2017 Reading Challenge: Week 2

I finished Daughter of the Forest this week.  I loved this book.  A retelling of a fairy tale combined with Celtic legend and historical fiction - I was delighted I finally picked this one up and read it.  Highly recommended if you like any of the above types of books.

This week, I'm reading Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce, for week #2: A book with at least 2 perspectives. The premise of this book is that the main character, Tara, gets spirited away by the fairies (only don't call them that; they don't like it), and spends 6 months with them in their realm.... only to return home to find she's missed 20 years.  Her parents and brother have all aged, but she still looks 16. Is she telling the truth?  Or is she some poor misguided soul with some mental health issues?  The book is written from Tara's perspective, as well as her brother's, her analyst's, her nephew's, and her old boyfriend.  Joyce weaves the tale of Tara's time away intertwined with things that are happening to her in the present.  All of which you can choose to find a (relatively) rational explanation for, or which you can choose to accept as the truth.  Things aren't always what they seem.  An interesting read so far.

The 2017 List
1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016
2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view): Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce.
3. A book you meant to read in 2016
4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E":  
5. A historical fiction
6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 
7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title
8. A book written by a person of color
9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list:
10. A dual-timeline novel:
11. A category from another challenge: Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier.
12. A book based on a myth
13. A book recommended by one of your favorite authors
14. A book with a strong female character
15. A book written or set in Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland)
16. A mystery
17. A book with illustrations
18. A really long book (600+ pages)
19. A New York Times best-seller
20. A book that you've owned for a while but haven't gotten around to reading
21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
22. A book by an author you haven't read before:  The Secrets of Wishtide, by Kate Saunders.
23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)
24. A book written by at least two authors
25. A book about a famous historical figure
26. An adventure book
27. A book by one of your favorite authors
28. A non-fiction
29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses (Simon & Schuster; HarperCollins; Penguin Random House; Hachette Livre) - check all the editions
30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)
31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
33. A magical realism novel
34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link)
37. A book you choose randomly
38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
39. An epistolary fiction
40. A book published in 2017
41. A book with an unreliable narrator
42. A best book of the 21st century (so far)
43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold):  Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase.
44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
45. A book with a one-word title
46. A time travel novel
47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link)
48. A banned book
49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
50. A Penguin Modern Classic - any edition
51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays) 
52. A book set in a fictional location