What are we reading in December?

Merry December, everyone! What are you reading in this final month of the year? I'm currently in the middle of Slightly Sinful by Mary Balogh. How about you?

Wow, our last month of the year! I am reading The River by Peter Heller and Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher. The Heller novel is built around a canoe trip in Northern Canada. It is fast paced and exciting. Alphabet of Dreams is set at the time of the birth of Jesus and is about two children, one of whose dreams can predict the future.

Today I finished The Traveller and Other Stories, by Stuart Neville. I have a lot of crime on deck so of course I am gravitating to a sci-fi book in the pile: Amorality Tale, a Doctor Who novel by David Bishop.

I finished the 5th Johnson Johnson spy thriller today - Split Code. I have been enjoying this series despite the fact that in spots it shows its age (written in the 1960s & 70s).

In progress I have a reread of A Farewell to Arms (which has been neglected the past week or so) and a library book, I'll Go to Bed at Noon, both of which I started for November KITs/CATs. Oh well...

I started Gerald Durrell's A Zoo in My Luggage in audiobook for a change in pace.

I'm skimming through Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach for my book club next week. I read this a few years ago but thought I might skim it. Also I'm reading The Dressmaker's Gift by Fiona Valpy which was supposed to be my book for the October Alpha Kit and The Gardener's Bed book by Richardson Wright which I've been reading all year.

I am reading A Crime of a Different Stripe by Sally Goldenbaum, which is part of a series of mystery novels featuring a group of women (the Seaside Knitters). Having read the others in the series, I feel as if they are family by now.

I've started A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik, which I'm really enjoying so far, even though it's quite different from her other books.

Reading An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. It fills in the last square on my BingoDOG card for this year -- a book set in Asia -- and also completes an Alphabet Challenge that I started seven years ago! Yes, I'm slow. But persistent.

Today I finished The Glass Room, by Ann Cleeves.

Switching gears, or maybe tracks, with Railway Nation, a history of the Canadian Pacific Railway by David Laurence Jones.

I am reading Seven Years in Tibet, Arabella by Georgette Heyer and Hearing Secret Harmonies by Anthony Powell.

I read Sailor's Night Before Christmas and An Irish Country Christmas.

Continued the Vera Stanhope series by reading The Glass Room, by Ann Cleeves.

Next up in crime is The Less Dead, by Denise Mina, which I'd actually borrowed a while back but ran out of time to finish. So I'll skim through what I've read already, then pick up the rest.

Just finished Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell that was wonderful. It deserved every one of the five stars I gave it.

After a couple of so-so reads, I am treating myself to some Murderbot stories with Rogue Protocol and Exit Strategy. I am also about to return to a zombie series by David Moody with Autumn: Disintegration.

Now reading Stalking Point, by Duncan Kyle. It's partly set in Canada, which I was not expecting :D

I recently blew through two Christmasy short stories/novellas, Take a Look at the Five and Ten by Connie Willis and Missing Christmas by Kate Clayborn. Now I'm starting Gaudy Night for the group read!

I'm having fun reading The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries. I'm also finishing In The Country and A Good Marriage.

>10 pamelad: Aw, Arabella is tempting me to reread it now...

I have finished A Zoo in My Luggage, decided to give up for now on A Farewell to Arms and have been ignoring I'll Go to Bed at Noon in order to read Gaudy Night & Busman's Honeymoon followed by The Whisper in the Gloom. I have also been dipping into several of my sci fi/fantasy short story anthologies.

I am currently reading An Amish Cookie Club Courtship and Always a Guest.

Decided to pick up More Than a Woman, by Caitlin Moran, today. Of the several library books due back tomorrow, it has the most holds on it. But I had to check first to make sure I hadn't put it on my Christmas list! (Turns out I'd put How to Be Famous on my list instead.)

Finally finished I'll Go to Bed at Noon - well written but I found the content a bit depressing (it is about a dysfunctional family with particular problems with alcoholism).

Then I breezed through several young adult audiobooks - On Two Feet and Wings (4.5*), The Name of the Star (3.5*) and Wild Bird (4*).

And today I read the latest Louise Penny mystery, All the Devils Are Here, in one big gulp :)

Read a couple short things over the weekend -- Jackie Lau's One Bed for Christmas and Jean Merrill's The Girl from the Diadem. Now I've started a reread of Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier.

I am reading a light-hearted Christmas romance with Covent Garden in the Snow by Jules Wake and I have just started The Purity of Vengeance by Jussi Adler-Olsen.

I just finished A Christmas Carol Murder which I also read in one sitting. Very creepy and atmospheric, with elements of Dickens and Sherlock Holmes too.

I liked More Than a Woman and will have to get my own copy eventually. Now I'm reading some Agatha Christie: An Overdose of Death.

I'm about halfway through A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas, book 2 in the Lady Sherlock series. I'm really enjoying it (the book and the series) thus far!

Feeling the need to binge some Jeopardy! as I read Answers in the Form of Questions, by Claire McNear.

I am reading A Christmas Resolution by Anne Perry.

I am reading Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth which is really holding my attention. I also picked up the final book in the Thrush Green series, Christmas at Thrush Green and I am enjoying my stroll back in time to the Cotswolds of the (I think) 1960s.

Today I finished The Relentless Moon, by Mary Robinette Kowal, and will continue the "moon" theme with Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice.

I've finished Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng and The Seventeen Second Miracle by Jason F Wright, both books for the Alpha Kit this month. Now I'm reading News of the World by Paulette Jiles and The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony which is for my book club next month.

I finished the Anne Perry book and now I am reading A Midnight Carol which is a fiction work about Charles Dickens.

Argh, my e-hold on Moon of the Crusted Snow expired, so I'll have to try AGAIN.

In the meantime, not sure what to pick up. Might be time for another re-read. Life, the Universe and Everything perhaps.

I have reluctantly begun Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart. I'm wary of too much misery in my novels right now, but so far it's ok.

>33 rabbitprincess: Oh yay, I was able to get an e-copy of Moon of the Crusted Snow from my hometown library. So I am back in business.

I'm reading Byzantium: the early centuries by John Julius Norwich, getting a head start on the HistoryCAT. This is the first volume of a trilogy, so I won't run out of Byzantine reading before January.

A productive reading day. Finished Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice; and Shockwave, a Doctor Who audio by James Swallow, read by Sophie Aldred and Ian Brooker.

I read Jingle All the Way which was an okay read for NetGalley, a bit disjointed. I am now reading Twice as Nice which is a set of two short stories, and also The Mischief of the Mistletoe which has been on my TBR list for several years.

I'm currently reading Olivia Atwater's Half a Soul. I'm a sucker for Regency romance plus magic!

Today I started The Matter of Wales, by Jan Morris, which I have a feeling will carry over into the new year.

My last book of 2020 will be The Facts of Life and Death by Belinda Bauer.

I'm supposed to be reading The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony for my book club next week, but I haven't picked it up in over a week. I've also started Glass Houses by Louise Penny which will be my first book for next year if I read slowly enough. Very hard to do.

My last book will be The Au Pair, which I will need to finish before Friday, as I like to start the new year with a new book!

My last book will be To Love and be Wise by Josephine Tey. Like >43 lsh63: I like to start the year (month) with a new book so I'm reading at every chance I get.

I'm trying to squeeze in one last book for 2020, so I've gone with a novella -- A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong by Cecilia Grant. Cute so far!

>36 pamelad: I read all three in quick sucession a number of years ago. Fascinating stuff. Not exactly light reading, but engaging.

Inspired by Jackie_K pointing out that I was one away from having *100* own-books read this year, I'm reading Myths of the Norsemen, by Roger Lancelyn Green. This is a re-read from my childhood. You can tell how much I liked it by how dinged-up my copy is :D