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

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

I had forgotten to add a few to this list:
At the Bottom of the Harbor
Apple of My Eye
Death at the Old Hotel
Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop

I didn't plan to do this prompt, but I was offered a chance to borrow a book that both scared and fascinated me -- I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara. It was good and it was scary.

I accomplished this one with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring -- 50 years on and still relevant, sadly!

Stina wrote: "Mary wrote: "Hollow City by Ransom Riggs, sequel to Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children"

That was a contender for me, but I ended up going with my girl Flavia in [book:The Weed That String..."

Flavia RULES!!

I was about half-way through Three Wise Cats when I realized it would count for this challenge. Finished it tonight.

Crossing this one off with Death at the Old Hotel

I crossed this one off the list with The Maltese Goddess by Lyn Hamilton, the second book in her archaeological mystery series featuring Lara McClintoch.

ETA: Stalking Ivory was also the second book in the series, but I counted it for a different prompt

I am going to cross this one off with Wild by Cheryl Strayed.

ETA: Tell Me Where It Hurts Also fits this prompt.

Me too. I had to ask a friend to make me finish it before I could read anything else.

Finished this one with John Grisham's Skipping Christmas. It was the basis for the movie Christmas With the Kranks.

Managed to cross this one off with Stalking Ivory.

Other books that fit this prompt (most of them counted for other prompts): Encore Provence
Facing the Lion
Planes, Trains, and Elephants
Mrs. Jeffries in the Nick of Time
The Maltese Goddess
Three Wise Cats
An Irish Country Girl

Just finished The Moon by Whale Light. Highly recommend.

Completed this one with Planes, Trains, and Elephants.

ETA: I will come back and note others that have fit this challenge
Encore Provence
Wild

It took me some time to be sure, but it turns out that Fredrick Backman's book And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer was translated into English. All of his books are so beautifully written that I can never be sure. But I can count this book for this Prompt.

Hey, guess what?! Turns out I did this one first without realizing it.

Of Mice and Men was recommended by an author I love, Barack Obama.

Done
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name

I did this one too!
If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name.
I liked the moose on the cover https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

I did this one -- a collection of fantasy stories called Betcha Can't Read Just One

Also appropriate: Stories from the Vinyl Cafe
Stories of Cats We Love

I read another one that was set in California -- Walk Across the Sea

Yee-haw! I discovered that the one book I just read -- The Toad Who Loved Tea (by BCer Faizy) -- was published this year. I didn't think I would cross this one off, but I did.