It’s that time of year again: book voting time! I just checked and it was actually all the way back in November 2014 that we lasted voted on a “year’s worth” of books for the AWC book group. And we’re not actually done with those books…we still have two to read and discuss, one in early March and one in mid-April (stupid Satanic Verses<\/i>, which I didn’t vote for and hated and was really aggravated that it got voted in and guess what, I am hosting that one. And I refuse to read it again. So there).<\/p>\n
Once again we have a list of 36 books and this time we are voting for 8 (one less than last time). We have always been asked to recommend 3-5 books but this year one woman recommended TEN after claiming that she wasn’t told how many to do. *rolls eyes*<\/p>\n
I seem to be in a bit of a book slump at the moment…haven’t gotten motivated to read anything new and am churning rather slowly through some old fantasy series re-reads. Maybe this list will give me some ideas. I just looked at the last list and saw that I still haven’t read a couple of the books that I recommended! There! Motivation!<\/p>\n
Here’s the new list, in case you’re interested or looking for something to read! 1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Whew!!<\/p>\n Paradise Lost<\/i>? Really? Also: my bets for this year. Moran’s book or Mindy Kaling’s will get voted in, and at least 1 other that I’ve already read. Every year, Kingsolver is on the list and we’ve already read 2 books by her! Come on, people! Also, THREE of the books are about death and dying. Is book group getting old and worried about what aging means? … hrm.<\/p>\n In other news, the “mole” on my back is a common liver-spot type that is nothing to worry about but the skin doctor froze it off for me (along with 2 other small ones) and she said I had no other signs of any issues. So that’s nice.<\/p>\n In other not so nice news, the car ran itself into a tree today despite my best attempts to stop it happening. Scary, shocking and geez it happened SO FAST. Thankfully I was just turning into a parking space, and was only about 2 feet from the tree. The accelerator stuck somehow and suddenly I was speeding at the tree and the car was grinding against it and despite stomping on the brake it wouldn’t stop, until I finally managed to get the car into Park mode. %\u00a4&\/#”!! It’s still driveable, but I don’t know how bad the damage actually is, other than cosmetic, which is bad enough by itself. Just what we didn’t need: yet another unexpected expense. At least Anders couldn’t be mad at me, because he ran his<\/b> car into a rock in a parking lot just a couple of weeks ago. So both our cars are dented (and his is in for an electrical problem for the third time because no one can figure out what is wrong) and my neck and shoulders hurt like hell. *suck*<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s that time of year again: book voting time! I just checked and it was actually all the way back in November 2014 that we lasted voted on a “year’s worth” of books for the AWC book group. And we’re not actually done with those books…we still have two to read and discuss, one in early March and one in mid-April (stupid Satanic Verses, which I didn’t vote for and hated and was really aggravated that it got voted in and guess what, I am hosting that one. And I refuse to read it again. So there). Once again we...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,14,20],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bibliophilia","tag-goodthings","tag-littlemisssunshine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKey: blue<\/b><\/font>=recommended\/voted for by me. green<\/font><\/b>=voted for by me. yellow<\/font><\/b>=already read<\/p>\n
\n2. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Eric Larsson
\n3. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
\n4. Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet
\n5. The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee
\n6. Cherries in Winter: My Family’s Recipe for Hope in Hard Times by Suzan Col\u00f3n
\n7. The Book of Speculation: A Novel by Erika Swyler<\/b><\/font>
\n8. The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt
\n9. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
\n10. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
\n11. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
\n12. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
\n13. Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest
\n14. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
\n15. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer
\n16. The Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff
\n17. Fear of Dying by Erica Jong
\n18. Purity by Jonathan Franzen
\n19. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/b><\/font>
\n20. Paradise Lost by John Milton
\n21. Stars Go Blue by Laura Pritchett
\n22. We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
\n23. Benediction by Kent Haruf
\n24. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr<\/b><\/font>
\n25. Beyond the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
\n26. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver<\/b><\/font>
\n27. The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
\n28. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande<\/b><\/font>
\n29. Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
\n30. Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson
\n31. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<\/b><\/font>
\n32. How I Lost You by Jenny Blackhurst
\n33. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler<\/b><\/font>
\n34. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
\n35. Steve Jobs by Walter Isacsson
\n36. How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran<\/p>\n