Gem's A-Z Author Challenge

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My first A-Z challenge....


A - The Divine Comedy, Vol. 1: Inferno - Dante Alighieri - *** 10/11/15
B - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum - **** 19/4/16
C - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote - *** 1/10/15
D - All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - **** 1/6/16
E - The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot - **** 14/3/16
F - Broken Harbour - Tana French - ** 20/10/15
G - Feed - Mira Grant - *** 22/4/17
H - The Silent Wife - A.S.A. Harrison - ** 17/11/15
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J - Insanity (Mad in Wonderland) - Cameron Jace - **** 16/12/15
K - Revival - Stephen King - *** 9/10/15
L - Her - Harriet Lane - * 6/11/15
M - The Cave - Kate Mosse - *** 18/11/15
N - The Memory Box - Eva Lesko Natiello - ***** 8/12/15
O - The Rook - Daniel O'Malley - ** 24/8/17
P - The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - ***** 17/3/16
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R - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs - ****13/11/15
S - The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger - **** 4/4/16
T - The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas - **** 4/7/17
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V - Anatomy of a Scandal - Sarah Vaughan - *** 13/11/18
W - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - *** 30/10/15
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Z - The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón - *** 9/1/16

20 of 26 complete

[Liz, Your Friendly Moderator]

Good luck Gemma :)

[Ellie]

Good luck - it gets addictive :)

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Thanks! I'm already starting to feel addicted to it...planning out my future reads!!

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Bit more planning then reading so far but hoping to get a bit more stuck in now :)

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favourite book in the challenge so far!

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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Most recent completed read in this challenge and by far the most odd!!!

I was close to giving this 5 stars but I can't quite put my finger on why I really enjoyed this strange book.

A retelling of sorts of Lewis Carroll's Alice Adventures that is like nothing I have read before. I found myself completely drawn in to a story that was at times laughable but I couldn't help but want to read more.

Is it the figment of a crazy girls imagination? Are characters from Wonderland really disguised as 'normal' people in modern times? Is she the 'real' Alice?

I read many reviews before starting the book and they are a mixed bunch - I'd say give it a go! Yes the story is bonkers and yes there are plenty of unbelievable elements (coming and going from a mental asylum?!) but isn't that what reading is all about? Let go of reality and lose yourself in a magical and somewhat crazy story

[Leni]

That looks interesting! I like me a bit of bizarre and crazy. I'm not sure where to fit it in though. I've got so many challenges going, but nothing that can accommodate a retelling of Alice in Wonderland. Hm, I am contemplating an A-Z of fantasy/sci-fi, and I guess it would fit there. One question, when I look up the book it says it's book no. 1. Does that mean the book ends on a cliffhanger, or is it more like the author might do a retelling of Through the Looking-Glass next?

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It's a series - I have the first 3 and but I think it has 6 in the full series. As mentioned it's a retelling of sorts....in the sense that the characters are used in a completely different way!

[Leni]

Ah. Ok, adding it to my ever increasing TBR-list.

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Completed The Mill on the Floss
Not what I expected it to be but loved it. What an emotional journey.

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Complete The Bell Jar
I've never been dragged to such a dark place and the most scary part is I could relate to a lot.