Milda-TX 2019 reading log

Reading Log 2019

1) Becoming Obama 19 Jan (2018 gift)
2) Vox Dalcher 21 Jan (library)
3) Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston 22 Jan (shelf)
4) Where the Crawdads Sing (audio) Owens (2018 purchase)
5) The Immortalists Benjamin 27 Jan (2018 purchase)
6) The Stone Diaries Shields 30 Jan (shelf)
7) Look Alive Out There Crosley 1Feb (2018 purchase)
8) Educated (audio) Westover 4 Feb (2018 purchase)
9) On Beauty Smith 17 Feb (shelf)
10) Washington Black (audio) Edugyan 20 Feb (2018 purchase)
11) The Women in the Castle (audio) Shattuck 3 Mar (library)
12) Circe (audio) Miller 9 Mar (library)
13) Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen Bird 14 Mar (library)
14) Sing Unburied Sing Ward 17 Mar (2018 purchase)
15) Summer Hours at the Robbers Library (audio) Halpern 28 Mar (library)
16) The Alice Network Quinn 6 Apr (2018 purchase)
17) Lab Girl Jahren 3 May (borrowed)
18) Four Souls Erdrich 4 May (shelf)
19) An American Marriage (audio) Jones 9 May (library)
20) American Street (audio) Zoboi 18 May (library)
21) People of the Book (audio) Brooks 27 May (library)
22) Property Martin 1 Jun (shelf)
23) Daisy Jones and The Six (audio) Reid 3 Jun (library)
24) The Perfect Mother (audio) Molloy 16 Jun (library)
25) Victoria & Vancouver Island Hempstead 25 Jun (2019 purchase)
26) Run Patchett 13 Jul (shelf)
27) There There Orange 19 Jul (2019 purchase)
28) Fodor’s Alaska 20 Jul (2019 purchase)
29) The Snow Child Ivey 27 Jul (library)
30) The Woman in White Collins 19 Aug (shelf)
31) News of the World Jiles 26 Aug (2019 purchase)
32) The Mars Room Kushner 30 Aug (borrowed)
33) Clock Dance Tyler 1 Sep (borrowed)
34) The Witch Elm French 5 Sep (borrowed)
35) Fifteen Dogs Alexis 21 Sep (2019 purchase)
36) Spy who came in from the cold leCarre 22sep (library)
37) A Gentleman in Moscow (audio) Towles 8 Oct (library)
38) The Overstory Powers 20 Oct (library)
39) Sweet Tooth McEwan 4 Nov (library) (tried)
40) Soup For Syria: Recipes to Celebrate our Shared Humanity Massaad 11 Nov (borrowed)
41) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Kingsolver 14 Nov (library)
42) The Phantom Tollbooth Juster 22 Dec (library) (tried)
43) Old Green World Craft 26 Dec (borrowed)
44) Scarlet Letter Hawthorne 29 Dec (shelf)

Great #1 M. !!

What did you think of The Immortalists? I read it late last year and my initial impression on finishing it was that it hadn't lived up to its premise, but then the more I thought about it I came around to thinking that it had.

I liked The Immortalists a lot. I have questions about that 4th sibling's diet, though. (No spoilers, ha ha)

2019 book challenge:
X-set in a library or has the word “library” in the title
X-one word title - Circe
X-2019 Library Reads List - Daisy Jones
􏰀x-published the year you were born Spy Cold
X- new to you Author: American Street
X-Book with a beautiful cover : Sing Unburied
􏰀x- food in the title Sweet Tooth
X-set in your home State/Country - News of the World
􏰀x- Book from your childhood phantom tollbooth
X-over 350 pages - Daughter/Queen
X-author of color: On Beauty
X-Non‐fiction: Lab Girl
􏰀x- Cookbook: Soup for Syria
􏰀x-about a U.S. President or First Lady tough love
X-about something that scares you : Educated
X-from a celebrity book club : Alice Network
X-􏰀Book you gave a report on in school scarlet letter
􏰀x-on health and wellness animal veg miracle
X-set on another continent : Washington Black
X-Book that makes you happy : Victoria
X-with a character you can relate to : Women in the Castle
X-from a genre you don’t typically read : Perfect Mother
X-recommended by someone else: American Marriage
X- number in the title: Four Souls
􏰀Book you have seen the movie for, but haven’t read

>6 Milda-TX: While I wouldn't structure my reading that way, it is a lot of fun to think of books in my library that fits the criteria listed :-) But how to decide on a "Book that makes you happy"? Would that be a reread?

Hi! This is a “book nerd” challenge by my library. Enjoyed last year’s challenge as it helped me choose the next book to read. But, bad part was that I chose some I didn’t like, just to fit the category. Maybe I’ll take the categories less literally this year.

For the “happy” one, maybe I’d try to find something funny? Or, maybe something I stumble across will be so good it will make me glad I read it and that’s close enough to “happy” for me. I don’t really want to re-read.