CPL's Book a Week Challenge discussion

May's Take It or Leave It challenges are below. Do one, do all, do none! It's totally up to you.

1. Thank you for your service - May is Military Appreciate Month! Read a book written by or featuring a service member.

2. It's so pretty - Read a book solely based on its cover

3. It can't be that bad, can it? - Read a book that got bad reviews (or, alternatively, a book that someone you know did not like)

4. Stop, thief! - Read a book involving a heist

5. Happy Mother's Day! - Read your mother's/grandmother's/mother figure's favorite book

6. Nom de plume - Read a book with a female author who used a male pseudonym

7. Back in my day - Read a book tied to your ancestry

8. Book to screen - Read a book that was turned into a movie or television show

I might do a book to screen....

#3 - I read Verity. People either loves it or hated it. Very passionate about their feelings on this book.
It started off good, got super disturbing & then seemed to wrap up fast. Still glad I read it so I knew what the hype was about, but was definitely disturbed by some of the content.

1. Thank you for your service - Fobbit

2. It's so pretty - Miracle Creek

3. It can't be that bad, can it? - Fifty Shades of Grey
{it really was that bad, not worth the hype}

4. Stop, thief! - Jane, Unlimited

5. Happy Mother's Day! - The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
{My mom is deceased, this is the last book we both read. I miss telling her to read books and vice versa, we had a great relationship of sharing books.}

6. Nom de plume - The Cuckoo's Calling

7. Back in my day - Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
{Ok, so I picked this because I love the Royal Family and act like they are mine, too. I learned SO much actually!! Thanks for this choice!!}

8. Book to screen - Beartown
{its been green lighted, I'm counting it :)}

1. Thank you for your service - Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

2. It's so pretty - The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

3. It can't be that bad, can it? -

4. Stop, thief! - Inside Man by Jeff Abbott

5. Happy Mother's Day! -

6. Nom de plume - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - Ellis Bell

7. Back in my day - Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore by Sophie Hodorowicz Knab

8. Book to screen - Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

1. Thank you for your service- Shortest Way Home- Pete Buttigieg
2. It's so pretty- Red, White, & Royal Blue- Casey McQuiston
4. Stop, thieft!- Death Waits in the Dark- Julia Buckley
6. Nom de plume- Festive in Death- J.D. Robb
8. Book to screen- Born a Crime- Trevor Noah (movie- Lupita Nyong'o will be in and also producing it).

May's Take It or Leave It

2. It's so pretty- A curse so dark and lonely-Brigid Kemmerer
7. Back in my day- Stony the Road-Henry Louis Gates Jr
8. Book to screen-The Dinner-Herman Koch

Picking my June books and realized I hadn't submitted my May list. Here it is:

1. Ice by Linda Howard
2. Fallen by Cindy Holby
3. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
4. Honest Illusions by Nora Roberts
5. Veil of Night by Sandra Brown
6. Glory in Death by J.D. Robb
7. Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown
8. High Noon by Nora Roberts

I realized when getting my June books together that I forgot to post my May list as well.

2. It's so pretty – Fresh Ink by Lamar Giles

4. Stop, thief! - Read a book involving a heist
The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro

6. Nom de plume - Read a book with a female author who used a male pseudonym
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith

8. Book to screen - Read a book that was turned into a movie or television show
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson