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Jan 01, 2020 05:06AM
Happy New Year Everyone! Here's a thread for 2020 of the books we have just finished (JF) or are NR now reading (NR).
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Happy new year. I just wanted to let everyone know if you didn’t see the post I did in the 2019 thread. We have the 2020 Determination Plus Challenge thread up. Come on over and join us. Everyone that has done the challenge with us in past have enjoyed it. We made it very easy and doable. So come over and join in.
Rita wrote: ". 'm new to the group and I don't understand what determination lists are"https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Rita, I never have much luck putting links in Goodreads posts. If I’ve succeeded (by a miracle), click on it and you’ll go to the first post in the 2020 Determination List thread. It explains what to do to create a D List. These are individualized lists of books that we make a resolution to read this year. This year it’s 10 free choice books and 10 on various assigned topics.
It’s not compulsory in any way for board membership. Some members have been together for decades and we started it a long time ago. It’s traditional and it’s for fun. The main rule for creating and working your D List is “do it any way you want to.” I, for instance, don’t list 20 books, but another preferred number.
As we read our list books we post to note our progress. Right now, in the 2020 topic you’ll mostly find a bunch of blank templates posted, to be filled in as we progress. If you want to see what it will look like a year from now, drop down to the thread right below 2020 lists to find the 2019 thread.
I confess that I’m explaining all this to you because I’ve muddied the D List waters a bit by posting a non-Determination List personal challenge in the midst of the D List thread. I’m a troublemaker like that.
When you’ve found the 2020 thread post something to let us know and then I’d ask everyone else to comment to you over there rather than hijacking the JF/NR thread.
Rita, hope to see you there! My name is Jan; you’ll see me there.
I just updated my goodreads shelves added a few new ones. I'm trying to do a new system with reading. I'm going to try better to keep my current reads shelve up to date and post here what I'm currently reading. Also if I'm doing review arcs I'm also going to try and have a owned print book going at same time. You know me always a more than a few books on my current shelf. Below is what my current reads are. 1. Hidden Summit by Robyn Carr (owned print book yet I started reading it from the large print copy from library which I did take back).
2. Resist Me by Chelle Bliss (ebook)
3. Hid from Our eyes by Julia Spencer-fleming (arc Netgalley)
4. The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg (arc from shore bookstore )
5. 10th Anniversary by James Patterson (library book)
6. After the Game by Abbi Glines (library book and might have ebook too) haven't started yet.
I have two other books on my current shelf on goodreads one I'll move to after the Carr book gets finished and the other one I started a few pages and just put aside. but hoping to get back to soon. I have a few other library books two of which is the f2f needlepoint book group that I haven't done in I don't know how long. I took one book back unread for that which is the february book but the Jan and march one are below but reading them or returning them unread is another thing. Depends on my mood any given day.
The secret of Clouds by Alyson Richman
The Things we cannot say by Kelly Rimmer.
The other library book I just took because I was in the mood to read a Nicholas sparks book is The Rescue. I can't remember if I own a print copy or not.
My goal today is start The Third Rainbow girl and the Patterson book. Read more of the Robyn carr book. And it depends if my eyes get tired with reading print books I might switch to the Ebooks.
But half a day is gone I still have to eat lunch and no reading has gotten done yet today. so after lunch it's time for print book reading.
Sandy: Thanks for mentioning Joe R. Lansdale. I haven't read this series yet. Would these short stories be a good intro? JF The Last Conversation, my first 2020 book read.
Sandy wrote: "Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap and Leonard: The Early Years
Must read for fans."
Rita: enjoy! I started the Outlander series with an audio of a later entry, A Breath of Snow and Ashes I really enjoyed it and sometimes watch the tv series, but oddly couldn't get into reading Outlander. Rita wrote: "I just added Outlander to my currently reading shelf."
Me too Jan O'Cat! I just finished Blood Orange this afternoon! Enjoy Color Me Murder. NR audio, not sure yet.
NR print, back to Me andThe Man Who Saw Everything
OMalleycat wrote: "JF: Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
NR Color Me Murder by Krista Davis"
Ann wrote: "Sandy: Thanks for mentioning Joe R. Lansdale. I haven't read this series yet. Would these short stories be a good intro? JF The Last Conversation, my first 2020 book..."
Hi Ann. Absolutely, they give you a great taste of the author's style & sense of where these characters came from. Happy reading!
j/f: A Spark of Light- jodi picoult (reread for my f2f bookclub)n/r: You Are Not Alone- sarah pekkanen and greer hendricks
Finished first book of year.JF: Hidden Summit by Robyn Carr (Owned Print book)
NR: Same ones I mentioned in previous post. Might just add a print owned book but haven't decided which yet.
Ann wrote: "Rita: enjoy! I started the Outlander series with an audio of a later entry, A Breath of Snow and Ashes I really enjoyed it and sometimes watch the tv series, but oddly couldn't get int..."Maybe I should try that. I tried at least 4 times to read Outlander and never got farther than about 75 pages.
Rita wrote: "I just added Outlander to my currently reading shelf."I'm a huge fan of the Outlander series....its one of the few I've done a re-read of. Enjoy! (The series on Starz is very good too)
Back in stone ages when I did Outlander it took me maybe 3 times to read the book I finally did a combo of reading and audio it worked a lot easier. I never read the books that I did as the only book probably why they always too a year or more. Plus I had lousy ubs copies that I must have bought at same time so they were smelly or not the best. Still have one more of those for the next one of those I have to read plus ebook. At the time I remember even going to BN and sitting there reading the trade size copy a few times. I’ll get around to reading the next one that I need to at some point.
Dawn wrote: "I'm a huge fan of the Outlander series....its one of the few I've done a re-read of. Enjoy! (The series on Starz is..."Wow, Dawn. That’s a LOT of rereading,
I’ve never tried any Outlander books. Not my thing.
Dawn wrote: "Rita wrote: "I just added Outlander to my currently reading shelf."I'm a huge fan of the Outlander series....its one of the few I've done a re-read of. Enjoy! (The series on Starz is..."
count me in as a big fan, too. i've read outlander twice, but never have re-read any of the other books in the series. anxiously waiting for the next season to start!
JF:-
NR:-
or I should say...I'm presently reading
OMalleycat wrote: "JF: What Rose Forgot by Nevada BarrNR: No Comfort for the Lost by Nancy Herriman"
I liked No Comfort for the Lost, Jan. Hope you do, too.
Melodie wrote: "I liked No Comfort for the Lost, Jan. Hope you do, too."I saw your review, Melodie! It started a little slow for me but it’s picked up. I like the main character and the history is always interesting.
j/f: You Are Not Alone- hendricks and pekkanen- due out 3/3/20- highly recommend for fans of psychological thrillersn/r: The Lost and Found Bookshop: A Novel- susan wiggs
JF: The Third Rainbow Girl -The long Life of a double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg (Not my type of book true crime with a lot of history but it was arc I got from shore bookstore to read/review I guess when I take books from there I can't rush or go by cover title)NR: 10th Anniversary by Patterson/Paetro (library book)
Degrees of love by Tavi Wayne (arc to read/review)
Uncover Me by Chelle Bliss
Game for love by Bella Andre
there are other's but the main ones right now. List of all current are on my goodreads current shelf.
JF: 10th Anniversary by James Patterson/Maxine Paetro (library book)NR: Hope to finish the arc Degrees of Love still today.
Then probably move to starting other arc or maybe some of print book.
JF The Man Who Saw Everything print Long listed for the Man Booker prize and by a favorite author Deborah Levy. A small book that took me a while to read, an unexpected turn mid way in and my usual limited time to read print books on paper led me to set it aside and then pick it up last night. Levy takes her readers on a journey that surprises.
NR Grit audio. Very interesting.
JF: After Anna by Lisa Scottline NR: Baltimore Noir short stories set in Baltimore edited by Laura Lippman
JF: Baltimore Noir edited by Laura LippmanNR: The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
NR: The Yard by Alex Grecian
Today is a lazy day. Snow mixing to rain expected later today. I want to get a good amount of reading in that means time for a reading marathon anybody want to join me? Lol. I want to finish one arc that I thought would happen last night but fell asleep. Not sure what books after that a mix of arcs and library books and maybe Ebooks and owned print books. I'll let you know what gets done.
Oh well not as much reading as I hoped but finished the one that didn’t take long and started doing other stuff. Marathon will move into tomorrow.
JF The Darkest Time of Night audioCould fit on two spots on my determination list, it will be one book done.
JF Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected print and powerful
NR Nothing More Dangerous audio
NR The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future racing against my Kindle library loan.
JF: The Yard by Alex GrecianNR: Button Holed by Kylie Logan’s-a light fill-in until it’s time to start reading our Feb. group read
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