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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #500 on: August 03, 2020, 12:22:31 PM »
1. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (library)
2. Classical Mythology, Elizabeth Vandiver (borrowed)
3. The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (library)
4. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (library)
5. The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione (own, pre-2020)
6. Druid Magic Handbook, John Michael Greer (own, new)
7. Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin (own, pre-2020)
8. Beowulf, trans. Gerald Davis (own, pre-2020)
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (own, re-read, pre-2020)
10. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, Shannon Hayes (own)
11. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach (own)
12. Respect the Spindle, Abby Franquemont (own)
13. The World of Byzantium, Kenneth Harl (borrowed)
14. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
15. The Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
16. Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (library)
17. The Social Life of Coffee, Brian Cowan (own, pre-2020)
18. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)
19. The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, Martha Brown et al (library)
20. How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell (library)
21. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (library)
22. Early Uses of California Plants, Edward K Balls (own, pre-2020)
23. The Vine Witch, Luanne G. Smith (own)
24. Modern Tarot, Michelle Tea (own)
25. The Field Guide to Birds: California, Mel Baughman (own, pre-2020)
26. The Black Death, Dorsey Armstrong (own, pre-2020)

27. 1940s Fashion, Emmanuelle Dirix (own, pre-2020). Really enjoyable sourcebook for 40s fashion -- lots of great photos and drawings.

Currently reading:

Flour Salt Water Yeast, Ken Forkish (borrowed)
An Essay on Medieval Economic Teaching, George O'Brien (own, pre-2020)
King Arthur, Dorsey Armstrong (borrowed)

Pre-2020 books: 9/15

Local natural history and ecology: 3/9

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #501 on: August 03, 2020, 12:29:32 PM »
July update:

50) Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
51) The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
52) We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra
53) The Martian by Andy Weir (a "reread" - listened to the audiobook during a few car trips with my husband)
54) The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #502 on: August 03, 2020, 02:28:14 PM »
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49) The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, Ian Baker
50) Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw 
51) The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel Van Der Kolk (trauma informed therapy)
52) In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration, Shane O'Mara
53) Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor, YA
54) The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, Olivia Laing **
55) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing & Life, Anne Lamott

recently finished
56) We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib--up for Canada Reads 2020
57) The Summer Book, Tove Jansson

working on
58) Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Ben Goldfarb

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #503 on: August 03, 2020, 05:33:09 PM »
1WarbreakerBrandon SandersonOwnReread1/6/2020Fiction - Fantasy
2The Complete Book of Home OrganizationToni HammersleyOwnEducational1/7/2020Nonfiction - Home and Garden
3Rocannon's WorldUrsula LeGuinOwnTBR List1/14/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
4Trickster's ChoiceTamora PierceLibraryPopSugar1/17/2020Fiction - Fantasy
5The Broken UniversePaul MelkoLibrarySequel1/25/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
6The Devil in the White CityErik LarsonLibraryTBR List2/3/2020General Nonfiction
7Eventide: Tales of the Dragon's BardTracy and Laura HickmanLibraryPopSugar2/13/2020Fiction - Fantasy
8Trickster's QueenTamora PierceLibrarySequel2/15/2020Fiction - Fantasy
9Gilgamesh the KingRobert SilverbergLibraryPopSugar2/24/2020Fiction - Historical
10The SparrowMary Doria RussellLibraryPopSugar2/24/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
11Planet of ExileUrsula LeGuinOwnTBR List2/24/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
12Children of the NightMercedes LackeyLibrarySequel2/29/2020Fiction - Fantasy
13City of IllusionsUrsula LeGuinOwnTBR List3/3/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
14The Aylesford SkullJames P. BlaylockLibraryOther3/11/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
15StarsightBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel3/13/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
16The DeepRivers Solomon, et alLibraryPopSugar3/16/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
17The DispossessedUrsula LeGuinOwnTBR List3/22/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
18Blood PriceTanya HuffLibraryOther3/29/2020Fiction - Fantasy
19Blood TrailTanya HuffLibrarySequel4/1/2020Fiction - Fantasy
20White SandBrandon Sanderson, Rik HoskinOwnTBR List4/3/2020Fiction - Fantasy
21MeditationsMarcus Aurelius, trans. A.S.L. FarquharsonLibraryEducational4/6/2020Nonfiction - Philosophy
22Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected SolutionsJohann HariLibraryTBR List4/8/2020Nonfiction - Self-help
23Hainish StoriesUrsula LeGuinOwnTBR List4/10/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
24The Alloy of LawBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/11/2020Fiction - Fantasy
25Shadows of SelfBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/12/2020Fiction - Fantasy
26The Bands of MourningBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/13/2020Fiction - Fantasy
27The Word for World is ForestUrsula LeGuinOwnTBR List4/19/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
28The Way of KingsBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/26/2020Fiction - Fantasy
29Words of RadianceBrandon SandersonOwnReread5/1/2020Fiction - Fantasy
30OathbringerBrandon SandersonOwnReread5/11/2020Fiction - Fantasy
31Hainish Stories Vol 2Ursula LeGuinOwnTBR List5/18/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
32Winds of FateMercedes LackeyOwnReread5/22/2020Fiction - Fantasy
33Winds of ChangeMercedes LackeyOwnReread5/23/2020Fiction - Fantasy
34Winds of FuryMercedes LackeyOwnReread5/24/2020Fiction - Fantasy
35Storm WarningMercedes LackeyOwnReread5/25/2020Fiction - Fantasy
36Storm RisingMercedes LackeyOwnReread5/28/2020Fiction - Fantasy
37Storm BreakingMercedes LackeyOwnReread5/29/2020Fiction - Fantasy
38OwlflightMercedes LackeyOwnReread5/30/2020Fiction - Fantasy
39OwlsightMercedes LackeyOwnReread6/1/2020Fiction - Fantasy
40OwlknightMercedes LackeyOwnReread6/3/2020Fiction - Fantasy
41Five Ways to ForgivenessUrsula LeGuinOwnTBR List6/6/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
42Sapiens: A brief history of humankindYuval N HarariLibraryTBR List6/14/2020Nonfiction - History/Biography
43Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful GardeningLouise RiotteLibraryTBR List6/20/2020Nonfiction - Home and Garden
44The TellingUrsula LeGuinOwnTBR List6/24/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
45Arcanum UnboundedBrandon SandersonOwnReread6/27/2020Fiction - Fantasy
46The Chronicles of Pern: First FallAnne McCaffreyOwnReread6/28/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
47DragonsdawnAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/3/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
48DragonseyeAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/4/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
49Moreta: Dragonlady of PernAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/5/2020Fiction - Fantasy
50Nerilka's StoryAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/6/2020Fiction - Fantasy
51Art Through the Eyes of Mad PoetsEd. Eileen M. D'AngeloOwnOther7/7/2020General Nonfiction
52The Girl who Heard DragonsAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/11/2020Fiction - Science Fiction
53The Masterharper of PernAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/12/2020Fiction - Fantasy
54DragonflightAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/12/2020Fiction - Fantasy
55DragonquestAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/16/2020Fiction - Fantasy
56The White DragonAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/18/2020Fiction - Fantasy
57DragonsongAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/18/2020Fiction - Fantasy
58DragonsingerAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/19/2020Fiction - Fantasy
59DragondrumsAnne McCaffreyOwnReread7/19/2020Fiction - Fantasy

60The Fairy GodmotherMercedes LackeyOwnReread7/24/2020Fiction - Fantasy
61Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of HomeJulie Moir Messervy, Sarah SusankaLibraryTBR List7/26/2020Nonfiction - Home and Garden
62One Good KnightMercedes LackeyOwnReread7/27/2020Fiction - Fantasy
63Fortune's FoolMercedes LackeyOwnReread7/29/2020Fiction - Fantasy
64The Snow QueenMercedes LackeyOwnReread8/2/2020Fiction - Fantasy
65The Sleeping BeautyMercedes LackeyOwnReread8/3/2020Fiction - Fantasy

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #504 on: August 04, 2020, 06:30:21 AM »
January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May
54) Fallvann (Waterfall water) by Mikael Niemi
55) The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
56) Folk med angst (People with fear) by Fredrik Backman
57) Hr. Penumbras døgnåpne bokhandel (Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour open book store) by Robin Sloan
58) Maurtuemordene (The anthill murders) by Hans Olav Lahlum

August:
59) Harold Fry's utrolige pilegrimsferd (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry) by Rachel Joice
60) Norske tilstander (Norwegian state of affairs) by Lars Lenth

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #505 on: August 06, 2020, 01:48:25 AM »
1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.
37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
38) The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher.
39) Deep Work - Cal Newport.
40) Daily Rituals - Mason Currey
41) The Way Home - Mark Boyle.
42) Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
43) Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
44) Walking the Pennine Way - Paddy Dillon
45) Against Empathy - Paul Bloom.

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #506 on: August 07, 2020, 12:27:53 AM »
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25. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
26. Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
27. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
28. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
29. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
30. All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank
31. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

32. North: Finding my way while running the Appalachian Trail by Scott and Jenny Jurek

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50 books in 2020!
« Reply #507 on: August 07, 2020, 06:17:08 AM »
1) Where Do I Begin by Elvis Duran
2) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
3) The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
4) The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay
5) Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
6) When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
7) Do Over by Jon Acuff
8) Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
9) The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
10) The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moye
11) The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
12) Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
13)The Villa in Italy by Elizabeth Edmondson
14) The 9 faces of HR by Kris Dunn
15) in a dark wood by Ruth Ware
16) Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
17) Love, Warrior by Glennon Doyle
18) HR On Purpose by Steve Browne
19) Open Book by Jessica Simpson
20) The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
21) Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop
22) Happiness Is A Choice You Make by John Leland
23) The Light of The World by Elizabeth Alexander
24) Watching You by Lisa Jewell
25) Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
26) Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
27) Beach Read by Emily Henry

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #508 on: August 07, 2020, 11:01:30 AM »
2020
1. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer*
2. Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton...the end
3. Beyond the Point by Claire Gibson. Novel about women at West  Point.
4. Working Stiff by Tori Carrington
5. Lights Out, Sleep, Sugar and Survival by T.S.Wiley with Bent Formby, PhD. Full disclosure. I did  not finish. I  got pretty far.  This book was terribly written, not at all factual,  no research based results.  I cannot bring myself to donate or back to the little free library. It's going to be recycled.
6. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me  (and other concerns) by Mindy Kaling *
7. Once a Runner by John L. Parker Jr.
8. The Orphan Thief by Glynis Peters
9. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
10. Out To Work by Alice Kessler-Harris. * This was subtitled  "a history of wage earning women in the United States". Very interesting and illuminating book.  A bit hard to read,  very small print. Plus I think it's a textbook.
11.  Three Sisters by Susan Mallery (fiction/romance.  Fun read.)
12.  One Good Deed by David Baldacci.  This was good.  I'm not sure what the good deed was though.
13.  What We Forgot to Bury by Marin Montgomery.  A thriller that I read on the kindle, for free on a "free first reads". Pretty good.
14.  Shock Wave by  John Sandford.  Props to my friend Mindy who gave me a pile of books.
15.  Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes.  "We don't get fat because we overeat.  We overeat because we get fat."
16.  Invisible Prey by John Sandford.  I'd forgotten how much I like his books.  We stopped reading because they got really dark, but this one wasn't too bad.
17.  Storm Prey by John Sandford
18.  The 131 Method by Chalene Johnson (from the little free library).  Healthy food, talks quite a bit about intermittent fasting and lower carb eating.
19.  Flat Belly Diet by Cynthia Sass, Liz Vaccariello.  Another little free library book.  This book, like Why We Get Fat, goes into quite a bit of depth about hormones and insulin and fat gain and fat loss.  I was impressed with the detail.  I will probably keep this book as a general health reference.
20.  Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Good book.  To keep our teen reading, we are doing a family book club. Next up is The Hunger games trilogy.
21. The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew) by Carolyn Keene. I started reading this to the little one.  He got bored.
22.  Stolen Prey by John Sandford.  I'm on a roll with John Sandford
23.  The Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins
24.  A Woman's World edited by Marybeth Bond. Short true stories and excerpts about women and travel.  Very good  until the last chapter,  which was depressing and kinda ruined the book.
25.  Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
26.  Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #509 on: August 08, 2020, 06:18:26 AM »
1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.
37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
38) The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher.
39) Deep Work - Cal Newport.
40) Daily Rituals - Mason Currey
41) The Way Home - Mark Boyle.
42) Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
43) Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
44) Walking the Pennine Way - Paddy Dillon
45) Against Empathy - Paul Bloom.
46) Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey. Haven't read much fantasy/sci-fi for many years, last read this as a teenager. I was expecting it to be fairly trashy, but it wasn't.

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #510 on: August 08, 2020, 01:05:32 PM »
January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May
54) Fallvann (Waterfall water) by Mikael Niemi
55) The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
56) Folk med angst (People with fear) by Fredrik Backman
57) Hr. Penumbras døgnåpne bokhandel (Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour open book store) by Robin Sloan
58) Maurtuemordene (The anthill murders) by Hans Olav Lahlum

August:
59) Harold Fry's utrolige pilegrimsferd (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry) by Rachel Joice
60) Norske tilstander (Norwegian state of affairs) by Lars Lenth
61) Gode varsler (Good omens) by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Last book read.

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #511 on: August 08, 2020, 05:38:17 PM »
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25. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
26. Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
27. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
28. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
29. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
30. All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank
31. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

32. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good by Kathleen Flinn

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« Reply #512 on: August 09, 2020, 10:12:17 AM »
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49) The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, Ian Baker
50) Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw 
51) The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel Van Der Kolk (trauma informed therapy)
52) In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration, Shane O'Mara
53) Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor, YA
54) The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, Olivia Laing **
55) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing & Life, Anne Lamott
56) We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib--up for Canada Reads 2020
57) The Summer Book, Tove Jansson

recently finished
58) Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Ben Goldfarb *such respect for these creatures, a really well-written and researched book. Recommend for those curious about the natural world
59) All's Well: Where Thou Are Earth and Why, John Lefebvre

working on
60) Sober Curious, Ruby Warrington
61) Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best & Worst, Robert Sapolsky (put down this book due to the heavy neuroscience aspect but I am back into it..)
62) The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (a 50 hour audiobook---have been working on this on & off for weeks and am only 19 hours in but strange & interesting..)
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« Reply #513 on: August 09, 2020, 11:00:16 AM »
1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.
37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
38) The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher.
39) Deep Work - Cal Newport.
40) Daily Rituals - Mason Currey
41) The Way Home - Mark Boyle.
42) Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
43) Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
44) Walking the Pennine Way - Paddy Dillon
45) Against Empathy - Paul Bloom.
46) Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey.

47) Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

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« Reply #514 on: August 11, 2020, 10:29:52 AM »
23) The Library Book, Susan Orlean      I can’t remember who recommended this one, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Thank you MMM’ers.

24) Maud’s Country, Landscapes of Nova Scotia Through the Eyes of Maud Lewis by Lance Woolaver with pictures by Bob Brooks

I have started Origins, Sapiens, Algonquin Park and the Hidden Life of Trees but keep trying to keep up with the library books that come in on order.  I didn't get Circe finished and it was due back at the library and a couple of people were waiting for it.  I will order it again, once I finish up some of books that are hanging out on my bedside table.

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« Reply #515 on: August 11, 2020, 05:25:50 PM »
1. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (library)
2. Classical Mythology, Elizabeth Vandiver (borrowed)
3. The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (library)
4. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (library)
5. The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione (own, pre-2020)
6. Druid Magic Handbook, John Michael Greer (own, new)
7. Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin (own, pre-2020)
8. Beowulf, trans. Gerald Davis (own, pre-2020)
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (own, re-read, pre-2020)
10. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, Shannon Hayes (own)
11. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach (own)
12. Respect the Spindle, Abby Franquemont (own)
13. The World of Byzantium, Kenneth Harl (borrowed)
14. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
15. The Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
16. Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (library)
17. The Social Life of Coffee, Brian Cowan (own, pre-2020)
18. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)
19. The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, Martha Brown et al (library)
20. How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell (library)
21. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (library)
22. Early Uses of California Plants, Edward K Balls (own, pre-2020)
23. The Vine Witch, Luanne G. Smith (own)
24. Modern Tarot, Michelle Tea (own)
25. The Field Guide to Birds: California, Mel Baughman (own, pre-2020)
26. The Black Death, Dorsey Armstrong (own, pre-2020)
27. 1940s Fashion, Emmanuelle Dirix (own, pre-2020)

28. An Essay on Medieval Economic Teaching, George O'Brien (own, pre-2020). Old school but a really nice intro to this topic for someone who's otherwise not very super versed in it -- it's an academic work but it's approachable and the author's biases are clear and he makes no bones about them, which I appreciate it.

Currently reading:

Flour Salt Water Yeast, Ken Forkish (borrowed)
King Arthur, Dorsey Armstrong (borrowed)
The Girl in the Tower, Katherine Arden (library)

Pre-2020 books: 10/15

Local natural history and ecology: 3/9

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #516 on: August 11, 2020, 10:26:14 PM »
1. A Gentleman in Moscow. Amor Towles. this is a marvellous book. I enjoyed reading it immensely. Wonderful prose.
2. The Ten Thousand Doors of January. Alex E. Harrow.  I enjoyed this book, would recommend it.
3. The Binding. Bridget Collins. I really loved this style and the storytelling.
4. The 5am Club. Robin S. Sharma. I couldn't finished this book. It was terrible. I really like his other books. Disappointing.
5. Fleishman is in Trouble. Taffy Brodesser-Akner. An easy read, I enjoyed the narrative about modern relationships.
6. Still Life. Louise Penny. A wonderful and addictive read.
7. A Fatal Grace. Louise Penny. Still fabulous.
8. Less. Andrew Sean Greer. An easy, fun read.
9. The Cruellest Month. Louise Penny. Left wanting more...
10. A rule against Murder. Louise Penny. What will I do when this series ends?????
11. The Katharina Code. Jorn Lier Horst. A slow burn, enjoyable read.
12. My sister, the Serial Killer.  Oyinkan Braithwaite. I wanted to like this but it fizzled out for me. It could have been so wonderful, but lacked a depth (IMHO.)
13. Mrs Sherlock Holmes. Brad Ricca. I really, really enjoyed this.
14. The Art of Frugal Hedonism. Adam Grubb and Annie Raser-Rowland. OK.
15. Meet the Frugalwoods. Elisabeth Willard Thames. I have followed her blog on and off since their Cambridge days and when she posted here. The book gave some extra insights.
16. The book of Dreams. Nina George. This was a beautiful, heartbreaking story. I loved it.
17. Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship.  Isabel Vincent. I'm not sure if I enjoyed this one. I loved the idea, but felt it could've been edited more. After reading so many wonderful novels, I may be becoming picky.


I haven't been back in here for a while...

18. Bury your Dead. Louise Penny.  Brilliant.
19. Rules of Civility. Amor Towles. I really loved A gentleman in Moscow and was reluctant to read this in case it wasn't as good. It was superb. This man can tell a great story!
20. The moment of lift: how empowering women changes the world. I liked this. It was an interesting perspective, especially in the current climate and the many things being said about the Gates family.
21. The Starless Sea. Erin Morgenstern. Fantastic. Sad. Beautiful. Heartbreaking. Worth reading.
22. The Giver of Stars. JoJo Moyes. One of my favourite reads of the year. Not something I would normally choose but I wanted it to continue as I connected to the characters so deeply.
23. Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed. Lori Gottlieb. I really enjoyed this. A fascinating insight into how humanity thinks.
24. Unfollow : a journey from hatred to hope, leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. Megan Phelps-Roper. Fascinating. I couldn't look away. An illuminating memoir like no other.
25. Daisy Jones & the Six. Taylor Jenkins Reid. The format of this novel is very cool, I had not read one like it before. A light, fun read.
26. The Beautiful Mystery. Louise Penny. I think this is my favourite so far. Set in a remote monastery.
27. The Dutch house. Ann Patchett. I wasn't sure about this but it grew on me and was such an understated story, I truly enjoyed it.
28. Ask again, yes. Mary Beth Keane. A slow start, but then I couldn't put it down.
29. The goldfinch. Donna Tartt. This has been on my list for a long time as I loved A Secret History. A great story but I had to jump in and out of it as I was so frustrated and edgy with the main character. I loved the ending.
30. Normal People.  Sally Rooney. An easy read, interesting play with time and perspective. I didn't like the characters but it was an enjoyable story.
31. The Long Way Home. Louise Penny. Another great read. Sad. Wonderful.
32. Perfume; The story of a murderer. Patrick Süskind. I couldn't finish this one.
33. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse. Charlie Mackesy. Not technically a novel, but a beautiful book with gorgeous illustrations and a lovely story. I may be buying multiple copies for Christmas presents this year.
34. Gratitude. Oliver Sacks. A fantastic little book.
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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #517 on: August 11, 2020, 11:44:51 PM »
January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May
54) Fallvann (Waterfall water) by Mikael Niemi
55) The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
56) Folk med angst (People with fear) by Fredrik Backman
57) Hr. Penumbras døgnåpne bokhandel (Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour open book store) by Robin Sloan
58) Maurtuemordene (The anthill murders) by Hans Olav Lahlum

August:
59) Harold Fry's utrolige pilegrimsferd (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry) by Rachel Joice
60) Norske tilstander (Norwegian state of affairs) by Lars Lenth
61) Gode varsler (Good omens) by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
62) Smarte planter (Smart Plants) by Stephano Mancuso

Last book read.

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #518 on: August 12, 2020, 09:12:48 AM »
I've been wanting to join this thread and now I can.  I used to read a lot, then life happened (job, kids, etc.) but then also there are a fair amount of excuses in there (if most of my random internet surfing time was converted to books, that would be a lot of books) and I'm trying to restart and track my progress.  I read a few library books earlier in the year but I'm not going to dig back in time and am going to try to do... at least six books in the second half of the year.  (Starting small).

1.  All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Started a new book last night. 


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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #519 on: August 12, 2020, 09:47:10 AM »
1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.
37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
38) The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher.
39) Deep Work - Cal Newport.
40) Daily Rituals - Mason Currey
41) The Way Home - Mark Boyle.
42) Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
43) Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
44) Walking the Pennine Way - Paddy Dillon
45) Against Empathy - Paul Bloom.
46) Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey.

47) Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

48) A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin. Had to be done at some point, I suppose.

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« Reply #520 on: August 12, 2020, 01:10:11 PM »
(1) The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemison
(2) Faithful Place by Tana French
(3) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
(4) Lessons from Lucy by Dave Barry
(5) The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
(6) Broken Harbor by Tana French
(7) If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now by Christopher Ingraham
(8) The Wisdom Way of Knowing by Cynthia Bourgeault
(9) The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carey
(10) Zealot by Reza Aslan
(11) The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
(12) The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Meyer
(13) The Secret Place by Tana French
(14) The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
(15) Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
(16) American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
(17) Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(18) Lagom (not too little, not too much): The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life by Niki Brantmark
(19) The Trespasser by Tana French
(20) The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
(21) Why We Can't Sleep by Ada Calhoun
(22) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
(23) One Year to an Organized Life by Regina Leeds
(24) The End of October by Lawrence Wright
(25) The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
(26) The Nature Fix by Florence Wiliams
(27) The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
(28) This is How it Begins by Joan Dempsey
(29) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
(30) China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
(31) A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
(32) Severance by Ling Ma
(33) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
(34) Deep Work by Cal Newport
(35) A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
(36) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

(38) The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
(39) Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #521 on: August 13, 2020, 11:12:46 AM »
1) I, Robot by Issac Asimov
2) The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
3) Abaddon's Gate by James SA Corey
4) Cibola Burn by James SA Corey
5) The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
6) Nemesis Games by James SA Corey
7) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling
8) A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin


9) Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn
10) Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn
11) The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
12) The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
13) Babylon's Ashes by James SA Corey
14) Persepolis Rising by James SA Corey
15) Tiamat's Wrath by James SA Corey
16) The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

17) Unreleased sci-fi sequel novel written by my SO

18) Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
19) Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson

Currently Reading:

The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L Schirer

edit: Also read: The Tower of Swallows and The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski,  Dune and Dune Messiah By Frank Herbert (I'm a mess)
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« Reply #522 on: August 13, 2020, 11:53:10 AM »
2020
1. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer*
2. Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton...the end
3. Beyond the Point by Claire Gibson. Novel about women at West  Point.
4. Working Stiff by Tori Carrington
5. Lights Out, Sleep, Sugar and Survival by T.S.Wiley with Bent Formby, PhD. Full disclosure. I did  not finish. I  got pretty far.  This book was terribly written, not at all factual,  no research based results.  I cannot bring myself to donate or back to the little free library. It's going to be recycled.
6. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me  (and other concerns) by Mindy Kaling *
7. Once a Runner by John L. Parker Jr.
8. The Orphan Thief by Glynis Peters
9. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
10. Out To Work by Alice Kessler-Harris. * This was subtitled  "a history of wage earning women in the United States". Very interesting and illuminating book.  A bit hard to read,  very small print. Plus I think it's a textbook.
11.  Three Sisters by Susan Mallery (fiction/romance.  Fun read.)
12.  One Good Deed by David Baldacci.  This was good.  I'm not sure what the good deed was though.
13.  What We Forgot to Bury by Marin Montgomery.  A thriller that I read on the kindle, for free on a "free first reads". Pretty good.
14.  Shock Wave by  John Sandford.  Props to my friend Mindy who gave me a pile of books.
15.  Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes.  "We don't get fat because we overeat.  We overeat because we get fat."
16.  Invisible Prey by John Sandford.  I'd forgotten how much I like his books.  We stopped reading because they got really dark, but this one wasn't too bad.
17.  Storm Prey by John Sandford
18.  The 131 Method by Chalene Johnson (from the little free library).  Healthy food, talks quite a bit about intermittent fasting and lower carb eating.
19.  Flat Belly Diet by Cynthia Sass, Liz Vaccariello.  Another little free library book.  This book, like Why We Get Fat, goes into quite a bit of depth about hormones and insulin and fat gain and fat loss.  I was impressed with the detail.  I will probably keep this book as a general health reference.
20.  Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Good book.  To keep our teen reading, we are doing a family book club. Next up is The Hunger games trilogy.
21. The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew) by Carolyn Keene. I started reading this to the little one.  He got bored.
22.  Stolen Prey by John Sandford.  I'm on a roll with John Sandford
23.  The Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins
24.  A Woman's World edited by Marybeth Bond. Short true stories and excerpts about women and travel.  Very good  until the last chapter,  which was depressing and kinda ruined the book.
25.  Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
26.  Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
27.  American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #523 on: August 14, 2020, 07:24:18 AM »
January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May
54) Fallvann (Waterfall water) by Mikael Niemi
55) The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
56) Folk med angst (People with fear) by Fredrik Backman
57) Hr. Penumbras døgnåpne bokhandel (Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour open book store) by Robin Sloan
58) Maurtuemordene (The anthill murders) by Hans Olav Lahlum

August:
59) Harold Fry's utrolige pilegrimsferd (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry) by Rachel Joice
60) Norske tilstander (Norwegian state of affairs) by Lars Lenth
61) Gode varsler (Good omens) by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
62) Smarte planter (Smart Plants) by Stephano Mancuso
63) Ualminnelige mennesker (Extraordinary People) by Peter May

Last book read.

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27. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
28. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
29. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
30. All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank
31. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
32. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good by Kathleen Flinn

A middle grade/YA fest with my kiddo:
33. Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories by R. J. Palacio
34. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin

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« Reply #525 on: August 15, 2020, 08:47:50 PM »
1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).
2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 
3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.
4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.
5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.
6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.
7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 
8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.
9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 
10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 
11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/
12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 
13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.
14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).
15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.
16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).
17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.
18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.
19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.
20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.
21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).
22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.
23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).
24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.
25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.
26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.
27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20.
28. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, finished 6/19/20 (audio).
29. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, finished 6/28/20 (audio).
30. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, finished 7/3/20 (audio). 
31. A Simple Favor, by Darcey Bell, finished 7/7/20 (audio).
32. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen, finished 7/8/20.
33. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama, finished 7/16/20 (audio).
34. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson, finished 7/25/20 (audio).
35. Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, finished 7/29/20.

36. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, finished 8/15/20.  The author made me so thoroughly detached from (if not exactly disliking) the characters
Spoiler: show
that I could not care less when most of them were redeemed at the end and given a happy ending.
I still appreciated the interesting storyline and the writing as well, but overall didn't find it particularly compelling, as I had sort of expected my first Franzen novel to do.

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #526 on: August 16, 2020, 02:32:05 AM »
Update from May:
*Books I own

73.   *The Garden of the Gods (Corfu trilogy) – Gerald Durrell (reread)
74.   You deserve each other – Sarah Hogle
75.   The Jane Austen Project – Kathleen A Flynn
76.   *The Rosie Effect – Graeme Simsion (reread)
77.   *The Universe versus Alex Woods – Gavin Extence (reread)
78.   *Girl 16, Pants on Fire – Sue Limb (YA, reread)
79.   *Girl 15, Flirting for England – Sue Limb (YA, reread)
80.   *Girl 16, Five Star Fiasco – Sue Limb (YA, reread)
81.   Confessions of a Bad Mother: the Teenage Years – Stephanie Calman
82.   Remain Silent (#2 Manon Bradshaw #) – Susie Steiner
83.   The Girl I used to be – Marj Torjussen
84.   *Adrian Mole: Weapons of Mass Destruction – Sue Townsend
85.   *Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
86.   What you want to see (#2 Roxanne Weary) – Kristen Lepionka
87.   Such a fun age – Kiley Reid
88.   The Standing Chandelier – Lionel Shriver
89.   *Chocolate SOS – Sue Limb (YA, reread)

JULY
90.   The Grip of it – Jac Jemc
91.   Jane in love – Rachel Givney
92.   Would like to meet – Rachel Winters
93.   The Motion of the body through space – Lionel Shriver
94.   The Glass Hotel – Emily St John Mandel
95.   One of us is next – Karen McManus (YA)
96.   The Benefit of Hindsight (#10 Simon Serrallier) – Susan Hill
97.   The Flat share – Beth O’Leary
98.   Beach read – Emily Henry
99.   *Moranifesto – Caitlin Moran (reread)
100.   *Walking Away – Simon Armitage

AUGUST
101.   Magpie Lane – Lucy Atkins (wonderful!)
102.   The Four Graces – D.E. Stevenson (absolutely delightful)
103.   Sorry I’m late, I didn’t want to come – Jessican Pan (genuinely amusing)
104.   *The Family Tree – Carole Cadwalladr (reread #5)
105.   The Swap – Beth O’Leary
106.   Five hundred miles from you – Jenny Colgan
107.   Ten minutes 38 seconds in this strange world – Elif Shafak
108.   *If this isn’t nice, what is? – Kurt Vonnegut
109. Retrosuburbia - David Holgren
110. The Knit Vibe - Vicki Holgren

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« Reply #527 on: August 16, 2020, 06:03:04 AM »
How is The Glass Hotel?

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« Reply #528 on: August 16, 2020, 07:09:11 AM »
1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.
37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
38) The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher.
39) Deep Work - Cal Newport.
40) Daily Rituals - Mason Currey
41) The Way Home - Mark Boyle
42) Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
43) Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
44) Walking the Pennine Way - Paddy Dillon
45) Against Empathy - Paul Bloom
46) Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey
47) Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
48) A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
49) A Clash of Kings - George RR Martin

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #529 on: August 16, 2020, 08:36:47 PM »
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27. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
28. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
29. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
30. All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank
31. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
32. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good by Kathleen Flinn

A middle grade/YA fest with kiddo #2:
33. Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories by R. J. Palacio
34. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin
35. Sweeping Up the Heart by Kevin Henkes
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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #530 on: August 17, 2020, 01:45:58 AM »
How is The Glass Hotel?
I loved the first half, then meh (but that was probably because I was comparing it to Station Eleven which I have read 3 times and utterly adore. Ponzi schemes just don't do it for me!) Her writing is still wonderful though.

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« Reply #531 on: August 17, 2020, 05:09:50 AM »
That's why I was wondering - I really liked Station Eleven too

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« Reply #532 on: August 18, 2020, 01:45:51 AM »
January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May
54) Fallvann (Waterfall water) by Mikael Niemi
55) The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
56) Folk med angst (People with fear) by Fredrik Backman
57) Hr. Penumbras døgnåpne bokhandel (Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour open book store) by Robin Sloan
58) Maurtuemordene (The anthill murders) by Hans Olav Lahlum

August:
59) Harold Fry's utrolige pilegrimsferd (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry) by Rachel Joice
60) Norske tilstander (Norwegian state of affairs) by Lars Lenth
61) Gode varsler (Good omens) by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
62) Smarte planter (Smart Plants) by Stephano Mancuso
63) Ualminnelige mennesker (Extraordinary People) by Peter May
64) Lyden av fjell (The sound of mountains) by Cathrine Evelid

Last book read.

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« Reply #533 on: August 18, 2020, 02:03:17 AM »
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27. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
28. The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
29. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
30. All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank
31. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
32. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good by Kathleen Flinn
33. Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories by R. J. Palacio
34. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin
35. Sweeping Up the Heart by Kevin Henkes

36. The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn

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« Reply #534 on: August 18, 2020, 06:58:32 AM »
AUGUST
111. The Long, dark tea-time of the soul (#2 Dirk Gently) - Douglas Adams (own copy)

Plus dipping into heaps of beautiful gardening books and dreaming of Spring.

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54) The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, Olivia Laing
55) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing & Life, Anne Lamott
56) We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib
57) The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
58) Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Ben Goldfarb
59) All's Well: Where Thou Are Earth and Why, John Lefebvre

recently finished
60) Sober Curious, Ruby Warrington
61) Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best & Worst, Robert Sapolsky *skimmed the last 1/4, just couldn't stay committed
62) Circe, Madeleine Miller *enjoyed this book immensely even though I am not usually a mythology fan
63) Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, Anne Lammott *my sister recommended since I enjoyed Bird by Bird--but this was a bit more Christian-y so I didn't love it as much :)

working on
64) The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (a 50 hour audiobook---have been working on this on & off for weeks and am 19 hours 23 hours in)
65) Black Water: Family, Legacy and Blood Memory, David A.Robertson
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« Reply #536 on: August 19, 2020, 04:06:40 PM »
1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.
37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
38) The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher.
39) Deep Work - Cal Newport.
40) Daily Rituals - Mason Currey
41) The Way Home - Mark Boyle
42) Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
43) Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
44) Walking the Pennine Way - Paddy Dillon
45) Against Empathy - Paul Bloom
46) Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey
47) Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
48) A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
49) A Clash of Kings - George RR Martin

50) Around the world in 80 trains - Monisha Rajesh. Fantastic travel writing. A British woman and her fiance quit their jobs to spend 7 months travelling 45 000 miles by train, unsurprisingly, they have lots of interesting adventures. Very witty and thoughtful. I'll definitely try to get her previous book.

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« Reply #537 on: August 19, 2020, 05:29:41 PM »
1) Where Do I Begin by Elvis Duran
2) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
3) The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
4) The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay
5) Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
6) When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
7) Do Over by Jon Acuff
8) Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
9) The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
10) The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moye
11) The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
12) Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
13)The Villa in Italy by Elizabeth Edmondson
14) The 9 faces of HR by Kris Dunn
15) in a dark wood by Ruth Ware
16) Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
17) Love, Warrior by Glennon Doyle
18) HR On Purpose by Steve Browne
19) Open Book by Jessica Simpson
20) The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
21) Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop
22) Happiness Is A Choice You Make by John Leland
23) The Light of The World by Elizabeth Alexander
24) Watching You by Lisa Jewell
25) Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
26) Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
27) Beach Read by Emily Henry
28) Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand
29) The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #538 on: August 20, 2020, 04:09:12 PM »
(1) The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemison
(2) Faithful Place by Tana French
(3) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
(4) Lessons from Lucy by Dave Barry
(5) The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
(6) Broken Harbor by Tana French
(7) If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now by Christopher Ingraham
(8) The Wisdom Way of Knowing by Cynthia Bourgeault
(9) The Girl with all the Gifts by M. R. Carey
(10) Zealot by Reza Aslan
(11) The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
(12) The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Meyer
(13) The Secret Place by Tana French
(14) The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
(15) Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
(16) American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
(17) Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(18) Lagom (not too little, not too much): The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life by Niki Brantmark
(19) The Trespasser by Tana French
(20) The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
(21) Why We Can't Sleep by Ada Calhoun
(22) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
(23) One Year to an Organized Life by Regina Leeds
(24) The End of October by Lawrence Wright
(25) The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
(26) The Nature Fix by Florence Wiliams
(27) The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
(28) This is How it Begins by Joan Dempsey
(29) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
(30) China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
(31) A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
(32) Severance by Ling Ma
(33) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
(34) Deep Work by Cal Newport
(35) A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
(36) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
(38) The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
(39) Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

(40) On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
(41) Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #539 on: August 22, 2020, 01:32:55 AM »
AUGUST

112. Heida: A Shepherd at the edge of the world - Steinunn sigurdardottir & Heida Asgeirsdottir - absolutely gorgeous read!
113. Your Wellbeing garden: How to make your garden good for you - Alistair Griffiths - lots of lovely inspiring photos
114. Garden style - Selina Lake - pure garden p0rn

Currently reading:
The Ivington Diaries - Monty Don
Men without women - Haruki Murakami
The End of Time - Gavin Extence
Far from the Madding crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Starless sea - Erin Morgenstern

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #540 on: August 22, 2020, 03:30:12 PM »
AUGUST

112. Heida: A Shepherd at the edge of the world - Steinunn sigurdardottir & Heida Asgeirsdottir - absolutely gorgeous read!


ooh--this one looks great. thanks for highlighting that you enjoyed it--I just purchased the kindle version :)

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #541 on: August 22, 2020, 05:59:27 PM »
1.  The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).
2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 
3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.
4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.
5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.
6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.
7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 
8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.
9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 
10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 
11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/
12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 
13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.
14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).
15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.
16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).
17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.
18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.
19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.
20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.
21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).
22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.
23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).
24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.
25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.
26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.
27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20.
28. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, finished 6/19/20 (audio).
29. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, finished 6/28/20 (audio).
30. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, finished 7/3/20 (audio). 
31. A Simple Favor, by Darcey Bell, finished 7/7/20 (audio).
32. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen, finished 7/8/20.
33. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama, finished 7/16/20 (audio).
34. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson, finished 7/25/20 (audio).
35. Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, finished 7/29/20.
36. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, finished 8/15/20.
37. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, finished 8/22/20 (audio). Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature.  I enjoyed it, perhaps particularly for the reader on the audio version who I feel like really embodies the narrator in her inflections (or lack thereof, sometimes).  It's a quirky murder-mystery.

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« Reply #542 on: August 23, 2020, 07:08:09 AM »
1) Behave - Robert Sapolsky.
2) Lonely Planet - 50 natural wonders.
3) Lonely Planet - Hiking in Spain.
4) The Secret Commonwealth - The Book of Dust Volume 2 - Philip Pullman.
5) The University of Hard Knocks, by Ralph Parlette.
6) Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
7) Connie - Harry Pearson
8) Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -  ‎Haruki Murakami
9) Small Island - Andrea Levy.
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. 
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
12) The Secret Barrister - Anonymous.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec.
14) The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
15) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Yvon Chouinard
16) Harvest - Jim Crace
17) Educated - Tara Westover
18) The Plague - Albert Camus
19) A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
20) The return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
21) The Meursault Investigation - Kamel Daoud.
22) The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer.
23) The Atoms of Language - Mark Baker.
24) The Summer Book - Tove Jansson.
25) Holding - Graham Norton.
26) Cicerone Walking Guide, The Dales Way - Terry Marsh.
27) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
28) The West Highland Way. (another walking guide)
29) The 39 Steps - John Buchan.
30) Budapest, nofel i ddysgwyr - Elin Meek.
31) The Eggshell War - Eric Marsh.
32) This Is Memorial Device - David Keanan.
33) Aurora: In search of the northern lights - Melanie Windridge.
34) Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata.
35) Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow - Jerome K Jerome.
36) The Edge of Memory - Patrick Nunn.
37) The Storm before the Storm. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
38) The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher.
39) Deep Work - Cal Newport.
40) Daily Rituals - Mason Currey
41) The Way Home - Mark Boyle
42) Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
43) Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
44) Walking the Pennine Way - Paddy Dillon
45) Against Empathy - Paul Bloom
46) Dragonquest - Anne McCaffrey
47) Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
48) A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
49) A Clash of Kings - George RR Martin
50) Around the world in 80 trains - Monisha Rajesh.

51) The Summer Isles - Philip Marsden
52) The Good Life for Wage Slaves - Robert Wringham

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« Reply #543 on: August 23, 2020, 09:45:43 AM »
1. The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay, finished 01/02/2020 (audio).
2. Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California by Pamela Peirce, finished 01/10/2020. 
3. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem, finished 01/11/2020.
4. Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell, finished 01/13/2020.
5. Meridian, by Alice Walker, finished 01/26/2020.
6. Dawn, by Octavia Butler, finished 01/29/2020.
7. Women & Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard, finished 01/31/2020. 
8. Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, finished 02/14/2020.
9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton, finished 02/19/2020 (audio). 
10. There There, by Tommy Orange, finished 2/20/2020. 
11.  The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Updated 10th Anniversary Edition), by Peter Singer, finished 2/27/2020 (audio). The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/
12. The Witches are Coming, by Lindy West, finished 3/7/2020 (audio). 
13. Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson, finished 3/8/2020.
14. This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, finished 3/9/2020 (audio).
15. Still Life, by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/2020.
16. The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett, finished 3/21/2020 (audio).
17. Slow Horses, by Mick Herron, finished 4/4/2020.
18. Adulthood Rites, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/18/20.
19. Imago, by Octavia Butler, finished 4/25/20.
20. The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, finished 5/7/20.
21. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow, finished 5/7/20 (audio).
22. In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, by James D. Houston, finished 5/18/20.
23. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", by Zora Neale Hurston, finished 5/22/20 (audio).
24. Magic for Liars, by Sarah Gailey, finsihed 5/22/20.
25. The Answers, by Catherine Lacey, finished 5/31/20.
26. Circe, by Madeline Miller, finished 6/8/20.
27. The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, finished 6/17/20.
28. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, finished 6/19/20 (audio).
29. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, finished 6/28/20 (audio).
30. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, finished 7/3/20 (audio). 
31. A Simple Favor, by Darcey Bell, finished 7/7/20 (audio).
32. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen, finished 7/8/20.
33. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama, finished 7/16/20 (audio).
34. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson, finished 7/25/20 (audio).
35. Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, finished 7/29/20.
36. Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, finished 8/15/20.
37. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, finished 8/22/20 (audio).

38. The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. Harrow, finished 8/23/20. Really liked this book.  The author's prose is lovely and truly excellent at times.  Not quite as good at characterization or action scenes, but turns out I'm willing to forgive quite a bit in favor of the themes and ideas in the book.  Favorite quote that I wish I'd read as a younger girl, "The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it."

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #544 on: August 23, 2020, 03:34:13 PM »
1) Where Do I Begin by Elvis Duran
2) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
3) The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
4) The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay
5) Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
6) When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
7) Do Over by Jon Acuff
8) Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
9) The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
10) The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moye
11) The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
12) Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
13)The Villa in Italy by Elizabeth Edmondson
14) The 9 faces of HR by Kris Dunn
15) in a dark wood by Ruth Ware
16) Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
17) Love, Warrior by Glennon Doyle
18) HR On Purpose by Steve Browne
19) Open Book by Jessica Simpson
20) The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
21) Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop
22) Happiness Is A Choice You Make by John Leland
23) The Light of The World by Elizabeth Alexander
24) Watching You by Lisa Jewell
25) Do Nothing by Celeste Headlee
26) Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
27) Beach Read by Emily Henry
28) Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand
29) The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
30) The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #545 on: August 24, 2020, 01:02:26 AM »
1. A Gentleman in Moscow. Amor Towles. this is a marvellous book. I enjoyed reading it immensely. Wonderful prose.
2. The Ten Thousand Doors of January. Alex E. Harrow.  I enjoyed this book, would recommend it.
3. The Binding. Bridget Collins. I really loved this style and the storytelling.
4. The 5am Club. Robin S. Sharma. I couldn't finished this book. It was terrible. I really like his other books. Disappointing.
5. Fleishman is in Trouble. Taffy Brodesser-Akner. An easy read, I enjoyed the narrative about modern relationships.
6. Still Life. Louise Penny. A wonderful and addictive read.
7. A Fatal Grace. Louise Penny. Still fabulous.
8. Less. Andrew Sean Greer. An easy, fun read.
9. The Cruellest Month. Louise Penny. Left wanting more...
10. A rule against Murder. Louise Penny. What will I do when this series ends?????
11. The Katharina Code. Jorn Lier Horst. A slow burn, enjoyable read.
12. My sister, the Serial Killer.  Oyinkan Braithwaite. I wanted to like this but it fizzled out for me. It could have been so wonderful, but lacked a depth (IMHO.)
13. Mrs Sherlock Holmes. Brad Ricca. I really, really enjoyed this.
14. The Art of Frugal Hedonism. Adam Grubb and Annie Raser-Rowland. OK.
15. Meet the Frugalwoods. Elisabeth Willard Thames. I have followed her blog on and off since their Cambridge days and when she posted here. The book gave some extra insights.
16. The book of Dreams. Nina George. This was a beautiful, heartbreaking story. I loved it.
17. Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship.  Isabel Vincent. I'm not sure if I enjoyed this one. I loved the idea, but felt it could've been edited more. After reading so many wonderful novels, I may be becoming picky.
18. Bury your Dead. Louise Penny.  Brilliant.
19. Rules of Civility. Amor Towles. I really loved A gentleman in Moscow and was reluctant to read this in case it wasn't as good. It was superb. This man can tell a great story!
20. The moment of lift: how empowering women changes the world. I liked this. It was an interesting perspective, especially in the current climate and the many things being said about the Gates family.
21. The Starless Sea. Erin Morgenstern. Fantastic. Sad. Beautiful. Heartbreaking. Worth reading.
22. The Giver of Stars. JoJo Moyes. One of my favourite reads of the year. Not something I would normally choose but I wanted it to continue as I connected to the characters so deeply.
23. Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed. Lori Gottlieb. I really enjoyed this. A fascinating insight into how humanity thinks.
24. Unfollow : a journey from hatred to hope, leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. Megan Phelps-Roper. Fascinating. I couldn't look away. An illuminating memoir like no other.
25. Daisy Jones & the Six. Taylor Jenkins Reid. The format of this novel is very cool, I had not read one like it before. A light, fun read.
26. The Beautiful Mystery. Louise Penny. I think this is my favourite so far. Set in a remote monastery.
27. The Dutch house. Ann Patchett. I wasn't sure about this but it grew on me and was such an understated story, I truly enjoyed it.
28. Ask again, yes. Mary Beth Keane. A slow start, but then I couldn't put it down.
29. The goldfinch. Donna Tartt. This has been on my list for a long time as I loved A Secret History. A great story but I had to jump in and out of it as I was so frustrated and edgy with the main character. I loved the ending.
30. Normal People.  Sally Rooney. An easy read, interesting play with time and perspective. I didn't like the characters but it was an enjoyable story.
31. The Long Way Home. Louise Penny. Another great read. Sad. Wonderful.
32. Perfume; The story of a murderer. Patrick Süskind. I couldn't finish this one.
33. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse. Charlie Mackesy. Not technically a novel, but a beautiful book with gorgeous illustrations and a lovely story. I may be buying multiple copies for Christmas presents this year.
34. Gratitude. Oliver Sacks. A fantastic little book.

35. The Red Tent. Anita Diamant. I really enjoyed this one, it was recommended to me. Quite fascinating.
36. The Last Mrs Parish. Liv Constantine. It has been a long time since I read a book in one evening. I had to finish this one. Great read.

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #546 on: August 24, 2020, 10:22:21 AM »
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30. All Summer Long by Dorothea Benton Frank
31. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
32. Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good by Kathleen Flinn
33. Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories by R. J. Palacio
34. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin
35. Sweeping Up the Heart by Kevin Henkes
36. The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn

37. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #547 on: August 24, 2020, 11:37:33 AM »
1. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (library)
2. Classical Mythology, Elizabeth Vandiver (borrowed)
3. The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden (library)
4. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (library)
5. The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione (own, pre-2020)
6. Druid Magic Handbook, John Michael Greer (own, new)
7. Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin (own, pre-2020)
8. Beowulf, trans. Gerald Davis (own, pre-2020)
9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (own, re-read, pre-2020)
10. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture, Shannon Hayes (own)
11. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Mary Roach (own)
12. Respect the Spindle, Abby Franquemont (own)
13. The World of Byzantium, Kenneth Harl (borrowed)
14. The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
15. The Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski (borrowed)
16. Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (library)
17. The Social Life of Coffee, Brian Cowan (own, pre-2020)
18. The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)
19. The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus, Martha Brown et al (library)
20. How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell (library)
21. Record of a Spaceborn Few, Becky Chambers (library)
22. Early Uses of California Plants, Edward K Balls (own, pre-2020)
23. The Vine Witch, Luanne G. Smith (own)
24. Modern Tarot, Michelle Tea (own)
25. The Field Guide to Birds: California, Mel Baughman (own, pre-2020)
26. The Black Death, Dorsey Armstrong (own, pre-2020)
27. 1940s Fashion, Emmanuelle Dirix (own, pre-2020)
28. An Essay on Medieval Economic Teaching, George O'Brien (own, pre-2020)

29. King Arthur, Dorsey Armstrong (borrowed). Another great set of lectures, though not quuiiiiite as awesome as the Black Death series. Still, wonderful intro to the broad world of Arthuriana, and gave some good insight into some details of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. ;)

30. The Girl in the Tower, Katherine Arden (library). The second book in the series; I think it suffers a bit from second book syndrome, but overall I still enjoyed it quite a bit.

Currently reading:

Flour Salt Water Yeast, Ken Forkish (borrowed)
The Biology and Ecology of Giant Kelp Forests, David R. Schiel (library)
The Sandman, Dirk Maggs and Neil Gaiman (borrowed)
The Mountainy Singer, Joseph Campbell (own, new)

Pre-2020 books: 10/15

Local natural history and ecology: 3/9

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #548 on: August 24, 2020, 04:39:45 PM »
54) The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, Olivia Laing
55) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing & Life, Anne Lamott
56) We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib
57) The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
58) Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, Ben Goldfarb
59) All's Well: Where Thou Are Earth and Why, John Lefebvre
60) Sober Curious, Ruby Warrington
61) Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best & Worst, Robert Sapolsky
62) Circe, Madeleine Miller
63) Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers, Anne Lammott
64) The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas  (listened to 30/50 hrs of the audiobook and then it disappeared from my library circulation...)

recently finished
65) Black Water: Family, Legacy and Blood Memory, David A.Robertson

working on
66) Aesop's Fables *audiobook, delightful
67) The Glass Hotel, Emily St.John Mandel
68) American Dirt, Janine Cummins *bookclub

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Re: 50 books in 2020!
« Reply #549 on: August 25, 2020, 09:39:13 AM »
January:
1) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (started in December)
2) The Lie, a memoire of two marriages, catfishing and coming out by William Dameron
3) The Queston of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak
4) Grønn ungdom hele livet (Green youth my whole life), by Peter Tutein. Only read halfway.
5) Dubbel zes (Double Six) by Daphne Deckers
6) Ventoux by Bert Wagendorp
7) Svamp under mikroskopet (Mushrooms under the microscope) by Jan Nilsson
8) Vi må snakke om bakterier (We need to talk about bacteria) by Jessica Lönn-Stensrud
9) Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10) Resten av dagen (The Remains of the day) by Kazuo Ishiguro

February:
11) The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
12) Koke bjørn (Cooking bears) by Mikael Niemi
13) Kijkvoer & Leesgenot (Dutch poetry) by Michèl de Jong and Drs. P.
14) The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
15) Botanikum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis
16) Skog vil si samfunn (The Word for World is Forest) by Ursula le Guin
17) Blå (Blue) by Maja Lunde
18) Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
19) Ulvetider (an Era of Wolves) by Lars Lenth, Petter Böckman and Morten Tønnessen
20) Plukk selv (Forage yourself) by Trond Svendgård
21) Gratis mat av ville planter (Free Food from Wild Plants) by Jens Holmboe

March:
22) Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees
23) The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern
24) Six Degrees by Mark Lynas
25) The Dirtbag's Guide to Life by Tim Mathis
26) The Jakarta Pandemic by Steven Konkoly
27) The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
28) The Good Life by Marian Thurm

April:
29) In Dog we Trust by Neil S. Plakcy
30) In for the Kill by John Lutz
31) Severance by Ling Ma
32) Liv etter liv (Life after Life) by Kate Atkinson
33) The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstøl
34) The Alien Factor by Stan Lee

May:
35) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
36) Grønne, ville nyttevekster i Norge (Green, wild useful plants in Norway) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund
37) The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
38) Fermentert mat (Fermented Food) by Anne Elisabeth Scheen
39) Tyskerungen (Baby of a German) by Camilla Läckberg
40) How to fossilise your hamster by Mick O'Hare
41) I Trifidenes dager (In the days of the Trifids) by NRK Radioteateret (a radio play)

June:
42) Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson
43) Plant-man by Daniel Milford
44) Snared by Ed James
45) Het voedsel der Goden en hoe het op Aarde kwam (The Food of the Goods and how it came to Earth) by H.G. Wells
46) Mr Woolf by Jan Kjærstad
47) Przewalskis hest (Przewalski's horse) by Maja Lunde
48) Døgnåpent (Convenience Store Woman) by Sayaka Murata
49) Slutten på verden slik vi kjenner den (The End of the World as we know it) by Erlend Loe

July:
50) Svartedauen (Black Death) by Yngvar Ustvedt
51) the Break by Marian Keyes
52) Kurs for utdannelse av soppsakkyndige (Course for education of mushroom controllers) by Norges sopp- og nyttevekstforbund (a reread to refresh my knowledge for this season)
53) Coffin Road by Peter May
54) Fallvann (Waterfall water) by Mikael Niemi
55) The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
56) Folk med angst (People with fear) by Fredrik Backman
57) Hr. Penumbras døgnåpne bokhandel (Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour open book store) by Robin Sloan
58) Maurtuemordene (The anthill murders) by Hans Olav Lahlum

August:
59) Harold Fry's utrolige pilegrimsferd (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry) by Rachel Joice
60) Norske tilstander (Norwegian state of affairs) by Lars Lenth
61) Gode varsler (Good omens) by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
62) Smarte planter (Smart Plants) by Stephano Mancuso
63) Ualminnelige mennesker (Extraordinary People) by Peter May
64) Lyden av fjell (The sound of mountains) by Cathrine Evelid
65) Mengele zoo by Gert Nygårdshaug

Last book read.