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k i ve ever found anything to complain about in the books of hers that i ve read this one is about a ninety two year old woman who is wrapping up her life she never had children so she is leaving her house to the child who grew up next door and with whom she had an almost familial relationship she is writing a letter explaining and telling stories about the house and its contents and sharing memories and advice with this child woman having grown up on a wonderful homey street myself surrounded by neighbors where when i knocked on their doors they would always take me in for a visit or a snack or a baby chick but that s my story not this book s it brought back some wonderful memories and makes me wonder what i should share in letters to ones i love i have another two audiobooks also from the library i am listening to the first one while i go through boxes of stuff that needs to be dealt with in an unsentimental way 45 discards 45 donates 10 or less keep is my goal posted by kath001 at 6 53 am 1 comments labels 2026 reading challenge books what i am reading wednesday wednesday april 29 2026 what i m reading wednesday twenty seventh challenge finish of the year ugh i begrudged the reading time it took to slog my way through this one the setting was a large decrepit manor house in the english countryside the owners though going broke were hosting a big house party for their estranged daughter s birthday lots and lots of characters to keep up with more than a few of which kept switching identities with other party attendees it was torture to try to keep up oh and did i mention that each day magically started over on the day before during which the characters switched to yet other party attendees identities and they did not retain the memories of the day before so they wrote themselves notes and hoped to come across them by the fourth replay of the eve of the party i was so exhausted with this book however by this time i was so tired of the secret identity trope that i did not want to read another entire book using it so i persevered i skimmed some before switching to the audiobook version which i checked out from the library i think i listened to it at double time while i did other things around the house i finished finally but i hated almost every minute every page every freakin identity switch and day replay obviously i do not recommend this book post edited to remove the ada blalckjack book as it was included in this week s post by mistake i had forgotten that it was in last week s post posted by kath001 at 6 53 am 6 comments labels 2026 reading challenge books what i am reading wednesday wednesday april 22 2026 what i m reading wednesday twenty fifth challenge finish of the year this is my second reading of this book in 2017 i rated it 10 10 and wrote this a septuagenarian woman approaches a neighbor the widower of a former acquaintance with a proposal she wonders if he might sleep with her just to hear someone breathing in the bed next to her at night to talk to in the dark it was such a sweet story and the netflix original movie version with robert redford and jane fonda was wonderful as well i loved it just as much this time twenty sixth challenge finish of the year found this one on the goodreads 52 book club 2026 challenge community the complete title subtitle is ada blackjack a true story of survival in the arctic ada was an indigenous woman hired by the expedition because she could speak and write english and was a skilled seamstress having a sick child to support and an absent husband she went along other indigenous people who had signed on backed out before the outset so ada was the lone woman with the group made up of men and with this one behind me i am half way through the challenge posted by kath001 at 10 12 am 0 comments labels 2026 reading challenge books what i am reading wednesday wednesday april 15 2026 what i m reading wednesday twenty third challenge finish of the year this crime fiction courtroom drama is a genre and sub genre i used to read a lot of but for some reason kind of got away from this is the first i ve read in a long time and it was well done i came across this author while sorting donated books at the library so i knew that perri o shaughnessy is the pseudonym for two sisters one a trial lawyer for sixteen years and one a writer this title is the first in a series twenty fourth challenge finish of the year what can i say about this not my genre not my trope i thought about reading jane eyre for this prompt and i wish i had but i thought i would try to stay close to the prompt s seemed intent i found this one free to borrow from kindle unlimited the subtitle for this book was too long to put in the graphic a hilarious small town rom com of a grumpy mountain man and the surrogate for his child not sure how to describe this without sounding prudish maybe i ll just say that i give this two stars for writing plot etc but i give it five red hot peppers for sexual content if that s your deal go for it if it s not your deal then turn away this is the first of a trilogy but i think i ve read enough posted by kath001 at 3 53 pm 4 comments labels 2026 reading challenge books what i am reading wednesday wednesday april 8 2026 what i m reading wednesday twenty first challenge finish of the year seemed to take a long time to get through this one story of joy davidman and c s lewis relationship going from us uk correspondence to eventual marriage it seemed to be well researched and a subject the author cared about however i couldn t quite get invested in the characters twenty second challenge finish of the year this falls under the old adage of don t judge a book by its cover this cover art is one which is in the trend that i hold a particular dislike for to me it kind of screams chick lit which is not my favorite genre but t his was my book club s selection for this month so i figured i should make an effort the club meets at my house this friday my house is not ready for company for reasons i will probably post about later so i looked everywhere i could think of for a way to borrow the audiobook but all options had long wait lists i finally resorted to using one of my audible credits to purchase it and i listened to it while i did other things around the house the castle setting was one of the gilded age mansions built in rhode island which was the wedding venue it was the closest i could come to getting it to fit into one of the prompts it is chick lit but wasn t mind numbing pap the characters were likable and their development was pretty good i didn t love it but it was better than i expected and i feel good about getting it done so i can take part in the discussion posted by kath001 at 6 53 am 2 comments labels 2026 reading challenge books what i am reading wednesday wednesday april 1 2026 what i m reading wednesday nineteenth challenge finish of the year this one has been on my kindle since 2013 it took me over a week to finish i ve had other stuff going on my daughter and i were reading it at the same time i finished it last night she finished it today i was reading it on my kindle she was reading a paperback but may have switched over to audiobook as she said the print in the paperback was almost too small to read at 416 pages of tiny print maybe that s why it took me so long i really thought she was going to beat me to the finish line i didn t love it and can t put my finger on why the main characters were likable most of the secondary characters not so much i was contemplating exactly what kept me from really liking it it is based in greek mythology and as i was thinking back to high school literature classes i realized i didn t enjoy learning about mythology even then so maybe i can chalk it up to it just not being a genre i enjoy twentieth challenge finish of the year i don t like to try to rate non fiction i ll say that it is not light reading this was along the lines of a journal written by c s lewis as a way to work through his grief after his wife died from cancer tomorrow will be the 27th anniversary of the death of my best friend also from cancer did i pick this one now on purpose i didn t think so but perhaps i will probably read it again it s impossible to absorb and process something this deep in one read through but it had enough points i agreed with that i would like to revisit it i m now about halfway through the bigraphical fiction book about c s lewis and his wife that will fill prompt 45 the first quarter of the year is behind us already i m satisfied with the challenge progress i ve made so far i ve read books for each prompt that has red arrows at their number and if a prompt number has two red arrows pointing to it it means the book that i read for that one has been lingering on my kindle for a loooong time posted by kath001 at 6 53 am 3 comments labels 2026 reading challenge books what i am reading wednesday thursday march 26 2026 chive garden progress 7 days in day 1 grocery 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