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My Progress on the 2020 A to Z Challenge

February 24, 2020 By Linda Jo Martin Leave a Comment

This challenge came from a Goodreads group. I found it in 2020. I’ve just added a few books to the list but I still have many more to find and read.

Plan A to Z - lettering by Linda Jo Martin

The flower alphabet is a class project I did a few years back. The teacher is Joanne Sharpe.


This A to Z Reading Challenge comes from For Love of a Book, a Goodreads Group.

Originally posted on February 24, 2020. That was the year the great pandemic started, and also the year my home burned in a forest fire. Needless to say, I didn’t finish this challenge in 2020. I’m still working on it now.

☆ – this means I’m currently reading it
✓ – this means I finished reading the book

✓ A – Read a book with a main character who is Abusive – Where the Crawdads Sing – there are a couple of abusive characters, and though they aren’t the main character, they are important to the plot. If I find something more on point I’ll add that later in the year.

Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing


B – Read a book that has a Ball on the cover

C – Read a book with a MC who Calls someone in the book – Little Fires Everywhere – In chapter ten, Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. McCullough converse via cordless phones.

Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere


✓ D – Read a book with a main character who has earned a Degree – Lab Girl – this is a memoir about a young woman with a PhD, working as a botanist. There are lots of info-dumps about trees, but still, a great memoir for anyone wanting to know what it is like to work in and run a science laboratory on a university campus.

Lab Girl
Lab Girl – via audiobook


E – Read a book where an Election takes place

F – Read a book about a Famous person

G– Read a book with a Grandparent as a MC – Pachinko is an inter-generational family saga. Plenty of grandparents.

Pachinko
Pachinko

✓ H – Read a book with someone wearing a Hat on the cover – Digging In – a fun novel about a widowed woman working at an advertising agency, who finds peace by digging up her yard.

Digging In
Digging In


✓ I – Read a book about an Intelligence Agency – Beneath a Scarlet Sky – I believe this novel qualifies as the main character worked as a spy for the Italian resistance during World War II.

Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Beneath a Scarlet Sky


J – Read a book with a character who tells a Joke

K – Read a book with a first Kiss

✓ L – Read a book translated from another Language – My Brilliant Friend – this novel was written in Italian and is about children growing up in Naples, Italy.

My Brilliant Friend
My Brilliant Friend


M – Read a book with a Mathematical symbol on the cover

N – Read a book with a character who gets Naked at some point – Lonesome Dove – A whole bunch of characters got naked while riding around on horses on the prairie. What a crazy novel! But it won the Pulitzer Prize.

Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove – via audiobook


O – Read a book that with a character described as Old-fashioned

P – Read a book with a character who eats Pizza

Q – Read a book with a Quote at the beginning of the book

✓ R – Read a book with a Red cover – Beloved – just look at it. You can’t get a cover redder than that!

Beloved
Beloved


S – Read a book with a character who Screams at some point

T – Read a book with a MC who rides in a Taxi

U – Read a book with MC who describes themselves as Ugly

V – Read a book about the outbreak of a Virus – This is a heartbreaking YA historical fiction novel based on Philadelphia history.

Fever 1793
Fever 1793


W – Read a book with a character who visits a Website – This is a memoir. At one point Ramie visits a website to get ideas about healthcare for her mother-in-law. Great memoir, by the way. I recommend it.

Driving Miss Norma
Driving Miss Norma


X – Read a book written by an author with an X in their name

Y – Read a Young-Adult book – I listened to the audiobook version of this book and it was fantastic. One of the characters is a podcaster and the audio reader had the perfect podcast voice.

Sadie
Sadie


Z – Read a book with a Zero in the page count – American Dirt, 400 pages.

American Dirt
American Dirt


Book Lady’s Notes

The Patron Saint of Butterflies has a crystal ball on the cover, for prompt B.

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