1. The last book I gave up on - probably The Underground Railroad for my book group. I am sure it is well written and compelling but the first chapter was so violent and depressing I put it down until it was due at the lib.
3. The last book I bought for myself – The War That Saved My Life. Initially, I read this from the library but recently I bought one copy for myself and one for my niece Katherine, who also loved it.
4. The last book I lost - I lent my hardcover copy of Betsy in Spite of Herself to a friend who was going to Milwaukee with her daughter. I am sure it is somewhere in their house so perhaps not lost forever.
5. The last book I wrote in the margins – when I was in law school, I wrote in the margins of my textbooks but I don’t do this normally. However, within the last couple months I came across an error in a library book and corrected it in light pencil. Someone (perhaps not a librarian) will thank me.
6. The last book I had signed – The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968 by George Howe Colt at the Harvard Coop in November. You can’t get an ebook signed now, can you?
7. The last book I said I read but actually didn't – The Faerie Queene - despite being a 16th century History and Lit major. Sorry, Edmund Spenser!
8. The last book I had to replace – Autumn Term by Antonia Forest. Both my copies are missing and although I hope they will turn up, I didn’t want to risk not being able to find one so I ordered a paperback from England several months ago.
9. The last book I argued over – Dawn’s Early Light by Elswyth Thane. I was practically (but not quite) speechless when some of my book group did not appreciate one of my absolute favorite books.
10. The last book I couldn’t find – I read about an Irish mystery series by Jo Spain but the first entry, With Our Blessing, had not been published in the US so I had to order it from England.
11. The last book I insisted someone read – The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen. This is the first in a great series about two detectives.
12. The last book I gave as a gift – I like to give every reader in my family a book for Christmas. One I gave this year was The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh, part of an appealingly repackaged Crime Classics series I saw in England (and had to restrain myself from bringing them all home) from the British Library. I chose this one for my mother because of our trip to the other Cambridge in April.
I really enjoyed The War That Saved My Life. Have you read the sequel yet? It's on my TBR list for 2019.
ReplyDeleteI gave up halfway through The Faerie Queene, but did come clean with my tutor... man, it's dull.
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