(Last updated 2/22/20. Anticipate new update April, 2021, after spring break and my Covid reading slump ends! Can anyone relate?)
Best Book I Read in 2019: Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doag
Best Book I Read in 2018: No Time on My Hands by Grace Snyder
2020 Reading Goal: Read from my TO BE READ Shelf (or the pile on my nightstand) and check out library books before I buy new ones.
Likelihood I will accomplish this goal: 0%
A Sampling of Books on my 2020 To Be Read List (bolded titles are already sitting on my To Be Read Shelf or checked out from library):
Daily Rituals - Women at Work by Mason Curry
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Ode Less Traveled by Stephen Fry
The Pioneers by David Mc Cullough
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
My Berlin Kitchen by Luisa Weiss
Circe by Madeline Miller
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
Willa’s Grove by Laura Munson (coming Spring 2020)
Most Recent Vacation Page-Turner:
Winter Vacation 2019/20: The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
Spring Vacation 2019: Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Summer Vacation 2019 The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
A Book I Don't Like (and actually threw across the room when I finished): Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2020 Guilt-free Abandoned Books:
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Bestseller that was MEH for Me: Me Before You by JoJo Moyes and Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
Most Epic Book of My Teen Years: Gone With the Wind (NOTE: I might need to reread this to see how I feel about this book now.)
Still My Favorite Book of all Time: My Antonia by Willa Cather
Favorite Bookish Podcast: What Should I Read Next, hosted by Anne Bogel
Last LIVE Book Talk I Attended: The Amazing Kelly Corrigan
Favorite Independent Book Store: {Pages} in Manhattan Beach, California, but I want to visit Fabled Bookshop in Waco, Texas the next time I visit Chip and Joanna.
Favorite Author I Wish Was Still Alive: Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Please read everything she wrote.
Most Embarrassing Reading Stat: I haven't read the entire Harry Potter Series (but I hear there is a great podcast!).
Second Most Embarrassing Reading Stat: Often, I read the first line of a book. Then, I flip to the back and read the last line. And the acknowledgments. Then, I'm good and ready to dive in and get reading.
Lightning Round: Prefer paper over kindle/ Read before bed every night/ Not a re-reader / Prefer character development over plot/ Don’t keep a list of all the books I read. I’d rather be reading. Can't do scary. Sorry, not sorry, Stephen King.