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Books Read in 2015
2015 Book Facts
Favorites of 2015
Tom's 2015 Reads

 Books Read in 2014
Tom's 2014 Reads

Books Read in 2013
Tom's 2013 Reads

Books Read in 2012

Books Read in 2011 - no 'book facts' beginning in 2011. I decided I simply didn't want to bother anymore. 

 Books Read in 2010
Book Facts 2010

Books Read in 2009
Book Facts 2009

Books Read in 2008
Book Facts (print version) 2008
Books Listened to in 2008
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Words to cook by

Words to cook by

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird. Gladys Taber

An Irish Blessing

Warm be the love that surrounds you,

Good be your friends, and true,

Constant be hope and promise,

Useful the work you do,

Close be your family around you,

Good health be yours day by day,

Long be the life you're living,

And full of much joy on the way.

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Places I love to visit (a list in progress)

  • The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader
    Festive Treats - October - It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!! And that means it is time to start reading Christmas books and watch Christmas movies and whatever e...
    4 hours ago
  • sprite writes
    virtual advent tour 2023: day 4 - We survived (prepping for) our party! The tree is up, and most of our decorations are on it! Guests had fun! So, now I can think about the fourth day of ...
    5 hours ago
  • Book Chase
    What I'm Reading This Week (December 4, 2023) - As we approach the end of the year, I'm beginning this first week of December with a declining energy level. I am starting to find myself more and more co...
    5 hours ago
  • Musings
    A Belated Thanksgiving - My very special nephew is an ER nurse so his busy schedule sometimes prevents us from having our family holiday get-togethers at the usual time. This ti...
    5 hours ago
  • Birds, Blooms, Books, etc
    Another Week Gone By - Can you believe it's December already? I can't but that doesn't slow down time unfortunately.I've been busy.SundayGarden Club had a tea where we each had...
    6 hours ago
  • 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'
    Sepulchre Street - paperback publication! - This week sees the publication - on Thursday, to be precise, of *Sepulchre Street*, the fourth novel in the Rachel Savernake series. You can buy it from...
    7 hours ago
  • Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
    The Wild Places: A Coda - As you might have gathered from my review of “The Wild Places” last month, I was really absorbed in Robert Macfarlane‘s explorations of the edgelands of th...
    9 hours ago
  • Lit and Life
    Life: It Goes On - December 3 - Happy Sunday! What a week it's been. I mentioned last week that my dad was diagnosed with blood clots in his lungs and leg last weekend. He was in the h...
    12 hours ago
  • Bitter Tea and Mystery
    The Postman Always Rings Twice: James M. Cain - This was the book that came up for me in the latest Classics Club Spin. The book is a classic noir mystery and very brief, only 120 pages long. James M....
    18 hours ago
  • Lillabullero
    Out and about - So many questions. Should I recognise this face? Is it actually iconic? (Last time, I promise, I use that word unless there are genuinely extenuating circu...
    22 hours ago
  • Furrowed Middlebrow
    Nothing but a sense of humor: JANE BIRD, By Accident (1935) - "Do you believe in anything, Susan?" "No. Nothing. Except a sense of humour." This book rather inconsiderately jumped the queue in my TBR, ahead of a fe...
    22 hours ago
  • Lakeside Musing
    November Reading Wrap-up and Possibilities for December - Hello friends, and Happy December! Time seems to be moving even more quickly now and 2024 will be here before we know it. But November did leave us with...
    23 hours ago
  • The Passing Tramp
    Milking Murder: Milk of Human Kindness (1950), Elizabeth Ferrars - Over her long writing career, *Elizabeth Ferrars*' favored milieu in mysteries became the professional classes in an English village within commuting dista...
    1 day ago
  • The Brownstone Birding Blog
    The kind Of Snow You Don't Have to Shovel! - I was sitting near the dock of the bay after the clouds had already rolled away and to my surprise, some Snow Buntings came my way! I've seen Snow Bunting...
    1 day ago
  • Adventures in reading, writing and working from home
    Book review – Charlie Lyndhurst – “Finding our Family” - I read a whole load of NetGalley books in November I didn’t get time to review thanks to taking part in and helping to run NonFiction November, so I’ll be ...
    1 day ago
  • The Book Jotter
    November Roundup - As I mentioned previously, I did say I would be back with my roundup post and here I am. Not a bad haul of reading, it is just the reviewing that is very b...
    1 day ago
  • Mystica
    Murder In A Country Village by F L Everett (An Edie York mystery Book No 2) - England 1944 and Edie is a courageous woman who is keen to make her mark in the newspaper world but she gets sidelined .She is an obituarist but she wan...
    1 day ago
  • "By Stargoose And Hanglands"
    Calendar Time - Those of you who've been following this blog for a while will be familiar with my yearly collection of photos - one from each month - that usually sees the...
    1 day ago
  • Codlinsandcream2
    Frost, snow and now rain - Well, winter has decided to put on a show and we have had stunning hoar frosts (and fortunately dry lanes). Last night it snowed a bit (so little it...
    1 day ago
  • Reading Matters
    ‘Against the Loveless World’ by Susan Abulhawa - Fiction – paperback; Bloomsbury Circus; 374 pages; 2020. Susan Abulhawa’s Against the Loveless World is a gripping account of a Palestinian woman, trapped ...
    1 day ago
  • bronasbooks.com
    Tom Lake | Ann Patchett - That Veronica and I were given keys and told to come early on a frozen Saturday in April to open the school for the Our Town auditions was proof of our rel...
    1 day ago
  • Staircase Wit
    Six Degrees of Separation – from Kitchen Confidential to The House on East 88th Street - It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. We all start at the same place, add six books, and see where we end up. This ...
    1 day ago
  • Joy's Book Blog
    Sunday Salon for 3 December 2023 - Happy Sunday! Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at ReaderBuzz. Check out her post and the links to see what other bloggers have been up to in the last week. Ho...
    1 day ago
  • Bookgirl's Nightstand
    Used Book Browsing - I went to Half Price Books today but I wasn’t looking for my usual fiction or mystery reads. Instead I had a mission to find some books to cut up. Oh I kno...
    2 days ago
  • Life must be filled up
    November books - *The Secret Countess*, Eva Ibbotson *A Fire at the Exhibition*, T E Kinsey (10th Lady Hardcastle) *One Two Three Four The Beatles in Time*, Craig Brown *Wh...
    2 days ago
  • Lark Writes...on books and life
    Randomness.... - *My sister and I have been writing another story on Kindle Vella: *Christmas, Ghosts, and Mistletoe. "Christmas week at the Thimbleberry Inn gives Ellie ...
    2 days ago
  • Coastal Horizons... books, beaches, and backroad adventures
    Closer by Sea - *Closer by Sea* by Perry Chafe Fiction 2023 Simon & Schuster Finished on November 29, 2023 Rating: 3.5/5 (Good) *Publisher's Blurb:* *From the writer an...
    2 days ago
  • Readerbuzz
    The Sunday Salon: Back to Big Sandy (With Bubbles) - Welcome! I'm happy you joined us here at the *Sunday Salon*. What is the Sunday Salon? The Sunday Salon is a place to link up and share what we have be...
    2 days ago
  • Desperate Reader
    Wild Shetland - Brydon Thomason - I thought I'd be taking the weekend off from blogging, but there was something amazing waiting for me when I got home and in turn I can't wait to share i...
    2 days ago
  • Northern Reader
    A Cruel Necessity by L.C. Tyler – the first in a enjoyable historical series featuring John Grey in post Civil War England - A Cruel Necessity by L.C. Tyler This is where it all begins – Tyler’s series featuring John Grey and how he met challenges in the mid-1600s that are the na...
    2 days ago
  • *Terra Garden*
    Worship with Others Leads to Longer Life, Studies Show - Being part of a faith based based community and attending services four times a month has been found to increase longevity. Above is a photo of Saint Col...
    2 days ago
  • heavenali
    The Waters Under the Earth – John Moore (1965) - I haven’t read as many of my unread Persephone books this year as I had intended but I did spend a very pleasant week in November with Persephone book numb...
    3 days ago
  • read_warbler
    Books read in November - Well, the forecast snow amounted to several small flurries as we set off on our short journey to the hospital, yesterday afternoon, so I was glad about t...
    3 days ago
  • Jama's Alphabet Soup
    [one review] One Perfect Plan by Nancy Tupper Ling and Alina Chau - When I was eleven my parents gave me a Bible for Christmas. It had a white faux leather cover with “Holy Bible: Concordance” printed in gold on the front. ...
    3 days ago
  • The Indextrious Reader
    Education of a Wandering Man - Education of a Wandering Man: a Memoir / Louis L'Amour NY: Bantam, 1990, c1989. 272 p. Something you might not know about me is that I love reading Weste...
    3 days ago
  • Georgia Girl With An English Heart
    Georgia Girl With a Heart for The World - The memorial service for Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady was shown on live TV here in Georgia, her home state. Did you see it too? I found it to ...
    3 days ago
  • AnnaBookBel
    Two for #GermanLitMonth #NovNov23 – von Chamisso & Dürrenmatt - Just squeaking in at the end of the month, here are two shorter reviews of novellas (hence qualifying for Novellas in November also) originally published i...
    3 days ago
  • kay's reading life
    Some pictures from our trip to Tucson in late October....taken on my walks - I think I mentioned in an earlier post that we had gone to Tucson, Arizona in late October. My husband had a work conference that he was attending and t...
    4 days ago
  • Book Chatter
    Review: Perfectly Nice Neighbors - Perfectly Nice Neighbors By Kia Abdullah G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 9780593713815. September 2023, 352 pp. The Short of It: It doesn’t matter how nice a house is,...
    4 days ago
  • JacquiWine's Journal
    Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season – Muriel Spark, Beryl Bainbridge and many more - The British Library do a marvellous job with their themed anthologies, regularly issuing selections of mysteries or ghost stories by various authors. Last ...
    4 days ago
  • Stuck in a Book
    A whole bunch of audiobooks I’ve listened to recently - As per, I’ve been listening to an awful lot of audiobooks recently – some very good, some enjoyable trash, some in between. Here’s a quick overview of some...
    4 days ago
  • Books to the Ceiling
    A (Subjective) Sojourn Through Crime Fiction - Contemporary, Part One The following is a revised and updated list that I put together for a program a few years ago. Having also greatly enlarged it, I’ve...
    5 days ago
  • Musings of a Bookish Kitty
    Can't Wait to Read Wednesday: The Second Chance Year / The Final Curtain / Mask of Shadows - *The New* *Can't-Wait Wednesday* is a weekly feature hosted by the marvelous Tressa at Wishful Endings to spotlight upcoming release we are excited about ...
    5 days ago
  • Morning's Minion
    Late November Journal - Mornings are slow. The sun, if it rises at all, seems to struggle reluctantly into a softly flushed sky. Frost silvered grass sparkles as the sun begins...
    6 days ago
  • ahsweetmysteryblog
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    6 days ago
  • From My Mental Library
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    1 week ago
  • Commonweeder
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    1 week ago
  • The Weaver of Grass
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    1 week ago
  • The Zees Go West
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    1 week ago
  • Peaceful Reader
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    2 weeks ago
  • Someday Cooking
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    2 weeks ago
  • Eagleton Notes
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    2 weeks ago
  • Comfy House
    it's about time - Where to start when it's been *seven* *weeks* since I last posted? It's been a combination of things. Not in a blogging mood, having a busy (a "good" busy)...
    2 weeks ago
  • down to earth
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    2 weeks ago
  • mrs miniver's daughter
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    2 weeks ago
  • Across the Way
    Peppers, Mainly - I love peppers. Other than the onion family, they may be my favorite vegetable. This year we grew Serrano, Jalapeño, Cayenne, Super Chili, and Anaheim (...
    2 weeks ago
  • Dewena's Window
    Ca. 1970, Our Firstborn's Bedroom - I don't remember if the orange walls were my idea or his but I do remember that his bedroom even then reflected his many interests: science, model air...
    2 weeks ago
  • Mysteries Ahoy!
    The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith - Originally published in 1955 Tom Ripley #1Followed by Ripley Under Ground It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, t...
    4 weeks ago
  • Blue-Hearted Bookworm
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    4 weeks ago
  • Bag Full Of Books
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    1 month ago
  • Life on a Small Island
    Storm Babet.... - Courtesy of Graham Campbell Despite gale force winds in Orkney we appear to have escaped (so far) the flooding that is seen across other parts of Scotl...
    1 month ago
  • Pages From The Book Trunk
    The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side - I am trying to make up for lost time here! I cannot believe nothing has been posted on the blog since July (apart from Sunday's offering). I had such go...
    1 month ago
  • The New Dharma Bums
    Anniversary Day - Thirty-one years ago Roger and I got married in the backyard at the Capitola house. I've posted about it many times here on the blog, how we chose this d...
    1 month ago
  • Real Life Reading
    Sacramento Republic vs Miami FC 15/10/2023 Analis Skor - Dalam dunia perjudian daring yang semakin berkembang, situs Megajudi303 telah memberikan sentuhan unik. Yang memadukan pengetahuan dan pengalaman dalam s...
    1 month ago
  • Bibliophile By the Sea
    What Happened to Summer? - Hello out there - yes, it's been (4) months since I last posted and I totally missed summer. It wasn't much of a summer - rain, rain, rain and lots o...
    1 month ago
  • Book Snob
    A fresh start - You can now find me at https://booksnob.substack.com Please come and join me as I venture into writing again!
    2 months ago
  • Random Jottings
    Reading fog - Well I am getting there with the new hip. Walking so much easier. I am doing circuits of our communal gardens using crutches but indoors I am managing with...
    2 months ago
  • A Fondness For Reading
    Preparing to Read Tom Lake - So many of my friends and family have told me that I need to read Ann Patchett’s latest novel, Tom Lake. I agree! I’m so excited to start reading it, but I...
    3 months ago
  • A Full-time Life
    A few days in Newport - We spent another few days on the Oregon Coast last week. This time we drove North on the Coast Highway to the busy port city of Newport. The c0ast route be...
    3 months ago
  • Cornflower Books
    August's books - Seven books, all good. I picked up The Sword in the Stone because Monty Don quotes a beautiful and moving passage from it in Nigel: My family and other dog...
    3 months ago
  • Mrs. K. Investigates
    The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves (2023) - “THE MAN BLEW INTO GREYSTONE AT the height of a September gale. That was how the story went, at least.” Jem Rosco, famed sailor and adventurer, appears one...
    3 months ago
  • Novel Meals
    I’m Not Here - So here’s the issue……….as I mentioned in my previous post – I am not Here anymore but folks are being directed to this blog. I am at Read.Eat.Repeat. My gm...
    3 months ago
  • Vintage Reads
    Penguin Orange Classics - The Joy Luck Club - *And I am sitting at my mother's place at the mah jong table, on the East where things begin.* Can't believe it is almost 35 years since *The Joy Luck Cl...
    3 months ago
  • Cornflower
    Folded cuffs - Instead of ribbing for the cuff of a sock, here's a two-colour folded hem. I cast on and put a marker in the first stitch, then knitting every stitch I wor...
    3 months ago
  • Gardening On Granite
    Old Forgotten Steps- Goffstown Historical Society Today - This was photographed today just before our now daily rain started. Once these steps led to a small courtyard behind the Historical Society building. The c...
    4 months ago
  • Reader in the Wilderness
    A Catch-Up Post of Sorts--Though Not Really Possible! - I had such high hopes in early June that I'd have time for at least *some* reading this summer. And I have, though those moments for "some" reading have ...
    4 months ago
  • "You Might as Well Read"
    My 2023 Reading: PART I - My heavens, dear readers! Can it possibly be early July? Is the year half-way over already? And me without a single review to my name for 2023? However...
    4 months ago
  • A Work in Progress
    Thinking about Second Half of 2023 - Hello friends. It has been a long while. Longer than I realized actually. I'm here and reading away, as many books on the go as usual. (Which for me can be...
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