Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

It's always a lot of fun to go hunting for phrases or words in the titles of our books. Titles usually reflect the content of the books are so important in the reading world. So this week is your chance for another hunt!

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Suggestions:
Listopia: Body Parts in Book Titles
Listopia: Books with Body Parts in the Titles
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Optional questions:
- What are you reading for this category?

First thing that came to mind for me was Lost Memory of Skin. I hate the cover lol but I'm interested to read it.

I plan to read Eye in the Sky by PKD. I'm going to squeeze in as many SF books in the ATY Challenge that I can! I also want to read The Eye in the Door - book 2 in a great WWI series by Pat Barker. So many options for this prompt!

So many to choose from! I'm thinking of one of these:
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
Joe Gould's Teeth
Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944

I'll be choosing between:
Cat's Eye
In Cold Blood
City of Bones
Inkheart
The Left Hand of Darkness
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
An Instance of the Fingerpost

My top choices all have the word "bone."

Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The Bone People by Keri Hulme

Her Body and Other Parties
City of Bones too but I feel like I need more of Cassandra’s series first before reading this one.

I'm going to read Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl. It's a memoir about food and cooking.

I think I'll read The Heart's Invisible Furies for this one.

I have several good choices on my TBR list, but think I’ll probably go with I Feel Bad About My Neck. I’ve never read anything by Nora Ephron, but she is supposed to be quite wickedly funny in this one.

Ooh, I need more funny books in my life. Adding that to my options, thanks Lizzy!

Great choice Shelly!!

The Sound Of Footsteps

I think I,will,go,with Every Wild Heart for this prompt.

Laura wrote: "Great choice Shelly!!"

Have you read it?

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is the one I'm going for. I bought it to read last year but never got to it. This year it will happen

Ira wrote: "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is the one I'm going for. I bought it to read last year but never got to it. This year it will happen"

I loved it.... I seem to be in the minority though. Will be interesting to hear your thoughts.

The Handmaid's Tale of course! :)

I actually just posted this question in another thread, but I'm wondering if The One by John Marrs would count for this topic? It does have a fingerprint literally IN the title..

I just finished City of Bones for this topic. (I'm not going in week order apparently.)

I'll going to read Down Among the Sticks and Bones

I read Heartless by Marissa Meyer.

I picked up Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine for this one! I have quite a few books that could've worked, but I've been wanting to read this for so long I'm going with it!

Working at an academic library, you never know what is going to jump off the shelf and say "read me". Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand: And Other Life (and Death) Lessons from the Front Lines of Forensics was one of those. I read it on my occasional lunch hour, when I would multitask by reading while getting my steps in walking through the serial stacks. I didn't make very good progress, though, so I finally brought it home for the long weekend and finished it off. I'd give it 2.5/5.00 - the title is pretty catchy, though, don't you think?

While there are a number of books on my list that could fit this prompt I have wanted to read this one for awhile.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Faith Hunter –

I'll read David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks for this prompt. I've wanted to read this for ages.

I am reading Dragon Teeth. A quick read, and one that's based on a true story. I totally got sucked in by the book's cover!

What are you reading for this category?
Les Cadavres n'ont pas froid aux yeux - Andrea H. Japp

Literal translation: Corpses don't have cold eyes
[to not have cold eyes = French expression for "being fearless"]
"Proper" translation: Corpses have no fear

I will be reading Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough because how can you resist a book that people are exclaiming "WTFthatending" about all over the interwebs?

There are so many books out there with body parts in the title! I think I have settled on The Bone Collector

Apologies in advance ... 🤣

I'm reading Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James. I was hoping to read something non-fiction that was on my shelf and, well ... there it was.

Bahahahahaha

The Haunted Vagina by Carlton Mellick III

Some bizzaro-fiction I decided to try....And was left not really knowing how to feel about it.

I read Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli. The narrative switches between an author's family life and the novel that she's writing. It is both well written and well translated. Very glad my friend picked this for our book club.

I'm read with The Whispering Skull.

I went with the word BLOOD

I read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I read

This is my first time reading M.C. Beaton and her Agatha Raisin series. It was a quick read and quite enjoyable. I found the character of Agatha Raisin pretty flat & her habit of continually thinking of men as marriage material was a little tiresome. I won't be in a hurry to read any other of the series.

Children of Blood and Bone

I read Blood Rites from the Dresden Files. this series, which I already enjoyed, went to a new level with this book.

I will read City of Bones

My other book is far from a page-turner (it's far from narrative non-fiction), so I've swapped to A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, as I'm scared of getting behind on our challenge.

The readathon was a blessing and a curse - so much fun, but so burnt out!

What are you reading for this category?
Half a Heart by Karen McQuestion

This was one where I read it first and thankfully it fit a category. Plus I didn't have anything picked out for this prompt yet- bonus!

I've had a great reading day today, granted they've all been very short, but who cares. Just added The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil to my read list. A weird and fun graphic novel. I can't remember how I came across this, but the title caught my attention and I'm glad I got around to reading it.

I am reading The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. I bought it because I was intrigued by the title. I also gave a copy to my uncle and he loved it, so that is a good sign.

I read and thoroughly loved and recommend The Hearts of Horses. Book club is reading it now and I have heard nothing bad so far. For my book club, this is a miracle. Historical fiction, Oregon territory, very interesting and fulfilling.

I read Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill. Definitely recommend it if you like horror, and it would work for the ghost story prompt too.

I'm reading The Bone People by Keri Hulme for this prompt. So interesting so far.

I am doing The Story of My Teethby Valeria Luiselli.

What are you reading for this category?

The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson