Books on the Nightstand discussion

Happy New Year!
I started reading Killers of a Certain Age.
Will start listening to All the Broken Places

I started Killers of a Certain Age a few days ago. I'm betting you'll finish it before me. I am enjoying this book.

I'm starting off the year with The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman. This is my third year kicking things off with a book from her Practical Magic series.

Carol wrote: "I started Killers of a Certain Age a few days ago. I'm betting you'll finish it before me. I am enjoying this book."

Sounds like a great plot.

I started Lessons in Chemistry for my January bookclub meeting.

I'm reading A Man Called Ove

I will also be starting two long-term reads.
I decided to read Don Quixote I knew I owned a copy, but couldn't find it, so I also had an e-copy through Apple Books. The e-copy is 2160 pages. I did the math and figured I roughly had to cover 6 pages a day.
This morning I found my paperback copy. It was in a different bookcase from what I thought. There are only 765 pages in this copy. I haven't done the math yet, but I think I'll read this copy.
My other longer term read (it ends up being an intermittent rather than a consistent read) will be Dandelion Wine.

I am reading Moonflower Murders. Started last year with Magpie Murders, both by Anthony Horowitz.

I never make any book resolutions but it's time for me to ramp up my reading time and to rekindle, if not longer reviews, at least a few words about my feelings.

You all have such great suggestions. I love reading what you're reading. Happy New Year and as always, Happy Reading!

I am starting out the year with ALL THE DANGEROUS THINGS by Stacy Willingham

Currently reading an ARC, Lone Women by Victor LaValle

Finished Killers of a Certain Age

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I then started I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems and since that is only 81 pages, I will immediately after go to What Kind of Woman: Poems

I’ve just started Hamnet by Maggie O Farrell … and also reading bits of Untamed by Glennon Doyle …. Slow reading start to the year as other things seem to have crowded in a bit 📚📚😬😬

Finished Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished Lie to Me by J.T. Ellison

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
My thoughts: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Finished The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

My thoughts: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Finished listening to All the Broken Places

My thoughts: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...

Also finished Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

Now reading We Deserve Monuments and the next listen is The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen

Finished I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Midnight in Everwood by M.A. Kuzniar

Finished Lone Women (arc), The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek & Carrie Soto Is Back

and currently reading another arc-Owner of a Lonely Heart

Finished We Deserve Monuments

My take: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Now reading for my book discussion: Mary Jane

Finished The Therapist by B.A. Paris

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm currently reading Age Of Vice by Deepti Kapoor.

My reading has taken a major hit due to being considerably unwell, including a nasty headache that won’t go away.

C. John wrote: "My reading has taken a major hit due to being considerably unwell, including a nasty headache that won’t go away."

Never good to hear about anyone not feeling well. I hope you find the cause of your headache and that you will feel better soon. In the meantime, are you able to listen to an audiobook? I don't know if that would make your headache worse.

Given what I was going through earlier a headache isn’t so bad. Actually I have started reading, specifically a volume on British war picture libraries, a form of comic book particular to Europe. You can actually find some other listed in the Goodreads database. They were published for a number of genres but war/military was the most popular. Sadly only D. C. Thompson’s Commando seems to exist.

Finished Owner of a Lonely Heart & starting The Winter of Our Discontent

Good that you are reading again and that you are in a better place than before. Happy Reading.

Finished Mary Jane. Started BIG LIES: from Socrates to Social Media

Finished Book Lovers by Emily Henry

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished reading BIG LIES: from Socrates to Social Media and listening to The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen.
I've moved on to reading Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul and listening to Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed

Finished Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished both Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul and
Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed
Now reading A Heart That Works (don't even try this one without a box of tissues) and listening to How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

Just finished The Firekeeper's Daughter, an excellent story by a young Ojibwe writer. Genre YA, contemporary story about a meth ring operating on a reservation nearsh Sault Ste. Marie, MI. But about so much more! Told through the voice of MC, Daunis, a 19-y.o. woman who is trying to solve the mysterious death of her respected elder uncle, biology teacher/naturalist, David, who had awakened her passions for tribal healing methods and relationships within her Firekeeper family. A plot driven character rich read!

Finished The Winter of Our Discontent & an arc, The Wishing Game (LOVED) and will be starting

Mad Honey

My January reading has been a bit slow but I've read a couple chunksters!

Started with: The Last Chairlift

Iron Lake

Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Listened to: Finding Me

And I've jumped on the band wagon and I'm currently listening to:
Spare
currently reading: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

Deb wrote: "My January reading has been a bit slow but I've read a couple chunksters!

Started with: The Last Chairlift

[b..."

I pre-ordered Spare as a Christmas present for my wife, who is a real fan of the Royal Family. Told her it was coming after Christmas only to get told she wasn't interested in the book. Ending up cancelling the order, got my refund and now have to figure out what to give her, ah well. Mind you cancelling the order was an interesting process.

Finished The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I think gremlins are at work. I could have sworn I just reported this stuff in the past couple of days, but it's not here.

Finished A Heart That Works, And Yet: Poems, and I Exaggerate: My Brushes with Fame

I've moved on to American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation

Finished A Nearly Normal Family by M. T. Edvardsson

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just finished one book of poetry Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years . Moving on to another Musical Tables: Poems.
Been listening to All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia

Finished The Measure by Nikki Erlick

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Well, I now see that I dropped the ball again. We're still posting in January and we're close to the end of February. Ah, well.
I finished listening to Sarah StrohmeyerHow Not to Drown in a Glass of Water. I've moved on to The Areas of My Expertise: An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order which, unfortunately, is an abridgment, but still incredibly humorous.

You could always leave these as quarterly Linda- there aren't a ton of posts each month, might make things easier on you!

Finished We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I am sure people can relate to this. I was in the bedroom talking to the wife when I looked down at my night table. Lo and behold there is a book there that I have been unable to find for ages, a Murder She Wrote mystery that I want to finish and get off my Currently Reading shelf. Apparently it had fallen down between the night table and the bed. I was sure I had brought it out to the living are but apparently not. Now if the baseball book that disappeared a couple of years ago would turn up I will be happy.

Just finished Something Wilder & starting Daisy Jones & The Six

C. John wrote: "I am sure people can relate to this. I was in the bedroom talking to the wife when I looked down at my night table. Lo and behold there is a book there that I have been unable to find for ages, a M..."

It takes so little to make you happy!

At the beginning of this year I was scouring my living room shelves for my copy of Don Quixote. I was convinced it was there, but I could never find it. Just about 1/1/23 I decided to check the bookcase at the end of my bed. Voila! I'm approaching 50% read.