DragonGoddess’s Comments (group member since Jan 03, 2017)

DragonGoddess’s comments from the Challenges from Exploding Steamboats group.

[X] A forgotten classic - Anna Karenina
[X] A book of short stories - Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files
[X] A book you heard about online - Scourged
[X] A book that scares you - Pet Sematary
[X] A book that became a movie - The Color Purple
[X] A book published this year - Lake Silence
[X] A book set on a different continent - Purple Hibiscus
[X] A book based on a true story - The Terror
[X] The second book in a series - Claimed
{X} A book with a number in the title - Just One Damned Thing After Another

[X] A book from Oprah's Book Club - The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
[X] An armchair travel book - City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
[X] A steampunk novel - Competence
[X] A book with a month or day of the week in the title -The Tuesday Club Murders
[X] A book set in a hotel - Evil Under the Sun
[X] A book recommended by an author you love - Slade House
[X] Any novel by a Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master - A Wizard of Earthsea
[X] A book about sports - Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports
[X] A book set within 100 miles of your location - Haunted Lawrence
[X] A nonfiction book about technology - Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
[X] A collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love - Tales of a Severed Head
[X] The oldest book in your TBR pile/list - Blockade Billy
[X] A book in translation - A Man Called Ove
[X] A book by an indigenous person - St. Catherine's Flower
[X] A book that takes place in your state - Still Life With Crows
[X] A book you picked based on its cover - The Girl Who Drank the Moon
[X] A nonfiction book about nature - Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects

I'm half tempted to slog through Anna Karenina, it would actually cover 4 different prompts: A book that became a movie, Oprah book, book in translation, and set in a different continent. And maybe forgotten classic depending on how you define it (maybe).

[X] A self-published book - Onyx Webb: Book Nine: Episodes 25, 26, 27 & 28
[X] A book about a haunted building - Hell House
[X] An illustrated children’s book - She Persisted
[X] A book with a key on the cover - The Dead Key
[X] A book with the word “Girl” in the title - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
[X] A story told from a non-human POV - Redwall
[X] An award-winning book - Starship Troopers
[X] A book with a woman on the cover - Etched in Bone
[X] A book by a medical doctor - The Surgeon
[X] A book about a sheriff - The Red Church
[X] A book with a cat on the cover - The Wind Through the Keyhole

[X] A book featuring a bookstore - Tomes of Terror: Haunted Bookstores and Libraries
[X] A book set in a retirement community - The Last Stop
[X] A book set on another planet - Red Rising
[X] A book you haven’t read since high school - 1984
[X] A political memoir - Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
[X] A book at least 100 years older than you - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
[X] A book with a protagonist who has your occupation - Stillhouse Lake
[X] A book from Oprah’s Book Club - The Pillars of the Earth
[X] A book recommended by a family member - The Wolf's Boy recommended by my 13yo son
[X] The first book you see in a bookstore - The Winter People
[X] A book about a road trip - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared