I am participating in Hood County Library’s Summer Reading Challenge, and I know that if I don’t make a plan, saying, “I’m participating,” is about as far as it will go. Even with a plan, this is a lot of books, some sections have two titles (because I couldn’t choose one), and it doesn’t include a couple of friends’ books I’m looking over this month, so odds are slim. I may have to extend it beyond September 28. But here’s the master list. You will know I’ve finished a book because there will be a hyperlink to it either directing you to my review (where there will be links to buy) or to a link to buy it somewhere.
Anyone want to join me? This is going to be fun.
Checked out from the library – More than half this list, actually. But for the purposes of the challenge, two Thursday Next books that are due soon –
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
From the FOL Bookstore – Not specifically from Hood’s Friends of the Library store but from Fort Worth’s. That’s close enough.
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler
Set in Texas –
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
#WeNeedDiverseBooks – From what I can gather, this looks like a challenge for children’s books, but I’m gonna go ahead and read some for the grown ups.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Translated from another language –
Venerin Volos (Maidenhair) by Mikhail Shishkin
Collection of short stories –
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
Out of your comfort zone – Jesus, be a cocktail…
A Queer Thing Happened to America by Michael L. Brown
Set somewhere you’ve always wanted to visit – Argentina ❤
Long After Midnight at the Niño Bien by Brian Winter
You own but never have read –
Inés of my Soul by Isabel Allende
Award winner –
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Banned or challenged book –
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Local Author –
Surrendering Oz by Bonnie Friedman
Recommended a book to a friend – This is supposed to be the freebie square on the bingo card, but I’m going to take the opportunity to finish two books that I’ve started, loved, recommended to others…and then never quite finished myself.
Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessey
Quiet by Susan Cain
Author under 30 – at least, at the time of publication (she turns 30 this September)
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
Turned into a movie – One I’ve been dragging my feet about…
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Graphic novel –
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
Collection of poetry –
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Night Cycles by Beth Morey
Young adult book –
Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr
Memoir –
Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi
Published the year you were born –
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
Re-read –
Why Girls are Weird by Pamela Ribon
Recommended by a friend –
Your choice of nonfiction –
From your childhood – Nancy Drew ❤
The Crooked Bannister by Carolyn Keene
You finish reading in a day –
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