2019 – A Year of Reading and Listening My goal this year was to read 67 books. Total read was actually 135 (for a total of 33,918 pages ) . Every year I join the reading challenge on Goodreads. For the past couple years my goal is to read my age in books. Obviously, the bar is set higher as I get older. Goodreads also creates a fun little "my year in books" widget…here is mine http://tiny.cc/yx16hz Below are the books I read this past year that I rated to be 5 stars (in no particular order). Very eclectic list. Also included is a list of my top 10 podcasts for the year. 5 STAR BOOKS OF 2019 White Bird- Palacio, R.J. Outstanding! Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares- Shahani, Aarti Aarti Shahani's Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares is a true, honest depiction of her family's immigrant story in America. It is true that each immigrant’s story is personal and unique, all need to deal with th...