Colorado and books read in 2019
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glacier_kittyTonight I start on the journey to Colorado! One thing I hate about living in Alaska is how long it takes to get most places and flying overnight..oh well, it'll be good to see family again lol
Yay, one of the best things about the end of the year: the books I read in 2019!
January
A book with a plant in the title or on the cover: The Wild Trees by Richard Preston (Jan. 2-6) (4/5)
A debut novel: The Wild Inside by Christine Carbo (Jan. 6-13) (5/5)
A book becoming a movie in 2019: Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (Jan. 13-16) (5/5)
A book by two female authors: No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women And Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica by Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft (Jan. 17-20) (4/5)
A book that makes you nostalgic: Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson (Jan. 21-23) (2/5)
A book with a two-word title: The Precipice by Paul Doiron (Jan. 24-28) (5/5)
A book you meant to read in 2018: Here Shall I Die Ashore: Stephen Hopkins - Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim by Caleb H. Johnson (Jan. 28-30) (4/5)
February
A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover: Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman (Jan. 31-Feb. 4) (5/5)
A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in the title: Zodiac Station by Tom Harper (Feb. 5-10) (4/5)
A book with “love” in the title: My Life in a Cat House: True Tales of Love, Laughter, and Living with Five Felines by Gwen Cooper (Feb. 11-14) (4/5)
Read a book during the season it’s set in: The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin (Feb. 15-19) (4/5)
A “choose-your-own-adventure” book: Can You Survive Antarctica? by Rachael Hanel (Feb. 19) (4/5)
A book written by an author from Asia, Africa or South America: An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie (Feb. 20-26) (4/5)
March
A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny (Feb. 27-Mar. 3) (4/5)
A novel based on a true story: The Broken Lands by Robert Edric (Mar. 4-11) (4/5)
A book that includes a wedding: The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley (Mar. 11-14) (4/5)
A book inspired by mythology, legend or folklore: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Mar. 15-19) (5/5)
A book set in Scandinavia: Operation Napoleon by Arnaldur Indriðason (Mar. 20-24) (3/5)
A book revolving around a puzzle or game: The Advocate's Geocache by Teresa Burrell (Mar. 24-27) (4/5)
A ghost story: Dark Matter by Michelle Paver (Mar. 28-29) (4/5)
April
A book with no chapters, unusual chapter headings, or unconventionally numbered chapters: The Ice by Laline Paull (Mar 30-April 2) (4/5)
A book written by a musician: The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie (April 3-7) (3/5)
A book about a family: The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley (April 8-23) (3/5)
A book about a hobby: The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller (April 24-28) (3/5)
A book featuring an amateur detective: The Vanishing Man by Charles Finch (April 29-30) (4/5)
May
Two books that share the same title: Endurance by Tim Griffiths (May 2-6) (4/5) and Endurance by Frank A. Worsley (May 7-10) (4/5)
A book with a title that contains “salty,” “sweet,” “bitter” or “spicy”: A Bitter Rain by James D. Shipman (May 11-15) (5/5)
A “cli-fi” (climate fiction) book: Antarktos Rising by Jeremy Robinson (May 16-19) (4/5)
A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter: The Weight of Night by Christine Carbo (May 19-25) (5/5)
A book you think should be turned into a movie: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (May 25-30) (5/5)
June
A book that takes place in a single day: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (May 31-June 2) (4/5)
A book told from multiple POVs: Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (June 3-9) (5/5)
A book set on a college or university campus: 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence by Howard Means (June 10-12) (4/5)
A book published posthumously: Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (June 13-17) (2/5)
A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (June 18-22) (5/5)
A book about someone with a superpower: Guardians of the Glacier by Tim Sauners (June 23-27) (5/5)
A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (June 28-30) (4/5)
July
A book with a question in the title: Antarctica: The Impossible Crossing? by Geoff Somers (July 1-5) (4/5)
A book that’s published in 2019: The River by Peter Heller (July 6-8) (4/5)
An “own voices” book (when an author and character in their book share the same "marginalized group, in this case autism): On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (July 9-13) (4/5)
A book set in space: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (July 13-17) (5/5)
Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge:
2017: A book with a cat on the cover: The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (July 18-21) (4/5)
2015: A book set in a different country: The White Darkness by David Grann (July 29) (4/5)
2018: A book with an animal in the title: Lost Cat by Caroline Paul (July 30) (4/5)
A book recommended by a celebrity you admire: Antarctic Adventure: Scott's Northern Party by Raymond Priestly (July 21-26) (4/5)
A book with “pop,” “sugar,” or “challenge” in the title: The Sugar Men by Ray Kingfisher (July 26-28) (5/5)
August
A LitRPG book: Pirate's Honor by Chris A. Jackson (July 31-Aug 5) (5/5)
A retelling of a classic: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Aug 6-11) (5/5)
A reread of a favorite book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Aug 11-14) (5/5)
A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom: The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (Aug 15-18) (4/5)
A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie: The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Aug 18-19) (3/5)
Under A Pole Star by Stef Penney (Aug 19-25) (4/5)
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition by Stephen R. Bown (Aug 26-30) (4/5)
September
Counting by 7s by Holly Sloan Goldberg (Aug. 31-Sept. 1) (4/5)
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash (Sept. 2-7) (4/5)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (Sept. 8-9) (5/5)
Ruthless Tide: The Tragic Epic of the Johnstown Flood by Al Roker (Sept. 10-12) (4/5)
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan (Sept. 13-16) (3/5)
Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson by Peter C. Mancall (Sept. 17-20) (3/5)
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester (Sept. 20-25) (5/5)
David Goes to Greenland by David Binney Putnam (Sept. 26) (4/5)
The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory by David Howarth (Sept. 27-29) (3/5)
Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe" by Peggy Caravantes (Sept. 29-30) (4/5)
October
Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time by Michael Palin (Sept. 30-Oct. 6) (5/5)
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook by Martin Dugard (Oct. 6-10) (4/5)
Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods by Cary Griffith (Oct. 11-15) (4/5)
Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska by Mark Adams (Oct. 16-21) (4/5)
Force of Nature by Jane Harper (Oct. 23-27) (5/5)
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter (Oct. 28-30) (5/5)
West by Carys Davies (Oct. 30) (3/5)
November
Papillon by Henri Charrière (Oct. 31-Nov. 8) (5/5)
Breaking Wild by Diane Les Becquets (Nov. 8-11) (3/5)
White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic by Stephen R. Bown (Nov. 12-17) (5/5)
The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic by Maurice Edward Beauclerk (Nov. 19-24) (4/5)
In a Crystal Land: Canadian Explorers in Antarctica by Dean Beeby (Nov. 26-29) (5/5)
Stickeen by John Muir (Nov 30) (4/5)
December
Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women Behind the World's Most Daring Explorers by Kari Herbert (Dec. 1-4) (4/5)
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark (Dec. 6-9) (5/5)
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It by Gabrielle Walker (Dec. 10-13) (3/5)
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick (Dec. 14-19) (4/5)
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King (Dec. 20-25) (4/5)
A Gift from Bob: How a Street Cat Helped One Man Learn the Meaning of Christmas by James Bowen (Dec. 25-26) (5/5)
No Man's Compass by S.D. Hines (Dec. 27-30) (5/5)
Last year I read 74 books..this year I read EIGHTY FOUR!! I never thought I'd be able to do that when I started tracking my books lol. Awesome! That'll be hard to beat I think. :P Here's the 2020 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge if anyone wants to do it with me :)
Ugh, Photobucket had a huge crash and has been having problems for a couple weeks now. I really need to put all my pictures on Flickr (it's WAY easier to use, and I've never had problems with it like on Photobucket), but I need for it to start working again so I can put the right links on my pics here. That's going to be a HUGE job, but I really just want to get rid of annoying Photobucket. I hope our pictures really are backed up like they told us!
Day 365: A song to say goodbye: "Graduation"–Vitamin C. See you next year!
Yay, one of the best things about the end of the year: the books I read in 2019!
January
A book with a plant in the title or on the cover: The Wild Trees by Richard Preston (Jan. 2-6) (4/5)
A debut novel: The Wild Inside by Christine Carbo (Jan. 6-13) (5/5)
A book becoming a movie in 2019: Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (Jan. 13-16) (5/5)
A book by two female authors: No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women And Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica by Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft (Jan. 17-20) (4/5)
A book that makes you nostalgic: Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson (Jan. 21-23) (2/5)
A book with a two-word title: The Precipice by Paul Doiron (Jan. 24-28) (5/5)
A book you meant to read in 2018: Here Shall I Die Ashore: Stephen Hopkins - Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim by Caleb H. Johnson (Jan. 28-30) (4/5)
February
A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover: Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman (Jan. 31-Feb. 4) (5/5)
A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in the title: Zodiac Station by Tom Harper (Feb. 5-10) (4/5)
A book with “love” in the title: My Life in a Cat House: True Tales of Love, Laughter, and Living with Five Felines by Gwen Cooper (Feb. 11-14) (4/5)
Read a book during the season it’s set in: The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin (Feb. 15-19) (4/5)
A “choose-your-own-adventure” book: Can You Survive Antarctica? by Rachael Hanel (Feb. 19) (4/5)
A book written by an author from Asia, Africa or South America: An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie (Feb. 20-26) (4/5)
March
A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny (Feb. 27-Mar. 3) (4/5)
A novel based on a true story: The Broken Lands by Robert Edric (Mar. 4-11) (4/5)
A book that includes a wedding: The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley (Mar. 11-14) (4/5)
A book inspired by mythology, legend or folklore: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Mar. 15-19) (5/5)
A book set in Scandinavia: Operation Napoleon by Arnaldur Indriðason (Mar. 20-24) (3/5)
A book revolving around a puzzle or game: The Advocate's Geocache by Teresa Burrell (Mar. 24-27) (4/5)
A ghost story: Dark Matter by Michelle Paver (Mar. 28-29) (4/5)
April
A book with no chapters, unusual chapter headings, or unconventionally numbered chapters: The Ice by Laline Paull (Mar 30-April 2) (4/5)
A book written by a musician: The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie (April 3-7) (3/5)
A book about a family: The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley (April 8-23) (3/5)
A book about a hobby: The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller (April 24-28) (3/5)
A book featuring an amateur detective: The Vanishing Man by Charles Finch (April 29-30) (4/5)
May
Two books that share the same title: Endurance by Tim Griffiths (May 2-6) (4/5) and Endurance by Frank A. Worsley (May 7-10) (4/5)
A book with a title that contains “salty,” “sweet,” “bitter” or “spicy”: A Bitter Rain by James D. Shipman (May 11-15) (5/5)
A “cli-fi” (climate fiction) book: Antarktos Rising by Jeremy Robinson (May 16-19) (4/5)
A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter: The Weight of Night by Christine Carbo (May 19-25) (5/5)
A book you think should be turned into a movie: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (May 25-30) (5/5)
June
A book that takes place in a single day: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (May 31-June 2) (4/5)
A book told from multiple POVs: Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (June 3-9) (5/5)
A book set on a college or university campus: 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence by Howard Means (June 10-12) (4/5)
A book published posthumously: Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (June 13-17) (2/5)
A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (June 18-22) (5/5)
A book about someone with a superpower: Guardians of the Glacier by Tim Sauners (June 23-27) (5/5)
A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (June 28-30) (4/5)
July
A book with a question in the title: Antarctica: The Impossible Crossing? by Geoff Somers (July 1-5) (4/5)
A book that’s published in 2019: The River by Peter Heller (July 6-8) (4/5)
An “own voices” book (when an author and character in their book share the same "marginalized group, in this case autism): On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (July 9-13) (4/5)
A book set in space: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (July 13-17) (5/5)
Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge:
2017: A book with a cat on the cover: The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (July 18-21) (4/5)
2015: A book set in a different country: The White Darkness by David Grann (July 29) (4/5)
2018: A book with an animal in the title: Lost Cat by Caroline Paul (July 30) (4/5)
A book recommended by a celebrity you admire: Antarctic Adventure: Scott's Northern Party by Raymond Priestly (July 21-26) (4/5)
A book with “pop,” “sugar,” or “challenge” in the title: The Sugar Men by Ray Kingfisher (July 26-28) (5/5)
August
A LitRPG book: Pirate's Honor by Chris A. Jackson (July 31-Aug 5) (5/5)
A retelling of a classic: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Aug 6-11) (5/5)
A reread of a favorite book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Aug 11-14) (5/5)
A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom: The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (Aug 15-18) (4/5)
A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie: The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Aug 18-19) (3/5)
Under A Pole Star by Stef Penney (Aug 19-25) (4/5)
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition by Stephen R. Bown (Aug 26-30) (4/5)
September
Counting by 7s by Holly Sloan Goldberg (Aug. 31-Sept. 1) (4/5)
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash (Sept. 2-7) (4/5)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (Sept. 8-9) (5/5)
Ruthless Tide: The Tragic Epic of the Johnstown Flood by Al Roker (Sept. 10-12) (4/5)
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan (Sept. 13-16) (3/5)
Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson by Peter C. Mancall (Sept. 17-20) (3/5)
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester (Sept. 20-25) (5/5)
David Goes to Greenland by David Binney Putnam (Sept. 26) (4/5)
The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory by David Howarth (Sept. 27-29) (3/5)
Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe" by Peggy Caravantes (Sept. 29-30) (4/5)
October
Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time by Michael Palin (Sept. 30-Oct. 6) (5/5)
Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook by Martin Dugard (Oct. 6-10) (4/5)
Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods by Cary Griffith (Oct. 11-15) (4/5)
Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska by Mark Adams (Oct. 16-21) (4/5)
Force of Nature by Jane Harper (Oct. 23-27) (5/5)
A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter (Oct. 28-30) (5/5)
West by Carys Davies (Oct. 30) (3/5)
November
Papillon by Henri Charrière (Oct. 31-Nov. 8) (5/5)
Breaking Wild by Diane Les Becquets (Nov. 8-11) (3/5)
White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic by Stephen R. Bown (Nov. 12-17) (5/5)
The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic by Maurice Edward Beauclerk (Nov. 19-24) (4/5)
In a Crystal Land: Canadian Explorers in Antarctica by Dean Beeby (Nov. 26-29) (5/5)
Stickeen by John Muir (Nov 30) (4/5)
December
Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women Behind the World's Most Daring Explorers by Kari Herbert (Dec. 1-4) (4/5)
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark (Dec. 6-9) (5/5)
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It by Gabrielle Walker (Dec. 10-13) (3/5)
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick (Dec. 14-19) (4/5)
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King (Dec. 20-25) (4/5)
A Gift from Bob: How a Street Cat Helped One Man Learn the Meaning of Christmas by James Bowen (Dec. 25-26) (5/5)
No Man's Compass by S.D. Hines (Dec. 27-30) (5/5)
Last year I read 74 books..this year I read EIGHTY FOUR!! I never thought I'd be able to do that when I started tracking my books lol. Awesome! That'll be hard to beat I think. :P Here's the 2020 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge if anyone wants to do it with me :)
Ugh, Photobucket had a huge crash and has been having problems for a couple weeks now. I really need to put all my pictures on Flickr (it's WAY easier to use, and I've never had problems with it like on Photobucket), but I need for it to start working again so I can put the right links on my pics here. That's going to be a HUGE job, but I really just want to get rid of annoying Photobucket. I hope our pictures really are backed up like they told us!
Day 365: A song to say goodbye: "Graduation"–Vitamin C. See you next year!
