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

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree
with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.
(view spoiler)[But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." ~ Carl Sagan (hide spoiler)]

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PACKING HEAT
✔️Spook:Science Tackles the Afterlife 8 Jan
✔️ Distant Mirror: Calamitous 14th Century 10 Jan
✔️Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death 16 Jsn
✔️Thunderstruck 22 Jan
✔️Curiosity 4 Jan
✔️Bulfinch's Mythology 15 Jan
✔️The Body: A Guide for Occupants 21 Jan

HISSY-FIC
✔️The Marriage Portrait 13 Jan

GET A ROOM
✔️Writers & Lovers 12 Jan

SIGH-FAN
✔️Dark Knight Station: Origins 25 Jan
✔️The Last Bloodcarver 31 Jan

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️American Rapture 18 Jan
✔️Such Sharp Teeth 28 Jan
✔️Elevation 30 Jan

DYING TO READ
✔️The Fourth Man 30 Jan
✔️Watch Your Back! 9 Jan
✔️Memory 19 Jan
✔️Bad News 23 Jan
✔️A Farewell to Arfs 6 Jan
✔️Baskets and Beignets 26 Jan

You Look Mahvelous
✔️The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat 24 Jan

Ugly Once a Month Pretty the Rest of the Time
✔️Time Shelter 7 Jan

Genres
✔️Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook 17 Jan
✔️An American Childhood 5 Jan
✔️The Inheritance 29 Jan
✔️The Rest of Us Just Live Here 27 Jan

Six Author
✔️Hard Knocks 20 Jan

You'll Love This One!
Ed McBain 11 books ✔️Cinderella 31 Jan
✔️The House of Eve 16 Jan

A List as Long as My Arm


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Saying goodbye to 2024 and planning January 2025 reads.

Audiobooks:
The Fox Wife, list, syndicate
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, list, buddy read start Jan 20
Somewhere Beyond the Sea, list
Blade of Fortriu, series, list

Print Books:
The House of Lost Secrets themed
Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth): A Memoir, list, 2025 release
A Play of Isaac, monthly challenge
The Naturalist Society, list

January:
Some books of last year are in desperate need to be finished:
Gobbelino London & a Melee of Mages: finished.

Finished books of the new year:
Are You Listening?

I think I've finalized my February reads for the most part:

Audiobooks:

Time's Convert, group themed, list challenge
The Lewis Man, series read
The Children's Blizzard, list challenge
The Women, list challenge, syndicate
The Bones Beneath My Skin, list challenge

Print Books:

The Naturalist Society, list challenge
The Killing Plains, monthly challenge, new release
Haunting Charlie, list challenge

If everything goes to plan, I will have finished my badge 1 by the end of February.

PACKING HEAT
✔️The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead 17 Feb
✔️Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void 13 Feb
✔️Faster: How Jewish Driver, American Heiress, Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best 7 Feb
✔️Never Grow Up 22 Feb
✔️Elon Musk 6 Feb
✔️Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War 12 Feb
✔️The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End 2 Feb
✔️The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession 25 Feb

HISSY-FIC
✔️Great Circle 28 Feb
✔️The Private Life of Spies and The Exquisite Art of Getting Even: Stories of Espionage and Revenge 8 Feb
✔️The Covenant of Water 10 Feb
✔️The Last Bookshop in London 12 Feb

SIGH-FAN
✔️Kaikeyi 24 Feb

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️The Queen 26 Feb

DYING TO READ
✔️Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle 1 Feb
✔️Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish 13 Feb
✔️'v' Is For Vengence 18 Feb
✔️The Only One Left 25 Feb
✔️The Messy Lives of Book People 21 Feb
✔️Unnatural Death 19 Feb
✔️Judgment Prey 16 Feb

You Look Mahvelous
✔️A Theory of Haunting 9 Feb

Ugly Once a Month Pretty the Rest of the Time
✔️Grandad, There's A Head On The Beach 3 Feb

Genres
✔️Twisted Love 4 Feb
✔️An Heiress's Guide to Deception and Desire 14 Feb
✔️The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin 15 Feb

Six Author
✔️The Yellow Room 20 Feb

You'll Love This One!
✔️The Two Lives of Lydia Bird 9 Feb
✔️The Betrayals 23 Feb

A List as Long as My Arm




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PACKING HEAT
✔️ The Dangerous Book for Boys 31 Mar
✔️Manhunters:Criminal Profilers &Search for World's Most Wanted Serial Killers 3 Mar
✔️It's a Long Story: My Life 29 Mar
✔️The Buck That Buries It’s Poo 13 Mar

GET A ROOM
✔️Funny Story 10 Mar

HISSY-FIC
✔️A Test Of Wills 20 Mar
✔️Sacred Hunger 22 Mar

HICK LIT
✔️Appaloosa 27 Mar

SIGH-FAN
✔️Dragon and Thief 16 Mar

DYING TO READ
✔️Polar Star 19 Mar
✔️Bookworm 15 Mar
✔️ Where Oceans Hide Their Dead Their Dead 11 Mar
✔️Puss In Boots 5 Mar
✔️The Man with the Golden Gun 21 Mar
✔️The Whistler 7 Mar
✔️A Murder of Quality 12 Mar
✔️Earthly Remains 2 Mar
✔️ Uneasy Relations 1 Mar
✔️The Sleepwalker Legacy 8 Mar
✔️The California Roll 23 Mar
✔️The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar 25 Mar

UNUSUAL SELLING POINT
✔️ The Same Sea 30 Mar


You Look Mahvelous
✔️The Firemaker 14 Mar

Ugly Once a Month Pretty the Rest of the Time
✔️Angel in the Full Moon 4 Mar

Genres
✔️ Blood Ties 9 Mar
✔️The Gentle Axe 18 Mar
✔️What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust 26 Mar
✔️Bruno, Chief of Police 28 Mar

Six Author
✔️The Perfect Murder 12 Mar

Everyone Has Read This But Me
✔️Matilda 27 Mar

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️The God of the Woods (January) 6 Mar
✔️The House in the Woods (February) 17 Mar

You'll Love This One!
✔️Someone You Can Build a Nest In 30 Mar
✔️Opium and Absinthe 24 Mar

A List as Long as My Arm



Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

@Almeta: I hope you will enjoy Dragon and Thief. I really did.

Saar The Book owl wrote: "@Almeta: I hope you will enjoy Dragon and Thief. I really did."

Thanks Saar, I did enjoy it. I have put other Timothy Zahn reads on my shelf now!

PACKING HEAT
✔️The Facemaker 9 Apr
✔️Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life 23 Apr
✔️Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones 19 Apr

HISSY-FIC
✔️If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English 14 Apr
✔️The Glassmaker 20 Apr
✔️To Paradise 25 Apr

GET A ROOM
✔️Wrong Side of Forty 10 Apr
✔️Dear Me 18 Apr
✔️Mistress of Mellyn 22 Apr
✔️All Night Pharmacy 14 Apr
✔️The Other Lady Vanishes 17 Apr
✔️I Made It Out of Clay 6 Apr

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️The September House 16 Apr

SIGH-FAN
✔️Lord of Light 19 Apr
✔️Prized 15 Apr
✔️Charming Your Dad 5 Apr
✔️Charming the Devil 5 Apr
✔️I Who Have Never Known Men 8 Apr
✔️The Left Hand of Darkness 21 Apr

DYING TO READ
✔️Under Your Scars: A Dark Romance Novel 30 Apr
✔️Stateless 28 Apr
✔️Hidden 28 Apr
✔️Cats and Other Calamities 13 Apr
✔️Rubyfruit Jungle 2 Apr
✔️The Tourist Trail 3 Apr
✔️The Butcher and the Wren 1 Apr

UNUSAL SELLING POINT
✔️Life Hacks for a Little Alien 13 Apr
✔️Only Child 15 Apr

You Look Mahvelous
✔️Where the Library Hides 9 Apr

Ugly Once a Month Pretty the Rest of the Time
✔️Lady and the Unicorn 26 Apr

Genres
✔️Good Blood 29 Apr
✔️Babel 11 Apr
✔️The Dysasters 27 Apr
✔️The Unheard 6 Apr

Six Author
✔️Dead of Winter 4 Apr

Everyone Has Read This But Me
✔️The Women {March} 22 Apr
✔️The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 18 Apr

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️Things We Do in the Dark 29 Apr

You'll Love This One! Toppler
✔️An Object of Beauty 27 Apr

You'll Love This One!
✔️Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station 7 Apr
✔️Witchcraft for Wayward Girls 23 Apr

A List as Long as My Arm

Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

Saar The Book owl wrote: "@Almeta: I hope you will enjoy Dragon and Thief. I really did."

That's nice to hear! I think I'm at book 3 now.

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PACKING HEAT
✔️Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading 3 May
✔️Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes 4 May
✔️Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers & Reflections 1 May
✔️How the Word Is Passed: Reckoning w/ the History of Slavery Across America 8 May
✔️Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects 11 May

LIL' GRAY CELLS
✔️Hide the Elephant 6 May

HISSY-FIC
✔️Three Apples Fell from the Sky 7 May
✔️The Savage Garden 9 May
✔️Glory 10 May
✔️The Ghetto Within 21 May
✔️Umbrella 27 May

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️So Thirsty 20 May
✔️The Uninhabited House 17 May
✔️Somebody tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead 18 May
✔️Bad Fruit 19 May
✔️The Bone Orchard 23 May

SIGH-FAN
✔️No Humans Involved 13 May

DYING TO READ
✔️The Yacht 15 May
✔️The Miracle at Speedy Motors 25 May
✔️Lemon Curd Killer 26 May
✔️Against the Currant 2 May
✔️A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor 5 May
✔️The House in the Pines 14 May
✔️The Stranger in the Library 31 May
✔️A Patchwork of Clues 22 May
✔️Airship Hunters 28 May
✔️Death in a Strange Country 30 May

You Look Mahvelous
✔️Peonies and Poison 30 May

Ugly Once a Month Pretty the Rest of the Time
✔️The Husbands 16 May

Genres
✔️The Monsters of Rookhaven 12 May
✔️Fairest of All 2 May
✔️Never Flinch 28 May
✔️My Friends 14 May

Six Author
✔️Life Itself Roger Ebert 29 May

Everyone Has Read This But Me
✔️The Art of War (January) 24 May

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️Murder by Lamplight 26 May

You'll Love This One!
✔️Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates 7 May
shelved 6 Jan 2011, pass over it every time it surfaces
✔️The Final Game 31 May

A List as Long as My Arm

Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

HISSY-FIC
✔️The Villain's Dance 27 Jun
✔️The Egyptian Mika Waltari 5 Jun
✔️Brisbane 18 Jun
✔️The Silver Pigs 19 Jun
✔️Maze of Cadiz 20 Jun

GET A ROOM
✔️Mermaid of Venice 23 Jun

SIGH-FAN
✔️The Lost Bookshop Evie Woods 30 Jun

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️The Toll 1 Jun
✔️The Signalman 5 Jun
✔️Evil Eye Madhuri Shekar 4 Jun
✔️The Luminous Dead 29 Jun
✔️Last to Leave the Room 29 Jun

DYING TO READ
✔️Patricia Fisher: Ship's Detective Steven Higgs 26 Jun
✔️Motor City Blue 4 Jun
✔️Where There's a Will 2 Jun
✔️Figure Eight: A Northern Lakes Mystery 24 Jun
✔️The Darkness 3 Jun
✔️The Looking Glass War 4 Jun
✔️Lords of Badassery 25 Jun
✔️Medusa 16 Jun
✔️The Child Thief 22 Jun

UNUSAL SELLING POINT
✔️My Italian Bulldozer 21 Jun
✔️The City of Lost Cats 2 Jun
✔️The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece 6 Jun

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Genres
✔️Nevada 15 Jun

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️Then She Was Gone 25 Jun
✔️Listen for the Lie 23 Jun

EVERYONE Has Read This But Me
✔️Norwegian Wood(May) 20 Jun

You'll Love This One!
✔️The Case of the Amorous Aunt 17 Jun
✔️Run for the Hills 27 Jun

You'll Love This One! Toppler
✔️Cold Cold Storage, Alaska 8 Jun
✔️Last The Last Bookstore on Earth 9 Jun
✔️Fast Dead Fast 11 Jun
✔️Night Second Night Stand 9 Jun
✔️All Mistress of All Evil 9 Jun
✔️In In the Shadow of the Glacier 10 Jun
✔️in Muppets in Moscow 14 Jun
✔️in The Second-Worst Restaurant in France 10 Jun
✔️In In Other Rooms, Other Wonders 8 Jun
✔️Out Odd Girl Out 8 Jun
✔️Summer Summer of Night 7 Jun
✔️Never The Never Game 10 Jun
✔️Hate The Pilgrim of Hate 13 Jun
✔️Out Lights Out 12 Jun
✔️Soft The Soft Whisper of Dreams 12 Jun
✔️White Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies 12 Jun
✔️Night The Night House Jo Nesbø 13 Jun
✔️Down Cut You Down 13 Jun
✔️DayOne Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir 11 Jun
✔️Empty Empty Theatre:... 11 Jun
✔️new The New House 14 Jun

A List as Long as My Arm

Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

I have a long list for June. My grandson will be visiting, so I'm hoping to be able to do a lot of reading while I wait for him at his track practices. I'm also hoping for great weather. This should be a good reading month.

My plans:
The Locked Ward (edit: buddy read is July! oops)
✓Dogged Pursuit
✓Run for the Hills
✓The God of the Woods
✓The Spellshop
✓The Last Murder at the End of the World
✓Great Big Beautiful Life
✓How the Penguins Saved Veronica
✓My Friends

Added:
✓Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
✓Never Name the Dead
✓Don't Let Him In (late NG approval)

You have some good reads planned, Kristie.

My plans:
Run for the Hills
The Black Loch
The Bird Hotel
The Snow Gypsy
Play of Shadows
The Thursday Murder Club
Always You and Me

The toppler will likely bring changes.

I hope I can read them all. It's more than my usual number of books.

Yes, the toppler. I always forget to plan less books for weeklong toppler months. Usually I end up scrambling once the team starts planning. Hopefully not too much this time.

i've got my fingers crossed that I can use my planned books for the toppler.

Now that the toppler has been posted I can tell you that a couple of your planned reads do fit. :) A couple of mine fit too, but they're a little longer than I like for a toppler.

Oh! Always is in the list. I discounted that book because I was looking for You & Me being in the list. Thanks for pointing that out. Thrilled the Black Loch will work.

Must-read books for June.



Would like to read if possible.



I know this is not really possible, but maybe if I list it, I will give it more importance!

Fingers crossed for you Jackie.

Jackie wrote: ...I know this is not really possible, but maybe if I list it, I will give it more importance!..."

I believe this is true for me. If I list them and even investigate their availability, i get more read. And those that I don't read, get moved to the next month. Whittling away at my TBR.

Janice wrote: "Fingers crossed for you Jackie."

Thanks, Janice.

Almeta wrote: "Jackie wrote: ...I know this is not really possible, but maybe if I list it, I will give it more importance!..."

I believe this is true for me. If I list them and even investigate their availabili..."

Me, too, but slowly!

HISSY-FIC
✔️The Malice of Fortune Michael Ennis 6 Jul
✔️When My Name Was Keoko Linda Sue Park 27 Jul
✔️ History of the Rain Niall Williams 31 Jul
✔️West with Giraffes Lynda Rutledge 26 Jul

GET A ROOM
✔️The Little Black Dress Piper James 14 Jul
✔️Follow Me Under Helen Hardt 21 Jul

SIGH-FAN
✔️Pandemic: Patient Zero Amanda Bridgeman 10 Jul

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️Perfect Girl Tracy Banghart 22 Jul

DYING TO READ
✔️How to Kill Men and Get Away with It Katy Brent 26 Jul
✔️The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves 3 Jul
✔️Dark Vineyard 29 Jul
✔️The Wednesday Evening Club Alex Wagner 29 Jul
✔️Sleight of Hand: A Maisie Doss Mystery Tonya Kappes 8 Jul
✔️The Island Ragnar Jónasson 9 Jul
✔️To Die in June Alan Parks 27 Jul
✔️Our Kind of Game Johanna Copeland 11 Jul
✔️Murder on Lexington Avenue 13 Jul
✔️Opal Patricia Wolf 30 Jul
✔️Valley of the LostVicki Delany 2 Jul

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You Look Mahvelous
✔️South of the Buttonwood Tree Heather Webber 4 Jul

Ugly Once a Month Pretty the Rest of the Time
✔️The Late Lord Thorpe Peter Grainger 12 Jul

25 in 25
✔️The Quiet Man Caimh McDonnell 28 Jul
✔️Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? 23 Jul
✔️Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination 20 Jul
✔️The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel 21 Jul
✔️The Hot Flash Club 25 Jul
✔️The Albuquerque Turkey 20 Jul
✔️Bad Men 15 Jul
✔️You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning 18 Jul

Genres
✔️Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science 24 Jul
✔️The Silver Mark Sarah Painter 7 Jul
✔️Indian Burial Ground 17 Jul

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️Better Off Dead Glenda Carroll 1 Jul

YLTO!
✔️The Widows’ Guide to Murder 19 Jul
✔️The Vegetarian Han Kang 26 Jul

A List as Long as My Arm

Here's mine for July

Audiobooks:
My Friends, list, new release
Babylonia, group themed
More or Less Maddy, List, Syndicate
Free the Darkness, list, themed

Print Books:

Holy Island, list
The Killing of Polly Carter, series, list
The Museum of Failures, list
The Black Cat Murders, series

Monthly challenge pick - to be determined once the challenge is posted.

My July plans:
✓The Widows’ Guide to Murder
✓Say You'll Remember Me
✓The Locked Ward
✓Forget Me Not
✓The Busybody Book Club

My hopefuls, if time allows:
✓A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
✓Rules for Ruin
The Lightning Bottles
Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

PACKING HEAT
✔️The Happy Bottom Riding Club: 10 Aug
✔️The Diary of a Bookseller 15 Aug
✔️A Burglar's Guide to the City 4 Aug

HISSY-FIC
✔️A House for Mr Biswas, 29 Aug
✔️The Silent Boy 23 Aug
✔️Leaving Van Gogh Carol Wallace 24 Aug
✔️The Paris Hours Alex George 24 Aug
✔️Last Twilight in Paris 23 Aug
✔️The Invention of Hugo Cabret 22 Aug
✔️Three Hours in Paris Cara Black 25 Aug
✔️The Paris Bookseller Kerri Maher 24 Aug
✔️Bridge to Bat City 14 Aug
✔️Fever 1793 2 Aug
✔️Moloka'i 4 Aug
✔️Last Night at the Telegraph Club 22 Aug
✔️The Marriage of Opposites 25 Aug
✔️The Briar Club 5 Aug
✔️Carnegie's Maid 25 Aug
✔️The Lost Carousel of Provence 21 Aug
✔️Candle Island Lauren Wolk 24 Aug

GET A ROOM
✔️The Lost Manuscript Cathy Bonidan 27 Aug
✔️Once You're Mine 3 Aug
✔️Butcher & Blackbird 18 Aug
✔️Golden Boy 26 Aug
✔️The Little Provence Book Shop 27 Aug
✔️Ramen Assassin 17 Aug

SIGH-FAN
✔️Cursed Cocktails 26 Aug
✔️The Thief Lord 25 Aug
✔️Catching Fire 22 Aug
✔️The Hunger Games 23 Aug
✔️Clockwork Angel 21 Aug
✔️Boys with Sharp Teeth 12 Aug
✔️John Saturnall's Feast 17 Aug
✔️The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey 21 Aug
✔️The Cocktail Waitress 24 Aug
✔️Jack Faust 31 Aug
✔️Boneshaker 30 Aug
✔️The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer 29 Aug

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️Raising the Horseman 3 Aug
✔️ Hangman 23 Aug

DYING TO READ
✔️Love & Death in Burgundy 22 Aug
✔️Black Diamond 23 Aug
✔️The Devil's Cave 26 Aug
✔️The Quiet Tenant 27 Aug
✔️Who Is Maud Dixon? 11 Aug
✔️Nooks & Crannies 13 Aug
✔️You Can Run 20 Aug
✔️Quarry in the Black 6 Aug
✔️Quarry's Blood 7 Aug
✔️The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza 1 Aug
✔️Surfacing 2 Jul
✔️The Quiet Librarian 8 Aug
✔️Bone in the Throat 19 Aug
✔️A Taste for Murder 19 Aug
✔️The Widows Club 18 Aug
✔️The Sol Majestic 18 Aug
✔️The Tasting Menu: A Short Story 17 Aug
✔️Lady, Go Die! 26 Aug
✔️A Murder Most French 25 Aug
✔️Mastering the Art of French Murder 27 Aug
✔️The Business Trip 31 Aug
✔️History Lessons 31 Aug
✔️Time Bomb 30 Aug

UNUSAL SELLING POINT
✔️Choice 9 Aug
✔️Godshot 26 Aug
✔️Runaway 16 Aug
✔️Young Jane Young 27 Aug

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You Look Mahvelous
Ugly Once a Month Pretty the Rest of the Time
Genres

25 in 25

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group
✔️I Kill Killers 30 Aug

EVERYONE Has Read This But Me
✔️The Running Club [July] 1 Aug

You'll Love This One!
✔️A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping 18 Aug
✔️The Giver of Stars 29 Aug

A List as Long as My Arm


Turf Wars



Tineye - http://labs.tineye.com/color/

I'm going to be working on that today.

My list isn't well organized this month so I'm not sure what I'll get to, but my goal is to read:

✓A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping (YLTO monthly challenge)
✓Bookshops & Bonedust
✓How to Age Disgracefully (YLTO group read)
Too Old for This (YLTO theme) - if I can get a library copy
✓What Happened to the McCrays?
✓The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

My maybes:
Tom Lake
Are You Mad at Me?
Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
The Lightning Bottles

I considered A Witch's Guide but I don't own it (yet).

I have it from the library, so it will depend on how quickly I can get to it. Otherwise, I'll pick something else for the challenge. Same with What Happened to the McCrays?

I checked mine, and they don't have any copies, including electronic on Libby.

I was fortunate to have put a hold on it early so I got it right away. I can't renew it though because there is a waitlist. I hope to read it early in the month, as soon as I finish Rules for Ruin.

My August plans:

The Stone Angel, theme, buddy, list
Free the Darkness, list
Badlands, 2025 release
The Light Through the Leaves, list
Reel of Fortune, monthly challenge, series
Outback, list (currently reading)
The Lotus Shoes, list
Hula, list

PACKING HEAT
✔️The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration & Displacement 27 Sep
✔️Mao's Last Dancer 11 Sep
✔️Upstream: Selected Essays 11 Sep
✔️Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown, 2 Sep
✔️Confessions of a Bookseller, 4 Sep
✔️The Penguin Book of Hell 4 Sep
✔️Darwin's Dangerous Idea:Evolution and the Meanings of Life 10 Sep

HISSY-FIC
✔️Abigail 26 Sep
✔️The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois 26 Sep
✔️Butterfly Yellow 24 Sep
✔️The Court Dancer 24 Sep
✔️The Fox Was Ever the Hunter 22 Sep
✔️Long Island 27 Sep
✔️Anita de Monte Laughs Last 28 Sep
✔️The Painted Bird 28 Sep
✔️The Library Thief 28 Sep
✔️The Sun Also Rises 17 Sep
✔️ Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes 13 Sep
✔️The Hungry Tide 4 Sep
✔️The Mission House, 6 Sep
✔️ Narcopolis 6 Sep
✔️Shell 7 Sep
✔️Beneath a Marble Sky J3 Sep
✔️True Crime 2 Sep
✔️The Bookseller's Secret Michelle Gable 8 Sep

L'LL GRAY CELLS
✔️The Kreutzer Sonata 12 Sep
✔️The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 18 Sep

GET A ROOM
✔️A Proposal They Can't Refuse 25 Sep
✔️Doña Barbara 22 Sep
✔️Until August 20 Sep
✔️Take Me Apart 22 Sep
✔️Sleeping with the Frenemy 21 Sep
✔️The Mistake 27 Sep
✔️I Am Justice 28 Sep
✔️The Hate You Drink 29 Sep
✔️Nightwork 30 Sep
✔️Securing Jane 18 Sep
✔️Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion 17 Sep
✔️ The Christmas Promise 15 Sep
✔️.Aristotle &Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 15 Sep
✔️Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World 20 Sep
✔️ The Summer Girls 15 Sep
✔️.The Swimming-Pool Library 15 Sep
✔️Love and Rum 19 Sep
✔️ Back Passage 7 Sep
✔️The Lion's Daughter 10 Sep
✔️One Dark Kiss 10 Sep

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️Monstrilio 27 Sep
✔️Cat Out of Hell 5 Sep
✔️The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs 11 Sep
✔️Off Season 12 Sep
✔️Incidents Around the House 12 Sep
✔️The House 18 Sep

SIGH=FAN
✔️Ink Blood Sister Scribe 25 Sep
✔️Satantango 23 Sep
✔️R.U.R. / War with the Newts 21 Sep
✔️The Heartbeat Thief 30 Sep
✔️Pick the Lock 30 Sep
✔️Song of Silver, Flame Like Night 20 Sep .
✔️Scorpius Rising 18 Sep
✔️Penric’s Mission 17 Sep
✔️The Ring of Solomon 16 Sep
✔️The Wolves of Willoughby Chase 13 Sep
✔️The Undetectables 13 Sep
✔️Hexes and Vexes, 16 Sep
✔️Forest of a Thousand Lanterns 16 Sep
✔️Vortex Conundrum 16 Sep
✔️Full Speed to a Crash Landing 18 Sep
✔️Song of Ariel 11 Sep
✔️Succubus on Top 5 Sep
✔️The Iron Duke 1 Sep
✔️Johannes Cabal the Necromancer 6 Sep
✔️A Practicum in Perjury 4 Sep
✔️The Inventor's Secret, 3 Sep
✔️The Cabinet of Wonders 8 Sep
✔️The Rithmatist 1Sep
✔️Incarceron 7 Sep
✔️The Difference Engine 2 Sep
✔️The Princess Search: a Retelling of The Ugly Duckling 5 Sep
✔️Ilium 10 Sep
✔️Pestilence 1 Sep

DYING TO READ
✔️Suddenly a Murder 21 Sep.
✔️All Shall Be Well 22 Sep
✔️Acqua Alta 25 Sep
✔️Sun Storm 22 Sep
✔️The Draining Lake 27 Sep
✔️Bullet Train 23 Sep
✔️Hypothermia 23 Sep
✔️Where Sleeping Girls Lie 24 Sep
✔️The Golden Cage 23 Sep
✔️Ace of Spades 20 Sep
✔️Wine and Punishment 17 Sep
✔️Locked In 25 Sep
✔️A Cutthroat Business 17 Sep
✔️Louisiana Hotshot 17 Sep
✔️That Left Turn at Albuquerque 14 Sep
✔️Left for Dead 3 Sep
✔️The Bangalore Detectives Club, 2 Sep
✔️Close Quarters, :Cameron Curtis| 9 Sep
✔️Even Money, 3 Sep
✔️The Cinderella Murder, 8 Sep
✔️Murder in Chinatown, 5 Sep
✔️ A Snowball in Hell 8 Sep
✔️Hell or High Water 3 Sep
✔️The Beverly Hills Beatles Burglary 13 Sep
✔️Beaches, Bungalows & Burglaries 14 Sep
✔️Murder on a Mystery Tour 14 Sep
✔️Death in the 12th House: Where Neptune Rules 18 Sep
✔️The Last Time She Died 26 Sep

UNUSAL SELLING POINT
✔️Summer 26 Sep
✔️Continental Drift 12 Sep
✔️Piecing Me Together 23 Sep
✔️Swann’s Way 14 Sep
✔️Furia 28 Sep
✔️Journey to the End of the Night,21 Sep



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✔️The Roaring Days of Zora Lily 24 Sep


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A List as Long as My Arm

Turf Wars

I started planning last night and then I got sidetracked.

I have a few that I'll definitely be reading and quite a few that I'd like to read for next month. My hopefuls may get swapped out for other books depending on how much time I have for physical books, my mood, what I need for challenges and library availability.

My planned reads:
✓My Sister's Grave
✓I Found You
✓All the Colors of the Dark

My hopefuls:
✓Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
Imposter Syndrome
The Forget-Me-Not Library
The Ferryman
The Women on Platform Two
✓A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea
✓Chomp (or other children's book)

Here's what I've come up with for September.

The Roaring Days of Zora Lily (Group themed read),
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, monthly challenge, list challenge,
All the Lonely People, list
Never Far Away, list
The Black Cat Murders
Badlands, 2025 release, series
Cold Island, 2025 release, list

PACKING HEAT
✔️Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan 8 Oct
✔️Nuclear War: A Scenario 15 Oct
✔️The Beautiful Something Else 23 Oct
✔️Fish On, Fish Off 14 Oct
✔️Nothing Good Can Come from This 23 Oct
✔️The Greatest Salesman in the World 12 Oct

L'll Gray cells
✔️Olivetti 13 Oct
✔️Light Enough to Float 7 Oct

HISSY-FIC
✔️Liar's Winter: An Appalachian Novel 13 Oct
✔️Darktown 9 Oct
✔️When We Were Orphans 28 Oct
✔️Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book 29 Oct
✔️English Creek 29 Oct
✔️Lightning Men 9 Oct
✔️An Irish Country Practice 3 Oct

GET A ROOM
✔️Prater Violet 30 Oct
✔️Wine People 21 Oct
✔️The Wedding Truce 20 Oct
✔️The Three of Us 21 Oct
✔️Our Country Friends 19 Oct
✔️Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories 4 Oct
✔️Nero, 4 Oct
✔️His Second Chance 1 Oct
✔️How About No 3 Oct
✔️Now You're Mine 5 Oct
✔️My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up 2 Oct
✔️Deep Cuts 3 Oct
✔️Love Bites 2 Oct
✔️The Wedding People 17 Oct

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️The Stepford Wives 30 Oct
✔️The Children on the Hill 10 Oct
✔️The Night Guest 23 Oct
✔️Salt Slow 14 Oct
✔️Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery 20 Oct
✔️Mary 16 Oct
✔️The Three Impostors 6 Oct

SIGH-FAN
✔️Pedro Páramo 31 Oct
✔️The Night Raven 14 Oct
✔️Transition 25 Oct
✔️ A Forgery of Fate 8 Oct
✔️Empire of Sand 8 Oct
✔️The Night Tiger 9 Oct
✔️Djinn City 8 Oct
✔️The Crane Wife 11 Oct
✔️Blob: A Love Story 13 Oct
✔️The Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore and Bar 1 Oct
✔️The Palace of Illusions 16 oct
✔️The Payback 6 Oct
✔️The Player of Games 27 Oct

UNUSAL SELLING POINT
✔️The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee 1 Oct
✔️Should We Stay or Should We Go 21 Oct

DYING TO READ
✔️The Big Lie 24 Oct
✔️Exit Music 27 Oct
✔️One Fatal Secret 27 Oct
✔️[book:The Complaints 27 Oct
✔️The Secret of Brimley Manor 23 Oct
✔️Reach,30 Oct
✔️The Transmigration of Bodies 31 Oct
✔️Nutshell 30 Oct
✔️The Impossible Dead,30 Oct
✔️One Night 22 Oct
✔️The Reunion Party 22 Oct
✔️Best Friends Forever 22 Oct
✔️The Holiday 21 Oct
✔️The Little Old Lady Strikes Back 25 Oct
✔️Death at a Country Mansion 28 Oct
✔️On Her Majesty's Secret Service 28 Oct
✔️Confessional 28 Oct
✔️The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly 25 Oct
✔️The Couple At Table Six, 20 Oct
✔️Dead Man's Wine 20 Oct
✔️The Night Out 19 Oct
✔️Wife, Mother, Liar 19 Oct
✔️The Party on Laurel Street 19 Oct
✔️The Surprise Party 18 Oct
✔️First Date 18 Oct
✔️The Fake Date 18 Oct
✔️Mother Knows Best 22 Oct
✔️The Wedding Murders 17 Oct
✔️The Garden Party, 16 Oct
✔️The Hotel 17 Oct
✔️Never Blame the Gardener 13 Oct
✔️Bones of Coral 12 Oct
✔️Choked Off 14 Oct
✔️Above Ground 11 Oct
✔️ Warn Me When It's Time 12 Oct
✔️An Ale of Two Cities 10 Oct
✔️Enter Pale Death 10 Oct
✔️Do Not Disturb 11 Oct
✔️The Frozen Shroud 12 Oct
✔️Time of Justice 5 Oct
✔️A Body on the Beach 6 Oct
✔️Dead End 5 Oct
✔️The Quarry 26 Oct
✔️The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! 26 Oct
✔️Stonemouth 26 Oct
✔️Basket Case 6 Oct
✔️A Body Out at Sea 2 Oct
✔️An American in Scotland 2 Oct
✔️Blood Is Blood 3 Sep
✔️Always Watching 2 Oct
✔️Death and Croissants 29 Oct
✔️The Venom Business 31 Oct
✔️Untouchable, 29 Oct
✔️Ripples 29 Oct
✔️The Dreamland Murders 1 Oct
✔️Quarry's Deal 4 Oct
✔️The Holy Thief 11 Oct
✔️Crimes of Love 12 Oct



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✔️I Found You 10 Oct

Turf Wars

I will likely need to add or change books once the toppler and monthly challenge are posted, so I'll post my plans in a few days. It's that time of year where I need to wrap up challenges and still have books from NetGalley and group reads to keep up with, so I always have too many planned for the month. Plus, I think my reading has slowed a bit lately.

Ok, so I'm not sure I'll be able to read all of this, but my goal for October is:

✓Impostor Syndrome (finish)
✓The Women on Platform Two (finish)
✓Brigands & Breadknives
The Forget-Me-Not Library
Trust
✓Too Old for This
✓What Have You Done?
✓'Salem's Lot
The Life She Was Given
Across the Green Grass Fields
The Ferryman (start if I have time)

Goal for October:

Never Far Away
Don't Let the Forest In
Swamp Spook
White Fang
The House of Fortune
The Night Raven
The Curse of Braeburn Castle
Say Her Name
Work in Progress

PACKING HEAT
✔️Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography 4 Nov
✔️ Mindful Walking with Headspace: Walks to Connect 3 Nov
✔️My Mama, Cass: A Memoir 21 Nov
✔️Floating in Darkness - A Journey of Evolution 18 Nov
✔️Hector and the Search for Happiness. 16 Nov
✔️Empire of the Summer Moon.15 Nov
✔️Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, & the Battle for Chicago 4 Nov
✔️The Science of James Bond: From Bullets to Bowler Hats to Boat Jumps, the Real Technology Behind 007's Fabulous Films 22 Nov

LI'L GRAY CELLS
✔️Colin Fischer 22 Nov

HISSY-FIC
✔️Uncle Tom's Children 18 Nov
✔️Sugar 21 Nov
✔️Esperanza Rising 18 Nov
✔️Julie of the Wolves 17 Nov
✔️Night Train to Rigel, 16 Nov
✔️The Lion Women of Tehran 17 Nov
✔️Shuggie Bain 13 Nov
✔️All the Pretty Horses 2 Nov
✔️Carrie Soto Is Back 15 Nov
✔️Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop 7 Nov
✔️Salvación 16 Nov
✔️Akin 5 Nov
✔️The Lightning Queen 2 Nov
✔️Sweet Thunder 2 Nov
✔️Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era 22 Nov
✔️All Quiet on the Western Front 7 Nov

GET A ROOM
✔️The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy 23 Nov
✔️Peony in Love 20 Nov
✔️Lucy by the Sea 19 Nov
✔️Felix Ever After 16 Nov
✔️Evvie Drake Starts Over 19 Nov
✔️Love Letters from Montmartre 21 Nov
✔️It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake 15 Nov
✔️Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist 19 Nov
✔️The Hard Truth About Sunshine 6 Nov
✔️ The Duke I Once Knew 7 Nov
✔️Olga Dies Dreaming 15 Nov
✔️Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? 14 Nov
✔️Spencer Cohen, Book One 14 Nov
✔️Duchess by Day Mistress by Night 9 Nov
✔️Something Beautiful 10 Nov

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
✔️The Taking of Jake Livingston 21 Nov
✔️The Boys from Brazil 11 Nov
✔️The Acorn 10 Nov
✔️The Elementals 17 Nov
✔️Ashley Bell 13 Nov
✔️From the Dust Returned 9 Nov

SIGH~FAN
✔️The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne 23 Nov
✔️Alanna: The First Adventure 20 Nov
✔️Ariadne 18 Nov
✔️Marikit and the Ocean of Stars 2 Nov
✔️The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida 14 Nov
✔️The Search for Macadamia: a Quest Most Noble 7 Nov
✔️The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories 13 Nov
✔️Eragon 13 Nov
✔️All Systems Red 7 Nov

UNUSAL SELLING POINT
✔️Joan Is Okay 22 Nov
✔️What the Moon Saw 1 Nov
✔️Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 23 Nov
✔️Maniac Magee 23 Nov
✔️On the Road 26 Nov
✔️When the Music Hits 8 Nov
✔️Other Voices, Other Rooms 9 Nov

DYING TO READ
✔️Darling Rose Gold 17 Nov
✔️So Long as You Both Shall Live 10 Nov
✔️The Wings of the Sphinx 20 Nov
✔️Djibouti 20 Nov
✔️Marple: Twelve New Mysteries 23 Nov
✔️Beautiful Ugly 17 Nov
✔️Sadie 18 Nov
✔️The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu 9 Nov
✔️Parker Pyne Investigates 17 Nov
✔️Poirot Investigates 21 Nov
✔️Aunt Dimity's Good Deed 8 Nov
✔️The Last Story of Mina Lee 14 Nov
✔️Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii 19 Nov
✔️Raisins and Almonds 10 Nov
✔️Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine 11 Nov
✔️Pecan Pies and Homicides 11 Nov
✔️Caramel Pecan Roll Murder 11 Nov
✔️The Mystery of Acorn Academy 11 Nov
✔️Bridges to Burn 6 Nov
✔️The Penguin Pool Murder 10 Nov
✔️ The Cat Who Sniffed Glue 10 Nov
✔️Spider Lake: A Northern Lakes Mystery 19 Nov
✔️Here One Moment 4 Nov
✔️The Book of Illusions 8 Nov
✔️The Children Return 6 Nov
✔️The Hermit of Eyton Forest 22 Nov
✔️Mr. Peanut 6 Nov
✔️Peanut Elegy: An Appalachian Tale 4 Nov
✔️The Woman in Suite 11 5 Nov
✔️Dead Mountain 5 Nov
✔️A Sudden, Fearful Death 5 Nov
✔️The Twisted Women's Book Club 12 Nov
✔️The Big Fix 24 Nov
✔️The Confession of Brother Haluin 9 Nov
✔️Cliff Diver 1 Nov
✔️Essex Poison 1 Nov

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✔️The Lions of Fifth Avenue Fiona Davis 16 Nov
✔️The Stolen Queen Fiona Davis 12 Nov
The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett
✔️The Compound 8 Nov

Turf Wars

November's plans (so far):


The Tainted Cup, group themed
The Warm Hands of Ghosts, list
The Unmaking of June Farrow, list
Hemlock & Silver, list
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, group themed - if I have time
Be Buried in the Rain, list
South of the Buttonwood Tree, list
Boys in the Valley, list
West With Giraffes, list

Monthly Challenge - tba

Obviously I'm laser focused on trying to finish badge 4.

Janice wrote: "November's plans (so far):


The Tainted Cup, group themed
The Warm Hands of Ghosts, list
The Unmaking of June Farrow, list
[book:Hemlock & Silver|..."

I can see Badge 4 on the horizon for you! I am determined to finish mine this month!

I just bought White Crow because I'd finished all my print books planned for October and need a book with crow in the title. I'll start it today. If I finish all that I planned for November, I'll need to read 10 in December to finish.

Janice wrote: "...Obviously I'm laser focused on trying to finish badge 4."

You definitely are! I'm sure you'll do it. I usually try to get two badges, but this year I think I struggled with 'themes' and was too hard on my books. I'm still determined to get badge one done though and I'm planning to read Daughters of Olympus in November to wrap it up.

PACKING HEAT
Stay True, Hua Hsu 208 p
Vagabond: A Memoir Tim Curry
Basic Mexican Spanish
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
On the Road
Sexy Beasts Wensley Clarkson 352p
Stay True, Hua Hsu

HISSY-FIC
Snow Orphan Pamuk 463p
The Last Collection: A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel Jeanne Mackin
The Journeyer
The Pearl, John Steinbeck

GET A ROOM
Emergency Contact Mary H.K. Choi
Wanted
Thai Formula Chance
Off the Leash Rupert Fawcett

SIGH FAN
The Third Lynx. timothy zahn
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Becky Chambers
The River Has Roots Amal El-Mohtar
Where Shadows Meet
Accomplice to the Villain
The Society of Unknowable Objects
Evil Thing
The Beast Within
Fire Study
Sea Change
Closed and Common Orbit
Poor Unfortunate Soul
Greenteeth

BUMP IN THE NIGHT
Weight of Blood


UNUSAL SELLING POINT

DYING TO READ
A Body Down the Lane, P.F. Ford
Loose Ends Don Easton
A Blind Eye
The Good Girl
The Heretic's Apprentice
A Body at the Farmhouse
The Devil's Code
Leaving Time
The Tenant
The Adventures of Nero Wolfe, Collection 1
Parents Weekend
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