September AlphaKIT: K and I

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September AlphaKIT: K and I

1majkia
aug 14, 2022, 10:14 am

Welcome to the 2022 AlphaKIT. This is an unofficial challenge for the 2022 Category Challenge Group. Each month has two letters selected for you to use however you choose.

There are no rules. Just have fun and enjoy reading. September letters are K and I.
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Please remember to update the wiki with your reading:
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2Robertgreaves
aug 14, 2022, 11:07 am

I'll have to see how the letters fit in with other challenges, but I do have a twofer with "Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction" by Catriona Kelly.

3dudes22
aug 14, 2022, 12:38 pm

My choices for Sept will be The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan and Turning Angels by Greg Iles.

4LadyoftheLodge
aug 14, 2022, 2:00 pm

>3 dudes22: I will be interested in your thoughts about the Inspector Chopra novel. It is leering at me from my shelves of mystery novels.

5DeltaQueen50
aug 14, 2022, 2:07 pm

I am planning on reading Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson and Never Cross a Vampire by Stuart Kaminsky.

6majkia
aug 14, 2022, 2:36 pm

>3 dudes22: >4 LadyoftheLodge: I just finished it and found it a very different sort of cozy. I enjoyed it a lot.

7cyderry
Bewerkt: sep 30, 2022, 9:29 pm

oh, what to choose!

Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Death In the Margins
✔Diva Cooks up a Storm by Krista Davis
✔Diva Says Cheesecake! by Krista Davis
✔Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit by Krista Davis
✔Diva Serves High Tea by Krista Davis
✔Diva Spices It Up by Krista Davis
✔Diva Sweetens the Pie by Krista Davis
In a Garden Burning Gold
Killer Words
✔Paper Caper by Kate Carlisle
✔Scent of of Murder by Kylie Logan

8kac522
Bewerkt: aug 15, 2022, 10:11 pm

Anything by Kazuo Ishiguro is a two-fer: Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, etc.

9Tanya-dogearedcopy
aug 16, 2022, 7:39 am

I’ll be starting The Kills— a four book omnibus by Richard House and reading What Moves the Dead (by T. Kingfisher). I’m not sure what I’ll be reading for “I” yet.

10whitewavedarling
aug 21, 2022, 11:48 am

I'm planning on Kazuo Ishiguro's Artist of the Floating World for my 'I' book and Kings of the Wyld for my 'K' book.

11LibraryCin
Bewerkt: aug 21, 2022, 2:41 pm

I have a few Ks that are possibilities for other CATs and KITs, but I had to pick something out specifically for I. This has been on my tbr for a while, so I will get to:
Paper: An Elegy / Ian Sansom

K possibilities include:
The Rose Code / Kate Quinn
Pretty Little Wife / Darby Kane
Killing the Butterfly / Dale Ward (but I'm actually trying to get to this before August ends)

12majkia
aug 22, 2022, 10:02 am

I'm planning on:
Kings of the Wyld - N Eames
The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab

14Robertgreaves
sep 1, 2022, 6:11 am

Starting A Change of Heir by Michael Innes

15LadyoftheLodge
sep 1, 2022, 3:26 pm

I read In Too Steep by Kate Kingsbury for a "cat trick" this month.

16christina_reads
sep 2, 2022, 9:34 am

I just finished Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold -- a solid installment of the Vorkosigan series, though I missed Ivan and Mark.

17VivienneR
sep 3, 2022, 4:25 pm

Just finished I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella.
I was hoping this would be the same standard/calibre as my last novel by Kinsella, Twenties Girl, which was light, humorous and fun but this one, while good, just didn't quite measure up. Fixie (which has to be one of the most ridiculous nicknames in fiction) works in the family kitchen goods store with inept, unpleasant siblings while mentally repeating her mother's motto "family first". When she saved a stranger's laptop from disaster, he wrote an IOU on the coffee cup sleeve that started events rolling. An appealing story but with too many unpleasant characters to be one of Kinsella's best.

18clue
sep 4, 2022, 11:49 am

In a few days I'll start A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline.

19dudes22
sep 5, 2022, 4:49 pm

20Robertgreaves
sep 5, 2022, 9:33 pm

Starting The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears

21Tanya-dogearedcopy
sep 8, 2022, 10:28 pm

I've started reading The Kills: Sutler (by Richard House) and hope to have finished by this time next week!

22susanna.fraser
sep 11, 2022, 1:14 am

23majkia
sep 11, 2022, 9:26 am

I finished The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and am now traipsing through the wyld with Kings of the Wyld.

24susanna.fraser
sep 11, 2022, 5:11 pm

I finished Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, so I now have entries for both letters.

25Robertgreaves
sep 13, 2022, 8:28 pm

26DeltaQueen50
sep 13, 2022, 9:50 pm

I have completed both my September AlphaKit reads with Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson and Never Cross A Vampire by Stuart Kaminsky.

27majkia
sep 14, 2022, 6:16 pm

28Tanya-dogearedcopy
sep 19, 2022, 1:41 am

I finished The Kills: Sutler (by Richard House) and am a little disappointed by the ambiguous ending and lack of the extramural media originally created for it; but am reserving final judgement until the end of the four-title omnibus.

I’ve started listening to King Leopold’s Ghost (by Adam Hochschild; narrated by Geoffrey Howard) and hope to have it wrapped within the week!

29Kristelh
sep 19, 2022, 2:59 pm

I completed An Artist of a Floating World by Kazua Ishiguro for KI.

30Robertgreaves
sep 19, 2022, 8:32 pm

COMPLETED The Impossible Life of Mary Benson by Rodney Bolt

Starting "The King Must Die" by Mary Renault

31dudes22
sep 20, 2022, 7:25 am

I've read Turning Angel by Greg Iles.

32Robertgreaves
sep 21, 2022, 10:32 am

33Tanya-dogearedcopy
Bewerkt: sep 23, 2022, 10:37 pm

I finished King Leopold’s Ghost (by Adam Hochschild; narrated by Geoffrey Howard) and;
Niebu’m going to try and get To the Bright Edge of the World (by Eowyn Ivey) in before the end of the month :-)

34LibraryCin
sep 25, 2022, 3:35 pm

The Innocents / Michael Crummey
2 stars

When Ada and Evered’s parent both die, they are still young. It’s the 19th century and they live in an isolated area in Newfoundland. They do what they can to survive.

I listened to the audio. It was slow-moving and I couldn’t get interested, though the Newfoundland accents and phrases are fun. I missed much of what happened in the book, but I didn’t really care, either. I’m not sure how old the kids were when their parents died and not sure how old they were at the end of the book, either. It was a bit ugly as they became teenagers with no one else around, though. When I saw this book was nominated for a few awards, that explained it for me (my not liking it).

35LibraryCin
sep 25, 2022, 10:07 pm

(2022 review; this is my 5th time reading in the past 10 years.)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
3.5 stars

Icabod Crane is a teacher in a village near “Sleepy Hollow”, where there is a legend of a headless horseman – a ghost of someone without a head who rides a horse; they say he was a soldier. Crane has a crush on young local beauty Katrina Van Tassel, but another man – a good-looking brawny practical joker – also has eyes for her. Even still, bookish Crane thinks he has a good chance with her. But he runs into trouble late at night after a party at the Van Tassels on his way home.

I’ve read this a few times before, usually around Halloween. I feel like I paid more attention this time, as I was at home without other distractions. I tend to gloss over descriptions, and this one is very descriptive, but I paid more attention today so I feel like I “noticed” more going on in the book in addition to the ending. Keeping my rating at “good”.

36LibraryCin
sep 25, 2022, 10:08 pm

Pretty Little Wife / Darby Kane
4 stars

Both Aaron and Lila had awful childhoods, losing both their parents in terrible ways. After being (emotionally, mentally) abused and controlled by her husband, Aaron, for years, Lila discovers a secret Aaron has carried. She finds a video. This pushes her over the top and she comes up with a plan to make him disappear. But on the day she tries, although things seem to work according to plan, initially, something goes very very wrong… Adam has disappeared, but not in the way Lila had intended.

I thought this was really good. It pulled me in quickly and I wanted to know what was going on. Of course, there are a few twists and turns along the way. And I constantly wondered what to believe of Lila. She’s very cold, not very likable. Parts of the story are also from the point of view of Ginny, the lead investigator into Aaron’s disappearance. The two women are both very smart and tough.

37whitewavedarling
sep 26, 2022, 11:04 am

Finished An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. Of all the books I've read by him, this is probably one of my least favorites, but I still enjoyed it very much.

38kac522
Bewerkt: sep 26, 2022, 6:33 pm

I've only had one book this month with I or K: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, 2022 Booker Man Shortlist finalist, which is a little book that packs a big punch, and well worth the read.

Looking ahead to the one or two remaining books I'll finish this month, I don't see an I or K in sight, so this will be it.

39christina_reads
sep 27, 2022, 10:11 am

I finally read a K book this month, Just Another Love Song by Kerry Winfrey. I really like this author, and if you enjoy second-chance romances and Hallmark movies set in charming small towns, I'd definitely recommend this one!

40Robertgreaves
sep 28, 2022, 7:38 pm

41bookworm3091
Bewerkt: sep 29, 2022, 3:06 pm

42rabbitprincess
sep 30, 2022, 7:45 pm

One for K: Death on Gokumon Island, written by Seishi Yokomizo and translated by Louise Heal Kawai.

43majkia
okt 1, 2022, 8:08 am

I finished The Kaiju Preservation Society which was a hoot. I love John Scalzi.

44LibraryCin
Bewerkt: okt 2, 2022, 10:52 pm

I finished today, but I started in September and I chose to read it now for "I"

Paper: An Elegy / Ian Sansom
3 stars

This is a history of paper. Not just paper, including how its made (pretty much the same as it has been for hundreds of years, except now by machines instead of by hand), but it also looks at the histories of various items made with paper: books, games and puzzles, origami, art, and more.

The intro started off really interesting, also taking us through a day without paper. The rest of the book – though it had some interesting tidbits -- just wasn’t quite as good. There was a lot of references to literature and art, and that kind of lost my interest there. Overall, though, I’m rating it “ok”, but I feel like that might be a bit generous.

45beebeereads
okt 4, 2022, 9:41 am

I dnfd the book I had chosen for this cat, but I did finish The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore. The subtitle actually contains the word Icredible so maybe I satisfied this challenge afterall!

Highly recommend this book, an amazing telling of a 19th c. activitst who was not only a determined advocate for women's rights, but also for those consigned to an assylum on false premises.

46whitewavedarling
okt 9, 2022, 9:27 am

Late recording it because of Hurricane Ian (we finally have internet back at my house!), but I finished reading Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames. It was fantastic, and I'd absolutely recommend it to fantasy-lovers. I had such fun reading it, it was a fantastic distraction from the world.