Swimmergirl 2020

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Swimmergirl 2020

1swimmergirl1
dec 31, 2019, 1:14 pm

Missed by three books last year! First time I have not made 100! Looking forward to a new year of reading!

2swimmergirl1
Bewerkt: dec 31, 2020, 5:40 pm

3pamelad
dec 31, 2019, 3:02 pm

Happy New Year!

4torontoc
dec 31, 2019, 3:39 pm

Happy New Year and good reading!

5jfetting
jan 1, 2020, 11:00 am

Happy New Year!

6Eyejaybee
jan 2, 2020, 5:49 am

Best wishes for a great 2020.

7mabith
jan 2, 2020, 11:45 am

Hope it's a good reading year!

8swimmergirl1
jan 6, 2020, 6:17 pm

Thank you all!

9swimmergirl1
Bewerkt: jan 12, 2020, 5:43 pm

1. Decision Points by George W. Bush.

This book is the culmination of a 5 year challenge to read a book about all the presidents. Most of it was in order, but this one got delayed. I’m glad to finally finish the challenge. I’ve learned not only a lot about Presidents and the decisions they made and the effects of those, but also I learned a lot about history and how What came before affected them.

The next challenge will be to read biographies of many of the First Ladies. I’m going to work backward or so in this challenge. The first will be Becoming by Michele Obama.

10swimmergirl1
jan 13, 2020, 1:37 am

2. The All You Can Dream Buffet by Barbara O’Neal.

Food bloggers who met online, are traveling from different places for different reasons, in their trailers to gather at a Lavender Farm. Each has an experience which will change and enrich their lives as they meet and bond. In summers when I am not teaching, I travel around in a trailer to various locales. You meet such wonderful, interesting people, and explore various locales.

11jfetting
jan 15, 2020, 11:40 am

>9 swimmergirl1: Becoming is so good, but I admit that I'm a bit of a Michelle Obama fangirl. Congrats on completing your president challenge!

12swimmergirl1
jan 16, 2020, 1:21 pm

13swimmergirl1
feb 19, 2020, 5:06 pm

Been reading but got behind in my posting!

4. The Library Book by The Reading Agency.
Different authors reminisce about how libraries have influenced their writing and reading. Made me think about all the libraries I have used and been in, in my life. Have always used and loved libraries since I was a kid and my parents used to go once a week to load up on books.

15swimmergirl1
feb 19, 2020, 5:15 pm

10. Becoming by Michelle Obama AUDIOBOOK

This was a wonderful book as it was read by the author. She was very candid about how she felt about Barack running for office, including President. She discussed the causes she became involved about in the White House including the garden she helped design and build on the grounds. She tried to have her daughters have as normal a life as possible, since they were so young.

This is the first book in my next challenge (the first reading a book of every president) of reading a book about every First Lady, working backwards.

16swimmergirl1
feb 19, 2020, 5:20 pm

11. The Late Bloomer's Club by Louise Miller.

12. How to Bake a Perfect Life by Barbara O'Neal. TBR

13. Wild Fire: Shetland Island Mystery #8 by Ann Cleeve AUDIOBOOK

14. The Dark Side by Danielle Steel.

15. The Ladies Auxillary by Tova Mirvis TBR

16. Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson AUDIOBOOK

Those audiobooks keep me sane during an hour (sometimes an hour and a half commute) each way every day to my teaching job.

17swimmergirl1
feb 28, 2020, 12:11 pm

17. The Garden of Happy Endings by Barbara O'Neal.

18. Pax by Sara Pennypacker.
Wonderful new book about a boy who has to take his fox that he has raised since it was born, and drop it in the forest, where it will need to learn how to survive. The boy is forced to do this as he is going to live with his grandfather, while his father goes to war. The book details the struggles of the fox and the boy, who runs away to try and get back to his fox, despite many setbacks.

19jfetting
mrt 26, 2020, 5:24 pm

>18 swimmergirl1: Same to you! Lots of time to catch up on reading.

21swimmergirl1
apr 14, 2020, 4:27 pm

24swimmergirl1
Bewerkt: mei 1, 2020, 1:44 am

30swimmergirl1
jul 20, 2020, 2:01 pm

62. Aria’s Traveling Bookshop by Rebecca Raisin.

63. The Magnolia Sisters by Alys Murray.

64. The Tea House on Mulberry Street by Sharon Owens.

65. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano.

66. 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand.

31swimmergirl1
Bewerkt: jul 27, 2020, 1:53 pm

32swimmergirl1
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33swimmergirl1
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36swimmergirl1
Bewerkt: jul 30, 2020, 2:59 am

37swimmergirl1
aug 3, 2020, 7:06 pm

77. No Place Like Home by Barbara Samuel.

38swimmergirl1
aug 4, 2020, 2:36 am

78. The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins.

41swimmergirl1
Bewerkt: nov 27, 2020, 1:24 pm

wow, been a while. Teaching online is soooo time consuming but try to do the best for my students. Didn't stop reading, just stopped adding my books.

89. Slightly South of Simple by Kristy Woodson Harvey

90. The Wedding Dress Christmas by Rachel Hauck

91. The Summer Cottage byViola Shipman

92. 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant

45bryanoz
nov 28, 2020, 5:43 am

Well done on the 100 swimmergirl1 !

46Eyejaybee
nov 28, 2020, 6:53 am

>43 swimmergirl1: Well done on getting to 100.

48jfetting
dec 15, 2020, 9:17 pm

Congrats on 100 and cheers to you for teaching online. Your students are lucky to have you! I tutor a second grader via Zoom for 1 hour every Wednesday night and it is the most exhausting hour of my week. I do not know how you do it.

50swimmergirl1
dec 31, 2020, 5:38 pm

Well, that's it for 2020. Glad to see this year end. It's been a challenging year, but I look forward to 2021.

Happy New Year everyone!