You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Enquiring minds want to know. What are you reading and why?

The Santa Suit because I'm sneaking one more in under the wire and I love MKA.

Nothing! I just finished my monthly challenge book of Opal Fire and I have two hours to go until midnight. I don't want to start anything until then. :)

Next up, in the morning, however, is Shuggie Bain for my real life book club.

I also plan to continue listening to Dark Horse, but can only listen to it when I'm driving with Craig. It would be pretty mean to finish the last 25% without him.

I am also reading Reckless Girls, which I'm hoping to finish within a few days.

Taking a few hours break too! Plan to kick off 2022 tomorrow with audiobook The Rose Code.

Oh, the Rose Code was really good. Should be a great start to the new year. Hope you love it!

I started A Bullet for Cinderella half past midnight. I guess I must have been living underneath a rock because I had never read or even heard of John D. MacDonald. I am enjoying it and kind of wish I hadn't started it now because I don't want to put it down.

I'm starting Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days.

Anna's Reading Life wrote: "I'm reading Malibu Rising"

Me too!

I'm finishing the last pages of A Study in Scarlet.

When I'm done I will start one of the month readings, still haven't decided which one.

I’m reading a book called Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens

I had a little toppler to myself today. I started and finished my first road trip book, The Christmas Hirelings. I wanted to get this Christmas themed read done while I still feel a little Christmassy.

Wow, Janice. Great start.

I've already broken my resolution to stick to challenge books for the first month - couldn't resist picking up Piranesi to see how it would go an a reread.

I'm starting off the year reading The Sugar Men for the yearlong challenge. I've had it sitting around for a while on my tbr.

Finished and really enjoyed Never
By Ken Follett

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4414562528

I'm reading Fingersmith since I want to read more award winning older books (though 2002 isn't that old) and it also fits nicely in the yearly challenge.

I also started Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail on audio for the road trip challenge.

I'm going to pack it in on Murder at Teal's Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks. It's rather dull and not holding my interest.

Instead, I'll move on to the next book on my list, Harvest of Scorn and kill this series.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that I finished Fever Dream yesterday on audiobook and started Alone on the Wall for my monthly challenge read.

I'm currently reading The Sinner (graveyard queen #5)

I'm finishing off The Wire in the Blood before starting this year's reads. I kinda need this sort of read right now on holidays which is great. But also glad I am reading it while it is 30C+ and sunny for 15 hours a day instead of in winter. Val McDermid knows how to do a creepy killer!

Jayme wrote: "I'm reading Fingersmith since I want to read more award winning older books (though 2002 isn't that old) and it also fits nicely in the yearly challenge."

I really hope you enjoy!!

Finished At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop

My Review:www.goodreads.com/review/show/4426585164

I'm starting of 2022 by returning to two long reads that I started towards the end of last year.

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

and

The Overstory by Richard Powers

I’m listening to The Rose Code, finished My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir (Revised, and started Crossing the Mangrove.

I am reading One Boy, No Water for the monthly challenge.

I just started The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music the yearly challenge.

I do not have an audiobook listen going yet. I tried out The Beautiful and Damned but I have given it up. Sorry F. Scott Fitzgerald, I will give you another try at a later date.

I’m reading a book called The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann

I finished Alone on the Wall for the monthly challenge. Tomorrow, I will start Project Hail Mary for the themed read.

I just finished Reckless Girls . First book for my yearly challenge done! :)

my Reckless Girls review

I think I will finally start Shuggie Bain tomorrow. I keep planning to start it and then not doing it. I need to read it for my bookclub, which is less than a week away, so I should do it now.

OK, I'm reading again! I really want to up my reading this year. Not going to do any challenges this year but have set myself the goal of 40 books. This way, I can read whatever I'm in the mood for at that time. If I get back into it, I'll think about challenges again. Because who doesn't love a badge?!? I'm now using the app on my phone (which I hate) and it doesn't let me add book links so I won't bother mentioning what I'm reading at the moment, I'll come back aand so that another time. I'm mainly just working my way through the books I had started reading at some point over the last year.

I need to do that at some point too, Sarah. I have a handful of books that I picked up and put aside for some reason that I'd like to finish.

Glad to hear you're reading again, Sarah!

Sarah wrote: "OK, I'm reading again! I really want to up my reading this year. Not going to do any challenges this year but have set myself the goal of 40 books. This way, I can read whatever I'm in the mood for..."

Yay Sarah! Challenges can be a double edged sword. In some ways once you assign a book to a task if becomes a chore but on the other hand it can spur you to read wonderful books that you wouldn't otherwise pick up. Although Janices challenges are catnip to me!

Finished The Night She Disappeared bt Lisa Jewell

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4196415909

Yay Sarah! I had to do that the other year as well for a couple of months as it just got a bit much.

Finished Dancing for Stalin: A Dancer's Story of Courage and Survival in Soviet Russia

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4357436787

I might not finish all the ones I'd started but going to try with aa couple of them at least.

I've finished The Book of Moods: How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life and it was such an inspiring book! A good guide to get to know your different moods and how to deal with them.

I’m reading a book called The Lying House by Rick Mofina

I'm reading Disembodied Voices: True Accounts of Hidden Beings. Idk. It's actually not as interesting as I thought it would be so far. Kind of disappointed

I'm profiting from the rule change that yearly and monthly challenges can be combined, and am reading The Winter Soldier

Travis wrote: "I'm reading Disembodied Voices: True Accounts of Hidden Beings. Idk. It's actually not as interesting as I thought it would be so far. Kind of disappointed"

The cover is downright spooky!

A little girl finds a penpal at The Mailbox in the Forest. Author Kyoko Hara shows how to make friends in unlikely places.
3.5★ Link to my Mailbox in the Forest review with several illustrations

Sequoia National Park is a perfect setting for the thriller Vanishing Edge by Claire Kells, where glam-campers have - yep - vanished!
3★ Link to my Vanishing Edge review

My book club is tomorrow and I have not finished Shuggie Bain yet. Fortunately, my other book club is reading it next month, so I still have a chance to finish it on time for that. Every time I pick it up, something comes up, so I'm going to wait a bit to get back to it. I feel like it is one that will be better to read in longer chunks and not little bits and pieces.

In the meantime, I have other books with deadlines coming up sooner, so I'm going to focus on those. I'm starting with A Flicker in the Dark.

I actually blame the cover of the my book. It gave me the impression that the book would be extremely spooky. Which it hasn't been.

I finished Harvest of Scorn last night and because of it, I killed off my first series of 2022.

I will start Gravity. It says on the cover that it's a medical mystery. Just what I need as I head to Edmonton tomorrow for surgery. I don't know why I do things like that. When I was expecting my son, I was reading a book about circus freaks. I even took it with me to the hospital with me when Alan was born. The doctor came into the room one day when I was reading it. He asked what it was so I showed him. His response was, "What a book to be reading at a time like this!"

Lol, Janice. Funny how those strange timing things happen sometimes.

I don't do it intentionally. It's just coincidental that I pick books that coincide with events in my life.