allie’s Comments (group member since Jun 09, 2023)

this is for a temporary moderator position
time span is currently unknown, but you are essentially a substitute for either sav or me, in this case; sav.
only one person will be accepted.

interested?
answer the following questions:


1. what can you bring to the group?
2. what made you decide to send in an application today?
3. are you willing to be a temporary moderator?
4. do you have any ideas or suggestions for the group?

the final decision will be made on September 5th!
good luck!

discuss the book We Were Liars here!
remember to put spoilers in html format!

"the way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

request your buddy read here!
make sure to read the information topic beforehand!

you can start and finish this challenge whenever you like!


this challenge has no rankings.


this challenge has two parts, you can do either one or both.

a) try to read books where the title begins with every letter of the English alphabet!

b) try to read books where the author's last name begins with every letter of the English alphabet!

“do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt.

challenge: 100 BTRBYD
progress: 16/98
rank: Super Baronet / Baronetess


book list:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
6. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
8. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
9. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tokien
10. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
11. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell
14. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
15. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
16. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
17. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
18. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
19. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
20. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
21. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
22. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
24. Night by Elie Wiesel
skipping
26. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
27. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
28. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
29. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
30.The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
31. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
32. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
33. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
34. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
35. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
36. The Giver by Lois Lowry
37. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
39. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
40. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
41. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
42. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
43. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
44. The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson
45. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
skipping
47. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
48. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
49. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
50. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
51. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
52. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
53. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
54. The Stand by Stephen King
55. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
56. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
57. Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
58. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
59. Watership Down by Richard Adams
60. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
61.Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
62. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
63. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
64. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
65. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (#3) by Arthur Conan Doyle
66. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
67. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
68. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
69. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
70. Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
71. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
72. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
73. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
74. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
75. Dracula by Bram Stoker
76. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
77. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
78. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
79. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
80. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
81. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
82. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
83. The Odyssey by Homer
84. The Good Earth (House of Earth #1) by Pearl S. Buck
85. Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins
86. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
87. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
88. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
89. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
90. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
91. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
92. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
93. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
94. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
95. Beloved by Toni Morrison
96. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
97. Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
98. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
99. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
100. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

the following books are excluded from my personal challenge list:
25. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
46. The Holy Bible: King James Version

"failure is not the opposite of success. it is part of success"

welcome to my topic!
i ask that you don't make a comment, but feel free to look through my challenges
if you have anything you'd like to say to me for any reason, send me a PM!


table of contents~

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what is a buddy read?

a buddy read is where you get to read a book together with your 'buddy'. you can both decide on how many chapters you'll read each week, and go at the same pace, or you can both read at your own paces and discuss after you've read the same parts; it's all up to the two of you, really.

you're also free to start a group read, which is a buddy read with more than two members.
if you're interested, look below on how to create your buddy read topic!

you have two choices to choose from:

1. you're free to ask a moderator to make your topic for you

2. or you can also make it yourself!

here are the rules for creating your buddy read topic:

1. the topic must first contain the name of the book
if the name of the book exceeds 5 words, then please shorten it to 2 words. example: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time can be shortened to Curious Incident, or Curious Dog.

2. the topic must then contain both you and your partner's name

3. the topic must be placed in the Buddy Reads folder, nowhere else

4. the description of the topic must contain a "spoiler warning"

5. follow the rules of the group

good examples:
Jane Eyre - Emily & Charlotte
Fahrenheit 451- Ray + Guy
Twenty Thousand Leagues - Beth & Jill

I hope you have lots of fun with your buddy read :)