1️⃣ Winter is major Tournament of Books reading time so mostly contemporary fiction 📚

2️⃣ Chili Cheese Fries 😋

3️⃣ High 75 ℉/ 24 ℃
Low 48 ℉ / 9 ℃

#wonderouswednesday
Thanks for the tag @Eggs ! 😀

My last of Dickens‘ completed novels and a real high note! Paul Dombey Sr. is crippled by his overweening pride and is jealous of the affection his son and heir shows for his sister. Tragic yes but also classic Dickens with its bright spots of humor and fantastic supporting characters! ❤️ #ClassicsChallenge2020

My last TOB shortlist book to read. I‘m a little over half way through. I am enjoying it but I think The Handmaid‘s Tale didn‘t “need” this complementary volume and is more powerful on its own. #tob #tob2020

I completed my first book for #classicschallenge2020! This is the final novel in Trollope‘s six-book Palliser series. This book (and the series as a whole) didn‘t quite have the same emotional punch for me as his Barchester series but still it was a very satisfying experience...romance, politics, intrigue and always with the author‘s patented humor and humanity.😍

#19in2019

Thank you for the tag Centique! We have a few overlapping titles. My criteria for choosing one book over another is completely random and unscientific! Ask me again tomorrow, the list might change. But not the tagged book. I read all four Murderbot novellas in 2019 and loved them so! 😍I can tell they will stay at the top of my all time best of list!

I succumbed to the siren song of the library book sale. $5.50 and four books later. I figure if I leave them in my car until 2020 I don‘t have to count them as incoming for this year. 😜

It took almost a month but I did it! There is something compelling about the voice of the unnamed narrator as she recounts random thoughts, memories and her anxieties about 21st century America. The text has a certain rhythm that I noted and admired. Not perfect, I have a couple of quibbles but definitely a work of genius and a book encapsulating a slice of our current fraught political and cultural landscape.

#top10ofthedecade. #fictionedition

Thanks for the tag @Centique ! I went through what I read published in the past decade and picked the first 10 to which I had/still have a strong emotional reaction!

1. Serendipity 😍
2. Three is optimal! Favorite series? Maybe Mapp and Lucia?
3. Not a writer. I only write emails and contract drafts for work and blog post and goodreads reviews online.
4. I tag @BookNAround @readordierachel and @Erofan If you are so inclined.

Thanks for the tag @Lcsmcat
#wonderouswednesday

Thank you @BkClubCare for asking Bybee to pass this on! And just in time for Nonfiction November!🥰❤️🥰❤️

Thanks for the tag @Lcsmcat . #NameChallenge Spell your name with book titles. 😀 All the titles shown I have read and liked, though Robinson is not a favorite (I know she is beloved but her genius misses me). I tag @Aimeesue and @Buechersuechtling if either of you are so inclined to play along.

Two books from my mother. She liked the Horowitz but DNFed Ohio. We‘ll see what my take is when I get around to them!🤓

FINALLY! I‘ve had this book for four years and have meant to read it every fall season for the past three years 😬. It was great. A good companion to The Bone Clocks but can also stand on its own as a short, creepy read. 😨

Just finished this the fifth book in Trollope‘s six book Palliser series. It can be read alone but was particularly satisfying since many characters from previous books pop up here and there. Trollope has become one of my go-to comfort reads.

Dropped off a couple of bags of books at the Goodwill this afternoon! I browsed but was able to resist the temptation of buying any replacements. 😀

Super excited to read this novella in the Wayfarer series!😃

Thanks @arlenefinnigan @Cinfhen . It‘s been fun! #neverendingstory #RedroseSeptember

#Thethingummybob is what one says when one forgets the proper name for something so I‘m gonna link that to the tagged title about a woman with amnesia. I‘ve read two books from Moriarty before- one good one not so good...this one will be the tiebreaker. 🤔 #RedroseSeptember

I kinda hated this book. But I think I am a real outlier in this case. It is kind of a bookish equivalent to Forest Gump which I also hated... I know, what is wrong with me!?!?

An overweight, middle aged sad sack man goes on a tragicomical journey across the country on his bike to find his mentally ill sister and save her. Along the way he has adventures and meets a cast of eccentric characters. #Iran #RedroseSeptember

#TwoTribes by Frankie goes to Hollywood was about the (futility of) the Cold War. Which makes me think of this amazing nonfiction oral history of the transition from the Soviet Era to the unbridled capitalism of the Wild Wild East. So many stories from real people. It made me think a lot about my own country‘s propaganda and indoctrination. #RedroseSeptember

Excellent entry into the Liveship Traders trilogy, second trilogy in the larger 16 book Realm of the Elderlings series. #sevenseas #RedroseSeptember

Not book related but I couldn‘t resist adding it. I used to watch this and American Bandstand as a kid. #groovytrain #RedroseSeptember

#groovytrain #RedroseSeptember

There‘s no #remedy for recovering from drinking too much current wine you thought was raspberry cordial except time! #RedroseSeptember

I don‘t remember too much about this except that it was about twin brothers where one them suffered from schizophrenia and the other brother found himself conflicted about having to be his brother‘s caretaker. It was a compelling story. An Oprah pick too, so have your tissues ready!

#Heaintheavyhesmybrother. #RedroseSeptember

“Once you learn to read you will be forever free” - Frederick Douglas

#setyoufree #RedroseSeptember

Interesting to think what #allaroundtheworld 🌎 meant back in the classical age of Europe and Asia Minor. How small it was and yet how complex and rich. This book was a pre-internet purchase. Back when if you wanted to know anything you likely had to look it up in a book! 📚 #RedroseSeptember

To many Jay Gatsby appears to be living #thelifeofriley - he has everything money can buy. Well almost...this book shows the dark side of the American Dream and launched a million high school term papers. #RedroseSeptember

I enjoyed this satire on academia, publishing, U.S. politics, gaming etc. It is a little overstuffed maybe but ultimately satisfying. The prompt #sitdown made me think of it because the protagonist‘s mother was photographed at a “sit in” in the 70s which has a lot to do with the plot. Convoluted but it‘s the best I can do.😅 #RedroseSeptember

My cat decided to channel Vanna White for this one. #7days7covers #covercrush

Hey @ctboeheim @rwmg @BarkingMadRun would you like to play by posting a different cover you love for seven days in a row with no explanation? It‘s fun!

This is the best I can do for the prompt #MerseyParadise #RedroseSeptember .

This book was a lot of fun but also pretty crazy. It is based on the myth of Theseus which I actually got it because I had previously read The King Must Die by Mary Renault. I don‘t remember If Oreo actually has a #kinkyafro or not but she might have given the book was first published in 1974 and is contemporary. ☮️

#RedroseSeptember

#7days7covers #covercrush

Hey @Quirkybookworm @8little_paws @Novelista71 if you‘ve not been tagged yet and are game, will you post a cover each day for seven days with no explanation?

One of my favorite books of all time which is pretty much a cradle to grave story of a not perfect but nevertheless #wonderfullife of one man throughout the 20th century.

#RedroseSeprember

Have you already been tagged @Tamra ? Would you like to post a cover you love each day for seven days with no explanation?

#7days7covers #covercrush

If anyone had #groundsfordivorce it was April Wheeler IMO. If only she‘d had access to reliable birth control...

#RedRoseSeptember

#7days7covers #covercrush

@monalyisha if you haven‘t already been tagged yet would you like to post seven covers you love for seven days in a row with no explanations?

Oops! I said I was only going to see if there were any Ishiguro books for sale and leave if none...two books and one DVD later...🙊

I didn‘t love this brick of a book as much as I might have at some other point in my reading life. Romantic historical fiction isn‘t quite my jam at the moment. But it does feature a #bizarrelovetriangle! 😀

#RedroseSeptember

#7days7covers #covercrush

@cleoh If you‘ve not been tagged already would you like to post a cover you love each day for seven days with no explanation?

I‘ve not read this but I did see most of the movie with Tom Cruise. An invasion of Earth by extraterrestrials 👽 would cause a #panic as depicted in the film and (probably) book!

#RedroseSeptember

#7days7covers #covercrush

If you haven‘t already been tagged yet @ljuliel would you like to play and post a cover you love each day for seven days with no explanation?

#7days7covers #covercrush

@cathipink Will you post a cover you love each day for seven days without explanation?

Thank you for the tag @CarolynM

There are lots of books about growing up poor where #moneystootighttomention . This is the first one that came to mind. A classic!
#RedroseSeptember

#Saturn5 is a kind of rocket 🚀 so I went with the cover of this early Heinlein novel that I‘ve not read for this #RedroseSeptember prompt. Heinlein is sort of hit and miss for me so I may never read this title! 👽

#withmylittlestickofblackpoolrock was the most difficult prompt! Since Blackpool is a coastal resort town my mind did go to the first Persephone I read which was the tagged book about a family holiday to Bognor in the 1920s. This is a lovely, gentle and melancholic story about a happy family who know this will be the last summer together as the children are now reaching adulthood. Highly recommended!😍

#RedroseSeptember

#NeverForget

#RedroseSeptember

One of the best fictional takes I have read based on real #History! I love Mantel‘s style. It takes getting used to, however.

#RedroseSeptember

I‘ve not read it yet (nor seen the movie) but this is the only book I could think of which is at least tangentially about #mathematics. 😬

#RedroseSeptember

The prompt #chippytea makes me think of one of my favorite Booktubers Amy at From the Dusty Bookshelf,whose nickname from another booktuber (Erica at The Perks of Books) is “Chippy Cup”. What I love about Amy is she reads way outside the mainstream. From deep dives into Simone de Beauvoir‘s complete works to Lesbian pulp fiction...she marches to the beat of her own drummer! Totally unpretentious, she is a joy to listen to.

#RedroseSeptember