I did want to do a final 2022 recap of how my reading year went. I read or listened to 141 books (LIST & LINKS HERE in 2022 but, you can see below that as my vision worsen my monthly reads declined as well. Welcome to First Chapter/Intros,
Welcome to First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews. Each week readers post the first paragraph (or 2) of a book we are reading or plan to read soon. Ooh, I loved this book! Thanks for sharing the excerpts. I'm glad yo…
Welcome to First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews. Each week readers post the first paragraph (or 2) of a book we are reading or plan to read soon. Welcome to First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Yvonne @ Socrates Book Re…
The premise of Our Missing Hearts sounds like it does sadly hit a little close to home. It sure does and that is why it's a bit disconcerting at times. I just read a review of John Irving's new book earlier today. I'll be very interested to…
Welcome to First Chapter/Intros, hosted by Yvonne @ Socrates Book Reviews. Each week readers post the first paragraph (or 2) of a book we are reading or plan to read soon. I wanted to hold off on this book since it won't be published until
(Combo read/listen) - Viking - 2021 & Penguin Audio I spent the better part of last week reading and listening to The Lincoln Highway. This is my third book by Amor Towles and IMO, another winner. I loved the characters, even most of the mi…
All the questions you present re the man's story make me curious. I'll look for the book! Very different - Harvee, we are reading a lot of the same books in 2022 I noticed:) It's very different but, I thought it was good. It does seem an un…
That might be interesting but it might be a bit Stephen King. Well - I guess we really don't know. I also do not believe in an afterlife, but am willing to embrace it if I am wrong. I'm so fascinated by this kind of thing. I'd like to belie…
2021 - I am good at making plans and setting goals but not very good at follow through. At the beginning of 2021 I set out to track all the places I visited through books and I did a great job for the first 3 or so months of the year but th…
The chapters alternate between the characters and what started out promising and had a picture perfect setting, the one-dimensional characters and under developed yet predicable story left me disappointing. I found lots of irritating detail…
The chapters alternate between the characters and what started out promising and had a picture perfect setting, the one-dimensional characters and under developed yet predicable story left me disappointing. I found lots of irritating detail…
I think I'd like that one, it sounds pretty interesting. I was surprised I liked it as much as I did. I haven't read many books set in the 1920s, but it's a great era in which to have a book set. I liked the time period and that it wasn't g…