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message 1: by Martha☀ (last edited Jan 11, 2025 12:15PM) (new)
Dec 11, 2024 11:17AM

Martha☀ | 27 comments I'll start with 25 books and see how it goes.
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message 2: by Martha☀ (last edited Oct 18, 2025 12:12PM) (new)
Dec 11, 2024 11:17AM

Martha☀ | 27 comments Around the Year in 52 Books ~ 2025
49/52

✔️1. Image that starts with A T or Y (timer) ~ Harlem Shuffle
✔️2. 2025 prompt suggestion ~ The Lincoln Highway
✔️3. Do Re Mi song (Fa=Far=Pharr) ~ The Pursuit of Endurance
✔️4. Underground, sea or world ~ Small Boat
✔️5. Intriguing Title ~ West With Giraffes
✔️6. Serpentine element ~ You Are Here
✔️7. Author with 3 names ~ The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
✔️8. Short stories or brief writings ~ Brown Girl Dreaming
✔️9. Tournament of Books ~ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
✔️10. Witches, goddesses or nuns ~ A Parchment of Leaves
✔️11. Fictional location ~ Wild Dark Shore
✔️12. Irish author ~ The Searcher
✔️13. 4 members; not family ~ Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 RVs On Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure
✔️14. A sci-fi or fantasy written by a woman The Testaments
✔️15. Secrets, lies, or deception Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
✔️16. Prompt from ATY 2016 list ~ The God of the Woods
⬜17. Set prior to 1925 ~ Heart of Darkness
✔️18. Set primarily in nature ~ The Golden Spruce
✔️19. Building or cityscape ~ Trust
✔️20. Animal, vegetable or mineral in the title ~ The Yellow House
✔️21. Collective noun for animals ~ Magpie Murders
✔️22. Translated from Asia ~ The Housekeeper and the Professor
✔️23. Art, music, dancing or acting ~ Horse
⬜24. Athlete ~ Where There's a Will: Cycle Race Across a Continent
⬜25. Waves on the cover ~ Amazon Extreme
✔️26. Author with a common noun name ~ Killing Floor by Lee Child
✔️27. Set in the winter ~ February
✔️28. Opposites in titles: Book 1 (beasts) The Restraint of Beasts
✔️29. Opposites in titles: Book 2 (people) ~ Normal People
✔️30. A monster book ~ I Know This Much Is True (900 pages!)
✔️31. Coastal setting ~ South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels
✔️32. Mystery or true crime ~ Twenty-Seven Minutes
✔️33. Forgotten author ~ Danny the Champion of the World
✔️34. Title like a country song ~ So Much for That
✔️35. NPR "Books We Love" ~ Hello Beautiful
✔️36. Household object ~ The Borrower
✔️37. Adult friendships ~ Women Talking
✔️38. Connection (Australian) btn different genres (biography): Book 1 ~ After
✔️39. Connection (Australian) btn different genres (chick-lit): Book 2 ~ Big Little Lies
✔️40. Comfort read ~ Writers & Lovers
✔️41. Digging up the past ~ Crying in H Mart
✔️42. Manor, mansion, or estate ~ The Christmas Guest
✔️43. Ten or fewer letters ~ The Orenda
✔️44. A haunting book ~ The Enchanted
✔️45. Author career spans at ten+ years ~ Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
✔️46. Full moon names (Hunter Moon) ~ Wordhunter
✔️47. Relating to fire ~ Fight Night
✔️48. Dealing with death ~ Skippy Dies
✔️49. Time travel, alternate universes or timelines ~ The Bone Clocks
✔️50. ATY Best Book of the Month (2025) ~ Mrs. Dalloway
✔️51. Published in 2025 ~ The Heart of Winter
✔️52. Sunset on the cover ~ We Begin at the End

Twenty-Seven Minutes by Ashley Tate Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1) by Lee Child You Are Here by David Nicholls Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Normal People by Sally Rooney Wordhunter by Stella Sands The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson The Searcher by Tana French Fight Night by Miriam Toews Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl The Orenda (Bird Family Trilogy, #3) by Joseph Boyden Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Horse by Geraldine Brooks We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker The Pursuit of Endurance Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience by Jennifer Pharr Davis So Much for That by Lionel Shriver The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) by Margaret Atwood Trust by Hernan Diaz The Golden Spruce A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison The God of the Woods by Liz Moore Doppelganger A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa Women Talking by Miriam Toews Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1) by Colson Whitehead Careless People A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams Skippy Dies by Paul Murray The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai The Boys in the Boat Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown After by Nikki Gemmell West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Writers & Lovers by Lily King The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1) by Anthony Horowitz February by Lisa Moore Dogtripping 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 RVs On Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure by David Rosenfelt Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf The Yellow House by Emily O'Grady The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell South Away The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels by Meaghan Marie Hackinen


message 3: by Martha☀ (last edited Oct 18, 2025 04:41PM) (new)
Dec 13, 2024 10:51AM

Martha☀ | 27 comments Anniversary List
8/10

✔️a. another language ~ Papillon
✔️b. no 'E' in title ~ Day
✔️c. debut ~ What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins
⬜d. elements of periodic table (carbon) ~ Carbon Cycle
✔️e. emotion in title (surprising) ~ The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
✔️f. NATO alphabet (uniform) ~ The Rose Code
✔️g. all 5 vowels in title/author ~ 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
✔️h. 7+ publications ~ Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
✔️i. 1+ year on TBR ~ City of Thieves
⬜j. group of 4+ members ~

Papillon by Henri Charrière Day by Michael Cunningham What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins The Soul of an Octopus A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery The Rose Code by Kate Quinn 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater by Sarah Ruhl Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro City of Thieves by David Benioff


message 4: by Martha☀ (last edited Oct 18, 2025 04:28PM) (new)
Jan 27, 2025 10:12AM

Martha☀ | 27 comments JANUARY READS

6 04 January You Are Here by David Nicholls You Are Here
4⭐ My Review

41 08 January Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Crying in H Mart
3 ⭐ My Review

29 09 January Normal People by Sally Rooney Normal People
3⭐ My Review

46 11 January Wordhunter by Stella Sands Wordhunter
1⭐ My Review

42 14 January The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson The Christmas Guest
4⭐ My Review

12 17 January The Searcher by Tana French The Searcher
4⭐ My Review

47 21 January Fight Night by Miriam Toews Fight Night
5⭐ My Review

33 25 January Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl Danny, the Champion of the World
4⭐ My Review

9 26 January Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
2⭐ My Review

43 28 January The Orenda (Bird Family Trilogy, #3) by Joseph Boyden The Orenda
5⭐ My Review

h. 31 January Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro Signal Fires
3.5⭐ My Review


message 5: by Martha☀ (last edited Jun 02, 2025 01:57PM) (new)
Feb 15, 2025 10:53AM

Martha☀ | 27 comments February Reads

23 06 February Horse by Geraldine Brooks Horse
5⭐ My Review

52 11 February We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker We Begin at the End
3.5⭐ My Review

3 12 February The Pursuit of Endurance Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience by Jennifer Pharr Davis The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
4⭐ My Review

34 16 February So Much for That by Lionel Shriver So Much for That
4⭐ My Review

28 20 February The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills The Restraint of Beasts
5⭐ My Review

14 21 February The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) by Margaret Atwood The Testaments
4⭐ My Review

19 25 February Trust by Hernan Diaz Trust
4⭐ My Review


message 6: by Martha☀ (last edited Oct 18, 2025 04:27PM) (new)
May 01, 2025 05:21PM

Martha☀ | 27 comments March Reads


18 01 March The Golden Spruce A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
3⭐ My Review
Tags: Canadian, Indigenous, non-fiction, historical, cultural

19 04 March Trust by Hernan Diaz Trust
3⭐ re-read (see above review)

10 04 March A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House A Parchment of Leaves
3⭐ My Review
Tags: historical

a. 07 March Papillon by Henri Charrière Papillon
4⭐ My Review
Tags: historical, non-fiction

51 07 March The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison The Heart of Winter
5⭐ My Review
Tags: general, aging

45 13 March Doppelganger A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
4⭐ My Review
Tags: non-fiction, political, biography, current events

⬜ 16 March The Book of George by Kate Greathead The Book of George
4⭐ My Review
Tags: general

16 19 March The God of the Woods by Liz Moore The God of the Woods
5⭐ My Review
Tags: mystery, 5 star

39 26 March Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty Big Little Lies
3⭐ My Review
Tags: general,

b. 30 March Day by Michael Cunningham Day
3⭐ My Review
Tags: general


message 7: by Martha☀ (last edited Jun 02, 2025 01:42PM) (new)
May 01, 2025 05:21PM

Martha☀ | 27 comments April Reads

1 05 April Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1) by Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle
3⭐ My Review
Tags: historical, heist,

48 10 April Skippy Dies by Paul Murray Skippy Dies
4+⭐ My Review
Tags: year-of-the-tome, general

⬜07 April Earth by John Boyne Earth
5⭐ My Review
Tags: 5 stars, general, series

15 08 April Careless People A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
⭐ My Review
Tags: non-fiction, Facebook, whistleblower

22 14 April The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa The Housekeeper and the Professor
3⭐ My Review
Tags: translation,

37 21 April Women Talking by Miriam Toews Women Talking
4⭐ My Review
Tags: Canadian, audio,

36 24 April The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai The Borrower
1⭐ My Review
Tags: crap, lgbtq+

38 28 April After by Nikki Gemmell After
2⭐ My Review
Tags: biography, death, assisted suicide


message 8: by Martha☀ (last edited Oct 18, 2025 04:29PM) (new)
Jun 02, 2025 01:37PM

Martha☀ | 27 comments May Reads

7 01 May The Boys in the Boat Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
3⭐ My Review
Tags: athletes, historical, non-fiction

⬜ 02 May What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella What Does It Feel Like?
5⭐ My Review
Tags: biography, audio

i. 14 May City of Thieves by David Benioff City of Thieves
5⭐ My Review
Tags: historical, war,

4 16 May Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix Small Boat
4.5⭐ My Review
Tags: current events, translated, travel

5 20 May West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge West With Giraffes
4⭐ My Review
Tags: historical, travel

11 24 May Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Wild Dark Shore
3.5⭐ My Review
Tags: dystopian, mystery

⬜ 27 May The Unseen World by Liz Moore The Unseen World
2.5⭐ My Review
Tags: audio, general, boring

8 28 May Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming
5⭐ My Review
Tags: biography, language-writing, cultural, poetry


message 9: by Martha☀ (last edited Oct 18, 2025 04:30PM) (new)
Jun 16, 2025 02:01PM

Martha☀ | 27 comments June Reads

2 03 June The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles The Lincoln Highway
5⭐ My Review
Tags: audio, year of the tome

44 14 June The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld The Enchanted
5⭐ My Review
Tags: 5 star, general

40 14 June Writers & Lovers by Lily King Writers & Lovers
5⭐ My Review
Tags: 5 star, general

35 15 June Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano Hello Beautiful
2⭐ My Review
Tags: crap

c. 22 June What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins What Comes After
3⭐ My Review
Tags: coming of age

⬜ 23 June The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
5⭐ My Review
Tags: 5 stars, historical


message 10: by Martha☀ (last edited Oct 18, 2025 04:30PM) (new)
Aug 19, 2025 02:24PM

Martha☀ | 27 comments August Reads

⬜ 06 August Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2) by Joseph Boyden Through Black Spruce
4⭐ My Review
Tags: indigenous, audio, series

⬜ 10 August Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy Once There Were Wolves
2⭐ My Review
Tags: dystopian, environment, audio, chick lit

30 11 August I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb I Know This Much Is True
3⭐ My Review
Tags: general,

21 18 August Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1) by Anthony Horowitz Magpie Murders
5⭐ My Review
Tags: mystery, 5 stars

⬜21 August Die with Zero Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
4⭐ My Review
Tags: self-help, financial, audio

⬜22 August Fresh Eggs by Rob Levandoski Fresh Eggs
2⭐ My Review
Tags: farming, food, crap

g. 24 August 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater by Sarah Ruhl 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
2⭐ My Review
Tags: theatre, never-again

⬜24 August February by Lisa Moore February
2⭐ My Review
Tags: Canadian, Canada Reads,

⬜29 August All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker All the Colors of the Dark
3.5⭐ My Review
Tags: thriller, audio,


message 11: by Martha☀ (last edited Oct 18, 2025 04:31PM) (new)
Sep 04, 2025 04:16PM

Martha☀ | 27 comments September Reads

20 02 September Dogtripping 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 RVs On Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure by David Rosenfelt Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 RVs On Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure
4⭐ My Review
Tags: humour, pets, rescue

⬜ 02 September The Yellow House by Emily O'Grady The Yellow House
5⭐ My Review
Tags: coming-of-age, thriller

⬜ 03 September We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman We All Want Impossible Things
3⭐ My Review
Tags: biography, grief

50 03 September Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
4⭐ My Review
Tags: classic

⬜ 07 September You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward Collection, #4) by Amor Towles You Have Arrived at Your Destination
4⭐ My Review
Tags: dystopian, short story

e. 08 September The Soul of an Octopus A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
3⭐ My Review
Tags: science, non-fiction

⬜ 11 September Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid Maybe in Another Life
1⭐ My Review
Tags: crap, audio, young-adult, chick-lit

⬜ 19 September The Sharp End of Life A Mother's Story by Dierdre Wolownick The Sharp End of Life: A Mother's Story
⭐ My Review
Tags: memoir, athletes, adventure

49 27 September The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell The Bone Clocks
4⭐ My Review
Tags: dystopian, audiobook, year of the tome,


message 12: by Martha☀ (last edited Oct 12, 2025 03:30PM) (new)
Oct 12, 2025 03:30PM

Martha☀ | 27 comments October Reads

31 06 October South Away The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels by Meaghan Marie Hackinen South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels
5⭐My Review
Tags: athletes, adventure, travel, biography


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