AlphaKIT year long : X and Z

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I have read Seashores by Herbert Zim.

I've read Zer0es by Chuck Wendig.

Thanks! I read X: A Kinsey Millhone by Sue Grafton - hopefully we're still doing AlphaKit when she finally gets to Z!

Recently finished What was she thinking: notes on a scandal by Zoë Heller.

Just finished The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer. Full review written!

I have completed my "Z" read with The Never List by Koethi Zan.

Just finished the fascinating Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff.

I finally got to my X title -- X: a Novel, a nonfiction novel written by Malcolm X's daughter about his journey from being Malcolm Little to a street hustler called "Red" to his conversion to Islam and taking the name Malcolm X. I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Dion Graham, and it included a short segment by Ilyasah Shabazz which detailed what was 'fictionalized' (mostly combining several people into one or two characters in the novel) and giving a bit more background.

Finished ZaatarDiva by Suheir Hammad, and wrote a full review. Adding it to the wiki now...

I hadn't noticed this was here. Earlier this year I read Murder Most Egyptological: A Mrs. Xavier Stayton Mystery by Robert Colton

I got my Z book with The Z Murders, a Golden Age mystery by J. Jefferson Farjeon.

I'm probably going to get every other letter, but I'm failing at X and Z. Still a few months to go, though, so we'll see!

>13 LibraryCin: I find Z a lot easier than X!! Good luck :)

>14 leslie.98: I believe last year I did manage Z, but I think I missed X then, as well. :-)

I have an X series and a Z series I use. X is the Mrs. Xavier Stayton mysteries by Robert Colton and Z is a series by Mark Zubro.

Holding Juno: Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches / Mark Zuehlke
2.5 stars

This is Zuehlke’s second book covering D-Day. focusing on Canadian troops at Juno Beach. The first book focused on that exact day. This one continues with the days following, from June 7-12, 1944.

I liked the first one. I’m not sure if the style was any different (it’s been 3 years since I read it), if I just wasn’t in the mood as much, this time (though I purposely read it over Remembrance Day), or what, but it just didn’t draw me in this time. Some parts did, particularly the 12th SS German group who just went ahead and murdered many POWs – horrifying, but it’s one story of it that sure got my attention! I believe there is supposed to be a third book that also continues this, but I’m not sure of the title. I might still give it a try, I’m not sure. I will likely try a fictional book that he has written, though – a mystery set on Vancouver Island.

This month I read Last train to Zona Verde: my ultimate African safari by Paul Theroux.

Starting Dead Egotistical Morons by Mark Richard Zubro

COMPLETED Dead Egotistical Morons by Richard Zubro. Starting the same author's Nerds Who Kill.

Completed Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong, and loved every minute. Full review written!

For the 2nd year in a row, I suspect I will not be reading and X book. That will likely be my only letter missed (again!).

COMPLETED Mark Richard Zubro's Paul Turner series.

Finished Conversations on the Edge: Narratives of Ethics and Illness by Richard Zaner. Full review written.

And, I've finished The Zodiac by James Dickey--for anyone who enjoys reading long-form poems or poetry sequences, this was really something. Full review written.

I just realized I haven't filled X for this year so I'm reading Malcolm X: by any means necessary by Walter Dean Myers, a YA book that is just right for me as I know precious little about Malcolm X to start with.

I got my second Z done, Eye of Cat by Roger Zelazny!