April showers bring May books? Sounds good to me. Here are the categories I completed this month.
A book with a one-word title:
The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum. Grade: A
A book that takes place in your hometown:
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot. Grade: C
A book by a female author:
How to Be Both by Ali Smith. Grade: B
A trilogy:
Young Miles by Lois McMaster Bujold. Grade: B
A book based on or turned into a TV show:
So, Anyway by John Cleese. Grade: C
[A bit of a cheat, yes, since this is a biography about Cleese and his creative life, including writing for and acting in TV shows, including Monty Python’s Flying Circus.]
A book that scares you:
Trigger Warnings by Neil Gaiman. Grade: B
A book that became a movie:
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden. Grade: A
[Again a bit of a cheat, since it’s about the filming of The Princess Bride and not the book The Princess Bride itself, but I make my own rules!]
A book written by someone under 30:
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe. Grade: B
Sneaking in under the wire, here, as Munroe’s Wikipedia page indicates he was born in October 1984 and this book was published in September 2014.
A book you own but have never read:
An Atomic Romance by Bobbie Ann Mason. Grade: C
Progress:
Months completed: 5 of 12 (42%)
Challenges completed: 33 of 50 (66%)
I’m tantalizingly close to being done, as you can see, which has got me wondering if I put my head down and read like crazy I could get done in June, and thus complete the whole year-long challenge in six months. We’ll see – one of the categories I haven’t yet completed is “a book with more than 500 pages”…
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