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I am reading Fire by Rosie Scott

I went with An Ember in the Ashes. It was a bit cliché YA dystopian, but still an enjoyable read. The third one just came out so I think that I'm going to continue on with the series.

What are you reading for this category? The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve
How is it connected to "fire"? It's in the title and apparently the main character's town burns to the ground. Yikes!

Just started Little Fires Everywhere. Easy connection to the title.

What are you reading for this category? The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve
How is it connected to "fire"? The story is set during an actual devastating fire that destroyed 9 towns in Maine in 1947.

- What are you reading for this category? The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket
- How is it connected to "fire"? The series revolves around the Volunteer Fire Department. There are many mysterious fires throughout the series and this book ends with the hospital going up in flames.

Poseidon's Arrow

By : Clive Cussler
Cover has fire on it and it also by Clive Cussler

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is my pick for this category - it's been on my TBR for a looong time so I'm glad to be finally getting to it!

What are you reading for this category?
I read The Fire Child by S.K. Tremayne.

How is it connected to "fire"?
Fire is in the title. The child does set a very clever but harmless fire.

I changed my mind again. I’m currently reading Girls Burn Brighter and will use it for this prompt. Both the title and the cover (a fire) fit. It’s very good so far!

- What are you reading for this category? Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst
- How is it connected to "fire"? Title

- What are you reading for this category?
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
- How is it connected to "fire"?
Fire in the title

For this task, I read Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. Now I can watch the movie!

I read The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner for this one. A lot of my GR friends really liked it, but I hated it! I found it pretentious, scattered, vague and just not my cuppa. I might end up moving it to another category (it was nominated for the Women's Prize too) because I also want to read Smoke, though I might be able to slide that one in elsewhere, too.

I had considered going outside the box and reading a book by Muriel Spark just to be clever :)

I read Fatal Burn. The book was centered around fire as people were being killed and clues were left in patterns with the flames or burned into a certain pattern. Arson had everything to do with the plot and what was going on.

What are you reading for this category?
I'm reading City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare.
How is it connected to "fire"?
Ashes are what is left after a fire stops burning.
I read City of Bones earlier this year and loved it and the second books fits perfectly for this category.

I chose for this prompt, both for the appearance of the word "fire" in the title, and the flames visible through the windows of one of the houses on the cover.

I read Slaughterhouse-Five for this one. It's connected to fire in that the bombing of Dresden in WWII that is central to the plot caused fires.

What are you reading for this category?
I read The Rehearsal Dinner (The Wedding From Hell #1) by J.R. Ward

How is it connected to "fire"?
Well I went with this book the title in brackets has hell in it so in my mind that means fire. Also it's a novella about firehouse and the people that work in it so I thought it would fit in nicely for this one.

What are you reading for this category? I'm reading the ginormous City on Fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg.

How is it connected to "fire"? I think it's a metaphor for New York City, ca. 1976-1977, when the city smoldered in a vast number of problems: poverty, crime, drugs, squalor, grafitti, capped off by the infamous blackout of July 13, 1977.

What are you reading for this category?

When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over

How is it connected to "fire"?

The title and there are references to "being on fire" for God.

- What are you reading for this category?
Circle of Fire
- How is it connected to "fire"?
It's in the name, and on the cover, and the main character was a fire starter

What are you reading for this category?
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae, by Steven Pressfield



How is it connected to "fire"?
I believe the title is a reference to the epic battle between two million Persian invaders and 300 Spartans at the mountain pass of Thermopylae in Ancient Greece.

I've just finished The Great Fire



Obviously the word is in the title, there is also a fire on the cover, but the book is mostly set in Japan during the aftermath of WW2 and specifically The Bomb at Hiroshima. Bombing raids, especially nuclear ones, caused fire storms but there's a lot of metaphors going on here too! Ultimately it's a love story, but so much more. Really enjoyed this book

- What are you reading for this category? I read Fyre
- How is it connected to "fire"? It's the title or kind of: In the story, Fyre is a type of fire that can only be created by Alchemists

My pick for this month was Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters. This is a book that is both a history of smokejumping ( a form of fighting wildfires), and a memoir of the author, Jason Ramos.

- What are you reading for this category?
I read The Girl Who Played with Fire
- How is it connected to "fire"?
The connection is obvious. I was delighted to have this prompt because I have been sitting on this book and failing to read it for so many years. I liked the initial book, but this one was even better.

What are you reading for this category?
I am reading Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- How is it connected to "fire"?
Fire is used as a metaphor early in the novel (which I thought would continue, hence the selection), but it does play an interesting part (scorched earth due to heat and fire, as well as seeing the wall of butterflies as a wall of flame).