Gian’s Comments (group member since Oct 09, 2019)

Gian’s comments from the Book Buzz group.

TPL Reading Challenge - 2019
1. A book recommended to you by library staff
Title: Recursion by Blake Crouch
2. A graphic novel
Title: The Watchmen by Alan Moore
3. A book from a Canadian award-winning author
Title: I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid (RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award)
4. A book set in Toronto
Title: Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis
5. A book by an author in a visible minority
Title: Heavy by Kiese Laymon
6. A book by an LGBTQ+ author
Title: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
7. A book about mental health
Title: Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
8. A non-prose book
Title: Mary’s Monster by Lita Judge
9. A book in translation
Title: Excursion to Tinadri by Andrea Camilleri (Italian to English)
10. A book on a topic you know nothing about
Title: How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
11. A book you’ve always meant to read
Title: Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
12. A book that has been banned or challenged
Title: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
13. A book that has been adapted into a movie or show
Title: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (adapted for TV – BBC series)
14. A book by an author with the same initials as you
Title: Lost by Gregory Maguire and Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
15. A book by an author with a disability
Title: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
16. A book about being a newcomer, refugee or immigrant
Title: The Test by Sylvain Neuvel
17. A book you should have read in school, but didn’t
Title: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
18. A book you previously tried to read and gave up on
Title: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
19. A book set in a country you’d like to visit
Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
20. Two books with the same/very similar titles
Titles: The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Double, José Saramago
21. A book from our First & Best lists*
Title: Counting in Mi'kmaw = Mawkiljemk Mi'kmawiktuk by Loretta Gould
22. A book by an eh List writer*
Title: Foe by Iain Reid
23. A book from Read Indigenous*
Title: Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
24. A book from The List: Great Reads for Youth*
Title: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
25. A book that’s related to the Periodic Table of Elements*
Title: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi