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Juli's 2019 "Sticking To My TBR Pile" Reading List
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Good luck with your goals, Juli! (Those darned to-read lists and piles!)
Tiffany wrote: "librarian4Him02 wrote: "Yep, this is the year I tackle that ever-growing TBR reading list I've been compiling here on Good Reads, as well as the TBR pile on my night stand. I'm hoping this year I'l..."Thanks. Good luck to you as well. If you need a podcast that will help you reach your goal, I recommend Classic Tales Podcast. It's exposing me to classics I might not otherwise know about or read. If the weekly reading is from a book in print, I count it in my total :)
January1) Catnapped! - by Elaine Viets
1/1-1/15
3 stars
275 pages
2) Murder at Honeychurch Hall - by Hannah Dennison
1/15-1/25
5 stars
304 pages
3) Curse of the Pharaohs - by Elizabeth Peters
11/27/18-1/26/19
5 stars
1 audio file, 11.7 hours
4) Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald the Original Screenplay
1/26/19
5 stars
289 pages
Total Pages Read - 868 pages
Total listening time - 11.7 hours
February5) Murder, Simply Stitched by Isabella Alan
1/27-2/1
4 stars
359 pages
6) Rescue & Jessica - by Jessica Kensky & Patrick Downes
2/2-2/5
5 stars
30 pages
7) Dreamers - by Yuyi Morales
2/2-2/5
4 stars
34 pages
8) The Fox on a Swing - by Evelina Daciute & Ausra Kiudulaite
2/2-2/5
2 stars
44 pages
9) Hello Lighthouse
2/7
5 stars (but would give more if possible)
42 pages
10) Thank You , Omu! - by Oge Mora
2/7
5 stars
32 pages
11) The Stuff of Stars - by Marion Dane Bauer
2/7
1 star
unpaged
12) The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science - by Joyce Sidman
2/8-2/10
5 stars
143 pages
13) The Poet X - by Elizabeth Acevedo
2/11-2/17
5 stars (but worth a whole lot more)
361 pages
Total Pages Read - 1,913 pages
Total listening time - 11.7 hours
March14) Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
2/17-3/1
5 stars
361 pages
15) The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
1/4-3/5
5 stars
Listened via Classic Tales Podcast - 10.03 hours (approx.)
16) Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
3/1-3/6
4 stars
439 pages
17) At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
1/29-3/1
5 stars
1 audio file 19.35 hours
18) True Worshipers by Bob Kauflin
10/15/18-3/19/19
5 stars
176 pages
Total Pages Read - 2,889 pages
Total listening time - 41.08 hours
April19) The Midwife of Hope River by Patricia Harman
3/7-4/5
4 stars
394 pages
20) A Light in the Window
3/1-4/6
4 stars
1 audio file, 16.8 hours
21) The Boy on the Wooden Box, by Leon Leyson
4/9-4/23
5 stars
222 e-book pages
Total Pages Read - 3,505 pages
Total listening time - 57.88 hours
MayI'm currently reading the 50th anniversary edition of The Lord of the Rings with all three books in one volume. I started on April 6th and today (May 3rd) I finished The Fellowship of the Ring. Onward I go to The Two Towers!
22) Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
4/24-5/22
5 stars
444 e-book pages
23) The Hand of Fu Manchu by Sax Romer
4/6-5/28
3 stars
13.56 hours (Classic Tales Podcast)
Total Pages Read - 3,949 pages
Total listening time - 71.44 hours
24) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot6/16-6/23
4 stars
64 pages
Today (June 29) I finished The Two Towers, part of the 50th anniversary edition of Lord of the Rings. Now starting on The Return of the King!
Total Pages Read - 4,013 pages
Total listening time - 71.44 hours
July25) The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
6/7-7/6
5 stars
4.22 hours (Classic Tales Podcast)
26) Jackaby by William Rtter
5/23-7/21
5 stars
305 pages
Total Pages Read - 4,318 pages
Total listening time - 75.66 hours
August27) The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
7/20-8/9
4 stars
12.25 hours
28) The People of the Black Circle by Robert E. Howard
7/13-8/12
4 stars
Classic Tales Podcast - 3.83 hours
29) If You Ask Me (and of Course You Won't) by Betty White.
8/12-8/13
5 stars
1 audio file - 2.28 hours
Total Pages Read - 4,318 pages
Total listening time - 94.02 hours
September30 The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Ed.) - by J.R.R. Tolkein
3/6-9/2
5 stars
1,031 pages (out of 1138 - planning to come back in future to read all the appendices)
31) Etiquette & Espionage - by Gail Carrier
8/14-9/4
5 stars
1 audio file, 8.93 hours
32. The Four Just Men - by Edgar Wallace
9/7-9/11
2 stars
Classic Tales Podcast - 4.76 hours
33) The Truth About Alice - by Jennifer Mathieu
9/7-9/15
4 stars
199 pages
34) Fleabrain Loves Franny by Joanne Rocklin
9/16-9/23
4 stars
280 pages
Total Pages Read - 5,828 pages
Total listening time - 107.71 hours
NovemberNo, I didn't skip October. I just didn't complete any books during that month. This month, I'll be playing catch-up! Bring on the short quick reads!
35) Bambi - by Felix Salten
10/31-11/1
5 stars
5.13 hours
36) The Mapmaker's Children - by Sarah McCoy
9/24-11/13
3 stars
311 pages
37) Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children - edited by Kath Shackleton, illustrated by Zane Whittingham
5 stars
11/15-11/16
96 pages
38) Medieval Lego - by Greyson Beights
4 stars
11/16-11/18
123 pages
39) M*A*S*H - by Tim Kelly
4 stars
11/18-11/21
119 pages
40) ...And Then You Die of Dysentary: Lessons for Adulting From the Oregon Trail - by Lauren Reeves
4 stars
11/21
112 pages
41) The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees - by Don Brown
5 stars
11/22/19
105 pages
42) Everything Awesome About Dinosaurs: and Other Prehistoric Animals - by Mike Lowery
3 stars
11/23-11/25
123 pages
Total Pages Read -6,817 pages
Total listening time - 112.84 hours
December43) The Hate U Give - by Angie Thomas
5 stars
9/21/18-12/1/19
499 pages
44) George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation - by George Washington
3 stars
12/3-12/5
61 pages
45) Shakespeare's Sonnets: the Complete Illustrated Poems - by Cider Mill Press
5 stars
2/2-12/11
272 pages
46) Drawn Together - Minh Le
4 stars
12/11/19
32 pages
47) All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah
4 stars
12/11/19
39 pages
48) Year of the Jungle - by Suzanne Collins
4 stars
12/11/19
37 pages
49) The Reason I Jump - by Naomi Higashida
4 stars
12/11-12/14
149 pages
50) The Lost Carousel of Provence - by Juliet Blackwell
5 stars
12/15-12/26
367 pages
51) The Murder on the Links - by Agatha Christie
4 stars
12/18-12/27
7.96 hours
Total Pages Read -8,273 pages
Total listening time - 120.8hours
Thus ends my 2019 reading year. I'm going to spend the next few days catching up on a backlog of Reader's Digests and assorted other magazines. My top read for this year (in no particular order) were:1) The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees - by Don Brown
2) The Poet X - by Elizabeth Acevedo
3) Merci Suarez Changes Gears - by Meg Medina
4) True Worshipers by Bob Kaufman
5) Lord of the Rings trilogy - by J.R.R Tolkien
6) Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
7) Fleabrain Loves Franny - by Joanne Rocklin
8) Bambi - by Felix Salten
9) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
10) The Lost Carousel of Provence - by Juliet Blackwell
I read a total of 8,273 pages.
I listened to a total of 120.8 hours.
So far I've got three books on deck for the start of 2020. Happy Reading and Happy (almost) New Year, everyone!
Juli
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Happy reading everyone and good luck with your 2019 reading goals.
Juli