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SRC Moderator | 7152 comments Mod
If you would like a place to plan or share what you'll be reading for the Winter 2018 Challenge you may post a list in this thread. You are NOT required to post here to participate in the challenge.


message 2: by Diana (last edited Feb 25, 2019 12:12AM) (new)

Diana Keener | 798 comments Diana K's reading plan


✔5.1 - This and That From This Day Forward
✔5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh Shell
✔5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-. A Shoe Addict's Christmas
✔5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas A Christmas Journey
✔5.5 - O? No! My Real Name Is Hanna
✔5.6 - Read Aloud Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
✔5.7 - Crimson And Clover Brownies & Betrayal
✔5.8 - Go Short Holidays on Ice
✔5.9 - Acts of Heroism , The Yellow Birds
✔5.10 - Book Blitz Mistletoe Murder

✔10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero Marilla of Green Gables
✔10.2 - Every Day Heroes Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
✔10.3- Four-Legged Heros Old Dogs Are the Best Dogs
✔10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman! Soon I Will Be Invincible
✔10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee Girl, Interrupted
✔10.6 - Let's Eat! Half a World Away in Australia: Travels in a Land Down Under ? (k) (appr. 7209)
✔10.7 - Brown Shoes? The Big Cat Nap
✔10.8 - Take the Stairs On Two Feet and Wings
✔10.9 - Write Me a Letter The Perks of Being a Wallflower
✔10.10 - Happy Holidays! Goodbye, Paris

✔15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men! One for the Money
An Abundance of Katherines
✔15.2 - Winter or Summer? Winter Journal
That Summer in Sicily
✔15.3 - Songs About Heroes The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores (k)
✔15.4 - From A to Z Anything Is Possible
✔15.5 - Secret Identity In From the Cold
✔15.6 - My Personal Hero My Brief History
✔15.7 - Catch up with the SRC The Glass Castle
✔15.8 - Mythological Heroes The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act
✔15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!--- Wind Chime Café (Wind Chime #1) by Sophie Moss --- (k)
✔15.10 - National Book Awards Florida

✔20.1- Most Improved Player - Cordelia's Task: "And the winner is....." The Danish Girl Rosenthal Family Foundation Award 2001
✔20.2 - Rookie At The Top- Kettleen's Task: Darwin Day Bridget Jones's Diary
20.3 Elementary, My Dear Watson A Ladder to the Sky
✔20.4 - Golden Oldies - Lagullande's Task: Everyday Heroes The Bridge of San Luis Rey
✔20.5 - Bigger is Better - Babbling C's Task: February Babies 2b Number One Chinese Restaurant
✔20.6 - Seasoned Reader – Laurah30’s Task: Remembering A Canadian Hero Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
✔20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Yo, Adrian! The Girl They Left Behind
✔20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Diane Whitney's Task: Membership Required Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine
✔20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Erin NY's Task: Goodreads choice award winners Leah on the Offbeat
✔20.10 Group Reads A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

✔25.1- M1nks's Task: What Makes a Good Hero? Opt 1 The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café
Opt 2 Winter Loon (k)
✔25.2 - SandyL's Task: Winter Sports! Opt 3 --- A Christmas Visitor (Christmas Stories, #2) by Anne Perry ---
Opt 4 The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
✔25.3 - Andy P.’s task: Christmas in Japan Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future
Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe
✔25.4 - Diana K's Task: Happy 200th Illinois Opt 2 To Honor Fallen Heroes: How a Small German-American Village in New York City Experienced the Great War
Opt 3 Night of Miracles
✔25.5 - Tien's Task: 2018 Reading Stats Opt 3 The Goldfinch
25.6 - Sandy's Task: They Go Together Book 1 Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table
Book 2 The Travelling Cat Chronicles
✔25.7 - - Wayne's task: Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good Thank You, Jeeves
The House I Loved OD
✔25.8 - Amy "the book-bat"'s Task: It's Cookie Time! Down and Out in Paris and London
Sugar Cookie Murder
✔25.9- Brooke TX's Task: Winter Solstice The Good Liar
Book 2 The Outsiders

✔30.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Gotta love the Hero! Opt 1. Heretics Anonymous
opt 2 Death by Chocolate # 19 Sally Field (k)
✔30.2. Amanda A's Task passed to Book Concierge: Feliz Navidad Opt B Strike Your Heart
Opt C The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
✔30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Alpha and Omega Elsewhere
Book 2 Flights
✔30.4 - Dulcinella's task: Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium) Opt 1 Book 1 --- The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle ---
Book 2 War and Turpentine
✔30.5 - Mazza1's Task: A world of books Bella Figura: How to Live, Love, and Eat the Italian Way (Iran)
The Pearl (Mexico)
✔30.6 - Dlmrose's Task: Naming Names Everybody's Got Something
Book 2 The Golden Age
✔30.7 - TessaVanessa's Task: New Year, New You. Self care or Eat better Something Great and Beautiful: A Novel of Love, Wall Street, and Focaccia
Less

✔50.1 When in French: Love in a Second Language
Book 2 To Sir, With Love
Book 3 Above the East China Sea


message 3: by Andrea (last edited Jan 14, 2019 12:37PM) (new)

Andrea 5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh- The Man in the High Castle
5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-. - Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories
5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas - Comfort & Joy
5.5 - O? No! - Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

5.8 - Go Short - The Garden Party and Other Stories
5.9 - Acts of Heroism - The Life We Bury
5.10 - Book Blitz - choice

10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero - The Proposal
10.2 - Every Day Heroes - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

10.6 - Let's Eat! - The Dry

10.10 - Happy Holidays!- Pleasantville

15.3 - Songs About Heroes -
Option 2:
The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes

15.4 - From A to Z - Option 2: American Street by Ibi Zoboi

15.8 - Mythological Heroes - Circe
15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!- The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
15.10 - National Book Awards - An American Marriage

20.1 - Most Improved Player - Cordelia's Task: "And the winner is....." -Housekeeping

20.3 - Best Review - TrishhartUK: Elementary, My Dear Watson -
Option 1. The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures by William deBuys


20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Yo, Adrian!
Option 2: HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION The Alice Network


20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Erin NY's Task: Goodreads choice award winners - The Kiss Quotient

25.3 Andy P.’s task: Christmas in Japan
Book 1. Read a book written by a single author whose initials (First, Middle if applicable, and Last) can be found in KIDDIELAND.
Book 2. -Only Love Can Break Your Heart
25.4 - Diana K's Task: Happy 200th Illinois
Opt 4. Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat
Opt 5. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

25.6 - Sandy's Task: They Go Together
at least 600 pages.
Book 1 - Read a book with a title of at least two words, where the initial letters of all of the words in the title can be found in its author's name.
Book 2 - The Half Brother by Holly LeCraw

30.2. Amanda A's Task passed to Book Concierge: Feliz Navidad
Option A Still Lives
Option BThe Friend

30.4 - Dulcinella's task: Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium)
3. ‘Lichtmis’

Book 1 - Milkman
Book 2 - The Mare by Mary Gaitskill

30.7 - TessaVanessa's Task: New Year, New You
Book 1: 1. Eat better - At the Bottom of the River
Book 2: Spend less money - Less

points: 230


message 4: by Marie (UK) (last edited Feb 20, 2019 08:27AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 3946 comments hello OMG there are so many i don't want to do this year


5.6 The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child scribd

10.3 Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (L) only a maybe
10.4 Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula on KU if i am forced


15.4 A Hidden Fire (KU)
15.8 Artemis: Virgin Goddess of the Sun & Moon--A Comprehensive Guide to the Greek Goddess of the Hunt, Her Myths, Powers & Mysteries (KU) ONLY a Maybe


20.8 It Ends with Us (SRC date L)
either 08/2009 GR or 08/2016 SRC

30.3 only a Maybe 500 page minimum
a) Endgame (L) 384 pages
b) Warlight 304 pages


message 5: by Nicola (last edited Feb 28, 2019 04:13AM) (new)

Nicola | 1360 comments 5.1 - This and That, These, Those - This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
5.2 - Oct/Nov/Dec -Pagan Spring
5.3 - DOT DASH - The Far Side of the World
5.4 - Genre Holiday - Envious Casca
5.5 - Author - O - Murder at the Vicarage
5.6 - NONFICTION literacy, education or reading I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
5.7 - 3 word title And/& Master and Commander
5.8 - 3 short stories/essays etc Stories by O. Henry
5.9 - Armed forces - Treason's Harbour
5.10 - Nouveaux Contes de fées


10.1 - Genre H.E.R.O - A Civil Contract
10.2 - Everyday hero - If Only They Could Talk
10.3 - Finding Gobi: The True Story of a Little Dog and an Incredible Journey

10.4 - Super Hero - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
10.5 - 1941 - 1996 Duplicate Death
10.6 - 50% in Hawaii, Alaska, Argentina, Antarctica, or Australia Santa Evita
10.7 - BROWN/SHOE - The Man in the Brown Suit
10.8 - 3 steps - Mary Barton
10.9 - Epistolary - The Diary of a Provincial Lady
10.10 - HOLIDAY Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1


15.1 - 1. The Subtle Knife 5. The Martian
15.2 - Winter or Summer - 1. Winter; 2. A Demon Summer
15.3 - 2. Ready Player One 51. Super Hero - Le Braghe Corte
15.4 - Americanah

15.5 - Two writer names - Plain Jane
15.6 - Nonfiction bio of hero - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
15.7 - SRC - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
15.8 - Genre Mythology - The Gospel of Loki
15.9 - Hand - Carry On
15.10 - The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq


20.1 - Won award The Siege of Krishnapur
20.2 - 1. date 5&9 High-Rise
20.3 - 2.Whose Body?
20.4 - Pub 1863 and 1927 - The Diary of a Nobody
20.5 - #1 in series Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
20.6 - 3. Pub 1981 Gorky Park
20.7 - 2. Title 3 HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION Clouds of Witness
The Hunger Games
20.8 - 1. Nov 2010 Cleopatra: A Life
20.9 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
20.10 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

25.1 - 3. Fullmetal Alchemist; 4. The Hunger Games
25.2 - 3. A Fatal Winter; 4. The Wine-Dark Sea
25.3 - 1. White Noise2. Tear, grate, great, Texan, three, next, heart, heat, heater, eater, cheat, cheater, chant, chanter, When the Green Woods Laugh
25.4 - 3. A Farewell to Arms; 4. Pigs Have Wings ; 5. Road/Train
25.5 - 1. Short Story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding; 3. 5 star 27+ Trainspotting
25.6 - 1. The Nutmeg of Consolation; 2. Pigs Have Wings
25.7 - 1. 4.2+ The Reverse of the Medal]; 2. 3.2- Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded
27.8 - 1. Pub 1917,33,37 Growth of the Soil; 2. Cookie Oh To Be In England

25.9 - 1. THE LONGEST NIGHT H.M.S. Surprise; 2. THE SHORTEST DAY The Thirteen-Gun Salute

30.1 - 1. Young Adult The Amber Spyglass; 2. ; 3. The Letter of Marque
30.2 - B. Dorothy L Sayers Unnatural Death; D. Death in the Stocks

30.3 - 1. Armada; 2. Trainspotting
30.4 - 1. Woman Author/Character Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley; 2. No Wind of Blame
30.5 - 1. Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag; 2. The Year of the Flood
30.6 - 1. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
2. Master and Commander/The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Hypnotic Assassin
The Godly Saviour
The Ancient Marksman
The Godly Scout
Brass Shade
Master Gentle Monarch
Gray Enchanter
Doctor Accidental Devil
Master Defiance
Animalia

30.7 - 1. Eat better
2. Exercise more
3. Spend less money
4. Self care
5. Read more books
6. Learn a new skill
7. Get a new job
8. Make new friends
9. Get a new hobby
10. Focus more on appearance

1. Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (Eat Better)
2. Money


1. Why Shoot a Butler?; 2. The Provincial Lady Goes Further 3 They Found Him Dead


message 6: by Amy the book-bat (last edited Feb 28, 2019 05:27PM) (new)

Amy the book-bat (batkisses) | 201 comments Amy <^..^>

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10.2 - Consumed (firefighter)
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10.5 - Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (GO- first published 1945)
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r10.8 - The Vanishing Stair
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*15.3 - The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz (#58, Stories of a Hero, Mahogany Rush)

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15.7 - The House of the Spirits or Beloved

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15.10 - A Very Large Expanse of Sea (long list)

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20.6 -
Option 2:

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20.10 - Group read: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (first published 1889)

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25.3 -
Book 1:
✔️Book 2: The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War (Great)

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25.7 -
✔️Book 1: The One Man 4.33 avg. 10,194 ratings
Book 2:

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30.3 -
Book 1:
Book 2:

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30.5 -
Book 1:
Book 2:

30.6 -
Book 1: Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner (William) (GO-first published 1942)
Book 2: Doctor Faustus (GO - first published 1947, BBx1 535 pages)
The Dramatic Conjurer
The Terrific Gladiator
The Misty Moth
The Merciful General
Doctor Broken Jackal
Infamous Devil
Chief Brave Illusionist
Agent Mighty Wolverine
Brass Bison
Master Defiance

30.7 -
Book 1:
Book 2:

50.1 -
Book 1:
Book 2:
Book 3:


message 7: by Joanne (last edited Nov 29, 2018 01:07PM) (new)

Joanne (joabroda1) | 1660 comments 5.1 - Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
5.2 - The City of Brass
5.3 - A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould
5.4 - The Christmas Train
5.5 -Things Fall Apart
5.6 -When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
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5.8 -Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories
5.9 -The White Darkness
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20.10Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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message 8: by Sheila (last edited Nov 17, 2018 01:16PM) (new)

Sheila (sheilaj) | 2221 comments Sheila's Winter Plan

5.1 - This and That
Like This, For Ever (Lacey Flint, #3) by Sharon J. Bolton Like This, For Ever by Sharon J. Bolton


5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh
Look Alive Twenty-Five (Stephanie Plum, #25) by Janet Evanovich Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich
Published November 13th 2018


5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas
The Christmas Secret (Christmas Hope, #5) by Donna VanLiere The Christmas Secret by Donna VanLiere


5.5 - O? No!
Bone Cold (The Malones, #1) by Erica Spindler Bone Cold by Erica Spindler


5.7 - Crimson And Clover
Hiss and Hers (Agatha Raisin, #23) by M.C. Beaton Hiss and Hers by M.C. Beaton


5.8 - Go Short
Gingerbread Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #13.5) by Joanne Fluke Gingerbread Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke


5.9 - Acts of Heroism
Into the Storm (Troubleshooters, #10) by Suzanne Brockmann Into the Storm by Suzanne Brockmann


5.10 - Book Blitz
Any Book

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10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero
A Pattern of Lies (Bess Crawford, #7) by Charles Todd A Pattern of Lies by Charles Todd
(Historical > Historical Fiction)


10.2 - Every Day Heroes
Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #31) by Michael Connelly Dark Sacred Night by Michael Connelly
(police)


10.3- Four-Legged Heros
The Possibility Dogs What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing by Susannah Charleson The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of "Unadoptables" Taught Me About Service, Hope, and Healing by Susannah Charleson
(page 1)


10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman!
Hunger (Gone, #2) by Michael Grant Hunger by Michael Grant
(page 2)


10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee
Play Dead by Harlan Coben Play Dead by Harlan Coben
(first published May 1st 1990)


10.6 - Let's Eat!
A Grave Denied (Kate Shugak, #13) by Dana Stabenow A Grave Denied by Dana Stabenow


10.7 - Brown Shoes?
The Witness by Sandra Brown The Witness by Sandra Brown


10.8 - Take the Stairs
92 Pacific Boulevard (Cedar Cove, #9) by Debbie Macomber 92 Pacific Boulevard by Debbie Macomber


10.10 - Happy Holidays!
Spider Woman's Daughter (Leaphorn & Chee, #19) by Anne Hillerman Spider Woman's Daughter by Anne Hillerman

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15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men!
Book 1: page 1 - Strong Heroine series
Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1) by Laurell K. Hamilton Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
and
Book 2: Kick Butt Heroines page 3
The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1) by Anne Rice The Witching Hour by Anne Rice


15.2 - Winter or Summer?
Book 1:
Winter in Paradise (Paradise, #1) by Elin Hilderbrand Winter in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
and
Book 2:
Summer Island by Kristin Hannah Summer Island by Kristin Hannah


15.3 - Songs About Heroes
OPTION 1:
Book 1:
Now May You Weep (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #9) by Deborah Crombie Now May You Weep by Deborah Crombie
(63. My New Hero - Bobbie Van Detta)
and
Book 2:
The First Order (Sam Capra, #5) by Jeff Abbott The First Order by Jeff Abbott
(33. Billy, Don't Be a Hero- James Last )


15.4 - From A to Z
Book 1:
A Catskill Eagle (Spenser, #12) by Robert B. Parker A Catskill Eagle by Robert B. Parker
and
Book 2:
The Drowning House by Elizabeth Black The Drowning House by Elizabeth Black


15.5 - Secret Identity
Imitation in Death (In Death, #17) by J.D. Robb Imitation in Death by J.D. Robb
(J.D. Robb/Nora Roberts)


15.7 - Catch up with the SRC
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
(This book is new to me)


15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!
In a Gilded Cage (Molly Murphy, #8) by Rhys Bowen In a Gilded Cage by Rhys Bowen



message 9: by Ann A (last edited Feb 28, 2019 03:13PM) (new)

Ann A (readerann) | 1110 comments 5.1 - This and That - These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh - Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses
5.3 - Learn Your Name - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas - Christmas in Plains: Memories
5.5 - O? No! - The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
5.6 - Read Aloud -
5.7 - Crimson and Clover - Franny and Zooey
5.8 - Go Short - Open Secrets
5.9 - Acts of Heroism -
5.10 - Book Blitz - Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero - At Home: A Short History of Private Life
10.2 - Every Day Heroes - Death of a Village
10.3 - Four-Legged Heroes - A Dog's Purpose
10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman! -
10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee - Cannery Row
10.6 - Let's Eat! - Oscar and Lucinda
10.7 - Brown Shoes? - Shoeless Joe
10.8 - Take the Stairs - Mary Barton
10.9 - Write Me a Letter - I Capture the Castle
10.10 - Happy Holidays! - Paula

15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men! -
15.2 - Winter or Summer? - Winter and Summer
15.3 - Songs About Heroes - The Septembers of Shiraz
15.4 - From A to Z - A Fighting Chance
15.5 - Secret Identity - Lady Fortescue Steps Out
15.6 - My Personal Hero - Becoming
15.7 - Catch up with the SRC - A Gentleman in Moscow
15.8 - Mythological Heroes -
15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day! - Archie, Vol. 1: The New Riverdale
15.10 - National Book Awards - The Friend

20.1 - "And the winner is..." - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
20.2 - Darwin Day - A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
20.3 - Elementary, My Dear Watson - Gorky Park
20.4 - Everyday Heroes - The Woodlanders
20.5 - February Babies - Light in August
20.6 - Remembering a Canadian Hero - Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
20.7 - Yo, Adrian! - A Passage to India
20.8 - Membership Required - The Drop
20.9 - Goodreads choice award winners - Educated
20.10 - Group Reads -

25.1 - What Makes a Good Hero? -
25.2 - Winter Sports! - Me: Stories of My Life and
25.3 - Christmas in Japan - Silence of the Grave and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
25.4 - Happy 200th Illinois -
25.5 - Reading Stats - Shantaram
25.6 - They Go Together - The Glass Palace and Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes
25.7 - Sometimes, you have to take... - ? and A Map of Tulsa
25.8 - It's Cookie Time! -
25.9 - Winter Solstice - Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea and Dead Souls

30.1 - Gotta Love the Hero - James Monroe and One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
30.2 - Feliz Navidad - The Scarecrow and Yes, Chef
30.3 - Alpha and Omega - Eventide and Plainsong
30.4 - Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes - The Glass Castle and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
30.5 - A World of Books - Half of a Yellow Sun and Cat's Eye
30.6 - Naming Names - This Boy's Life and Lucky Boy
30.7 - New Year, New You - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Less

50.1 - Three Fictional Heroes - Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman and Death of a Celebrity and Unsheltered


message 10: by frugalitymom (new)

frugalitymom  (frugalitymom) Venessa's Winter Reading Plan


message 11: by Fandury (last edited Feb 25, 2019 06:52AM) (new)

Fandury | 957 comments Fandury's SRC Winter 2018

5.1 - This and That This Is Improbable Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens, and Other WTF Research by Marc Abrahams
5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi post 877
5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-. The Demon's Den and Other Tales of Valdemar post 1146
5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas Hark! The Herald Angels Scream by Christopher Golden
5.5 - O? No! Lightning in the Blood post 1147
5.6 - Read Aloud What Makes This Book So Great by Jo Walton
5.7 - Crimson And Clover Flesh & Wires by Jackie Hatton
5.8 - Go Short Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors post 1624
5.9 - Acts of Heroism Legacy Of The Dead (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #4) by Charles Todd
5.10 - Book Blitz Death on the Nile post 3642

10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero Wildfire post 878
10.2 - Every Day Heroes The Girls In The Water (Detectives King and Lane, #1) by Victoria Jenkins
10.3- Four-Legged Heros Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman! Ex-Communication post 2664
10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee The House of Crows post 1572
10.6 - Let's Eat! Out of the Ice post 1418
10.7 - Brown Shoes? Zero Limit post 2892
10.8 - Take the Stairs Murder on Bank Street (Gaslight Mystery, #10) by Victoria Thompson
10.9 - Write Me a Letter Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2) by Sylvain Neuvel
10.10 - Happy Holidays! Diamond Fire post 3639

15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men! The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2) by Stephen King
15.2 - Winter or Summer? A Fatal Winter (Max Tudor #2) by G.M. Malliet The Summer Man by S.D. Perry
15.3 - Songs About Heroes The Novice's Tale post 3111
15.4 - From A to Z All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth
15.5 - Secret Identity Murder on the Caronia post 590
15.6 - My Personal Hero The Art of Neil Gaiman by Hayley Campbell
15.7 - Catch up with the SRC The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1) by Alan Bradley
15.8 - Mythological Heroes A Cathedral of Myth and Bone post 2717
15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day! Knee-Deep in Grit: Two Bloody Years of Grimdark Fiction post 2179
15.10 - National Book Awards The Tangled Tree A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen

20.1 - Most Improved Player - Cordelia's Task: "And the winner is....." Every Heart a Doorway post 2538
20.2 - Rookie At The Top- Kettleen's Task: Darwin Day In an Absent Dream post 2149
20.3 - Best Review - TrishhartUK: Elementary, My Dear Watson Fire and Blood: A History of the Targaryen Kings from Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon III as scribed by Archmaester Gyldayn post 386
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Lagullande's Task: Everyday Heroes All The Pretty Girls (Taylor Jackson, #1) by J.T. Ellison
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Babbling C's Task: February Babies The Dark Days Club post 3638
20.6 - Seasoned Reader – Laurah30’s Task: Remembering A Canadian Hero St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves post 2275
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Yo, Adrian! Vengeful (Villains, #2) by V.E. Schwab
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Diane Whitney's Task: Membership Required No Return (Jeroun, #1) by Zachary Jernigan
20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Erin NY's Task: Goodreads choice award winner Elevation post 1148
20.10 - Group Reads Code Girls The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

25.1 - M1nks's Task: What Makes a Good Hero Inferno Escape from Hell post 879
25.2 - SandyL's Task: Winter Sports! Why Kill the Innocent The Dark Side of the Road post 2431
25.3 - Andy P.’s task: Christmas in Japan Season of the Raven Agent of Chaos post 3637
25.4 - Diana K's Task: Happy 200th Illinois The Last Unicorn Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival post 3641
25.5 - Tien's Task: 2018 Reading Stats Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett, #1) by Robert R. McCammon
25.6 - Sandy's Task: They Go Together Razzle Dazzle The Battle for Broadway by Michael Riedel The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé
25.7 - Wayne's task: Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good The Quiet Woman by Christopher Priest
25.8 - Amy "the book-bat"'s Task: It's Cookie Time! A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple #7) by Agatha Christie
25.9 - Brooke TX's Task: Winter Solstice Lies Sleeping Agents of Dreamland post 2539

30.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Gotta love the Hero! Shadow Man The Green Mill Murder post 1776
30.2. Amanda A's Task passed to Book Concierge: Feliz Navidad Eyes to See Blackwing post 2468
30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Alpha and Omega Hidden (Alex Verus, #5) by Benedict Jacka
30.4 - Dulcinella's task: Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium) A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder (A Countess of Harleigh Mystery #1) by Dianne Freeman The Tropic of Serpents (The Memoirs of Lady Trent #2) by Marie Brennan
30.5 - Mazza1's Task: A world of books The Shadow Queen Death At Victoria Dock post 3640
30.6 - Dlmrose's Task: Naming Names Tears of Pearl (Lady Emily, #4) by Tasha Alexander Servants of the Storm by Delilah S. Dawson
30.7 - TessaVanessa's Task: New Year, New You The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe The Last Days of New Paris post 2578

50.1 - Coralie's Task: Three Fictional Heroes What the Dead Leave Behind (A Gilded Age Mystery, #1) by Rosemary Simpson Dark Resurrection (The Colony, #2) by F.G. Cottam Death Comes to Bath (Kurland St. Mary Mystery, #6) by Catherine Lloyd

Total Points: 510
Books Read: 39
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(1)1000+(0)


message 12: by Kathy G. (last edited Nov 23, 2018 07:19AM) (new)

Kathy G. | 1931 comments Kathy G's 2018 Winter Reading Plan

5.1 - This and That
You're the One That I Want
5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh
The Birthright
5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-.
The Ladies of Garrison Gardens
5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas
Skipping Christmas
5.5 - O? No!
The Old Fox Deceiv'd
5.6 - Read Aloud
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
5.7 - Crimson And Clover
Marigolds and Murder
5.8 - Go Short
The Martian Chronicles
5.9 - Acts of Heroism
A Soldier's Devotion: Wings of Refuge
5.10 - Book Blitz
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero
Cassidy
10.2 - Every Day Heroes
Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
10.3- Four-Legged Heros
Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman!
Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula
10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee
Tomorrow's Dream
10.6 - Let's Eat!
I Am the Messenger
10.7 - Brown Shoes?
Best Kept Secrets
10.8 - Take the Stairs
Charity House Courtship
10.9 - Write Me a Letter
Daddy-Long-Legs & Dear Enemy
10.10 - Happy Holidays!
The Family Man

15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men!
Howl's Moving Castle
#40- Kick Butt Heroines
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
#93- Books with Nerdy----
15.2 - Winter or Summer?
Winter Street
Butterfly Summer
15.3 - Songs About Heroes
Earth Is Room Enough
(Heroes and Villains by Brian Wilson)
15.4 - From A to Z
A Night in the Lonesome October
15.5 - Secret Identity
The Black Opal
15.6 - My Personal Hero
Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire
15.7 - Catch up with the SRC
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
15.8 - Mythological Heroes
The Goddess Test
15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!
The Girl Next Door
15.10 - National Book Awards
The Boatbuilder

30.4 - Dulcinella's task: Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium)
The Shivering Sands
The Kiss of Deception
30.5 - Mazza1's Task: A world of books
Those Who Save Us
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
30.6 - Dlmrose's Task: Naming Names
Hope Rising
The Stars Are Fire
(Names: The Blue Slayer, The Swift Termite,
The Terrific Puma, The Vengeful Scimitar,
Chief Heavy Nighthawk, Lord Lucky Nighthawk,
Master Fire Trident, Scarlet Crow, Deadnite,
Phantom Archer)
30.7 - TessaVanessa's Task: New Year, New You
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (Eat Better)
Someone to Care (Self Care)


message 13: by Ed (last edited Dec 26, 2018 05:23AM) (new)

Ed Lehman | 809 comments 5 Point Tasks
5.1
5.2
5.3 - could be Matthew J. Sullivan- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore if not used elsewhere
5.4
5.5- could be Matthew J. Sullivan- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore if not used elsewhere OR
Kingsley Amis- The Green Man
5.6-probably Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
5.7
5.8-anthology
5.9-
5.10-Free choice

10 Point Tasks

10.1 - The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George has mpg of Romance OR The Green Man by Kingsley Amis- mpg of Horror
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5- The Green Man by Kingsley Amis pub.1969
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10

15 Point Tasks

15.1
15.2
15.3-both requirements met with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan
OR
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George- which also satisfies both requirements.

OR for Bk1- The Green Man by Kingsley Amis using The Wind Beneath My Wings (this title also works for Bk2 using Working Man Hero)

15.4-Option 2- satisfies both option requirements- All Fires the Fire by Julio Cortázar
15.5- Nina George- The Little Paris Bookshop- show that she writes under more than 1 name.
15.6- perhaps Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch if not used for 20.5
15.7-perhaps Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
15.8
15.9
15.10

20 Point Tasks

20.1- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5-Opt. 3- Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch-NS found in "college student"

OR The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George- NG found in "college student"

20.6
20.7- Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch- NS found in SYLVESTER STALLONE

20.8-Joined GR July 2012
Joined SRC October 2017
20.9
20.10

25 Point Tasks

25.1
25.2-Opt 1,2 or 3-?
Opt.4- 24 found intact in page count in Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch OR The Green Man by Kingsley Amis 240p.

25.3(combined min of 501p)
Bk.1-The Green Man by Kingsley Amis 240p.
Bk. 2- would have to be at least 261p. (note The Green Man works for this option too)
25.4
25.51 bk could qualify if min. 750 p.- 1 book option- probably Daniel Deronda by George Eliot which is also 20.9 in RwS
Bk.1-short stories or anthology
Opt.3- several options including- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore and Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading- have more than 27 5 star ratings

25.6 (600p min. total)
Bk1-?
Bk2- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan-author's initialsMA found in Title

25.7
25.8
25.9

30 Point Tasks

30.1-(no page minimum)
Opt.1 -?
Opt.2- The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George- George for George C Scott
✔30.2- (need total of 500 p.)
Option B- *****Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
Option D-***check help thread for approval-The Monkey Wrench Gang
30.3
30.4-
30.5
30.6 -Bk 1-?
Bk2- The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
the names I generated were:
The Ancient Raccoon
The Cool Keeper
The Outrageous Whiz
The White Katana
Aqua Assassin
Honorable Waspman
Master Nuclear Angel
Captain Wise Robin
Shadowleaf
Misty Manta

30.7-Bk1- resolution #5. Read more books
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan
Read more books found in MiDnight At thE BRight idEaS bOOKStORE
Bk2-?


message 14: by Michelle (last edited Jan 26, 2019 10:33AM) (new)

Michelle (michellesoleil) | 371 comments 𝓜𝒾𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓀𝒶


5.1 - This and That.
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh.
Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen (12/20)

5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (12/28)

5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas.
A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews (12/27)

5.5 - O? No!
Phèdre by Jean Racine 🌟 (12/28)

5.6 - Read Aloud.
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

5.7 - Crimson and Clover.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 🌟

5.8 - Go Short.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 🌟

5.9 - Acts of Heroism.
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth E. Wein

5.10 - Book Blitz.
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 🌟 (12/11)

10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 🌟 (12/17)

10.2 - Every Day Heroes.
Still Life by Louise Penny

10.3 - Four-Legged Heroes.
Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him by Luis Carlos Montalván

10.4 - Holy Books-A-Million, Batman!
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee.
Animal Farm by George Orwell 🌟 (12/5)

10.6 - Let's Eat!
The Call of the Wild by Jack London 🌟 (12/13)

10.7 - Brown Shoes?
Separation by Babette Brown

10.8 - Take the Stairs.
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

10.9 - Write Me a Letter.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

10.10 - Happy Holidays!
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men!
Book 1: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (List 1) 📚
Book 2: The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter (List 3)

15.2 - Winter or Summer?
Book 1: Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Book 2: Second Chance Summer by Morgon Matson

15.3 - Songs About Heroes.
Option 2: Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

15.4 - From A to Z.
Option 2: A Place for Us

15.5 - Secret Identity.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling 📚📚

15.6 - My Personal Hero.
Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury by Lesley-Ann Jones

15.7 - Catch Up with the SRC.
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 📚

15.8 - Mythological Heroes.
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry

15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!
Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane (1/4)

15.10 - National Book Awards.
Florida by Lauren Groff

20.1 - Most Improved Player - Cordelia's Task: "And the Winner Is..."
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Kettleen's Task: Darwin Day.
Option 1: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

20.3 - Best Review - TrishhartUK: Elementary, My Dear Watson.
A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin 📚📚📚

20.4 - Golden Oldies - Lagullande's Task: Everyday Heroes.
Option 1: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 🌟

20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Babbling C's Task: February Babies.
Option 3A: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 📚

20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Laurah30's Task: Remembering a Canadian Hero.
Option 3: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

20.7 - Shorter Is Sweeter - Amy FL's Task: Yo, Adrian!
Option 2: Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé

20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Diane Whitney's Task: Membership Required.
Option 2: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 📚

20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Erin NY's Task: Goodreads Choice Award Winners.
Educated by Tara Westover

20.10 - Group Reads.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

25.1 - M1nk's Task: What Makes a Good Hero?
Option 2: Braving Britannia: Tales of Life, Love, and Adventure in Ultima Online by Wes Locher
Option 4: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 🌟

25.2 - SandyL's Task: Winter Sports!
Option 1: How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
Option 3: Hunted by Meagan Spooner

25.3 - Andy P.'s Task: Christmas in Japan.
Book 1: The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
Book 2: Range Of Motion by Elizabeth Berg OR
Close Range by Annie Proulx

25.4 - Diana K's Task: Happy 200th Illinois.
Option 1: American Gods by Neil Gaiman 📚
Option 3: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 🌟

25.5 - Tien's Task: 2018 Reading Stats.
Option 3: The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon 📚📚📚

25.6 - Sandy's Task: They Go Together.
Book 1: Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 🌟
Book 2: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 🌟

25.7 - Wayne's Task: Sometimes you have to take the bad with the good.
Book 1: Educated by Tara Westover
Book 2: That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam

25.8 - Amy "The Book-Bat"'s Task: It's Cookie Time!
Book 1: Dear Theo by Vincent Van Gogh 🌟
Book 2: Message in a Fortune Cookie by Steve Pulley

25.9 - Brooke TX's Task: Winter Solstice.
Book 1: The Immoralist by André Gide 🌟
Book 2: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 🌟

30.1 - Schatzie's Task: Gotta Love the Hero!
Option 1: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Option 2: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

30.2 - Amanda A's Task Passed to Book Concierge: Feliz Navidad.
Option A: Horns by Joe Hill
Option B: The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

30.3 - Ava Catherine's Task: Alpha and Omega.
Book 1: Aqua by M.A. George 📚
✓ Book 2: Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 🌟 (1/7)

30.4 - Dulcinella's Task: Shoes, Letters and Pancakes (in Belgium).
Book 2.1: Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Laclos 🌟
Book 2.2: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

30.5 - Mazza1's Task: A World of Books.
Book 1: The Stranger by Albert Camus 🌟
Book 2: Still Life by Louise Penny

30.6 - Dlmrose's Task: Naming Names.
Book 1: One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
Book 2: The Citadel by A.J. Cronin ("Citadel")

30.7 - TessaVanessa's Task: New Year, New You.
Book 1: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (self care)
Book 2: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 🌟



𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝐼'𝓋𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹:

Animal Farm by George Orwell A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf The Call of the Wild by Jack London Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Phèdre by Jean Racine Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



✓ Goal: 90/935 points
Pages Read... This Season: 1,661 || SRC All Time: 23,490
🌟 Golden Oldies: 5 || SRC All Time: 13
📚 Big Book: 0 || SRC All Time: 21


message 15: by Brigia (last edited Jan 16, 2019 10:14AM) (new)

Brigia | 471 comments Brigia's Winter Reading Plan
Points: 155
BB tickets: 2

5.1 This/That/These/Those in title
✓ 5.2 Picture Perfect Cowboy (The Original Sinners, #10) by Tiffany Reisz
5.3 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
✓ 5.4 Hot Winter Nights (Heartbreaker Bay, #6) by Jill Shalvis
✓ 5.5 A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers, #1) by Alex White
5.6 nonfiction about literacy, reading or education
5.7 Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1) by Leigh Bardugo
5.8 anthology
✓ 5.9 The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1) by Michael Connelly
5.10 free choice

✓10.1 The Girl in The Tower (Winternight Trilogy, #2) by Katherine Arden
✓10.2 Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1) by Ben Aaronovitch
10.3 nonfiction
10.4 book from Super Hero Books list
10.5 The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2) by Michael Connelly
10.6 set in in Hawaii, Alaska, Argentina, Antarctica, or Australia
10.7 brown or shoe in in the title/subtitle, series title, or author's name
10.8 stairs on cover
10.9 epistolary
10.10 author initials in holiday

15.1 hero book lists
15.2 The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy, #3) by Katherine Arden + "summer"
15.3 The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye (song #23)
✓15.4 Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe #1) by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
✓15.5 Rejoice, Dammit by Kaje Harper (Kaje Harper/Kira Harp)
15.6 nonfiction autobiography
15.7 SRC bookshelf
15.8 MPG Mythology
✓15.9 Christmas Eve At Friday Harbour Number 1 in series (Friday Harbor) by Lisa Kleypas
15.10 National Book Awards

✓ 20.1 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
20.2
✓20.3 A Twist in Time (Kendra Donovan, #2) by Julie McElwain
20.4
20.5 The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves, #1) by Roshani Chokshi (option 3a)
20.6
20.7 Two Weeks Notice by Whitney G. (option 2) -> approved for length?


25.1 Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) by Martha Wells (option 2) & The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2) by Holly Black (option 4)
25.2 ? & The River Widow by Ann Howard Creel (option 4)
25.3
25.4
25.5 Fish Stick Fridays (Half Moon Bay, #1) by Rhys Ford (option 3)
25.6 Scorpio Hates Virgo (Signs of Love, #2) by Anyta Sunday (book 2)
25.7 Verity by Colleen Hoover
25.8
25.9 Second Grave on the Left (Charley Davidson, #2) by Darynda Jones (book 1)

✓30.1 Skyward (Skyward, #1) by Brandon Sanderson (BB) & White Hot (Hidden Legacy, #2) by Ilona Andrews
30.2
30.3 Fall (VIP, #3) by Kristen Callihan (book 2)
30.4 The Widow by Fiona Barton (option 3, book 1)
30.5
30.6
30.7

xxx additional info xxx
30.6 10 superhero names: The Earth Spider, The Steel Sword, The Incredible Saviour, The Broken Shaman, Water Antman, Gentle Hammer, Agent Swift Swallow, Pink Wonder, Jade Stranger, Hopewing

Additional books read:
The Ghost of Marlow House (Haunting Danielle, #1) by Bobbi Holmes Between the Lines (New Milton #2) by Sally Malcolm Bewitched by Bella's Brother by Amy Lane Wife by Wednesday (The Weekday Brides, #1) by Catherine Bybee


message 16: by Suzanne (last edited Feb 16, 2019 05:30AM) (new)

Suzanne (perletwo) | 1586 comments dashing through the tomes...

05.01 - The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way
05.02 - The Witch Elm (10/9/18)
05.03 - The Golden Tresses of the Dead (1/22)
05.04 - Lark! The Herald Angels Sing (genre verified)

05.05 - The Boy on the Bridge
05.06 - How I Wrote My First Book
05.07 - Sense & Sensibility (JT)
05.08 - A Tyranny of Petticoats
05.09 - The Black Ascot (2/5)
05.10 - The Wedding Guest


10.01 - We Sold Our Souls (genre verified)
10.02 - Driving Heat
10.03 - Wesley the Owl
10.04 - Wonder Woman: Warbringer (p1)
10.05 - Frequent Hearses (1950)
10.06 - Away with the Fairies (AU)
10.07 - G is for Gumshoe

10.08 - Tales of the City
10.09 - The Sirens Sang of Murder
10.10 - Delirium

15.01 - A Wrinkle In Time (SHS p1); Dead Witch Walking (KBH p1)
15.02 - Winter; Summer Knight
15.03 - o2: The Heretic's Apprentice (#52; EP=KerrsPink)
15.04 - After I'm Gone; The Program
15.05 - Connections in Death (2/5)
15.06 - Ian Fleming
15.07 - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
15.08 - Mythos (genre verified)
15.09 - Unseen Academicals
15.10 - Challenger Deep (2015)

20.01 - I Am the Messenger
20.02 - 2. Snow Like Ashes
20.03 - 2. Dancers In Mourning (top mmp 262) (1937GO)
20.04 - 1. Portrait of a Lady (1881GO)(768BB)
20.05 - a. Murder in the Woods (pb 252)
20.06 - 3. St. Peter's Fair
20.07 - 1. Banker

20.08 - 1. Red Mist
20.09 - Circe
20.10 - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

25.01 - 1. The ABC Murders (1936GO); 2. Nine Lessons
25.02 - 3. White Fire; 4. No Crueler Tyrannies
25.03 - 1. Thunderstruck (pb392); 2. High Heat (pb365)
25.04 - 2. Welcome to my Jungle; 5. Last Train to Lime Street
25.05 - 1. Brief Cases; 2. Murder in Montparnasse
25.06 - 1. Supernatural-Joyride; 2. Give Me Your Hand (342)


30.01 - 1. Wintersmith (verified); 2. Cover Her Face (PD James, list #8)
30.02 - C. What We Eat When We Eat Alone (verified)(hb ed 272 pgs); D. The Darcys & the Bingleys (pb ed 417 pgs)
30.03 - 1. Evidence (top mmp ed 426 pgs); 2. Proof (top mmp ed 352 pgs)
30.04 - O2. 1. The Shortest Way to Hades (EFp3); 2. The Outsourced Self (320)
30.05 - 1. Jane & the Man of the Cloth (E); 2. Rather Be the Devil (S)

30.06 - 1. Supernatural: Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting (David); 2. The Wasp Factory (The Royal Wasp)
30.07 - 1. Forensics (self care); 2. Money in the Morgue (spend less money)


50.01 - 1. When In Rome (mmp286); 2. Death of an Expert Witness (mmp260); 3. Murder in Montparnasse (genre verified) (pb257)



message 17: by Christine (last edited Feb 26, 2019 11:05PM) (new)

Christine | 944 comments Winter 2018 Reading Plan

5.1 - The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
5.2 - Lamentation 2636
5.3 - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
5.4 - The Cricket on the Hearth 95p
5.5 - Breathing Lessons
5.6 - A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
5.7 - Nicholas and Alexandra, Sons and Lovers, Blood & Beauty: The Borgias
5.8 - xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths
5.9 - The Caine Mutiny
5.10 - Sometimes I Lie

10.1 - Common Sense✔ History 3741
10.2 - Main character who is an everyday hero
10.3 - Nonfiction Animal Heroes
10.4 - Super Hero Books
10.5 - Dawn
10.6 - A Town Like Alice
10.7 - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
10.8 - In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
10.9 - Gilead
10.10 - Author initials in HOLIDAY

15.1 - Strong Heroine: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, Dreamer's Pool, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Kick Butt Heroines: Murder at the Vicarage
15.2 - 1: Winter
2: Summer
15.3 - 1&2: The Splendor Before the Dark 21 & 16
15.4 - 1&2: Americanah
15.5 - Year One
15.6 - Nonfiction Biography/Autobiography Personal Hero
15.7 - Dark Matter 1750
15.8 - Helen of Troy
15.9 - Heir to Sevenwaters, Venetia
15.10 - National Book Awards

20.1 - Death's End 3688
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5 - 2b: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 1431
20.6 - 2: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing 3131
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10

25.1
25.2

30.1
30.2
30.3
30.4 - Option 3 - 1: Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles, Adulthood Rites
2: The Sparrow
30.5 - 1:
2: Margaret Atwood (Canada)
30.6 - 1: Autumn, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, The Years of Rice and Salt, The Giver, A Week in Winter, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Vanity Fair, As I Lay Dying
2: The Prophet, Red Sorghum: A Novel of China, All Systems Red
The Silver Prophet
The Swift General
The Cold Nightowl
The Wacky Watcher
Ancient Shadow
Master Mighty Swordsman
Captain Wacky Trident
Captain Red Swordsman
Quantum Colossus
Doctor Juggernaut
30.7


message 18: by Katrina (last edited Dec 11, 2018 03:03PM) (new)

Katrina (katrinasreads) | 205 comments KATRINA T

5.1 The Boy That Never Was
5.2 Holding
5.3 An Audience With An Elephant: And Other Encounters On The Eccentric Side
5.4 Hercule Poirot's Christmas
5.5 Gather the Daughters
5.6 Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading
5.7 Frankie and Stankie
5.8 By Light We Knew Our Names
5.9
5.10 Oldest book on TBR/non fiction or classic

10.1Thomas Quick: The Making of a Serial Killer
10.2
10.3 Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
10.4
10.5 The Dollmaker
10.6 The Narrow Road to the Deep North
10.7 Red Rising
10.8
10.9 Gilead
10.10 Birdcage Walk

15.1 (Strong Heroine Series pg1) A Great and Terrible Beauty (Best tortured heroes) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
15.2 Winter in Madrid + Summer
15.3 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt.1 - The Flaming Lips (OPT2) An Experiment in Love
15.4 1.Autumn 2. Something by Gabriel García Márquez
15.5 Robert Galbraith
15.6
15.7 The Underground Railroad )pg1)
15.8 A Short History of Myth
15.9 Slip of a Fish
15.10 An American Marriage

20.1
20.2
20.3 Opt 1: The Lotus Eaters
20.4 A Room with a View
20.5
20.6 The Clockmaker's Daughter
20.7 The Paying Guests
20.8 My Year of Rest and Relaxation
20.9
20.10 Group read Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

25.1
25.2 Shirley Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age!
25.3 Astray, The Green Mile
25.4
25.5 Kristin Lavransdatter
25.6 English Animals The Girl With Glass Feet
25.7
25.8
25.9
25.10

30.1 Opt 1. La Belle Sauvage Opt 2. (34 Paul Newman) The Cabin at the End of the World
30.2 a. The Orenda b. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
30.3 1. Orlando 2. Stoner
30.4 Option 2: The Lacuna + I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
30.5 Bk 1: My Brilliant Friend Italy, Europe Tiare in Bloom: A Novel French Polynesia, Oceana
30.6 bk1. something by Gabriel García Márquez
bk2. What I was given:
The Good Spy
The Giant Mercenary
The Mighty Beetle
The Magnificent Watcher
Professor Fast Spider
Lord Red Saviour
Professor Silver Fox
Lord Quick Prodigy
Nightquake
Silver Goliath
Book chosen:Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey
30.7 (1)(Make new friends) Feminists Don't Wear Pink (And Other Lies): Amazing Women on What the F Word Means to Them (2) The City of Dreaming Books
30.8
30.9
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message 19: by Shala (last edited Nov 17, 2018 09:30AM) (new)

Shala | 72 comments Hoping to Do Better

5.1 Those Who Save Us
5.2 Yappy Hour
5.3 The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
5.4 Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners

This is for December. I'll add more later.


message 20: by Laura (last edited Dec 27, 2018 09:07AM) (new)

Laura | 31 comments Books that are (more or less) chosen to be read (if all goes well)
110/700/985

5.1 - THIS Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5.2 - Vacas, Cerdos, Guerras y Brujas: Los Enigmas de la Cultura by Marvin Harris (December 1964)
5.3 - THe king Of elflAnD'S Daughter by Lord Dunsany
5.4 - Navidades en Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
5.5 - El lector del tren de las 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
5.7 - Tree and Leaf by J.R.R Tolkien
5.8 - More Than Honor (3 short stories + essay)
5.9 - Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forrester
5.10 - Ship of the Line by C.S. Forrester

10.1 - Strange Sweet Song by Adi Rule (Romance)
10.2 - Il Cane di Terracotta by Andrea Camilleri (Comissario Montalbano)
10.4 - Un día perfecto para Elis by Juanse Gutiérrez (240)
10.5 - Desgraciadamente Philip K. Dick Ha Muerto by Michael Bishop (published 1987)
10.7 - Red Rising by Pierce BROWN
10.8 - The Spiral Staircase by Ethel Lina White by Ethel Lina White
10.9 - The Martian by Andy Weir
10.10 - Neanche gli Dèi by Isaac Asimov (holIdAy)

15.1 -
Book 1: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen (Strong heroines, 527)
Book 2: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (Tortured heroes, 557)
15.2 -
Book 1 - The Door into SUMMER by Robert A. Heinlein
Book 2 - WINTER's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
15.3 - Muero Por Dentro by Robert Silverberg (7. sPiDerMan - the RamoneS)
15.4 - All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi SakuraZaka
15.5 - Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin (also writes as Melanie Lynne Hauser)
15.7 - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
15.8 - American Gods by Neil Gaiman
15.9 - El tercer hombre by Graham Greene

20.1 - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Hugo, Nebula, etc)
20.2 - A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1958)
20.3 - The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (a sTudy in sCarlEt)
20.4 - T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton (First published December 2007, 481 pp.)
20.5 - 3.b El problema de los tres cuerpos by Liu Cixin (CoLlege student)
20.6 - VALIS by Philip K. Dick (1981)
20.7 - Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky (silvesTer stAllone)
20.8 - The Ice Princess's Fair Illusion by Lynn E. O'Connacht (November 2018)
20.10 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

25.1-
Book 1 - In Enemy Hands by David Weber (No A, An, And or The)
Book 2 - The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (Fantasy)
25.2 -
Book 1 - La casita de jengibre by Carin Gerhardsen by Carin Gerhardsen
Book 2 -
25.3 -
Book 1 - Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (kiddieLAnd)
Book 2 - The THREE Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Phillip K. Dick (ExcHangERaTe)
25.5 - 298+533=831 pp.
Book 1 - Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World and Other Stories by Caroline M. Yoachim
Book 2 - The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory (16845 users gave 5 stars)
25.6 -
Book 1 - Children Of Time by adrian TChaikOvsky
Book 2 - AnciLlary sword by Ann Leckie
25.7 -
Book 1 - Honor Among Enemies by David Weber (4.25)
Book 1 - Proof of Concept by Gwyneth Jones (3.04)
25.9 - 716
Book 1- (the longest night)
Book 2 - (the shortest day)

30.1 -
Book 1 - El último unicornio by Peter S. Beagle (6.Peter O'Toole)
Book 2 - Flag in Exile by David Weber (Honor Harrington #5)
30.2 - 148+416= 564pp
Book 1 - Momentos estelares de la Ciencia by Isaac Asimov(eydIe gorme y los pAnchos)
Book 2 - Field of Dishonor by David Weber
30.3 - 194+320=514pp
Book 1 -
Book 2 - RedshirtS by John Scalzi
30.4 - ‘Lichtmis’
Book 1 - C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton (main character: Kinsey Millhone)
Book 2 - Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus by MARY Shelley

30.5 -
Book 1 - El enigma y el espejo by Jostein Gaarder (Norway)
Book 2 - El honor del samurái by Takashi Matsuoka (Japan)
30.6 -
Book 1 - Red Mars by KIM Stanley Robinson
Book 2 - The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett
The Hot Armadillo - The Long Crow - The Fancy Swallow - The Rapid Sparrow - Doctor Calm Guardian - Green Watcher - Master Outrageous Rhino - Huge Lynx - The Crusher - Hope
30.7 -
Book 1 - thE wAtChmaker of FiLigREe Street by Natasha Pulley (self care)
Book 2 -

That's eleven books, so probably all I'm going for, unless I can compress some book 1-2 tasks or get more free time. (still looking for italian titles I can fit somewhere though) You know what? That's boring. Let's see how many I can fit now, and despair later.


message 21: by Susan (last edited Dec 03, 2018 08:22PM) (new)

Susan | 684 comments Susan's Winter Plan

5.1 - This and That That Night
5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh A Spark of Light
5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas
5.5 - O? No! Tin Man
5.6 - Read Aloud
5.7 - Crimson And Clover Rust & Stardust
5.8 - Go Short Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting
5.9 - Acts of Heroism
5.10 - Book Blitz

10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero
10.2 - Every Day Heroes
10.3- Four-Legged Heros
10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman!
10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee
10.6 - Let's Eat!
10.7 - Brown Shoes?
10.8 - Take the Stairs
10.9 - Write Me a Letter
10.10 - Happy Holidays!

15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men!
15.2 - Winter or Summer?
15.3 - Songs About Heroes
15.4 - From A to Z
15.5 - Secret Identity
15.6 - My Personal Hero
15.7 - Catch up with the SRC
15.8 - Mythological Heroes
15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!
15.10 - National Book Awards


message 22: by Laure (last edited Jan 08, 2019 11:01PM) (new)

Laure (goodreadscomlaure) | 563 comments Laure's White Winter Wishful Readings

5.1 This Could Change Everything by Jill Mansel
5.2 The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
5.3 The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
5.4 A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Keyplas
5.5 Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
5.6
5.7 Tree and Leaf by JRR Tolkien
5.8 A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor
5.9 Into the Storm by Suzanne Brockmann
5.10 Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

10.1 China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
10.2 The Sinner by Tess Geritzen
10.3 The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Street-wise Cat by James Bowen
10.4 Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
10.5 The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
10.6 A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
10.7 Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
10.8 Promise of Blood by Brian McLellan
10.9 Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
10.10 The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst

15.1
Book 1 - Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
Book 2 - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
15.2
Book 1 - A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
Book 2- The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
15.3
Book 1/2 - The Rebels of Gold by Elise Kova
15.4
Book 1/2 - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adechie
15.5 The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
15.6 Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
15.7 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
15.8 Circe by Madeline Miller
15.9 City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
15.10 Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

20.1 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
20.2 An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer
20.3 The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie
20.4 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
20.5 A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
20.6 St. Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters
20.7 Gabriel's Redemption by Sylvain Reynard
20.8 First Star I See Tonight by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
20.9 Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
20.10 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag

25.1
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake]
The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
25.2
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Amy Snow by Tracee Rees

25.3
Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas
Between Here and the Horizon by Callie Hart
25.4
White Night by Jim Butcher
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
25.5
The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman
Dr. Strange Beard by Penny Reid

25.6
Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
25.7
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
25.8
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
The Sugar Cookie Sweetheart Swap by Donna Kauffman
25.9
Heaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Hello Stranger by Lisa Kleypas


30.1
Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor
Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
30.2
Deeper Water by Lauren Stewart
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
30.3
Obsidio by Amie Kauffman and Jay Kristoff
Riveted by Meljean Brook
30.4
Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews
A Letter of Mary by Laurie R King
30.5
King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
30.6
Behind Closed Doors by BA Paris
Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop
30.7
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le Carre
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber


message 23: by Heather(Gibby) (last edited Feb 20, 2019 05:19PM) (new)

Heather(Gibby) (heather-gibby) | 1336 comments Heather's Plan
✔5.1 - Even this Page is White
✔5.2 - The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us
5.3Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
✔5.4 - The Christmas Hirelings
✔5.5Le Pigeon
5.6 I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
✔5.7Beatrice and Virgil
✔5.8 The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories
5.9 All Quiet on the Western Front
✔5.10 Book of Choice Another Brooklyn

✔10.1 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (humour)
10.2Good-Bye, Mr. Chips or Dead Poets Society
✔10.3Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
10.4 The Awakening
✔10.5 The Chrysalids
✔10.6 - Things We Lost in the Fire
10.7 - The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown
10.8 The Thirty-Nine Steps
10.9 - Everything Is Illuminated or Go Ask Alice
✔10.10 Kamouraska by Anne Hébert

15.1 - Shadowland
Looking for Alaska
✔15.2 If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Summer with My Sisters

✔15.3 Breakfast at Tiffany's
15.4All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir by Elizabeth Hay
✔15.5 Something by Stephen King or Craig Davidson
✔15.6 Open Heart, Open Mind
15.7The Buried Giant
✔15.8 Norse Mythology
✔15.9 A Christmas Carol
15.10 The Emissary

✔20.1The Time In Between
✔20.2Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper
✔20.3 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
20.4 Ethan Frome
✔20.5 Starlight
✔20.6 The Red Badge of Courage
✔20.7Peony in Love
✔20.8In a Dark, Dark Wood
✔20.9 Elevation
✔20.10 Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
25.1 The Marx Sisters
fit in a CR
✔25.2 Pluto Rising
Bellevue Square
25.3 I Heart New York
Heart Berries: A Memoir
25.4 Next Sara Paretsky
The Pilgrimage
25.5 Dubliners check page count
fit in a CR
✔25.6 The Nightingale
Women Talking
✔25.7 Me Before You
The Jane Austen Book Club
✔25.8 To Have and Have Not
Sweet Tea Revenge
✔25.9 Takedown Twenty
Top Secret Twenty-One

✔30.1 Landline
In the Skin of a Lion
30.2 GraceLand by Chris Abani
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
✔30.3✔ Arcadia
Crash
✔30.4 An Ocean of Minutes
She Had It Coming
✔30.5✔ Embers (Hungary)
Cry, the Beloved Country
30.6 Vi by Kim Thúy
On Fire
30.7 Eastern Standard Tribe
All My Friends are Superheroes

50: What Angels Fear
When Gods Die
Why Mermaids Sing


message 24: by Sarah - Blessed Mom of Two (last edited Dec 08, 2018 07:50AM) (new)

Sarah - Blessed Mom of Two (sarah1987) | 63 comments Colin's Mom's Ideas :)
5.1 - That Wintry Feeling by Debbie Macomber
5.2 - Mutts and Mistletoe by Natalie Cox OR New Life Within: Real Babies. Real Moms. Real Stories by Amie McCracken
5.3 - The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption by Jim Gorant
5.4 -
5.5 - A book by any of these - Karen Kingsbury, T.D. Jakes OR Jennifer Chiaverini
5.6 - Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life
5.7 - Merry and Bright by Debbie Macomber
5.8 - A Chicken Soup book
5.9 - Dashing Through the Snow by Debbie Macomber
5.10 - Rosemary and Crime by Gail Oust

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15.9- Letters to Santa Claus by The Elves by The Elves
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30.1-
30.2- Option B The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor by Hazel Gaynor AND Option D A Treasury of Christmas Miracles True Stories of God's Presence Today by Karen Kingsbury by Karen Kingsbury
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message 25: by EShay (last edited Feb 27, 2019 05:41PM) (new)

EShay Fagan (eshay11) | 569 comments Goal: 500+ points
Tasks: 4/57
Points: 30/985

5.1 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
5.2 Saga, Vol. 9
5.3 How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
5.4 Because of Bethlehem: Every Day a Christmas, Every Heart a Manger

5.5 author who does NOT have an O in his or her name.
5.6 NONFICTION book about literacy, education or reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor
5.7 three-word TITLE that includes "AND" or "&" Capitalism and Freedom
5.8 anthology or collection 3+ short stories, novellas, or essays Her Body and Other Parties
5.9 main character or subject who is an active-duty or former member of the armed forces of any nation, fiction included The Yellow Birds
5.10 book of your choice

10.1 MPG that starts with an H or E or R or O Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
10.2 main character who is an everyday hero. defined as first responders, park rangers, teachers, social workers, lifeguards, nurses, doctors, and veterinarians.
10.3 Non-Fiction Animal Heroes list. Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
10.4 list of Super Hero Books. Wonder Woman: Warbringer
10.5 published between 1941 and 1996,
10.6 set 50%+ in Hawaii, Alaska, Argentina, Antarctica, or Australia. The Decendants
10.7 Red Rising
10.8 3 or more steps clearly visible on the cover
10.9 epistolary book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
10.10 author initials in HOLIDAY Fobbit

15.1 two books from two lists:
Strong heroine seriesShards of Honor
kick butt heroines The Blue Sword
15.2 Book 1: Winter's Bone
Book 2: One Summer: America, 1927
15.3 B1: The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
B2: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

15.4 Book 1: Title starts with A All the Birds in the Sky
Book 2: Author has Z in name The Book Thief
15.5 author who writes under more than one name Lethal White
15.6 biography or autobiography of a hero American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day
15.7 SRC Group Bookshelf that you have never read before The Great Alone
15.8 Norse Mythology
15.9 one or more hands showing on its cover. The Book of Strange New Things
15.10 National Book Award winner, was a finalist, or was on the longlist for the award in 2018. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

20.1 won a literary award. The Association of Small Bombs
20.2
Option 1: publication year contains both 5 and 9 The Reader
Option 2: initials of the words in the title are to be found in CHARLES DARWIN
20.3
Option 4: includes major character from Sherlock Holmes Mycroft Holmes
20.4 The Innocence of Father Brown
20.5 A Study in Scarlet Women

20.6
Option 2: letters COURAGE can be found in the title Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal
Option 3: published in 1981
20.7 The Witch Elm
20.8 Daughter of Smoke & Bone

20.9 won one of the goodreads choice awards this year that you have not read before Children of Blood and Bone
20.10 group read Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

25.1
Option 1: MPG Mystery, main character has one serious sidekick.
Option 2: title doesn't contain the word 'A', 'An', 'And' or 'The'.
Option 4: MPG Fantasy The Last Unicorn IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11.0
Option 5: 'hero' is no longer with us or dies in the book Curtain
25.2
Option 1: initials in ICE HOCKEY
Option 2: Main Character athlete who competes in a winter sport
Option 3: snow on the cover
Option 4: 24, 25, 26 or 27 intact in the number of pages
25.3 +500 pgs for 2 books
Book 1: author initials in in KIDDIELAND
Book 2: word in its TITLE of 4+ letters made from letters in EXCHANGERATE, not intact in original word
25.4
Option 1: set in Illinois.
Option 2: letters in LAND OF LINCOLN in the title/subtitle
Option 3: author born or currently living in Illinois
Option 5: picture of a road, train tracks, or an airport on the cover
25.5 +750 pgs
Option 1: MPG Short Stories or Anthologies A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Option 3: received 5 stars from at least 27 readers The Name of the Wind
25.6
Book 1: initial letters of all of +2 words in the title can be found in its author's name Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
Book 2: title (not subtitle) of which contains its author's initials Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
25.7 B1: Beartown
B2: The Jane Austen Book Club

25.8
Book 1: published in 1917, 1933, or 1937 Out of Africa
Book 2: cookie on the cover Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
25.9
Book 1: initial letters of words in the title in THE LONGEST NIGHT.
Book 2: initial letters of words in the title in THE SHORTEST DAY Red Sparrow

30.1
Option 1: mpg of Young Adult Kingdom of Ash
Option 2: author who shares name of an actor from list: Greatest Movie Heroes: Ben The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
30.2
Option B: initials in EYDIE GORME Y LOS PANCHOS The Monogram Murders
Option D: FOUR or more people depicted on the cover. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
30.3
Book 1: one word title of 4+ letters that begins and ends with the SAME vowel Armada
Book 2: one word title of 4+ letters that begins and ends with a consonant Fobbit
30.4
Option 2: B1:Epistolary fiction Frankenstein
B2: Page count contains two numbers: 312 The Road
30.5 books from different continents, not your country
Book 1: SET IN or WRITTEN BY an author from a country starting with ANY letter of your READERBOARD name Northanger Abbey
Book 2: SET IN or WRITTEN BY an author from a country starting with one of the initials of the author of Book 1 A Thousand Splendid Suns
30.6
Book 1: author with heroic name David Sedaris
Book 2: TITLE that includes one of the words from hero name generator
The Nimble Scimitar
The Quiet Sparrow The Quiet American
The Electron Baron
The Smooth Illusionist
Quantum Rhinoceros
Professor Hot Cricket
Professor Black Leopard
Commander Brave Guardian
Bolt
Tecton
30.7
Book 1: all the letters in that resolution in the title/ subtitle Self Care
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Book 2: word of 3+ letters from that resolution in the title/subtitle Eat better Wired to Eat: How to Rewire Your Appetite and Lose Weight for Good

50.1 +750 pgs
Book 1 – title that begins with What, When, Why, Where, or Who,
Book 2 – author name has just initials and a last name.
Book 3 – MPG of Historical Fiction

Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science


message 26: by Lost Planet Airman (last edited Nov 29, 2018 09:19PM) (new)

Lost Planet Airman | 177 comments Mike's 2018 Winter Reading Plan

5.1 - This and That
5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh
5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-.
5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas
5.5 - O? No!
5.6 - Read Aloud
5.7 - Crimson And Clover
5.8 - Go Short
5.9 - Acts of Heroism
5.10 - Book Blitz

10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero
10.2 - Every Day Heroes
10.3- Four-Legged Heros
10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman!
10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee
10.6 - Let's Eat!
10.7 - Brown Shoes?
10.8 - Take the Stairs
10.9 - Write Me a Letter
10.10 - Happy Holidays!

15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men!
15.2 - Winter or Summer?
15.3 - Songs About Heroes
15.4 - From A to Z
15.5 - Secret Identity The Cuckoo's Calling
15.6 - My Personal Hero
15.7 - Catch up with the SRC
15.8 - Mythological Heroes
15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!
15.10 - National Book Awards

20.1
20.2
20.3 [Best Review: TrishhartUK] Elementary, My Dear Watson
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court OR Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe OR Code Girls

25.1

30.2 [Amanda A/Book Concierge] Feliz Navidad
30.3 [Ava Catherine] Alpha and Omega
30.4 [Dulcinella] Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium)
30.5 [Mazza1] A world of books
30.6 [Dlmrose] Naming Names
30.7 [TessaVanessa] New Year, New You

50.1


message 27: by Alaina (last edited Nov 24, 2018 07:26AM) (new)


message 28: by Christine (last edited Nov 23, 2018 07:23AM) (new)

Christine (inhalesbookslikepopcorn) | 88 comments Chrissy's Winter Challenge

Goals:
Tasks:
Points:

5.1 - This and That
5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh
5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-.
5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas
5.5 - O? No!
5.6 - Read Aloud
5.7 - Crimson And Clover
5.8 - Go Short
5.9 - Acts of Heroism
5.10 - Book Blitz

10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero
10.2 - Every Day Heroes
10.3- Four-Legged Heros
10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman!
10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee
10.6 - Let's Eat!
10.7 - Brown Shoes?
10.8 - Take the Stairs
10.9 - Write Me a Letter
10.10 - Happy Holidays!

15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men!
15.2 - Winter or Summer?
15.3 - Songs About Heroes
15.4 - From A to Z
15.5 - Secret Identity
15.6 - My Personal Hero
15.7 - Catch up with the SRC The Glass Castle
15.8 - Mythological Heroes
15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!
15.10 - National Book Awards

20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10

25.1

30.1
30.2
30.3
30.4
30.5
30.6


message 29: by Elaine (last edited Jan 16, 2019 06:33AM) (new)

Elaine Winter 2018 Challenge
Readerboard Name:
ElaineL

Last Task Post Thread #2011
Total Points: 985

5 Point Tasks

COMPLETED 5.1 Trust Me on This POSTED 12/9/18

COMPLETED 5.2 Deadly Silence POSTED 12/3/18

COMPLETED 5.3: The Girl Who Wouldn't Stay Dead POSTED 12/31/18

COMPLETED 5.4: Tit for Tat POSTED 12/21/18

COMPLETED 5.5 Femme Faux Fatale POSTED 12/2/18

COMPLETED 5.6 What Great Teachers Do Differently, 1st Edition: Fourteen Things That Matter Most POSTED 12/15/18

COMPLETED 5.7 Hot and Badgered POSTED 12/12/18

COMPLETED 5.8: Making Merry POSTED 1/11/19

COMPLETED 5.9: Prince JoePOSTED 1/3/19

COMPLETED 5.10:The Secret Garden


message 30: by Elaine (last edited Jan 12, 2019 05:20PM) (new)

Elaine 10 Point Tasks

COMPLETED 10.1: Driven to Distraction POSTED 1/6/19

COMPLETED 10.2 One of These Nights POSTED 12/16/18

COMPLETED 10.3: Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love POSTED 12/8/18

COMPLETED 10.4: The Hero Revealed POSTED 12/13/18

COMPLETED 10.5: Born in Shame Posted 1/1/19

COMPLETED 10.6: Running Hot POSTED 1/6/19

COMPLETED 10.7: Echo POSTED 1/2/19

COMPLETED 10.8: The High King's Golden Tongue POSTED 1/12/19

COMPLETED 10.9: Almost Like Being in Love POSTED 12/31/18

COMPLETED 10.10: Star-Crossed Lover POSTED 12/19/18


message 31: by Elaine (last edited Dec 31, 2018 02:48PM) (new)

Elaine 15 Point Tasks

COMPLETED 15.1 Bonds of Justice &The Marine Next Door POSTED 12/22/18

COMPLETED 15.2 Hot Winter Nights & Second Chance Summer POSTED 12/22/18

COMPLETED 15.3 It Takes Two to Tumble POSTED 12/1/18

COMPLETED 15.4: Almost a Princess POSTED 12/31/18

COMPLETED 15.5: Promise Not to Tell POSTED 12/31/18

COMPLETED 15.6 My Brief History POSTED 12/16/18

COMPLETED 15.7 Secrets of a Summer Night POSTED 12/15/18

COMPLETED 15.8 The Undoing POSTED 12/8/18

COMPLETED 15.9: The Unleashing POSTED 12/7/18

COMPLETED 15.10:A Very Large Expanse of Sea POSTED 12/14/18


message 32: by Elaine (last edited Jan 02, 2019 06:36AM) (new)

Elaine 20 Point Tasks

COMPLETED 20.1Born in Ice POSTED 12/30/18

COMPLETED 20.2 Against the Wild POSTED 12/24/18

COMPLETED 20.3: Rescued by the Marine POSTED 12/8/18

COMPLETED 20.4: Deadly Game POSTED 12/3/18

COMPLETED 20.5: Lover, Lover POSTED 12/18/18

COMPLETED 20.6: Up Close and Dangerous POSTED 1/2/19

COMPLETED 20.7 The Unyielding POSTED 12/8/18

COMPLETED 20.8 Veil of Night POSTED 1/1/19

COMPLETED 20.9: The Kiss Quotient POSTED 12/30/18

COMPLETED 20.10 Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II POSTED 12/1/18


message 33: by Elaine (last edited Jan 05, 2019 04:51PM) (new)

Elaine 25 Point Tasks

COMPLETED 25.1 Quenched in Blood & Lover Behind Enemy Lines POSTED 12/21/18

COMPLETED 15.2 Secret Agent Santa &Mountain Blizzard POSTED 12/8/18

COMPLETED 25.3 Stranded with the Detective & At Close Range POSTED 12/9/18

COMPLETED 25.4: Something About You & For Never and Always POSTED 1/5/19

COMPLETED 25.5 Christmas on Main Street & Lethal Lies POSTED 12/10/18

COMPLETED 25.6: Twisted Truths & A Gentleman Never Keeps Score POSTED 12/9/18

COMPLETED 25.7 Bite Me & Golden POSTED 12/16/18

COMPLETED 25.8: Brentwood & The Sugar Cookie Sweetheart Swap POSTED 12/31/18

COMPLETED 25.9: SEAL's Honor & The Ship Engineer POSTED 1/5/19


message 34: by Elaine (last edited Jan 16, 2019 06:33AM) (new)

Elaine 30 Point Tasks

COMPLETED 30.1: Something For Nothing &Born in Fire POSTED 1/2/19

COMPLETED 30.2: The Proposal & Wildfire POSTED 12/15/18

COMPLETED 30.3: Amnesia &Hidden POSTED 12/21/18

COMPLETED 30.4: Blood Bound & The Arrangement POSTED 1/7/19

COMPLETED 30.5: Sweet Revenge & Marcus POSTED 1/5/19

COMPLETED 30.6: Love With the Proper Husband & Snow Blind POSTED 12/15/18

COMPLETED 30.7: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones and More Than a Lawman POSTED 12/6/18

50 Point Task

COMPLETED 50.1 Who I Used to Be & Stroke Rate & The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society POSTED 1/16/19


message 35: by Candy (last edited Jan 14, 2019 09:30AM) (new)

Candy | 151 comments Candy's Winter Challenge

5 Point Tasks

5.10 - Everything Under

10 Point Tasks

15 Point Tasks

20 Point Tasks

20.5 - Option 3 B - Vox

25 Point Tasks

25.7 -
Book 1 - Us Against You
Book 2 - Her

30 Point Tasks

30.1 -
Option 1 - Slayer
Option 2 - The Last Policeman (Ben Kingsley)

Points this post: 25
Total Points: 25
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books:500+(0)750+(0)1000+(0)


message 36: by Aimee (last edited Dec 26, 2018 06:49AM) (new)

Aimee (kannhr) | 21 comments Aimee's Winter Challenge

5.1 - This and That Whisper Me This
5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh -
5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-. The $1,000 Challenge: How One Family Slashed Its Budget Without Moving Under a Bridge or Living on Government Cheese - DONE 12/13/18
5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas Mr. Dickens and His Carol
5.5 - O? No! Find Your Passion: 25 Questions You Must Ask Yourself
5.6 - Read Aloud
5.7 - Crimson And Clover
5.8 - Go Short Sins of the Past
5.9 - Acts of Heroism
5.10 - Book Blitz

10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero - Dangerous Passage - DONE 12/14/18
10.2 - Every Day Heroes
10.3- Four-Legged Heros
10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman!
10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee - The Handmaid's Tale - DONE 12/17/18
10.6 - Let's Eat! Submerged
10.7 - Brown Shoes?
10.8 - Take the Stairs The Beckoning Examining the Truths That Transformed an Atheist Attorney Into a Believer In God (Morgan James Faith) by Michael Minot
10.9 - Write Me a Letter
10.10 - Happy Holidays!

15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men!
Book 1: Throne of Glass
Book 2: The Hunger Games
15.2 - Winter or Summer?
15.3 - Songs About Heroes
15.4 - From A to Z
Book 1: Arsonist
Book 2: The Unremembered Girl
15.5 - Secret Identity The Cuckoo's Calling
15.6 - My Personal Hero
15.7 - Catch up with the SRC A Christmas Carol - DONE 12/17/18
15.8 - Mythological Heroes The Illiad and The Odyssey
15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day! Water Walker
15.10 - National Book Awards

20.1
20.2
20.3 Elementary, My Dear Watson Treasure Island
20.4
20.5
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10

25.1

30.2 Feliz Navidad
30.3 Alpha and Omega
30.4 Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium)
Book 1: Rapid Falls
Book 2: The Dream Bucket
30.5 A world of books
30.6 Naming Names
Book 1: Covert Reich
Book 2:
The Galactic Mercenary
The Kind Prophet
The Hot Mantis
The Eager Crane
Righteous Falcon
Master Rapid Sparrow
Agent Aqua Saviour
Hypnotic Lynx
Broken Watchman
Iron Assassin
Meet Those Who Met the Master
30.7 New Year, New You
50.1


message 37: by Halime (last edited Jan 23, 2019 10:48PM) (new)

Halime (halime_ikbal) | 4 comments Halime Ikbal's Winter Plan
5.7 - Suç ve Ceza
5.8 - Ficciones

10.1 - Zeytindağı
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5 - Ficciones
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9 - Milena'ya Mektuplar
10.10 - İnsanın Anlama Yetisi Üzerine Bir Soruşturma

15.6 - Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
15.7 - Kitap Hırsızı
15.8 - Klasik Yunan Mitolojisinin En Güzel Efsaneleri - 2

25.6 - Book 1:Swann'ların Tarafı Book 2: Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde/Deliliğe Övgü

30.1
30.2 - (A) Körlük (B) Bel Ami
30.3
30.4 - "Lichtmis" - Book 1:Fısıltı / Book 2: SPQR
30.5 - Book 1: Deliliğe Övgü / Book 2: Büyük Umutlar
30.6 - Book 1: Ben ve O / Book 2:
The Famous Marksman
The Huge Beetle
The Majestic Spirit
The Electron Smasher
Earthen Nightowl
Lucky Killer
Commander Gorgeous Fighter
Calm Mole
Dragonloom
Boler


message 38: by Jill (new)

Jill | 1 comments r


message 39: by steph (librarianish) (last edited Feb 26, 2019 09:48AM) (new)

steph (librarianish) (steph_davidson) | 540 comments Reading Plans / Executed
Books: 49 of 76 (64%)
Total points: 590 of 985 (60%)



5.1 The Love That Split the World
5.2 What If It's Us
5.3 The Brief History of the Dead
5.4 Isaac Asimov's Christmas
5.5 The Book of Essie
5.6 Educated
5.7 Eleanor & Park
5.8 Isaac Asimov's Mars
5.9 Ancillary Justice
5.10 Between Them: Remembering My Parents

10.1 The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
10.2 --
10.3 A Dog's Purpose
10.4 --
10.5 --
10.6 The Yiddish Policemen's Union
10.7 --
10.8 --
10.9 Obsidio
10.10 The Rules Do Not Apply

15.1 Inside Out
The Magicians

15.2 The Winter Witch
Prodigal Summer

15.3 Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

15.4 --

15.5 Deadline

15.6 The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

15.7 All the Light We Cannot See

15.8 Norse Mythology

15.9 River of Teeth

15.10 The Poet X

20.1 Less

20.2 --

20.3 The No Spend Year: How I spent less and lived more

20.4 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

20.5 All We Ever Wanted

20.6 --

20.7 Vanishing Girls

20.8 --

20.9 Children of Blood and Bone

20.10 Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II

25.1 The Last of August
Crazy Brave

25.2 How to Walk Away
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

25.3 Love Letters to the Dead
--

25.4 Phantom Limbs
Carve the Mark

25.5 4321

25.6 --

25.7 --

25.8 --

25.9 Small Great Things
After the End

30.1 The Female of the Species
My Oxford Year

30.2 Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

30.3 --

30.4 The Wedding Date
Don't You Cry

30.5 --

30.6 --

30.7 --

50.1 --


message 40: by Megan (last edited Feb 27, 2019 09:41AM) (new)

Megan (meganraex) | 76 comments Megan Rae's Winter Challenge Tracker 2018

Tasks Completed: 19
Total Points: 280

5 Points - (4/10) - 20 points
5.1 - This and That
5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh
5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-.
5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas - - Mr. Dickens and His Carol
5.5 - O? No!
5.6 - Read Aloud
5.7 - Crimson And Clover Brownies & Betrayal
5.8 - Go Short - The Merry Spinster: Tales of everyday horror
5.9 - Acts of Heroism
5.10 - Book Blitz - My Name is Monster

10 Points - (4/10) - 40 points
10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero - The Boneless Mercies
10.2 - Every Day Heroes
10.3- Four-Legged Heros
10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman!
10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee - Strange Meeting
10.6 - Let's Eat!
10.7 - Brown Shoes?
10.8 - Take the Stairs - The Carrow Haunt
10.9 - Write Me a Letter
10.10 - Happy Holidays! - Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

15 Points - (3/10) - 45 points
15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men!
15.2 - Winter or Summer?
15.3 - Songs About Heroes - Empress of All Seasons
15.4 - From A to Z
15.5 - Secret Identity - Someone Like Me
15.6 - My Personal Hero
15.7 - Catch up with the SRC
15.8 - Mythological Heroes
15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!
15.10 - National Book Awards

20 Points - (6/10) - 120 points
20.1. "And the winner is....."
20.2. Darwin Day
20.3. Elementary, My Dear Watson - The Sun Dog
20.4. Everyday Heroes - The Name of the Wind
20.5. February Babies - Rosewater
20.6. Remembering A Canadian Hero - Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
20.7. Yo, Adrian! - Hercule Poirot's Christmas
20.8. Membership Required - Broken Things
20.9. Goodreads choice award winners
20.10. Group Reads

25 Points - (1/10) - 25 points
25.1 - What Makes a Good Hero? - Dry & The Wicked King
25.2 - Winter Sports!
25.3 - Christmas in Japan
25.4 - Happy 200th Illinois
25.5 - 2018 Reading Stats
25.6 - They Go Together - The Small Hand & ???
25.7 - Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good - Skyward & ???
25.8 - It's Cookie Time!
25.9 - Winter Solstice
25.10 -

30 Points - (1/7) - 30 points
30.1. Gotta love the Hero! - Moving Pictures (option 3) & Only Forward (Option 2)
30.2. Feliz Navidad
30.3. Alpha and Omega
30.4. Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium)
30.5. A world of books
30.6. Naming Names
30.7. New Year, New You


message 41: by Angela (last edited Jan 27, 2019 09:55PM) (new)

Angela | 61 comments Winter 2018 Task Tracking
Tasks Completed: 13
Points Earned: 185

5 Point Tasks
5.1 - This and That
The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry - paper

5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh
The Origins of Creativity - Kindle

5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-.
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Read 12/9/18

5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas
A Christmas Carol - Read 12/19/18

5.5 - O? No! My Real Name Is Hanna
The Forty Rules of Love - 10/1/19

5.6 - Read Aloud
Lectures on Russian Literature

5.7 - Crimson And Clover Brownies & Betrayal

5.8 - Go Short
Love Today - paper

5.9 - Acts of Heroism
Death in the Tuscan Hills

5.10 - Book Blitz
The Devil Knows You're Dead - 12/7/18

10 Point Tasks
10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero - The Boneless Mercies
Love Walked in - 12/8/18

10.2 - Every Day Heroes
Wolves Eat Dogs - Read 12/7/18

10.3- Four-Legged Heros

10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman!

10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee
Schindler's List - paper

10.6 - Let's Eat!

10.7 - Brown Shoes?
The Gifts of the Body - Read 12/16/18

10.8 - Take the Stairs - The Carrow Haunt
The Fall of Hyperion - audio

10.9 - Write Me a Letter

10.10 - Happy Holidays!
The Beauty of Men - paper

15 Point Tasks
15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men!
The Girl Who Played with Fire - audio
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

15.2 - Winter or Summer?
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler- audio
Summer?

15.3 - Songs About Heroes
The World in Half - paper

15.4 - From A to Z
All My Puny Sorrows - 1/4/19
Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness - kindle

15.5 - Secret Identity

15.6 - My Personal Hero

15.7 - Catch up with the SRC

15.8 - Mythological Heroes

15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind - 01/18/19

15.10 - National Book Awards

20 Point Tasks
20.1. "And the winner is....."
A Dance with Dragons - 12/17/18

20.2. Darwin Day
On Language - paper

20.3. Elementary, My Dear Watson
A Thousand Splendid Suns - audio/paper

20.4. Everyday Heroes
The Brothers Karamazov - paper

20.5. Bigger is Better - Babbling C's Task: February Babies
Through a Glass, Darkly - Read 12/25/18

20.6. Remembering A Canadian Hero
Louis Bachelier's Theory of Speculation: The Origins of Modern Finance - paper

20.7. Yo, Adrian!
The Tale of the Body Thief

20.8. Membership Required

20.9. Goodreads choice award winners

20.10. Group Reads

25 Point Tasks
25.1 - What Makes a Good Hero?
Stalin's Ghost - Read 12/30/18
Dune Messiah - Read 1/8/19

25.2 - Winter Sports!
A Darkness Descending - Read 12/15/18
Out of the Deep I Cry

25.3 - Christmas in Japan
I'll Steal You Away
?

25.4 - Happy 200th Illinois
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World - Read 1/15/19
Kindness Goes Unpunished - Read 12/2/18

25.5 - 2018 Reading Stats
El laberinto de los espíritus

25.6 - They Go Together
The Library at Night
The Calling - Read 12/18/18

25.7 - Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good
Lectures on Russian Literature
Matrimony - Read 12/23/18

25.8 - It's Cookie Time!
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Spring Torrents

25.9 - Winter Solstice
?
The Age of Doubt - 1/27/19

30 Point Tasks
30.1. Gotta love the Hero!
2010: Odyssey Two
Another Man's Moccasins - Read 12/24/18

30.2. Feliz Navidad
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Essential Dialogues of Plato

30.3. Alpha and Omega
?
Dawn

30.4. Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium)
Tradition: ‘Lichtmis’
Birds of a Feather - Read 12/22/18
F - 1/14/19

30.5. A world of books
Live and Let Die - Read 1/3/19
The Dark Vineyard

30.6. Naming Names
Tears of the Giraffe - Read 12/28/18
Hero names generated:
The Black Hammer
The Dark Daggers
The Broken Spy
The Jade Beetle
Commander Elegent Rhinoceros
Yellow Slayer
Doctor Armed Mastermind
Warden Impossible Antman
Captain Quake
Fallen Pheonix

30.7. New Year, New You
The Potter's Field - Read 12/28/18 (Self Care)

50 Point Task
50.1. Coralie's Task: Three Fictional Heroes
?
?
Cleopatra's Daughter - historical fiction - 1/26/19


message 42: by [deleted user] (last edited Jan 01, 2019 02:14PM) (new)

5.1 - This and That
5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh
5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-.
5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas
5.5 - O? No! My Real Name Is Hanna
5.6 - Read Aloud
5.7 - Crimson And Clover Brownies & Betrayal
5.8 - Go Short
5.9 - Acts of Heroism
5.10 - Book Blitz

10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero
10.2 - Every Day Heroes
10.3- Four-Legged Heros
10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman!
10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee
10.6 - Let's Eat!
10.7 - Brown Shoes?
10.8 - Take the Stairs
10.9 - Write Me a Letter
10.10 - Happy Holidays!

15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men!
15.2 - Winter or Summer?
15.3 - Songs About Heroes
15.4 - From A to Z
15.5 - Secret Identity
15.6 - My Personal Hero
15.7 - Catch up with the SRC The Glass Castle
15.8 - Mythological Heroes
15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day!
15.10 - National Book Awards Florida

20.1
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5- Option 3A Delirium
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

25.1- M1nks's Task: What Makes a Good Hero?

25.2 - SandyL's Task: Winter Sports!

25.3 - Andy P.’s task: Christmas in Japan

25.4 - Diana K's Task: Happy 200th Illinois

25.5 - Tien's Task: 2018 Reading Stats

25.6 - Sandy's Task: They Go Together

25.7 - - Wayne's task: Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good Thank You, Jeeves

25.8 - Amy "the book-bat"'s Task: It's Cookie Time!


30.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Gotta love the Hero!
Book 1 (Option 1): Uprooted- read
Book 2: (Options 3): Speaker for the Dead

30.2. Amanda A's Task passed to Book Concierge: Feliz Navidad
Book 1: The Librarian of Auschwitz- read
Book 2: ?

30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Alpha and Omega Arcadia?
Book 2 Flights (Lichtmis)

Book 1: Between Sisters
Book 2:
30.4 - Dulcinella's task: Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium)
30.5 - Mazza1's Task: A world of books

30.6 - Dlmrose's Task: Naming Names

30.7 - TessaVanessa's Task: New Year, New You. Self care or Eat better


50.1
Book 2
Book 3


message 43: by Jamie (last edited Feb 11, 2019 12:28PM) (new)

Jamie (jamielbh) | 13 comments Jamie B's Winter reading plan

5.1
5.2 - Unsheltered (pub October 16th 2018)
5.3
5.4 - A Christmas Carol (genre=Holiday)
5.5 - Everything I Never Told You (no O in author's name)
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10 - How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (free choice)

10.1 - Almost Midnight (genre=Romance)
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.9
10.10

15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4
15.5
15.6
15.7 - The Underground Railroad (SRC group bookshelf)
15.8
15.9
15.10

20.1 - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Costa Book Award for First Novel, 2017)
20.2
20.3
20.4
20.5 - The Bear and the Nightingale (Option 3A: Book 1 in the Winternight Trilogy)
20.6
20.7
20.8
20.9
20.10


message 44: by Katie (new)

Katie (goodreader_ktkizzie) | 38 comments KatieK’s Winter Challenge 2018

5.4 Christmas Candy Murder


message 45: by Erica (last edited Feb 13, 2019 06:06AM) (new)

Erica | 166 comments Winter 2018 Tasks
Tasks completed: 4
Points earned: 30

Winter Challenge 2018 Tasks

5.1 - This and That - Read a book with This, That, These or Those in the title or subtitle.
✔ 5.2 - The Book Flood Cometh - Read a book FIRST published in October, November or December of any year. Becoming by Michelle Obama (1/17)
5.3 - Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ... .-. -.-. Read a book with ALL the letters in DOT DASH (including 2 Ds) in the title and/or subtitle
5.4 - A Dickens of a Christmas - Read a book with a main page genre of Holiday. The genre may be embedded or standalone.
✔ 5.5 - O? No! - Read a book written by a single author who does NOT have an O in his or her name. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (2/13)
✔ 5.6 - Read Aloud - Read a NONFICTION book about literacy, education or reading. The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (2/11)
5.7 - Crimson And Clover - Read a book with a three-word TITLE that includes "AND" or "&". Subtitles are excluded.
5.8 - Go Short - Read an anthology or collection of at least 3 short stories, novellas, or essays (or any combination).
5.9 - Acts of Heroism - Read a book with a main character or subject who is an active-duty or former member of the armed forces of any nation (real or imagined).
✔ 5.10 - Book Blitz - Read a book of your choice that meets SRC rules. Frankenstein (12/30)

✔ 10.1 - Holding Out for a Hero - Read a book with a main page genre that starts with an H or E or R or O. Genres may be stand alone or embedded and must be a genre (defined as a set of artistic characteristics) and not just a classification of format
The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren WIllig and Karen White (1/19)
✔ 10.2 - Every Day Heroes - Read a book with a main character who is an everyday hero. Ultra Marathon Man by Dean Karnazes (2/10)
✔ 10.3- Four-Legged Heroes - Read a book from the Non-Fiction Animal Heroes list. Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat (2/2)
10.4 - Holy Books-a-Million, Batman! - Read a book that can be found on the list of Super Hero Books.
✔ 10.5 - Remembering Stan Lee - Read a book first published between 1941 and 1996, inclusive. A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King (1/30)
10.6 - Let's Eat! - Read a book set at least 50% in Hawaii, Alaska, Argentina, Antarctica, or Australia.
10.7 - Brown Shoes? - Read a book with the word BROWN or SHOE intact in the title/subtitle, series title, or author's name as it appears on Goodreads.
10.8 - Take the Stairs - Read a book with 3 or more steps clearly visible on the cover.
10.9 - Write Me a Letter - Read a book write in an epistolary style.
10.10 - Happy Holidays! - Read a book by a single author whose first and last initial can be found in HOLIDAY.

15.1 - Not Just Big, Strong Men! - Read 2 books from 2 DIFFERENT lists:
Strong Heroine series
Kick Butt Heroines
Best Tortured Heroes in Fiction
Books with Disabled Heroes
Books with Nerdy, Geeky or Genius Heroes and Heroines

15.2 - Winter or Summer? - Book 1 - Read a book with the word "winter" found intact in the title/subtitle/series title of the book.
AND
Book 2 - Read a book with the word "summer" found intact in the title/subtitle/series title of the book.

15.3 - Songs About Heroes -
OPTION 1:
Book 1: Read a book with a title of at least 3 words, where the initial letters of each word can be found in the name of one of these songs.
AND
Book 2: Read a single author book, where the initial letters of the author's name can be found in the name of one of the listed artists.

OR
Option 2:
Read one book that satisfies both criteria for option 1. The title initials and author initials can be from the same or different songs.

15.4 - From A to Z
Option 1:
Book 1 - Read a book the title of which begins with "A." All words count, including articles.
AND
Book 2 - Read a book whose author has a "Z" in their name.

OR

Option 2:
Read one book that satisfies both criteria for Option 1.

15.5 - Secret Identity - Read a book by a single author who writes under more than one name. You may read a book written under any of the names that the author uses.

15.6 - My Personal Hero - Read a NONFICTION biography or autobiography of someone who you consider to be a hero.

15.7 - Catch up with the SRC - Read a book from the SRC Group Bookshelf that you have never read before.

15.8 - Mythological Heroes - Read a book with the main page genre Mythology (standalone or embedded).

✔ 15.9 - Hoodie-Hoo Day! - Read a book with one or more hands showing on its cover. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (2/5)

15.10 - National Book Awards - Read one of the books that won the award, was a finalist, or was on the longlist for the award in 2018.

25.1- Minks's Task: What Makes a Good Hero?

25.2 - Sandy's Task: Winter Sports!

25.3 - Andy P.’s task: Christmas in Japan

25.4 - Diana K's Task: Happy 200th Illinois

25.5 - Tien's Task: 2018 Reading Stats

25.6 - Sandy's Task: They Go Together

25.7 - - Wayne's task: Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good

25.8 - Amy "the book-bat"'s Task: It's Cookie Time!

30.1 – Schatzie’s Task: Gotta love the Hero!

30.2. Amanda A's Task passed to Book Concierge: Feliz Navidad
Book 1:
Book 2:

30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Alpha and Omega
30.4 - Dulcinella's task: Shoes, Letters, and Pancakes (in Belgium)
30.5 - Mazza1's Task: A world of books
30.6 - Dlmrose's Task: Naming Names
30.7 - TessaVanessa's Task: New Year, New You.


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