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5.2 Bright Young Women
5.4 The Cotton Candy Massacre
5.7 Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games
5.9 Mistletoe Murder
5.10 Edge of Madness
10.2 The Hidden
10.4 Rogue (Shifters) by Rachel Vincent
10.5 Silence for the Dead
10.6 Imperfect Lives
10.7 Oona Out of Order
10.8 Apples Never Fall
10.9 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
10.10 None of This Is True
15.1 Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Destroy the Day
15.2 Stray
Spell, Don’t Tell
15.3 Thank You for Listening
Love and Other Words
15.4 Whispers at Dusk
15.6 The Fortune Seller
15.7 Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
15.8 Only If You're Lucky
15.10 Dragon's Blood
20.2 One Little Spark
20.4 The Marlow Murder Club
20.5 The Hypnotist
20.6 The Hike
20.7 Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
20.8 Bonfire Night
20.10 The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise ?
25.1 The Only Survivors
Twice in a Blue Moon
Christmas Presents
25.3 No One Can Know
The Good Sister
25.4 Black Sheep
All the Light We Cannot See
25.5 The Girl’s Last Cry
Stitches and Witches
30.1- The Heiress
Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead
30.2-Tiger's Voyage
Miracle Creek
Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank
My Darling Girl
Boston Kate
✔Total points: 30
5.1 The Diamond Eye
5.2 The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
5.3 Rise to the Sun
5.4 Paper Girls, Volume 1
5.5 House of Cotton
5.6 Where Echoes Die
5.7 Heartstopper: Volume Four
5.8 Still Alice
5.9 The Naturals
5.10
10.1 House of Leaves
10.2 Norse Mythology
10.3 Home Field Advantage
10.4 The Last Ranger
10.5 The Little Stranger
10.6 Mariana
✔10.7 The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
10.8 The Bone People
10.9 The Mountain in the Sea
10.10 Wuthering Heights
15.1
Book 1: What Feasts at Night
Book 2: The Pillars of the Earth
15.2
Book 1: Storm Front
Book 2: The Labyrinth of the Spirits
15.3
Book 1: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Book 2: (Dignity) Long Way Down
15.4 Weyward
15.5 Never Too Old to Save the World: A Midlife Calling Anthology
15.6 The Reunion
15.7 The Woman in Me
15.8 Every Time You Hear That Song
15.9 You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
15.10 Slaying the Dragon: A Secret History of Dungeons & Dragons
20.1 (2) Amazing Grace Adams
20.2 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
20.3 N/A
20.4 (A) They Do It With Mirrors
20.5 Beartown
20.6 (1) Antimatter Blues
✔20.7 (3) People We Meet on Vacation
20.8 (2) Girl at War
20.9 The Getaway List
20.10 The Lost City of the Monkey God
25.1
Book 1: The Dead Romantics
Book 2: The Reason I Jump
25.2
Book 1: Holly
Book 2: The Christmas Wish
25.3
Book 1: (1) Sisters of the Lost Nation
Book 2: (3) The Devil and the Dark Water
25.4
Book 1: The Fox Wife
Book 2: The Morningside
25.5
Book 1: (1) The Serpent's Tale
Book 2: (3) Cockroaches
30.1 (Tuesday)
Book 1: All My Rage
Book 2: Red String Theory
30.2 (3)
Book 1: Kaikeyi
Book 2: Wandering Stars
30.3 (January)
Book 1: The Making of Yolanda la Bruja
Book 2: All I See is Violence
30.4
Book 1: (B) Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga
Book 2: (C) One of Us Is Lying
50.1
Book 1: Between Shades of Gray
Book 2: The Fury
Book 3: Fairy Tale
✔Winter challenge✔5.1 Behind You Is the Sea
✔5.2 Zero Days
✔5.3 The Cater Street Hangman
✔5.4 Callander Square
✔5.5 The House of Eve
✔5.6 The Twelve Dogs of Christmas
✔5.7 Take What You Need
✔5.8 You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
✔5.9 Catching Christmas
✔5.10 The Leftover Woman
✔10.1 Straight Man
✔10.2 The Snow Child
✔10.3 Check & Mate
✔10.4 Monk's Hood
✔10.5 The Dead Romantics
✔10.6 A Very Inconvenient Scandal
10.7 The Winthrop Agreement
10.8 You Need to Know
✔10.9 One in a Million
✔10.10 High Fidelity
15.1
✔A. What Now?
✔B. Touchstone
15.2
✔A. The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove
✔B. The Fine Print
15.3
✔A. The Husband Hour
✔B. Funny You Should Ask
15.4
✔A. Conversion
✔B. Beyond That, the Sea
✔15.5 The House on Mermaid Point
✔15.6 The Celebrants
✔15.7 The Violin Conspiracy
✔15.8 The Bright Side of Going Dark
✔15.9 The Bookbinder
✔15.10 Dragonwyck
✔20.1 4. The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again
✔20.2 Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
✔20.4 A. The Library
✔20.5 2. Detective Inspector Huss
✔20.6 1. Seasonal Work: Stories
✔20.7 1. Match Me If You Can
✔20.8 2. House of Sticks
✔20.9 The Librarian Spy
✔20.10 The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
25.1
✔1. The Royal Governess
✔2. Paragon Walk
25.2
✔2-1. Christmas in Snowflake Canyon
✔2-2. Home Sweet Christmas
25.3
✔1. Sister Stardust
✔3. Keep It Moving: Lessons for the Rest of Your Life
25.4
✔2A. What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
✔2B. Looking for Jane
25.5
✔2. Dead to the Last Drop
✔3. The Mistress of Bhatia House
30.1
✔1a. Same Time Next Summer
✔1b. Nora Goes Off Script
30.2
✔1-1. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
✔1-2 Absolution
30.3
✔1. Banana Cream Pie Murder
✔2. Mistress of the Ritz
30.4
✔A. A Christmas Guest
✔C. The Sea Glass Cottage
50.1
✔1. The Bones of Paris
✔2. The Breakaway
✔3. See You Yesterday
Winter 2023Faithful Place
Fire from Heaven
5.1 - The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
5.3 - Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
5.4 - Native Tongue
5.5 - The Marriage Act
5.6 - The Anatomist's Wife
5.7 - Wellness
5.8 - Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
5.9 - Santa or a gift on the cover
5.10
10.1 - Stone Blind
10.2 - The Book of Lost Things, Trail of Lightning, The Hidden Palace
10.4 - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Monk's Hood
10.5 - Rivers of London
10.7 - The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
10.8 - What Alice Forgot
10.9 - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
10.10 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, A Canticle for Leibowitz
15.1 - A: THE END WE START FROM
B:
15.2 - A: Olympus Bound
B: The Wreath
15.3 - A: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
B: Freedom p10 Gathering Blue
15.5 - My Life with the Chimpanzees
15.6 - The Fountain Overflows
15.7 - The Holy or the Broken, The Cellist of Sarajevo
15.8 - The Immortals
20.1 - 4: Hyperion
20.2 - The Iron King
20.3 - NO TASK
20.4 - B: Year One
20.5 - 1: Independent People
20.6 - 1: A Season of Monstrous Conceptions
20.8 - 1: The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
25.1
25.2
25.3
25.4
25.5
30.1
30.2 - 3.1: The Weaver and the Witch Queen
3.2: Fevered Star
30.3
30.4
WINTER 2023The plans will look nothing like the finished (or not) challenge but here goes
5.1. Read a book with no "L" In the title/subtitle/authors name
And Away... Bob Mortimer 323 pages
5.2 Read a book where each word in title contains no repeat letters.
Pity 192 p NG (NB Librarian) Replaced with Earth
5.3 Read a book with a 4 or more letter word found in betterinasweater in the title.
The Wren, the Wren NG 283p Replaced with A Morbid Taste for Bones
5.4. Read a book that is first published in or is set in the 1980's.
The Chalk Man set in 1986 280 pages
5.5. Read a book published 2023 by a new to you author
The Shadow of Perseus 289 pages
5.6 Read a MPG Mystery or Christmas. Genres may be embedded or stand alone
Begars Abbey 336 pages
5.7 Read a book with the MPG Art or Manga/comic book/graphic novels/Sequential Art
The Raphael Affair 226 pages
5.8 Read book with a cover of at least 70% White according to Tineye.
The Future 432 pages
5.9 Read a book with a Santa or a gift on the cover.
Scrooge Meets His Match : A Twist on A Christmas Carol
5.10 Book of your choice
10.1 Read a book where all the words in the title consist of a single syllable
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland 256 pages
10.2 Read a book from the first 25 pages of the Folklore shelf
Anansi Boys 387 pages
10.3 Read a book with the MPG Romance
Fair Rosaline 336 pages Replaced with Sanctuary
10.4 Read a book that contains a D&D class in its title or subtitle: Using WIZARD
Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham 196 pages
10.5 Read a book that features ghosts or spirits.
First Grave on the Right 310 pages
10.6 Read a book whose page count consists solely of numbers found on a traditional six-sided die: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6.
The Queen of Hearts 352 Pages
10.7 Read a book by a single author whose name contains all the letters of one of the following - Using MARIO,
This Plague of Souls 192 pages
10.8 Read a book set in one of these countries listed as being in the Southern Hemisphere: NZ
Birnam Wood 432 pages
10.9 Read a book that has won or has been nominated for a literary award that begins with one of the letters found in WINTER. Chain-Gang All-StarsNational Book Awards Finalist for fiction 2023 Replaced with The Duke and I
The Boston Girl
a ) Read a SHORT book (under 200 pages)
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop 150pages
b) Read a LONG book (over 500 pages)
Demon Copperhead 546 pages
15.2
a) Read the latest published book in a series which has at least 3 published works.
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons: A Lisbeth Salander Novel 528 pages replaced withMrs Pargeter's Patio
b) Read the first book (#1) in a series
Sanctuary
The Miss Murderer 308 pages
b. Book that appears on the first 20 pages of one of theeg shelves: "human rights", "dignity", "freedom" or "justice" Page 1 of Dignity shelf
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett 384 pages
15.4 Read a book with a bird on the cover and ALL of the author's initials are found in ONE of the following most common British garden birds Using STARLING
Year One 419 pages
15.5. Read a book that shares a word of 3 letters or more in the title with one of Dickens novel/novella Dombey & Son
Hunting the Mirror Man using MAN 280 pages
15.6 Read a book where the authors initials can be found in FIREWORKS
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary 368 pages replaced with Yellowface
15.7 Read a book with MPG Music
Victory Disc
CranBuried Coffee Cake 300 pages
15.9 Read a book that has been "passed on" LIBRARY
The Yield 352 pages
15.10 Dragon on cover or "intact" in title
Dragon Tears: A Thriller 432 pages replaced with Dragon's Gap: A Christmas Hope
20.1 Title of 3 + words initial letters in SESAME STREET The Seventh Son 432 pages Replaced with The Summerville Sisters
20.2 Word matches shows on list = SANTA book:The Real Santa of Miller & Rhoads: The Extraordinary Life of Bill Strother|22789702] 204 pages Replaced with The Santa Killer
20.3
20.4 Character is of over 65 The Windsor Knot 330 pages
20.5 Swedish or Norwegian Author The Girl Who Lived Twice 368 page
20.6 Author Initials in LOVE ACTUALLY IA ALL AROUND First Lie Wins 352 pages
20.7 6 in series The Eagle's Prophecy 501 pages
20.9 Author shares name with actor in Love Actually Earth 176 pages Replaced with Artificial Wisdom
20.10 Group Read The Only Good Indians
replaced with Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
25.1
a. Read a book with a title of 3 or more words. Each word in the title must contain more letters than the preceding word. The Personal Librarian 341 pages
b.. Read A Book where page number digits go up each time Thief 456 pages
25.2
a. Read A Book 1 - 12 in series Home 387 pages
b. Read A Book author initials in Tis the Season The Killings at Kingfisher Hill 288 pages
25.3
a. dRead A Book word in title which spells a different word backwards Lost in Time
b. SISTER in Title Ink Blood Sister Scribe Emma Törzs 455 pages
c. Rhyming words in title Hokey Pokey 302 pages
a. Read A Book with a chair on the cover Dolores Claiborne 304 pages
b. Read A Book with author initials in MUSICAL CHAIRS Seven Perfect Things Catherine Ryan Hyde
25.5
a. Read A Book Crime / Mystery in series of 3 + with female detective Random in Death 368 pages
b. Read a book Crime / Mystery in series of 3 + set before 1973 A Morbid Taste for Bones 196 pages
a From Archery List Born in Fire
b From Author initials in TEMPERANCE book:Endless Night|16366] 303 pages
30.3
a. ALL letters of DECEMBER in title A December Bride
b Author initials in DECEMBER Frank and Red: The heart-warming story of an unlikely friendship
ONE Book OPTION 500 page +
30.4
a. Novels about big housesNorthanger Abbey
b. Word of 3 + letters in title made from letters in NEWGATE PRISON The Saint of Lost Things
a Fits both options a and b above December Park
5.1. No L in title5.2 Each word in title contains no repeat letters. Tom Lake
5.3 4+ letter title word found in BETTER IN A SWEATER
5.4. Published or set in the 1980's The Secret History / Låt den rätte komma in / Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe / No Country for Old Men / Nära hem / Bog Child / Shuggie Bain / Underdog / Kärleken / Som vi lekte / Kairos / Gentlemen / Andarnas hus / Var det bra så? / On the Jellicoe Road
5.5. Maame
5.6 MPG Mystery or Christmas The Kingdom of Sweets or Starling House
5.7 Saga, Volume 2 or Återvändsgränder
5.8 Cover is +70% white
5.9 Santa or a gift on the cover.
5.10 Landing Light (NB! Only 84 pages, see RotC rule 2.3)
10.1 All the words in the title consist of a single syllable Mitt liv / Filth / The Wall
10.2 Book from Folklore shelf Spinning Silver / Deathless / Circe / The Kalevala / The Snow Child / The Last Wish / The Thief / The Raven Boys/ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
10.3 MPG Romance
10.4 A Wizard of Earthsea
10.5 Hell Bent
10.6 Page count includes only numbers 1-6
10.7 Den hemliga trappan - IL: UY
10.8 Set in Southern Hemisphere.
10.9 Blackouts
10.10 Hello Beautiful
15.1
a ) <200 pages
b) >500 pages
15.2
a) Read the latest published book in a series which has at least 3 published works. Summer
b) Read the first book (#1) in a series
15.3
a) En berättelse om sju hängda / Hadsji Murat
b) I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban / Long Walk to Freedom / Development as Freedom
15.4 Un coeur simple (Petits Classiques Larousse) by Gustave Flaubert (GF --> Goldfinch)
15.5 A Christmas Carol
15.6 Authors initials can be found in FIREWORKS
15.7 High Fidelity or Daisy Jones & The Six or The Pole (reserved at library)
15.8 Mordew
15.9 Read a book that has been "passed on" (gifted, second hand, library)
15.10 Fourth Wing
20.1 Someone Else's Shoes
20.2
20.4 Den som dödade helvetets änglar
20.5
20.6
20.7 The Novice
20.8 The High Lord
20.9
20.10 Group reads
25.1
Option 1:
Book 1: The Warrior Priestess
Book 2: The Warrior Midwife
25.2
Option 1:
Book 1: #1-12 of a series. Soulless
Book 2 : Authors initials can be found in Tis the Season Shark Heart
Option 2:
Book 1: One of following words in title (plurals and possessives ok) - Candle, Tree, Wreath, star, bells, Santa, Angel, Snowman, Elf, Mistletoe, gift, present, Bow, red, green, gold, snowflake, holly, lights, cookie
Book 2: MPG of Christmas or Holiday.
Option 3:
Book 1: Read a book from one of three lists
Book 2: +3 letter word in title from the lyrics of a hot cocoa song
25.3 (2 options)
Option 1: SISTER in the title (plural and possessives OK)
Option 2: Title contains at least two rhyming words that can be found on a list.
Option 3: +4 letter title word makes a different word when spelled backwards.
25.4
Option 3:
Book A: Pineapple Street
Book B: The Warrior Queen
25.5 (MPG mystery or crime / +3-book series / not the same series
Option 1: Read a mystery set at least 50 years ago (before 1973).
Option 2: Female crime solver protagonist
Option 3: Read a book set 80% outside your home country, in a place you have never visited but would like to.
Option 4: Pun or a play on words in the title.
30.1 Iron Flame
30.2 The Poppy War & The Magicians' Guild
30.3 Book 1: December, January or February can be found in title; Book 2: Author's first and last initials are found in book 1's month.
30.4
a. Book found on list
b. MPG Horror
c. 3+ word found in NEWGATE PRISON
Planning to read:
Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch (5.6, 10.5?, 10.6?, 15.9)
Ender’s Game / Jane Eyre / To Kill a Mockingbird / The Book Thief / The Catcher in the Rye / The Gunslinger / The Pillars of the Earth
Winter 20235.1The Cement Garden
5.2 The Kitchen Daughter
✔5.3 Open Water
✔5.4 Bluebeard's Egg
5.5Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
5.6 Gunman's Rhapsody
5.7 I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
5.8 Tinkers
5.9 Miracle on 34th Street
5.10
10.1 - We Need New Names
10.2 - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
10.3 - Lenobia's Vow
10.4 - The Monk of Mokha
10.5 -Forever Odd or Ghostgirl
✔10.6 -The Farming of Bones
10.7 - Dance of the Happy Shades
10.8 - The Shepherd's Hut
10.9 - Ring Shout
10.10 - The War of the Worlds
✔15.1 - 1:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
2: Keeping the House
15.2 - A: The Other Queen
B: Dawn
15.31: Murder at the British Museum or At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
2: Dead Poets Society
15.4 Jonathan Livingston Seagull
15.5 -
15.6 - The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
15.7 - Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties
15.8 -Migrations
15.9 - 2nd hand book
15.10 - Dragon Song
20.1 KISS and Make-up
20.2 Year of the Monkey or Invisible Girl
20.3 No Task
20.4 Dearly
20.5 The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
✔20.6 The Comfort of Strangers
20.7 Magic Rises
20.8 The Red-Haired Woman
20.9 Kiss and Tell
20.10: The Only Good Indians
25.1 The Snow Walker and The Comfort of Strangers
25.2 Hidden and The Monogram Murders
25.3 Sister Wife and The Slap
25.4 White Fang and The Clarion or Actress
25.5 In the Company of Cheerful Ladies and Maisie Dobbs
✔30.1 Georgie, All Along and The Funny Thing Is...
30.2 The Black Arrow and Little Fish
30.3 A Short Journey by Car and Pastoral
30.4 Cell and Tori By Design
50:
Winter Challenge Reading PlanPoints: 420/775
Tasks completed: 32/49
Books read: 38/64
Golden Oldies: 2
Big Books: 7
(2x)
It’s a fact: 3
✅ 5.1 No "L" Day: The Serpent and the Wings of Night ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅5.2- Unique Like a Snowflake: One of Us Is Next ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 5.3- Better in a sweater: Farm der Tiere: Eine Fabel⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 5.4- A Werewolf in the Mafia: Der Exorzismus der Gretchen Lang ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 5.5- It's a New Year: Grinch Kisses ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 5.6- Christmas Murder Mystery Night: Same Time Next Year ⭐️⭐️⭐️
-> approved for length: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✅ 5.7- Telephone Pictionary: The Creative Act: A Way of Being ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(view spoiler)
✅ 5.9- Secret Santa: Weihnachtsliebe auf Bestellung ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 5.10 A Holiday Gift For You: Vom Hintern: Die Geschichte einer Rundung ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 10.1 - Poetry for Neanderthals: The Fine Print
✅ 10.2 - Festive Folklore: Emily Wildes Enzyklopädie der Feen - p 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 10.3 - Season of Love: The Awakening ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(view spoiler)
✅ 10.6 - Roll the Bones: The Keeper of Hidden Books
✅ 10.7 - It's-a Me, Mario!: Eine Frage der Chemie - Mario
✅ 10.8 - Winter Migration: Homecoming ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 10.9 - Winners of Winter: One of Us is Lying ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Rhode Island Teen Book Award)
✅ 10.10 - The End?: Die Kinder der Zeit ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(Best Ending, p 2)
✅ 15.1 Long and Short
Holiday Crush ⭐️⭐️⭐️ & Chain of Iron ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 15.2 Out with the Old, In with the New
Final Offer ⭐️⭐️⭐️ & Divine Rivals ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(view spoiler)
✅15.4 Feed the Birds: Option 2: Belladonna (author initials in great tit) ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 15.5 What the Dickens!: The Echo of Old Books ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (The Old Curiosity Shop)
✅15.6 Let's Celebrate!: River Sing Me Home ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(view spoiler)
✅ 15.9 Pass the Parcel: Love, Theoretically ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 15.10 Here be Dragons: Fourth Wing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(view spoiler)
✅ 20.5 - Bigger is Better - Jenny H's Task: The Nobel Prize: Hidden in Snow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅ 20.6 - It's A Fact - MaryPDX's Task: Say It's Carol Singers: So weit das Licht reicht ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (option 1 - love actually is…)
✅ 20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sarah E's Task: The Chocolate Game: Ruby Fever ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (option 1)
(view spoiler)
✅ 20.10 Group Reads: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(view spoiler)
✅25.2 JennRenee's Task: Oh What Fun!
The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️& Hello Beautiful ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (option 1)
(view spoiler)
✅ 25.4 Robin P’s Task: Children’s Party Games: Betting on You ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ & Terms and Conditions⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (option 2)
(view spoiler)
✅ 30.1 Mazza1's Task - The Life of Solomon: Bright Young Women ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ & Lady Tan's Circle of Women ⭐️⭐️⭐️
-line: Solomon Grundy
-word: young
-author initials: S, L
(view spoiler)
(view spoiler)
30.4
✅ A House with Good Bones (option B) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ & ✅ Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Option C - Wong's)
(view spoiler)
To Place:
One Book Tasks
5.1 - No "L" Day - No 'L' in sub/title/auth.nm
5.2 - Unique Like a Snowflake - each titl.wd=no repeat letters
5.3 - Better in a sweater - 4+ltr titl.wd frm AABEEEEINRRSTTTW
5.4 - A Werewolf in the Mafia - pub or set in 1980's
5.5 - It's a New Year - new2u auth AND pub'd 2023
5.6 - Christmas Murder Mystery Night - MPG Mystery or Christmas
5.7 - Telephone Pictionary - MPG Art/Manga/comic book/graphic novels/Sequential Art
5.9 - Secret Santa - Cvr=Santa or wrapped gift
5.10 - A Holiday Gift For You - Any, KidsOK, not in AR Bookfinder OK
10.1 - Poetry for Neanderthals - All.titl.wd = 1 syllable
10.2 - Festive Folklore - FolkloreShelf The Buried Giant7, AmericanGods1, AnansiBoys2, The Last Unicorn11, Good Omens13, Rivers of London13, Piranesi15, The Poppy War15,
10.3 - Season of Love - em/MPG Romance
10.4 - You All Meet In A Tavern... - sub/titl.wd= D&D class, p'sOK
10.5 - A Ghost Story For Christmas - book w/ ghosts/spirits
10.6 - Roll the Bones - pg# includes ONLY 1-6
10.7 - It's-a Me, Mario! - MARIO,LUIGI,PEACH,YOSHI,WARIO or BOWSER in1auth.nm
10.8 - Winter Migration - Set in southern hemisphere
10.9 - Winners of Winter - GRpg Award beginning w/ltr in WINTER
10.10 - The End? - frmLists, Begin: Good Omens1, The Buried Giant6, Steelheart4; End: Watchmen1, We Are Legion (We Are Bob)2, Never Let Me Go3, The Illustrated Man10
15.4 I Spy Fall Pie - excluded initial letters: JQVXYZ
Book 1: Cvr=bird AND all.auths.init in1of HOUSESPARROW, STARLING, LONGTAILED TIT, MAGPIE, WOODPIDGEON, BLACKBIRD, GOLDFINCH, GREAT TIT, ROBIN, BLUE TIT
15.5 - What the Dickens! - titl.wd Barnaby, Battle, Bleak, Carol, Chimes, Christmas, Chuzzlewit, Cities, Copperfield, Cricket, Curiosity, David, Dombey, Dorrit, Drood, Edwin, Expectations, Friend, Great, Hard, Haunted, Hearth, House, Life, Little, Man, Martin, Mutual, Mystery, Nicholas, Nickleby, Old, Oliver, Our, Papers, Pickwick, Rudge, Shop, Son, Tale, Times, Twist, Two
15.6 - Let's Celebrate! - auth.AΩ.init in FIREWORKS
15.7 - When the music stops... - MPG Music
15.8 - An Extra Day - 1st pub'd in a leap year
15.9 - Pass the Parcel - bkFrm used book store, library, etc
15.10 - Here be Dragons - Cvr=dragon; sub/titl.wd dragon
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Apple's Task: Christmas Special - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
20.3 - Best Review - -
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Joop's Task: Golden Oldies - Elderly MC; pub'd when auth 65+yrs
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Jenny H's Task: The Nobel Prize - Kipling, Yeats, Mann, O'neill, Hesse, Boll, Romain Rolland's Essays on Music
20.6 - It's A Fact - MaryPDX's Task: Say It's Carol Singers - auth.AΩ.inits in AAAACDEILLLLLNOORSTUUVY or HIIKMNOW; 1st pub'd 2003; The Pursuit of Happyness, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, The Road, American Psycho, The Children of Men, Revolutionary Road, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Pianist, City of God, OIL!, The Fellowship of the Ring, No Country for Old Men
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sarah E's Task: The Chocolate Game - #6inSrs; Cvr=worn hat, scarf, or glove; 1auth in CHOCOLATE
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Aimee G's Task: Seeking Sanctuary - ComicsOK; MC refugee; set75%in Germany, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Sudan, Myanmar, Venezuela, Colombia
20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Kathy P's Task: Winter Love... Actually - auth.AΩ.nm Abdul, Adam, Alan, Andrew, Anthony, Atkinson, Bill, Billy, Bob, Brigstocke, Caroline, Chiwetel, Claudia, Colin, Coull, Cuthbert, Davis, Declan, Denise, Donnelly, Edward, Élisabeth, Elisha, Elizabeth, Ejiofor, Emma, Firth, Fisher, Fitzgerald, Freeman, Godley, Grant, Gregor, Guillory, Hardwicke, Heike, Hugh, Ivana, January, Joanna, John, Jones, Julia, Keira, Knightley, Kris, Laura, Liam, Lincoln, Linney, Lúcia, Lulu, Makatsch, Marcus, Margoni, Marshall, Martin, Martine, McCutcheon, McPartlin, Meg, Michael, Miličević, Moniz, Neeson, Nighy, Nina, Olivia, Olson, Owen, Page, Parkinson, Popplewell, Richards, Rickman, Rodrigo, Rowan, Ruby, Salis, Sangster, Santoro, Schiffer, Shannon, Sienna, Sosanya, Thomas, Thompson, Thornton, Turner, Wynn
20.10 - Group Reads - - The Lost City of the Monkey God,Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
25.1 - Susan A's Task: Long, Longer, Longest - 567+pgs; pg#s in chrono order/no zeros AND 3+wd.titl w/wds in length order: A Long December, The Last Unicorn
30.1 - Mazza1's Task - The Life of Solomon - 600+pgs; NoKids; excl.ltrs JPQVXZ
1auth.AΩ.init + 1titl4+ltr.wd frm1of
DGLMNNOOORSUY
AABDMNNNOOORY
ACDDEEEHINNORSSTTUY
AADDDEEEIMNNORRSWY
ADHIKLLNOOORSTTUY
ADEFINOORRSWY
AADDDEINORSTUY
ABDDEINNORSUUY
AADDEEFGHHLNNNOOOORSSTTTUWY
Two Book Tasks
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Book 1:
Book 2:
15.1 - Long and Short -
Book 1: <200pgs
Book 2: >500pgs
15.2 - Out with the Old, In with the New - 2diff series
Book 1: most recent bk in a 3+bk series
Book 2: 1st bk in a series
15.3 - Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All -
Book 1: titl.ltrs UDHR; The ProphetsJ11, HungerJ11, The Poppy WarJ20
Book 2: frmLists Human Rights, Dignity, Freedom, Justice: ExhalationF7, The TrialJ2, BabelHR11, All Systems RedHR13, Man's Search for MeaningF2
25.2 - JennRenee's Task: Oh What Fun! -
Pair 1: bk 1-12 in srs; all.auth.init in AEEHINOSSSTT
Pair 2: titl.wd frm list; MPG Christmas or Holiday
Pair 3: bkFrm Halmark movie lists; 3+ltr.titl.wd frm song lyrics
25.3 - Amy FL's task: Best Sister Ever - NoKids
Book 1: titl.wd Sister/'/s; 2titl.wds frm rhyming list
Book 2: reversible 4+.ltr.titl.wd (loop, live, speed, etc), no palindromes
25.4 - Robin P’s Task: Children’s Party Games -
Pair 1: cvr=tail of 4 leg'd animal; auth.AΩ.init in ADEIKLNOTY
Pair 2: cvr=chair w/ seat+back; auth.AΩ.init in AACCHIILMRSSU
Pair 3: cvr=fruit; auth.AΩ.init in ABEFIKRSTTU
25.5 - Dee's Task: I Like A Good Mystery (series) and I Cannot Lie! - MPG Crime/Mystery
Book 1: set<1973; main.char=female; titl=Pun Equal Rites
Book 2: set80%in cntry unvisited by me;
30.2 - Katrisa's Task : Winter Zodiac - 500+pgs; Pick1opt; 1kidsOK
Option 1 - Sagittarius: frm Archery lists; all.auths.init in TEMPERANCE
Option 2 - Capricorn: set mountains/coast/ocean; frm Devil list
Option 3 - Aquarius: MPG Mythology; Cvr=star, titl.wd= star/s
30.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Murder in the Manor - NoKids; 2diff.opt
Book 1: frm ManorHouse list; em/MPG Horror;
Book 2: sub/titl3+ltr.wd frm AEEGINNOPRSWT
Three Book Tasks
50.1 - Trishhartuk’s Task: The Spirits of the Past, the Present and the Future
Book 1: Set<1950 AND MPG History/Historical
Book 2: Set>2020 AND Setting Present Day or Nonfic abt Current Affairs
Book 3: Auth pub'd bk w/MPG SciFi or Fantasy AND auth pub'd bk set in decade it was written
🔰: Currently reading✅: Read and claimed ; ❎: Read not yet claimed
✴️: Planned
🛄: On the shelves.; 🛅: Ordered @ library
❌: tbd
📚: Big books;🌟: Golden oldies; ❗️: It’s a fact
✴️🛄5.1 Dood van een huistiran by Agatha Christie
🔰5.2 Alle vroege reizen by Cees Nooteboom
✴️🛄5.3 Moord in de bibliotheek
✴️🛄5.4 De wraak van de jager
✅5.5 Gebied 19 by Esther Gerritsen
✴️🛄5.6 De man die geluk bracht
❌5.7 Read a book with the MPG Art or Manga/comic book/graphic novels/Sequential Art
✴️🛄5.8 Bloedlijn
✴️5.9 Mind games
✴️🛄 5.10 A book not fitting other tasks
✴️🛄10.1 Klont
❌10.2 Read a book from the first 25 pages of the Folklore shelf
❌10.3 Read a book with the MPG Romance.
✴️10.4 Waluch de bard
✴️10.5 Geesten van het zuiden
✴️🛄10.6 Dieren kunnen de pest krijgen
✴️🛄10.7 Modelleren met menselijk vlees (Mario)
✴️🛄10.8 De laatste trein
✴️🛄10.9 Offerande
✴️🛄10.10 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (Best Endings) page 3
❌15.1 This is a two book task, read one book for each option:
a) Read a SHORT book (under 200 pages)
b) Read a LONG book (over 500 pages)
❌15.2 This is a 2 book task, read one book for each option:
a) Read the latest published book in a series which has at least 3 published works.
b) Read the first book (#1) in a series
❌15.3 Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All
This is a two book task, read one book for each option:
✴️🛄a) Een licht in de duisternis
❌b) The 2023 Theme is Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All
Read a book that is on the first 20 pages of one of the following shelves: "human rights", "dignity", "freedom" or "justice"
✅15.4 Blind Verleden
✴️🛄15.5 De man die geluk bracht
✴️🛄15.6 Dodenwake by Stephen King
❌15.7 Read a book with MPG Music
✅15.8 Kanker en Cannabis by Monique Posthumus
✅15.9 Vietnam: Een tragedie 1945-1975 by Max Hastings 📚📚
✴️15.10 Ogen van de draak
❌20.1
❌20.2
✅20.4 De man die twee keer doodging
✅20.5 option 2: Het grofmazige net by Håkan Nesser
✅20.6 option 1: 9/11 Complex: De dag dat men de wereld veranderde by Coen Vermeeren
🔰20.7 option 2:
by Agatha Christie❌20.8
❌20.9
✅20.10 De verdwenen stad
✴️25.1
- ❎ book 1: Op eigen kracht by Olivier Van Herck
- ✴️🛄 book 2: Passagier voor Frankfurt by Agatha Christie
❌25.2
❌25.3
❌25.4.
-❎- 1A Sneeuwwit
- ❌- 1 B
25.6
25.7
25.8
25.9
25.10
✴️🛄30.1Een heel ander verhaal by Håkan Nesser
✴️🛄30.2 option 2
- ✴️🛄book 1: Rateiland
- ✴️🛄book 2: De NoodZaak
❌30.3 December, January, February book 600p+
✴️🛄30.4
- ✴️🛄A. Moord in de bibliotheek
- ✴️🛄C. Een handvol rogge
❌50
Winter 235.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9
5.10
10.1 House of Sand and Fog, Doc, Gap Creek
10.2 The Girl in the Tower
10.3
10.4
10.5 A Stir of Echoes
10.6
10.7
10.8 Birnam Wood
10.9 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
10.10 One Hundred Years of Solitude, None of This Is True, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
15.1
15.2
15.3
15.4 Six of Crows, Magpie Murders
15.5
15.6
15.7 Daisy Jones & The Six
15.8 How Far to Bethlehem?, Three Kings, Ten Mysteries: The Secrets of Christmas and Epiphany
15.9
15.10
𝓜𝒾𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓀𝒶⌛ Initiated / pending
✅ Completed / claimed
♦️ Priority
✅ 5.1 - No "L" Day.
✓ Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent (187 p.) (1/14/2024)
5.2 - Unique Like a Snowflake.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (352 p.) ❗🌟
✅ 5.3 - Better in a sweater.
✓ Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (306 p.) (1/19/2024)
5.4 – A Werewolf in the Mafia.
Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis (358 p.)
✅ 5.5 - It's a New Year.
✓ Unhinged by Vera Valentine (96 p.) (12/23/2023)
✅ 5.6 - Christmas Murder Mystery Night.
✓ A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews (174 p.) (12/7/2023)
✅ 5.7 - Telephone Pictionary.
✓ Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody (311 p.) ❗(1/14/2024)
5.8 - Polar Bear Plunge.
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (468 p.) 🌟
5.9 - Secret Santa.
Catching Christmas by Terri Blackstock (286 p.)
5.10 - A Holiday Gift For You.
OPEN
10.1 - Poetry for Neanderthals.
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston (352 p.) ❗
✅ 10.2 - Festive Folklore.
✓ Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom (307 p.) (2/18/2024)
10.3 - Season of Love.
The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni (416 p.)
10.4 - You All Meet In A Tavern...
Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by Jay Shetty (352 p.) ❗
✅ 10.5 - A Ghost Story For Christmas.
✓ The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (166 p.) (2/29/2024)
✅ 10.6 - Roll the Bones.
✓ Gleanings by Neal Shusterman (432 p.) (1/3/2024)
10.7 - It's-a Me, Mario!
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (347 p.) (Mario)
10.8 - Winter Migration.
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (448 p.)
10.9 - Winners of Winter.
(Open)
10.10 - The End?
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (391 p.)
15.1 - Long and Short.
Book 1. Awakenings: a guide to living a vegan lifestyle by Lucy Watson (192 p.) ❗
Book 2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (671 p.) 🌟📚
15.2 - Out with the Old, In with the New.
Book 1. The Prince Kidnaps a Bride by Christina Dodd (384 p.)
Book 2. Storm Front by Jim Butcher (355 p.) (or Divine Rivals)
15.3 - Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All.
Book 1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (417 p.)
Book 2. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (351 p.) 🌟❗
15.4 - Feed the Birds.
Option 2. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware (384 p.)
✅ 15.5 - What the Dickens!
✓ House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas (805 p.) 📚📚 (1/26/2024)
15.6 - Let's Celebrate!
Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan (429 p.)
15.7 - When the music stops ...
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick (560 p.) ❗📚
15.8 - An Extra Day.
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (626 p.) 📚
✅ 15.9 - Pass the Parcel.
✓ Scythe by Neal Shusterman (435 p.) (12/4/2023)
15.10 - Here be Dragons.
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (848 p.) 📚📚
✅ 20.1 - Most Improved - TessaVanessa's Task: TessaVanessa's NYC Adventure.
✓ The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (293 p.) ❗(1/11/2024)
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Apple's Task: Christmas Special.
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas (272 p.)
20.3 - Best Review -
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Joop's Task: Golden Oldies.
Option B. Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving (554 p.) 📚
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Jenny H's Task: The Nobel Prize.
Option 2. Beartown by Frederik Backman (432 p.)
✅ 20.6 - It's A Fact - MaryPDX's Task: Say It's Carol Singers.
✓ Option 1. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (518 p.) 📚 (2/19/2024)
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sarah E's Task: The Chocolate Game.
Option 3. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (462 p.)
20.8 - Nickels and Dimes - Aimee G's Task: Seeking Sanctuary.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (592 p.) 📚
20.9 - Moderator's Pet - Kathy P's Task: Winter Love... Actually.
A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin (1,106 p.) 📚📚📚
✅ 20.10 - Group Reads.
✓ The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston (326 p.)❗(1/20/2024)
25.1 - Susan A's Task: Long, Longer, Longest.
Option 2. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein (568 p.)❗📚
✅ 25.2 - JennRenee's Task: Oh What Fun!
✓ Option 1a. Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman (504 p.) 📚 (12/12/2023)
✓ Option 1b. The Toll by Neal Shusterman (625 p.) 📚 (12/17/2023)
25.3 - Best Sister Ever.
Option 1. The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth (309 p.)
Option 3. How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by K.C. Davis (156 p.) ❗
25.4 - Robin P’s Task: Children’s Party Games.
Option 3a. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (498 p.)
Option 3b. Come Away with Me by Karma Brown (368 p.)
25.5 - Dee's Task : I Like A Good Mystery (series) and I Cannot Lie!
Option 2. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz (434 p.)
Option 3. The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (304 p.)
✅ 30.1 - Mazza1's Task - The Life of Solomon.
✓ Option 2. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas (803 p.) 📚📚 (1/5/2024)
✅ 30.2 - Katrisa's Task : Winter Zodiac.
✓ Option 3a. The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter (384 p.) (1/27/2024)
✓ Option 3b. House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas (838 p.) 📚📚 (2/17/2024)
30.3 - Cat : Books of the Winter Months.
Option 1a. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (374 p.)
Option 1b. From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout (613 p.) 📚
30.4 - Nick KY’s Task: Murder in the Manor.
Option B. Starling House by Alix E. Harrow (320 p.)
Option C. Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon (1,131 p.) 📚📚📚
50.1 -
❝𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝❞
✓ Goal: 230/140 points
◺ Pages Read... This Season: 7,510 || SRC All Time: 76,734
◺ Books Read... This Season: 18 || SRC All Time: 195
🌟 Golden Oldies: 0 || SRC All Time: 21
📚 Big Book: 9 || SRC All Time: 66
❗It's a Fact: 3 || SRC All Time: 7
❝𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬❞
➵ Most points earned in one season: 335 (Spring 2023)
➵ Most pages read in one season: 9,796 (Summer 2023)
➵ Most books read in one season: 20 (Summer 2023)
Reading Plan5.1- No "L" Day
Vitamins and Death
5.2- Unique Like a Snowflake
Brushed With Love
5.3- Better in a sweater
Love Me Sweet
5.4- A Werewolf in the Mafia
Dance on My Grave
5.5- It's a New Year
Six Summers to Fall
5.6- Christmas Murder Mystery Night
The Second Life of Ava Rivers
5.7- Telephone Pictionary
5.8- Polar Bear Plunge
Dear Martin
5.9- Secret Santa
5.10 A Holiday Gift For You
10.1 - Poetry for Neanderthals
Where We Go From Here
10.2 - Festive Folklore
10.3 - Season of Love
The Edge of the World
10.4 - You All Meet In A Tavern...
10.5 - A Ghost Story For Christmas
Where One Goes
10.6 - Roll the Bones
10.7 - It's-a Me, Mario!
10.8 - Winter Migration
10.9 - Winners of Winter
Out of Nowhere
10.10 - The End?
15.1 Long and Short
15.2 Out with the Old, In with the New
15.3 Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All
15.4 Feed the Birds
15.5 What the Dickens!
15.6 Let's Celebrate!
15.7 When the music stops ...
15.8 An Extra Day
15.9 Pass the Parcel
15.10 Here be Dragons
20.1 - Most Improved - TessaVanessa's Task: TessaVanessa's NYC Adventure
20.2 - Rookie at the Top - Apple's Task: Christmas Special
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Joop's Task: Golden Oldies
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Jenny H's Task: The Nobel Prize
20.6 - It's A Fact - MaryPDX's Task: Say It's Carol Singers
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Sarah E's Task: The Chocolate Game
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Aimee G's Task: Seeking Sanctuary
20.9 - Moderators' Pet - Kathy P's Task: Winter Love... Actually
20.10 Group Reads
25.1 Susan A's Task: Long, Longer, Longest
25.2 JennRenee's Task: Oh What Fun!
25.3 Amy FL's task: Best Sister Ever
25.4 Robin P’s Task: Children’s Party Games
25.5 Dee's Task : I Like A Good Mystery (series) and I Cannot Lie!
30.1 Mazza1's Task - The Life of Solomon
30.2 Katrisa's Task : Winter Zodiac
30.3 Cat : Books of the Winter Months
30.4 Nick KY’s Task: Murder in the Manor
Books submitted already:The Bandit Queens
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
The Intrusion of Jimmy
My Man Jeeves
Pageboy
The Reading List
Murder in Venice
Woman on the Edge of Time
The Hippopotamus
Prophet Song
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Winterset Hollow
The Adventures of Sally
The Baltimore Book of the Dead
The Saltwater Murder
Tenth of December: Stories
A Christmas Carol
Death on the Nile
Murder on the White Cliffs
The Penelopiad
Murder of a Movie Star
Darling, I'm Going to Charlie: A Memoir
5.1- No "L" Day
5.2- Unique Like a Snowflake
5.3- Better in a sweater
5.4- A Werewolf in the Mafia
5.5- It's a New Year
5.6- Christmas Murder Mystery Night
5.7- Telephone Pictionary
5.8- Polar Bear Plunge
5.9- Secret Santa
5.10 A Holiday Gift For You
10.1 - Poetry for Neanderthals
10.2 - Festive Folklore
10.3 - Season of Love
10.4 - You All Meet In A Tavern... - Sorcerer to the Crown
10.5 - A Ghost Story For Christmas - Beloved
10.6 - Roll the Bones
10.7 - It's-a Me, Mario!
10.8 - Winter Migration
10.9 - Winners of Winter
10.10 - The End?
15.1 Long and Short
15.2 Out with the Old, In with the New
15.3 Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All
15.5 What the Dickens! - The Great Believers, The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time, The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, A Great Reckoning
15.6 Let's Celebrate!
15.7 When the music stops ...
15.8 An Extra Day - The Feast of the Goat (published 2000)
15.9 Pass the Parcel - secondhand or library book
15.10 Here be Dragons
20.1 - Most Improved - TessaVanessa's Task: TessaVanessa's NYC Adventure - Trans-Sister Radio
20.4 - Golden Oldies - Joop's Task: Golden Oldies - Killers of a Certain Age ; or book from Books written by someone when they were over the age of 65 listopia
20.5 - Bigger is Better - Jenny H's Task: The Nobel Prize - Moon-Child by Walcott, Derek. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2012) Paperback
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Aimee G's Task: Seeking Sanctuary
20.10 Group Reads - The Lost City of the Monkey God
25.1 Susan A's Task: Long, Longer, Longest
Book 1: My Man Jeeves
Book 2: The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
25.3 Amy FL's task: Best Sister Ever
book 1: The Silent Sister, Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, Brother & Sister, Trans-Sister Radio, The Sisters Brothers
book 2: book with one of the following words in title: time, read, dear, evil, live, knob, door (makes another word spelled backward) - The Daughter of Time
Option 2 - Musical Chairs
Book 1: The Baltimore Book of the Dead
Book 2: author's initials in MUSICAL CHAIRS - The Saltwater Murder by L. B. Hathaway
Option 1: Death on the Nile
Option 2: Murder on the White Cliffs
Line - That was the end of Solomon Grundy
Book 1 - The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
Book 2 - Prophet Song
Book 1: The Penelopiad
Book 2: Murder of a Movie Star
Option 1, book 1: Tenth of December
Option 1, Book 2: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Option A: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Option B: Winterset Hollow
Book 1: Murder in Venice
Book 2: The Bandit Queens
Book 3: Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time, also wrote Three Women
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The Penelopiad (other topics)The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (other topics)
The Secret Adversary (other topics)
Ruby Fever (other topics)
The Adventures of Sally (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Cees Nooteboom (other topics)Monique Posthumus (other topics)
Olivier Van Herck (other topics)
Esther Gerritsen (other topics)
Max Hastings (other topics)
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