Real Name
cindy
About My Library

I read a variety of books, and continue to expand my reading by taking up works in translation. Along with fiction, I read sci fi, fantasy, historic fiction. Non fiction includes biographies, travel narratives, essays, history (ancient, medieval, world) science.

List of favorite reads from 2016, my first year on LT

T[no hurry to get home] Emily Hahn

F[infinite home] Kathleen Alcott

F[my name is lucy barton] Eliz Strout

NF[day of honey]Annia Ciezaldo

NF[view from the cheap seats] Neil Gaiman

F[the life before us] Romain Gary

F[americahnah]Chitra Adiche

SF[a darker shade of magic]VE Schwab] series

NF[hag seed] Margaret Atwood

T[no one told me not to go] Emily Hahn

NF[you will not have my hate]Antione Leirs


P[three tall women]Albee

2017

[johannes cabal necromancer] Jonathan Howard series

F[astray] Emma Donogue

F[the kindness of enemies]Leila Aboula

E [known and stranger things] Teja Cole

SF [the 15 lives of Henry August] Claire North

SF [the sudden appearnce of hope] Claire North

E[after the parade] Lori Osthing

F [the girl in the tower] Kathrenn Arden series

2018

SF [way station] Simak

F [overneath] peter beagle

F [i am i am i am] Maggie Farrell

F[a gentleman from moscow] Amor Towles

P [revolution: hamilton]Lin Manuel Maranda

F [lamb] Christopher Moore

SF [circe] Madlene Miller

NF [life in a garden] Penelope Lively

HF[bring up the bodies] Hilary Mantel

F [Mary B] Katherine J chen

NF [the library book] Susan Orlean

2019

HF [Little] Edward Carey

F [so big] Edna Ferber

NF/S [polio an american story]

NF/H [patrick fermoor a life in lettrs]

NF/H[broken road] patrick Fermoor

F[news of the world] Paullet Jiles

F[inland]Tea Obreht

F[the great believers] Rebecca Makkai

NF[autumn light] Pico Iyer

B[becoming dr seuss] Brian Jay Jones

M[cello suites]

SS [paper menagerie] Ken Liu

2020

B [little women abroad]Daniel Shealy

HF [the mirror and the light] hilary mantel]

F [little fires everywhere]Celest Ng

NF[a more heavenlly sphere] dana horn

SS [stories of your life]Ted Chiang

F[girl woman others] Bernadine Evaristo

HF [a man on a donkey]HFM prescott]

Fan [the poppy war]RF Kuang

F [the vanishing half] Brit Bennet

HF [daughter of time] Josephine Tey

HF[queen of swords] judith tarr

Fan [the fifth season] NK Jemison (series)

F[you have arrived at your destination] Amor Towles

SF [this is how you lose the time war] Max Gladstore

F[Hamnet] Maggie Ofarrel

HF [finding dorothry] eliz letts

E[great migrations] Margaret Renkle

SS [Mantel pieces] hillary mantel

F [the offfice of historical corrections Danielle evans

2021

HF [inside and out again]Thanha Lai

H [the bayeaux tapestry] John collingwood Bruce

HF [to calais in ordinary time]james meek

H/T [travels with Herodutos]Ryszard Kapuscinski

H [the rise and fall of thomas cromwell] John Schofield

Fan [Adridne] jennifer saint

YA [the ordinary princess]MM Kaye

HF [th laughing boy] Oliver La Farge

F [the short reign of pippin the IV] steinbeck

SS [the frozen themes] helen humphreys

SS [how long till black future month NK Jemison

H [Lady Joan of wales]Messner

YA [the girl who drank the sun]Kelly Burnhill

YA [young ladies] Kelly burnhill

YA [witches boy] Kelly burnhill

GN [the musuem of purgatory] Nic k Bantock series

T [black himm] Bruce Chatwin

2022

F [the five thousand and one nights] Penelopy Lively

RT[the island of missing tres] Elif Shafak

RT [the silence of scheade] DeenSuman

NF S [chasing spring] bruce stulz

RT [wrong end of the telescope]Rabih Atmendin

RT [day of honey]

RT [damnificados] JJ Amawor Wilson

NF[a thousand ships] Natalie Hynes

RT [I write you from tehran]

RT [by the sea] Abdulrazak Gurnah

NF [the children of jocasta]

RT [memories moscow to the black sea] Teffi

RT[the best ot Teffi]

RT [my fathers notebook] Kader Abdolah

H/T [sovietistan] Erika Fatland

Fan [when women were dragons]

F [the dictionary of lost words] Pip Williams

F [zorrie] Laird Hunt

RT [the day lasts more than 100 years] Chingiz Aitmatar

RT [jamillia]Chingiz Aitmatar

H/T [the border] Erika fatland

NF [packing my library] alberto Manguel

F [mother in law] Sally Hepworth

NF/H [history of reading] Alberto Manguel

F[afterlive] Julia Alvarez

H/Fan [she who became the sun] KF Kuan

E [autumn] ali smith

RT [my brillant life] Ae-ran Kim

F [book of illusions] Paul Auster

F [crying in Hmart] Michelle Zaunerr

F [our missing hearts] Celest NG

B[terry pratchett a life with footnotes][rob wilkins]

F [stone blind] Natalie Hynes

F [limbo] Huxley

E [burning questions] margaret atwood

2023

H [back to the front] stephen oshea

F [haven] emma donogue

nf tv [mel brookks all about me]

ss [these precious days] Ann Patchett

sci [babel] R F Kuang

f [bridge over the san luis ray] thorton wilder

f [first wife][paulina chizane

f [garden of light] amin maaloug

f [the brothers ashkennazi] singer

f [Lighthouse keeping] jeanetter winterstone

sci[the avram davidson treasury]

non f [africa is not a country] Dipo falyin

fan/h [hidden palace] helene wecker

f [show boat] edna farber

non f [mixed harvest]rob swighart

f[evening chorus] helen humprys

T/H[border on the edge of europe]

B [orwells roses]

H [the lost education of horace tate]

f[asray] emma donogue

f[scarlett song] Miriam Ba

f [here at the end of the world we dance]lloyd james

sci [one day this will all be yours]

f [ancestor stones] amiante forne

2024







About Me

life long reader, retired after 35 years of teaching early childhood special ed, finally have time to read, tho still not enough to make a dent in my TBR shelves. My dh also loves to read. we enjoy our lovely yard and our cats and are grateful for all we have


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