l'm done.

I think I forget the Stephanie Plum book plots as soon as I put them down. I have vowed to stop reading them, but haven't managed not to yet. I cannot get my mind around 41 In Death books, so I doubt if I will ever start it, although I have a book or two that I bought at a sale. I will be happy to finish up the Xanth series and keep plowing through Discworld, but I am in no hurry.

I haven't read any of the Discworld books although I own the first one. "Plowing" doesn't sound encouraging. What's holding you back? Never read anything by Piers Anthony either. I think sometimes a series is just too long and I lose interest. Usually the plots become "formula" and predictable, losing their freshness. Or , worse, the author goes off in a bizarre direction. Maybe authors should stick to a maximum of 5 installments and then move on to a new idea.

Oh, I did not mean anything negative by "plowing", just that there a lot of books for me still to read (there are 41 and I have only read 16). I have to order them from the library and wait for them to show up, or find them on Overdrive and get in line. I like that the Discworld books are divided up into sub series and now that I have them all mapped out, I can go back and forth.

On the other hand, Xanth is a series that evolved over time, so it is not always the same old thing, like Stephanie Plum. It follows a somewhat chronological order by number. The characters have grown up or evolved. Some married and died and become ghosts. Some of the books can almost be stand alone, but if you have a history with the series (and when you can remember characters and things that happened - way back when) they are fun reads. Mostly it is the play on words and plots take a back seat to the characters sometimes that I love. Think about being "nickeled and dimed to death". For us, it means "loosing our money slowly", right? The term takes on a whole meaning in Xanth because nickels and dimes are actually things that cut holes in your flesh when their name is mentioned. My girls and I have been reading them for years. The first one was published in 1977, the year my youngest two were born. #39 was published in 2014. I think I have to catch up on the last seven published.

I finished Brotherhood in Death and get a break until the last one comes out in September.
I haven't started reading any Geocaching selections yet and better get a move on. I've got 2 out of the library but I think I'll start with The Plum Tree. I also have Rebecca for the Book Group and The Thirteenth Tale for By the Numbers. It's a good thing I'm going on vacation soon so I can relax and read a bit.

I have The Plum Tree on my TBR, but IDK. I am having a hard time getting through The Nightingale. I am just past the middle and they are rounding up the French Jews to send off to work camps.

I finished Jupiter's Bones this morning. I have so many books started I'm getting confused. I saw that The Plum Tree was on a Kindle sale so I bought it just so I don't have to take the paper copy on vacation. I can return the library copy.
Cherie, sometimes I come across a book that I think I want to read but find myself struggling to get through it. If it's a struggle, why bother? Sometimes it's just a matter of timing, or mood. I really liked The Nightingale but it may have been that I was in the mood for something like that. But I also like WWII books, as depressing as some of them are. I've only just started The Plum Tree so I don't know yet if I'll like it or not. I'll let you know.

I was thinking of participating in the Toppler but decided this one just wasn't for me. I'll be on vacation during the Toppler week so it isn't like I don't have the time. It's just that after looking at my shelves for something that would fit the topic, I didn't find much. Maybe I'm being shallow, but I'm looking forward to sitting on a beach and reading familiar genres, nothing that's going to require a lot of thinking or learning. Maybe another time I'll read something unfamiliar or controversial, just not right now. I'll be checking in to see what everyone is reading and maybe pick up some ideas. Actually the 2 books that came to mind for me were Worlds in Collision and Earth In Upheaval, but neither is readily available.

Enjoy your holiday and read some great beach reads.

What is a beach read to you? For me, it's something light and fluffy.

That's a good question, Janice. I looked back to see what I read during this time in years past. Last year I read most of the Narnia Chronicles. Funny, it took me until the end to fully get that it was a Christian allegory. Hahaha. I have so many books on my kindle I'm sure I can find something easy or at least fast moving. All it needs is a good plot, characters who talk to each other, some action, nothing deep, no profound message. So I'm looking at The Plum Tree, Wool Omnibus, Push Not the River, Finding Rebecca, The Name of the Wind, Cockroaches, A is for Alibi. Whatever strikes me at the moment. I can always download something while I'm away. I've read all the In Death books, and I'm done with Stephanie Plum. Those are perfect for the beach.
What do you read on vacation?

Have you tried Charlie Davidson series, starting with First Grave on the Right?

Gosh, it's been so long since I've been on holiday. LOL! If I'm on the beach, I generally read a magazine like People. If I'm on the plane or in a hotel room, it's whatever takes my fancy. Mysteries are good - something fast moving. I don't want to slog through a book or feel like I'm working at reading it.

Looks good. I'll have to check it out. I'm always open to a new series.
We go one one vacation a year, and it's sort of forced on us since it's a time share, I know, it's horrible to suffer for a couple of weeks in Aruba, but what can I do? We go to Austin for a weekend to see our grandson, so no time for reading, except kiddie books on that one.
I agree with not wanting to slog through or work at my reading. It should be fun, enjoyable, not work.

It's funny. I just read my review for First Grave on the Left and I wasn't overly thrilled with it! I've changed my mind and have laughed and giggled my way through the whole series.

I'm reading The Thirteenth Tale and quite enjoying it. I'm sure I've read it before (there's my name and a pencilled in 2007 inside the front cover). I like books written in the first person; it makes my feel like the author is sitting right beside me softly telling me her story, just for me. This one reads with an older style, somewhat dark, not so contemporary. One can tell from the style that the author enjoys older, classical authors. The thoughts on writers, writing and books in general are wonderful. I must get back to it.

I like first person stories too, Roz, for the same reason. I enjoyed TTT too! It was hard to put down. I think there is an old thread about it too. I remember reading it with Lisa in GB.

So here I am on vacation and I seem to have 5 maybe 6 books started. I'm so relaxed I can't focus. Hopefully I'll finish 3 or 4 of them. I keep peeking into the Toppler threads to see what everyone's reading and of course adding to my already too long TBR.

Enjoy your vacation Roz!

So far I've finished 2 books: Away for the Geocaching challenge ( only a 3 star imo) and Stalker to move along in my series kills.
Now I'm reading The Last Policeman (Geocaching) but I've also got a few others started that need finishing.

Done with The Last Policeman (3 1/2 stars). Now I'm moving on to Inkheart.

My March challenge wors is "wind". I think of power, rain, storm, toss, tree, strong, blow, breeze and weather.
I'm making a list of books that fit:

Mother of Rain
The Gift of Rain
The Scent of Rain and Lightning
The Master of Rain
Absolute Power
The Storms of War

So far

I seem to make all these plans for what I want to read but they go unfulfilled. Time or circumstances get in the way. The plans do help me focus though.

My copy of The Gift of Rain finally arrived at the library so I'll be reading it for the March challenge.

Even though it's taking me a while to finish The Gift of Rain I have to say it's one of the most beautifully written books I've read in a long time.