Aragon’s 2020 ATY first and second go rounds

[Jen]

29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book: Seven Fallen Feathers, by Tanya Talaga.

Canadian authored multi award winning account of the lives and deaths of 7 Indigenous students from Northern Ontario. Heartbreaking on so many levels but a must read if one is to understand the extent of systemic racism in Canada.

4.5 stars

[Jen]

19. A fantasy book: Circe, by Madeline Miller.

I listened to the audiobook. It was a bit long but a terrific story. I’m not usually a fantasy fan, but I do have a soft spot for stories with Greek gods/goddesses.

4 stars

[Jen]

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name: The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

I've been wanting to read this YA book for a while and it fits perfectly for my final prompt in the Around the Year in 52 books challenge (Young Adult and/or Fiction, my name is Jennifer Aragon). I goddamn balled my eyes out at the end of this one 😭. I started reading it aloud to my students, then realized we couldn’t finish it before the end of the year, but by that point I was hooked and had to read the rest! One of the best YA books I’ve read yet!

5 stars

[Jen]

ATY 2020 Challenge, round 2! No idea if I'll get all the way through the prompts a 2nd time, but I'm going to try!

✔️1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
✔️2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable: Love Warrior
✔️3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019: The Secret Messenger
✔️4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live The Marrow Thieves
✔️5. The first book in a series that you have not started The Home for Unwanted Girls

✔️6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover: Half Broke Horses
✔️7. A book set in the southern hemisphere: I Am the Messenger
✔️8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The" The Breadwinner
✔️9. A book that can be read in a day: The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

✔️10. A book that is between 400-600 pages: The Most Fun We Ever Had
✔️11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number: Wishtree
✔️12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people: Origin
✔️13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge (Link): (surviving a hardship): The Breadwinner
✔️14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link): Bel Canto

✔️15. A book set in a global city: Harbor Me
✔️16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area: Dark August
✔️17. A book with a neurodiverse character: Still Alice
✔️18. A book by an author you've only read once before: The Alice Network

✔️19. A fantasy book: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
✔️20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]: The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett
✔️21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
✔️22. A book with the major theme of survival The Last Flight

✔️23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author The Vanishing Half
✔️24. A book with an emotion in the title: Comfort & Joy
✔️25. A book related to the arts: Songs for the End of the World
✔️26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards: Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
✔️27. A history or historical fiction: The Forgotten Daughter

✔️28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author: Still Here
✔️29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book: From the Ashes
✔️30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
✔️31. A book inspired by a leading news story: The Girl from Widow Hills

✔️32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
✔️33. A book about a non-traditional family: Untamed
✔️34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name: The Book of Lost Names "F" for fiction/Jennifer
✔️35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover: Beach Read

✔️36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
✔️37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1: Ask Again, Yes (police)
✔️38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2: New Kid (racism)
✔️39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce: A Woman Is No Man

✔️40. A book with a place name in the title: The Bridge Home
✔️41. A mystery: The Guest List
✔️42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ (link): Speak
✔️43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse The Book of Longings
✔️44. A book related to witches: To Tell You the Truth

✔️45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018 Anxious People
✔️46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire": Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
✔️47. A classic book you've always meant to readThe Diary of a Young Girl
✔️48. A book published in 2020: The Jane Austen Society

✔️49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win (link): Winter Garden (book with a road trip in the story)
✔️50. A book with a silhouette on the cover: The Boys' Club
✔️51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title: Man's Search for Meaning
✔️52. A book related to time: Me Before You

[Jen]

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