Traci's Spring Reading Challenge

[Traci]

The Phrases:

1. springtime
- Title: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- Author: The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
- Cover: Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
2. bloom
- Title: Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by Helene Cooper
- Author: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- Text: Lifted by the Great Nothing by Karim Dimechkie
- Cover: The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani
3. sun shining
- Title: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
- Cover: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
4. baby animals
- Title: All Happy Families by Jeanne Mcculloch
-Author: The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
5. eggs
- Title: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
- Text: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
6. tulips
- Author: Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
- Title: I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon
- Text: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
7. jellybeans
- Author: Census by Jesse Ball
- Title: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
8. rainstorm
- Author: Abigail by Magda Szabó
- Title: The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
- Cover: Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
9. sprout
- Title: Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything by Anne Bogel
- Text: The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
- Author: Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
10. warming
- Author: The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
- Title: Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
- Text: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
- Cover: A Burning by Megha Majumdar
11. spring break
- Author: One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
- Title: The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church
- Cover: Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay by Jill Mansell
12. raincoat
- Title: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
- Author: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Text: Body Double by Tess Gerritsen

How to Fill the Prompts:
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation)
4. Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word)

[Traci]

March - for Women's History month I'm reading all women authors and trying to grab a few that focus on something for the "history" part of women's history month as well.

Read:
I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon
Author: 4, 7
Title: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12

Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by Helene Cooper
Author: none
Title: 1, 2, 4, 10

One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
Author: 11
Title: 2, 8, 9, 12

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
Author: none
Title: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
Author: 6
Title: 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
Author: none
Title: 1, 3, 5, 10

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Author: none
Title: 3

The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
Author: 10
Title: 2, 4, 7, 11

Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything by Anne Bogel
Author: 4, 7
Title: 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay by Jill Mansell
Author: none
Title: 1, 2, 4, 8, 10
Cover: 3, 10?

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Author: none
Title: 1, 6, 8, 9, 12

[Traci]

April

Read:
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author: 12
Title: 1, 6, 9, 11
Cover: 2

All Happy Families by Jeanne Mcculloch
Author: None
Title: 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12
,
The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church
Author: None
Title: 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12
Cover: springtime
Word: eggs (probably)

Abigail by Magda Szabó
Author: 1, 4, 8
Title: 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12
Word: raincoats - soooo close!

The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
Author: 1, 6, 9, 11
Title: 2, 4, 7, 11

Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
Author: none
Title: 1, 3, 5, 10, 11

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Author: 2, 8
Title: 3

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Text: eggs

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Author: 4, 7, 11
Title: 3, 6, 9

Census by Jesse Ball
Author: 7
Title: 12

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
Author: none
Title: 2, 4, 7, 11
Text: warming

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
Author: 1, 8, 9, 11
Title: 2, 8, 9, 12

Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Author: 11
Title: 3, 6, 9
Cover: 1

Lifted by the Great Nothing by Karim Dimechkie
Text: bloom

Body Double by Tess Gerritsen
Text: raincoat

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Title: 1, 5, 7, 11 (e)
Text: eggs

[Traci]

May
The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
Author: 11
Text: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
Author: none
Title: 1, 2, 4, 8, 19
Text: sprout

The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Author: 1
Title: 1, 3, 5, 10, 11
Text: eggs, tulips

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Author: 11
Title: 1, 6, 9, 11

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang

A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Cover: warming

Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
Cover: rainstorm

The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

Currently Reading:
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

TBR
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Malice by Keigo Higashino
The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani