Rocks and water by E.A. Schneider
Hello, dear pond readers! I’ve been blazing through my reading list this year and I’ve managed to make a surprising amount of progress. I have already filled the pages of one reader’s journal and have begun a second journal to see me through to 2016.
In rough chronological order, here is my list of 2015 books so far:
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Ubik by Phillip K. Dick
- A Knot in the Grain by Robin McKinley
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- The Story of the Treasure-Seekers by Edith Nesbit
- The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
- Moon Over the Back Fence by Esther Carlson
- The Stepsister Scheme by Jim C. Hines
- Nova by Samuel R. Delaney
- Star Trek Vanguard #1: Harbinger by David Mack
- Around the World in 72 Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly
Fiddleheads by E.A. Schneider
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Thirteen at Dinner by Agatha Christie
- Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
- Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
- Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
- Tuesday Club Murders by Agatha Christie
- The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah and “Agatha Christie”
- Cradle in the Grave by Sophie Hannah
- Fatal Enquiry by Will Thomas
- Codex Born by Jim C. Hines
- The Eye of Zoltar by Jasper Fforde
- Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers
- More Valley Cats: Fun games and new friends by Gretchen Preston
- Mangaboom by Charlotte Pomerantz
- Something Rich and Strange by Patricia McKillip
- Growing Up Lutheran: What does this mean? by Janet Letniss Martin
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Macbeth by Shakespeare
Hopefully sooner rather than later I will start posting capsule reviews of each of the above. Overall, I’ve been very pleased with all of them. My goal on Goodreads was 40 books this year and I’m hopeful that I’m going to make it. How about you, dear readers? Where are you at in your reading ambitions for the year? Leave a comment below and thanks for stopping by the pond!
Feather left behind by E.A. Schneider
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Well done!! Nice mix–particularly your Dame Agatha choices and, as you know, we love Jane Austen. You’ve read her most mature offerings, I think, which is quite refreshing, since so many people simply re-read P & P over and over again; which is fine, but…. Toad, (of “Toad and Frog are Friends”) asks me to also commend you for your feather find. Our sand hill cranes left us (alas) but did leave a feather for us to remember them. Our wildflowers are thriving; and, Penny, Trudy and the girls ask us to send you their best regards. We have our WWF designation and have had it for some time (as you know), now all we need is the courage to post our signs, since locals long ago informed us that there’s a good chance our signs would be used as target practice. sigh. Otherwise, things in the shire seem to be as one might expect. Hugs, us.
Thank you! I am glad you approve my reading mix and my pictures. I think the feather belonged to a blue jay but I am not certain. I’m glad that the shire is filled with creatures, flowers, and the happy subjects of Penny and Trudy. Thanks for stopping by the pond, Momfrog, big big hugs!
Sir Toad agrees that you did indeed spot a blue jay feather!! Huzzah!! (You will recall that once upon a time he was a boyscout toad so he does understand a bit about feathers…) Hugs–wishing we once again were at a pond filled with muskrat and fish, (but no pike, please)– Ribbits always, Momfrog postscript: Toad and I have yet to discover our magical powers, although we do keep hoping that the universe will inform and empower us…You will be the first to know when or if anything comes to us. Until then, looking forward to September and we are struggling to train…