Gaby’s Comments (group member since Dec 16, 2015)

Gaby’s comments from the Getting Lost In The Stacks group.

The ** denote books I haven't completed.

WRITTEN BY A RUSSIAN Doctor Zhivago
ABOUT A MARTYR Bonhoeffer
RECOMMENDED BY A PARENT 1776 **
TAKES PLACE DURING WINTER The Call of the Wild
BIOGRAPHY OF A WORLD LEADER Long Walk to Freedom
SELF-IMPROVEMENT The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
THAT REMINDS YOU OF HOME Brownsville
ABOUT A COWBOY The Emmitt Zone
AN AUDIOBOOK The Resurrection Casket
A BANNED BOOK Mein Kampf **
WRITTEN BY AN ACTOR Love Life
BY OR ABOUT SHAKESPEARE The Lodger Shakespeare
WITH A PROTAGONIST WHO HAS YOUR OCCUPATION Emily and Einstein
ABOUT A CULTURE YOU’RE UNFAMILIAR WITH A Passage to India
WRITTEN FROM THE LOSING SIDE’S PERSPECTIVE All's Quiet on the Western Front **
WITH A BEAUTIFUL COVER The Nest
SOMETHING “EVERYONE” HAS READ BUT YOU A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
TOLD FROM A CHILD’S PERSPECTIVE Pigeon English
WITH MULTIPLE TIMELINES The Mapmaker's Children
WRITTEN BY A CRIMINAL Catch Me If You Can
WRITTEN BY A ‘LOCAL’ AUTHOR Old Creole Days
MODERN RETELLING OF A CLASSIC GREAT
NARRATED BY THE ‘BAD GUY’ The Picture of Dorian Gray
AN ALTERNATE HISTORY The Man in the High Castle
EROTIC NOVEL My American Duchess
SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE COMIC Vampirella
A NOVEL WITH RECIPES IN IT Cream Puff Murder
ABOUT A TOPIC YOU’RE AFRAID OF Twelve years a slave
BY OR ABOUT A WORLD EXPLORER Schooner to the Southern Oceans
ABOUT A CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow
BASED ON A GAME The Force Unleashed II
CONTAINING BULLYING City of Mirrors
WRITTEN BY A FICTIONAL CHARACTER Flowers in the Storm
ABOUT A PLAGUE The Years of Rice and Salt **
A TRILOGY THAT HASN’T BECOME A MOVIE OR TV SHOW Potent Pleasures, Midnight Pleasures, Enchanting Pleasures
WRITTEN BY SOMEONE UNDER 20 YEARS OLD How to Talk to Girls
NON-FICTION ABOUT ALCOHOL Wine & War
WRITTEN BY SOMEONE OVER 65 Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys
SET PREDOMINANTLY UNDERGROUND OR UNDERWATER The War Below
TAKES PLACE IN ASIA The Good Earth
A MICROHISTORY Hillbilly Elegy
SET IN A STEAMPUNK UNIVERSE Manners and Mutiny
A BOOK WITHOUT CHAPTERS We Need to Talk About Kevin
THAT YOU ORIGINALLY READ IN MIDDLE SCHOOL The Raven
AbOUT AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS Gumbo Tales
WITH MAGIC Demon Mistress
ABOUT A CURRENT HUMANITARIAN CONCERN The Book of Unknown Americans
WRITTEN BY A FIRST TIME AUTHOR The Bookstore

COMMITTED
About music or a musician Life, by Keith Richards
A dystopian novel The Maze Runner
A current New York Times Bestseller The Martian
A satire Catch 22
A collection of poems A night without armor
With an ugly cover The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers
Translated to English 1Q84
Targeted at the opposite gender Everything Bad Is Good For You
By or about a Greek philosopher Meditations
Takes place in a desert The Heretic Queen
An epistolary novel Last Days of Summer
That makes you sad The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
That changed your opinion on a topic How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
With bad reviews Slaughterhouse-Five
With a number in the title Size 12 Is Not Fat
Set in a place you’ve always wanted to visit The Other Daughter
One you started but never finished Darwin's Devices
A Pulitzer Prize winner Olive Kitteridge
With non-human character Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Self-published Eulalia's Story
Set during a holiday Labor Day
Film or tv tie in Aftermath
You pretend you’ve read it (but haven’t) Catcher in the Rye
From the library The Thirteenth Earl
Time travel The Time Machine
Political memoir I Am Malala

Woohoo! Traveling is important. :)

I finished "Avid" last night! ***I was supposed to read "Texas" by James A. Michener, but after it took most of April and May to get halfway through it, I switched. I'll work on it off and on, but it was time to move forward.
A BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY Why Not Me?
A MYSTERY Career of Evil
BASED ON A NON "WESTERNIZED" FAIRY TALE Beauty
WRITTEN BY AN AFRICAN Purple Hibiscus
A GRAPHIC NOVEL Nimona
ABOUT A ROAD TRIP paper towns
SET IN A COUNTRY NOT YOUR OWN A Kiss at Midnight
SET IN YOUR HOME STATE A Rogue in Texas
WITH A WOMAN’S NAME IN THE TITLE Esperanza Rising
WITH A CHARACTER WHO HAS YOUR NAME Dancing with the Devil and Other Stories from Beyond
ABOUT AN ANIMAL Four Fish
SET IN AUSTRALIA Three Wishes
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Waiting

Just keep reading, just keep reading, just keep reading, reading, reading...

I finished!!!
The Story of the Human Body
Becoming Marta
Girl Waits with Gun
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Pygmalion
The Awakening
All the Light We Cannot See
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Modern Romance
The BFG
Islam, A Short History
The Old Man and the Sea
George

I have "Islam, A Short History" as the book slated for that spot.

Rain of Gold by Victor Villaseñor. I used to read it every year (along with the LOTR series) until it got lost in a move or someone borrow it and didn't return it. So good!

I'm joining! Is this where we register? I didn't see any other spot for officially signing up. Thanks for getting this going, Ingrid!