Jill’s Comments (group member since Dec 01, 2017)

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

Tammy wrote: "Out of the ones you listed, Jill, I would start with Jane Eyre. My mom read that to me when I was about 11 (and I don't think it scared me so you should be safe). I re-read it when I was 17 and it ..."

Thanks Tammy! Jane Eyre has definitely been on my TBR list. :)

Katie wrote: "I think the Thirteenth Tale is creepier than all of the books you've listed. I've read them all. But from your list, I would recommend Rebecca or Jane Eyre! Both are excellent."

Haha - good to know Katie. For me it was creepy in hearing it read - I did audio, so maybe how it was presented is what was creepy.

Selina Mae wrote: "Jill wrote: "Soooo.....I really don't like scary/creepy books (I'm a big baby!) and it seems many in this genre are. I LOVED The Thirteenth Tale and that's about as creepy as I can get..."

Thanks Tammy!!

Soooo.....I really don't like scary/creepy books (I'm a big baby!) and it seems many in this genre are. I LOVED The Thirteenth Tale and that's about as creepy as I can get.

With this in mind, I would love advice on a book to pick that is no more creepier than that one! :) . Here are my choices so far, in no particular order (a stipulation is I have to be able to get the audiobook from Overdrive):

Wuthering Heights
Rebecca (started, but didn't finish, so I would restart)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Jane Eyre

Thanks!

So many options - so many on everyone's lists look good to read!! I'm debating between 11/22/63 and In Cold Blood.

Your list title had me cracking up - good luck with that. There’s soooo much good smut out there!! ;)

Would “All is Not Forgotten” by Wendy Walker work?

✔️ 1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title - What to Do with a Bad Boy
✔️ 2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list - Animal Farm
✔️ 3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards (link) My Not So Perfect Life
✔️ 4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author…) The Long Earth
✔️ 5. A book about or inspired by real events Jefferson's Sons
✔️6. A book originally written in a language other than English The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
✔️7. A gothic novel A Great and Terrible Beauty
✔️8. An "own voices" book (an own voice novel is a book about marginalised protagonists (by ethnic group, religion, sexual orientation, mental illness, etc) written by an author who shares that same identity. ) To All the Boys I've Loved Before
✔️9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc) The Handmaid's Tale
✔️10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
✔️11. A literary fiction. The Age of Innocence
✔️12. A book set in Africa or South America Homegoing
✔️ 13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc) A Secret Kept
✔️ 14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire A Column of Fire
✔️ 15. A book with an unique format/writing structure Why We Broke Up
✔️16. A narrative nonfiction Chasing Lincoln's Killer
✔️17. A book you expect to make you laugh Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
✔️18. A book with a location in the title The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
✔️19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors) The Last Child
✔️20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends The Cider House Rules
✔️21. A book written in first person perspective Someday, Someday, Maybe
✔️22. A book you have high expectations or hope for Lilac Girls
✔️ 23. A medical or legal thriller The Ex
24. A book with a map The Princess Bride, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
✔️ 25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view Hidden Bodies
26. A book with a text only cover ,
27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
✔️ 28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water The Witch of Blackbird Pond
✔️ 29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench) I Love You More
✔️ 30. A short book And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to Galápagos, Island: A Story of the Galápagos, Galápagos Regained, Galapagos George, The Galapagos Islands, Poor Man's Galapagos, Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England, The Galapagos Incident, The Galapagos Affair
32. An alternate history book Look Who's Back, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, The Plot Against America, The Underground Railroad, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link) Erasure, Gamelife: A Memoir, Watergate, Washington Journal: The Events of 1973-1974, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link)
✔️ 35. A book featuring a murder A Murder in Time
✔️ 36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
✔️ 38. A science book or a science fiction book Strange the Dreamer
✔️ 39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title Dreams of Gods & Monsters
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list (link)
✔️ 41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater Life of Pi
NOW 43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
NOW 44. A ghost story I Liked My Life,
45. A book that intimidates/ scares you Anna Karenina, Gone with the Wind
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air Gone with the Wind, Beneath a Scarlet Sky
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists (link)
50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
52. A book published in 2018



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