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I am reading Dread Nation by Justina Ireland, which is about a zombie outbreak during the American Civil War. I was so excited when I first heard about it when it published in 2018 and it's just sitting on my bookshelf gathering dust. Time to read it!
It's a bit of a cheat, because it's in the sub-title, but I really struggled with this one, so I decided it was good enough - Born to be Mild: Adventures for the Anxious by Rob Temple.
I plan to read Baba Dunja’s Last Love by Alina Bronsky.
I'm planning on one of these:An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes - Elizabeth Bard
The Hard Blue Sky - Shirley Ann Grau
Among the MadThe Consequences of Fear
Sorrow and Bliss
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Any of these would work for me:-Time and Regret by M.K. Tod
-We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft
-Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesch
Any of these books would work:-Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesch
-Time and Regret by M.K. Tod
-We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft
Peace is not technically an emotion, though I guess it qualifies as a feeling (it's more a state of mind) but it's on the listopia several times so I'm using:War and Peace
I read This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner. It was well written and interesting, but not highly compelling to me. The book is a true crime courtroom "drama" written from the perspective of the author, who was a spectator during the trial. Other books I considered include (and several of which I hope to also read somehow):
All Boys Aren’t Blue
Happiness
A Case of Curiosities
Happiness Falls
A Quantum Love Story
Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear
I am going to be reading Guilty by Definition by the UK author Susie Dent. I actually had to look up whether "guilty" was an emotion and it is (by way of "guilt")!
Joy is the emotion in my title. Daughter of Joy by Kathleen Morgan.
I read Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World which I found on my TBR list searching for anger. It works because lots of the things in it made the writer and me angry. (But it's a seriously good book)
I am reading Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth for this prompt.
For this prompt, I read:Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness by Ingrid Fetell Lee - 3.5* - My Review
I read Atomic Love which was a very entertaining and quite thoughtful romance/espionage novel, and A Climate of Fear, which was quite a page turner at first, although I felt the actual plot turned out to be rather far-fetched. I'd have a go at other crime books in this series to see if this was not a good example.In 2020, I read Love and Summer which I would recommend.
I read:
An Ocean of Courage and Fear by Jerry BorrowmanREJECT: An historical fiction novel
Finished: 07/26/2025
Rating: 4 stars
From Goodreads:
Based on survivor accounts, this gripping novel opens days after the attack on Pearl Harbor and details three years of sea battles that spanned between Hawaii and the shores of Okinawa with the crew of one of the most decorated ships of the Pacific War.
My dad enlisted in the Navy at seventeen after the Pearl Harbor attack, serving in the South Pacific, mostly Australia and the Philippines. This book gave me some insight into naval operations during WWII. Very well written and researched.
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (other topics)The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (other topics)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (other topics)
An Ocean of Courage and Fear (other topics)
The Haters (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Jerry Borrowman (other topics)Ingrid Fetell Lee (other topics)
Jennifer Worth (other topics)
Stephen King (other topics)
Peter Corris (other topics)
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This week, you are looking through your TBR for a book that has an emotion in the title.
ATY Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
What are you reading for this prompt, and how does it fit?