It seems I need to listen to an audiobook
Dec. 20th, 2017 01:39 pmI think I even have one queue'd up on my phone, I just didn't get around to listening/reading it. Maybe I should count listening to a narrative podcast?
Anyway, here's my 2017 PopSugar Reading Challenge Update.
A Book...
- recommended by a librarian: Kees van Beijnum, De Offers
- that has been on your TBR for way too long: Erich Remarque, Van het westelijk front geen nieuws (All quiet on the western front)
- of letters: Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- an audiobook: -
- by a person of colour: Octavia Butler, Parable of the talents; Laila Lalami, The moor's account
- with one of the seasons in the title: Elizabeth Strout, Winter
- that is a story within a story: Anthony Horowitz, Magpie murder
- by multiple authors: James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes
- an espionage thriller: Charles Stross, Empire Games
- with a cat on the cover: Régis Hautière, De oorlog van de Lulu's
- by an author with a pseudonym: Georges Sand, Mauprat
- a bestseller from a gnere you don't normally read: De ontdeugende hertogin; Joe Hill, The heart-shaped box
- by or about a person who has a disability: Lois McMaster Bujold, Borders of Infinity
- involving travel: Cormac McCarthy, De weg
- with a subtitle: Anne Carson, De schoonheid van de echtgenoot, een fictie essay in 29 tango's
- that's been published in 2017: Empire games, Het eind is ons begin
- involving a mythical creature: Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the lightning thief
- that never fails to make you smile: China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris
- about food: Anna Thomas, Love soup
- with career advice: Cal Newport, Diep Werk
- from a non-human perspective: Charlie Stross, Saturn's Children
- a steampunk novel: Steampunk’d (okay, that’s a short story collection)
- with a red spine: Noodweer
- set in the wilderness: Jeff Vandermeer, Vernietiging (Annihalation)
- you loved as a child: Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
- by an author from a country you've never visited: Ramez Naam, Nexus; Hiromi Kawakami, De koffer van de leraar
- with a title that's a character's name: Posy Simmonds, Tamara Drewe
- set during wartime: Terry Pratchett, Monstruous Regiment
- with an unreliable narrator: Justine Larbalestier, Leugens
- with pictures: Posy Simmonds, Tamara Drewe; Neil Gaiman, Black Orchid
- where the main character is a different ethnicity than you: Parable of the talents; Tas van de leraar; Saturday's kinderen; A Brief History of Seven Killings
- about an interesting woman: Mary McCarthy, De groep; Elena Ferrante, Mijn geniale vriendin
- Set in two different time periods: Charles Stross, Empire Games
- with a month or day of the week in the title: Ayesha Harruna Attah, Saturday's kinderen
- set in a hotel: Kenneth Cameron, Winter at Death’s Hotel
- written by someone you admire: Femke Halsema, Pluche
- that's becoming a movie in 2017: Madeleine L’Engle, Een Plooi in de Tijd (A wrinkle in time
- set around a holiday other than Christmas: A.B. Yehoshua, Vriendschappelijk vuur
- first book in a series you haven't read before: Leigh Bardugo, List en Leugens
- you bought on a trip: Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings