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Thanks! Happy quilting too It's great seeing you around, I hope the wedding was wonderful! I'm not sure which to read first! Maybe Home Front. You and Gaia's reading of Angry Planet made me want to read it! Maybe I'll get to some Kingsolver this year as well. History books are very long

Not near enough!

You always have so many books on the go- I don't know how you do it! Happy New Year

I always read your blog with great interest, but never comment Have a very Happy New Year!

I've been interested in Bill Bryson, but never have read anything by him; I hear his audio books are great. The Kite Runner is harsh- have you read And the Mountains Echoed? Have fun with the Twilight books and I wish you a happy New Year!

I've recently gotten into graphic novels... have you heard of Guy Delisle? He is a Canadian artist that travels through "hermit kingdoms" like North Korea (I'm reading Burma Chronicles now). I'm curious to hear how you liked Locke & Key. Happy New Year

We had similar totals for this year Don't worry about all your books lol Happy New Year!

Good luck with your challenges and have a very happy new year! Your totals are stunning!

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This is what I plan to read for the rest of the year: September: Zealot by Reza Aslan (354) The Shell Collector by Hugh Howey (reread) (282) An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (reread) (276) Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer (208) Wasted by Marya Hornbacher (320) Lost City of Z by David Grnn (352) What is Due the Other by Kent Russell (161, Kindle Single) Current: (to 14th) No god, but God by Reza Aslan (386) Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (528) Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp (reread) (304) Total= 2,963 October: Happy Halloween!! Strange Weather by Joe Hill (release 10/24 (488) Psycho by Robert Bloch (227) A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin (260) Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin (reread) (282) Firestarter by Stephen King (577) The Last by Michael John Grist (part 1 of an 8 book series) (262) Might add in Carrie (reread almost every Halloween!) (322) And some stories from Bradbury Stories by Ray Bradbury Total= 2,418 November: Red Famine by Anne Applebaum (496) Artemis by Andy Weir (11/14) (320) Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (reread) (353) FDR by Edward Smith (880) Under the Dome by Stephen King (657) Total= 2,706 December: Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird (752) On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (130) The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher (384) Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck (432) Buried in the Sky by Peter Zuckerman (321) And A Christmas Carol added as I wrap presents Total= 2,019

TBR Contemporary Fiction Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (298 pages) Everything We Keep by Kerry Lonsdale (306) Leave Me by Gayle Forman (353) News of the World by Paulette Jiles (224) The Nix by Nathan Hill (642) Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple (273) Truly Madly Guilty by Liame Moriarty (415) War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans (305) Fiction The Girls by Emma Cline (370) Hag Seed by Margaret Attwood (324) Into the Thickening Fog by Andrei Gelasimov (266) Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (481) The Things We Wish Were True by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen (290) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (322) The Vegetarian by Han Kang (194) No Country For Old Men by McCarthy Cormac (322) Sophie's Choice by William Clark Sutton (575) A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (278) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (528) Kristin Hannah: Night Road (434) Home Front (397) Winter Garden 401) Non Fiction American Heiress by Jeffery Toobin (402) Moonglow by Michael Chabon (448) Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard (304) The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (82) Imperial Woman by Pearl S Buck (432) Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean (290) Historical Fiction The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick (514) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (560) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (290) History Between the Wars by Philip Ziegler (release 3/7, no page count) Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy (493) The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer (496) Joan of Arc by Helen Castor (368) Queen of Scots by John Guy (683) Reagan: American Icon by Iwan Morgan (320) The Time Travelers Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer (354) Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird (752) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (259) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L Shirer (1264) Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides (343) Science Fiction Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (354) Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (208) Fellside by MR Carey (485) The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (467) Time and Again by Jack Finney (404) The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (298) Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (530) On the Beach by Nevill Shute (322) The Bad Seed by William March (226) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K Dick (258) Beacon 23 by Hugh Howdy (258) Crime The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire Mystery) by Craig Johnson (no page count) Night School (Jack Reacher #21) by Lee Child (385) The Sympathizer by Viet thank Nguyen (384) The North Water by Ian McGuire (270) YA More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (306) The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane (274) Classics 1984 by George Orwell (322) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (258) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (372) The Joy Luck Club by Any Tan (354) It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (199) Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (224) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (260) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (336) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (162)

January 5/5 To Hell and Back: Europe 1914- 1949 by Ian Kershaw (594 pages, 300 completed in 2017) 5/5 Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War 1937- 1948 by Madeline Albright (731 pages) 4/5 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L Shirer (1147 pages) 5/5 Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (736 pages) 3/5 A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (208) 6/5 Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut (270 pages) 6/5 Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (303 pages) Total= 3,689 pages (!) February 3/5 The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer (467 pages) Total= 467 pages March April May June July 5/5 Into Think Air by Jon Krakauer (368 pages) 5/5 Decision Points by George W. Bush (514 pages) 5/5 A Mother's Reckoning by Sure Klebold (338 pages) Total= 1,220 pages August 5/5 K2: The Savage Mountain by Charles Houston and Robert Bates (208 pages) 5/5 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (336 pages) 5/5 The Humans by Matt Haig (321 pages) 3/5 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (512 pages) No Rating- Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neil (406 pages) 4/5 Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright (336 pages) Total= 2,119 September 2.5/5 A Hidden World by Rafael Rupert (163 pages) 5/5 No god, But God by Reza Aslan (386 pages) Total= 549 pages October 5/5 Zealot by Reza Aslan (354 pages) 4/5 Red Famine by Anne Applebaum (496 pages) 4/5 Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk (304 pages) 5/5 2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut (12 pages) 4/5 World War Z by Max Brooks (352 pages) 5/5 Endurance by Scott Kelly (400 pages) Total= 1,918 pages November December

2014 Books read: 87 Pages: 26,347 2015 Books read: 77 Pages: 22,618 2016 Books read: 53 Pages: 17,764 This hasn't been the best reading year for me; health problems have greatly decreased my book and page counts for 2016. Here's looking forward to another year (maybe I'll hit 90 this year!). My goals for 2017 are to read more new releases, read more contemporary fiction, step out of my history genre comfort zone and read more books less than 500 pages Happy 2017!

I went ahead and got Night Road! Fellside is hefty.

Thank you Happy New Year to you too! I went on your suggestion

I've bought a few books as well- on my Amazon gift card Fellside by MR Carey Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 1984 2 graphic novels Persepolis by Marjane Strapi (I owned this but lost it in a move) Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle And Kristin Hannah's books were on deal today, so I picked up Home Front Winter Garden

He was such an activist, with AIDS awareness and gay rights. 2016 sucks.

Let me be the first to wish you a happy reading year in 2017!

I listened to the Tim Curry version while wrapping presents- a tradition that started a few years ago. I finished Millennium (how civilization has changed in a thousand years) and have taken up The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir (re read) and The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware. I kinda like having multiple books going. Millennium was sooo good! Edit: And The Woman in Cabin 10 is pretty scary.

And your favorite classic is my second favorite book of all time Good tastes

Homemade turkey noodle soup!!

1) Favorite read: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 2) Favorite author: Phillip K Dick 3) Most read author: Laura Ingalls Wilder (9 books) 4) Favorite book cover: The Paper Magician by Charlie N Holmberg 5) Book you abandoned: This Perfect Day by Ira Levin 6) Book that disappointed you: 9 1/2 Weeks by Elizabeth McNiell 7) Funniest book: Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt 8) Favorite literary character: Sugar Legowski- Gracia in Sugar by Deirdre Riordan Hall 9) Favorite children's book: (Who was) Anne Frank by Ann Abramson 10) Favorite classic: None read! 11) Favorite non- fiction: Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp 12) Favorite biography: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K Massie 13) Favorite collection of short stories: Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis 14) Favorite poetry collection: I don't read too much poetry! 15) Favorite illustrated book: Pyongyang by Guy Delisle 16) Favorite publisher: Faber & Faber 17) Favorite audio book: Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Karakauer 18) Favorite re read: The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir

I was going to suggest We the Living, but that's 500 lol Anthem is a free short story, but it's ok.

You've talking to the converted