BookDoc16: Digging Deeper in 2021

I'm going to start the year reading my "thicker" volumes that I haven't tackled before (mainly classics). If I'm brave enough, I might even try Joyce's Ulysses! I'll intersperse them with lighter (meaning, "quicker") reading. Wish me luck!

The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
Paw and Order - Spencer Quinn

Best of luck with tackling those thicker volumes, and especially if you try Ulysses!

Tomes can be tough, good luck!

Happy new year of reading and ROOTing and good luck with your goals. I’ve got Ulysses on my TBR pile too but not sure if 2021 will be the year for it :)

Hi BookDoc. Good to see you back again. Happy ROOTing.

Welcome back, and good luck with those chunksters! (you're braver than me!)

Do you have a specific goal?

Happy ROOTing!

>8 cyderry: cyderry: Most years I shoot for 50 or 60 books; with the sizable volumes I'm tackling this year, probably a shorter count!

CHANGE OF PLAN: I'm starting differently than planned. Seems I've joined a pair of new, themed reading groups my wife recommended. The January theme for one (monthly by the book's title) is the word "dream"; for the other (an around-the-world-themed book list) is "the Arctic/Antarctic." So I'm hitting two birds w/ one stone by reading my old copy of Barry Lopez's 1985 book "Arctic Dreams." It's 400+ pages, so I guess it still fits my original goal... Onward!

Good change, BookDoc.

>11 BookDoc16: Nice - I read Arctic Dreams last year and thought it was fabulous.

Nice! I love when you can use a book for multiple challenges :)

Arctic Dreams

A Purple Place for Dying - John D. MacDonald*
Green Mansions - W. H. Hudson
The Beast Must Die - Nicholas Blake

Good to see you have been reading some of the ROOTs, BD.

Born a Crime - Trevor Noah

>18 BookDoc16: I loved that book so much!

Sacred Time - Ursula Hegi
The Case of the Reluctant Model - Erle Stanley Gardner
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov*
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann

Professor Van Dusen: The Thinking Machine - Jacques Futrelle
Darker than Amber - John D. MacDonald*
Sundiver - David Brin

Just popping in to wish you and yours a Happy Easter.

And a hope that you also had a pleasant Paschal, connie53! Sorry I didn't see this sooner; we were away from home for a while...

That's fine BD, I hope you were away for good reasons!

The Devotion of Suspect X – Keigo Higashino
Tarzan and the Madman – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons – Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Girl, Woman, Other – Bernadine Evaristo

The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Minor Feelings - Cathy Park Hong
The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne

Good job BD!

>27 connie53: Why, thank you!

Peregrine: Secundus - Avram Davidson*
Peregrine: Parentus - Avram and Ethan Davidson
Native Speaker - Chang-Rae Lee
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - Louise
Erdrich
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - Thomas Keneally

Falafels and Bedouins - Noor De Olinad
The City in the Middle of the Night - Charlie Jane Anders
Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris
The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe - Alexander McCall Smith

Children of the Land - Marcelo Hernández Castillo
Hear the Wind Sing - Haruki Murakami
Double Whammy - Carl Hiassen
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis
Rio Grande Fall - Rudolfo Anaya
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

The Doomsday Brunette – John Zakour & Lawrence Ganem
Turn Right at Machu Picchu – Mark Adams
The Halloween Tree – Ray Bradbury
Forgotten Tales of New Mexico – Ellen Dornan

>33 BookDoc16: I read Turn Right at Machu Picchu last year and really enjoyed the armchair traveling. Hope you enjoyed it.

Hi BD. I hope you are doing fine! Waving at you.

Burglars Can't Be Choosers - Lawrence Block
A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
The Case of the Singing Skirt - Erle Stanley Gardner
Seven Days in May - Fletcher Knebel & C. W. Butler II
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- Paul Ortiz

And that concluded my 2021!