Felicia’s Comments (group member since Oct 16, 2022)

Felicia’s comments from the Around the Year in 52 Books group.

I read The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal this year which I loved and I would highly recommend if you enjoy scifi.

How about a character that is a shape? From one of my favorite childhood books. The Dodecahedron from The Phantom Tollbooth.

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Anatomy of a Scandal
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
The Reading List
The Spanish Love Deception

I would recommend I'm Glad My Mom Died. I could not put that book down. It was an amazing memoir and I never even followed Jennette McCurdy.

Found this today during my commute home https://bookriot.com/best-western-books/

Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt sounds fun. A gang of women outlaws that the newspapers think are men

I'm thinking of Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside by Nick Offerman

Challenge progress:
ATY: 52/52

THE ATY 2023 LIST
✅1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (11/19/23)
✅2. A book by an author you read in 2022
Project Hail Mary (2/21/23)
✅3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list
A Court of Thorns and Roses (500,000 plus ratings on goodreads) (2/21/23)
✅4. A book with an interracial relationship
The Charm Offensive (1/31/23)
✅5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover
This Time Tomorrow (1/6/23)

✅6. A book where books are important
Yellowface (7/7/23)
✅7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title
Clap When You Land (1/25/23)
✅8. An author's debut book
Lessons in Chemistry (11/10/23)
✅9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (10/16/23)

✅10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities"
Crazy Rich Asians (Posh) (9/20/23)
✅11. A book about a person/character with a disability
Black Sun (3/18/23)
✅12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies
Bunny (5/18/23)
✅13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover
The Starless Sea (8/20/23)

✅14. A book with a con, deception, or fake
Counterfeit (3/23/23)
✅15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1 (1800's)
Kindred (4/15/23)
✅16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2 (1900's)
The Christie Affair (4/30/23)
✅17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3 (2000's)
How High We Go in the Dark (8/18/23)

✅18. A book related to science
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (11/21/23)
✅19. A book related to the arts
Portrait of a Thief (7/20/23)
✅20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (10/14/23)
✅21. A book by an Asian diaspora author
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story (7/18/23)
✅22. A book with a faceless person on the cover
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (11/11/23)

✅23. A book with a body of water in the title
Sea of Tranquility (1/31/23)
✅24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive (10/19/23)
✅25. A book with a tropical setting
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (6/11/23)
✅26. A book related to pride
Last Night at the Telegraph Club (6/30/23)

✅27. A book by an author from continental Europe
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (8/26/23)
✅28. A book that is dark
When the Stars Go Dark (6/30/23)
✅29. A book that is light
All the Light We Cannot See (12/25/23)
✅30. A book related to a chess piece
Witch King (10/16/23)
✅31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on https://www.literature-map.com
A Man Called Ove (4/3/23)

✅32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature
In the Woods (Dublin) (10/24/23)
✅33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923
The Relentless Moon (6/20/23)
✅34. A novella
Binti (5/25/23)
✅35. A book with a school subject in the title
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution (1/14/23)

✅36. A book that has been translated from another language
The Travelling Cat Chronicles (5/10/23)
✅37. A book with the theme of returning home
Home (6/19/23)
✅38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover
Winter's Orbit (10/29/23)
✅39. A western
Heresy (11/1/23)

✅40. A book with a full name in the title
The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle (7/2/23)
✅41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists
Shit Cassandra Saw (11/22/23)
✅42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter
Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts (3/2/23)
✅43. A book that involves a murder
The Woman in the Library (3/7/23)
✅44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal
Wrong Place Wrong Time (9/1/23)

✅45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books
A Deadly Education (10/26/23)
✅46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe
The Measure (7/24/23)
✅47. A book related to a geometric shape
Great Circle (8/28/23)
✅48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story
The Princess Bride (1/8/23)

✅49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023
Cloud Cuckoo Land (4/30/23)
✅50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
The Last Graduate (author with more than 7 books) (12/16/23)
✅51. A book published in 2023
All the Dangerous Things (12/3/23)
✅52. A book with an unusual or surprising title
My Sister, the Serial Killer (12/31/23)