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

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

'78: The Boston Red Sox , A Historic Game, and a Divided City has been on my shelf for some time. This is a great excuse to finally pick it up.

I read The Martian Chronicles for this and, as it is my second Bradbury book, I have come to accept he is not the author for me. Even despite his misogyny, I still prefer Heinlein.

My first book of the year was In the Miso Soup, which was originally written in Japanese.

This is tough for me, too. I don't remember where I heard of most books. A lot I find through browsing or "recommended for you", so I suppose those would count? I'll have to pay attention as the year progresses and see where I hear about what.

In Search of Nature is the one on my Bookcrossing TBR the longest, but Born to Run has been on my Goodreads TBR longest. So one or the other will do.

I'm planning on In Search of Nature, though I have a number of books on my wishlist that would also fall in this category. A moment of weakness is all it would take...

I'm currently listening to The Boy on the Bridge which is the sequel to The Girl With All the Gifts. I liked the first a lot; the second is quite good so far. (It helps that the narrator is excellent.)

I'm going with the original list's choice (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). I've been wanting to do a reread of that for some time now.

I listen to a lot of short stories on Audible. Just finished Make Something Up by Chuck Palahniuk and have Neil Gaiman's newest collection awaiting. Palahniuk's was okay - I think I'm moving past him as a reader.

I read Chosen By a Horse which is a memoir that, pretty much incidentally, happens in New York. I'm sure I'll read another that's a better fit for this challenge, but this one will do for now.

I finished The Day Lincoln Was Shot. Non-fiction that goes hour-by-hour from when Lincoln woke the morning of his assassination to when silver dollars were placed on his eyes. Very well written. I enjoyed it.

I'm currently reading The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, a fiction set in North Carolina. It also doubles for the 2018 challenge as a book recommended by a favourite author (Neil Gaiman). I'm about 50 pages in and so far, it's quite good.

I'm currently reading The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break which was recommended by Neil Gaiman.

I just finished The Centaur by John Updike. A little heavy, based on Greek mythology. Very "literature-class" type book. Not one I would recommend, in general.

I just finished reading Sin in the Second City which is about prostituion in Chicago in the early 1900s. I thought it was quite good.

Original list: The Laramie Project

Alternate suggestions:
* Close Range

Original list: Little House in the Big Woods

Alternate suggestions:
* The Art of Fielding

Original list: Shiloh

Alternate suggestions:
* The Glass Castle

Original list: Pollyanna

Alternate suggestions:
* The Secret History

Original list: No Country for Old Men

Alternate suggestion:
* Giant
* Lonesome Dove