Reporting On My Final Reads of 2017
The Go-Between by Veronica Chambers
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || When Cammi’s mom gets cast in an American television show and the family moves to LA, things change, and quickly.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Overdrive
The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Loved It
What's It About || The Bird in the Tree takes place in England in 1938, and follows a close-knit family whose tranquil existence is suddenly threatened by a forbidden love . . . .
How Did You Read It || Book, Library
Pioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About ||Hidden away since the 1930s, Laura Ingalls Wilder s never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life.
How Did You Read It || Book, Library
Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || So So
What's It About || A collection of 161 inspired—and inspiring—minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks.
How Did You Read It || Book, Library
Some Writer! by Melissa Sweet
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White’s personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon.
How Did You Read It || Ebook, Kindle Library
The Problem With Pain by C. S. Lewis
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || C.S. Lewis, one of the most renowned Christian authors and thinkers, examines a universally applicable question within the human condition: “If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?”
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Overdrive
Go Forward With Faith by Sheri Dew
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Loved It
What's It About || You can always tell when you study the life of a prophet that the Lord has had His hand in his life from the beginning, says Sheri Dew, author of Go Forward with Faith. She also wrote the first biography of Ezra Taft Benson.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Overdrive
Half Magic by Edward Eager
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || It all begins with a strange coin on a sun-warmed sidewalk. Jane finds the coin, and becasue she and her sblings are having the worst, most dreadfully boring summer ever, she idly wishes something exciting would happen. And something does: Her wish is granted. Or not quite. Only half of her wish comes true.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Overdrive
The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || An intellectual and emotional thriller that is also a different kind of murder mystery, THE FACT OF A BODY is a book not only about how the story of one crime was constructed -- but about how we grapple with our own personal histories.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Overdrive
The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs #7) by Jacqueline Winspear
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Loved It
What's It About || Maisie Dobbs is hired to unravel a case of wartime love and death, an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Overdrive
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Loved It
What's It About || Maisie Dobbs is hired to unravel a case of wartime love and death, an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Overdrive
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Loved It
What's It About || Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its title character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Librovox
A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #8) by Jacqueline Winspear
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || Maisie finds herself financially independent, thanks to a bequest from her late mentor, Dr. Maurice Blanche, and open to new challenges exactly at the moment the British Secret Service seeks to recruit her in 1932.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Overdrive
Taken by Erin Bowman
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || Gray Weathersby has grown up expecting to disappear at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. They call it the Heist—and it happens to every boy in Claysoot. His only chance at escape is to climb the Wall that surrounds Claysoot. A climb no one has ever survived . . .
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Overdrive
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Librovox
Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Loved It
What's It About || Post World War II story of the Eliots. an interesting and exciting story, from the 86 year old matriarch to the Little twins. Love and family life.
How Did You Read It || Book, Library
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || So So
What's It About || When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn’t Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries.
How Did You Read It || Book, Library
The Children of Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Loved It
What's It About || In this gently humorous tale, master storyteller Astrid Lindgren takes us through a year in the lives and customs of six Swedish children living on a group of three farms in the countryside.
How Did You Read It || Book, Library
Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or painting. The letters were from Father Christmas.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Audible
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || The Count of Monte Cristo" is an expansive adventure novel with a huge cast of characters, all revolving around the young sailor Edmond Dantès.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Librovox
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Loved It
What's It About || Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its title character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Librovox
A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #8) by Jacqueline Winspear
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || Maisie finds herself financially independent, thanks to a bequest from her late mentor, Dr. Maurice Blanche, and open to new challenges exactly at the moment the British Secret Service seeks to recruit her in 1932.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Overdrive
Taken by Erin Bowman
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || Gray Weathersby has grown up expecting to disappear at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. They call it the Heist—and it happens to every boy in Claysoot. His only chance at escape is to climb the Wall that surrounds Claysoot. A climb no one has ever survived . . .
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Overdrive
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Librovox
Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Loved It
What's It About || Post World War II story of the Eliots. an interesting and exciting story, from the 86 year old matriarch to the Little twins. Love and family life.
How Did You Read It || Book, Library
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || So So
What's It About || When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn’t Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by foreigners as consisting entirely of long dark winters, cured herring, Lego and pastries.
How Did You Read It || Book, Library
The Children of Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Loved It
What's It About || In this gently humorous tale, master storyteller Astrid Lindgren takes us through a year in the lives and customs of six Swedish children living on a group of three farms in the countryside.
How Did You Read It || Book, Library
Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or painting. The letters were from Father Christmas.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Audible
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Loved It, Liked It, So So, Not For Me || Liked It
What's It About || The Count of Monte Cristo" is an expansive adventure novel with a huge cast of characters, all revolving around the young sailor Edmond Dantès.
How Did You Read It || Audiobook, Librovox
I have read other C.S. Lewis nonfiction but have yet to read The Problem of Pain, though it has been waiting patiently on my shelf. I may have to pick it up this year! Letters from Father Christmas sounds wonderful. I will have to read it next December! Jane Eyre was AMAZING! I read it last month and LOVED it!!!! I was surprised how readable it is for being such an old book! I have been wanting to read Count of Monte Cristo but the length is daunting!
ReplyDeleteHere are my December reads: https://elle-alice.blogspot.ca/2018/01/december-book-reviews.html