Books on the Nightstand discussion

Happy New Reading Year!
I am presently engrossed reading Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide which I know I'll recommend for any mystery lover. I have fewer than 100 pages to go and cant wait to finish it, except I'm sure whatever I pick up next won't measure up to this one.
I'm listening, with some fascination to Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. I didn't know what it was about when I started, but am now horrified at another story of misinformation and how the technological world complicates it.
I hope you all only read 5-star books this year and get them all finished before they are due at the library.

Just started Crimson Snow a collection of Winter and Christmas themed mysteries. It is part of Poisoned Pen Press's British Library Crime Classics series.

Today I finished reading Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide and listening to Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.
Next book is Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way. Next listen is Five Days in November

Finished my first read of 2024
The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon

My Review:
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Finished listening to Five Days in November and then listened to a very short The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity. Finished reading Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way.
Now reading The Little Liar and listening to Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Finished Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan

My Review:
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Started 2024 off with The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store , enjoying it

Finished The Heiress

My Review:
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Britany, you’re always my reminder to post on here.
Now reading Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy and listening to Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

😍 I'm so glad Linda! You always have the best variety of reads.

Finished Mother May I by Joshilyn Jackson

My Review:
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Britany wrote: "😍 I'm so glad Linda! You always have the best variety of reads."

Thanks, Britany. I have many interests.

Today I finished listening to Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! which is a behind the scenes look at the making of the movie Airplane. I think I need to see the movie again.
I started listening to Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

So far in January I have read The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store , The Pram & an arc Last Night

Currently reading

finished & now reading an arc-

Finished Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy and now enchanted with The Frozen River

Finished None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

My Review:
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Finished listening to Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song which was bewitching, bothering, and bewildering (see what I did there?).
Moved back to The House of Doors which I started previously but got returned to the library before I finished (and it was oh, so good).

Finished All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

My Review:
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Finished The Frozen River. This will be one of my all-time favorites: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Now reading Speech Team

Finished reading Speech Team and listening to The House of Doors

Now reading Liz Cheney’s Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning and went back to finish listening to When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

I hear SUCH great things about Frozen River Linda. I need to boost it up on my reading list.

Finished The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

My Review:
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Just finished North Woods by Daniel Mason loved it and now reading The Fury by Alex Michaelides loving it.

Started listening to Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made . My husband liked it and found it to be very interesting, so I thought I'd try it.

Finished Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

My Review:
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Finished The Harbor by Katrine Engberg

My Review:
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Finished listening to Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made and Grammar for a Full Life: How the Ways We Shape a Sentence Can Limit or Enlarge Us and Grammar for a Full Life: How the Ways We Shape a Sentence Can Limit or Enlarge Us
Finished reading Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning.
Now reading The Echo Chamber and listening to Happy

Currently reading “Shoot him if he Runs” by Stuart Woods

In January, I discovered how much I enjoy novels by Alan Furst.

In February so far I have read
Inheritance by Nora Roberts ( a first for her books for me)
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez ( also a first time author)
American Spirits by Russell Banks ( an arc, & whoa!!)

and started last night The Women by Kristin Hannah

Becky wrote: "In February so far I have read
Inheritance by Nora Roberts ( a first for her books for me)
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez ( also ..."

If my wife is anything to go by you should like the Nora Roberts book. One of her favourite authors.

Last night, I finished two books The Echo Chamber which loved and The Ploughmen which was a major chore for me to get through.
I’m now reading The Half Moon for Booktopia and The Fortune Hunter.

C. John wrote: "Becky wrote: "In February so far I have read
Inheritance by Nora Roberts ( a first for her books for me)
Part of Your World by [author:Abby Jimenez|184..."

Oh I read it & enjoyed ti

Finished listening to Happy and moving back to When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown which had to be returned to the library when I’d only read 85% of it.

I'm about 75% done with Terminal City by Linda Fairstein. Good but not great book

Finished reading The Half Moon and listening to When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown.
Next up reading The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism and listening to Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

I just finished "Names for the Sea" (a memoir about living in (and longing for) Iceland, by British writer Sarah Moss. Really insightful, well written. Now I'm deep into "The Berry Pickers". Top notch writing by debut novelist Amanda Peters. Good reading weather finally (snowy and cold)!

Finished The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard

My Review:
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AND

Finished Lucky Leap Day by Ann Marie Walker

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

I just started:
and

Finished & currently reading an arc- by Phoebe Mcintosh

Finished The Christmas Orphans Club by Becca Freeman

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

AND

Finished After Annie by Anna Quindlen

My Review:
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Haven't finished anything, library books keep being doing before I finish them, but I started One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

I finished reading One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy and listening to Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Next up listening is My Side of the River and reading You Are Here

Today I finished reading [bookYou Are Here|58118307] and immediately moved into (and finished) It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health AND finished listening to My Side of the River.
Now reading Consecration Pond: A novel in stories and listening to Bluets

Finished Consecration Pond: A novel in stories.
Started Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out