A project for 2022

Top Ten Tuesday: 

Books so good I must write reviews for them even years after reading them. 

Today's topic is to highlight books too good to review properly. I decided to tweak the topic and merge it with a personal challenge which I started last month. 

I retired in 2017 after 37 years as an educator, the last twelve as a high school librarian. Prior to 2017 my priority in blogging was writing reviews for the YA books I was reading. I purposely didn't review all the adult books I read, thinking my students wouldn't be that interested in them. Now I realize that many of the books I never reviewed are some of my favorites and I really, really wish I hadn't neglected them. I keep wondering if it is possible to write reviews for books I read years ago? Well, this project will be my attempt to go back and correct the record, writing super-duper past due reviews.

These are the books I hope to review in 2022:

 

1. A Man Named Ove by Frederik Backman

Read in April 2017

 

2. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Read in Feb. 2018

Reviewed: August 13, 2023

 

3. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Read in Aug. 2017

Re-read and reviewed March 22, 2022

 

4. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach

Read in March 2017

Reviewed: July 7, 2023

 

5. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner

Read in Nov. 2016

 

 

6. The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Read in January 2014

 

7. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Read in Dec. 2014

Reviewed Jan. 20, 2022

 

8. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Read in October 2014

Reviewed Jan. 25, 2022

 

9. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Read in Dec. 2015

Reviewed Feb. 13, 2022

 

10. The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig

Re-read in Feb. 2015, first read in 2009

Reviewed Feb. 4, 2022

 

If I complete these past due reviews I may add additional titles. Come back infrequently and check out my progress. I'll hyperlink the titles to completed reviews.

-Anne