Vicki's 2017 Reading Challenge

[Vicki]

I'm looking to read at least 180 books this year. I always aim low and end up upping my goal.

[Vicki]

February Books - 18 Total

1. Earth Alone
2. The Boylan House Trilogy
3. End of Watch
4. Private Paris
5. Ninth Cycle Antarctica
6. Darkest Journey
7. The Games
8. Of Mud and Clay: Book One of Light into Exile
9. Autumn
10. Sands of the Cape Fear River: An American Civil War Novel
11. The Orlov Diamond
12. Apple Pots and Funeral Plots
13. Her Perspective: Gaia Speaks About Her True Story
14. The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
15. Earth Lost
16. Morning Star
17. Rebel of the Sands
18. Earth Rising

I enjoyed almost all of the books on the list, even the Sands of the Cape Fear River, even though I don't usually care for historical fiction.
The Once and Future World was engaging for the subject matter and I would recommend it if this is a subject you are interested in.
Her Perspective: Gaia Speaks About Her True Story was a book I truly disliked. I would have put it down after 2 chapters if I wasn't using it to complete a reading challenge. I found the narrative to just be a tangled mess even though I would have enjoyed it if it had simply been a retelling of female mythologies.

[Vicki]

March Books - 34 books

52/180 books

1, The Halo Effect: A Novel
2. A Raisin in the Sun
4.Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
5. The Bell Jar
6. Garment of Shadows
7. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
8. The Underground Railroad
9. Truly Madly Guilty
10. Salt to the Sea
11. Alanna: The First Adventure
12. On Silver Wings
13. The Hidden Oracle
14. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2
15. It Ends with Us
16. A Court of Mist and Fury
17. The Priest
18. Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings, and Life
19. Jane Eyre
20. A Girl Apart
21. Dead Drop: A Girl's Guide to Homicide
22. Ghost Radio
23. The Bloom Girls
24. Run, Girl
25. The Case of the Vanishing Girls
26. Gone with the Wind
27. Mandarin Plaid
28. The Host
29. Vampire Academy
30. The Lightning Thief
31. Tagged: The Apocalypse
32. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
33. Hamilton: The Revolution
34. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

I love books and I can usually enjoy any book I read - however, some of the books I chose to fulfill another reading challenge and I really didn't enjoy them as much as the others.

I was disappointed with The Underground Railroad - I didn't see the necessity of creating an actual physical railroad. I found it took away from the overall story line.

The Priest had an interesting concept but I felt that it had been done before.

Run, Girl was too much like Gone Girl. Similar format and story line but not quite as good.

Gone with the Wind is a classic for a good reason, but I was angry about the presentation of slavery as a good and kind institution.

Tagged: The Apocalypse is a mix of Left Behind and Zombie books and I didn't feel that it was well done.