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Leslie's Taking it Easy in 2024
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Guardian's List Books Books marked with an asterisk * are from the list
New to me in 2024:
1. Doctor Zhivago (1/9)
2. Fight Club (1/13)
3. The Unconsoled (2/14)
4. The Black Sheep (2/21) (part of list entry The Human Comedy)
Rereads:
Devil in a Blue Dress
The Three Coffins
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
January: 21 books completed
🔴The Return of Sherlock Holmes {reread}
🔴A Liaden Universe Constellation: Volume 1 {reread}
Dragon Teeth
Perelandra
💙Devil in a Blue Dress* {reread}
Doctor Zhivago*
🤎🔴The Complete Father Brown (started several years ago but finally finished this month)
🤍A Corner of White
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm
🟢the sun and her flowers
Till Death Do Us Part
Fight Club*
❤️Red Mandarin Dress
Extraordinary Means
The Three Coffins* {reread}
The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers
Murphy
❤️A Red Death {reread}
Uncle Vanya {reread}
❤️The Rose in Darkness
💚The Green Man
Books not novels:
🔴 Short stories: 3 collections (2 rereads)
🟢 Poetry: 1 the sun and her flowers
🔵 Plays: 1 Uncle Vanya (reread)
🟠 Memoirs:
🟡 Nonfiction: 2 in progress
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
February:
💙The Blue Lotus
💜One Lavender Ribbon
Demon Copperhead
🖤A Blade So Black
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes* {reread}
A Blunt Instrument {reread}
Crooked Hinge
The Unconsoled*
The Mystery Guest
🔵Electra
So Big
🔵Arcadia {reread}
💛Yellowface
💙Out of the Blue
🖤The Black Sheep*
The Case of the Constant Suicides
💙🟢Blue Horses
🔴The Thurber Carnival
Books not novels:
🔴Short stories: 1 (The Thurber Carnival)
🟢Poetry: 1 Blue Horses
🔵Plays: 2 {1 reread}
🟠Memoirs:
🟡Nonfiction: 2 in progress
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
March:
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
💛The Yellow Dog {reread}
🤍The White Priory Murders
💚Anne of Green Gables {reread}
❤️🟡Red Rose Crew: A True Story Of Women, Winning, And The Water
Books not novels:
🔴Short stories:
🟢Poetry:
🔵Plays:
🟠Memoirs:
🟡Nonfiction: 2 in progress
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
April:
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May:
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June:
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July:
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August:
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September:
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October:
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November:
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Given the group challenge involves colors, I have decided to decorate my monthly summary with pictures of the month's birthstone.
Here are some books that I have been meaning to read for a while now, most of which I already own. I am not making this an 'official' part of my challenge but it would be nice to get to these books sooner rather than later!This is a first shot - I will add and subtract as books occur to me!
•The Five People You Meet in Heaven
•All the Pretty Horses*
•Shakespeare's sonnets
•South Riding*
•News from Nowhere*
•Inherit the Wind◇
•finish Shakespeare plays
•The Wise Man's Fear
•Time Regained*
•The Catcher in the Rye*◇
•The Hiding Place
•Dangerous Liaisons*
•Balzac
•Remarkably Bright Creatures
* means a book from The Guardian's list
◇ means I don't have a copy
Possible books for the color challengeEasy Rawlins series:
A Red Death
White Butterfly
Black Betty
A Little Yellow Dog
Bad Boy Brawly Brown
Little Scarlet reread
Cinnamon Kiss
Little Green
Rose Gold
Charcoal Joe
Misc. others:
My Name is Red reread
The Black Dahlia
The Crimson Petal and the White
The Red Tent
The Golden Fool
Jade Island reread
Shades of Grey (the Jasper Fforde one!)
A Clockwork Orange
Orange Is the New Black
The Blue Castle
Gathering Blue
A Spool of Blue Thread
My spot for tracking the AAB color challenge.❤️ Titles and/or covers in any shade of red:
Red Mandarin Dress (1/13)
A Red Death (1/25) {reread}
The Rose in Darkness (1/29)
Red Rose Crew (3/7)
🧡 Titles and/or covers in any shade of orange:
💛 Titles and/or covers in any shade of yellow:
Yellowface (2/19)
The Yellow Dog (3/4) {reread}
💚 Titles and/or covers in any shade of green:
The Green Man (1/30)
Anne of Green Gables (3/6) {reread}
💙 Titles and/or covers in any shade of blue:
Devil in a Blue Dress (1/6) {reread}
The Blue Lotus (2/2)
Out of the Blue (2/19)
Blue Horses (2/23)
💜 Titles and/or covers in any shade of purple/violet:
One Lavender Ribbon (2/3)
🤍 Titles and/or covers in any shade of white:
A Corner of White (1/10)
The White Priory Murders (3/5)
🖤 Titles and/or covers in any shade of black:
A Blade So Black (2/6)
The Black Sheep* (2/21)
🤎 Titles and/or covers in any shade of brown:
The Complete Father Brown (1/9 finished)
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LauraT wrote: "Wow Leslie! I'll give this a close look!!!"Hwy there Laura! I'd be happy to hear any comments or recommendations from you - I know that our tastes in books are often aligned!
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Hwy there Laura! I'd be happy to hear any comments or recommendations from you - I know that our tastes in books are often aligned!"
Indeed we are "sisters of the spirit" - as the title of the book I had to discuss in my university thesis:
Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century
January roundup: 21 books completed, 4 in progress Books in progress are The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West,
4 books from the Guardian's list*, 2 of which were rereads
7 books for the AAB color challenge: red (and rose), green, blue, white, brown
Red - Red Mandarin Dress, A Red Death & The Rose in Darkness
Green - The Green Man
Blue - Devil in a Blue Dress
White - A Corner of White
Brown - The Complete Father Brown
Leslie wrote: "January roundup: 21 books completed, 4 in progress 4 books from the Guardian's list, 2 of which were rereads
7 books for the AAB color challenge: red (and rose), green, blue, white, brown"
Would love to see your book choices for colors!
Tatyana wrote: "Leslie wrote: "January roundup: 21 books completed, 4 in progress 4 books from the Guardian's list, 2 of which were rereads
7 books for the AAB color challenge: red (and rose), green, blue, white,..."
Post #3 has all my January books, with color coding for the challenge. Or you can check out post #18, whch is my spot for tracking the color challenge year-long; books are grouped by color.
But I probably could go back and edit this info into my roundup too. Thanks for the suggestion!
February roundup; 18 books finished, 4 still in progress & 1 put aside...more to come when my kitty stops attacking me!
OK, Cha'trez is sleeping so I'm back :)
Books in progress are The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, The Magic Mountain* & What You Are Looking For Is in the Library.
Put aside City of Dragons as I just wasn't getting interested.
3 books from the Guardian's list, 1 a reread & 1 from Balzac's Human Comedy.
7 books for the AAB color challenge: yellow, blue, black, purple
Yellow - Yellowface
Blue - The Blue Lotus, Out of the Blue, Blue Horses
Purple - One Lavender Ribbon
Black - A Blade So Black, The Black Sheep
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My personal challenges are:
• To read at least 12 'new-to-me' books from the Guardian's list (1 per month)
• To read a book of poetry, short stories, nonfiction or a play each month
That's it!