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Post by 100poppies on Jan 2, 2020 14:17:18 GMT -6
For those of you with libraries with limited ebook or audio selections—look into a nonresident or out of county/city card at larger library systems. I pay $40 a year for out of state access to a giant library system and can find amazing things that my local small public library doesn’t have. Still less than buying all the books!
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Post by imapenguin on Jan 2, 2020 15:50:10 GMT -6
I started Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore. I’m only 4 chapters in, but I love it so far. I read 15 books in 2019. I dropped off at the end of the year, so I’m shooting for 20 in 2020. My favorite books were Jenn Bennett (Starry Eyes, Alex, Approximately). I just got Bringing Down the Duke from the library today! I’m glad you’re enjoying it!
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Post by thatgolfb on Jan 2, 2020 16:02:42 GMT -6
My goal for 2019 was 70 books/25k pages. I read 88 books and 27,917 pages. I’m going to stick with the 70 books goal again this year and not worry about pages but keep track just for my curiosity. Last January, I bought a nice leather bound journal and I wrote every book, author and page count down last year. It’s kind of nice to see what I read and it’s a good reference if I ever want to look up an authors other books to find something new to read. I’m doing the goodreads challenge again for the third year. I really like how it opens me up to new authors and genres. I’m starting out the year with Where the Crawdads Sing. I was on the waitlist at the library for ages and my Mom got tired of waiting for me to read it so we could discuss it and got it for me for Christmas. I am on a million people long waitlist for where the crawdads sing as well, lol.
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Post by thatgolfb on Jan 2, 2020 16:04:15 GMT -6
I made my 2020 goal 20 books in Goodreads. Hoping for much more than that, but keeping my expectations low. Hah.
I started The Night Olivia Fell last night.
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Post by thatgolfb on Jan 2, 2020 16:06:27 GMT -6
Old Bones is the other library book I have this week. It is by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. I have read almost all their books (historical and scientific fictional thrillers).
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Post by Minerva on Jan 2, 2020 16:08:30 GMT -6
I mostly do audibooks and my small city library has a really terrible selection, but I try to get from there when I can. A friend said she was able to get a DC library card and they have an amazing selection, and you don't have to show proof of residency, so that's on my to do list. Can you get a ffx county library card? They do Libby and have a decent audiobook selection.
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Post by thatgolfb on Jan 2, 2020 16:08:56 GMT -6
I couldn’t get into All the Missing Girls. Not sure if that was a 2019 released book, but it was the least favorite of the ones I tried last year.
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Post by thatgolfb on Jan 2, 2020 16:15:04 GMT -6
This is where I’m going to throw in an unsolicited plug for the public library. Between Libby, Hoopla, and the bricks and mortar library, I paid for zero audiobooks and only a handful of ebooks and real books last year. And the best thing you can do to support your public library is to use it! I love the library! And what’s awesome about my city’s system is that I can put a book on hold that’s at a different branch, and they will transport it to the branch I can walk to. It’s great!
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Post by thatgolfb on Jan 2, 2020 16:15:45 GMT -6
I haven’t finished Becoming. It was good. I just wanted to read fiction instead at the moment.
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Post by imapenguin on Jan 2, 2020 16:20:25 GMT -6
This is where I’m going to throw in an unsolicited plug for the public library. Between Libby, Hoopla, and the bricks and mortar library, I paid for zero audiobooks and only a handful of ebooks and real books last year. And the best thing you can do to support your public library is to use it! I love the library! And what’s awesome about my city’s system is that I can put a book on hold that’s at a different branch, and they will transport it to the branch I can walk to. It’s great! Mine does this too. I can’t walk there, but I can request a book from any library in my county and pick it up from the library by DD1s school.
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Post by yellow711 on Jan 2, 2020 19:21:11 GMT -6
My 2019 goal was 26 books and I read 55 books. My goal for 2020 is 52 books. Favorites: A Ladder to the Sky, Miracle Creek, The One by John Marrs, All Our Wrong Todays, Recursion, Circe Least Favorites: Daisy Jones and the Six, The Year of Less, Shelter in Place, Someone Knows, Then She Was Gone I wanted to like Miracle Creek but just get into. I finished it ... barely
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Post by loony on Jan 2, 2020 20:11:31 GMT -6
I can’t pick a favorite from2019.
Some of the top choices: Feminasty All the Bright Places Two different YA series by Allie Carter (teenage spies, totally engaging)
The worst by far: this free cli-fi that I used for a challenge category which had so much potential, but just fell flat.
I also should have read and not listened to a couple...bad narration can ruin a good book.
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Post by loony on Jan 2, 2020 20:14:30 GMT -6
I’m currently listening to Bonk, by Mary Roach. I wish she read it herself, but I have laughed out loud and cringed in the first hour. It’s a non-fiction history of scientific sex research.
I’m also on book 4/5 of the Nicholas Flamel story by Michael Scott. It has just enough supernatural/mythology and magical realism to suck me in.
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Post by bunnyfungo on Jan 2, 2020 20:19:48 GMT -6
I set a goal of 40 - I read 82 last year (original goal was 50), but I want to make sure I'm truly enjoying the books I read so I'm setting a lower goal so I don't feel pressured to read more. I'm hoping to surpass it, but we'll see. I have some bigger books I want to read. Three of my favourites from last year : 1) When Breath Becomes Air 2) All The Ugly and Wonderful Things 3) Nothing to See Here. I also adored The Starless Sea, but I need to reread it because way too much was going on in my life and I couldn't focus on it like I needed and wanted to. Books I didn't like: 1) Beneath 2) The Shadow of the Wind 3) The Matchmaker's List. I did not even get through the first few chapters of Where the Crawdads Sing - I found it to be terrible and not worth the hype. I'm finishing up Savage Appetites (about true crime and women) and next up is The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West. I love these threads and get so many recommendations! I *loved* When Breath Becomes Air. I read it for one of my challenges and otherwise would have never chosen it.
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Post by cdnfroggy on Jan 2, 2020 20:39:30 GMT -6
I set a goal of 40 - I read 82 last year (original goal was 50), but I want to make sure I'm truly enjoying the books I read so I'm setting a lower goal so I don't feel pressured to read more. I'm hoping to surpass it, but we'll see. I have some bigger books I want to read. Three of my favourites from last year : 1) When Breath Becomes Air 2) All The Ugly and Wonderful Things 3) Nothing to See Here. I also adored The Starless Sea, but I need to reread it because way too much was going on in my life and I couldn't focus on it like I needed and wanted to. Books I didn't like: 1) Beneath 2) The Shadow of the Wind 3) The Matchmaker's List. I did not even get through the first few chapters of Where the Crawdads Sing - I found it to be terrible and not worth the hype. I'm finishing up Savage Appetites (about true crime and women) and next up is The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West. I love these threads and get so many recommendations! I *loved* When Breath Becomes Air. I read it for one of my challenges and otherwise would have never chosen it. I kept hearing it be recommended on a podcast and found a copy at my local used bookstore and read it in just over a day. It broke my heart and I sobbed. I recommend it to almost everyone
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Post by kittyforman on Jan 2, 2020 21:01:50 GMT -6
I read 27 books last year, short of my goal of 30. I faltered halfway though or would have blown past it.
My favorite was Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T Sullivan, and The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker. Least favorite was Girl, Wash Your Face.
I set my goal for 30 again this year. I finished A Pledge of Silence by Flora J Soloman yesterday, and High Achiever by Tiffany Jenkins (audiobook) last night. I enjoyed them both.
Currently: Listening to Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Reading - Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids by Vivian Ho And listening to Little Women with my 9yo DD before we watch the movie later this month.
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Post by ainsleyhayes on Jan 2, 2020 22:50:55 GMT -6
I was disappointed in Educated. I wanted more details about how she was able to basically self-educate and didn’t expect so much horrific physical abuse. I think my top three from 2019 were 1) Where the Crawdads Sing 2) Becoming 3) Catch and Kill I’m about to start Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love I had the same feelings about Educated. I also felt like I had a stronger reaction to Under the Banner of Heaven, which felt similarly in terms of religious fanaticism.
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Post by ainsleyhayes on Jan 2, 2020 23:02:12 GMT -6
Faves last year were Prodigal Summer Where the Crawdads Sing The Dutch House
Hated The Problem with Everything and The Windfall.
Wanted to love The Great Alone but was a little too heartbreaking.
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Post by FlightView on Jan 3, 2020 0:40:32 GMT -6
Wow I need to step up my reading. I just finished We were the lucky ones, and that took me two months. I read a little over a book a month last year.
I liked Midnight Son but it’s about a local crime- short quick read.
Starting Devil in the white city tomorrow.
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Post by angelashly on Jan 3, 2020 7:48:14 GMT -6
GMA is doing their January book club pick
Long bright river- Liz Moore
It is being called this year’s gone girl
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Post by angelashly on Jan 3, 2020 7:53:47 GMT -6
Also apparently I only did 48 last year not 50
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Post by dc2london on Jan 3, 2020 7:57:46 GMT -6
I’m currently reading Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty. I will actually finish it tonight, so not quite 2020. This book is so odd. It captured my attention enough to read it and I’m almost done so I will finish it but... I just don’t know. Both of my library books are upstairs but I forget what they are. One is the newer Preston and Child book. I love their books, so I’m sure it will be on par with the usual. The other was a rec from the 2019 reading thread, I think. I kept starting this one, getting mixed up by the number of central characters and putting it down..I normally devour her books but IDK about that one
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Post by angelashly on Jan 3, 2020 7:58:44 GMT -6
I’m currently reading Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty. I will actually finish it tonight, so not quite 2020. This book is so odd. It captured my attention enough to read it and I’m almost done so I will finish it but... I just don’t know. Both of my library books are upstairs but I forget what they are. One is the newer Preston and Child book. I love their books, so I’m sure it will be on par with the usual. The other was a rec from the 2019 reading thread, I think. I kept starting this one, getting mixed up by the number of central characters and putting it down..I normally devour her books but IDK about that one Same here I have yet to read it and have decided I may never
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Post by pearbear on Jan 3, 2020 8:00:10 GMT -6
I’m currently reading Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty. I will actually finish it tonight, so not quite 2020. This book is so odd. It captured my attention enough to read it and I’m almost done so I will finish it but... I just don’t know. Both of my library books are upstairs but I forget what they are. One is the newer Preston and Child book. I love their books, so I’m sure it will be on par with the usual. The other was a rec from the 2019 reading thread, I think. I kept starting this one, getting mixed up by the number of central characters and putting it down..I normally devour her books but IDK about that one Nine perfect strangers was probably my least favorite book of 2019. SO WEIRD!
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Post by dc2london on Jan 3, 2020 8:00:24 GMT -6
I don't set # of book goals bc my problem is failing to do anything else BUT read lol.
But I have promised myself to read more books and less news at night, for a number of reasons.
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Post by stayingblonde on Jan 3, 2020 8:17:35 GMT -6
Last year my goal was 52 and I read 41. My goal will be 52 again this year.
My favorites were Daisy Jones and the Six and Red, White and Royal Blue. I don't really have a least favorite because I DNF anything I'm not enjoying.
I used my library for 99% of my reading this year. I have a fabulous huge county system that will send my holds to my local branch. I love it.
I don't usually like the same books as you guys in this thread (I read mostly YA and romance), but I like to follow along anyway.
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Post by stayingblonde on Jan 3, 2020 8:19:03 GMT -6
I started Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore. I’m only 4 chapters in, but I love it so far. I read 15 books in 2019. I dropped off at the end of the year, so I’m shooting for 20 in 2020. My favorite books were Jenn Bennett (Starry Eyes, Alex, Approximately). I love Jenn Bennett! Alex, Approximately is one of my very favorite books!
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Post by imapenguin on Jan 3, 2020 8:22:51 GMT -6
Last year my goal was 52 and I read 41. My goal will be 52 again this year. My favorites were Daisy Jones and the Six and Red, White and Royal Blue. I don't really have a least favorite because I DNF anything I'm not enjoying. I used my library for 99% of my reading this year. I have a fabulous huge county system that will send my holds to my local branch. I love it. I don't usually like the same books as you guys in this thread (I read mostly YA and romance), but I like to follow along anyway. I’m mostly YA and romance too! I need a lot of levity between heavy reads so I end up with 1 or 2 a year.
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Post by tmg on Jan 3, 2020 8:36:40 GMT -6
I think I'm the only one who didn't love Where the Crawdads Sing. I made myself finish it but didn't get the hype.
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Post by angelashly on Jan 3, 2020 8:37:25 GMT -6
I started Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore. I’m only 4 chapters in, but I love it so far. I read 15 books in 2019. I dropped off at the end of the year, so I’m shooting for 20 in 2020. My favorite books were Jenn Bennett (Starry Eyes, Alex, Approximately). I love Jenn Bennett! Alex, Approximately is one of my very favorite books! I loved that book so much
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