Books read in 2018
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glacier_kittyHere we are at the end of another year..wow. I'll never get over how fast time goes by lol. So glad I was able to do some amazing things, like going to England. I think we're going to watch the fireworks at the university tonight, especially since it got so warm, in the 20s! That should be fun lol
One of my favorite things about the end of the year: here are all the books I read this year!
January
A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to: On the Arctic Frontier: Ernest Leffingwell's Polar Explorations and Legacy by Janet R. Collins (Jan. 1-5) (4/5)
A book with a LGBTQ+ protagonist: On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica by Gretchen Legler (Jan. 6-8) (4/5)
A book that involves a bookstore or library: The True Tails of Baker and Taylor: The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town...and the World by Jan Louch (Jan. 9-12) (5/5)
A book about death or grief: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (Jan. 14-17) (5/5)
True crime: Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition by Richard Parry (Jan. 18-23) (4/5)
A book with a weather element in the title: What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley by Kim Cross (Jan. 24-28) (5/5)
February
A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Jan. 28-Feb. 6) (5/5)
A book by a local author: Two Old Women by Velma Wallis (Feb. 6) (4/5)
A book set in a country that fascinates you: First on the Antarctic Continent: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898 1900 (Feb. 7-10) (4/5)
Nordic noir: Midnight Sun by Joe Nesbo (Feb. 11-12) (3/5)
A book about mental health: Cowboy & Wills by Monica Holloway (Feb. 13-18) (4/5)
March
A book mentioned in another book: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (Feb. 19-March 1) (4/5)
A book set on a different planet: Artemis by Andy Weir (March 1-5) (4/5)
The next book in a series you started: The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley (March 6-11) (4/5)
A book published in 2018: The Woman in the Water by Charles Finch (March 12-15) (5/5)
A book with a time of day in the title: Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton (March 16-20) (5/5)
A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you: The Norwegian With Scott: The Antarctic Diary of Tryggve Gran, 1910-13 by Tryggve Gran (March 21-25) (5/5)
April
A novel based on a real person: Had We Lived: After Captain Scott by Richard Jopling (March 26-April 1) (4/5)
A book with characters who are twins: Changelings by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (April 2-6) (5/5)
A book set at sea: The Karluk's Last Voyage: An Epic of Death and Survival in the Arctic by Robert A. Bartlett (April 6-10) (3/5)
A book about or involving a sport: Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox (April 11-18) (5/5)
A book made into a movie you’ve already seen: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick (April 18-22) (5/5)
A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (April 22-28) (4/5)
May
A book about time travel: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor (April 29-May 3) (5/5)
A bestseller from the year you graduated high school (2007): Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (May 4-8) (4/5)
A book by an author with the same first name or last name as you: One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf (May 9-12) (5/5)
A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift: A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts (May 13-17) (2/5)
A book with an animal in the title: The Cat Who Came in from the Cold by Deric Longden (May 18-20) (4/5)
A book that is also a stage play or musical: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany (May 21-22) (4/5)
A book with alliteration in the title: The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler (May 22-26) (4/5)
June
A book with your favorite color in the title: Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horowitz (May 26-June 2) (4/5)
A book tied to your ancestry: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick (June 3-10) (5/5)
A book with an ugly cover: Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson (June 10-12) (4/5)
A book involving a heist: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett (June 13-16) (4/5)
A book with song lyrics in the title: Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello (June 17-18) (2/5). It's so weird..that lyric is from "When Doves Cry" by Prince..I'd heard the song before and never payed attention to that lyric, but after hearing the song after reading the book, that lyric stuck out right away lol
A book about a problem facing society today: Newtown: An American Tragedy by Matthew Lysiak (June 18-20) (4/5)
A book by two authors: Arctic Drift by Clive and Dirk Cussler (June 21-25) (5/5)
A childhood classic you’ve never read: Frightful's Mountain by Jean Craighead George (June 26-27) (4/5)
July
A microhistory: The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History by William K. Klingaman (June 28-July 2) (3/5)
A cyberpunk book: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (July 3-9) (5/5)
A book from a celebrity book club: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (July 10-19) (5/5)
A book about feminism: Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism by Susan Ware (July 20-23) (2/5)
A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (July 24-26) (2/5)
An allegory: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (July 27) (4/5)
August
A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling (July 29-Aug. 5) (4/5)
A book set in the decade you were born (80s): The Terrors of Ice and Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr (Aug. 6-9) (3/5)
Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges.
2017: A book with a cat on the cover: Out of Harm's Way: The Extraordinary True Story of One Woman's Lifelong Devotion to Animal Rescue by Terri Crisp (Aug. 10-16) (5/5)
2016: A book with a blue cover: One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead by Clare Dudman (Aug. 16-23) (4/5)
2015: A book set in a different country: Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler (Aug. 24-30) (4/5)
September
A book about a villain or antihero: Loki by Mike Vasich (Aug. 31-Sept. 5) (4/5)
A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Sept. 6-11) (4/5)
A book about or set on Halloween: Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier (Sept. 12-16) (3/5)
Out of the Ice by Ann Turner (Sept. 17-24) (4/5)
My Last Continent by Midge Raymond (Sept. 24-29) (3/5)
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (Sept. 29) (4/5)
October
With Scott: The Silver Lining by Griffith Taylor (Oct. 1-11) (4/5)
Blackout by Ragnar Jonasson (Oct. 12-15) (3/5)
The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell (Oct. 16-21) (4/5)
All My Patients are Under the Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor by Louis J. Camuti (Oct. 22-24) (3/5)
The Wreck of the Medusa by Jonathan Miles (Oct. 25-30) (4/5)
Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Wilfred Grenfell (Oct. 31) (2/5)
November
Two Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nov. 1-4) (5/5)
Rescue at the Top of the World: The True Story of the Most Daring Arctic Rescue in History by Shawn Shallow (Nov. 4-7) (4/5)
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave (Nov. 7-13) (5/5)
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett (Nov. 14-17) (4/5)
Death on the Ice: Scott, Antarctica, 1912 by Robert Ryan (Nov. 18-28) (4/5)
December
Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare: From the Bounty to Safety--4,162 Miles Across the Pacific in a Rowing Boat by John Toohey (Nov. 29-Dec. 2) (3/5)
The Cat Who Came Back for Christmas by Julia Romp (Dec. 3-6) (4/5)
Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1921 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole by Wilbur Cross (Dec. 6-10) (3/5)
Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It by Brian Murphy (Dec. 10-13) (5/5)
A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier by David Welkey (Dec. 13-20) (4/5)
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff (Dec. 21-26) (4/5)
Portrait of an Ice Cap by J.M. Scott (Dec. 26-27) (4/5)
A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner (Dec. 28-31) (4/5)
In all, I read SEVENTY FOUR books, smashing my previous record of 66!! So awesome lol. I'm going to do the 2019 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge too! I wasn't sure if I wanted to do another one, but the "plant on the cover/title" topic sold me haha. Hopefully it will be as fun as this year's!
December 29 → talk about things you are excited for next year. I'd like to go to one of my cousin's volleyball games (never thought I'd want to do something like that LOL), and just have fun in general!
December 30 → a list of what you got for your winter holiday. Gift cards, PJs, money, Birdie the Penguin, a scrimshawed ship, socks that say "cats cats cats!!!" on them, a pin for my backpack, a magazine, a blanket, chocolate, bracelets, a calendar..hopefully I'm not missing anything lol
December 31 → best moment of the month. Work's Christmas party for one..hopefully tonight will be too! Can someone make another one of these?? They're so fun lol
See you next year (*gasp*), hopefully 2019 will be great! :D
One of my favorite things about the end of the year: here are all the books I read this year!
January
A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to: On the Arctic Frontier: Ernest Leffingwell's Polar Explorations and Legacy by Janet R. Collins (Jan. 1-5) (4/5)
A book with a LGBTQ+ protagonist: On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica by Gretchen Legler (Jan. 6-8) (4/5)
A book that involves a bookstore or library: The True Tails of Baker and Taylor: The Library Cats Who Left Their Pawprints on a Small Town...and the World by Jan Louch (Jan. 9-12) (5/5)
A book about death or grief: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (Jan. 14-17) (5/5)
True crime: Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition by Richard Parry (Jan. 18-23) (4/5)
A book with a weather element in the title: What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley by Kim Cross (Jan. 24-28) (5/5)
February
A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Jan. 28-Feb. 6) (5/5)
A book by a local author: Two Old Women by Velma Wallis (Feb. 6) (4/5)
A book set in a country that fascinates you: First on the Antarctic Continent: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898 1900 (Feb. 7-10) (4/5)
Nordic noir: Midnight Sun by Joe Nesbo (Feb. 11-12) (3/5)
A book about mental health: Cowboy & Wills by Monica Holloway (Feb. 13-18) (4/5)
March
A book mentioned in another book: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (Feb. 19-March 1) (4/5)
A book set on a different planet: Artemis by Andy Weir (March 1-5) (4/5)
The next book in a series you started: The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley (March 6-11) (4/5)
A book published in 2018: The Woman in the Water by Charles Finch (March 12-15) (5/5)
A book with a time of day in the title: Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton (March 16-20) (5/5)
A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you: The Norwegian With Scott: The Antarctic Diary of Tryggve Gran, 1910-13 by Tryggve Gran (March 21-25) (5/5)
April
A novel based on a real person: Had We Lived: After Captain Scott by Richard Jopling (March 26-April 1) (4/5)
A book with characters who are twins: Changelings by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (April 2-6) (5/5)
A book set at sea: The Karluk's Last Voyage: An Epic of Death and Survival in the Arctic by Robert A. Bartlett (April 6-10) (3/5)
A book about or involving a sport: Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox (April 11-18) (5/5)
A book made into a movie you’ve already seen: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick (April 18-22) (5/5)
A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (April 22-28) (4/5)
May
A book about time travel: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor (April 29-May 3) (5/5)
A bestseller from the year you graduated high school (2007): Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (May 4-8) (4/5)
A book by an author with the same first name or last name as you: One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf (May 9-12) (5/5)
A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift: A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts (May 13-17) (2/5)
A book with an animal in the title: The Cat Who Came in from the Cold by Deric Longden (May 18-20) (4/5)
A book that is also a stage play or musical: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany (May 21-22) (4/5)
A book with alliteration in the title: The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler (May 22-26) (4/5)
June
A book with your favorite color in the title: Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horowitz (May 26-June 2) (4/5)
A book tied to your ancestry: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick (June 3-10) (5/5)
A book with an ugly cover: Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson (June 10-12) (4/5)
A book involving a heist: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett (June 13-16) (4/5)
A book with song lyrics in the title: Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello (June 17-18) (2/5). It's so weird..that lyric is from "When Doves Cry" by Prince..I'd heard the song before and never payed attention to that lyric, but after hearing the song after reading the book, that lyric stuck out right away lol
A book about a problem facing society today: Newtown: An American Tragedy by Matthew Lysiak (June 18-20) (4/5)
A book by two authors: Arctic Drift by Clive and Dirk Cussler (June 21-25) (5/5)
A childhood classic you’ve never read: Frightful's Mountain by Jean Craighead George (June 26-27) (4/5)
July
A microhistory: The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History by William K. Klingaman (June 28-July 2) (3/5)
A cyberpunk book: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (July 3-9) (5/5)
A book from a celebrity book club: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn (July 10-19) (5/5)
A book about feminism: Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism by Susan Ware (July 20-23) (2/5)
A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (July 24-26) (2/5)
An allegory: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (July 27) (4/5)
August
A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling (July 29-Aug. 5) (4/5)
A book set in the decade you were born (80s): The Terrors of Ice and Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr (Aug. 6-9) (3/5)
Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges.
2017: A book with a cat on the cover: Out of Harm's Way: The Extraordinary True Story of One Woman's Lifelong Devotion to Animal Rescue by Terri Crisp (Aug. 10-16) (5/5)
2016: A book with a blue cover: One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead by Clare Dudman (Aug. 16-23) (4/5)
2015: A book set in a different country: Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler (Aug. 24-30) (4/5)
September
A book about a villain or antihero: Loki by Mike Vasich (Aug. 31-Sept. 5) (4/5)
A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Sept. 6-11) (4/5)
A book about or set on Halloween: Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier (Sept. 12-16) (3/5)
Out of the Ice by Ann Turner (Sept. 17-24) (4/5)
My Last Continent by Midge Raymond (Sept. 24-29) (3/5)
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (Sept. 29) (4/5)
October
With Scott: The Silver Lining by Griffith Taylor (Oct. 1-11) (4/5)
Blackout by Ragnar Jonasson (Oct. 12-15) (3/5)
The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell (Oct. 16-21) (4/5)
All My Patients are Under the Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor by Louis J. Camuti (Oct. 22-24) (3/5)
The Wreck of the Medusa by Jonathan Miles (Oct. 25-30) (4/5)
Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Wilfred Grenfell (Oct. 31) (2/5)
November
Two Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nov. 1-4) (5/5)
Rescue at the Top of the World: The True Story of the Most Daring Arctic Rescue in History by Shawn Shallow (Nov. 4-7) (4/5)
Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave (Nov. 7-13) (5/5)
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett (Nov. 14-17) (4/5)
Death on the Ice: Scott, Antarctica, 1912 by Robert Ryan (Nov. 18-28) (4/5)
December
Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare: From the Bounty to Safety--4,162 Miles Across the Pacific in a Rowing Boat by John Toohey (Nov. 29-Dec. 2) (3/5)
The Cat Who Came Back for Christmas by Julia Romp (Dec. 3-6) (4/5)
Disaster at the Pole: The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1921 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole by Wilbur Cross (Dec. 6-10) (3/5)
Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It by Brian Murphy (Dec. 10-13) (5/5)
A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier by David Welkey (Dec. 13-20) (4/5)
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff (Dec. 21-26) (4/5)
Portrait of an Ice Cap by J.M. Scott (Dec. 26-27) (4/5)
A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner (Dec. 28-31) (4/5)
In all, I read SEVENTY FOUR books, smashing my previous record of 66!! So awesome lol. I'm going to do the 2019 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge too! I wasn't sure if I wanted to do another one, but the "plant on the cover/title" topic sold me haha. Hopefully it will be as fun as this year's!
December 29 → talk about things you are excited for next year. I'd like to go to one of my cousin's volleyball games (never thought I'd want to do something like that LOL), and just have fun in general!
December 30 → a list of what you got for your winter holiday. Gift cards, PJs, money, Birdie the Penguin, a scrimshawed ship, socks that say "cats cats cats!!!" on them, a pin for my backpack, a magazine, a blanket, chocolate, bracelets, a calendar..hopefully I'm not missing anything lol
December 31 → best moment of the month. Work's Christmas party for one..hopefully tonight will be too! Can someone make another one of these?? They're so fun lol
See you next year (*gasp*), hopefully 2019 will be great! :D
