Goodbye, 2024!
Wow, another year has come to an end..somehow each one goes by faster than the last. 2024 was pretty good..I got to see my grandma a couple times before she died, and my family celebrated her life after her funeral. I went on a glacier cruise and got right up to the face of Harvard Glacier on a perfect sunny day. I found lots of cool curtains to take pics with LOL. I had fun at work. I was hospitalized with pneumonia, but kept my sense of humor by posting a picture of me "with the right book to be hospitalized with" (Les Miserables). I had covid, which didn't break me. And...I read ONE HUNDRED books!!! I wasn't sure if I could do it, but I did! (Are short books cheating?? Haha.) I definitely earned my shirt that says "I read like it's my job." :P I'm not sure if Ryan and Jo are going to join us today, they haven't been upstairs since everyone got the stomach flu..not that I blame them, but I do miss them! Today is the first day I've felt myself since getting sick, which is nice. It's too cold to watch fireworks outside, but I imagine people in my parents' neighborhood will set some off we can see from inside the warm house haha
January
A book with at least three POVs: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Jan 1-5) (4/5)
A book with magical realism: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (Jan 6-10) (4/5)
The 24th book of an author: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (Jan 11-14) (4/5)
A book with a title that is a complete sentence: Good Dogs Don't Make It to the South Pole by Hans-Olav Thyvold (Jan 14-15) (3/5)
A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person: Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli (Jan 16-17) (3/5)
A book where someone dies in the first chapter: The Ice Lion by Kathleen O'Neal Gear (Jan 18-20) (4/5)
A nonfiction book about Indigenous people: Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez (Jan 21-23) (4/5)
A book that features dragons: The Mortal Word by Genevieve Cogman (Jan 24-28) (4/5)
A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours: Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Jan 29-31) (2/5)
A collection of at least 24 poems: Approaching Ice by Elizabeth Bradfield (Jan 31) (2/5)
February
A book set in the future: The Ice Ghost by Kathleen O'Neal Gear (Feb 1-4) (4/5)
A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list (Iceland): Outside by Ragnar
Jónasson (Feb 5-6) (4/5)
A book from a genre you typically avoid: How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy (Feb 7-8) (5/5)
A book set in the snow: Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates (Feb 10-13) (4/5)
A book with a neurodivergent main character: I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder by Sarah Kurchak (Feb 13-15) (3/5)
A bildungsroman (coming of age novel): The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene (Feb 15-17) (5/5)
A book recommended by a bookseller: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Jan 20-Feb 18) (4/5)
A book by a blind or visually impaired author: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Feb 18-21) (4/5)
A horror book by a BIPOC author: The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown (Feb 21-22) (3/5)
A book with the word "leap" in the title: The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List by Sue Campbell (Feb 23-24) (3/5)
A book about pirates: Cutthroat Island by John Gregory Betancourt (Feb 24-25) (4/5)
A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete: South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery by Lynne Cox (Feb 25-28) (3/5)
March
A book recommended by a librarian: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore (Feb 29-Mar 5) (4/5)
A book by a self-published author: Upheaval by Harley Tate (Mar 6-7) (4/5)
An LGBTQ+ romance novel: Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig (Mar 8-11) (4/5)
A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours: The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman (Mar 12) (4/5)
A book that was published 24 years ago (2000): Deep South by Nevada Barr (Mar 13-18) (3/5)
A book with an unreliable narrator: The Maid by Nita Prose (Mar 18-21) (4/5)
A book written during NaNoWriMo: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Mar 22-24) (5/5)
A cozy fantasy book: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (Mar 24-28) (4/5)
A memoir that explores queerness: Pageboy by Elliot Page (Mar 28-30) (2/5)
April
A book set in space: Network Effect by Martha Wells (Apr 1-5) (4/5)
A book set 24 years before you were born (1965): We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore (Apr 5-11) (4/5)
A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary: Semiosis by Sue Burke (Apr 12-15) (3/5)
A book about a writer: The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf (Apr 16-18) (5/5)
A book that starts with the letter "X": X Marks the Spot: An Anthology of Treasure and Theft by Lisa Mangum (Apr 19-21) (4/5)
A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author: Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf (Apr 23-28) (5/5)
A book with 24 letters in the title: Beyond the Barrier with Byrd by Harry Adams (Apr 28-30) (4/5)
May
A book from an animal's POV: Purrfect Murder by Nic Saint (May 1-2) (3/5)
A book about a 24-year-old: A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn (May 3-8) (5/5)
June
A book that was turned into a musical: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (May 9-June 3) (4/5)
A book that came out in a year that ends with "24": The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton (June 4-7) (4/5)
A second-chance romance: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (June 8-11) (4/5)
An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll: The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (June 12-13) (4/5)
A book originally published under a pen name: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (June 14-18) (4/5)
A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (June 19-22) (2/5)
A book with a main character who's 42 years old: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (June 22-25) (3/5)
A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot: Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (June 23-29) (4-5)
July
A book that centers on video games: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Jun 26-July 1) (4/5)
A book about K-pop: I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee (July 1-3) (5/5)
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (July 4-9) (3/5)
Deluge by Tate Harley (July 10-11) (4/5)
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (July 12-22) (4/5)
The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship by Greg King (July 23-26) (4/5)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (July 26-28) (3/5)
System Collapse by Martha Wells (July 29-31) (3/5)
August
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd (Aug 1-4) (3/5)
A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke (Aug 6-9) (4/5)
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival by Tom Clavin (Aug 9-12) (5/5)
Farallon: Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore by Steve K. Lloyd (Aug 12-13) (4/5)
The Ice Orphan by Kathleen O'Neal Gear (Aug 14-16) (3/5)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Aug 16-19) (4/5)
Hemingway's Cats by Lindsey Hooper (Aug 20-22) (3/5)
The Secret Chapter by Genevieve Cogman (Aug 23-26) (4/5)
September
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Aug 26-Sept 6) (4/5)
Falling by T.J. Newman (Sept 6-9) (4/5)
Sivulliq: Ancestor by Lily H. Tuzroyluke (Sept 9-30) (4/5)
Plague Land by S.D. Sykes (Sept 10-14) (3/5)
The Heart of the World: The Life and Death of a Glacier Pilot by Ned Rozell (Sept 15-17) (4/5)
Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long (Sept 18-24) (3/5)
Ice Trek by Ewan Clarkson (Sept 25-27) (4/5)
The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa (Sept 27-29) (3/5)
No One Noticed the Cat by Anne McCaffrey (Sept 29-30) (3/5)
October
In Shackleton's Wake by Arved Fuchs (Oct 1-3) (4/5)
Antarctic Night: One Man's Story of 28,224 Hours at the Bottom of the World by Jack Bursey (Oct 4-6) (4/5)
Follow the River by Paul Greci (Oct 7-8) (4/5)
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George Andrews (Oct 9-15) (4/5)
Where the Irises Bloom by Will Lowrey (Oct 16) (5/5)
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound (Oct 17-27) (4/5)
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku (Oct 29-30) (5/5)
November
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley (Oct 13-Nov 4) (2/5)
A Polar Affair: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins by Lloyd Spencer Davis (Oct 31-Nov 6) (4/5)
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Ranulph Fiennes (Nov 7-13) (4/5)
Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle by Mike Horn (Nov 14-20) (4/5)
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason (Nov 21-25) (4/5)
The Skeleton Tree by Iain Lawrence (Nov 26-28) (3/5)
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley (Nov-28-30) (4/5)
The Hidden Life of Ice: Dispatches from a Disappearing World by Alberto Flores d'Arcais (Nov 30) (3/5)
December
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (Dec 1-15) (5/5). This month's book club book. People were like "I thought of you when it mentioned The Worst Journey in the World!" I waited excitedly for 3 weeks for that haha
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Dec 2-4) (4/5). Not sure if everything in this is true, but it was an interesting read
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling (Dec 5-6) (5/5). I love books with characters that have disabilities. The main character had no arms (and was super funny about it) and one of her friends had Tourette's. I love how independent and funny the main character was, and definitely want to read the sequel!
The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico (Dec 7-11) (1/5). Absolutely one of the WORST books I've ever read..SUPER annoying characters, anti-Semitism, spousal abuse ("aw honey, you make me do things to you I don't want to do" D:), fat shaming, a violent rape scene where the rapist, when he realizes she's a passenger is like "oh, I thought you were one of the crew!" (As if THAT would make it better?!), and she ends up comforting him. At the end, she thinks fondly of him and actually wishes to have his baby. Wha...WHAT?!? That is just SO wrong and not realistic and all. Ugh
Super Cats: True Tales of Extraordinary Felines by Ashley Morgan (Dec 12-13) (4/5)
Trooper: The Heartwarming Story of the Bobcat Who Became Part of My Family by Forrest Bryant Johnson (Dec 15-18) (4/5)
The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose (Dec 18-21) (5/5). The sequel to The Maid..the main character is definitely autistic lol. Someone told me the second one was disappointing, but I really enjoyed it! Maybe being autistic helps me enjoy it more lol
The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose (Dec 21) (4/5). A lot of people didn't like this one because the mystery was so obvious, which it was..but it was told from the main character's perspective, who is very likely autistic and doesn't pick up on a lot of social cues. It's happened to me..when I got an award at work, I wasn't told beforehand. Mom came to the event dressed up and when I asked why, she said something like "I want to look nice on your special day!" I was a bit confused, but didn't think about it much, and didn't get the hint even when mom started recording the ceremony. I literally said "ME?!?" when Mike announced my name for the award. Looking back the signs were obvious, but they weren't then..so I can definitely relate to the main character lol
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Dec 22-23) (4/5). "What do you call this?" said Joe. "Bed-curtains?" "Ah!" returned the woman, laughing and leaning forward on her crossed arms. "Bed-curtains!" Obviously I had to read this LOL. It is fun saying "bed curtains? Ahhh, bed curtains!" to myself LOL
Snowball's Christmas by Kristen McKanagh (Dec 24-26) (3/5). Not huge into reading romance, but there was a cat in it (partly told from her perspective), so I couldn't resist lol
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin (Dec 27-30) (4/5). Over a year stranded in the Falkland Islands, after being deserted by your ship? Ouch! The killing of animals in these stories is always so brutal and awful (the sea lion was "peeled like an orange" O_o)
Sometime in August, I read most of Anxious People for book club, but abandoned it when I went to Kansas. I deleted my second reading from Goodreads, but the stats falsely still said 100, which is super weird (I noticed when making the "Books I Read in 2024" list on List Challenges that there were only 99 books). I panicked, and then realized I could probably read the book online, which I did..I couldn't remember exactly where I left off, but I guessed and was able to finish it. Phew!! That definitely saved me lol. Except that now my stats say 101 books read, even though I counted and it's definitely now 100 books. O_o Must be a bug in their system??
I read 33,717 pages altogether (Les Mis was 1,416 of those pages), nice! I can't wait to read more great books in 2025!!
Hope everyone has a great New Year! *throws confetti*
31. Do You Make New Year’s Resolutions? To read lots of books haha. Hopefully there's a 2025 meme out there somewhere that I can find..
January
A book with at least three POVs: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Jan 1-5) (4/5)
A book with magical realism: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (Jan 6-10) (4/5)
The 24th book of an author: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (Jan 11-14) (4/5)
A book with a title that is a complete sentence: Good Dogs Don't Make It to the South Pole by Hans-Olav Thyvold (Jan 14-15) (3/5)
A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person: Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account by Miklós Nyiszli (Jan 16-17) (3/5)
A book where someone dies in the first chapter: The Ice Lion by Kathleen O'Neal Gear (Jan 18-20) (4/5)
A nonfiction book about Indigenous people: Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez (Jan 21-23) (4/5)
A book that features dragons: The Mortal Word by Genevieve Cogman (Jan 24-28) (4/5)
A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours: Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Jan 29-31) (2/5)
A collection of at least 24 poems: Approaching Ice by Elizabeth Bradfield (Jan 31) (2/5)
February
A book set in the future: The Ice Ghost by Kathleen O'Neal Gear (Feb 1-4) (4/5)
A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list (Iceland): Outside by Ragnar
Jónasson (Feb 5-6) (4/5)
A book from a genre you typically avoid: How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy (Feb 7-8) (5/5)
A book set in the snow: Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates (Feb 10-13) (4/5)
A book with a neurodivergent main character: I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder by Sarah Kurchak (Feb 13-15) (3/5)
A bildungsroman (coming of age novel): The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene (Feb 15-17) (5/5)
A book recommended by a bookseller: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Jan 20-Feb 18) (4/5)
A book by a blind or visually impaired author: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Feb 18-21) (4/5)
A horror book by a BIPOC author: The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown (Feb 21-22) (3/5)
A book with the word "leap" in the title: The Cat, the Cash, the Leap, and the List by Sue Campbell (Feb 23-24) (3/5)
A book about pirates: Cutthroat Island by John Gregory Betancourt (Feb 24-25) (4/5)
A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete: South with the Sun: Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery by Lynne Cox (Feb 25-28) (3/5)
March
A book recommended by a librarian: The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore (Feb 29-Mar 5) (4/5)
A book by a self-published author: Upheaval by Harley Tate (Mar 6-7) (4/5)
An LGBTQ+ romance novel: Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig (Mar 8-11) (4/5)
A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours: The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman (Mar 12) (4/5)
A book that was published 24 years ago (2000): Deep South by Nevada Barr (Mar 13-18) (3/5)
A book with an unreliable narrator: The Maid by Nita Prose (Mar 18-21) (4/5)
A book written during NaNoWriMo: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (Mar 22-24) (5/5)
A cozy fantasy book: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (Mar 24-28) (4/5)
A memoir that explores queerness: Pageboy by Elliot Page (Mar 28-30) (2/5)
April
A book set in space: Network Effect by Martha Wells (Apr 1-5) (4/5)
A book set 24 years before you were born (1965): We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore (Apr 5-11) (4/5)
A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary: Semiosis by Sue Burke (Apr 12-15) (3/5)
A book about a writer: The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf (Apr 16-18) (5/5)
A book that starts with the letter "X": X Marks the Spot: An Anthology of Treasure and Theft by Lisa Mangum (Apr 19-21) (4/5)
A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author: Not a Sound by Heather Gudenkauf (Apr 23-28) (5/5)
A book with 24 letters in the title: Beyond the Barrier with Byrd by Harry Adams (Apr 28-30) (4/5)
May
A book from an animal's POV: Purrfect Murder by Nic Saint (May 1-2) (3/5)
A book about a 24-year-old: A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn (May 3-8) (5/5)
June
A book that was turned into a musical: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (May 9-June 3) (4/5)
A book that came out in a year that ends with "24": The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton (June 4-7) (4/5)
A second-chance romance: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (June 8-11) (4/5)
An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll: The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (June 12-13) (4/5)
A book originally published under a pen name: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (June 14-18) (4/5)
A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (June 19-22) (2/5)
A book with a main character who's 42 years old: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (June 22-25) (3/5)
A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot: Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (June 23-29) (4-5)
July
A book that centers on video games: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Jun 26-July 1) (4/5)
A book about K-pop: I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee (July 1-3) (5/5)
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (July 4-9) (3/5)
Deluge by Tate Harley (July 10-11) (4/5)
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (July 12-22) (4/5)
The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship by Greg King (July 23-26) (4/5)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (July 26-28) (3/5)
System Collapse by Martha Wells (July 29-31) (3/5)
August
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd (Aug 1-4) (3/5)
A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke (Aug 6-9) (4/5)
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival by Tom Clavin (Aug 9-12) (5/5)
Farallon: Shipwreck and Survival on the Alaska Shore by Steve K. Lloyd (Aug 12-13) (4/5)
The Ice Orphan by Kathleen O'Neal Gear (Aug 14-16) (3/5)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (Aug 16-19) (4/5)
Hemingway's Cats by Lindsey Hooper (Aug 20-22) (3/5)
The Secret Chapter by Genevieve Cogman (Aug 23-26) (4/5)
September
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Aug 26-Sept 6) (4/5)
Falling by T.J. Newman (Sept 6-9) (4/5)
Sivulliq: Ancestor by Lily H. Tuzroyluke (Sept 9-30) (4/5)
Plague Land by S.D. Sykes (Sept 10-14) (3/5)
The Heart of the World: The Life and Death of a Glacier Pilot by Ned Rozell (Sept 15-17) (4/5)
Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long (Sept 18-24) (3/5)
Ice Trek by Ewan Clarkson (Sept 25-27) (4/5)
The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa (Sept 27-29) (3/5)
No One Noticed the Cat by Anne McCaffrey (Sept 29-30) (3/5)
October
In Shackleton's Wake by Arved Fuchs (Oct 1-3) (4/5)
Antarctic Night: One Man's Story of 28,224 Hours at the Bottom of the World by Jack Bursey (Oct 4-6) (4/5)
Follow the River by Paul Greci (Oct 7-8) (4/5)
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George Andrews (Oct 9-15) (4/5)
Where the Irises Bloom by Will Lowrey (Oct 16) (5/5)
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound (Oct 17-27) (4/5)
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku (Oct 29-30) (5/5)
November
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley (Oct 13-Nov 4) (2/5)
A Polar Affair: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins by Lloyd Spencer Davis (Oct 31-Nov 6) (4/5)
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know by Ranulph Fiennes (Nov 7-13) (4/5)
Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle by Mike Horn (Nov 14-20) (4/5)
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason (Nov 21-25) (4/5)
The Skeleton Tree by Iain Lawrence (Nov 26-28) (3/5)
What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley (Nov-28-30) (4/5)
The Hidden Life of Ice: Dispatches from a Disappearing World by Alberto Flores d'Arcais (Nov 30) (3/5)
December
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (Dec 1-15) (5/5). This month's book club book. People were like "I thought of you when it mentioned The Worst Journey in the World!" I waited excitedly for 3 weeks for that haha
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (Dec 2-4) (4/5). Not sure if everything in this is true, but it was an interesting read
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling (Dec 5-6) (5/5). I love books with characters that have disabilities. The main character had no arms (and was super funny about it) and one of her friends had Tourette's. I love how independent and funny the main character was, and definitely want to read the sequel!
The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico (Dec 7-11) (1/5). Absolutely one of the WORST books I've ever read..SUPER annoying characters, anti-Semitism, spousal abuse ("aw honey, you make me do things to you I don't want to do" D:), fat shaming, a violent rape scene where the rapist, when he realizes she's a passenger is like "oh, I thought you were one of the crew!" (As if THAT would make it better?!), and she ends up comforting him. At the end, she thinks fondly of him and actually wishes to have his baby. Wha...WHAT?!? That is just SO wrong and not realistic and all. Ugh
Super Cats: True Tales of Extraordinary Felines by Ashley Morgan (Dec 12-13) (4/5)
Trooper: The Heartwarming Story of the Bobcat Who Became Part of My Family by Forrest Bryant Johnson (Dec 15-18) (4/5)
The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose (Dec 18-21) (5/5). The sequel to The Maid..the main character is definitely autistic lol. Someone told me the second one was disappointing, but I really enjoyed it! Maybe being autistic helps me enjoy it more lol
The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose (Dec 21) (4/5). A lot of people didn't like this one because the mystery was so obvious, which it was..but it was told from the main character's perspective, who is very likely autistic and doesn't pick up on a lot of social cues. It's happened to me..when I got an award at work, I wasn't told beforehand. Mom came to the event dressed up and when I asked why, she said something like "I want to look nice on your special day!" I was a bit confused, but didn't think about it much, and didn't get the hint even when mom started recording the ceremony. I literally said "ME?!?" when Mike announced my name for the award. Looking back the signs were obvious, but they weren't then..so I can definitely relate to the main character lol
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Dec 22-23) (4/5). "What do you call this?" said Joe. "Bed-curtains?" "Ah!" returned the woman, laughing and leaning forward on her crossed arms. "Bed-curtains!" Obviously I had to read this LOL. It is fun saying "bed curtains? Ahhh, bed curtains!" to myself LOL
Snowball's Christmas by Kristen McKanagh (Dec 24-26) (3/5). Not huge into reading romance, but there was a cat in it (partly told from her perspective), so I couldn't resist lol
Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin (Dec 27-30) (4/5). Over a year stranded in the Falkland Islands, after being deserted by your ship? Ouch! The killing of animals in these stories is always so brutal and awful (the sea lion was "peeled like an orange" O_o)
Sometime in August, I read most of Anxious People for book club, but abandoned it when I went to Kansas. I deleted my second reading from Goodreads, but the stats falsely still said 100, which is super weird (I noticed when making the "Books I Read in 2024" list on List Challenges that there were only 99 books). I panicked, and then realized I could probably read the book online, which I did..I couldn't remember exactly where I left off, but I guessed and was able to finish it. Phew!! That definitely saved me lol. Except that now my stats say 101 books read, even though I counted and it's definitely now 100 books. O_o Must be a bug in their system??
I read 33,717 pages altogether (Les Mis was 1,416 of those pages), nice! I can't wait to read more great books in 2025!!
Hope everyone has a great New Year! *throws confetti*
31. Do You Make New Year’s Resolutions? To read lots of books haha. Hopefully there's a 2025 meme out there somewhere that I can find..