What I’m Going to Read: Round 2

To my great surprise, once again this month, the randomly selected winner picked a book I’d already read. The winner (I feel so silly using that word because you aren’t winning anything. I feel like I should send you a check or something, but I have no money, so that’s clearly not a great option) is Kath from Bookworm Nation. Her suggestion was The Loser’s Guide to Life and Love by A. E. Cannon, which is a very fun twist on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I loved it when I read it last summer.

Her new suggestion was Radiant Darkness, which I will read in August. It looks like just my kind of book!

The other suggestions, and wow, there were some good ones this month:

• The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keys and the Men Who Starved for Science by Todd Tucker (Poodle)
• Amy’s Eyes by Richard Kennedy (Janelle)
• My Enemy’s Cradle by Sara Young (Lexilooo) (She also suggested Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, but I only counted one entry for her, which you rule-sticklers will be glad to hear).
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Zillah)
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Megan)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Heidikins)
• These is my Words by Nancy E. Turner (Diana Banana)
• Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty (Elizabeth)
• Marley & Me by Josh Grogan (Ellen)
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Carly Jane)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (RA)
• Oddballs by William Sleator (Noelle)
• A Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn (Packrat)
• Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza (Jodi)
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Linda)
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Sherry)
• Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos (Emily)
• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (Picture Taker)
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Kate)
• Daughter of the Forest byJuliet Marillier (Angie)
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery (Kristen)
• The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer (Mary)
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Melanie)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Shelly)
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Jody)
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (Kimberly)
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Katherine)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Yankee Girl)
• The Alchemyst by Michael Scott (Alison)
• Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas (Tootie)
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver (Jenny)
• The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Pratchett (Kelly J)
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (Life is Dreaming)
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Jenn)
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Suey)
• Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock (Lisa)
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Small Dog)
• Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind (Liz)

Last time, I’d read 7 of the 32 suggestions.

This time I’ve read 5 of the 41 suggestions:

• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Megan)
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Carly Jane)
• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (Picture Taker)
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Kate)

Also, before you think I can’t count, five includes those four, plus Bookworm Nation’s original suggestion.