From my physical non-fiction shelf -  Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage by Edith B. Gelles and Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and his Nation by Susan Williams.

From my science reading list - The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman and Rise of the Rocket Girls by Natalia Holt. 

From my Nixon reading list - 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky.

From my Winter COYER reading list - Radio Girls by Sarah Jane Stratford, Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson, and Master of Love by Catherine LaRoche.

From my physical fiction shelf - The Trouble with Valentine's Day by Rachel Gibson.

Library pick - Maisie Dobbs by Jaqueline Winspear.

Finally, I am doing an experiment. Every Friday, I am going to read a short book from either my NOOK or Kindle. I am using Random Number Generator to pick from a list. I will announce these picks on my Friday reads. 

Goals Progress

BL/GR: 16/75 (21% complete)

Nixon Reading List: 1/12 (8% complete)

Science Reading List: 2/15 (12% complete); 1 read, 1 DNF

Physical Non-Fiction List: 1/18 (5% complete)

Challenges

Winter COYER: 10 books

BoB Cycle 24: 1/4 (25%) books read, 4 challenges completed

24 in 48 Read-a-thon: Read for 12 hours, 23 minutes and completed 597 pages

Read

1. A Dance with Danger (Rebels and Lovers #2; Tang Dynasty #5) by Jeannie Lin (COYER; last item for 24 Festive Task game) - 4.5 stars

2. The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward (Nixon reading list) - 4 stars

3. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements by Sam Kean (Flat Book Society book club pick) - 2.5 stars

4. Cheer Up, Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate by Susan Calman (COYER) - 3 stars

5. A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard - 5 stars

6. Three Fearful Days: San Francisco Memoirs of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire by Malcolm E. Barker - 4 stars

7. The Rancher's Convenient Bride (Coal Valley Brides #1) by Rose Andrews (COYER) - 2 stars 

8. A Death on the Way to Portsmouth (Lady Ashes Mystery Short Story) by Christine Trent (COYER) - 3.5 stars

9. To Be a Spy (Spy Series Short Stories #1) by Jessie Clever (COYER) - 2 stars

10. The Schoolmarm's Surprising Suitor (Poppy Valley Romance #1) by Beverly Bernard (COYER) - 2 stars

11. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (COYER) - 1 star

12. For the Love of Laura Beth (Chicago Christmas #4) by Aubrey Wynne - 5 stars

13. The Good Luck Sister (Wildstone #1) by Jill Shalvis (COYER) - 4 stars

14. The Chef's Mail Order Bride (Wild West Frontier Brides #1) by Cindy Caldwell (COYER) - 3 stars

15. Poison in Paddington (Cassie Coburn Mystery #1) by Samantha Silver (COYER) - 4 stars

DNF

1. The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel - the ladies in the subtitle got almost no page time, it was all the males and rich heiresses that funded the work. Very dry; no narrative hook or personality development of the ladies. My science reading list is not off to a great start.

2. The Turning of Anne Merrick by Christine Blevins - a lot of words, nothing happens and after 25 pages I hadn't made it out of chapter one and couldn't care for any of the characters mentioned so far.

3. An Awakened Heart (Orphan Train #0.5) by Jody Hedlund - I knew by page five I was not going to like the author's writing or the characters. It was that instinct.

Happy 2019!

From my physical non-fiction shelf - Three Fearful Days: San Francisco Memoirs of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire by Malcolm E. Barker

From my physical fiction shelf - The Turning of Anne Merrick by Christine Blevins. 

From my Winter COYER/BoB cycle 24 reading list - Cheer Up, Love by Susan Calman; Mary & Lou and Ted & Rhoda by Jennifer Armstrong; North to You by Tif Marcelo; Sweet Disorder by Rose Lerner; Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan.

From 24 Festive Task game: A Dance with Danger by Jeannie Lin, my pick for first book of 2019.

From my Science reading list - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert.

From my Nixon reading list - The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward.

I've got 18 books that have been collecting dust since we lived in California and after five years of life in England, those books haven't moved. So my project is not to read all 17(but if that happens, it happens), but make a serious attempt to read 10-12 of them. This is why I should stick to getting my non-fiction from the library - time sensitive due dates does wonderful things for my reading life.

One book on this shelf is autographed by the author/actor (originally bought for that purpose), so it's just going to move to my physical read shelf after I get done reading.

Most will be donated regardless of what I think about the book. 

This is my master copy list and will be updated throughout the year so (hopefully!) show some progress.

1. Three Fearful Days: San Francisco Memoirs of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire by Malcolm E. Barker

2. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry

3. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor

4. A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston

5. Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage by Edith B. Gelles

6. Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild

7. Kosovo: War and Revenge by Tim Judah

8. The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin

9. Sinatra's Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World by David Lehman

10. The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Center and the Men and Women Who Worked There by Sinclair McKay

11. Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis/Suez and the Brink of War by David A. Nichols

12. Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

13. Jambusters: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War by Julie Summers

14. The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 by Frederick Taylor

15. Colour Bar: A United Kingdom by Susan Williams

16. Pox: An American History by Michael Willrich

17. In the Midst of Life by Jennifer Worth

18. The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn