Official 2025 Reading Challenge
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Official 2025 Reading Challenge
Or as official as it gets...ha!
Have you set a reading goal for the year? Number of books, new authors, just keeping track of your reads? Well, here is the place to be!
If you feel comfortable sharing your goals and/or your books read, please do. Recommends and other extraneous comments about anything in the realm of books are also welcome! Tangents appreciated!
I plan on sharing my books read and number to goal monthly, with maybe some comments on a few of them.
If there's any "rules" here, it's no shaming someone for what they read! It's fine to not like an author or a book, but personal belittlement is NOT COOL. You know where to take that monkey feces...
Let's go!
Have you set a reading goal for the year? Number of books, new authors, just keeping track of your reads? Well, here is the place to be!
If you feel comfortable sharing your goals and/or your books read, please do. Recommends and other extraneous comments about anything in the realm of books are also welcome! Tangents appreciated!
I plan on sharing my books read and number to goal monthly, with maybe some comments on a few of them.
If there's any "rules" here, it's no shaming someone for what they read! It's fine to not like an author or a book, but personal belittlement is NOT COOL. You know where to take that monkey feces...
Let's go!
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Re: Official 2025 Reading Challenge
My arbitrary goal for the year is 100. You know how us former accountants like nice, round numbers. I go into spasms of joy whenever a store receipt is an even dollar amount!
I read 9 books in January so I on track (so far)!
My January reads:
(The asterisk denotes a Kindle Unlimited book)
*The Devil and Mrs. Davenport: A Novel - Paulette Kennedy
*Last of the Moon Girls - Barbara Davis
When the Day Comes (Timeless Book #1) - Gabrielle Meyer
*The Unrepentant Lives of Reggie Blackwell: A Middle Falls Time Travel Story - Shawn Inmon
The September House - Carissa Orlando
In This Moment (Timeless Book #2) - Gabrielle Meyer
Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America - Kathleen A. Cairns
Love Letters to a Serial Killer - Tasha Coryell
*Strange Sally Diamond - Liz Nugent
9/100
This is kind of long, so I might do it more often if I keep up my reading volume. A few notes:
The Timeless Series is new to me, I love it when I come upon a series with several books already written so I don't have to wait for the next one, but the drag on these is that I have to put holds on them through Libby. I also hate Libby because it won't show a book until it's published so you can't get on the wait list early like you could with Overdrive (which is why I'm like #59609233 on the list for The Onyx Storm and in the hundreds for the new Grady Hendrix). Anyway, these are cool because they're not really time travel, it's multiple lives. Like in the first one, the FMC spends one day in 1774 and the next in 1914. When she turns 21, she picks which "path" she wants to stay in permanently. The author has won Christian awards, but she's not really preachy, it's mostly just on trusting in God to tell you what you should choose.
The Middle Falls books are great! I think this is 21 or 22 in the series and I've been reading them for years. This one came out 12/31 and I absolutely devoured it! Now I have to wait until the end of May for the next one. If you've never read them I envy you having over 20 of them all at once, plus some novellas. The series is called 'time travel' but, again, it's not really. When the MC dies, they find themselves back in the past at some point in their life and it's up to them what, if any, changes they want to make. Like an 80 year old man dies of a stroke and then, next thing he knows, he's 7 years old and sitting at the kitchen table with his grandma! Sort of like 11/22/63 by Stephen King. These are all on KU, so if you have it, you have no excuse not to at least try it out. Since all of them are set (at least partially) in the smallish town of Middle Falls Oregon, some of the same characters show up in later books, so start from the beginning.
Strange Sally Diamond has got to be the stand out so far! Starts off a little ho-hum, some chick on the spectrum who takes everything literally, but hold onto your butts and strap in because it doesn't take long for this to turn into one wild ride! After I read the ending, I might have let out an audible "whoa!" and then teared up at the epilogue. (I love a book with an epilogue!)
I read 9 books in January so I on track (so far)!
My January reads:
(The asterisk denotes a Kindle Unlimited book)
*The Devil and Mrs. Davenport: A Novel - Paulette Kennedy
*Last of the Moon Girls - Barbara Davis
When the Day Comes (Timeless Book #1) - Gabrielle Meyer
*The Unrepentant Lives of Reggie Blackwell: A Middle Falls Time Travel Story - Shawn Inmon
The September House - Carissa Orlando
In This Moment (Timeless Book #2) - Gabrielle Meyer
Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America - Kathleen A. Cairns
Love Letters to a Serial Killer - Tasha Coryell
*Strange Sally Diamond - Liz Nugent
9/100
This is kind of long, so I might do it more often if I keep up my reading volume. A few notes:
The Timeless Series is new to me, I love it when I come upon a series with several books already written so I don't have to wait for the next one, but the drag on these is that I have to put holds on them through Libby. I also hate Libby because it won't show a book until it's published so you can't get on the wait list early like you could with Overdrive (which is why I'm like #59609233 on the list for The Onyx Storm and in the hundreds for the new Grady Hendrix). Anyway, these are cool because they're not really time travel, it's multiple lives. Like in the first one, the FMC spends one day in 1774 and the next in 1914. When she turns 21, she picks which "path" she wants to stay in permanently. The author has won Christian awards, but she's not really preachy, it's mostly just on trusting in God to tell you what you should choose.
The Middle Falls books are great! I think this is 21 or 22 in the series and I've been reading them for years. This one came out 12/31 and I absolutely devoured it! Now I have to wait until the end of May for the next one. If you've never read them I envy you having over 20 of them all at once, plus some novellas. The series is called 'time travel' but, again, it's not really. When the MC dies, they find themselves back in the past at some point in their life and it's up to them what, if any, changes they want to make. Like an 80 year old man dies of a stroke and then, next thing he knows, he's 7 years old and sitting at the kitchen table with his grandma! Sort of like 11/22/63 by Stephen King. These are all on KU, so if you have it, you have no excuse not to at least try it out. Since all of them are set (at least partially) in the smallish town of Middle Falls Oregon, some of the same characters show up in later books, so start from the beginning.
Strange Sally Diamond has got to be the stand out so far! Starts off a little ho-hum, some chick on the spectrum who takes everything literally, but hold onto your butts and strap in because it doesn't take long for this to turn into one wild ride! After I read the ending, I might have let out an audible "whoa!" and then teared up at the epilogue. (I love a book with an epilogue!)
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Re: Official 2025 Reading Challenge
My goals:
1. Read the local newspaper every day they publish.
2. Read all my book club books.
3. Read some books for run.
1. Good so far.
2. Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson, The Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
3. Bow Wow by Spencer Quinn, Stone Cold by Robert B. Parker
I'll never match one of my friends; his goal is to read 100 books each year. He gets started on an author and then reads them all in order. Right now, he's on Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone novels. Last year, he read all of John Sandford's "prey" books, also all the Virgil Flowers. He made his goal last year with 108 books.
1. Read the local newspaper every day they publish.
2. Read all my book club books.
3. Read some books for run.
1. Good so far.
2. Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson, The Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
3. Bow Wow by Spencer Quinn, Stone Cold by Robert B. Parker
I'll never match one of my friends; his goal is to read 100 books each year. He gets started on an author and then reads them all in order. Right now, he's on Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone novels. Last year, he read all of John Sandford's "prey" books, also all the Virgil Flowers. He made his goal last year with 108 books.
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-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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I just started Die Again by Tess Gerritsen. Books I've read this year: One Of Us Is Back by Karen M. McManus, This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter, The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins, Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen and Last To Die by Tess Gerritsen. Next up is: Bad Liar by Tami Hoag, None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewell and Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I read two of her other books (Malibu Rising and The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo) last year and enjoyed them both. Other authors I enjoy: Lisa Gardner, Riley Sager, Liane Moriarty, B.A. Paris, Mary Kubica. I started keeping track of the books I read just recently, after purchasing the same Harlan Coben book twice. I typically buy my books at estate sales and Goodwill, sometimes on eBay, and always donate them when I'm done reading. I'm happy to send along any books I have that someone here may be interested in.
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I love this! I dearly wish I had more time to read, but I squeeze in what I can. I usually have at least two books going at home, and one audio book in the car whenever possible. Recently discovered Heather Graham's supernatural mysteries - very much enjoying them.
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My list so far:
Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd
Helloween by Duncan Ralston
Bellevue by Robin Cook
Wind-in-Trees by Arthur Doweyko (author request)
Pro Bono by Thomas Perry
Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
Little Boy Blue by Margaret Fenton (book tour)
The Big Empty by Robert Crais
Cat of Many Tails by Ellery Queen (book club)
Slow Train Running by Todd Almond
A Killer's Code by Isabella Maldonado
Eleven Numbers by Lee Child (Novella, not a request)
The Lee Child book is the only one I didn't read as some type of request, and it was short (about 50 pages). Slow Train Running is the one I'm writing up my review now for. It's the story of the Broadway musical, Girl from the North Country, with a score of Bob Dylan music, written by one of the cast members. The show had just opened on Broadway one week before COVID shut everything down, so he's got a lot of stories to tell. I'm reading Paul Theroux's short story collection, The Vanishing Point, right now. My book club, which is hosted by the Mysterious Press bookstore in New York, meets in a half hour and their special guest tonight is Richard Dannay, son of Ellery Queen co-creator Frederic Dannay.
BTW, for Beebs and Earl, I had put in a request to review Erin Hildebrand's newest novel a couple of days before these challenge threads started. She co-wrote this one with her daughter Shelby Cunningham. I haven't heard anything back yet, but it won't be published until September.
Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd
Helloween by Duncan Ralston
Bellevue by Robin Cook
Wind-in-Trees by Arthur Doweyko (author request)
Pro Bono by Thomas Perry
Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
Little Boy Blue by Margaret Fenton (book tour)
The Big Empty by Robert Crais
Cat of Many Tails by Ellery Queen (book club)
Slow Train Running by Todd Almond
A Killer's Code by Isabella Maldonado
Eleven Numbers by Lee Child (Novella, not a request)
The Lee Child book is the only one I didn't read as some type of request, and it was short (about 50 pages). Slow Train Running is the one I'm writing up my review now for. It's the story of the Broadway musical, Girl from the North Country, with a score of Bob Dylan music, written by one of the cast members. The show had just opened on Broadway one week before COVID shut everything down, so he's got a lot of stories to tell. I'm reading Paul Theroux's short story collection, The Vanishing Point, right now. My book club, which is hosted by the Mysterious Press bookstore in New York, meets in a half hour and their special guest tonight is Richard Dannay, son of Ellery Queen co-creator Frederic Dannay.
BTW, for Beebs and Earl, I had put in a request to review Erin Hildebrand's newest novel a couple of days before these challenge threads started. She co-wrote this one with her daughter Shelby Cunningham. I haven't heard anything back yet, but it won't be published until September.
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One of the books I read in December (not on my list for 2025) is Trial by Ambush by Marcia Clark, the OJ Simpson prosecutor. She went through a lot of old case files and trial transcripts to research the case. Her verdict is that Graham was railroaded by an unethical prosecutor. It's a great read if you are interested in the real story of Graham's trial and subsequent execution.Earl the Squirrel wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 4:00 pmProof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America - Kathleen A. Cairns
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I love TJR, she's one of my favourites! I'm always looking to see if she has a new book out. My favourite is probably Evelyn Hugo, but I really liked Daisy Jones, too. I keep thinking that I'll watch it on Prime, but it probably can't compare since I read the book way before the movie and the cast is not how I pictured them in my head while reading. One of the best things about her books is that by the end all of these seemingly unrelated people or events somehow end up being connected. Another one who is great at that is Liane Moriarty, so when I saw you liked TJR my first thought was to suggest her, but of course you already read her. Her unexpected connections might be even better, but she doesn't carry characters over to other books (that Mick Rivas is a piece of work, is he not?)Hotseat Or Bust! wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 2:02 pmI just started Die Again by Tess Gerritsen. Books I've read this year: One Of Us Is Back by Karen M. McManus, This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter, The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins, Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen and Last To Die by Tess Gerritsen. Next up is: Bad Liar by Tami Hoag, None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewell and Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I read two of her other books (Malibu Rising and The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo) last year and enjoyed them both. Other authors I enjoy: Lisa Gardner, Riley Sager, Liane Moriarty, B.A. Paris, Mary Kubica. I started keeping track of the books I read just recently, after purchasing the same Harlan Coben book twice. I typically buy my books at estate sales and Goodwill, sometimes on eBay, and always donate them when I'm done reading. I'm happy to send along any books I have that someone here may be interested in.
Have you read Moriarty's latest? I can't remember the title but it's about a woman on an airplane who starts telling everybody when they're going to die. It might be her best so far, in my opinion.
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So many great suggestions. I am excited to start on them, especially proof of guilt.
Currently have started a series by Jane Lindskold about a girl with telepathic powers, raised by wolves. Through wolf’s eyes is the title of the first book.
Currently have started a series by Jane Lindskold about a girl with telepathic powers, raised by wolves. Through wolf’s eyes is the title of the first book.
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I'm in the middle of an 8-week period of teaching three college classes plus my usual day job, so no pleasure reading right now (I do still read at least one piece each week from The Sunday Long Read, and several smaller pieces each day on various topics). I have two trips coming up, and will read a book each direction, so I'm committing to these four that are stacked on my table:
Why We Love Baseball, Joe Posnanski
Why We Love Football, Joe Posnanski
Locker Room Talk: A women's struggle to get inside, Melissa Ludtke
How to read nonfiction like a professor, Thomas C. Foster
Why We Love Baseball, Joe Posnanski
Why We Love Football, Joe Posnanski
Locker Room Talk: A women's struggle to get inside, Melissa Ludtke
How to read nonfiction like a professor, Thomas C. Foster
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Have you read any Loreth Anne White books? She has a series that's set in Victoria, BC! The series features Angie Palloreno or Palladino or something like that. Police procedurals/mystery with of course a lovers to enemies to friends kind of romance thing. She has written a lot of books and I've read others, but it's been a few years and I can't remember if her other series are in Victoria as well.
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I have not yet read Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, but just ordered Truly Madly Guilty. Another book I read not too long ago that I loved was Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. I think you might enjoy it, if you haven't read it yet.Earl the Squirrel wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 7:08 pmI love TJR, she's one of my favourites! I'm always looking to see if she has a new book out. My favourite is probably Evelyn Hugo, but I really liked Daisy Jones, too. I keep thinking that I'll watch it on Prime, but it probably can't compare since I read the book way before the movie and the cast is not how I pictured them in my head while reading. One of the best things about her books is that by the end all of these seemingly unrelated people or events somehow end up being connected. Another one who is great at that is Liane Moriarty, so when I saw you liked TJR my first thought was to suggest her, but of course you already read her. Her unexpected connections might be even better, but she doesn't carry characters over to other books (that Mick Rivas is a piece of work, is he not?)Hotseat Or Bust! wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 2:02 pmI just started Die Again by Tess Gerritsen. Books I've read this year: One Of Us Is Back by Karen M. McManus, This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter, The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins, Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen and Last To Die by Tess Gerritsen. Next up is: Bad Liar by Tami Hoag, None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewell and Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I read two of her other books (Malibu Rising and The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo) last year and enjoyed them both. Other authors I enjoy: Lisa Gardner, Riley Sager, Liane Moriarty, B.A. Paris, Mary Kubica. I started keeping track of the books I read just recently, after purchasing the same Harlan Coben book twice. I typically buy my books at estate sales and Goodwill, sometimes on eBay, and always donate them when I'm done reading. I'm happy to send along any books I have that someone here may be interested in.
Have you read Moriarty's latest? I can't remember the title but it's about a woman on an airplane who starts telling everybody when they're going to die. It might be her best so far, in my opinion.
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No haven’t seen that one. I will check that out tomorrow at the library. Sounds intriguing.Earl the Squirrel wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 9:41 pmHave you read any Loreth Anne White books? She has a series that's set in Victoria, BC! The series features Angie Palloreno or Palladino or something like that. Police procedurals/mystery with of course a lovers to enemies to friends kind of romance thing. She has written a lot of books and I've read others, but it's been a few years and I can't remember if her other series are in Victoria as well.
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Wait! Louise Penny from the beginning. I mean, hello.
Well, then
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You are going to love TMG! I almost gave it a DNF at point because nothing ever seemed to happen and it was becoming nothing but a tease, but I kept with it because I know her endings usually pay off and this one did, big time!! Here One Moment, thank you! I kept thinking something like Last Moments, but I knew that was wrong.Hotseat Or Bust! wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:19 pmI have not yet read Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, but just ordered Truly Madly Guilty. Another book I read not too long ago that I loved was Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. I think you might enjoy it, if you haven't read it yet.Earl the Squirrel wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 7:08 pmI love TJR, she's one of my favourites! I'm always looking to see if she has a new book out. My favourite is probably Evelyn Hugo, but I really liked Daisy Jones, too. I keep thinking that I'll watch it on Prime, but it probably can't compare since I read the book way before the movie and the cast is not how I pictured them in my head while reading. One of the best things about her books is that by the end all of these seemingly unrelated people or events somehow end up being connected. Another one who is great at that is Liane Moriarty, so when I saw you liked TJR my first thought was to suggest her, but of course you already read her. Her unexpected connections might be even better, but she doesn't carry characters over to other books (that Mick Rivas is a piece of work, is he not?)Hotseat Or Bust! wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 2:02 pmI just started Die Again by Tess Gerritsen. Books I've read this year: One Of Us Is Back by Karen M. McManus, This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter, The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins, Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen and Last To Die by Tess Gerritsen. Next up is: Bad Liar by Tami Hoag, None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewell and Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I read two of her other books (Malibu Rising and The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo) last year and enjoyed them both. Other authors I enjoy: Lisa Gardner, Riley Sager, Liane Moriarty, B.A. Paris, Mary Kubica. I started keeping track of the books I read just recently, after purchasing the same Harlan Coben book twice. I typically buy my books at estate sales and Goodwill, sometimes on eBay, and always donate them when I'm done reading. I'm happy to send along any books I have that someone here may be interested in.
Have you read Moriarty's latest? I can't remember the title but it's about a woman on an airplane who starts telling everybody when they're going to die. It might be her best so far, in my opinion.
I know you said that you generally read hard copies, but do you have a Kindle? Other than the newest ones, a lot of these are on Kindle Unlimited. The ones that aren't I just get the ebooks through my local library. Sometimes it's a long wait on popular new titles, but I always find something to read! I rejoiced when KU raised the limit you could have at one time from 10 to 20 and I still have a big line on my wish list so I'm always at 20!
The Ng book was available so I checked it out, but I might not get to it before it expires. Three books that I've been waiting weeks for all became available within two days of each other and I didn't want to delay them so I've got a bunch of stuff to read in the next few weeks. Including the new Grady Hendrix, yay!!
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Being laid up in the hospital gives you a lot of free time if you get tired of seeing the same Super Bowl preview for the tenth time, so I got to read five books between Friday and Monday (plus a short story that Amazon considered another "book"). To be fair, I had read the first few chapters of the first book before checking in.
Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right by Walter Mosley
Hollywood Blackout by Bob Arogundade
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout (took a break from current stuff to go back to the "classics")
Double Sin and Other Stories by Agatha Christie (ditto)
Open Season by Jonathan Kellerman
Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right by Walter Mosley
Hollywood Blackout by Bob Arogundade
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout (took a break from current stuff to go back to the "classics")
Double Sin and Other Stories by Agatha Christie (ditto)
Open Season by Jonathan Kellerman
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I just started Truly Madly Guilty on Monday night. I don't mind a book that goes back and forth between timelines, but I can't wait to discover what happened at the barbeque! I don't have a Kindle...I like holding the actual book while I'm reading it. I hope you'll get to read Little Fires Everywhere!!Earl the Squirrel wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:24 amYou are going to love TMG! I almost gave it a DNF at point because nothing ever seemed to happen and it was becoming nothing but a tease, but I kept with it because I know her endings usually pay off and this one did, big time!! Here One Moment, thank you! I kept thinking something like Last Moments, but I knew that was wrong.Hotseat Or Bust! wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:19 pmI have not yet read Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, but just ordered Truly Madly Guilty. Another book I read not too long ago that I loved was Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. I think you might enjoy it, if you haven't read it yet.Earl the Squirrel wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 7:08 pm
I love TJR, she's one of my favourites! I'm always looking to see if she has a new book out. My favourite is probably Evelyn Hugo, but I really liked Daisy Jones, too. I keep thinking that I'll watch it on Prime, but it probably can't compare since I read the book way before the movie and the cast is not how I pictured them in my head while reading. One of the best things about her books is that by the end all of these seemingly unrelated people or events somehow end up being connected. Another one who is great at that is Liane Moriarty, so when I saw you liked TJR my first thought was to suggest her, but of course you already read her. Her unexpected connections might be even better, but she doesn't carry characters over to other books (that Mick Rivas is a piece of work, is he not?)
Have you read Moriarty's latest? I can't remember the title but it's about a woman on an airplane who starts telling everybody when they're going to die. It might be her best so far, in my opinion.
I know you said that you generally read hard copies, but do you have a Kindle? Other than the newest ones, a lot of these are on Kindle Unlimited. The ones that aren't I just get the ebooks through my local library. Sometimes it's a long wait on popular new titles, but I always find something to read! I rejoiced when KU raised the limit you could have at one time from 10 to 20 and I still have a big line on my wish list so I'm always at 20!
The Ng book was available so I checked it out, but I might not get to it before it expires. Three books that I've been waiting weeks for all became available within two days of each other and I didn't want to delay them so I've got a bunch of stuff to read in the next few weeks. Including the new Grady Hendrix, yay!!
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Thank you for reminding me about Moriarty! Yay
Reading The Ghost Orchid, Kellerman, Alex Delaware book. It's good. He has interesting twists.
Reading The Ghost Orchid, Kellerman, Alex Delaware book. It's good. He has interesting twists.
Well, then
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I got that one last year and enjoyed it. I just finished his newest, Open Season, which just came out. It's even better.
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Re: Official 2025 Reading Challenge
Oh good. Next in line.silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2025 2:52 pmI got that one last year and enjoyed it. I just finished his newest, Open Season, which just came out. It's even better.
Well, then
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Re: Official 2025 Reading Challenge
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Dang, that was disturbing
Dang, that was disturbing
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Re: Official 2025 Reading Challenge
I like this thread.
My goal would be 100, but I won't quite make it.
1) Still slowly plugging away at War and Peace-I had hoped to finish it this winter but I don't think I will make it.
2) An old book about the Transvaal, prior to the Boer War-mainly mining stuff.
3) EBook #1
Lords of Darkness about a English sailor who ends up as a prisoner and such in Angola in about 1500.
4) EBook#2
Re-reading The Prize-about oil-I wanted to reread it before I start "The Quest" which takes up where that one left off
5) Carry around book-"The Jaguar" about a Jaguar field study in Belize in the early 80's.
My goal would be 100, but I won't quite make it.
1) Still slowly plugging away at War and Peace-I had hoped to finish it this winter but I don't think I will make it.
2) An old book about the Transvaal, prior to the Boer War-mainly mining stuff.
3) EBook #1
Lords of Darkness about a English sailor who ends up as a prisoner and such in Angola in about 1500.
4) EBook#2
Re-reading The Prize-about oil-I wanted to reread it before I start "The Quest" which takes up where that one left off
5) Carry around book-"The Jaguar" about a Jaguar field study in Belize in the early 80's.
- SportsFan68
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Re: Official 2025 Reading Challenge
My goals:
1. Read the local newspaper every day they publish.
2. Read all my book club books.
3. Read some books for run.
Accomplished so far (new in italics):
1. Good so far.
2. Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson, The Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams, Someone Else's Shoes by JoJo Moyes, On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, Go as a River by Shelley Read
3. Bow Wow by Spencer Quinn, Stone Cold by Robert B. Parker
1. Read the local newspaper every day they publish.
2. Read all my book club books.
3. Read some books for run.
Accomplished so far (new in italics):
1. Good so far.
2. Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson, The Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams, Someone Else's Shoes by JoJo Moyes, On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, Go as a River by Shelley Read
3. Bow Wow by Spencer Quinn, Stone Cold by Robert B. Parker
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