It wasn’t a great reading month for me. Too many work things to deal with. Too many hours spent staring at Zillow, hah.
Six books. SIX. Lord.
Two were non-fiction (one of those was from my stacks.)
One was audio.
The rest were adult fiction.
Ho hum. February probably won’t be much better.
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TW read The Improbability of Love and enjoyed it. When I was looking for a new (and light?) book to read, TW suggested this one so… I gave it ago.
It wasn’t exactly light. Or heavy, either. It was a little dense and a little dark, in places. (Art and Nazis, both dense and dark topics.) I enjoyed it, mostly. I didn’t like the end, not really. We went all through this story, getting to know all of these characters (and the painting) and then BANG –> we’re told in two sentences what happened to everything? Even Annie’s arrest was rushed and, I don’t know. It just felt like the author had written another 100 pages and then been told to cut that down to 20.
Otherwise — I enjoyed it.
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After the last Dexter (the one I scathingly refer to as Dexter Does Hollywood) I swore I’d never read another Dexter novel. I felt pretty good about that decision until I stumbled across Dexter Is Dead in the library.
Hell.
We needed an audiobook and if Lindsay killed Dexter off, maybe I could gloat about it and be more satisfied with the ending?
Well. Yea. No. It wasn’t a bad book but I really would rather have not read it. Or the one before it.
But now DEXTER IS DEAD, (he’d better be, for godsake), and it’s over.
It took me awhile to settle into the story about The Wild Girl but once I did, I really enjoyed it. I’m a fan of Grimm’s fairy tales so it was extra interesting to read this.
It’s pretty interesting to read (or re-read, in my case) Peyton Place now. Such a scandalous book 60 years ago, now … not so much. Even more interesting to re-read it after reading Unbuttoning of America (which is what led me down the Peyton Place path. lol.
I totally enjoyed reading it — probably more this time around than the first time 35ish years ago.
When I heard Julie Des Jardins was writing a book about Walter Camp, I knew I wanted to read it. Not because I’m a big football fan (#GoTigers) but because I knew Julie would write something interesting, something I didn’t know or hadn’t thought of.
And, that’s exactly what she did.
I’ve never really thought a whole lot about the history of football — why it is what is is today, what it was in the beginning. I mean I knew all about the weird formations and pulling/pushing the ball carrier and the controversy around the throwing game but Walter Camp’s ideas about MEN and what being a MAN should be… that’s not really something I’d thought much about. And, it makes total sense.
Looking at football today (or listening to it, as I am now — to the Clemson/Alabama game, go Tigers) it all makes so much sense. And thinking about injuries — from the 1800s and 1900s and today. It all makes so much sense, in a senseless insane sort of way.
Really fascinating read. I highly recommend you read Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man.
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It seems fitting that the first book I finished in 2016 is Spark Joy, Marie Kondo’s new book.
It’s short, even shorter than the first one, and I didn’t like it nearly as much as I’d hoped. It was fine, a lot of regurgitation of the first book and some clarification of the “rules” that some people might need, but I really didn’t. Not a whole lot more info about storage and organization then there was in the first book. Not really anything new at all, actually.
I’m not sorry to have read it because it was like getting a little Kondo refresh to help push me into the final stretch (and to remind me of things to think about when we buy a new house, pack up all of our stuff and then unpack all of our stuff.)
Tis the season, one of my favorite days, the 2015 Cybils shortlist is up and I’m ready to get started and read some awesome children/middle grade/teen lit. Join me? (Also, why are those National Geographic Readers not in the non-fiction section?) (Also, Book Six? Really? Of a series I’ve never read even one book in? Gah. This is going to be ROUGH.) (More also, gah I’m way behind on Courtney Crumrin. Did I mention this is going to be hard. We are moving to an unknown library district!!! — At least I’ve already read ONE book on the list. hahaha.)
Easy Readers/Early Chapters
Elementary/Middle Grade Non-Fiction
Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction
Fiction Picture Books
Graphic Novels
Middle-Grade Fiction
Poetry
Young Adult Fiction
Young Adult Non-Fiction
Young Adult Speculative Fiction
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