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My 2022 challenges:January Marathon Challenge (2022)DONE!!!My 2021 challenges:
New Year's Resolutions (six to eighteen months)
Weekly Wonder 2022 Challenge
Bookworms Take Shelfies
Purge That Pile 2022
Gratitude Jar
January 2022 Scavenger Hunt DONE!!!
March 2022 Scavenger Hunt DONE!!!
April 2022 Scavenger Hunt
2022: Trip Down Memory Lane ... 1926?
2022 Monthly Keyword Challenge
2022 Musician Challenge: Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz
February 2022 Scattergories DONE!!!
March 2022 Scattergories DONE!!!
April 2022 Scattergories
2022 Words in a Word Game #17: Red Robin (2/15 to 5/15) my working list
Herbs and Spices A-Z Spell It Out!! 2022
Random Dates 2022 (March 1st to May 31st)
My Year in Books 2021Previous Years:
2021 (Personal) Reading Challenge DONE!!
Duo or Trios 2021 my Duos or Trios 2021 masterlist below
November: A Novel Celebration
November 2021 Scattergories DONE!!
(my working list for any current Scattergories)
TBR Twins November 2021
TBR Twins December 2021
December 2021 Advent Calendar Challenge
December 2021 Judge a Book By Its Cover (my Judge a Book By Its Cover masterlist below)
December 2021 Scavenger Hunt: 'Twas the Night DONE!! (my December 2021 Scavenger Hunt: 'Twas the Night masterlist below)
December 2021 Scattergories (my working list for any current Scattergories)
December 2021 Easy as 1 2 3 (my Easy as 1 2 3 masterlist below)
Two by Two (six month challenge)
November 2021 Clean It Out
December 2021 Clean It Out
My Year in Books 2020Open-Ended and Repeated Challenges:
My Year in Books 2019
My Year in Books 2018
My Year in Books 2017
Series OnlyChallenges I have or would Like to Propose(d)
Four Seasons Challenge (my Four Seasons masterlist below)
Personal Challenge: 101+ (my entry with notes below)
A Pyramid of (TBR) Books
Spell the State Part I - my working list
TBR Twins (my own Twin Read booklist below)
When I Grow Up my working list
Eye of the Beholder Challenge (choose titles for each other)
My own version of Challenge #1
Challenges I want to join
My Books Read or To Be Read (not for challenges)Books read for various Book Groups
Audiobooks
Series I Want to Continue, Complete, or Begin
Good reference links:
Series Book Lists (on ŷ)
44 Short New Books to Crush Your Reading Challenge
69 New and Upcoming Debut Novels to Discover
News and Interviews (and book lists)
Series Lists
44 Short Books to Help You Reach Your Reading Challenge Goal - particularly look at message #15
ŷ Challenge Page references:
Open Ended Challenges
The Games Room Room
Monthly Challenges
Quarterly Challenges
Six Month Challenges
Yearly Challenges
The Listener
The Lost Challenges Discussion page
2022 Reading Challenge Group homepage
books read for Book Groups (including not on ŷ):B&B (Books & Brew): 1st Wed
A/T (Afterthoughts): 2nd Tues
HL&L (Hadley Ladies & Lad(s)): 3rd Wed
BRG (Berkshire Reading Group): Friday mornings
2021:
Completed:
10/6
11/2
11/24
12/5
12/14Not Yet Completed:
12/#
2022:
Completed:
1/19
2/1
2/7
2/12
3/7
3/27
4/4
4/18
5/5
5/15
6/9
8/2
10/3Not Yet Completed:
JAN:
(B&B)
(A/T)
(BRG)FEB: done!!!
MAR:
(HL&L)
(BRG)APR: formerly
(now changed)(B&B)
(A/T)
(BRG)MAY:
(A/T)
(HL&L)JUN:
(HL&L)JUL:
(B&B)
(A/T)
(HL&L)AUG:
(A/T)
(HL&L)SEP:
(B&B)
(A/T)
(HL&L)OCT:
(A/T)
(HL&L)NOV:
(B&B)
(A/T)
(HL&L)DEC:
(B&B)
(A/T)
(HL&L)Books from years previous to joining:
2021:
2020:
2019:
Reread?:
My Books Read Master List (above)
I am choosing option A: read a short story or poem or essay every day from Dec. 1 - 24.I will be reading pieces from this rather eclectic collection:
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, and other books and magazines that may catch my eye along the way, pushing out stuff I've already listed,including poems by these poets:
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, and any others I add along the way...Here's my tentative list:
**1. done!! "Capitalism is Out of this World" by Jill Lepore (in New York Times, 11/7/2021)
**2. done!! "Thanksgiving 2006" (page 31), "In Newport I watch My Father Lay His Cheek to a Beached Dolphin's Wet Back" (page 22), and "Ode to Masturbation" (page 61), all by Ocean Vuong and in Night Sky with Exit Wounds
**3. done!! "How to Make Cornbread, or Thoughts On Being an Appalachian From Pennsylvania Who Calls Virginia Home But Now Lives In Georgia," by Jim Minick (page 356 in Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy)
4. "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" by Virginia Woolf, in Virginia Woolf Reader, and "Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown" by Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
or
4. "The Nameless City" by H.P. Lovecraft in The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories
5. STORY by Anthony Veasna So in Afterparties
6. POEM by Alice Walker and/or POEM by Mary Oliver
7. STORY by Angela Carter
8. "The Companions of the Holy Cross: A Vocation to Prayer Companionship" by Joanna Bowen Gillespie in Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church or STORY from Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
9. POEM by Pablo Neruda and/or STORY by Jorge Luis Borges
10. "Bite-Me-Not or Fleur de Fur" by Tanith Lee in The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories
11. "Catalysts for the Gospel: Adelaide Teague Case and Episcopal Women in Education, 1940-70" by Sheryl A Kujawa-Holbrook in Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church
12. STORY by Anthony Veasna So in Afterparties
13. ESSAY re Appalachia from Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy and/or What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
14. "Johanna" by Jane Yolen in The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories
15. POEM and/or ESSAY: Wendell Berry
16. POEM by Sylvia Plath
17. "'Sacrificial Adventure': Episcopal Women and the Struggle for Racial Equality" by Jacqueline Schmitt in Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church
18. POEM by Mary Oliver
19. ESSAY from Be Gay, Do Comics
20. ESSAY re Appalachia from Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy or What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
21. ESSAY re Appalachia from Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy or What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
22. ESSAY from Make It Scream, Make It Burn or STORY from Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens
23. POEM by Alice Walker and/or POEM by Mary Oliver
24!!! STORY by Jorge Luis Borges
and if I'm up for it:
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edited 11/29/21 to reflect items that have "caught my eye along the way"!
link to "real" entry: /topic/show/...
My Challenge Master List (above)
Four Seasons ChallengeDuration: Open Ended from 11/26/2021
This is my unedited reading plan
2/46 books
Section 1: Spell the Words - Spell out each letter of the words below by using book titles, series names, author's or main character's first or last initials.
SEASON
1. S:
2. E:
(by Ellen Datlow)3. A:
4. S:
5. O:
6. N:
Spell out the seasons: WINTER directly below, the rest at the bottom my "comment":
7. W:
8. I:
9. N:
10. T:
11. E:
12. R:
Section 2: Seasonal Activities (can these be different than these examples)
13. Fireplace Cuddling: Read a book where characters is a sit in front of a fire OR whose cover has flames or a fireplace on the cover (show cover)
** 14. done! Gardening: Read a book where a character enjoys gardening work OR whose cover has a garden or potted plants on the cover (show cover):
(Lucy and her mother love gardening work, along with cooking)**15. done! Swimming: Read a book where a character goes swimming outdoors OR whose cover shows a water scene (show cover):
**16. done! Raking Leaves: Read a book that takes place during the Fall/Autumn OR with a red, orange, or yellow cover (show cover):
Section 3: Holidays
17. New Year's Day: Read a book where the main character starts something new (could be a job, relationship, etc) OR gets a new beginning (moves to a new town/city, etc):
18. Holi: Read a book where good triumphs over evil OR where you find the letters HOLI (in any order) in the title:
HO (Hideous) LI (Space Trilogy) or The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country19. Midsummer: Read a book set in any country or state listed in the left side blue box on the Midsummer Wikipedia page. Tell us the location you chose.
I will choose one of these: Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Spain, Scotland, or Wales, most likely Wales, maybe a novel about Glendower/Glyndwr:
**20. done!! Thanksgiving: Read a book where the main character is family oriented OR with Thanksgiving mentioned in the text. Give us a page/loc#: "Thanksgiving 2006 (page 31 in Night Sky with Exit Wounds)
: page 31 "Thanksgiving 2006"Section 4: Birthday Gift
21. Birthday: Read a book that was published in the month that you were born (May). Tell us the original publication date: so much to choose from! Here are some possibilities, published in May but from a variety of years!
2021:
1972:
1963:
(in
)
1955:
(pb published May 1967)
1953:
1950:
1945:, published May 1975)
1944:(contained in
1943:(and maybe also
)
1942:
1940:
1930:
1927:
22. New to You: Read a book from a New To You Author:
Yaşar Kemal or
Vladimir Nabokov23. Favorite Color: Read a book that features your favorite color - can be a color word in the title or on the cover (show cover): my "favorite color" is something blueish-greenish-purpleish, so my choices will be among these books:
24. Something You Enjoy: Read a book that features a character you like or an author you love reading or a cover/story that features your hobby (quilting, gardening, sewing, reading, photography). Tell us what you chose to read about:
knitting:
or reading:
or an author I love: Fae Myenne Ng
Section 5: Every Season is BOOK READING season.
25. Continue/Finish a Series: Read a book that will add to or complete a series that you've started reading prior to this challenge: hopefully this will involve one of two series by Neal Shusterman:
or continuing the Unwind series
26. Pop-Up Reads: Read a book that popped out to you and took your interest instantly:
27. Attack of the TBR: Pick a book from your TBR that has been on there for longer than 6 months:
28. Freebie: Read any book you want.
SPRING:
29. S:
30. P:
31. R:
32. I:
33. N:
Natalie Babbitt34. G:
SUMMER:
35. S:
36. U:
(Ursula K. Le Guin)37. M:
(Ian McEwan)38. M:
or
Alberto Manguel39. E:
(Earthseed)40. R:
(Roxane Gay)AUTUMN:
41. A:
42. U:
43. T:
44. U:
45. M:
46. N:
Fae Myenne Ng(edited 11/26/21 to include Jennifer's great idea of attempting all the seasons, especially if this challenge is open-ended!)
My Challenge Master List (above)
December 2021 Judge a Book By Its Cover"Judge A Book By Its Cover" Monthly Challenges
December: 6/6 Conceited: Read 5-6 books
January: ✔Superficial: Read 3-4 books
February: (didn't do officially, but...) 6/6 Conceited: Read 5-6 books
March: ✔Superficial: Read 3-4 books
April: ✔Conceited: Read 5-6 books
May: ✔Superficial: Read 3-4 books
June: ✔Conceited: Read 5-6 books
July: (still in process, none finished yet)
other possible contentenders:
My Challenge Master List (above)
Challenges I'd Like to ProposeI. Take the Long Way There or ADHD is Fun! or Connect the Dots:
a kind of word association challenge, except with books!!
Choose 10 titles that you feel are connected any which way: by association, by color, by author, by cover design, by being referenced in the previous book, or what-have-you. Start with the first title, and choose the others as you go! For an extra challenge, choose two very disconnected books as the first and last titles and somehow create a bridge of books between them.
Julia's Example #1:
1.
--> 2.
--> 3.
(author last name) or
(cover) --> 4. -- > 5. --> 6. --> 7. --> 8. --> 9. --> 10.II. What does it mean to be local or Reading Local
5 to 10 books, at least 1 from each categories, no more than 2 from any category (unless you raise the total number of books read): try to mix-it-up with fiction and nonfiction. You can choose one local for everything or mix it up:
1. local author (e.g. grew up where you live now/you grew up/have ever lived, moved to where you live/grew up/have lived)
2. biography of someone local (same criteria as above)
3. book takes place locally (ditto)
4. book about local specialty (e.g. Hadley, MA and Maple Syrup or Asparagus) (same)
5. book about local history (same)
My Challenge Master List (above)
My own version of Challenge #1
working list of current Scattergories challangeDecember Scattergories:
December Scattergories
Duration: December 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
My preliminary entry:
Recurring Items:
**1. done!! Book Title ('the', 'an' and 'a' should be ignored): Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café
2. Author (first or last name): Laurie Colwin
3. Main Character (first or last name) Laurie Colwin
4. Secondary Character (first or last name): Carl (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)
**5. done!! Place/Setting (either the name of an actual place OR a setting where the book takes place; i.e. for R you could use 'Rome' or 'ranch'): Cafe Funiculi Funicula (Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café) and Hartford, Connecticut (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)
**6. done!! Item on cover (please show the cover and tell us the item or items): clocks (
)And the Specials for December are:
7. Something You Celebrate: Christmas or not-Columbus Day or Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café or a poem in Night Sky with Exit Wounds.
8. A Delicious Food: croissants (Night Sky with Exit Wounds, page 129 and Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, page xxx)
9. Something You Add to Coffee: cream (Night Sky with Exit Wounds, page 129 and Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, page xxx)
10. An Item in Your Amazon Box: Calendar Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
**11. done!! A Noisy/Loud Thing: clang-dong (the sound of the bell above the entrance door to Funiculi Funicula in Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café on page: ) or a child yelling "bang" (in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous on page: xxx)
12. Ends With -N: CHICKEN (Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, cabin, can, children, CORN (in "xxx essay name" in Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy on page xxx and in Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, page xxx), COUSIN (Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café, page xxx, and Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, page xxx), captain, champion, celebration, CLEAN (Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, page xxx), chin, clown, chain, crown, caution, confusion, CONSTELLATION (Night Sky with Exit Wounds), COMPANION (Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church, capitalization, communication, citizen, concentration, common, complain, carbon, cannon, CINNAMON (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, page xxx), cushion, concussion, cartoon, chameleon, clan, crayon, constipation, civilization, corruption, cauldron, curtain, cotton
Your letter is: C
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My Challenge Master List (above)
My (official) December 2021 Scavenger Hunt entrymy preliminary entry:
December Scavenger Hunt - 'Twas The Night
Duration: December 1-31, 2021
I'm hoping for Level Three, aiming for Level Two, and will probably reach Level One(!!):
One: 10-20 words
Two: 21-40 words
Three: 41-50 words
List:
�1. Appear: page 77 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "Under their clothes, goose bumps appear, making their thin, translucent hair rise..."
�2. Bed: page 170 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "Your work at the nail salon has left your back so badly strained the bed has gotten too soft to hold your joints..."
�3. Before: title page of Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café12/1: "Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café"
✔✔�4. Belly: page 59 in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week: "...because I remember looking up at the gentle curve of his belly, and he was a very short man."
�5. Bow: page 123 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "His voice cracked as he mimicked the scene from Titannic where the girl stands at the bow of the ship."
✔✔�6. Bundle: page 109 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "I walk the block with the bundles...", plus page ### in The Rose Code: "'It's not enough to look scrummy,' Osla thought, taking her bundle of letters."
✔✔�7. Cherry: page ### in Night Sky with Exit Wounds: or Ghostwritten, page 59: "She thought you and your coworkers might enjoy it at a cherry-blossom party."
✔✔�8. Children: page 27 in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week: "Young children hear or read stories from earlier eras ..."
✔✔�9. Chimney: page 55 in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week: "... at right angles to the huge firebrick hearth and chimney."
�10. Christmas: page 143 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "Blood so red, so everywhere, it was Christmas in June, he told me."
✔✔�11. Chubby: page 174 in UnSouled: "Honey, you've got your father's stubby, chubby little fingers."
�12. Creature: page 149 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "The house was almost invisible but for the white trim around its edges, like the skeleton of a prehistoric creature."
�13. Dash: page 68 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "... a palm-sized photo of Ronald Reagon taped to the dash."
✔✔�14. Dimple: page ### in Gilded: "He flashed her a smile, showing the dimples that had once made her smile." or page ### in Madeline Finn and the Library Dog (not yet read): something with Mrs Dimple the Librarian
�15. Driver: page 70 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "You edge slowly into the driver's seat, turn to me with a nauseated stare."
✔✔�16. Eight: page ### in The Rose Code: "I've just finished an eight-hour day in an airplane factory..."
✔✔�17. Eye: page 29 in UnSouled: "His eyes get wide as he talks as if he's telling a campfire story."
✔✔�18. Face: page 99 in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week: "Communication that used to be oral, face to face or on the telephone, is now often written, e-mailed, and read."
�19. Finger: page 30 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "Floundering, you placed your index finger at the small of your back, turned slightly, ... then wiggled your finger while making mooing sounds."
✔✔�20. Flash: page 28 in UnSouled: "The flash makes Connor's head pound."
✔✔�21. Fur: page 167 in UnSouled: "I saw this animal covered in fur."
✔✔�22. Hope: page ### Night Sky with Exit Wounds:
�23. Jerk: page 82 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "... with a jerk, detaches her entire lower leg at the knee..."
✔✔�24. Laughed: page ### in The Rose Code: "'Better put my boots back on,' Osla laughed reaching for her diamanté slippers, but Philip swung her up into his arms."
✔✔�25. Lawn: page 118 in UnSouled: "Starkey sits in a lawn chair, his head hanging back."
✔✔�26. Leaves: page 30 in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week: "And to your coronation, among all the wondrous gifts, an 'anonymous hedgehog will send four or five dirty leaves with some fleas on them.'"
✔✔�27. Long: page 24 in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week: "This ahistorical approach seems odd, since the book has been around so long, and isn't an anomaly among my other works."
✔✔�28. Matter: the title of and the epigraph poem ("The Mind is Still") in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week: "Words are my matter."
�29. Moment: page 99 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "He chewed his lip for a moment."
✔✔�30. Mouth: page 60 in UnSouled: "It's just enough to change the shape of his mouth without making him look too weird."
�31. Name: page 215 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "I say it as if it is the only answer to your question--as if a name is also a sound we can be found in."
✔✔�32. Night: title page of Night Sky with Exit Wounds: "Night Sky with Exit Wounds" also from his other book, page 68: "Through my fingers, the night is black construction paper."
✔✔�33. Nose: page ### in The Rose Code: "The metal fought and spat and gave off shavings that clogged her hair and nose so thickly her bathwater turned gray."
✔✔�34. Pack: page 30 in WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration 12/9: "A week to pack up!" and page 124 in UnSouled: "The Juvenile Authority is a pack of idiots."
✔✔�35. Porch: page 56 in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week: "One of the bedroom balconies, intended as a sleeping porch..."
�36. Quick: page 149 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "The apples glowed dimly on their branches, dropping here and there in quick thuds..."
�37. Shouted: page 123 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "Trevor, ahead of me, stood up on his bike, arms out on both sides, and shouted..."
✔✔�38. Sky: page 154 in UnSouled: "It would be a devastating thing if he plucks the moon from the sky."
✔✔�39. Sleigh: page ### in Night Sky with Exit Wounds: "I'm dreaming ... to hear sleigh bells in the snow ..."
✔✔�40. Tiny: page 115 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: "The boy is standing in a tiny yellow kitchen in Hartford." and page 57 in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week: "... it was a tiny, dark room full of shelves, smelling of apples and old pfeffernusse and other pantry things."
�41. Toys: page 63 in Relish: My Life in the Kitchen12/2: "The toys were fairly boring; mostly plastic tourist fare."
�42. Twist: page 39 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: "The twist cap clicks as the men reach for their glasses."
✔✔�43. Wall: page 57 in Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week: "There were plenty of good kitchen cabinets and drawers, and a wall of shelves to keep and display china..."
✔✔�44. Whistle: page ### in Gilded: "He let out a low whistle." or page 64 in The Time Is Now: "Corporation sue people when the words of whistle-blowers cut too close to the truth."
�45. Wild: page 216 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "Trevor who, wild as he was, wouldn't eat veal, wouldn't eat the children of cows."
�46. Window: page 177 in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous12/5: "Sleepless, I'd get dressed, climb through the window--and just walk."
�47. Wink: page ### in The Rose Code: "Mr. Gibbs gave Osla a wink as he opened the doors." also Winston Churchill - find page ###
✔✔�48. Winter: page ### in Night Sky with Exit Wounds: "I opened the shoe box dusted with seven winters & here, sunk in folds of yellow news paper, lies the Colt .45..."
✔✔�49. Word: page 38 ofWords Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week: "In the beginning is the word: one may imagine a language before imagining who speaks it."
�50. Work: in introduction of WE HEREBY REFUSE: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration12/9: "Works for a California State Agency as a typist."
books used:
My Challenge Master List (above)
Easy as 1 2 3December's Books
�1st of Series: A Tale Dark & Grimm (A Tale Dark & Grimm #1) by Adam Gidwitz12/20
�2nd of Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café (Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi) 12/1
3rd of Series: UnSouled (UnWind by Neal Shusterman)
January's Books (tentative)
1.
2.
3.
February's Books (tentative)
1.
2.
3.
Book1 list:
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Bluebird, Bluebird
Elizabeth Peters Presents Malice Domestic
Children of Blood and Bone
Ammie, Come Home
Book2 list:
In a Glass Grimmly
More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
Mary Higgins Clark Presents Malice Domestic
Heaven, My Home
Children of Virtue and Vengeance: Flammende Schatten
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
Book3 list:
The Grimm Conclusion
Stitches in Time
Nancy Pickard Presents Malice Domestic
The Irrational Season
possibilities: Vicky Bliss mysteries, Marvel series, Lord Peter Wimsey, Malazan novels, Elizabeth Peters, Julia Spencer-Fleming
also:
Book4 list:
Isn't It Bromantic?
Two-Part Invention
Book5 list:
My Challenge Master List (above)
My (rather doubtful and emphatically crazy) entry for Personal Challenge 101+:Just like everyone else, I try to keep lists of books I keep hearing about or seeing lists of, or simply being told that I absolutely must read this. In addition are those books recommended for groups I'm in or want to be in or ... Not to mention those books that I feel like I ought to already have read or authors of whose books I ought to have read at least one. *sigh* Plus any titles that I have noticed along the way.
This yearish (ending 2022), I am going to try to plow through as many as I can, adding them to challenges, pushing book groups to choose them (if I can!). I'm going to list those titles here in a consolidated list and will try knock out as many as possible (most definitely not all). Why, I've even finished a few already, since I put up this list!
Wherever applicable, I will, of course, cite sources, but otherwise assume "word of mouth" or of newspaper or magazine. Some of the "mouth's" have been teachers, professors, and college syllabi, sadly never finished ... or begun!
*The above 22 books are from Literary Hub's 22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall, published 8/31/2021. They all look very intriguing.
*Because of LH list, I feel compelled (for a variety of reasons) to also include the following books:
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here are some from NPR's Books We Love 2021 that I want/need to read:
books fitting the description of "must-read" being read/about to be read for book groups:
and
graphic and/or YA novels recommended and/or reviewed by librarians, NYT, Kirkus, NPR, LJ, etc.:
and
other must read or well-reviewed titles:
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works of nonfiction:
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Finished Titles (from the list): 11-???
My Challenge Master List (above)
audiobooks2023:
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev 1/2023
The Fire Next Time 1/2023
We Should All Be Feminists 1/2023
Band of Sisters 1/2023
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story 1/2023
2022:
Why Religion?: A Personal Story 12/2022
Thank You for Listening 11/2022
My Oxford Year 11/2022
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest 11/2022
Exit West 10/2022
The Underground Railroad 10/2022
Beach Read 10/2022
Book Lovers 10/2022
The Witches of New York 10/2022
Love on the Brain 9/2022
Borrower of the Night
Stuck with You 5/2022)
Ghostwritten 1/2022
Ghost Girl in the Corner 1/2022
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz 1/2022
The Personal Librarian 2/2022
The Mountains Sing 2/2022
The Hate U Give 2/2022
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains 3/2022
I Couldn't Love You More 3/2022
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake 4/2022
Tell the Wolves I'm Home 4/2022
Crying in H Mart
People We Meet on Vacation 5/2022
Music Is History 5/2022
The Travelling Cat Chronicles 5/2022
2021:
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (read by author) 9/2021
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
When We Believed in Mermaids 11/2021
Half Broke 11/2021
Before the Coffee Gets Cold 11/2021
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café 12/2021
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 12/2021
The Rose Code 12/2021
The Cellist of Sarajevo 12/2021
prior to 2021:
Creative Quest
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Not My Father's Son
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Begun but not still unfinished:
Einstein: His Life and Universe
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate � Discoveries from a Secret World (begun 2020)
Shadowshaper Legacy (begun 2020)
When No One is Watching (begun 2020 or 21)
Year of Wonders (begun 9/2021)
The Lost Apothecary (begun 10/2021)
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week (begun 12/2021)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (begun 9/2021 and 1/2022
Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living (begun 1/2022)
Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus (begun 2/2022)
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (begun 2/2022)
My Beloved World (begun 3/2022 - may not finish)
Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions (begun 4/2022)
Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit (begun 5/2022 - may not finish)
The Plot (begun 5/2022 - may not finish)
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You (begun 5/2022)
Giovanni's Room
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (begun in 2022)
I have borrowed from the library but haven't begun:
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Vanishing Half
The Great Alone
The Truth About Twinkie Pie
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
I own but haven't begun:
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Only Woman in the Room
The Other Boleyn Girl
Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Windup Girl
Library: An Unquiet History
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
Leonardo da Vinci
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Parable of the Talents
Wild Seed
Perdido Street Station
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Half Empty
Orange Is the New Black
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Easy Street: The Hard Way
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do about It
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
We're Going to Need More Wine
A Mind of Her Own
a 2022 audiobook challenge: The Listener
My Books Read Master List (above)
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Duos OR Trios Duration:
Object: Read 2 or 3 books for each category.
Please post the cover for the tasks that ask for covers.
Level 1: Read 2 books for each category.
Level 2: Read 3 books for each category.
Categories
1. Same series: CS Lewis Space Trilogy or Hunger Games or ...
2. Same author: (used Georgette Heyer last year)
3. Same word in the title: one of these:
Kitchen:
and ...Cooking:
Home: see above and Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Appalachia:
Vanish: The Vanishing Half The Vanished Days The Elephant Vanishes
Heart: Heartless Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks Wholehearted Faith
Red: Where the Red Fern Grows Snow White, Blood Red Red at the Bone
Last: Last Night at the Telegraph Club
also: Library, Quiet
4. Same first or last name of the authors: (used David for 2021-22)
Michael: Michael Lewis, Barbara Michaels, and Michael Pollan:
or Susan: Susan CainQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan OrleanThe Library Book, Susan SontagOn Photography, Susanna ClarkePiranesi
or John: Sea of Tranquility Ways of Seeing
or Robin(son)
or
5. Same genre: (last year: graphic novels): fiction, romance, Ownvoice, graphic novels, historical fiction, specfic
6. A book from your TBR - where ever it is
7. A book from a duology or trilogy
8. A cover that is drawn:
9. A New Release - published with 6 months of this challenge.
10. A book that completes a challenge - can be from any group:
11. A favorite author - may be more than one author
12. Published before 2010: A Lesson Before Dying
13. Set elsewhere in the world.
14. Published in the month or year you were born.
15. A cover that is your favorite color.
Challenge Rules
*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.
My Challenge Masterlist (above)
I. Take the Long Way There or ADHD is Fun! or Connect the Dots: a kind of word association challenge, except with books!!
Choose 10 titles that you feel are connected any which way: by association, by color, by author, by cover design, by being referenced in the previous book, or what-have-you. Start with the first title, and choose the others as you go! For an extra challenge, choose two very disconnected books as the first and last titles and somehow create a bridge of books between them.
Julia's Example #1:
1.
--> 2.
--> 3.
(author last name) or
(cover) --> 4. -- > 5. --> 6. --> 7. --> 8. --> 9. --> 10.My Challenge Master List (above)
Challenges I'd like to propose
New Year's Resolutions (my working list)Duration: Six Months - Eighteen Months, depending on your level of choice.
12/1/2021 through 6/1/2023 (if I manage level 3: I'll start with level 1 to begin with)
Levels:
✔Level One: 5-15 Tasks - 6 Months from your start date: 12/1/2021 through 6/1/2022
Level Two: 16-40 Tasks - 12 Months from your start date: 12/1/2021 through 12/1/2022
Level Three: 41+ Tasks - 18 Months from your start date: 12/1/2021 through 6/1/2023
5 tasks so far
TASKS
1. Lose weight to be healthier not to look like a model.
🥗 Read a book that is trimmed down, less than 150 pages:
one of these: The Fire Next Time, The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community, The Time Is Now
🥗 Read a book where a character wants to either diet, or talks about not gaining weight. Give us a name.
one of these: Eleanor & Park (Eleanor),
🥗 Read a book where SALAD is found in the text. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
✔✔�2. Stop Smoking
✔� Read a book that has a character who smokes:
Mab in The Rose Code (12/14)
or one of these: Ghostwritten (St. Petersburg section)
✔� Read a book that a character stops a bad habit:
Arrow stops being a sniper in The Cellist of Sarajevo (12/18)
✔� Read a book where CIGARETTE is in the text:
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: "Trevor lit a cigarette" (p149) (12/5)
or (see Ghostwritten)
3 Manage Finances better
💲 Read a book where a character is saving for something. (Tell us whom):
💲 Read a book which has a money word in the title:
Your House Will Pay
💲 Read a book where a character is broke but buys a luxury item. ( Tell us what).
4. Learn a new skill.
🧶 Read a book where a character learns a new skill. (Tell us what)
🧶Read a book where a character does a craft.
🧶Read a book where a character does something that is unusual for them. ( Your interpretation).
5. Spend more time with family.
👨👩� Read a book where a character spends time with their family: Eleanor or Park in Eleanor & Park; Fangirl: (Cather)
👨👩� Read a book where a character spends time with people who they count as family (co-workers, friends). maybe Cather here
👨👩� Read a book where the MC works with a family member.
6. Travel to new places. (Hopefully one day we will be able to)
🌏 Read a book with a character who takes a cruise or which has a boat on the cover.
🌏 Read a character who travels to a new country: a number of characters in Ghostwritten
🌏 Read a book where the word plane/airplane is in the text. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #). Ghostwritten
7. Stop Procrastinating.
� Read a book where a character puts off doing something: Fangirl (Cather)
� Read a book where a character sets a goal. (Tell us what it is)
� Read a book where a character makes a schedule.
8. Get organized.
🗄� Read a book where a character is untidy:
Neal in Ghostwritten
🗄� Read a book where a character cleans: Fangirl (Cather)
🗄� Read a book where a character organizes something or who is described as organized. (Your Interpretation).
9. Carve out Me Time.
🛁 Read a book where a character takes a long shower or a bubble bath. (Tell us who.): London section of Ghostwritten
🛁- Read a book where a character takes a hike or run by themselves.
🛁 Read a book where a character gets comfy and watches a tv or movie: either Rainbow Rowell book
10. Make new friends or meet new people: either Rainbow Rowell book
💃 Read a book where a character goes to a social event.
💃 Read a book where a character starts a new job.
💃 Read a book when a character makes a new friend.
11. Nurture old friendships.
☎️ Read a book where a character calls a friend.
☎️ Read a book where the MC has had a best friend for years.
☎️ Read a book where the MC's first name begins with a letter in FRIENDSHIP.
12. Use social media less. Put down your cell phones, and laptops and other electronics.
📵 Read a book where a character is "compute challenged". (Your definition)
📵 Read a book where a character turns off their cell phone. (Tell us who). Cather in Fangirl
📵 Read a book where a character goes off the grid:
several characters in UnSouled
13. Spread Kindness.
❤️ Read a book where a character does something nice for someone else. (What is it?)
❤️ Read a book where a character donates their time to a charity or event. (Who is it?)
❤️Read a book with a "nice " character. (Your interpretation)
14. Learn to cook or experiment with different kinds of cooking.
✔👨🏻� Read a book where a character bakes something:
Cookies in Relish: My Life in the Kitchen (12/2)
👨🏻🍳Read a book where a character tries a new dish. (What is it?): Rose Code (Mab, mulligatawny soup)
👨🏻� Read a book where a character cooks for a living.
15. Conquer a fear.
😱 Read a book where a character does something even though they are scared. (What do they do?)
😱 Read a book where a character doesn't do something because they are scared. What don't they do?
😱 Read a book where a character is timid. (Your interpretation)
16. Read more.
📖 Read a book that is tagged "classic": Pale Fire
📖 Read a book that is a romance.
📖 Read a book that is a mystery: Mexican Gothic
17. Help the environment.
♻️ Read a book where a character recycles.
♻️ Read a book where a character walks or rides a bike to work: Margarita in Ghostwritten
✔♻� Read a book with the authors initials are in ENVIRONMENT: Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong (12/22)
18. Quit apologizing or feeling you have to make an excuse.
😇 Read a book where a character does what they want. (Your Interpretation)
😇 Read a book where a character makes an excuse for not going somewhere or doing something. ( That would be what you are trying not to do ).
😇 Read a book where a character stands up for themselves.
19. Exercise more
🚶♀� Read a book where a character goes to the gym. (Give us a name).
🚶♀� Read a book where a character jogs or runs: the elderly spy in Ghostwritten
🚶♀� Read a book that each word of the title starts with a letter in EXERCISE. (has to be at least two words): Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
20. Be grateful for what you have.
🙏 Read a character who is grateful for something. (What are they grateful for?)
🙏 Read a book where a character says either grace or prayers. (Tell us who).
🙏 Read a book where "thank you" is found in the text. (Give a partial sentence and page/loc #).
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Spell The States Part 1 - My working listDuration: Open Ended from 1/1/2022
Object: Spell Out each letter of the states by using book titles, series names, author's or main character's first or last initial.
main challenge link
SPELL OUT RULES
For this challenge you may use:
1. Book titles (first letter - disregard A, An, and The)
2. Author's first or last initial
3. Series names (first letter)
4. Main character- first letter of first or last name
0/223
0/25 States
1. Delaware:
D: The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
̧: Eleanor & Park (1/6)
✔L: A Night in the Lonesome October (1/7)
A: Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
W:Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
R: Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: The Defining Years, 1933-38
E: Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933
2. Pennsylvania:
P: People We Meet on Vacation
E: A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
N: Nobody's Fool
N:
S: Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
Y: Light Years From Home
L: Beautiful Little Fools
V: The Vanishing Half
A:
N:
I: In the Time of the Butterflies
A: All's Well
3. New Jersey:
N:
E:
W: Wires and Nerve, Volume 1
✔J: Ghost Girl in the Corner by Daniel José Older (1/4)
E: Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
R: Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans
: The Mountains Sing (2/7)
E: Mad Hatters and March Hares by Ellen Datlow
Y:
4. Georgia:
G: Gabriel in Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
E:
O:
R: Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
G: The Hunger Games
I:
A: Agatha of Little Neon
5. Connecticut:
C: Crying in H Mart
O:
N:
N:
E:
C: Catching Fire
T: Going There
I:
C: Carnegie's Maid
U: The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
T: This Close to Okay
6. Massachusetts:
M: Jack by Marilynne Robinson
A: Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
S: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
S: Speak
A: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
C: The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community
H: Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
U: The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
S: The Arm of the Starfish
E: With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
T: Taste: My Life through Food Stanley Tucci
T: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
S: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
7. Maryland:
M: These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
✔A: Attachments (1/22)
R: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Y: Year of Wonders
L: Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
A: The Great Alone
N: The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage
D: Dear Martin
8. South Carolina:
S: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
O: Go Tell It on the Mountain
U: The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
T: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
H: Her Hidden Genius
C: City of Girls
A: Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
R: Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
O:
L: Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
I: Inspector Ian Rutledge in A Test of Wills
N:
A: Alone
9. New Hampshire:
N: Last Night at the Telegraph Club
E:
W: A Wizard of Earthsea
H: Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts
A: The Beekeeper of Aleppo
M: Mockingjay
P: Parable of the Sower
S: The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
H: The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
I: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
R: Snow White, Blood Red
E: The Bluest Eye
10. Virginia:
✔V: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson (1/19)
I: The Impossible Knife of Memory
R: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
G: The Epic of Gilgamesh
I:
N:
I:
A: The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
11. New York:
N:
E:
W: Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000�2016, with A Journal of a Writer's Week
Y: I Couldn't Love You More
O:
R:
K: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
12. North Carolina:
N:
O:
R:
T:
H: Honey Girl
C:
A:
R: Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
O:
L: Children of the Land
I: Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn't End
N:
A:
13. Rhode Island:
R:
H: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
O:
D: Deeper Joy: Lay Women and Vocation in the 20th Century Episcopal Church
E:
I:
S: Somebody's Daughter
✔L: The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray (2/1)
A: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
N:
D:
14. Vermont:
V: The Vixen
E:
R:
M: Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act
O:
N:
T:
15. Kentucky:
K:The Kiss Quotient
E:
N:
T: This Is Where It Ends
U:
C: Lady Clementine
K: The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Y:
16. Tennessee:
T:
E: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
N:
N:
E: The Elephant Vanishes
S:
S: Spoiler Alert
E: What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
E: The Fifth Season (Broken Earth #1) by N.K. Jemisin
17. Ohio:
O: The Only Woman in the Room
H:
I: The Invisible Library
O:
18. Louisiana:
L: Lot Six
O:
U: Light from Uncommon Stars
I: The Masked City (Invisible Library #2)
S: Still Alice
I:
A: All the Feels
N: Steer Toward Rock by Fae Myenne Ng
A: In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz
19. Indiana:
I: Isn't It Bromantic?
N:
✔D: Decker in Dark of Night by Suzanne Brockmann (2/4)
I: Even If We Break
A: Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
N:
A: The Alice Network
20. Mississippi:
M: Gilded by Marissa Meyer
I: I, Robot
S: My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
S: You've Reached Sam
I: Memories of Ice
S: Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan
S: Serendipity
I: The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
P: The Pull of the Stars
P: Piranesi
I: Invisible Cities
21. Illinois:
I:
L: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
L: A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
I:
N: No Gods, No Monsters
O: Girl, Woman, Other
I:
S:
22. Alabama:
A:
L: The Loneliest Americans
✔A: Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (2/1)
B: Bear Town
A: Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
M: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
A:
23. Maine:
M:
A: The Art of Tapestry Weaving: A Complete Guide to Mastering the Techniques for Making Images with Yarn
I:
N: Wires and Nerve, Volume 2: Gone Rogue
E:The Weaving Explorer: Ingenious Techniques, Accessible Tools & Creative Projects with Yarn, Paper, Wire & More
24. Missouri:
M: A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
I: Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
S: Brother & Sister
S: Easy Street: The Hard Way
O: Written on the Body
U: Untamed
R:
I:The Burning Page (Invisible Libraries #3) by Genevieve Cogman
25. Arkansas:
A: The Grimm Conclusion by Adam Gidwitz
R: The Underground Railroad
K: The Vanished Days bySusanna Kearsley
A:
N:
S: Harlem Shuffle
A:
S: On Photography by Susan Sontag
Titles of Series I've started or want to begin:want to continue or finish
begun prior to 2022:
UnWind series & Scythe series by Neal Shusterman
The Ballad series by Sharyn McCrumb
The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries Series by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
Earthsea by A Wizard of Earthsea
Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
Bridget Jones by Helen Fielding
Shadowshaper Cyper series by Daniel José Older
begun 2022 or later:
Spoiler Alert and Lovestruck Librarians by Olivia Dade
Reckless by Ed Brubaker
STEMinist Novellas by Ali Hazelwood
Inside Mari by Shūzō Oshimi
want to begin:
Crosswicks Journal by Madeleine L'Engle
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Earthseed by Octavia E. Butler
Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart
Avalon series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Eleanor Roosevelt bio (3 vols) by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Inspector Ian Rutledge series and Bess Crawford series by Charles Todd
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
want to reread:
Space Trilogy and Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Troubleshooters by Suzanne Brockmann
series I have finished during 2022 and later
There's Something About Marysburg by Olivia Dade
February Scattergories -Letter J - my working listRead: 0/12
Actual Challenge Page
Recurring Items:
1. Book Title ('the', 'an' and 'a' should be ignored): Deeper Joy? All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake?
2. Author (first or last name): Joan Chittister, Daniel Jose Older,
3. Main Character (first or last name)
4. Secondary Character (first or last name)
5. Place/Setting (either the name of an actual place OR a setting where the book takes place; i.e. for R you could use 'Rome' or 'ranch'): Jamaica (These Ghosts Are Family)
6. Item on cover (please show the cover and tell us the item or items)
And the Specials for February are:
7. Articles of Clothing: jacket? which books
8. Something Physical That A Person Does: jump or jog? juggle?
9. A Glass Item: jar?
10. An Everyday Word
11. Something You Drink: juice?
12. A Word That Also Means Happy: joy: deeper joy?
My Challenge Master List (above)
Words in a Word Game #17 - Red Robin - my working listDuration: February 15, 2022 - May 14, 2022
2022 Words in a Word Game #17: Red Robin actual challenge page
The objective of this quarterly challenge is to find words in
WHEN THE RED, RED ROBIN COMES BOB-BOB-BOBBIN' ALONG ~ PAUL WHITEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA.
Then find words in book titles with these words.
You may use the letters how ever you want BUT the words must have at least 3 letters.
Books so far: 2
Level 1: 10 books
Level 2: 11-20 books
Level 3: 21-30 books
1: bodies: Bodies Are Cool Tyler Feder 2/16
2. Terabithia: Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson 2/15
3. Earth: A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin
4. Soul: UnSouled Neal Shusterman
5. Watching: When No One is Watching
6. Saga: Saga, Volume 1 2/17
additional words:
watch, watching, shadow, lost, time, call, common, uncommon, room, town, mill, concrete, rose, respond, words, matter, are, read, reader, what, remains, wholehearted, swim, pond, rain, rainbow, raining, murder, murderer, light, night, bobbing, bobbin, when, saga, carried, wholehearted,
no F, K, Y, Z, J, Q, V, X
When I Grow Up Challenge (my working list for When I Grow Up challenge page)Level 1 - Apprentice- 1 task per profession
Level 2 - Hired Hand - 2 tasks per profession
Level 3 - The Boss - 3 tasks per profession
Open-ended: begun 3/12/2022
0 of 45 tasks completed
ACTOR
1. Read a book with an actor or actress character:
2. Read a book that has been made into a movie.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to acting: Act, Play, Theatre etc
ASTRONAUT
1. Read a book set somewhere other than earth: Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin
2. Read a book where someone travels a long distance.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to space: Moon, Star, Planet etc.
ATHLETE
1. Read a book with a character who is an athlete.
2. Read a book that involves a game or competition.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to sport: Football, Run, Games etc.
DANCER
1. Read a book with character who is a dancer.
2. Read a book where the characters attend a dance or ball.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to dance: Ballerina, Waltz, Rhythm etc.
DETECTIVE
1. Read a mystery book.
2. Read a book with a nosey character.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to detectives: Sleuth, Private Eye, Puzzle etc.
DOCTOR
1. Read a book with a character who is a doctor.
2. Read a book where somebody gets sick.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to doctors: Medicine, Nurse, Healer etc.
FIREFIGHTER
1. Read a book with a firefighter.
2. Read a book with a Red or Orange cover.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to fire: Flame, Hot, Burn etc.
LAWYER
1. Read a book with a lawyer: Guldana in Flashpoint
2. Read a book with scenes that take place in a courtroom OR involving a contract of some sort.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to law: Legal, Crime, Judge etc.
MUSICIAN
1. Read a book with a character who plays an instrument.
2. Read a book with a character who is a singer.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to music: Melody, Tune, Rock, Soul etc.
PILOT
1. Read a book where the characters travel on a plane.
2. Read a book set in an exotic location.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to flying: Sky, Clouds, Flight etc.
POLICE OFFICER
1. Read a book with a law enforcement character.
2. Read a book where a crime takes place.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to police: Inspector, Criminal, Arrest etc.
SCIENTIST
1. Read a book with a character who is a scientist.
2. Read a sci-fi book.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to science: Research, Formula, Experiment etc.
TEACHER
1. Read a book with a character who is a teacher or lecturer.
2. Read a Young Adult book.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to education: School, Learn, Knowledge etc.
VETERINARIAN
1. Read a book with a character who works with animals.
2. Read a book with animal characters. (Werewolves etc will count).
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to animals: Wolf, Farm, Zoo etc.
WRITER
1. Read a book with a character who is a writer/author.
2. Read a book by a New To You author.
3. Read a book with a word in the title relating to writing: Pen, Book, Story etc.
Twinread books:2021:
November: Ghostwritten by David Mitchellwith Joanna (finished 1/2022)
December: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway with Cassie (finished 12/2021
January: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell with Eddy (finished 1/2022)
February: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin with Ecem (unfinished)
March: (view spoiler) Spec Fic
April: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner with
Cassie
May: The Travelling Cat Chronicles with Saha
June:
July:
August:
When the Challenge is ready - my working list for July 2022 Red By Any Other NameRED BY ANY OTHER NAME
July 1, 2022-July 31, 2022
July's theme is all about red, so find books that match the prompts below!
1. Rose: Read a book with rose in the title or a book with a picture of any type of flower on the cover.
2. Garnet: Garnets are the January birthstone, so read a book set during January or published in January.
3. Crimson: Read a book with a red cover or a book with the word red in the title.
4. Ruby: Read a book with the word ruby in the title or a book with a character named Ruby: there's a character in a book inside this book (how meta is that?): The Plot
5. Wine: Read a book with a beverage in the title or a book that has a bottle on the cover.
6. Blood: Read a book with blood in the title or on the cover, or read a mystery.
7. Candy: Read a book with candy on the cover or a book featuring candy in some way.
8. Apple: Read a book with an apple on the cover or read a book with a fruit in the title.
9. Auburn: Read a book featuring a redhead on the cover or a book with a main character with red hair: Under One Roof
10. Blush: Read a book with a character who has an embarrassing experience, or a cover with someone wearing cosmetics.
Revisiting my 2019 "five massive books by year's end" challenge.From the original post: I have quite a few "massive" books on my TBR, so I am challenging myself to include at least 5 of those books to be read (along with other less "massive" books) by the end of 2019. I will be choosing from the list below (because I need to be able to not be locked into specifics. I think a list of 11 has enough variety to choose from!
Now: five "massive" books from this list over a five year period! So, by 2024...
Memories of Ice
House of Chains
The Name of the Rose
Moby-Dick, or, the Whale
The Count of Monte Cristo
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Midnight Tides
Leonardo da Vinci
Einstein: His Life and Universe
The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business/The Manticore/World of Wonders
2025 Reading Challenge
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (other topics)The Fire Next Time (other topics)
We Should All Be Feminists (other topics)
Why Religion?: A Personal Story (other topics)
Band of Sisters (other topics)
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Ed Brubaker (other topics)Shuzo Oshimi (other topics)
Ali Hazelwood (other topics)
Suzanne Brockmann (other topics)
James Baldwin (other topics)
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