Earlier today, I finished my fourth annual While I Was Reading Challenge. Well, I thought I did, anyway. As I was putting this list together, I realized that the entry I’d pencilled in for “An essay or short story collection” was published last Fall. In fact, every short story collection I thought of as “recent” was from 2020. I somehow managed to make it through this year without a single short story collection, same with most of the essay collections I could think of. I guess this is why I keep a reading log, I just need to pay more attention to it.
Oh, well the important thing is, that it’s done, right?
2021 Reading Challenge Categories
- A book published before 2000: The Case of the One-Eyed Witness by Earle Stanley Gardner
- An essay or short story collection: Nothing Like I Imagined (Except for Sometimes) by Mindy Kaling
- A book you’ve been looking forward to: Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
- A book you’ve been avoiding: The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux
- A book of magical realism: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
- A book with alliteration in the title: Headphones and Heartaches by Wesley Parker
- A book with food or drink on the cover: Love by Roddy Doyle
- A cozy mystery: The Curious Dispatch of Daniel Costello by Chris McDonald
- A book with a dog on the cover: The Keepers by Jeffrey B. Burton
- A memoir: A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons by Ben Folds
- A book by an author who has written more than 10 books: Gated Prey by Lee Goldberg
- A debut novel: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
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