Laura’s Comments (group member since Jan 02, 2017)

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

I actually read Missoula" which is non-fiction by Jon Krakhauer about the rape culture in a Montana town

I've read a few. I think I'll count https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... which is by a Hispanic author.

I read Bad Mommy. Another good and creepy one.

I read Sharp Objects, which I definitely didn't enjoy as much as many other people did.

I read Jane Doe. Clever and creepy.

I read (okay, listened to) Obeying Evil Standard true-crime.

This Is Where It Ends. YA about school shootings/violence.

A Clash of KingsA Clash of Kings. Book Two in the Song of Ice and Fire series. (AKA, "Game of Thrones" series.)

I read Vonnegut's -Cat's Cradle- for my bookclub. Enough of it takes places on an island that I'm counting it.

(I could count -The Martian-, which I've used for two other topics.)

The Blue Bedspread. Read it for my bookclub. It was my selection, but I didn't love it.

I'm double-counting The Martian for this one, though will replace it with another when I come across one.

I read The Martian for this one.

There were no books I was assigned but did read, but I know many people who read All Quiet on the Western Front during their schooling and this was the first time for me.

I read (but didn't love) Bird Box for this topic.

I love all of Christina Henry's work and her take on Little Red Riding Hood (The Girl in Red) is no exception.

I read The Mermaid which I've decided counts. There is a prominent fisherman/fishing aspect early in the book with enough references back to it that it meets my criteria for this topic.

I just started -My Heart and Other Black Holes-, set in Kentucky. YA, about teen suicide.

I read I'll Be Gone in the Dark for this one as well.

Late joining - need to see what I've already read this year that qualifies. (I've removed some entries, like "a book you hated" because I'm 100% not interested in forcing myself through something like that.)

[ ] A book that unleashes your creativity
[ ] A book that features summer recipes or outdoor summer activities
[ ] A book that takes place on the water
[X] A book that features fishing or fishermen
* The Mermaid
[ ] A book that features a popular summer sport
[X] A book that puts a spin on a well-known fairy tale
* The Girl in Red
[ ] A classic or contemporary Western
[ ] A book from the bottom of your TBR pile
[ ] A book that's been sitting on your Goodreads shelves for a while
[ ] A Choose-Your-Own Adventure novel
[X] A book about the end of the world as we know it
* Bird Box
[X] A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
* All Quiet on the Western Front
[X] A book that features letters or journal entries
* The Martian
[ ] A book about your country's independence
[X] A book that has the words red, white, or blue in the title
* The Blue Bedspread
[X] A book that takes place in outer space
* The Martian
[ ] A book that takes place at a nudist colony or features nudists
[X] A book that takes place on an island or in which the characters find themselves stranded
* Cat's Cradle
[ ] A book that you picked up at a library sale or thrift store
[ ] A book that you bought while on vacation
[X] A book by an author of color
* Chaos: A Fable
[ ] A book that is becoming a movie this year
[X] A book published posthumously
* When Breath Becomes Air
[ ] A book of colonial or postcolonial literature
[X] A book of social science
* Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
[ ] An anthology of poetry
[X] A sequel
* A Clash of Kings
[ ] A book first published the year you were born
[ ] Nordic noir
[ ] A book set in the decade you were born
[ ] A book by an indigenous author
[ ] Finish a series
[X] A book set in a small town
* Winter's Bone
[ ] A book with "tea" in the title
[ ] A book featuring a professional investigator


2017 carry-overs:

[ ] A book about a haunted building
[ ] A book about a sheriff
[ ] A political memoir
[X] A book with a protagonist who has your occupation
* The Good Nurse
[ ] The first book you see in a bookstore

2018 carry-overs:

[ ] A forgotten classic
[X] A book you heard about online
* Verity
[X] A book that scares you
* Blackout: Remembering What I Drank to Forget
[X] An armchair travel book
* The Last Unicorn (It's more than just a travel book, but I'm going to count it anyway.)
[ ] A steampunk novel
[ ] A book set in a hotel
[X] A book about sports
* Touching the Void (I'm going to consider ice climbing a sport.)
[ ] A nonfiction book about technology
[ ] A collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love
[ ] A book you picked based on its cover
[X] A nonfiction book about nature
* The Fruit Hunters

I finished Verity earlier, which is primarily set in Vermont. It's a murder mystery of sorts, not my usual genre, but there is a touch of conceptual twist. Not great, not horrible.