Book list for 2018

The stack of books beside my bed.

Here's what I read in 2018! I'm setting them out in the order in which they were read. Library books are marked, as always, with an asterisk.

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

February
The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life. Cassandra King. *
Stitches. Anne Lamont.*
Her Fearful Symmetry. Audrey Niffenegger.*
The Western Star. Craig Johnson. *
The Child in the Family. Maria Montessori.*

March
What Happened. Hillary Rodham Clinton.*
The Four Things that Matter Most. Ira Byock.*
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.*

April
Death of a Witch. M.C. Beaton.*
B is for Burglar. Sue Grafton.*
C is for Corpse. Sue Grafton.*
D is Deadbeat. Sue Grafton.*

May
E is for Evidence. Sue Grafton.*
Essentialism. Gary McKeown.*
F is for Fugitive. Sue Grafton.*
Teach Like Finland. Timothy D. Walker.*

June
Cræft. Alexander Langlands.*
G is for Gumshoe. Sue Grafton.*
Snowblind. Ragnar Jonasson.*

July
I is for Innocent. Sue Grafton.*
Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995. Adrienne Rich.*
Lumberjanes: Out of Time.*

August
J is for Justice. Sue Grafton.*
Lumberjanes: Band Together.*
The Breakdown. B.A. Paris.
Lumberjanes: Sink or Swim.*

September
Home to Harmony. Philip Gulley.*
Cave of Bones. Anne Hillerman.*

October
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye. David Lagercrantz.*
Two Kinds of Truth. Michael Connelly.
L is for Lawless. Sue Grafton.
Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World. Clara Parkes.*

November
The Witch Elm. Tana French.*
Death of a Ghost. M.C. Beaton.*

December
Death of a Nurse. M.C. Beaton.*
At Home in this Life. Jerusalem Jackson Greer.*
Depth of Winter.  Craig Johnson.*
Transcription. Kate Atkinson.*

October

I went on a work trip, the weather is cool enough for Cody to bike to work again, and Evelyn has been in full Halloween mode for about 6 weeks. We've been to birthday parties, Halloween parties, and regular ol' parties.

I'm knitting a lot and easing up on the Sue Grafton novels.  I think these are the last of this year's zinnias, but I may have a few more blooms on the balcony before plant season is truly over.

Book list for August 2018

"J" is for Justice.  Sue Grafton. *

"K" is for Killer. Sue Grafton.

Lumberjanes: Band Together. *

The Breakdown.  B. A. Paris.

Lumberjanes: Sink or Swim.*

August 21

Book list for July 2018

July was the month I got a sinus infection, both Cody and Evelyn had ear infections, I did a bunch of work, said goodbye to a dear friend who moved far away, was stressed, was sad, and started at least 6 new knitting projects and started a lot of new books. All hail pseudoephedrine and its power to keep me going when I don't feel good and to convince me that starting just one more project or checking out all those books will somehow fix everything.

 It was not a month for finishing much of anything outside of work projects. It all feels so long ago that I initially looked at my page of books read and typed out the books I read in August.

It was just that kind of month.

"I" is for Innocent. Sue Grafton.*

Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995. Adrienne Rich.*

Lumberjanes: Out of Time. Stevenson, Watters, Allen, Laiko. *

My zinnias started blooming, though.