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⚘⚘⚘ Bana's 2024 ATY Challenge ⚘⚘⚘

I guess I'll kind of try to read in order, at least within the quarter. But who knows.

Index:
ATY listopias in order

My Other Challenges/Book Club books
My January TBR
My Anticipated 2024 releases
My series

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1st quarter:

✔ 1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y
- Gallant by V.E. Schwab - ★★★★☆
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Jade City by Fonda Lee

✓ 2. A book connected to something you read in 2023
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - ★★★★.5
- anything by Brandon Sanderson
- anything by Emily Henry
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

✔ 3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list
--- A book related to a bridge
- One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig - ★★★★.5
--- A book that is an Audie award winner or nominee (read in any format)
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

✔ 4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
- Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig ★★★★.5
- Oz, Complete Collection, Volume 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / The Marvelous Land of Oz / Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World by Adam M. Grant
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells

✔ 5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world
- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell ★★★★☆
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Babel by R.F. Kuang


✔ 6. A book with wings on the cover
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros - ★★☆☆☆
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown

✔ 7. A book with a pronoun in the title
- How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety by Ellen Hendriksen - ★★★★☆
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
- Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

✔ 8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand
- Weyward by Emilia Hart - ★★★★☆
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier

✓ 9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads
- Rogan’s POV #1 by Ilona Andrews - ★★★☆☆
- The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao
- Sanity, Insanity and Common Sense by Rick Suarez
- SSKAIT COMICS 2: Dad, Daddy, Baby by AJ Bacar


✓ 10. A history or historical fiction book
- When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill - ★★★★.5
- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

✔ 11. A book with an X connection
- The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon - ★★★★☆
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

✔ 12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert - ★★★☆☆
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

✔ 13. A book that is on a Five Books List; reader’s choice of which list
(Essential dark academia)
- The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - ★★★☆☆
(Best Audiobooks of 2023 (so far))
- Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER by Farzon A. Nahvi
- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
- The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley

Ana AZ's 2024 ATY Challenge

2nd quarter:

(view spoiler)[14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color
- Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- The Housekeeper & the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
- Maame by Jessica George

15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQZX)
- Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- I Love You More by Jennifer Murphy
- Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs"
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty

17. A book involving intelligence
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

18. A book with a botanical cover
- Belladonna by Adalyn Grace
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
- When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

20. A book with a single word title
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

21. A book with a title containing 6+ words
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

22. A book by an author from an African country
- Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett
- Beach Read by Emily Henry
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross

24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple)
- When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
- Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

25. A book involving a crime other than a murder
- The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi (heist?)
- The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
- My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

26. A book by an author known by their initials
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
- Family of Liars by E. Lockhart
- Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
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Ana AZ's 2024 ATY Challenge

3rd quarter:
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27. A book related to land
- Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
- The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee
- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

28. A book related to sea
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
- A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

29. A book related to air
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- The Surviving Sky by Kritika H. Rao
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea
- The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

31. A book related to “Going for the Gold”
- The Goldfinch
- Red Rising
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January

32. A book with a number in the title
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
- The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story by Hyeonseo Lee

33. A book involving travel
- Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
- The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman

34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert
- Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
- Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

35. A science or science fiction book
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir


36. A book featuring a character in education
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Babel by R.F. Kuang
- If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

37. A book that is part of a series
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell

38. Two books with similar covers: Book 1
39. Two books with similar covers: Book 2
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Ana AZ's 2024 ATY Challenge

4th quarter:
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40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover
- Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa
- The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent

41. A book with a chilling atmosphere
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
- Pet Sematary by Stephen King

42. A book with a sound-related word in the title
- The Wake-Up Call by Beth O'Leary
- Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer
- A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury

43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author
- Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

44. A book with a touch of magic
- The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

45. A book that is not a novel
- Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

46. A book related to night
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
- The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell

47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE
- The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- The Wager by David Grann
- The Alienist by Caleb Carr

48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt

49. A book with a senior citizen character
- The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
- Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon

50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

51. A book published in 2024
- Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire
- The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black
- The Fury by Alex Michaelides

52. A cozy mystery
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- Anxious People
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Other Challenges/Other Stuff
My 2023 ATY Challenge
My Feb 2024 Readathon

BOTM Subscription Box Reads
Dec (2023) - The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
Jan (2024)
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov

The Hidden Library Buddy Reads
✔ Jan - One Dark Window
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

My GR TBR: (view spoiler)[I'll arrange my GR TBR from date added, oldest first, then show only 50 books per page (so that there are 12 pages). On January, I'll pick something from page 1, ideally something I already own, then on February something on page 2, and so on. (hide spoiler)]
Jan - Darkenheight: The Watershed Trilogy 2
Feb - The Fifth Season
Mar - My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

I'd like my monthly TBRs to have (overlapping is encouraged):

✔ a. 4 ATYs
✔ b. 2 physical books
✔ c. 1 sequel read
X d. 1 book published in Nov 16, 2023 - 2024/BOTM box
✔ e. 1 Hidden Library book club read
✔ f. 1 non-fiction, reread, or second chance

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January TBR
*For ATY*
✔ 1. Gallant by VE Schwab
✔ 2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (reread)
3. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
✔ 4. The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
✔ 6: One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (also for the Hidden Library book club)

*Side reads/no designation yet*
7. CR: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (reread)
✔ 8. How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety
9. The Winners by Fredrik Backman -- possibly for prompt 2: A book connected to something you read in 2023 (ebook)
10. The Eye of the World - read with FunFantasyBooks
11. Darkenheight: The Watershed Trilogy 2 - GR TBR read

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4. The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich - non-fic
Last Argument of Kings - sequel read, physical
7. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - because it just sounds fun, ebook
8. Guards! Guards! - because of Merphy Napier, ebook
10. (D&J Secret Santa)

TBR if I were following what I originally plotted:
Week 1: Title ending in ATY - Lessons in Chemistry
Week 2: Connected to 2023 - The Winners
Week 3: Prompt that didn't make it in - Project Hail Mary (A book that is an Audie award winner or nominee (read in any format))
Week 4: What a Wonderful World - All Systems Red
Week 5: 25 Most Beautiful Cities - Babel

February TBR(view spoiler)[
1. The Great Hunt
2. some romances! <3
3. The Atlas Six
4. Fourth Wing - GR CA group
5. Poverty, by America - GR CA group
6. Chain-Gang All-Stars - GR CA group
7. The Fury - because 2024 release
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10. (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

MY ANTICIPATED 2024 RELEASES


The Fury by Alex Michaelides
Release date: January 16
I only read The Silent Patient which I really liked, not The Maidens which I heard not so good things about, so I'm hoping that this one is more like the first one.

Island Witch by Amanda Jayatissa
Release date: February 20
Haven't read anything by this author before, but I am very interested in witchy books, plus this is set in Sri Lanka! I don't think I've ready anything set there before.

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
Release date: February 20
I liked his book about habits, plus I'm not the best communicator out there, so I think I'll really like this read.

The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black
Release date: April 2
This is the second book in the Stolen Heir duology. I really enjoyed The Folk of the Air trilogy, but didn't really like the first book in this new series. Here's hoping the second book will be better.

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Release date: April 9
Because Bardugo is pretty amazing! This is my five-star prediction.

Funny Story by Emily Henry
Release date: April 23
I enjoyed two of Henry's books, but DNF'd her latest one. Hoping that I'll like this one.

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Interested, but they're sequels I'm not caught up with:
The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake
Release date: January 9
It's the third book in a series I haven't started yet, but I am very interested especially since the author is part Filipino.

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao
Release date: April 30
This is the second book in a series I haven't started yet, but I heard some interesting things about the first book. But honestly it's the cow costume that made me put the first book in my TBR.

🚀 JANUARY WEEK 1

- Finished Rogan’s POV #1 by Ilona Andews
- 3 stars
- For prompt 9: A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads -- as of finishing it, it only has 1,095 ratings.
- This is bonus material for the book Burn for Me, part of the Hidden Legacy series. It's very short and it left me wanting more.

Maybe I should make it a January 1 tradition to read the shortest thing on my TBR so I can have a quick win.

Desperately trying to finish Wuthering Heights for a book club discussion on January 7!

🚀 JANUARY WEEK 2

- Finally finished Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte!
- 4.5 stars (rounded up)
- For ATY prompt 2: A book connected to something you read in 2023. I'm in a book club since last year and this is one of the picks.
- This is a reread for me. The first time I read this was 13 years ago and I LOVED it. It was a favorite! But now, I still really liked it, but half a star less than I loved it before.

- Finished One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
- 4.5 stars rounded down
- For ATY prompt 3: A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list -- A book related to a bridge. It has a bridge on the cover, but it actually isn't significant in the book.
- I have never heard of this book before until it was chosen for my book club. I was cautious about reading it because it looked like a typical YA fantasy romance (judging a book by its cover), but it was such a pleasant surprise! I really liked this book. It's not even YA. The author says it's adult but accessible to older YA. And the romance was done so well! <3

- Finished the short story Five Silver Rings by Zack Argyle
- 5 stars! Did not expect that my first full 5 stars (not like 4.5 rounded up) would be a short story.
- Side read. Couldn't fit it into this quarter's ATY prompts.
- This story is amazing. I felt so much in so few pages. I had goosebumps reading this (not in a scary way, just in a this-writing-is-amazing way). Go read it, it's free!

🚀 JANUARY WEEK 3

- Finished The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
- 4 stars!
- For prompt 11: A book with an X connection
- I should read more romance. It's fun!

- Finished How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety by Ellen Hendriksen
- 4 stars
- For prompt ✔ 7. A book with a pronoun in the title - Yourself
- This was pretty good. There were some metaphors that I thought were kinda funny and didn't fit, but I thought this book had good tips.

🚀 JANUARY WEEK 4

- Finished Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
- 4.5 stars, rounded up for GR
- It's for prompt 4: A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong -- because of "trees"
- This is the 2nd book in The Shepherd King duology and it delivered!

- Finished Gallant by VE Schwab
- 4 stars
- For ATY prompt 1:A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y. Finally! I was able to finish the first prompt before January ends.
- This took me a little while to get into because I was fatigued from Belladonna. It had very similar concepts with this book: orphan girl who can see ghosts and is mysteriously summoned to a rich relative's house. But I'm glad I stuck through this because this was better than Belladonna, IMO. It had Coraline and Ninth House vibes, both of which I loved.

*** S E R I E S ***

Series I started this year
- The Shepherd King by Rachel Gillig (2 books)
One Dark Window

Series I want to finish this year
- The Beartown Trilogy by Richard Backman
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

Series I finished this year
- The Shepherd King by Rachel Gillig (2 books)

***JANUARY WRAP-UP***
*The books: I finished eight books, two of which are short stories.


*My favorite: The Shepherd King duology by Rachel Gillig. One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns. These are actually 4.5 star books but they are really fun!

*ATY Update: 7/52
Finished prompts 9, 2, 3, 11, 7, 4 and 1.

*Genres:
- fantasy - 5
- classic - 1
- romance - 1
- nonfiction -1

*Formats:
- ebook - 6
- physical 2

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FEBRUARY TBR
Currently reading, hoping to finish:
✔ 1. When Women Were Dragons
2. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy - reread nonfiction
3. The Winners (ebook) - to finish a series

TBR:
4. The Eye of the World - book club, ATY TBR for over a year
✔ 5. The Starless Sea (ebook) - book club, ATY Five book list (five essential Dark Academia novels)
6. The Great Hunt - book club
7. The Shadow of the Wind – ATY beautiful cities
✔ 8. Fourth Wing (ebook) - GR Choice Awards, ATY wing on the cover, and because it's February (romance)
9. Poverty, by America (ebook) - GR Choice Awards
10. Chain-Gang All-Stars (ebook) - GR Choice Awards (nominee), black history month

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♥ February Week 1
- I decided not to finish rereading Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy since there's actually a huge chunk in the book that I don't care to read again. Though I'll still leaf through it every now and then, especially if I'm looking for something specific.
- Didn't finish anything this week

♥ February Week 2

- Finished When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
- 4.5 stars!
- Read it for prompt 10. A history or historical fiction book. It's set in the 1950s - '60s
- I really loved this. It's about female rage and scientific inquiry.


- Finished Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
- 3 stars! But 3 good stars
- For prompt 12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year. I put it there in December 2022
- This was a fun and cute romance. It took me two days to read so it was quick, but there were just a few things that I thought could have been better.


- Finished Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
- 2.75 stars
- Side read. It's in my 24 for 2024 list
- It's... fine. There are some good advice, but it's just so simple and simplistic. I guess it's good for those new to the self-help genre, or for those who don't really read much.


- Finished Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- 2 stars
- For ATY prompt 6. A book with wings on the cover
- The first part was fun, but the second part was just so questionable. And the love interests: so toxic. Or should I say: So. Toxic. The periods were so annoying too.

♥ February Week 3

- Didn't finish anything because Fourth Wing put me in a reading slump...

♥ February Week 4

- Finished The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
- 3 stars
- For ATY prompt 13. A book that is on a Five Books List; 5 essential dark academia novels
- This was actually really good but readers should have a particular mindset while reading this and I just got fatigued from the whimsy of it all. Reminds me of reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. If I ever reread this though, I might rate it higher.

***Note to self for March TBR:
- have a mix of genres!
- have a mix of short and heavy books
- have a mix of series and standalones
- add new releases

***FEBRUARY WRAP-UP***


*The books: I finished five books


*My favorite: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

*ATY Update: 11/52
Finished prompts 10, 12, 6 and 13 this month

*Genres:
- fantasy - 3
- romance - 1
- nonfiction -1

*Formats:
- ebook - 2
- physical - 3

MARCH Reading List
Currently reading, hoping to finish:
✔ 1. The Winners - ebook, to finish a series
2. The Eye of the World - 24 books for 2024
✔ 3. The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want - nonfic
✔ 4. Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution - nonfic
✔ 5. Weyward - ebook, for ATY and GR CA 2023

TBR:
✔ 6. Spin the Dawn - ebook, for Book Chikas PH book club
7. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - ebook, for The Hidden Library book club
8. The Shadow of the Wind - for ATY, 24 books for 2024
9. The Fury - ebook, new release
10. The Atlantis Complex - to continue a series

🍀March Week 1

- Finished The Winners by Fredrik Backman
- 4 stars
- side read
- Third book in the Beartown trilogy. Ouch. All I can say is ouch.

- Finished The How Of Happiness: A Practical Guide to Getting The Life You Want by by Sonja Lyubomirsky
- 4 stars
- side read
- I first heard about Sonja Lyubomirsky through Dr. Laurie Santos' class in Yale (through Coursera) on The Science of Well-Being. I found this helpful but I wish there wasn't so much religious stuff here.


***Note to self:
April focus on new releases!
- The Fury
- Prisoner's Throne
- Island Witch
- Supercommunicators

🍀March Week 2

- Finished Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
- 2.75 stars
- side read (for another book club)
- It's a mediocre YA fantasy. I won't be reading book 2 in the series, but I am still interested in other works by this author.

🍀March Week 3

- Finished Weyward by Emilia Hart
- 4 stars!
- For ATY prompt 8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand
- This is a magic realism historical fiction (well, two storylines are historical while one storyline is contemporary) about the Weyward women.

- Finished Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
- 4 stars!
- For ATY prompt ✔ 5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world: Paris and London
- It's funny that this book shows the ugly side of these beautiful cities.

🍀March Week 4

- Finished Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins
- 5 stars!
- Not for ATY
- This is a nonfiction science book, but I really love the writing. It brought back a sense of wonder for the natural world for me. It was like watching National Geographic or Discovery Channel when I was a kid.

- Finished Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
- 4 stars
- Not for ATY
- This was for The Hidden Library book club. It was fun. Reminds me of The Cruel Prince. Wendell Bambleby is a terrible name for a love interest though.

- Finished There are No Falling Stars in China by Marga Ortigas
- 4.5 stars
- Not for ATY
- It's a collection of essays that's beautifully written. It talks about the author's time as a journalist in different countries and the lessons she's learned.

***MARCH WRAP-UP***


*I finished eight books:


*My favorite: Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins

*ATY Update: 13/52
Finished all the prompts for the first quarter

*Genres:
- fantasy - 2
- contemporary - 1
- nonfiction - 4
- historical fiction - 1

*Formats:
- ebook - 4
- physical - 4

APRIL Reading List
Currently Reading:
1. The Eye of the World
2. Dale Carnegie Omnibus - Vol. 2 DNF
3. The Prisoner's Throne
TBR:
4. The Fury
5. Howl’s Moving Castle
6. I See You
7. The Atlantis Complex
8. Take a Hint, Dani Brown
9. The Familiar
10. Girl, Woman, Other

May TBR (lol is it too soon?)
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
The Great Hunt
Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Books from a December 2022 haul:
King of Scars
The Deceivers
The Marvelous Land of Oz

🌷 April Week 1

- DNF'd Dale Carnegie Omnibus (How to Stop Worrying and Start Living/How to Enjoy Your Life and Job) - Vol. 2

- Finished Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
- 4.5 stars! <3
- Loved this. This was friends to lovers done well!