I feel like if I don’t have a reading challenge each year, I somehow fail reading. Like someone is going to come and take away my library card, and, as we see with that post down there, I take a lot of books out of the library and so I cannot give up my library card.
So I made myself an alphabet challenge: read a book that somehow satisfies something about each letter of the alphabet. I spent the last ten minutes filling in my missing spots, so yay, twenty-six alphabet inspired books I read this year.
A: book starts with A.
B: author’s name starts with B.
C: set in Central America.
D: Author’s first name begins with D.
E: A book written in the eighties.
F: Title of book starts with F.
G: A book narrated by ghosts.
H: A book that made me happy.
I: A book that impressed me.
J: A book with a prominent J.
K: Author’s last name starts with K.
L: Longest book read.
M: A memoir.
N: About New Mexico.
O: Read some of it outside.
P: Has a pink cover.
Q: Quickest book (shortest).
R: A reread.
S: Book starts with S.
T: All the T’s in the author’s name.
U: An unpublished manuscript.
Ora and the Dragons by Molly Westerman.
V: About a v-word.
W: Book starts with a W.
X: Okay, I tried my best. X?
Y: Book had a yellow cover.
Z: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZwieg!
Obligatory Zweig reference: He killed himself in Brazil, in part, to stick it to the Nazis!
I have no reading goals for this year. Feel free to give me one.