You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion
Challenges: Year Long Main 2021
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Almeta's Voluminous Volumes and Miniature Matchmakers
Roadrunner's Racers✔465a Disappearing ✭✭✭Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls dancing ► 27 Mar
✔213b dancing ★☆☆Slow Dancing with the Angel of Death, Helen Chappell red on cover► 7 Apr
✔368a red on cover ★☆★☆The Round House red on cover► 25 Mar
✔215b red on cover ☆☆★Blood Lines: Long and Short Stories Blood► 28 Mar
✔316a Blood ☆★☆In the Blood Blood► 29 Mar
✔480b Blood ☆★☆☆Blood Work Blood► 13 Apr
✔320a Blood ★☆☆The Weight of Blood Blood► 15 Apr
✔251b Blood ☆☆★☆Blood to Drink, Skinner, Robert ► 1 Apr
✔256a Robert ★★★Baptism for the Dead (Moroni Traveler, #1), Robert Irvine Robert► 9 Apr
✔247b Robert Skinner's ☆✴✴☆Skin Deep, Blood Red, Robert ► 31 Mar
✔18a Robert ☆★☆★Passengers, Robert Silverberg Robert► 26 Mar
✔498b Robert ★☆★The Literary Life and Other Curiosities, Hendrickson, Robert► 17 Apr
12 books for Roadrunner's Racers
Tasmanian Devil's Trouncers
✔248a Robert ☆★☆★Cat-Eyed Trouble, Robert Skinner> Robert► 28 Apr
✔320b Robert Skinner's ☆★★☆Daddy's Gone A-Hunting Robert► 5 May
✔233a Robert Cormier 's ✭✭✭I Am the Cheese Red on cover► 7 May
✔306b Red on cover ❦❦❦❦Naked in Death death► 9 May
✔212a death ★☆☆★Bimbos of the Death Sun death► 20 Apr
✔288b death ☆☆☆New Deal for Death death► 3 May
✔244a death ☆★☆Aunt Dimity's Death ghost► 21 Apr
✔197b ghost ❂❂❂Dead Duck character named Hollis 20 Apr
✔166c Hollis ★☆☆Pictures of Hollis Woods character named Hollis 20 May
✔256a character named Hollis ★★☆Ghost of a Chance crime 29 Apr
✔312b crime ★★☆☆Suspect crime► 27 Apr
582 crime ❥❥❥❥❥Fingersmith thief► 13 May
Buzz Lightyear's Bombers
To Infinity and Beyond!
✔290a thief ★☆☆The Honey Thief thief► 7 Jun
✔230b thief ★☆☆★The Thief of Always: A Fable always► 9 Jun
✔213a always ★★☆☆We Have Always Lived in the Castle always► 9 Jun
✔310b always ★☆★☆Always a Thief thief► 8 Jun
✔199a thief ★☆★☆The Hunter, Richard Stark a.k.a.Donald E. Westlake thief► 19 Jun
✔326b thief ★☆☆Once a Thief thief► 4 Jun
✔320a thief ★☆☆☆Burglars Can't Be Choosers thief► 19 Jun
✔183b thief ☆★★☆Two Thieves and a Puma thief 10 Jul
✔149a thief ☆★Bicycle thieves thief► 30 May
✔356b thief ☆★★Crashed (Junior Bender, thief #1) thief► 10 Jul
We have nothing to fear but running out of beer.
✔248a thief ☆★☆★To Catch a Thief, David Dodge thief► 11 Jun
✔272b thief ★★★The Cat Who Tailed a Thiefthief► 10 Jun
✔146c thief ☆★☆★The Thief of Broken Toys thief► 6 Jun
Perhaps today I'll get a library card! A license to read!
13 Lightyear Books
Here I Come to Save the Day!
✔327a thievery ★★★The Stolen Child thievery► 26 Jul
✔310b thief ☆★☆★City of Thieves, Benioff, David► 14 Jun
529 David Mitchell's ★☆☆★☆Cloud Atlas, David► 5 Sep
208a David Levithan's ☆☆★☆☆Two Boys Kissing David► 26 Jun✔152b David McGimpsey's ☆★Li'l Bastard yellow on cover► 28 Jun
✔216c yellow on cover The Judas Pair Jonathan Gash a.k.a. John Grant► 18 Jul
✔228a John Wyndham's ☆★☆☆The Day of the Triffids John► 21 Jun
✔159b John Henry Reese's ★☆★☆Weapon Heavy John► 19 May
✔128c John Layman's ★★★Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice, (Sequential Art) crime► 27 Jun
✔192c crime ★★★Study In Scarletcrime► 1 Jul
✔320b crime ★★★★Hit Man Block► 7 Jul
✔296a Block ★☆★☆Hit List crime► 24 Aug
✔224b crime ★☆★Guilty crime► 12 Jun
13 Mighty Books
UP, Up and Away
✔352a crime ★★★★Wanna Get Lucky?crime► 24 Jul
✔76b crime ☆★Home Invasion crime► 20 Jun
✔192c crime ☆★☆★The Ringer crime► 1 Jul
✔192a crime ★☆☆★Gold by Gemini (Lovejoy, #2) crime► 16 Sep
✔352b crime ★★★★Lucky Bastard, Bastard► 21 Sep
531 bastard ❥❤❤❥❤The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard) bastard► 25 Jun
650 Bastard ╰☆☆☆☆☆╮The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard) gentlemen► 21 Nov✔228a Gentlemen ★★The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1] Extraordinary► 23 Sep
✔384b Extraordinary ★☆☆The Museum of Extraordinary Things Extraordinary► 25 Aug
✔192c Extraordinary ☆☆The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Gentleman ► 24 Sep
558 Gentleman ♥♡♥♡♥Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard)Sea► 6 Aug
11 Super Books
Proud and insolent youth, prepare to meet thy doom!
✔533 Sea ★★★Sea of Poppies water► 12 Sep
✔522 water ★☆★River of Smokewater► 13 Sep
440a water ★★★★★The water of the hills: Jean de Florette and Manon of the springs : two novels water► 22 Jun✔272b water ★★★The Sex Lives Of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (2003) water► 27 Sep
✔264a water The River of Souls, McCammon 2014► 14 Dec
✔416b 2014 ☆☆☆☆Brutal Youth, Anthony Breznican Anthony ►
✔530 Anthony Doerr ‘s ☆★☆★All the Light We Cannot See(2014) light► 11 Nov
343a light ❤❥❤❥❤The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman blue cover► 12 Oct
486b blue cover ☆☆☆☆☆The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker ( 2013) blue cover► 23 DecAnd ixnay on the wishing for more wishes
181c blue cover ★★★★★The Ocean at the End of the Lane water► 16 Apr
10 Hook's Books
There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!
501 water ☆☆★☆☆The Little Stranger, Sarah Waters► 22 Jul✔368a Sarah Dunant's ★★★★In the Company of the Courtesan(2006) person on the cover► 31 Jul
✔324b person on the cover ☆☆☆☆Saddled and Spurred: A Blacktop Cowboys Novel, Lorelei James► 20 Oct
✔115a James M. Cain's ★★★☆Double Indemnity, James► 29 Oct
✔15b James Tiptree, Jr.'s ★★★★Houston, Houston, Do You Read? Tiptree ► 12 Jul
✔304c character Jacobia Tiptree, ☆☆☆Wicked Fix, Sarah Graves 26 Oct
✔272d Grave ★★★★The Witch's Grave (Fever Devilin, #2), Phillip DePoy Witch► 22 Sep
You poor, simple fools. Thinking you could defeat me. Me! The mistress of all evil!
✔579 witch ★☆★☆A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) witch► 24 Aug
✔218a Witch ★★★★The Witches, Roald Dahl Witch► 19 Sep
✔342b Witch ★☆★Dark Witch (2013) witch► 4 Jul
✔291a Witch ★☆★☆Triple , Graves Sarah► 20 Aug
✔320b Sarah Graves' ☆☆☆☆The Dead Cat Bounce charater Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree► 19 Aug
12 Speed of Lightning, Roar of Thunder Books
And now, here's something we hope you'll really like!
✔13a James Tiptree ★★★Love is the Plan the Plan is Death, a.k.a. Alice B. Sheldon
James► 12 Jul
✔256b James ☆☆☆☆An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, P.D. James►
✔247c P.D. James' ☆★☆The Children Of Men, James► 13 Jun
✔339a Lorelei James ★★★★Corralled James (and horses HeHeHe)► 20 Jul
✔288b James Daniels' ☆★☆Vengeance Rider► 17 Dec
✔320a H. Rider Haggard's ☆☆☆☆King Solomon's Mines, Boxall ► 30 Sep
✔211b Boxall ★☆Journey to the Center of the Earth Boxall► 29 Jul
✔428a Boxall ★☆★☆Memoirs of a Geisha,Arthur Golden Boxall► 28 Oct
✔367b Boxall ★☆★Love Medicine, two words► 15 May
✔192a two words ★☆★ Naughty Neighbor two words► 22 Oct
✔256b two words ★★☆☆The Monkey's Raincoat person on the cover► 30 Aug
✔184c person on the cover The Colorado Kid (2004), Stephen King person on the cover 5 Dec
✔448a person on the cover ☆☆☆Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show person on the cover► 20 Oct
✔276b person on the cover ★★Veniss Underground (2003), two word title► 14 Aug
✔32c two word title David Wiesner's Mr. Wuffles! Moniker prefix
Watch Me Pull 15 Books Out of My Hat
Take Me To Your Leader✔52a Moniker Prefix ☆★The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore Prefix► 24 May
✔30b Moniker Prefix ★★★Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library library► 1 Aug
✔220c library ☆★☆ Fran Stewart's Yellow as Legal Pads cat► 22 Aug
✔136d Cat ☆☆How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You cat► 26 Aug
✔304e cat ★★★Nine Lives Last Forever 2010► 19 Oct
✔32a 2010 ✭✭✭It's a Book, Lane Smith 11 Nov
✔247b Smith ✭✭★The Careful Use of Compliments, Alexander McCall Smith Mc► 14 Jun
✔288c McCulley's ★★★★The Mark of Zorro (The Curse of Capistrano), mark► 18 Oct
el Kabong
✔208a Mark Dunn's ☆★☆★Ella Minnow Pea(2001), Mark► 25 Oct
✔272b Mark ☆★☆God Save the Mark A Novel of Crime and Confusion, Westlake Mark► 24 Oct
✔25c Mark Twain's (2006) ★☆★Advice to Little Girls► 14 Nov
✔247a girl ☆☆☆☆The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (2011), Catherynne M. Valente red on cover► 7 Dec
✔256b red on cover ★★★★The Hundred-Foot Journey(2008), Richard C. Morais red on cover► 9 Dec
✔328a red on cover ☆☆☆☆The Sisters Brothers (2011), Patrick deWitt 6 Dec
✔97b Patrick ★★★★The Turtle Boy (Timmy Quinn #1), Kealan Patrick Burke boy 8 Oct
38c boy Harlan Ellison's ☆★☆☆★A Boy And His Dog, Nebula► 29 JunEvery dog should have a boy
✔20cd Nebula ☆★☆The Day Before the Revolution Nebula ►30 Jun
✔48e Nebula ☆☆☆☆""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, Harlan► 17 Oct
✔272f Harlan Ellison's ★★★★Strange Wine► 13 Dec
✔640 wine ☆★☆The Wine of Angels angel► 15 Sep
Marvin's 20 Books
Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
306a angel ☆★☆★☆The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror Moore, Christopher 25 Nov✔176b Christopher Paul Moore's ☆☆☆Santa and Pete: A Novel of Christmas Present and Past Christmas 28 Dec
✔144c Christmas ★☆☆Zanna's Gift: A Life in Christmases, Orson Scott Card life► 16 Dec
✔544 life ★☆☆★Life After Life(2013) after► 18 Jun
✔338a After ☆☆★Dead Ever After (Sookie Stackhouse #13), Charlaine Harris ever► 18 Dec
✔336b ever ★☆★If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O return► 2 Jun
✔256a return ✭★☆Return of the Thin Man return► 13 Jun
✔128b return☆★ Return of the Dark Virgin Dark► 28 May
✔292c Dark ☆★☆★Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris► 31 Aug
✔320a Joanne Harris ★★☆★Chocolat, made into a film► 9 Aug
✔160b film Fleming's ★★★★Chitty Chitty Bang Bang film► 6 Jul
✔400c film Goldman's ☆☆☆☆The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (1973) published at least 25 years ago►► 6 Nov
Taking Over the World In 12 Books
What the heck! D.J., you dirty guy!✔192a published at least 25 years ago ★★★The House With a Clock in Its Walls, Edward Gorey Illustrator)(1973) 25 years ago► 10 Jun
✔60b published at least 25 years ago ★☆☆★Beyond Time(1971) published at least 25 years ago► 20 May
✔64c published at least 25 years ago ☆★★☆The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish(1998) 25 years ago► 7 Jul
✔247d published at least 25 years ago ★☆★☆Goatsong: A Novel of Ancient Athens25 years ago► 26 Dec]
✔373a published at least 25 years ago☆☆☆☆What's The Worst That Could Happen?(1996), Donald E. Westlake 25 years ago► 7 Dec
✔220b published at least 25 years ago ★★★★The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)(Boxall) bird► 16 Dec
✔179a bird ★★☆Bird Lake Moon, Kevin Henkes bird► 12 Aug
✔242b bird ★★★★The Birds and Other Stories, Daphnedu Maurier bird► 4 Nov
✔218c bird ☆☆☆Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon #1), Nevada Barr cat 7 Nov
Hey baby, can I be your natural selection?
✔224a cat ☆★☆Shades of Grey color► 3 Dec
✔390b color ★★★★Shades of Grey color► 29 Sep
✔672 color ☆☆☆☆The Woman in White mystery► 2 Nov
✔216a mystery 2014 ☆☆☆☆Take One With You, Oak Anderson 2014► 1 Oct
✔464b 2014 ★★★Dorothy Must Die2014► 2 Dec
✔416a 2014 ☆★☆★Revival, Stephen King 2014► 12 Dec
✔352b 2014 ★★☆☆The Farm, Tom Rob Smith2014► 15 Dec
Nyaht-ah-ah! 16 Books
I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
✔528 2014 ★★☆☆The Secret Place, Tana French secret► 13 Nov
✔402a secret ☆☆☆The Husband's Secret(2013) green cover► 30 Jun
✔256b green ★☆✭ (Adventures in Odyssey) The Green Ring Conspiracy► 22 Nov
✔504 Conspiracy ☆★★☆A Conspiracy of Faith 2008► 24 Nov
✔296a Conspiracy (2008) Michael J. Sullivan's ✭★☆✭The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations #1) 2008► 28 Aug
✔260b 2008 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help 24 Nov
✔309a 2008 ☆☆☆☆The Misremembered Man two Word Title► 18 Sep
✔346b two Word Title ★★☆☆The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan 2011►
✔374a 2011 ★★★★Ready Player One2011► 30 Dec
✔378a 2011 ☆☆☆☆The Night Strangers, Chris Bohjalian 2011► 1 Dec
10 Roger and Jessica's Books
I think I want to stay a Slug, they're definitely the cutest of the bunch!
Okay, this is cute! I may want to "borrow" some of these.
Nice planning! How much of this will change, you think?
Wow, love the pics and the planning! Way to go, Almeta!
yes, love the pics, as others have said, this might get borrowed.
Wow, great list Almeta! The Matthew Shardlake series is one of my favourite series ever so I really hope you enjoy it if you don't swap it out.Also, love the mascots! How cute is that little slug?!
OMG! May I
Oh, and don't forget the links. I'm amazed at how quickly you got your gophering done. Did you sleep last night?
Pics are great especially the slug!My list is likely to change hugely too Almeta, especially if I read book 1 in the series then realise I want to read all of them before moving on to the next book I had originally planned. At least they should also qualify so it won't mess things up too much (I hope).
I must be tired, but just reading through all of the links makes my head hurt, Almeta, but WOW!
Rusalka wrote: "Nice planning! How much of this will change, you think?"lol. If the past is any indication....it will change a lot!
Janice wrote: "OMG! May I snarfle those gifs? It might save me some work creating badges."Why of course...I snarfled from different places myself!
Janice wrote: "Oh, and don't forget the links. I'm amazed at how quickly you got your gophering done. Did you sleep last night?"
I had a list of doorstops already shelved, and started at two this morning putting the connections together...Not Easy ☻☻☻
I will get to the links eventually!
Someone was busy! I really feel like a slug. I haven't even looked at my bookshelves yet.
Ha the slug in that spoiler will be me in a year from now trying to finish this challenge!
Roz wrote: "Someone was busy! I really feel like a slug. I haven't even looked at my bookshelves yet."Insomnia!
Not insomnia. It's called being on Aussie time.
@#%^& #@&!!! Would you believe that I lost my Buzz Lightyear list of books? Curses!
Rusalka wrote: "Isn't it in the spoiler?"no :(
BUT
because of the first word in the spoiler, "Hole", I was able to determine that that would have to connect to Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole.
Working backward, to The Bat, those above it had to have "Bat" in their titles as well.
Which took me as far as Bats at the Library by Brian Lies
So I then remembered The Lies of Locke Lamora was one I wanted to read.
The last word in the previous section is "ship", which I used to find the most recent book addition with "ship"....and then on to recent addition of "company" to "liars".
I think that I actually got it right!!!
One has to watch out for those bats in the belfry. Glad you were able to rebuild your list.
The thought of all that work is making my head spin! Do you want to connect mine for me? ☺Love your mascots!!
You know what made my head spin? Figuring out all those pages! I'd think I'd have the right number marked down, and then I'd check the issue I was reading and I'd have to start all over again. Who knew that was going to be such an issue for me.
That's a really impressive feat, Almeta! My head is also spinning!
My head is spinning so fast; that I forgot and don't have a clue what we doing... 8-/
In the first reading I missed the "spoiler", then I saw it. Holy ****! Thank goodness you've given yourself an opportunity to fit in some Donald Westlake books.
Janice wrote: "You know what made my head spin? Figuring out all those pages! I'd think I'd have the right number marked down, and then I'd check the issue I was reading and I'd have to start all over again. W..."Pages are a problem, especially if the number is near the 500-mark.
I kept a separate computer window open to my library, so that I could check which edition they would have for me to borrow.
I didn't catch the spoiler either! Almeta is in a class all on her own. :)
Roz wrote: "In the first reading I missed the "spoiler", then I saw it. Holy ****! Thank goodness you've given yourself an opportunity to fit in some Donald Westlake books."lol, Donald and I are apparently attached at the hip!jaxnsmom wrote: "The thought of all that work is making my head spin! Do you want to connect mine for me? ☺
Debra wrote: "That's a really impressive feat, Almeta! My head is also spinning!"
Love your mascots!!"
Roz wrote: "In the first reading I missed the "spoiler", then I saw it. Holy ****! "
Janice wrote: "I didn't catch the spoiler either! Almeta is in a class all on her own. :)"
We'll see. Those series reads may not all get done. If they don't keep me occupied, I will not read a full dozen!
That will change things dramatically.☻
You are looking good, Almeta! Good luck with your list in 2014. : )
Wow!!! Looks like some good reading ahead of you. I'm doing the Shardlake series too.
I might wanna do Shardlake too. Great list, Almeta, and your pictures are da bomb! :D
Laura wrote: "I might wanna do Shardlake too. Great list, Almeta, and your pictures are da bomb! :D"Marnie wrote: "Wow!!! Looks like some good reading ahead of you. I'm doing the Shardlake series too."
The Shardlake series has lots of pages, an especially long story, if read back to back. I hope we enjoy it.☻
I enjoyed The Cuckoo's Calling a lot! Rowling is a great writer. I expect to read Bellman & Black this year too, though it's not in my chunksters challenge list.
Sandra wrote: "I enjoyed The Cuckoo's Calling a lot! Rowling is a great writer. I expect to read Bellman & Black this year too, though it's not in my chunksters challenge list."
I had The Cuckoo's Calling once before and had to return it to the library unread.
Just finished Bellman & Black: A Ghost Story . Hard to evaluate. Diane Setterfield is a talented writer.
Blood Work was a 5 star read for me in 2013. Pretty safe anything Connelly writes will be good but I really enjoyed that one in particular.
Travis of NNY wrote: "Blood Work was a 5 star read for me in 2013. Pretty safe anything Connelly writes will be good but I really enjoyed that one in particular."I liked Michael Connelly's writing. Don't know why I haven't read more of him, afterall he writes in a favorite genre of mine.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, it encourages me not to change my mind! I'm glad Blood Work fit into my early plans! I have a couple more of Connelly's connected, but at "Infinity and Beyond".
Nice job on finishing Slick's. I like all your animation- makes your page so cheerful.
Marnie wrote: "Nice job on finishing Slick's. I like all your animation- makes your page so cheerful."Thanks Marnie. It is fun to play around with. I'm an animation fan.
Great job on Mickey! You definitely have the most animated list- it is very cheerful.
Marnie wrote: "Great job on Mickey! You definitely have the most animated list- it is very cheerful."Having lots of fun.
Good grief!!! How many books do you have listed, Almeta? I'm exhausted just scrolling through them all.
You'll love this one...!! A book club & more
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Turbo F.A.S.T.
✔304a ★☆★☆ Evertaster, Adam Glendon Sidwell yellow words on cover 2 Jan ►
✔213b yellow words on cover ☆☆★★The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, Alexander McCall Smith yellow words on cover 19 Jan ►
✔328a yellow words on cover ☆★☆ Bellman & Black: A Ghost Story, Diane Setterfield yellow words on cover 6 Jan ►
✔192b yellow words on cover► ☆★☆ Zero Cool: A Novel, John Lange aka Michael Crichton yellow words on cover 8 Jan ►
✔520 yellow words on cover ☆★☆★ The Five, Robert R. McCammon 18 Jan ►
✔645 McCammon ★✪✫★ The Queen of Bedlam, McCammon 30 Jan►
✔440a Robert R. McCammon's ★☆★☆ Mister Slaughter Slaughter 5 Feb►
✔224b Slaughter ★☆★Wolf to the Slaughter, Ruth Rendell Wolf 9 Feb►