Emily's Go With the Flow Plan 2020 COMPLETED 11/29

[Emily]

This year, I plan to just come once every few months and see if what I've read meets any of these and plug them in if so. Super laid-back is the plan!


Prompts completed: 52/52

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y - Spinning Silver completed 5/3
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable - The Lying Game completed 3/21
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019 - Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters completed 1/7
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live - Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography completed 2/16
5. The first book in a series that you have not started - A Curious Beginning completed 3/11
6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover - The Giver of Stars completed 10/16
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere - Bel Canto completed 2/18
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The" - The Flatshare completed 5/16
9. A book that can be read in a day - When the Men Were Gone completed 4/4
10. A book that is between 400-600 pages - From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon completed 1/15
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo completed 1/19
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people - Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children completed 6/29
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge -- 21. A book from the Goodreads Recommendations page (2016) - Evvie Drake Starts Over completed 6/25
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers - Transcription completed 5/29
15. A book set in a global city - The Hypnotist's Love Story completed 4/26
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area - Valentine completed 7/4
17. A book with a neurodiverse character - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time completed 7/26
18. A book by an author you've only read once before - The Satapur Moonstone completed 3/16
19. A fantasy book - The Hobbit, or There and Back Again completed 1/25
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.] - The Two Towers completed 4/15
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720 - Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up completed 4/7
22. A book with the major theme of survival - Station Eleven completed 8/24
23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author - Jam on the Vine completed 1/9
24. A book with an emotion in the title - The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun completed 1/29
25. A book related to the arts - The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick completed 11/7
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper completed 3/15
27. A history or historical fiction - If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home completed 1/22
28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author - The Glass Hotel completed 9/13
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book - Mansfield Park completed 6/21
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration completed 8/19
31. A book inspired by a leading news story - True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray completed 2/15
32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan - The Housekeeper and the Professor completed 10/27
33. A book about a non-traditional family - Anne of Green Gables completed 9/22
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name - All Over But the Shoutin' completed 2/23
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore completed 4/3
36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim - Calling Me Home completed 11/29
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1 - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie completed 3/5
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2 - The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules completed 6/30
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce - Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
40. A book with a place name in the title - Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker completed 4/21
41. A mystery - Broken Harbor completed 2/5
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ - A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 completed 5/30
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse - Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War completed 5/4
44. A book related to witches - Brownies and Broomsticks completed 3/3
45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018 - The Secret Place completed 3/1
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire" -- City of Girls completed 8/18
47. A classic book you've always meant to read - Madame Bovary completed 8/31
48. A book published in 2020 - Sharks in the Time of Saviors completed 3/26
49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win (A book with more than 20 letters in the title) - The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper completed 3/30
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover - Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone completed 5/7
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title - The J.M. Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society completed 1/2
52. A book related to time - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency completed 9/29

[Kathy]

That sounds like a wonderful plan, Emily. Have fun!

[Emily]

Making decent progress! Woot!

[Emily]

My previous challenges:

2016
2017
2018
2019

[Emily]

I might actually finish it this year woohoo. It'd be the first time since 2017.

[Emily]

Only one prompt left wooo!

[Emily]

I finished woohoo! Only my second time finishing in 5 years of doing this challenge.

[Lizzy]

Congrats Emily!