Thursday, January 23, 2020

Where Am I Reading 2020

th0ROPKV32I'm going to track where I read this year, because I like to know. I'm not sure I'm declaring this an actual challenge as I don't plan to work on filling in the gaps.

I'll track the states and also the countries.

I'm not officially declaring a goal, but I hope to read across a lot of different places. And it's fun to see where my books tend to cluster and where my characters avoid.





Alabama:
Alaska: The Great Alone
Arizona: Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, 
Arkansas: Grave Sight (graphic novel), They Called Us Enemy
California: Armstrong & Charlie, Redshirts, Grand Theft Horse, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Magic For Liars, The Ballad of Huck & Miguel, 13 Reasons Why, Middlegame, Parable of the Sower, Front Desk, Deadly Sexy, Parable of the Sower, March Fong Eu, Zodiac Killer
Colorado:
Connecticut: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Delaware: 
Florida: The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora, Beverly Right Here, Tacking Pythons
Georgia: Some Were In Time, Jubilee
7/10

Hawaii: On the Horizon, The Wind Gourd of La'amaomao
Idaho:
Illinois: Radium Girls 
Indiana: In the Dream House
Iowa:
Kansas:
Kentucky: Cleaning the Gold, Becoming Muhammad Ali
Louisiana: A Longer Fall (maybe?)
Maine: The Puffin Plan
Maryland: Star Spangled
7/10

Massachusetts: Allergic to Girls School and Other Scary Things, Hey Kiddo, Your Own Sylvia, History Smashers: Mayflower, Hopeful Heart, 
Michigan: One Good Dragon Deserves Another, That Can Be Arranged, Poisoned Water
Minnesota: The Cat Came Back, Don't Call Us Dead
Mississippi: The Affair, Heavy, John Lewis, 
Missouri: 
Montana:
Nebraska:
Nevada: Normal
New Hampshire: Books For Living, Kat & Mouse 1
New Jersey: All Boys Aren't Blue
7/10

New Mexico: 
New York: Archangel's War, Vendetta In Death, Gregor the Overlander, Shout, American Dreamer, Golden in Death, Tell the Wolves I'm Home, The Winter Sisters, Speak, Harbor Me, New Kid, LaGuardia, Angel's Blood, Ordinary Hazards, Meg Jo Beth & Amy, To Dance, Judgment in Death, Reunion in Death Skylark and Wallcreeper, Kiss No 8, My Name is Tami ... and I Believe in Miracles, Becoming Kid Quixote, 
North Carolina: The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, The Last Mirror on the Left
North Dakota: Walk the Wire
Ohio: Redemption, Cy Young, Many Lives of Eddie Rickenbacker
Oklahoma: Braiding Sweetgrass, Indian Removal Act and the  Trail of Tears, 
Oregon: Her Naughty Holiday
Pennsylvania: Fences, Amelia Rules! Superheroes
Rhode Island: 
South Carolina: The Parker Inheritance 
8/10

South Dakota
Tennessee: This Promise of Change, Who Give a Poop?
Texas: Fly Like a Girl, Honeybee, Free Lunch, Wolf Rebel
Utah
Vermont:
Virginia: 
Washington: Rare Encounters With Ordinary Birds, Youth to Power, Fledgling
West Virginia: Reaching For the Moon
WisconsinCatfishing on Catnet, Little House in the Big Woods
Wyoming: 

Washington D.C.: The Fix, Marshmallow S'more Murder, History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote, 
5/11

34/51


Continents: 6/7

Asia: (5)
  • China: The Poppy War (sorta), 
  • India: Mangos, Mischief, and Tales of Friendship
  • Japan: Giant Spider and Me Vol 2-3,
  • Philippians (sorta): Trash
  • Thailand: All Thirteen
Africa: (6)
  • Alternate Africa: The Tropic of Serpents
  • Alternate Egypt: The City of Brass, The Haunting of Tram 015
  • Nigeria: LaGuardia
  • Somalia: Call Me American
  • Sudan:  Walk Toward the Rising Sun
  • Somewhere off the west coast: Deep
  • South Africa: It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
South America: (2)
  • Uruguay: Cantoras
  • Brazil: The Light Brigade
Antarctica (1):
  • Countdown Conspiracy
Oceania:

Europe: (9)
  • Belgium: Once a Spy, The Prince and the Dressmaker
  • Germany: Flowers In the Gutter, We Had To Be Brave
  • Holland: Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
  • Italy: A Farewell to Arms
  • Poland: Spinning Silver (sorta), Surviving the Angel of Death
  • Portugal: Plasitus Maritanus
  • Sweden: The Deal of a Lifetime
  • Turkey: Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant
  • UK: A Little Light Mischief, Someone to Honor, Dogsbody, A Traitor to Memory, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Dangers of Temptation, The Duchess War, Witchmark, Cookie, The Heiress Effect, The Warden, Someone to Remember, Tooth and Claw (sorta), The Secret of Chimneys, Out of the Blue (Edinburgh), Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom, Slippery Creatures, The Gown, A Sporting Chance, More than Marmalade, The Sugared Game, Proper English, Harry Potter, The Professor's Daughter, Five Children and It, Give All to Love, Outlaw, Lady's Code of Misconduct
North America: (6)
  • US (see above states)
  • Canada: Funny You Don't Look Autistic, Surviving the City, This Place
  • Mexico: The Pearl
  • Cuba: Refugee
  • Haiti: Hadriana In All My Dreams
  • Dominican Republic: Clap When You Land 

29 Countries (counting Antarctica) 

1 comment:

kmitcham said...

When I track things, I find I am often motivated by them. I bet you get at least 46 states.