It might seem to be counterproductive, I want to buy fewer books and also I want to finish my current unread owned books. Yet I do have a few books I am looking forward to being published.  In case anyone else finds something to add to their own ever-growing TBR. I will try to have them in release date for the first quarter of the year. January 5th - Lore by Alexandra Bracken . I have not seen anyone talk about it but I do enjoy tales about gods and this feels like a gladiator type of sport. I will not try to explain, better to show you the book description directly: Every seven years, the Agon begins. As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals, hunted by the descendants of ancient bloodlines, all eager to kill a god and seize their divine power and immortality. Long ago, Lore Perseous fled that brutal world in the wake of her family's sadistic murder by a rival line, turning her back on the hunt's promises of eternal glory. F...

  I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas. This year has been ups and downs, we need to appreciate what blessings we have bestowed upon us.  2020 is almost at its end, it was interminable but then as soon as December hits, it flies by at double speed. Let's keep as safe as possible.  Enjoy the day, with family, with loved ones, or in the company of your favorite fictional characters. 

  Series: Hercule Poirot #12 Author: Agatha Christie Genre: Mystery Original Publication date: March 10, 1935 Book description: A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane… From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman. Thoughts: Another story about H. Poirot. This one comes by chance. The retired detective happens to be in the same flight as a death by a very peculiar method. The method itself is intriguing, the choice for it uncertain for most of the time. It is another classic who-did-it-story like it is the custom of Christie...

  Series: Hercule Poirot #11  Author: Agatha Christie Genre: Mystery/Thriller Original publication date: 1934 Book description: At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die...Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions, and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison -- just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive! Thoughts: There is a dinner party with  guests include Hercule Poirot; Dr. Bartholomew Strange; Lady Mary Lytton Gore, and her daughter Hermione; Captain Dacres, and his wife Cynthia; Muriel Wills; Oliver Manders; Mr. Satterthwaite; and Reverend Babbington and his wife. The old detective is not the main character for most of the story, surprisingly.  At the party,...

The previous post was about the specific reading goals in general. I set a lot of goals be it in my personal life, reading, or work.   *Music, in this case, means get back into practicing and learning to play the Clarinet. I do not own one but I am trying to acquire one in the next couple of weeks. I have put this on pause for years, the few classes I took no longer count. I will have to start all over again. So this project has two stages: Find and buy a Clarinet Get back in touch with a tutor or if the situation is still not allowing due to lockdown restrictions. Online classes or start with the beginner's booklets that start by teaching very simple melodies.  *The next project I want to have for myself is to do a more rigorous posting.  Blog a review for each book read or in the case of Manga divide the series up into sections and do a review per section.  Try to do more book recommendations, I wish I had more recommendation lists like best of Fantasy, sci-fi...

As usual, I am setting very ambitious goals for myself. There is always the possibility of changing or adjusting the goals but as of right now the plans are as follows: *Reading goal: 225 books  *I want to get at least 24 Rereads (List of books coming, later on, keep an eye out for it). *Read more graphic novels, mangas, and comics. Overall I think I can manage to get to 50 easily. We'll see about that if it's manageable or my confidence once more shinning through.   *Complete series. If I start a new one (in 2021) I must at least read more than 3 books in long series and if possible finish up to the latest published work. I want to finish at least 5 of the series I started before 2020. Feel free to scroll to the previous posts, there is a list of 87 series I have started some time ago (without counting the ones I stared and did not complete in 2020 I will make that analysis a bit later).  *Read more kindle books. I have already a big list of unread books saved in my...

So as many people might not know one of the first mystery thrillers books I read was the partner by John Grishman and loved it. After that I have been rereading that book almost once a year, so by now I have read that book well a lot since 2006 I have that book so wow!  I had intended to read some more of his works, I had that intention, back in 2018 but I had a different job and living situation that simply did not allow me to do that. So I quickly gave that up. Maybe I read 2-3 more books by him. It's time to give that project a try again. First off I am making a list of his works in publication order, for no particular reason in case anyone is interested. This is probably not interesting to anyone but me. The books I own are shown in Bold if I have the physical copy and in Italics , if I have a digital version of them. Here they are: 1. A Time To Kill (1989)  2. The Pelican Brief (1992)  3. The Client (1993)  4. The Chamber (1994) 5. The...