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halloweenvalentine1997 · 10 months

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A recommended list of books I own and read

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Fatal Flowers by Rosemary Daniell

Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

The Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall

What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes

The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes

The Old Contemptibles By Martha Grimes

The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes

Help the Poor Struggler by Martha Grimes

And Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Watching You by Lisa Jewell

Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

The Truth about Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell

A Demon in my View by Ruth Rendell

Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates

The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates

The Doll Master by Joyce Carol Oates

Night Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates

The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates

Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates

High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates

I Know You Know by Gilly Macmillan

The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark

Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell

Dead Run by Erica Spindler

Carrie by Stephen King

The Shining by Stephen King

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

The Stand by Stephen King

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul

A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

The Third Twin by Ken Follett

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison

When Shadows Fall by J.T. Ellison

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller by Henry James

The Good Girl by Mary Kubica

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

My Sweet Audrina by by V.C. Andrews

The Cutler series by V.C. Andrews

The Logan series by V.C. Andrews

The Hudson series by V.C. Andrews

Ruby by V.C. Andrews

Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews

The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag

The Elizas by Sara Shepard

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

Wait for Me by Sara Shepard

Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shepard

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Summer by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule

Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule

Every Breath You Take by Ann Rule

The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh

Slenderman by Kathleen Hale

Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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serethereal · 2 years

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10 books to get to know me

thank you for tagging me @fastasyoucan1999 @pancakehouse and @arakhnee xx

a little princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett - read this as a kid and it just tore my heart apart and then put it back together. ultimately the book that made me fall in love w reading. still have the original copy in my room even.

a thousand splendid suns, Khaled Hosseini - read it once at 15 and then never again idk if i can ever go back to it again but it will always be in my top ten. story follows 2 womens lives in 1990s Afghanistan.

frankenstein, Mary Shelley - literally transformative like it walked into my brain shook it around and walked out every reread is better than the last Mary Shelley you will always be famous.

pride and prejudice, Jane Austen - my book.. my dads a huuuuuge classics fan and so we read all of them growing up but this one was always just incredibly special to me. love you forever and ever lizzy.

my sisters keeper, Jodi Picoult - DO NOT WATCH THE MOVIE. my best friend gave me this book to read when i said it wasn't that good a story (based off the movie) and she was like no you have to read it trust me its so good. i did. and she was right.

their eyes were watching god, Zora Neale Hurston - changed lives (mine). no but really book of all time like words will not do it justice if you haven't read it please do it is a masterpiece.

a series of unfortunate events, Lemony Snicket - yes the whole bunch and yes thats technically cheating but idc they are SO GOOD. love the writing love the Baudelaire's. the only tragedy struck siblings ever actually

coraline, Neil Gaiman - another children's book and idgaf its SO good literally read it twice back to back she was that girl !! to me!!

rosemary's baby, Ira Levin - i'm mental ab this book. like. insane. so well written rosemary horror protagonist of all time actually

crying in h mart, Michelle Zauner - heart ripped out of my chest over and again book that explores love loss identity and grief in such a real way i can not recommend it enough.

tagging: @vexedtonightmares @alpacinolover @youngestdaughtersyndrome @girljeremystrong @steelycunt @thebloatedfrog and @ufo-dyke <33

#almost put a steinbeck on here but realized actually no wait this is already ten yayyy now i can continue to praise him in private xx #tag game #reading tag

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maraismagic · 2 years

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paulinedorchester · 3 years

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Mosley, Leonard. Backs to the Wall: London Under Fire, 1939-1954. London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971; reprint, as Backs to the Wall: The Heroic Story of the People of London During World War II, New York: Random House, 1971.

Each generation gets the history that it needs — or wants, or demands. That’s what kept going through my head as I read Backs to the Wall, which appeared three years after France’s youth explicitly rejected both Charles de Gaulle, the self-appointed leader of the Free French during World War II, and the political ideology that he represented, and amidst ongoing unrest over the Vietnam War. (It’s also worth mentioning that it was published in the same year as Norman Longmate’s How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War and two years after Angus Calder’s The People’s War.) This book gives up a World War II narrative in which Churchill was an improvement on Chamberlain only in that he wasn’t an appeaser, de Gaulle was worse than both of them put together, the Allied leaders all cordially loathed each other, half the British public wanted to sue for peace, and there was across-the-board mutual dislike between London civilians and American troops (and British dismay at the way African-American troops were treated by their white counterparts was far from universal). Do I exaggerate? Only slightly. Backs to the Wall is a sort of distant, city-specific pre-echo of Juliet Gardner’s sour 2004 book Wartime: Britain, 1939-45.

As with Wartime, however, this book does have the virtue of introducing us to a number of very interesting people. I became interested in reading it because it brought Vere Hodgson’s wartime diary to public attention. Mosley quotes or paraphrases Hodgson’s writing from the beginning of the war through its end, and also seems to have interviewed her extensively. His primary villain, meanwhile, is not Chamberlain but Chamberlain’s chief acolyte, Henry “Chips” Channon, from whose diary he quotes widely (and who turns out to have been born and raised in the United States, to my surprise). We hear a great deal from the chemist and novelist C.P. Snow and follow the misadventures of two civilians, Jenny Martin and Polly Wright, whose consistency in both bad luck and bad choices meant that neither of them was able to stay out of serious trouble for any length of time.

There are many glimpses of the London home front through the eyes of two boys, both eight when the war began: John Hardiman, of Canning Town and later of Aldgate, who was evacuated in 1939 but soon returned to London, and Donald Ketley of Chadwell Heath, who was never evacuated at all. Donald, who thoroughly enjoyed himself during the war, had an experience that speaks to our own recent reality:

Another good thing: quite early in the Blitz, his school had been totally destroyed by a bomb. Since Donald was shy, a poor student and unpopular with his teacher, he was overjoyed when he heard the place was gone. Thereafter he went each day to his teacher’s home to pick up lessons, which he brought back the next day for marking. In the following months he changed from a poor student to an excellent one, and although he was aware that his teacher rather resented it, he didn’t care.

Mosley also introduces us to Archibald McIndoe, the real-life counterpart of Patrick Jamieson, Bill Patterson’s character in the Foyle’s War episode ‘Enemy Fire.’ Art seems to have imitated life pretty accurately in that instance: he and his burn hospital in East Grinstead were apparently exactly like what was depicted, the only difference being that the hospital was set up in an existing hospital building, not in a requisitioned stately home.

Backs to the Wall seems to have been one of the earliest books to make substantial use of Mass-Observation writings. Most M-O diaries are anonymous, but there are two named diarists here who stand out. John James Donald was a committed pacifist whose air of lofty detachment as he observes the reactions of those around him to air-raids and other wartime event and prepares for his tribunal — which, in the end, he decides not to attend — quickly grows irritating. More interesting is Rosemary Black, a 28-year-old widow, in no small part because she differs markedly from what I had thought of as the archetypical M-O writer. Here’s her self-description on M-O documents: “Upper-middle-class; mother of two children (girls aged 3 and 2); of independent means.” Mosley continues:

She lived in a trim three-story house in a quiet street of the fashionable part of Maida Vale, a short taxi ride from the center of the West End, whose restaurants and theatres she knew well. She was chic and attractive, and lacked very few of the niceties of life: there was Irene, a Hungarian refugee, to look after the children; Helen, a Scottish maid, to look after herself and the house; and a daily cleaning woman to do the major chores.

Black took her children out of London at the beginning of the war but quickly brought them back, and when bombs began falling she kept them in place — air raids might be disruptive for them, but apparently relocation had been worse. She was very much aware that she was riding out the war in a position of privilege, and she often expressed guilt feelings; but this tended to fade away before her irritation at the dominance of “the muddling amateur or the soulless bureaucrat” in the war effort. Offering her services, even as a volunteer, proved very frustrating. “She was young, strong and willing; she typed, spoke languages, was an expert driver and had taken a course in first aid,” Mosley tells us, “but finding a job even as a chauffeur was proving difficult” in September 1940. (She actually wasn’t all that strong physically: as we learn, she suffered from rheumatism which grew worse during the war years and probably affected her outlook.)

Black was greeted with “apathy and indifference” by both A.R.P. and the Women’s Voluntary Service. Early in 1941 she was finally able to get a place handing out tea, sandwiches, cake, and so on to rescue and clean-up workers at bomb sites from a Y.M.C.A. mobile canteen. She was a bit intimidated by the women with whom she found herself working:

Their class is right up to the county family level. Nearly everyone is tall above the average and remarkably hefty, even definitely large, not necessarily fat but broad and brawny. Perhaps this is something to do with the survival of the fittest.

And the work did bring her some satisfaction, even if it was of the type that lent itself to being recorded with tongue placed firmly in cheek:

We had a pleasant and uneventful day’s work serving City fire sites, the General Post Office, demolition workers and Home Guard Stations, etc. We were complimented at least half a dozen times on the quality of our tea ... I think the provision of saccharine for the tea urns to compensate for the mean sugar allowance is my most successful piece of war work. What did you do in the Great War, Mummy? Sneaked pills into the tea urns, darling.

For all her good humor and astute observations, Mrs. Black was far from immune to tiny-mindedness. After an evening out in 1943 she wrote:

I had to wait some time for the others in the cinema foyer, and I was much struck, as often before, by the almost complete absence of English people these days, from the capital of England. Almost every person who came in was either a foreigner, a roaring Jew, or both. The Cumberland [Hotel] has always been a complete New Jerusalem, but this evening it really struck me as no worse than anywhere else! It is really dismaying to see that this should be the result of this war in defence of our country.

Indeed, Mosley cites the results of a multi-year Mass-Observation study that showed a marked increase in anti-Jewish views London’s general population over the course of the war. Since it’s just one study, and since I haven’t seen that study mentioned anywhere else, I am reluctant to trust blindly in its accuracy; and there’s also this:

The small flat which George [Hardiman] had procured for [his family] ... in Aldgate was cleaner and airier than the old house in Canning Town [which had been bombed], and the little Jewish children with whom John now went to school seemed to be cleaner than the ones in Elm Road; at any rate, he no longer came home with nits in his hair.

On the other hand, Mosley himself gives us only a fragmentary view of London’s wartime Jewish population: everyone seems to be either a terrified refugee or an impoverished East Ender. We hear nothing about the substantial middle- and upper-middle class population — mostly of German descent and in some cases German birth — that had already taken shape in Northwest London; and while we are briefly introduced to Sir David Waley, a Treasury official, in connection with the case of an interned Jewish refugee, we aren’t told that Waley himself was Jewish, a member of “the cousinhood.” On yet a third hand, Mosley also quotes other M-O surveys from the same period that indicate largely hostile attitudes to most foreigners in London, with Poles at the bottom of the ladder and the small Dutch contingent on top. (Incidentally, the book’s extremely patchy index identifies Vere Hodgson as a Mass-Observation diarist, which she wasn’t.)

Backs to the Wall closes with a very brief, remarkably non-partisan account of the 1945 general election and its immediate aftermath. “Neither side had any inkling of the way the minds of the British voters were turning,” he writes.

When [Churchill’s] friends suggested that he was a victim of base ingratitude, he shook his head. He would not have such a charge leveled against his beloved countrymen. Ingratitude? "Oh, no," he said quietly, "I wouldn’t call it that. They have had a very hard time."

The book is worth reading for the primary materials that it includes, but it probably tells us as much about the era in which it was written as about the period that it covers.

#world war II #u.k. home front #london #non-fiction after the fact #recommended with reservations #long post

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capsulas · 4 years

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(vía Los 50 mejores libros infantiles de todos los tiempos, según Mizayaki)

The Borrowers, de Mary Norton

El principito, de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Los niños de Bullerbyn, de Astrid Lindgren

Cuando Marnie estuvo allí, de Joan G. Robinson

Swallows and Amazons, de Arthur Ransome

La clase voladora, de Erich Kästner

Éramos cinco, de Karel Poláček

What the Neighbours Did, and Other Stories, de Ann Philippa Pearce

Patines de plata, de Mary Mapes Dodge

El jardín secreto, de Frances Hodgson Burnett

El águila de la Novena Legión, de Rosemary Sutcliff

El tesoro de los Nibelungos, de Gustav Schalk

Los tres mosqueteros, de Alexandre Dumas

Un mago de Terramar, de Ursula K. Le Guin

Les princes du vent, de Michel-Aime Baudouy

The Flambard Series, de K. M. Peyton

Souvenirs entomologiques, de Jean Henri Fabre

El largo invierno, de Laura Ingalls Wilder

A Norwegian Farm, de Marie Hamsun

Heidi, de Johanna Spyri

Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer, de Mark Twain

El pequeño lord, de Frances Hodgson Burnett

Tistú el de los pulgares verdes, de Maurice Druon

Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, de Conan Doyle

Los archivos secretos de la Sra. Basil E. Frankweiler, de E. L. Konigsburg

Incidente en Otterbury, de Cecil Day-Lewis

Alicia en el país de las maravillas, de Lewis Carroll

The Little Bookroom, de Eleanor Farjeon

Un bosque vive doce meses, de Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak

El mesón con muchos pedidos, de Kenji Miyazawa

Winnie-the-Pooh, de A. A. Milne

Nihon Ryōiki, de Kyokai

Historias extrañas del estudio del erudito, de Pu Songling

Nueve cuentos y uno de propina, de Karel Čapek

El hombre que plantó cebollas galesas, de Kim So-un

Robinson Crusoe, de Daniel Defoe

The Hobbit, de J. R. R. Tolkien

Viaje al oeste, de Wu Cheng'en

Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino, de Julio Verne

Las aventuras de cebolleta, de Gianni Rodari

La isla del tesoro, de Robert Louis Stevenson

The Ship that Flew, de Hilda Winifred Lewis

El viento en los sauces, de Kenneth Grahame

El caballito jorobado, de Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov

El pequeño caballo blanco, de Elizabeth Goudge

La rosa y el anillo, de William Makepeace Thackeray

La mujer radio, de Eleanor Doorly

City Neighbor, The Story of Jane Addams, de Clara Ingram Judson

Iván el tonto, de León Tolstói

Los viajes del Doctor Doolittle, de Hugh Lofting

#libros #infantil #libros infantiles #lista #apple books

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kxowledge · 6 years

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We have talked about this before, but: What are your favourite (boarding) school novels (and films)?

You know this is my niche guilty pleasure, even though most books are not…… good (poorly written, poorly developed characters, poorly thought-out plot). I should be asking you for recs about this to be honest.

As for favourite books, probably:

Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline

E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks

John Green, Looking for Alaska

Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

Rosemary Manning, The Chinese Garden

Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

I also think that Harry Potter provides an incredible opportunity in terms of interesting setting, and while I’m not a big fan of JKR’s work, I think that there are outstanding works of fanfiction out there (I don’t have the time to scour my bookmarks, but The First Rule of Film Club comes to mind)

On the other side, I haven’t watched many movies of the genre to be honest and I can only think of Dead Poets Society (1989) and Cracks (2009).

+ Honourable mentions to If We Were Villains, The Secret History, and Franny and Zooey – which are campus novels actually but that are among my absolute favourite books ever, so

#book notes #replies

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livingcorner · 3 years

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How to Plant Your First Vegetable Garden | Gardener’s Path

So, you’ve decided to plant a vegetable garden.

Congratulations! You’ve made an excellent choice with far-reaching benefits.

You're reading: How to Plant Your First Vegetable Garden | Gardener’s Path

Not only will you have a source of inexpensive, fresh vegetables, you’ll also be in complete control of how your crops are grown – so they can be as organic and natural as you like.

You can also plant surplus amounts to can and freeze, and make your own jams, jellies, pickles, and preserves – a great way to stretch your garden’s goodness (and food budget) into the winter months.

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On top of all that, working with soil and plants is an excellent stress buster. It’s one of the easiest activities to practice mindfulness, and working with the earth is a natural antidote to anxiety and worry.

Research even shows that children who garden eat more fruits and veggies. They also score better on science achievement tests, and significantly increase important life skills like self-understanding and the ability to work in groups – all good reasons to get the kids involved!

Kids love the garden too! Photo by Lorna Kring.

Clearly, there are a lot of positive benefits to the vegetable patch.

To get you off to the best possible start, in this article we’ll cover how to choose a location, the basic tools you’ll need, how to prepare your garden bed, plant selection, companion plants, successful planning, sowing, watering, weeding, fertilizing, small space gardens, and containers for veggies.

Let’s turn the sod!

Picking Your Plot

If you’re new to gardening, it’s a good idea to start small.

Preparing the soil and planting are just the first steps to a bountiful harvest. As spring and summer progress, your garden will need to be weeded, watered, and maintained – all of which take time and energy.

To prevent overwhelm, begin with a plot that’s manageable for you and your schedule. An area as little as eight by eight feet will provide 64 square feet to work with, which is plenty of space to produce a good yield – and maintaining it won’t take up every spare minute of your time.

A level area that receives six to eight hours of sunlight per day is ideal. It should also be sheltered from high winds, and have easy access to a water source, like a faucet.

A few basic tools will do for your first efforts. As your expertise develops, you can add specialized items to your toolshed.

Landscaping bags are light, but tough, and perfect for collecting yard waste. Photo by Lorna Kring.

To get the best value, invest in well-made tools constructed from good quality materials that are appropriate for your size and build.

You’ll need the following:

A round-tipped shovel for digging.

A fork for turning and loosening soil.

A steel bow rake for cleaning and leveling.

A hoe or cultivator for weeding.

A hand trowel or hori hori knife and a hand cultivator for transplanting and weeding.

A garden hose and nozzle, or watering can.

And you’ll quickly appreciate these extras:

Gardening gloves with nitrile-coated palms and fingers.

Bypass snips for pruning and cutting.

Sharp scissors or a garden knife for harvesting and pruning.

A kit bag to tote your gear, seeds, and hand tools.

A wheelbarrow for transporting sod, dirt, and compost.

A lightweight landscaper bag for gathering leaves, weeds, and grass clippings.

A kneeling pad, to save your knees.

A weed torch, to save your back.

A good tote bag will carry all of your hand tools. Photo by Lorna Kring.

Don’t forget to parcel out some time for maintenance of your brand new shiny tools.

Turning Your Soil

If you have a good eye, pace your garden area and place four stakes, one in each corner of your planned allotment.

If you need clearer boundaries, use a tape to measure the area, then mark the perimeter with stakes and string.

Next, start digging.

A square-end spade can be used to create equal sections in a grid pattern. Then, using a fork, lift the sod from each section and shake out the soil. Discard the sod, or use it to build up any low areas in your yard.

To discourage weeds and grass from encroaching, you can install plastic or metal edging around the perimeter –the deeper it goes, the better it works.

Using a fork or a pointed shovel, dig deep and turn the soil to a depth of at least 12 inches, preferably 18 to 24 inches.

Remove any rocks, roots, and other debris, breaking up the soil as you go along.

Clean and amend the first layer of soil. Photo by Lorna Kring.

Once the soil has been turned, cleaned, and aerated, spread two inches of organic material such as compost or well-rotted manure over the top, and work it into the soil.

Read more: The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett

Complete your preparations by leveling and raking the surface until it’s even and fine-textured.

Plant Selection

Now, it’s time for one of the really fun parts!

Gather some reference material, like seed catalogs or gardening magazines, and write out a list of all your favorite veggies.

To know how much stock to purchase, and to allocate enough space, you’ll want to determine approximately how much each plant will produce. Remember that if you want to preserve any of your harvest, you’ll need to purchase some extras.

Once you know what you’re going to plant, refer to a planting chart for your region and growing zone. This will help to determine which veggies can be direct sown, which seedlings you can start at home yourself, and which ones you’ll have to pick up at a nursery.

For small plots and containers, choose varieties labeled “bush,” “compact,” or “dwarf.” Select strains that are disease-resistant, and if possible, choose a cross-section of varieties with different maturation dates to extend the growing season.

Print out your region’s information for planting dates, frost dates, and agricultural hardiness zones, like these for the US and Canada, then refer to them for planning purposes.

Plan Your Layout

With pencil and paper, sketch out a rough blueprint to guide your planting.

Check seed packets for information about light requirements, spacing, spread, and height, then mark their locations on your sketch.

It’s a good idea to locate tall plants and those that require supports – like beans, corn, peas, and tomatoes – on the north side of your garden bed so they don’t shade shorter ones.

Remember, the sun travels from east to west, and all of your plants will need sunlight.

Also, your planting scheme doesn’t have to be restricted to straight rows. Staggered rows, mounds, and raised beds can all be incorporated, but leave enough space for pathways to walk on – which should be around 18-24 inches wide.

And include space for companion plants, herbs, or flowers if you’re so inclined.

Companion Planting

Companion planting is the practice of using complimentary plants to provide natural pest control, potentially improve flavor, and attract important pollinators into the garden.

Marigolds top the list in pest protection, and can be planted liberally throughout the garden.

Basil and tomatoes make excellent companions in the garden, and flowers attract pollinators to your veggie plots.

Basil planted near tomatoes has been said to improve their flavor, while lettuce likes the protective benefits of being close to onions and radishes.

Flowering herbs like oregano, rosemary, sage, and thyme repel many pests, and act like a bee magnet. This is very important for any fruits or vegetables that require pollination to produce fruit, such as beans, cucumbers, melons, peas, peppers, and tomatoes.

Sowing the Seeds

It’s best to plant seedlings or nursery starts on cloudy days to minimize the shock of transplanting. If that’s not possible, be sure to plant in the morning while it’s still cool.

Sprinkle a pinch of bone meal into each planting hole, set the plants in place, and gently gather the soil around each stem. Firm the soil but don’t pack it, then settle your seedlings with a soft shower of water.

To sow seeds, follow the instructions on the seed packet for how deep to sow and spacing requirements, firm the soil in place, and water gently.

If any of your veggies require staking, set stakes in place sooner rather than later to prevent damage to the roots of growing plants.

And remember to leave space for repeat sowings of lettuce, salad greens, and later-season heat-lovers like cucumber, melons, peppers, and tomatoes.

Maintenance

For best results, you’ll need to keep your garden beds free from weeds, provide sufficient irrigation, and fertilize.

Watering

Young seedlings are tender, and require a gentle touch when watering.

Use the “shower” setting on a hose nozzle and water the soil surrounding the plants, avoiding the leaves and immature stalks.

The best time to water is in the morning, as an early watering provides plants with the moisture they need on a hot day, and makes it easier for them to absorb nutrients from the soil.

Watering in the hot afternoon sun can produce shock in young plants, and cause tender leaves to scorch.

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And watering in the evening should also be avoided as excess moisture left on the leaves in cool overnight temperatures can promote plant disease, such as damping off and powdery mildew.

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Fertilizing

Once plants are four to six weeks old, you can begin to fertilize.

For light feeders, like leafy greens and root veggies, follow the suggestions on seed packets and nursery stock for frequency and strength.

Sweeten the soil with lots of compost. Photo by Lorna Kring.

For heavy feeders, such as beets, corn, tomatoes, and the brassicas (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and cauliflower), a top dressing of well-rotted manure or compost is a welcome addition – as well as regular feeding with a water soluble fertilizer.

Weeding

Weeding is easily handled if you stay on top of it – even 20 minutes every day or two will help to keep these persistent growers in check.

To quickly and easily lift weeds and their roots, pull by hand, use a hand cultivator, or hoe gently when the soil is moist.

If the soil’s too dry, the green tops will often break off, leaving the roots to regrow.

Pathway weeds can be dispatched quickly with a weed torch. Or, you may lay down some paving stones or bark mulch to keep pathway weeds at bay.

For Small Spaces

If your plot is on the small side, say around 20-25 square feet, you can still get a robust yield using the French Intensive Method, which incorporates double-digging.

Preparation requires more initial effort, but once planted, less watering, fertilizer, and weeding is required.

Double-digging creates deep, loose, friable soil that allows roots to grow deeper than normal, to a depth of about three feet. This means vegetables can be planted more closely together, and this increase in plant density will yield results two to five times greater than a regular bed of the same size.

In a typical garden bed, roots will hit hardpan at about 12 inches deep, which causes them to spread out sideways. This sideways growth results in competition for moisture and food, meaning plants need to be spaced further apart to ensure that they all receive adequate nutrients and water.

To double dig, remove the first twelve inches of soil. Photo by Lorna Kring.

Here are the steps to double-digging a bed:

Read more: The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett

1. With a shovel, dig down and lift out a 12-inch layer of topsoil, piling it nearby. Loosen and clean the topsoil and mix in a generous amount of compost or rotted manure.

2. With a fork, dig down another 12 inches and loosen the soil. Once the soil is loose, remove any roots, rocks, and debris, then incorporate a generous amount of compost or rotted manure into this second layer.

3. Replace the amended first layer of soil. Your plot will now be raised about a foot above ground level, and will feature the deep, loose, and fluffy soil that will allow roots to grow straight down.

With French intensive gardening, it’s very important to keep the soil light and fluffy – so you might want to divide your bed into halves or quarters to make it easier to plant, weed, and prevent soil compaction.

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The French intensive method also uses intercropping, which creates its own favorable microclimate and improves yields.

For example, a trellis of beans inter-planted with lettuce will provide shade from the hot afternoon sun – which lettuce needs. Or basil can be planted with tomatoes and peppers to improve their flavors, with the basil being harvested before the roots and top-growth of the larger plants take over.

For more inspiration, pick up a book for workable ideas and techniques – like Karen Newcomb’s The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden: Grow Tons of Organic Vegetables in Tiny Spaces and Containers.

Square foot gardening is a less demanding option that small space edible gardeners can use to produce high yields and successful crops.

Raised Beds

You can also create a permanent raised bed by purchasing a kit, or building your own. And you can get all the how-to details in this great article.

Just remember, when building a wooden frame for raised beds, never use treated lumber. The chemicals used to preserve the wood are highly toxic and will leach into your garden soil, where they’ll be absorbed by the vegetables’ roots – goodbye, healthy produce…

Containers

Of course, if your space is even more limited or you only want to grow small amounts of fresh veggies, containers are a great option for a wide range of vegetables.

Carrots, chard, herbs, kale, peppers, potatoes, radishes, salad greens, scallions, spinach, and strawberries are all adept container-growers.

When choosing containers, ensure they’re an appropriate size for what you plan to plant – you’ll need a much deeper pot for potatoes than for parsley!

And look for cultivars labeled “bush,” “compact,” or “dwarf.” As their names suggest, these varieties are smaller in size when mature, making them a wise choice for pots and planters – particularly for veggies that dig deep, like carrots – or tomatoes, which can produce a top-heavy load of fruit.

Soil for containers needs to be enriched with organic material to ensure proper nutrition within the restricted confines of a planter. It should also be amended by mixing in a light material such as perlite or peat to prevent compaction, supply aeration, and retain moisture.

Veggie pots also need good drainage holes with plenty of drainage material in the bottom – an inch or two deep, depending on the container size.

You’ll also have to fertilize more frequently when growing in containers, but at a diluted strength. Use compost tea, fish emulsion, or a water soluble fertilizer diluted with water at one-half or one-third strength, applied every 10 to 14 days.

As the soil in containers will also dry out much more quickly than the ground does, ensure that it stays moist, but not oversaturated.

Start a Garden Journal

A garden journal is a handy planning tool.

It helps you to keep track of weather data, repeat sowings, plant rotation, what worked, and what didn’t.

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You can also note ideas you’d like to try for different seasons or next year, make sketches, plan your garden, and collect inspirational bits.

Pick up a simple binder to begin with, then add a handsome journal to your wish list – family members will love this great gift idea!

Want more options? Take a look at our favorite seven gardening journals!

Reap the Rewards

You can’t say too many good things about a veggie garden.

Sure, they’re a lot of hard work. But the joy and satisfaction they bring is priceless. And when you’re harvesting the delicious, nutritious rewards of your efforts, you’ll forget all about the work part!

For the greatest enjoyment, keep your plot size manageable, plan first with a planting chart, and stay on top of maintenance chores like watering, feeding, and weeding. Get the kids involved – they love the garden too! And don’t forget to check out our article on how to grow tomatillos, for something a little different.

Do you budding gardeners have any questions or insights about the veggie patch? Leave us a note in the comments below!

About Lorna Kring

A writer, artist, and entrepreneur, Lorna is also a long-time gardener who got hooked on organic and natural gardening methods at an early age. These days, her vegetable garden is smaller to make room for decorative landscapes filled with color, fragrance, art, and hidden treasures. Cultivating and designing the ideal garden spot is one of her favorite activities – especially for gathering with family and friends for good times and good food (straight from the garden, of course)!

Source: https://livingcorner.com.au Category: Garden

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healerqueen · 3 months

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50 Favorite Children’s Books

Inspired by Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki’s list of his earliest literary influences. This list is limited to books I read in childhood or youth. 50 Childhood Favorites

Caddie Woodlawn and sequel by Carol Ryrie Brink

Winter Cottage by Carol Ryrie Brink

The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, and sequels by Elizabeth Enright

Enemy Brothers by Constance Savery

The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Derwood, Inc. by Jeri Massi

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Heidi by Joanna Spyri

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong

All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

Family Grandstand by Carol Ryrie Brink

Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink

Cheaper By the Dozen and sequel by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Rebecca’s War by Ann Finlayson

The Lost Baron by Allen French

Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman

Captive Treasure by Milly Howard

Toliver’s Secret by Esther Wood Brady

Silver for General Washington by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft

Emil’s Pranks by Astrid Lindgren

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien

Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field

Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois

Freddy the Detective and Freddy the Pig series by Walter R. Brooks

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Robert Lawson

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

The Wombles by Elisabeth Beresford

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander and Wayne Geehan

Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George

The Bridge and Crown and Jewel by Jeri Massi

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Young Adult:

The Eagle of the Ninth and other books by Rosemary Sutcliff

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan

Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George

Buffalo Brenda by Jill Pinkwater

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret (a nonfiction memoir)

Picture Books:

Make Way for Ducklings and other books by Robert McCloskey

Go, Dog, Go by P.D. Eastman

Sam and the Firefly by P.D. Eastman

Robert the Rose Horse by Joan Heilbroner

Ice-Cream Larry by Daniel Pinkwater

Mr. Putter and Tabby by Cynthia Rylant

Discovered as an Adult: Seesaw Girl by Linda Sue Park

The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye

The Armourer’s House by Rosemary Sutcliff

Urchin of the Riding Stars and the Mistmantle Chronicles by M.I. McAllister

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Escape to West Berlin by Maurine F. Dahlberg

Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan

The Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan

Courage in Her Hands by Iris Noble

Knight’s Fee by Rosemary Sutcliff

Victory at Valmy (Thunder of Valmy) by Geoffrey Trease

Word to Caesar (Message to Hadrian) by Geoffrey Trease

The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

The Reluctant Godfather by Allison Tebo

Seventh City by Emily Hayse

Escape to Vindor by Emily Golus

Valiant by Sarah McGuire

The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart

#children's books #children's classics #20th century classics #favorite books #books #reading #favorites #childhood #book recs #recommendations #book recommendations #influences #childhood influences

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impressivepress · 4 years

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Félicia Atkinson Shares the Stories Behind Her New Album

Aside from a few admitted influences — the seminal French classical sounds of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie — Félicia Atkinson doesn’t provide many hints as to what’s happening throughout her new Shelter Press album, The Flower and the Vessel. A few clues emerge in the track-by-track commentary below, however, as the multi-medium poet/composer traces the record’s entire journey, from its brief yet beguiling intro to its final abstract stand-off with Sunn O))) guitarist Stephen O’Malley….

“L’APRÈS MIDI”

I feel like suddenly, I am myself, for a brief moment, the afternoon.

I talk to the light piercing the curtains.

The voice is a vessel and time is a flower.

I watch an Eric Rohmer film called Love in the Afternoon.

I eat a strawberry pie. Intentions are made through breathing.

“MODERATO CANTABILE”

It’s an echo of Marguerite Duras. I hear her voice in my head.

I drink a rosemary iced tea.

I was playing the piano at Issue Project Room in New York City; something beautiful happened with the audience and the walls.

I later saw a seagull in the sky at home.

I would love the listener to slow dance with an invisible friend.

“SHIRLEY TO SHIRLEY”

Painter Shirley Jaffe said one day to Shirley Kaneda, “I could break up that space.”

Shirley Kaneda said one day to Shirley Jaffe, “Did your ideas change over time?”

I took those phrases like a couple of stones in my pocket and carried them with me for a while.

I am wondering where the ideas go when you forget them. Do they hang somewhere, like a lost scarf in a tree?

Can you take them back? Will I be a painter one day? What is time in relationship to color?

What Paris did to me? Where do I belong?

I was interested in the gesture of synthetising the act of creation from a painter, in a few words and also the fact that I re-act an interview with my voice, and my concerns, passing through the persona of someone else to understand myself.

I was also inspired by Kathy Acker’s way of stealing words and wearing them like a second hand jacket with a few holes and new buttons.

“UN OVALE VERT”

The poet David Antin said, and then wrote “turning, the ways the birds do, one by one….”

This song is for David and Eleanor Antin, and the way the bird turns sometimes, one by one.

It’s also about drawing and how suddenly shapes appear in a white page. Lines, colors. It’s about how drawing and poetry shaped my way of seeing the world around.

“YOU HAVE TO HAVE EYES”

A strange ritual, a kind of exorcism of a paranoiac state. What to do with fear? Make music maybe.

I perform the voice of St EOM speaking about his very strange constructions in the Land of Pasquan.

The voice in French is me in Joshua Tree asking while the coyotes are howling “what do I do with the fire?”

I always considered songs structures that could be shaped like a fire, shaped like an architecture and shaped like a walk in a desert.

“LINGUISTICS OF ATOMS”

I’m thinking of the shrinking of the Amazon forest.

But also the film Powers of Ten by the Eames.

I feel very small and powerless.

I am wondering about ions and atoms.

It’s in the water / in the storm / in the water / in the soil / falling / shoes.

“LUSH”

I took a boat on a river in Kerala with my mother.

I saw the moon soaking in its reflection in the water.

“JOAN”

In this track, words are made of elements of a novel I am writing in French for a few years now called A Forest Petrifies.

This is the beginning of the novel. It takes place in the middle of the desert in the future and it’s about two men having a discussion near a fireplace in a modernist house in the future and the music they are listening is not emitted by a device anymore but by themselves, like a new kind of technology.

They look at the fireplace and it reminds them of a painting of Jerome Bosch and wonder if the ashes of the fire could be a little republic of some kind.

Joan is a reference to Joan Didion. I am a bit obsessed about her writings but also her strange eloquence and gesture while she is speaking, like she is erasing with her hands the words she is pronouncing.

“OPEN”

There is a novel by André Dhotel called The Land Impossible to Reach and another for children by Frances Hodgson Burnett called The Secret Garden.

Let’s imagine a song in a shape of a door of a secret land.

Let’s imagine music writing as a landscape composition.

Everyone should be able to have a garden. Or, as Virginia Wolf said once, “A room of once’s own.”

“L’ENFANT ET LE POULPE”

I enjoy very much the paintings of Peter Doig and this is an imaginary painting of him.

I see a forest and shadows and a pond and a child playing with an octopus at dawn.

The title is also a thank you note I never sent to Julien Carreyn, the photographer of the flowers arrangements who stand as the artworks in my record and who asked me to call the song like this.

I made a song that was a dream of painting.

“LES PIERES”

It’s an open reading of Les Pierres (or The Image in the Stones), the text by Roger Caillois played and performed with Stephen O Malley and produced by him at Music Unit in Montreuil.

It’s about reflection, sedimentation, serendipity, mystery and synchronicity.

I love geology and I believe in the power of stones and rocks.

#music #félicia atkinson #self-titled mag #electronic #interview #music interview

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jeeprhyme · 7 years

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2017 Reading Challenge 30/52 A Book Set Around A Holiday Other Than Christmas The Thanksgiving Visitor - Truman Capote And that’s 30! A quick short story, about a boy who gets bullied by some asshole child. So the relative he lives with (who seems to have some kind of mental illness) ignores the boy’s wishes, and invites the bully to Thanksgiving. The bully then steals something of the relative’s, but the boy catches him, and then tells everyone about it. The relative tries to lie to cover the bully’s ass from the rest of the family, but the bully admits it. And the boy gets in trouble for being mean to the kid who has been tormenting him all year. What a load of shit. Sorry Truman, at least we’ll always have Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

A book recommended by a librarian The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

A book that’s been on your TBR list for way too long IT - Stephen King

A book of letters Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

An audiobook Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher

A book by a person of colour The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden

A book with one of the four seasons in the title A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare

A book that is a story within a story The Name Of The Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

A book with multiple authors Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

An espionage thriller Casino Royale - Ian Fleming

A book with a cat on the cover Doctor Sleep - Stephen King

A book by an author that uses a pseudonym Feedback - Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire)

A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read Murder On The Orient Express - Agatha Christie

A book by or about a person who has a disability Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges

A book involving travel The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux

A book with a subtitle Twelfth Night (or What You Will) - William Shakespeare

A book that’s published in 2017 Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman

A book involving a mythical creature Wrath of a Mad God - Raymond E Feist

A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile Guards Guards - Terry Pratchett

A book about food My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes) - Luisa Weiss

A book with career advice On Writing - Stephen King

A book from a nonhuman perspective Charlotte’s Web - EB White

A steampunk novel Perdido Street Station - China Miéville

A book with a red spine Flight Of The Nighthawks - Raymond E Feist

A book set in the wilderness A Walk In The Woods - Bill Bryson

A book you loved as a child Wild Magic - Tamora Pierce

A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited 1Q84 Part 1 - Haruki Murakami

A book with a title that’s a character’s name Hamlet - William Shakespeare

A novel set during wartime All Quiet on The Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

A book with an unreliable narrator Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

A book with pictures The Type - Sarah Kay

A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

A book about an interesting woman Mullumbimby - Melissa Lucashenko

A book set in two different time periods Kindred - Octavia E Butler

A book with a month or day of the week in the title A Local Habitation (October Daye) - Seanan McGuire

A book set in a hotel The Shining - Stephen King

A book written by someone you admire Alif The Unseen - G Willow Wilson

A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

A book set around a holiday other than Christmas The Thanksgiving Visitor - Truman Capote

The first book in a series you haven’t read before Rosemary and Rue (October Daye) - Seanan McGuire

A book you bought on a trip Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Advanced

A book recommended by an author you love Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

A bestseller from 2016 The Girl On The Train - Paula Hawkins

A book with a family-member term in the title Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama

A book that takes place over a character’s lifespan The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F Scott Fitzgerald

A book about an immigrant or refugee The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen

A book from a genre/subgenre that you’ve never heard of The Grace of Kings - Ken Liu (Silkpunk)

A book with an eccentric character Into A Dark Realm - Raymond E Feist

A book that’s more than 800 pages The Wise Man’s Fear - Patrick Rothfuss

A book you got from a used book sale X-Factor Volume 1 #70-71 - Peter David et al

A book that’s been mentioned in another book Paradise Lost - John Milton (Frankenstein)

A book about a difficult topic The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

A book based on mythology Throne of the Crescent Moon - Saladin Ahmed

#2017 reading challenge

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