Project Bookworm

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August

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• Read a book that’s been translated (China in Ten Words and Gunnar’s Daughter and The Canterbury Tales)
• Read a’genre’ book by a GLBT author (Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials and The Night Sister)
• Read a mystery book by a new-to-me author (Midnight Riot)
• Reread a novel (Dreaming of the Bones and The Children’s Book and Tam Lin and Northanger Abbey)
• Read a book by an Indian author
• Read a science fiction book recommended by Jo Walton (Nova)
• Read a book about the Ottoman empire
• Read a book of bookish essays
• Read a book written before 1500 (The Canterbury Tales)
• Read a book set in Scandinavia (Gunnar’s Daughter)
• Read a book by an author the same age as me  (The Tiger’s Wife)
• Read a book with a bookish heroine (The Camelot Caper and The Children’s Book and Dreaming of the Bones and Tam Lin)
• Read a book of natural history essays (The Indoor Naturalist)
• Read a book by a new-to-me 19th century author
• Reread a nonfiction book (An Altar in the World)
• Read the next book in a series I’ve begun but not finished (Scream in Silence and Aunty Lee’s Deadly Specials and I Shall Wear Midnight and Baltimore Blues and The Ivory and the Horn)
• Read a book found by using the random number generator and the Dewey Decimal system
• Read a book set in or about upstate New York (Kaaterskill Falls)
• Read a fantasy book by an author from somewhere other than the US or UK (The Astrologer’s Daughter)
• Read a book from the Orange Prize shortlists (The Tiger’s Wife)