The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

WEEK TWENTY-ONE: We're starting off week twenty-one of our 2021 challenge, so let's do a quick check-in. What's one book you read this week? Which prompt did you fit it under?

I'm still working on The Emerald Cloth by Clare C. Marshall for the May "Published in Spring" mini challenge prompt.

I've just completed "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens. I think it will fit in number 6, male relative's name. Actually three male relatives' names. 😊 The sheriff and his deputy are my brother's and grandfather's names, respectively. And one of the lawyers has my father's name.

I have read a few this week, but the one I finished that counts for this challenge is A Journal of the Plague Year which is a book mentioned in another book (mentioned in a number of books).

I have read 47/52, so will be reading books for this less and less often. I just put a hold on a Kristin Hannah book which will fit with a shelf-based group I do (Beach Reads).

So far I have only read books for other things that fit because it's only May. If at some point that isn't working, then I will start scouring for books to fill the last spots.

Now that Covid restrictions are lifting and I am out nearly every day again, my reading will drop back to normal I am sure. I am reading less than last year (my record year due to staying at home plus an intense game), but it's still at a higher-than-normal rate.

81. The Whispered Word (Secret Book & Scone #2)—Ellery Adams (Prompt #11: discussion questions)
It is a cozy mystery, and the big bonus is that it lists a BUNCH of other books as it is set in a book store. My two books (retired=reading two books per prompt) for prompt 15 came from this list...
The Witch of Blackbird Pond—Elizabeth George Speare & Snow Falling on Cedars—David Guterson (Prompt #15: mentioned in other book—The Whispered Word)

Hi!

I just finished The Witching Place: A Fatal Folio yesterday. I needed something a bit lighter after not feeling my best last week mentally. It was still a mystery (I'm a thriller aficionado), but it was a cozy mystery. I could well see it as a Halloween disney movie. I'm using it for #50, shoe on the cover. Would also work for pet cat!

I am also almost done with the audiobook Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults. Probably a really unpopular choice, I am going to use for #15 book mentioned in another book (well, cited, but that also counts). I am a bit obsessed with all things cults.

Now I started Where'd You Go, Bernadette, an epistolary #42, and Creep, which I am going to use for #31, similiar title to another book. There are a bunch of books called Creep or Creeper.

I just finished Where Dandelions Bloom by Tara Johnson, but I had already filled the prompts it would fit (book with discussion questions inside, a character on the run, first chapter ends on an odd page number, a book you'd rate 5 stars, endorsement by a famous author on the cover). I may use it for one of the previous 51 categories from 2021 challenge. I'm about to start The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove for an alternate history novel.

Reading “The Count of Monte Cristo”. It would satisfy prompt 4 ( deceased author), 5 (published by Penguin), and 34 (5 stars).

Started The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman for Prompt #9: Set in a Mediterranean country As it is set in St. Thomas

Last week I read The Betrayed Confidence: Seven Series of Dogear Wryde Postcards. for #4, an author that is deceased. I've been reading all the Julia Quinn books, and most of hers have a multiple character POV. The one I most recently finished was Ten Things I Love About You for #27.

I have 11 more prompts to go ...