Including a book that I just finished today, which is not included in this list, I’m 6 books behind my pace for my Goodreads challenge this year. The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge Daughters of the North, Sarah Hall Black-Out, Connie Willis Heads in Beds, Jacob Tomsky Garlic and Sapphires, Ruth Reichl Continue reading »

A slow month, mostly because I wasn’t really all that engaged in half of these. The Cat Whisperer, Mieshelle Nagelschneider Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, The Countess of Carnarvon Sex and the Single Girl, Helen Gurley Brown Consider the Fork, Bee Wilson Continue reading »

Links go to my reviews on Goodreads.com The Doomsday Book, Connie Willis Footsteps in the Dark, Georgette Heyer Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution, Michelle Moran Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain Continue reading »

First, the December reads, which I seem to have skipped right over in last year’s recap: Winter’s Tales, Karen Blixen Graceling, Kristin Cashore An Idiot Girl’s Christmas, Laurie Notaro How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran Faithful Place, Tana French The Peach Keeper, Sarah Addison Allen I read 64 books this year, beating my goal of … Continue reading »

As always, links go to my reviews on Goodreads.com: The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, Deb Perelman The Likeness, Tana French The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway Continue reading »

As always, links go to my reviews on Goodreads.com. Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link The Lotus Eaters, Tatjana Soli Switch, Dan Heath The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker With the completion of Magic for Beginners, I completed the 2012 Reading Challenge I set … Continue reading »

As always, links go to my reviews on Goodreads.com After the Quake, Haruki Murakami The Four Corners of the Sky,  Michael Malone (unfinished) Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis Blood, Bones and Butter, Gabrielle Hamilton I also started reading The Ecstasy of Influence, by Jonathan Franzen, but it … Continue reading »

As always, links go to my reviews on Goodreads.com: Smut, by Alan Bennett Patricide, by Joyce Carol Oates The Stolen Crown, by Susan Higginbotham The Midwife, by Jennifer Worth Soulless, by Gail Carriger Continue reading »

Links go to my reviews on Goodreads.com. This was a light month, in part because I sort of ran out of books and was waiting on library holds or interesting things to come up on NetGalley. But, I still read a lot – I caught up on a ton of back issues of The New … Continue reading »

As always, links go to my reviews on Goodreads: Good Omens, Terry Pratchett The Kissing List, Stephanie Reents The Receptionist, Janet Groth The Dressmaker, Kate Alcott In the Woods, Tana French Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy It was a good month for reading, in part since I had a long flight and a vacation. Wish I … Continue reading »