My Very Own “Book Bucket List” – December 2017
I’ve knocked the 7th entry off my Book Bucket List: Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak. You can see the review here. In its place, I’ve added The Whole of the Moon by Kevin McManus to round out the 12 options for the next vote (post with poll to VOTE is below).
The poll for the January 2018 read is open. Click below to vote by 12/20!
Below is the link to the on-going Book Bucket List and a background on what it’s all about. My Very Own “Book Bucket List” — Click the link to access everything since the beginning of this post series as well as see the 12 books currently on the list.
About Me
I’m Jay, an author who lives in NYC. My debut novel, Watching Glass Shatter, can be purchased on Amazon @ http://mybook.to/WGS. I am writing my second novel, Father Figure, with plans to publish it in early 2018. As part of the process to engage with my fans and followers, I am publishing a weekly status on the progress of this second book. For a description of this book, check out the post where my friends and followers voted for this book as my second novel.
Beyond these two books, I have a number of short stories, poems and other novels in various shapes and forms. I also read A LOT. First the book review goes on Goodreads, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at https://thisismytruthnow.com, where you’ll also find TV & Film reviews, Tags, Awards, Age/Genre/Book Reads and Author Spotlights, as well as the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge.
You can also access my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by. Note: All written content is my original creation and copyrighted to me, but the graphics and images were linked from other sites and belong to them. Many thanks to their original creators.
December 10, 2017 at 4:56 PM
Think you would like Origin. It will make you stop and think at the end.
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December 10, 2017 at 5:10 PM
I have A few of these on my shelf already. That’s one of them I hope wins!
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December 10, 2017 at 5:22 PM
These are all awesome choices, but I’m sticking with Kate Morton’s The Lake House.☺️
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December 10, 2017 at 5:55 PM
She’s my favorite!
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December 10, 2017 at 6:06 PM
Same here. I think my runner-up would be Origin. It’s on my bookshelf right now staring at me.☺️
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December 10, 2017 at 6:23 PM
Not a big Follett fan?
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December 10, 2017 at 6:47 PM
I’m embarrassed to say I haven’t read any of his books although the Kingsbridge series is on my tbr.
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December 10, 2017 at 6:49 PM
Oh! It’s ok. But he is quite good. Night Over Water is my all time favorite.
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December 10, 2017 at 6:59 PM
He’s an author I’ve always wanted to try, but never seemed to have time too. I’m adding Night Over Water to my tbr as well since you recommend it. Thanks Jay!🤗
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December 10, 2017 at 7:06 PM
It takes places in the 1950s (if I recall correctly), but there are so many wonderful moments in it… it has all the charm of his historical fiction in Pillars and World Without End, but a more modern setting. I was surprised but I couldn’t put it down. Hope you enjoy it.
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December 10, 2017 at 7:11 PM
I was just reading the synopsis on Amazon and it definitely looks like my kind of read. I like how it’s based on an actual even too. Next time I visit the library I’m going to check it out. Oh! And I’m slightly less chagrined because I just realized I read Eye of the Needle.☺️
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December 10, 2017 at 7:13 PM
Oh! I have that here on the shelf, but I haven’t read it yet. My other half did read it and keeps pushing me, but I want to read the third in Follet’s Column of Fire trilogy first. Ha, it’s ok… after thousands of books, we can’t possibly be held accountable for all of them!
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December 10, 2017 at 7:21 PM
Too many books Jay!🤷🏻♀️
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December 10, 2017 at 10:12 PM
Seems like we’re all voting for the ones that are quite popular! 😀
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December 10, 2017 at 10:14 PM
Hmmm…. it will be a surprise for me. I won’t let myself look until the end. Although I believe I know what may win this time. It was very close last time. I appreciate you participating. How are you doing?
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December 10, 2017 at 10:18 PM
Great, man. I’ve recently been fixing up my “following” strategy since I used to do it very old school by bookmarking the blogs I visit, but now that I’ve discovered that you could make email alerts and prioritize certain bloggers and all, a major clean-up has been made! I now receive your posts in mail (mail dedicated just for the blog) and will be able to follow you much more, and especially interact (which is probably the main thing I haven’t had the chance to do with your blog). Time to play catch-up. 🙂 Look forward to reading more about your journey, sir. How you’ve been?
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December 11, 2017 at 8:22 AM
I absolutely understand what you’re going through with the blog. I used to be able to read every post, but no longer. I wake up to 500 to read and can never keep up, so I’m starting to change and prioritize the order, too. We have to in order to survive. 🙂 I’ll be glad to catch up more with you. All is well. Keeping busy, trying to finish the second book. Also trying to finish the books I committed to read. But I’ll get there by January and 2018 will be more organized! 🙂
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December 11, 2017 at 3:52 PM
I voted for “The Simplicity of Cider” because it is the only one from your list that I have read and I like finding out what other people thought of books I have read. I liked it. It wasn’t earth-shattering, but it was good.
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December 11, 2017 at 6:16 PM
Thank you for participating. I love this title, so I do plan to read it, but probably not soon unless it wins the poll. It will be read in 2018 tho!
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December 21, 2017 at 8:48 AM
Polls are closed. Paula Hawkins ‘Into the Water’ won and will be my January 2018 book to read. Thank you to everyone who participated!
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