Reading Thread/Goals for 2025

[Christine]

@Christine I’m currently in a slump. Started two books that I’m having difficulty getting into. Since we like similar, any recs? I really want to lose myself in a book.

Sorry I missed this. I've got nothing. Have you read the Rebecca Yarros books. Young adult, fantasy fiction. I'm liking them. Kinda fluff.

 

[Travel60]

Best Books I've read in 2025:

The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
The Mitford Affair by Heather Terrell
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

 

[melk]

29/30 Call of the Wild by Jack London

We were on vacation in Alaska so I was inspired to read this classic. If I had read it before I didn’t remember it. I enjoyed it.

 

[Willowstich]

I've read and liked it.

I've done that a couple of times over the last month. I should have kept track of the names to tell you which ones they were. The most current one is What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. I put it down 26 pages in. It's my book club pick for this month. I've never been able to read this author's books. There's something about the way she writes or something. A couple of other members are also have trouble or don't like the story.

#32 - A Dangerous Game by Mandy Robotham
Genre - Historical
I enjoyed it, give it 4/5.
London, 1952. Seven years after the chaotic aftermath of World War II, London has is coming alive again, with jazz clubs and flickering cinema awnings lighting up the night sky.
But for widowed Helen ‘Dexie’ Dexter, she’s still a woman in a man’s world. She longs to prove herself as an officer in the London Metropolitan Police, yet she’s stuck intervening in domestics and making tea for her male colleagues.
Then Harri Schroder arrives, seconded from Hamburg to the Met. Haunted by the loss of his wife and child, Harri is unlike any man Dexie has ever known. Compassionate and sharp-witted, he sees her not as a threat, but as an intelligent, canny officer full of potential.
And when Harri is tasked with hunting down a Nazi war criminal-turned-respected-businessman, with connections to the upper echelons of British society, it’s Dexie he turns to for help.
But as their bond deepens, a deadly fog engulfs London. Dexie and Harri must expose the fugitive before he vanishes, risking everything for justice – and each other…

#33 - Banished; Book One of The Long Road Home series by Linda Byler
Genre - Inspirational though on the book cover it says Amish Romance

Its about two Amish children, brother and sister, whose parents die crossing a river during a storm. None of their Amish relatives want them so they are sent to relatives living in Arkansas. I give it a 4/5 and I'm going to put the next book in the series on my "to read" list.

Did you read the series of The Covenant or just the one ?