CPL's Book a Week Challenge discussion

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

1. Show your Pride - June is Pride month. Read a book where the main character is LGBTQ+ or by an LGBTQ+ author.

2. Happy Father's Day! - Read your father's/grandfather's/father figure's favorite book

3. And the winner is... - Read a book that has won the Pulitzer Prize (any year)

4. Time to take a vacation - Read a book that would be the perfect vacation book

5. Where they began - Read a popular author's first book

6. It's all politics - Read a political book (fiction or nonfiction)

7. I see skies of blue - Read a book with a blue cover

8. Passing it on - Read a book that you bought used (pre-owned)

Have fun!

#8 and #2 are the same for me. I'm going to try to read all the Cormac McCarthy Border Trilogy books--a favorite of my Dad's that I've never read, that I bought at the last Friends booksale.

Well I finally completed a Take It or Leave It challenge this year!

#1 - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

#4 & #5 - The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides - for a first book this was excellent! Makes a great beach read - a taut thriller!

1. Show your Pride - Red, White & Royal Blue.

2. Happy Father's Day! How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

3. And the winner is... To Kill a Mockingbird

4. Time to take a vacation The Bride Test

5. Where they began - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

6. It's all politics - Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump

7. I see skies of blue - Ego Is the Enemy

8. Passing it on - A Spark of Light

1. Show your Pride- Fated Love by Radclyffe
4. Vacation- Brotherhood in Death by J.D. Robb
5. Where they began- A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn (actually 1st book in the series).
6. Politics- The Only Woman in the Room
7. Skies of blue- Murder in Trinity Place by Victoria Thompson.

3. Pulitzer - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
4. Vacation - The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
5. Author's First Book - By the Light of Embers by Shaylin Gandhi
7. Blue Cover - The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff (paperback version has a large amount of blue on the cover)

1. Show your pride- The Binding-Bridget Collins
3. And the winner- The Black Count-Tom Reiss
4. Time to take- The Unhoneymooners-Christina Lauren
5 Where they began-Good Omens-Terry Pratchett
7. I see skies of blue-The Big Kahuna-Janet Evanovich
8, Passing it on-Gunmental Grey

Better late than never...

1. Sphinx by Anne Garreta
2. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
3. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
4. How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
5. Splendid by Julia Quinn
6. Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution A. J. Langguth
7. The River Knows by Amanda Quick
8. Neck and Neck by Elizabeth Bevarly