Book Scavenger Hunt? Part 2

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1. Classic Romance: Northanger Abbey


2. Became a movie: Dracula


3. Published this year: The Impossible Knife of Memory


4. Number in the title: 50 Shades Darker


5. Written by someone under 30: All I Want to Be by Halley Reed


6. Non-Human characters: Raven Girl


7. Funny: Go The Fuck to Sleep (narrated by Samuel L Jackson)


8. Female Author: The Marriage Chest by Dorothy Eden. Read 42 books by women this year, but that was the first.


9. Mystery/Thriller: The Moth Diaries is kind of a mystery. I started reading Thai Horse, a thriller, but it was so ugh. Sexist/racist adventure thriller about a white dude, set in Asian country, written by a white dude. Donate it before finishing, and two others that were the same (but set in China and Japan rather than Thailand).


10. One word title: Starstruck


11. Short stories: Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Stories.


12. Set in a different country: Like I said, my books didn't really travel out of Canada, the US or UK. I'll try to fix that in 2015. I guess the "best" for that category is Eat, Pray, Love. Ugh.


13. Non-fic: The Women Who Run With Wolves


14. Popular authors first book: I may have read something that counts, but I don't feel like looking it up. Ew, 50 shades of Grey would count.


15. Book from an author you love, but never read: Witch Baby, my library had every Dangerous Angel book, except this one, which is the second. My sister bought me the anthology last year. Missing Angel Juan is still my favourite.


16. Recommended by a friend: ha


17. Pulitzer prize winner: none this year


18. Based on a true story: I assume this means, something that happened and was fictionalized for a book. Rather than a non-fic. I'll go with The Fairy Ring.


19. Bottom of to-read list: since I try to read my books in the order that I buy them/they are given to me/they appear in my hands from a puff of smoke... I'll say the bottom of my to-read list is the newest one. That would be A Midwinters Tail, came in a box of books my sisters friend was donating.


20. Book your mom loves: she has a lot of books, but can't really read because it's hard on her eyes. I keep telling her about audiobooks and large print, but I dunno. For 2015, I'll make it, dun dun dun, The Secret. Ugh. Someone told her to read it and she went out and bough FOUR copies (one for her, one for each of her brats). She still hasn't read it. Mar read it and hated it. Other Sister read it and is a kiss-ass so she loves it. It's been collecting dust with my other unreads for years.


21. Book that scared you: Wintergirls and Lord of the Flies gave me some anxiety.


22. More than 100 years old: Carmilla


23. Nice Cover: Fly on the Wall, The Marriage Chest. I've gotten out of buying books just for the cover. The plot summary has to be interesting as well. FOTW seemed cute, it was. I misread the summary on TMC and it was disappointing.


24. Book you didn't read in school: 1984 and Lord of the Flies, I guess.


25. Memoir: Marbles

I'll post my modified list next year. But mainly I wanted to add POC writers, LGBTQ subjects, poetry, etc. I also changed things like "set in the future" is just "sci-fi". Magic is high or low fantasy. Classic romance is just romance. I dunno. We'll see how 2015 goes.