50 books in 2020!

[yow]

1. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
2. Poor Charlie's Almanack - Charles Munger
3. 99 Stories of the Game - Wayne Gretzky
4. Where are the Customers Yachts - Fred Schwed
5. This Could be out Future - Yancy Strickler
6. Deep Work - Cal Newport
7. Billion Dollar Whale - Tom Wright
8. Railroader - Howard Green
9. Built To Last - James Collins & Jerry Porras

[mustachepungoeshere]

Finished:
1. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
2. The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty

Current:
The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J Walker

[Raenia]

1	Warbreaker	Brandon Sanderson	Own	Reread	1/6/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
2	The Complete Book of Home Organization	Toni Hammersley	Own	Educational	1/7/2020	Nonfiction - Home and Garden
3	Rocannon's World	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	1/14/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
4	Trickster's Choice	Tamora Pierce	Library	PopSugar	1/17/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
5	The Broken Universe	Paul Melko	Library	Sequel	1/25/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction

6	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	Library	TBR List	2/3/2020	General Nonfiction
7	Eventide: Tales of the Dragon's Bard	Tracy and Laura Hickman	Library	PopSugar	2/13/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
8	Trickster's Queen	Tamora Pierce	Library	Sequel	2/15/2020	Fiction - Fantasy
9	Gilgamesh the King	Robert Silverberg	Library	PopSugar	2/24/2020	Fiction - Historical
10	The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell	Library	PopSugar	2/24/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction
11	Planet of Exile	Ursula LeGuin	Own	TBR List	2/24/2020	Fiction - Science Fiction

[QuillScroll]

1. Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High - Kerry Patterson
2. The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin
3. Deep Work - Cal Newport
4. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Angela Duckworth
5. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. A Search in secret India - Paul Brunton (Re-read)
7. The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results - Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan
8. Face to face - Brian Grazer
9. Who am I - Teaching of Sri Ramana Maharishi
10. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (Re-read)
11. A Time to Kill - John Grisham
12. The seven habits of highly effective people - Stephen Covey
13. Think and grow rich - Napolean Hill
14. Midnight in Chernobyl - Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster - Adam Higginbotham
15. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
16. Adrift: Seventy-six days lost at sea - Steven Callahan

[jeroly]

1. Severance by Ling Ma
A Chinese immigrant to America tells the story of being one of the few survivors of a mysterious epidemic that zombifies almost all of humanity.  No brain eating, just good writing.

2.  A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Russian aristocrat is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Moscow Hotel and over the course of thirty some years, his life there unfolds.  Sweet and light, with occasional interesting philosophical observations.

3. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton by Jane Smiley
An Illinois girl marries and moves to the Kansas Territory in 1855.  Long and slow in parts, it does provide an interesting lens into the story of "Bleed
ing Kansas," a chapter of American history I didn't know much about before.

4. Quit like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung
A pretty great life story / intro to FIRE by a couple who FIREd at 31.  With the caveat that, IMNSHO, they miss the boat on the problems with yield chasing (they recommend high dividend, REITs, and preferred shares as a separate component of a FIRE portfolio to create a “yield shield”), it’s filled with good information.

5. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Focused on eighties high schoolers at a southern performing arts school, this book has some surprising twists that I'll save the spoilers on. Well written.

6. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
A memoir of a dysfunctional family, a la Running with Scissors or The Glass Castle, but with war and racism thrown in for good measure.  Recommended.

7. Living Off Your Money: The Modern Mechanics of Investing During Retirement with Stock and Bonds by Michael H. McClung

A pretty comprehensive examination of withdrawal rates and strategies, asset allocations, glide paths, reallocation, variable withdrawal schemes, and more. Lots of backtesting and bootstrapping data are provided. It's a good overview but is clouded by some questionable examples and typos. It will stimulate further investigations on my part.


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[rbw]

Loving this thread. Coincidentally, I set the goal of 50 books this year on goodreads as well, but I may increase the target if I make good progress.

I am already getting some great recommendations from this thread - added Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow (almost forgot that I read and liked his Rules of Civility 8 years ago), Ma Ling's Severance and Octavia Butler's Dawn to my to-read list.

So far:
1. Latter End by Patricia Wentworth - a light, okay mystery
2. Death to the Landlords by Ellis Peters - I highly recommend her Brother Cadfael series, set in a medieval monastery; this is a different series
3. Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
4. No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
5. My Struggle: Book 6 by Karl Ove Knausgaard - the last book of an amazing memoir
6. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
7. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
8. Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
9. This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas - part of a crime/mystery series featuring an offbeat detective squad in Paris
10. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

[redhead84]

10. The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides - first book in ages where the surprise ending 1) came as an actual surprise & 2) was believable (within the context of the story).

I agree with this. I felt proud that I realized what was happening about one chapter before the big reveal.

[redhead84]

1) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
2) Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
3) The Willies by Adam Falkner
4) Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
5) This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
6) The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
7) The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
8) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
9) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
10) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
11) Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
12) The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
13) The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Garrett M. Graff - listened to the audio version
14) The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
15) The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

[Linea_Norway]

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
 

[grantmeaname]

Tryna read 104 this year so I've got to do ~8 per month. I've got 8 already but some of these have been easy, and some of the books that I want to read this year are thousand-pagers. So I think I'm on track or close to it.

January
1. A Brief History of Indonesia by Tim Hannigan
2. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
3. On Love by Alain de Botton
4. Fool by Christopher Moore
5. A Silent Voice, Vol.1 by Yoshitoki Oima
6. Cheap by Ellen Ruppel Shell. Highly recommend you steer clear of this one.
7. The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
8. The Airbnb Story by Leigh Gallagher

9. Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
10. The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
11. The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu
February
12. The Comic Book Story of Beer by Jonathan Hennessey, Mike Smith, Aaron McConnell, Tom Orzechowski
13. The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
14. The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane
15. They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
16. The World Atlas of Coffee by James Hoffman
17. Beneath the Vaulted Hills by Sean Russell
18. The Unknown Craftsman by Soetsu Yanagi

[Serendip]

1) Born A Crime, Trevor Noah (audiobook)
2) The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible
3) The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides (*fiction*bookclub)
4) Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection, Brian Grazer
5) The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, Pico Iyer
6) Self-Knowledge, The School of Life (Alain de Botton) :
7) Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Robert Wright
8) A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles *fiction
9) How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy: Jenny Odell
10) The Working Mind & Drawing Hand of Oliver Jeffers (art book)
11) A Beginners Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations, Pico Iyer
12) Burn the Place: a memoir, Iliana Regan
13) The Beauty of Everyday Things, Soetsu Yanagi
14) Starlight: Richard Wagamese (*fiction, bookclub)
15) The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (Sacred Activism): Charles Eisenstein

16) Moon Over Crusted Snow: Waubgeshig Rice
17) Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy

[Linea_Norway]

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

[Saffron]

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

Currently Reading:

Babylon's Ashes by James SA Corey
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

On Library Waitlist:

Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

[qbird]

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 - Audiobook

[redhead84]

1) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
2) Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
3) The Willies by Adam Falkner
4) Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
5) This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
6) The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
7) The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
8) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
9) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
10) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
11) Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
12) The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
13) The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Garrett M. Graff
15) The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
16) Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal

[cerat0n1a]

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. Jamaican immigrants adjust to live in England in the late 1940s
10) Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark. MIT cosmologist discusses super-intelligent AI and its effect on humans and the universe at large.
11) This thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson. Historical fiction (but staying very close to the truth) about FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle and  the subsequent careers of FitzRoy, Darwin and numerous others who were on board.

[mustachepungoeshere]

Finished:
1. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
2. The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty
3. The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J Walker

Current:
Blue Moon by Lee Child

[Linea_Norway]

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, written in 1941

The last two books are about a subject that I have a few other books about. So I didn't read them fully, but read them partly and checked what was new in accordance to the books I already have and made lots of notes. I also had to double check that the plants mentioned as edible in 1941 still are still considered edible. I know from mushrooms that definitions on edibility of mushrooms can change as the experts learn more about them through the years.

[JoJoP]

I used to be able to read a book in an evening or two.  I was a true book addict.  Now my vision is bad and my neck can't take it, but I'll bet I still hit 50 or close to it.   I'm now in 2 book clubs, both based at the library.  One is a (mostly) fiction, and one is non fiction.   What took me, an avid reader, so long to join a book club? I have no idea, but I'm so glad that I did.  I just finished Save Me the Plums, Lulu in Marrakesh,  and I'm in the middle of  Pioneers: American West.   

[dblaace]

   1. The Long Road Back to Boston  by Phillip Fields Ph.D
   2. Fearvana  by Akshay Nanavati
   3. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Shonda Rhimes
   4. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
   5. Black Echo by Michael Connelly
   6. Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
   7. Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
   8. Gray Ghost by William G. Tapply
   9. City of Bones by Michael Connelly

[sui generis]

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). Very informative, a little depressing, but much more inspiring overall.  Asks tough questions about where you draw the line philosophically and ethically, but is ultimately reasonable.

The book is available for free download here: https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

[Frugal Lizard]

1)  Girl, Woman, Other  by Bernardine Evaristo
2) The Choice by Nicholas Spark
3) Into the Light - Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald by Sarah Milroy, Ian A. C. Dejardin and Michael Parke-Taylor
4) Why We Can't Sleep, Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun
5) The Winemaker's Wife by Kristin Harmel    ......a light read.  I always enjoy historical /romance/World War 2 novel
6) The Watercolour enigma by Stephen Coates
7) Middlemarch by George Eliot - audiobook.  It was so nice to have a very long story being told to me.  I have never been able to get into Middlemarch.
8) Colour and Light in Watercolour - Jean Haines  The exercises are really hard to replicate - either I am not processing the instructions or the instructions need more pictures.
9) Watercolour Techniques - Micheal Reardon - his paintings are beautiful but I am not yet at this skill level.

On deck: Food Security by Ralph Martin
Travel books to Quebec and Montreal, and Costa Rica.

[qbird]

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

[jeroly]

1. Severance by Ling Ma
A Chinese immigrant to America tells the story of being one of the few survivors of a mysterious epidemic that zombifies almost all of humanity.  No brain eating, just good writing.

2.  A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Russian aristocrat is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Moscow Hotel and over the course of thirty some years, his life there unfolds.  Sweet and light, with occasional interesting philosophical observations.

3. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton by Jane Smiley
An Illinois girl marries and moves to the Kansas Territory in 1855.  Long and slow in parts, it does provide an interesting lens into the story of "Bleeding Kansas," a chapter of American history I didn't know much about before.

4. Quit like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung
A pretty great life story / intro to FIRE by a couple who FIREd at 31.  With the caveat that, IMNSHO, they miss the boat on the problems with yield chasing (they recommend high dividend, REITs, and preferred shares as a separate component of a FIRE portfolio to create a “yield shield”), it’s filled with good information.

5. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Focused on eighties high schoolers at a southern performing arts school, this book has some surprising twists that I'll save the spoilers on. Well written.

6. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
A memoir of a dysfunctional family, a la Running with Scissors or The Glass Castle, but with war and racism thrown in for good measure.  Recommended.

7. Living Off Your Money: The Modern Mechanics of Investing During Retirement with Stock and Bonds by Michael H. McClung
A pretty comprehensive examination of withdrawal rates and strategies, asset allocations, glide paths, reallocation, variable withdrawal schemes, and more. Lots of backtesting and bootstrapping data are provided. It's a good overview but is clouded by some questionable examples and typos. It will stimulate further investigations on my part.

8. The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
Not related to the movie with the same name, this is the first of a series of mysteries involving an Italian police inspector in Sicily.  A nicely composed story with a good balance of setting and plot, it was a fast and fun read.  I will read more of these Inspector Montalbano mysteries.



9. Seduction: A History from the Enlightenment to the Present by Clement Knox
An occasionally interesting but often tedious examination of how societal attitudes on sexual pursuit have changed over the centuries. Includes some portraits of famous figures such as Casanova, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others. Includes a consideration of #MeToo.

[Luz]

1. The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
2. Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything by Tim James
3. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
4. Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini (though I'm not sure I can count this one since it's quite short)
5. On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks (the length of this one makes up for that of Sea Prayer)
6. The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
7. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
8. Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki
9. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Working on:
I'm on vacation and will stop by the library Monday to see which of the books on my list are available

[penguintroopers]

1. The Painted House by John Grisham*
2. Expecting Better by Emily Oster*
3. Period Repair Manual by Lara Briden, ND*
4. Scroogenomics by Joel Waldfogel*
5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
6. The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs*
7. Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt*
8. The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling*
10. Still Waiting by Ann Swindell*
11. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling*
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*
13. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood*
14. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
15. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

* Audiobook

[Linea_Norway]

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

[diapasoun]

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). I imagine I don't have to say much about this book; I can't believe it took me this long to read it. It is, of course, amazing.

Currently reading:

The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (own, pre-2020)
Beowful, trans. Gerald Davis (own, pre-2020)

Pre-2020 books: 2/15

Local natural history and ecology: 0/9

[Staunch Aim]

Joining In!

Didn't know this existed but I'm at 13 of 50 on the year. Looking forward to checking out what others continue to read this year.

So far, my favorites have been:

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell - A well-defended proposal for how we might protect ourselves once/if AI eclipses our abilities.

Impro by Keith Johnstone - A discussion of improvisation, and how this teacher unlocked the skill in his actors.  I'm no actor, but found this book had much to say about life, including the following gem of a quote which I had never considered myself, but instantly rung true for me: "Striving after originality takes you far away from you true self and makes your work mediocre".

Other reads, loosely ranked from most to least enjoyed:

  The Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
  The Man in High Castle by Philip K Dick
  Good Enough: The Tolerance For Mediocrity in Nature and Society by Daniel S. Milo
  Actual Air by David Berman
  The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series by Venkatesh Rao
  The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe
  Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan
  The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building by David J Peterson
  Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling
  The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

[cerat0n1a]

7. Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin (own, pre-2020). I imagine I don't have to say much about this book; I can't believe it took me this long to read it. It is, of course, amazing.

One of my favourite books as a child, was surprised at how much more I got from it when re-reading it to my own children. The sequels are worth a go if you liked it.

[ahptex]

(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

[Luz]

1. The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
2. Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything by Tim James
3. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
4. Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini (though I'm not sure I can count this one since it's quite short)
5. On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks (the length of this one makes up for that of Sea Prayer)
6. The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
7. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
8. Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki
9. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Working on:
- Oh Crap! I Have A Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years- No Time-outs Needed by Jamie Glowacki (I liked her no-nonsense approach to toilet training, so this one should be interesting)
-The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner

In Queue:
-Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani

[jeroly]

1. Severance by Ling Ma
A Chinese immigrant to America tells the story of being one of the few survivors of a mysterious epidemic that zombifies almost all of humanity.  No brain eating, just good writing.

2.  A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
A Russian aristocrat is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Moscow Hotel and over the course of thirty some years, his life there unfolds.  Sweet and light, with occasional interesting philosophical observations.

3. The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton by Jane Smiley
An Illinois girl marries and moves to the Kansas Territory in 1855.  Long and slow in parts, it does provide an interesting lens into the story of "Bleeding Kansas," a chapter of American history I didn't know much about before.

4. Quit like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung
A pretty great life story / intro to FIRE by a couple who FIREd at 31.  With the caveat that, IMNSHO, they miss the boat on the problems with yield chasing (they recommend high dividend, REITs, and preferred shares as a separate component of a FIRE portfolio to create a “yield shield”), it’s filled with good information.

5. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Focused on eighties high schoolers at a southern performing arts school, this book has some surprising twists that I'll save the spoilers on. Well written.

6. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
A memoir of a dysfunctional family, a la Running with Scissors or The Glass Castle, but with war and racism thrown in for good measure.  Recommended.

7. Living Off Your Money: The Modern Mechanics of Investing During Retirement with Stock and Bonds by Michael H. McClung
A pretty comprehensive examination of withdrawal rates and strategies, asset allocations, glide paths, reallocation, variable withdrawal schemes, and more. Lots of backtesting and bootstrapping data are provided. It's a good overview but is clouded by some questionable examples and typos. It will stimulate further investigations on my part.

8. The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
Not related to the movie with the same name, this is the first of a series of mysteries involving an Italian police inspector in Sicily.  A nicely composed story with a good balance of setting and plot, it was a fast and fun read.  I will read more of these Inspector Montalbano mysteries.

9. Seduction: A History from the Enlightenment to the Present by Clement Knox
An occasionally interesting but often tedious examination of how societal attitudes on sexual pursuit have changed over the centuries. Includes some portraits of famous figures such as Casanova, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others. Includes a consideration of #MeToo.

10. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
Charlie finds himself one morning with a dead wife, a new baby, and a side gig as a collector of the souls of the dead. Starts great, but in the second half of the book it gets bogged down in more of the macabre and less of the humor than I found early on.  Still entertaining overall.

[penguintroopers]

1. The Painted House by John Grisham*
2. Expecting Better by Emily Oster*
3. Period Repair Manual by Lara Briden, ND*
4. Scroogenomics by Joel Waldfogel*
5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
6. The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs*
7. Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt*
8. The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling*
10. Still Waiting by Ann Swindell*
11. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling*
12. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas*
13. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood*
14. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling*
15. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson*
16. The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer*

* Audiobook

[Linea_Norway]

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

Currently reading a study book "Biology of Plants" by Raven, Evert and Eichhorn. Interesting beginning, though more difficult to read than a novel. I hope it is interesting enough to finish.

[cerat0n1a]

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. Scary tales of the terrible state of the UK criminal justice system.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec. Not, as the title might lead you to think, a self-help book. It's a wonderful, post-modern construct of hundreds of individual stories frozen at a moment in time.  One of the great novels of the 20th century.

[Staunch Aim]

What did you think of Behave @cerat0n1a ?  I read it last year, and really enjoyed it. Some of the ideas have stuck with me like, his discussion of tournament species vs pair-bonding species and how humans fall in the confused middle.  I think about that one a lot.

You also have a few others here on my to-read list.  Colorless Tsukuru and Life: A User's Manual.  Your short review of the Perec has convinced me to pick it up next.

[jeroly]

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. Scary tales of the terrible state of the UK criminal justice system.
13) Life:A User's Manual - Georges Perec. Not, as the title might lead you to think, a self-help book. It's a wonderful, post-modern construct of hundreds of individual stories frozen at a moment in time.  One of the great novels of the 20th century.

I LOVED that book.  Such an interesting construction with the chapters mapping to rooms in the apartment building. Both clever and well written.

[cerat0n1a]

What did you think of Behave @cerat0n1a ?  I read it last year, and really enjoyed it. Some of the ideas have stuck with me like, his discussion of tournament species vs pair-bonding species and how humans fall in the confused middle.  I think about that one a lot.

I was really impressed by the sheer depth/volume of it - neuroscience, endocrinology, psychology, game theory, zoology, evolution, genetics etc. and the fact that he can explain such a diverse set of topics so well and point out the limits of our knowledge and how complicated everything is. I didn't really encounter any new ideas as such, most of it was familiar ground from other books, but it is amazingly well written. Wasn't convinced by his arguments on free will/determinism, nor his views on farming.

Colorless Tsukuru is fairly standard Murukami fare. I like Murukami, so I liked this. For some reason I had missed reading it when it came out in 2014.

The Perec book is one that I suspect people will either love or abandon unfinished.

[Serendip]

1) Born A Crime, Trevor Noah (audiobook)
2) The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible
3) The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides (*bookclub)
4) Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection, Brian Grazer
5) The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, Pico Iyer
6) Self-Knowledge, The School of Life (Alain de Botton)
7) Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Robert Wright
8) A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
9) How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy: Jenny Odell
10) The Working Mind & Drawing Hand of Oliver Jeffers (art book)
11) A Beginners Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations, Pico Iyer
12) Burn the Place: a memoir, Iliana Regan
13) The Beauty of Everyday Things, Soetsu Yanagi
14) Starlight: Richard Wagamese (*bookclub)
15) The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (Sacred Activism): Charles Eisenstein
16) Moon Over Crusted Snow: Waubgeshig Rice

17) Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy (still working on the audiobook)
18) A Tale for the Time Being: Ruth Ozeki
19) Akata Witch (*YA fiction, bookclub), Nnedi Okorafor

Wow--I haven't read this much fiction in YEARS..loving it.

[JSalazar]

I'm back and with more books!

1. Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
2. Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch (mindblowing, if you can put up with the poor organization)
3. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (re-read)
4. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
5. Charles L. Marohn, Strong Towns
6. Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
7. David Airey, Identity Designed
8. Simone Weil, The Need for Roots
9. StJotC, The Dark Night of the Soul

currently: R. D. Laing, Knots (aaaaaa I cannot recommend it enough!) & The Body Keeps the Score

[sui generis]

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).  Good to listen to the author read it herself.  Fun and depressing at the same time.  If you liked Shrill, you also like this.

[dblaace]

   1. The Long Road Back to Boston  by Phillip Fields Ph.D
   2. Fearvana  by Akshay Nanavati
   3. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Shonda Rhimes
   4. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
   5. Black Echo by Michael Connelly
   6. Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
   7. Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
   8. Gray Ghost by William G. Tapply
   9. City of Bones by Michael Connelly
   10. Echo Park by Michael Connelly


Working on:The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama

[rbw]

Loving this thread. Coincidentally, I set the goal of 50 books this year on goodreads as well, but I may increase the target if I make good progress.

I am already getting some great recommendations from this thread - added Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow (almost forgot that I read and liked his Rules of Civility 8 years ago), Ma Ling's Severance and Octavia Butler's Dawn to my to-read list.

So far:
1. Latter End by Patricia Wentworth - a light, okay mystery
2. Death to the Landlords by Ellis Peters - I highly recommend her Brother Cadfael series, set in a medieval monastery; this is a different series
3. Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
4. No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym
5. My Struggle: Book 6 by Karl Ove Knausgaard - the last book of an amazing memoir
6. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
7. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
8. Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
9. This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas - part of a crime/mystery series featuring an offbeat detective squad in Paris
10. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

11. The Bridge by Iain Banks
12. Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
13. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer - very fun
14. Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
15. The Accordionist by Fred Vargas
16. Severance by Ma Ling - absorbing read

Now reading Excession by Iain M. Banks.

[sui generis]

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.  It's been a long time since I read a book I disliked this much.

[Luz]

1. The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams
2. Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything by Tim James
3. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
4. Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini (though I'm not sure I can count this one since it's quite short)
5. On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks (the length of this one makes up for that of Sea Prayer)
6. The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
7. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
8. Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki
9. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
10. Oh Crap! I Have A Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years- No Time-outs Needed by Jamie Glowacki

Working on:
-The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner
-Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani

In Queue:
-Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley
-Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz

[redhead84]

1) Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
2) Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
3) The Willies by Adam Falkner
4) Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
5) This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
6) The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
7) The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
8) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
9) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
10) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
11) Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
12) The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
13) The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Garrett M. Graff
14) The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
15) The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
16) Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
17) Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
18) The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
19) The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
20) Recursion by Blake Crouch

[Linea_Norway]

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

Currently reading a study book "Biology of Plants" by Raven, Evert and Eichhorn. Interesting beginning, though more difficult to read than a novel. I hope it is interesting enough to finish.

I gave up the biology book after reading a few chapters. It was very technical and I didn't enjoy reading it, except for the chapter about mushrooms. Then I thought: I am not at school, I don't need to read it. So I brought it back to the library.

I now started in the book about Menopause, The Slow Moon Climbs, which is very interesting so far. And a lot more pleasant to read than a technical biology books with chemical formulae.

[ahptex]

(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

[sui generis]

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).  A sci-fi romance novella.  The romance part was a little too romantic for my taste at parts, but good fun otherwise.  Unlike the prior book, which I disliked, this one did a good job with references and plot points that the reader can't fully comprehend.  It was easier to go with the flow.  The ending brought the time travel part in in a really good way.