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2023 Challenge - Regular
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12 - A Book Published in Spring 2023
Some of the books on my radar for this time period -March:
Flowerheart - Catherine Bakewell
The Mimicking of Known Successes - Malka Older
Into the Light - Mark Oshiro
April:
In the Lives of Puppets - T.J. Klune
Happy Place - Emily Henry
That Self-Same Metal - Brittany N. Williams
Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh
May:
Painted Devils - Margaret Owen
Witch King - Martha Wells
Looking forward to this prompt. I always love going online or to the bookstore to their new nonfiction sections.
I'm in the southern hemisphere, so I think I'll save this for September/October/November. But I'll pick something from a southern hemisphere writer so that it's spring for the author as well.
Michelle wrote: "The Secret Service of Tea and Treason"Wow! Haven't heard of this book but it ticks a lot of genres for me: Fantasy and Historical Fiction being a top two for me.
There are two books that I'm looking forward to this coming spring. First is by my current fav author T. Kingfisher A House With Good Bones.And the second is Sea Change which I'm going to try to put in another prompt.
I'm either using A Day of Fallen Night which does come out in Spring 2023, or The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown which is already out in hard/e-book but comes out in paperback early Spring. I've pre-ordered the paperback!
I plan to read Translation State by Ann Leckie, which I've already pre-ordered. Worse case, it could get delayed into July and I can use it for the other challenge :p
If this is helpful to anyone, GoodReads does have a place where you can browse new releases:https://www.goodreads.com/book/popula...
https://www.goodreads.com/new_release...
If you change the 3 at the end of the link(s) to 4 or 5 you can see releases for April and May. Looks like there are some excellent books releasing in Spring of '23!
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OMG that made me laugh - yes too bad A LOT of these weren't prompts at all this year!!!!
I like the idea of finding a book published in the first half of the year and second half of the year, because I like reading new pubs and I like to browse The Millions Most Anticipated first half / second half lists and read books they recommend. But Popsugar really screwed up by saying "spring" and "second half" because now our Southern Hemisphere members have basically the same prompt twice. Yet another indication that they put very little thought into this list.
I’m a Sanderson fangirl, so this one is easy. I’ll be reading Secret Project #2 by Brandon Sanderson. So far I’ve managed to ignore every spoiler…Really, when your favorite author accidentally writes five extra novels during the pandemic, there’s no other option! 🤣
For these kinds of topics I usually just go to the bookstore and browse their new-release nonfiction section.
Although I live in the southern hemisphere, considering there's a prompt for the second half of 2023, and Popsugar seems to be US based, I'm taking it as lazy prompt writing and that they mean March - May. For me, the next Women's Murder Club is due to be published in March, so that's an easy fill
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There are definitely a bunch of sci-fi books on our listopia!
I will be reading The Plus One.. I absolutely ADORE Mazey Eddings's writing, so this works perfectly for me.Alexandria Bellefleur's The Fiancée Farce is also coming out in April so that's another option for romance lovers!
The one I read and enjoyed was Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker. I had an ARC but it should be out in April
Dea wrote: "I’m a Sanderson fangirl, so this one is easy. I’ll be reading Secret Project #2 by Brandon Sanderson. So far I’ve managed to ignore every spoiler…Really, when your ..."
Yes!!
9987 wrote: "Anyone got any Sci-fi recs?"Depending on what you count as spring, I know about these sci-fi releases:
The Terraformers
Feed Them Silence
Camp Zero
Ascension
Hel's Eight
The Strange
Frontier
The Ten Percent Thief
World Running Down
Infinity Gate
Thanks so much! Definitely some interesting ones in there that I marked as to read. For now, I'm penciling in Camp Zero
Nadine in NY wrote: "A book published in spring 2023.This year we get TWO "published in 2023" categories, first half of of the year, and second half of the year! Must it be SPRING, or can it be any month between Janu..."
You mentioned Jane Harper's Exiles. I was hoping to count it in this challenge. What do you think??
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This year we get TWO "published in 2023" categories, first half of of the year, and second half of the year! Must it be SPRING, or can it be a..."
I think at the time, the publication was iffy in the US, but now I see it's slated for January, so that's not really Spring.
Yet again I'm annoyed that they didn't just make it 'first half of 2023 / second half of 2023"!!
I'm still definitely reading it - maybe it will turn out to be about divorce or something!!
Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter is being published/released on January 17th so I'll be going with this one.
Seasons are disrupted; we had a heatwave in March here last year. So I'm considering February releases as Spring and will read Victory City by Salman Rushdie.
I'm just doing "first half of 2023" and "second half of 2023" (Partly so I have a good place to slot in Age of Vice, which was published in January.) If they were lazy in their prompt writing, I can be lazy in my interpretation!
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If they were lazy in their pr..."
I support you in that plan!!!
I'm reading two January books right now and I've very annoyed that they can't count, because I'm uptight and can't flex. I'm envious of your ability to flex!!
(ended up using 'Life on Delay' for a different prompt which frees up this one.)*****
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I'm just doing "first half of 2023" and "second half of 2023" (Partly so I have a good place to slot in Age of Vice, which was published in January.
This is what I'm doing too. I need it to match the 'second half' prompt so I'm going with 'first half' as well.
I'm adding Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents . Though it was originally published in 2020, the paperback is being released this February which is something I've been waiting for and it's 2023 so I figure that will work.
Oh found something better than Caste. Viola Davis' book Finding Me is being released in April in paperback format.I've been wanting to read it since it was released, but this is one of those books, because of its size, that I wanted to wait on the paperback version.
83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary by Don Brown - a graphic current events to be published in May 2023.
Ron wrote: "Oh found something better than Caste. Viola Davis' book Finding Me is being released in April in paperback format.I've been wanting to read it since it was released, but this is o..."
If you still want to read both, you could use Viola Davis for "celebrity memoir."
Thanks, Anna.Unfortunately, I've already read my book for the celebrity memoir. It won't work for 'first time author' either since I'm done there.
Ron wrote: "Thanks, Anna.Unfortunately, I've already read my book for the celebrity memoir. It won't work for 'first time author' either since I'm done there."
Ah, well. I think "Caste" was also an Oprah Book club pick, if you still have that prompt left to fill.
I appreciate the tips, Anna. LOL my timing with books and the prompts just seems to be weird. Oprah announced her first book of the year and it happens to be Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole which is a book I adore.
If I can't find a place for Caste or the Viola Davis books then that's okay.
I'm taking this as first half of the year, so I've read What Happened in London, published 27 January 2023, which is kind of a prequel to a series I've been meaning to read for a while (https://www.goodreads.com/series/2501...).
I'm planning on using The Medici Manuscript, book 2 in the Glass Library series by C.J. Archer. It releases on March 7.
While it's not quite spring, it's getting close. This book was recently published as of Feb. 24th of this year, so I figure it could work here. Of course, it could also go into the queer lead prompt, but I've got 3 potential books for that one.Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility the Lesbian Normal
Instead I'm going with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents . I'm going to save the Lesbians on Television book for the queer lead prompt.
Even though the book Caste was originally published in 2020, it has finally come out in paperback which I hear has some new material in it so I'll count the paperback version (released Feb. 14th).
I recently read (although not used for this prompt) The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts by Tiya Miles; it is scheduled to be released on June 13, 2023. I won a proof copy in a Goodreads giveaway. I plan to use Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See, due to be released on June 6. Others due out in spring 2023 from my TBR are:The Spectacular by Fiona Davis (due 6/13/23)
The Old Lion: A Novel of Theodore Roosevelt by Jeff Shaara (due 5/16/23)
Homecoming by Kate Morton (due 4/4/23)
A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon (published today, 4/1/23)
I was going to go with the paperback version of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents which was published recently.I changed my mind on that one and came up with something different.
Nadine brought up the book The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History . It was published on Apr. 25th, 2023 so it' perfect.
It's a book right up my alley too given that it's a history book on Indigenous nations.
I picked And Put Away Childish Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky from the New Fiction shelf in the library. It was published on March 28 2023, so fits by a week.What if Narnia were real? Well, not Narnia, but Underhill, a fictional world created by the MC's grandmother (or was it?). I thought it was an enjoyable novella, which combined some tongue in cheek references to the worlds of Tolkien, Lewis and others, with humour and a bit of horror. The fact that the real world is going through pandemic lockdown at the time adds to the surreal atmosphere.
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I read Where Are the Children Now? by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke. The contribution of Alafair Burke has been pretty great, as she writes a more complex and nuanced view of legalities, so I found it a more enjoyable read than I thought I would. Looking forward to reading some Alafair Burke now.
I read Happy Place by Emily Henry as soon as it came out then I realized it worked for this prompt. A happy accident...I just love those.
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This year we get TWO "published in 2023" categories, first half of of the year, and second half of the year! Must it be SPRING, or can it be any month between January and May? For members in the southern hemisphere, do they need to wait for September 2023?
A new Aaron Falk book is scheduled to be published in February: Exiles. Can February count as "spring"??? Not where I live LOL, but out in San Francisco the daffodils are blooming in February, that's spring!
I see one of my favorite authors, Lauren Willig, has a book scheduled for March 21st: Two Wars and a Wedding, I'm pencilling that in.
Joe Goldberg fans will be happy to know that For You and Only You is scheduled to publish in April.
Listopia list is Here: A book published in spring 2023