1. Never read HP (I actually haven't read them)
2. Dog ear, I do that anyway
3. Off
4. Poetry
5. Um, color if that's about book covers

#bookishwouldyourather

I tried the Mary Russell series but was super creeped out about a very young woman and a very old Sherlock Holmes getting together. But this is a stand alone book and very good so far

This is my semi fictional read for tomorrow. The author recorded herself and her two friends the summer of 1965 and turned those conversations into this funny book.

I've been buying a lot of feminist, anarchist, dissident books, I'm probably going to end up on a government list 😆 Vaclav Havel was a Czechoslovakian playwright jailed for being a dissident during the communist regime and became the first Czech Republic president after the fall of the Soviet Union. It's frightening how his letters could easily be talking about what's happening now.

I jumped on the hygge bandwagon because this is definitely how I try to do things. The book however was a bit dry. It's not really that complicated and it felt like he was just trying to find enough to write about to fill a small book. Concept is good, you just probably don't need this book

I love Rebecca Solnit, I wish I'd discovered her years ago. This is a really great book that reminds us of all the great grass roots stuff that came out of some bad times. Besides hope she reminds us that activism is something that should always be happening. A timely book though it was written over a decade ago. There are some new chapters added discussing more recent events through 2015. Highly recommended!

I have a lot of catching up to do so first up I finished Celine a few weeks ago and I really loved it. Celine is a 60 something private eye who only takes cases to reunite families. She has emphysema but is tough. She and her husband go to Yellowstone to look for a woman's father who disappeared there 20 years ago. Heller is a great writer, I have wanted to read his book The Dog Stars but I don't know if it has a happy ending with the dog

This is one of those books you start and you realize it's going to be magic. I haven't felt that fire in a awhile🔥. This is about a sixty something female PI who goes to Yellowstone to find a young woman's father who went missing years ago

I ended up DNFing the Paul Auster book, it just got to be such a yawn. The plot follows a boy called Ferguson with 4 variations of his life. About 200 pages in I just couldn't go through a 4th puberty.

I'm so confidant that my slump is over I've started on this almost 900 pg ARC I've had for a few months. I've never read anything by Auster before, he's supposed to be an amazing writer. I like it so far!

This is my first read of the year and my book slump is over! This was very good, it follows a group of women who graduate from Vassar in '33 and the different paths they take.Mostly set in NYC during an interesting era of feminism, communism, sexual politics. The reader meets each character during a specific time in her life. It isn't a drawn out epic-type novel.It's wordy but funny. Written in 1962, taking place during the 30's but relevant today

My last read of 2016. I couldn't pull out of my reading slump with books in my tbr pile so I went for a crime thriller. This is the third book I have read in this series, after the first two. It was very good though a bit long. It also had a supernatural element I don't remember from the others I read and it was never fully developed in the plot but that was probably for the best.

So sad about Carrie Fisher. I bought this ebook a few hours ago and just devoured it. Very colorful, meandering memories from Carrie, written after she had ECT less than 10 years ago. She had so much more to do 😢

I'm finding this book very informative and inspiring, just what I need to start the new year

Such a good book, short but but sweet. Involves a bookseller, always a plus. Lauren is mugged and her purse stolen, she ends up in a coma. Laurent finds her purse and tries to locate her though he doesn't know her name. He uses the items still in her bag as clues

After 200 pages I am dropping this one. I thought it would be an interesting read as I did really like The Historian but I found it boring and not able to hold my interest.

This is the only book I have been able to concentrate on in weeks. I love that Spiritualism started in upstate NY where I'm from