Good riddance, 2020

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LOL at the angry cabbage burning 2020 down. :P I probably would have had more entries, if I had been able to travel and do other fun summer stuff..oh well :P

I REALLY hope 2021 is better than the craziness of this year..wow. I remember we all had such high expectations for a new decade! At least I was able to go to Colorado to see family and see my cousin get married. I hope we can manage to get corona under control! I think my family might shoot off fireworks later..hopefully the neighbors won't object lol

Now one of the best parts of the end of the year: the books I read in 2020! Yay!

January
A book with a map: Antarctic Navigation by Elizabeth Arthur (Dec 31-Jan 14) (4/5)

A book set in a country beginning with "C" (Canada): Death Wins in the Arctic: The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910 by Kerry Karram (Jan 15-18) (3/5)

A book you picked because the title caught your attention: Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman (Jan 18-21) (3/5)

A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader: The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (Jan 22-28) (4/5)

A medical thriller: Scurvy by Stephen R. Bown (Jan 29-31) (4/5)


February
A Western: A Death in Eden by Keith McCafferty (Feb 1-4) (5/5)

A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics: The Dreadful Judgement: The True Story of the Great Fire of London, 1666 by Neil Hanson (Feb 5-9) (5/5)

A book with more than 20 letters in its title: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen (Feb 10-17) (4/5)

A book with a pink cover: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (Feb 18-23) (5/5)

A book you meant to read in 2019: The River at Night by Erica Ferencik (Feb 25-27) (4/5)

March
A book with an upside-down image on the cover: Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin (Feb 28-Mar 3) (3/5)

A book with a made-up language: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Mar 6-10) (5/5)

A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads: Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage by Ken McGoogan (Mar 11-15) (4/5)

A book that won an award in 2019: Circe by Madeline Miller (Mar 11-15) (3/5)

A book that has a book on the cover: The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe (Mar 21-25) (4/5)

A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 [2021 now] Olympics: The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide (Mar 26) (2/5)

A book that's published in 2020: The Last Passenger by Charles Finch (Mar 27-31) (4/5)

April
A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins: The Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor (Mar 31-Apr 5) (5/5)

A book on a subject you know nothing about: A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andrés Reséndez (Apr 5-8) (4/5)

The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed: Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan (Apr 9-15) (5/5)

A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title: Twenty Years Before the Mast by Charles Erskine (Apr 15-18) (3/5)

A book by an author who has written more than 20 books: Winterkill by C.J. Box (Apr 19-22) (4/5)

A book with a three-word title: Days of Night by Jonathan Stone (Apr 22-25) (5/5)

A book published in the 20th century: A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (Apr 26-27) (4/5)

May
A book by a trans or nonbinary author: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (Apr 28-May 1) (5/5)

A book that passes the Bechdel test (two women who talk to each other about something other than a man): Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (May 2-7) (4/5)

A book set in the 1920s: Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd's First Expedition to Antarctica by Eugene Rodgers (May 7-11) (2/5)

A book with a bird on the cover: Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins by Gavin Francis (May 12-17) (5/5)

Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: A book set at sea: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (May 18-21) (4/5)

A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (May 21-25) (3/5)

A book with a great first line: The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss (May 26-29) (4/5)

June
A book with a pun in the title: Probable Claws by Rita Mae Brown (May 29-June 2) (4/5)

A book about or involving social media: A Midsummer Night # nofilter by Brett Wright (June 3) (3/5)

A book from a series with more than 20 books: No Fixed Line by Dana Stabenow (June 4-9) (4/5)

A book by a woman of color: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (June 10-15) (4/5)

A book published the month of your birthday: Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr (June 16-20) (4/5)

A bildungsroman (coming of age novel): The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje (June 21-24) (3/5)

A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title: From Antarctica to the Gold Rushes: In the Wake of the Erebus by John Ramsland (June 25-29) (4/5)

July
A book about or by a woman in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math): The Radium Girls by Kate Moore (June 29-July 5) (5/5)

A book with a main character in their 20s: The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan (July 7-10) (3/5)

A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it: Descent by Tim Johnston (July 7-10) (4/5)

A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club: The Overstory by Richard Powers (July 16-25) (4/5)

A book about a book club: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer (July 26-29) (4/5)

A book by or about a journalist: Kingdom of Frost: How the Cryosphere Shapes Life on Earth by Bjorn Vassnes (July 29-31) (3/5)

August
An anthology: Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors by Edward E. Leslie (Aug. 1-9) (4/5)

A book written by an author in their 20s: Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (Aug. 10-17) (3/5)

A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision): Bird Box by Josh Malerman (Aug. 18-20) (5/5)

A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name: Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris (Aug. 21-26) (5/5)

A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics: The Log Of "Bob" Bartlett by Robert A. Bartlett (Aug. 26-30) (3/5)

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (Aug. 31) (4/5)

September
The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness by Brian Payton (Sept. 1-6) (5/5)

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy (Sept. 9-16) (5/5)

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (Sept. 17-23) (5/5)

The Sinking of the Princess Sophia by Kenneth S. Coates (Sept. 24-27) (4/5)

October
Read a banned book during Banned Books Week (September 27-October 3): The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (Sept. 28-Oct. 7) (4/5)

Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman (Oct. 8) (4/5)

Penguins Have Square Eyes by Patrick Trese (Oct. 9-12) (4/5)

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future by Jon Gertner (Oct. 13-20) (4/5)

Watermelon Snow by William A. Liggett (Oct. 21-22) (5/5)

The Secret Lives of Glaciers by M. Jackson (Oct. 23-27) (3/5)

The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase (Oct. 29) (3/5)

November
Death Takes Passage by Sue Henry (Oct 30-Nov 3) (5/5)

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (Nov 4-10) (4/5)

Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage by Brian Castner (Nov 11-17) (4/5)

Flight to the Top of the World: The Adventures of Walter Wellman by David L. Bristow (Nov 18-23) (4/5)

Cold Burial: A True Story of Endurance and Disaster by Clive Powell-Williams (Nov 23-26) (3/5)

The Wind Is Not a River by Brian Payton (Nov 27-30) (4/5)

December
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane (Dec 1-8). (5/5) THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING. His writing and trips to the "underland" (caves, etc) was absolutely FASCINATING

Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot by Ken McGoogan (Dec 10-15) (3/5)

North to the Pole by Will Steger (Dec 16-21) (4/5) One of the members of this expedition spoke at Dark Winter Nights! That connection was cool lol. The expedition sounded DREADFUL though..it was below -40 most of the time, their bags would ice up, etc (a modern "Worst Journey in the World")..no thanks

The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party by Kelly Tyler-Lewis (Dec 23-28) (4/5)

Airship Over the Pole: The Story of the Italia by Garry Hogg (Dec 29-30). (5/5) One day I'll get tired of reading about people stranded on ice floes....yeah, probably not :P

Hero of Hacksaw Ridge by Booton Herndon (Dec 31). (5/5) Desmond Doss was amazing! He saved so many men without regard to his safety..wow


I read 73 books this year! (A lot during quarantine haha.) Last year I read 84, which would have been hard to beat lol..still not a bad number though!

See ya next year ;)

30. If you could change one bad habit you have, what would it be? Procrastinating so much, especially on housework..ugh

31. Do you prefer beginnings or endings? Depends on what it is!