Celeste's 2023 ATY Prompt List

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49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023

ATY Best Book of the Month Thread: 2023 listopia
(view spoiler)[January 2022 | 2023 - Comfort Me with Apples & Spinning Silver
February 2022 | 2023 - The Girl and the Ghost & The Marriage of Opposites
March 2022 | 2023 - The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post & A Long Stretch of Bad Days or Build Your House Around My Body
April 2022 | 2023 - The Cartographers or The Song of Achilles
May 2022 | 2023 - The Lotus Palace
June 2022 | 2023 - The Woman in the Library
July 2022 | 2023 - The Merciless Ones
August 2022 | 2023 - Plum Island
September 2022 | 2023 - The House in the Cerulean Sea
October 2022 | 2023 - Devil's Dance
November 2022 | 2023 - Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
December 2022 | 2023 - What We Fed to the Manticore
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50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt

My favorite prompt is the NPR Books Concierge prompt.

(view spoiler)[41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/about... (view spoiler)[
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51. A book published in 2023

Poetry Reading Announcement
Published on Jan. 1st, 2023.

Ice Hours by Marion Starling Boyer ~ currently reading

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52. A book with an unusual or surprising title

manga/manhwa

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It's about 7 hours before January 1st, 2023!

I will put all of my "currently-reading" pile here.

12/22
The Awakening by Kate Chopin #34
Not My Match by Ilsa Madden-Mills #2
Blind Reader Wanted by Georgia Le Carre #11

1/23
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe #5
Four Texts on Socrates: Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Aristophanes' Clouds #40
The Republic of Plato with translation by Allan Bloom #13
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition #35

2/23
Ice Hours by Marion Starling Boyer #51

Below Zero by Carol V Davis #3

A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics by C.A. Conrad #44

9/23
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie #43

10/23
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio #19

manga/manhwa

Professor Munakata's British Museum Adventure tbd

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Current Challenges in other GR groups:

EVERYONE Has Read This But Me - The Catch-Up Book Club (EHRTBM) - TBR Revival Challenge 2023

The Seasonal Reading Challenge (SRC) - Winter 2022 Tasks

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Just checked out Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe from the library!

-due in 21 days.

#5
Gender Queer: A Memoir ~ currently reading

6 colors: Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, White, Grey

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Bought this book for class.

#40
Four Texts on Socrates: Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Aristophanes' Clouds ~ currently reading

This book has multiple authors including Aristophanes as mentioned in the subtitle but the main character in all of the stories should be Socrates.
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Bought this book for the same class.

#13
The Republic of Plato with translation by Allan Bloom ~ currently reading

Trim at top and bottom of cover is a repeated pattern

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Bought this book for a different class.

#35
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition by Mark Lawrence Schrad ~ currently reading

School subject: History

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It is suggested that I read a couple different books in order to prepare for upcoming events, where I get to meet the poets/authors.

Ice Hours by Marion Starling Boyer #51

Below Zero by Carol V Davis #3

A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics by C.A. Conrad #44

Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano by Raquel Salas Rivera #25

Edit: I ended up reading while they sleep (under the bed is another country) by Raquel Salas Rivera. Here is an edition of their book that has page numbers included: While They Sleep.

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Finished my first book!

#1 - A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y.

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Finished reading While They Sleep a.k.a while they sleep (under the bed is another country) by Raquel Salas Rivera.

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Finished listening to The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie. My first book of hers.

I think if I want to get to 52 books, it will need to manga (always) and other reads/listens that I can just storm through.

Edit: #14 - A book with a con, deception, or fake.

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I just finished listening to And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

It was a double-feature with The Secret Adversary. It was much shorter than I expected for one of "the greats" but that could just be because I listen through with almost no breaks. :)

#24 - A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy.

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I previously finished The Mysterious Affair at Styles a couple days ago. (It seems that I forgot to mention that here. Yeesh.) I also finished The Murder on the Links, which is book #2 to Styles' #1.
My only comment? GOSH!!! Hastings is such... ARGH! He falls in love so quickly. Well, I guess he's being honest. I would not fare much better.

I haven't decided where I will put them.

Edit: #8 - An author's debut book (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

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Completed Books without Prompts:

while they sleep by Raquel Salas Rivera

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

After the Funeral by Agatha Christie

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

The Big Four by Agatha Christie

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Finally finished Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather on September 22nd. It took nearly a month just to listen to so as a physical book it must take quite long to read.

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I probably will only finish 1 to 2 books before November. Most likely, they will be If We Were Villains and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

#19 - A book related to the arts (If We Were Villains)

#43 - A book that involves a murder (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd)

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I finished The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
I also finished The Big Four, also by Agatha Christie.

I also started Naomi by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. About a third of the way.

I am trying to finish that and If We Were Villains, however, my focus will be on The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family and Black Coffee.

#36 - A book that has been translated from another language (Naomi)