tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25502633.post3297716454111167459..comments2024-03-22T14:58:07.239-05:00Comments on Ordinary Time: Books from 2016thecurrysevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932092243753160814noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25502633.post-9650092743472575522017-01-03T17:37:32.296-06:002017-01-03T17:37:32.296-06:00Thanks for the recommendations, I'll be checki...Thanks for the recommendations, I'll be checking a few of them out. I read "The War that Saved My Life" per your recommendation and couldn't put it down!Dianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13108803914073553699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25502633.post-12206300280498462982017-01-03T12:42:19.984-06:002017-01-03T12:42:19.984-06:00Donna-- You have special circumstances about your ...Donna-- You have special circumstances about your reading, and I don't blame you at all. If I had to purchase all my books, my reading would look a lot different, and most probably much shorter. I can be frivolous with my reading because the library costs me nothing.<br /><br />I've been thinking about your comment of how few books I actually recommended from this list. I think it probably has to do with what I think I'm doing when I recommend a book, and less to do with the books themselves. When I recommend a book, I want someone who may go out and actually spend money on that book to be happy with it. In that way of thinking, I'm not going to recommend a book that might be fairly enjoyable, but not one I would actually want to own. I think that's my criteria, if I would want to own it after I've read it, I will recommend it. There are also a few non-fiction books that have a pretty narrow focus. I realize that not everyone shares my interests, so I didn't recommend the narrow-focus non-fiction books unless they were pretty extraordinary and had something to say to a wider audience. It's not that I spent my year reading horrible books, it's just that so few books reach the level of something I would recommend to another person. (The horrible ones, I definitely stopped reading!)<br /><br />And no, I haven't read The Girl on the Train. I have this little problem with my reactionary nature. The second I hear that every person around me is reading a book, it is exactly the book I have absolutely no interest in reading. :-)<br /><br />ethecurrysevenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08932092243753160814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25502633.post-24262599212703459112017-01-03T01:09:59.380-06:002017-01-03T01:09:59.380-06:00One of my resolutions should be to read more and w...One of my resolutions should be to read more and watch TV less, but since TV is free and good books are spendy I am not sure that will happen. (Most of the books I get for free are a bigger waste of time than TV -- especially when I have the BBC on hand.)<br />I am a bit surprised by how few of the 74 books you would recommend, not sure what that means other than an observation.<br />I definitely want to read the book on Executive Function, and am doubly disappointed that despite putting all the Medicus books on my gift list this year, I didn't get any. I read the first one and thought this was a series I would enjoy.<br />I continue to be thankful to a high school (!) friend who has sent me free ebooks of a good mystery series. I don't binge read them but save them for a day when I can read straight through, rare but enjoyable.<br />Thanks for the list!<br />Have you read The Girl from the Train?Donnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13972328899908212341noreply@blogger.com