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Middle Grade March
Apr. 15th, 2025 02:59 pmSurprise Attack of Jabba the Puppet by Tom Angleberger, series Origami Yoda
The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frred by Phineas Cricket, series Princess and the Goblin
Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue by Tom Angleberger, series Origami Yoda
The Tin Woodman of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, series Oz
Queste by Angie Sepp, series Septimus Heap
The Princess and Curdee, by George MacDonald, series Princess and the Goblin
Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus by Tom Angleberger, series Origami Yoda
The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frred by Phineas Cricket, series Princess and the Goblin
Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue by Tom Angleberger, series Origami Yoda
The Tin Woodman of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, series Oz
Queste by Angie Sepp, series Septimus Heap
The Princess and Curdee, by George MacDonald, series Princess and the Goblin
Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus by Tom Angleberger, series Origami Yoda
2024 Year in Books
Jan. 8th, 2025 08:44 pm117 Books
102 Authors - 53% female
57 Series
Genre - top 5 read
1. Sci-Fi
2. Fantasy
3. Historical Fiction
4. Children
5. Mystery.
Authors from 15 countries outside of the USA.
Shortest Book - Young Zaphad Plays it Safe
Longest Book - Dombey and Son
Most Shelved on Goodreads - The Scorch Trials
102 Authors - 53% female
57 Series
Genre - top 5 read
1. Sci-Fi
2. Fantasy
3. Historical Fiction
4. Children
5. Mystery.
Authors from 15 countries outside of the USA.
Shortest Book - Young Zaphad Plays it Safe
Longest Book - Dombey and Son
Most Shelved on Goodreads - The Scorch Trials
Non-fiction November
Dec. 2nd, 2024 06:34 pmCode Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Meaning in Star Trek
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas
The Library Book
This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It
Meaning in Star Trek
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas
The Library Book
This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It
Victober 2024
Nov. 2nd, 2024 04:33 pmThe Warden by Anthony Trollope
In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 by Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 by Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Quarter Year Book Review
Apr. 1st, 2024 06:46 pmHow many books read so far: 27
Favorite so far: Rilla of Ingleside
Least Favorite so far: Blaze Union and the Puddin' Head Schools
Most Read Genre: Children's
Surprise Read: Ella Enchanted.
Goal succeeding on: On tract to read 100 books for the year.
Goals to work on: Complete series, read author's around the world.
Favorite so far: Rilla of Ingleside
Least Favorite so far: Blaze Union and the Puddin' Head Schools
Most Read Genre: Children's
Surprise Read: Ella Enchanted.
Goal succeeding on: On tract to read 100 books for the year.
Goals to work on: Complete series, read author's around the world.
February Books
Mar. 6th, 2024 03:09 pmHistorical fiction - The Darling Dahlias and the Poinsettia Puzzle, Morgan's Run
Italy - Saving Italy, the Race to Rescue a Nations Treasures from the Nazis
Norse Myths
K-Pop - I'll be the One
Victorian - Mary Barton
The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
Italy - Saving Italy, the Race to Rescue a Nations Treasures from the Nazis
Norse Myths
K-Pop - I'll be the One
Victorian - Mary Barton
The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
2023 year in books
Jan. 1st, 2024 03:34 pmI add to the countries I have read authors from, with the following new countries:
Belarus
Columbia
Egypt
Haiti
Kenya
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
The shortest book: Power Trip by Jackie Collins.
Most shelved on Goodreads: The Lightening Thief by Rick Riodan - not surprising.
Least shelved on Goodreads: Roland Leong "The Hawaiian": Drag Racing’s Iconic Top Fuel Owner & Tuner
Highest Rated on Goodreads: Angel Girl Awakes by L.B. Anne, not widely read, but it is the start of a new spin off of a previous series, so of course it has been read by people who were already fans of the earlier series.
Most read genre - top 5
1. Biography, Memoir
2. Science Fiction
3. Children's
4. Mystery
5. Romance.
I hadn't realized I was reading so many biographies and memoirs.
Belarus
Columbia
Egypt
Haiti
Kenya
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
The shortest book: Power Trip by Jackie Collins.
Most shelved on Goodreads: The Lightening Thief by Rick Riodan - not surprising.
Least shelved on Goodreads: Roland Leong "The Hawaiian": Drag Racing’s Iconic Top Fuel Owner & Tuner
Highest Rated on Goodreads: Angel Girl Awakes by L.B. Anne, not widely read, but it is the start of a new spin off of a previous series, so of course it has been read by people who were already fans of the earlier series.
Most read genre - top 5
1. Biography, Memoir
2. Science Fiction
3. Children's
4. Mystery
5. Romance.
I hadn't realized I was reading so many biographies and memoirs.
Nonfiction November
Dec. 3rd, 2023 08:22 pmMudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem
The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic by Michael Sims
Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin
The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic by Michael Sims
Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin
Victorian works - Queen Victoria's reign 1837 - 1901
The Way We Live NowAnthony Trollope my second time reading a book by Trollope. It is nice that this is a stand alone book, not part of a large series. Easier to follow since it doesn't go into a lot of church politics.
Adam Bede George Eliot - her first novel. Much simpler, easier to follow than Middlemarch.
Hard Times Charles Dickens I had never heard anything about this book before now.
Candida George Bernard Shaw first time reading Shaw's work.
The Way We Live NowAnthony Trollope my second time reading a book by Trollope. It is nice that this is a stand alone book, not part of a large series. Easier to follow since it doesn't go into a lot of church politics.
Adam Bede George Eliot - her first novel. Much simpler, easier to follow than Middlemarch.
Hard Times Charles Dickens I had never heard anything about this book before now.
Candida George Bernard Shaw first time reading Shaw's work.
I re-watched 1976's The Man Who Fell to Earth - it really is a product of its time.
I saw Grey Gardens with Drew Barrymore. I thought Drew's accent was really odd, but when I googled it I found a lot of praise about how good she did with it. So I guess that was how Little Eddi talked. Maybe someday I will watch the documentary and hear the authentic sound for comparison.
I saw Grey Gardens with Drew Barrymore. I thought Drew's accent was really odd, but when I googled it I found a lot of praise about how good she did with it. So I guess that was how Little Eddi talked. Maybe someday I will watch the documentary and hear the authentic sound for comparison.
Jane Austen July
Jul. 29th, 2023 02:50 pm---The Challenges---
1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels Northanger Abbey
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels Jack and Alice
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time Jane Austen at Home
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time Arsenic and Austen
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen - working on reading Mary Shelley's Last Man
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book Emma 1996 Why have Knightly start his declaration of love by talking about holding Emma as a baby?
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book Emma Approved. This made me realize that after Emma rejected him he married some one with all her worst faults. Emma is a bit of a snob - the new Mrs. Elliot is a huge snob. Emma tends to thinks she knows better than anyone else - Mrs. Elliot lets everyone know that she knows best. Emma is trying to run Harriet's life - Mrs. Elliot tries to run Jane's life. Harriet wants to listen to Emma and likes Emma. Mrs. Elliot does not realize Jane doesn't like her, and want her to leave her alone.
1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels Northanger Abbey
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels Jack and Alice
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time Jane Austen at Home
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time Arsenic and Austen
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen - working on reading Mary Shelley's Last Man
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book Emma 1996 Why have Knightly start his declaration of love by talking about holding Emma as a baby?
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book Emma Approved. This made me realize that after Emma rejected him he married some one with all her worst faults. Emma is a bit of a snob - the new Mrs. Elliot is a huge snob. Emma tends to thinks she knows better than anyone else - Mrs. Elliot lets everyone know that she knows best. Emma is trying to run Harriet's life - Mrs. Elliot tries to run Jane's life. Harriet wants to listen to Emma and likes Emma. Mrs. Elliot does not realize Jane doesn't like her, and want her to leave her alone.
People April
Apr. 30th, 2023 06:25 pmPrompts:
1. Sappho "Someone will remember us I say, even in another time" (a fragment recorded by others)
The Five Hallie Rubenhold
2. Maria Antoinette "Let them eat cake" (a known saying well before she supposedly said it in 1789) Taste Stanley Tucci
3. Martin Luther King "Have patience. Go where you must go and hope" (actually from the Lord of the Rings) Trials of the Earth
4. Morgan Freeman "Stupid is knowing the truth, seeing the truth, but still believing the lies" (Freeman never said this although it is a well-known phrase) Scoundrel
1. Sappho "Someone will remember us I say, even in another time" (a fragment recorded by others)
The Five Hallie Rubenhold
2. Maria Antoinette "Let them eat cake" (a known saying well before she supposedly said it in 1789) Taste Stanley Tucci
3. Martin Luther King "Have patience. Go where you must go and hope" (actually from the Lord of the Rings) Trials of the Earth
4. Morgan Freeman "Stupid is knowing the truth, seeing the truth, but still believing the lies" (Freeman never said this although it is a well-known phrase) Scoundrel
First Quarter Book Review.
Apr. 13th, 2023 07:13 pm1. How many books so far - 34
2. Favorite so far - The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster - just pulpy fun.
3. Least Favorite - Wishes by Brittany Eden - pointless time jumps forward than back, overwritten.
4. Most read genre - Children's books, 2nd Sci-fi
5. Surprise - I enjoyed Wives & Daughter by Gaskell, I was surprised since North and South was so disappointing.
6. Goals success - doing good on reaching goal of 100 books for the year.
7. Goal I want to work on more - Authors around the world.
2. Favorite so far - The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster - just pulpy fun.
3. Least Favorite - Wishes by Brittany Eden - pointless time jumps forward than back, overwritten.
4. Most read genre - Children's books, 2nd Sci-fi
5. Surprise - I enjoyed Wives & Daughter by Gaskell, I was surprised since North and South was so disappointing.
6. Goals success - doing good on reaching goal of 100 books for the year.
7. Goal I want to work on more - Authors around the world.
Middle Grade March
Mar. 31st, 2023 08:18 pm1. An Award Winner - but not the Newbury Long Lost
2. A Sci-fi/Dystopia book We're Not From Here
3. Sky or Sea on the Cover - I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic.
4. Book with a Neurodivergent character - Focused & The Lightening Thief
5. Book published in the last year Heart Finds
Additional books read:
The Railway Children
The Library Card
2. A Sci-fi/Dystopia book We're Not From Here
3. Sky or Sea on the Cover - I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic.
4. Book with a Neurodivergent character - Focused & The Lightening Thief
5. Book published in the last year Heart Finds
Additional books read:
The Railway Children
The Library Card
Sing 2016
My first thought was - who is this movie for?
A Frank Sinatra character? Do kids know who he is? Would the parents? Wouldn't he be more from the Great-grandparents time?
The scene with the Gorilla and his father was good. But we didn't get enough of the back story. Did he want to get out of his father's life of crime? He seemed happy to be involved.
Since there were so many characters none of them got much time.
My first thought was - who is this movie for?
A Frank Sinatra character? Do kids know who he is? Would the parents? Wouldn't he be more from the Great-grandparents time?
The scene with the Gorilla and his father was good. But we didn't get enough of the back story. Did he want to get out of his father's life of crime? He seemed happy to be involved.
Since there were so many characters none of them got much time.
