Challenge: 50 Books discussion

Starting the year off a little slow since welcoming daughter #2 right before Christmas. Two under 2 is no joke! :D

1. The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality

2. Food Over Medicine: The Conversation That Could Save Your Life

Currently reading:
The House at Riverton A reread and perfect for this snowy weather in Chicago.

Emma wrote: "Starting the year off a little slow since welcoming daughter #2 right before Christmas. Two under 2 is no joke! :D ..."

Congratulations! Good luck with your 2019 reads :)

3. The House at Riverton

4. The Wildling Sisters A nice follow up to the House at Riverton. The ending was unexpected but perfect.

5. The Word Is Murder Very good, well done. I am excited for the second in the series to come out soon.

6. Little Fires Everywhere Read for my book club and probably wouldn't have picked up otherwise. But it was also very well written and hard to put down.

7. An Expert in Murder

Currently reading The Mitford Murders Written by the daughter of Julian Fellowes, who wrote Downton Abbey, and has a bit of an Upstairs Downstairs feel to it - very good mystery so far!

8. The Mitford Murders I can't wait to get the second one from the library tomorrow!

9. Mycroft and Sherlock I didn't realize this was the second in a series so I'll go back to book 1 soon. I really enjoyed it!

Currently reading The Golden Tresses of the Dead

10. The Golden Tresses of the Dead Another cute installment in the Flavia de Luce series.

Currently reading a couple:
Angel with Two Faces Almost done.

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder Loving so far!

11. Angel with Two Faces

12. Witch Is When It All Began

13. The Austen Escape

14. The Plant-Based Solution: A Vegan Cardiologist's Plan to Save Your Life and the Planet

15. The Stranger Diaries

16. My Not So Perfect Life

17. Wedding Night

18. The Vegan Starter Kit: Everything You Need to Know About Plant-Based Eating

Have really been enjoying Sophie Kinsella books on audio. They're light and fun to have on in the background as I go about my day.

Currently reading:
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

19. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

20. Bright Young Dead

I've been reading, I swear! Just getting busy with summer in full gear. Here are my recent reads.

21. Where the Crawdads Sing

22. Marilla of Green Gables

23. The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith

24. The Stone Circle

25. The Orphan of Salt Winds

26. Magpie Murders

27. The Brutal Telling

28. Bury Your Dead

I have been on a kick of really great books lately and excited for the books I have lined up this summer!

Currently reading
Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!
And next up is A Trick of the Light

29. Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!

30. A Trick of the Light

31. The Beautiful Mystery

32. How the Light Gets In

33. Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles

34. The Candida Cure: The 90-Day Program to Balance Your Gut, Beat Candida, and Restore Vibrant Health

Currently reading
The Long Way Home I didn't realize how addicted I am to this series... :)

35. The Long Way Home

36. The Nature of the Beast

37.Everything is Figureoutable: How One Simple Belief Can Help Us Overcome Any Obstacle and Create Unstoppable Success

38. What the Wind Knows

39. Christmas Shopaholic On audio, this was very cute and well read.

40. Ghost Story

Currently reading:
Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams

Miss Kane's Christmas

Winter Solstice

I guess snow in Chicago has me feeling more winter/holiday vibes :)
Not sure I'll finish the 50 this year, but coming pretty darn close so I'll take it! :D

41. Miss Kane's Christmas

42. Winter Solstice

43. The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding

44. The Bookman’s Tale

45. A Great Reckoning

I don't think I'll make it to 50 in the next 2 weeks, but it's been a good run!

Currently reading:
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HI Emma,

Three words to cheer you on, "really short books!"

One book a day of 30-50 pages or so and you'll make 50 books this year. You can do it!! :)

Happy Reading,
Juli :)

Emma wrote: "41. Miss Kane's Christmas

42. Winter Solstice

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46. The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution: A Proven 4-Week Program to Rescue Your Metabolism, Hormones, Mind Mood

47. A Better Man

48. The Way of the Happy Woman: Living the Best Year of Your Life

So so close but it was still a great reading year!

Emma wrote: "So so close but it was still a great reading year!"

48 is still great, especially with the kids!

Tiffany wrote: "Emma wrote: "So so close but it was still a great reading year!"

48 is still great, especially with the kids!"

Thanks! I'll still pat myself on the back this year :D