Year of reading 2018: Part 1 – My top 14

Posted on January 1, 2019 by WordsAndPeace

Year of reading 2018
Part 1
My top 14

To follow my tradition, here is part 1 of my yearly recap.
There is a total of 3 parts:

my favorites, with my usual categories, see here below
my stats
my fun list with titles

With only 77 books read, this is my most pathetic year in the last decade.
My final choice is based on the quality of the book, on how it resonated with me and my own experience, and on how it stayed with me. Some of these books may actually have got only 4 out 5 Eiffel Towers at the time I read them.

MY FAVORITES

click on the covers to access either my review,
or the Goodreads page for the couple of titles I have not reviewed yet

PRINT COPIES

Fiction	Historical Fiction	NonFiction	Mystery

EBOOKS

Fiction	Historical Fiction	NonFiction	Mystery

AUDIOBOOKS

Fiction	NonFiction		Mystery

OTHER

GRAPHIC “NOVEL”

SPIRITUAL BOOK

BOOK COVER

DO YOU HAVE SOME FAVORITES
IN COMMON WITH MINE?

MORE FUN RECAP TOMORROW!

HAPPY NEW YEAR OF READING TO YOU!

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My 2018 Goodreads year in books

Posted on December 12, 2018 by WordsAndPeace

For each user, Goodreads just published their “My Year in Books” post.
please click on the logo to read mine.

I never understand why they do this so early: yes, I will not reach my 100 books goal, but I should be able to read 10 more before the end of the year.

Three books that stand out:

Killing Commendatore
is highlighted as the longest book I read this year. And I enjoyed each of its 688 pages.

Love and Invention
is listed as the Highest rated on Goodreads: 4.86! Congrats to Benjamin Constable

I Let You Go
is the most popular of my 2018 reads: 96,330 other people read it as well.
I gave it 4 stars, but didn’t take time to review it!

At the beginning of 2019, I will be publishing my detailed statistics for 2018.

ANY SURPRISE IN YOUR YEAR IN BOOKS?

2018: October wrap-up

Posted on November 1, 2018 by WordsAndPeace

October wrap-up

Ah, it’s about time! Here is finally a rather decent month of reading. With really nice titles as well!

Here is what I read in October:

9 books:
7 in print
= with 2,373 pages, an average of 76.5 pages/day
2 in audio
= with 27H27, an average of 53 mn/day

4 in fiction:

Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver – ebook, for review
Killing Commendatore, by Murakami
Being There, by Jerzy Kosinski
While Beauty Slept, by Elizabeth Blackwell – audio

2 in mystery:

On la trouvait plutôt jolie, de Michel Bussi- audio
Newcomer, by Keigo Higashino – for review. My book review is supposed to be soon published on Criminal Element.

1 in historical fiction: