Rachel’s Comments (group member since Feb 02, 2025)

Rachel’s comments from the Mass Center for the Book 2025 Reading Challenge group.

Hi everyone! Hope your 2025 challenge was successful (or else you're on track to finish in the next week or so). Since this group and (2024's) were both year-specific, I've created a general MCB reading challenge group that will include all years going forward. You can join it here.

Hope to see you there!

I added more books that fit March's prompt to the group bookshelf, on top of the many MCB already recommended on www.massbook.org/readingchallenge. While a big vague, there are so many interesting books that fit the definition of marginalized!

I was between Batman: Year One and My Best Friend's Exorcism and chose the latter... but it was a bad choice because I'm still reading it!

Some books I've tried for this month's prompt and decided against reading altogether:
- American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond by Jeremy Dauber
- D.C. Trip by Sara Benincasa
- Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai
- The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
- How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky by Lydia Netzer
- In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
- Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
- North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo
- Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History by Mark Bailey
- The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
- Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan
- Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos by Aaron Tucker

And some still on my list (fingers crossed):
- Berlin by Jason Lutes
- Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure by Ingrid Burrington
- Okinawa by Susumu Higa
- Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot by Steven Bingen
- The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

I don't know why I am having such trouble finding something to read, but I did get to remove 14 books from my tbr so there's that :D