The Year 2013
…was not my finest year of reading but I’m still happy with what I did read!
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My top 10 favorite reads would be: (in no particular order)…….
Eleanor Roosevelt, books 1 & 2 ..by: Blanche W Cook (1,293 pgs)
Jarka Ruus, Tanequil & Straken.. trilogy by: Terry Brooks (1,141 pgs)
Chekov’s Enterprise.. by: Walter Koenig (222 pgs)
The Black House.. by: Peter May (368 pgs)
Before I go to Sleep.. by: S I Watson (360 pgs)
Jack .. by: Geoffrey Perret (400 pgs)
Cemetery..by: Girl David Bell (400 pgs)
The Hiding Place..by: David Bell (400 pgs)
The American Heiress..by Daisy Goodwin (496 pgs)
Favorite book: Before I go to Sleep S I Watson. This one I could hardly set down! If you haven’t read it you should!
To be honest there were very few that I didn’t enjoy. One or two got “long in the tooth” but overall this was a good reading year.
I only read 53 books but 23 of them were 400 or more pages! wow.. I didn’t even realize that..makes me feel better that I didn’t read so many books!
18 books were history or biographies. I was never big into “history” but I sure have gotten into parts of it in my old age! WWII, Kennedy, and Victorian England being my driven favorites.
Overall I am pleased with my reading this year and as always love doing Once Upon a Time and the RIP Challenges that Carl does for us each year.
posted by DesLily | 10:03 AM
6 Comments:
I am looking forward to reading Before I go to Sleep sooner rather than later. It is on my TBR.
You did well, Sis! Most of those books are quite long so I think you did better than you realise. Plus, you enjoyed an awful lot of them which is the important thing.
Something about that Dragon in glasses every year that makes me smile Pat ;) Have a great 2014 reading year :D
That's like MORE than a book a week!!! WOW! To me, dear Pat, I think you read a whole lot!!! And especially when some of those books were unusually long....
I just bought the Barbara Stanwyck book----and it is so HUGE....I haven't figured out a way to read it and not have to try to hold it in my hands!!! It;s only the first part of her life....up to 1940, and it is 860 pages long---and that doesn't include all the notes, and Index and Bibliography!! HELP!
My friend Earl says it is very very interesting, and he worked with her...And I'm sure it is---I just have tp figure out a way of leaning it on something----Oh, and by the way, the print in VERY VERY Small!!!!!!!
This will take me a couple of years to finish----and God knows when Part 2 will come out! LOL!
"only" 53. ;) You cranked through more than I did, and considering the chunksters that you read, your page count is pretty massive for the year.
I'm glad that it was a nice year for you overall. I pretty rarely read books that I don't like, as if I get that vibe off them I just quit and move on to something else. But last year was an especially satisfying one in the reading department, and 2014 is off to a really good start.
That is really impressive, Pat, especially as you were so down the the latter part of the year. I really hope that you are feeling better now, or soon.
I really enjoyed The Black House, too. It had an ending I didn't suspect. I have the other two in the series now, to read this year. They are hard to get, I had to go through Book Depository to find them.
I haven't read your book of the year, and possibly it's time I did!
I have read some of the books on your list Seraphina, Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Cats of Tanglewood Forest - and enjoyed them all.
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