75 Books...More or Less! discussion

I read the first book off of my shelf in 2020.

Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat..

This is a wonderful book about a man sent to study wolves in the far north of Canada to find out if they were responsible for the low numbers of the carribou herd. He found out that most of the things people knew about wolves we're lies.. a really wonderful book! I think I read this long ago when I was a teenager.

I read another book from my shelf:

2. Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen.

I really loved this book! ❤

3.

Fun and entertaining!

4.

This was a sweet story set in Newfoundland in 1929 about a boy and his dog..

I have picked out a lot of books from my shelf for future Popsugar challenge reads so this list should be growing longer in the next few months.

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I read this one for my birthday month. It's one of those deeper books. Set in a dark future.

6.

Another book from my shelf now read. A true life story about how an 18-year-old accidentally killed a fellow classmate who was on a bike while he was driving a car..the book tells about his PTSD and the numerous problems he has had since the accident.

7. that I finished today is from my shelf...

I read these off of my shelf recently:

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A fun collection of fairy tale type stories

9.

The autobiography of a man living on a flower farm in Cornwall and who has two donkeys and a few cats. I loved the bits with the donkeys.

10.

A tense suspense filled story about Humboldt Squid.

11.

A fun story set in 1776 about a young girl, her horse and how she must save her plantation from a British spy!

12.

I loved this sequel to Rider at the Gate! Suspense in a small mountain town and telepathic horses plus something deadly out of the High Wild.

Sarah wrote: "I read these off of my shelf recently:

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A fun collection of fairy tale type stories..."

The only book I've read by Avi is The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle when I was a youngster. I'll have to check this out! I love fairy tales and fairy tale retellings!

Elyse wrote: "Sarah wrote: "I read these off of my shelf recently:

8.

A fun collection of fairy tale type stories..."

The only book I've read..."

I believe Strange Happenings is the only book I read by her and I believe I grabbed it because of the cat on the cover..😁 in the one group right now we are reading animal books this month so I'm reading lots of animal books and searching my shelf for them too.. hence you see lots of animal related books going up! 🏇😸🐙

#13

Well I actually enjoyed this book more than the other American Girl book up above. It's plot was more detailed and it had a larger mystery. Set during the Great Depression.

#14

I think I have mixed feelings about this one. It's a good adventure story but I also feel that a young man with out any real experience living the old way out on the tundra...I find it hard to believe that he could survive?

I've been trying to read lots of animal related books this month because in the one group I'm moderating we are reading animal books in May. Hence a great excuse to read my shelves!

#15

I enjoyed reading this creepy story! Smooth writing and a very interesting plot. Set in the Florida swamps.

#16

A great sci-fi story about solving a mystery of which is destroying human towns that float on an alien sea on the planet of Cachalot. It's also about the communication between humans and whales. Great story!!

#17

A fun zany story! Very much like a comic book in a way with a crazy plot. Evil brothers, a zombie goldfish, a little sister...and a plan to take over the school.

#18

I really enjoyed reading this fun crazy story about a swan playing a trumpet.

#19

This one disappointed me!

#20

This was a real page turner! It's very similar to Stine's Fear Street, a supernatural teen thriller with tons of mysterious stuff going on in a town with dark secrets!

#21

This was a teen fantasy romance about a girl named Ryann who falls for a boy named Lad but he's not human.. it's about impossible true love.

#22

This is a distopian story about a young girl who has to leave her family to go take a test to find out what her occupation will be. She's a trouble maker and has never fit in.

#23

A great story about an over controlled and abused girl who gets her very first friends as a teenager..

#24

A well written mystery!

#25

To my utter surprise I found this spy story funny!

#26

I really loved this book based on a true story!

#27

Fast, fun and zany! Zombies and a giant snake.

#28

Just awful! Made no sense to me at all.

#29

I really loved this surreal novel!

#30

A collection of interesting and true stories of encounters with sea life.

#31

This was about FBI agents working on two different cases. I rated it 3 stars because I didn't like how the agents we're written and I kept mixing them up.

#32

I really loved this book about a 10 year old girl lost in the national park and the case that sprung up around it. Very exciting story! 5 stars!

#33

This graphic novel was a nice break after reading a long, serious book.. entertaining.

#34:

This one started out a bit slow but it picked up later and then I enjoyed it.

#35

I enjoyed this cozy mystery that takes place in Michigan and revolves around a town that is into witches, mediums, fortune telling, etc.

#36

I just finished this explosive story about a serial killer in Arizona..lots of unusual grotesque deaths and a huge plot twist! Fast moving plot.

I've been getting a bit behind on posting my books here! Now it's time to get caught up! Can you believe I read 36 books this month??!

#37

This was a book of short stories that take place in Dublin...

#38

This was one of those fun creepy books...

#39

This was ok but just ok...

#40

This one was surprisingly good! Killer mermaid!

#41

Another great collection of short creepy stories...

#42

Parts of this horse story was very illogical to me!

#43

This was truly fascinating and an easy read!

#44

I enjoyed reading about the author's trip in the Himalayas...

#45

This book is too dark, gloomy and depressing!!

Wow 36 books in one month that's awesome!

Getting caught up here for 2020...

46.

I found this one dull

47.

I don't remember liking this one either too much...

48.

I found this incredibly boring...

49.

Another book very hard to read and boring! Blah!

50.

This was funny!

51.

I really don't remember this one..

52.

I don't remember this one either...

53.

This was fun

54.

Normally I like the Sigma Force series but I think this is the one I found gloomy??

55.

Loved this one! Based on a true story about Princess Haya and her horse named Bree. She won the World Cup of Jordan and later went onto the Olympics

56.

This was a fun and quick read.

57.

Another fun book and very entertaining! Glad I have this one

58.

Really strange stuff. Most stories in here make no sense at all and I only had liked two stories. Metamorphosis was really good. I would say just read that one and skip the others!

59.

I enjoyed this one! What I liked is guessing who the killer was and yes I had guessed correctly!

60.

I had hoped this would be a fun adventure story but I only rated it 3 stars. The first 119 pages had no main character at all, it just kept changing characters. It got a little better once the humans were introduced but I still did not like it.

61.

I read this last night and really loved it! I really got caught up in the story and forgot everything else.

So it seems I have read 61 books from my shelf. I believe I read like 186 books this year so that's roughly about one third were from my shelf. I'd say that's pretty good!! It's certainly way better than last year.

Oh...in December I read 37 books! And I added up the pages of all of the books and it was my biggest month for pages: 12,305 pages!

Sarah wrote: "Oh...in December I read 37 books! And I added up the pages of all of the books and it was my biggest month for pages: 12,305 pages!"

Wow! Great job, Sarah!