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Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books

This could be your Book About Books for the 2017 Reading Challenge. From the publisher: “Michael Dirda has been hailed as ‘the best-read person in America’ (The Paris Review). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded for his reviews in The Washington Post, Dirda’s latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves. Reaching from the classics to the post-moderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace. Funny and erudite, Browsings is a celebration of the reading life, and perfect for any booklover.”

10 books about books and reading

Does it get any nerdier than this? The sixth category for the 2017 Reading Challenge—for those of you who want

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

I think I might read this for the 2017 Reading Challenge, as a book I chose for the cover. (I already heard it’s great, but that cover is amazing!) From the publisher: “In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn’t turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.”

The Liars’ Club: A Memoir

I loved Lit but have never read this one; it’s on my list for the 2017 Reading Challenge (“a juicy memoir”). From the publisher: “When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form…. [T]his unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as “funny, lively, and un-put-downable” (USA Today) today as it ever was.”

This Is Where It Ends

This could be an #ownvoices pick for the 2017 Reading Challenge. From the publisher: “10:00 a.m. The principal of Opportunity, Alabama’s high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve. 10:02 a.m. The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class. 10:03 The auditorium doors won’t open. 10:05 Someone starts shooting. Told from four perspectives over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one student’s calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.”

The Futures

This is a terrific price on a brand new release, and could absolutely be “a book you choose for the cover” in the 2017 Reading Challenge. From the publisher: “In this dazzling debut novel about love and betrayal, a young couple moves to New York City in search of success-only to learn that the lives they dream of may come with dangerous strings attached.” Marie Claire says this is “a story that feels familiar yet wholly original, like every heartbreak ever.” Add Audible narration for $12.99.

Loving My Actual Life: An Experiment in Relishing What’s Right in Front of Me

This is a great choice for your 2017 Reading Challenge book you chose for the cover. Kuykendall shares her nine month journey into finding joy and sanity amidst the busy-ness of raising four young kids, in this funny, touching memoir.

On the Edge of Gone

This is a fantastic pick for the #ownvoices or #diversebooks category of the 2017 Reading Challenge. January 29, 2035. That’s the day the comet is scheduled to hit—the big one. Denise and her family—along with everyone else—are racing to secure passage on the ships that will transport them off the planet. From Kirkus: “…what makes this a winner is the nerve-racking adventure. Life-affirming science fiction with spaceships, optimism in the apocalypse, and a diverse cast that reflects the real world.”

All the Birds in the Sky

Some of you are choosing this highly rated YA novel as your pick for “an #ownvoices or #diversebooks author” for the MMD 2017 Reading Challenge. The website io9.com called this “a stunning novel about the end of the world – and the beginning of our future.”

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