January 3, 2019

2018 Books

     
In November my personal computer crashed.  Efforts to have a repair shop recover the hard drive proved to be futile.  It was a minor catastrophe.  It probably could have been a blog post on its own.  The stand-alone tower contained not only all the lists of the books I have read but also my financial data, personal running stats, everything dealing with my X-C teams for the past four years, baseball stats, tons of documents, tons of pictures, and many more things that I can't recall.  It felt like a large part of my life had disappeared.  Being an anal being, I live on EXCEL and WORD.  So many of my daily activities were in a spreadsheet or a document.  And now they were all gone!!
   
I had to start all over from scratch.  For everything.  So how did I come up with a list of my 2018 books?  Well, at first I hoped that my Library Lending System would be able to provide a list of all the books that I checked out during the year.  I was devastated when I found out that there was no internal record for me.  And then my anal side kicked in.  I remembered that I save every e-mail from the library whether it is to let me know a book has arrived or that I have a book due.  The only books that would fall through a crack would be a book that I checked off from the shelves and returned early or a book that I either bought in 2018 or already had on my own shelves.  I am pretty sure I accounted for these and overall I am 99.9% sure that the following list represents all the books read for 2018.  
   
As for my starting a new life on a new used PC that the repair shop sold me, I will be backing up the data EVERY week!!!
   
Here is the list.  Enjoy.

     
Bird In Hand                                                   Baker Kline, Christina
Caleb’s Crossing                                              Brooks, Geraldine
Case For Solomon, A ***                                  McThenia, Tal
Clock Dance                                                   Tyler, Anne
Daughters Of Rome                                         Quinn, Kate
Falling Together                                              de los Santos, Marisa
Final Girls                                                       Riley Sager
Friend of the Family, A                                    Grodstein, Lauren
Garden State Gangland                                    Deitche, Scott
God Gene, The                                                Wilson, F. Paul
Go-Between, The                                            Chambers, Veronica
Last Time I Lied, The ***                                  Riley Sager
Library At the Edge of the World, The              Hayes-McCoy, Felicity
Lighthouse Beach                                            Noble, Shelley
Magpie Murders ***                                          Horowitz, Anthony
Melmoth ^^^                                                   Sarah Perry
Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions ***                 Stewart, Amy
Moriarty                                                          Horowitz, Anthony
Munich                                                            Harris, Robert
Music Shop, The                                              Rachel Joyce
My Abandonment                                             Peter Rock
My Name Is Memory                                         Brashares, Ann
Panacea                                                           Wilson, F. Paul
Saints For All Occasions                                    Sullivan, J. Courtney
Saving Agnes                                                    Cusk, Rachel
Some Die Nameless                                          Stroby, Wallace
Stowaway, The                                                 Shapiro, Laurie Gwen
Two Girls Down                                                 Luna, Louisa
Varina                                                              Frazier, Charles
White Houses                                                   Bloom, Amy
Woman In the Window, The ***                          Finn, A.J.
World of Tomorrow, The                                           Mathews, Brendan
    

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