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Subject: What Books Are You Reading While Under Quarantine?
Date Posted: 3/22/2020 8:44 PM ET
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i figure a lot of members are under quarantine whether it is by choice or not. i thought i would start a post to see what books other members are reading/ planning to read etc. while we  all have some free time. lol

Start Of Quarantine TBR Pile Total= 3897

12 books read so far.

  1. Al Capone Does My Shirts (Al Capone at Alcatraz, Bk 1) by Gennifer Choldenko
  2. Giselle the Christmas Ballet Fairy (Rainbow Magic: Special Edition) by Daisy Meadows
  3. Bury the Lead (Andy Carpenter, Bk 3) by David Rosenfelt
  4. Skyler the Fireworks Fairy (Rainbow Magic) by Daisy Meadows
  5. A Fairy's Gift (Disney: The Never Girls) (Disney Chapters) by Kiki Thorpe
  6. Molly Marches on (The American Girls Collection) by Valerie Tripp
  7. Kirsten Snowbound (The American Girls Collection) by Janet Beeler Shaw 
  8. Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan
  9. Blossom the Flower Girl Fairy (Rainbow Magic: Special Edition) by Daisy Meadows
  10. Felicity's Dancing Shoes (American Girls Collection Series) by Valerie Tripp 
  11. Kirsten and the New Girl (The American Girls: Kirsten, No 8) by Janet Beeler Shaw
  12. Al Capone Shines my Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko
  13. Play Dead By David Rosenfelt

 

 

 



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Well, I'n not under quarentine -- yet, but I've been reading and listening to J.D. Robb and Victoria Alexander. Read 10 books since March 3 and 14 books in February. 

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Not really any more free time than normal since I've been working from home and since I don't have the hour+ commute I end up working more hours. Nonetheless, I do have my reading well in hand. This is from mid February:

READ-Novel of the Nine Kingdom: Lynn Kurland

 1. Star of the Morning
 2. The Mage's Daughter
 3. Princess of the Sword
 4. A Tapestry of Spells
 5. Spellweaver
 6. Gift of Magic
 7. Dreamspinner
 8. River of Dreams
 9. Dreamer's Daughter
 10. The White Spell
 11. The Dreamer's Song
Stilll trying to get my library to order the lastest one as an ebook: The Prince of Souls
 
READ-Jenna Fox Chronicles: Mary E. Pearson
 1. The Adoration of Jenna Fox
 1.5. The Rotten Beast
 2. The Fox Inheritance
 3. Fox Forever

READ-MacLeod/De Piaget Family: Lynn Kurland
The Gift of Christmas Past (ss The Christmas Cat)
Stardust of Yesterday
A Dance Through Time
This Is All I Ask
The Three Wise Ghosts (ss Christmas Spirits)
Another Chance to Dream
The Very Thought of You
The More I See You
And the Groom Wore Tule (ss Veils of Time)
If I Had You
The Icing On the Cake (ss Opposites Attract)
The Traveller (ss The Knight’s Vow)
My Heart Stood Still
To Kiss In the Shadows (ss Tapestry)
From This Moment on
A Garden in the Rain
Dreams of Stardust
Much Ado in the Moonlight
When I Fall in Love
With Every Breath
Till There Was You
One Enchanted Evening
One Magic Moment
All for You
Roses in Moonlight
Dreams of Lilacs
Stars in Your Eyes
Ever My Love

READ-Chronicles of Elantra: Michelle Sagara
15. Cast in Wisdom
 
Now I'm reading this:
Change: S.M. Stirling
 1. Dies the Fire
 2. The Protector's War
 3. A Meeting at Corvallis
 4. The Sunrise Lands
 5. The Scourge of God
 6. The Sword of the Lady
 7. The High King of Montival
 8. The Tears of the Sun
 9. The Lord of Mountains
 10. The Given Sacrifice
 11. The Golden Princess
 12. The Desert and the Blade
 13. Prince of Outcasts
 14. The Sea Peoples
 
After that I might try:
Makepeace Hedley: Diane Norman
 1. A Catch of Consequence
 2. Taking Liberties
 3. The Sparks Fly Upward
 
Or maybe this
Brewing Trouble Mystery: Joyce Tremel
   1. To Brew Or Not to Brew
   2. Tangled Up in a Brew
   3. A Room With a Brew
 
ETA: more books read to date 4-23-20. 


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Date Posted: 3/23/2020 9:41 AM ET
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I've amassed most of the books I haven't read yet in Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce series. I still have the last on my WL, but I have 5 to read before I get to that one and have read 1 through 4 before.

If trading slows down I have other books I'd like to reread.

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Just started FLU, non-fiction story focusing on the 1918 epidemic but covering many other diseases.  And The Truth About Grace, sequel to The Pecan Man.

no slowdown on trading books for me.



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Thank you, Postie. He brought the next in the Flavia de Luce series thus I'll be binging on Alan Bradley sweet series.



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Date Posted: 3/26/2020 2:49 PM ET
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I've been reading The Maze Runner series by Dashner.

Appropriately it's about a virus that causes people to go really crazy and then they die. The Governments get together to find a cure, but they do really unspeakable acts in the process. I've seen the movies, but the books are always better!

Here's my next one... The Influenza Bomb

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I'm at home by myself and with social distancing there isn't anywhere to go.  I've done a little bit of extra cleaning and some puzzles, but most of my time is spent reading.  So far in March I've read:

  1. Sweet Memories - LaVyrle Spencer
  2. Bad Memory - Lisa Gray
  3. Seal Camp - Suzanne Brockmann
  4. The Kingdom - Amanda Stevens
  5. Murder at the Mortuary - Lee Strauss
  6. A Merciful Death - Kendra Elliot
  7. The Last Boyfriend - Nora Roberts
  8. Fatal Secrets - Allison Brennan
  9. The Bromance Book Club - Lyssa Kay Adams
  10. Murder at Kensington Gardens - Lee Strauss
  11. The Scot Beds His Wife - Kerrigan Byrne

 

 

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Date Posted: 4/7/2020 5:11 PM ET
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well i have started the April reading looks like the social distancing and quarrentines continue.  i have finished 5 books from the tbr pile so far this month

  1. 1.The Journey To Atlantis By Thea Stilton
  2. 2. A Last Goodbye By J. A. Jance
  3. Teacher's Pet By Jenny Dale
  4. Double Trouble By Jenny Dale
  5. Big Ben By Jenny Dale

next up Al Capone Does My Homework



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I am reading Chernov's long and detailed biography of George Washington,albeit very slowly. Sometimes, Chernov practically fawns over GW, is is also always very wordy, but will give the straight dope on GW, as in he acquired many thousands of acres through what, today, would be lighly illegal insider trading. Also that he could count his slaves in the hundreds, and was known whip them with a cat of nines lash just to be sure they were alway afraid of the results if they did not work hard all the time.

Also, a biography of Otis Chandler that describes how the Chandlers, aided and abetted by the Los Angeles Times Otis' father founded, were easily the most politically powerful people in Southern California for many years.

Also, I just read This is How You Lose her by Junot Diaz; and this man is the most talented writer I have read in a long time.