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July 2023: Adventure
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Announcing the Tag for July
I'm surprised but not displeased. I was sure that it was going to be New York. Will be back with my choices to read as well as recommendations.
YESS!!! This was my hope even though all the options were great this month. I will be reading The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann. It has been on my TBR since before it was published and it sounds thrilling!
I will also probably read Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, which is literally blowing up BookTok.
I am #1 on the waiting list for that one Nicole! I am sure I will get it in time to read!
Joanne wrote: "I am #1 on the waiting list for that one Nicole! I am sure I will get it in time to read!"Let me know if you get it! I think I am going to listen to The Wager on audio.
Yes yes yes yes yes! Summer is the perfect time for adventure :) I feel like half my TBR could qualify, so I'm probably not going to do a lot of planning. I'll just try to stick to one half of the TBR vs. the other.
Nicole R wrote: "I will also probably read Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, which is literally blowing up BookTok. "
I've been considering this one, too. Can't wait to see what you two think of it!
I think this may be the time I finally get to Lonesome Dove! It will fit one of my birthday candles (PBT Top 100 fiction) and it has been on my TBR forever and ever.
Anita wrote: "I think this may be the time I finally get to Lonesome Dove! It will fit one of my birthday candles (PBT Top 100 fiction) and it has been on my TBR forever and ever."I finally caved and read this one a few years ago and liked it much more than I thought I would!
Nicole R wrote: "Anita wrote: "I think this may be the time I finally get to Lonesome Dove! It will fit one of my birthday candles (PBT Top 100 fiction) and it has been on my TBR forever and ever."I..."
Oh good!!! That motivates me. My one hesitation is the length . . .
Anita wrote: "Oh good!!! That motivates me. My one hesitation is the length . . ."I get that. I keep looking at The Covenant of Water, which looks great, but the length is daunting...
One of my favorite genres to read is travel and most especially slow travel, walking, biking, horseback riding, or rowing, so my choices and recommendations rely heavily on those. All books which I recommend I have read, enjoyed and have positive memories of.Here are some possibilities of what I might read:
The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America
The Moor's Account
One More Day Everywhere: Crossing 50 Borders on the Road to Global Understanding
A Walk Across America
RECOMMENDATIONS
I just read this and loved it so wanted to put it as my first recommend. Others are divided into fiction and nonfiction.
The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West
Fiction
America for Beginners
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
The Narrowboat Summer
To The Bright Edge of the World
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
Wintering
Nonfiction/Travel
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Pursuing Giraffe: A 1950s Adventure
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Walking the Himalayas
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds
Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration
River and the Wall
Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores
A Hole in the Wind
Lots of fantasy and science fiction would work, as well as many historical novels, memoirs,and travel.
Anita ... Lonesome Dove is a big book but a fast read. I recommend you keep a list of characters ... some come and go and come back again. It certainly helped me keep 'em straight.
Anita wrote: "I think this may be the time I finally get to Lonesome Dove! It will fit one of my birthday candles (PBT Top 100 fiction) and it has been on my TBR forever and ever."I really enjoyed Lonesome Dove too. It was a fast read after a slow start. I watched a bit of the miniseries to see the characters in the main roles, and that really helped me to keep them straight. This book would work well for the survival candle too.
I read it during the PBS Great American Read competition. It did quite well. https://www.pbs.org/the-great-america...
There are several more of the PBT top 100 books on the list.
I plan to read The Grapes of Wrath this summer.
Most anything I read next month will fit 😁
Anita wrote: "The voting was dispersed amongst the three tags, but the winner was clear, and the winner for July is:adventure
One of my favorite tags. I am going to read Joy Ride: A Bike Odyssey from Alaska to Argentina
Booknblues wrote: "One of my favorite genres to read is travel and most especially slow travel, walking, biking, horseback riding, or rowing, so my choices and recommendations rely heavily on those. All books which I..."I read A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World based on your recommendation soon after I joined PBT, and I loved it. It showed me that a post-apocalyptic book can be achingly beautiful too.
NancyJ wrote: "I read A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World based on your recommendation soon after I joined PBT, and I loved it. It showed me that a post-apocalyptic book can be achingly beautiful too."It was a good read. When I looked through my adventure tags, I knew that one was one I would recommend again.
Michelle H wrote: " I am going to read Joy Ride: A Bike Odyssey from Alaska to Argentina..."
Oooh! That sounds good and right up my alley!
I think I voted for this as my first choice and am happy because it's summer and I'm going to look for fun adventure, nothing heavy ideally, but who knows?
For anyone who's been wanting a tag like Zombie / Urban Fiction / Werewolves / Vampires - this tag fits a bunch of those.Also would fit for a bunch of the K-9 adventures.
Just finished work and saw this! I am pleased but really expected New York, lol, to the point last night I sorted out a few Chrrismas reads set in NY for Christmas in July! 🤣I have a ton that will fit in all genres for this as it is a favorite theme and setting for genre reads. In fact, my initial entrée into fantasy was those that included what was an adventure for the main character - such as The Thief's Gamble by Juliet E. McKenna, and they remain my favorite fantasies. Many of my Studly Men Hunky Dog series fit. And so much more.
I have plenty of possibilities, but at the top of the list for me: The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring / Richard Preston
Prey / Michael Crichton
LibraryCin wrote: "I have plenty of possibilities, but at the top of the list for me: The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring / Richard Preston
Prey / Michael Crichton"
Nice out-of-the-box thinking with the Wild Trees!
I was thinking that it would be New York also, but can definitely work with Adventure! I am going to be very busy in July, moving to another state. So I'll try to find a good audiobook to listen to while packing and driving. Maybe I'll listen to one of the Outlander books again. The Outlander books are all about adventure (and history, love, time-travel, war, family, etc, etc. etc.). Or maybe the next book in the Royal Spyness series. I can highly recommend each of the following books:
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Sahara by Clive Cussler
Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
1776 by David McCullough
I am going with The Priory of the Orange Tree. A second choice might be Joanne's rec Into the Wilderness.
Amy wrote: "I am going with The Priory of the Orange Tree. A second choice might be Joanne's rec Into the Wilderness."I was looking at those two also, but I'm not sure I can handle long books right now. These have been on my TBR for many years: *Alice Network, *Grapes of Wrath,*The Outsiders, Into the Wilderness, Echo in the Bones, American Gods, Lilac Girls, Code Name Verity, Unexpected Mrs Pollifax, Good Omens, Seven Years in Tibet.
Are there any popular fantasies that aren't super long - or that read fast? I haven't read anything by Leigh Barduga, Sarah Maas, Erika Johansen, Elizabeth Wein, or Laini Taylor.
Does anyone highly recommend these (or similar)?
Six of Crows
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Spinning Silver
The Fifth Season
The Hollow Hills - 15th bday candle
Princess Bride - 15th bday candle (I rejected it before but idk)
Lightening Thief
Temeraire #2
I also like these categories: Sci-fi, western, immigration-adventure, survival, Tropical or ocean settings.
Sci-fi - Murderbot, Ursula K le Guin, John Scalzi
Tropics (near the equator) - Amazon (Lost City of Z or Lost City of the Monkey God), SE Asia, Caribbean, Hawaii, Pacific Islands, India, etc.
Nicole R wrote: "YESS!!! This was my hope even though all the options were great this month. I will be reading The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann. It..."
Fourth Wing is so fun! It does end on a cliffhanger and I can't wait for the next one.
NancyJ wrote: "Amy wrote: "I am going with The Priory of the Orange Tree. A second choice might be Joanne's rec Into the Wilderness."I was looking at those two also, but I'm not sure I can handle long books rig..."
@Nancy, I liked Six of Crows, really liked The Fifth Season and was meh about A Court of Thorns and Roses.
Jen K — That is one reason I am on the fence about Fourth Wing is because of the cliffhanger. But I think book two comes out this fall, so I wouldn’t have to wait too long for a resolution! Do you know if this is planned to be a trilogy? A series? I am currently in a phase where I do not like anything that is not standalone, but this one may be the exception.
Jen K wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Amy wrote: "I am going with The Priory of the Orange Tree. A second choice might be Joanne's rec Into the Wilderness."I was looking at those two also, but I'm not sure I can handle..."
Thanks Jen, that's very helpful.
Jen, when you read Into the Wilderness, I will read it with you. Funnily enough, I was just writing on the Trim thread. Why don't you and I put that one, or the Priory of the Orange Tree if I don't get to it, on the Trim cycle for 2024-2025?I would also offer for folks to do that with Fourth Wing. So we all get to read it a little later, so the second book can be shortly after.
Booknblues wrote: "Goodreads has a list of Road Trip Books:Thank you so much! We have a big road trip planned in a few weeks so this will be helpful.
NancyJ wrote: "Does anyone highly recommend these (or similar)?"From your list I can recommend:
Six of Crows
Spinning Silver
The Fifth Season
The Hollow Hills
The Princess Bride
For other sci-fi (and fantasy too) I highly recommend Lois McMaster Bujold, if you haven't already read her. Start with The Warrior's Apprentice.
Michelle H wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Goodreads has a list of Road Trip Books:Thank you so much! We have a big road trip planned in a few weeks so this will be helpful."
Harry Potter books read by Jim Dale are my long road trip listens of first choice. They always entertain and since I know them, it is easy to judge when to pause it because coming up on an important long scene and we are 15 minutes out from a stop or we need to be navigating closely soon.
Tessa and I did Deathly Hallows through the Dakotas last fall which I had read and Tessa had not. It was perfect.
Nicole R wrote: "Jen K — That is one reason I am on the fence about Fourth Wing is because of the cliffhanger. But I think book two comes out this fall, so I wouldn’t have to wait too long for a resolution! Do yo..."
@Nicole, the internets say that it is a 3 book series. There is plenty going on in the first to be satisfactory but also leaves a great segue/ cliffhanger to the next book which I believe comes out in the fall.
annapi wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Does anyone highly recommend these (or similar)?"From your list I can recommend:
Six of Crows
Spinning Silver
The Fifth Season
[book..."
Thanks! This is helpful. It's going to be a fun month.
NancyJ wrote: "Amy wrote: "I am going with The Priory of the Orange Tree. A second choice might be Joanne's rec Into the Wilderness."I was looking at those two also, but I'm not sure I can handle long books rig..."
Good Omens is brilliant! Very easy and funny read. Couldn't put it down and was most upset when we landed and I had to stop reading and get off the plane.
I have a lot of choices for "adventure"! The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel is near the top of my list
Deedee wrote: "I have a lot of choices for "adventure"! The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel is near the top of my list"Deedee, I recently read "The Last Animal" and really liked it. It was fun and certainly fits the tag. I'll be interested in your review!
NancyJ wrote: "Nice out-of-the-box thinking with the Wild Trees!..."Thank you! I can't really take credit, though. :-) It was a tagmash on LT that brought it up for me, so someone tagged it "adventure"! But I do like it (and I think it fits another challenge for me in July, as well.)
Here's three that haven't been mentioned yet:The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship
West with Giraffes
I also loved these that have been mentioned:
The Fifth Season
The Princess Bride
This Tender Land
I am going to reread:
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
I recommend:Fiction:
Daughter of Fortune
Project Hail Mary
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
Non-Fiction:
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
I am planning to read:
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (this will be interesting since Magellan never made it all the way around the globe)
Here are books involving adventure that I enjoyed.The Chinese Groove
The Last Animal
Peace Like a River
Perestroika in Paris
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
The Good Lord Bird
News of the World
Miss Benson's Beetle
Doc
annapi wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Does anyone highly recommend these (or similar)?"From your list I can recommend:
Six of Crows
Spinning Silver
The Fifth Season
[book..."
From your list -- I remember enjoying The Hollow Hills. As for The Princess Bride, for me the movie was better than the book, but it's quite popular.
Holly R W wrote: "Here are books involving adventure that I enjoyed.The Chinese Groove
The Last Animal
Peace Like a River
"
Great! Even more books that are already on my TBR. I also just found Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and others on my Subdue boards.
Nancy, I hope you enjoy them - whatever you pick to read. I'm unfamiliar with Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, although I very much enjoyed Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. Come to think of it, the Major had an adventure with Mrs. Ali. ;0)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is an absolute gem, and was adapted into an excellent movie starring Emma Thompson and Ciaren Hinds. It takes place during the course of a single day so if anyone has a challenge with a single day prompt ...here you go.It definitely fits the description of one kind of an adventure.
@Holly - it as no relationship to Major Pettigrew's Last Stand different author, style and generation of writer. You would enjoy this and it is a short fast read.
I can recommend a short read I just finished as im immigration read for adveture tag too: Ru by Kim Thúy award winning Canadian autobiographical fiction originally written and published in French, translated into English and published in US just a few years ago. Beautiful fictionalized telling of the author's childhood and family in Saigon before the fall, escape by boat to refugee camps and ultimate life as an American émigré in Quebec and her return to Vietnam on business as an adult.In truth, aren't stories on immigration also adventure stories? I don't think I ever fully thought about that before these two tags being juxtaposed.
RANDOM QUESTION: Has the format of goodreads suddenly changed for anyone else? My home page has changed to just a newsfeed....all the info which was on the left (eg current books) has disappeared and for the threads (including this one) the ability to respond to individual comments has also disappeared. The threads are now listed out like old emails in the 1990s and you can't go to a specific page of threads just have to scroll down through all the pages from the start each time. Any ideas? Is it just me and if so any ideas how I can fix it and get it back to normal?
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