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Puzzle Me This 2023 Challenge

Level 1 Planning

🧩 Puzzle 1 Read Apr 24
Clue 2 Read a book that is MPG Historical Fiction and set in England.
Curiosity

🧩 Puzzle 2 Read Jan 29
Clue 4 Read a book with a higher than 4.1 average rating on Goodreads.
The Girl with the Louding Voice

🧩 Puzzle 3 Read Feb 26
Clue 3 - Read a book with a main page genre of humour.
Bookworm

🧩 Puzzle 4 Read Feb 4
Clue 1 - Read a book with a significant character who is a painter.
Horse

🧩 Puzzle 5 Feb 23
Clue 9 - Read a book where the main character is a businessman or businesswoman.
The Last Town on Earth

🧩 Puzzle 6 Read Jan 9
Clue 9 - Read a book where the title is in a script font on the cover. - Cannot be fonts that are italics. It must look like handwriting.
Partitions

🧩 Puzzle 7 Reac June 7
Clue 1 - Read a book set between 1901 and 1946.
The Watch that Ends the Night

🧩 Puzzle 8 Read Feb 7
Clue 2 - Read a book with a measure of time in the title - ex. Sec, second, minute, etc.
My Year of Meats

🧩 Puzzle 9. Read Jan 22
Clue 5 Read a book with an unreliable narrator. List of books for ideas.
The Secret History (#17 on list)

🧩 Puzzle 10 Read Feb 9
Clue 6 Read a book where a significant character is a bachelor or bachelorette.
Dinosaurs

🧩 Puzzle 11 Read Mar 10
Clue 8 Read a book with a puppy or a dog on the cover.
Oliver Twist

🧩 Read Jan 5/23
Puzzle 12
Clue 6 Read a book about the persecution of witches.
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

I really like your book list for badge 1!

Cherie wrote: "I really like your book list for badge 1!"

I'm all set for the first level! Which is likely all I'll complete again this year.

Badge 1, book 1
Puzzle 12, clue 6
Read a book about the persecution of witches.

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
288 pp
This is a fictionalized account of the true story of Katharina Kepler, the mother of astronomer/mathematician Johannes Kepler (early 1600s, in what is now Germany). Katharina went to trial, being accused of witchcraft; Johannes was instrumental in crafting her defence.

Oh, that one sounds like a good witch book!
Yes, I am set up for Badge 1. Don't know if I will go farther. Maybe. I think I have enough books lined up for Puzzle 11, so far.

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Badge 1, book 2
Puzzle 9, clue 5
Read a book with an unreliable narrator. (List of books for ideas.)
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
527 pages
#18 on list
Story is told in fhe first person by MC Richard Papen, who is an unreliable narrator.

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Badge 1, book 3
Puzzle 6, Clue 9
Read a book where the title is in a script font on the cover.
Partitions
224 pages

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Please add a link to the cover as is required on all cover tasks. Thanks.

Janice wrote: "🔆

Please add a link to the cover as is required on all cover tasks. Thanks."

Fixed!

Thanks Trudy.

Badge 1, book 4

Puzzle 4, clue 1
Read a book with a significant character who is a painter.
Horse by Geraldine Brooks.
401 pages

The author included Thomas Scott, an international thoroughbred painter in the 1800s, as a character of the book. His paintings of Lexington formed a significant part of the story.

Badge 1, book 5
Puzzle 2, Clue 4
Read a book with a higher than 4.1 average rating on Goodreads.
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré.
Audio; hard cover is 371 pages
Average GR rating is 4.45

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Badge 1, book 6
Puzzle 8, Clue 2
Read a book with a measure of time in the title - ex. Sec, second, minute, etc.

My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki.
360 pages

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Badge 1, book 7
Puzzle 10, clue 6
Read a book where a significant character is a bachelor or bachelorette.
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet.
220 pp
MC, Gil, is unmarried throughout the book.

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Badge 1, book 8
Puzzle 5, Clue 9
Read a book where the main character is a businessman or businesswoman.
The Last Town on Earth
394 pp

MC, Charles Worthy, created the town of Commonwealth and manages the lumber mill that employs the majority of people living there.

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Badge 1, book 9
Puzzle 3, clue 3
Read a book with a main page genre of humour.

Bookworm by Robin Yeatman.
288 pages
"Humour" genre appears on main page. This book is indeed funny - full of dark humour (and literary references).

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Badge 1, book 10
Puzzle 11 Clue 8
Read a book with a puppy or a dog on the cover.

Oliver Twist
432 pp

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Badge 1, book 11
Puzzle 1 Clue 2
Read a book that is MPG Historical Fiction and set in England.

Curiosity
A novel based on the life of Mary Anning (early 19th century, Dorset, southwest England). Historical fiction genre is on mpg.

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Badge 1, book 12

Puzzle 7 Clue 1
Read a book set between 1901 and 1946.

The Watch that Ends the Night
Almost all of the story takes place as memories of the 1930s.
372 pages

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Congrats on finishing Badge 1.