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Books read in 2021
I can't believe it's the end of the year already! Somehow every year goes by faster than the previous one. Even with covid raging, I did some cool things..went to Valdez and landed on Shoup Glacier and kayaked at Valdez Glacier Lake, went to Anchorage, hung out with Dana in Yuma, got a hysterectomy, etc. I hope covid lessens in 2022, pandemics are tiring for everyone!
And here are the books I read in 2021! I read 68, which is down from the last couple years, but every year is different..sometimes at my parents' house we play games and then it's too late to read, and taking a month to read London didn't help either haha. It's still a nice amount of books though!
January
A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign (Gemini): Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (Jan. 1-5). (5/5)
A locked-room mystery: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (Jan. 6-18). (5/5)
A book you have seen on someone's bookshelf: The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon (Jan. 19-26). (4/5)
A book with a black-and-white cover: End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica by Peter Matthiessen (Jan. 27-30) (3/5)
February
The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover: A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson (Feb. 2-6). (5/5)
A book where the main character works at your current or dream job: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan (Feb. 6-9) (4/5)
A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing: The Winter Pony by Iain Lawrence (Feb. 12-15). (4/5)
A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Feb. 16-21) (4/5)
A DNF book from your TBR list: The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Feb. 21-24) (4/5)
The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list: 100 Cats Who Changed Civilization: History's Most Influential Felines (Feb. 25-26). (4/5)
March
A bestseller from the 1990s: Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg (Feb 27-Mar 7) (4/5)
A book set in multiple countries: Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth by Albert Podell (Mar 8-15). (4/5)
A book by a Muslim American author: Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Mar 15-21) (3/5)
A book set in a restaurant: Molly and the Cat Cafe by Melissa Daley (Mar 22-25) (5/5)
A book about do-overs or fresh starts: The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Mar 26-28). (4/5)
A book everyone seems to have read but you: Inferno by Dante Alighieri (Mar 29-30). (3/5)
April
A magical realism book: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Mar 31-Apr 5). (4/5)
A book about forgetting: What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr (Apr 5-8). (5/5)
A book that's published in 2021: An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch (Apr 10-13) (3/5)
A book set mostly or entirely outdoors: Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan (Apr 14-18). (4/5)
A book featuring three generations: Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada (Apr 18-21). (3/5)
A book whose title starts with "Q," "X," or "Z": Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang (Apr 22-27). (4/5)
An Afrofuturist book: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Apr 28) (4/5)
A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels): The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse (ebook) by Alan Bradley (Apr 29). (4/5)
May
A book that has the same title as a song: Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History by Laura Lee (Apr 29-May 4). (4/5)
A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title: Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzner (May 5-9). (4/5)
A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library): The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman (May 10-15) (4/5)
A book by an Indigenous author: Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun by Velma Wallis (May 15-17). (4/5)
Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: A book with a cat on the cover: Something Worth Saving by Sandi Ward (May 17-21). (4/5)
The book that's been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time: The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell (May 22-26). (3/5)
The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover: Men Against the Ice by Everitt Proctor (May 27). (4/5)
June
A genre hybrid: The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton (May 28-June 5). (5/5)
A book from your TBR list chosen at random: The Raven's Gift by Don Rearden (June 5-9) (4/5)
A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover: Black Butterfly by Mark Gatiss (June 10-14). (3/5)
A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads: Dancing on Ice by Jeremy Scott (June 15-18) (4/5)
A book you think your best friend would like: Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds by Heinrich Bernd (June 19-25). (3/5)
A book about art or an artist: Still Life by Louise Penny (June 27-29). (5/5)
July
A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn't: Wicked River by Jenny Milchman (June 30-July 7) (4/5)
A book that has won the Women's Prize For Fiction: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (July 8-14) (4/5)
A book set somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021: The Puffin of Death by Betty Webb (July 15-19). (4/5)
A book with something broken on the cover: Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North by Horatio Clare (July 20-21) (2/5)
A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality: More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell (July 22) (4/5)
August
The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list: London by Edward Rutherfurd (July 23-Aug 24). (4/5)
A book that was published anonymously: A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (Aug 25-29) (4/5)
A book that discusses body positivity: Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig (Aug 30-31) (4/5)
September
A dark academia book: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (Sept 1-9). (5/5)
A book about a subject you are passionate about: Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice by Gillen D'Arcy Wood (Sept 10-13) (5/5)
A book with an oxymoron in the title: In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine by Rachel Lance (Sept 14-19). (4/5)
A book with a family tree: George VI by Sarah Bradford (Sept 19-30). (4/5)
October
A book about a social justice issue: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (Oct. 1-5). (4/5)
The Arctic Fury by Greer MacAllister (Oct. 6-16). (4/5)
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Oct. 16-18). (4/5)
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner (Oct. 19-25). (3/5)
Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World by Alexandra Witze (Oct. 26-28) (4/5)
Billy Budd by Herman Melville (Oct. 29-31). (3/5)
November
Starvation Shore by Laura Waterman (Oct. 31-Nov. 6). (4/5)
Wild Inferno by Sandi Ault (Nov. 6-9). (5/5)
Titanic: A Survivor's Story by Archibald Gracie (Nov. 10-13). (4/5)
The Iceberg Hermit by Arthur J. Roth (Nov. 14-15) (4/5)
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton (Nov. 16-23) (4/5)
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse (Nov. 24-28). (5/5)
The Jeannette Expedition: An Ill-Fated Journey To The Arctic by A.A. Hoehling (Nov. 29-30) (3/5)
December
Locked in Ice: Nansen's Daring Quest for the North Pole by Peter Lourie (Dec. 2-3) (5/5)
The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky (Dec. 3-12) (5/5)
Auschwitz Lullaby by Mario Escobar (Dec. 13-15) (5/5)
Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack by Tom Nagorski (Dec. 17-22) (4/5)
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party (Dec. 23-30) (4/5)
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (Dec. 30-31) (5/5)
The next challenge looks harder than previous ones, but then it wouldn't be called a challenge. :P I haven't failed yet! (I love the "ace" prompt, woohoo!)
I'm relearning Latin! For a long time I've hated forgetting a lot of it since high school (Latinum amo!!), so I went on Duolingo to learn again! There are only like 22 lessons (mom is learning Spanish on Duolingo, and there are TONS of lessons), but a good start to begin with. I've definitely gotten better over this long holiday break haha
Greyboy is so funny..he gets so concerned when you take a shower. He'll jump up on the tub and yowl at you, like "you're in water?! Are you ok??" It's amusing, but sweet too lol
31. What are you looking forward to in the next year? Not sure, I don't really have anything planned yet..hopefully going to cool places and reading more books and stuff haha. I wonder if there are more 365 day challenges out there..they are addictive :P
And here are the books I read in 2021! I read 68, which is down from the last couple years, but every year is different..sometimes at my parents' house we play games and then it's too late to read, and taking a month to read London didn't help either haha. It's still a nice amount of books though!
January
A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign (Gemini): Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (Jan. 1-5). (5/5)
A locked-room mystery: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (Jan. 6-18). (5/5)
A book you have seen on someone's bookshelf: The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon (Jan. 19-26). (4/5)
A book with a black-and-white cover: End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica by Peter Matthiessen (Jan. 27-30) (3/5)
February
The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover: A Solitude of Wolverines by Alice Henderson (Feb. 2-6). (5/5)
A book where the main character works at your current or dream job: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan (Feb. 6-9) (4/5)
A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing: The Winter Pony by Iain Lawrence (Feb. 12-15). (4/5)
A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Feb. 16-21) (4/5)
A DNF book from your TBR list: The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Feb. 21-24) (4/5)
The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list: 100 Cats Who Changed Civilization: History's Most Influential Felines (Feb. 25-26). (4/5)
March
A bestseller from the 1990s: Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg (Feb 27-Mar 7) (4/5)
A book set in multiple countries: Around the World in 50 Years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth by Albert Podell (Mar 8-15). (4/5)
A book by a Muslim American author: Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Mar 15-21) (3/5)
A book set in a restaurant: Molly and the Cat Cafe by Melissa Daley (Mar 22-25) (5/5)
A book about do-overs or fresh starts: The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Mar 26-28). (4/5)
A book everyone seems to have read but you: Inferno by Dante Alighieri (Mar 29-30). (3/5)
April
A magical realism book: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Mar 31-Apr 5). (4/5)
A book about forgetting: What Rose Forgot by Nevada Barr (Apr 5-8). (5/5)
A book that's published in 2021: An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch (Apr 10-13) (3/5)
A book set mostly or entirely outdoors: Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan (Apr 14-18). (4/5)
A book featuring three generations: Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada (Apr 18-21). (3/5)
A book whose title starts with "Q," "X," or "Z": Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang (Apr 22-27). (4/5)
An Afrofuturist book: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Apr 28) (4/5)
A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels): The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse (ebook) by Alan Bradley (Apr 29). (4/5)
May
A book that has the same title as a song: Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History by Laura Lee (Apr 29-May 4). (4/5)
A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title: Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzner (May 5-9). (4/5)
A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library): The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman (May 10-15) (4/5)
A book by an Indigenous author: Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun by Velma Wallis (May 15-17). (4/5)
Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: A book with a cat on the cover: Something Worth Saving by Sandi Ward (May 17-21). (4/5)
The book that's been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time: The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell (May 22-26). (3/5)
The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover: Men Against the Ice by Everitt Proctor (May 27). (4/5)
June
A genre hybrid: The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton (May 28-June 5). (5/5)
A book from your TBR list chosen at random: The Raven's Gift by Don Rearden (June 5-9) (4/5)
A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover: Black Butterfly by Mark Gatiss (June 10-14). (3/5)
A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads: Dancing on Ice by Jeremy Scott (June 15-18) (4/5)
A book you think your best friend would like: Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds by Heinrich Bernd (June 19-25). (3/5)
A book about art or an artist: Still Life by Louise Penny (June 27-29). (5/5)
July
A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn't: Wicked River by Jenny Milchman (June 30-July 7) (4/5)
A book that has won the Women's Prize For Fiction: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (July 8-14) (4/5)
A book set somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021: The Puffin of Death by Betty Webb (July 15-19). (4/5)
A book with something broken on the cover: Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North by Horatio Clare (July 20-21) (2/5)
A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality: More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell (July 22) (4/5)
August
The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list: London by Edward Rutherfurd (July 23-Aug 24). (4/5)
A book that was published anonymously: A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (Aug 25-29) (4/5)
A book that discusses body positivity: Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig (Aug 30-31) (4/5)
September
A dark academia book: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (Sept 1-9). (5/5)
A book about a subject you are passionate about: Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice by Gillen D'Arcy Wood (Sept 10-13) (5/5)
A book with an oxymoron in the title: In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine by Rachel Lance (Sept 14-19). (4/5)
A book with a family tree: George VI by Sarah Bradford (Sept 19-30). (4/5)
October
A book about a social justice issue: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (Oct. 1-5). (4/5)
The Arctic Fury by Greer MacAllister (Oct. 6-16). (4/5)
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Oct. 16-18). (4/5)
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner (Oct. 19-25). (3/5)
Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World by Alexandra Witze (Oct. 26-28) (4/5)
Billy Budd by Herman Melville (Oct. 29-31). (3/5)
November
Starvation Shore by Laura Waterman (Oct. 31-Nov. 6). (4/5)
Wild Inferno by Sandi Ault (Nov. 6-9). (5/5)
Titanic: A Survivor's Story by Archibald Gracie (Nov. 10-13). (4/5)
The Iceberg Hermit by Arthur J. Roth (Nov. 14-15) (4/5)
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton (Nov. 16-23) (4/5)
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse (Nov. 24-28). (5/5)
The Jeannette Expedition: An Ill-Fated Journey To The Arctic by A.A. Hoehling (Nov. 29-30) (3/5)
December
Locked in Ice: Nansen's Daring Quest for the North Pole by Peter Lourie (Dec. 2-3) (5/5)
The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky (Dec. 3-12) (5/5)
Auschwitz Lullaby by Mario Escobar (Dec. 13-15) (5/5)
Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack by Tom Nagorski (Dec. 17-22) (4/5)
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party (Dec. 23-30) (4/5)
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (Dec. 30-31) (5/5)
The next challenge looks harder than previous ones, but then it wouldn't be called a challenge. :P I haven't failed yet! (I love the "ace" prompt, woohoo!)
I'm relearning Latin! For a long time I've hated forgetting a lot of it since high school (Latinum amo!!), so I went on Duolingo to learn again! There are only like 22 lessons (mom is learning Spanish on Duolingo, and there are TONS of lessons), but a good start to begin with. I've definitely gotten better over this long holiday break haha
Greyboy is so funny..he gets so concerned when you take a shower. He'll jump up on the tub and yowl at you, like "you're in water?! Are you ok??" It's amusing, but sweet too lol
31. What are you looking forward to in the next year? Not sure, I don't really have anything planned yet..hopefully going to cool places and reading more books and stuff haha. I wonder if there are more 365 day challenges out there..they are addictive :P