Stacey's 2018 Reading Extravaganza

[Tammy]

Very curious about The Mezzanine. Can't wait to hear what you think of that one!

[Stacey]

It sounds very interesting and short enough not too be too annoying, if I don’t like it.

[Katie]

I love that you've chosen Absalom, Absalom!. It's my all time favorite book.

[Stacey]

Yes? So glad to hear you loved it, Katie. Now I really can’t wait to read it!

[Stacey]

Katie wrote: "I love that you've chosen Absalom, Absalom!. It's my all time favorite book."

Just finished - and loved it. Hard to get through (I never read Faulkner before), but it was so very worth it. And what a powerful novel to be reading about race relations during this unfortunately turbulent time in US history.

[Stacey]

Tammy wrote: "Very curious about The Mezzanine. Can't wait to hear what you think of that one!"

I finally read this, Tammy. It was brilliant! Lots of funny insights about the tiniest of life's inanities, ca. 1988 and beyond. I laughed aloud through the whole thing and I can't wait to read it again.

[Stacey]

The 2018 List

✔ = read
★☆☆☆☆ = ratings

✔1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title The Wordy Shipmates ★★★★
✔2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list The Poisonwood Bible ★★★★
✔3. A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards (link) The Rules Do Not Apply ★★★
✔4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...) Island Bluffs ★★★★
✔5. A book about or inspired by real events The Autobiography of Malcolm X★★★★★
✔6. A book originally written in a language other than English A Tale of Love and Darkness ★★★★
✔7. A gothic novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ★★★★★
✔8. An "own voices" book* Children of Paradise ★★★★
✔9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc) A Heart So White ★★★★
✔10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published) In the Language of Miracles ★★★★
✔11. A literary fiction A Farewell to Arms ★★★★
✔12. A book set in Africa or South America We Eat Our Own ★★★★
✔13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc) American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst ★★★★★
✔14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire City on Fire ★★★★
✔15. A book with an unique format/writing structure The Mezzanine ★★★★
✔16. A narrative nonfiction Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith ★★★★
✔17. A book you expect to make you laugh The Portable Veblen ★★
✔18. A book with a location in the title A Town Like Alice ★★★★★
✔19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors) Before the Fall ★★★★
✔20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends A Man Called Ove ★★★
✔21. A book written in first person perspective Leaving the Atocha Station ★★★★
✔22. A book you have high expectations or hope for I Am Pilgrim ★★★★
✔23. A medical or legal thriller Small Great Things ★★★★★
✔24. A book with a map The Wind in the Willows ★★★★
✔25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view Out ★★★★
✔26. A book with a text only cover The Love Song of Jonny Valentine ★★★★
✔27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc) The Year After ★★★★
✔28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook ★★★★
✔29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench) The Dining Car ★★★
✔30. A short book The Tree ★★★★★
✔31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to My Last Continent ★★★★★
✔32. An alternate history book The Plot Against America ★★★★★
✔33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link) The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterward ★★★★
✔34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg ★★★★★
✔35. A book featuring a murder Nineteen Seventy Seven ★★★★
✔36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before Siracusa ★★★★
✔37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee The Power ★★★
✔38. A science book or a science fiction book Lab Girl ★★★★
✔39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title Absalom, Absalom! ★★★★
✔40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list Interpreter of Maladies ★★★★
✔41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood ★★★★
✔42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater Ring of Bright Water ★★★★★
✔43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down ★★★★
✔44. A ghost story House of Leaves ★★★
✔45. A book that intimidates/scares you Bird Box ★★★★
✔46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air Battleborn ★★★★
✔47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own Under the Udala Trees ★★★★
✔48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth) Crazy Rich Asians ★★★★
✔49. A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists The Book of Strange New Things ★★★★
✔50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer) Prudence ★★★★
✔51. An award-winning short story or short story collection Thunderstruck & Other Stories ★★★★
✔52. A book published in 2018 The Château Damn, I love this cover! ★★★