20 - A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read

[Sunshine]

Read The Brutal Telling for 19 then Guilty Pleasures by Lauren K. Hamilton for 20.

[Jaime]

Nancy wrote: "Theresa wrote: "Maybe I am naive, or just missing something, but I don't see the problem with this prompt for library users or anyone unless you literally only have one book to be read in your piss..."

"...I don't pick my next book until I finish the last one, or am close to finishing. So often the book I want isn't available and I have to place a hold, and then find something else. What I read next is very much based on library availability."

I know this is an older comment, but I am wondering if you couldn't just make your next pick (based on library availability) also be the last letter of the book you just read. So, if you read something that ends with "H" then you search for available books that start with "H". You could at least try to see if something interesting is currently available that meets the prompt and if not, table the prompt until you finish the next one and are stuck waiting again for something with a long waitlist.

I'm also a kindle reader, although our library's e-books don't work with kindle. I mostly use the library for audible or children's books.

[Kaiti]

I used Girls With Bright Futures for this one. The book I read before it was Malibu Rising which I put in the "Set in the 80s" spot, so it worked out well.

[Mandy]

I lucked out with Rebel Seoul. I loved a book by the same author and got it as a 'Read cuz a wanna' book, but it ended up being right after I finished Tiger Honor. Was very stoked about that!

[JessicaMHR]

I hadn't attempted to plan this out at the beginning of the year since I knew that it would most likely change overtime. So, I wasn't too bothered by it, figuring it would work it's self out...and it just did.

One day I happened to be perusing my Overdrive wish list and saw that The Wedding Party was available, I borrowed it and a couple more books while I was looking. When I finished The Wedding Party I realized I had also borrowed You Should See Me in a Crown and so I skipped ahead and read that one.

[Tori]

Sandra wrote: "I interpreted this to mean that the title of the second book begins with the last letter of the first BOOK, not the first book's TITLE."
Ah, I had not thought of it that way, but I like it.

[Rachel]

I lucked out for this one because I have a duology that works: Enchantée and Everything That Burns. I know Enchantee also goes by another title, but my copy uses this one.

[Sonya]

Sandra wrote: "I interpreted this to mean that the title of the second book begins with the last letter of the first BOOK, not the first book's TITLE."

That is how I'm interpreting it as well... just finished a book that the last letter was "R" and now, i'm reading Remake

[t ♡]

I chose Lay Your Sleeping Head (lgbtq+, poc rep)

[Waqas]

Does my previous read have to be from the challenge or could it be any other book I finished from my TBR pile?

[Jessica]

Not sure - I think from the challenge. But I’m sure you could do it either way!

[Brandy]

I re-read The Stranger for the first time since high school and loved it!

[Sherri]

I read The Secret History

[LeahS]

I was going to leave this prompt to the end, then realised I could read something which helped with the ATY Summer Challenge. The book I finished before this was Loveless, the last word of which is together , and I read The Return of the Native. I didn't enjoy it as much as later books like Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but the setting was vivid.

[Ron]

LOL, you'd think this one would be so easy.

As a mood reader, this is quite challenging. I'll be reading one book and while I look for books on this topic I'll end up being in the mood for something else.

Just have to find a way to stick to it regardless.

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Oh maybe might have found one after all. Recently got this book called: How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America .

It can go either way, whether I want to go with the main title 'Mountains Grew' and go with the 'W' or the title plus the subtitle which would include the 'A' in America.

If I went with the 'W', these are my choices:

Woman: The American History of an Idea or The Wish

[Kaia]

This allowed me to fit in something I found later in the year that I couldn't have counted otherwise, but it's still not my favorite prompt.

I read Muster Dogs after finishing All That I Am. It took me a while to be in the right frame of mind for All That I Am, so I've had to extend my library loan for Muster Dogs a couple of times.

But, a very interesting book about life on a large cattle station in the north of Australia, with lots of info about Aticia's dogs.

[Ron]

Okay finally settled on mine:

Scorched Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America

Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

(for the first I'm going with just the main title, not the sub-heading which would leave me with the letter H)

[Teri]

I found this prompt rather fun. I hoped it would work out naturally, and it did. I was reading the backlog of an author in publication order, and The Tutor was followed by Run Away With Me. Perfect!

[Anshita]

I finished reading Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally for the protagonist that uses a mobility aid prompt, so now I am reading Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? for this one.