Emily’s Comments (group member since Jan 01, 2019)

Emily’s comments from the BYL Reading Challenge group.

This can be any discovery - from history, geography, science, or self-discovery. It can also be any genre, fiction or non-fiction!

Recommendations:

Longitude by Dava Sobel
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
Becoming by Michelle Obama

I love to read memoirs and get to experience life from another person's perspective.

Recommendations:

While I Was Away by Waka T. Brown
Smile by Raina Telgameier
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor by Selma van de Perre

If the animal is the main character - it counts!

Recommendations:

Watership Down by Richard Adams
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM by Robert C. O'Brien
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

It can be any war, historical or fictional.

Recommendations:

The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

Read any book that has one of the buzz words: adventure, journey, or quest in the title!

Recommendations:

Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Emily's Quest by L.M. Montgomery

Everyone loves a good superhero story!

Recommendations:

Cape: The League of Secret Heroes by Kate Hannigan
Dreadnaught by April Daniels
Vicious by V.E. Shwab
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

One of the things I love most about reading is being able to experience different lives and ways of living.

Recommendations:

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Dever
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

All the best exciting adventure stories include a map!

Recommendations:

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Shadow and Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Even if you can't take a trip right now you can plan a literary vacation! Where have you always wanted to travel? Read a book set there!

Now you read a book where people are traveling across the ocean, how about a book set UNDER the water?

Recommendations:

A Crack in the Sea by H.M. Bouwman
A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly

You'll always know that Sarah helped with the prompts when there are sea-related prompts. This time we're reading stories where people are at sea for at least part of the story!

Recommendations:

The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine Doyle
The Watch that Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
Luck of the Titanic by Stacy Lee
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

What is more exciting than reading about a heist?

Recommendations:

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo
Artemis by Andy Weir
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

Who doesn't love a good spy book?

Recommendations:

Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Sympathizer by Viet Thahn Nguyen
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Road trip stories can be almost as fun as an actual road trip!

Recommendations:

In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Read a book that's out of this world! Go on a galactic adventure!

Recommendations:

A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Wayfarers series) by Becky Chambers
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (January Arrrgh Booked selection!)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Goldilocks by Laura Lam

Any sport, any game!

The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Book Scavenger series by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Game Changer by Neal Shusterman

This can be non-fiction or historical fiction - but it needs to be about or based on an event that actually happened.

Recommendations:
Brother's Keeper by Julie Lee (YA)
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton
anything from the I Survived series (Middle grade)
The Light of Days by Judy Batalion (this has a Young Reader's edition AND it is going to be the March book club pick for the Arrrgh Booked Book Club!)

It's time for a new challenge! This year is all adventure and finding excitement in reading. I hope you will join me in the 2022 Family Reading Challenge!

You can download the free checklist here: https://buildyourlibrary.com/2022-bui...

It's the middle of December - who is finished with the challenge?

I still have 8 prompts left. But with 2.5 weeks to go, I think I can hit at least 2-3 more prompts!

That's probably the best I've ever done on one of these reading challenges!

I hope you enjoyed this year's Hygge reading challenge!

You open a wardrobe, fall down a rabbit hole, or stumble through a strange door when suddenly you find yourself transported to a completely different world!

Recommendations:

The Wayward Children's series by Seanan McGuire
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow