Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

It's all about perspective. First-person perspective is notorious for bias but who knows a story better than the person experiencing it?

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Suggestions:
Listopia: Popular First Person Books
Reddit: Best Novels Written in First Person Perspective
Paperback Swap: 217 First-Person Narrative Books
Listopia: First Person Book Lists
Listopia: Popular First Person Narrative Books
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Optional questions:
- What are you reading for this category?
- What is your favorite perspective when reading?

Reading A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's been on my list awhile.

I love reading first person (I had read literally every book on the first page of that first link), so this list will probably change, but as of now, I'll be choosing between:
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Red Tent
These Broken Stars
Delirium
An Instance of the Fingerpost
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
The Hate U Give

Ready Player One
The Elite
Tangled
The Mermaid Chair
If I Stay

All the Bright Places

I,like reading first person. I am reading Ginny Moon for this prompt.

I think I'm going to wing this category; whatever book I pick up first that happens to have first person perspective will go here. :)

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

DEPT. OF SPECULATION by DEPT. OF SPECULATION

The Wall

I higly recommend The Wall by Marlen Haushofer.
How I wish I could read that book for the first time all over again!

This will be my first prompt for this year.

- What are you reading for this category? Ready Player One
- What is your favorite perspective when reading? I don't think I have one.

I've been really looking forward to this book. I hope it doesn't disappoint. So far I'm into the story but I'm only a couple of chapters in.

Stella wrote: "The Wall

I higly recommend The Wall by Marlen Haushofer.
How I wish I could read that book for the first time all over again!"

Great suggestion, I so agree with you! One of the best books I read in 2017. The movie is also beautiful if you haven't seen it.

Stella wrote: "The Wall

I higly recommend The Wall by Marlen Haushofer.
How I wish I could read that book for the first time all over again!"

This sounds really interesting and I had never heard of it! It seems like the perfect book to create a discussion for in the A-Z section. I may have to fit it in my plan somewhere.

It's already in the A-Z section, at least I think I created it last year :)

Ooh, I think I remember you talking about that last year, Hilde. It's already on my TBR and it's ringing lots of bells.

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What are you reading for this category?
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell

What is your favorite perspective when reading?
I don't have one!

Reading Gone Girl for this category.

I think I saw The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian on a list for this prompt somewhere, so that is my most likely pick. Other possibilities are Dept. of Speculation and The Left Hand of Darkness. If I haven't finished the series by the time this week comes along, I'll read Ancillary Mercy

I will likely fill this prompt with a first person perspective book that does not fit anywhere else. I don’t pay attention to what perspective a book is written unless I need it for a challenge.

Chose Delirium for this one!!!!!

Emily wrote: "I love reading first person (I had read literally every book on the first page of that first link), so this list will probably change, but as of now, I'll be choosing between:
[book:Simon vs. the H..."

I've just read In My Father's Den which fits the prompt. I will probably use it for this unless I get stuck later and it's fits somewhere else.

Interesting dark (ish) murder mystery - apparently there's a film which I may look for.

I don't mind what perspective books are written from, but as I read a lot of mysteries I tend to assume those written in first person are unreliable narrators. Im not saying if this applies with this book!

Because I keep changing my choices....

I just finished reading The Breakdown and put it here because it fits and this was a category where I felt like I could pretty much throw anything. Too many choices, and I wasn't going through my shelves to see which narratives I owned started with "I...."

I don't think I have a favorite perspective when I read, I can say that I didn't enjoy the first person in this particular book. Something about the writing just didn't do it for me, and also I really hated the main character......Wah😩

I read The Girl on the Train, everyone was raving about it at one point on youtube.

Stephenie Meyer -

So excited to read The Hunger Games!!

I will be reading American Sniper.

I’m reading Apron Strings by Jan Wong. A memoir about traveling to France, Italy and China to learn about home cooking. It’s making me very hungry...

- What are you reading for this category? Deadline
- What is your favorite perspective when reading?
I don't mind first person, but I tend to prefer getting multiple views of a story. Whether it's through third person following multiple people around, or multiple first-person views, I find that most interesting.

I am reading Memoirs of a Geisha for this prompt

- What are you reading for this category?



Sourdough by Robin Sloan


- What is your favorite perspective when reading?

First person typically, I enjoy getting to be connected with the character in that way, but I do enjoy third person so that it's a little less bias on perspective and doesn't have nearly as much inner whining.

My daughter and I are in love with the BBC Sherlock Holmes - Benedict Cumberbatch!!! I happen to have the Sherlock Holmes collection on my bookshelf with intention to read it so why not now for this week? The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

- What are you reading for this category? I’m reading Why We Took the Car (the original German title is Tschick - a better title in my opinion.)

- What is your favorite perspective when reading? Certain perspectives work better for different books or genres. This book is a YA story and first perspective works well for it! It feels like a journal.

I finally got around to reading - and finishing - Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend. I'd begun it several times before and didn't get hooked. This time I persevered enough to discover that it has a long 'run in'': by about halfway through I couldn't put it down.

I read Speak for this prompt. It was YA seems like YA often uses that 1st person type of person perspective. I enjoyed it. You know YA is good for the feels!

I don't think I have a preference of how the story is told as long as its a good story. I probably enjoy variety more than any one way a book can be written.

Read American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

This is Chris Kyle's experience as a SEAL and balance with his family. This was about his life from the time he joined the military until he was killed in 2013.

I'm using this prompt to advance in my 70h Sherlock Holmes audiobook with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

I don't really have a preferred perspective. I love first and third-person perspectives as much! I only have read 2 short stories with second person perspective and found it disturbing and weird... although the stories were too, maybe that's why I didn't find it my cup of tea ;)

What are you reading for this category?
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

What is your favorite perspective when reading?
I don't have a favorite perspective, but I like it when the perspective fits the book well. I'm really enjoying being inside Lillian Boxfish's head!

I read Mockingjay. My daughter has been on at me for a while to read them. I read the The Hunger Games at the end of last year and was looking for an excuse to finish the series. Different books sometime need different points of view but first person is one of my favourites.

What are you reading for this category?
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
What is your favorite perspective when reading?
That the parents recognized the importance of the boys' relationship to each other before Aristotle did.
WOW. Totally misinterpreted that question - my preference is third- person, but I do not pass over first-person.

What are you reading for this category?
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte


What is your favorite perspective when reading?
I don't really have one - different perspectives bring different reading experiences.

What are you reading for this category?
I read The Murder at Sissingham Hall by
Clara Benson

What is your favorite perspective when reading?
I don't really have a preferred perspective, it just has to fit the story.

What are you reading for this category?
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

What is your favourite perspective when reading?
I don't mind so long as the voice feels authentic

I'm reading March by Geraldine Brooks. I really like first-person narratives if they are well-written.

- What are you reading for this category?
Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls

- What is your favorite perspective when reading?
Generally I prefer third person so that there's less of a bias and you can see other points of view, but I don't mind first person either.

I read Clean Sweep and Sweep in Peace, the #1 and #2 of The Innkeeper Chronicles by Ilona Andrews.
What is your favorite perspective when reading?
I don't really have a preference, I like them all if they are used appropriately.

I'm reading Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner for this one.

No favorites on perspective. In fact, just like topics and genres, I enjoy switching it up.

I read Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports for this, which I thought was an amazing story of women empowerment. I'm running the NYC marathon as my first marathon this November so I felt completely connected to the story and to her the whole way through and much more appreciative of those who went before me.

I don't have a favorite perspective but this autobiography could only have worked in first person, and was greatly enhanced by the small comments of hindsight and how society has changed since the 70s.

I read Written in Dead Wax by Andrew Cartmel. I don't think I usually even register the perspective in a book, it's only when it's relevant for this challenge that I pay attention. I definitely don't have a favourite perspective.