All About Books discussion

AAB has really inspired me to be more disciplined in my reading and finish what has been started.

Having exceeded my reading challenge for 2017 I am hoping to continue to reduce the mountain of unread books in my house and refrain from buying / acquiring too many new ones!

So we'll see.

Aiming to read around 200 books in 2018....

Starting with the Read The Name Challenge

Read the Name: Any and all categories .
I decided these all needed to be "real" books so I could make a little bookshelf of them.
A All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Finished Jan 2018
L Life, Interrupted by James McConnel Finished Jan 2018
E The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry finished Feb 2018
X XO by Jeffery Deaver
A Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay by George Ewart Evans
N The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
D Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
E E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
R Rumpole on Trial

S Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
O O Sing Unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music: A History of English Church Music
L The Lunar Men
Z The Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of London Zoo: 1826-1851 by Isobel Charman
H Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World Finished March 2018
E Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
N Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down
I The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
TTrigger Mortis finished Jan 2018
S Slow Horses finished Feb 2018
Y The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
N A Natural History of Latin

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Inspired by Leslie's cats and dogs idea I am going to use Essex place names for categories . Number of books determined by number of letters in the place name. Any alphabetical synchronism is pleasing but not vital. This is getting complicated so I am going to allow books from the "read the name " section to also appear here. Books can also appear in more than 1 category.

Braintree

Strictly historical / political non-fiction
1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
2.Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
3.Agincourt: The King, The Campaign, The Battle by Juliet Barker
4.If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck - Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
5. A Natural History of Latin by Tore Janson
6. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer
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8. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
9. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Little Waltham..... Children's books... Can be all sorts

1. Swallows and Amazons

2.An Acceptable Time
3. The Family from One End Street: And Some of Their Adventures
4. The Borrowers
5. Three Royal Monkeys
6. The Compleet Molesworth

7. The Witch in the Wood
8.The Fugitive from Corinth finished Jan 2018
9.Five Children and It read Feb 2018
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Saffron Walden..... Science and the natural world

1.Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells by Helen Scales
2.Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin
3.Fifty Animals that Changed the Course of History by Eric Chaline
4.The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
5. The River At The Centre Of The World
6.Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
7. The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names by John Wright

8. Was Beethoven a Birdwatcher?: A Quirky Look at Birds in History and Culture finished Feb 2018
9. At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea by Carl Zimmer
10. A Lion Called Christian read Feb 2018
11. Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott
12. E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
13. Notes From Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin

Chipping Ongar ....Detective Fiction

1. Dead Man's Grip by Peter James finished book 01.01.2018. First completed book of the yea! Peter James Roy Grace series so addictive.
2. Not Dead Yet finished Jan 2018
3.Dead Man's Ransom
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4.Somebody at the Door finished Feb 2018
5.Like This, For Ever finished Jan 2018
6.A Dark and Twisted Tide finished Jan 2018
7.Dead Man's Time finished Jan 2018
8.The Dry finished Feb 2018

9.The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing finished Feb 2018
10.Precious and Grace read Feb 2018
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Fobbing..... Humour, spoof, satire, quirky

1.Grones Dictionary of Music
2.Shake Feb 2018
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Thaxted- Music and Musicians

1Mozart: The Man Revealed by John Suchet Completed 03.01.18
2.Life, Interrupted finished Jan. 2018
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Harwich - the sea, the sea... Mariners, journeys...

1.Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
2. Captain Scott
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Burnham on Crouch..... Historical Fiction

1. The Essex Serpent finished Feb 2018
2.All the Light We Cannot See finished Jan 2018
3.The Miniaturist finished Jan 2018
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Reader's Corner : Fiction NOS

1.The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy finished Feb 2018
2.The Hours Before Dawn finished Feb 2018
3. The Bear and the Nightingale finished Jan 2018
4.The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden finished Jan 2018
5.An Artist of the Floating World read Feb 2018
6.Slow Horses Feb 2018
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Tiptree - Poetry

1.Inside the Wave
2.The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland
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Chelmsford- work related

1.The Teaching Assistant's Guide to Effective Interaction: How to maximise your practice

2.Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness: Three Rules for a Happier Life
3.The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders
4.Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism
5.Can't Play Won't Play: Simply Sizzling Ideas to get the Ball Rolling for Children with Dyspraxia
6.The Asperkid's (Secret) Book of Social Rules: The Handbook of Not-So-Obvious Social Guidelines for Tweens and Teens with Asperger Syndrome
7. A Practical Guide to Mental Health Problems in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: It's not just their autism!
8.Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age
9. Thinking About You Thinking About Me: Philosophy and strategies to further develop perspective taking and communicative abilities for persons with Asperger ... Autism, Hyperlexia, ADHD, PDD-NOS, NVLD
10.Ritalin Is Not the Answer Action Guide: An Interactive Companion to the Bestselling Drug-Free ADD/ADHD Parenting Program

Stock - and Billericay : bibliophilia and miscellany / anthologies

1.A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium. Read Jan 2018
2. 12 Books That Changed the World
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1. The Faber Book of Christmas
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Witham : Dorothy Sayers

1. The Nine Tailors
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Manningtree . Inspired by Film / TV / Theatre

1. Dunkirk by Christopher J. Nolan
2. Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink
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Colchester... Ancient and modern... Classics ... Published at least 50 years ago.

1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
3.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
4. Sense and Sensibility finished Jan 2018
5. Titus Groan finished Feb 2018
6.Bartleby the Scrivener Feb 2018
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Philpot End - autobiography / memoirs

1.When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi finished Feb 2018
2. The Outrun Finished Jan 2018
3.A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess finished Jan 2018
4.Julie Ward 1960-1988 Gentle Nature Feb 2018
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Silver End - biography

1.Effie: A Victorian Scandal by Merryn Williams
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There must have been people from your area among the early settlers here in Massachusetts as we have several of those place names too! Waltham, Braintree, Chelmsford are all familiar local names to me :)

Good luck with your reading in 2018!

How fascinating. I love looking at the etymology of place names.

Epping: philosophy and literary criticism and anything else

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