You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Wow! Another great challenge!

1. Challenge Progress: Identify where you are in the challenge – Badge 1, book 1 (2, 3, 4, etc.)
2. List Movie
3 List Task
4. Link to book read. REQUIRED: If the cover is part of the task, link the cover of the edition you read as well.
5. List the number of pages of the edition you read. If an ebook or audiobook also give the number of pages of the hardcover edition (refer general rules on page numbers).
6. Give a very brief summary of the task.
7. State how the book fits the criteria.
8. Specifications required in the task. Some tasks require that you report a specific thing. IE – a task requires that you read a book from a Listopia. You need to identify which position number the book is on the list so that it can be verified.



Badge 1: 12/12
Badge 2: 24/24
Badge 3: 35/36
Badge 4: 0/48

Gophering Part 1


12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
▢ 1.
✔️2. For Whom the Minivan Rolls
✔️3. Force of Nature The Mother-in-Law
✔️4. The House of Silk
✔️5. My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere - read 03/04
▢ 6.

Annihilation
▢ 1. No, already read
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
▢ 4. Killer Cuts
▢ 5.
▢ 6.

Bel Canto
▢ 1. Bel Canto
✔️2. The Last Time I Lied
▢ 3. The Sparrow
▢ 4.
✔️5. Last Night in Montreal
▢ 6. The Night Circus or A Visit from the Goon Squad

Between Shades of Gray
▢ 1.
▢ 2.
▢ 3. Faithful Place
▢ 4. Beartown or Britt-Marie Was Here
▢ 5.
▢ 6. Smilla's Sense of Snow

Boy Erased: A Memoir
▢ 1.
✔️2. Vox
✔️3. The Saturday Night Ghost Club
▢ 4.
✔️5. Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story
▢ 6.

Crazy Rich Asians
✔️1. Crazy Rich Asians
▢ 2.
▢ 3. If We Were Villains or Fool or Hag-Seed
▢ 4. Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials
✔️5. Landline
▢ 6.

The Darkest Minds
✔️1. The Darkest Minds - read 02/16
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
✔️4. The Prime Minister's Secret Agent - read 03/10
▢ 5.
▢ 6.

The Death Cure
▢ 1.
▢ 2. Old Man's War
▢ 3.
▢ 4.
✔️ 5. The Unit
▢ 6.

Every Day
✔️1. Every Day
✔️2. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
▢ 3.
▢ 4.
✔️5. The Wicked Will Rise
✔️6. Bones Behind the Wheel: A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery

Fahrenheit 451
✔️1. A reread Fahrenheit 451 - Read 02/10
▢ 2.
▢ 3. Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
▢ 4.
▢ 5.
✔️6. Stormbreaker

Fifty Shades Freed
▢ 1. No Way!
✔️2. Sharp Objects - read 03/01
▢ 3.
✔️4. The Dark Place
▢ 5.
▢ 6.

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
▢ 1.
✔️2. Force of Nature
✔️3. The Hammett Hex
▢ 4.
▢ 5.
▢ 6. The Underground Railroad or All the Light We Cannot See

Gophering Part 2

Forever My Girl
▢ 1.
▢ 2.
✔️3. All the Little Liars - read 02/22
▢ 4.
▢ 5.
▢ 6.

The Girl in the Spider's Web
▢ 1. Already read
✔️2. Book, Line and Sinker
▢ 3.
▢ 4.
✔️5. Dans le quartier des agités
▢ 6.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
☑ 1. Already read
✔️2. The Little Paris Bookshop
▢ 3.
✔️4. Le saint patron des plans foireux
▢ 5.
▢ 6.

The Hate U Give
▢ 1. The Hate U Give
▢ 2.
▢ 3. To The Bright Edge of the World
✔️4. Claws for Concern4.
▢ 5. Fangirl
▢ 6.

The House with a Clock in Its Walls
✔️1. The House with a Clock in Its Walls
✔️2. Lost Books and Old Bones - read 02/19
✔️3. Small Spaces
▢ 4.
▢ 5.
▢ 6.

Juliet, Naked
▢ 1.
✔️2. As Dog is My Witness
✔️3. If the Shoe Kills
▢ 4.
▢ 5.
▢ 6.

The Jungle Book
▢ 1.
✔️2. The Skeleton Makes a Friend
▢ 3.
▢ 4.
▢ 5.
▢ 6. The Red Tent

Little Women
☑ 1. Already read
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
▢ 4.
✔️5. The Golden Tresses of the Dead
▢ 6.

The Little Stranger
▢ 1. The Little Stranger
▢ 2.
✔️3. Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante
✔️4. Le Prix du mensonge
✔️5. Meddling Kids
▢ 6.

The Long Home
▢ 1.
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
▢ 4.
▢ 5.
▢ 6.

Mary Poppins
▢ 1.
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
✔️4. Surprise Me
▢ 5.
✔️6. Maisie Dobbs

Meg
▢ 1.
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
▢ 4.
▢ 5. Into the Fire
▢ 6.

Gophering Part 3

Monster
▢ 1.
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
✔️4. Standard Deviation
✔️5. The Library Book
▢ 6.

Mortal Engines
✔️1. Mortal Engines
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
✔️4. Immortal in Death
▢ 5.
✔️6. Guidebook to Murder

Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker
▢ 1.
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
▢ 4.
✔️5. Practical Magic
▢ 6.

Ophelia
▢ 1.
✔️ 2. Dog Dish of Doom
▢ 3.
▢ 4.
✔️ 5. Dorothy Must Die
▢ 6.

Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
▢ 1.
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
✔️ 4. Of Books and Bagpipes - read 02/15
▢ 5.
✔️ 6. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat - read 03/08

Ready Player One
▢ 1. Déjà lu
▢ 2.
▢ 3. The Fleet Street Murders
▢ 4.
▢ 5. La Rive noire
✔️ 6. Boneshaker

Red Sparrow
▢ 1.
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
✔️ 4. The Bear and the Nightingale
✔️ 5. Dark Places
▢ 6.

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
✔️1. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - 01/04
▢ 2.
▢ 3.
▢ 4.
✔️5. Decorated To Death - read 02/20
▢ 6.

A Simple Favor
✔️1. A Simple Favor - read 03/02
▢ 2. Tell the Wolves I'm Home
✔️3. Dark Matter
✔️4. Due or Die
▢ 5.
▢ 6.

The Sisters Brothers
✔️1. The Sisters Brothers - read 03/24
▢ 2.
✔️3. City of Thieves
✔️4. Mission to Murder
▢ 5.
▢ 6. Gold Digger

To All the Boys I've Loved Before
▢ 1.
▢ 2.
✔️3. Baked To Death
✔️4. The Supernatural Enhancements
✔️5. Fangirl - read 04/07
✔️6. Magic for Liars - read 06/15

A Wrinkle in Time
▢ 1. Déjà lu
▢ 2.
✔️3. One Day in December
✔️4. Lost on Planet China: Or How I Learned to Love Live Squid
✔️5. Predator's Gold
▢ 6.

Badge 1

1. Movie - Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Love, Simon)
Task - Book - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
2. Movie - Mary Poppins
Task - Trivia - Maisie Dobbs
3. Movie - Mortal Engines
Task - Trivia - Guidebook to Murder
4. Movie - Sisters Brothers
Task - Setting - Guidebook to Murder
5. Movie - Monster
Task - The Library Book
6. Movie - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Task - Autor - The Little Paris Bookshop
7. Movie - Red Sparrow
Task - Setting - The Bear and the Nightingale
8. Movie - The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Task - Book - The House with a Clock in Its Walls
9. Movie - Crazy Rich Asians
Task - Book - Crazy Rich Asians
10. Movie - Fahrenheit 451
Task - Book - Fahrenheit 451
11. Movie - Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
Task - Setting - Of Books and Bagpipes
12. Movie - The Darkest Minds
Task - Book - The Darkest Minds

Reporting

1. Challenge Progress:
2. Movie:
3 Task:
4. Book:
5. Number of pages:
6. Summary of the task:
7. Reason:
8. Specification:

Badge 2

1. Movie - Mortal Engines
Task - Read the Book - Mortal Engines
2. Movie - House with a Clock in its Walls
Task - Author - Lost Books and Old Bones
3. Movie - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Task - Genre - Decorated To Death
4. Movie - Forever My Girl
Task - Actor - All the Little Liars
5. Movie - The Jungle Book
Task - Author - The Skeleton Makes a Friend
6. Movie - A Simple Favor
Task - Setting - Due or Die
7. Movie - Fifty Shades Freed
Task - Author - Sharp Objects
8. Movie - A Simple Favor
Task - Book - A Simple Favor
9. Movie - 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
Task - Genre - My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
10. Movie - Queen of Scots
Task - Trivia - Curiosity Thrilled the Cat
11. Movie - The Darkest Mind
Task - Setting - The Prime Minister's Secret Agent
12. Movie - First Man
Task - Actor - The Hammett Hex
13. Movie - Juliet, Naked
Task - Actor - If the Shoe Kills
14. Movie - A Simple Favor
Task - Actor - Dark Matter
15. Movie - The Sisters Brothers
Task - Book - The Sisters Brothers
16. Movie - A Wrinkle in Time
Task - Genre - Predator's Gold
17. Movie - Little Women
Task - Genre - The Golden Tresses of the Dead
18. Movie - To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Task - Genre - Fangirl
19. Movie - The Girl in the Spider's Web
Task - Author - Book, Line and Sinker
20. Movie - Crazy Rich Asians
Task - Genre - Landline
21. Movie - Boy Erased
Task - Genre - Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story
22. Movie - 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
Task - Author - For Whom the Minivan Rolls
23. Movie - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Task - Setting - Le saint patron des plans foireux
24. Movie - The Red Sparrow
Task - Genre - Dark Places

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 1
2. Movie: Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Love, Simon)
3 Task: Book
4. Book: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
5. Number of pages: 303
6. Summary of the task: Read the book
7. Reason: I read the book...
8. Specification: None

Woot! Your first book is done. :)

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 2
2. Movie: Mary Poppins
3 Task: Trivia
4. Maisie Dobbs

5. Number of pages: 309
6. Read a book with an umbrella on the cover
7. Reason: There is an umbrella on the cover, in fact there are 2 of them
8. Specifications: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 3
2. Movie: Mortal Engines
3 Task: Trivia
4. Book: Guidebook to Murder
5. Number of pages: 228 pages
6. Summary of the task: Read a book that is the first in a series
7. Reason: Guidebook to Murder is the first in Lynn Cahoon's Tourist Trap Mysteries series
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 4
2. Movie: Brothers Sisters
3 Task: Setting
4. Book: Mission to Murder
5. Number of pages: 238 pages
6. Summary of the task: Read a book set in Oregon or California
7. Reason: The book is set in South Cove, California
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2 - Book 1
2. Movie: Mortal Engines
3 Task: Book
4. Book: Mortal Engines
5. Number of pages: 336
6. Summary of the task: Read the book
7. Reason: I read the book Mortal Engines
8. Specification: None

Reporting

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 5
2. Movie: Monster
3 Task: Genre
4. Book: The Library Book
5. Number of pages: 318
6. Summary of the task: Read a Crime or True Crime story where an police officer or lawyer is not the main character. It may be a private detective
7. Reason: The genre True Crime appears on the main page of the chosen book
8. Specification: Since it's a non-fiction book, there is no main character. I choose this book because of the "True Crime" part. I guess that if we have to choose a main character it might be the author herself (author of books and magazine pieces) or the accused who was a failed actor and did a lot of small jobs...

What did you think of The Library Book? Almeta read it too. I have it on my plan.

Marie Claude wrote: "Reporting

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 5
2. Movie: Monster
3 Task: Genre
4. Book: The Library Book
5. Number of pages: 318
6. Summary of the task: Read a Crime or True Crim..."

What occupation was the Main Character? That should be stated as the task specifies it not be a police officer or lawyer.

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1 - Book 6
2. Movie: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
3 Task: Author
4. Book: The Little Paris Bookshop
5. Number of pages: 416
6. Summary of the task: Read a book about a library or book shop
7. Reason: Most of the book is either talking about or set on a floating bookshop
8. Specification: None

Janice wrote: "Marie Claude wrote: "Reporting

What occupation was the Main Character? That should be stated as the task specifies it not be a police officer or lawyer.

Since it's a non-fiction book, there is no main character. I choose this book because of the "True Crime" part.

I guess that if we have to choose a main character it might be the author herself (author of books and magazine pieces) or the accused who was a failed actor and did a lot of small jobs...

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1 - Book 7
2. Movie: Red Sparrow
3 Task: Setting
4. Book: The Bear and the Nightingale
5. Number of pages: 323
6. Summary of the task: Read a book set in Russia or written by a Russian author
7. Reason: The book is set in Russia
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1 - Book 8
2. Movie: The House with a Clock in Its Walls
3 Task: Book
4. Book: The House with a Clock in Its Walls
5. Number of pages: 179
6. Summary of the task: Read the book
7. Reason: I read the book on which the movie is based
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1 - Book 9
2. Movie: Crazy Rich Asians
3 Task: Book
4. Book: Crazy Rich Asians
5. Number of pages: 544
6. Summary of the task: Read the book
7. Reason: I read the book on which the movie is based
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1 - Book 10
2. Movie: Fahrenheit 451
3 Task: Book
4. Book: Fahrenheit 451
5. Number of pages: 249
6. Summary of the task: Read the book
7. Reason: I read the book on which the movie is based
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1 - Book 11
2. Movie: Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
3 Task: Setting
4. Book: Of Books and Bagpipes
5. Number of pages: 304
6. Summary of the task: Read a book that is set in Scotland or written by a Scottish author
7. Reason: The book is set in Scotland
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1 - Book 12
2. Movie: The Darkest Minds
3 Task: Book
4. Book: The Darkest Minds
5. Number of pages: 488
6. Summary of the task: Read the book
7. Reason: I read the book on which the movie is based
8. Specification: None

Woohoo! Congrats on finishing the first badge. :)

Grats Marie Claude!

Reporting

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2 - Book 2
2. Movie: House with a Clock in its walls
3 Task: Author
4. Book: Lost Books and Old Bones
5. Number of pages: 307
6. Summary of the task: Read a book where the main character is a bachelor or bachelorette
7. Reason: Delaney Nichols, the main character is a bachelorette, but may not be for long...
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 3
2. Movie: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
3 Task: Genre
4. Book: Decorated To Death
5. Number of pages: 255
6. Summary of the task: Read a book that is classified LGBT. The genre must be listed on the book's main page
7. Reason: The main character is gay and the genre LGBT appears on the book main page
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2 - Book 4
2. Movie: Forever My Girl
3 Task: Actor
4. Book: All the Little Liars
5. Number of pages: 229
6. Summary of the task: Read a book that was first published in 2016
7. Reason: According to the book main page, the book was published in October 2016
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 5
2. Movie: The Jungle Book
3 Task: Author
4. Book: The Skeleton Makes a Friend
5. Number of pages: 264
6. Summary of the task: Read the 5th book in a series, or read any book that is in a series with 5 main works
7. Reason: It is the 5th book in the series and the series has 5 books.
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 6
2. Movie: A Simlpe Favor
3 Task: Setting
4. Book: Due or Die
5. Number of pages: 283
6. Summary of the task: Read a book set in Connecticut, Iowa, or Chicago
7. Reason: The book is set in Briar Creek, Connecticut
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2 - Book 7
2. Movie: Fifty Shades Freed
3 Task: Author
4. Book: Sharp Objects
5. Number of pages: 254
6. Summary of the task: Read a book where the main character is an anti-hero
7. Reason: Camille is really not an heroin... she drinks way too much, has a dark past, she has a twisted relationship with about everybody, cut herself and let people hurt her...
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2 - Book 8
2. Movie: A Simple Favor
3 Task: Book
4. Book: A Simple Favor
5. Number of pages: 304
6. Summary of the task: Read the book
7. Reason: I read the book on which the movie is based
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2 - Book 9
2. Movie: 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
3 Task: Genre
4. Book: My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
5. Number of pages: 304
6. Summary of the task: Read a book that is non-fiction. The genre must be listed on the book's main page
7. Reason: The book is nonfiction
8. Specification: The fgenre nonfiction is listed on the main page of the book

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2 - Book 10
2. Movie: Queen of Scots
3 Task: Trivia
4. Book: Curiosity Thrilled the Cat
5. Number of pages: 324
6. Summary of the task: Read a book that was written under pseudonym. Required - give the author's real name and the pseudonym
7. Reason: The book was written under a pseudonym
8. Specification: Pseudonym: Sofie Kelly, real name: Darlene Ryan

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2 - Book 11
2. Movie: The Darkest Mind
3 Task: Setting
4. Book: The Prime Minister's Secret Agent
5. Number of pages: 306
6. Summary of the task: Read a WWII story. Required - state how the book fits the task
7. Reason: The book is set during WWII and as the other books in the series, it tells about events that took place during the war, this time, the negociation between Japan and US to keep the peace, what led to Pearl Harbor, and the days after the attack.
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 12
2. Movie: First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
3 Task: Actor
4. Book: The Hammett Hex
5. Number of pages: 304
6. Summary of the task: Read a book set in Canada or by a Canadian author
7. Reason: Victoria Abbott is the pseudonym of Mary Jane Maffini and daughter Victoria who are Canadians.
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 13
2. Movie: Juliet, Naked
3 Task: Actor
4. Book: If the Shoe Kills
5. Number of pages: 216
6. Summary of the task: Read a book with a sign on the cover
7. Reason: There's a sign on the cover
8. Specification:

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 14
2. Movie: A Simple Favor
3 Task: Actor
4. Book: Dark Matter
5. Number of pages: 342
6. Summary of the task: Read a book set in the 2000's to present day
7. Reason: The book seems to be set at the time it was written, so around 2016.
8. Specification:

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 15
2. Movie: The Sisters Brothers
3 Task: Book
4. Book: The Sisters Brothers
5. Number of pages: 328
6. Summary of the task: Read the book
7. Reason: I read the book on wich the movie is based
8. Specification: Non

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 16
2. Movie: A Wrinkle in Time
3 Task: Genre
4. Book: Predator's Gold
5. Number of pages: 352
6. Summary of the task: Read a book that is YA Science Fiction.
7. Reason: The book is classified as both YA and Science Fiction.
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 17
2. Movie: Little Women
3 Task: Genre
4. Book: The Golden Tresses of the Dead
5. Number of pages: 336
6. Summary of the task: Read a book that is historical Fiction. The genre must be listed on the book's main page.
7. Reason: The genre Historical Fiction is listed on the main page of the book
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 18
2. Movie: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
3 Task: Genre
4. Book: Fangirl
5. Number of pages: 438
6. Summary of the task: Read a Romance. The genre must be listed on the book's main page
7. Reason: The genre Romance is listed on the book main page
8. Specification: None

I was really happy that this genre appeared in the page because it's not a genre I usually read ;)

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, book 19
2. Movie: The Girl in the Spider's Web
3 Task: Author
4. Book: Book, Line and Sinker
5. Number of pages: 283
6. Summary of the task: Using the letters in "David Lagercrantz" make a word of at least 3 letters long. Read a book with that exact word in the title. You may use a letter as many as times as it shows in the name. ie - there are 3 a's. You may use all three of them in your word. You may not use letters not shown in the name. ie - you may use leg, but not legs.
7. Reason: The word LINE can be formed with the letters from David Lagercrantz
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 20
2. Movie: Crazy Rich Asians
3 Task: Genre
4. Book: Landline
5. Number of pages: 310
6. Summary of the task: Read a book with the genre Chick Lit or Women's Lit. The genre must be listed on the book's main page
7. Reason: The genre Chick Lit appears on the main page of the book
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 21
2. Movie: Boy Erased
3 Task: Genre
4. Book: Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story
5. Number of pages: 272
6. Summary of the task: Read a Memoir. The genre must be listed on the book's main page
7. Reason: The genre "Memoir" appears on the main page for the book
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2 - Book 22
2. Movie: 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
3 Task: Author
4. Book: For Whom the Minivan Rolls
5. Number of pages: 272
6. Summary of the task: Read a book from a trilogy
7. Reason: For Whom the Minivan Rolls is the first of the Aaron Tucker trilogy
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 23
2. Movie: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
3 Task: Setting
4. Book: Le saint patron des plans foireux
5. Number of pages: 480
6. Summary of the task: Read a book set on an island
7. Reason: The book is set in Montreal and Montreal is an island
8. Specification: None

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 24
2. Movie: The Red Sparrow
3 Task: Genre
4. Book: Dark Places
5. Number of pages: 424
6. Summary of the task: Read a book from the first 5 pages of Best Action-Adventure Novels list
7. Reason: Dark Places appear on the 110th position (page 2) of the Best Action-Adventure Novels list
8. Specification: None

Is Libby a nickname for Elizabeth in Dark Places?

Congratulations on finishing badge 2.