Stina’s Comments (group member since Dec 11, 2016)

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

This was a summer-specific prompt last year, so I'll be saving it for my summer reading challenges starting sometime in May.

Considering how many series I started last year, this should be a breeze! Maybe Death in D Minor?

This was a summer-specific prompt last year, so I'll be saving it for my summer reading challenges starting sometime in May.

Another great triple-dipper opportunity! But I will try not to. Perhaps The Glass Castle?

This was a summer-specific prompt last year, so I'll be saving it for my summer reading challenges starting sometime in May.

I doubt I'll need to plan for this one at all. Surely I'll just happen to read something not set in North America.

This was a summer-specific prompt last year, so I'll be saving it for my summer reading challenges starting sometime in May.

By May, I'll have a better idea what's coming out when this year. I'm usually so far behind in my reading that I don't pay much attention to new releases. But The Shape of Water is supposed to be out in February, so maybe that will be what I choose.

This was a summer-specific prompt last year, so I'll be saving it for my summer reading challenges starting sometime in May.

I have tons to choose from here. Perhaps I will finish My Cousin Rachel or Blade Runner. Or maybe I will track down Starship Troopers and see how the source material compares to its satirical movie version.

This was a summer-specific prompt last year, so I'll be saving it for my summer reading challenges starting sometime in May.

Maybe the other Stephen Graham Jones book? Or perhaps a math textbook. Or that book that is all about Trump's tweets....

This was a summer-specific prompt last year, so I'll be saving it for my summer reading challenges starting sometime in May.

It's so hard to keep track of where I first heard of specific books! But I do remember seeing a post for a free download of Colorado Hope, so that's what I'm planning to read for this.

This was a summer-specific prompt last year, so I'll be saving it for my summer reading challenges starting sometime in May.

I'll certainly be finishing up an Agatha Christie collection or two this year, but depending on the timing, I might be reading Bold Girls Speak for this prompt.

This was a summer-specific prompt last year, so I'll be saving it for my summer reading challenges starting sometime in May.

I would define this as a book that is generally considered a classic but somehow doesn't pop up constantly on lists of classics. I'll be reading The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales. If there's a genre to which you're partial, take a look at some of its early authors who have been overshadowed by the big names of the genre's heyday.

I still haven't completely read Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals, though I've skipped around and probably read most of it by now.

I don't often do this, but there are certain visual motifs that tend to grab me. Timekeeper's cover really knew how to wind my gears. :-)

This would be so easy to triple-dip! But maybe I'll read a Kitty book from Carrie Vaughn. Those are often set in the Denver area.

I just removed two prompts (mentioned in another book and classic by a non-European) because it turns out I had completed them for the 2017 challenge they were in. Yay!

I have two books by local and indigenous author Stephen Graham Jones, so I will probably go with one of those.

This is, of course, not limited to the indigenous peoples of North America. What indigenous authors do you recommend?

I started A Man Called Ove last year and am looking forward to getting back to it.

Interpret this however you like. I'm taking "oldest" to mean has been on my TBR for the longest time. I was pretty much born with a TBR, so this means any of the books I've been meaning to read since I saw them on the shelves of the family library when I was a child. Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island, which I started last year for the armchair travel prompt but never finished, counts. So does On the Beach, which is much, much shorter.

"Oldest" could also mean the physically oldest volume in your stack, or the book that was originally published the earliest. And it's entirely up to you if your TBR for this purpose is physical or virtual.

I know, right? Here's a 4-page discussion thread with some great ideas: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I started on Odes to Common Things last year, and I'm enjoying it, but it's a bilingual edition and I'm using it to brush up on my Spanish as I go, so it's not a quick read at all.

Does an Instant Pot cookbook count?? I've been wanting to get back to The Victorian Internet for a long time, so I expect I will go with that.

I'd been planning to read Colorado Hope for this, but I'll need to read something else to avoid double-dipping. Probably Blood on the Tracks, which appears to be set in Denver.

Well, there's Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, but I'm trying not to double-dip. There's a yoga book I've been wanting to read. Yoga's a sport, right?