You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

My 2023 thread for possibilities.

April 2023 Toppler
May 2023 Challenge
June 2023 Challenge
August 2023 Toppler
November Challenge
December toppler

Feb 2023 Challenge - Lead Me & I Will Follow

Song of the River by Sue Harrison


Book 1 of a trilogy
Set in pre-historic times (6000BC)
- People of the Masks
Set in Alaska
Author - Sue Harrison
- V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton (same first name)
- The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah (same initials)
Title - Song
- Ghost Song
Title - River
Indigenous People
Cover - partial face
- The Body Counter
- At the End of the Matinee
- Nefertiti

Cover - river
Cover - broken into 3 parts

Feb 2023 Toppler - Year of the Rabbit

Toppler Thread

🐰2023 - was/will be published in 2023.
- Spare (audiobook 15:39)
- A Dangerous Education Published Feb 7, 2023) (audiobook 12:50

🐰Year of the Rabbit - cover/title: rabbit

🐰Lunar New Year - cover/tile: Moon
- Huntress Moon
- The Last of the Moon Girls

🐰Asian culture - Author/MC: Asian
- At the End of the Matinee (Kindle 316)

🐰Chinese New Year begins on January 22nd - Published on the 22nd of any month.

🐰Celebration is 15 days of festivities and customs - Page count includes 15.

🐰Water Rabbit - title : "ocean," "sea," "lake," or "river" in the title
- Salt to the Sea

🐰Yin sign - author is female AND 75% black cover.
- All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

🐰the fourth animal sign - #4 in a series.
- Bitter Falls

🐰Michael Jordan is a Water Rabbit - Theme is sports OR MC is professional athlete.

🐰Symbol for longevity, peace, and prosperity - Lists: Peace or Longevity or Prosperity (note location)

🐰People born in the year of the rabbit are believed to be vigilant, witty, quick-minded, and ingenious. - Genre - Humour, Books about Books, or Self Help.
- Later Gator
- Then There Were Nun

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Audiobooks:

Spare - 15:36
Bitter Falls - 11:33
A Dangerous Education - 12:50

Kindle:

At the End of the Matinee - 316 pgs (dnf)
Then There Were Nun - 316 pags

April 2023 Toppler - Popluar words in titles:

Girl
- The Girl Next Door (7:13)
- The Last Of The Moon Girls (12:58)

Wife
Daughter
- The Watchmaker's Daughter (9:21)

Dark
- The Dark Wind (7:32)
- The Dark (10:25)

River
House
You
Death
- An Easy Death (9:48)

Dead
- Silence for the Dead (10:33)

Murder
- The Marlow Murder Club (9:47)

Family
Bone
💥 - A Litter of Bones (7:31)
- Bone White (10:51)

Book
Night
Mystery
- The Sans Pareil Mystery (10:15)

May 2023 Challenge - Under the Sea

May 2023 Challenge options-

Prawn:
- 10 legs
>> Coyote Waits, book 10 of a series, Kindle
>> The Pilgrim of Hate, book 10 of a series, Kindle
>> The Diabolic, #10 on audiobook tbr
- term used primarily in UK, Ireland, & Commonwealth Nations
>> Hercule Poirot's Christmas, set in UK, puzzle choice, Kindle
>> The Ruin, Set in Ireland, audiobook

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna:
- Located on the Atlantic Ocean, both east & west. Also Mediterranean Sea
- Extinct in the Black Sea
- they are predators.
>> Prey, Predator's seek out prey to eat, dtb

Broadclub Cuttlefish:
- Habitat is the coral reef.

Longsnout Seahorse:
- Habitat sub tropic regions. Caribbean & Central America
- Primarily orange (male) and yellow (female).

Barbour's Map Turtle:
- Map
- Turtle
- SE USA (Alabama & Florida)
- resides in rivers.
>> The Ruin, boojk is about a body found in a river, audiobook

Goblin Shark:
- Goblin
- Shark
- rare, called "living fossil"

Flashback to the 60's - June challenge.

- 1960: Stoneage Sitcom
Fred, Wilma, Betty and Barney make their debut on The Flintstones, which premieres on September 30.

- 1961: Birth of a Future Princess
On July 1, Diana Spencer is born in Sandringham, United Kingdom.

- 1962: Goodbye, Norma Jean
Millions of fans are shocked to hear the news that Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home on August 5.
🔹 - Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe

- 1963: A Nation in Mourning (kindle)

On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade rolled through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.
🔹11/22/1963 (audiobook, reread)

-1969: Man on the Moon
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong proclaims as he takes the first step onto the moon on July 20
🔹The Killing Moon (kindle)

-1969: A Legendary Line-Up
Woodstock Music Festival concludes on August 17. The iconic three-day festival of "peace, love and rock 'n' roll" included acts such as Richie Havens, Joan Baez, The Who, Janis Joplin, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jimi Hendrix amongst others.
🔹Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock (not owned)


So many things to choose from.

August 2023 Toppler - Women Astronomers

Task:
Read a book with one of the following:
🔹 A female MC in STEM or nonfiction focusing on a woman in a STEM field.

- Stalking Jack the Ripper, 9:26 hrs (medical forensics)

🔹 Stars clearly visible on the cover.

- Keeper of Enchanted Rooms, 10:35
✨

🔹 A field of science in the title (chemistry, biology, etc). I will accept related words that indicate a professional title (chemist, biologist, etc) as long as the MC is female.

- Lessons in Chemistry, 11:55 (also puzzle)

🔹 A female author that is also in a STEM field.

🔹 One of the following words - comet, solar, astroid, light, galaxy, celestial, dark - in the title. Plurals will be accepted, imbedded words will not.

- The Light Through the Leaves, 14:14
✨- Dark of Night, 9:21, $1.99

October 2023 Haunt Me Challenge:


Challenge

I got Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina
possibilities - statue, gate, cemetery, Eva Peron, Isabel, Napoleon,
1902, socialite, buried alive.

Vampires of El Norte - author Isabel
Broadway Butterfly - set in 1923 & about socialite

Buddha's Hand Fleshy Finger

In China, the Buddha's hand fruit is a symbol of happiness, longevity, and good fortune.

- The Shadows audibook

- (longevity) The Spy Coast kindle, retirees

Mandarine

Legend has it that St. Nicholas would toss gifts of gold and other valuables into stockings hung by chimneys. Oranges symbolized the gold he gave. So Canadians used Japan’s millions of exported mandarins as a symbol of St. Nick’s generosity.

- Canadian Barney's Version audiobook, also puzzle
- Orange Cover Elektra audiobook


Kumqat

Also orange fruit

- Orange Cover Elektra audiobook


Crab Apple

Crab Apple trees grew in abundance right in my back yard growing up.

Crabapples are native to North America and Asia. They are widely grown for their attractive growth habit, spring flower display, and decorative fruits.

- Garden Spells wishlist


Cranberries

Is another Canadian Christmas tradition. You must have them with turkey.

Passionfruit

Portugal & Spain

December toppler - Books about Books


The Book of Cold Cases
Paper and Fire
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Midnight Library

December challenge - Christmas Baking


Nanaimo Bars - Originated in Canada
A Fatal Grace (set in Canada)

Oh, I did not know that there was a 5th book out in The Great Library series. You just gave me another option to the list I have been putting together.

Of your list, I liked The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society the best although I have not read the cold case book.

From my owned list: Lost in a Good Book
From my TBR list:
The Book of Lost Things
The Jane Austen Book Club
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
The End of Your Life Book Club
The Bookshop on the Corner
Sword and Pen - just added

I'm trying to not purchase books and read what I have in my library. That would mean I'd chose from The Book of Cold Cases or Paper and Fire. But..... you know how it is.