- With time travel - The Memory Painter
- At least 800 pages - 11/22/63
- An academic/campus novel - The Square Root of Murder
- With a protagonist/narrator over the age of 50 - Our Souls at Night
- Borrowed from the library - Missoula
- Western - Across the Great Barrier
- Young Adult novel - On the Far Side of the Mountain
- With an animal on the cover - The Wild Inside
- That your parents wouldn't have let you read as a kid - Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana
- Found in a used bookstore - The Builders
- Graphic novel - Logicomix
- Currently on the bestseller list - The Nightingale
- With an animal as a key character - Frightful's Mountain
- Has an animal in the title - An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
- 10 short stories - Tenth of December
- About a disease - The Perfect Son
- With food as the theme - Dying for Chocolate
- Biography or Memoir - Do No Harm
- That you chose because of the cover - Counting by 7s
- Cozy mystery - Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
- With a number in the title - How to Bake Pi
- Revolves around a holiday - Thanksgiving
- Published the year you were born - 4:50 from Paddington
- An audiobook - A Man Called Ove
I had three 5-star books, twelve 4-stars, seven 3-stars, and four 2-star books. (The covers below are arranged in descending order of the stars I awarded.) I found out that I'm not a big fan of light and fluffy mysteries and it will probably be a long time before I read another graphic novel. Reading Kent Haruf's last novel was bittersweet, but I also read some great first books, some excellent non-fiction, and was really pleasantly surprised by Stephen King. All in all, it was a pretty good summer for reading!
Congratulations Bonny! You've got some great new books up there for me to consider. Well done my friend!
ReplyDeleteWell done! And you stayed much more true to the topics than I did with mine.
ReplyDeleteYou impress me (as did everyone who finished with a cover) with the variety of topics and the immensity of your task! Wow, wow!
ReplyDeleteYAY!! I've enjoyed following all your progress - and really appreciate the encouragement and recommendations you shared. I'm planning to post on my blog tomorrow about wrapping this up... consider yourself done for that part!
ReplyDeleteWoo Hoo!!! What an excellent array of books. (And I just love Stephen King. Always my guilty-pleasure reading. . .)
ReplyDeleteGood for you! I have read just a few of those. Lots of exploring to do...
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