Book Notes ~ 2024



I've got a list of words that stand out to me, and I'm always adding to it. Just to name a few  ... dais, roil, cacophony, swath, mullioned windows, snuck vs sneaked, careen/career, rifled/riffled, Carnegie (and how it's pronounced in audio). I keep a NOTE in my notes app for books, and will try to quickly pause my audiobook and jot down things to remember. 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 and will 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.  Here's my BookNotes from 2024 (in reverse order for the year, as I put the most current book at the top).  This is just the smallest peek at some thoughts on my reads - full rating/reviews for all on Goodreads and Storygraph. I'm JenBsBooks on both. 

The Wedding People

Snuck

Whitman- death

3rd person- present and past 


Home for Unwanted Girls

Familiar narrator

Carnegie (usual pronunciation) 


Borrowed Life of Fredrick 

Cacophony 


7 Tent

Cerulean 


Spellbound at Pemberly

Anathema needs must 

Too many fine eyes 


Everyday is Christmas

Song spoken- female narrator

Song sung- male narrator 


Christmas Book Hunt

Mullioned windows 


Dumped actually

Cacophony 

Song sung


WiseMen

Wordle- audio 

IT Crowd vibes 

Needs must 

Cacophony 

Lol moments (the matching dress, kiss like a seal attacking fish) 

Mod References- Sean bean, 


Three Bells

Rifled

Funny/goof sayings potato/tomato 


Serpent and the Wings of Night 

Cacophony cerulean 


Irish Christmas

Mullioned windows 

So many books and tv series/movies mentioned … 


Elias Network

Caspian/Liesel 

Leonard Aldrich-target(banker?)wife/girls

Edgar Augustin- pychSon/Julia

Ambassador Claude Eichberg/Catherine 

Raphael 

Amirouche 

Crepe - crap pronunciation 

Cacophony 


The Memory Library

Old phone

Carnegie NEG

Careered


Holiday Hideaway

I’m the problem it’s me


Poison Garden

1st person//3rd person 

Panoply 

Birds- woodpecker, jay

Orcas island 

MAY have been having an affair? 


Snow

Dais - long a


Under an Alien Sun 

If I wanted your opinion :( 

Dais

Surrey cacophony 

Huge - trump style(I think it was this)


Middle Falls - Ellie

Puget Sound 


The Berry Pickers

Snuck 


Landlines

So many midges 

Climate change

Second homes ruining communities

Homelessness

Pollinations/food production

Covid 


The forgotten 500

Like Masters of the Air 

Sperry corporation 

route(root) bucolic 


Home

Bucolic ablutions rifled cacophony dais 

Carnegie Hall 


Rescue Road

Preternatural bucolic cacophony 

Route (root)


Half broke horses

Find who checked out the book to track them down and discuss it

Mormon 

Sneaked 


End of Life Bookclub

David - partner 

Careened scrum sneaked 

Carnegie (neg)  

Ambien 

Obama 

Vero (beach) - Zeus show 

Arb - already read book 


A Duet for Home

Song spoken 

Snuck Carnegie (general) 


Comfort Crisis

Route (rowt) rifling erudite scrum 

SLC 

Covid

Weight loss - noom 

Ruck cold 


Life impossible

Murmuration cacophony route (root) 

Madness sneaked 


After the Last Border

Snuck roiled cacophony cerulean pogrom route (root) 


Eliza 

Lilac eyes


Spillover

Curious case of the dog …

Data/plural “those data”

Epstein 


Here One Moment

Soyrdough- too crunchy 


The Storyteller

ProFanity

Song spoken 

Cerulean Murmuration 


Small and Mighty

Route - rowt   Rifling 

Carnegie NEG

Anthropomorphic pidgin 


Husbands

Deign detritus 

Work everyday - exhausting!

John Denver in Colorado 

Flowers/odd number - start with “he loves me”


Good Girls Guide to Murder

Cacophony 


Shadow and Bone 

Dais 


The Poisonwood Bible

Same voice - different 1st person

Wish the TOC had more sections

Song sung 

Jerryrig 


The Last House

Route(root) hearth(are)

God/Lords name in vain 

Talking cat - names for humans/dogs like HollowKingdom 


The first time I died

Detritus 

Route (root) careen 


Midnight in the Garden - DNF

Dais


Guest List

Islingtin roil hectoring deign 

Up the aisle


Book Thief

TOC in different formats - no chapters in kindle 

Riffled 

Mayor stopping the washing TheGamblers 48% - best to suffer too or keep someone else employed? 

Part8-tgeWorlkdShaker - dominos 


Better the Blood
3rd person/present
Volcano land
Yeast
Ch6 switched pov
Cacophony Jerry-built
Title tie in - better the blood of the innocent than no retribution
Church of Latter Day Saints - genealogy


Mortality

Lots of words 

Carnegie - both ways 

Fall in- Lenard Coen


All the Colors

Cacophony careers 


Scythe

3rd person/past tense

Deign cacophony 

Baked ziti 

Room - rum


The Passengers

Rifled


Ghost Mortem 

Ghost Writer 


Boys/Hitler

Army basic training -ch6

Song spoken


The September House

Accoutrements 

Lots of GOD 

Song spoken - all through the night 

Riffling careen 

“Needs must …”


The Chain

Elizabeth Smart mention

3rd person/present tense 

Solipsism inimical 


Graveyard Book

Ululations 

Song spoken 

Annoying music


StJames

Rifled 


Hollow

Pellucid kudzu intermittently Murmuration cacophony cerulean


Family Experiment

Brusquely rifled route (root) tenterhooks 

Wind him - burp? 


The Ghost Brigade 

So many “said”


Two lives Lydia

Monica/Rachel friends — Miranda/Carrie sex in the city 

Rifles 

Woody without Buzz 

Nicole Kidman in The Others 

An Officer and a Gentleman - song love lift us up

Megan markel in Suits 


Tattooist

3rd/ present

Save the one save the world 

True -ish


Sandwich

1st person/ present tense

Lapis sourdough

Says things out loud when she thinks she’s just thinking them

Covid 

Amazon 

 

First Lie Wins

Title Tie-in

Route /root 


Peace like a River

Lots of God/religion 

Sneaked route (rowt) cerulean 

To reader - as you will see, etc 

Music at chapters 

Song sung 

Putrid Fed 

Jury rigged 


Red Queen

Smirked x40

Powers - like The Boys 


The Kitchen House 


Out on a limb

SEX!

Rifling 

Shit eating grin


The Stardust Thief

Concupiscence 

Brusquely  susurration purloined plethora cerulean dais cacophony snuck chaos 

Song spoken ululation 

Route (rowt) - female narrator 

A whole new world … 


The Glass Castle

Roiling

3years old? Memories … burns! 

Riffled in text, rifled in audio (by author)

Soot - pronounced suit 


Garden Spells

Commode 

Snuck 


Crossover


How to Age Disgracefully 

Riffling cerulean 

Ma-com-ray

Iona iverson 


Ground Zero

Roiling 

Cache - cashay pronouciation 

Song sung - song spoken




This Tender Land
Author intro

Sneaked Jerry-rig cacophony brusquely 

Hooverville

Reflections on the past from the future 

Signing 

Song spoken (down by the riverside)

Names- mose, jeronimo, anducha 


Lula Banned Books

Snuck kudzu brusque rifling detritus 

Authors notes (wish author narrated)


The Red Tent

Lapis lazuli alchemy ablutions libation roiled obeisance 

Song sung -music transitions 

Narrating after death … 


The Paradise Problem

Detritus cerulean careen cacophony 

Succession & White Lotus 


The Nightingale 

Sneaked detritus preternatural assignation root(ew) roiled cacophony hearth sibalence 

Car names - r and ch27 

Song sung - frara jaka 


Green lights 

Route- rowt 

Cacophony 


Beach Read

Julia Whelan

Kudzu Alchemy 

Roil

Gasping out a swear - says “ the f- word”

Matryoshka dolls

Pants with a button/zipper 


The village healers book of cures 

Jennifer roberts 

Void her guts 

Cacophony ablutions roil snuck 

Brusquely 

Alchemy 


Alabama Moon

Roil

Sourdough 

Kudzu 


Molokai

Song sung - song spoken 19.2

Disk 1 …

Scant sneaked detritus 

Long chapters - hard to find spot 

LDS - all is well, Motab

Matryoshka dolls 


How to Read a Book

JennyBig 

Detritus

Spoke in italics 

Song spoken 

Final - recap after death 


Violin 

Route - rowt 

Carnegie - usual 

Deign 


Coyote

Snuck

Not good to need something you can lose 


Worst Case

Careened roiled 


The Gurnsey …

Scant rifling 

Learned - ground birdseed for flour. German tracking animals 

Hedgerows 

More on books than I remember from the movie 


Starter V

Bespoke 

Carnegie- usual


Love and other

Email addresses 

Books- favorite word q

Masterbation/sextalk 


The girl who drew butterflies

Lapis lazuli - explained/pictured 


Summer at the Saint

3rd person//several povs 

Grayson

Snuck - said by a character 


The Lost Story

Snuck 


Secret lives …

Good mentions of Patterson ;)

All American Boys

Fun to recognize titles 

Judy Blume 

Lots on buying local, “banning” 

You’ll love it - I don’t dare 

Arc - ark or A R C ?

Carnegie (both ways) bespoke 

Route - pronounced rowt bucolic 


Kite Runner

Too long of pauses at times - did my book turn off? 

Scowl roil 

Better to have a husband

It wasn’t meant to be … or … it was meant not to be 


Girl who Swallowed the moon

Hearth Murmuration  


Mrs Lewis

Rifling

Divorce 


James

Song/poem intro too long 

Song spoken 

Sneaked

Gibbous - pronounced jibbous 


The Reunion 

Multicast - present tense 

Smirk scowl sneaked 


80 and out …

No descriptive language

Why are things mentioned?? 


Daughter

Cacophony cerulean careen hearth roil 

Morass. F looming deign 

Ascended - swear word  

Male narrator for a time 

So many smirks, scoffs, scowls, sneer


Penelope in Retrograde

First/present (even in past) 

Very conversational/ funny

Rifled smirk shit-eating grin 

I’m self made — didn’t take money from my parents but used my trust fund …

Zumba 


Light Through the Cracks

Narrator sounds too young.

Thoughts on cheating - everyone better off?


The last murder at the end of the world 

1st person- present omniscient Abi

The Giver

Route scowl scant hectoring 

Jerry rig route(root) cacophony 

Wrinkles look like wisdom to the young 

No afterlife - the reward for a good life is the living of it 

Knowing when you’re going to die - say goodbye 

Metaphors 

A death in service better than a life alone 

False hope can always be counted on for control 


These Tangled Vines

1st person Fiona, 3rd Sloan/Lillian

Rifled smirk sneaked 

Medieval 


Ask for Andrea $3 for audio 

Trouble with three povs (1 narrator)

Utah // Mormon

Song sung  scowl 

Church- allusion to Mormon, but not stated. Coffee, church/congregation visiting teacher explained 

The Fugitive 


The Day She Came Back

Narrated by author - British. 3rd. Past 

Scant smirk purloined detritus route(root)

Answer phone (voicemail) 

For all intents and purposes 


Checking Out

Song spoken

Scowl opine scant accoutrements bespoke anathema 

House of Cards 

Trump

Herman the tumor 


Allie and Bea

Scant seldom roil umbrage route(root)

“Let out a breath …”


Love at first psyc

Scowl

Immune to sugar - need a lot to get a rush 

Preternatural 

Fitbit

Drunk, sleep over on floor 


Maybe Next Time - Graphic Audio

Cacophony 


Impact Winter3

Pity fuck 

Sounds of sucking and sex 

Keeping track of voices 


Butterflies

Crevasse purloined cerulean bucolic roiled detritus

Ornithology lepidopterist Lapis Lazi  


The Inmate

Two timelines - both present tense, pas only every several chapters 

Scowl

Rifled 


Cyanide Canary 

Utah/Mormon 

Careen 

Tkamb- attcis — wizard of Oz

Factual - but lots of imagery/similes 

Route (root)


Ruby prince

Names …

For all intents …


Beautiful little things

Not name Outlander show ;) 

Purloined 

Let out the breath…

Helping with littles - help or don’t get involved 

Route - root 

To all intents and purposes 


This Won’t End Well

Amy McFadden - always sounds the same

Breathe didn’t know was holding 

For all intents and purposes 


Lost Contact

Rifled root/route  dais

So much smirking 

Crevasse sneaked 


Salt

Elucidate obviate 


Very lucky

Hectoring 

British - con-trov(ah)versy 

Cloning - multiplicity … not me 

Audio a little soft 

Ch15 - title tie in

Loo roll 

Song spoken


Sheltering Angel 

TOC

1st and 3rd 

Song spoken 

Carnegie - traditional 

Tess


Birds in Flight

Present- past for memories 

Macrame poconos mardi-grass (pronounced that way purposely) 


Mr Darcy’s Enchantment 

Deign dais tress  ululations 


Forever

Intro music - tonight 

1988 - how I met your mother 

Talk to reader/child (read it sometime) 

Scooch - little bit pronunciation

For all intents and purposes x3


There Rain

With sensitivity 

Stark and plain - no connection 

Hectoring 


A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette 

Grayson

Scowl, smirk, roil 


The Push

Stuffed animal “carcass” 

Memories in present tense too - I am 5 years old … a little better in print/in italics to set it apart 

The most famous rock climb … 😬

Bivouac 

Ch2- two leader styles- the top or the experience 

Playing Indians - current PC? 

Roiled Dias- pronounced long I 

Gravity

Route- Root Rowt 


Harris&Me

Wrong narrator listed

Roil 

Japs/Indians lynx 

Harris and I - cp7 

Purloined ubiquitous 


Starsight …

Dais 

“Breath I didn’t know I was holding” 

Cacophony 


A Heart Like Home

Kind eyes 

Cacophony 


Going Green 

Conversational - talk to reader 

Hectoring 


A Flicker in the Dark

1st person/ present tense 

Three months - chapters 


The Berlin Sisters

Hitler vegetarian 

Familiar narration 

Three povs- hard to track whose

Anne frank similarities

If not allowed in pools on busses - yet they were fine taking over their apartments and possessions

Indoctrination of the young 

“Had been to bed” - they had sex? I missed it! Ch17

Taste the alcohol on his breath 


Into thin air

Intro

Seldom, hoopla, paucity, obdurate, deleterious, detritus,fecundity, penumbra 

Oblivious as Jane Austin’s Emma 

Quotes - wish the reference was before or differentiated somehow 


Snap out of it

Cacophony 

Kiefer - Kay-fear 


Hush Little Baby

Song spoken

Cacophony, deign 


No23 Burlington Square

Deign

59- lies of religion 


Noble Salt

Carnegie - usual, then not 

Song- spoken

Dais 

Experience with croup, birthmark 

Haiku - pronounced Ho-coo 

Jack Mormon


Forgotten Sister 

Dias (pronounced long I) 

Himself - girl? Chap43


Running dream

Ruby slippers - spanagram 


Justin Morgan Horse

Perchance 

Ch4 - song spoken -2nd (star spangled banner) was sung. First sing in other edition 


Unequal Affections

Cerulean


Come From Away

Vertiginous

Petition - for:against - same sigs 


Grandma sorry

Seldom

Dad… I heaven, at the supermarket 

Car names Audi, Kia, taxi, Reno 

A book is a book

Things wouldn’t have turned out so awful…


Deaf

Tummy


All the Stars 

Roiled 

45 chapters in Kindle, 50 in audio. Tried to find my place -said chapter 16… was chapter 14 

Wondering -wandering 


P&P magical

Virtual voice

Books 


From Dust to Stardust

Present & Past (two timelines) 

Xe Sands narrator - familiar voice 

Dead children don’t disappoint their parents …

Deign, cerulean, roil 


Funny story

Deign, roil, smirk, scowl, cacophony 

Jane Austen characters 


Jade

Deign, scowl


All the Light We Cannot See

Jibbous moon … pronounced J

Smirk, roil

Ch1 - radio/god 


Life we bury

Cow licked 


History of everything

Car-knee-Gee

This book is continued …

British accent 


Music 

Smirk scowl

Music

Rebel clef 

Present - first person 

Cerulean


Hercules

“Said” 


Rosie

Hudson’s voice 


Sarah’s key

No chapters? More separation? 

Adroit smirk scowl

Song sung -you’re so vain 


My story - Elizabeth smart 

Scowl, snuck, Dias 

Narration- attempt at voices 


Sold on a Monday

Scowl, rifled


Stiff

Pauses in audio

Jerry-rigged, roil 

Shift from 1st person to past details - present to past tense 

Deleterious

Guinea Pigs 


7s

Tornado - tropical storm

Detritus, scowl 

Couldn’t care less 


Uglies

Scowl sneaked 


Sea star

shink-a-Teague 

Song-sung 

Riffling 

Recomember 


Wheel on the School

Twins - don’t know double

Deign, seldom roil

“but first to dream and then to do- isn’t that the way to make a dream come true?”


5 days at memorial 

Concatenating - chap9

Or-le-ins 


Blue Sword

So many unique names! 

Deign, dais, stolid, scant 

No kindle - yes audio 


Shark heart

Snuck, Murmuration 


Born a crime

Jury rigged 


19 minutes

Scowl, cerulean, ululations, rifled 

Osmosis Paucity 


Portals

Scowl

Reminds me of Jared’s book, Inmons Krakana 


Bookclub

Sneaked, smirk, scowl, kitty corner, roil

Man called Ove 


Soundtrack of Silence 

Snuck

Song spoken 

Panoply 

Social media community 

Loss of feeling - problems 


June farrow

Smirked 


Lizzie Bennet

Could care less :( 

Smirk, supercilious, rifled, snuck, deign

Dialog in journals 



North Woods

Song spoken

Had to look up blurb 

Verse- cat

Plants/trees/birds 

Sex - even beetle 

Detritus 


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Humans

F

Song spoken


Being Henry

Dropped H in audio

A note on shoes

Listeners … readers in book?

Carnegie - main pronunciation 


Covenant of water

Carnegie, dais (long I 2nd), snuck, roil

Macabre 

Al-a- din

Leprosy


Dark Window

Hearth - herth or hAREth? 

Deign, smirk, scowl, snuck 

Added snicker, groan in audio, laugh, tongue clicking against teeth, snort   

Death by 1000 cuts 


Girl with the Louding Voice 

Song- sung (made up), 2nd longer “oh how he loves” 

“the mobile of telephone” 


The women

Mullioned windows, roiled, cerulean 


Village 

The thing that happened

Princess lay-a, Hen-solo, goats


Tress

You - speaking to reader

Scowl, detritus 

Knowing is not always believing 


The Secret Stealers 

Scowl, smirk

He said, I said (ch20) 

Kind eyes 


Where Butterflies Wander

Cerulean, roiling, deign 

So many smirks 


Shout

Carnegie - traditional pronunciation 


Speak

1st person/present tense/no chapter #s 

Song sung - made up melody? 



Gateway

Smirk, scowl, deign, roiling

Kev-noir 


Mockingbird

Song sung - Amazing Grace

Roiling, scowl


Whisper Me This

Song Sung - Whisper(guy) and Amazing Grace 


One night in a thousand years

Song spoken 


Skylark 

Song sung 

Interview with the author - questions sounded AI 


The Frozen River

Deign 


Good morning Hope

Need accent in narration

How old are the girls - 1989 3

Soccer metaphor at Italian border 

Put a finger to his lips, telling us to be quiet … redundant 


Dark Triumph

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


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