megan’s Comments (group member since Dec 18, 2014)

megan’s comments from the The Reading Challenge Group group.

[x] A book published the month of your birthday - Bitter Falls
January 2020

[x] A book with more than 20 letters in its title - The Reckless Oath We Made

[x] A book that has a book on the cover - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

[x] A medical thriller - Excise

[x] A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics - The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

[x] A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads -Winter of the World

[x] A book with a main character in their 20s - Nothing to See Here

[x] A book that passes the Bechdel test - City of Girls

[x] A book with “gold,” “silver,” or “bronze” in the title - Veins of Gold

[x] A book on a subject you know nothing about - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

[x] A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie - Sense and Sensibility

[x] A book with “pop,” “sugar,” or “challenge” in the title - The Sugar Pavilion

[x] A book that won an award in 2019 - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Goodreads Choice Award for Science & Technology

Finished with 6 BINGOs. So close to a Cover All, but I just didn't have the time.

Non-Fiction 2020
Goal: 20 books

January
1. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death - 14 Jan
2. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo - 18 Jan

February
3. The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 - 5 Feb

March
4. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - 1 March
5. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future - 8 March

April
6. Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth - 5 April
7. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators - 25 April

May
8. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - 20 May

June
9. Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times - 4 June
10. You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington - 9 June
11. Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom - 10 June

July
12. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History - 1 July
13. The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties - 16 July
14. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - 21 July

August
15. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century - 12 Aug
16. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - 19 Aug

September
17. Know My Name - 6 Sept
18. The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars - 10 Sept
19. Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood - 23 Sept
20. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - 30 Sept

October
21. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - 11 Oct
22. Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life - 21 Oct
23. Brief Answers to the Big Questions - 26 Oct
24. Trust: America's Best Chance - 27 Oct
25. American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise - 30 Oct

November
26. Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House - 12 Nov
27. The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life - 15 Nov
28. Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America - 18 Nov
29. How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference - 23 Nov
30. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

December
31. Below Stairs - 28 Dec
32. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster - 30 Dec

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Summer Bingo

B1: Exploration - Clap When You Land
B2: Congratulations! - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
B3: Participation - Dear Martin
B4: Information - The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
B5: Collaboration - American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

I1: Listed it - The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England
I2: Bought it - Lord of Shadows
I3: Eyed it - The Silkworm
I4: Downloaded it - In the Woods
I5: Scored it! - Expire

N1: Oldie but goodie - The Turn of the Screw
N2: New kid on the block - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
N3: FREE - The Vanishing Half
N4: Yesterday's news - The Stillwater Girls
N5: Everybody's talking - Beach Read

G1: Nice to meet you - A Curse So Dark and Lonely
G2: You seem familiar - The Outsider
G3: One of the girls - Find Me
G4: One of the guys - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
G5: Old friends - The Girl Beneath the Sea

O1: Take a stand - The Other Bennet Sister
O2: Take a friend - Edge of Eternity
O3: Take a trip - The Travelling Cat Chronicles
O4: Take a look - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
O5: Take a break - Queen of Air and Darkness

TBR Challenge
Italics: Read in 2019
2020 Total: 13

2014
6. The English Patient - 19 November
36. The Silkworm - 19 November
7. Escape - 4 December

2015
12. Sea of Stars - 1 January
2. To Marry an English Lord: Or How Anglomania Really Got Started - 18 January
45. Below Stairs - 18 January
25. Little Bee - 27 January
19. The Bourbon Kings - 10 February
15. Chasing Mona Lisa - 12 May
43. Cat's Cradle - 11 July
30. Sense and Sensibility - 17 July
9. Where'd You Go, Bernadette - 21 July
42. I Capture the Castle - 23 July
24. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - 5 August
35. Shift - 5 August
23. Love May Fail - 21 August
27. Mrs. Dalloway - 25 August
11. All My Friends Are Superheroes - 21 September
40. In the Woods- 2 October
16. The Faithful - 16 October
20. The Wrath and the Dawn - 18 October
8. The Man in the High Castle - 14 November
44. Welcome to Night Vale - 21 November
37. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - 3 December


2016
28. The Wright Brothers - 7 January
4. The Importance of Being Earnest - 22 April
31. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - 2 May
22. The Shadow of the Wind - 19 May
5. 1776 - 8 June
18. The Last Star - 16 June
3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane - 25 June
17. Blood & Beauty: The Borgias - 14 July
32. Truly Madly Guilty - 2 November
21. Salt to the Sea - 6 December

2017
1. The Alice Network - 11 December
39. Lord of Shadows - 30 May
14. The Bear and the Nightingale - 2 November
26. Artemis - 5 November


2018
41. Queen of Air and Darkness - 7 January
10. Siddhartha - 7 February
34. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - 18 October
33. China Rich Girlfriend - 14 November