Meanderings and Muses: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays From the Barleys

Friday, December 17, 2021

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays From the Barleys

Happy Wishes for this Holiday Season

“Christmas Bells” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I heard the bells on Christmas Day

Their old, familiar carols play,

And wild and sweet

The words repeat

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

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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, my 2019 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2019/12/books-i-read-in-2019.html

And, my 2020 list -

http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2020/07/books-read-in-2020.html

And, my 2021 list - http://www.meanderingsandmuses.com/2021/12/books-i-read-in-2021.html

Books Read in 2022

The Postmistress of Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
The Vanishing Type by Ellery Adams (ARC)
We Lie Here by Rachel Howzell Hall (ARC)
The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick ( ARC)
Love & Saffron by Kim Fay (ARC)
The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner (ARC)
The Summer Getaway by Susan Mallery (ARC)
The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian (ARC)
Made in Manhattan by Lauren Layne (ARC)
With Love from London by Sarah Jio (ARC)
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle (ARC)
The Secret Gift of Lucia Lemon by Celia Anderson
The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
Summer on the Island by Brenda Novak (ARC)
Summer Love by Nancy Thayer (ARC)
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin
The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander (ARC)
Impossible to Forget by Imogen Clark
Something Wicked by David Housewright (ARC)
Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith (ARC)
Chateau des Corbeaux by Lise McClendon
Abandoned in Death by J.D. Robb
This Place of Wonder by Barbara O'Neal (ARC)
The Perfume Companion The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent by Sarah McCartney and Samantha Scriven
The Heights by Louise Candish (ARC)
Out of the Clear Blue Sky by Kristan Higgins (ARC)
The Scent of Possibility by Sarah McCartney
The Perfume Garden by Kate Lord Brown
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
The Painter's Girl by Helen Fripp (ARC)
The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
Lucy Checks In by Dee Ernst (ARC)
The Painter's Girl by Helen Fripp (ARC)
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
The Homewreckers by Mary Kay Andrews (ARC)
Where the Sky Begins by Rhys Bowen (ARC)
In the Middle of Hickory Lane by Heather Webber (ARC)
Bookish People by Susan Coll (ARC)
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen (ARC)
Belle Greene by Alexandra Lapierre (ARC)
It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler (ARC)
The Family Compound by Liz Parker (ARC)
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young (ARC)
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand (ARC)
Where Wild Peaches Grow by Cade Bentley (ARC)
In the Pines by Kendra Elliot (ARC)
Summer of Second Chances by Andrea Hurst
Meant to Be Mine by Hannah Orenstein (ARC)
Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
French Braid by Anne Tyler
Wish You Were Gone by Kieran Scott
With Love from Wish & Co. by Minnie Darke (ARC)
On the March by Trudy Krisher
The Italian Job by Kathryn Freeman (ARC)
The Paris Showroom by Juliet Blackwell
Remember When (In Death) by Nora Roberts/JD Robb
Stella by Josh Dygert
The Two Lives of Sara by Catherine Adel West (ARC)
The Road to Me by Laura Drake
Nothing But the Truth by Holly James (ARC)
The Man I Never Met by Elle Cook (ARC)
When in Rome by Sarah Adams (ARC)
The Color of Ice by Barbara Linn Probst (ARC)
Mark Rothko: A Biography by James E. B. Breslin
Please Join Us by Catherine McKenzie (ARC)
Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger (ARC)
Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King (ARC)
The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell (ARC)
On Gin Lane by Brooke Lea Foster (ARC)
Flying Solo by Linda Holmes (ARC)
When We Were Friends by Holly Bourne (ARC)
Three by Valerie Perrin (ARC)
Secret Lives by Mark de Castrique (ARC)
The Summer of Grace by Karen Jones (ARC)
Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe by Matthew Pratt Guterl
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris by Daisy Wood
The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green (ARC)
The Last Dress from Paris by Jade Beer

FTC Disclosure Notice

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