I love taking a look at our best reading experiences too! We also read the Wilderking trilogy this year, and my 7-year-old boy thought it was the funniest thing in the world.
My daughter thought Feechie crying was sooo funny. There is a lot of humor and pathos in the series. I was personally ready to fight the plume hunters.
So many good books on your list! I miss all the read-alouds we did as a family. Now that our kids are older, we don’t have the set times for those and they’ve fallen by the wayside. Thankfully they all like to read, though!
This was a heavy mystery year for me, too. I’ve reread most of the Lord Peter mysteries, and I’ve got one more book in the Cadfael mystery series—I was able to read two of them on our vacation this past week! I think those were my favorites this year.
From one of your posts, it seems like you have book recommendations going back and forth now. That is another way of experiencing the same the stories. Another of my audiobook reads for the year was Pickwick Papers. Your post inspired me to read and push through the first section. I would say the last part was so touching and funny. The young doctors were hilarious. That was another book that I started in Memphis, listened to on the way back to Colorado, and finished just as I drove over the state line into Maine. I will forever think of the closing lines of the book and the Maine welcome sign. 🤣 I also really liked the Judy Dench audiobook, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent. Thanks for mentioning that one too. I got so much weeding and driving accomplished with that one too. I ended up buying it because I can easily see a re-listen in my future and the library wanted their copy back before I could finish it.
It was my second read in as many years. The first read started off slowly for me but I was quickly hooked. I also read a biography of Sigurd Undset this year- Sigurd Undset: Reader of Hearts. It was published by Ignatius press and written by Aiden Nichols, O.P.
I love taking a look at our best reading experiences too! We also read the Wilderking trilogy this year, and my 7-year-old boy thought it was the funniest thing in the world.
My daughter thought Feechie crying was sooo funny. There is a lot of humor and pathos in the series. I was personally ready to fight the plume hunters.
So many good books on your list! I miss all the read-alouds we did as a family. Now that our kids are older, we don’t have the set times for those and they’ve fallen by the wayside. Thankfully they all like to read, though!
This was a heavy mystery year for me, too. I’ve reread most of the Lord Peter mysteries, and I’ve got one more book in the Cadfael mystery series—I was able to read two of them on our vacation this past week! I think those were my favorites this year.
From one of your posts, it seems like you have book recommendations going back and forth now. That is another way of experiencing the same the stories. Another of my audiobook reads for the year was Pickwick Papers. Your post inspired me to read and push through the first section. I would say the last part was so touching and funny. The young doctors were hilarious. That was another book that I started in Memphis, listened to on the way back to Colorado, and finished just as I drove over the state line into Maine. I will forever think of the closing lines of the book and the Maine welcome sign. 🤣 I also really liked the Judy Dench audiobook, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent. Thanks for mentioning that one too. I got so much weeding and driving accomplished with that one too. I ended up buying it because I can easily see a re-listen in my future and the library wanted their copy back before I could finish it.
Happy to oblige! We’ll see what other tales we can share in the coming year.
I think nothing beats Kristin Lavransdatter for this year. I also liked The Road better than I thought I would. The language was beautiful!
It was my second read in as many years. The first read started off slowly for me but I was quickly hooked. I also read a biography of Sigurd Undset this year- Sigurd Undset: Reader of Hearts. It was published by Ignatius press and written by Aiden Nichols, O.P.