Meanderings and Muses: A Brief History of Eloquence

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

A Brief History of Eloquence

1700 a sonnet
1800 a ballad in common meter
1900 an ode in free verse
2000 LMAO BB
2010

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2017

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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

The Dressmaker's Gift by Fiona Valpy
The Paris Orphan by Natasha Lester
The Islanders by Meg Mitchell Moore
All About Evie by Cathy Lamb (ARC)
Chances Are . . . by Richard Russo (ARC)
The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah
Vendetta in Death by J. D. Robb
Thin Ice by Paige Shelton (ARC)
The World Came to Us by Molly D. Campbell (ARC)
Moonlight Over Paris by Jennifer Robson
Rules of Civility by Armor Towles
Pretty Little Things by Lori Rader-Day
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict (ARC)
A Bitter Feast by Deborah Crombie (ARC)
Paper Son by S. J. Rozan
The Stranger Inside by Lisa Unger (ARC)
Murder in Rat Alley by Mark de Castrique (ARC)
We Are All Good People Here by Susan Rebecca White (ARC)
Let it Snow by Nancy Thayer (ARC)
The Golden Oldies Guesthouse by Dee MacDonald (ARC)
How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid (ARC)
The Old Success by Martha Grimes (ARC)
Once and Always Murder by Orania Papazooglou
The Art of Regret by Mary Fleming (ARC)
The Confession Club by Elizabeth Berg (ARC)
Reputation by Sara Shepard (ARC)
The Travelers by Regina Porter (ARC)
We Went to the Woods by Caite Dolan-Leach (ARC)
Travel as a Political Act by Rick Steves
The Room on Rue Amelie by Kristin Harmel
Murder Off the Page by Con Lehane (ARC)
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell (ARC)
Almost Paradise by Susan Isaacs
The Missing Years by Lexie Elliott
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding by Wendy Wax
Be Careful What You Wish For by Hallie Ephron (ARC)
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
A Bias for Murder by Sally Goldenbaum (ARC)
A Wedding in the Beach by Holly Chamberlin (ARC)
When We Believed In Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal (ARC)
Lacewood by Jessica James (ARC)
A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler (ARC)
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
All the Flowers in Paris by Sarah Jio (ARC)
The Paris Winter by Imogen Robertson
The Favorite Daughter by Patti Callahan Henry
The Book Supremacy by Kate Carlisle (ARC)
Queen Bee by Dorothea Benton Frank
Whispering in French by Sophia Nash
A Better Man by Louise Penny (ARC)
A Thread of Darkness by Sally Goldenbaum (ARC)
Dragonfly by Leila Meacham (ARC)
Beyond the Horizon by Ella Carey (ARC)
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

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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

A Brief History of Eloquence

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