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NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 3568 comments How It Works
For this challenge, you will be trying to fulfill the letters in the following phrase: SNOWFLAKES FALLING

You can fulfill these letters by using the first letter of the title, the first letter of the author's first or last name, or the first letter of the main genre of the book.

S - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
N - The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren, Non-fiction
O - The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel by Ruth Ozeki
W - Writers & Lovers by Lily King
F -Harry's Trees Fiction
L - Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova, Non-fiction, Science
A - A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
K - The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, Literary Fiction
E - My Brilliant Friend by Elena
S - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert, NF, Science

F - We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
A - I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short, autobiography
L - When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
L - The Overstory by Richard Powers , Literary Fiction
I- Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Philip Dettmer
N - Greenwood by Michael Christie, Nature
G - The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes


message 2: by NancyJ (last edited Jan 27, 2022 04:17PM) (new)

NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 3568 comments Dec 1 2021 - Feb 28 2022

Read: (title, author, genres
December
🌹The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes, fiction, historical fiction, women's fiction
🌹Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen- fiction - (F fiction)
🌹The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, Literary Fiction
🌹Writers & Lovers by Lily King, Literary Fiction
🌹A Northern Light byJennifer Donnelly
🌹My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, Literary, Italian lit (EFLI)
🌹Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova
🌹The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, Literary Fiction (NKFL)
🌹The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel by Ruth Ozeki (O, F, L)

January
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Science (WLS)
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer nf, science, environment (SFNE)
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by
Elizabeth Kolbert- nonfiction, science, environment (SEKN)
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive by Phillip Dettmer, Science (IS)
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here by Hope Jahren, Nonfiction, Science, Environment (SNE)
I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short, nonfiction, autobiography (IASN)
Greenwood by Michael Christie, fiction, nature
The Overstory by Richard Powers , Literary Fiction
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, Science Fiction

Additional/Upcoming Reading
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben, nonfiction
The Inflammation Spectrum: Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System by Will Cole
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the UnthinkableAmitav Ghosh
The Hungry Tide
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki


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