nrmay reads on in 2018

Same goals in 2018
Read 100+ books
Half of them from TBR shelves.
Give more away than I bring home!

I like fiction - mystery/thrillers, fantasy, sci fi, historical fiction, and novels set in different cultures.
Also fond of YA fiction.
Planning to read some non-fiction too.

In 2017 I just made it to 100 by reading a few short and easy ones in Dec to catch up!
I get behind when I leave home to go stay with my little granddaughter for a few weeks at a time. She keeps me busy!

So I am already behind in 2018. I read 12 books in Jan but finished only 1 in Feb when I was in San Francisco for the month.

Read in Jan -

1. A night in the lonesome October by Zelazny. Zany and humorous fantasy with a wonderful dog narrator. :)
*2. The runaway dolls by Martin with fabulous illustration by Brian Selznick. Clever J doll fantasy, :)
*3. So far from the bamboo grove Watkins. YA historical novel about a Japanese family escaping from Korea in WWII. :)
4. Into the water Hawkins. Suspense by author of Girl on the train. :)
5. Everything, everything Yoon. YA romantic girl-in-a-bubble story. :)
*6. The unfinished angel Creech. Another fanciful winner for kids from a favorite author. :)
*7. Shadow spinner Fletcher. YA retelling of the Shahrazad tale. :)
8. Once and for all Dessen. Very funny wedding planner theme along with a tragic teen romance. :)
9. Torch against the night Tahir. 2nd in a fantasy series; while I quite liked the 1st one, this one had way too much grim evil and violence. :(
10. Light it up. Petrie. 3rd in the action/thriller series about the wandering Peter Ash. :)
*11. The tall stranger Stevenson. British romance from the 1950s. :)
*12, Country of strangers Richter. A companion story to the classic Light in the forest. Very sad story. :|

Most books get :) because I know what I will like and I screen pretty well.

*6 TBR books out of the house!

Completed in Feb -

*13. Rose daughter McKinley. Retelling of Beauty and the Beast; not as good as author's earlier work Beauty. :|

Hi Nancy, already jealous of your TBRs getting read !

Read these in March -

*14. Regency buck by Georgette Heyer. :)
15. Force of nature Jane Harper. Australian suspense. :)
16. Every heart a doorway Seanan McGuire. Odd little book with mix
of horror/mystery/paranormal. :|
*17. Fade out Nova Ren Suma. Boring and mediocre YA angst. Can't believe I bought it AND paid full price . . :(
*18. Lewis and Clark: a historical and scenic journey with the Corps of Discovery :)
*19. Goblin emperor Katherine Addison.
Fantasy with good world-building, MANY characters with difficult names and titles! :)
*20. Famous women of the civil war Peter Copeland. For women's history month! :)
*21. Don't cry now Joy Fielding. Suspense/mystery. I thought I knew who did it but there was an unexpected twist! :)

8 books read
2 library bks
6 TBR

Doing ok with TBRs but I few books behind for the quarter.
It always happens when I'm away for a month visiting my little granddaughter, as I was in Feb.

Finished in April -

22. Girl waits with gun by Amy Stewart. historical fiction based on true events. :)

23. Curve of time: the classic memoir of a woman and her children who explored the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest, M. Wylie Blanchet. :)

*24. Missus, Ruth Park. historical family saga set in Australia. :)

25. Secret daughter, Shilpa Somaya Gowda. Clash of culture novel set in India and San Francisco. :)

*26. Down the long hills, Louis LAmour. classic western adventure, kids surviving on their own. :)

*27 Pioneer girl: growing up on the prairie, Andrea Warren. J non-fiction. :)

28. Time and again, Jack Finney. time travel. :)

*29. No man's land, Johnny Quarles. western adventure. :)

*30. Colleen Moore's Doll House, Colleen Moore. non-fiction. :)

*5 TBR

Hi Nancy, good news with Amy Stewart and Girl Waits With Gun, there are 2 sequels Lady Cop Makes Trouble and Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions, both just as good. Later this year Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit is due !

>8 bryanoz:

I'll look for the sequels.
I liked the first one.

In May I read these -

31. Let me lie by Clare Mackintosh. British suspense. :)

*32. Colleen Moore's fairy castle Colleen Moore. non-fiction. :)

*33. Within the Fairy Castle: Colleen Moore's Doll House at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago by Terry Ann r. Neff. non-fiction. :)

*34. Colleen Moore's doll house: the story of the most exquisite toy in the world Colleen Moore. non-fiction. :)

35. The snow goose: a story of Dunkirk Paul Gallico. historical fiction. :)

*36. Dogs don't lie Clea Simon. mystery; love the telepathic protagonist who can hear animals' thoughts. :)

*37. Dollhouse people: A Doll Family You Can Make
by Tracey Campbell Pearson. non-fiction. :)

* 5 from the TBR shelves

(The C.M. dollhouse books were read to prepare for a program I did for the doll society this month.)

June books -

38. Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner. British mystery. :)

39. Best cook in the world: tales from my momma's table Rick Bragg. cookbook/family memoir; loved it! :)

*40. Harriet Tubman: the road to freedom Rae Bains.
J biography. :)

41. Talking to the dead Harry Bingham. emotionally challenged woman detective. :)

42. Child finder Rene Denfeld. empathethic survivor of abuse searches for lost children; grim but good. :)

43. Cooking the Indian way Vijay Madavan. I'm really into ethnic cooking! :)

*44. Cats up close Vicki Croke. quick read before I gave it to my mom. :)

* 2 TBR bks

July 2018

45. Sharp objects Gillian Flynn. a mystery and a very troubled woman. Good but grim. :)

46. Tangerine Christine Mangan. 2 seriously disturbed women in Morocco. :)

47. Woman in the window. mystery and yet another tormented woman, set in the Brooklyn neighborhood of NYC. :)

*48. Seuss-isms: Wise and Witty Prescriptions for Living from the Good Doctor Dr. Seuss. :)

*49. Cooking the Polish way Zamojska-Hutchins.
easy ethnic cookbook. :)

50. Twelve angry librarians Miranda James. ho-hum mystery. :|

*51. Yellowstone National Park David Petersen.
J non-fic. :)

*52. I can has cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun Professor Happycat. Mildly amusing cat humor. :|

*53. Ask me no questions Marina Budhos. YA contemporary novel about a Muslim immigrant family in the U.S. :)

*54. House of tailors Patricia Reilly Giff.
J historical novel of immigrants in NYC by award-winning author. :)

* 6 off the TBR shelf

10 books this month is not too bad. I was away again with my little granddaughter for the last half of July. She keeps me busy and too exhausted to stay up late reading!

august - traveling

*55. One across, two down by Ruth Rendell

*TBR

Nancy, hope your September is more bookish !

Sept books

*56. Joy luck club Amy Tan. Classic novel of Chinese-American women. :)

57. Snap Belinda Bauer. Intriguing British mystery. :)

*58. St. Zita Society Ruth Rendell. One of Rendell's stand-alone mysteries. :0

*59. The space between us Trinity Umrigar. Heart-breaking story of 2 families in India. :)

60. The hate you give. Angie Thomas. Amazing and award-winning YA novel; the author's debut. :)

61. Peace, Locomotion Jacqueline Woodson. Slim, moving J/YA novel written in the form of letters. Woodson is a national treasure. :)

* 3 TBR

October books

62. Girl in the blue coat Monica Hesse. WWII historical fiction. Fair. :|

63. Blacklands Belinda Bauer. British suspense, serial killer, grim. :|

64. Stranger from the sea Winston Graham. one in the Poldark series. :)

Spent a couple weeks with my sister this month doing other things besides reading.
Fear I won't reach my goal this year!

Read in November

65. Lullaby road by James Anderson. mystery. :)

66. Where the crawdads sing Delia Owens. Southern fiction.
My favorite book of the year! I have already given it to 3 friends. :)

67. The Wife: A Novel of Psychological Suspense by Alafair Burke :)

Once again, I spent 12 days in San Francisco with my granddaughter.
Lots of playtime, but less reading time!

Hi Nancy, I have heard good things about Where the Crawdads Sing so on the read list it goes.

Less reading time ??? She had to sleep sometime :)