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

Badge 1:
B: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (4/14/2025)
C: Cold Fire by Tamora Pierce (6/2/2025)
D: The Empty City by Erin Hunter (10/11/2025)
F: Under Black Skies by Clare Sager (7/18/2025)
G: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey (10/22/2025)
H: Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville (5/11/2025)
L: Shadow & Storms by Helen Scheuerer (6/12/2025)
M: The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes (1/25/2025)
N: Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford (1/23/2025)
P: Through Dark Storms by Clare Sager (7/20/2025)
R:
S: The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown (3/25/2025)
T:
V: We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle (1/13/2025)
W: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios (4/20/2025)

1. Badge 1, Book 1
2. Themes, V - Villainy
3. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
4. Listened to Audiobook, 8:01 hours.
5. Read a book with a theme of villainy
6. This book has several themes of villainy. The culture of the school that allowed for the abuse and murder of boys to happen, the system of white supremacy in the United States that indirectly supported the actions at Dozier, and the individuals that abused the boys at the school.

1. Badge 1, Book 2
2. Themes, N-Nature
3. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
4. Listened to Audiobook, 10:03 hours.
5. Read a book with a theme of nature
6. The theme of nature is found throughout this story. How dangerous nature can be, why people seek to spend time in nature, and what nature has taken from people

That sounds like an interesting read, Emma.

It was a great read. I'm pulling a lot of books from the The Morbidly Curious Book Club for this reading challenge.

1. Badge 1, Book 3
2. Themes, S-Survival
3. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
4. Listened to Audiobook, 10:55 hours.
5. Read a book with a theme of survival
6. The theme of survival is found throughout this story. There is a focus on what the people of the Donner Party did to survive, along with scientific information on what happens to a human body in survival situations.

1. Badge 1, Book 4
2. Themes, B - Books about books
3. Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
4. Read ebook, 339 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of books about books
6. This book is about a bookshop and someone finding a love of reading. The theme of books is present throughout the story. Several chapters start with parts of in-universe books that the character is reading.

1. Badge 1, Book 5
2. Themes, W-Women
3. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
4. Listened to Audiobook, 12:13 hours.
5. Read a book with a theme of women
6. This book is about how the cure for tuberculosis was found. It is told through the stories of the black women who worked as nurses at the hospital that helped find the cure.

Emma R. wrote: "1. Badge 1, Book 3
2. Themes, S-Survival
3. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
4. Listened to Audiobook, 10:55 hours.
5. Read a book with a theme..."

It was a difficult read but very impactful.

1. Badge 1, Book 6
2. Themes, F-Fantasy
3. Under Black Skies
4. Read ebook, 470 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of fantasy
6. This book is a fantasy-themed book with pirates. There is magic, fae, and a kraken.

1. Badge 1, Book 7
2. Themes, P-Pirates
3. Through Dark Storms
4. Read ebook, 472 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of pirates
6. This book is a fantasy-themed book with pirates. The two main characters are pirates, with one having the title of "Pirate Queen"

1. Badge 1, Book 8
2. Themes, M-Mythology
3. The Storm Runner
4. Read ebook, 499 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of mythology
6. This book is centered around Aztec and Mayan mythology

1. Badge 1, Book 9
2. Themes, C-Childhood
3. Cold Fire
4. Read ebook, 304 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of childhood
6. The theme of childhood is found through this book - themes related to the lost of childhood, growing and leaving childhood behind, and the importance of having a childhood are found throughout the book

1. Badge 1, Book 10
2. Themes, D-Dogs
3. The Empty City
4. Read ebook, 293 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of dogs
6. This books is about a group of dogs having to survive after a natural disaster drives all of the humans away

1. Badge 1, Book 11
2. Themes, H-History
3. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
4. Listened to Audiobook, 8:42 hours
5. Read a book with a theme of history
6. This book is about the history of America shown through the cemeteries

1. Badge 1, Book 12
2. Themes, L-Love
3. Shadow & Storms
4. Read ebook, 460 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of love
6. In this epic fantasy story, there is a love story between the two main characters

1. Badge 1, Book 13
2. Themes, G-Ghosts
3. Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
4. Listened to Audiobook, 10:48
5. Read a book with a theme of ghosts
6. This book is a history of America told through haunted places