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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #150 on: January 31, 2019, 11:51:47 AM »
1) Beyond religion - Dalai Lama
2) Twain's Feast (Audible)
3) Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson


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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #151 on: February 01, 2019, 03:21:48 AM »
  • Dark Sacred Night - Michael Connelly
  • Like a Virgin - Richard Branson
  • The Thirst - Jo Nesbo
  • Freakonomics - Levitt and Dubner

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #152 on: February 01, 2019, 02:57:19 PM »
Stolen from the internet:

Me: What's your favorite book?
Date: War and Peace
Me: *mouth full of McNuggets* No, you can only choose one

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« Reply #153 on: February 01, 2019, 03:44:26 PM »
1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
3. North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah
4. Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin

5. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
6. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #154 on: February 02, 2019, 07:28:01 PM »
5. The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer.

About effective altruism ie getting the most bang for your charity dollar. Very illuminating and after reading I am going to have a long hard think about my plan for ER. I was expecting to do various volunteer roles and also set up my own little not-for-profit little gig. But now I'm wondering if I should take a job and donate the income. Hmmm. In the meantime, I will talk to hubs, go over the budget and hopefully agree up a 10% donation schedule. 

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #155 on: February 03, 2019, 07:10:51 AM »
I didn't do quite as well as lentil, but I did read seven books last month. This month will be less than that.

1. The Big Oyster by Mark Kurlansky
2. Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux
3. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
4. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
5. The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
6. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
7. The Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #156 on: February 03, 2019, 08:16:18 AM »
Been reading up a storm as I have a break from the semester and work is not as intense. I'm thrilled to be finishing off some of my partially read books (about 8) as well as to get a jump on the goal.

For those that have libraries that support OverDrive, there are ton of books that you might be able to get as ebooks for free. The extra push for me has been that some of the libraries have tighter deadlines and long wait lists, so I have 2 weeks to finish or go back onto a long wait list. Deadlines are helpful!

Again, thank you to the original poster as well as MMM for this community.

Books read in January:

1   The Secret - Byrnes   
2   Girl, Wash Your Face - Hollis   (Had listened to this before reading, I LOVED it!)
3   (Un) Qualified - Furtick   
4   Notorious RBG - Carmon   
5   The Motivation Manifesto - Burchart   
6   The Ideal Team Player - Lencioni   
7   The Code of the Extraordinairy Mind - Lakhiani   
8   The Joy Plan - Roman   
9   Discipline Equals Freedom - Willink   (eBook version did not have pictures.)
10   Capital Gains - Gains   
11   Five Second Rule - Robbins   
12   Originals - Grant   
13   Curious Mind - Grazer         (Great pointers for having more chutzpah as well as being prepared to speak with influential people.)
14   Show Your Work - Kleon   
15   Work Rules - Bock   
16   Power of Habit - Duhhig    (Exceptional book. Found it mentioned in several other books so had to read it!)
17   Never Get Angry Again - Leiberman   
18   Lean In - Sandberg   
19   Disrupted - Lyons   
20   Power of Broke    
21   Success Habits - Hill   (Interesting to see how the self improvement movement has used many of the same principles.)
22   Flow - Csikszentmihalyi   
23   Option B - Sanders   

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« Reply #157 on: February 04, 2019, 10:04:01 AM »
1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
3. North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah
4. Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin
5. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
6. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

7. As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner
8. The Pearl by John Steinbeck

@WorkingStiffABC Almost all of my books are ebooks from my library via Overdrive. I keep track each year of how much I have "saved" using library ebooks. It's been astounding!

My 9 year old has decided he is going to read more books than I am this year. I track his on a spreadsheet for him, and he finished #13 yesterday...gleefully. I love it so much.

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« Reply #158 on: February 04, 2019, 02:33:14 PM »
1) 21 Questions for the 21st Century--Yuval Noah Harari
2) Braving the Wilderness--Brene Brown
3) Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility At Work and In Life--Lea Berman & Jeremy Bernard
4) Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World--Cal Newport
5) The Course of Love--Alain de Botton *fiction
6) Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness--Melissa Dahl
7) Do Not Say We Have Nothing--Madeline Thien   *fiction
8) Designing Your Life: How To Build a Well-lived, Joyful Life--Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
9) No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters--Ursula Le Guin  *essays
10) We Should All Be Feminists--Chimamanda Adichie  *short essay

Working on
11) Mindfulness in Plain English--Bhante Gunaratana
12) Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy--Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #159 on: February 04, 2019, 03:35:41 PM »
1. The Fix David Baldacci
2. Die Trying, Lee Child
3. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
4. Cod, Mark Kurlansky (Author of Salt)
5. The Lions of Lucerne, Brad Thor
6. The Black Scorpion Pilot, Lawrence A. Colby
7. Without Fail, Lee Child
8. The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
9. Persuader, Lee Child
10. The Assassin, Brad Thor
11. The Enemy, Lee Child
12. The Hard Way, Lee Child

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #160 on: February 04, 2019, 04:14:57 PM »
@FireHiker , that's awesome!  Are you two going to read some of the same books?

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« Reply #161 on: February 04, 2019, 04:18:06 PM »
@SquashingDebt We do sometimes read the same books. He's reading a lot of Rick Riordan right now, so I may read a few. He read A Wrinkle in Time last year so I (re)-read it too. I think he'll be getting his own kindle for Christmas this year. He already has a library card, so I'll set him up on Overdrive and he can read his little heart out. It is really quite awesome :)

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #162 on: February 06, 2019, 07:37:20 AM »
@lentil How do you read so much/ quickly?! Props my friend :)

I just finished The Art of Thinking Clearly which brings me up to 5 for Jan.

The Obstacle is the Way- Ryan Holiday
Goodbye, Things- Fumio Sasaki
Decoded- Jay-Z
The Art of Thinking Clearly- Rolf Dobelli
HP and the Sorcerer's Stone- J.K. Rowling

Currently reading: The Lonely City & Catch 22

Love this thread (and Goodreads) for keeping me motivated. Happy reading all!

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #163 on: February 06, 2019, 10:44:32 AM »
I am slowly making my way through The Woman in White. It is good. It is SO GOOD. It is also 600 pages of fine print.

One day, I too will update my booklist. In the meantime... anyone else reading A Tome right now?

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« Reply #164 on: February 06, 2019, 10:53:19 AM »
1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
3. North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah
4. Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin
5. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
6. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
7. As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner
8. The Pearl by John Steinbeck

9. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

@diapasoun I read The Woman in White a couple years ago. It was fantastic!!

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #165 on: February 06, 2019, 11:44:35 AM »
In the meantime... anyone else reading A Tome right now?

I'm not reading A Tome, but I started and quit two different books in a row, so I am not making much progress!

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« Reply #166 on: February 06, 2019, 11:49:04 AM »
@diapasoun I read The Woman in White a couple years ago. It was fantastic!!

I was not expecting to like this book so much! 19th century vibes + I want to know The Secret so bad.

@diapasoun I just started the 4th book in the Song of Ice & Fire series.... ~1000 pages. Yikes. That'll take me some time. But I also listen to audio books in the car while I commute, so those will hopefully help to balance it out :)

Ganbatte! That was a fun book, but definitely took some time. :) Audiobooks are so excellent a use of commute time, though.

I'm not reading A Tome, but I started and quit two different books in a row, so I am not making much progress!

I started the Kindred graphic novel... and now am having trouble picking it back up, because that book is brilliant and also very painful to read. I need to sit down and just plow through it sometime soon here.

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« Reply #167 on: February 06, 2019, 02:35:25 PM »
I'm in again, with a little extra effort compared to last year. :)

1. Lands Of Lost Borders: Biking Out Of Bounds On The Silk Road by Harris, Kate
2. The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It by Mitchell, Alanna
3. Lines on A Map: Unparalleled Adventures in Modern Exploration by Wolf, Frank
4. With Blood Upon the Sand by Beaulieu, Bradley P.
5. The Gender Game by Forrest, Bella
6. Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership With A Search-and-rescue Dog by Charleson, Susannah

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #168 on: February 06, 2019, 04:06:36 PM »

I started the Kindred graphic novel... and now am having trouble picking it back up, because that book is brilliant and also very painful to read. I need to sit down and just plow through it sometime soon here.

I'm also partway through a reread and am having the hardest time getting through it because I know something really sad happens at the end, but I don't remember quite enough to have it not sting so bad, and I'm scared.  Maybe I'll finish it this weekend....

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #169 on: February 06, 2019, 07:00:13 PM »
Completed:
1. Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana White
2. Hello from the Gillespies by Monica McInerney
3. Grit by Angela Duckworth
4. The Pursuit of Endurance by Jennifer Pharr Davis

Currently Reading:
5. Becoming by Michelle Obama

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #170 on: February 07, 2019, 10:01:54 PM »
(1) Becoming by Michelle Obama
(2) The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
(3) Goodbye Things by Fumio Sasaki
(4) Just Kids by Patti Smith

(5) The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #171 on: February 08, 2019, 04:57:48 AM »
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

So good! Are you reading the sequel next?

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #172 on: February 08, 2019, 05:37:40 AM »
Dark Sacred Night - Michael Connelly
Like a Virgin - Richard Branson
The Thirst - Jo Nesbo
Freakonomics - Levitt and Dubner
Forever Outnumbered - Simon Hooper

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« Reply #173 on: February 08, 2019, 06:19:28 AM »
1. A Very Large Expanse at Sea by Tahereh Mafi. (YA fiction about an American teenage girl post 9/11 - who happens to be Muslim.)
2. City of My Dreams (Mina drömmars stad) by Per Anders Fogelström. (Swedish classic. Absolutely brilliant. Why have I not read this before? Luckily it is the first part of a series.)
3. Children of Their City (Barn av sin stad) by Per Anders Fogelström. (Second book in the series. Life in the 19th century was not easy for workers in Sweden. Hence the emigration to the US. Not uplifting but a really good read.)
4. Swede Hollow by Ola Larsmo. (About the Swedish immigrants to the US in the 19th century. Too long to be really engaging).
5. We have to stop meeting like this (Vi måste sluta mötas på det här sättet) by Johanna Lindbäck and Lisa Bjärbo. (Feel good lit. Sometimes what you need in the February darkness.)

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #174 on: February 08, 2019, 07:51:01 AM »
1. Born in Shame by Nora Roberts
2. The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
3. The Geneva Strategy by Jamie Freveletti
4. Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein
5. The Last Mile by David Baldacci
6. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

7. Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #175 on: February 08, 2019, 10:34:23 AM »
(1) Becoming by Michelle Obama
(2) The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
(3) Goodbye Things by Fumio Sasaki
(4) Just Kids by Patti Smith
(5) The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

(6) The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide by Jenna Fischer

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #176 on: February 09, 2019, 12:25:21 PM »
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

So good! Are you reading the sequel next?

I've got it on hold at the library, so hopefully I will be reading it soon!

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« Reply #177 on: February 09, 2019, 08:05:42 PM »
Alright, let's do this.

Completed so far:

1. Surface Detail, by Iain M. Banks (predictable,but entertaining)
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey  (of nightmares)
3. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan (the author has such a crush on google)

In Progress:

The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
An Introduction to Statistical Learning, (review)
Conversations with Ogotemmêli, by Marcel Griaule
Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice, by Prajit K. Dutta
Measurement, by Paul Lockhart
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! by Miran Lipovača
The Road to Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek

On Shelf:

Thinking Physics, by Epstein
On Numbers and Games, by Conway
Modern Principles of Economics, by Cowen
...more to come
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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #178 on: February 10, 2019, 02:17:44 AM »
1. Laini Taylor - Strange the Dreamer
2. JK Rowling - Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
3. Drew Hayes - Siege Tactics
4. Charlie Holmberg - Smoke & Summons
5. Barry Eisler - The Killer Collective
6. Sarah Andersen - Adulthood Is A Myth
7. Lydia Kang - A Beautiful Poison

8. Laini Taylor - Muse of Nightmares

Sequel to my first book of the year. I liked the ending of this one a lot more than the first one, very satisfying while still leaving open the possibility for a great series based on the adventures of these characters.

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #179 on: February 10, 2019, 07:48:52 AM »
1. A Very Large Expanse at Sea by Tahereh Mafi. (YA fiction about an American teenage girl post 9/11 - who happens to be Muslim.)
2. City of My Dreams (Mina drömmars stad) by Per Anders Fogelström. (Swedish classic. Absolutely brilliant. Why have I not read this before? Luckily it is the first part of a series.)
3. Children of Their City (Barn av sin stad) by Per Anders Fogelström. (Second book in the series. Life in the 19th century was not easy for workers in Sweden. Hence the emigration to the US. Not uplifting but a really good read.)
4. Swede Hollow by Ola Larsmo. (About the Swedish immigrants to the US in the 19th century. Too long but interesting).
5. We have to stop meeting like this (Vi måste sluta mötas på det här sättet) by Johanna Lindbäck and Lisa Bjärbo. (Feel good lit. Sometimes just what February requires.)
6. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. (This might be the best novel of the year. Yes, it is that good.)

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #180 on: February 10, 2019, 07:51:35 AM »
Back after what ended up being a busier January than I predicted. Anyway, I’m a bit behind but still making progress.

1. Didion, Joan - The Year of Magical Thinking
2. Woodson, Jacqueline - If You Come Softly
3. Newport, Cal - Digital Minimalism
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« Reply #181 on: February 10, 2019, 01:00:46 PM »
1. The Fix David Baldacci
2. Die Trying, Lee Child
3. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
4. Cod, Mark Kurlansky (Author of Salt)
5. The Lions of Lucerne, Brad Thor
6. The Black Scorpion Pilot, Lawrence A. Colby
7. Without Fail, Lee Child
8. The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
9. Persuader, Lee Child
10. The Assassin, Brad Thor
11. The Enemy, Lee Child
12. The Hard Way, Lee Child
13. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo
14. Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #182 on: February 11, 2019, 09:12:38 AM »
1. Born in Shame by Nora Roberts
2. The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
3. The Geneva Strategy by Jamie Freveletti
4. Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein
5. The Last Mile by David Baldacci
6. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
7. Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich


8. Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich

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« Reply #183 on: February 11, 2019, 07:57:29 PM »
6.  Tarquin Hall, The Case of the Missing Servant
7.  Melody Carlson, A Christmas by the Sea
8.  Robyn Carr, Any Day Now
9.  JD Robb, Connections in Death
10.  Mike Lankford, Becoming Leonardo 

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« Reply #184 on: February 11, 2019, 08:44:31 PM »
6. Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy.

A short self help book on how to prioritise and get things done. It's a re-read but I needed a refresher..

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #185 on: February 13, 2019, 09:07:03 AM »
1. Squeezed - Why Our Families Can't Afford America by Alissa Quart
2. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
3. Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
4. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
5. The Great Divergence by Timothy Noah
6. We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7. Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
8. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America - Brandon Hobson
9. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer


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  • Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises by Rebecca Solnit

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« Reply #186 on: February 13, 2019, 10:38:17 AM »
1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
3. North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah
4. Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin
5. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
6. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
7. As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner
8. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
9. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

10. A World of Ice & Fire by George R. R. Martin

SUCH a long wait until GoT in April...

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #187 on: February 13, 2019, 04:34:24 PM »
I am slowly making my way through The Woman in White. It is good. It is SO GOOD. It is also 600 pages of fine print.

One day, I too will update my booklist. In the meantime... anyone else reading A Tome right now?

I usually read one book at a time, but somehow right now I have not one but two tomes going!  I'm in a Middlemarch reading group, so I'm rereading that, and simultaneously I'm reading 11/22/63 by Stephen King.  I'm never gonna get to 50 books at this rate.  I might not get to ten.  :)

I read The Woman in White last year and LOVED it.

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #188 on: February 13, 2019, 09:20:06 PM »
1. Squeezed - Why Our Families Can't Afford America by Alissa Quart
2. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
3. Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
4. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
5. The Great Divergence by Timothy Noah
6. We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7. Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
8. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America - Brandon Hobson
9. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
10. It Was All a Dream by Reniqua Allen

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #189 on: February 14, 2019, 04:35:24 PM »
@allsummerlong Unfortunately Feast for Crows wasn't anywhere near as good as the first 3...but it's still better than nothing I guess. I'm really glad we'll get closure with the show at least!

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« Reply #190 on: February 15, 2019, 01:36:04 PM »
Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday is fascinating. It digs into Peter Thiel's years long (successful) plot to ruin Gawker after they took it upon themselves to out him in a blog post.

The documentary about it is good too!

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« Reply #191 on: February 18, 2019, 10:28:20 AM »
1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
3. North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah
4. Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin
5. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
6. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
7. As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner
8. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
9. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
10. A World of Ice & Fire by George R. R. Martin

11.The Broken Ladder by Keith Payne
12. Circe by Madeline Miller

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #192 on: February 19, 2019, 10:52:58 AM »
1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling and Stephen Fry (borrowed)
2. Wisp of a Thing, Alex Bledsoe (library)
3. The 2018 Best American Essays, ed. Hilton Als (mine)
4. The Language Instinct, Stephen Pinker (mine)
5. Dreamsnake, Vonda McIntyre (library)

6. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins (mine). Oh my GOSH this book was so good. Suspenseful, intricate, exciting; an excellent narrative structure (much more intriguing than most multi-1st person-POV novels), and characters I really enjoyed.

I am now at 3/15 for pre-2019 books.

Currently reading:

Americanah, Chimimanda Adichie (mine)
Kindred: The Graphic Novel, Octavia Butler, Damian Duffy, and John Jennings (borrowed)
Long Black Curl, Alex Bledsoe (library)
My System, J.P. Muller (online)

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #193 on: February 20, 2019, 02:24:20 PM »
1. World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down - Christian McEwen (1/3/2019)
2. The Art of Fielding - Chad Harbach (1/5/2019)
3. The Rithmatist - Brandon Sanderson (1/7/2019) - REREAD
4. Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo (1/10/2019)
5. Skyward - Brandon Sanderson (1/12/2019)
6. Shades of Milk and Honey - Mary Robinette Kowal (1/12/2019)
7. The Song of Roland - trans. Patricia Terry (1/19/2019)
8. The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah (1/26/2019).
9. Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl (1/26/2019) - REREAD
10. Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds - Brandon Sanderson (1/27/2019)

11. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment - Robert Wright (2/4/2019) - I didn't enjoy this as much as I expected to, honestly.  I really wanted to like it.
12. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood (2/15/2019) - Amazing, incredibly engaging.
13. Never Broken: Songs are Only Half the Story - Jewel (2/17/2019) - Interesting, and very intense in places.  Not my usual thing at all, though.
14. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (2/18/2019) - Never before have I wanted to track down an author and shake them, screaming "show don't tell."
15. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green (2/20/2019) - Odd.  Very odd.  I'm still not sure if I liked it or not.

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #194 on: February 20, 2019, 02:51:26 PM »
1. Laini Taylor - Strange the Dreamer
2. JK Rowling - Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
3. Drew Hayes - Siege Tactics
4. Charlie Holmberg - Smoke & Summons
5. Barry Eisler - The Killer Collective
6. Sarah Andersen - Adulthood Is A Myth
7. Lydia Kang - A Beautiful Poison
8. Laini Taylor - Muse of Nightmares
9. Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen - Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

I liked #7 so much I found another book of hers at the library. Not as good, but still a pretty good read.

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #195 on: February 20, 2019, 06:50:58 PM »
1. Infernal Devices - Philip Reeve - 1/3/18
2. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari - 1/12/18 - UGH. Great subject, TERRIBLE execution. 200 pages of content in 430 pages of endless fucking lists and artificial dichotomies. Will never be reading another book from this author. He needs an editor to take the wind out of his (verbose, tedious, pedantic, excessive) sails
3. How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind - Dana White - 1/21/19
4. A Darkling Plain - Philip Reeve - 1/22/19

5. Woman on Fire - Amy Jo Goddard - 2/11/19 - fucking AWFUL. I don't think I'm the target audience. I found it incredibly condescending and reductionist and self-righteous. It was for book club. Hate that I even had to finish it!
6. Better Than Before - Gretchen Rubin - 2/19/19 - great. I highly recommend it.
7. The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer - in progress

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #196 on: February 20, 2019, 10:07:09 PM »
1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling and Stephen Fry (borrowed)
2. Wisp of a Thing, Alex Bledsoe (library)
3. The 2018 Best American Essays, ed. Hilton Als (mine)
4. The Language Instinct, Stephen Pinker (mine)
5. Dreamsnake, Vonda McIntyre (library)
6. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins (mine)
7. Long Black Curl, Alex Bledsoe (library). Utterly charming; I love this series.

I am now at 3/15 for pre-2019 books.

Currently reading:

Americanah, Chimimanda Adichie (mine)
Kindred: The Graphic Novel, Octavia Butler, Damian Duffy, and John Jennings (borrowed)
My System, J.P. Muller (online)
Veganomicon, Isa Chandra (library)
The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (borrowed)

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #197 on: February 21, 2019, 04:28:21 AM »
1. The Fix David Baldacci
2. Die Trying, Lee Child
3. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
4. Cod, Mark Kurlansky (Author of Salt)
5. The Lions of Lucerne, Brad Thor
6. The Black Scorpion Pilot, Lawrence A. Colby
7. Without Fail, Lee Child
8. The Collapsing Empire, John Scalzi
9. Persuader, Lee Child
10. The Assassin, Brad Thor
11. The Enemy, Lee Child
12. The Hard Way, Lee Child
13. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo
14. Bad Luck and Trouble, Lee Child
15. Nothing to Lose, Lee Child
16. Denial, Holocaust History on Trial, Deborah E. Lipstadt

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Re: 50 Books in 2019!
« Reply #198 on: February 21, 2019, 05:20:34 PM »
6. Better Than Before - Gretchen Rubin - 2/19/19 - great. I highly recommend it.

Oh cool, thanks for the recco. I enjoyed her happiness books.

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« Reply #199 on: February 24, 2019, 02:20:06 PM »
1. A Very Large Expanse at Sea by Tahereh Mafi. (YA fiction about an American teenage girl post 9/11 - who happens to be Muslim.)
2. City of My Dreams (Mina drömmars stad) by Per Anders Fogelström. (Swedish classic. Absolutely brilliant. Why have I not read this before? Luckily it is the first part of a series.)
3. Children of Their City (Barn av sin stad) by Per Anders Fogelström. (Second book in the series. Life in the 19th century was not easy for workers in Sweden. Hence the emigration to the US. Not uplifting but a really good read.)
4. Swede Hollow by Ola Larsmo. (About the Swedish immigrants to the US in the 19th century. Too long but interesting).
5. We have to stop meeting like this (Vi måste sluta mötas på det här sättet) by Johanna Lindbäck and Lisa Bjärbo. (Feel good lit. Sometimes just what February requires.)
6. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. (This might be the best novel of the year. Yes, it is that good.)
7. A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler. (A good but not great read.)