Book List for April 2018

Death of a Witch. M. C. Beaton.*

"B" is for Burglar. Sue Grafton.*

"C" is for Corpse. Sue Grafton.*

"D" is for Deadbeat. Sue Grafton.*

Favorite: So far, I love everything Sue Grafton writes.

Not favorite: I would prefer not reading any Beaton ever again.

Here is a picture from April:

Book list for March 2018

What Happened. Hillary Clinton.*

The Four Things That Matter Most. Ira Byock.*

Project Happily Ever After. Alisa Bowman.*

The Lost Hero. Rick Riordan.*

The Rooster Bar. John Grisham.*

Surprise Me. Sophie Kinsella.*

"A" is for Alibi. Sue Grafton.*

Death of a Cad. M. C. Beaton.*

Favorite book: Surprise Me was pretty fun.

Not favorite: I don't even remember any of those things that were supposed to matter.

Here's a picture from March:

Book List for February 2018

The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life. Cassandra King.*

Stitches. Anne Lamott*

Her Fearful Symmetry. Audrey Niffenegger*

The Western Star. Craig Johnson*

The Child in the Family. Maria Montessori *

Favorite: Same Sweet, I guess.

Least favorite: a tie between the horror book that I didn't realize was horror even though it had supernatural twins with unhealthy twinness (Niffenegger) and the one about the murderous cross dresser that had a lot of lazy tropes and ended on a cliffhanger (Johnson, who has really tested my patience with the last 3 Longmire mysteries even though I'll probably read the next book in one sitting).

Here's a picture from February:

100 pompoms for 100 days of school! 

Book list for January 2018

Books are in the order I read them:

The Checklist Manifesto. Atul Gawande*
The One Full Year Challenge. Brad Hardin
The Store. James Patterson and Richard Di Lello*
A Homemade Year. Jerusalem Jackson Greer*
A Bed of Scorpions. Judith Flanders*

Best book of the month: The Checklist Manifesto.

As always, * = library book.

Here's a picture from January:

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Book list for January 2017

Hunting Badger. Tony Hillerman.
An Obvious Fact. Craig Johnson.*
Living Well, Spending Less. Ruth Soukup
Garden of Lies. Amanda Quick.*

More Hillerman, of course. 

The Longmire book just jumped out at me from the library shelf and I was surprised they had it.  It was fun, I guess. 

I borrowed Living Well, Spending Less from Laine and I liked a lot of it.  The rest of it, I didn't but whatever.  It was one of those things I liked well enough while I was reading it and then kept thinking about all the parts of it that bothered me in the days after I finished it. I got some good things out of it, but can't remember what those are now that I'm typing about it. I'm glad I read it.

I saw Garden of Lies on a display at the library and Evelyn and I had a lot of fun talking about what a garden of lies would entail.  It wasn't that great of a read.  I was distracted by the anachronistic language in this attempt at a Victorian detective novel, the weird attempts at romantic banter, and just about everything about this seemed .... off.  But it did keep me up a few nights because I liked the dumb diversion.