CrystalIsReading on StoryGraph’s Comments (group member since Nov 27, 2018)

CrystalIsReading on StoryGraph’s comments from the Around the Year in 52 Books group.

I plan to read The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning, which is a memoir about surviving grief by taking up mushroom hunting, by a Malaysian Norwegian author.

I have so many options on my shelves right now. How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days would be fun. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country sounds less fun, but very interesting and relevant. Telesa: The Covenant Keeper is an older YA that retells Samoan myths, by a Samoan American author, and has been on my shelf for years. Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories is about writing and hope in hard times.Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins: A Trip Through the World of Animal Intoxication is about intoxication in the animal world.

I'm going to finally read my copy of Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. it seems especially appropriate given all the trials that have been in the news lately, for some historical context. And for anyone else who cares about this, the author reads his own work in the audio book, and sounds good in the sample I listened to.

I'm planning to read The Chandler Legacies. It's by a Stonewall Honor-winning author, and is a YA set at an elite boarding school, with a diverse group of characters.

THE 2021 LIST
1. A book related to “In the Beginning...” Salty, Bitter, Sweet
2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y: The Peace Machine
3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music: Winter's Orbit
4. A book with a monochromatic cover: Speak

5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read: The Boyfriend Project or Take a Hint, Dani Brown
6. A love story: One to Watch or Spoiler Alert
7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list: (a book whose audio is read by the author) Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited: Forbidden Promises

9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year: Well Played
10. A book with a female villain or criminal: Diamond City
11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum: The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and A Dead Djinn in Cairo
12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation: Days in the Caucasus
13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020: Trouble the Saints

14. A book set in a made-up place:
15. A book that features siblings as the main characters: My Sister, the Serial Killer
16. A book with a building in the title: Catherine House
17. A book with a Muslim character or author: First Comes Like

18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1 : The Widow of Rose House or Wild Rain
19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2: Hearts on Hold
20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3: Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight
21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u": Becoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir
22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads: Becoming

23. A cross genre novel: A Stitch in Time
24. A book about racism or race relations: How to Be an Antiracist or Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
25. A book set on an island: The Honjin Murders
26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author: Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards: (Death, from a Tarot deck) Remote Control
28. A book connected to ice: Arctic Heat
29. A book that you consider comfort reading: House Rules
30. A long book: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years: Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people: Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry: Finna or Vesper Flights or Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 6
34. A book with a travel theme:
35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer: What Kind of Day

36. A book with six or more words in the title: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list: Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator: (kneel) Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 6
39. A book involving an immigrant: Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity

40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other AstonishmentsIvory Apples
41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author: Hearts on Hold
42. A mystery or thriller: When No One is Watching
43. A book with elements of magic: Ivory Apples

44. A book whose title contains a negative: Won't Go Home Without You
45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet: Murder in Old Bombay or White Whiskey Bargain
46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards: Mexican Gothic
47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir: Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex or Who Says You're Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned
48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?”: His Beauty

49. A book with an ensemble cast: Zed
50. A book published in 2021: Wild Rain
51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name:
52. A book related to "the end": Hamlet

The main character in Whiteout apparently has a sensory processing disorder, so I'll probably read it for this prompt, although it's also first in a series and a book with a major theme of survival. (It's set in Antarctica.)
I'd also recommend: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Kiss Quotient, The Bride Test, Love in the Stacks, and The Theory of Attraction. All but the first one are super steamy romances, so reader beware. It was great to see neurodiversity represented in romance, though.

I'm planning to read Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family, about a family with a parent and a child who transition at the same time. So it would also work for the LBGTQ prompt.

I am thinking I'll read My Long List of Impossible Things by Michelle Barker, which is set in post WWII Germany/ the Soviet bloc. For some reason it's not listed on Goodreads yet, but it's on Netgalley and B&N and Amazon. Releases in March 2020.
It could also work for a book with a silhouette on the cover.
If not, I'll finish The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y: Open House
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable:Temporary Wife Temptation or Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For or The Heart Principle or Severance
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019: A Royal Affair or Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants or White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live: Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come or How Languages Saved Me: A Polish Story of Survival or Hidden Pearl or Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
5. The first book in a series that you have not started: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover: Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere: Gone by Midnight or Away with the Fairies or A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The": The Farm or The Wendy
9. A book that can be read in a day: Come Tumbling Down or Upright Women Wanted or We Should All Be Feminists

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages: Sorcery of Thorns or Tess of the Road or Skyward
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number: Down Among the Sticks and Bones or The City of Brass or The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist or Little Boy Lost or The Blue Zones of Happiness: A Blueprint for a Better Life
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people: For Your Consideration: Keanu Reeves or Best Women's Erotica of the Year Volume 4 or It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories or We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge (Link): (featuring indigenous people of a country) This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving or Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link): The Joy Luck Club

15. A book set in a global city: or The Library of Lost Things or Open House or Notting Hill in the Snow
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area: Upright Women Wanted or A Madness of Sunshine or Under a Painted Sky or Arctic Heat
17. A book with a neurodiverse character:
18. A book by an author you've only read once before: Secret Crush Seduction or Revolution of Values: Reclaiming Public Faith for the Common Good or Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God or Storm of Locusts or The Night Tiger or Fortress of Shadows or Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight

19. A fantasy book: The Unspoken Name orThe Orchid Throne
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]: A Madness of Sunshine(20th challenge from Pop Sugar) A Darker Shade of Magic (from GR What we've read so far in 2019 list) or Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death (from GR ATY 2020 Goodreads Awards for 2019 list)
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720: (astronomy) The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
22. A book with the major theme of survival: Whiteout

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author: Something to Talk About or Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition
24. A book with an emotion in the title:Tame Your Anxiety
25. A book related to the arts: A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards: How to Be an Antiracist
27. A history or historical fiction: The Jane Austen Society or Above the Bay of Angels

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author: Alone in the Wild or A Madness of Sunshine or Frying Plantain or Valencia and Valentine
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book: Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom or A Princess in Theory or Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI or Severance
31. A book inspired by a leading news story: You Too? or Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan: My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 or The Nakano Thrift Shop
33. A book about a non-traditional family: Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name: (Christmas fiction) Notting Hill in the Snow
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover: Beyond the Black Door

36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim: Twenty Guys You Date in Your Twenties or Murder, Witchcraft and the Killing of Wildlife: Police Investigations at the Heart of Africa
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1: Rosanna's Gift
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2: Double Six
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce: If I Never Met You

40. A book with a place name in the title: The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State or Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
41. A mystery: Egg Drop Dead or Journaled to Death or Zen and the Art of Murder: A Black Forest Investigation
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ (link): Every Heart a Doorway or Girl, Woman, Other or Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom or The Overstory or The Calculating Stars or The Fifth Season or Ancillary Justice
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: The Line Between: A Novel or Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come or Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare or No Surrender: A Father, a Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism That Continues to Live on Today
44. A book related to witches: Witch Is When It All Began

45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018: The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here orInspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire": The Autobiography of Malcolm X
48. A book published in 2020: Girl Gone Viral The Heart Principleor How to Catch a Queen: Runaway Royals

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win (link):
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title: Chilling Effect
52. A book related to time: Beneath the Sugar Sky or Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era or 30 Dates in 30 Days