December Book Report

NYC, December 2023

I finished 12 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

"Dragonflies with stained-glass wings stitched invisible threads in the air. The two friends gazed down at the land below, watching the cloud shadows bruise the earth."  --Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 1 was a book I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• none counted toward the 17th Canadian Reading Challenge 
• none were from my (new) Classics Club List 
• none counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• none counted toward the 2023 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 
• 1 counted toward the 2023 What's in a Name Challenge - which finished it off before the end of the year
• 1 was from my Readers' Advisory Reading List 
• 2 were from the mystery series I was trying to make progress on this year

 Here are the books I finished in December 2023: 

1. Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear (4-stars)
2. Finish by Jon Acuff  (3-stars)
3. Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (4-stars)
4. The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World by Bruce Feiler (3-stars)
5. The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer (3-stars)
6. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (5-stars)
7. The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger (5-stars)
8. The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham (3-stars)
9. The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdra Mask (audiobook, 4-stars)
10. The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen (4-stars)
11. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (3-stars)
12. The Witching Year by Diana Helmuth (4-stars)

I had a very good reading year in 2023. Lots of new-to-me authors and a dozen 5-star books. I completed all my challenges except the TBR pile one which I made good progress on but, as usual, didn't finish.