Reader Friday-King of the Mountain

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Happy New Year, TKZLand!

Simple question today:  What book is King of the Mountain on your TBR pile?

 

 

 

Meaning, what is the first book you intend to read in 2025?

For me, it will be to finish Against All Enemies and start the next in the series, Friendly Fire, by our own John Gilstrap. Great stories!

So, how about you? Do tell . . .

 

 

Whew! We made it…

 

 

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About Deb Gorman

Deb Gorman is an author, blogger, and speaker who escaped from a 9-5 job in the medical field to pursue what she really loves—words, words, and more words. A lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, she writes fiction and non-fiction in between long walks through orchard country with her husband, Alan, and playing with their German Shepherd, Hoka. You can catch up with Deb on her website, debggorman.com, and email her at debster145@gmail.com

25 thoughts on “Reader Friday-King of the Mountain”

  1. My goal is to read all the Stephen King books. I am down to the last 8. I am reading Rose Madder and loving it.

    I am also wanting to complete Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, so I alternate between these two legends. I should be done with both in 2025.

  2. Happy New Year, Deb.

    I need to read Educated by Tara Westover for a book club later this month.

    BTW, I just learned some libraries in Florida have book club bags where you can check out multiple copies of the same book for your meeting. The librarian literally hands you a sack of books along with discussion questions, author bio, suggested reading, etc.

    Pretty cool resource for book clubbers.

    • The library-based book club I used to belong to almost always chose books that had book club sets. Downside, is these are often much older books, and severely limited book choices, but they did it because members didn’t want to spend money on buying books.

    • Good morning, Debbie, and Happy New Year to you, too!

      I love your library story. How cool is that! 🙂 We have a local library fairly close to us, and I have yet to darken its doorway. Shame on me! I’ll have to redeem myself, and soon!

      Have a great weekend, my friend…

    • Good Friday morning, Azali!

      That’s an author I’m not familiar with, but I searched him on Amazon and wow! He’s got dozens, it seems. Have they made any movies out of his novels? The covers look like they’d be winners for sure.

      Have a great day!

    • Good morning, Jim! (Sounds a little like a Star Trek line… 🙂 )

      My favorite movies and more than a few books are ones based upon that era. I have a couple of Ken Follett novels set during WW2. I also have a huge book, rescued from my mom’s house when she passed away, by Winston Churchill. Can’t remember the title, but I think I’ll dig it out.

      Have a great day!

    • I have just started Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters & Speeches. From 1850-1950 is a very interesting time period.

      Netflix has a good doc on Winston Churchill.

      Enjoy.

  5. We’re reading The Overstory by Richard Powers for my in-person book club. As a tree hugger from way back, I’m loving it. Especially because I recently saw a literary agent post a “tip for writers” that said they should be extremely caution about having more than one POV in their stories. The Overstory has 9, and it won a Pulitzer Prize. As a writer I keep stopping to reread the passages that are so lyrical they really should be read aloud like poetry. I’m also just finishing Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt for my on-line book club. It’s an engaging story that includes the POV of an octopus trapped in an aquarium who wants to go home to the ocean for his final days. I recommend both books.

  7. The Prisoner of Limnos, the sixth Penric and Desdemona book by Lois McMaster Bujold. Billed as a novella, it actually runs over 40K, so I’d call it a short novel. Seven more in the series after that.

    • Mornin’ Dale! Happy 2025 to you.

      Don’t you love series? That sounds like a great read. With the weather up here in the north PNW (snowed all night and still…), reading is my go-to pleasure after writing duties, then taking our daily walk. We look like Nanooks of the North when we’re all kitted up. 🙂

      Have a wonderful day!

  8. I don’t have a title identified yet but my homework assignment for myself is to read a few anthologies of historical U.S. fiction. if anyone has any suggestions, please do tell.

    Have a great weekend and Happy New Year!

    • Good evening, Brenda!

      Sounds like a great project you’ve got planned for yourself! Would it work for you to search “historical fiction anthologies” on Amazon?

      Have a great weekend!

  9. I started The Magician’s Daughter by HG Parry off my wife’s TBR pile on New Year’s Eve to entertain myself until the ball dropped. I finished it sometime well after 2025 began. I’m assuming that would count that against CY25. The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown is queued up behind it..

  10. I started reading The Gathering Storm by Sir Winston Churchill on New Years Day so I guess that qualifies.. It’s amazing how good a writer Churchill was.

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