"I Feel Fine"

 I ended up reading 39 books in 2024 and I Feel Fine!

Here are the last three books I read...

Hyperion (#37)

Written by Dan Simmons; Published in 1989



This was one of my B&N bargain buys. It ended up being a great book and I liked how the author wrote. I gave the book a 3.0 (Great) and would recommend it to my friends who like science fiction.

I checked to see what the next book in the series was since this book ended at what was obviously another story to tell. I found there is a Hyperion Cantos Series which includes four Primary works and 26 different books that are offshoots. Good to know.

The Goldfinch (#38)

Written by Donna Tartt; Published in 2013; Pulitzer Prize winner for 2014


This became book  #75 from my bucket list. My second book I've read by this author, this one a Pulitzer Prize winner. The book is a wonderful read, I like the story and the author had great imagery. It is pretty sad in lots of ways but does make you think about choices we make in life. I give the book a 4.0 (Excellent). The other book I read by her was The Secret History which takes place at a small college in Vermont. She went to Bennington College.

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions (#39)


Written by John Grisham & Jim McCloskey; Published in 2024


This is a Non-fiction book that contains ten true stories of Innocent people being Framed and sent to prison. It was hard to read because of the blatant railroading these people went through. I give the book a 2.5 (Good to Great). The last story seemed familiar and I realized I had read it in a non-fiction book by David Grann. This was the 13th book I have read by Grisham.

2024 Stats

As you know, I love Math and Statistics...

Pages read, my second best since retirement and creating my bucket reading list...


Finishing the Grisham book on December 30, it gave me a total of 39 books in a year, a new record for me.

Some more stats from Goodreads, the web site I use to track the books I read.

Book List in order read

How to: Absurd Scientific Advice for...     Munroe, Randall 2019 2.0
The Ferryman                                             Cronin, Justin 2023 2.5
Gone With the Wind                             Mitchell, Margaret 1936 4.0
The Wager                                             Grann, David 2023 3.0
Murder on the Orient Express             Christie, Agatha 1934 3.5
The Shadow of the Wind                     Ruiz Zafon, Carlos 2001 4.0
Driving Blind                                             Bradbury, Ray 1997 2.0
Why we Love Baseball                             Posnanski, Joe 2023 3.5
Shoeless Joe                                             Kinsella, WP 1982 3.5
The Rabbit Hutch                                     Gunty, Tess 2022 3.0
Nine Stories                                             Salinger, JD 1953 2.0
Dearly                                                     Atwood, Margaret 2020 3.0
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy     Adams, Douglas 1979 2.5
Spiraled                                                     Elliot, Kendra 2015 2.5
Bonk                                                     Roach, Mary 2008 2.0
The Giver                                             Lowry, Lois 1993 3.0
1984                                                     Orwell, George 1949 2.5
Targeted                                                     Elliot, Kendra 2016 2.0
Numbers Don't Lie                                     Smil, Vaclav 2020 2.0
The Picture of Dorian Gray                     Wilde, Oscar 1890 3.5
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies     Tidd, Natasha 2023 2.5
The Lost Tomb                                     Preston, Douglas 2023 2.5
Crime and Punishment                             Dostoevsky, Fyodor 1866 4.0
You Like It Darker                                     King, Stephen 2024 3.5
Relic                                                     Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child 1995 2.0
Camino Ghosts                                     Grisham, John 2024 3.0
Eruption                                                     Crichton, Michael and James Patterson 2024 3.0
In Ascension                                             MacInnes, Martin 2023 4.0
The Silence                                             Elliot, Kendra 2020 3.0
The Book Thief                                     Zusak, Markus 2005 5.0
OOPS!: The Worst Blunders of All Time    Barash, David P. 2023 2.0
Calculating God                                     Sawyer, Robert J. 2000 4.0
A Merciful Silence                                     Elliot, Kendra 2018 2.0
The Brothers Karamazov                     Dostoevsky, Fyodor 1880 4.0
Ender's Game Card.                                    Orson Scott 1985 3.0
Robert Frost: a life                                     Parini, Jay 1998 3.0
Hyperion                                                     Simmons, Dan 1989 3.0
The Goldfinch                                             Tartt, Donna 2014 4.0
Framed: Astonishing True Stories             Grisham, John & Jim McCloskey 2024 2.5

About Title

"I Feel Fine" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released in November 1964 as the A-side of their eighth single. It was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. The recording includes one of the earliest uses of guitar feedback in popular music.

The single topped charts in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. In the UK, it was the fifth-highest-selling single of the 1960s.

BJ Note: It is one of my favorites from the early Beatles.

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