Books read so far in 2017

[princessofburundi]

I'm sure that there's a way to put parts of entries under a cut, but I have no idea how. If anyone knows, please help! On the positive side, I've remembered how to used HTML to make a list.

General points: Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky is hands down the best book I've read so far this year. I have also greatly enjoyed Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and am having a love affair with Kate Morton's books; I've read three of them so far this year and have been thoroughly and happily engrossed by all of them.

At present I'm reading the fascinating A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki.

1. Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy by Helen Fielding, 2013, 318 pages
   
2. Road Ends by Mary Lawson, 2013, 311 pages
   
3. And then there were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life by Jane Christmas, 2013, 292 pages
   
4. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim, 2010, 325 pages
   
5. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, 2016, 305 pages
   
6. The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood, 2016, 390 pages
   
7. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 1967, 196 pages
   
8. My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologizes by Fredrik Backman, 2015, 342 pages
   
9. The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain, 2016, 240 pages
   
10. Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, 2016, 296 pages
    
11. The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher, 2015, 224 pages
    
12. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware, 2016, 340 pages
    
13. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, 2007, 415 pages
    
14. The Lake House by Kate Morton, 2015, 492 pages
    
15. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, 2006, 367 pages
    
16. The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, 2010, 562 pages
    
17. My Life among the Serial Killers by Helen Morrison, 2004, 289 pages
    
18. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, 2003, 537 pages
    
19. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton, 2008, 550 pages
    
20. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool, 1993, 416 pages
    

Comments

[globetrotter1]

This link should help you:

https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=88&q=Cut&lang=

Love this kind of post; I always end up adding books to my never-ending list.

[princessofburundi]

Thank you for the link. I will investigate it shortly. I love making lists. I have lists of everything, and they pile up, and then I have to go through them, at which point I discover that 99% of them are no longer necessary. Total waste of paper!

[princessofburundi]

Thanks for the information on cuts. It worked! I had no idea that it would be exactly the same as the HTML used at LJ. Thanks again!

[bsgsix]

Good to see you here! Definitely make sure you subscribe to my journal/grant me access so you can see my posts as well! But I wanted you to know that I have added you and can read the posts - but for you to read mine, you have to subscribe back. :) Hopefully, I'll get around to posting tonight.

[princessofburundi]

Just now I've subscribed to you, as well as to a couple of other people. Thanks for your information. I love your profile photo!

[bsgsix]

I just saw that - and am glad we can connect here as well. I love the notion of sharing longer, more meaningful conversations via journal entries on a safe platform. LJ clearly doesn't care, and FB isn't a safe space for much of anything (which is why I am VERY selective about the friends I add on DW). So this is a nice alternative and a good way to spill one's thoughts.

And thank you! I'm glad you like the profile photo! :) <3