rainpebble's 2017 12 X 12 Challenge:

Thread for my categories & titles read within each category:

I have changed my challenge from all 12 X 12s to:
12 X 12s and 6 X 12s.

I am just figuring out this group & how it works so please bear with me.

https://1001bookreviews.com/the-1001-book-list/

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/952.1001_Books_You_Must_Read_Before_You_Die

In attempting to play catch up, I am copying my 2017 reading thus far from my 100 book gig.
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JANUARY:
1. Lady: A Novel by Thomas Tryon;
2. All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West;
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen;
4. Family Circle by Mary Hocking;

FEBRUARY:
5. The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge;
6. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne;
7. Awakenings by Oliver Sacks;

MARCH:
8. Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman;
9. Looking for Alaska by John Green;
10. Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones;
11. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton;
12. Good Daughters by Mary Hocking;
13. The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell;
14. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon;
15. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck;

APRIL:
16. The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge;
17. Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker;
18. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle;
19. In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden;

MAY:
20. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery;
21. Gentian Hill by Elizabeth Goudge;
22. Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge;

JUNE:
23. Let Them Call it Jazz by Jean Rhys;

JULY:
24. Impunity Jane by Rumer Godden;
25. The Pearl by John Steinbeck;
26. The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden;
27. Incantation by Alice Hoffman;
28. My God and My All: The Life of Saint Francis of Assisi by Elizabeth Goudge;

AUGUST:
29. The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama;

SEPTEMBER:
30. They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple;
31. The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry;
32. The Little Grey Men by Denys Watkins-Pitchford or "BB"

OCTOBER:
33. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
34. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
35. The Black Fawn by Jim Kjelgaard
36. When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
37. Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
38. Fae Horse by Anthea Sharp

NOVEMBER:
39. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

CATEGORY 1: MYSTERIES, SUSPENSE & POLICE PROCEDURALSs: (6 X 12)

1. Lady by Thomas Tryon; (5*); on Kindle; mystery; ROOT; (#1)

2. The Crocodile Bird by Ruth Rendell; (4*); Kindle; fiction; mother-daughter relationships; mystery/suspense; (1993); (#34)

3. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear; (4*); ROOT; series book 1 of 13; cosy, comfort read/light mystery; (#40)

4. Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear; (4*); ROOT; series book 2 of 13; cosy, comfort read/light mystery; library book; (#41)

5. No Second Chance by Harlan Coben; (3*); police procedural; Kindle; mystery; suspense/thriller; crime fiction; part of a series; (#78/79)

6. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie; (4*); mystery; ROOT, 9/24/2007; suspense; (#73)

7. Too Close for Comfort by Ellen Feldman; (4*); hardcopy; in ARIZONA; ROOT, from prior to L/T; suspense; mystery; crime; psychological thriller; (#135)

CATEGORIES 2 & 3: (6 X 12)



MY 2017 PERSONAL READING CHALLENGE:
A YEAR WITH ELIZABETH GOUDGE (above) AND MARY HOCKING (below).



January:
1. Elizabeth Goudge: The Scent of Water; (3 1/2*); (#12)
2. Mary Hocking: Family Circle (no touchstone); (5*); (#11)

February:
3. Elizabeth Goudge: The Bird in the Tree; (5*); family saga; (#19)
4. Mary Hocking: The Very Dead of Winter; (4*); VMC; (#15)

March:
5. Elizabeth Goudge: The Little White Horse; (5*); (#46)
6. Mary Hocking: Good Daughters; (5*); (Good Daughters trilogy, bk 1); VMC; (#32)

April:
7. Elizabeth Goudge: Gentian Hill; (5*); (#59)
8. Mary Hocking: Indifferent Heroes; (4 1/2*); (Good Daughters trilogy, bk 2); VMC; (#49)

May:
9. Elizabeth Goudge: Linnets and Valerians; (5*); (#67)
10. Mary Hocking: Welcome Strangers; (2 1/2*); (Good Daughters trilogy, bk 3); VMC; (#57)

July:
11. Elizabeth Goudge: My God and My All: The Life of Saint Francis of Assisi; (5*); nonfiction; (#91)

October:
12. Mary Hocking: The Meeting Place; (4 1/2*); Women's Fiction; Virago author;

CATEGORY 4: VIRAGO FICTION, NONFICTION, VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS, PERSEPHONE & Virago Authors: (12 X 12)

1. Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau; (3*); VIRAGO GROUP READ; VMC #107; Kindle; ROOT, 11/09/2009; (#7)

2. The Doll: The Lost Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier; (3 1/2*); hardcopy; VMC #555; short stories; ROOT, 2011; (#47)

3. In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden; (5+*); hardcopy; VMC #579; religious life; monastic orders; monks; nuns; Catholicism; convents; ROOT, 12/10/2013; (#56)

4. Zoe: The History of Two Lives by Geraldine Jewsbury; (3 1/2*); VMC #340; ROOT, 7/29/2011; VIRAGO GROUP READ; (#62)

5. The Quest for Christa T by Christa Wolf; (2*); VCM, 1/20/2014; AV/AA; hardcopy; ROOT, 1/20/2014; (#94);

6. Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays by Christa Wolf; (3*); VMC; (315); AV/AA; hardcopy; ROOT, 2/27/2012; mythology; (#95)

7. No Place on Earth by Christa Wolf; (1*); VMC; AV/AA; ROOT, 3/18/2014; hardcopy; (#96)

8. I'm Not Complaining by Ruth Adam; (3 1/2*); VMC #124; AV/AA; ROOT, 9/21/2009; hardcopy; (#99)

9. Year Before Last by Kay Boyle; (3 1/2*); AV/AA; VMC; ROOT, 9/18/2009; hardcopy; (#100)

10. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte; (2 1/2*); VIRAGO GROUP READ; kindle; VMC #359; ROOT, 1/31/2013; (#106)

11. They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple; (5*); AV/AA; hardcopy; Persephone, #56; ROOT, 11/16/2009; 1940s England; sisters & nieces; (#104)

CATEGORY 5: ARC & ERs: (6 X 12)



1. Unpunished by Lisa Black; (3 1/2*); NetGalley; police procedural; (#5)

2. The Patriots: A Novel by Sana Krasikov; (4 1/2*); NetGalley; Kindle; historical fact based fiction; (#8)

3. Who Is to Blame?: A Russian Riddle by Jane Marlow; (2 1/2*); historical fiction; NetGalley; Kindle; (#13)

4. The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson; (3*); NetGalley; Kindle; (#14)

5. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden; (4 1/2*); NetGalley; fantasy; fairy tale; of Russia; (#16)

6. Sorrows & Songs by Janice Wood Wetzel; (2*); NetGalley;
memoir; (#20)

7. 12 Days at Bleakly Manor: Book 1 in Once Upon a Dickens Christmas by Michelle Griep; (3 1/2*); NetGalley; historical fiction; romance; chick lit; Christmas; mystery; (#92)

8. The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg; (5*); kindle; ARC/ER, NetGalley; Women's Fiction; aging; coming of age; relationships; love & loss; grief & grieving; (#124)

9. After Abel and Other Stories by Michal Lemberger; (4 1/2*);
hard copy; ARC/ER, L/T; ROOT, 2/26/2015; Biblical; shorts; Historical Fiction; nonfiction; (#129)

10. Never Mind Miss Fox: A Novel by Olivia Glazebrook; (4 1/2*); ARC/ER, L/T; ROOT, 7/07/2014; familial relationships; (#134)

CATEGORY 6: NONFICTION, MEMOIRS, BIOs: (6 X 12)

1. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette; (4*); Kindle; memoir; (#6)

2. Awakenings by Oliver Sacks; (5*); 20th century biography; brain case studies; cognitive science; encephalitis lethargica; L-Dopa medicine studies; mental illness; neurology & neuroscience; non-fiction; Parkinson's disease parkinsonism; psychiatry / psychology; sleeping sickness; (#24)

3. NORA: The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox; (3 1/2*); bio; James Joyce & wife Nora; hard copy; ROOT; (#25)

4. Ernest Hemingway and His World by Anthony Burgess; (4*); hardcopy; bio; nonfiction; lost generation; (#64)

5. The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir; (4*); LIBRARY BOOK; Hardcopy; Bio; Nonfiction; English History; the Tudors; (#63)

6. Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak; (4*); kindle; bio; historic; (#66)

7. The Ladies by Doris Grumbach; (4 1/2*); Kindle; historical nonfiction/fiction; factual account ; Ladies of Llangollen; Lesbian nonfiction; bio; Wales; (#72)

8. Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi; (5*) kindle; Library Book; memoir; autobiographical fiction; Korea; Japanese Korean War; family relationships; (#120)

Category 7: HISTORICAL FICTION: (6 X 12)

1. The Boston Girl: A Novel by Anita Diamant; (4 1/2*); hardcopy; family saga; Jewish immigration to America; (#4)

2. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon; (5*); hardcopy; ROOT; series bk 1; BFB; time travel; Scotland; romance; (#39)

3. Bramton Wick by Elizabeth Fair; (3 1/2*); Kindle; comfort read; Brit lit; between the wars; village life; domestic life; bit of fluff; (#37)

4. The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley; (3 1/2*); part of a series, Slains (bk 1); ROOT; fictionalized account of a 1708 attempt to restore James Stewart to the Scotland throne; historian; Scotland; based on facts found; romance; magic realism; contemporary gothic; (#51)

5. Wives of War by Soraya M. Lane; (4*); Kindle; WWII; (#70)

6. Moloka'i by Alan Brennert; (5*); hardcopy; Hawaii; Hansen's Disease; relationships; friendships; love and loss; nuns; (#94)

7. Peony: A Novel of China by Pearl S. Buck; (5*); kindle; American Lit; Asia; China; concubine; Judaism; romance; (#101)

8. The Mother by Pearl S. Buck; (4*); Kindle; family relationships; China; (#102)

9. The White Garden by Stephanie Barron; (4*); hardcopy; biographical fiction; alternate history; gardening; Sissinghurst; Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West; (#109)

10. Ilsa by Madeleine L'Engle; (4*); romantic fiction; American South; historical fiction; (#110)

Category 8: SCI-FI, FANTASY, MAGIC REALISM & FAIRY TALES: (6 X 12)

1. Still with Me by Thierry Cohen; (3 1/2*); Kindle; in translation;
magic realism; mystery; (#3)

2. Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman; ROOT; (5*); hardcopy; shorts; historical fiction; houses; magical realism; Massachusetts; (#26)

3. The Snow Child: A Novel by Eowyn Ivey; (4*); Kindle; ROOT; fairy tales; fantasy fiction; homesteading; magic realism; (#27)

4. Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce; ROOT; (4 /2*); Y/A or Children's lit; fantasy fiction; mystery; time travel; library; (#42)

5. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger; (3 1/2*); hardcopy; ROOT; magic realism; (#48)

6. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle; (5*); ROOT; Y/A; Children's lit; fantasy fiction; sci-fi; time travel; (#55)

7. Fae Horse by Anthea Sharp; (5*); kindle; Y/A; fantasy fiction; shorts; (#122);

8. Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins; (4 1/2*). Kindle; Library Book; Coming of Age; Y/A; Paranormal; mystery; romance; fantasy; magic realism; (#128)

9. The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel by Sarah Addison Allen; (4*); American South, Coming of Age, IN ARIZONA, Hardcopy, Romance; FANTASY, MAGIC REALISM; Fiction, Young Adult; (#139)

CATEGORY 9: BELONGING TO A SERIES: (6 X 12)

1. The Hampton Affair by Vincent Lardo; (3 1/2*); mystery; hardcopy; (bk 1 of the Hampton SERIES); (#21)

2. Secrets by Kristen Heitzmann; (3*); The Michelli Family SERIES, bk 1; Christian fiction; mystery; friendships; family; (#36)

3. The Black Echo by Michael Connelly; (4*); Bosch SERIES, bk 1; police procedural; mystery; suspense; (#80)

4. Death by Darjeeling by Laura Childs; (1 1/2*); bit of fluff mystery; Tea Shop Mysteries, bk 1; (#83)

5. Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin; (2 1/2*); Inspector Rebus, bk 1; police procedural; (#86)

6. The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry; (5*); American South Lit; 1930s rural America; ROOT, 9/09/2007; Port William Membership series, bk 6; (#107)

7. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks; (4*); hardcopy & on kindle; The Calhoun Family series, bk 1; Romance; Alzheimer's disease; ROOT, 9/09/2007; (#105)

8. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han; (4*); Kindle; To All the Boys I've Loved Before SERIES, bk 1; Coming of Age; LIBRARY LIBRARY BOOK, Y/A; Coming of Age; (#120)

9. P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han; (4 1/2*); kindle; To All the Boys I've Loved Before SERIES, bk 2; LIBRARY BOOK; Y/A; Coming of Age; (#121)

10. If I Stay by Gayle Forman; (4 1/2*); Kindle; LIBRARY BOOK, Part of a Series, Romance, Fiction, Young Adult & or Children's Lit; (#126)

11. Where She Went by Gayle Forman; (4*); Kindle; Part of a Series; sequel to If I Stay; LIBRARY BOOK; Y/A; (#127)

12. Ratha's Creature by Clare Bell; (4 1/2*); kindle; The Named Series, bk 1; Sci-Fi; Fantasy Fiction; Animals; (#123)

The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy by Jenny Han:

13. The Summer I Turned Pretty; (4*); bk 1; Y/A; Coming of Age; Library Book; Kindle; Part of a Series; (#131)

14. It's Not Summer Without You; (3 1/2*); bk 2; Kindle; Y/A; Coming of Age; Library; Part of a Series; (#132)

15. We'll Always Have Summer; (3 1/2*); bk 3; Kindle; Y/A; Coming of Age; Part of a Series; (#133)

16. Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han; (3 1/2*); Kindle; Y/A; To All the Boys I've Loved Before SERIES, bk 3; Y/A; Coming of Age; Romance; Fiction; Library; (#140)

CATEGORY 10: GOTHIC LIT: (6 X 12)

1. The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart; (4*); ROOT; Kindle; vintage mystery; (#9)

2. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne; (5*); ROOT; classics; (#22)

3. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys; (4 1/2*); hardcopy; IN ARIZONA & IN WASHINGTON; ROOT; Jane Eyre (prequel, but not really); historical fiction; Brit lit; Caribbean; colonialism; English; feminist fiction; historical fiction; Jamaica; madness; mental illness; postcolonialism; West Indies; (#43)

4. Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker; (5*); ROOT; Kindle; Classic; fantasy; paranormal; shorts; supernatural; vampires; Victorian era; (#53)

5. The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham; (3*); 1950s historical fiction;
library book; (#60)

6. Whistle for the Crows by Dorothy Eden; (3 1/2*); Kindle; (#84)

CATEGORY 11: Y/A &/or CHILDREN'S BOOKS: (6 X 12)

1. Looking for Alaska by John Green; (5*); coming of age; boarding school; death, grief & friendship; (#29)

2. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones; (5*); ROOT; coming of age; Papua, New Guinea; Great Expectations; (#30)

3. Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski; (4*); ROOT; Part of a Series; farm life; historical fiction; juvenile fiction; Newberry Medal; Sonlight 2; (#76);

4. Incantation by Alice Hoffman; (5*); ROOT; the Spanish Inquisition; (#89)

5. The Little Grey Men by Denys Watkins-Pitchford or "BB"; (5*); Sci-Fi; Fantasy; Legend; Magic Realism; Fairy Tales, British Gnomes series, bk 1; ROOT, 8/30/2007; (#108)

6. Deenie by Judy Blume; (3*); kindle; coming of age; BPL book; fiction; spinal deformities; (#111)

7. The Black Fawn by Jim Kjelgaard; (5*); ROOT, from my childhood; Y/A; the Classics; Historical Fiction; (#115)

8. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume; (4*); kindle; Y/A; Coming of Age; BPL book; fiction(#112)

9. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger; (5*); hardopy; Library Book; Y/A; Classic American Lit; (#137)

CATEGORY 12: THE CLASSICS: (6 X 12)

1. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton; (5*); ROOT; VMC; the Classics; American lit; New England; (dark); (#31)

2. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck; (5*); ROOT; classics; American lit; favorite author; (#44)

3. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott; (4 1/2*); ROOT;; hardcopy & Kindle; IN WASHINGTON; BFB, 680 pgs; Middle Ages; England/Scotland; Swashbuckling; Kings, Knights & Ladies; the Waverly Novels, (1194); historical fiction; The Classics; English lit; (#50)

4. The Pearl by John Steinbeck; (5*); hardcopy; IN WASHINGTON; ROOT; island native pearl divers; poverty; families; (#87)

5. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck; (5*); the Classics; Y/A; ROOT; Historical Fiction; (#113)

6. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett; (5*); the Classics; Y/A; Historical Fiction; (#114)

CATEGORY 13: MONTHLY AUTHOR READS FOR 2017: (12 X 12)

https://www.librarything.com/groups/monthlyauthorreads

1. January: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; (5*); ROOT; VMC; on Kindle; (#10)

2. February: George Eliot: The Lifted Veil; (4 1/2*); ROOT; VMC; on Kindle; (#17)

3. March: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Time of Cholera; (1 1/2*); ROOT; hardcopy; In Translation; (#23)

4. April: Tom Robbins: Tom Robbins: The Kindle Singles Interview by Mara Altman; (3 1/2*); (#52)

5. May: L.M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables; (5*); VMC;
ROOT; hardcopy; (#58)

6. June: Jean Rhys: Let Them Call It Jazz; (5*); hardcopy; (#68)

7: July: Emma Donoghue: The Sealed Letter; (2 1/2*); Kindle; (#90)

8. August: Gail Tsukiyama: The Samurai's Garden; (5*); hardcopy & on Kindle; (#93)

September: Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake; (2 1/2*); hardcopy; (#136)

October: Wilkie Collins: Miss Morris and the Stranger;

November: Sherman Alexie: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian;

December: Joyce Carol Oates: You Must Remember This;

CATEGORY 14: VIRAGO GROUP MONTHLY AUTHOR READS: (12 X 12)

JANUARY: Vita Sackville-West:
1. All Passion Spent; (5*); ROOT; hardcopy; VMC; (#2)
2. The Tale of Mr. Peter Brown; (4*); short story; Kindle; (#18)

FEBRUARY: Rebecca West:
3. Harriet Hume; (2*); ROOT; hard copy & on Kindle; VMC; (#45)

MARCH: Edith Wharton:
4. The Age of Innocence; (4 1/2*); ROOT; hard copy & on Kindle; VMC; (#33)

APRIL: Elizabeth von Arnim:
5. The Ordeal of Elizabeth; (3*); on Kindle; Virago author; (#54)

MAY: Willa Cather:
6. My Mortal Enemy; (4*); ROOT; hardcopy; VMC; (#65)

JUNE: Margaret Laurence:
7. This Side Jordan; (4*); Kindle; Virago author; Africa; (#81)

JULY: Rumer Godden:
8. Impunity Jane; (5*); hardcopy; ROOT; Y/A, Children's Lit; (#84)
9. The Kitchen Madonna by Rumer Godden; (5*); hardcopy; Y/A, Children's Lit; ROOT, 9/19/2011; (#88)

AUGUST: Christina Stead:
10. The Little Hotel; ((2 1/2*); hardcopy & on Kindle; ROOT, 9/22/2011; Virago fiction; (#97)

SEPTEMBER: Nina Bawden:

OCTOBER: Margaret Kennedy:

NOVEMBER: Margaret Atwood:

DECEMBER: Sylvia Townsend Warner:

Category 15: IN TRANSLATION: (6 X 12)

1. The Pyramid: The First Wallander Cases by Henning Mankell; (3 1/2*); hardcopy; Scandinavian crime fiction; ROOT; police procedural; mystery; crime fiction; (precursor to the Wallander series, 0/12); (#28)

2. Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell; (3 1/2*); hardcopy; Scandinavian crime fiction; ROOT; police procedural; (the Wallander series, 1/12); (#35)

3. The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell; (5*); hardcopy; Swedish; ROOT; mystery; (the Wallander series, 2/12; ROOT; Scandinavian crime fiction; police procedural; (#38)

4. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Michael Hulse, translator; (3*); Kindle; German lit; suicide; (#61)

5. The White Lioness by Henning Mankell; (4 1/2*); hardcopy; ROOT; (Kurt Wallander, bk 3/12); Swedish; ROOT; police procedural; Scandinavian crime fiction; (#71)

6. The Door (NYRB Classics) by Magda Szabo; Len Rix, translator; (4 1/2*); hard copy; library book; Hungarian lit; female relationship; in translation; servants/domestics; the elderly; (#78)

7. The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell; (3*); (Kurt Wallander, bk 4/12); hardcopy; ROOT; police procedural; Scandinavian crime fiction; (#82)

8. Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky; (4*); hardcopy; French lit; Paris; WWII; Holocaust; German occupation; bio/memoir; nonfiction; historical fiction; ROOT; (#75)

9. The Door by Magda Szabó; (4 1/2*); NYRB; library book; Hungarian lit; female relationship; servants/domestics; the elderly; (#77/78)

10. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; hardcopy; ROOT, from 2000; fantasy fiction; Latin American Lit; magic realism; Nobel Prize; South America; multi-generational story; (#103)

GROUP READS:

Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau; (3*); Virago Group Read, January

Zoe: The History of Two Lives by Geraldine Jewsbury; (3 1/2*) Virago Group Read, May

Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte; (2 1/2*); Virago Group Read, September

___________________________; Virago Group Read, December

Oh but how we do love our Virago!

I love the way this is presented. :)

>18 Andrew-theQM:
Thank you Andrew. I am still trying to figure out how the group works. But I am very drawn to how it has been set up & hope it will be a good fit for me.

>19 rainpebble: We are very flexible in this group, you can use it anyway you want to - if you want to track something you can set up a thread to do it.

I am using it this year in 3 ways:
1. A thread for my reading log for this year where I keep a record of all the books I've read, the number of books, pages, ratings etc. I also do a monthly summary on this thread at the end of each month.
2. My 14 x 12 Challenge - where I track reading under 14 different categories with the aim to read at least 12 in each category. Others choose to do a 12 x 12, or 5x 12 or any combination that suits them.
3. I have set up a thread to track the different series I am in the middle of, the aim to get up to date in more series. A never ending task!

We also have a thread to share with others reviews of books Read in the month (a review can be as simple as a single sentence statement about a book we have read). The aim is to discuss these books.

We also have a mini challenge each month where we aim to read three different books in three different genres or sub genres.

Basically people can use it how they want to - the overarching aim is to discuss books with like minded people.

>20 Andrew-theQM:
Thank you so much, Sir Andrew. That has simplified the goals here very much. I shan't be such a 'nervous nellie' now. lol

I really quite like it here.

>21 rainpebble: And we really quite like you being here. :) Pleased to see you are enjoying the Group. Love the images!

Thank you, Andrew-the QM. :-)

For my own sanity, I am going to list my CATEGORIES here so I can find each one more quickly.



CATEGORIES:
1. MYSTERY, SUSPENSE & POLICE PROCEDURALS: 6 X 12
2. Elizabeth Goudge: 6 X 12
3. Mary Hocking: 6 X 12
4. VIRAGO FICTION/NONFICTION, Persephone & VMCs: 6 X 12
5. ARCs & ERs: 6 X 12
6. NONFICTION, MEMOIRs, BIOGRAPHIES, etc: 6 X 12
7. HISTORICAL FICTION: 6 X 12
8. SCI-FI, FANTASY, MAGIC REALISM, etc: 6 X 12
9. PART OF A SERIES: 6 X 12
10. GOTHIC LIT: 6 X 12
11. Y/A &/or CHILDREN'S LIT: 6 X 12
12. THE CLASSICS: 6 X 12
13. MONTHLY AUTHOR READS FOR 2017: 12 X 12
14. VIRAGO GROUP MONTHLY AUTHOR READS: 12 X 12
15. IN TRANSLATION: 6 X 12

>24 rainpebble: I can relate to that feeling.

>1 rainpebble: Love the picture and the caption:)

OUTSIDE MY CATEGORIES:

1. You're Not You by Michelle Wildgen; (4*); kindle; contemporary fiction; disabilities; care giving; Lou Gehrig's disease; (#74)

2. Barefoot Summer by Carolyn Brown; (4*); Kindle; Women's Fiction; contemporary romance; mystery; (#98)

3. When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin; (5*); American South, Georgia; Christian Fiction; (#116)

4. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler; (4*); Kindle; Library Book; Women's Fiction; relationships; (#125);

LOOKING FORWARD TO 2018:

WOMEN'S FICTION:
South Riding: An English Landscape by Winifred Holtby; (1936); VMC
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley; (1984); historical fiction
The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor; (1964); VMC
No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym; (1961); VMC
Mariana by Monica Dickens; (1950); Persephone; coming of age; VMC
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple; (1999); Persephone;
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes; (1947); VMC; historical fiction

TO REREAD:
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson; American fiction; coming of age; sisters; familial relationships
Henry and Cato by Iris Murdoch; British Lit; philosophy; didactic fiction
We That Were Young by Irene Rathbone; the Great War; nursing; VMC; historical fiction
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller; Greek Mythology
Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis; biography
The Daughters of Mars: A Novel by Thomas Keneally; the Great War; historical fiction; Gallipoli; nursing

LOOKING FORWARD TO 2018:

FOLLOWING ONE AUTHOR:

Elizabeth Jane Howard: Cazalet Chronicles 5 Books Set
Charles Dickens: His Classic Novels

Mysteries/Police Procedurals:
Henning Mankell, Maj Sjwall, Jo Nesbo, Ian Rankin, Ruth Rendell / Barbara Vine, P.D. James, Margery Allingham

>29 rainpebble: 2018 is already looking good. :)

LOOKING FORWARD TO 2018:

THE AMERICAN SOUTH:
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King
A Time To Kill by John Grisham
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Natchez Burning by Greg Iles
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman
Zora and Nicky by Claudia Mair Burney
Run With the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

>30 Andrew-theQM:
I know, right? I am already getting stoked Andrew.
:-)

>31 rainpebble: Just Read The Secret Life of Bees this week and really enjoyed it. Don't know if you've read it yet but The Help by Kathryn Stockett fits the theme, I loved that book.

>31 rainpebble: rainpebble

Growing up in Atlanta, I read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter in high school. Honestly, it was almost too much for a teenage mind to grasp. I'm very glad YA is now a recognized genre.

I found All Over but the Shoutin' to be a great (though troubling) read, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings a very, very lyrical book.

Oh, and Prodigal Summer was another great Barbara Kingsolver book. I think I listened to most of this as an audiobook. Great use of accents for the characters.

I'll be looking for your reviews of the Grisham and Whistle Stop. Keep all these posts coming!