Meanderings and Muses: What is happening to this country?! Insanity and hatefulness is rampant

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Books Read

Every year I promise myself I'm going to keep a log of books I'm reading. And I immediately forget. Then I remember again, but only after I've already read a few books, but can't be sure I'll remember them all and so - - can't bring myself to start the list. It's sort of like missing the first 30 minutes of a movie. I just can't watch it if I've missed the beginning. And being the anal ol' soul I am, I can't bring myself to start a list if I can't be sure it's going to be a complete one. So. I decided to keep a list during 2010 and found it to be a fun thing. Especially for a compulsive list-maker like myself.

You can see my 2010 list here -

http://meanderingsandmuses.blogspot.com/2010/12/books-read-during-2010.html

And, you can see my 2011 list here -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2011/12/books-read-during-2011.html

And here's my 2012 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2013/01/books-read-in-2012.html

And, my 2013 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2013/12/books-read-duing-2013.html

And, my 2014 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2014/12/books-read-in-2014.html

And, my 2015 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2015/12/books-read-in-2015_14.html

And, my 2016 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2016/12/books-read-during-2016.html

And, my 2017 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2017/12/books-read-during-2017.html

And, my 2018 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2018/12/books-i-read-in-2018.html

AND, because I enjoyed doing it, I'm going to do it again this year.

Books Read in 2019

Borrowed Time by Tracy Clark (ARC)
Broken Places by Tracy Clark
Summer of '69 by Elin Hiderbrand (ARC)
The Murder List by Hank Phillippi Ryan (ARC)
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Swallows by Lisa Lutz (ARC)
Surfside Sisters by Nancy Thayer (ARC)
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (ARC)
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini (ARC)
Cape May by Chip Cheek (ARC)
A Bouquet of Rue by Wendy Hornsby
The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris by Jenny Colgan (ARC)
The Book Charmer by Karen Hopkins (ARC)
The Better Sister by Alafair Burke (ARC)
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman (ARC)
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger (ARC)
Haunting Paris by Mamta Chaudhry (ARC)
A Patchwork of Clues by Sally Goldenbaum (ARC)
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker (ARC)
I Know You by Erik Therme (ARC)
The Summer Guests by Mary Alice Monroe (ARC)
If She Wakes by Michael Koryta (ARC)
Careless Love by Peter Robinson
The Mykonos Mob by Jeffrey Siger (ARC)
The Paris Writers Circle by Norma Hopcraft
Until the Day I Die by Emily Carpenter (ARC)
Run Away by Harlan Cohen (ARC)
Under Currents by Nora Roberts (ARC)
The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman (ARC)
The Last Collection by Jeanne Mackin (ARC)
A Late Hard Frost by Stephanie Joyce Cole
Compass North by Stephanie Joyce Cole
The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis (ARC)
City of Windows by Robert Pobi (ARC)
Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald (ARC)
See You in the Piazza by Frances Mayes (ARC)
The Girl Across the Street by Vikki Patis (ARC)
Man of the Year by Caroline Louise Walker (ARC)
Mine by Courtney Cole (ARC)
The Third Mrs. Durst by Ann Aguirre (ARC)
Judgment by Joseph Finder (ARC)
Blood Oath by Linda Fairstein (ARC)
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths (ARC)
The Royal Secret by Lucinda Riley (ARC)
Sunset Beach by Mary Kay Andrews (ARC)
Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman
Secrets of Willow House by Susanne O'Leary (ARC)
Wolfhunter River by Rachel Caine (ARC)
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey (ARC)
The Peacock Emporium by JoJo Moyes (ARC)
The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester
Connections in Death by J. D. Robb
I'll Never Tell by Catherine McKenzie (ARC)
The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess (ARC)
Peachtree Road by Anne Rivers Siddons
Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher
The Parisians by Marius Gabriel
Paris, 7 a.m. by Lisa Wieland (ARC)
Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin (ARC)
The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman
More than Words by Jill Santopolo
Verses for the Dead by Lincoln & Child
Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach
Rosewood's Ashes by Aileen Schumacher
Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
What the Dead Want by Norah Olson
Our Prince of Scribes; Writers Remember Pat Conroy edited by Nicole Seitz and Jonathan Haupt

FTC Disclosure Notice

FTC has a regulation which went into effect in December, 2009 which says, basically - "Amateur Bloggers to Disclose Freebies or Be Fined." Significantly fined. So. Since I happen to be an amateur blogger who sometimes receives free books, here's my required FTC Disclosure Notice: Dear FTC - Regarding review copies of books obtained for this blog. No other compensation is accepted beyond review copies of books - ever. When I do write a review, or opinion, the source of the book cited will be disclosed in the post in which the review/opinon appears. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me.

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