As we all know, 2020 was not a good year. For many people, it might have been a good year for reading. For me, it was better than last year (with only 9 books), but I still had long stretches when I wasn't reading. Apparently reading was not my coping mechanism any more than sewing was. I'm not sure I really had a coping mechanism, but I made it through the year in one piece, so that's at least something. Without further ado, here is my 2020 reading list.
Books
- No Escape Claws - Sofie Ryan
- Civil War Sampler - Barbara Brackman
- Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman - Patricia C. & Fredrick McKissack
- Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Alabama: One Big Front Porch - Kathryn Tucker Windham
- Claw Enforcement - Sofie Ryan
- Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
- Tongues of Flame - Mary Ward Brown
- The Boyfriend School - Sarah Bird
- Lady Susan - Jane Austen
Short Stories
- "Neighbor Rosicky" & "The Sculptor's Funeral" - Willa Cather
- "A White Heron" - Sarah Orne Jewett
- "Babylon Revisited" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "Rip Van Winkle" & "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - Washington Irving
- "Young Goodman Brown" & "The Maypole of Merry Mount" - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- "Rappaccini's Daughter" & "Bartleby the Scrivener" - Herman Melville
- "My Contraband" - Louisa May Alcott
- "The Queen of Spades" - Alexander Pushkin
- "A Simple Heart" - Gustave Flaubert
Four out of the first 5 books were read for Women's History Month.
The last two books were read because of watching the movie version of the books.
I got caught up on my Sofie Ryan series.
I read Rebecca because it was on a list somewhere, but I forget what list or why I was reading said list.
Tongues of Flame is a collection of short stories that I read as an undergraduate and wanted to reread it. It also led to reading the non-collected short stories, which I read with my husband (a retired literature professor). I was thinking that I might want to try to write some short stories, but I never did.
