Ravenclaw Tower HPKCHC discussion

Hello fellow Ravenclaws! I'm just a firstie, but thought maybe we could try to get some reading done in here. Maybe a little challenge? I've been in a massive reading slump. So as a personal reading challenge, I'm going to challenge myself to read books starting with each letter in Ravenclaw until I have spelled it out!

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C - The Cross-Country Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini 9/1/2021
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I can do that!

R - Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop, Rebecca Raisin
A - Agnes and the Hitman, Jennifer Cruisie
V - Very Good, Jeeves!, PG Wodehouse
E - Evil Eye, Madhuri Shekar
N - Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune, Roselle Lim
C - Cold Wind, CJ Box
L - Little Donkey, Jodi Taylor
A - About a Kiss, Caroline Linden
W - Well Matched, Jen DeLuca

Sounds good to me! Are we doing them in order?

R Rescue by David Milliband
A Aunty Lee's Deadly Specials by Ovidia Yu
V Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes
E England in the Middle Ages: A Captivating Guide to English History During the Medieval Period and Magna Carta
N New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century ManhattanJill Lepore
C Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World by Michael Pollan
L Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
AAmerican Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor
W Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister by Andro Linklater

Hmmm. Doing them in order would certainly make this trickier. I'll have to see what I can do...

I’m in, but I believe I will be skipping around the letters, sort of like Wheel of Fortune without the cash!

Runed
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Nicholas
C
Living Dead in Dallas
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White Mischief

I am dubious of my ability to complete this challenge, but I'm willing to give it a try! (Lynn4MK)

R- Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline - 11/12/21
A- Ahsoka by E.K. Johnston - 9/10/21
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C- [A] Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold - 11/18/21
L- [The] Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin - 10/19/21
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W- Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots (in progress)

Caveat: I'm going to discount the word "The" at the beginning of the title. Otherwise I will never make it for sure.

I am definitely going to be skipping around. lol

Lynn wrote: "I am dubious of my ability to complete this challenge, but I'm willing to give it a try! (Lynn4MK)

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Caveat: I'm going to discount the word "The" at the beginning of the ..."

I'm discounting A and The so no worries there.

Ok, how do I edit my comment so I can add book names to my letters?

On the bottom of your post you'll see reply/edit/delete/flag. You can click on edit, add whatever you want and then click Edit Post to close.

Turns out that flag isn’t there on the app. I had to log in through my browser. I figured it was something easy but couldn’t find it.

Aha! That's good to know. I don't really like the way the app is set up so I generally use my browser.

Heather wrote: "Hmmm. Doing them in order would certainly make this trickier. I'll have to see what I can do..."
I obviously gave up on that, mostly because books came up on my list that fit the initials.

Sharon wrote: "Heather wrote: "Hmmm. Doing them in order would certainly make this trickier. I'll have to see what I can do..."
I obviously gave up on that, mostly because books came up on my list that fit the in..."

You've gotten a lot filled in! I'm still trying to do it in order, but we'll see how it goes...

I keep picking books with titles that don’t start with one of the required letters, haha. It occurred to me that it might be fun to do a similar challenge with author names. (Double dipping allowed.)

R - Roanhorse, Rebecca - Black Sun
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C - Chambers, Becky - The Galaxy and the Ground Within
L - LeGuin, Ursula - The Left Hand of Darkness
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Cute idea!

oh, dear, let's just see if I can make anything of the titles in current use! Taking out "The!!!"
Nope. Almost no vowels. Doom!

Wise Man's Fear (The)
Elatsoe
Shadow Speaker (The)
Thief (The)

Deep Magic
Morning Meander
Steering the Craft

Three Men in a Boat
City We Became (The)
King of Elfland's Daughter (The)
Sight (The)

Finished book names, now doing authors

R Ian Rankin In a House of Lies
A Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
V Carla Valderrama This Was Hollywood: Forgotten Stars and Stories from Tinseltown's Glorious Past
E Kendra Elliot A Merciful Secret
N Elizabeth Norton The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History
C Andrea Camilleri The Shape of Water

Yay, Sharon!

Sharon, this is cool as a moose!

I'm on to author names too...

R - Penny Reid, Totally Folked
A - Jana Aston, The Reindeer Falls Collection: Volume 2
V - Mia Vincy, A Dangerous Kind of Lady
E - Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Secret
N - Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
C - Robyn Carr, A Virgin River Christmas
L - Sonya Lalli, A Holly Jolly Diwali
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