Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,
Comet and Cupid and Donder and Blitzen,
But do you recall,
The most famous reindeer of all?

This week, you are finding a book related to one of Santa's reindeer! You can make the connection however you'd like - as creative or straightforward as you want to make the connection!

ATY Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Which reindeer did you pick, and how does it connect to the book you read?

I try to do each part of every prompt, so it's Reindeer City for me!
Here are my initial picks:
Dasher Runaway Ralph
Dancer Dancing Barefoot
Prancer The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis; White Stallion of Lippiza; or Airs Above the Ground
Vixen Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh
Comet Lucifer's Hammer
Cupid The Austen Affair
Donder Thunder on the Right
Blitzen Picnic Comma Lightning: The Experience of Reality in the Twenty-First Century
Rudolph The Empress of Salt and Fortune

Cupid --> Love --> Romance

So I'll probably do some kind of Romance. It's not a genre a read a lot, so I thought maybe I'd try to stretch my boundaries a bit. Maybe something by Jane Austen.

Comet

The Comet Seekers
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
Journey Around the Sun: The Story of Halley's Comet

I plan to read either The Comet Seekers or Thunderstruck.

The Water Dancer!

Dancer - Dancing with Dragons by Jenni Ogden
Watch Us Dance by Leïla Slimani
Vixen - The Fox Wife
Donner - Thunder Bay
Blitzed - Lightning Strike
Cupid - Love in a Cold Climate
Rudolph - Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
- Red Scarf Girl

I really struggled with this one, I considered Thunder in the title, Lightning on the cover, tried to find authors and characters called Rudoph, Rudolf and Rudy, researched books about dancers, and got nowhere until I was looking at a different prompt.

I've had Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells gathering dust on my bookshelf for over 10 years, so it almost found a home as a book I've wanted to read for a long time, but then I read the blurb - When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a "tap-dancing child abuser." and that's enough of a Dancer for me to happily fill this prompt :)

Vixen = a fox The Fox by D.H. Lawrence also a Boxall 1001 title.

Dancer - Dances by Nicole Cuffy Carol Shields Prize longlist