Book Notes ~ 2023



While listening to my audiobooks, I'll often quickly pause and jot down things. Words, phrases, connections, questions, just little nudges to help me remember something when it's time to write up my review of the book. Sometimes I can't stop what I'm doing (always multi-tasking while listening) and I'll try to remember to add it later (likely unsuccessfully) or if I have ample time, often I'll pull up the Kindle copy and make the notes there instead. When I'm done with the book, I do a full review on Goodreads and Storygraph. But still, I wanted to make a more permanent record of my little notes ...

Dark Triumph
Roiled, deign, Dias (long I), roiled, mullioned windows, methinks


Tale of two cities

Sagacity 

Purloiner

Pernicious 

Deign, roiled, leprosy 


Last Christmas in Paris

Blithe and Cuthbert

Telephoner - pronunciation 


Mirelle 

Ablutions, dais, roiled 


Flipped

Song spoken 

Scowled 


Anne

Song sung+


Dogs of Xmas

Ebullient, parapetic (ch2)

Names - ima dolly 

Dais 


Breaks of the game

Roiled, deign, 


Endurance

Frozen in Time-food, ice

diesel “raise steam”

“To our sweethearts and wives… may they never meet” 


Splendid ruin

Roiled deign mullioned windows 


Christmas

Song sung - joy ringtone 


Dick van dyke

Prayer, drinking, age difference, 

Betty White, Ginsberg

Still dance - it just hurts

Gay, black etc

Term life insurance 

Not afraid of dying - not living 

Repetitive

Better in print in parts? 


Restart

Best vs mediocre 

Unforgivable 


Frozen

Cache - pronounced two ways

Pronunciation - inventory, communal (com-u-nol), aluminum, con-Tre-buted 

Debility 


diesel 

Carnegie pronunciation (both ways) 


AF Graphic Novel

Pogrom 


Waitress

Happy enough - don’t expect much, don’t give much, don’t get much 


Iron Flame

Smirk 


No Two people

Audio TOC different 

Can’t see until ready to look

Fitbit 

Gray eyes 

Cache pronounced ca-shay 

Murmuration  

Theo - sounds like the Julia Roberts movie


Regrets of Clover

Murmuration 


Catch Me …

Catch-corner? Chp3 


Stolen Tongues

Song sung


Postmortem 

Ebullient, bucolic, scant 


Slewfoot

Sing sung - good voice 


Hidden Pictures

Fitbit 


AnneFrank

Translated from the translated -poem

Pin/Kitty

A small light

Pedantic tenterhooks 


Haunted Forest Tour

3rd person - past tense. Multiple povs

Cerulean 

Uulations 

Lee Burgundy— too soon after Anchorman 


Grave Mercy

Roil, dais, balk, deign

Solar pronunciation 


None of this is True

Detritus 


Upgrade

Past but memories switch to present tense 

Roiling, detritus 


House on fire

Present tense -3rd person

Katty corner 

Dais 


The Quarry Girls

Sneaked 


The mysterious case of rudolf diesel 


The Forgetting

Com-bu-tive, disorientating, prized, cerulean 


Take My Hand

Scant, sneaked, 


Knight

Fx22 

Debacle

Tetris blocks 


The Stars Don’t Lie

Suicide

hubs off living his own life

New ceo at work - shake things up 


Hanging City

Roiling dearth 


Follow the River

Pellucid, roiled … lots of others 


In the Likely Event

Plethora 

books!! Spoiler Last of the Mohechians 

 

Maids Diary

Deign 


Steelheart

Riffling - rifle

Sneaking


Thursday Murder Club

Clematis, circulatory, respiratory - but not computer/immediately 

Fitbit - time of death 

Scrum 


Music of Love

Dais, stolid 


BennyLament

Dais, Carnegie, roil 

Song spoken

Authors note not in audio 


Mockingbird

Dislike the music (sleep)

Jem (Jim)

Deign 


Paris Daughter

Word: deign, roiled 


Scumble

Word: roil 


OrphanX

Jerry rigged, roil 


Dungeon

Words: roil


The Wishing Game

Sneaked & snuck 


Friend Zone - snuck, katty corner


FloraLee

Mullioned, cerulean 


Tanner & Louise

Deign, roiled, snuck 


Go as a River

Mullioned, roiled  


Mickey7

  • Rack
  • Second-dairy
  • Should be epilogue?? 


Down a Dark Hall

Updates … wifi, chat rooms, laptop. But still dresses/skirts brought 


Puppets

  • Jury rigging 
  • Words: cerulean 
  • Olaf … and/or Sheldon from BB
  • Sexual - penis/masterbation 
  • Too many weird voices - Coach and Bernard had inflections too similar to Olaf 


Killers Flower Moon

roiled, dais (mispronounced)


Fourth Wing

History as mc goes over it in her head 



Mrs. Mike

  • Title spoiler? But comes so fast, unlike stereotypical romance stories.
  • Katherine Mary - for some reason the opposite feels smoother 
  • Animal … lost dog on train, cows drowning. Beaver trap/hawk, beaver gland “medicine” … Trigger, animal danger
  • Sled dogs part wolf - interesting after last book 
  • Indian 


The Light Pirate

Words: stolid, roiled 


HellDivers 8, 9

Word: roiling

Yes F

Pu-nama, Austra-Leah, Are-U-ba

Kitenous 

Like Jurassic park with the bigger and badder beasts.

Baby babbling  (Bray, rino Jr) 

Jerry- rigged 


Nurse

Word: deign 


Saturday

Word- hoopla  


The Levee

Authors note by author 

Tiny bit of music to start

Wish I had kindle copy


Tomorrow

Word - Dias 

Non-chronological, time shifts

Appropriation discussion 


Looking for Jane

Words: dearth 


The Last Thing 

Q: every marriage has a liar and a fool 


Nora Goes Off Track

Words: cerulean 


Rules of Civility

Words- deign, cerulean 


Horse

Chap5 first 1st person?

Cerulean 

Why write when you can call, call when you can go in person (what? Me opposite!)

White woman white womaning

Woman slips, hits head, dies 

Roiling, dearth 

Diphthong

Utah raptor

The race is on

Manumission 

The Timbers shivered 

“Whatever she might be …” doesn’t mean I won’t do what’s right 


The Mixtape

First person/past tense

Contemporary/Realistic

*proFanity 


Listening Bench

Free - For review

Utah/Sugarhouse Park, Tooele, University of Utah

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*** see my 2024 Book Notes ***

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