Full review, Elf and Yoli are sisters who grew up in a Mennonite community in Winnipeg. A few questions to get you started: My own reading has changed a lot over the last ten years, in part because of having kids, but also because of blogging. Twelve-year-old Eli (whose best friend and babysitter is a notorious felon) sets out to save his family, become a journalist, and be a good man. Ultimately, I did love all of the books that ended up on this list. Of course, my TBR only continues to grow. I may have to borrow it . Full review, A surprisingly uplifting book about children evacuated from London during the Blitz. I haven’t read The Night Circus or A Gentleman in Moscow yet, though I did just pick up the latter at the library book sale. Full review, Pak Jun Do (“John Doe”) is the son of a man who runs an orphan work camp in North Korea. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. When a transmission comes through pointing to a possible better life out there, he risks everything to try to find it. Gone Girl set the stage for a spate of thrillers with a “big twist” at the end–some better executed than others, and this one still holds the title as having one of the best twists in recent memory. Your email address will not be published. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. I also decided to limit myself to only fiction. Danny and Maeve are cast out of their childhood home after their father’s death. I’d love to hear your thoughts on my choices, and your own favorites as well. 1. Instead, I started reading on an e-reader, which still allowed me to indulge in the library, but in a different way. Masterful storytelling weaves the crisis with other global tragedies to highlight the generations of people and talents lost to these devastations. Complicating his disquiet is his secret: in the confusion of the blast, he took a priceless painting that could be his undoing. So thought-provoking and creative. Some years were immediately obvious. Full review, After leaving a Nigeria under military rule, Ifemelu and Obinze plan to move to the United States. The house looms large and they are never able release its hold. Obviously, those long wandering sessions came to an end when I had kids. Love of the same woman pulls them apart, but their bond brings them back together to reckon with the past. I had a great time thinking back on my reading and choosing favorites, and I’m looking forward to learning everyone else’s favorite books of the decade. This book is by turns witty, sharply observant, and heartbreaking. But 9/11 keeps Obinze from joining Ifemelu, and over 15 years they each seek their own identities in very different ways. If you have a list on your own blog, please add it to the linkup. My tastes, overall, haven’t changed a lot. I hope it’s a good sign that 2020 will kick off with a lot of great books as well. At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty-four years. And blogging has definitely changed my reading habits- for the better. Editor's Picks: Science Fiction & Fantasy. A breakout hit in 2018, this is one bestseller that has earned the accolades. How has blogging (if you blog) and social media affected your reading. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3), A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis, #1-4), Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings.

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