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THE 2022 LIST - 12/52☐1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
☐2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021
☐3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
☐4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
☐5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name
Planning
☐6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover
☐7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
✔8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1 - Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain
✔9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2 - Found Audio
Planning
☐10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3
☐11. A book from historical fiction genre
☐12. A book related to glass
✔13. A book about a woman in STEM - Square³
Planning
✔14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads - Build Yourself a Boat
✔15. A book without a person on the cover - Lemon
☐16. A book related to Earth Day
☐17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge
Planning
✔18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author - Tao Te Ching
✔19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history - Blue in Green
✔20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951 - Chess Story
☐21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
✔22. A book with a Jewish character or author - The Street of Crocodiles
Planning
✔23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship - Printer's Devil Court
✔24. A book related to inclement weather The Dark Is Rising
✔25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages - The Complete Guide to Astrology
☐26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1
Planning
☐27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2
✔28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards - Piranesi (Women's Prize for Fiction aka Orange Prize)
✔29. A book set on or near a body of water - Over Sea, Under Stone
✔30. A book related to mythology - Comfort Me With Apples
Planning
✔31. A book published at least 10 years ago - The Grief Performance
☐32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer
✔33. The next book in a series - Where the Drowned Girls Go
✔34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role - The Invention of Ghosts
☐35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1
Planning
☐36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
☐37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
☐38. A book by a Latin American author
☐39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
Planning
☐40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
☐41. A book with a theme of food or drink
☐42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
✔43. A book set in a small town or rural area - Greenwitch
☐44. A book with gothic elements
Planning
✔45. A book related to a game - The Oracle Creator: The Modern Guide to Creating an Oracle or Tarot Deck
☐46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
✔47. A book with handwriting on the cover - Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Selected Etchings
☐48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022
Planning
☐49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
☐50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years
☐51. A book published in 2022
☐52. A book with a time-related word in the title
Planning
Plans 1-5
1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
Fear and Trembling 🍎🏡 (kinda want to read this actually)
Crossfire 🍎💎🌲 (and of course this)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Sentence (Hey I also really want to read this.) (Then again, looking closer, it deals with The Year 2020 and maybe I'm not quite ready for that yet.)
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021
Any Japanese mystery or horror in translation (any book in translation TBH)
Continuations of series?
Books by new favorite authors: Vo, Kiernan, Khaw, Murakami
The Chosen and the Beautiful🏡 (might buy anyway)
Siren Queen💎🔥 (preordered)
The Red Tree💎🔥
Crossfire 🍎💎🌲
Cold Hand in Mine (I was reminded of it while reading reviews for Dark Tales and have now moved it to high priority.)
3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle💎🔥
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue💎🔥
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 🍎🏡
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
Cloud Atlas 🍎🏡 (would require reading two other David Mitchell books first)
Infinite Jest 🍎🏡
The Cloud Roads (I would swear that I bought this on Kindle, but Amazon isn't showing it - research.)
The Woman Who Married a Cloud💎🔥
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name
Borne💎🔥 (or anything else by Jeff VanderMeer)
The Goldfinch🍎🏡 or The Secret History🍎🏡 (Donna Tartt)
Gone Girl
#4 Potential Prompts
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Plans 6-10
6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover
Middlegame💎🔥
Crossfire 🍎💎🌲
Obsidio?
Station Eleven
The Club Dumas🍎
7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
Broken💎🔥
Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD💎🔥
Laziness Does Not Exist💎🔥
OR ANY other ADHD book in the stack please I'm begging self
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2
10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3
BIO: We have Asia (#18) and Latin America (#38) covered, and North America and Europe will take care of themselves, so Africa, Australia, and Antarctica would be ideal.
BIO: Alternatively, 3 books that each span 3 different continents.
KIS: Whatever gets it done.
Currently a parking place for whatever I want to read:
Murder Must Advertise 🍎
Casino Royale 🍎💎🔥
Tarzan of the Apes 🍎
Nightwood 🍎💎🔥
Africa:
Freshwater (really want to read this)
Australia:
Flyaway (It's on my ffs shelf?)
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher #1)
Antarctica:
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Poe)
An Antarctic Mystery (Verne)
Antarctica (Kim Stanley Robinson, who has actually been to Antarctica, but it's still SF)
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Plans 11-13
11. A book from historical fiction genre
The Chosen and the Beautiful (also works for 3, 19, 20, 37) 🌈
The Lost Apothecary (also works for 12, 13, 35)
She Who Became the Sun 🌈
Fingersmith 🍎🌈
Tipping the Velvet 🍎🌈
Blonde 🍎
Black Water 🍎
The Game of Kings (Lymond Chronicles #1)
12. A book related to glass
The Lost Apothecary (cover, presumably subject, also works for 11, 13, 35)
Jack Glass
The Glass Bead Game 🍎
Snow, Glass, Apples (GN!)
Girls Made of Snow and Glass
The Shadow in the Glass
Franny and Zooey 🍎 or Nine Stories (character name)
Cannery Row 🍎
The Bell Jar 🍎
To the Lighthouse 🍎
King Richard II (mirror scene)
The Glass Key🍎
The Glass Bees 🍎
The Bitter Glass 🍎
13. A book about a woman in STEM
The Lost Apothecary (also works for 11, 12, 35)
H is for Hawk 🍎
Fathoms: The World in the Whale
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Plans 14-17
14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 🍎 (I'm sure many of the 1001 books would work, but we just discovered that this is on the list and I'm so amused. Plus it's one of the ladies.)
Crossfire 🍎💎🌲 (so is this)
Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths #1) 💎🌲 (or I could finally read this!)
15. A book without a person on the cover
The Hollow Places 💎🔥 (own, really want to read, also works for 19)
Lightning Bug💎🔥 (and the entire Staymore series; also works for 31 and 43)
Ghostwritten (David Mitchell #1)
Lemon (for an actual themed fill to this prompt; I'd have to buy it international):
16. A book related to Earth Day
The Overstory
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge
The Malevolent Volume (poetry)
The Glass Hotel (also works for the glass prompt)
Jade City 💎🔥
The Ocean at the End of the Lane💎🎧
The Bone Clocks (BUT this would require reading 5 other David Mitchell books first!)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf💎🎧🔥
In the Dream House
Hummingbird Salamander (!!!)
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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Plans 18-22
18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
SO MANY BOOKS! but also,
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Crossfire 🍎
The Three-Body Problem
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history
Siren Queen (also works for 2 for favorite author found in 2021, 23, and 51)
The Hollow Places (own, really want to read, also works for 15)
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951
The Great Gatsby 🍎 (C'mon I can do it!)
Mrs. Dalloway (reread)
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher #1)
Thank You, Jeeves🍎 (Oh, dear. This would be MUCH more fun than Gatsby! OTH, I really would need to read the first four books in the series to make Series Me happy.)
Murder Must Advertise🍎 or The Nine Tailors🍎 (OTH I feel no such compunctions about mystery series!)
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
Current tokens: Top hat, battleship, race car, Scottie dog, cat, T-Rex, penguin, rubber duck. Retired tokens: Cannon, iron, thimble, boot, purse, lantern, rocking horse, horse and rider, wheelbarrow, howitzer, sack of money. Special edition tokens of interest: sunglasses, watch, bowtie, ballcap, passenger jet, boat, canoe, sword, XBox controller, Coke bottle, lunchbox, Hello Kitty's hair bow, three apples, pound sign, bicycle, camera, tea cup, turtle, rabbit.
https://monopoly.fandom.com/wiki/Tokens
22. A book with a Jewish character or author
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 🍎
Visible City (I just found this researching this prompt and it's intertwining lives from a window - sounds a little interesting at least.)
The Flame (time for Leonard Cohen)
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Plans 23-27
23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
BIO: Stipulating for myself that this be an own voices book, not slash.
24. A book related to inclement weather
WAS : A Novel (Tornado on cover; also works for 5, 43 maybe (Kansas), 52)
Oz: The Complete Collection (Tornado)
Smilla's Sense of Snow 🍎
Snow 🍎
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
Map: Collected and Last Poems (also works for Here Be Dragons)
Lanark 🍎
Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths #1) 💎🌲
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1
A Cathedral of Myth and Bone (Could go many ways but I really do want to read this short story collection.)
27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2
Bones of the Moon (or any of many other "bone" titles on my TBR)
(Actually, here:
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (want to read, Nobel Prize)
California Bones (want to read)
Near the Bone (C. Henry)
The House of Little Bones (mlm haunted house)
The Compass of His Bones (VanderMeer)
Beatlebone (Goldsmith prize)
Solar Bones (Goldsmith prize)
Cutter and Bone 🍎
The Bone Clocks (D. Mitchell)
City of Bones (M. Wells)
Road of Bones
Boneyard (S. McGuire)
The Silence of Bones (intriguing)
Bone Swans (short stories))
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Plans 28-30
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards
Fathoms: The World in the Whale (2021 Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction)
Piranesi (2021 Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction)
When You Trap a Tiger (2021 Winner of the Newbery Medal)
Hardy Succulents: Tough Plants for Every Climate (American Horticultural Society Book Award)
(Also, any Pulitzer, Booker, Nobel, etc.)
A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld; taking it on faith from the week's thread)
29. A book set on or near a body of water
Into the Drowning Deep
The Seas
30. A book related to mythology
Metamorphoses 🍎
Blonde 🍎 (What is Marilyn if not modern myth?)
Black Water 🍎 (And Ted Kennedy?)
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Plans 31-35
31. A book published at least 10 years ago
Crossfire 🍎💎🌲
Mélusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths #1) 💎🌲
32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer
Magic for Liars!!!
The Hatak Witches
Once Broken Faith
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher #1)
33. The next book in a series
Where the Drowned Girls Go
The entire Staymore series; also works for several other prompts)
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
Ninth House (also works for 37)
The Secret History 🍎(also works for 5)
The Trick is to Keep Breathing 🍎
Olive Kitteridge (Pulitzer)
The Book of Illusions🍎
Never Saw Me Coming
35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1
Broken - flowers on cover (also fits #7)
The Lost Apothecary - flowers on cover (also fits #11, 12, and 13)
The Ghost Tree - title
The Red Tree - title (also works for #2)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 🍎
In the Forest 🍎
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Plans 36-39
36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
This Is How You Lose the Time War - birds on cover
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 🍎
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 🍎
The Collector 🍎 (butterflies)
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories 🍎 (bird on cover)
Cat's Eye 🍎 (No seriously get this read.)
Timbuktu 🍎 (narrated by a dog?)
The Golden Ass 🍎 (local man transformed into donkey! you won't believe what happened next!)
Flush: A Biography (Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog, Flush; it is fictional)
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
Rosemary and Rue reread? (also fits 32, 35)
Ninth House (or anything else by Leigh Bardugo) (also works for 34)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (also fits 18)
Too Much Happiness (short stories)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Crossfire 🍎
38. A book by a Latin American author
SO MANY BOOKS
Ficciones reread?
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
American Street (Honestly? Gorgeous cover. Also "The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock in the sun." Wow. Reviews are suggesting audio.)
A Wizard of Earthsea
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Six of Crows
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Plans 40-44
40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
Trying to hold myself down here. Do I want to do this as a cover hunt? Do I want to pick an element off a card? Do I want to pick a book that illustrates a major theme or reversal? SO MANY POSSIBILITIES!!! Kind of leaning toward a cover hunt maybe.
The Master and Margarita🍎 (literally the Devil, also a book I really, really need to read)
Gemina (For Gemini, obviously. Try, try again.)
Last Call (Also, game, Locus) (Looks super promising and on point. See Brad's review.)
41. A book with a theme of food or drink
(So I totally bombed out of the 2021 Pop Sugar challenge, BUT I found a few books for the restaurant prompt I really did want to read, and I am rescuing them over to here.)
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Envy of Angels (the demon restaurant book)
The Sol Majestic (actually sounds really great)
42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
Norwegian Wood 🍎(Murakami!)
An Ethiopian Romance 🍎
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
American Elsewhere
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1 of 3 (first of three volumes, probably the most complete translation of 1001 Nights available) (Is Arabian a language or nationality?)
Zorba the Greek🍎
The English Patient🍎
The Last of the Mohicans🍎
43. A book set in a small town or rural area
Lightning Bug (and the entire Staymore series; also works for 15 and 31) 💎🔥
American Elsewhere (also works for 42 and 32 (lady ex-cop); reminder to self I really do want to read this)
44. A book with gothic elements
BIO: Gothic: experience of the sublime (producing awe and terror), the inexplicable (failure of reason and science), excess of emotion and desire and everything, transgressive violation of normal boundaries (of life and death, the mind, the spirit, the natural world - the experience of the sublime itself is transgressive as well), psychological setting (often one of ruin, darkness, and decay reflecting the internal reality of the characters; often an edifice with near sentience and secrets of its own), horror of self/imagination (characters realizing they themselves are so horrible that they must destroy themselves). "As for the difference between the Gothic and Horror, horror often deals with a concrete terror. In Gothic literature, the monster may be real, but the monster is not the sole source of terror: the source of terror is also often psychological. Horror is resolved by confronting an outside force: the Gothic is resolved by confronting ourselves."
https://a-beautiful-wasteland.tumblr....
KIS: Haunted house, insanity, night journey, etc.
The Red Tree 💎🔥
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Plans 45-48
45. A book related to a game
The Player of Games 🍎
The Glass Bead Game 🍎
Chess 🍎
20020: An American football story
The Foxhole Court 💎🔥
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
Contact 🍎
All Systems Red
47. A book with handwriting on the cover
Middlegame
Seasonal Fears
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (karen: quite simply, one of the best books i have ever read)
The Goldfinch🍎
The Poet X💎
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Olive Kitteridge (Pulitzer)
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Nobel)
Wilder Girls💎
Freshwater (reminder I really want to read this)
Yes🍎(borrow state)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore💎🔥(!!!)
Sharks in the Time of Saviors(!!!)
Winter Recipes from the Collective
Refugee High: Coming of Age in America
48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022
2021 Listopia
All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) 💎🔥
Many other possibilities
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Plans 49-52
49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
Map: Collected and Last Poems
The Cartographers
Palimpsest
The Dragon Griaule (hey I think I really want to read this)
Conservation of Shadows (and this! see cover)
Tooth and Claw
His Majesty's Dragon
Prime Meridian
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science
The Map and the Territory
September: A Map
The Voyage Out🍎 (Woolf)
50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years
The Blind Assassin🍎 (Atwood; GET IT READ; also fits the 1900-1950s prompt I think)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog🍎💎🔥
Olive Kitteridge (Pulitzer, and fits like five other prompts I need too)
On Beauty🍎 (also has a teacher; on the 1001 I really want to read shelf)
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good (DELIGHTED SCREECHING!!!)
The Old Woman with the Knife (MORE SCREECHING!)
The Hole
The Housekeeper and the Professor (seems to be a feel good book, but ALL of the author's other work is gritty surrealist/magical realism that I am deeply interested in)
Kafka on the Shore 🍎 (not sure this is really focused on the older character?)
The Remains of the Day 🍎
The Summer Book 🍎
The First Collection (says it has poems about aging)
The Thursday Murder Club (mystery)
The Bonesetter's Daughter (Amy Tan)
Mrs. Dalloway (reread)
Aunty Lee's Delights (mystery, Singapore)
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (TBH I just love the cover)
51. A book published in 2022
(see preorders above)
52. A book with a time-related word in the title
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore 💎🔥
Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day 💎🔥
WAS : A Novel
The Ten Thousand Doors of January 💎🔥
The Hours 🍎 (I really do want to read this.)
Saturday 🍎
August Is A Wicked Month 🍎
The Summer Before the Dark 🍎
Sundial
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Book 1: Build Yourself a Boat by Camonghne FelixATY prompt: 14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads
Thoughts: I read this because I saw a friend (Jonfaith) quote a snippet that spoke to me. I'm really glad. Aside from being a wonderful horror of the poems, it feels good to begin 2022 with a book that frankly acknowledges the trauma of our situation. It was published in 2019 and addresses racial murder and victimization very directly, so even though it was the Before Times for the pandemic, everything else feels very Now.
I have not been doing well since the fires in Superior two weeks ago, and this past Friday my organization closed my office due to Covid Omicron rates, so I'm having to hash out work from home. Feels like March 2020 all over again. I've been in such a state of anxiety and despair I haven't been able to read a thing. So it feels good to finally get started. I have so many book plans this year.
Book 2: Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuireATY prompt: 33. The next book in a series
Thoughts: Wayward Children was the only series I got caught up in 2021 (and catching up series was one of my goals). If I could only have one, I'm glad it was this one. I have been waiting for this book with anxious heart since the cover and blurb were revealed last year. It was everything I ever could have wanted.
BOTM, but three other people already picked it in the thread, so I wrote up the runner up.
Book 3: Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (1001)ATY prompt: 20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951
Thoughts: Not probably the best reading choice for me right now, but at least it's done. I have this in common with B: what I love sometimes destroys me. Very sad about this story.
Book 4: Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeATY prompt: #28 Powell's awards
Thoughts: Really enjoyed this one. HOL/Myst vibe. Still percolating. The plot is essentially (view spoiler) but told from the inside, but it brings in the Platonic Ideal and two competing religions and the myth of the Fall (a bit). And watching the narrator process his trauma from the inside is a really amazing experience of the story. A very hopeful book.
BOTM (runner up, but it's the one I put in the thread)
Book 5: Square³ by Mira GrantATY prompt: 13. A book about a woman in STEM
Thoughts: Honestly not my favorite Grant novella. The concept was super fun but she seemed not to want to engage with the concept at all. The heroines were both super fun, but the focus was on their past, not their present. A present in which kaiju are stomping around. So kind of a strange reading experience.
Book 6: Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. ValenteATY prompt: 30. A book related to mythology
Thoughts: This was headed for a five star knock it out of the park all time favorite status and then it turned into a reverse Narnia. I hate allegory. Still a good book.
Book 7: The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz (1001)ATY prompt: 22. A book with a Jewish character or author
Thoughts: Mixed feelings about this one. The writing is all over the place, and I really wanted it to work as a mosaic novel, with clarity in the themes, and it didn't. And just huge misogyny. But also, the author was murdered by the Nazis in 1942 and never had a chance to carry his work forward. It is a huge loss; he was clearly a tremendous talent.
Book 8: Lemon by Kwon Yeo-Sun, translated from Korean by Janet HongATY prompt: 15. A book without a person on the cover
Thoughts: I have to tell you I am really very pleased with this book. I read it almost entirely because of the cover and because of this prompt. A cover with no person is really easy; you could just read an old hardcover with a solid color cover really. But I wanted something that played with the prompt. There have been a few really gorgeous covers with a missing person on it (either in outline or transformation) and as soon as I saw this one I fell in love with it. The plot was intriguing and it was short, but I kind of expected to be disappointed with the book. I was not. Mind you, it was clunky and has some plot holes, but it was so much fun I didn't care. (If your idea of fun is a little sister rearranging her face to look like her dead big sister and then exacting calculating but unexpected revenge on her murderers, this book is for you!)
Book 9: Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan CooperATY prompt: 29. A book set on or near a body of water
Rereading a series I enjoyed as a kid in a buddy read. I was not disappointed, actually, but having a hard time reading and did not enjoy this as much as I might have had February 2022 not been such a horrible month.
Book 10: The Grief Performance by Emily Kendal FreyATY: 31. A book published at least 10 years ago
Poetry that did not set me on fire really. I almost gave it an extra star for using 'octopi' in a poem, but then it ended telling the reader to bend over a bench. (That would be sexual bending over.) So no. Also, allosexual authors are annoying sometimes.
Book 11: The Complete Guide to Astrology: Understanding Yourself, Your Signs, and Your Birth Chart by Louise EdingtonATY: 25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
Book 12: The Oracle Creator: The Modern Guide to Creating an Oracle or Tarot Deck by Steven BrightATY: #45 A book related to a game
Book 13: The Dark Is Rising by Susan CooperATY: 24. A book related to inclement weather (for the sudden onset of cold that almost freezes the village)
On the one hand, Cooper's descriptions of magic are some of the best I've ever read. I can quite clearly see what is happening in my mind's eye. On the other hand, it's coming of age combined with the Chosen One trope. If I were rating this for the first time, it would be down a star to three.
Book 14: Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee MartinezATY: 8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1
I had such high hopes for this one. Unfortunately, I just didn't find it all that funny. (Update: However, I have now decided to use it for a book that takes place on 3 different continents, and that makes it slightly more fun.)
Book 15: Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Selected Etchings, edited by Luigi FicacciATY: 47. A book with handwriting on the cover
Was this the meaning of this prompt? Perhaps not, but it tickles me to have the handwriting be the art rather than script. The book was enjoyable enough; I am mostly bitter it wasn't the complete collection that Warwick reviewed, and that it wasn't big enough to showcase the art really.
Book 16: Printer's Devil CourtATY: 23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
IT'S THERE DAGNABIT! Mostly I'm just mad that Hill gave the short shrift to my faves, so I'm claiming this prompt for them.
Book 17: Blue in GreenATY: 19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history
The Harlem jazz scene, but with cosmic horror.
Book 18: Found Audio by N. J. CampbellATY: 9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2
Another book that spans three continents! Now going for BIO on this prompt. Also, the book was enjoyable.
Book 19: Tao Te ChingATY: 18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
Do I feel silly slotting the Tao Te Ching here? Yes. But also I read a lot of Asian writers, so I don't really feel bad about it.
Book 20: The Invention of Ghosts by Gwendolyn KisteATY: 34. A book with an academic setting
Probably not going to read many other books set largely in a college dorm room this year, so here it goes.
Book 21 (catch up): Greenwitch by Susan CooperATY: 43. A book set in a small town or rural area
I think I had convinced myself this didn't fit anywhere? But it had a very small town setting. So I'm slotting it in.
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Reference
Other Amy's Balcony of Books 2022
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Time 100 Best YA: https://time.com/collection/100-best-...
Emily's book tracker template: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
ATY Community Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Library of Congress Quick Search: https://catalog.loc.gov/
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