Christine’s Comments (group member since Mar 27, 2022)

Christine’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

1. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
2. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
3. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
4. A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon
5. The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
6. The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
7. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
8. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
9. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
10. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
11. Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
12. In the Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros
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Alternates
1. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
2. This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
3. The Gift of Years by Joan D. Chittister
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

And the Light we Carry. I thought Fourth Wing was entertaining.

Killers of Flower Moon and Weyward are on my list. I read Fourth Wing, the Book Woman and

I loved the Book Thief and a Gentleman in Moscow. Gentleman was kind of slow at first, but I ended up loving it.

I think you have to edit your first comment to add books to your list.

Hi Cindy. I got my list done.

1. Beach Music by Patrick Conroy
2.The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer<
3. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk<
4.The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros
5.Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
6.Weyward by Emilia Hart
7.The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
8.Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
9. The Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
10.What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
11.Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
12.Happy Place by Emily Henry

Alternates:
1.Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan
2. The Winemaker's Wife - by Kristin Harmel
3. Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
4.The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Bill wrote: "Looking forward to seeing what your thoughts bring out. :0)"

I've put a lot of historical fiction on my list, and many 2022 Choice Awards books and nominees. I tried to get variety, but we will see.

Alondra wrote: "I hear that!

Good luck with making your choices!"
Thanks.

Jackie wrote: "Good luck!"
Thanks. I like to pick books from the year's Choice awards as well as my to-read list. I've got a lot of rather long books on my list this year. I'm not sure how I'll do.

1.The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
2.Five Smooth Stones by Ann Fairbairn
3. Five Days in November by Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin Hill
4. The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
5. Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
6. The Personal Librarian by Benedict & Murray
7. The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis
8. Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
9. The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
10. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
11. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
12. Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Alternates;
1. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
2. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
3. The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
4. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

I can’t find my 12+4 reading challenge list. Does it still exist anywhere? I didn’t see the message that I needed to move it here until today.