tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12655700651519528232024-03-15T18:10:00.530-07:00MLISunderstandingI grew up a bookworm and became a librarian.Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.comBlogger368125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-83262014548538073232024-02-29T23:30:00.000-08:002024-02-29T23:30:00.158-08:00TBR List Update: February<p> <span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><h3><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR2024. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u><span style="font-size: medium;">In February 2024</span></u></span></h3><h3><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: 400;"> 7</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 2</span></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/49EjmBQ" target="_blank">The Tropic of Serpents</a></u>: #2 in a series I started last year. Just not compelling enough to keep.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3wIGG3b" target="_blank">Secrets of Happiness</a></u>: Honestly, I got it in person, flipped through it, and decided, "Too literary." It won a lot of awards, though.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #474747; font-size: 16px;"><span class="cp-screen-reader-message" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: none; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Life Undercover</span></span></p><h3><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 72</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/49NcGSa" target="_blank">Hench</a></u></span></span></h3><h3><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is the first title I added to the 2024 list, way back about a year ago. I deeply enjoyed the witty repartee between the main character and her friends.</span></span></span></span></p></h3><h3><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u></u></span></span></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Most of them were disappointing, but none were really bad. I'm not going to name a "worst".</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've started adding a few new titles to the current TBR List, rather than maintaining a separate one for next year. I'm hoping that I'll have it whittled down enough by the end of 2024 that I won't need to keep up the challenge next year and can just read what I want to and happen across.</span></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-54256436676759500732024-01-31T23:30:00.000-08:002024-01-31T23:30:00.148-08:00TBR List Update: January<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><h3><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR2024. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u><span style="font-size: medium;">In January 2024</span></u></span></h3><h3><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: 400;"> 7</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 3</span></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://amzn.to/4baQUJF" style="text-decoration-line: underline;" target="_blank">The Devil in Silver</a>: This one seemed like it would make a good suspense film, but the novel opened too slowly for me. I wanted to know more about either the police corruption angle or the supernatural factors, but I didn't stick with it.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3u12eHD" target="_blank">Life from Scratch</a></u>: I picked this up again after a couple months and just couldn't get through it. Is the whole book about the author's disrupted childhood, or does she do something interesting later? Dunno.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/47N2nw4" target="_blank">Unexpected Magic</a></u>: I'd already read this! Didn't remember having done so from the title/cover, but as soon as I opened the first story...</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #474747; font-size: 16px;"><span class="cp-screen-reader-message" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: none; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Life Undercover</span></span></p><h3><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 78</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/page/edit/1265570065151952823/6768918070458381370#" target="_blank">Dreaming Spies</a></u></span></span></h3><h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is one of the handful of remaining titles in the Mary Russell series that I started two decades or more ago and have been trying to finish up. Although there was a definite whiff of Orientalism (suitable to the era in which the story is set), I think the implausible storyline -- ninjas! the emperor of heaven himself! -- acquitted itself well. I also found myself reading with... anticipatory nostalgia? the scenes of the shipboard travel, as I was lucky enough to book a cruise this coming summer.</span></span></span></span></p></h3><h3><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/page/edit/1265570065151952823/6768918070458381370#" target="_blank">Garment of Shadows</a></u></span></span></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Funny that the least interesting of the half-dozen this month would be the novel directly preceding the most interesting (in the same series)! Russell had amnesia throughout the first half of this book, which did cut down on any reminiscing about past cases or training with Holmes if not her quick-witted deductions. Maybe I missed that.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Not a bad start to the year!</span></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-9035778142710997762024-01-01T12:00:00.000-08:002024-01-01T12:00:00.129-08:00Reading List 2023<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px;">Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: </span><a href="http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" style="color: #cc8366; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html</a></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I would recommend the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">bolded</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> titles with enthusiasm, and I enjoyed the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">italicized</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> titles but probably wouldn't read them again.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Read in 2023:</span></b></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face=""><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><br />0.1.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: red;">*</span><span> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3VVLgTH" target="_blank"><u>The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America</u>, by Bill Bryson</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">1. <a href="https://amzn.to/3WI1eB5" target="_blank"><u>Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days</u>, by Jeanette Winterson</a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">2. </span></span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GxBL7Y" target="_blank"><i><u>An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables</u>, by Deborah Madison</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">2.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3Zcf5kX" target="_blank"><u>Black Pioneers in a White Denomination</u>, by Mark D. Morrison-Reed</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face=""><span face="" style="color: #222222;">3. </span></span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3X4zqqE" target="_blank"><u>Queen of the Cold-Blooded Tales</u>, by Roberta Simpson Brown</a><span> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">4. </span></span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3GlzR9e" target="_blank"><u>A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent</u>, by Marie Brennan</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">5. </span></span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3vTG4nW" target="_blank"><b><u>The World Record Book of Racist Stories</u>, by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face="" style="color: #222222;">6. </span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3C6YncO" target="_blank"><u>Sobremesa: A Memoir of Food and Love in Thirteen Courses</u>, by Josephine Caminos Or</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3C6YncO" target="_blank">ía</a></span></span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">7. </span></span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3w0pWRG" target="_blank"><u>Thick</u>, by Tressie McMillan Cottom</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">8. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3ZJsnpb" target="_blank"><u>Rivers of London Vol. 1: Body Work</u>, by Ben Aaronovitch</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">9. </span></span><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3IYD9Cc" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;">In Love</span></u><span style="font-family: georgia;">, by Amy Bloom</span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;">10. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3ZNbfyO" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia</u>, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">11. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3iU8USk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl</u>, by Marusya Bociurkiw</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">12. <a href="https://amzn.to/3XYAn3U" target="_blank"><u>Peter Darling</u>, by Austin Chant</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">13. <a href="https://amzn.to/3HHK5CF" target="_blank"><u>999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense</u>, edited by Al Sarrantonio</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">14. <a href="https://amzn.to/3jBjWvX" target="_blank"><u>Where the Heart Is</u>, by Jo Knowles</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">15. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Hv7ohG" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Room to Dream</u>, by Kelly Yang</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/40VCMyT" target="_blank"><i><u>Dreamcatcher,</u> by Stephen King</i></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">15.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3XyqvgB" target="_blank"><u>Three Keys</u>, by Kelly Yang</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">16. <a href="https://amzn.to/3HYOpMx" target="_blank"><u>American Food: A Not-so-Serious History</u> by Rachel Wharton</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">17. <a href="https://amzn.to/3K5OT6q" target="_blank"><i><u>Legends and Lattes</u>, by Travis Baldree</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">18. <a href="https://amzn.to/3YAac4u" target="_blank"><u>My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings</u>, edited by Zosia Mamet</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">19. <a href="https://amzn.to/3IJIgpf" target="_blank"><b><u>Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think about Abortion</u>, by Gabrielle Stanley Blair</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">20. <a href="https://amzn.to/3EafwDk" target="_blank"><u>Liberation Day</u>, by George Saunders</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">21. <a href="https://amzn.to/3YPfPvz" target="_blank"><u>Detransition, Baby</u>, by Torrey Peters</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">22. <a href="https://amzn.to/48k7Awy" target="_blank"><u>The Wild Robot</u>, by Peter Brown</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">23.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3vnxqkI" target="_blank"><u style="font-family: georgia;">Demon Copperhead</u><span style="font-family: georgia;">, by Barbara Kingsolver</span></a></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">24. <a href="https://amzn.to/48DDsM8" target="_blank"><u>Yes No Maybe So</u>, by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">25. <a href="https://amzn.to/3KY1Tvq" target="_blank"><u>Foster</u>, by Claire Keegan</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">26. <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZNDxZq" target="_blank"><i><u>The Queen's Price</u>, by Anne Bishop</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">27. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3ZLTUFG" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>The Game</u>, by Laurie R. King</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">28. <a href="https://amzn.to/3mKZytq" target="_blank"><i><u>Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family</u>, by Kathleen Flinn</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">29. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/40iKH9c" target="_blank"><u>The Other Half of Happy</u>, by Rebecca Balc</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/40iKH9c" target="_blank">á</a></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/40iKH9c" target="_blank">rcel</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">30. <a href="https://amzn.to/4025oVD" target="_blank"><i><u>The Language of Thorns</u>, by Leigh Bardugo</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">31. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Jdq8o7" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>Midnight Chicken and Other Recipes Worth Living For</u>, by Ella Risbridger</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">32. <a href="https://amzn.to/3FBpKxd" target="_blank"><i><u>Straw Bale Gardens Complete</u>, by Joel Karsten</i></a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">33. <a href="https://amzn.to/3lplfPq" target="_blank"><b><u>Babel: or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution</u>, by R.F. Kuang</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">34. <a href="https://amzn.to/3FGAb2A" target="_blank"><u>The Best at It</u>, by Maulik Pancholy</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">35. <a href="https://amzn.to/406pmPD" target="_blank"><u>Mary Jane</u>, by Jessica Anya Blau</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">36. <a href="https://amzn.to/3FWki8u" target="_blank"><u>The House That Lou Built</u>, by Mae Respicio</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">37.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><b><a href="https://amzn.to/406i9z0" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work</u>, by Akilah S. Richards</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">38.</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3FVq5uP" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><u>Fragments of the Brooklyn Talmud</u>, by Andrew Ramer</b></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">39.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3lK8gZ6" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Double Cheeseburgers, Quiche, and Vegetarian Burritos: American Cooking from the 1920s through Today</u>, by Loretta Frances Ichord</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">40. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3M0Eiui" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Ronia, the Robber's Daughter</u>, by Astrid Lindgren</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">41. <a href="https://amzn.to/3GfpAfj" target="_blank"><u>All the Women in My Family Sing</u>, edited by Deborah Santana</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">41.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3nTXpMw" target="_blank"><u>Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes</u>, by Adam Hochschild</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">41.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3UIe6Y1" target="_blank"><u>Your Four-Year-Old: Wild and Wonderful</u>, by Louise Bates Ames</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">42.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/432IJLh" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>A Spoonful of Promises: Stories and Recipes from a Well-tempered Table</u>, by T. Susan Chang</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">43. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3moUJWW" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>At All Costs</u>, by David Weber</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">44. <a href="https://amzn.to/3KW7LDw" target="_blank"><u>She Sheds Style: Make Your Space Your Own</u>, by Erika Kotite</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">45. <a href="https://amzn.to/40ibAIX" target="_blank"><u>Gifts</u>, by Ursula Le Guin</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">46. <a href="https://amzn.to/3AyWKDi" target="_blank"><i><u>A Book of Horrors</u>, edited by Stephen Jones</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">47. <a href="https://amzn.to/40Is4Kx" target="_blank"><u>If the Creek Don't Rise</u>, by Leah Weiss</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">48. <a href="https://amzn.to/3oYL6zi" target="_blank"><i><u>The Change</u>, by Kirsten Miller</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">49. <a href="https://amzn.to/3oVWj3p" target="_blank"><u>Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger</u>, by Lisa Donovan</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">49.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3VJMWjF" target="_blank"><i><u>At Home: A Short History of Private Life</u>, by Bill Bryson</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">50. <a href="https://amzn.to/3oqfcLH" target="_blank"><b><u>Simon Sort of Says</u>, by Erin Bow</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">51. <a href="https://amzn.to/3pCQYyo" target="_blank"><u>Plain Bad Heroines</u>, by Emily M. Danforth</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">51.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3MwjgCI" target="_blank"><u>We Are All the Same in the Dark</u>, by Julia Heaberlin</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">52. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3pLjjme" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Take Me with You: A Round-the-World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home</u>, by Brad Newsham</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">53. <a href="https://amzn.to/45HUZCr" target="_blank"><i><u>Betsy-Tacy</u>, by Maud Hart Lovelace</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">53.1<span style="color: red;">*</span>. <a href="https://amzn.to/43fHok2" target="_blank"><u>Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class</u>, by Jan Whitaker</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">53.3.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3WIgCy9" target="_blank"><u>Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine</u>, by Andrew F. Smith</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">54. <a href="https://amzn.to/45Lwl3O" target="_blank"><u>From the Desk of Zoe Washington</u>, by Janae Marks</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">55. <a href="https://amzn.to/3oRMOCG" target="_blank"><i><u>Caught in the Act</u>, by Joan Lowery Nixon</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">56.<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3oJapFQ" target="_blank"><i><u>A Dangerous Promise</u>, by Joan Lowery Nixon</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">57. <a href="https://amzn.to/3MOrm9F" target="_blank"><i><u>Keeping Secrets</u>, by Joan Lowery Nixon</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">58.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3oMOXja" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>I'd Like to Play Alone, Please</u>, by Tom Segura</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">59. <a href="https://amzn.to/42zPWkr" target="_blank"><i><u>Blockade Billy</u>, by Stephen King</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">60. <a href="https://amzn.to/43NJdV9" target="_blank"><u>A Rising Thunder</u>, by David Weber</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">61. <a href="goog_2117571666"><b><u>True Biz</u>, by Sara Novi</b></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/46jLtph"><b>ć</b></a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">62. <a href="https://amzn.to/3XlVled" target="_blank"><u>The Dispossessed</u>, by Ursula LeGuin</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">62.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/46nB7EJ" target="_blank"><u>X</u>, by Ilyasah Shabazz</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">63. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3WbZiBl" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>We Were the Lucky Ones</u>, by Georgia Hunter</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">64. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3XTsrCs" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>The Maid</u>, by Nita Prose</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">65. <a href="https://amzn.to/3rrqvos" target="_blank"><i><u>The Foundling</u>, by Ann Leary</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">66. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3PMjicQ" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><u>The Sparrow</u>, by Mary Doria Russell</b></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">67. <a href="https://amzn.to/3q3qBSW" target="_blank"><b><u>Children of God</u>, by Mary Doria Russell</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">68. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/46Q7jAQ" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Deathless Divide</u>, by Justina Ireland</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3OyWXOJ" target="_blank"><i><u>Rose in Bloom</u>, by Louisa May Alcott</i></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">69. <a href="https://amzn.to/3rNJD0e" target="_blank"><u>New From Here</u>, by Kelly Yang</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">69.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3YfzxRI" target="_blank"><u>Lost Children Archive</u>, by Valerie Luiselli</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">70. <a href="https://amzn.to/45cWOpB" target="_blank"><b><u>A Half-Built Garden</u>, by Ruthanna Emrys</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">71. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3qabG9u" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake</u>, by Aimee Bender</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>72. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/45fqN0k" target="_blank"><u>The Old Woman with the Knife,</u> by Gu Byeong-Mo</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">73. <a href="https://amzn.to/3PrUxSN" target="_blank"><i><u>Cassiel's Servant</u>, by Jacqueline Carey</i></a><br />74. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/447zVTO" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>I'm Thinking of Ending Things</u>, by Iain Reid</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">75. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3qwqEqK" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The School for Good Mothers</u>, by Jessamine Chan</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">75.1.<span style="color: red;">* </span><a href="https://amzn.to/4819Usp" target="_blank"><u>Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors</u>, by Andrea Nguyen</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">76. <a href="https://amzn.to/3EwxAr0" target="_blank"><u>The Witch Boy</u>, by Molly Knox Ostertag</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">77. <a href="https://amzn.to/3LghpC6" target="_blank"><i><u>Blaze</u>, by Richard Bachman</i></a><br />78. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3qfT1sx" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The Mystery of Mrs. Christie</u>, by Marie Benedict</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">79. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3sOew4S" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love SPAM, Bananas, and Jell-O</u>, by Christina Ward</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">80. <a href="https://amzn.to/3Pqmuch" target="_blank"><i><u>The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table</u>, by Tracie McMillan</i></a></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3S3zcRl" target="_blank"><u>The Body</u>, by Stephen King</a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3RNdmRY" target="_blank"><u>Pet Sematary</u>, by Stephen King</a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">81. <a href="https://amzn.to/3ZMOdbG" target="_blank"><u>Santa Olivia</u>, by Jacqueline Carey</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">82. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/48nPZ7l" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The President's Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas</u>, by Adrian Miller</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">83. <a href="https://amzn.to/3M35AzE" target="_blank"><i><u>Nettle & Bone</u>, by T. Kingfisher</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">84. <a href="https://amzn.to/3FnPU64" target="_blank"><u>Lockdown</u>, by Laurie R. King</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">84.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/46C05jq" target="_blank"><u>Curious Toys</u>, by Elizabeth Hand</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">84.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3SbTWpI"><u>I Shudder at Your Touch</u>, edited by Michele Slung</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">85.</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3RORPIw" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The Gastronomy of Marriage: A Memoir of Food and Love</u>, by Michelle Maisto</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">85.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3SencMS" target="_blank"><u>Notes from a Young Black Chef</u>, by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">85.3.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/45OwGRW" target="_blank"><u>Tiger Daughter</u>, by Rebecca Lim</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">86. <a href="https://amzn.to/3MjAvaO" target="_blank"><i><u>Homeschool Hacks: How to Give Your Kid a Great Education Without Losing Your Job (or Your Mind)</u>, by Linsey Knerl</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">87. <a href="https://amzn.to/45TPJu9" target="_blank"><u>The Baker Street Letters</u>, by Michael Robertson</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">88. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/40uoVQk" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Pirate King</u>, by Laurie R. King</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">89. <a href="https://amzn.to/47VJDL8" target="_blank"><i><u>Winter's Orbit</u>, by Everina Maxwell</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">90. <a href="https://amzn.to/3sYze2z" target="_blank"><i><u>Hide</u>, by Kiersten White</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">91. <a href="https://amzn.to/3RbKHE6" target="_blank"><i><u>Ida B.</u>, by Karen E. Quinones-Miller</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">92. <a href="https://amzn.to/3uTe8Dy" target="_blank"><b><u>Any Other Family</u>, by Eleanor Brown</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">93. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Sw3Q5J" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Uncompromising Honor</u>, by David Weber</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">94. <a href="https://amzn.to/3GUj5yq" target="_blank"><i><u>Mommy, I Wish I Could Tell You What They Did to Me in School Today</u>, by Richard Stripp</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">94.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/41zfhME" target="_blank"><u>Garment of Shadows</u>, by Laurie R. King</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">95.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3RSuUvl" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Good Neighbors</u>, by Sarah Langan</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">96. <a href="https://amzn.to/47eyjZS" target="_blank"><i><u>The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store</u>, by James McBride</i></a></span></div>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-46336771984455512992024-01-01T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-01T00:00:00.165-08:00#VirtualMountTBR2024<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm doing this for a second year! <b>The Virtual Mount TBR (to-be-read) challenge</b> is <a href="https://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2023/01/virtual-mount-tbr-headquarters.html" target="_blank">hosted by Bev at My Reader's Block</a>. Participants start with a list of books they don't own but have been meaning to read, and the challenge is scaling a virtual mountain by either reading or deciding to remove them unfinished from the list. You can <a href="https://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2023/10/2024-virtual-mount-tbr-reading.html" target="_blank">sign up here</a>! (If you have a <i>literal</i> pile of books, <a href="https://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2023/10/2024-mount-tbr-reading-challenge-sign-up.html" target="_blank">#MountTBR2024</a> is for you.)<br /><br />Here is my list of books read in 2024: <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html">https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html</a><br /><br />Here is my TBR List: <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later">https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later</a><br /><br />I am aiming for Mt. Mindolluin (75 books). I will be updating at the end of each month (and sporadically otherwise) with a running total and some commentary.</span><br /><br /></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-84285262976035140702023-12-31T23:30:00.000-08:002024-01-13T11:56:51.720-08:00TBR List Update: December<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><u>In December 2023</u></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: 400;"> 5</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 4</span></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/47Ny7So" target="_blank">The Family Upstairs</a></u>: I dunno, I just re-read the book summary in the catalog and decided it sounded like too many characters with names I was going to mix up.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/484QguT" target="_blank">Yours Cheerfully</a></u>: A sequel to a book I read last year and just didn't enjoy <i>that</i> much.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3tqGu7u" target="_blank">The Orphan Collector</a></u>: I don't want so many downers on the list; I read a sample of the ebook and it didn't grab me.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3v2g3FP" target="_blank">Yes, Chef</a></u>: Eh. Perhaps my recent push through a mountain of food memoir has dulled my appetite for a back-of-house kitchen diary.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #474747; font-size: 16px;"><span class="cp-screen-reader-message" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: none; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Life Undercover</span></span></p><h3></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 27*</span></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Best book of the month: <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3ty9Alw" target="_blank">Any Other Family</a></u></span></h3><h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This fictional work about an extended family formed through open adoption (birth parents, 3 sets of adoptive parents, 4 kids) seemed very relatable for someone in my current stage of life. The birth mother character was, frustratingly, off stage for the whole novel and seemed pretty two-dimensional. But I identified with various facets of the three adoptive mothers, and the story made me think about family relationships and community.</span></span></span></span></p></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="font-family: times;">Worst book of the month:</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3SbTWpI"><u><span style="font-family: georgia;">I Shudder at Your Touch</span></u></a></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It would probably be this collection of short horror stories, only because they were imbalanced. I wasn't particularly inspired to keep reading, so I failed to finish it when I got sick a couple days before the end of the challenge.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />*At two weeks until the end of the year, I reviewed the 27 books remaining on the TBR List and determined which would remain for next year. Then I added my collection of titles that has been growing all year, <i>and</i> the ones I currently have checked out/in my possession, for a total of 90 books I would like to read in 2024. Oh, and there are a few (not available at the library) on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/18LHFSPN3MY6I?ref_=wl_share" target="_blank">my Amazon list</a>, which I might get around to.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br />All in, I completed 96 new books this year, re-read several more, and made the freeing decision NOT to read about 25 more, out of a starting list of 150. I finished the epic space opera series with Honor Harrington as the main character, and polished off several from the Mary Russell (and Sherlock Holmes) collection -- both of which I started in college. Not a bad result for <a href="https://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2023/01/virtual-mount-tbr-headquarters.html" target="_blank">#VirtualMountTBR</a> (2023); depending on how you count it, I stopped within sight of Mt. Seleya or vaulted past and got halfway to Mount Olympus!</span></p><p><br /></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-23344521513099874382023-11-30T23:30:00.013-08:002023-11-30T23:30:00.141-08:00TBR List Update: November<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u>In November 2023</u></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 3</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 2</span></span></h3><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3FQxHyt" target="_blank">The Secret Life of Groceries</a></u>: This has been sitting half-read on my list since 2022, and I have accepted that I'm not going to finish it. I do feel like I got some of the same info from the undercover journalist at Wal-mart in <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3FPcLIe" target="_blank">The American Way of Eating</a></u> last month.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/46SoJvP" target="_blank">Juicy Mother</a></u>: The only copy of this graphic novel for adults has gone missing at my library, and I don't want to read it badly enough to pursue interlibrary loan.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #474747; font-size: 16px;"><span class="cp-screen-reader-message" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: none; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Life Undercover</span></span></p><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 36</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3TlWRNx" target="_blank">Hide</a></u> / <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3GmmXbf" target="_blank">Winter's Orbit</a></u></span></h3><h3><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A tie! I enjoyed these two very much, of the four that I actually completed this month. (There are reasons for that. My hands are full.)</span></span></span></span></p></h3><h3><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: <u><a href="https://amzn.to/47yiIFr" target="_blank">The Baker Street Letters</a></u></span></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">It wasn't as bad as all that; just bottom of the list of four. The main character was somewhat repellent, and I wasn't pleased for him at the end.</span></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-42304276536747686772023-10-31T23:30:00.040-07:002023-11-02T10:53:00.094-07:00TBR List Update: October<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u>In October 2023</u></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 8</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 3</span></span></h3><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3SencMS" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><u>Notes from a Young Black Chef</u></a>: It wasn't that I don't like food memoir. It wasn't that I have anything against young Black chefs making it big on the D.C. scene. It wasn't even the idea of anyone spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on a single restaurant meal (although this didn't help). Mostly it was the reflective syntax that held up ideas and then negated them, repeatedly.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://amzn.to/46C05jq" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"><u>Curious Toys</u></a>: I guessed the identity of the villain about halfway through, and couldn't sit through any more chapters of his creepy perspective. I skipped ahead to confirm a few plot points, and returned it.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://amzn.to/45OwGRW" style="font-size: medium;" target="_blank"><u>Tiger Daughter</u></a>: I picked it up at work and intended only to flip through it, but ended up reading about a third of the text to figure out what happened in the story. Enough to make note!</span></p><p></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #474747; font-size: 16px;"><span class="cp-screen-reader-message" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: none; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Life Undercover</span></span></p><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 42</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: </span></h3><h3><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/46TMVyl" target="_blank">Nettle & Bone</a></u> was good for a while, but didn't feel resolved. It had been built up a lot from reviews (so much so that I put it on hold even though it was not on the TBR list) and it just wasn't all that I'd hoped.</span></span></span></span></p></h3><h3><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: </span></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Meh. Nothing really. </span></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-43751781358146587732023-09-30T23:30:00.153-07:002023-09-30T23:30:00.131-07:00TBR List Update: September<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u>In September 2023</u></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 4</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 11</span></span></h3><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3EkswG2" target="_blank">Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA</a></u>: It was the least interesting one left on the list.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px;">In an ironic twist, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3qTrYUJ" target="_blank">American Appetite</a></u> was removed from the contenders because the only copy in my library system was discovered to have had coffee spilled across it by a previous borrower or browser. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/4819Usp" target="_blank"><u>Into the Vietnamese Kitchen</u></a> has lovely coffee-table qualities, but it was enough to flip through it and take note of a few anecdotes from the author and some flavor combinations (and information about how to choose a quality fish sauce).<br /><br />From the <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/2023/09/to-be-read-or.html" target="_blank">culling of food culture/history/memoir titles</a>: </span></p><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/4611Q9s" target="_blank">African American Foodways</a></u></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3Lbo1lh" target="_blank">Getting What We Need Ourselves</a></u></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/484pLGx" target="_blank">Every Nation Has Its Dish</a></u></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/483nuvd" target="_blank">Food on the Page</a></u></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3qZ2God" target="_blank">From Scratch: Inside the Food Network</a></u></span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3qZ3j13" target="_blank">Southern Food and Civil Rights</a></u></span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3Z4nU0y" target="_blank">Four Hundred Souls</a></u> is a worthy tome, but I've tried several times now to go back to it without success. I'm going to resign myself to not having read it, and take it off the list; I at least know that it exists and can recommend it to readers who want to tackle it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I also tried (for 3 months!) to get around to reading <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3LbAR2F" target="_blank">The Woman in the Mirror</a></u>, and have accepted that I won't.</span></div><p></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #474747; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span class="cp-screen-reader-message" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-wrap: nowrap; user-select: none; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Life Undercover</span></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 50</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: </span><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3tcmbdP" target="_blank">The American Way of Eating</a></u></h3><h3><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The narrative style (from an investigative reporter) drew me in and I could relate to her experiences in retail grocery, food service, and agriculture (I haven't worked in that last industry, but a couple years ago I read</span><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3xaalgv" style="background-color: white; color: #8366cc; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank"><u><span>Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture</span></u></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: 400;">which was pretty fresh in my mind).</span></span></p></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: </span><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3PxFoiQ" target="_blank">The Mystery of Mrs. Christie</a></u></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I didn't really grasp the plot-within-a-plot. This could be because I read the ebook -- would a print format have made the POV clearer from chapter to chapter? Anyway, meh.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I was hoping to catch up this month, by reading the backlog of books I physically have in my possession, but I am still behind. Next come all the horrific treats I requested specifically for spooky season... will I gorge on those sweets or finish my veggies first?</span></p><p><br /></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-70561490125521626212023-09-05T18:49:00.003-07:002023-09-05T18:49:51.837-07:00To Be (Read), or not To Be<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Heading into Q4 of this challenge year, I'm being a little strategic in my approach to <b>#VirtualMountTBR</b>. I will definitely not read 66 titles (plus those in-progress/in my possession) in 3 months, despite a good showing so far this year. Time to winnow!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Some of the 15 foodways history and food memoir titles are a little redundant, so I thought I might choose only two or three, and hope that browsing the others satisfies my curiosity. Turns out I really liked 6 when I saw them in person: a couple that looked fun and will go quickly thanks to a third of the page count actually being illustrations or footnotes, some memoir from an undercover journalist with a flair for storytelling, and the most accessible of the nonfiction written for a lay audience with a TV remote close at hand.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">My first pass resulted in a Maybe stack (to the left) and a No stack (to the right).</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiATgt4AprP6hckhopUK3lr--Umsz0wXteSdb4MWgjs8uO0OL8qsQoOZGKcPUQe302h29hK5swcWQ8lWsXUKLNx4nr-Bu7NrJWSUt4yMbtWLMeLnVTcLQrxBMVP2H2jm4WbRuTI2ag4CnFZztHxOvF3oPV85hvwhK4LBMN2knkH4v280mOfsPTXd_Dvaei0/s4000/IMG_20230905_173604_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiATgt4AprP6hckhopUK3lr--Umsz0wXteSdb4MWgjs8uO0OL8qsQoOZGKcPUQe302h29hK5swcWQ8lWsXUKLNx4nr-Bu7NrJWSUt4yMbtWLMeLnVTcLQrxBMVP2H2jm4WbRuTI2ag4CnFZztHxOvF3oPV85hvwhK4LBMN2knkH4v280mOfsPTXd_Dvaei0/w400-h300/IMG_20230905_173604_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Further review: keep these!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZAS2KRUCveqrfIqeGVcEIs93om1WaDBMeMdGzrRaQlUBiVmd-kfsDZWHy76KINeGoPucOO8S_wSqV4WnvN4ublZ3dU_wAB_uU1JVGFRfa0LmCRYASRJrOvsnvLeliK-oeT9rar5ZwC8vMtJhVLYKOmFofgH6RLjPwq6ZVdWlLbAlRURujj-wTaTv_L4T9/s3000/IMG_20230905_174623_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2028" data-original-width="3000" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZAS2KRUCveqrfIqeGVcEIs93om1WaDBMeMdGzrRaQlUBiVmd-kfsDZWHy76KINeGoPucOO8S_wSqV4WnvN4ublZ3dU_wAB_uU1JVGFRfa0LmCRYASRJrOvsnvLeliK-oeT9rar5ZwC8vMtJhVLYKOmFofgH6RLjPwq6ZVdWlLbAlRURujj-wTaTv_L4T9/w400-h270/IMG_20230905_174623_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I also placed holds on several delightfully horrifying novels and some short stories for the month of October, which will hopefully be read quickly. The Stephen King re-reads are something I've been looking forward to -- they won't count toward my new books read this year, but they'll help shorten the TBR list.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've limited my NEXT year's list to 50 books (not there yet) and have an idea of a couple I'd remove if I needed space. With any that I choose to keep for another year, and perhaps even some unplanned titles, that should make a full reading itinerary for 2024.</span></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-4256726061111218562023-08-31T23:30:00.087-07:002023-09-01T09:06:03.394-07:00TBR List Update: August<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u>In August 2023</u></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 6</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 2</span></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Despite hanging onto and coming back to <u><a href="https://amzn.to/47CKuBe" target="_blank">Lost Children Archive</a></u>, I DNF; the topic seemed interesting but the execution was so dry and weirdly detached! How does the main character feel about her husband accepting a job across the country without consulting with her? Does this mean their marriage is on the rocks? What does he think about her career, and what adjustments or sacrifices is she making to accommodate his? "The girl" and "the boy", their children, blended together for me into an amorphous backseat blob -- I kept forgetting which one was older. When I looked at the "leftovers" from June and July's holds, it just didn't seem worthwhile to keep slogging through this one when I could clear the pile.<br /><br />I started <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3OTmGAx">Calypso</a></u>, but David Sedaris is for a select palate (not mine). Trauma tossed off wittily but not with a personality I can relate to.</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 66</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3E37ICX" target="_blank">A Half-Built Garden</a></u></span></h3><h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was so excited by this one! 30 or 40 pages in, I wrote a glowing recommendation to library colleagues, feeling like I'd finally identified the niche of queer Jewish feminist sf that speaks to me most deeply. It's near-future when the aliens land and tell the first humans they meet that the planet Earth is running out of resources and will perish (and the human race along with it) if humans don't evacuate their home planet in the aliens' ships. But the humans, part of a watershed network that champions ethical use of natural resources and seeks to make decisions through AI-assisted consensus negotiation, take umbrage -- they KNOW Earth is in trouble and have been working the last two generations to reverse humans' terrible impact on the planet. Shouldn't they get a chance to save their home?</span></span></p></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3E44zmh" target="_blank">I'm Thinking of Ending Things</a></u></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I did NOT like the first-person writing and all the (improbable) dialogue without commentary in this novel's style. I skimmed a lot of it to get to the plot twists, and would have given it up (DNF) if it hadn't gone so quickly. Creepy, yes, but mostly annoying and confusing.</span></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-48777723023254424122023-07-31T23:30:00.063-07:002023-07-31T23:30:00.142-07:00TBR List Update: July<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u>In July 2023</u></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 7</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 3</span></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I flipped through <u><a href="https://amzn.to/43PBzt9" target="_blank">Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk</a></u>, but with a towering stack of library holds, it didn't make the cut. I renewed <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3QhO9Ou" target="_blank">At Home</a></u> like 8 times -- I do like Bill Bryson's chatty nonfiction -- but finally gave it up. I need more narrative, I guess. I also dropped <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3YcmhgR" target="_blank">The New One</a></u>, which is about new parenthood, because I'd been first on the hold list for months and it was never free, and then I guess my library no longer has access to it in Overdrive, but I didn't get a notification that the hold would never be filled. Maybe I'll listen to the audiorecording sometime and not count it as a book.</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 71</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: <u><a href="https://amzn.to/4525zmq" target="_blank">The Sparrow</a></u></span></h3><h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I liked <u>The Sparrow</u> more than I thought I would, and the sequel <u>Children of God</u> wasn't bad. either. (It wasn't on the TBR list, but I wanted to read it right after finishing the first, which was.) I missed their debut 20+ years ago, so only had a bare knowledge of the plot: Jesuit priest is only survivor of a space mission to an inhabited planet -- and he is maimed and reviled and generally in a deplorable state. This story was part sci-fi, part philosophy. and took careful reading to explore questions about conversion/colonization, faith/doubt, and what it means to be human. Lots of yummy linguistics, anthropology, theology. There wasn't a ton of text spent on the mechanics of space travel or communication, which means it holds up to a critical review a few decades later -- the same timeframe that part of the book takes place. Thankfully, the author had the good luck to set first contact in 2019, not 2020! I like a story that makes me think, and this one had quite a few ethical puzzlers to mull over.</span></span></p></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: Nothing!</span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I didn't read much, but it was all pretty good!</span></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-84264361896444686062023-07-01T00:00:00.040-07:002023-07-01T00:00:00.147-07:00#VirtualMountTBR Update: Halfway Point<p>6 months into a <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/2022/12/reading-challenge-for-2023-tackle-tbr.html" target="_blank">year-long challenge</a>, what's left on the <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">TBR list</a>? <b>77</b> titles out of 150. </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>I'm not counting the "in progress" ones already checked out to me.</li><li>I read or listened to a few off-list titles that I came across at a convenient time. They count toward my annual total, but don't bring down the TBR.</li><li>I started discarding titles that I decided NOT to finish.</li></ul><div><br /></div><div>The breakdown of what remains:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNDzjVxUWJh5tN9j7JNN6hLBXfg3TkuZGbEUV4goxd816wiw8vPyxtyq4V257HSHa1fNt8XbX2sAy941wx6HeUo_rOV24QrctIpCzK24rRwdYkwfdptnIyxy1-Fp8dNOrIW2awKcfzxUPOHSX9b7gAspdVmxLws7m8BiCxqDfcPSYBR5H4ytE-T-9H9ku5/s1200/meta-chart%201.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNDzjVxUWJh5tN9j7JNN6hLBXfg3TkuZGbEUV4goxd816wiw8vPyxtyq4V257HSHa1fNt8XbX2sAy941wx6HeUo_rOV24QrctIpCzK24rRwdYkwfdptnIyxy1-Fp8dNOrIW2awKcfzxUPOHSX9b7gAspdVmxLws7m8BiCxqDfcPSYBR5H4ytE-T-9H9ku5/s320/meta-chart%201.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGu35z-op6s6Eg0qtq_su92_0HJcCtAo4Zo85tJNo1rPBlpQ2HUuzXRhC3jZSYdRc4lHsbRlxI-32F0NahUICiFE50qozKS-0Zz5_jfEMGoaho1W7zL2Oulrn71bSlEXYuS36Cj-GL6yWpIcXF86UlWtAx_SRpCZlSaOQH4I2KTVhv4QZaMC5TPzSjZBg/s1200/meta-chart%20(2).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGu35z-op6s6Eg0qtq_su92_0HJcCtAo4Zo85tJNo1rPBlpQ2HUuzXRhC3jZSYdRc4lHsbRlxI-32F0NahUICiFE50qozKS-0Zz5_jfEMGoaho1W7zL2Oulrn71bSlEXYuS36Cj-GL6yWpIcXF86UlWtAx_SRpCZlSaOQH4I2KTVhv4QZaMC5TPzSjZBg/s320/meta-chart%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I'm most looking forward to...</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3PviBnV" target="_blank">The Foundling</a></u></li><li><u><a href="https://amzn.to/42YKF6h">Ida B.</a></u></li><li><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3Nx27cv" target="_blank">A Half-Built Garden</a></u></li><li>Not much else, truthfully. I'm kinda burned out. And I'm already wanting to read things on next year's list.</li></ul></div><p></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-49074310908279334882023-06-30T23:30:00.079-07:002023-06-30T23:30:00.148-07:00TBR List Update: June<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u>In June 2023</u></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 8</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 2</span></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Shadow of Freedom</u> is one I've probably read before, and it's not part of the Honor Harrington main series (it's the last on the Saganami Island subseries), so if I haven't read it, I don't care. I just have one more -- <u>Uncompromising Honor</u> --before I will complete the series that I started in college.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'd had <u>X</u> on the list since I was a teen librarian, and I finally got around to reading it for this challenge... and I couldn't get into the writing style. There was a lot of description but not much action in the first half-dozen chapters of Malcolm X's life story, so I gave it up.</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 77</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u>True Biz</u></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u></u></span></span></h3><h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><u>True Biz</u> is one I will be recommending with enthusiasm! From a Deaf author, it tackles a number of hot-button issues in Deaf culture (including cochlear implants, access to language, and the history of activists insisting on Deaf inclusion). I learned some more about ASL grammar and enjoyed the complex relationships between characters. The title refers to "<a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=true%20biz" target="_blank">true business</a>" -- slang like "real talk" or "word" or "no cap" -- in this case, the policy that the headmistress has with her students to relax consequences for misbehavior if the student is truthful and forthcoming.</span></span></p></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u>A Rising Thunder</u></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">What a slog. There are selections in this 14-book space opera series that are mostly about relationships, worldbuilding, and futuristic developments. Then there are the ones about interstellar politics with at least 4 major players (and their corresponding casts of naval officers, spies, assassins, and celebrities), play-by-play of epic battles in spaaaaaaace, and all of the nitty-gritty physics of FTL travel. Ugggggh. Guess which one this was?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I got COVID at the beginning of the month and had to isolate, which provided an excellent opportunity for audiobooks. I polished off a series, The Orphan Train Adventures, that I started in childhood. They weren't on my TBR list (so don't exactly count toward the challenge), but I'd favorited them in Hoopla. Then, when I returned to work, a stack of holds was waiting for me! So that was my month's reading sorted.</span></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-68769313917024140832023-05-31T23:30:00.102-07:002023-05-31T23:30:00.147-07:00TBR List Update: May<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u>In May 2023</u></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 7</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 6</span></span></h3><p><u style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3qeWibE" target="_blank">We Are All the Same in the Dark</a></u><span style="font-family: georgia;">: Too many twists. I couldn't handle the suspense of guessing how the murders had been done, so I skipped ahead and read the end and now it doesn't matter. Next!</span></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/43fHok2" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Service and Style: How the American Department Store Fashioned the Middle Class</u></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">: I would have watched this as a documentary -- the topic is interesting -- but my brain felt too lazy for nonfiction. Same with </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3WIgCy9" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine</u></a>.</p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lost interest before reading: <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3MHaphC" target="_blank">Recursion</a></u>, <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3IKV6TB" target="_blank">The Angel of the Crows</a></u>, <u><a href="https://amzn.to/43uNGfa">Midnight Riot</a></u></span></p><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 91</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3BC0Vic" target="_blank">Simon Sort of Says</a></u></span></span></h3><h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I kept interrupting my wife to read aloud funny passages from this middle-grade novel about a middle-class Nebraska family that moves to the middle of off-the-grid nowhere USA. Eventually I just said, "You're reading this after me." The author has a dry sense of humor that this weirdo connected with -- plus there were religious puns. Shades of Jenny Lawson and <a href="https://thebloggess.com/2018/04/09/who-run-the-world-squirrel/" target="_blank">squirrels with a higher purpose</a>. Multiple positive adult role models plus a trio of tweens who didn't read like cardboard cutouts. It's one of those juvie books where a character applies behavioral tricks to handle trauma, and I'm a sucker for that low-key mental health support in literature. Content warning: school shooting survivor PTSD. I'm not sure I know whom to recommend this to, but maybe it's you! If you like it, it's definitely you.</span></span></p></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: </span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nothing really stands out! </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">For most of the month I had a handful of books "in progress" -- I'd put them down and not be able to find them when next wanted, or be at work with one book having forgotten another at home. So they got finished slowly, but often more than one in quick succession. Almost halfwa</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">y through the year -- 1/3 of the list is gone! 33 on next year's list, though...</span></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-23468816723916034292023-04-30T23:30:00.060-07:002023-05-01T14:15:10.276-07:00TBR List Update: April<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u>In April 2023</u></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 7</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 2</span></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I really liked how it felt to say no and remove a book from the list. Weirdly freeing. I'm making note here of what the books were and why, just because.<br /><br /><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3KvETSE" target="_blank">Rebel Cinderella</a></u>: biography of a woman I'd never heard of before -- an Emma Goldman type who married Prince Charming scion of a blueblood family. It was interesting reading about the media coverage of their match... but I found myself skipping ahead, not going back to it, picking up another book instead. It can go.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3zXc1O5" target="_blank">Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader</a></u>: for perhaps the pettiest reason -- the text was too small. I didn't like the font. It seemed like too much work that week that my brain was craving spring breezes and sappy sci-fi. *shrug*</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 104</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u>All the Women in My Family Sing</u></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u></u></span></span></h3><h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I guess? It was a chewy collection of essays, all by women of color. One of them was from the Bay Area, and her first few paragraphs of what it felt like to be a new mother trying to make friends among parental peers had me jumping up from my seat with recognition. (The kids at a school storytime often sign SAME with like enthusiasm when a point resonates with them.)</span></span></p></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u>Gifts</u></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u></u></span></span></h3><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Less than I had hoped for from Ursula LeGuin; I had forgotten part of the way through that this was the first in a series, so I expected more development of the conflict and then some resolution. Just meh overall.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br />This was a busy month! I didn't read nearly as much, so I am behind (peering out from my stack of library holds) and decided to not any new holds from the list in June. (May's are already ordered.) Hopefully I'll have some time to catch up! Or some difficult choices as to what to return unread.</span></p>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-44849687104172356102023-03-31T23:30:00.113-07:002023-04-03T09:51:27.933-07:00TBR List Update: March<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u>In March 2023</u></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 18</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 3</span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I really liked how it felt to say no and remove a book from the list. Weirdly freeing. I'm making note here of what the books were and why, just because.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3ZfppbA" target="_blank">Vita Nostra</a></u>: I read a chapter in the ebook preview, and just didn't love the style (although the magical school genre is full of my favorites, there are occasional mismatches like <u>The Magicians</u> and <u>Atlas Six</u>).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3YcDdSN" target="_blank">Putting the Rabbit in the Hat</a></u> was recommended by a colleague a year ago, and I was iffy then. I am absolving myself of guilt for not following up on a personal recommendation; we had a good conversation at the time, and that was enough.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">After attempting again to finish <u><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/page/edit/1265570065151952823/6768918070458381370#" target="_blank">The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America</a></u>, I succumbed to the kind of fatigue that never seems to overtake me on cross-country flights.</span></div><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 115</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3SDxeoO" target="_blank">Demon Copperhead</a></u></span></span></h3><h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was #137 on the library hold list when I requested this Barbara Kingsolver novel last fall. Everyone said "It's worth the wait!" and now I agree with them. The story of Damon's unusual birth to a teen mom in Lee County, Virginia, and his subsequent journey through the foster system and from home (or laundry room pallet) to home (or McMansion) amid the growing opioid crisis of the late 1990s, is tragic, grimy, emotionally exhausting, and shot through with threads of humanity. It's a portrayal of one type of American poverty -- rural, generational, relationship-rich but cash-poor -- perpetuated by institutions (educational, judicial, correctional, military, medical, industrial), endured by many, ignored by more. Although Kingsolver notes that her book is an homage to Dickens's <u>David Copperfield</u>, I did not find that not having read that classic negatively affected my experience. </span></span></p></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/page/edit/1265570065151952823/6768918070458381370#" target="_blank">Foster</a></u></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">There was a similar waitlist for this slim volume (and I was both surprised and relieved to discover how short it was), but it did not satisfy. I wanted more of a backstory, more meat to the conflict, more resolution. I wanted better for the main character. I wanted to know more of what she was thinking and feeling instead of coming up against a blank wall. It was strange to me (because of how much I've looked into modern adoption and foster care) that all of the arrangements were made privately, informally, although I know that sort of kinship care was and is common in families/communities. I learned that this story was fleshed out into a film, <u><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15109082" target="_blank">The Quiet Girl</a></u>, and perhaps with scoring and cinematography it gains emotional depth.</span></div>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-27214122265995001652023-02-28T23:30:00.081-08:002023-02-28T23:30:00.220-08:00TBR List Update: February<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u>In February 2023</u></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 11</span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books I decided NOT to finish:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 4</span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/40CwZOt" target="_blank">Touchstone</a></u>, it turns out, is not one of the Mary Russell series that I'm trying to complete. It's the first of a different series about a WWI soldier experiencing intrigue on an English estate several years after the war. Off the list!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Also, I accidentally read <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3E10obm" target="_blank">Room to Dream</a></u> (#3 in the Front Desk Series) before getting #2. So I decided not to read <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3K1DVi7" target="_blank">Three Keys</a></u> at all.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I think Julie Andrews's biography <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3Z4MOw6" target="_blank">Home</a></u> renewed 5 times before I decided I was just never going to get to it, and I was all right with that.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Same for <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3kyvMYa" target="_blank">Something Wild</a></u> -- I'd put it on the list to fill a category in the 2022 Reading Challenge, and I don't actually find it interesting. Returned unread.</span></div><h3><span style="font-size: medium;">Books left on the TBR List:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 127</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/40VCMyT" target="_blank">Dreamcatcher</a></u></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><u></u></span></h3><h3><div><span class="ui-provider ww b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">This was a re-read, but it's been a couple decades and I enjoyed the cross between the dark doings of Derry and close encounters of the third kind. (TMI warning: Just as <i>Psycho</i> made millions nervous about the other side of the shower curtain, you may be reminded of this story when you next visit the bathroom.)</span></span></div></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Worst book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3Ie8TRD" target="_blank">Liberation Day</a></u></span></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This collection of short stories by George Saunders did not hit with me, despite coming recommended by some librarian colleagues. Some intriguing thoughts on identity and agency through a lens faceted by politics and technology, but a little too thinky for me right now.</span></div>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-78145085350400931482023-01-31T23:30:00.003-08:002023-02-02T10:21:52.152-08:00TBR List Update: January<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'm working my way through </span>#VirtualMountTBR. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's my current <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later" target="_blank">To-Be-Read List</a>, and here's the list of <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">titles I have read this year</a>.</span><br /><br /><u>In January 2023</u></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">Books read:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> <span>12</span> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">(plus a short article that I thought was longer when I added it to the list)</span></span><br /></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;">Books I decided NOT to finish: <span style="font-weight: normal;">1</span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have had <u>Black Pioneers in a White Denomination</u> on my TBR list for almost a decade, and I finally checked out a copy through interlibrary loan, and... decided to DNF about a third of the way through. It was published as a graduate thesis in 1984, through the lens of the late 20th century, and that's not so relevant for me today. I was also looking more for a sociological discussion of contemporary Unitarian Universalist congregations, and this focused on two historical figures in the ministry.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Books left on the TBR List: <span style="font-weight: normal;">138</span><br /><br />Best book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3IYD9Cc" target="_blank">In Love</a></u></span></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span class="ui-provider ww b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" dir="ltr" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">It was approachable (I blazed right through it) and heart-rending and very honest. I come from long-lived people, and 3 of my 4 grandparents experienced some form of dementia before they died (and the 4th died young, so who knows whether he would have); I can expect to revisit their struggles with my own parents (both older now than Brian Ameche was when his Alzheimer's was diagnosed) and perhaps have those genes waiting in myself. Very existential read, prompting the big questions like "What do I want to leave as my legacy?", "How will I live after a major life disruption?", "What makes life worth living?" etc.</span></span></p><br />Worst book of the month: <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/page/edit/1265570065151952823/6768918070458381370#" target="_blank">Christmas Days</a></span></h3><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I had this whole setup for a mood read -- snow outside, me wrapped up in a blanket with a mug of cocoa -- that this collection did not live up to. Some of the recipes, with their accompanying anecdotes, were intriguing. One or two of the short stories or essays could have stood alone, and I'd've been happy if I'd encountered it in the wild. But the back-and-forth between two formats, and the overall atmosphere of this writer's memoirs, failed to gain my empathy or hold my interest for long.</span></div>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-66328039658695705882023-01-01T06:51:00.001-08:002023-01-02T19:05:14.860-08:00Reading List 2022<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px;">Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: </span><a href="http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" style="color: #cc8366; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html</a></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I would recommend the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">bolded</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> titles with enthusiasm, and I enjoyed the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">italicized</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> titles but probably wouldn't read them again.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p><b>Read in 2022:</b></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face=""><span face="" style="color: #222222;">0.2.</span><span face="" style="color: red;">*</span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/3FT9XIr" target="_blank"><u>Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line</u>, by Deepa Anappara</a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">1. <a href="https://amzn.to/3pNiEyk" target="_blank"><u>Triple Cross</u>, by Marc Stiegler</a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">2. <a href="https://amzn.to/3zoGIKU" target="_blank"><u>Second Dad Summer</u>, by Benjamin Klas</a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face=""><span face="" style="color: #222222;">3. <a href="https://amzn.to/34gBUfb" target="_blank"><i><u>The Legend of Auntie Po</u>, by Shing Yin Khor</i></a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">4. </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3mZJBgn" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>Greenglass House</u>, by Kate Milford</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">5. </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3t2tL8y" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The Boys in the Back Row</u>, by Mike Jung</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">6. <a href="https://amzn.to/34sehjT" target="_blank"><u>Magic for Liars</u>, by Sarah Gailey</a></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">7. </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3zCj4uv" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Full Cicada Moon</u>, by Marilyn Hilton</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">8. </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3zCj4uv" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>We Belong</u>, by Cookie Hiponia Everman</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3qmlNFz" target="_blank"><i><u>Swallowing Darkness</u>, by Laurell K. Hamilton</i></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">9. </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3fc9TaT" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>Prairie Lotus</u>, by Linda Sue Park</i></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;">10. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3K861py" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The Fortress</u>, by S.A. Jones</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">11. </span><b><a href="https://amzn.to/33tJnHg" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Obie Is Man Enough</u>, by Schuyler Bailar</a> </b></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">12. <a href="https://amzn.to/33cChY4" target="_blank"><u>Where We Belong</u>, by Catherine Ryan Hyde</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">13. <a href="https://amzn.to/3KiKN8x" target="_blank"><i><u>This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us</u>, edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">14. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3nmLJPl" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Dear Mrs. Bird</u>, by AJ Pearce</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">15. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/33lcMDZ" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Dumpling Days</u>, by Grace Lin</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">15.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3u0FOUw" target="_blank"><u>More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave</u>, by Ruth Schwartz Cowan </a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">16. <a href="https://amzn.to/3fLTiuV" target="_blank"><u>Tidesong</u>, by Wendy Xu</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3tZMVMX" target="_blank"><b><u>Full Dark, No Stars</u>, by Stephen King</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">17. <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3GON0GK" target="_blank"><u>A Year Without the Grocery Store: A Step by Step Guide to Acquiring, Organizing, and Cooking Food Storage</u>, by Karen Morris</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">17.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3u0bdpZ" target="_blank"><u>Cilla Lee-Jenkins: The Epic Story</u>, by Susan Tan</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">18. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3fLTiuV" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Once Upon a River</u>, by Diane Setterfield</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>19. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3IAleOG" target="_blank"><i><u>The Growing Summer</u>, by Noel Streatfeild</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">20. <a href="https://amzn.to/34f0XPX" target="_blank"><u>Duma Key</u>, by Stephen King</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">20.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3HpPWK0" target="_blank">The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: </a></u></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3HpPWK0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u>Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian</u></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">, by W. Kamau Bell</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">21.<span style="color: red;"> </span><i><a href="https://amzn.to/32JXAzU" target="_blank"><u>Birdie and Me</u>, by J. M. M. Nuanez</a> </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">22. <a href="https://amzn.to/3umzIOe" target="_blank"><u>The Kitchen Front</u>, by Jennifer Ryan</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3Lbx1VQ" target="_blank"><u>Fire Season</u>, by David Weber and Jane Lindskold</a>]</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">23. <a href="https://amzn.to/3J7hc0q" target="_blank"><u>Noir Fatale: The Dark Side of Science Fiction and Fantasy</u>, edited by Larry Correia and Kacey Ezell</a><br />24. <a href="https://amzn.to/34CCMel" target="_blank"><u>Before We Were Yours</u>, by Lisa Wingate</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">24.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3LmaFRs" target="_blank"><u>Bounce Back</u>, by Misako Rocks!</a> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">25. </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3oJRuYn" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers: The Definitive Anthology of Space Opera</u>, edited by Bryan </a><a href="https://amzn.to/3oJRuYn" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thomas Schmidt</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">26. <a href="https://amzn.to/35Sa3mk" target="_blank"><i><u>Dawn Raid</u>, by Pauline Vaeluaga Smith</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>27. <a href="https://amzn.to/3sdFHU7" target="_blank"><u>Trust No Aunty</u>, by Maria Qamar</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>27.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3IlgMDF" target="_blank"><u>No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey through the American South</u>, by Gary Younge</a><br />28. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3uWDLRJ" target="_blank"><u>Any Day with You</u>, by Mae Respicio</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3BXFeJ9" target="_blank"><i><u>Cujo</u>, by Stephen King</i></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3IXe4oj" target="_blank"><b><u>Insomnia</u>, by Stephen King</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">29. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/34PE1XW" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Out on a Limb</u>, by Carolyn Jourdan</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">29.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3KwreZL" target="_blank"><u>Poison for Teacher</u>, by Nancy Spain</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3qmWwe7" target="_blank"><b><u>Written in My Own Heart's Blood</u>, by Diana Gabaldon</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">30. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/32FszgI" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All</u>, by Laura Ruby</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">30.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/36zuMf8" target="_blank"><u>The Leftovers</u>, by Tom Perrotta</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">31. <a href="https://amzn.to/3tBjUpY" target="_blank"><i><u>Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales</u>, by Soman Chainani</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">32. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3D74E7E" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life</u>, by Wade Rouse</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3O62ZUO" target="_blank"><b><u>Parable of the Sower</u>, by Octavia Butler</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">33. <a href="https://amzn.to/3KJRBMd" target="_blank"><b><u>Parable of the Talents</u>, by Octavia Butler</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">34. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3jgA6Hz" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The Great Jeff</u>, by Tony Abbott</a></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">35. <a href="https://amzn.to/3xJxREN" target="_blank"><u>Saga</u>, vol. 1, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">36.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3vD28T1" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>Picnic in Provence</u>, by Elizabeth Bard</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">37. <a href="https://amzn.to/3rK1HFr" target="_blank"><i><u>The Hollow Places</u>, by T. Kingfisher</i></a></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">37.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3vNLDnk" target="_blank"><u>McSweeney's</u>, vol. 62, edited by Patty Yumi Cottrell</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">38. <a href="https://amzn.to/3xY2mHa" target="_blank"><b><u>Free as a Bird</u>, by Gina McMurchy-Barber</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">39. <a href="https://amzn.to/3F7kLmB" target="_blank"><b><u>midnight & indigo: Twenty-Two Speculative Stores by Black Women Writers</u>, vol. 4, edited by Ianna A. Small</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">40. <a href="https://amzn.to/3ylaRwe" target="_blank"><i><u>Bitter</u>, by Akwaeke Emezi</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">41. <a href="https://amzn.to/3L3wwvM" target="_blank"><u>American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America</u>, by Michelle Obama</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">41.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3MhlhRH" target="_blank"><i><b><u>Gig: Americans Talk about Their Jobs</u>, edited by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, and Sabin Streeter</b></i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">41.3.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3MrvE5r" target="_blank"><u>You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger</u>, by Roger Hall</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">42. <a href="https://amzn.to/3wVwMYy" target="_blank"><i><u>Boundaries</u>, edited by Mercedes Lackey</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">43.</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3watMbK" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The Heretic's Daughter</u>, by Kathleen Kent</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">44. <a href="https://amzn.to/3xaFILc" target="_blank"><i><u>Beyond</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">45. <a href="https://amzn.to/38ECUfF" target="_blank"><i><u>Bento Box in the Heartland</u>, by Linda Furiya</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3N2W8tw" target="_blank"><b><u>Firestarter</u>, by Stephen King</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">46. <a href="https://amzn.to/39tCE3y" target="_blank"><u>Sorrowland</u>, by Rivers Solomon</a><br />47. <a href="https://amzn.to/3Naor9A" target="_blank"><i><u>The Last Cuentista</u>, by Donna Barba Higuera</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">48. <a href="https://amzn.to/3O92KIi" target="_blank"><u>Recipe for a Perfect Wife</u>, by Karma Brown</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">48.4.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3PHUVtF" target="_blank"><u>The Bookshop on the Shore</u>, by Jenny Colgan</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">49. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3ARHyTh" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>The Good Luck Girls</u>, by Charlotte Nicole Davis</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">50. <a href="https://amzn.to/3J2WqR3" target="_blank"><b><u>Out of My Heart</u>, by Sharon Draper</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">51. <a href="https://amzn.to/3Pdarh9" target="_blank"><u>The Midwife of Venice</u>, by Roberta Rich</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">52. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3RqtLZT" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>Trashlands</u>, by Alison Stine</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">53.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><i><a href="https://amzn.to/3SbN2i1" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Dangerous Women</u>, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois</a> </i></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">54. <a href="https://amzn.to/3T7yzUA" target="_blank"><i><u>Mary Russell's War</u>, by Laurie R. King</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">55. <a href="https://amzn.to/3AK6YBO" target="_blank"><i><u>The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth</u>, edited by S.M. Stirling</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">56. <a href="https://amzn.to/3dfGaR9" target="_blank"><i><u>The Book Eaters</u>, by Sunyi Dean</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">57. <a href="https://amzn.to/3S8uq1o" target="_blank"><u>Payback's a Witch</u>, by Lana Harper</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">58. <a href="https://amzn.to/3LkYO6Q" target="_blank"><i><u>The Language of Bees</u>, by Laurie R. King</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">59. <a href="https://amzn.to/3diijQA" target="_blank"><i><u>Locked Rooms</u>, by Laurie R. King</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">60. <a href="https://amzn.to/3S88CTK" target="_blank"><u>Honey Girl</u>, by Morgan Rogers</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">61. <a href="https://amzn.to/3DBLKYD" target="_blank"><i><u>The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches</u>, by Sangu Mandanna</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">62.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3qLJhTT" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>Her Royal Highness</u>, by Rachel Hawkins</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">63. <a href="https://amzn.to/3DKUhbX" target="_blank"><i><u>She Gets the Girl</u>, by Rachael Lipincott and Alyson Derrick</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">64. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3o0BCjb" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free</u>, by Paulina Bren</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3BIfRek" target="_blank"><b><u>One Last Stop</u>, by Casey McQuiston</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">64.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3yeKR4Z" target="_blank"><u>Vignettes & Vinaigrettes: A Memoir of Catering Before Food Was Hot</u>, by Carol Durst-Wertheim</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3T64yUH" target="_blank"><b><u>Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone</u>, by Diana Gabaldon</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3C4vDAo" target="_blank"><b><u>Red, White, and Royal Blue</u>, by Casey McQuiston</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">65.<i> </i></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3CtFxgs" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love</u>, edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>66. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3LYxeME" target="_blank"><i><u>The God of the Hive</u>, by Laurie R. King</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">66.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3RKN5A1" target="_blank"><u>The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West</u>, by Christopher Corbett</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">67. <a href="https://amzn.to/3Tb9E1R" target="_blank"><i><u>Fairy Tale</u>, by Stephen King</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">68. <a href="https://amzn.to/3D3jAUB" target="_blank"><b><u>When Women Were Dragons</u>, by Kelly Barnhill</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">69. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Riding-Freedom-Pam-Munoz-Ryan-ebook/dp/B00ED05BCA?crid=2974K3KFVSSD9&keywords=Riding+Freedom%2C+by+Pam+Munoz+Ryan&qid=1666729977&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjc3IiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=riding+freedom%2C+by+pam+munoz+ryan%2Caps%2C111&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=mlis0a-20&linkId=70043bdcc674c4fc761df9181dfe04ed&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl" target="_blank"><i><u>Riding Freedom</u>, by Pam Mu</i></a></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Riding-Freedom-Pam-Munoz-Ryan-ebook/dp/B00ED05BCA?crid=2974K3KFVSSD9&keywords=Riding+Freedom%2C+by+Pam+Munoz+Ryan&qid=1666729977&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjc3IiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=riding+freedom%2C+by+pam+munoz+ryan%2Caps%2C111&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=mlis0a-20&linkId=70043bdcc674c4fc761df9181dfe04ed&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl" target="_blank"><i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">ñ</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">oz Ryan</span></i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">70. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ship-We-Built-Lexie-Bean-ebook/dp/B07XBGPN13?crid=15G33TCXPE8FI&keywords=The+Ship+We+Built%2C+by+Lexie+Bean&qid=1666730042&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjcxIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=the+ship+we+built%2C+by+lexie+bean%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=mlis0a-20&linkId=c8b4647bf153f47b264bc4e6939a6b56&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl" target="_blank"><i><u>The Ship We Built</u>, by Lexie Bean</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">71.</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3srdQiM" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The Atlas Six</u>, by Olivie Blakey</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">72.</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3ShDYqQ" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>A Universe of Wishes</u>, edited by Dhonielle Clayton</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3GKJpMC" target="_blank"><i><u>So B. It</u>, by Sarah Weeks</i></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">73. <a href="https://amzn.to/3UaHgNy" target="_blank"><u>A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman</u>, by Lindy Elkins-Tanton</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">74. <a href="https://amzn.to/3EYmoET" target="_blank"><i><u>Meet Cute</u>, by Jennifer L. Armentrout, et al.</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">75. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3ruzJgC" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Red Clocks</u>, by Leni Zumas</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">76. <a href="https://amzn.to/3tVJhCs" target="_blank"><i><u>The Guncle</u>, by Steven Rowley</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">77. <a href="https://amzn.to/3GKlA7F" target="_blank"><i><u>Plot Twist</u>, by Bethany Turner</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">78. <a href="https://amzn.to/3VjwZzo" target="_blank"><i><u>Lupe Wong Won't Dance</u>, by Donna Barba Higuera</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">79. <a href="https://amzn.to/3i99TNs" target="_blank"><u>The Final Girl Support Group</u>, by Grady Hendrix</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">79.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3EwvO9a" target="_blank"><u>Ice, Iron, and Gold</u>, by SM Stirling</a><br />80. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Fs3w1C" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip -- Confessions of a Cynical Waiter</u>, by Steve Dublanica</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">81. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3XQqwhh" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line</u>, by Eric Ripert with Veronica Chambers</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">82.</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3B29RNY" target="_blank"><i><u style="font-family: georgia;">Such a Fun Age</u><span style="font-family: georgia;">, by Kiley Reid</span></i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">83. <u><a href="goog_1415685533">Efr</a></u></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3ukk059"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">é</span><u>n Divided</u>, by Ernesto Cisneros</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">84. <a href="https://amzn.to/3FgTAGe" target="_blank"><i><u>Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone</u>, edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">85. <u><a href="https://amzn.to/3W7Rkbj" target="_blank"><i>Worth It: How a Million-Dollar Pay Cut and a $70,000 Minimum Wage Revealed a Better Way of Doing Business</i></a></u></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3W7Rkbj" target="_blank"><i>, by Dan Price</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">85.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3VVLgTH" target="_blank"><u>The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America</u>, by Bill Bryson</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">86. <a href="https://amzn.to/3Vlv8ui" target="_blank"><u>Severance</u>, by Ling Ma</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">87.</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3WdBGLI" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America, and What It Taught Us about Love</u>, by Liza Monroy</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">87.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3C6YncO" target="_blank"><u>Sobremesa: A Memoir of Food and Love in Thirteen Courses</u>, by Josephine Caminos Or</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3C6YncO" target="_blank">ía</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">88. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/39SyfHm" target="_blank"><u>Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue</u>, edited by Sheree Renee Thomas, Pan Morrigan, and Troy L. Wiggins</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">89. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3I6W0dY" target="_blank"><i><u>Rogues</u>, edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois</i></a></span></div>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-66157377438132697912022-12-28T16:40:00.001-08:002022-12-28T17:03:45.794-08:00Reading Challenge for 2023: Tackle the TBR List<p>Like many avid readers, I have a list or pile of "to-be-read" books that seems to be ever growing and never shrinking. There is certainly not enough time to read ALL the books I want to or think I want to, even with my annual Hundred Books Challenge. So in 2023 I have decided to try something new: read primarily books from my TBR list to get it down to a manageable size!<br /><br />Guidelines (and feel free to adapt them if you'd like to challenge yourself!):<br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Have a known list to begin the year. I have consolidated mine into the tool my library uses and have a list of 150 titles here: <a href="https://oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/users/1947049039/shelves/for_later">TBR List</a>.</li><li>Try not to add anything new! But it's okay to read off-list.</li><li>Keep track of what I'm reading on my usual page: <a href="https://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" target="_blank">Reading List</a>.</li><li>Remove titles from the TBR list as I complete them, OR as I decide that I will be okay never reading/finishing them. If I don't actually have to FINISH all 150, the list might just be conquerable in one year.</li></ul><p></p><p><br />Others doing the same thing are using <b>#<a href="https://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2022/11/2023-mount-tbr-reading-challenge-sign-up.html" target="_blank">MountTBR</a></b> or <b>#<a href="https://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2022/11/2023-virtual-mount-tbr-challenge-sign-up.html" target="_blank">VirtualMountTBR</a></b> (the latter being mine, as I thankfully do not have a physical shelf or pile of waiting books).</p><p><br /></p><p>In case you were wondering, here's how the list breaks down across some common categories:</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpMEHQtAk3LkfgV5po9pZWaVPh5KZDG6q8kS8tU7JLzdXqf5pDZg3Lt-VGGLYnWbLGnmGjDz6jg0wM_0PK5e-Wrnk0Q3G4H07o7vzBOuhwYj1YxrehC6e6gdRfguATBP76ZlXYOmVNK9k_4JuZM9xjGJyjjw8obIpx26MnoxXnL8VaM37Z-WISkee5xw/s1200/meta-chart.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpMEHQtAk3LkfgV5po9pZWaVPh5KZDG6q8kS8tU7JLzdXqf5pDZg3Lt-VGGLYnWbLGnmGjDz6jg0wM_0PK5e-Wrnk0Q3G4H07o7vzBOuhwYj1YxrehC6e6gdRfguATBP76ZlXYOmVNK9k_4JuZM9xjGJyjjw8obIpx26MnoxXnL8VaM37Z-WISkee5xw/s320/meta-chart.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglf5AMhHW-2TQUBOol61duD-t53XsPiGpGboesmi5HqgOkQMTOjfICGias-36OmfF0_4QINRQCekogGpfb_AGMVdTnHoYN4wnomsNGrmuG6XN6PAmEslZ_b7FgwhyabthPELrDCCZSH_u3f9EjDoUogCp43ViOAWdL_xZ3oUdC0Bp-uMBpOJ5Q70R0lQ/s1200/meta-chart%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglf5AMhHW-2TQUBOol61duD-t53XsPiGpGboesmi5HqgOkQMTOjfICGias-36OmfF0_4QINRQCekogGpfb_AGMVdTnHoYN4wnomsNGrmuG6XN6PAmEslZ_b7FgwhyabthPELrDCCZSH_u3f9EjDoUogCp43ViOAWdL_xZ3oUdC0Bp-uMBpOJ5Q70R0lQ/s320/meta-chart%20(1).png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>The genres and topics are diverse, but I see themes:<br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jjpfySXB10zQGRfUvGgk9euXeVOB5K9bkavypxJqgRrujeCn81WZurdYhk1Yfv78HvIJLqPSpJNDbw0lO2SpL610hUZRBTlBNikMaSVAA45pvTKp9gCkmWoJ_h97nYP4T-JtLtFbCqjDnx1rPJ5xAH4iUXW3ja7gDF74zGIEDtPXcdZ-7cP8OkDgRw/s889/Genre%202023%20list.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="793" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jjpfySXB10zQGRfUvGgk9euXeVOB5K9bkavypxJqgRrujeCn81WZurdYhk1Yfv78HvIJLqPSpJNDbw0lO2SpL610hUZRBTlBNikMaSVAA45pvTKp9gCkmWoJ_h97nYP4T-JtLtFbCqjDnx1rPJ5xAH4iUXW3ja7gDF74zGIEDtPXcdZ-7cP8OkDgRw/s320/Genre%202023%20list.PNG" width="285" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All 150 fall within this breakdown</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJTaQ02nxA9uOcYFAQ7IIkuUTq0IfflGj4NRwYEfqXst0_PMnXbzgv-Z4BmFFw5wLUjHVx3bdWLWeFY5xaQMYdm8KpQlWkFdoqQ_lcF8R6_OV8OHBuhiZQQb3iOa5lirJPvpUXvZOobjg3wDILYrCSeoDvi69g7pF8Q9SupM6GT77FOybM3W_DVNAH9Q/s932/topic%201.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="833" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJTaQ02nxA9uOcYFAQ7IIkuUTq0IfflGj4NRwYEfqXst0_PMnXbzgv-Z4BmFFw5wLUjHVx3bdWLWeFY5xaQMYdm8KpQlWkFdoqQ_lcF8R6_OV8OHBuhiZQQb3iOa5lirJPvpUXvZOobjg3wDILYrCSeoDvi69g7pF8Q9SupM6GT77FOybM3W_DVNAH9Q/s320/topic%201.PNG" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This shows only the most common topics of the 150</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-58064127854089600382022-01-01T01:56:00.001-08:002022-01-01T01:56:14.088-08:00Reading List 2021<p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px;">Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: </span><a href="http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" style="color: #cc8366; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html</a></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I would recommend the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">bolded</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> titles with enthusiasm, and I enjoyed the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">italicized</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> titles but probably wouldn't read them again.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><br /><br /> <b>Read in 2021:</b><p></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">1. <a href="https://amzn.to/3rMd669" target="_blank"><i><u>American Royals</u>, by Katharine McGee</i></a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">1.1.</span><span face="" style="color: red;">*</span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/3pQfKpv" target="_blank"><u>Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership</u>, by Ed Gordon</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">1.2.</span><span face="" style="color: red;">*</span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/35fncCP" target="_blank"><u>Small Island</u>, by Andrea Levy</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">2. <a href="https://amzn.to/3olZGeQ" target="_blank"><u>Ben and Me: A New and Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos</u>, by Robert Lawson</a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">3. <a href="https://amzn.to/3qprMGZ"><i><u>Majesty</u>, by Katharine McGee</i></a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">3.1.</span><span face="" style="color: red;">*</span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/39H8uWJ" target="_blank"><u>The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue</u>, by Karina Yan Glaser</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">4. <a href="https://amzn.to/3sFmtov" target="_blank"><u>The Death of Vivek Oji</u>, by Akwaeke Emezi</a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">5. </span></span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/38VwtCk" target="_blank"><u>Once on This Island</u>, by Gloria Whelan</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">6. </span></span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3oKjysf" target="_blank"><u>Peter and the Starcatchers</u>, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">7. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Zr0gNu" target="_blank"><i><u>Losers Bracket</u>, by Chris Crutcher</i></a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">8. <a href="https://amzn.to/3beZCZ4" target="_blank"><u>Girl Meets Boy</u>, edited by Kelly Milner Halls</a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">9. <a href="https://amzn.to/3keJVoJ" target="_blank"><u>When I Was White</u>, by Sarah Valentine</a></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;">10. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/39HLAzG" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><u>We Are Never Meeting in Real Life</u>, by Samantha Irby</b></a></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;">11. <a href="https://amzn.to/2MDejgq" target="_blank"><u>Gold Rush Girl</u>, by Avi</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">12. <a href="https://amzn.to/302QzFp" target="_blank"><b><u>The List of Things That Will Not Change</u>, by Rebecca Stead</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">13. <a href="https://amzn.to/3e4t0Ek" target="_blank"><u>Sold on a Monday</u>, by Kristina McMorris</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2Os2v10" target="_blank"><i><u>Cell,</u> by Stephen King</i></a>]</span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;">13.1.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">*</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/3kSTYAe" target="_blank"><u>Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019</u>, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">14. <a href="https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13774082" target="_blank"><u>Black Widows</u>, by Cate Quinn</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">15. <a href="https://amzn.to/3qCcIoZ" target="_blank"><b><u>The Queen's Weapons</u>, by Anne Bishop</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">16. <a href="https://amzn.to/3vsNBIW" target="_blank"><u>A Spark of Light</u>, by Jodi Picoult</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">17. <a href="https://amzn.to/3qR1gpx" target="_blank"><i><u>All He Knew</u>, by Helen Frost</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">18.<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/30UVmJI" target="_blank"><u>Yellow Wife</u>, by Sadeqa Johnson</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">19. <a href="https://amzn.to/3eJ3KE7" target="_blank"><i><u>The Book of Two Ways</u>, by Jodi Picoult</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">20. <a href="https://amzn.to/3cC66mR" target="_blank"><i><u>Hostage</u>, by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3dsjx85" target="_blank"><b><u>All-of-a-Kind Family</u>, by Sydney Taylor</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3sQp6Ub" target="_blank"><b><u>Native Tongue</u>, by Suzette Haden Elgin</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3t9MoEA" target="_blank"><b><u>First Test</u>, by Tamora Pierce</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: black;">21.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2R3TGvG" target="_blank"><u>The Goldfish Boy</u>, by Lisa Thompson</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">21.3.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3xkCoez" target="_blank"><u>The War Garden Victorious</u>, by Charles Lathrop Pack</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3mKvKtb" target="_blank"><b><u>The Gate to Women's Country</u>, by Sheri S. Tepper</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">22. <a href="https://amzn.to/33xBAFr" target="_blank"><u>Parnassus on Wheels</u>, by Christopher Morley</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">23. <a href="https://amzn.to/3arPz38" target="_blank"><u>The House in the Cerulean Sea</u>, by TJ Klune</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">24. <a href="https://amzn.to/2RHLxNE" target="_blank"><i><u>You Should See Me in a Crown</u>, by Leah Johnson</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">25. <a href="https://amzn.to/32RgLnN" target="_blank"><u>The Truce</u>, by Angie Smibert</a><br />26. <a href="https://amzn.to/3sVXVqj" target="_blank"><i><u>You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism</u>, by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">27. <a href="https://amzn.to/3y2ff0M" target="_blank"><i><u>The Once and Future Witches</u>, by Alix E. Harrow</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">27. <a href="https://amzn.to/3y4fIzx" target="_blank"><u>Dragons in a Bag</u>, by Zetta Elliott</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">28. <a href="https://amzn.to/33xi1Nn" target="_blank"><u>Flying the Dragon</u>, by Natalie Dias Lorenzi</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">29. <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3uBTnqP" target="_blank"><u>The Push</u>, by Ashley Audrain</a> </i><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">30. <a href="https://amzn.to/3o6PjMK" target="_blank"><b><u>Show Me a Sign</u>, by Ann Clare LeZotte</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">31. <a href="https://amzn.to/3biPxv2" target="_blank"><u>Ya-Yas in Bloom</u>, by Rebecca Wells</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2knwiZb" target="_blank"><b><u>Seven Stones to Stand or Fall</u>, by Diana Gabaldon</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">32. <a href="https://amzn.to/3opXHar" target="_blank"><i><u>For Black Girls Like Me</u>, by Mariama J. Lockington</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">33. <a href="https://amzn.to/3fvJNPJ" target="_blank"><u>Finding Orion</u>, by John David Anderson</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3ynjJix" target="_blank"><u>Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast</u>, by Jane Yolen</a>] </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">34. <a href="https://amzn.to/3u6zhUF" target="_blank"><b><u>Summer of a Thousand Pies</u>, by Margaret Dilloway</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">35. </span><span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2Rw8ST1" target="_blank"><u>I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé</u>, by Michael Arceneaux</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">36. <a href="https://amzn.to/3yDjXC9" target="_blank"><b><u>Some Places More Than Others</u>, by Renee Watson</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3fjdvZB" target="_blank"><b><u>The War I Finally Won</u>, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley</b></a>]<br />36.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3uqknZh" target="_blank"><u>Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker</u>, by Jennifer Chiaverini</a><br />37. <a href="https://amzn.to/3vsAF5v" target="_blank"><u>Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You</u>, by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">38. <a href="https://amzn.to/34JZRbT" target="_blank"><i><u>The Book of Lost Friends</u>, by Lisa Wingate</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">39.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3x2C8Qf" target="_blank"><u>Morning by Morning: How We Homeschooled Our African-American Sons to the Ivy League</u>, by Paula Penn-Nabrit</a><br />40. <a href="https://amzn.to/3przXTO" target="_blank"><i><u>Real-Life Homeschooling: The Stories of 21 Families Who Teach Their Children at Home</u>, by Rhonda Barfield</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">41. <a href="https://amzn.to/3gi5sMZ" target="_blank"><b><u>The Seed Keeper</u>, by Diane Wilson</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">42. <a href="https://amzn.to/35BhbQM" target="_blank"><i><u>Riot</u>, by Walter Dean Myers</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">43. <a href="https://amzn.to/3iS2hxe" target="_blank"><u>Libertie</u>, by Kaitlyn Greenidge</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">44. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2SJwsMy" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling</u>, by </span><span class="additionalFields customSecondaryText" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quinn Cummings</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">45. <a href="https://amzn.to/3gPN65h" target="_blank"><i><u>The Root Cellar</u>, by Janet Lunn</i></a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">46. <a href="https://amzn.to/3gP7DGQ" target="_blank"><u>What Momma Left Me</u>, by Renee Watson</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">47. <a href="https://amzn.to/2TbiXFv" target="_blank"><u>Homeschoolers' Success Stories: 15 Adults and 12 Young People Share the Impact that Homeschooling Has Made on Their Lives</u>, by Linda Dobson</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">47.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3ALet9J" target="_blank"><u>Catholic Education: Homeward Bound</u>, by Kimberly Hahn and Mary Hasson</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">48. <a href="https://amzn.to/3A3Knh8" target="_blank"><u>Echo Mountain</u>, by Lauren Wolk</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">49. <a href="https://amzn.to/3xbRB0V" target="_blank"><i><u>Homeschooling: A Family's Journey</u>, by Gregory and Martine Millman</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">50. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2U5sZID" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><u>Vera</u>, by Carol Edgarian</b></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">51. <a href="https://amzn.to/3xzklAE" target="_blank"><u>Almost There and Almost Not</u>, by Linda Urban</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">52. <a href="https://amzn.to/3dPffsy" target="_blank"><i><u>Later</u>, by Stephen King</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">53. <a href="https://amzn.to/3qZGUvX" target="_blank"><u>When I Found You</u>, by Catherine Ryan Hyde</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">54. <a href="https://amzn.to/3r5ab8u" target="_blank"><i><u>The Rose Code</u>, by Kate Quinn</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">55. <a href="https://amzn.to/3r6tzlR" target="_blank"><u>The Grace Year</u>, by Kim Liggett</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">56. <a href="https://amzn.to/3qXSact" target="_blank"><u>Some Other Now</u>, by Sarah Everett</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">57. <a href="https://amzn.to/3BcQjVR" target="_blank"><i><u>Watch Us Rise</u>, by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">58. <a href="https://amzn.to/3BsDpDf" target="_blank"><i><u>Losers and Winners</u>, by Frances A. Miller</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2Wnmim9" target="_blank"><b><u>A Girl of the Limberlost</u>, by Gene Stratton-Porter</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3f5TFAm" target="_blank"><b><u>The Dark Is Rising</u>, by Susan Cooper</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3BReSIm" target="_blank"><u>Marilla of Green Gables</u>, by Sarah McCoy</a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">59. <a href="https://amzn.to/37vTXMS" target="_blank"><u>The Alice Network</u>, by Kate Quinn</a><br />60. <a href="https://amzn.to/3kveGIw" target="_blank"><i><u>The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief</u>, by Liz Tichenor</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3jkX6G4" target="_blank"><b><u>Terrier</u>, by Tamora Pierce</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">61. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3xaalgv" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture</u>, edited by Gabriel Thompson</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3gEYgKB" target="_blank"><b><u>First Test</u>, by Tamora Pierce</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">62. <a href="https://amzn.to/3mBhnt3" target="_blank"><u>Magic Lessons: Celebratory and Cautionary Tales about Life as a (Single, Gay, Transracially Adoptive) Dad</u>, by Joseph Sadusky</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">63. <a href="https://amzn.to/3jx23LU" target="_blank"><i><u>Ninth House</u>, by Leigh Bardugo</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">64. <a href="https://amzn.to/3tiGFO1" target="_blank"><u>The Vegetarian</u>, by Han Kang</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">64.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/38Fhuvy" target="_blank"><u>Our Lady of the Nile</u>, by Scholastique Mukasonga</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">65. <a href="https://amzn.to/3BWqxVw" target="_blank"><u>Stepping Stones</u>, by Lucy Knisley</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">66. <a href="https://amzn.to/2XkSkjm" target="_blank"><b><u>Binti</u>, by Nnedi Okorafor</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">67. <a href="https://amzn.to/3BQZjiU" target="_blank"><i><u>Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef</u>, by Gabrielle Hamilton</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">68. <a href="https://amzn.to/3z05orf" target="_blank"><u>Dead Dead Girls</u>, by Nekesa Afia</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">69. <a href="https://amzn.to/2XvSd51" target="_blank"><u>The Anvil of the World</u>, by Kage Baker</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">70. <a href="https://amzn.to/3kBoFvu" target="_blank"><u>Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust</u>, by Loic Dauvillier, Marc Lizano, and Greg Salsedo</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">71. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3kuEtQC" target="_blank"><u>Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World</u>, by Ben Hewitt</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">71.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3kNDaw9" target="_blank"><u>A Certain Hunger</u>, by Chelsea G. Summers</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">72. <a href="https://amzn.to/3m8o582" target="_blank"><i><u>LaGuardia</u>, by Nnedi Okorafor</i></a><br />73. <a href="https://amzn.to/3zWqZRY" target="_blank"><i><u>Sorcery & Cecilia, or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot</u>, by Patricia C. Wrede</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">74. <a href="https://amzn.to/3umqtf5" target="_blank"><b><u>Felix Yz</u>, by Lisa Bunker</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">75.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2WN0HEo" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The Jade Peony</u>, by Wayson Choy</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">76. <a href="https://amzn.to/2WM45zd" target="_blank"><b><u>Across the Great Barrier</u>, by Patricia C. Wrede</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">77. <a href="https://amzn.to/3DC0P9k" target="_blank"><u>Once Upon a Curse</u>, by Peter S. Beagle, Nancy Kress, Patricia C. Wrede, Cindy Lynn Speer, Lucy A. Snyder, Siobhan Carroll, Imogen Howson, and Anna Kashina</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">78.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3iANS7N" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Redfield Farm</u>, by Judith Redline Coopey</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">79. <a href="https://amzn.to/3iSUyhS" target="_blank"><b><u>The Year They Burned the Books</u>, by Nancy Garden</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">80. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2YHSf9Y" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>The Women in the Walls</u>, by Amy Lukavics</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">81. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Xso06M" target="_blank"><b><u>Front Desk</u>, by Kelly Yang</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">82.</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3A0WmLg" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Survival of the Thickest</u>, by Michelle Butea</a><a href="https://amzn.to/3A0WmLg" target="_blank">u</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">83. <a href="https://amzn.to/3vMWtcQ" target="_blank"><i><u>Murder Is Bad Manners</u>, by Robin Stevens</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">84. <a href="https://amzn.to/3vFvIqQ" target="_blank"><i><u>Billy Summers</u>, by Stephen King</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">85. <a href="https://amzn.to/3CjAkFA" target="_blank"><b><u>A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking</u>, by T. Kingfisher</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3pXSSHZ" target="_blank"><i><u>The Wolves of Willoughby Chase</u>, by Joan Aiken</i></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">86. <a href="https://amzn.to/3GEi4JH" target="_blank"><i><u>Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir</u>, by Thomas Pecore Weso</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">87. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3ARUiWn" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><u>The Food of a Younger Land</u>, by Mark Kurlansky</b></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">88. <a href="https://amzn.to/3C0crBO" target="_blank"><i><u>When We Were Magic</u>, by Sarah Gailey</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">89. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Zat7JO" target="_blank"><u>Growing Up in the Care of Strangers: the Experiences, Insights, and Recommendations of Eleven Former Foster Kids</u>, edited by Waln K. Brown and John R. Seita</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">90. <a href="https://amzn.to/30JnKSi" target="_blank"><u>Gender Queer</u>, by Maia Kobabe</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">91.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/30ACUcE" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>Lily's House</u>, by Cassandra Parkin</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">92. <a href="https://amzn.to/3oJ7ysf" target="_blank"><u>The Purple Swamp Hen</u>, by Penelope Lively</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">93. <a href="https://amzn.to/30vaKzV" target="_blank"><i><u>Let's Talk about Love</u>, by Claire Kann</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">94. <a href="https://amzn.to/3FNYbia" target="_blank"><u>Willow Run</u>, by Patricia Reilly Giff</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">95. <a href="https://amzn.to/3lsITr7" target="_blank"><b><u>Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone</u>, by Diana Gabaldon</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">96. <a href="https://amzn.to/39QJCfJ" target="_blank"><u>Do Right by Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces</u>, by Valerie I. Harrison and Kathryn Peach D'Angelo</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">97. <a href="https://amzn.to/3xjdSuu" target="_blank"><b><u>This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor</u>, by Adam Kay</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">98. <a href="https://amzn.to/30FJm1R" target="_blank"><b><u>I Will Teach You to Be Rich</u>, by Ramit Sethi</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">99. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3FHIjO0" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Kilmeny of the Orchard</u>, by L.M. Montgomery</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">100. <a href="https://amzn.to/31vEWLf" target="_blank"><b><u>The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, volume II</u>, by Diana Wynne Jones</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">101. <a href="https://amzn.to/3oBmLwO" target="_blank"><i><u>Till I Kissed You</u>, by Linda McGinnis</i></a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">102. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Iq7KWv" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>We Need to Talk about Kevin</u>, by Lionel Shriver</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3ysnW53" target="_blank"><b><u>Kitchen Table Wisdom</u>, by Rachel Naomi Remen</b></a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">103. <a href="https://amzn.to/3sc4LeF" target="_blank"><u>Are You Enjoying?</u>, by Mira Sethi</a><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>104.</span><span> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3ywruDl" target="_blank"><u>Marshmallow & Jordan</u>, by Alina Chau</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">105. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3qgSfaW" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>Stand Up, Yumi Chung!</u>, by Jessica Kim</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">106. <a href="https://amzn.to/3qdnQKV" target="_blank"><i><u>Worse Than Weird</u>, by Jody J. Little</i></a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">107. <a href="https://amzn.to/3eiSRHx" target="_blank"><u>Kitchen Princess</u>, by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi</a><br />108. <a href="https://amzn.to/3yJ8l18" target="_blank"><u>The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers</u>, by Tom Standage</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">109. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3b1ZdK2" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men</u>, by Caroline Criado Perez</i></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">110. <a href="https://amzn.to/3FWXymw" target="_blank"><b><u>The Future of Another Timeline</u>, by Annalee Newitz</b></a><br />111.</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3sEdsi8" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><i><u>Maxine Waters</u>, by Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman</i></a></div><div><br /><span face=""><span face="" style="color: red;">*</span><span face="" style="color: red;">I started reading these fracti</span><span face="" style="color: red;">onal selections, but couldn't finish (or haven't yet). If I do finish one, i</span><span face="" style="color: red;">t will get its own whole-numbered slot later in the list. If not, it will languish in the interstitial.</span></span><br /><span face=""><br />[These selections are re-reads that I completed in full. They don't count as new books.]</span><br /><span face=""><br /></span><i>I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. (I was already pointing people at Amazon, so this seemed like a logical step. Still my own opinions! Buy anywhere you like, or head to your local library.)</i></div>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-35139492150989726742020-12-31T22:26:00.000-08:002020-12-31T22:26:23.888-08:00Reading List 2020<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px;">Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: </span><a href="http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" style="color: #cc8366; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px;">http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html</a></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I would recommend the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">bolded</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> titles with enthusiasm, and I enjoyed the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">italicized</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> titles but probably wouldn't read them again.</span><br /><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></b><br /><a name='more'></a><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Read in 2020:<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">1. </span><span face=""><u><a href="https://amzn.to/2rUIchT">La L</a></u></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face=""><a href="https://amzn.to/2rUIchT"><u>ínea</u>, by Ann Jaramillo</a></span></span><br /><span face="" style="background-color: white;">2.<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2QQ085H"><i><u>Home for Erring and Outcast Girls</u>, by Julie Kibler</i></a></span><br /><span face="" style="color: #222222;">3. <a href="https://amzn.to/35RWXQg"><u>Black Light</u>, by Kimberly King Parsons</a></span><br /><span face="" style="color: #222222;">4. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Tpi0Y8"><u>Small as an Elephant</u>, by Jennifer Richard Jacobson</a></span><br /><span face="" style="color: #222222;">5. <a href="https://amzn.to/38wc97I"><i><u>Hiking Naked: A Quaker Woman's Search for Balance</u>, by Iris Graville</i></a></span><br /><span face="">5.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/30V681C"><u>Notes from a Small Island</u>, by Bill Bryson</a> </span><br /><span face="" style="color: #222222;">5.2.</span><span face="" style="color: red;">*</span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/2GDblSq"><u>Because You're Mine</u>, by Rea Frey</a><br />6.</span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/315YOjU"><u>Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations</u>, by Mira Jacob</a></span><br /><span face="" style="color: #222222;">7. <a href="https://amzn.to/3753cAV"><b><u>Pet</u>, by Akwaeke Emezi</b></a></span><br /><span face="">7.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2tDTPKS"><u>Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America</u>, by Yong Chen</a></span><br /><span face="">8. <a href="https://amzn.to/2SDZBpt"><u>Stay and Fight</u>, by Madeline ffitch</a></span><br /><span face="" style="color: #222222;">9. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Vle5MH"><i><u>The Mother-In-Law</u>, by Sally Hepworth</i></a></span><br /><span face="" style="color: #222222;">10. <i><a href="https://amzn.to/396BA0b"><u>Upright Women Wanted</u>, by Sarah Gailey</a> </i></span><br /><span face="" style="color: #222222;">11. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2Ieqo61"><u>The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need from Grownups</u>, by Erika Christakis</a><span face="" style="color: #222222;"> </span><br /><span face="" style="color: #222222;">12. <a href="https://amzn.to/2TQrMRv"><u>Never Have I Ever</u>, by Joshilyn Jackson</a></span><br /><span face="">13.</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/39Ffe5I"><u>Mostly White</u>, by Alison Hart</a><br /><span face="">13.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2w1Q5Eb"><u>Natural Born Learners: Unschooling and Autonomy in Education</u>, edited by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko and Carlo Ricci </a></span><br /><span face="">14. <a href="https://amzn.to/2vmt1Q9"><i><u>The Queen's Bargain</u>, by Anne Bishop</i></a></span><br /><span face="">[<a href="https://amzn.to/33PkJNI"><u>The War That Saved My Life</u>, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley</a>]</span><br /><span face="">[<a href="https://amzn.to/39gkDzK"><u>The War I Finally Won</u>, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley</a>]</span><br /><span face="">15. <a href="https://amzn.to/3dF4wz9"><u>Food Security for the Faint of Heart: Keeping Your Larder Full in Lean Times</u>, by Robin Wheeler</a></span><br /><span face="">16. <a href="https://amzn.to/3cArC8E"><u>Samantha's Story Collection</u>, by Susan S. Adler, Maxine Rose Schur, and Valerie Tripp</a></span><br /><span face=""><span face="">17.</span><span face=""> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2whJJAD"><i><u>I Can Make This Promise</u>, by Christine Day</i></a></span><br /><span face="">18. <a href="https://amzn.to/2zM3wJS"><u>The Journey of Little Charlie</u>, by Christopher Paul Curtis</a></span><br /><span face="">18.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2WvgJhX"><u>Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood</u>, by Ali Cobby Eckermann</a></span><br /><span face="">18.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2WLR9Fq"><u>Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart</u>, by Candace Fleming</a></span><br /><span face="">[<a href="https://amzn.to/360H7ob"><u>Harbor Me</u>, by Jacqueline Woodson</a>]</span><br /><span face="">19. <a href="https://amzn.to/2yTpxGG"><u>Every Boy Should Have a Man</u>, by Preston L. Allen</a></span><br /><span face="">20. <a href="https://amzn.to/2zxQwHV"><i><u>Summer of the Gypsy Moths</u>, by Sara Pennypacker</i></a></span><br /><span face="">21. <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4367121/1/The-First-Day"><i><u>The First Day</u>, by little0bird</i></a></span><br /><span face="">22. <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4912291/1/The-Best-Revenge"><u>The Best Revenge</u>, by Arsinoe de Blassenville</a></span><br /><span face="" style="color: #222222;">23. <a href="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5843959/1/The-Best-Revenge-Time-of-the-Basilisk">The Best Revenge: <u>Time of the Basilisk</u>, by Arsinoe de Blassenville</a></span><br /><span face="">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2TJyMAv"><u>Just After Sunset</u>, by Stephen King</a>]</span><br /><span face="">24. <a href="https://amzn.to/2XDEJzX"><i><u>Two Naomis</u>, by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick</i></a></span><br /><span face="">25. <a href="https://amzn.to/30KyTzX"><u>The Secret Mother</u>, by Shalini Boland</a></span><br /><span face="">26. <a href="https://amzn.to/3epitks"><i><u>Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl Who Couldn't Ask for Help</u>, by Torey Hayden</i></a></span><br /><span face="">27. <a href="https://amzn.to/3eDdw80"><u>Rush</u>, by Lisa Patton</a></span><br /><span face="">27.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/328214W"><i><u>What to Expect the Second Year: From 12 to 24 Months</u>, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel</i></a></span><span face=""><br />28. <a href="https://amzn.to/2W5Pif6"><u>Cheaper by the Dozen</u>, by Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth</a></span></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">28.1.<font color="#ff0000">*</font> <a href="https://amzn.to/3grpZMV" target="_blank"><i><u>The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being</u>, by Simone Davies</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">28.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2GnnH4i" target="_blank"><i><u>Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words</u>, by Randall Munroe</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">29. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Xp8iWB" target="_blank"><u>Beginnings</u>, edited by David Weber</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">30. <a href="https://amzn.to/2YYtP8L"><i><u>Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life</u>, by Betty Reid Soskin</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="">31. <a href="https://amzn.to/2zsMyQT"><u>Gone Crazy in Alabama</u>, by Rita Garcia-Williams</a><br />31.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2EU8qrh" target="_blank"><u>How to Be a Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook</u>, edited by Stuart M. Matlins and Arthur J. Magida</a><br /></span><span face="">32. <a href="https://amzn.to/2PWcaup" target="_blank"><b><u>The Guest Cottage</u>, by Nancy Thayer</b></a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="">32.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3gO9dXv" target="_blank"><u>On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide</u>, by Ethan Mordden</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="">33. <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZhVNh7"><b><u>Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King</u>, by Lisa Rogak</b></a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="">33.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/31T2dV8" target="_blank"><u>A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages</u>, by Kristin Chenoweth with Joni Rodgers</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">34. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/34N0rH3" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know</u>, by Malcolm Gladwell</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="">35. <a href="https://amzn.to/3265KQe" target="_blank"><b><u>Homeland</u>, by Barbara Hambly</b></a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="">36. <a href="https://amzn.to/32WrAoc" target="_blank"><i><u>Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir</u>, by Ruth Reichl</i></a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">36.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3me3oXj" target="_blank"><u>Eden Close</u>, by Anita Shreve</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="">37. <a href="https://amzn.to/35x4IyA" target="_blank"><b><u>If It Bleeds</u>, by Stephen King</b></a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="">38.<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/35whdus" target="_blank"><u>The Fire Rose</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span face="">39. <a href="https://amzn.to/3kPUBtj" target="_blank"><u>Steadfast</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</a></span></span><br /><span face="" style="color: #222222;"></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face=""><span style="color: #222222;">40.</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3cAZbZl" target="_blank"><b><u>The Length of a String</u>, by Elissa Brent Weissman</b></a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="" style="color: #222222;">41.</span><span face="" style="color: red;"> </span><span face="" style="color: #222222;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/3hUFkFG" target="_blank"><u>'Salem's Lot</u>, by Stephen King</a></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">42. <a href="https://amzn.to/2z2l3NY"><i><u>Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish</u>, by Pablo Cartaya</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">43. <a href="https://amzn.to/2SqQzLQ" target="_blank"><i><u>Eventown</u>, by Corey Ann Haydu</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">44. <a href="https://amzn.to/2SlFgnY" target="_blank"><u>Saving Baby Doe</u>, by Danette Vigilante</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">45. <a href="https://amzn.to/2SDNMPb" target="_blank"><u>Akin</u>, by Emma Donoghue</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">46. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Fe1rJP" target="_blank"><u>Our Own Private Universe</u>, by Robin Talley</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">47. <a href="https://amzn.to/2H0OJ1t" target="_blank"><i><u>97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement</u>, by Jane Ziegelman</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">48. <a href="https://amzn.to/3nISCJq" target="_blank"><b><u>Pavi Sharma's Guide to Going Home</u>, by Bridget Farr</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">49. <a href="https://amzn.to/2HkwSU1" target="_blank"><u>Silence</u>, by Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">50. <a href="https://amzn.to/37AzCHj" target="_blank"><u>A School for Unusual Girls</u>, by Kathleen Baldwin</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3oln6S9" target="_blank"><u>More Than Honor</u>, edited by David Weber</a>]<br />50.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3mfIvtX" target="_blank"><u>A Good Place to Hide: How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives During World War II</u>, by Peter Grose</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">51. <a href="https://amzn.to/36lYG2R" target="_blank"><u>The Summer We Found the Baby</u>, by Amy Hest</a><br />52. <a href="https://amzn.to/3efjrAO" target="_blank"><u>As I Descended</u>, by Robin Talley</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">53. <a href="https://amzn.to/35NMs2C" target="_blank"><i><u>March</u>, by Geraldine Brooks</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">54. <a href="https://amzn.to/360Dtfz" target="_blank"><i><u>In Fire Forged</u>, edited by David Weber</i></a><br />[<a href="https://amzn.to/2GZUcGq" target="_blank"><u>Changer of Worlds</u>, edited by David Weber</a>]<br />55. <a href="https://amzn.to/3kkssKc" target="_blank"><i><u>Pretty Things</u>, by Janelle Brown</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/360Dtfz" target="_blank"><u>Beauty</u>, by Robin McKinley</a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">55.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/3lm3af8" target="_blank"><u>Pizza Girl</u>, by Jean Kyoung Frazier</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3fX855n" target="_blank"><u>Juniper</u>, by Monica Furlong</a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/39qdccS" target="_blank"><u>Worlds of Honor</u>, edited by David Weber</a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3oCT4Zk" target="_blank"><u>The Service of the Sword</u>, edited by David Weber</a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">55.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/348Wb3h" target="_blank"><u>The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket</u>, by Benjamin Lorr</a><br />56. <a href="https://amzn.to/3441aCl" target="_blank"><b><u>Thirteenth Child</u>, by Patricia C. Wrede</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">57. <a href="https://amzn.to/2JX4adc" target="_blank"><b><u>Fighting Words</u>, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley</b></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">58. <a href="https://amzn.to/2K7leNr" target="_blank"><u>The Turn of the Key</u>, by Ruth Ware</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">59. <a href="https://amzn.to/3rj2Ulw" target="_blank"><i><u>The Pull of the Stars</u>, by Emma Donoghue</i></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/3psxtmO" target="_blank"><u>Freckles</u>, by Gene Stratton-Porter</a>]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">60. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/37fUnHM" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><u>Supernova Era</u>, by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen</a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">61. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2F0xbS8" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><b><u>Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater</u>, by Eddie Shapiro</b></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">62. <a href="https://amzn.to/2L9kx6F" target="_blank"><b><u>Takedown</u>, by Laura Shovan</b></a></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">63. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/37QssNb" style="font-family: georgia;"><u>The House Girl</u>, by Tara Conklin</a></div><div><span face=""><br /></span></div><div><span face=""><span face="" style="color: red;">*</span><span face="" style="color: red;">I started reading these fracti</span><span face="" style="color: red;">onal selections, but couldn't finish (or haven't yet). If I do finish one, i</span><span face="" style="color: red;">t will get its own whole-numbered slot later in the list. If not, it will languish in the interstitial.</span></span><br /><span face=""><br />[These selections are re-reads that I completed in full. They don't count as new books.]</span><br /><span face=""><br /></span><i>I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. (I was already pointing people at Amazon, so this seemed like a logical step. Still my own opinions! Buy anywhere you like, or head to your local library.)</i></div></div>Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-76654239533542786662020-01-03T14:35:00.001-08:002020-01-03T14:35:21.042-08:00Reading List 2019<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: <a href="http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" style="color: #cc8366;">http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I would recommend the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">bolded</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> titles with enthusiasm, and I enjoyed the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">italicized</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> titles but probably wouldn't read them again.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Read in 2019:</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wardens-Daughter-Jerry-Spinelli/dp/0375831991/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1546497241&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Warden%27s+Daughter,+by+Jerry+Spinelli&linkCode=sl1&tag=mlis0a-20&linkId=3888a739ca6e077d32f9b42dbb0a1bcc&language=en_US"><i><u>The Warden's Daughter</u>, by Jerry Spinelli</i></a></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/2GUhw7q"><i><u>Bachelor Girl</u>, by Kim Van Alkemade</i></a></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">3. <a href="https://amzn.to/2RMkrmS"><u>Leaving Time</u>, by Jodi Picoult</a></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/2FwPs8b"><u>My Father's Words</u>, by Patricia MacLachlan</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">5. </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/2FqTzlU" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><i><u>Hold Fast</u>, by Blue Balliett</i></a><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6. <a href="https://amzn.to/35pfEKW"><u>Touching Snow</u>, by M. Sindy Felin</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">7. <a href="https://amzn.to/36nbpkx"><i><u>Flight or Fright: 17 Turbulent Tales</u>, edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent</i></a></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">8. <a href="https://amzn.to/2RYO2tu"><u>The Hills Have Spies</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</a></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">9. <a href="https://amzn.to/2RZPDzk"><u>The Bartered Brides</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</a></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9.1.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/36oLHMi"><u>Ancillary Justice</u>, by Ann Leckie</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">10. <a href="https://amzn.to/2ZQ91QA"><u>Small Great Things</u>, by Jodie Picoult</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">11. </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/2CwMygy"><u>Condomnauts</u>, by Yoss</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">11.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Book-of-Salt/dp/B00E9O0GLG/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1548567458&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=mlis0a-20&linkId=ac69d9a9967e4ebae1ceaa4a792c39b1&language=en_US"><u>The Book of Salt</u>, by Monique Truong</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">12.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2G2cZ0U"><u>The Pilot's Wife</u>, by Anita Shreve</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">13. <a href="https://amzn.to/2SeK14q"><u>Lions & Liars</u>, by Kate Beasley</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">3.1.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">*</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/2BaywRQ"><u>To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells</u>, by Mia Bay</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">14. <a href="https://amzn.to/2WvMw1p"><u>Robots vs Fairies</u>, edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">15. <a href="https://amzn.to/2t5zJVQ"><u>Artificial Condition</u>, by Martha Wells</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">16. <a href="https://amzn.to/2TDjOK2"><u>Not Her Daughter</u>, by Rea Frey</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">16.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2thx1ww"><u>The Goldfinch</u>, by Donna Tartt</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">17. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Ibrbav"><i><u>Bachelor Girl</u>, by Roger Lea MacBride</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">17.1.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: red;">*</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/2tiLNmU"><u>Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens</u>, by Eddie Izzard</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">18. <a href="https://amzn.to/2HYBkHq"><u>Then She Was Gone</u>, by Lisa Jewell</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">19. <a href="https://amzn.to/2GSdmvr"><i><u>A Good Kind of Trouble</u>, by Lisa Moore Ramée</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2TrHxRp"><u>The Truth Trap</u>, by Frances A. Miller</a>]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">19.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2UtxZSq"><i><u>Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines</u>, edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs China Martena, and Mai'a Williams</i></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">20. <a href="https://amzn.to/2ToT0Bu"><b><u>China Rich Girlfriend</u>, by Kevin Kwan</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">21. <a href="https://amzn.to/2XXE7V6"><u>Gingersnap</u>, by Patricia Reilly Giff</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">22. <a href="https://amzn.to/2XOZhVs"><b><u>Rich People Problems</u>, by Kevin Kwan</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">23. <a href="https://amzn.to/2F1IgPu"><u>Lock In</u>, by John Scalzi</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">24. <a href="https://amzn.to/2uloI3k"><i><u>The Hired Girl</u>, by Laura Amy Schlitz</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">25. <a href="https://amzn.to/2U5uvZp"><b><u>To Night Owl From Dogfish</u>, by Holly Goldberg Sloane and Meg Wolitzer</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">26. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Cy37cA"><u>Ruby in the Sky</u>, by Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">26.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2WCZNoh"><u>The Fifth Season</u>, by N.K. Jemisin</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">26.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2HJKCWR"><u>The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume 1, the Pox Party</u>, by M.T. Anderson</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">27. </span><u style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2sVWaNf">The Night Gardener</a></u><a href="https://amzn.to/2sVWaNf" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">, by Jonathan Auxier</a><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">28. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Ib28Tp"><u>Marilla of Green Gables</u>, by Sarah McCoy</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">29. <a href="https://amzn.to/2uKFSaP"><u>The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts</u>, by Avi</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">30. <a href="https://amzn.to/2I0FhKP"><u>Our Bodies, Our Shelves</u>, by Roz Warren</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">31. <a href="https://amzn.to/2YWEZK8"><i><u>Orphan #8,</u> by Kim van Alkemade</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">32. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2D5exF8"><u>Just Another Day At Your Local Public Library: An Insider's Tales Of Library Life</u>, by Roz Warren</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">33. <a href="https://amzn.to/2IjCnjC"><u>Bluish</u>, by Virginia Hamilton</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">34. <a href="https://amzn.to/2DnpQbG"><u>The Courtship Basket</u>, by Amy Clipston</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">34.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2VjiwIy"><u>All the Bright Places</u>, by Jennifer Niven</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">34.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2XBhZin"><u>A Framework for Understanding Poverty</u>, by Ruby K. Payne</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">35. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Dbp0Pd"><i><u>The Wind Called My Name</u>, by Mary Louise Sanchez</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">36. <a href="https://amzn.to/2DnpLoo"><u>Nine Perfect Strangers</u>, by Liane Moriarty</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">37. <a href="https://amzn.to/2VN1vXm"><u>Educated</u>, by Tara Westover</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">38. <a href="https://amzn.to/2WbIqiw"><i><u>The Glass Kitchen</u>, by Linda Francis Lee</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">38.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2KbFUBE"><u>Maggie-Now</u>, by Betty Smith</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">39. <a href="https://amzn.to/2l7Wacr"><i><u>The Confessions of Frannie Langton</u>, by Sara Collins</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">40. <a href="https://amzn.to/2XR4CdW"><b><u>With the Fire on High</u>, by Elizabeth Acevedo</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">40.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2yqNn93"><u>Packing for Mars</u>, by Mary Roach</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">41. <a href="https://amzn.to/2JW6z4N"><i><u>Bone's Gift</u>, by Angie Smibert</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">42. <a href="https://amzn.to/2GFrUh7"><u>Last of the Name</u>, by Rosanne Parry</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">43. <a href="https://amzn.to/2yBK26Q"><i><u>Our Castle by the Sea</u>, by Lucy Strange</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">44. <a href="https://amzn.to/31Ku07v"><u>Mistress of My Fate: Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot</u>, by Hallie Rubenhold</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">45. <a href="https://amzn.to/2H9Nc6K"><i><u>The Farm</u>, by Joanne Ramos</i></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2TZEltA"><u>Emperor Mage</u>, by Tamora Pierce</a>]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/324RvIo"><u>The Realms of the Gods</u>, by Tamora Pierce</a>]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">46. <a href="https://amzn.to/2NKZPt7"><b><u>Aren't You the One Who...?</u>, by Frances A. Miller</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">47. <a href="https://amzn.to/2L547th"><u>Eye Spy</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">48. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2NCvhcI" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><u>Shouting at the Rain</u>, by Linda Mullaly Hunt</b></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">49. <a href="https://amzn.to/2LhB8m8"><i><u>Dicey's Song</u>, by Cynthia Voigt</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2zR5g1n"><u>Anne of Ingleside</u>, by L.M. Montgomery</a>]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2QcT6eg"><u>Kushiel's Dart</u>, by Jacqueline Carey</a>]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/303xTIh"><u>Kushiel's Chosen</u>, by Jacqueline Carey</a>]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">50.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="https://amzn.to/2O4yEtm"><u>Haveli</u>, by Suzanne Fisher Staples</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2ZZJya5"><u>Kushiel's Avatar</u>, by Jacqueline Carey</a>]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">50.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2OayAbq"><u>The House of Djinn</u>, by Suzanne Fisher Staples</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">51. <a href="https://amzn.to/2m6RrbO"><i><u>The Institute</u>, by Stephen King</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">52. <a href="https://amzn.to/2nwDPXA"><b><u>The Testaments</u>, by Margaret Atwood</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">53. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2ofXCLx"><i><u style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Walk with Us: Triplet Boys, Teen Parents, and Two White Women Who Tagged Along</u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Elizabeth K. Gordon</span></i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2IsTMG5"><u>Kushiel's Scion</u>, by Jacqueline Carey</a>] </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">53.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/30TePrM"><u>Silence Broken: Moving from a Loss of Innocence to a World of Healing and Love</u>, by Sara O'Meara and Yvonne Fedderson</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">54. <a href="https://amzn.to/2LXyuma"><b><u>A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons in Simplicity, Service, and Common Sense</u>, by Robert Lawrence Smith</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">55. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2HkqLf6" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><u>How Long 'til Black Future Month?</u> by N.K. Jemisin</b></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">56. <a href="https://amzn.to/2MNFdyd"><i><u>While Still There Is Light: Writings from a Minister Facing Death</u>, by Nancy Shaffer</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">57. <a href="https://amzn.to/32ITB1t"><u>Red at the Bone</u>, by Jacqueline Woodson</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">58. <a href="https://amzn.to/32Kni2d"><u>Lingering Echoes</u>, by Angie Smibert</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">59. <a href="https://amzn.to/2C5s7Yh"><b><u>Red, White, and Royal Blue</u>, by Casey McQuiston</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">60.<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/33gLf1h"><u>Guest: A Changeling Tale</u>, by Mary Downing Hahn</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">61. <a href="https://amzn.to/32iW15X"><b><u>Towers Falling</u>, by Jewell Parker Rhodes</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">62. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Clcg7M"><u>Gretchen</u>, by Shannon Kirk</a></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">62.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2p0cyxR"><u>Patsy</u>, by Nicole Dennis-Benn</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">63. <a href="https://amzn.to/2OJUJvZ"><i><u>Keeping Lucy</u>, by T. Greenwood</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">64. <a href="https://amzn.to/2KWrSn0"><b><u>The Oysterville Sewing Circle</u>, by Susan Wiggs</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">64.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <u><a href="https://amzn.to/2RfZAI7">A Sister's Secret</a></u></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2RfZAI7">, by Wanda E. Brunstetter</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">65. <a href="https://amzn.to/381ITpN"><i><u>Saving Lucas Biggs</u>, by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague</i></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">66. <a href="https://amzn.to/34665zR"><i><u>Yankee Girl</u>, by Mary Ann Rodman</i></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">66.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/38OTjtt"><u>gods with a little g</u>, by Tupelo Hassman</a><br />66.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/35uk9EP"><u>Black Light</u>, by Kimberly King Parsons</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">67. <a href="https://amzn.to/2QGP3Uo"><b><u>City of Girls</u>, by Elizabeth Gilbert</b></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">68. <a href="https://amzn.to/37sTOaS"><i><u>Seven Days of Us</u>, by Francesca Hornak</i></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*I started reading these fracti</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">onal selections, but didn't finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />[These selections are re-reads that I completed in full. They don't count as new books.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. (I was already pointing people at Amazon, so this seemed like a logical step. Still my own opinions! Buy anywhere you like, or head to your local library.)</span></i></div>
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Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-29969748829295284412019-01-01T20:36:00.006-08:002019-01-01T20:36:54.670-08:00Reading List 2018<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: <a href="http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" style="color: #cc8366;">http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">0.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2AuQyLe" style="color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!</u>, by Bob Harris</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">0.3.<span style="color: red;">* </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2Vo4cvx"><u style="color: #222222;">Dead Girls and Other Stories</u><span style="color: #222222;">, by Emily Geminder</span></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">1. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2RoPXrc"><u>The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano</u>, by Sonia Manzano</a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">1.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2FlDqvE" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Hood</u>, by Emma Donoghue</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">2. </span><a href="http://www.hpmor.com/" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality</u>, by Eliezer Yudkowsky</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">3. <a href="http://amzn.to/2Dg8saa" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up</u>, by Cathy LaGrow</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">4.</span><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/2EPIS91" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>This Is How It Always Is</u>, by Laurie Frankel</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">5. <a href="http://amzn.to/2FIfbHB" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Chasing Secrets,</u> by Gennifer Choldenko</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">6.<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2GNT2N6"><u>Empress of the World</u>, by Sara Ryan</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">7. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2FJ2Sue" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Hundred-Foot Journey</u>, by Richard C. Morais</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">7.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2EtGKYa" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Blacker the Berry</u>, by Wallace Thurman</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">7.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2C9vpai" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="color: #222222;">Ophelia</u><span style="color: #222222;">, by Lisa Klein</span></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">8.</span><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"> <a href="http://amzn.to/2o0l8Jq" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Home Is with Our Family</u>, by Joyce Hansen</a></span><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">9. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2DfkZr0" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>A Reliable Wife</u>, by Robert Goolrick</a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">10. <a href="http://amzn.to/2FtbJS7" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Red Clocks</u>, by Leni Zumas</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">10.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2GI0apJ" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="color: #222222;">Far From the Tree</u><span style="color: #222222;">, by Robin Benway</span></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">11. <a href="http://amzn.to/2BNSzq9" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Summer We Got Free</u>, by Mia McKenzie</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">12. <a href="http://amzn.to/2FMy8d3" style="color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>One True Way</u>, by Shannon Hitchcock</i></a><br />12.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2F9pHaO" style="color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Her Body and Other Parties</u>, by Carmen Maria Machado</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">13. <a href="http://amzn.to/2FCPJHO" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Babylon Sisters</u>, by Pearl Cleage</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">14. <a href="http://amzn.to/2pbUVs0" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Poisoned Blade</u>, by Kate Elliott</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">15. <a href="http://amzn.to/2HItNrb" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Some Things I Thought I'd Never Do</u>, by Pearl Cleage</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">16. <a href="http://amzn.to/2FVtyIR" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Secrets of Midwives</u>, by Sally Hepworth</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">17. <a href="http://amzn.to/2povByK" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Book of the Unnamed Midwife</u>, by Meg Elison</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">18. <a href="https://amzn.to/2G2QxpD" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Gallery of Vanished Husbands</u>, by Natasha Solomons</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">19. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Go3QB0" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Children of Blood and Bone</u>, by Tomi Adeyemi</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">20. <a href="https://amzn.to/2H61dU7" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Seven Ways We Lie</u>, by Riley Redgate</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">20.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2EsUOgg" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Class: A Guide through the American Status System</u>, by Paul Fussell </a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">2</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">1. <a href="https://amzn.to/2GI7a9F" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The Lotterys Plus One</u>, by Emma Donoghue</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">22. <a href="http://amzn.to/2Hz729b" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun</u>, by Jacqueline Woodson</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">23. <a href="https://amzn.to/2HpDhsu" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>So B. It</u>, by Sarah Weeks</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">24. <a href="https://amzn.to/2INXEPL" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Front Lines</u>, by Michael Grant</i> </a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">25. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2ISMPfN" style="color: #cc8366; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Nooks and Crannies</u>, by Jessica Lawson</a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">26. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Hn7TgE" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Little Mercies</u>, by Heather Gudenkauf</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">27. <a href="https://amzn.to/2H6NTQd" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Sourdough</u>, by Robin Sloan</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">27.1.<span style="color: red;">* </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2K8B9Xc" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Border of Paradise</u>, by Esme Weijun Wang</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">28. <a href="https://amzn.to/2HlrkU1" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Till You Hear from Me,</u> by Pearl Cleage</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">29. <a href="https://amzn.to/2r4RjYG" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Silhouette of a Sparrow</u>, by Molly Beth Griffin</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">30.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2HCTObP" style="color: #cc8366; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Silver Stars</u>, by Michael Grant</i></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">31. <a href="https://amzn.to/2KvOAjZ" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>On the Far Side of the Mountain</u>, by Jean Craighead George</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">32. <a href="https://amzn.to/2KwnXLZ" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Crooked Little Heart</u>, by Anne Lamott</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">33. <a href="https://amzn.to/2rq7Qrg" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The River King</u>, by Alice Hoffman</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">33.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2G57M4U" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>No Biking in the House without a Helmet</u>, by Melissa Fay Greene</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">34. <a href="https://amzn.to/2rwV6OR" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Purple Hearts</u>, by Michael Grant</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">35. <a href="https://amzn.to/2rG0fUW" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Power</u>, by Naomi Alderman</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[</span><a href="http://amzn.to/2sWnFbH" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Alanna: The First Adventure</u>, by Tamora Pierce</a><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">]</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2IxVV0V" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>In the Hand of the Goddess</u>, by Tamora Pierce</a>]</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2Lcyps9" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Woman Who Rides Like a Man</u>, by Tamora Pierce</a>]</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">36. <a href="https://amzn.to/2GH7TDK" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Gwendy's Button Box</u>, by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar</a></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">37. <a href="https://amzn.to/2xh3tUH" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Tess of the Road</u>, by Rachel Hartman</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">38. <a href="https://amzn.to/2LjVMiO" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Dirty Mary No More</u>, by Marion Page </a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">39. <a href="https://amzn.to/2M1400x" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Hardscrabble</u>, by Sandra Dallas</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">39.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2M5RAEx" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Reading Picture Books <strike>to </strike>with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See</u>, by Megan Dowd Lambert</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">40. <a href="https://amzn.to/2tnSm7e" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Red As Blood: Or, Tales from the Sisters Grimmer</u>, by Tanith Lee</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">40.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2KsxyHm" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>My Ex-Life</u>, by Stephen McCauley</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">41. <a href="https://amzn.to/2KndQg6" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Tempests and Slaughter</u>, by Tamora Pierce</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">42. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2z65yUi" style="color: #cc8366; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering</u>, by Janelle Hanchett</i></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">43. <a href="https://amzn.to/2LuVjKm" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Bud Not Buddy</u>, by Christopher Paul Curtis</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">44. <a href="https://amzn.to/2wfwLjx" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess</u>, by Shari Green</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">44.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2MQ6lhV" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Probable Claws</u>, by Rita Mae Brown</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">45. <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2LuhujT" style="color: #cc8366;">Love, Penelope</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2LuhujT" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;">, by Joanne Rocklin</a></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">46. <a href="https://amzn.to/2PXDO8N" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Dreaming Dangerous</u>, by Lauren DeStefano</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">47. <a href="https://amzn.to/2QczNxG" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Summer of Salt</u>, by Katrina Leno</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">48. <a href="https://amzn.to/2NRROzx" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The Book of Essie</u>, by Meghan MacLean Weir</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">49. <a href="https://amzn.to/2NUAWYZ" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Forever Mom: What to Expect When You're Adopting</u>, by Mary Ostyn</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">50. <a href="https://amzn.to/2xel6Bm" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Not Becoming My Mother</u>, by Ruth Reichl</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">51. <a href="https://amzn.to/2xd1bn6" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Outsider</u>, by Stephen King</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">51.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2DM5ZWs" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Mars Room</u>, by Rachel Kushner</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">52. <a href="https://amzn.to/2x99CQw" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Make Me a Mother</u>, by Susanne Antonetta</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">53. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Iz4yte" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden</u>, by Karina Yan Glaser</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">54. <a href="https://amzn.to/2ReMfgJ" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>My Year in the Middle</u>, by Lila Quintero Weaver</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">54.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2pHujyB" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House</u>, by Kate Andersen Brower</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">55. <a href="https://amzn.to/2pCxisg" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The Lotterys, More or Less</u>, by Emma Donoghue</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">56. <a href="https://amzn.to/2zWSO0O" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Girls Like Me</u>, by Nina Packebush</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">57. <a href="https://amzn.to/2ypnKoA" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Ink</u>, by Sabrina Vourvoulias</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">58. <a href="https://amzn.to/2yeMoJo" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Summer of Owen Todd</u>, by Tony Abbott</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">58.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> </span><span style="color: #111111;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2EeTqTG" style="color: #cc8366;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, by Beth </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Macy</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">59. <a href="https://amzn.to/2EjaF6m" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Dread Nation</u>, by Justina Ireland</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">60. <a href="https://amzn.to/2ELlZbG" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Assistants</u>, by Camille Perri</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">61. <a href="https://amzn.to/2D3ATbD" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Prairie Evers</u>, by Ellen Airgood</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">62. <a href="https://amzn.to/2CFaWOr" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Moloka'i</u>, by Alan Brennert</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">62.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2qB1Ta5" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>"When the Welfare People Come": Race and Class in the US Child Protection System</u>, by Don Lash</a><br />63. <a href="https://amzn.to/2RMy6ab" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Alchemy and Meggy Swann</u>, by Karen Cushman</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">63.3.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/2BmRDbV" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>One Part Woman</u>, by Perumal Murugan</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">64. <a href="https://amzn.to/2PqXgyl" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Training School for Negro Girls</u>, by Camille Acker</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">65. <a href="https://amzn.to/2SaGY9O" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Love to Everyone</u>, by Hilary McKay</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">66. <a href="https://amzn.to/2KweynS" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Running on Empty</u>, by S. E. Durrant</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">67. <a href="https://amzn.to/2E8FoSy" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Elevation</u>, by Stephen King</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">68. <a href="https://amzn.to/2U1vAi9" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Two Roads</u>, by Joseph Bruchac</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">69. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2OKFbpB" style="color: #cc8366; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose</u>, by Joe Biden</b></a><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">70. <a href="https://amzn.to/2L3AKGl" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Six Scary Stories</u>, edited by Stephen King</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">71. <a href="https://amzn.to/2E7AC7j" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Ogre Enchanted</u>, by Gail Carson Levine</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">72. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Ea1io1" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Brass Bed and Other Stories</u>, by Pearl Cleage</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">73. <a href="https://amzn.to/2SDAYq2" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Sugar Land</u>, by Tammy Lynne Stoner</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2ExLnAV" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Oathbound</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</a>]</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">74. <a href="https://amzn.to/2QY1TQi" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Baby Brother's Blues</u>, by Pearl Cleage</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">75. <a href="https://amzn.to/2BnC2Yc" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Seen It All and Done the Rest</u>, by Pearl Cleage</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">76. <a href="https://amzn.to/2GoU5mG" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Other Sister</u>, by Sarah Zettel</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">[<a href="https://amzn.to/2LsrlrO" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Oathbreakers</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</a>]</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">77. <a href="https://amzn.to/2USe9B1" style="color: #cc8366; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Night Visitor</u><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">, by Lucy Atkins</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">78. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Cqi40V" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Long Way Down</u>, by Jason Reynolds</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">79.<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2BwbC6C" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The Special Ones</u>, by Em Bailey</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">80. <a href="https://amzn.to/2R7rtma" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America</u>, by Tamara Winfrey Harris</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">81. <a href="https://amzn.to/2RfXXue" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Between the Lines</u>, by Nikki Grimes</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">82. <a href="https://amzn.to/2R9cAzC" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot</u>, by Pearl Cleage</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">83. <a href="https://amzn.to/2BC16Li" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Running Out of Time</u>, by Margaret Peterson Haddix</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">84. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Rd4qGn" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Joy in the Morning</u>, by Betty Smith</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">85. <a href="https://amzn.to/2V5ur9L" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>On a Clear Day</u>, by Walter Dean Myers</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">86. <a href="https://amzn.to/2V7lNHI" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine</u>, by Victoria Sweet</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">87. <a href="https://amzn.to/2QQkXk5" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened</u>, by Allie Brosh</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">88. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Vavmpp" style="color: #cc8366;">The Morrigan: Meeting the Great Queens</a><a href="https://amzn.to/2Vavmpp" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;">, by Morgan Daimler</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">89. <a href="https://amzn.to/2AgcKvA" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Love, Amalia</u>, by Alma Flor Ada & Gabriel M. Zubizarreta</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">90. <a href="https://amzn.to/2SmhS8n" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Harbor Me</u>, by Jacqueline Woodson</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15.4px;">91. </span><a href="https://amzn.to/2SlKX3P" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Amateur Marriage</u>, by Anne Tyler</a><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">92. <a href="https://amzn.to/2VoqSf2" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Once You Know This</u>, by Emily Blejwas</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">93. <a href="https://amzn.to/2Vp2p9f" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Us, in Progress: Short Stories about Young Latinos</u>, by Lulu Delacre</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">94. <a href="https://amzn.to/2C4IeVB" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>To Stay Alive: Mary Ann Graves and the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party</u>, by Skila Brown</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">95. <a href="https://amzn.to/2RqAGWN" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Makoons</u>, by Louise Erdrich</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">96. <a href="https://amzn.to/2BTz2Dd" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Talking Leaves</u>, by Joseph Bruchac</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">97. <a href="https://amzn.to/2RpC8Zy" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Crazy Rich Asians</u>, by Kevin Kwan</b></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">98. <a href="https://amzn.to/2GPqgvD" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The One and Only Ivan</u>, by Katherine Applegate</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">99. <a href="https://amzn.to/2H0dWIW" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Corregidora</u>, by Gayl Jones</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">100. <a href="https://amzn.to/2AmYDnV" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Advice to Little Girls</u>, by Mark Twain</a></span><br /></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">*I started reading these fracti</span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">onal selections, but didn't finish.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br />[These selections are re-reads that I completed in full. They don't count as new books.]</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. (I was already pointing people at Amazon, so this seemed like a logical step. Still my own opinions! Buy anywhere you like, or head to your local library.)</span></i></div>
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Remyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04871305228048921019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265570065151952823.post-64612217019709784092018-01-01T01:11:00.000-08:002018-01-02T01:49:57.585-08:00Reading List 2017<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: <a href="http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;">http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">1. <a href="http://amzn.to/2iB5m3v" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>In the Woods</u>, by Robin Stevenson</a></span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">2. <a href="http://amzn.to/2j1dx9k" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Truth</u>, by Tanya Lloyd Kyi</a></span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">3. </span></span><a href="http://amzn.to/2iME7D1" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Counting Backwards</u>, by Laura Lascarso</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">4. </span></span><a href="http://amzn.to/2ixhkLM" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Our Kind</u>, by Kate Walbert</a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">5. <a href="http://amzn.to/2i8fouo" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things</u>, by Jenny Lawson</b></a></span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">6. </span></span><a href="http://amzn.to/2jiPr9r" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table</u>, by Ruth Reichl</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">7. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2oaMuOd" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #222222;"><u><span id="goog_331944700"></span>Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit<span id="goog_331944701"></span></u></span><span style="color: #222222;">, by Jaye Robin Brown</span></b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">8.</span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2jGXLQj" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Closer to the Chest</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2jhbVvP" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Little House in the Big Woods</u>, by Laura Ingalls Wilder</b></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2kFrWrN" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Little House on the Prairie</u>, by Laura Ingalls Wilder</b></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2kFrzxr" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Farmer Boy</u>, by Laura Ingalls Wilder</b></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">8.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2j26tbU" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption</u>, by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2jIUosD" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>On the Banks of Plum Creek</u>, by Laura Ingalls Wilder</b></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">9. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2imfC1f" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>We Were Here</u>, by Matt de la Pena</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2jLkKLu" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>First Test</u>, by Tamora Pierce</b></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">10. <a href="http://amzn.to/2k6wwmd" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Tempest</u>, edited by Mercedes Lackey</i></a></span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">11. <a href="http://amzn.to/2jhTBxY" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet</u>, by Kashmira Sheth</a></span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2kFjkRR" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Page</u>, by Tamora Pierce</b></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">12. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2k47PUU" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Detour</u>, by S.A. Bodeen</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<b><u><a href="http://amzn.to/2kFkWei" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;">By the Shores of Silver Lake</a></u><a href="http://amzn.to/2kFkWei" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;">, by Laura Ingalls Wilder</a></b>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">13. <a href="http://amzn.to/2kIG57p" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman</u>, by Lindy West</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">14. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2kBoT75" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Waiting for Still Water</u>, by Susan White</b></a><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">15. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2kBoPEn" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Riding Chance</u>, by Christine Kendall</a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2lFUWAP" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The Long Winter</u>, by Laura Ingalls Wilder</b></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">16. <a href="http://amzn.to/2kEIbGI" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Drita, My Homegirl</u>, by Jenny Lombard</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">16.3.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2lAEGRC" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>A Taste for Monsters</u>, by Matthew J. Kirby</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">17. <a href="http://amzn.to/2lABMwg" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Imani All Mine</u>, by Connie Rose Porter</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">18. <a href="http://amzn.to/2kUFD9Y" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>And Again</u>, by Jessica Chiarella</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">19. <a href="http://amzn.to/2l2LtUy" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Every Heart a Doorway</u>, by Seanan McGuire</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">20. <a href="http://amzn.to/2lai7G5" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Out of My Mind</u>, by Sharon M. Draper</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">21. <a href="http://amzn.to/2kCh3vd" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Garvey's Choice</u>, by Nikki Grimes</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2liIWpp" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Written in My Own Heart's Blood</u>, by Diana Gabaldon</b></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2lZKW90" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Rainbow Valley</u>, by L.M. Montgomery</b></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">22. <a href="http://amzn.to/2l54Mf0" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Nobody's Goddess</u>, by Amy McNulty</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2mzC0Dt" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Squire</u>, by Tamora Pierce</b></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">23. <a href="http://amzn.to/2lZaKBR" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Wonder</u>, by Emma Donoghue</i></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">24. <a href="http://amzn.to/2mj4EJc" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>We Are the Ants</u>, by Shaun David Hutchinson</i></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">25. <b><a href="http://amzn.to/2mrto67" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Afterward</u>, by Jennifer Mathieu</a> </b></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">26. <a href="http://amzn.to/2mkQEC6" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog</u>, by Adam Gidwitz</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">27. <a href="http://amzn.to/2lkVcbS" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>See No Color</u>, by Shannon Gibney</i></a></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">28. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2lKnsDB" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>We Were Liars</u>, by E. Lockhart</a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">28.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2m7AnxS" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand</u>, by Samuel R. Delany</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">29. <a href="http://amzn.to/2n7b27B" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Young Warriors: Stories of Strength</u>, edited by Tamora Pierce and Josepha Sherman</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">30. <a href="http://amzn.to/2meL0NG" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Radical</u>, by E.M. Kokie</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">31. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2lMTLUd" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City</u>, by Matthew Desmond</b></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">32. <a href="http://amzn.to/2nq0h00" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Target</u>, by Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">32.1.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 15.4px;">* </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2nUy453" style="color: #cc8366; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Does My Head Look Big in This?</u>, by Randa Abdel-Fattah</a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">33. <a href="http://amzn.to/2nf1466" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Allegedly</u>, by Tiffany D. Jackson</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">34. <a href="http://amzn.to/2o6Rgc3" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The Hate U Give</u>, by Angie Thomas</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">35. <a href="http://amzn.to/2nodSH6" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Our Only May Amelia</u>, by Jennifer L. Holm</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">36. <a href="http://amzn.to/2nfke9k" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Twisted</u>, by Hannah Jayne</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">36.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2oSpi42" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Bitter Fruit</u>, by Achmat Dangor</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">37. <a href="http://amzn.to/2nxFp61" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>I've Been Rich. I've Been Poor. Rich is Better.</u>, by Judy Resnick with Gene Stone</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">38. <a href="http://amzn.to/2niKMWD" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The Free</u>, by Lauren McLaughlin</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">39. <a href="http://amzn.to/2oUu8hM" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Rain Is Not My Indian Name</u>, by Cynthia Leitich</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">40. <a href="http://amzn.to/2nWY3VJ" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Ironman</u>, by Chris Crutcher</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">41. <a href="http://amzn.to/2oZQgdU" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Chinese Handcuffs</u>, by Chris Crutcher</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">42. <a href="http://amzn.to/2oLrH3G" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Sky Memories</u>, by Pat Brisson</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">43. <a href="http://amzn.to/2oCHVeT" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Persephone the Phony</u>, by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">44. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2pk74fP" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto</u>, by Victoria Abbott Ricardi</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">45.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2p8fWnu" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Prayers the Devil Answers</u>, by Sharyn McCrumb</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">46. <a href="http://amzn.to/2qeMG07" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Gated</u>, by Amy Christine Parker</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">47. <a href="http://amzn.to/2peTwmB" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Blood Family</u>, by Anne Fine</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">48. <a href="http://amzn.to/2qbflA7" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Breaking Faith</u>, by E. Graziani</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">49. <a href="http://amzn.to/2qq8ceV" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Conrad's Fate</u>, by Diana Wynne Jones</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">50. <a href="http://amzn.to/2r9zfyn" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Mixed Magics</u>, by Diana Wynne Jones</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">51. <a href="http://amzn.to/2sBQgiQ" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>George</u>, by Alex Gino</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[</span><a href="http://amzn.to/2quOGRp" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</u>, by Fannie Flagg</b></a><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">52. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2qZImBm" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen</u>, by Joanna Faber and Julie Kin</b></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">53. <a href="http://amzn.to/2oLmx7N" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Piecing Me Together</u>, by Renee Watson</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">54. <a href="http://amzn.to/2qv3SxL" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>When We Collided</u>, by Emery Lord</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">54.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2sPLnCU" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Librarian of Auschwitz</u>, by Antonio Iturbe</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">55. <a href="http://amzn.to/2rZ1IVV" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The War That Saved My Life</u>, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">55.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2sWkHDO" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Plum Bun</u>, by Jessie Redmon Fauset</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2sWnFbH" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Alana: The First Adventure</u>, by Tamora Pierce</a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">56. <a href="http://amzn.to/2sWgaBs" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Starters</u>, by Lissa Price</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">57. <a href="http://amzn.to/2ssAUPG" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Row</u>, by J.R. Johansson</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">58. <a href="http://amzn.to/2tgDu8w" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Elementary: All-New Tales of the Elemental Masters</u>, edited by Mercedes Lackey</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<span style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0756405289/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0756405289&linkCode=as2&tag=mlis0a-20&linkId=J5YVVW5IZTALS7U4" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar</u>, edited by Mercedes Lackey</i></a>]</span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">59. <a href="http://amzn.to/2uGQqZr" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Crucible: All-New Tales of Valdemar</u>, edited by Mercedes Lackey</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">60. <a href="http://amzn.to/2eV00ma" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Arrows of the Queen</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2v5ChWX" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Arrow's Flight</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</i></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2uHj0tN" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Arrow's Fall</u>, by Mercedes Lackey</i></a>]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">61. <a href="http://amzn.to/2v5PajM" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books</u>, by Kathleen T. Horning</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">62. <a href="http://amzn.to/2uH40fe" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Georgia Rules</u>, by Nanci Turner Steveson</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">63. <a href="http://amzn.to/2uH89A2" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster System</u>, by Martha Shirk</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">63.5.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2f9HZka" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy</u>, edited by Matthew David Goodwin</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">64. <a href="http://amzn.to/2wnt7Sr" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Last Midwife</u>, by Sandra Dallas</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">64.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2vIIllM" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The Look-It-Up Book of Presidents</u>, by Wyatt Blassingame</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">65. <a href="http://amzn.to/2vDvi6M" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Ashes to Asheville</u>, by Sarah Dooley</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">66.</span><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2fLX2Ra" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Midnight at the Electric</u>, by Jodie Lynn Anderson</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">67. <a href="http://amzn.to/2vQkHFP" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Reluctant Midwife</u>, by Patricia Harman</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">68. <a href="http://amzn.to/2gcK0wt" style="color: #cc8366;">B<u style="text-decoration-line: none;">eauty Queens</u>, by Libba Bray</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">69. <a href="http://amzn.to/2xkeaSG" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>When Dimple Met Rishi</u>, by Sandhya Menon</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">70. <a href="http://amzn.to/2wkn9EL" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor</u>, by Martin Greenfield</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">70.3.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2xMxBUn" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare</u>, by Dorothy Roberts</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">71. <a href="http://amzn.to/2vHveAu" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Hag-Seed</u>, by Margaret Atwood</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">[<a href="http://amzn.to/2ePOPvw" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>All-of-a-Kind Family</u>, by Sydney Taylor</b></a>] </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">72. <a href="http://amzn.to/2eJ1iRm" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Underground Airlines</u>, by Ben Winters</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">73. <a href="http://amzn.to/2wzBOZD" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>So Much Pretty</u>, by Cara Hoffman</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="color: black;">74.</span></span><span style="font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2z45vo2" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Planet Jupiter</u>, by Jane Kurtz</b></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">75. <a href="http://amzn.to/2glEKqK" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Lucy and Linh,</u> by Alice Pung</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">76. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2xEnrna" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Disobedience</u>, by Naomi Alderman</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">77. <a href="http://amzn.to/2knwiZb" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Seven Stones to Stand or Fall</u>, by Diana Gabaldon</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">78</span><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2xRYJQk" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Unquiet Grave</u>, by Sharyn McCrumb</a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">79. <a href="http://amzn.to/2z5AX4w" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed</u>, by Sherrie Eldridge</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">79.2.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2xReRCA" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children's Literature in America</u>, by Beverly Lyon Clark</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">80. <a href="http://amzn.to/2xRmwRD" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Last Policeman</u>, by Ben Winters</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">81. <a href="http://amzn.to/2zOxJmb" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Silent Corner</u>, by Dean Koontz</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">82. <a href="http://amzn.to/2ACB1dK" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>This Is Where It Ends</u>, by Marieke Nijkamp</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">83. <a href="http://amzn.to/2yuvXGJ" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>This Place Called Absence</u>, by Lydia Kwa</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">84. <a href="http://amzn.to/2AJiCMn" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives</u>, by Dashka Slater</b></a></span><b><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /></b><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">85. <a href="http://amzn.to/2zLwB6n" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The War I Finally Won</u>, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">86. <a href="http://amzn.to/2hGINyp" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Three Dark Crowns</u>, by Kendare Blake</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">87. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2z5RxBC" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>One Crazy Summer</u>, by Rita Williams-Garcia</b></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">88. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2z5pwdF" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Sweetest Sound</u>, by Sherri Winston</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">89. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2BcQMbF" style="color: #cc8366; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Bicycle Madness</u>, by Jane Kurtz</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">90.</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 15.4px;"> </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2yNTKBB" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Engagements</u>, by J. Courtney Sullivan</i></a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">91. <a href="http://amzn.to/2ziPgU1" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>P.S. Be Eleven</u>, by Rita Williams-Garcia</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">92. <a href="http://amzn.to/2A6EGm1" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher,</u> by Dana Alison Levy</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">93. <a href="http://amzn.to/2zqO8hc" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Archived</u>, by Victoria Schwab</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">94. </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2zNiaym" style="color: #cc8366; font-size: 15.4px; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Black Dove, White Raven</u>, by Elizabeth Wein</a><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">94.1.<span style="color: red;">*</span> <a href="http://amzn.to/2Asqxhk" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Serpent's Secret</u>, by Sayantani DasGupta</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">95. <a href="http://amzn.to/2jINuVB" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>Mothering Sunday</u>, by Graham Swift</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">96. <a href="http://amzn.to/2A6C3Sv" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Forever, or a Long, Long Time</u>, by Caela Carter</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-size: 15.4px;">97. <a href="http://amzn.to/2BYYc1B" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street</u>, by Karina Yan Glaser</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;">98. <a href="http://amzn.to/2j4MVW0" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>The Indigo Girl</u>, by Natasha Boyd</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;">99. <a href="http://amzn.to/2CCIUBf" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Inheritance</u>, by Louisa May Alcott</a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;">100. <a href="http://amzn.to/2lFMsdO" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><u>Sleeping Beauties</u>, by Stephen King and Owen King</b></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;">101. <a href="http://amzn.to/2Cc9Zu3" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Marley's Ghost</u>, by Mark Hazard Osmun</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;">102. <a href="http://amzn.to/2C8L8XZ" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><u>Swearing Off Stars</u>, by Danielle Wong</i></a></span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.4px;">103. <a href="http://amzn.to/2CFHhTu" style="color: #cc8366; text-decoration-line: none;"><u>The Good Body</u>, by Eve Ensler</a></span></span><br />
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