April 2024 TBR

February starting TBR: 369

March ending TBR: 437
(I found a big cache of books I had saved on Everand and hadn’t added to my TBR)

I completely forgot to post at the end of February so I’m just picking up where I left off. March was a slow reading month, but I know April will be better because soon it will be front porch reading season!

Here’s my planned list:

1) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (reading a chapter a day-expect to finish in April)

2) File M For Murder by Miranda James

3) The Women by Kristin Hannah

4) Built To Last by Jim Collins

5) Murder at the Marina by Ellen Jacobson

6) Eight Bears by Gloria Dickie

7) Tales From The Torrid Zone by Alexander Frater

8) The $64 Tomato by William Alexander

9) Climate Resilience by Kylie Flanagan

10) Fancy Bear Goes Phishing by Scott J. Shapiro

11) Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

12) Something by Ruth Ozeki

13) Book club book TBD

14) Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly

15) The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

16) Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani

17) Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom

18) Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse by William Neuman

19) A New Song by Jan Karon

20) Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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February 2024 TBR

January starting TBR: 376

January ending TBR: 369

Celebrating here because my TBR actually went down for the first time since I’ve been tracking. If I keep going at this rate I should be done by…2030 or so.

Here’s my rough reading list for February. It’s a short month, but I’m hoping to get through 20 books or so.

1) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (reading a chapter a day-expect to finish in March)

2) The Brother Gardners by Andrea Wulf

3) Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

4) Whale Rider by Ihimaera

5) On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu

6) Love and Death In Kathmandu by Amy Willesee

7) A library book from my list (depends on what comes in)

8) You Are Your Best Thing

9) Koala : A Natural History and an Uncertain Future by Danielle Clode

10) Book club book

11) In the Weeds by Tom Vitale

12) In Extremis by Lindsey Hilsum

13) A Plus One For Murder by Laura Bradford

14) Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers

15) The Longest Line on the Map by Eric Rutkow

16) Lead Through Anything Dustin Seale & Ed Manfre

17) This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

18) Any ARC

19) The County Line by Steve Weddle

20) Glowing Still by Sara Wheeler

On My Nightstand February 24 2023

My neighbor’s cat supervised me while i read outside a few days ago

Happy weekend everyone! We’re on another wild weather roller coaster. It was 80 Thursday, and we have snow in the forecast this weekend. I hope the flowers survive.

My daughter’s party was fun last weekend, and we ate so much cake. We all gave up sweets for Lent and we were all so overloaded on sugar no one misses them yet!

This weekend I’m hoping for some quality reading time in between kid’s sports which started again last week. Work has also been a lot which makes it hard to concentrate on reading at night.

Have a great week everyone.

What’s on my nightstand this week:

What The Moon Saw by Laura Resau - I’m reading this for a book club. It’s not what I would pick out on my own, but that’s what books clubs are for!

The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings - I’ve only listened to about the first 20 minutes of this when I was walking this morning, but wow! I am into it!

Murder With Fried Chicken and Waffles by A.L. Herbert - This cozy mystery takes place about 10 minutes from where I live otherwise I probably would have bailed. Cozies just don’t seem to be my thing any more.

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On My Nightstand February 19, 2023

Good morning everyone! It’s a long weekend, but our schedules are starting to get packed with sports again. My son has lacrosse and my daughter has ice skating on Monday. I truly love watching them practice and play, but all the driving cuts into my reading time! We’re also celebrating my daughter’s birthday. It was in December, but so close to Christmas we haven’t been able to have a party until now. This is her first party in two years due to Covid, so when she wanted to order a two tier cake that feeds 46 for a party of 12 people I said yes! So it will be a rush to eat 46 servings of cake between now and Ash Wednesday. Goals!

Have a great week everyone.

What’s on my nightstand this week:

Bob by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead - One of my kids insisted on having this at a book fair a few years ago, and then never read it. I decided I should at least read it before we give it away!

Dearie by Bob Spitz - Julia Child is so fascinating, and I’m enjoying this biography.

Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi - This just came in from the library so I haven’t started it yet, but the premise sounded so relatable. A woman in a mostly male office fakes a pregnancy so that she doesn’t get roped into all of the extra chores.

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On My Nightstand February 12, 2023

I ended up with a stomach bug last week, so all baking was postponed to this weekend. This weekend we were supposed to go skiing, but it’s going to be warm and raining. We’re learning to be flexible! Either way I’m enjoying these last few weekends before spring sports start again and my free time starts to disappear.

Have a great week everyone.

What’s on my nightstand this week:

Ivona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley - Never got to this one last week. This is an impulse read, and it looks really fun!

A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier - This is for a backlist reading challenge. I’m looking forward to it.

The Puma Years by Laura Coleman - I’m enjoying this book about a woman volunteering at an animal rescue in Bolivia. (This is free if you have Kindle Unlimited.)

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