All About Books discussion

I have this thing about too many unfinished projects... And that includes books. So last year I randomly started finishing books or banishing them to a dnf shelf. It was working great. I have a few titles left. Some I started As early as 2014. Some are returning to this list and some are new.

3 ⭐️ after 2 years, it too a preschooler to get me to find the magic of this book Winnie-the-Pooh

Leading Physicians Through Change: How To Achieve And Sustain Results

(Almost done) Zero to Five: 70 Essential Parenting Tips Based on Science

4 ⭐️. Will read sections of the paper book to be able to apply more concepts. 17 months with many being waiting for it to come back to being available from the library! Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

The Girl on the Train

Read. Switched to audiobook after 6 months. 3 ⭐️ The Memory Keeper's Daughter

TOSS Feed Jan 16 2018. Just bad. Anyone want my copy?

3 ⭐️ July 2018An Ember in the Ashes ok. Would love to get the next in series if I could find the audiobook.

3 ⭐️ started strong but went on too long The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

NEED TO RE-Read July 2018 Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

3.5 ⭐️ Oct 2018 The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich I can’t relate to the business aspect. Will be getting paper copy. Doing some of the homework with the goal of working while traveling this summer.

Oct 2018 NEED TO re-read When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Ok I have 2 of this out of the library and a copy someone left at work. I finally listened to the audiobook. Now it’s back on my to-read list but on paper form next. Recommend. 4 ⭐️

It looks like I've left most of the non-fiction when I see this list.

Yes, and the procrastination one is still on the list! So funny : )

It’s still on the library wait list!! Must be a lot of procrastination in Sk

Wow, that’s a long wait

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Memory Keeper’s Daughter mentions various us states and France.

The 6:41 to Paris was set in France with memories of London

Behind Closed Doors England and a small room in Thailand?!?

The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2018

The Trespasser Ireland

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia deep in North Carolina hillbilly land??

A Thousand Splendid Suns Afghanistan Highly recommend this one.

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster Belarus. An important read.

MThe Art of Hearing Heartbeats Berma/Myanmar. Sitting on my to-read since 2013

Paris in Love Paris France 2 ⭐️

Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077 Canada 2 ⭐️ for a Canada Reads nominee, it was disappointing

Bird's Eye View highly recommend this unique perspective on WW2 set in Canada and UK

Read 5 biographies

Way of Letting Go, The

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia

Paris in Love read purposely for the fact it was a memoir. 2 ⭐️

Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On and finally a good one 4 ⭐️

Wishful Drinking extremely disappointing book about and by Carrie Fisher. 2 ⭐️

Read 5 other Non- fiction

The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2018

Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Setting Boundaries with Difficult People: A Survival Guide for People Pleasers

Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World. Not really by the DL


Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077 Canada 2 ⭐️ for a Canada Reads nominee, it was disappointing

The 4-Hour Workweek

Read 5 award winners or banned
Charlotte's Web banner and award winner. A favourite childhood book

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

The Dispossessed lots to think about

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories short stories winner

The Clan of the Cave Bear what took me so long to read this amazing book. Thank you Recommendation Swap.

5 books on my shelf
Jan 2018 The Memory Keeper's Daughter

April 2018 Winnie-the-Pooh

June 2018 The Mouse and the Motorcycle

July 2018 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

oct 2018 When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

Jennifer wrote: "I have this thing about too many unfinished projects... And that includes books. So last year I randomly started finishing books or banishing them to a dnf shelf. It was working great. I have a few..."

50% of books on the started and to finish list done.

Jennifer wrote: "Read 5 biographies

Way of Letting Go, The

Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia"

So far my biographies choices haven’t been great.

Challenges

2 biographies since the one « by » the DL wasn’t
1 more award/banned
1 more of shelf
Still some finish or toss but where are they mid-renovation?

Challenges
1 more banned
2 more read or toss

What a year! Why do so many biographies suck? So many audiobooks.

Next year will do some focused NF reading on: parenting, self-care and ?