Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

✔️June
Completed: 4/4

1. National Ballpoint Pen Day
a. A book with a writing utensil on the cover
b. A book written under a pen name
✔️c. A book about a writer, bookseller, or librarian
Akbar: Martyr!

2. National Prune Day
✔️a. A book written by someone over the age of 60
Gébler (b. 1954): I, Antigone (2021)
b. A book with more than 400 pages
c. A book with purple on the cover

3. Let's Catch a Movie
a. Author's initials can be found in BLOCKBUSTER FILM
✔️b. A book that has been adapted into a movie or series
Anonymous, tr. W.S. Merwin: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
c. A book published in the last two years


4. Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin
a. A book with at least 4 colors on the cover
✔️b. A translated book
Posthuma, tr. Harvey: What I'd Rather Not Think About
c. A book with a seven in the page count


✔️July
Completed: 4/4

1. Happy Birthday Satchel Paige
a. A book whose author's initials appear in CURVEBALL
Ursula LeGuin: The Tombs of Atuan
b. A book featuring a sport
✔️c. A book with a black main character
Smith: The Fraud (464 pages)

2. The Apollo Moon Landing
a. A book set in space
✔️b. A book with the moon on the cover
Wodehouse: The Small Bachelor

c. A book published in the 1960s
Herbert: Dune

3. Let's Go on a Hike
a. A book with a cover of a nature scene without people
b. A book set in a rural area
✔️c. A book with an element of survival
Miéville: Kraken

4. Dog Days of Summer
a. A book with a dog on the cover
b. A book with a hot setting
✔️c. An author's first book
Baldree: Legends & Lattes

✔️August
Completed: 4/4

1. The Destruction of Pompeii
a. A book featuring an ancient civilization
b. A book with red on the cover
✔️c. A book set in a city
Ballard: Crash - Set in London

2. Vacation Time
a. A book you've been meaning to read
✔️b. A book by a favorite author
Pratchett: Making Money
c. A book set somewhere you would like to visit

3. Let's Play a Game
✔️a. A book with multiple points of view
Orange: There There
b. A book by an author whose initials appear in SCRABBLE
c. A book in a series


4. Back to School Sales
a. A book borrowed from the library
b. A nonfiction book
Haynes: Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
✔️c. A book with a character in an educational setting
Novik: The Last Graduate

Finished all 12!