2025 Reading Challenge discussion

After a big big goal in 2021 to get to 100. I am lowering the goal because I found myself motivated to hit the goal and at times no longer enjoying the reading!

#1 - The Unhoneymooners. By Christina Lauren

Loved it

#2 - Sycamore Roe by John Grisham

Loved this book. I liked that it was resolved in an untraditional way.

#3 - Virgin River # 9 Forbidden Falls by Robyn Carr

I love this series

#4 To Sir Phillips With Love by Julia Quinn. My least favorite of the Bridgerton series

#5 Wolfpack by Abby Womback. A great pick me up for being a strong woman

#6 I am Malala by Malala such an incredible story

#7 Outlander. Sooo slow. Fun. But sooo slow. Will not continue series

#8. Bride Test by Helen Hoang. Slow at the beginning it is a great rom com

#9 confessions of a domestic failure by Bunmi Laditan it is a bit over the top but relatable on so many levels

#10. Three sisters by Heather Morris. Incredible WW2 survival story

#11 - Not A Happy Family

Sooo great!

#12 - Coraline

So great!!! Quick and easy read

#13 - Angels Peak Virgin River #9

I love this series. A predictable easy read

#14- The Night She Disappeared

This was an amazing mystery.

#15 - The Book Thief

Written from deaths perspective through WW2. It was amazing.

#16 - Apples Never Fall

This is a great murder mystery. It clearly was written kid pandemic.

#16 Moonlight Road by Robyn Carr

I got hooked into this series

#18 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley

#19 - TheRosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

#20 The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth

#21Promise Canyon by Robyn Carr

#22 - Midnight Confession by Robyn Carr

#23 - The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis

#24 - When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn

#25 - True Colors by Kristin Hannah

#26 - This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

#27 - The Warsaw Orphan - Kelly Rimmer

#28 - Wild Man Creek - Virgin River #12 - Robyn Carr

#29 - Somebody's Daughter - Ashley C. Ford

#30 - Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in WW2 - Daniel James Brown.

This is a story every American needs to read. It is powerful

#31 - How t Fail at Flirting - Denise Williams

#32 - Rush - Lisa Patton

#33 - Harvest Moon (Virgin River 13) - Robyn Carr

#34 - Bring Me Home for Christmas (VirginRiver #14 - Robyn Carr

#35 - Hidden Summit - Virgin River #15 - Robyn Carr

#36 - Redwood Bend - Virgin River #16 - Robyn Carr

#37 - Sunrise Point - Virgin River #17 - Robyn Carr

#38 - My Kind of Christmas - Virgin River #18 - Robyn Carr

#39 - Return to Virgin River - Virgin River #19 - Robyn Carr

#40 - Before I let You Go - Kelly Rimmer

#41 - The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired - Daniel J. Siegel

#42 - The Love Connection #1 - Denise Williams

#43 - The Book of Longings - Sue Monk Kidd

#44 - The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller

#45 - Girl in the Blue Coat - Monica Hesse

Wonderful YA book about the Holocaust

#46 - It's in His Kiss - Bridgertons #7 - Julia Quinn

#47 - On the Come Up = Angie Thomas

#48 - The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood

#49 - My Grandmother's Hands - Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem