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 Books Read in 2014
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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

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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)

  • Codlinsandcream2
    Trench art for Tracy - Tracy, you mentioned yesterday that you collected Trench Art. This little piece (unique? never seen another like it) was on my friend Simon's stall a...
    7 hours ago
  • *Terra Garden*
    Photos Only Today -
    11 hours ago
  • Staircase Wit
    Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson #NonfictionNovember - *Isaac's Storm* details the events leading up to and following the infamous 1900 Galveston hurricane. At the time, Galveston was a bustling port in Texas, ...
    14 hours ago
  • Lark Writes...on books and life
    The Hunter's Daughter by Nicola Solvinic - *First line: *The first time I killed a man was on Tuesday. *Plot summary: *Anna Koray is a sheriff's lieutenant in rural Bayern County. It's where she...
    18 hours ago
  • Adventures in reading, writing and working from home
    A book review for Nonfiction November – Oliver Smith – “Atlas of Abandoned Places” - I bought this book at The Heath Bookshop this February, when I was finally released by the end of Christmas-and-birthday season to spend book tokens. Of th...
    18 hours ago
  • Lit and Life
    Long Island by Colm Toibin - *Long Island *by Colm Toibin Read by Jessie Buckley 9 hours, 40 minutes Published May 2024 by Scribner *Publisher's Summary: * Eilis Lacey is Irish, marrie...
    18 hours ago
  • 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'
    Penning Poison (and Wicked Little Lies) - The psychology of people who write poison pen letters is very interesting to anyone who dabbles in criminology. I've touched on this subject several time...
    1 day ago
  • Book Chatter
    Review: So Late In the Day: Stories of Women and Men - So Late In The Day: Stories of Women and Men By Claire Keegan Grove Press, 9780802160850, Nov 2023, 128 pp. The Short of It: There is something untapped wh...
    1 day ago
  • Musings
    What Grows and Lurks Beneath.... - We're no longer allowing mom to go out into our small back garden because she isn't stable enough and has already fallen too many times. Therefore it's ...
    1 day ago
  • Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
    “At the end of the search was an empty room” #queer #williamsburroughs #novnov24 - As might have been obvious from the picture in my end of October post, I have been spending a little time recently rediscovering the writing of William S. ...
    1 day ago
  • bronasbooks.com
    Nonfiction November 2024 – Week Three - Week 3 (11/11-15/11) Book Pairings: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. Maybe it’s a historical novel and the real history in a nonf...
    1 day ago
  • Bitter Tea and Mystery
    Short Story Wednesday: Two Novellas by Rex Stout - In early October I reviewed *"This Won't Kill You"*, a novella in *Three Men Out* by Rex Stout. Today I am discussing the other two novellas in that b...
    1 day ago
  • Mystica
    The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. Chambers - I never knew this aspect of Julia Childs life. I only knew her for her gastronomy skills and that was it. This was an absolute surprise and I loved he...
    1 day ago
  • The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader
    Blog Tour: Someone Like You by Sandy Barker - When Rafferty is crowned the winner of the Britain's Best Bakers: Festive Baking Spectacular, he should have been on top of the world. After all, not ...
    2 days ago
  • Desperate Reader
    The Kings's Bride - E.T.A. Hoffmann - How do you catagorise E.T.A Hoffman? Romantic, surreal, magical realism, gothic, horror? I'm not really sure, I think he's mostly files under fiction whi...
    2 days ago
  • Stuck in a Book
    The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham - Someone in my book group chose The Razor’s Edge (1944) by W. Somerset Maugham after hearing it recommended on a YouTube video – making it my second Maugham...
    2 days ago
  • From My Mental Library
    Read in 2024 - 26: The Canal Murders - *The Canal Murders* *(A Yorkshire Murder Mystery Book 10)* *by J. R. Ellis* If you have a series of books you enjoy particularly, you know how happy I was ...
    2 days ago
  • Jama's Alphabet Soup
    [rising review] Still There Was Bread by Lisl H. Detlefsen and David Soman - Imagine the heavenly aroma of homemade bread baking in the oven as you anticipate biting into a soft, warm slice slathered with butter and honey. Nothing e...
    2 days ago
  • Coastal Horizons... books, beaches, and backroad adventures
    Bittersweet - *Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole* by Susan Cain Nonfiction 2022 Finished on November 3, 2024 Rating: 2/5 (OK) *Publisher's Blurb:* *I...
    2 days ago
  • JacquiWine's Journal
    The Door by Magda Szabó (tr. Len Rix) - First published in Hungarian in 1987 and translated into English by Len Rix in 2005, The Door is the third book I’ve read by Magda Szabó, and it’s very muc...
    2 days ago
  • Readerbuzz
    Destination Titles - If you find yourself wandering around my Favorites Books stack, be forewarned that you may end up in some odd places... *Red Lobster Restaurant...* *L...
    2 days ago
  • Mysteries Ahoy!
    Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith - I suspect that when this book came out in 1970 that its publication must have been quite surprising. The original novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, had ended...
    3 days ago
  • Georgia Girl With An English Heart
    We All Shine On! (Must SEE Video!) - Great Video- Please watch! The video that I have here for you is from "Strictly Come Dancing". (It i...
    3 days ago
  • ahsweetmysteryblog
    “A strange and dangerous experiment in love and murder” THE NOIRVEMBER ’44 DRAFT - Fresh off our Columbo Distaff Draft, the Three Musketeers (we have got to come up with a better name for ourselves – maybe I’ll have a contest!!) didn’t ha...
    3 days ago
  • "You Might as Well Read"
    My (Very) Impressionistic Take on 2024’s Booker - My heavens, dear Readers, can it really have been eighteen months or so since I last posted anything? I can’t imagine that anyone’s still checking the blo...
    3 days ago
  • Joy's Book Blog
    Book Pairings #NonfictionNovember - Week 3 of Nonfiction November is hosted by Liz at Adventures in reading, running and working from home. This week we are asked to pair up a nonfiction book...
    3 days ago
  • down to earth
    It's better made at home - Making some basics at home can cut costs and reduce many additives in food and cleaners. I make sauce mixes, drinks, laundry liquid, spray cleaners and I d...
    3 days ago
  • The Brownstone Birding Blog
    A Bee Or A Fly? A Bug Or A Moth? - I've been paying more attention this year to insects and butterflies that visit the flower garden. At first glance I thought it looked a little like a ho...
    4 days ago
  • Eagleton Notes
    Optimism in Trouble - I am, by nature, an optimist. I always have been. Even as a wee bairn (English - small child) I believed that whatever happened would be for the best. So...
    5 days ago
  • AnnaBookBel
    A Screenplay for #NovNov24 – Dougal and the Blue Cat by Eric Thompson - Reading screenplays is difficult, with fewer clues apart from stage directions to imagine the scene, they often come across as strange and in the case of t...
    5 days ago
  • Reading Matters
    ‘Adrift on the Nile’ by Naguib Mahfouz (translated by Frances Liardet) - Fiction – paperback; Anchor Books; 176 pages; 1994. Translated from the Arabic by Frances Liardet. First published in 1966, Adrift on the Nile is by Egypti...
    5 days ago
  • Blue-Hearted Bookworm
    October's Tiny List - The list is tiny, but two of these three were chunky tomes. 1. *What is the Story of Smokey the Bear? *-Steve Korte- Nonfiction. A laborious look at a ...
    5 days ago
  • Turn the Page
    October round up - First off, a big shout out to Shelleyrae at *Book'd Out*. I was so happy to see her posting again and hope to join her for an event next year :-) *The e...
    6 days ago
  • sprite writes
    ‘we finally did it!’, entertainment, and partying - Three beautiful things from a hard, disappointing week: 1. My heart team won our first championship in five years and our only undefeated season. Not eve...
    6 days ago
  • Commonweeder
    Autumnal Days Flying By - From my window I see colors that I love. Roses are falling asleep, but some of them are still a delight. These are my first year of growing dahlias and th...
    1 week ago
  • The Book Jotter
    Island Escapes - As the days get shorter and the nights draw in, the greyness of the autumn so far means we need to escape for some sunshine. Stella has lost her friend, ha...
    1 week ago
  • Birds, Blooms, Books, etc
    SHOCK!!! - My worst fears for this election.Dan and I are in shock and we fear for the future of this country.I am taking a hiatus from blogging until the New Year a...
    1 week ago
  • Northern Reader
    Victory for the Sewing Factory Girls by Posy Lovell – female friendship, football and the challenges of wartime life - Victory for the Sewing Factory Girls by Posy Lovell This is a powerful novel set during the First World War, in 1916, but makes very few passing references...
    1 week ago
  • Peaceful Reader
    What will tomorrow bring? - This week our country will decide whether we have a civil society with a female president (about time) OR and it is a big OR we elect a bully who picks ...
    1 week ago
  • Lakeside Musing
    A Pre-Election Reading Update - Hello, friends. After a week of beautiful fall weather, walks with an audiobook, and a weekend filled with family and dogs, I'm here with an unusual Mon...
    1 week ago
  • read_warbler
    Books read in October - I just can't believe October is now behind us and we're entering the final couple of months of 2024. (Note: I have not mentioned the 'C' word.) I did a b...
    1 week ago
  • The Indextrious Reader
    Stitching Science - Stitching Science / Lauren Wright Vartanian & Keltie Thomas Richmond Hill, ON: Firefly Books, c2024. 64 p. I have something very special for you today!...
    1 week ago
  • Morning's Minion
    Did We Need A Kitten? - Amazon boxes with paper are the best! "We don't need a kitten!" Jim and I spoke almost in unison. "Besides," I added reasonably, "We're old. A kitten mi...
    1 week ago
  • Dewena's Window
    November - I was 17 and on a family Sunday afternoon drive. Remember those? Daddy insisted on taking photographs of all his four daughters. I bet my three younge...
    1 week ago
  • Across the Way
    Pardon My Therapy - Two posts in one day? I don't think I've ever done that but this is mainly a blatant attempt not to let some of my October 2024 pictures go to waste. ...
    2 weeks ago
  • The Passing Tramp
    Spirit Messages from MAGA World: The Surly Sullen Bell/Lost Lake (1962), by Russell Kirk - Michigan writer and intellectual *Russell Kirke* (1918-1994) has been called the Forgotten Father of American Conservatism and the greatest twentieth-centu...
    2 weeks ago
  • Musings of a Bookish Kitty
    Weekly Mews: Side Effects - I am linking up to the *Sunday Post* hosted by Kim of Caffeinated Book Reviewer and *The Sunday Salon* (TSS) hosted by Deb Nance of Readerbuzz where part...
    4 weeks ago
  • "By Stargoose And Hanglands"
    The Stotfold Shuffle - A little album of scenes that presented themselves at Stotfold Working Steam Weekend last Saturday. And, as when playing an album or playlist of music, it'...
    4 weeks ago
  • Books to the Ceiling
    Ron’s Eightieth Birthday - Many thanks to the gift givers, card senders, and well wishers! And a special expression of gratitude from me to Ron, for the kindness and love he has show...
    5 weeks ago
  • heavenali
    Tales from my reading chair – an update. - I disappeared again – I’m sorry. I’m trying to decide whether I’m done with this whole blogging malarky – there are aspects I miss – but I get overwhelmed...
    5 weeks ago
  • Book Chase
    What I Most Miss About Bookstores - Part II - OK, so bear with me for a minute because at first glance this is likely to seem more than a little bit strange - and like a lot of work. But, in fact, I d...
    1 month ago
  • mrs miniver's daughter
    - Saddened to hear of the death of the sublime Dame Maggie and so glad that I got to see her last stage performance five years ago.
    1 month ago
  • Lillabullero
    Much ado: Screws turning saltily - I don’t think I’ve ever read a book quite like Elspeth Barker‘s O Caledonia, which was originally published in 1991, and re-issued by W&N in 2021. It opens...
    1 month ago
  • Bookgirl's Nightstand
    It’s Been A While - Summer is winding down and I’ve been meaning to catch up but I just haven’t felt the energy to write a blog post. While there have been some really good ti...
    2 months ago
  • Someday Cooking
    Baked Risotto - 1-1/2 c. Arborio rice 2 15-oz. cans vegetable stock 2 garlic cloves, very finely minced About 1-1/2 c. steamed fresh vegetables (green peas, fresh corn kerne...
    2 months ago
  • Life must be filled up
    Our revels now are ended - Hi all - this is Barbara's daughter Alice, also known as *huskyteer*. I'm so sorry to have to tell you that my mum died yesterday. I'll write more in my o...
    2 months ago
  • A Garden Carried in the Pocket
    Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger - As I mentioned in the previous post, I read *Iron Lake* in 2017 and had every intention of continuing this series by William Kent Kreuger--but didn't. T...
    3 months ago
  • Furrowed Middlebrow
    Happy Release Day for FM97! - The long-awaited day has arrived! It's been a while since we've had a Release Day celebration for a new Furrowed Middlebrow title, but as of today Eleano...
    3 months ago
  • Reader in the Wilderness
    It's August 1st! So Where Are My 20 Books of Summer? - With only one month left until September 1st, I can truthfully "fess up" that my 20 Books of Summer plans have gone bust. I have been reading, yes. But m...
    3 months ago
  • Vintage Reads
    Outback Noir - "*You wouldn't want to be lost out there for too long. It's the panic that gets you. Everything starts to look the same After a few days, makes it hard...
    3 months ago
  • kay's reading life
    And I'll take an 'official' late summer break...back in late August or early September... - Hey book friends! Hope you are all doing well and enjoying the summer. I've been doing fine and reading and walking and getting new landscaping and ...
    3 months ago
  • Hotchpot Cafe
    Finished! - It's only mid-July and I have read all the books for the two challenges I joined this year. Some of them were really, really good. Now to do the reviews!...
    3 months ago
  • The Weaver of Grass
    Final - Dear Blog friends far and near, After goodness knows how many years of doing this blog I have finally decided to call it a day. As you know I am on 'E...
    4 months ago
  • Comfy House
    time for some small changes in my home - In my last post (I know, it's been awhile), I was explaining how we lived in a ranch-style house and that we basically lived on the main level. That we hav...
    4 months ago
  • The Children's War
    The Last Hope (A Maggie Hope Mystery #11) by Susan Elia MacNeal - *The Last Hope: A Maggie Hope Mysteryby Susan Elia MacNeal* I'm a little on the OCD side and although I closed The Children's War in December 2023, I fin...
    4 months ago
  • Life on a Small Island
    R.I.P. Madam Button - Very sadly I had to say goodbye to Madam Button, my little sea cat, a couple of weeks ago. She was 18 years old, and had a very active life until re...
    6 months ago
  • Gardening On Granite
    “Goodbye and Keep Cold” - We in Southern New Hampshire are looking towards temperatures in the 50s for most of the next week after 50s in this one. This will banish the last snow po...
    8 months ago
  • Bag Full Of Books
    Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim - ‘Introduction to Sally’ by Elizabeth von Arnim is a novel about a young woman of exceptional beauty, who causes a flurry of excitement wherever she goes du...
    8 months ago
  • Leaves & Pages
    An heiress and mainly manly men, with horses: Flambards by K.M. Peyton (1967) - Flambards by K.M. Peyton ~ 1967. This edition: Oxford University Press, 2007. Hardcover. 227 pages. This will be a sketchy sort of review. This novel is so...
    8 months ago
  • A Fondness For Reading
    Beginnings and Endings - Today, January 27th, marks 17 years since I started this blog. In the last 16 months, since the death of my beloved husband, my life has changed, my readin...
    9 months ago
  • The Zees Go West
    Gift socks Knit for Christmas - Giving the gift of cozy feet...
    10 months ago
  • an adventure in reading
    TOP TEN TUESDAY: Best of 2023 - Fiction - Yearly round up of books read last year. I read 124 books (27nonfiction) most audiobooks. I'm going to make a separate post for the nonfiction books and...
    10 months 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 year 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 year 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 year 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 year ago
  • Book Snob
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