Robin (rretzler) Reads in 2019 - Nummer zwei (2)

2019 Reading



About Me

Book Meme

Family Pictures




2018 Summary

List of Books Read in 2019

Books Read in January
Books Added to My Library in January
January Summary

Books Read in February
Books Added to My Library in February
February Summary

Books Read in March
Books Added to My Library in March
March Summary

Books Read in April
Books Added to My Library in April
April Summary

Books Read in May
Books Added to My Library in May
May Summary

Books Read in June
Books Added to My Library in June
June Summary

Books Read in July
Books Added to My Library in July
July Summary

Books Read in August
Books Added to My Library in August
August Summary

Currently Reading

Group Reads

Challenges

January to March Books Read
April to June Books Read
July to September Books Read
October to December Books Read

Kindle Preorders

Planned Reading

My Series

Prior Year Favorites

Award Lists

A Book A Year

About Me



Hi, I'm Robin, and this is my 7th or 8th year with the 75'ers Group. I'm 55, and I've been married to Ed (55) for 27 years. We have two sons, Beckham (17) and Keegan (13), and four cats, Picasso (13) and the kittens, Mycroft, Bandit, and J'Zargo (1.) Dublin, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus (the capital of Ohio) has been our home for the past 20+ years. Our boys are involved in travel soccer and many school activities, and they keep us very busy driving them around. Beckham now has his driver’s license, so he can help with those duties now!

I just retired from a tax practice which I have run out of my house for the past ten years - prior to that, I was the Tax Director for one of the top 100 accounting firms in the US for five years, a shareholder in a small accounting firm for five years, and worked at Ernst & Young, an international accounting firm for 12 years where I headed the local tax compliance department. I have been slowing down my tax practice for the past few years to spend time with my boys before they go off to college. I’m still trying to figure out what to do with my days and I’m sort of at loose ends until I figure things out. I struggle with both depression and diabetes. Ed is in IT at Huntington Bank, a national bank headquartered in Columbus. Beckham is in 11th grade and is accelerated in math - he finished his high school math credits while he was still in middle school. He is currently taking Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses at one of our local high schools. Keegan is in 8th grade at a local middle school and is accelerated two years in math. He has been struggling with hearing issues since he was about four months old and has been wearing hearing aids in both ears since 2016. He has been diagnosed with dyslexia, but he also does very well in school.

I learned to read at a very young age and have rarely been without a book (or many) since then. My library on LT reflects those books that I have kept track of since I started as a member eight years ago. I am slowly trying to capture books I have read before that time, but I'm guessing that a lot of books that I have read will never be recorded as I have forgotten them. I am totally an addict, and the daily deals on Amazon for $1.99 will probably be my financial ruin. I just cannot help myself when it comes to a bargain of that sort!

I mainly read mysteries, science fiction, fantasy and children's/young adult books (along with my sons.) Specifically, most of the mysteries that I read are British mysteries in the style of the Golden Age of Detection, and I enjoy soft sci-fi, especially dystopian, a bit more than hard sci-fi. Until 2017, Beckham, Keegan and I read together every night, but it has been difficult with Beckham's course load to do this. I hope to start reading together again this year, but realistically it will be weekly, not nightly. In school, I never had to read many of the classics, so I am slowly going back to read some of those. I also try to read several best sellers each year. Additionally, I have been working my way through the Newbery, Hugo, and Nebula awards.

I proudly consider myself to be a geek (okay, maybe a nerd too). My favorite TV shows are Sherlock (BBC version) and Doctor Who (both classic and new series). We enjoy Marvel movies - The Avengers, Captain America, Doctor Strange, etc. - and also the Marvel TV series - Agents of Shield, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher, etc. My other hobbies include making beaded jewelry and sometimes knitting. I love to travel, but since we have children who are quickly approaching college age, we don't do as much as we used to.

If we would win the lottery, the first thing I would do (aside from paying off the mortgage and setting aside the funds for college for my sons) is to go back to school myself! I love to learn and would probably take lots of psychology, philosophy and literature courses.

I'm so glad to be back with the 75'ers again this year and am going to attempt to visit more than I have in the past.

(Shhh…this is recycled from last year because I’m too lazy to think up other things to say about myself. Don’t tell.)

Family Pictures


Ed and I on vacation on the beach at Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 2017


Beckham and Keegan in Chicago showing our vacation tradition of trying on gift shop hats - here they try on “gangster” hats on 2018 spring break.


Bandit, J’zargo, Mycroft and Picasso


Family – 2017 vacation - Cape Cod, Massachusetts


Family – 2018 spring break – Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park, Illinois

Currently Reading




Reading Now

1. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman🎧
   
2. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson📱🎧
   
3. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander📱
   
4. Dark of the Moon by PC Hodgell📱
   
5. Melmoth by Sarah Perry 📖
   
   

Up Next

1. Seventy-Seven Clocks by Christopher Fowler📱
   
2. Come Away Death by Gladys Mitchell📖
   

📖 - Print (hardcover, trade paper or mass market paper)
🎧 - Audiobook
📱 - eBook
I saw the headphone emoji's on Chelle's thread and loved it - which gave me the idea...! Thanks, Chelle!

Group Reads



Group Reads


January

Lackberg and Leon: A Scandicrime vs Venetian Mystery Challenge - A Noble Radiance by Donna Leon to catch up
I may only read the Donna Leon books – I’ll see if I can fit the Camilla Lackberg in

February

Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series - Fool’s Errand by Robin Hobb

Lackberg and Leon: A Scandicrime vs Venetian Mystery Challenge - Fatal Remedies by Donna Leon

Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson's) 'Wheel of Time' series - The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

March
David Copperfield - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

April

Lackberg and Leon: A Scandicrime vs Venetian Mystery Challenge - Friends in High Places by Donna Leon

Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson's) 'Wheel of Time' series - The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

May

Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series - The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb

June

Exploring the worlds of James H. Schmitz - The Demon Breed by James Schmitz

Lackberg and Leon: A Scandicrime vs Venetian Mystery Challenge - Sea of Troubles by Donna Leon

Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson's) 'Wheel of Time' series - The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan

August

Lackberg and Leon: A Scandicrime vs Venetian Mystery Challenge - Willful Behavior by Donna Leon

Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series - Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb

October

Lackberg and Leon: A Scandicrime vs Venetian Mystery Challenge - Uniform Justice by Donna Leon

November

Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series - Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb

December

Lackberg and Leon: A Scandicrime vs Venetian Mystery Challenge - Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon

Challenges



I plan only to loosely follow the challenges - if I read a book and it fits, I'll count it, but I am not going to plan my reading to complete a challenge. If I need a book to read, I'll consider something that fits the challenge. And YES, there are A LOT of challenges here, but the majority of them fit very nicely with the books I plan to read, and we'll just see where I get on the others. Fun for me, and gives me a little sense of accomplishment for basically doing nothing but what I would normally do. I've offloaded the details to my wiki pages - you can follow the links below or just see the summary here.

12:1 Reading Challenge

2019 12:1 Challenge Detail

20 Books of Summer

2019 20 Books of Summer Challenge Detail


Audiobook Challenge

2019 Audiobook Challenge Detail

Backlist Reader

2019 Backlist Reader Challenge Detail

Big Fat Books

2019 Big Fat Books

British Books Challenge

2019 British Book Challenge Detail

Chunkster Challenge

2019 Chunkster Challenge Detail

Classics I Have Not Read

2019 Classics Challenge Detail

Cloak and Dagger Challenge

2019 Cloak and Dagger Challenge Detail

Cult of the New

2019 Cult of the New Challenge Detail

European Reading

2019 European Challenge Detail

Finishing the Series

2019 Finishing the Series Challenge Detail

For the Love of Ebooks

2019 For the Love of Ebooks Challenge Detail

High Fantasy

2019 High Fantasy Challenge Detail

Historical Fiction

2019 Historical Fiction Challenge Detail

I Just HAVE to Read More of that Author

2019 I Just HAVE toChallenge Detail

Just the Facts, Ma’am Vintage Mystery Challenge

2019 Just the Facts Challenge Detail

Library Love

2019 Library Love Challenge Detail

Listomania

2019 Listomania Challenge Detail

Modern Mrs Darcy Reading Challenge

2019 Mrs Darcy Challenge Details

NetGalley Review Challenge

2019 NetGalley Challenge Detail

New Release Challenge

2019 New Release Challenge Detail

Newbery Challenge

2019 Newbery Challenge Detail

Pick and Mix

2019 Pick and Mix Challenge Detail

POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

2019 POPSUGAR Challenge Detail

Print Only

2019 Print Only Challenge Detail

Read the Sequel

2019 Read the Sequel Challenge Detail

Read Harder Challenge

2019 ReadHarder Challenge Detail

Reading Challenge Addict Challenge

2019 Reading Challenge Addict Challenge Detail

The Second Best

2019 Second Best Challenge Detail

Space Opera

2019 Space Opera Challenge Detail

Space Time

2019 Space Time Challenge Detail

Tackle My TBR

2019 Tackle My TBR Challenge Details

The Unloved

2019 Unloved Challenge Detail

Women of Genre Fiction

2019 Women of Genre Fiction Challenge Detail

World at War

2019 World at War Challenge Detail>

WWE Books Read This Year

2019 WWE Books Read Challenge Detail

You Read How Many Books?

2019 You Read How Many Books? Challenge Detail

January to March Books Read

January

1. Death of a Millionaire by G D H Cole - 🕵️ 📖 review
   
2. Dr Tenth: Christmas Surprise! by Adam Hargreaves - 🎴 📖 review
   
3. White Teeth by Zadie Smith - 📙 🎧 review
   
4. Dr Thirteenth by Adam Hargreaves - 🎴 📖 review
   
5. The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi - 🚀 🎧 review
   
6. The Victim by PD James - 📙 📖 review
   
7. The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi - 🚀 🎧 review
   
8. A Noble Radiance by Donna Leon - 🕵️ 📱 review
   
9. This Immortal by Roger Zelazny - 🚀 🎧 review
   
10. The Blatchington Tangle by GDH Cole - 🕵️ 📖 review
    
11. Number Eight: Smelly Man by Colin Cotterill - 🕵️ 📱 review
    
12. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath - 📙 📖 review
    
13. The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb - 🧝 📱review
    
14. Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb - 🧝 📱 review
    February
    
15. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan - 🧝 📱 review
    
16. Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold - 🧝 📱 review
    
17. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K Le Guin - 🚀 📱 review
    
18. The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths - 🕵️ 📱 review
    
19. Hall of Mirrors by Christopher Fowler - 🕵️ 📖 review
    
20. The Umbrella Academy #0 by Gerard Way - 🧝 📱 review
    
21. Early Riser by Jasper Fforde - 🧝📖
    
22. The Lady Downstairs by Christopher Fowler - 🕵️ 📱
    
23. Fatal Remedies by Jasper Fforde - 🕵️ 📱
    
24. Death Spins the Wheel by George Bellairs - 🕵️ 📱
    
25. The Vanishing Man by Charles Finch - 🕵️📱
    
26. Babel-17 by Samuel R Delany - 🚀🎧
    
27. The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists by Alexander McCall Smith - 🕵️📱
    March
    
28. Number Nine: Maprao Syndrome by Colin Cotterill - 🕵️📱
    
29. Mycroft and Sherlock by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - 🕵️📱
    
30. Killing with Confetti by Peter Lovesey - 🕵️📱
    
31. The Second Biggest Nothing by Colin Cotterill - 🕵️📱
    
32. Crime in Lepers' Hollow by George Bellairs - 🕵️📱
    
33. Murder in an Irish Pub by Carlene O'Connor - 🕵️📱
    
34. The American Agent by Jacqueline Winspear - 🕵️📱
    
35. All Systems Red by Martha Wells - 🚀📱
    
36. The Sirani Connection by Estelle Ryan - 🕵️📱
    
37. The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie - 🧝📱
    
38. The Victory Garden by Rhys Bowen - 📙📱
    
39. The 8 Mansion Murders by Takemaru Abiko - 🕵️📱
    
40. Mrs Jeffries Delivers the Goods by Emily Brightwell - 🕵️📱
    
41. Passing Strange by Catherine Aird - 🕵️📱
    
42. The Colors of All the Cattle by Alexander McCall Smith - 🕵️📱
    
43. Friends in High Places by Donna Leon - 🕵️📱
    
    
    
    
    
    Genre
    👦🏼 Children
    🧝 Fantasy
    📙 Fiction
    🏫 Middle grade
    🕵️ Mystery
    📰 Nonfiction
    🎴 Picture
    📜 Poetry
    🚀 SciFi
    👨🏻‍🎓 Young Adult

April to June Books Read

April

1. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - 🧝📱 🎧
   
2. The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan - 🧝📱
   
3. A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn - 🕵️📱
   
4. The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie - 📙📱
   
5. A Death in Chelsea by Lynn Brittney - 🕵️📖
   
6. Bertie and the Tin Man by Peter Lovesey - 🕵️📖
   
7. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor - 🚀📱
   
8. The Lonely Hour by Christopher Fowler - 🕵️📖
   
9. The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths - 🕵️📱
   
10. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - 📙🎧
    
11. The Long Call by Ann Cleeves - 🕵️📱
    
12. The Song Never Dies by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
    
13. A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie - 🕵️📱
    
14. A Bad Lie by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
    
15. A Death in the Family by Neil Richards - 🕵️ 🎧
    
16. Secret Santa by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
    
17. The Great Book of Ohio by Bill O'Neill - 📰📱
    
18. Triple Jeopardy by Anne Perry - 🕵️📱
    May
    
19. Golden Fool by Robin Hobb - 🧝📱
    
20. The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith - 🕵️📱
    
21. Farthing by Jo Walton - 🚀📱
    
22. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro - 📙📱
    
23. The Stranger by Albert Camus - 📙📱
    
24. Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles - 🕵️📖
    
25. Sleep No More by PD James - 🕵️📱
    
26. Before the Play by Stephen King - 🧝📱
    
27. Number Ten: Tom Tom by Colin Cotterill - 🕵️📱
    
28. A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters - 🕵️📱
    
29. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds - 👨🏻‍🎓🎧
    
30. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - 🚀🎧
    
31. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - 🚀📱
    
32. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly - 🧝🎧
    
33. The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo - 🕵️🎧
    
34. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - 📙🎧
    
35. Death on a Moonlit Night by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
    
36. Scared to Death by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
    
37. More Bedtime Stories for Cynics by Nick Offerman - 📙🎧
    
38. Picture Miss Seeton by Heron Carvic - 🕵️📱
    June
    
39. A Murder of Quality by John le Carre - 🕵️📱
    
40. The Demon Breed by James Schmitz - 🚀📱
    
41. The Power by Naomi Alderman - 🚀📱
    
42. A Sea of Troubles by Donna Leon - 🕵️📱
    
43. The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin - 🚀📱
    
44. Alien III by William Gibson - 🚀🎧
    
45. A Dinner to Die For by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
    
46. Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch - 🕵️📱
    
47. The Drowned Man by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
    
48. Transcription by Kate Atkinson - 📙🎧
    
49. The Gentleman Vanishes by Neil Richards 🕵️🎧
    
50. Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold by Nancy Atherton - 🕵️📱
    
51. The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan - 🧝🎧
    
52. The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons - 🚀📱
    
    

July to September Books Read

July

1. Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg - 📰🎧
   
2. Miniatures by John Scalzi - 🚀🎧
   
3. A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy by Ann Cleeves - 🕵️📱
   
4. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - 👦🏼🎧
   
5. David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall by David Sedaris - 📙🎧
   
6. Calypso by David Sedaris - 📰🎧
   
7. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn - 📙📱
   
8. The Girl With All the Gifts by MR Carey - 🚀📱
   
9. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris - 📙🎧
   
10. Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham - 🕵️📱
    
11. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowtiz - 🕵️📱
    
12. Knock, Murderer, Knock! by Harriet Rutland - 🕵️📱
    
13. Caesar's Wife's Elephant by Margery Allingham - 🕵️📱
    August
    
14. Past Reason Hated by Peter Robinson - 📱🕵️
    
15. Greenglass House by Kate Milford - 📖🏫
    
16. Willful Behavior by Donna Leon - 📱🕵️
    
17. Number Eleven: Whale Vomit by Colin Cotterill - 📱🕵️
    
18. A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch - 📱🕵️
    
19. Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb - 📱🧝
    
20. A Case of Suicide in St James's by Clara Benson - 📱🕵️
    
21. Love and Death Among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen - 📱🕵️
    
22. The Studio Crime by Ianthe Jerrold - 📱🕵️
    
23. Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic by Nick Carr - 🎧🚀
    
24. We Can Be Mended by Veronica Roth - 📱🚀
    
25. The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley - 📖🕵️
    
    

October to December Books Read

October

11

Planned Reading





Planning my reading worked out pretty well last year, so I’ll give it a try again this year.

I've offloaded the list to my wikipage - so here it is:

Rretzler's Planned Reading

My Series



Here's a link to my series reading on my wiki page:

Robin's Series

Prior Year Favorites by Genre



2018
Fantasy - God Stalk by PC Hodgell
Fiction - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Middle - Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Mystery - The Knowledge by Martha Grimes
Nonfiction - Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Poetry - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
SciFi - Head On by John Scalzi
YA - When by Victoria Laurie



2017
Fiction - A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
Middle - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg
Mystery - The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley
Nonfiction - The Complete Maus by Art Spiegleman
SciFi - Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold



2016
Fantasy - The Woodcutter by Kate Danley
Literary fiction - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Middle grade - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Mystery - The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R King
Science Fiction - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Young Adult - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky



2015
Scifi - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Young Adult - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Middle - A Night Divided by Jennifer A Nielsen
Nonfiction - Upside-Down Brilliance by Linda Kreger Silverman
Fiction - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Mystery - Rough Cider by Peter Lovesey
Fantasy - Queen Mab by Kate Danley
Picture - Darth Vader and Friends by Jeffrey Brown



2014
Nonfiction - Coaching Outside the Box by Richard E Shaw
Middle - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Mystery - As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley
SciFi - Divergent by Veronica Roth
Young Adult - Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Fantasy - The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien - reread



2013
Mystery - The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Picture - Ruby Sings the Blues by Niki Daly - reread
Middle - Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead
SciFi - I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Fiction - Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Fantasy - The Princess Bride by William Goldman - reread



2012
Mystery - The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R King
SciFi - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Fantasy - A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
Middle - The Giver by Lois Lowry
Fiction - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Picture - Pete's a Pizza by William Steig - reread



2011
Fiction - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Middle - Tall and Proud by Vian Smith - reread
Young Adult - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Mystery - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
SciFi - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
SciFi - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Awards

I'm reading from several award lists. I've offloaded my progress lists to my wiki pages - you can follow the links for the details or see the summary below.

Hugo



Hugo Award Reading List




Nebula



Nebula Award Reading List




Newbery



Newbery Award Reading List




Great American Read



Great American Read List

A Book A Year



I loved this idea - so I am copying Paul, Roni, Karen, and possibly others. These books may not necessarily be my favorite book published that year but are books that I have rated highly, enjoyed, and likely reread, and have some meaning to me. I've tried not to add too many books by one author and have attempted to keep it representative of my overall library.

You can find my list at my wiki pages:

Robin's Book a Year

2018
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Happy new thread!

>17 rretzler: Welcome, foggi, and thanks. Hope you have been well.

Happy new thread!

Happy new thread, Robin!

Happy new thread, Robin!

The time-outs for touchstones are annoying, today seemed a bit better than yesterday. Sometimes it works when you remove the brackets of the first touchstone, and add it again when the others have loaded.

Happy new thread!

>22 FAMeulstee: I finally just gave up and used the html to create the link to my book. I'm still adding links to my list of year-favorite F&SF books.

>20 drneutron: Hi, Jim, and thanks!

>21 humouress: Hi, Nina. Thanks!

>22 FAMeulstee: Hi, Anita. Thanks! They are today, aren't they? I think I'm giving up for today - I thought it might be my computer or my internet, but a reboot of both did not help, and now you've confirmed it. My trick is to add the book test - as in [test] which starts the whole process loading again, and sometimes, I cut and paste by sections if I'm trying to add a bunch at a time. None of that's working today!

>23 quondame: Hi, Susan. Thanks! I sometimes think that's the best way to go. I'm slowly doing that on all the stuff I've transferred over to my wiki page. Not quite as quick, but it certainly beats waiting for the touchstones to load!

Happy New thread Robin!

Happy new thread, Robin.

I do so look forward to your sudden bursts of activity in the group!

Happy new thread, Robin! I hope you are feeling better. I deal with allergies as well, and they say this is a bad year for them!

Happy new one!!

Hi, Robin! You're in the Dublin area, right? I saw this morning that you're getting a North Market! That's exciting!

https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/04/03/done-deal-the-north-market-...

Happy new thread!

Happy new thread, Robin. This looks like it took a lot of work.

>25 swynn: Thanks, Steve. See you on Litsy!

>26 PaulCranswick: Thanks, Paul. I hope soon to be here on a more consistent basis.

>27 ronincats: Thanks, Roni. After almost 3 days of thinking I was getting better, everything came back with a vengeance on Wednesday. Fortunately, I had an allergist appointment today - his official diagnosis: your sinuses are a mess, you're all clogged up, and your breathing is terrible! So more rounds of steroids, antibiotics, albuterol, Advair, nasal rinses, etc. I'm sure you know the drill! Hope you're fairing better than I am!

>28 Berly: Thanks, Kim. Cute pic!

>29 scaifea: Hi, Amber. We are indeed getting a North Market, and I am very excited. I love the North Market, but don't get downtown very often these days - visited a lot more when I worked downtown, and I do miss it. I'm not getting my hopes up much though - I'm not sure how the North Market will go over in Dublin. One of my favorite Columbus gourmet food stores, an Italian market called Carfagna's came to Dublin many years ago. I was very excited, but it didn't last very long. Coincidentally, it was in just about the same location that they are now building all the new development. Also, I was very excited for the Montgomery Inn, one of my favorite Cincinnati restaurants to come to Dublin - it did not last long either, and it was pretty much next door to all the new development, in a very accessible location. I think the Montgomery Inn had too much seating, which wasn't sustainable after the initial newness wore off, if they had downsized, it may have worked out better. So, we'll see. I will definitely be going there when it is finished!

>30 figsfromthistle: Thanks, Anita! Hope to go visiting after April 15 passes and these darned allergies!

>31 BLBera: Thanks, Beth. At this point, its all copy and paste, from the prior thread, which is copy and paste for the most part from last year. So it may look like a lot, but it really isn't!

1. (44) Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - 📱🎧
   
2. (45) The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan - 📱
   
3. (46) A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn - 📱
   
4. (47) The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie - 📱
   
5. (48) A Death in Chelsea by Lynn Brittney - 📖
   
6. (49) Bertie and the Tin Man by Peter Lovesey - 📖
   
7. (50) Binti by Nnedi Okorafor - 📱
   
8. (51) The Lonely Hour by Christopher Fowler - 📖
   
9. (52) The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths - 📱
   
10. (53) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - 🎧
    
11. (54) The Long Call by Ann Cleeves - 📱
    
12. (55) The Song Never Dies by Neil Richards - 🎧
    
13. (56) A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie - 📱
    
14. (57) A Bad Lie by Neil Richards - 🎧
    
15. (58) A Death in the Family by Neil Richards - 🎧
    
16. (59) Secret Santa by Neil Richards - 🎧
    
17. (60) The Great Book of Ohio by Bill O'Neill - 📱
    
18. (61) Triple Jeopardy by Anne Perry - 📱
    
    
    
    
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1. (150) One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence📱
   
2. (151) The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard by David A Goodman📱
   
3. (152) Cold Is the Grave by Peter Robinson📱
   
4. (153) Before the Frost by Henning Mankel📱
   
5. (154) Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear📱 - previously read
   
6. (155) An Election by John Scalzi📱
   
7. (156) Ungifted by Gordon Korman🎧
   
8. (157) Keep the Home Fires Burning by S Block📱
   
9. (158) Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett🎧
   
10. (159) Noonday and Night by Gladys Mitchell 📱
    
11. (160) Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee📱
    
12. (161) Tom Brown's Body by Gladys Mitchell📱
    
13. (162) Death and the Maiden by Gladys Mitchell📱
    
14. (163) The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham📱
    
15. (164) The God of the Hive by Laurie R King📱 - previously read
    
16. (165) Garment of Shadows by Laurie R King📱 - previously read
    
17. (166) Lock In by John Scalzi📱 - previously read
    
18. (167) The Silk Stocking Murders by Anthony Berkeley📖
    
19. (168) Tragedy at Law by Cyril Hare📱
    
20. (169) The Last Ringbearer by Kiril Yeskov📱
    
21. (170) Tenant for Death by Cyril Hare📱
    
22. (171) And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie📖 -previously read - Keegan's summer reading
    
23. (172) Triple Jeopardy by Anne Perry📱
    
24. (173) The Fortress by Jonathan Hillinger📱
    
25. (174) The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein📱
    
26. (175) The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem📱
    
27. (176) The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson📱
    
28. (177) Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi📱
    
29. (178) Everything But the Squeal by John Scalzi📱
    
30. (179) The B-Team by John Scalzi📱
    
31. (180) Walk the Plank by John Scalzi📱
    
32. (181) We Only Need the Heads by John Scalzi📱
    
33. (182) A Voice in the Wilderness by John Scalzi📱
    
34. (183) Tales from the Clarke by John Scalzi📱
    
35. (184) The Back Channel by John Scalzi📱
    
36. (185) The Dog King by John Scalzi📱
    
37. (186) The Sound of Rebellion by John Scalzi📱
    
38. (187) The Observers by John Scalzi📱
    
39. (188) This Must Be the Place by John Scalzi📱
    
40. (189) A Problem of Proportion by John Scalzi📱
    
41. (190) The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads by John Scalzi📱
    
42. (191) Earth Below, Sky Above by John Scalzi📱
    
43. (192) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak📱 - previously read - Keegan's summer reading
    
44. (193) Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein📱 - previously read - Keegan's summer reading
    
45. (194) Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys📱
    
46. (195) Murder at Swann's Lake by Sally Spencer📱
    
47. (196) Eye for an Eye by T Frank Muir📱
    
48. (197) Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin📱
    
49. (198) Dead or Alive by Patricia Wentworth📱
    
50. (199) The Wychford Poisoning Case by Anthony Berkeley📖
    
51. (200) Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery by Anthony Berkeley📖
    
52. (201) Not to Be Taken by Anthony Berkeley📖
    
53. (202) Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley📖
    
54. (203) The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith📱
    
55. (204) Walkaway by Cory Doctorow📱
    
56. (205) The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia📱
    
57. (206) An American Princess by Annejet Van der Zijl📱
    
58. (207) All This I Will Give to You by Delores Redondo📱
    
59. (208) The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Poetzsch📱 - previously read
    
60. (209) About the Night by Anat Talshir📱
    
61. (210) The Dark Heart by Joakim Palmkvist📱
    
62. (211) Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro📱
    
63. (212) The Passion According to Carmela by Marcos Aguinis📱
    
64. (213) This Life or the Next by Demian Vitanza📱
    
65. (214) The Three Miss Allens by Victoria Purman📱
    
66. (215) You Gotta Get Bigger Dreams by Alan Cumming🎧
    
67. (216) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf🎧
    
68. (217) Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein🎧
    
69. (218) The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia🎧
    
70. (219) An American Princess by Annejet Van der Zijl🎧
    
71. (220) All This I Will Give to You by Delores Redondo🎧
    
72. (221) The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Poetzsch🎧 - previously read
    
73. (222) About the Night by Anat Talshir🎧
    
74. (223) The Dark Heart by Joakim Palmkvist🎧
    
75. (224) Go by Kazuki Kaneshiro🎧
    
76. (225) The Passion According to Carmela by Marcos Aguinis🎧
    
77. (226) This Life or the Next by Demian Vitanza🎧
    
78. (227) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin📱
    
79. (228) The Broken Kingdoms by NK Jemisin📱
    
80. (229) The Kingdom of Gods by NK Jemisin📱
    
81. (230) The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths📱
    
82. (231) Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner📱
    
83. (232) The Long Call by Ann Cleeves📱
    
84. (233) A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie📱
    
85. (234) Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor📱
    
86. (235) Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor📱
    
87. (236) In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L Sayers📱 - previously read
    
88. (237) Swing by Kwame Alexander🎧
    
89. (238) Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones🎧
    
90. (239) The Great Book of Ohio by Bill O'Neill📱
    
91. (240) Dead in the Water by Neil Richards📱
    
    
    
    
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>32 rretzler: Well, I think I'll likely be coming to your North Market once it opens, since driving downtown gives me all sorts of anxiety. So I'll do my part to help it stay open! Ha!

Happy new thread, Robin!

Wishing you a lovely Sunday, Robin.

Hi Robin, and happy new thread.

>35 scaifea: Maybe the North Market can be a future meetup spot, Amber. It will be about 2 miles from my house.

>36 Carmenere: >37 PaulCranswick: >38 karenmarie: Thanks, Lynda, Paul, and Karen. Hope all is well with all of you.

I just don't seem to be able to find the time to get on LT - it seems like I've been so busy it's been a struggle to get on the computer to post. I guess the good news is that I'm reading but the bad news is that I'm not socializing. Hopefully, as soon as school is out I'll be less busy, but then we'll be starting college visits, so who knows!

M (YTD) {PYTD}

By the numbers
📒Books read - 18 ( 61 ) { 21 }
📅Average days to read - 1.7 ( 2.0 ) { 1.4 }

🗐Pages read - 5,373 ( 16,575 ) { 5,108 }
📊Average pages per book - 299 ( 272 ) { 243 }
📊Average pages per day - 179 ( 138 ) { 170 }

📗Series read - 12 ( 36 ) { 15 }
📕Books in series read - 15 ( 48 ) { 15 }

⬆️Longest book read - The Great Hunt
🗐Pages - 658

⬇️Shortest book read - Binti
🗐Pages - 98

Type
🎁ARC - 3 ( 9 ) { 6 }
🏛️Borrowed - 0 ( 5 ) { 2 }
🛍️New - 15 ( 42 ) { 12 }
🔁Reread - 0 ( 0 ) { 0 }
📚TBR - 0 ( 5 ) { 1 }

Medium
🎧Audio - 5 ( 10 ) { 2 }
🖥️ Ebook - 11 ( 41 ) { 17 }
📖Print - 2 ( 10 ) { 2 }

Genre
🧝Fantasy - 2 ( 9 ) { 2 }
📙Fiction - 2 ( 5 ) { 0 }
🏫 Middle Grade - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
🕵️Mystery - 12 ( 37 ) { 13 }
📰Nonfiction - 1 ( 1 ) { 0 }
🎴Picture - 0 ( 2 ) { 0 }
🚀Science Fiction - 1 ( 7 ) { 5 }

Authors

Authors by book
👩🏼Female - 7 ( 26 ) { 12 }
👨🏼Male - 11 ( 35 ) { 9 }

Unique authors
👩🏻Female - 7 ( 22 ) { 12 }
👨🏻Male - 8 ( 22 ) { 6 }

✨ Authors read for the first time - 2 ( 7 ) { 2 }

Living or deceased - unique authors

👻Deceased - 2 ( 8 ) { 3 }
🚶Living - 13 ( 36 ) { 15 }

Nationality - unique authors

American - 5 ( 21 ) { 8 }
Canadian - 1 ( 1 ) { 2 }
English - 9 ( 19 ) { 7 }
Japanese - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
Scottish - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
South African - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }

Awards

Coretta Scott King - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
Hugo - 1 ( 4 ) { 0 }
Locus - 0 ( 2 ) { 0 }
Nebula - 1 ( 4 ) { 0 }
Newbery - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
Scott O’Dell - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 )

Ratings

5.0 - 1 ( 2 ) { 5 }
4.5 - 3 ( 12 ) { 6 }
4.0 - 9 ( 28 ) { 6 }
3.5 - 3 ( 13 ) { 3 }
3.0 - 2 ( 6 ) { 1 }

📊 Average rating - 3.94 ( 3.93 ) { 4.26 }

Average rating of books read per LibraryThing - 4.10 ( 3.91 ) { 3.98 }
Average rating of books read per Goodreads - 4.16 ( 4.05 ) { 4.13 }
Average rating of books read per Amazon - 4.31 ( 4.43 ) { 4.42 }

Decade published

📅2010 - 14 ( 39 ) { 14 }
📅2000 - 0 ( 5 ) { 1 }
📅1990 - 2 ( 6 ) { 1 }
📅1980 - 1 ( 3 ) { 0 }
📅1970 - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }
📅1960 - 0 ( 3 ) { 1 }
📅1950 - 0 ( 1 ) { 2 }
📅1940 - 0 ( 0 ) { 0 }
📅1930 - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
📅1920 - 0 ( 2 ) { 0 }
📅1850 - 1 ( 1 ) { 0 }

Books added to library

🎁ARC - 3 ( 7 ) { 1 }
🛍️Purchase - New - 83 ( 225 ) { 60 }
🛍️Purchase - Used - 5 ( 8 ) { - }

📓Read (books purchased during year) - 17 ( 40 ) { - }

💲 Average cost per book - $4.29 ( $4.48 ) { $4.66 }

✨ New releases - 9 ( 32 ) { 8 }

💰 Full price - 31 ( 80 ) { 20 }

Favorite books of the month


Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Bertie and the Tin Man by Peter Lovesey
The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths
A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie

1. (62) Golden Fool by Robin Hobb - 🧝📱
   
2. (63) The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith - 🕵️📱
   
3. (64) Farthing by Jo Walton - 🚀📱
   
4. (65) A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro - 📙📱
   
5. (66) The Stranger by Albert Camus - 📙📱
   
6. (67) Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles - 🕵️📖
   
7. (68) Sleep No More by PD James - 🕵️📱
   
8. (69) Before the Play by Stephen King - 🧝📱
   
9. (70) Number Ten: Tom Tom by Colin Cotterill - 🕵️📱
   
10. (71) A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters - 🕵️📱
    
11. (72) Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds - 👨🏻‍🎓🎧
    
12. (73) Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - 🚀🎧
    
13. (74) The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - 🚀📱
    
14. (75) The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly - 🧝🎧
    
15. (76) The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo - 🕵️🎧
    
16. (77) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - 📙🎧
    
17. (78) Death on a Moonlit Night by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
    
18. (79) Scared to Death by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
    
19. (80) More Bedtime Stories for Cynics by Nick Offerman - 📙🎧
    
20. (81) Picture Miss Seeton by Heron Carvic - 🕵️📱
    
    
    
    
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1. (241) Valencia and Valentine by Suzy Krause📱
   
2. (242) More Bedtime Stories for Cynics by Nick Offerman🎧
   
3. (243) The Mystery of Alice by Lee Bacon🎧
   
4. (244) Othello by William Shakespeare🎧
   
5. (245) You by Charles Benoit🎧
   
6. (246) Escape to Other Worlds With Science Fiction by Jo Walton📱
   
7. (247) Star Wars: Ahsoka by EK Johnston📱
   
8. (248) A Girl Called Justice by Elly Griffiths📱
   
9. (249) The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths📱
   
10. (250) The Unquiet Grave by David J Oldman📱
    
11. (251) The Great Book of Texas by Bill O'Neill📱
    
12. (252) The Great Book of New York by Bill O'Neill📱
    
13. (253) The Great Book of California by Bill O'Neill📱
    
14. (254) Rolling Stone by Patricia Wentworth📱
    
15. (255) The Blind Side by Patricia Wentworth📱
    
16. (256) Who Pays the Piper? by Patricia Wentworth📱
    
17. (257) The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by FC Yee🎧
    
18. (258) Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa🎧
    
19. (259) The Piccadilly Murder by Anthony Berkeley📖
    
20. (260) Before the Play by Stephen King📱
    
21. (261) Serpents in Eden by Martin Edwards📱
    
22. (262) Twelve Doctors of Christmas by Various 📱
    
23. (263) Number Ten: Tom Tom by Colin Cotterill📱
    
24. (264) Shadow Magic by Patricia C Wrede📱
    
25. (265) Daughter of Witches by Patricia C Wrede📱
    
26. (266) The Harp of Imach Thyssel by Patricia C Wrede📱
    
27. (267) Caught in Crystal by Patricia C Wrede📱
    
28. (268) The Raven Ring by Patricia C Wrede📱
    
29. (269) Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber📱
    
30. (270) Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber📱
    
31. (271) Swords in the Mist by Fritz Leiber📱
    
32. (272) Playing God by Sarah Zettel📱
    
33. (273) Reclamation by Sarah Zettel📱
    
34. (274) The Quiet Invasion by Sarah Zettel📱
    
35. (275) Fool's War by Sarah Zettel📱
    
36. (276) Autonomous by Annalee Newitz📱
    
37. (277) Spill by Leigh Fondakowski🎧
    
38. (278) Meet the Sky by McCall Hoyle🎧
    
39. (279) A Knife for Harry Dodd by George Bellairs📱
    
40. (280) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (from April)🎧
    
41. (281) Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg (from April)🎧
    
42. (282) The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers🎧
    
43. (283) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey🎧
    
44. (284) The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston🎧
    
45. (285) A Night Divided by Jennifer A Nielson🎧
    
46. (286) Tear Down This Wall by Romesh Ratnesar🎧
    
47. (287) The Demon Breed by James Schmitz📖
    
48. (288) Murder in Print by Melvyn Barnes📖
    
49. (289) Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide by John Cooper📖
    
50. (290) Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide Second Edition by John Cooper📖
    
51. (291) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James📱
    
52. (292) The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon📱
    
53. (293) We the Living by Ayn Rand (for Beckham)📖
    
54. (294) Anthem by Ayn Rand (for Keegan)📖
    
55. (295) A Dinner to Die For by Neil Richards🎧
    
56. (296) The Body in the Woods by Neil Richards🎧
    
57. (297) The Drowned Man by Neil Richards🎧
    
58. (298) The Gentleman Vanishes by Neil Richards🎧
    
59. (299) Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold📱
    
60. (300) Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold📱
    
61. (301) Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold📱
    
62. (302) Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold📱
    
63. (303) Anthem by Ayn Rand (for Keegan)🎧
    
    
    
    
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Nice to see you back posting, Robin

>43 PaulCranswick: Thanks, Paul. Let's hope I can get through the next few weeks and be back a little more.

Your May is starting strong, Robin! I have been struggling to finish a book.

>44 rretzler: Thanks, Beth. That was April for me! It took me about 2 weeks to finish 2 books, and then somehow I finished another 16 in the last 2 weeks. Of course, some of those 16, like David Copperfield, I was mostly finished. So hang in there - maybe start a new book and put the others on hold. That's what I ended up doing and it helped.

>46 rretzler: Ah; I may take your advice.

Congrats on killing it the first half of May--whoo!!! Patience does pay off. : )

I haven't hosted a series or an author for a while. I'd like to do so this summer, during a month when the most interested folk have the time to do at least the targeted book, which is only 200 pp. long. I'd like to expose as many people as possible to the works of James H. Schmitz, a science fiction author who wrote from the late '40s through the 1970s. He is best known for The Witches of Karres, but imho has written much better works. Here is my bookshelf.


Many of his works, especially his shorter ones, were very hard to find for quite a while, but in 2000 and 2001, Baen published almost all of his oeuvre in a collection of 6 books, seen to the right of the shelf above. The book I would like to feature is Demon Breed, also found in the Baen collection The Hub: Dangerous Territory. Schmitz is known for his kick-ass female protagonists long before they became the current ubiquitous status quo in his stories about Telzey Amberdon, Trigger Argee, and the hero of Demon Breed, Nile Etland.

See my thread for more info if interested!

Happy new-ish thread!

>47 humouress: Hi, Nina. Sometimes I have a bunch of books going on at once - and sometimes it may take me years to finish, even if I like a book, but may not be in the mood!

>48 Berly: Thanks, Kim. I slowed a little in the second half, but it will still be a very good month overall, I think!

>49 ronincats: Roni, I'm in! Visited your thread to let you know and will await further info.

>50 ChelleBearss: Hi, Chelle. Thanks! I'm not around very much so it's still pretty new.

Reached the 75 book goal the day before yesterday. I've hit 75 in May the last three years in a row, about a week before the end of the month each time, so I guess I must be back on track somewhat!

Congratulations on reaching 75, Robin!

Congrats!

Missed that you had blown past the 75 book mark (Woo hoo!) and glad you are joining us for the Schmitz read!!

Congratulations on your 75!

>52 rretzler: Congratulations!

Back on track--hitting 75 ALREADY!! Nice. : )

>53 FAMeulstee: >54 drneutron: >55 ronincats: >56 humouress: >57 thornton37814: >58 Berly: Thanks so much Anita, Jim, Roni, Nina, Lori, and Kim. Waaaay behind on reviews and catching up, but doing a great job of reading! LOL!

Congratulations on reaching 75, Robin - your slump doesn't seem to have slowed you at all.

>60 BLBera: Thanks, Beth. I think I picked back up in May after a really slow start the first week!

M (YTD) {PYTD}

By the numbers
📒Books read - 20 ( 81 ) { 79 }
📅Average days to read - 1.6 ( 1.9 ) { 1.9 }

🗐Pages read - 5,041 ( 21,616 ) { 22,026 }
📊Average pages per book - 252 ( 267 ) { 279 }
📊Average pages per day - 163 ( 143 ) { 146 }

🎧Total listening - 52:46 ( 148:56 ) { ? }

📗Series read - 11 ( 43 ) { 32 }
📕Books in series read - 12 ( 60 ) { 46 }

⬆️Longest book read - Golden Fool
🗐Pages - 736

⬇️Shortest book read - Number Ten : Tom Tom
🗐Pages - 34

Type
🎁ARC - 0 ( 9 ) { 21 }
🏛️Borrowed - 3 ( 8 ) { 13 }
🛍️New - 8 ( 50 ) { 37 }
🔁Reread - 0 ( 0 ) { 2 }
📚TBR - 9 ( 14 ) { 6 }

Medium
🎧Audio - 8 ( 18 ) { 9 }
🖥️ Ebook - 11 ( 52 ) { 65 }
📖Print - 1 ( 11 ) { 5 }

Genre
🧝Fantasy - 3 ( 12 ) { 7 }
📙Fiction - 4 ( 9 ) { 9 }
🏫 Middle Grade - 0 ( 0 ) { 3 }
🕵️Mystery - 9 ( 46 ) { 42 }
📰Nonfiction - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
🎴Picture - 0 ( 2 ) { 0 }
📜Poetry - 0 ( 0 ) { 3 }
🚀Science Fiction - 3 ( 10 ) { 14 }
👨🏻‍🎓YA - 1 ( 1 ) { 1 }

Authors

Authors by book
👩🏼Female - 4 ( 30 ) { 44 }
👨🏼Male - 16 ( 51 ) { 35 }
Non-binary/unknown - 0 ( 0 ) { 0 }

Unique authors
👩🏻Female - 4 ( 24 ) { 35 }
👨🏻Male - 15 ( 33 ) { 26 }
Non-binary/unknown - 0 ( 0 ) { 0 }

✨ Authors read for the first time - 8 ( 15 ) { 23 }

Living or deceased - unique authors

👻Deceased - 7 ( 14 ) { 18 }
🚶Living - 12 ( 43 ) { 43 }

Nationality - unique authors

American - 7 ( 27 ) { 31 }
Canadian - 1 ( 1 ) { 2 }
Chinese - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
English - 5 ( 22 ) { 23 }
French - 1 ( 1 ) { 0 }
Irish - 1 ( 0 ) { 0 }
Japanese - 1 ( 2 ) { 0 }
Norwegian - 1 ( 1 ) { 0 }
Scottish - 1 ( 1 ) { 1 }
South African - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }
Welsh - 1 ( 1 ) { 1 }

Awards

Hugo - 0 ( 4 ) { 2 }
Nebula - 0 ( 4 ) { 2 }
Newbery - 0 ( 0 ) { 2 }

Ratings

5.0 - 1 ( 3 ) { 9 }
4.5 - 4 ( 16 ) { 13 }
4.0 - 9 ( 37 ) { 38 }
3.5 - 3 ( 16 ) { 13 }
3.0 - 2 ( 8 ) { 5 }
2.5 - 1 ( 1 ) { 0 }
2.0 - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
1.5 - 0 ( 0 ) { 0 }
1.0 - 0 ( 0 ) { 0 }

📊 Average rating - 3.90 ( 3.92 ) { 4.03 }

Average rating of books read per LibraryThing - 3.87 ( 3.90 ) { 3.86 }
Average rating of books read per Goodreads - 3.88 ( 4.00 ) { 4.01 }
Average rating of books read per Amazon - 4.22 ( 4.38 ) { 4.33 }

Decade published

📅2010 - 7 ( 46 ) { 42 }
📅2000 - 5 ( 10 ) { 5 }
📅1990 - 0 ( 6 ) { 6 }
📅1980 - 2 ( 5 ) { 1 }
📅1970 - 1 ( 2 ) { 4 }
📅1960 - 1 ( 4 ) { 2 }
📅1950 - 1 ( 2 ) { 4 }
📅1940 - 1 ( 1 ) { 4 }
📅1930 - 1 ( 1 ) { 5 }
📅1920 - 0 ( 2 ) { 1 }
📅1890 - 1 ( 1 ) { 0 }
📅1850 - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
📅1830 - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
📅1810 - 0 ( 0 ) { 2 }
📅1790 - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }

Books added to library

🎁ARC - 1 ( 2 ) { 22 }
🛍️Purchase - New - 55 ( 282 ) { 258 }
🛍️Purchase - Used - 5 ( 13 ) { ? }
➕Total added - 61 ( 303 ) { 280 }

📓Read (books purchased during year) - 8 ( 49 ) { ? }

💲 Average cost per book - $3.28 ( $4.24 ) { $3.58 }

✨ New releases - 7 ( 39 ) { 20 }

💰 Full price - 15 ( 95 ) { 44 }

🆓 Free - 19 ( 71 ) { 54 }

Favorite books of the month



Golden Fool by Robin Hobb
Farthing by Jo Walton
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

1. (82) A Murder of Quality by John le Carre - 🕵️📱
   
2. (83) The Demon Breed by James Schmitz - 🚀📱
   
3. (84) The Power by Naomi Alderman - 🚀📱
   
4. (85) A Sea of Troubles by Donna Leon - 🕵️🎧
   
5. (86) The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin - 🚀🎧
   
6. (87) Alien III by William Gibson - 🚀🎧
   
7. (88) A Dinner to Die For by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
   
8. (89) Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch - 🕵️📱
   
9. (90) The Drowned Man by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
   
10. (91) Transcription by Kate Atkinson - 📙🎧
    
11. (92) The Gentleman Vanishes by Neil Richards - 🕵️🎧
    
12. (93) Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold by Nancy Atherton - 🕵️📱
    
13. (94) The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan - 🧝🎧
    
14. (95) The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons - 🚀📱
    
    
    
    
    Medium
    📖 - Print (hardcover, trade paper or mass market paper)
    🎧 - Audiobook
    📱 - eBook
    
    Genre
    👦🏼 Children
    🧝 Fantasy
    📙 Fiction
    🏫 Middle grade
    🕵️ Mystery
    📰 Nonfiction
    🎴 Picture
    📜 Poetry
    🚀 SciFi
    👨🏻‍🎓 Young Adult
    

1. (304) Along the Broken Bay by Flora J Solomon📱
   
2. (305) The Hub: Dangerous Territory by James H Schmitz📱
   
3. (306) Miss Seeton Draws the Line by Heron Carvic📱
   
4. (307) Friday by Robert Heinlein📱
   
5. (308) A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena🎧
   
6. (309) An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen🎧
   
7. (310) Alien III by William Gibson🎧
   
8. (311) Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues by Molly Harper🎧
   
9. (312) Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein📱
   
10. (313) The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley📱
    
11. (314) The Hive by Orson Scott Card📱
    
12. (315) The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin📱
    
13. (316) The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky🎧
    
14. (317) Gulp by Mary Roach🎧
    
15. (318) Knife Children by Lois McMaster Bujold📱
    
16. (319) The History of the Hobbit by John D Rateliff📱
    
17. (320) The Book of Lost Tales, Part I by Christopher Tolkien📖
    
18. (321) The Book of Lost Tales, Part II by Christopher Tolkien📖
    
19. (322) The Lays of Beleriand by Christopher Tolkien📖
    
20. (323) The Shaping of Middle-Earth by Christopher Tolkien📖
    
21. (324) Morgoth's Ring by Christopher Tolkien📖
    
22. (325) The War of the Jewels by Christopher Tolkien📖
    
23. (326) Peoples of Middle-Earth by Christopher Tolkien📖
    
24. (327) The History of Middle-Earth Index by Christopher Tolkien📖
    
25. (328) The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey📱
    
26. (329) The War of the Ring by Christopher Tolkien📖
    
27. (330) The Treason of Isengard by Christopher Tolkien📖
    
28. (331) Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold by Nancy Atherton📱
    
29. (332) Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz📖
    
30. (333) The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan🎧
    
31. (334) Hyperion by Dan Simmons 🎧
    
32. (335) The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons 🎧
    
33. (336) Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon 🎧
    
34. (337) Astray by Emma Donoghue 🎧
    
35. (338) The Lost Road and Other Writings by Christopher Tolkien 📖
    
36. (339) Sauron Defeated by Christopher Tolkien 📖
    
37. (340) The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories by Peter Lovesey
    
38. (341) Inspector Hobbes and the Blood by Wilkie Martin
    
39. (342) Inspector Hobbes and the Curse by Wilkie Martin
    
40. (343) Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers by Wilkie Martin
    
41. (344) The Human Division by John Scalzi
    
42. (345) The End of All Things by John Scalzi
    
43. (346) The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
    
44. (347) The Return of the Shadow by Christopher Tolkien
    
45. (348) Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
    
46. (349) Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry
    
47. (350) Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer
    
48. (351) More Work for the Undertaker by Margery Allingham
    
    
    
    
    📖 - Print (hardcover, trade paper or mass market paper)
    🎧 - Audiobook
    📱 - eBook

Congrats on 75, Robin!

>65 karenmarie: Thanks, Karen

Just *hi!*

>67 humouress: Hi, Nina!

You've probably passed 100 books by now!

>69 ronincats: Hi, Roni. Yes, just got back from last week's vacation and haven't managed to get updated from the before preparation and the after unpacking - which I'm ashamed to say is still happening. We move very slowly when it comes to putting things away around here!

M (YTD) {PYTD}

By the numbers
📒Books read - 14 ( 95 ) { 85 }
📅Average days to read - 2.1 ( 1.9 ) { 2.1 }

🗐Pages read - 4,004 ( 25,620 ) { 22,794 }
📊Average pages per book - 286 ( 270 ) { 268 }
📊Average pages per day - 133 ( 142 ) { 126 }

🎧Audio length - 102:13 ( 251:09 ) { ? }

📗Series read - 9 ( 49 ) { 40 }
📕Books in series read - 11 ( 71 ) { 54 }

⬆️Longest book read - The Dragon Reborn
🗐Pages - 673

⬇️Shortest book read - Alien III
🗐Pages - 75

Type
🎁ARC - 4 ( 9 ) { 22 }
🏛️Borrowed - 8 ( 12 ) { 13 }
🛍️New - 0 ( 58 ) { 37 }
🔁Reread - 2 ( 2 ) { 3 }
📚TBR - 0 ( 14 ) { 10 }

Medium
🎧Audio - 9 ( 27 ) { 10 }
🖥️ Ebook - 5 ( 57 ) { 69 }
📖Print - 0 ( 11 ) { 6 }

Genre
🧝Fantasy - 1 ( 13 ) { 7 }
📙Fiction - 1 ( 10 ) { 9 }
🏫 Middle Grade - 0 ( 0 ) { 4 }
🕵️Mystery - 7 ( 53 ) { 43 }
📰Nonfiction - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }
🎴Picture - 0 ( 2 ) { 0 }
📜Poetry - 0 ( 0 ) { 3 }
🚀Science Fiction - 5 ( 15 ) { 17 }
👨🏻‍🎓YA - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }

Authors

Authors by book
👩🏼Female - 5 ( 35 ) { 48 }
👨🏼Male - 9 ( 60 ) { 37 }

Unique authors
👩🏻Female - 5 ( 27 ) { 37 }
👨🏻Male - 7 ( 39 ) { 28 }

✨ Authors read for the first time - 3 ( 18 ) { 25 }

Living or deceased - unique authors

👻Deceased - 3 ( 15 ) { 19 }
🚶Living - 9 ( 51 ) { 46 }

Nationality - unique authors

American - 7 ( 31 ) { 34 }
Australian - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
Canadian - 0 ( 0 ) { 2 }
Chinese - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
English - 5 ( 27 ) { 23 }
French - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
Irish - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
Japanese - 0 ( 2 ) { 0 }
Norwegian - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
Polish - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
Scottish - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }
South African - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }
Welsh - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }

Awards

Campbell - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
Coretta Scott King - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
Edgar - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }
Hugo - 1 ( 5 ) { 2 }
Locus - 2 ( 4 ) { 1 }
Nebula - 1 ( 5 ) { 2 }
Newbery - 0 ( 0 ) { 2 }
Pulitzer - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
Scott O’Dell - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 )

Ratings

5.0 - 0 ( 3 ) { 9 }
4.5 - 0 ( 16 ) { 15 }
4.0 - 5 ( 42 ) { 41 }
3.5 - 8 ( 24 ) { 14 }
3.0 - 0 ( 8 ) { 5 }
2.5 - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
2.0 - 1 ( 1 ) { 1 }
1.5 - 0 ( 0 ) { 0 }
1.0 - 0 ( 0 ) { 0 }

📊 Average rating - 3.57 ( 3.87 ) { 4.03 }

Average rating of books read per LibraryThing - 3.91 ( 3.90 ) { 3.87 }
Average rating of books read per Goodreads - 4.00 ( 4.00 ) { 4.01 }
Average rating of books read per Amazon - 4.34 ( 4.37 ) { 4.33 }

Decade published

📅2010 - 8 ( 54 ) { 44 }
📅2000 - 1 ( 11 ) { 7 }
📅1990 - 2 ( 8 ) { 7 }
📅1980 - 0 ( 5 ) { 1 }
📅1970 - 1 ( 3 ) { 4 }
📅1960 - 2 ( 6 ) { 3 }
📅1950 - 0 ( 2 ) { 4 }
📅1940 - 0 ( 1 ) { 4 }
📅1930 - 0 ( 1 ) { 5 }
📅1920 - 0 ( 2 ) { 1 }
📅1890 - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }
📅1850 - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
📅1830 - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
📅1810 - 0 ( 0 ) { 2 }
📅1790 - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }

Books added to library

🎁ARC - 0 ( 8 ) { 23 }
🛍️Purchase - New - 50 ( 332 ) { 343 }
🛍️Purchase - Used - 0 ( 13 ) { ? }

📓Read (books purchased during year) - 11 ( 60 ) { ? }

💲 Average cost per book - $7.97 ( $4.77 ) { $3.17 }

✨ New releases - 7 ( 46 ) { 20 }

💰 Full price - 29 ( 124 ) { 48 }

💰 Free - 13 ( 84 ) { ? }

Favorite books of the month



The Fall of Hyperion

1. (96) Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg - 📰🎧
   
2. (97) Miniatures by John Scalzi - 🚀🎧
   
3. (98) A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy by Ann Cleeves - 🕵️📱
   
4. (99) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - 👦🏼🎧
   
5. (100) David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall by David Sedaris - 📙🎧
   
6. (101) Calypso by David Sedaris - 📰🎧
   
7. (102) The Alice Network by Kate Quinn - 📙📱
   
8. (103) The Girl With All the Gifts by MR Carey - 🚀📱
   
9. (104) Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris - 📙🎧
   
10. (105) Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham - 🕵️📱
    
11. (106) Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowtiz - 🕵️📱
    
12. (107) Knock, Murderer, Knock! by Harriet Rutland - 🕵️📱
    
13. (108) Caesar's Wife's Elephant by Margery Allingham - 🕵️📱
    
    
    
    
    Medium
    📖 - Print (hardcover, trade paper or mass market paper)
    🎧 - Audiobook
    📱 - eBook
    
    Genre
    👦🏼 Children
    🧝 Fantasy
    📙 Fiction
    🏫 Middle grade
    🕵️ Mystery
    📰 Nonfiction
    🎴 Picture
    📜 Poetry
    🚀 SciFi
    👨🏻‍🎓 Young Adult
    

1. (352) A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean📱
   
2. (353) Relative Fortunes by Marlowe Benn📱
   
3. (354) The Wimsey Papers by Dorothy L Sayers📱
   
4. (355) All the Tears in China by Sulari Gentill📖
   
5. (356) A Dangerous Language by Sulari Gentill📖
   
6. (357) Give the Devil His Due by Sulari Gentill📖
   
7. (358) A Murder Unmentioned by Sulari Gentill📖
   
8. (359) Surfeit of Suspects by George Bellairs📱
   
9. (360) The World War I Trivia Book by Bill O'Neill📱
   
10. (361) Death in Room Five by George Bellairs📖
    
11. (362) The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien📖 - for Beckham
    
12. (363) Unfinished Tales by JRR Tolkien📖 - for Beckham
    
13. (364) The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson🎧
    
14. (365) The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde🎧
    
15. (366) Beren and Luthien by JRR Tolkien📖
    
16. (367) The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien📖
    
17. (368) Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson📖
    
18. (369) A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill📖
    
19. (370) A Decline in Prophets by Sulari Gentill📖
    
20. (371) Paving the New Road by Sulari Gentill📖
    
21. (372) Gentlemen Formerly Dressed by Sulari Gentill📖
    
22. (373) Killing With Confetti by Peter Lovesey📱
    
23. (374) Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris🎧
    
24. (375) Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris🎧
    
25. (376) Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris🎧
    
26. (377) A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs by Ben Garrod🎧
    
27. (378) Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World by Scott McCormick🎧
    
28. (379) A Case of Suicide in St. James's by Clara Benson📱
    
29. (380) Becoming Kareem by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar🎧
    
30. (381) Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman🎧
    
31. (382) The Go-Between by Veronica Chambers🎧
    
32. (383) Kids of Appetite by David Arnold🎧
    
33. (384) The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien📖 - for Beckham
    
34. (385) The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien📖 - for Beckham
    
35. (386) The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien📖 - for Beckham
    
36. (387) The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien📖 - for Beckham
    
37. (388) Fated for Felony by Victoria Laurie📱
    
38. (389) The Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold📱
    
39. (390) Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson🎧
    
40. (391) Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor🎧
    
41. (392) All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater🎧
    
42. (393) Bleeding Hooks by Harriet Rutland📱
    
43. (394) Blue Murder by Harriet Rutland📱
    
44. (395) Past Reason Hated by Peter Robinson📱
    
45. (396) A Shot in the Dark by Matthew Costello📱
    
    
    
    
    📖 - Print (hardcover, trade paper or mass market paper)
    🎧 - Audiobook
    📱 - eBook

(Still lurking)

Thanks for the liberal dose of stats, Robin!

It doesn't look like you go very slowly at acquiring books!!

>74 humouress: Hi, Nina. Glad you are still visiting! Lurk away - perhaps I may slow down enough to actually get back on here and post! The next several weeks are going to be filled with lots of back to school activities!

>75 PaulCranswick: LOL, Paul! I'm even falling behind on that! Glad you're still visiting!

>76 ronincats: Hi, Roni. Glad you're still visiting! I guess I'm just trying to ensure that I'll have enough books to read for the rest of my life (LOL!), although I think I've gone beyond that now!

Hi Robin! Good luck with back-to-school activities. You do have the most complete stats--love your genre and medium icons. Carry on and happy reading!

>78 Berly: Hi, Kim. Glad you're still visiting as well! Aren't those icons cute? I have a feeling that they may be causing my time out issues, though.

Hmmmm....maybe more posts with less content in each one to avoid the time-outs?

>71 rretzler: Impressive stats, Robin.

Yes, good luck with back-to-school tasks.

>80 Berly: Yes, I think that's probably the case. I used to be able to get the quarterly reading to work, eventually, but don't seem to be able to with the addition of the emojis. Next thread, I'll tinker a bit, if I ever get there!

>81 BLBera: Thanks, Beth. And glad you're still visiting, too.

M (YTD) {PYTD}

By the numbers
📒Books read - 13 ( 108 ) { 91 }
📅Average days to read - 2.4 ( 2.0 ) { 2.3 }

🗐Pages read - 3,341 ( 28,961 ) { 24,765 }
📊Average pages per book - 257 ( 268 ) { 272 }
📊Average pages per day - 108 ( 137 ) { 117 }

🎧Audio length (hr:mi) - 26:03 ( 277:12 ) { ? }

📗Series read - 4 ( 53 ) { 42 }
📕Books in series read - 5 ( 76 ) { 60 }

⬆️Longest book read - The Alice Network
🗐Pages - 510

⬇️Shortest book read - Caesar’s Wife’s Elephant
🗐Pages - 28

Type
🎁ARC - 0 ( 9 ) { 22 }
🏛️Borrowed - 1 ( 13 ) { 14 }
🛍️New - 5 ( 63 ) { 40 }
🔁Reread - 0 ( 2 ) { 3 }
📚TBR - 7 ( 21 ) { 12 }

Medium
🎧Audio - 6 ( 33 ) { 10 }
🖥️ Ebook - 7 ( 64 ) { 75 }
📖Print - 0 ( 11 ) { 6 }

Genre
👦🏼Children - 1 ( 1 ) { 0 }
🧝Fantasy - 0 ( 13 ) { 8 }
📙Fiction - 3 ( 13 ) { 10 }
🏫 Middle Grade - 0 ( 0 ) { 4 }
🕵️Mystery - 5 ( 58 ) { 45 }
📰Nonfiction - 2 ( 3 ) { 1 }
🎴Picture - 0 ( 2 ) { 0 }
📜Poetry - 0 ( 0 ) { 3 }
🚀Science Fiction - 2 ( 17 ) { 19 }
👨🏻‍🎓YA - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }

Authors

Authors by book
👩🏼Female - 5 ( 40 ) { 52 }
👨🏼Male - 8 ( 68 ) { 39 }

Unique authors
👩🏻Female - 4 ( 30 ) { 37 }
👨🏻Male - 6 ( 44 ) { 29 }

✨ Authors read for the first time - 5 ( 23 ) { 26 }

Living or deceased - unique authors

👻Deceased - 3 ( 18 ) { 21 }
🚶Living - 7 ( 56 ) { 45 }

Nationality - unique authors

American - 3 ( 33 ) { 34 }
Australian - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
Canadian - 0 ( 0 ) { 2 }
Chinese - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
English - 6 ( 32 ) { 24 }
French - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
Irish - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
Japanese - 0 ( 2 ) { 0 }
Norwegian - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
Polish - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
Scottish - 1 ( 2 ) { 1 }
South African - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }
Welsh - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }

Awards

Campbell - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
Edgar - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }
Hugo - 0 ( 5 ) { 2 }
Locus - 0 ( 4 ) { 1 }
Nebula - 0 ( 5 ) { 2 }
Newbery - 0 ( 0 ) { 2 }
Pulitzer - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
Scott O’Dell - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 )

Ratings

5.0 - 0 ( 3 ) { 9 }
4.5 - 4 ( 20 ) { 19 }
4.0 - 7 ( 49 ) { 42 }
3.5 - 1 ( 24 ) { 14 }
3.0 - 0 ( 9 ) { 6 }
2.5 - 1 ( 2 ) { 0 }
2.0 - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }

📊 Average rating - 4.00 ( 3.88 ) { 4.04 }

Average rating of books read per LibraryThing - 3.87 ( 3.90 ) { 3.86 }
Average rating of books read per Goodreads - 3.99 ( 4.00 ) { 4.01 }
Average rating of books read per Amazon - 4.31 ( 4.36 ) { 4.34 }

Decade published

📅2010 - 7 ( 61 ) { 47 }
📅2000 - 1 ( 12 ) { 7 }
📅1990 - 2 ( 10 ) { 9 }
📅1980 - 0 ( 5 ) { 1 }
📅1970 - 0 ( 3 ) { 4 }
📅1960 - 0 ( 6 ) { 3 }
📅1950 - 0 ( 2 ) { 5 }
📅1940 - 0 ( 1 ) { 4 }
📅1930 - 2 ( 3 ) { 5 }
📅1920 - 0 ( 2 ) { 1 }
📅1910 - 0 ( 0 ) { 0 }
📅1900 - 1 ( 1 ) { 0 }
📅1890 - 0 ( 1 ) { 1 }
📅1850 - 0 ( 1 ) { 0 }
📅1830 - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }
📅1810 - 0 ( 0 ) { 2 }
📅1790 - 0 ( 0 ) { 1 }

Books added to library

🎁ARC - 0 ( 8 ) { 25 }
🛍️Purchase - New - 44 ( 378 ) { 378 }
🛍️Purchase - Used - 1 ( 14 ) { ? }

📓Read (books purchased during year) - 8 ( 69 ) { ? }

💲 Average cost per book - $8.82 ( $5.20 ) { $3.16 }

✨ New releases - 9 ( 55 ) { 28 }

💰 Full price - 24 ( 148 ) { 56 }

💰 Free - 14 ( 98 ) { ? }

Favorite books of the month



The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall by David Sedaris
Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

1. (109) Past Reason Hated by Peter Robinson - 📱🕵️
   
2. (110) Greenglass House by Kate Milford - 📖🏫
   
3. (111) Willful Behavior by Donna Leon - 📱🕵️
   
4. (112) Number Eleven: Whale Vomit by Colin Cotterill - 📱🕵️
   
5. (113) A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch - 📱🕵️
   
6. (114) Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb - 📱🧝
   
7. (115) A Case of Suicide in St James's by Clara Benson - 📱🕵️
   
8. (116) Love and Death Among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen - 📱🕵️
   
9. (117) The Studio Crime by Ianthe Jerrold - 📱🕵️
   
10. (118) Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic by Nick Carr - 🎧🚀
    
11. (119) We Can Be Mended by Veronica Roth - 📱🚀
    
12. (120) The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley - 📖🕵️
    
    
    
    
    Medium
    📖 - Print (hardcover, trade paper or mass market paper)
    🎧 - Audiobook
    📱 - eBook
    
    Genre
    👦🏼 Children
    🧝 Fantasy
    📙 Fiction
    🏫 Middle grade
    🕵️ Mystery
    📰 Nonfiction
    🎴 Picture
    📜 Poetry
    🚀 SciFi
    👨🏻‍🎓 Young Adult

1. (397) Treasure Island by Robert Lois Stevenson🎧📙
   
2. (398) Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic by Nick Carr🎧📙
   
3. (399) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein📱🚀
   
4. (400) Inheritance Tracks by Catherine Aird📱🕵️
   
5. (401) The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory📱📙
   
6. (402) Moby Dick by Herman Melville📱📙
   
7. (403) Mysteries Unlocked by Curtis Evans📱📰
   
8. (404) Love and Death Among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen📱🕵️
   
9. (405) The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov📱🚀
   
10. (406) Math With Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin📖📰
    
11. (407) Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers📱🕵️
    
12. (408) Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers📱🕵️
    
13. (409) Number Eleven: Whale Vomit by Colin Cotterill📱🕵️
    
14. (410) Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers📱🕵️
    
15. (411) Your Rainforest Mind by Paula Prober📖📰
    
16. (412) The Necessary Beggar by Susan Palwick📱🚀
    
17. (413) Miles Off Course by Sulari Gentill📖🕵️
    
18. (414) The Woman in the Water by Charles Finch📱🕵️
    
19. (415) The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill📱🕵️
    
20. (416) Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb🎧🧝
    
21. (417) Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb📱🧝
    
22. (418) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum📱👦🏼
    
23. (419) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum🎧👦🏼
    
24. (420) The Marvelous Land of Oz by L Frank Baum📱👦🏼
    
25. (421) The Marvelous Land of Oz by L Frank Baum🎧👦🏼
    
26. (422) Ozma of Oz by L Frank Baum📱👦🏼
    
27. (423) Ozma of Oz by L Frank Baum🎧👦🏼
    
28. (424) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L Frank Baum📱👦🏼
    
29. (425) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L Frank Baum🎧👦🏼
    
30. (426) The Road to Oz by L Frank Baum📱👦🏼
    
31. (427) The Road to Oz by L Frank Baum🎧👦🏼
    
32. (428) The Emerald City of Oz by L Frank Baum📱👦🏼
    
33. (429) The Emerald City of Oz by L Frank Baum🎧👦🏼
    
34. (430) The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L Frank Baum📱👦🏼
    
35. (431) The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L Frank Baum🎧👦🏼
    
36. (432) Tik-Tok of Oz by L Frank Baum📱👦🏼
    
37. (433) Tik-Tok of Oz by L Frank Baum🎧👦🏼
    
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22. The Lady Downstairs by Christopher Fowler



Original publication date: 1965
Genre: Mystery 🕵️
Format: Ebook 🖥️
Type: New 🛍️
Source: BBC Cult Presents: Sherlock Holmes
Page count: 14
Challenge(s):
Finished: 2/20/19

This was an interesting Sherlock Holmes pastiche from the perspective of Mrs Hudson. I found it on BBC Cult Presents: Sherlock Holmes website. I enjoy Fowler’s Bryant & May Peculiar Crimes Unit series, but this was not his best work, in my opinion. If you’re a Sherlock pastiche completist, this is worth a read.

23. Fatal Remedies by Donna Leon



Original publication date: 1999
Genre: Mystery 🕵️
Format: Ebook 🖥️
Type: Borrowed 🏛️
Source: Overdrive
Series: Guido Brunetti #8
Page count: 324
Challenge(s): Cloak and Dagger, For the Love of Ebooks, Group Read, Library Love, Popsugar, You Read How Many Books
Finished: 2/22/19

For the Lackberg-Leon LT Group Read. I‘m enjoying this mystery series. This one focuses on Guido and Paola‘s relationship and basic philosophical differences about justice. Paola deliberately gets arrested for what she feels is a good cause and Commissario Guido must deal with the consequences to his career. Easy, quick and enjoyable read.