This year started with being sick – fell sick on last day of 2014 – Flu bug with a touch of pneumonia.
Tuesday 6 January 2015
1) Finally got strength to complete reading a book by Susan Wittig Albert – that makes 18 books of hers so far
Titled: Bleeding Hearts
Wednesday 14 January 2015
2) Just complete reading a book by Susan Wittig Albert – new series of books
Title: The Darling Dahlias and the Texas Star.
Tuesday 20 January 2015
3) Completed reading a book by Mary Higgins Clark
Title : The Second Time Around
4) Nearly completed a book by Jaroslav Hasek – translated by Cecil Parrott with original illustrations by Josef Lada. A story ( a bit funny ) about a czech soldier in a Austrian Army.
This book belonged to recently departed Shannon’s grandfather (Ray) and given to me by her Grandmother (Opal) for keeps as a memory to Ray . The grandparents live in Huntsville, Ontario.
Title: The Good Soldier SVEJK and his fortunes in the World war.
Tuesday 27 January 2015
5) Completed reading a book by Susan Wittig Albert – new series of books
The Darling Dahlias and The Silver Dollar Bush
Sunday 01 Februay 2015
6) Completed reading a book by Susan Wittig Albert – new series of books
The Darling Dahlias and The Naked ladies
Tuesday 10 February 2015
7) Completed reading a book by Susan Wittig Albert – new series of books
The darling Dahlias and The Cucumber tree
Monday 16 February 2015
8) Completed reading a book by Susan Wittig Albert – new series of books
The darling Dahlias and The Confederate Rose.
I guess it is re-read.
Monday 23 February 2015
9) Completed reading a book by Susan Wittig Albert – another series of books ( The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter)
Title : The Tale of Holly How
Friday 27 February 2015
10) Completed reading a book by Nora Roberts – with a theme ” Sometimes the biggest gamble is to not rosk at all …” –
Title: The MacGregors ( Robert —- Cybil )
Thursday 05 March 2015
11) Completed reading a book by Susan Wittig Albert – another series of books ( The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter)
Title : The Tale of Briar Bank
While visiting Toronto ( and be with the grandkids Maya and Kieran) between Saturday 7 March 2015 and Tuesday 17 March 2015 – completed reading four (4) books
Monday 09 March 2015
12) Completed reading the book titled ” I Heard That Song Before” by Mary Higgins Clark . Took that book from Deep River .
Wednesday 11 March 2015
13) Completed reading the book titled ” Stories From The Vinyl Cafe” by Stuart McLean. This book is part of Sunir/Shannon collection of books.
Sunday 15 March 2015
14) Completed reading the book titled ” Case Histories” by Kate Atkinson . This book is part of Sunir/Shannon collection of books.
Note: Next book (by Kate Atkinson) to read ( to be obtained from the Deep River Library) is titled ” One Good Turn”
Monday 16 March 2015
15) Completed reading the book titled ” The Divine Lord Mahaveer ” by Muni Shri Chandrashekhar Vijayji . Took that book from Deep River. It is the Jain religious book (A part of 4 books that we got from our last visit to Kenya)
Returned back to Deep River on Tuesday 17 March 2015
Saturday 21 March 2015
16) Completed reading a book by Susan Wittig Albert (China Bayles Series)
Sunday 29 March 2015
Title : A Dilly of A Death
Wednesday 25 March 2015
17) Completed reading a book by Nora Roberts ( First in the new Irish trilogy)
Title: Jewels of the Sun
Sunday 29 March 2015
18) Completed reading a book by Nora Roberts ( Second in the new Irish trilogy)
Title: Tears of The Moon
Monday 06 April 2015
19) Completed reading a book by Susan Wittig Albert – another series of books ( The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter)
Title : The Tale of Oak Crag
Sunday 12 April 2015
20) Completed reading a book by Susan Wittig Albert – final book in this series of books( The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter)
Title: The Tale of Appleback Orchard
Saturday 18 April 2015
21) Completed reading a ” Tom Clancy’s ” titled Endwar -The Hunted written by David Michaels.
The book starts with a scenerio that the country of Dubai was ruined as nuclear explosions detonated in Iran and saudi Arabia in 2016.
Saturday 16 May 2015
22) Completed reading another book authored / written by Tom Clancy.
Theme: Fictitious – Japan’s inroads into wrecking USA economy and then engaging into war with USA to get equal treatment/partnership.
Title: Debt of Honor
Saturday 06 June 2015
23) Completed reading another book authored / written by Tom Clancy.
Theme: drug Cartel in Columbia
Title: Clear and Present Danger
Tuesday 16 June 2015
24) Completed reading another book authored / written by Tom Clancy.
Theme : Russian take over of Crimea (in Ukraine)
Title: Command Authority
Saturday 27 June 2015
25) Completed reading another book authored / written by Tom Clancy.
Theme : Russian Submarine in a move to seek asylum in USA
Title: The Hunt for Red October
Sunday 12 July 2015
26) Completed reading another book authored / written by Tom Clancy.
Theme : China going over to Russia to take part of Siberia for newly found minerals – gold and oil
Title: The Bears and Dragons
Friday 24 July 2015
27) & 28) Completed reading two books ( from a trilogy of books of three complete novels) by Dean Koontz
– A book titled ” The House of Thunder ”
– A book titled ” Shadowfires ”
Friday 21 August 2015
29) Completed reading the third book ( from a trilogy of books of three complete novels) by Dean Koontz
– a book titled ” Midnight ”
Tuesday 08 September 2015
30) Completed reading another book authored / written by Tom Clancy.
Title : Red Rabbit – to get a Russian out of Russia – who was concerned about potential killing of Pope by the Russian State. So he wanted to move out of Rusia and warn the West about this nefarious activity by his Government.
Wednesday 16 September 2015
31) Completed reading another book authored / written by Tom Clancy.
Title: Locked On – the trouble made by Pakistani ISI and terrorists – also getting hole of two nuclear devices.
Thursday 17 September 2015
31) Completed reading a book by Agatha Christie ( Toomy/Tuppence Beresford series)
Title: N or M
Between Friday 18 September 2015 and Friday 16 October, 2015
Completed reading the follwoing three (3) books
32) First the book by Muriel Jensen – titled : ” The Men of Maple Hill ”
– in fact there are two novels provided in this book
i) Man With A Mission
ii) Man With A Message
and a bonus book ( in brief ) – ” Lucky in Love ”
33) The other book is by Sara Paretsky titled : ” Total Recall ” .
In this book the woman detective ( private eye) V. I. Warshawski is the main ” pin ball ” type detective in action.
34) Then the book which was completed on this day ( Friday 16 October, 2015 ) is by Scottish writer – Alexander McCall Smith- set in Botswana in Southern Africa with his main detective Mma Precious Ramotswe .
Title: The Kalahari Typing School For Men
This is the book brought/bought by Nina – and refreshes my previous (earlier) reading of this book as well as other books (with the same detective) by the author ( Alexander McCall Smith ).
35) Sunday 25 October 2015
I completed reading the second book by Sara Paretsky titled : ” Hard Time ” .
In this book the woman detective ( private eye) V. I. Warshawski becomes a victim of vengence by a vicious person who runs Private run prison .
36) Thursday 05 November 2015
I completed reading the second book by Sara Paretsky titled : ” Hardball ” .
In this book the woman detective ( private eye) V. I. Warshawski becomes involved in tryin to find a nephew of an African American woman in final stages of her life (Claudia) and stumbled into her own (V.I. Warshawski’s) dad’s duty few decades ago and killling of a Civil Rights Movement vounteer at Martin Luther King’s procession in 1967 .
37) Monday 09 November 2015
I completed reading the second book by Sara Paretsky titled : ” BodyWork ” .
In this book the woman detective ( private eye) V. I. Warshawski becomes involved in tryin to find the killer of a sister (and the murder pinned on a Veteran as a fall guy).
38) Tuesday 17 November 2015
I completed reading the second book by Sara Paretsky titled : ” Dead Lock ” .
In this book the woman detective ( private eye) V. I. Warshawski becomes involved in tryin to find the killer of her Cousin (Boom Boom) with the background relating to shipping of grain – between USA and Canada
39) Tuesday 24 November 2015
I completed reading the third book by Sara Paretsky titled : ” Critical Mass ” .
— The woman detective ( private eye) V. I. Warshawski
This is a very touching book on two counts
1) It touches on Nazi Holocaust in Germany/Austria and
2) On the development of computer / nuclear bombs and a race between scientists and Goverments – mostly in Germany/Austria and USA.
— The woman detective ( private eye) V. I. Warshawski
40) Friday 27 November 2015
I completed reading the fourth book by Sara Paretsky titled : ” Indemnity Only ” .
— The woman detective ( private eye) V. I. Warshawski
This book borrowed by Inter-library loan.
41) Monday 30 November 2015
I completed reading the fifth book by Sara Paretsky titled : ” Bitter Medicine ” .
— The woman detective ( private eye) V. I. Warshawski
A close friend of ( a young girl of 16) dies in hospital – afterdeliveringa baby ( which also dies) .
42) Sunday 06 December 2015
I completed reading the sixth book by Sara Paretsky titled : ” Break Down ”
— The woman detective ( private eye) V. I. Warshawski
Her ” detective work ” keeps one reading and reading – so captivating
43 ) Sunday 20 December 2015
completed reading the seventh book by Sara Paretsky titled : ” Blacklist ”
— The woman detective ( private eye) V. I. Warshawski
Repeat : Her ” detective work ” keeps one reading and reading – so captivating
44) Wednesday 30 December 2015
This is the last book for the year that I have completed – (note I do not record other small odd books Iread along withn these recorded books here on the blog.
Completed reading the 8th book by Sara Paretsky titled : ” Guardian Angel “.
Thsi book is also very captivating .
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