Authors A-Z discussion

Currently reading for bookclub "The Orchardist" and "Language of the Flowers".

Reading for personal enjoyment Marilyn Brant's "A Summer In Europe", Follett's "Pillars of the Earth" and a medieval mystery "Grave Goods (Mistress of the Art of Death, #3)" by Arianna Franklin

Also reading Cynthia Voigt's "Homecoming" with Mrs McDaniel's Lit Circles at the middle school.

Life just doesn't seem right if I don't have about six books on the go at once, but then one will suck me in and I'll read it to the end. How do you read?

Wow! How do you read 6 books at once? I have trouble keeping up with one anymore ;) I loved the Language of Flowers (and Summer in Europe -- but you already knew that!)

Well technically I only read one at a time. I'm good, but not THAT good - lol! I have them all around the house. One in each room, and I pick up the one in the room I happen to be in until one grabs me, and then it doesn't leave my side. What does that say about my personality? No, don't tell me :)

If you add a book on tape in the car, you can increase the number of books you are enjoying at one time!?!?

Noel, I tried to do books on tape but my mind wonders and I miss bits!

I just finished Grave Goods last night. If anyone's interested it's part of a great crime series called Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin. The books are set in 12th century England (Cambridge) in the time of Henry the second. He is remembered as being responsible for the vicious death of Sir Thomas Becket, but in fact was the first king to introduce trial by jury (as opposed to trial by duckings or mortal combat) and made the legal process accessible to everyone. Interesting!
Anyway, the crimes are a bit gruesome (although for that time period everything was pretty brutal)but I love them because they are about a woman who trained as a doctor in Europe (where it was allowed at that time) but is sent by Henry the second to investigate the crimes on his behalf because she is able (in a basic way) to autopsy the bodies and figure out what happened. What makes them interesting is that in England at that time, a female doctor would have been burned as a witch, so she pretends to be the assistant of a male Moore.
Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but I like them.

Just finished making my way again through the Outlander series, newest one comes out in June.

I also recently read The Fault in Our Stars. Not as much time for reading lately, too much baseball these days. My mom just gave me a revolutionary war era historical fiction, I know nothing about it, we'll see what it's like.

Finished mu A-Z Author list!

Ann’s Good Reads list

Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Completed May 16, 2014)
Brizendine The Female Brain (completed May 27, 2014)
Crichton The Great Train Robbery (Completed October 30, 2014)
Doig Work Song (Completed May 26, 2014, audio book)
Enger Peace Like a River (Completed July 25, 2014)
Freeman Place Last Seen (Completed November 26, 2014)
Gross A Bittersweet Season (Completed June 28, 2014) Gladwell David and Goliath (Completed August 10, 2014)
Huxley Brave New World (Completed September 7, 2014)
Irving Last Night in Twisted River (Completed November 23, 2014)
Junger Fire (Completed half-too depressing for Christmas time December 17, 2014). Juster The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth (Completed December 28, 2014)
Kidd Secret Life of Bees (Completed July 16, 2014)
Levin Rescuing Sprite (Completed September 10, 2014)
Michener Creatures of the Kingdom (Completed August 15, 2014)
Nunn Panic Rising (Completed December 6, 2014)
Orlean Rin Tin Tin (Completed August 31, 2014)
Pausch The Last Lecture (Completed July 12, 2014)
Quindlin Still Life With Bread Crumbs (Completed December 12, 2014)
Rothfuss The Name of the Wind (completed May 8, 2014)
Strayed Wild (completed May 9, 2014)/ Lost Child of Philomena (completed June 17, 2014)
Tolkien Smith of Wootten Major/Farmer Giles of Ham (completed May 25, 2014) Trott The Holy Man (Completed August 12, 2014)
Uys Riding the Rails (Completed December 17, 2014)
Vreeland Girl in Hyacinth Blue (Completed December 4, 2014)
Worth Call the Midwife (Completed August 20, 2014)
Xinran Sky Burial (Completed September 9, 2014)
Yoshimoto Kitchen (completed November 30, 2014)
Zafon The Shadow of the Wind (completed July 3, 2014, 2014)

Woo hoo! Good job! Still working on mine. Somehow all the books I want to read are written by Authors starting with the letter S!!!

I had that problem too!

Silly question. I read 3/4 of a book I totally hated and then gave up on it. I just realized the author was one of my missing letters. Does it count or not?

I'd count it, Sandy, you tried. :)

Yep. I'd count it. :)

Yep. I'd count it. :)