Sergei's Reading Log 2020

Here we go again... 😀

How many books out there for me in 2020?

No. of books read per month:

January - 12
February - 10
March - 11
April - 6
May - 9
June - 12
July - 10
August - 14
September - 6
October - 6
November - 6
December - 14

Grand total - 116

1) 2 January 2020 - Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie 3.5★s

I love Poirot! Great choice to begin your fresh year of reading.
Good luck with all of your challenges in 2020.

>3 rainpebble: Thanks rainpebble, and good luck to you with yours, ☺️.

2) 4 January 2020 - Where Memories Lie - Deborah Crombie 4★s

3) 6 January 2020 - Many Rivers to Cross - Peter Robinson 4★s

4) 8 January 2020 - The Fair Maid of Bohemia - Edward Marston 4★s

5) 9 January 2020 - A Stranger in the Family - Robert Bernard 3.5★s

6) 13 January 2020 - Evil Games - Angela Marsons 4.5★s (group read)

7) 13 January 2020 - Backlash - Sally Spencer 3.5★s

8) 14 January 2020 - Murder on the Brighton Express - Edward Marston 4★s

9) 17 January 2020 - A Dirty Death - Rebecca Tope 4★s

10) 20 January 2020 - Murder Underground - Mavis Doriel Hay 4.5★s

11) 22 January 2020 - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy - Rachel Joyce 5★s + ❤️

>14 Sergeirocks: I loved this book too, perhaps even more than The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry , although hard to separate them out. Such beautiful books.

12) 26 January 2020 - Death of a Friend - Rebecca Tope 4★s

JANUARY TOTAL - 12 BOOKS

13) 2 February 2020 - A Painted Doom - Kate Ellis 4.25★s (group read)

14) 2 February 2020 - The Accomplice - Marcus Galloway 4.5★s

15) 4 February 2020 - Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories - Andrea Camilleri 4.5★s

16) 10 February 2020 - Requiem for a Wren - Nevil Shute 5★s

17) 10 February 2020 - Bucking the Tiger - Marcus Galloway 4.5★s

18) 16 February 2020 - Final Option - Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison 5★s (group read)

19) 20 February 2020 - The President is Missing - Bill Clinton and James Patterson 4★s

20) 26 February 2020 - The Silent Partner - Marcus Galloway 4.5★s

21) 28 February 2020 - The Silver Locomotive Mystery - Edward Marston 4★s

22) 29 February 2020 - A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4★s

FEBRUARY TOTAL - 10 BOOKS

>28 Sergeirocks: Did you count The Stone Circle in your February book count?

>29 Carol420: No, I haven't, Carol - I'm still reading it! ☺️ It'll count towards March's total.

23) 2 March 2020 - Cheryl - My Story - Cheryl Cole 3.5★s

24) 2 March 2020 - The Stone Circle - Elly Griffiths 5★s + ❤️ (group read)

25) 4 March 2020 - Nine Lessons - Nicola Upson 4.5★s

26) 5 March 2020 - Death of a Kingfisher - M. C. Beaton 4★s

27) 8 March 2020 - Cause for Alarm - Eric Ambler 4.5★s

28) 10 March 2020 - Death of Yesterday - M. C. Beaton 4★s

29) 13 March 2020 - The Murder Wall - Mari Hannah 4★s

30) 14 March 2020 - Celebrations in Burracombe - Lilian Harry 4.5★s (round tuit)

31) 22 March 2020 - The Lookout Man - B. M. Bower 4.5★s

32) 26 March 2020 - The Collectors - David Baldacci 5★s (group read)

33) 31 March 2020 - A Pale Horse - Charles Todd 4★s

MARCH TOTAL - 11 BOOKS

34) 5 April 2020 - Death Comes as the End - Agatha Christie 4★s

35) 10 April 2020 - The Devil Colony - James Rollins 5★s (group read)

36) 21 April 2020 - Stone Cold - David Baldacci 5★s + ❤️ (group read)

37) 24 April 2020 - When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson 4★s

>46 Sergeirocks: This is the next one up for me in the series, need to get to it.

38) 30 April 2020 - The Black Ice - Michael Connelly 3★s (group read)

39) 30 April 2020 - An Officer and a Spy - Robert Harris 4★s

APRIL TOTAL - 6 BOOKS

Worst total I think I've ever had - even as a child... Bad times.

40) 3 May 2020 - The Overnight Kidnapper - Andrea Camilleri 4★s

>50 Sergeirocks: Hey Sergei - sending you a note of hope and hoping your bad times will get better.

>52 threadnsong: Gratefully received, threadnsong; and may all our bad times get better soon, 🙂.

>52 threadnsong: >53 Sergeirocks: Amen to that!

41) 13 May 2020 - Divine Justice - David Baldacci 5★s + ❤️ (group read)

42) 16 May 2020 - Into the Blue - Robert Goddard 4.5★s

43) 16 May 2020 - The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4★s

44) 26 May 2020 - A Dark and Twisted Tide - Sharon Bolton 4★s (group read)

45) 26 May 2020 - Blue Above the Chimneys - Christine Marion Fraser 4★s (round tuit)

46) 30 May 2020 - Railway to the Grave - Edward Marston 4★s

47) 31 May 2020 - Tippi - Tippi Hedren 3★s (round tuit)

48) 31 May 2020 - The Man Who Cried - Catherine Cookson 3.5★s

MAY TOTAL - 9 BOOKS

49) 1 June 2020 - Just As Long as We're Together - Judy Blume 3.5★s

50) 5 June 2020 - The Brewer of Preston - Andrea Camilleri 3.5★s

51) 7 June 2020 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick 4.5★s

>66 Sergeirocks: Love Phillip K. Dick. I think I have all the DVD's that were made from his books.

>67 Carol420: He hadn't been on my radar until I saw JulieLill's post on the 'What are we Reading' thread. Finding the book available on archive.org, I thought I'd give it a try (I haven't even seen the film - odd, seeing as I do like sci-fi) and I'm glad I did, could hardly bear to put the book down, 🙂.

52) 11 June 2020 - The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion 4.5★s

53) 12 June 2020 - Six Foot Six - Kit de Waal 4★s

54) 15 June 2020 - As Time Goes By - Harry Bowling 4★s

55) 21 June 2020 - Hell's Corner - David Baldacci 5★s (group read)

>68 Sergeirocks: It was a good one. Depressing as all )(*& but very well done. I saw the movie when it came out, and started to watch it again on the redux version, and I think I preferred the book. I should watch the end, though: Rutgar Hauer's speech (as the android) is supposed to be one of the best.

>73 threadnsong: Thanks, threadnsong, I'll keep my eyes out for it.

56) 23 June 2020 - The Arsenic Labyrinth - Martin Edwards 4.5★s

57) 25 June 2020 - Silent Court - M. J. Trow 4.5★s

58) 27 June - The Sign of the Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4★s

59) 28 June 2020 - Cold Pursuit - Judith Cutler 3.5★s

60) 30 June 2020 - One Enchanted Evening - Anton du Beke 4★s

JUNE TOTAL - 12 BOOKS

61) 2 July 2020 - The Other End of the Line - Andrea Camilleri 4.5★s

62) 6 July 2020 - Berry and Co. - Dornford Yates 4★s

63) 8 July 2020 - Marnie - Winston Graham 4.5★s

64) 11 July 2020 - It Takes One to Know One - Isla Dewar 4.5★s

65) 12 July 2020 - Everywhere That Mary Went - Lisa Scottoline 4★s

66) 21 July 2020 - Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood 3★s

67) 25 July 2020 - Rogue's Gallery - Robert Barnard 4.5★s

68) 28 July 2020 - A Caribbean Mystery - Agatha Christie 4★s

69) 28 July 2020 - The Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly 4.5★s (group read)

70) 31 July 2020 - Well of the Winds - Denzil Meyrick 4.5★s

JULY TOTAL - 10 BOOKS

71) 4 August 2020 - Out of the Sun - Robert Goddard 5★s + ❤️

72) 4 August 2020 - Let 'Er Buck - Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 3★s

73) 6 August 2020 - Mist Over the Water - Alys Clare 3.5★s

74) 7 August 2020 - Constable on the Hill - Nicholas Rhea 3.5★s

75) 9 August 2020 - A Full Churchyard - Nicholas Rhea 3★s

76) 9 August 2020 - The Last Stetson - John Fox Jr. 3.5★s

77) 12 August 2020 - Moonlight over Mayfair - Anton du Beke 4.25★s

78) 15 August 2020 - Salute to Adventurers - John Buchan 4.5★s

79) 20 August 2020 - Laying the Ghost - Judy Astley 3★s

80) 20 August 2020 - The Falls - Ian Rankin 5★s

81) 23 August 2020 - CATch a Killer - Nancy C. Davis 2.25★s

82) 24 August 2020 - The Sleeping and the Dead - Ann Cleeves 4.25★s

83) 26 August 2020 - Burying the Past - Judith Cutler 4★s

84) 28 August 2020 - Devil at the Crossroads - Olive Etchells 4.25★s

AUGUST TOTAL - 14 BOOKS

85) 3 September 2020 - Death of a Century - Daniel Robinson 5★s

Well done 👏👏👏

>108 Andrew-theQM: Thanks, Andrew. Best reading month of the year, but it has been a slow year...

86) 6 September 2020 - A Woman's Fortune - Josephine Cox 3.5★s

87) 13 September 2020 - Next of Kin - Joanna Trollope 4★s

88) 15 September 2020 - Lost Girls - Angela Marsons 5★s (group read)

89) 19 September 2020 - Windermere Witness - Rebecca Tope 3.5★s

90) 26 September 2020 - Gently Where the Roads Go - Alan Hunter 4.5★s

SEPTEMBER TOTAL - 6 BOOKS

91) 4 October 2020 - The Skeleton Room - Kate Ellis 4.5★s (group read)

92) 7 October 2020 - The House on Half Moon Street - Alex Reeve 4★s

93) 13 October 2020 - Where Shadows Dance - C. S. Harris 5★s (group read)

94) 18 October 2020 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 4.5★s

95) 26 October 2020 - Blood on the Line - Edward Marston 3.5★s

96) 31 October 2020 - Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë 4★s

OCTOBER TOTAL - 6 BOOKS

97) 11 November 2020 - Island of Secrets - Rachel Rhys 3.5★s

98) 15 November 2020 - Dunster - John Mortimer 4★s

99) 18 November 2020 - The Keeper of Secrets - Judith Cutler 4★s

100) 21 November 2020 - Mystery in Prior's Ford - Evelyn Hood 4★s

101) 23 November 2020 - Death Comes to the Fair - Catherine Lloyd 4★s

102) 27 November 2020 - Black River - Joss Stirling 4★s

NOVEMBER TOTAL - 6 BOOKS

103) 1 December 2020 - A Tale of Two Murders - Heather Redmond 3.5★s

104) 4 December 2020 - Hard Frost - R. D. Wingfield 4★s

105) 7 December 2020 - Return to Prior's Ford - Evelyn Hood 4★s

106) 11 December 2020 - Grave Expectations - Heather Redmond 4★s

107) 14 December 2020 - A Christmas Carol Murder - Heather Redmond 4.5★s

108) 18 December 2020 - Turning Angel - Greg Iles 4★s

109) 24 December 2020 - Mistletoe and Murder - Robin Stevens 3.5★s

110) 21 December 2020 - Never Go Back - Robert Goddard 5★s

111) 24 December 2020 - The Double Eagle Has Landed - Anthony Horowitz 4★s

112) 24 December 2020 - Mistletoe and Murder - Robin Stevens 3.5★s

113) 28 December 2020 - Moonflower Murders - Anthony Horowitz 4★s

114) 29 December 2020 - The Falcon's Malteser - Anthony Horowitz 4.5★s

115) 31 December 2020 - Festival in Prior's Ford - Evelyn Hood 4★s

116) 31 December 2020 - The Beach Wedding - Dorothy Koomson 5★s

DECEMBER TOTAL - 14 BOOKS

YEAR'S TOTAL 116

Not my best year, covid has a lot to answer for... Hopefully, 2021 will be better.

That’s still a great total Sergei, and a great end to the year! Happy New Year 🥳🥳🥳🥳