Evelyn’s Comments (group member since Jan 26, 2016)

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

1. What are you reading for this category?
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam
Hochschild
2. How does it fit this prompt?
The book is about a king.
3. What would you recommend to other people for this category?
The Hate U Give

1. What are you reading for this category? Who is the author?

2. Have you read books by many authors on the list?10
3. What book would you recommend to others to read for this category?

1. What are you reading for this category?
Married by Morning
2. How does it connect to the song?
Girl in white dress.
3. Have you seen The Sound of Music? Did you enjoy it?
No haven't seen it
4. What book would you recommend to others to read for this category?

1. What are you reading?
Massacre in Mexico by Elena Poniatowska
2. How much nonfiction do you typically read?
Once in a while
3. What are your recommendations for this category?
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory, In Cold Blood, and Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

1. What are you reading for this category?
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
2. What category was this book nominated for?
Won Debut Novel
3. Which books would you recommend from this list?
The Sun Down Motel, Tender Is the Flesh, Anxious People, and All Boys Aren't Blue.

1. What are you reading for this category?
Fire in His Blood Ruby Dixon
2. How does this relate to "the end"?
Is related to the end when dragons come to Earth and is the end of normal life.
3. What is a book you'd recommend for this prompt?
They Both Die at the End

1. What are you reading for this prompt?
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
2. Where is it set? Argentina
3. Would you ever want to go there? Yes. I would like to visit Iguazu Falls, Buenos Aires, and Los Glaciares.

1. What are you reading for this category?
The Deep
2. Who is the author? Do you want to read more books written by them?Rivers Solomon
I would like to read An Unkindness of Ghosts by the same author.
3. What book would you recommend to others for this category?

1. What word(s) did you pick for this category?
Fire
2. What are you reading for this category?
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
3. How does this book connect to your word choice?
The word fire is on the title.

1. What are you reading for this prompt?
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante
2. What authors have you been meaning to read for a while? There is a lot of authors, but some are: David McCullough, Isabel Wilkerson, Donna Tartt, V.E. Schwab, Naomi Novik, and Louise Erdrich.
3. What short books do you recommend?
The Grownup,We Should All Be Feminists, Animal Farm and Girl, Interrupted

1. What are you reading for this category?They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
2. How does it fit into this theme?
Is about the racism that Japanese American faced during WW2 the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps.
3. What is a book you'd recommend for this prompt?
The Hate U Give, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, and Becoming

1. What are you reading for this category?
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

2. Did it feature a Muslim character or was it by a Muslim author or both? Both

3. What would you recommend to others for this prompt?
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

1. What are you reading for this category?
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
2. How does it fit the prompt? Is about funerary customs about different cultures.
3. What would you recommend to others for this prompt?
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory Caitlin Doughty

1. What are you reading for this category?
Beach Read by Emily Henry
2. What season or time of year do you associate with it?
Summer
3. What book would you recommend to others for this season?
The Unhoneymooners, Secrets of a Summer Night, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

1. What are you reading for this prompt?
Someone to Watch Over Me by Lisa Kleypas
2. How long was/is the author's career? 33 years
3. What authors would you recommend checking out?
Jane Austen

1. What are you reading for this category?The Undocumented Americans Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
2. Is the immigrant story a perspective you typically read about?
Sometimes only when the author has a background on immigration.
3. What book would you recommend to others to read for this category?
The Test and Esperanza Rising

1. What are you reading for this category?
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley
2. How did the main character fit under neurodiversity?
Autistic Spectrum
3. Did you find this point of view different from what you normally read?No

1. What are you reading for this category?
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by
2. Who is the author? Zora Neale Hurston
3. Have you read books from many authors on this list? 14

1. What are you reading for this category?

2. What is the setting for this book?
Argentina
3. Do you normally read books set in this country?
I have read only one book in the past.

1. What are you reading for this category?

2. Which award did it get nominated for?
2018 National Books Awards
3. Is it a winner?
No it was just a nominee.