Cheryl’s Comments (group member since Jan 04, 2017)

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

I did it -- I read Educated by Tara Westover. Tough stuff in many ways.

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery. Highly recommend!

I swear that I have posted on this prompt at least twice -- once on my phone on Sunday night -- but it doesn't show up. I finished the Christopher Paolini series that began with Eragon (read 10 years ago) in October of this year.

I am going with the original fairy tale approach here.

Once Upon a Marigold by Jeanne Ferris was delightful and I will be looking for the next 2 books in the trilogy.

The Pet and the Pendulum

In a Family Way

I think I will count The Tell-Tale Start here, because the villain uses a false name

Once Upon a Midnight Eerie

I read My Therapist Said (Poems) by Sal Sirowitz.

I ended up finishing a series that I started years ago. I read books 3 and 4 in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance series.
Audiobook 3 included an interview with the author who said that he originally meant for this to be a trilogy, but the length made him split that book into 2.

Totally counting Inheritance as my book for this challenge

I am counting Mark Kurlansky's Salt for this one. The book was not as big as some on my TBR, but physically and mentally it loomed larger as a hard back and as one that had been waiting almost 10 years for me to read it.

Although I did the audio version (23 discs), I am counting Christopher Paolini's Brisingr for this one, since the print version is 748 pages. And the audio version took nearly 2 months to read in my car.

I just read Who Left that Body in the Rain? by Patricia Sprinkle. A decent mystery

I am counting Andrew Zimmern's The Bizarre Truth in this category. While I have eaten some of the foods mentioned in there (dumplings and noodles, for example), I have not eaten any bugs or offal or genitalia or things like puffins or various undersea creatures. And I don't think I want to, but I enjoyed reading about it.

I will choose to interpret "epic fantasy" as explained by Wikipedia, also called high fantasy.

As such, Neil Gaiman's Stardust counts -- and I gave it 5 stars, which also makes it kind of epic, right?

I am counting The Restless Sleep: Inside the Cold Case Unit for this prompt. It covered 4 different cases, not all of which were officially solved.

I read Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown with a picture of all the little New England summer cottages on the front.

I recently read City of the Soul: A Walk in Rome which also had a map -- although it was missing a lot of the sites that the book talked about, which was disappointing.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman.

The Fever of 1721 was all in Boston