Janet in January - 2017 Reading Challenge

Starting off like gangbusters this year!  Finished the book "First Comes Love" and it was pretty good.  Family dynamics when a sibling is killed in an accident.

Now I'm on to book three:

I read the book Mitch Albom wrote called The Five People You Meet In Heaven and liked it a lot.  This one is about music so that's why it interested me.  I actually got it for Christmas last year but it's been sitting on the shelf.  I'm using it to fill my Book with a title that's a character's name category.  

At this rate, I may actually get a lot of books read this year!  

Have you read this book?  Any others by Mitch Albom?  Share!

Janet in January - 2017 (Reading Challenge)

January 14

Two weeks gone by already!  I have finished the book about Dorothy Kilgallen, "The Reporter Who Knew Too Much."

It was pretty interesting, especially because I only knew about Ms. Kilgallen from the What's My Line TV show and did not realize that she was a reporter as well.  The book itself, however, left a little to be desired in that there were multiple typographical errors and I found the writer to use the same adjectives several times in the same sentence which seemed a little redundant.

Since I finished the book this year, I'm counting it as my first book in the 2017 challenge and filling the category "A book about an interesting woman."

Next up is:

I got this book from my husband for Christmas.  He got it at a bookstore in Oregon and when he bought it, it was like a mystery book because it was wrapped in plain brown paper so that you could not see the title.  On the paper was written:  A tragic story about two sisters.  Since I have sisters, he thought I'd enjoy it.   

This is an advanced copy of a book that had not been published. I'm using it to satisfy my "book with a red spine" category.  

How about you?  On a reading challenge quest?      

December Reflections - 2016

Day 5 - Best book of 2016

I haven't read as many this year as I wanted to because I got stuck on a few, the longest being A Thousand Days by Arthur Schlesinger about JFK.  That took me several months to read and it was good, but I don't consider it the best book I read this year.

Since I am a huge Sherlock Holmes fan:

I have to say my favorite book this year was Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz.  

Definitely had a twist at the end and I am looking forward to reading another one by him. 

Each year for the past couple of years I have been attempting a reading challenge.  I use the suggestions given by Pop Sugar (which I keep calling Pop Secret for some reason...popcorn anyone?)

Here is the link to their list for 2017:

I am looking forward to giving it another go this year.  How about you?  Working on any reading challenges?    Favorite book this year?  I'd love suggestions.