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Groupes: 2021 BIG FAT BOOK CHALLENGE, 2022 BIG FAT BOOK CHALLENGE, 2023 BIG FAT BOOK CHALLENGE, 50 Book Challenge, Booker Prize, Club Read 2022, Club Read 2023, Club Read 2024, Monthly Author Reads, Reading Through Time
Inscrit depuis: Jan 21, 2021

Nom réel: Diane
A propos de moi: I am a retired English teacher living in Birmingham, Al. As you would probably assume, I’ve always loved reading. I can remember being read to as a child, then greatly enjoying reading for myself. Favorite books included the Black Stallion series by Walter Farley; my sister and I consumed each new book in that series as quickly as we could.

In retirement I have read widely, no longer having to focus my interests on required reading for the classroom. Until last year, I did not keep a list of books read, but the Covid isolation and limitation on activities made me think that would be fun. I was surprised at the end of the year to count 74 books on the list, which included a variety of contemporary fiction, older 20th century fiction, ccontemporary nonfiction, and rereads of some favorite classics. My reading goals for 2021 are to read widely again with some focus on 19th century classics, Southern fiction, and a selection of history, biography, and social analysis.

Some favorite books from 2020: Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo; Diane Setterfield’s Once Upon a River; N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy; James Meek’s To Calais in Ordinary Time; Charles Dickens’ Bleak House; Toni Morrison’s Beloved; Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing; Robert MacFarlane’s Underland; and Annie Dillard’s For the Time Being.

My reading thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/347545#unread
Lieu (géographique): Birmingham Al
En cours de lecture: The HarperCollins Study Bible: Fully Revised and Updated par Harold W. Attridge
The Tomorrow-Tamer: Penguin Modern Classics Edition par Margaret Laurence
In This House of Brede par Rumer Godden
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (H B J MODERN CLASSIC) par Katherine Anne Porter
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (The Penguin History of Europe) par S. R. F. Price
Occidental Mythology (The Masks of God, Volume III) par Joseph Campbell
The Iliad par Homer
The Trees: A Novel par Percival Everett
Listes de favoris: The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read