Emma’s
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(group member since Jan 05, 2017)
Emma’s
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from the Around the Year in 52 Books group.
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1. Which book will you read? Why did you choose this one?A Wrinkle in Time - well, it was the only one I could read because I am trying to avoid books written by white men this year (I know people have strong feelings about this, but for me it is an effort to discover wonderful books I might overlook otherwise)
2. Do you usually read children books?
I do actually, although mostly I reread my favorites
3. What was your favorite book as a child?
Probably a toss up between the Alanna series by Tamora Pierce and Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie (a Dear America books about the Oregon Trail)
4. Is there a character from a children book you found really interesting?
So many! Too many to count
5. After you finish this one, which children's/middle grade book is next on your reading list?
Not totally sure right now. Probably a re-read
- What are you reading this week?Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick
- Do you enjoy non-fiction?
Absolutley!
- Is the book about a particular subject?
It is a autobiography and a series of essays about Anna Kendrick's life and thoughts
What are you reading this week?Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Do you usually read magical realism?
Sometimes - it isn't something I seek out, but I love well written books with magical realism parts
Did you have trouble accepting magic in a book that's otherwise set in the real world?
No, not when it is well written
- What are you reading this week?A Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkle
- Do you prefer reading new releases or older, more established books?
A mix of both - I like it when I can read books without knowing too much about them, so newer can be fun that way
- Are there any other 2017 books you’ve read/are looking forward to reading?
So many! Exit West was great, I am looking forward to the American War and Lincoln in the Bardo
- What are you reading for this category?The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
- What's chilling about it?
Book is set on on the British coast, in the fog and chilled air, with a weird mysterious atmosphere
- Do you usually read books that tend to be unsettling? (horror, thriller, weird...)
Sometimes - not as a rule, but when the book is interesting, I will totally read it
- What are you reading for this category?Grunt by Mary Roach
- What made you choose this book?
I love Mary Roach - her books normally have one word titles, which made this an easy fit
- Could you guess what happens in the book from this one word?
Not really, but the cover is illustrative
- Which rejected suggestion did you choose and which book are you reading for this category?A fiction book based on true events - Behold the Dreamers by Imbole Mbue (based around the financial crash of 2008)
- Did you first pick the prompt and then a book that fit in, or was there a book you really wanted to add to your challenge and you looked for a prompt that fit?
I was already reading this book and it fit a few other categories I had already filled, so I went and found one that worked.
- Tell us which other prompt(s) you would have liked to see in the challenge.
A book set each of the continents
A book by a debut author
An audiobook
A graphic novel or comic collection
- What are you reading for this category?The Purple Swamp Hen by Penelope Lively
- What type of collection is it (short stories, poems, essays, etc.)?
Short Stories
- Does this collection cover a theme/subject, and if so, what is it?
Not totally. They are mostly set in England and deal with families and relationships, but there is a lot of variation within this!
- Do you plan on reading all the elements of this collection in order, or jumping back and forth?
I read it cover to cover, but there are a few I will come back to
- What are you reading this week?Northanger Abbey
- Who is the author?
Jane Austen - so not my absolute favorite, but I don't have a favorite author!!
- Do you have a favorite book by the author?
Sense and Sensibility or Persuasion. I love Pride and Prejudice but the main characters in the other two books are more relate-able to me.
- What are you reading this week?Cibola Burn
- Who are the authors?
James S. A. Corey (pen name for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)
- If you could write a novel with any author, who would it be and why?
No idea. I would want to write an epistolary fiction where two sides of correspondence were written by different authors, but I just don't know.
- What are you reading this week?The The Hidden Life Of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
- Did you "buy" this book in 2017 or before?
When it came out in the fall of 2016
- Any reason you didn't pick it before?
I was in school and just couldn't get into it every time I tried to pick it up
- Is there another title waiting on your shelves since a long time?
So many
- What are you reading this week?The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee (it was a bestseller in the summer of 2016)
- Do you pay attention to which books are bestsellers?
Nope - I have been searching all the books I read to find one that fit this category
- Is there a very popular book you loved?
I loved The Underground Railroad, which just won the Pulitzer, and there are plenty of good literary fiction books that I love and I think well deserve their popularity
- Is there a very popular book you hated?
Plenty, just because they were not by taste. The Twilight series and The 50 Shades of Grey series are great examples
- What are you reading this week?A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
- Do you prefer mysteries or thrillers? Why?
Mysteries - I like a "cozy" mystery I guess? I don't like the scary, just the whodunnit part
- Clue(do) game: pick a character, a place and a "weapon" and complete the sentence:
Alanna of Trebond on the London Eye with a Resonance Stone
- What are you reading this week?Enchanted Islands by Allison Amend
- What are the 2 time periods in your novel?
1900 to WW2 and sometime in the present (70s/80s?)
- Did you find it difficult to follow the dual timelines in your novel?
Not in this one, although I preferred the past to the present.
- What are you reading this week?The Mothers
- Who is the book's author?
Brit Bennet
- Do you read many books by people of color?
Absolutely!
- Is it important to you to read diversely?
It is so important to me to make sure that the books I read expose me to perspectives I don't have access to every day
- Is adding diversity to your reading one of the reasons you participate in the ATY Challenge?
Yep. I am also taking on a personal challenge to read not read books by white men for the next year, and documenting in my blog here: https://readingdiverselyayearofnotrea...
- What are you reading for this category?The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (its a TV series, but I think that counts!)
- Are you planning on seeing the movie?
Yes. I don't have super high hopes, but I will try it out.
- What is your favorite book-to-movie adaptation?
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings! There is so much I don't love but overall, I LOVE the movies and I also LOVE the books.
- What are you reading this week?Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Was it difficult for you to find a book without an "e" in the title?
Not really - I was already reading this when I saw someone else in the group choose this as the book without an "e". However, scrolling through my bookshelf, there are not that many!
- What do you think about choosing a book by its title?
I definitely use titles and covers as a way to pull books of shelves and check them out, but I usually open them based off the blurb or a recommendation
- What are you reading this week?Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
- What do you prefer the best: a 1st person point of view, a third person point of view or multiple points of view?
It depends on the subject matter, the voice, and so much more. I generally like unreliable narrators when they are in the first person, but when you expand the POV, I like to know the frame of reference the narrator is coming from
- Is there a kind of point of view that is easier for you to connect with (gender, country, age, etc)?
It is always easier to identify directly with POVs that are more similar to me, but I like to use books as a way to challenge my world view by reading books told from different POVs
Thank you so much! It has been a fun way to reengage with reading, and to discover some new books!
This is my 4 (A title that doesn't contain the letter “E")This book is incredible and breathtaking, and it made me cry which is not common. My longer review is here: https://readingdiverselyayearofnotrea...
