02. A book connected to a book you read in 2021

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

We all do it... we start series we have no intentions of finishing, or we read authors we love and never come back to, or we find a topic that really interests us but we don't seek more books on the subject. Whatever your connection is, this week's prompt is a great excuse to pick up those books that are connected to something you loved last year.

Suggestions:
Famous Authors and Their Favorite Books: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/6...
New Books from Old Favorite Authors: https://tornightfire.com/5-new-books-...
43 Completed Book Series: https://www.epicreads.com/blog/comple...
Nonfiction Books by Your Favorite Fiction Authors: https://www.flavorwire.com/490544/10-...

ATY Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

What are you reading for this prompt, and do you have any recommendations?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

The perk of knowing this prompt so far in advance, you can read something in the next couple months with the plan to follow it up in January with this prompt! (Which is... exactly what I'm intending to do, since I'm reading in order lol)

[Kathy]

I may do that too, Emily, but for now I plan to read:

In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers: 1850-1917 - Leslie S. Klinger (I read many Agatha Christie novels in 2021)
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe - Jenny Colgan (I read a few by Colgan in 2021)
Ashenden - W. Somerset Maugham (I read Of Human Bondage in 2021)

[Angie]

This is such an open, nebulous category that I can justify nearly anything. But the planner in me needs to pencil something in. Since I read a lot of paranormal mysteries and have read a fair few of them this year, I will probably just read a new one of those. Or... I read Later earlier this year. I could read another book by Stephen King. I could also read another horror book of some sort. I purchased a couple of Darcy Coates books during a big sale. Perhaps I will save one of those. To nail down a few titles for my own sanity:

A Cast-Off Coven
Southern Spirits
Grave Sight
Joyland
The Haunting of Leigh Harker

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I had to narrow it down too, Angie. I toyed with the idea of just reading a Book of the Month book (since I read at least 12 a year, and that's a connection), but I think I'm going to go with the same author, since I have a few authors I loved in 2021 and I want to read their backlist.

Currently looking at:

Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman

[Traci]

I'm considering The Plot. From reading the synopsis, it seems to have a plot tie to A Ladder to the Sky.

Otherwise, I'm currently thinking same author. Based on the books I want to read off my TBR, that would probably be Taft by Ann Patchett. Though Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune has to be added to my shortlist as well. We'll see, I may end up going in a totally different direction!

[NancyJ]

A few of the prompts that had the biggest effect on my reading this year were:

Author with a 21+ year career - I loved my first Virginia Woolf novel, so I want to read another in 2022: The Waves, or To the Lighthouse. I also discovered A.S. Wyatt, so I want to read either Possession, or Angels and Insects

Warwick Women in Translation award - I want to read more translated books, such as Abigail, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

My first book of the year Migrations had a strong effect on me - I couldn't wait to read Once There Were Wolves. I will look for more books with a similar theme, setting or style (which might fit other 2022 prompts).

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I imagine I will just read the next installment in one of my many series.

[Dubhease]

Robin P wrote: "I imagine I will just read the next installment in one of my many series."

That is exactly what I'm saving this prompt for.

[Nancy]

This was an easy one for me. My book club read American Dirt, which prompted me to read a book about immigration written by an actual Mexican author. So I'm reading The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea.

[RachelG.]

I read Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders this year as a KIS option for the Warwick prompt and when searching for something similar found Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save their Animals—And an Ancient Way of Life. Both are about nomadic herders but in different parts of the world and have different animals they care for. Because I am hoping to read more than one book per prompt I may also read Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd which also seems related.

[Sydney]

I have two penciled in for this one: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue or A Gathering of Shadows, since I read A Darker Shade of Magic for the Travel Theme prompt this year.

[Kendra]

Sydney wrote: "I have two penciled in for this one: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue or A Gathering of Shadows, since I read A Darker Shade of Magic for the Travel..."

lol. I was thinking of reading A Darker Shade of Magic for this prompt because I read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue this year.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Oooooh. I just found out that Reese Witherspoon's YA pick this month Within These Wicked Walls is a Jane Eyre retelling, and I'm currently reading Jane, so I may go with that book for this prompt!

[NancyJ]

Emily wrote: "Oooooh. I just found out that Reese Witherspoon's YA pick this month Within These Wicked Walls is a Jane Eyre retelling, and I'm currently reading Jane, so I may go wit..."

Wow, that worked out perfectly!

[dalex]

In 2020 I read Burning Roses by S.L. Huang and in 2021 I plan to read The Girl in Red by Christina Henry. So I guess I will continue the theme of "Little Red Riding Hood, Retold" in 2022 with For the Wolf by Hannah F. Whitten.

[Katie]

For anyone who also read Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, you could use that as an opportunity to read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH!

I almost decided to do that, since I've never read the latter, until I found out that Shirley Jackson wrote books about her kids/family, which sounded fascinating to me. So my current plan is to read Life Among the Savages and likely also Raising Demons.

[KP]

I read A Better Man and All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny.

I plan to continue the Gamache series with The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny. I also plan to read State of Terror by Hilary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny.

[D.L.]

Quite by accident, I discovered a romance novelist this year I really like named Christine Rimmer. I am going to read one of her earliest works I can find available on Kindle: The Nine-Month Marriage

[Misty]

I am planning on reading House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas for this prompt. It will be released in a few months, and I am so excited for it!!!!!! My daughter and I will be devouring it the moment it is released. LOL. :) I read the first one earlier this year, and it is my favorite Maas book so far.

[Irene]

Gonna look at additional books the authors I have read in 2020. Didn't have many choices since a lot only have one novel out or I've already read their other books. Looks like my choices are:

Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Vicious by V.E. Schwab

[Beth]

I think I will probably go with a written-by-same-author connection for this one. I have read a lot of authors this year that I want to read more of. My shortlist is looking like:
Brit Bennett (TBR: The Mothers)
Taylor Jenkins Reid (TBR: Malibu Rising)
Claire Fuller (TBR: Swimming Lessons)
Maggie O'Farrell (TBR: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox)

[Pearl]

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini for this prompt, or psychology, or 5 vowels.

Circe by Madeline Miller for this prompt or mythology.

[NancyJ]

I read The Sentence this month and I loved it. It gave me lots of ideas for related books.

Short Perfect Novels> From a discussion between two characters in The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabel
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
Sula by Toni Morrison
The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad
The All of It by Jeanette Haien
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Swimmer in the Secret Sea by William Kotzwinkle
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee
Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

That's a really cool way to connect the books, NancyJ!

[Kelly Sj]

Looking forward to reading Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe - I find this time period of history fascinating.

I read at least one book that included each of these men in 2021:
The Constant Princess (Henry VIII)
Mademoiselle Boleyn (Charles V, Francis I & Henry VIII)
The Heretic: A Novel of the Inquisition (brief reference to Charles V)
The Architect's Apprentice (Suleiman)
The Borgia Confessions (referred to the families of both Charles V and Francis I, but one generation earlier)

[Anne]

I am reading Dylan Thomas and the Bohemians - the photographs of Nora Summers. It contains lots of reading as well as photographs, I became interested after reading his poems last year, although he is someone I am interested in anyway.

[Dana]

I finished Arlo Finch in the Lake of the Moon by John August today.

I had listened to Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire in November 2021.

[Laurel]

I read Artificial Condition by Martha Wells. This was even better than
All Systems Red, the first title in the series, which was one of my favorite books in 2021

Technically, this could also work for prompt #15 (a book without a person on the cover), as Murderbot does not consider themselves to be a person.

It would also work for #25 (A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages - 158 pages), #28 (A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards - Hugo Award for Best Novella), #33. (The next book in a series), #46 (A book with a non-human as one of the main characters)

[Samantha]

I read The Dating Plan which is part of a sort of a series (connected but can be stand alone) with The Marriage Game which I read last year.

They are fun reads, in both the leading ladies are of Indian decent and if you like Indian food be prepared for cravings.

[Sherri]

I read Razorblade Tears by S.A.Cosby. Last year I read Blacktop Wasteland by this author & loved it. Razorblade Tears is just as good.

[Jamie]

Dragon's Time by Anne and Todd McCaffery. Fit's this prompt for me and the 2 sets of double letters prompt just in case I get behind. If I don't I have one more book in the series to read for sure. Starting it a few days early since my last book ended early...Pleasant reading❤

[Severina]

I read Caliban Cove by S.D. Perry, a sequel to a book I read in 2021. :)

[Aimee]

I really enjoyed the 2021 prompt about reading a book from the "are you well-read in world lit" list, so I've decided to read another book from that list since it will, by definition, be connected to the book I chose for that prompt last year (which was The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao).
I think I'll probably read The Reluctant Fundamentalist but I might change my mind and go for The Memory of Love instead.

[Anna]

I read You'll Be the Death of Me.
Last year I read three books written by Karen M. McManus - One of Us Is Lying and its sequel, and Two Can Keep a Secret. While I loved One of [...] series and still waiting for the last book, standalone was quite meh. You'll Be the Death of Me was even bigger disappointment. I only finished it because I chose it for this prompt and it was easy enough to read. Mystery was fine, but characters reminded characters from other books of the author.

[Rebekah]

I’m reading “How the Word is Passed” by Clint Smith. Last year I read a couple of books about black history and slavery in America and this book has those same themes. It’s been highly recommended and I look forward to learning a lot from it!

[Ashley]

I read Reckless Girls for this as I read The Wife Upstairs last year. These were both very good.

[Brittany]

I read Dirty Deeds by Cate Corvin as I had read the first two books in the series in December.

[Anastasia]

Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey I read novel #9 in December and wanted to start at the beginning of the series

This is the first novel in a fantasy series that was written in the 1980's. It may be considered YA now.

It has same sex relationships, platonic relationships, mentions women's bodily functions without linking it to child birth or bad images. It has strong female characters in several roles of power as if it is a natural occurrence.

[Marie]

I read The End of Men. It's connected to both Wanderers and Station Eleven, which I read last year. I seem to be on a bit of a "worldwide pandemic that changes everything" thing at the moment!

I like reading books that seem to have started from a similar prompt, but have very different stories. Another one of my options was to read The Sudden Appearance of Hope, which has the same initial idea as one of my favourites from last year, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I love seeing all the connections everyone is making!

I read Libertie, which was pretty good and one that I think I will enjoy more looking back on it than when I was actually reading it (I liked the story, but not the execution).

It was a Book of the Month Club main pick the same month as People We Meet on Vacation, which I read last year and loved. It's also on the Tournament of Books shortlist, and I read The Book of Form and Emptiness last year, which is also on the shortlist.

[Liz]

I read Eve and Adam: Discovering the Beautiful Balance for this one. I read East of Eden last year, which was an obvious tie in.

[Roxana]

I read A Lot Like Adiós for this prompt, as it's the (indirect/romance series-y!) sequel to You Had Me at Hola, which I read in December. Both fun, steamy romances, though I think the plot and conflict in Adios didn't really hold together as well as in Hola.

[Andrea]

I chose to read Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout because I read Olive Kitteridge in 2021.

These books actually fit multiple prompts including 17: A book from NPR's Book Concierge/Books We Love; 26 & 27: 2 books with the same word in the title; 37: A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name; and 50: A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years.

[Marie (UK)]

I read
Tombland 13/01/2022

Related by being in same series as Lamentation
Both also have one word titles

Although I have nejoyed the series this is perhaps the worst one in that series.

I enjoyed The Mystery of Mrs. Christie which you could relate to any of that author's novels

[Susan]

I chose The Absolutist by John Boyne. It is connected to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas that I read last year. Same author. Very interesting.

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

I finished Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883! I started it in December of last year, so that was my initial connection. But I remembered when I was rating it that last year I also read The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by the same author, so I did extra good.

[Udari]

I took the easy route and read the next book in the Temperance Brennan series.
Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs


I changed my mind and read Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, I read Beach Read last year.
Wanted to do something other than continue a series coz week 33 is The next book in a series.

[miss.mesmerized]

I read Camille Kouchner La familia grande

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
which is connected to Sarah Biasini "La beauté du ciel"

[Kati]

I finally finished The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. it is the sequel to The Inheritance Games which I read in the fall of 2021.