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** Susan C's 101+ book challenge for 2019**
Let's track my TBR - 2019Each year I claim that I'm going to reduce the number of books on my TBR, and usually it grows instead. Each year I also try to track my TBR, and that usually only lasts until about May. Let's see if I can do better on both of these goals this year!
TBR January 1, 2018 416
TBR December 31. 2018
January
TBR - beginning of month: 405 (1 book currently reading)
# books added: 10
# books read: 10
# books deleted: 0
TBR - end of month: 405 (1 book currently reading)
February
TBR - beginning of month: 405 (1 book currently reading
# books added: 13 (3 giveaway)
# books read: 10
# books deleted: 3
TBR - end of month: 405 (1 book currently reading)
March
TBR - beginning of month: 405 (1 book currently reading)
# books added: 6 (1 giveaway)
# books read: 8
# books deleted: 4
TBR - end of month: 399 (1 book currently reading)
April
TBR - beginning of month: 399 (1 book currently reading)
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May
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June
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# books added: 7
# books read: 11
# books deleted: 3
TBR - end of month: 381 (2 books currently reading)
July
TBR - beginning of month: 381 (2 books currently reading)
# books added: 5
# books read: 17
# books deleted: 6
TBR - end of month: 363 (2 books currently reading)
August
TBR - beginning of month: 363 (2 books currently reading)
# books added: 16
# books read: 11
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TBR - end of month: 368 (2 books currently reading, 1 giveaway)
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Crazy Challenge Connection groupSCRABBLE, ANYONE?
Begins February 1, 2014
No deadline
You may use the first letter of the first word of the book's title (do NOT count A, An or The), or the first or last initial of the author to complete each letter.
Link to the Challenge
Scrabble word helper
Set #7: S, J, E, C, D, B, O Completed 3/15/2019
✓ S - A Study in Charlotte read 10/18/2018
✓ J Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America read 3/15/2019
✓ E - Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery read 10/27/2018
✓ C - Crazy Little Thing read 12/13/2018
✓ D - The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests read 11/20/2018
✓ B - Belong to Me read 10/24/2018
✓ O - One Good Dog read 12/29/2018
Word for set #7: be
✓ I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer read 1/18/2019
Set #8: U, V, Y, B, I, L, P
✓ U - The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds read 4/25/2019
✓ V - Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour
✓ Y You Suck read 8/3/2019
✓ B Beautiful Exiles read 5/16/2019
✓ I Imagine That read 9/11/2019
✓ L - Life Is Like a Sailboat: Selected Writings on Life and Living from The Philadelphia Inquirer read 4/1/2019
✓ P - The Perfume Collector read 5/16/2019
Word for set #8: by
✓ Summer By The Sea read 7/19/2019
Set #9: O, G, Z, L, E, D, N
✓ O - Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy read 12/1/2019
✓ G - The Good Liar read 12/14/2019
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✓ L - The Library Book read 10/7/2019
✓ E - Evelyn, After read 9/20/2019
✓ D - The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator read 9/18/2019
✓ N - Never Have I Ever read 9/23/2019
Word for set #9:
Words: glozed, donzel, dozen, gloze, zoned, doze, lozen, dzo, zed, zone, zol, zel, zo, golden, dongle, longed, ogled, lodge, glode, dong, gold, gled, geld, doge, longe, loden, olden, dog, ged, god, deg, leng, done, loge, delo, gole, doen, lode, glen, ogle, dole, gone, olde, long, node, goel, lend, ode, eld, lod, dol, don, log, ego, gel, goe, gen, geo, ned, end, gon, neg, eng, nod, nog, old, led, del, doe, den, leg, enol, leno, noel, nole, lone, de, ed, do, od, go, one, ole, eon, lo, ne, el, oe, en, no, on
Crazy Challenge Connection groupSCHOOL DAYS, no deadline
Link to the Challenge
Graduated from high school 12/23/2018
Congratulations! You’ve graduated from high school :) Now you must choose whether to go to college or to vocational school and start your career sooner. Tasks for either option must be completed in the order posted here!
COLLEGE :
✓ FRESHMAN:
gen ed classes, orientation
* Read two books from any genre/s you choose; tell us the genres
✓ Fiction - One Good Dog read 12/29/2018
✓ True Crime - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer read 1/18/2019
✓ SOPHOMORE:
* Read two books from one of those two genres (your college major); tell us which genre you chose
My major is fiction
✓ Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend read 1/22/2019
✓ The First Time She Drowned read 1/22/2019
✓ JUNIOR:
* Read two books within that same genre that were originally published in the same year; tell us the year 2016
✓ The Sun Is Also a Star read 2/22/2019
✓ The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper read 3/17/2019
✓ SENIOR:
* Read two books by the same author within the genre you chose for your sophomore year Genre - fiction, author - Joyce Maynard
✓ After Her read 4/24/2019
✓ Under the Influence read 6/16/2019
✓ MASTERS DEGREE:
* Read four books from ONE sub-genre within the genre you chose for your sophomore year Contemporary
✓ Still Me read 6/25/2019
✓ The One-Way Bridge read 7/19/2019
✓ Exit West read 7/21/2019
✓ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine read 8/16/2019
✓ PhD - dissertation:
* Read six books by the same author from within the genre you chose for your sophomore year Armistead Maupin
✓ Further Tales of the City read 10/4/2019
✓ Babycakes read 10/16/2019
✓ Significant Others read 11/5/2019
✓ Sure of You read 11/19/2019
✓ Michael Tolliver Lives read 12/21/2019
✓ Mary Ann in Autumn read 12/23/2019
Ex: For your Freshman year, you choose one historical fiction book and one mystery book.
For your Sophomore year, you narrow it down to two mystery books.
For your Junior year, you read two mystery books published in the same year.
For your Senior year, you read two mystery books by the same author.
For your Masters degree, you read four historical mystery books.
For your PhD, you read six historical mystery books by Elizabeth Peters
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VOCATIONAL SCHOOL:
* Read four books with a main character in a "blue collar" job - each job must be different; tell us the occupation for each book
STARTING OUT:
* Read two books with NEW ADULT on their main GR pages
NEW JOB:
* Read two books in which a main character is starting or training for a new (permanent) job
FIRST APARTMENT/HOME:
* Read one book in which a main character moves from one home to another AND one book with the exterior of a residential building on the cover; post the cover
FURNISH APARTMENT:
* Read two books with "home-style" furniture on the cover (not office furniture); post the covers
PUBLIC TRANSPORT OR PERSONAL VEHICLE - choose one!
* Read two books with a character who owns his/her own transportation vehicle OR
**OR**
* Read two books with a character who does not
BILLS/CHORES:
* Read two books with a character who struggles financially, physically or emotionally; struggle must be significant, not just being unable to afford eating out
SOCIAL LIFE:
* Read two books with a character in a new friendly or romantic relationship
Crazy Challenge ConnectionQUILTING CHALLENGE
No deadline: Begins January 1, 2018
Link to the Challenge
Phase One: 4 x 4 quilt (16 blocks total | 64 tasks) Completed 12/19/2018
Phase Two: BORDERS & BINDING
Now that you've completed all of your quilt blocks, you need to put borders on them so that they may be bound together to form the quilt top. Depending on the size of your quilt, you will select a given number of tasks regarding quilting history and lore, and quilting equipment to complete your quilt top. You do not have to pick your tasks ahead of time - just make sure you have completed the required number for your quilt size.
4 x 4 Quilt - Choose any 20 tasks Completed 4/30/2019
5 x 5 Quilt - Choose any 25 tasks
6 x 6 Quilt - Choose any 30 tasks
20/20
✣ Amish quilts are made from solid color fabrics only, in bright and somber colors and are heavily quilted with elaborate designs such as feathered scrolls and cables. ➜ Read a book with an Amish character.
✓ Appliqué is a piecing process using small amounts of fabric which are then sewn onto a background fabric in a decorative design such as curved floral or animal motifs. Appliqué is often combined with pieced blocks or placed in the border to frame a pieced quilt. Appliqué is a great technique to cover stains, rips or other problem areas. ➜ Read a book whose cover shows a patterned background OR read a book whose cover shows a real animal; post the cover for either task. One Good Dog read 12/29/2018
✓ Backing is the bottom or back layer of a quilt, usually a plain unadorned fabric that has been pieced to the width of the quilt. ➜ Read a book whose cover is plain (shows no art work); post the cover. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose read 2/18/2019
✣ In all cultures, the basket is a daily presence in a woman's life. It's only natural that baskets have been used in a myriad of quilt patterns from the most fundamental forms to realistic reproductions even including the weaving and detailed floral arrangements. ➜ Read a book whose cover shows a basket; post the cover.
✣ Batting, sometimes called wadding or stuffing, is the layer in the center of the quilt sandwich, giving it warmth and thickness. Batting can be cotton, polyester, blends, silk, or wool. ➜ Read a book that is 'sandwiched' in a series - that is the book is neither the first, nor the last in the series; tell us the name of the series and your book's position in the series.
✓ Bearding is where fibers from the batting of a quilt start to migrate through the top or the backing or a quilt. ➜ Read a book with a character who has a beard; tell us the name of the character. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland Rabbi Levi Sudak has a beard read 12/21/2018
✣ Broderie Perse is the French word for "Persian Embroidery". First made popular in the early 1800's when cotton was extremely expensive, the technique is a type of appliqué where larger images such as an animal or a flower are cut from a printed fabric and appliquéd to a background fabric. ➜ Read a book that was expensive to acquire.
✓ In the 19th century, calico referred to any type of cotton fabric. It is still used in that sense in England and Australia. In the US, it is often used to refer to fabric with a small repeated design, usually florals or leaves. ➜ Read a book that takes place in England or Australia; tell us where. Stella Bain takes place in England read 4/2/2019
✣ A Charm Quilt is a quilt made using only one shape, such as a triangle or hexagon, where every single shape is a different piece of fabric. ➜ Read a book whose cover shows a triangle, diamond, or hexagon.
✣ The Crazy Quilt consisted of pieces of fabric, cotton, velvet, wool, or silk, randomly sewn together. Very often, bit of lace or ribbon were also added along with fancy embroidery stitches. Crazy Quilts reached a peak in popularity during the Victorian era. ➜ Read a book with a very cluttered cover (post the cover) OR read a book with something lacy on its cover; post the cover.
✓ FART = Fabric Acquisition Road Trip ➜ Read a book that involves a road trip of any kind; briefly tell us about it. News of the World read 2/8/2019 Captain Jefferson Kidd transports a young Sioux captive, Johanna, across Texas from Wichita Falls to her relatives outside of San Antonio.
✓ Fat Quarter equals a quarter yard of fabric cut with the dimensions of 18" x 22"; basically, a half yard of fabric cut in half to produce a more square piece of fabric. ➜ Read a "fat" book, 500+ pages; tell us how many pages the book has. Pachinko 502 pages read 3/10/2019
✓ Grandmother's Flower Garden quilts are almost synonymous with the Great Depression of the 1930's. Very small fabric scraps could be utilized by piecing tiny hexagons into lovely quilts. Such a quilt would be a cheerful reminder of colorful flower gardens; a much needed lift during hard times. ➜ Read a book that takes place during the 1930's OR read a book with a garden on its cover; post the cover. The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress read 3/3/2019
✓ The humility block was a block that was purposely pieced incorrectly and usually placed in the lower right hand section of the quilt. The belief behind the Humility block was that only God was perfect, therefore mortal man/woman should not produce a perfect quilt. ➜ Read a book with a humble character; tell us who. Darktown Reverend Boggs read 1/14/2019
✣ As mentioned in Phase 1, the Log Cabin is one of the most popular and easily recognized quilt blocks. The blocks can be set together in too many ways to list, although there are a number of named designs such as Barn Raising, Sunshine and Shadow, and Straight Furrow. ➜ Read a book whose title contains the word "RAISING," "SUNSHINE," "SHADOW", or "STRAIGHT."
✓ A Quillow is a specially designed quilt which is actually a cross between a sleeping bag and a quilt and also a pillow. A Quillow folds up into a carrying bag. A popular gift for children and teens. ➜ Read a book marked "juvenile" or "young adult" on its main GR page (must meet the 150pp. requirement). The First Time She Drowned 1/22/2019
QUILTING CHALLENGE Cont'd.Phase Two: BORDERS & BINDING Cont'd
✣ The interesting names given to quilt block patterns are rooted deep in the history of the United States. It is easy to see the influences upon quilters of the past by studying the names that they have given to their quilt patterns. ➜ Read a historical fiction or history book about any period of American history.
✓ The strong biblical influence is apparent from the large number of blocks with religious names such as Jacob's Ladder or Job's Trouble. ➜ Read a book in which religion is a major theme. Where the Heart Leads read 2/1/2019
✣ The hardship of the pioneer can be seen from blocks with names such as the Rocky Road to California. ➜ Read a book about the American Pioneers (American settlers moving westward from the original colonies in the years 1785-1860).
✓ The aspects of everyday life led to blocks with names like Churn Dash and Log Cabin. ➜ Read a book in which the MC's daily life is written in some detail. The Cranes Dance read 2/3/2019
✣ Quilt block names derived from trades or occupations include Anvil, Saw-Tooth, The Ship's Wheel, Carpenter's Wheel, Monkey Wrench, Water Mill, Chips and Whetstones, The Dusty Miller. ➜ Read a book whose title mentions an occupation (i.e. The Lightkeeper's Daughters). You may use this task up to 4 times as long as you use 4 different occupations.
✓ Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents read 1/6/2019
✓ The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency read 4/18/2019
✣ Quilt block names derived from nature include Garden Maze, Autumn Leaf, Spider Web, Rolling Stones, Ocean Wave, Flying Geese. ➜ Read a book whose title contains the word of anything found in nature (i.e. The Deep End of the Ocean). You may use this task up to 4 times as long as you use 4 different occupations.
✓ Stillhouse Lake read 4/30/2019
✣ Quilt block names derived from Square Dancing include Eight Hands Around and Swing in the Center. ➜ Read a book in which the main character is a dancer (of any type) OR in which some kind of big dance is held; tell us who or what.
✣ Quilt block names with a political influence include Clay's Choice, Whig Rose, Fifty-Four-Forty or Fight. ➜ Read a political thriller OR any book with politics as a major theme.
✓ Many quilt patterns have several different names. A pattern known by one name in New England may have had a different, more significant name to the quilter in the Midwest. Sometimes old names were changed for commercial purposes. ➜ Read a book whose title has changed from its original publication date; tell us the original title. The Little French Bistro (original title was Die Mondspielerin, which translates to "The mouthpiece") read 3/27/2019
✣ The quilting bee was an important means of socializing for colonial and pioneer women (and men). Through the winter months, the women would piece their quilt tops. Since there was no central heating in these homes, there was usually only one main heated room that was too crowded during the winter months for a quilt frame to be assembled. ➜ Read a book that takes place during the winter months (December, January, February).
✣ When the weather became warmer, an invitation was sent to the surrounding neighbors for the quilting bee. ➜ Read a book that takes place during the Spring (March, April, May).
✣ On the day of the quilting bee, the quilters would arrive early and begin marking the quilt top which had been put into the quilt frame by the hostess. Very often, plates, thimbles and tea cups were used to mark the quilting patterns. ➜ Read a book with a plate, tea cup, or thimble on its cover; post the cover.
✓ The quilters would then begin to quilt the top while exchanging conversation. The quilt had to finished before the husbands and beaus showed up in the late afternoon when dinner was served to all, the hostess being given a chance to show off her cooking skills. ➜ Read a book about friendship OR read a book in which a large group comes together to enjoy a meal; tell us the occasion. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend read 1/22/2019
✓ After dinner, there was very often a square dance or country dance with fiddles accompanying the dancers. ➜ Read a book with a stringed instrument on its cover (post the cover) OR read a book in which a dance is held; tell us about the dance. Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour read 4/13/2019
✣ Rotary cutters are used to get super straight, clean cuts from your fabric. Beginners are recommended to start with a 45mm blade. Rotary cutters come in a variety of sizes - from 18mm to 60mm. The 18mm and 28mm cutters are used primarily for curved piecing, and the 60mm is designed to cut through multiple layers of fabric, batting, and difficult materials. ➜ Read book #18, #28, #45 or #60 from your TBR list, sorted however you choose.
✣ SABLE = Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy ➜ Read a book in which someone collects something; tell us what.
✣ Sashing is the strips of fabric sewn between pieced blocks to separate them while joining them together into a top. Sashing can be continued around the outside of the quilt top to act as a border. ➜ Read a book whose author's first and last initial may be found in SASHING.
✓ Siggie | Siggy is short for signature block or signature square. When exchanging blocks or charm squares, quilters will often exchange a plain charm or blocks which the quilter has signed. ➜ Read an author's first published book. Idaho read 2/15/2019
✓ TGIF = Thank God It's Finished! ➜ Read a book that completes a challenge; tell us which challenge. Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America completes the Scrabble challenge read 3/15/2019
✓ UFO = UnFinshed Object ➜ Read a book that takes you longer than you would've thought to finish. The Last Romanov read 2/17/2019
✣ Some historians question the validity of quilts being used as indicators for escaping slaves using the Underground Railroad, although other writers, usually women, argue for them. In particular, the Bear's Paw and Jacob's Ladder quilts are those most often ascribed to be signals on the Underground. ➜ Read a book involving the Underground Railroad OR read a book whose cover shows some type of signal (i.e. arrow, traffic light); post the cover.
✣ Victorian Biscuit or Puff Quilts may have been more decorative than utilitarian as many were made smaller than what would have been needed for a bed covering. Also, finer fabrics, such as satins and velvets were used. ➜ Read a book set during the Victorian era (1837 - 1901) OR read a book by an author named Victoria (reasonable variations acceptable).
*You must finish bordering and binding your quilt before moving onto the final phase!
QUILTING CHALLENGE Cont'd.Phase Three: QUILTING
"Quilting" is the actual stitching that moors the quilt top to the batting (filler) and quilt backing. Sometimes the stitches may tell the personal history of the quilter, weaving images or words into the overall stitching pattern.
Below are several "stitch" tasks divided into the following three categories:
1) personal tasks - these stitches will give you a chance to add your 'story' to your quilt;
2) famous quilters;
3) books about quilts (fiction and non-fiction). Note: You may read a book not found on the list below; however, 'how to' books and illustrated block books are not allowed.
Depending, again, on your quilt size you will pick a designated number of tasks or books to read to complete your quilt. You do not have to choose tasks before starting. Feel free to mix and match between personal history, famous quilters, and books about quilting.
4 x 4 - total of 30 tasks or books
5 x 5 - total of 40 tasks or books
6 x 6 - total of 50 tasks or books
23/30
Personal History 'Stitches'
✓ Name - Read a book whose author's first or last name is the same as your name. Summer by the Sea by Susan Wiggs read 7/19/2019
✓ Name - Read a book whose main character shares your first or last name (spelling variations are okay); tell us the character's name. The War That Saved My Life Character's name - Susan Smith read 8/7/2019
✣ Birth Day - Read a book whose total page count contains the day your were born (i.e. if you were born on the 11th, your book's page count must contain an "11"). Tell us your birth day. This Is How You Lose Her 217 pages
✣ Birth Month - Read a book originally published in the same month as the month you were born. Remember to tell us your birth month. Missing Mom - originally published 10/4/2005
✣ Birth Year - Read a book originally published in the same year you were born; tell us your birth year.
✓ Birth Gemstone - Read a book whose cover is the same color as your birthstone; be sure to tell us your birth month and gemstone. Birth month - October, birthstone - Tourmaline The Little Lady Agency and the Prince read 6/15/2019
✣ Desired Name - Read a book with a main character with a name you wish you had been given (instead of your current name); tell us the name.
✣ State | Country of Birth - Read a book set in the same state (USA) or country in which you were born; tell us where. And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
✣ Are you a twin? - Read a book featuring twins.
✓ Number of siblings - Read a book in which a family has the same number of children as you have siblings (i.e. if you have 2 sisters, read a book featuring 2 sisters). Tell us how many siblings. The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston read 10/21/2019 I have one brother. The Ravenel family has one boy child.
QUILTING CHALLENGE Cont'd.✓ Favorite Book(s) - Re-read your favorite books; this task may be used up to 5 times.
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town (originally read 4/23/2017) read 11/11/2019
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (originally read 2/20/2016) read 11/28/2019
✣ What else? - Read a book that features something about you that you'd like us to know; you must tell us the how the book fits your feature / characteristic / favorite. You may use this task up to 5 times.
✓ I love true crime books - The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator read 9/18/2019
Famous Quilters 'Stitches'
✓ Jennifer Chiaverini, beloved author of The Elm Creek Quilting Series, is a quilter herself. Originally, she was a professor in the English Department at Penn State and then Edgewood College (WI). Her original quilt designs have been featured in Country Woman, Quiltmaker, Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks (Vol. 3-5), and Quilt, and her short stories have appeared in Quiltmaker and Quilters Newsletter. ➜ Read a book featuring a college-level instructor or professor OR read a book that takes place in Pennsylvania or Wisconsin. The Deep End of the Ocean read 12/25/2019
✓ Michael Cummings quilts in the narrative, story-telling tradition and is one of a few nationally known male quiltmakers. His work often features bright, colorful African themes and African American historical themes. The U.S. State Department has posted several of Cummings’ quilts in its embassies through its "Arts in Embassy" program. In addition, brands such as Absolut Vodka and HBO have commissioned his work, and his quilts appear in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Designs in New York. Whoopi Goldberg and Bill Cosby collect Cummings’ quilts.
➜ Read a book featuring a male who works within a traditional "female" culture/industry OR read a book by an African American author. The Mothers by Brit Bennett read 8/29/2019
✣ Beth Maitland-Banninger has played the role of Traci Abbott on CBS TV’s “The Young and the Restless” for the past 30 years. She has also been sewing since she was a teenager and spent most of her downtime between acting as a personal accessory and costume designer. ➜ Read a book that has been made into a TV series; tell us the name of the TV series OR read a book by an author whose first or last name is Beth, Traci, or Abbott (reasonable variations acceptable - i.e. Elizabeth, Tracy. The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
✣ Harriet Powers (10/29/1837 – 1/01/1910) was an African-American slave, folk artist, and quilt maker from rural Georgia. She used traditional appliqué techniques to record local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events on her quilts. Her quilts are considered among the finest examples of nineteenth-century Southern quilting. Her work is on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. ➜ Read a book with slavery as one of its themes OR read a book in which a museum visit is described; tell us the museum.
✓ Marie Daugherty Webster (7/19/1859 – 1956) was a quilt designer, businesswoman, and the author of the first American book about quilting, Quilts, Their Story, and How to Make Them, originally published in 1915, and reprinted many times since. The latest illustrated edition was published in 2009. Marie designed dozens of quilts, and her patterns, all applique, are known for their beautiful, mostly floral designs, done in pastel colors. ➜ Read a book in which a female owns here own business OR read a book with a pastel colored cover; post the cover. Significant Others read 11/5/2019
Books about Quilting 'Stitches'
✣ Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries by Isabella Alan
✣ Benni Harper Mystery Series by Earlene Fowler
✣ Cats in Trouble Mysteries (MC specializes in making cat quilts) by Leann Sweeney
✣ Cobbled Quilt Series by Marie Bostwick
✣ The Elm Creek Quilt Series by Jennifer Chiaverini
✣ Harriet Truman / Loose Threads Mysteries by Arlene Sachitano
✣ Kilts and Quilts Series by Patience Griffin
✣ Patchwork Circle Series by Judith Pella
✣ Quilting Mystery Series by Terri Thayer
✣ Quilts of Love Series by Various Authors
✣ The Quilt Shop in Kerry Springs Series by Patricia Thayer
✣ Shenandoah Album Series by Emilie Richards
✣ Sisters of the Quilt Series by Cindy Woodsmall
✣ Someday Quilts Mystery Series by Clare O'Donohue
✣ Southern Quilting Mysteries by Elizabeth Spann Craig
✣ From Here to Home by Marie Bostwick
✣ The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs
✣ Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad | Jacqueline L. Tobin
✣ How to Make an American Quilt | Whitney Otto
✓ The Persian Pickle Club | Sandra Dallas The Persian Pickle Club read 7/21/2019
✣ Retreat to Love | Melanie Greene
Crazy Challenge Connection groupLETTER BY LETTER
Duration: 1/7/2018 No deadline
Start with a minimum of 20 books, and if you find that you're making progress, then sign up for 20 more!
1. First, you will read the oldest book on your TBR.
2. The next book title must BEGIN with the LAST letter of the title in Book #1 (disregard A, An, The).
3. Book #3's title must BEGIN with the LAST letter of Book #2's title.
The catch - the books you choose for the challenge must have been on your TBR one year or longer. For those of you who do not currently have a TBR mountain, simply work from the oldest down.
Link to the Challenge
20/20 Challenge completed!
✓ 1. Oldest book - Songs in Ordinary Time read 1/23/2018
✓ 2. E - Everybody's Son read 2/8/2018
✓ 3. N - Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science read 2/11/2018
✓ 4. T - The Things We Wish Were True read 3/2/2018
✓ 5. E - Expat Women: Confessions - 50 Answers to Your Real-Life Questions about Living Abroad read 3/26/2018
✓ 6. D - Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America read 4/14/2018
✓ 7. R - A Reliable Wife read 4/16/2018
✓ 8. E - Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch read 4/28/2018
✓ 9. N - Notes from a Small Island read 6/9/2017
✓ 10. D - Double Feature read 7/7/2018
✓ 11. E - Everything We Keep read 7/26/2018
✓ 12. P - Practical Jean read 7/30/2018
✓ 13. N - Night Film read 10/14/2018
✓ 14. M - Mr. Tall read 11/17/2018
✓ 15. L - Last Night at the Blue Angel read 12/9/2018
✓ 16. L - The Last Romanov read 2/17/2019
✓ 17. V - Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour read 4/13/2019
✓ 18. R - Returning From Camino read 7/15/2019
✓ 19. O - The One-Way Bridge read 7/18/2019
✓ 20. E - Exit West read 7/21/2019
Crazy Challenge Connection groupHELP ME DECIDE CHALLENGE
DURATION: April 1, 2018 - March 31, 2019
Link to the Challenge
Please use this shelf: Pick 4 Me book shelf
Round 1: Apr 14 - picked by Suzanne
✓ Beartown read 4/22/2018
Also recommended: Artemis, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow
Round 2: Apr 28 - picked by Taleisin
✓ Mislaid read 5/3/2018
Also recommended: The Hate U Give, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Lilac Girls
Round 3: May 12 - picked by Agnieszka
✓ Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore read 5/18/2018
Also recommended: Lilac Girls, A Dog's Way Home, The Hate U Give
Round 4: May 26 - picked by Allison Ann
✓ The Great Westward Walk: From the Front Door to the End of the Earth read 6/17/2018
Also recommended: Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, We Are Unprepared
Round 5: Jun 9 - picked by Amelia
✓ A Southern Girl read 6/25/2018
Also recommended: A Dog's Way Home, What Was Mine
Round 6: Jun 23 - picked by Barb
✓ Double Feature read 7/7/2018
Also recommended: My Name is Mary Sutter, The Hate U Give
Round 7: Jul 7 - picked by Bonita
✓ The Hate U Give read 8/2/2018
Also recommended: Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family, The Boo, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Round 8: Jul 21 - picked by Carrie
✓ Second Chance Summer read 8/3/2018
Also recommended: Artemis, Yankee Doodle Dead, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Round 9: Aug 4 - picked by Chaitra
✓ The Leavers read 8/17/2018
Also recommended: Night Film, Janesville: An American Story, Artemis
Round 10: Aug 18 - picked by Claire
✓ My Exaggerated Life: Pat Conroy read 8/24/2018
Also recommended: A Column of Fire, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Round 11: Sep 1 - picked by Connie
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other DNF
✓ Forgotten read 9/16/2018
Also recommended: A Dog's Way Home, Dream Man
Round 12: Sep 15 - picked by Gina
✓ Gods in Alabama read 9/20/2018
Also recommended: Only Love Can Break Your Heart read 10/3/2018
The Life Lucy Knew read 10/1/2018
Janesville: An American Story read 9/30/2018
Round 13: Sep 29 - picked by Helen
✓ Yankee Doodle Dead read 10/14/2018
Also recommended: Us Against You, Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, A Dog's Way Home
Round 14: Oct 13 - picked by Jennifer
✓ Belong to Me read 10/24/2018
Also recommended: Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, The Cage-maker
Round 15: Oct 27 - picked by Jimena
✓ Us Against You read 11/1/2018
Also recommended: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, A Column of Fire
Round 16: Nov 10 - picked by Joanne
✓ Fear: Trump in the White House read 11/19/2018
✓ The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests 11/20/2018
Also recommended: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, The Dead Fathers Club
Round 17: Nov 24 - picked by Sunshine
✓ Last Night at the Blue Angel read 12/9/2018
Also recommended: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, Love Water Memory
Round 18: Dec 8 - picked by Karen
✓ Crazy Little Thing read 12/13/2018
Also recommended: Celebrities for Breakfast - a romantic comedy, White Rose, Black Forest, My Losing Season: A Memoir
Round 19: Dec 22 - picked by Karin
✓ Visitation Street read 1/4/2019
Also recommended: Stella Bain, Stillhouse Lake
Round 20: Jan 5 - picked by Katherine
✓ The First Time She Drowned read 1/22/2019
Also recommended: You Suck, The Girl You Left Behind, The Sun Is Also a Star
Round 21: Jan 19 - picked by Sugar Snap
✓ Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America read 1/27/2019
Also recommended: Fractured, Stillhouse Lake
Round 22: Feb 2 - picked by Kris
✓ Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose read 2/18/2019
Also recommended: Saints for All Occasions, The Sun Is Also a Star, Idaho
Round 23: Feb 16 - picked by Lori
✓ The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper read 3/17/2019
Also recommended: Artemis, Paris, The Corrections
Round 24: Mar 2 - picked by Maggie
✓ Sheltering Rain read 5/5/2019
Also recommended: The Way Life Should Be, The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Round 25: Mar 16 - picked by Katie
✓ The Girl You Left Behind read 4/11/2019
Also recommended: What Happened, The Storyteller
Round 26: Mar 30 - picked by Olivermagnus
Stillhouse Lake
Also recommended: Fractured, Gone, Baby, Gone, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
Crazy Challenge Connection groupROUTE 66 – The Mother Road
Challenge Begins: June 1, 2018
No ending date
17 / 75+ books
17/75 tasks
The books must be read in succession in order to advance to the next stop in the road.
Link to the Challenge
START: Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois
✓ Task 1 - Read a book that is a stand-alone (not part of a series) OR book #1 in a new-to-you series. Stand-alone book Every Note Played read 6/1/2018
STOP: Joliet, Illinois
✓ Task 2 - Read a book with someone dancing on the cover OR read a book with 1 “B” in the book title and 1 “B “ in the author’s name (the B in the title and author’s name does NOT have to be the first letter or capitalized). There can be additional B’s, but both the title and author’s name must contain at least 1 “B” each. Please link both the book title and the author’s name if choosing that option. Please post the cover if choosing the dancing option. 1 “B” in the book title and 1 “B “ in the author’s name The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris by John Baxter read 6/27/2018
STOP: Gemini Giant, Wilmington, Illinois
✓ Task 3 - Read a book where a character goes to a movie or drive-in OR read a book with a hat or helmet on the cover. Please post the cover if choosing the hat/helmet option. Hat or helmet on the cover The Lords of Discipline read 7/16/2018
STOP: Cardiff Memorial, Dwight, Illinois
✓ Task 4 – Read a book set between 1900 – 1999 OR read a book with “Ghosts” listed as a genre on the book title’s main GR page. Book set in the 1900's Less Than Zero read 8/19/2018
STOP: Pontiac, Illinois
✓ Task 5 - Read a book that is an autobiography or a book that includes a (real) person of note OR read a book where the first letter in the first name of a main character can be found in WMASM. Please tell us the name of the character for either option. Real person - Pat Conroy My Exaggerated Life: Pat Conroy Character: Pat Conroy read 8/24/2018
STOP: Bloomington, Illinois
✓ Task 6 - Read a book with any character who is any type of attorney OR read a book where the male on the book cover has facial hair OR read a book that is #16 in a series. Please post the cover if choosing the facial hair option. Tell us the name of the series if choosing the book #16 option. Justin Glass is an attorney Little Boy Lost read 9/6/2018
STOP: Funk’s Grove, Illinois
✓ Task 7 -Read a book with (what you feel) is an annoying number of spelling or grammatical errors within the story OR read a book with an eccentric character (also acceptable are strange, odd, unstable). Tell us the name of the character if choosing that option. Anna Madrigal is an eccentric character More Tales of the City read 9/15/2018
STOP: Lincoln, Illinois
✓ Task 8 - Read a book where a baby is born within the story OR read a book with any fruit on the cover. Please post the cover if choosing the fruit option. Yankee Doodle Dead read 10/14/2018
STOP: Oh no! One of the butter sculptures heading to the Illinois State Fair has slipped off the truck in front of us! We’re in a Butter Slide!
✓ Task 9 – Read a book that has a predominately yellow cover. Please post the cover. Mr. Tall read 11/17/2018
✓ Task 10 – Read a book with the book title in the color yellow (and only yellow). Please post the cover. Visitation Street
read 1/4/2019STOP: Springfield, Illinois
✓ Task 11 - Read a book with a hot dog or corn on the cover OR read a book which takes place in a United States capital city. {link to capitol cities} Please post the cover if choosing the hot dog or corn option. Takes place in Atlanta, the capital of Georgia Darktown read 1/14/2019
STOP: Mount Olive, Illinois
✓ Task 12 – Read a book where the author’s last name begins with M or H or J (no first names please). Please be sure to link the author’s name. News of the World by Paulette Jiles read 2/8/2019
STOP: Collinsville, Illinois
✓ Task 13 - Read a book with a tall building, spire, or tall object on the cover OR read a book with “History” or “Historical” listed as a genre on the book title’s main GR page. Please post the cover if choosing the tall building/spire/tall object option. Genre is "Historical" The Last Romanov
read 2/17/2019
STOP: Crossing the Mississippi River
✓ Task 14 - Read a book with any type of water transportation on the cover OR read a book where a river is important to the story. Please post the cover if choosing the water transportation option. Life Is Like a Sailboat: Selected Writings on Life and Living from The Philadelphia Inquirer read 4/1/2019
STOP: Times Beach, Missouri
✓ Task 15 - Read a book where something is restored to its original glory (a house, jewelry, building, clothing, land, etc) OR read a book with a character employed by the U.S. Government. Please tell us the object restored if choosing that option. WH Chiefs of Staff are employed by the US Government
The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency read 4/18/2019
ROUTE 66 – The Mother Road - Cont'dSTOP: Gray Summit, Missouri
✓ Task 16 - Read a book with a dog in the story or on the cover. Please tell us the dog’s name. Please post the cover if choosing that option. A Dog's Way Home read 6/9/2019
STOP: Meramec Caverns, Sullivan, Missouri
✓ Task 17 – Read a book with a large mansion-type home on the cover OR read a book with an event that takes place in a cave or underground structure. Please post the cover if choosing the large home option. Saints for All Occasions read 7/10/2019
STOP: Cuba, Missouri
Task 18 - Read a book with a farm or field on the cover OR read a book with a flying machine on the cover. Please post the cover for either option. Bella Tuscany
STOP: Rolla, Missouri
Task 19 - Read a book with a predominantly green cover. Please post the cover. The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
STOP: Devil’s Elbow, Missouri
Task 20 – Read a book in which a flood takes place OR read a book with any type of lingerie on the cover. Please post the cover if choosing the lingerie option. Zeitoun
STOP: Carthage, Missouri
Task 21 – Read a book with a character who works for a local government (Sheriff, Deputy, Police Officer, Bailiff, Judge, etc – not Federal government) OR read a book where a wedding takes place. Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love
STOP: Oh no! Tornado!
Task 22 - Read a book with any weather related word in the title. And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
Task 23 - Your trip will be delayed for a couple of days due to storm clean-up, so tell us about the worst book you’ve ever read and why. Does not need to be re-read to be in this task.
STOP: Baxter Springs, Kansas
Task 24 - Read a book with LESS THAN 150 pages. (This can only be used for this task as all others require over 150 pages) OR read a book where any character has stolen something. What did they steal? The Butler: A Witness to History
STOP: Commerce, Oklahoma
Task 25 - Read a book with any form of money on the cover OR read a book with a roadway on the cover. Please post the cover for both options.
STOP: Vinita, Oklahoma
Task 26 - Read a book that takes place on a farm OR read a book that begins with “V” (disregard A, An, The). The Very Principled Maggie Mayfield
STOP: Foyil, Oklahoma
Task 27 - Read a book with any type of artist OR read a book where a postal worker is mentioned by name. Please give us the name of the postal worker.
STOP: Claremore, Oklahoma
Task 28 - Read a book where a main character lives through a near-death accident OR read a book where at least part of the book takes place in Oklahoma. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
STOP: Catoosa, Oklahoma
Task 29 – Read any book of your choosing (as long as it’s over 150 pages).
STOP: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Task 30 - Read a book where the first word of the title begins with a T (disregard A, An, The)
ROUTE 66 – The Mother Road - Cont'dSTOP: Oh no! What is that on the roadway? Oil Slick!
Task 31 – Read a book with a predominantly black cover. Please post the cover. After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan
Task 32 - Read a book with the book title in the color black (and only black). Please post the cover. We Were Mothers
STOP: Sapulpa, Oklahoma
Task 33 - Read a book with either rocks or a bridge on the cover. Please post the cover. The Days of Anna Madrigal
STOP: Chandler, Oklahoma
Task 34 – Read a book where a character goes on vacation. Please tell us where they go.
STOP: Warwick, Oklahoma
Task 35 – Read a book with a motorcycle, bicycle, or unicycle on the cover. Please post the cover.
STOP: Arcadia, Oklahoma
Task 36 - Read a book with a beverage on the cover OR read a book with a stone statue or a stone monument (tombstones are acceptable) on the cover. Please post the cover for any of these options.
STOP: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Task 37 - Read a book with a sunrise/sunset on the cover OR read a book with a police officer within the story. Please post the cover if choosing the sunrise/sunset option. Whiskey & Ribbons
STOP: El Reno, Oklahoma
Task 38 – Read a book where a character goes to a festival or fair OR read a book in which the author’s first or last name begins with an E. Please link the author’s name. Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow
STOP: Weatherford, Oklahoma
Task 39 – Read a book that was originally published between 1900 and 1999. Tell us the year. Dream Man Originally published - 1994
STOP: Elk City, Oklahoma
Task 40 - Read a book with any wild animal (not a house pet, but horses, cows, zoo animals, shifters are acceptable) within the story OR read a book with a 4.5 rating or higher on GR. Tell us the rating if choosing the GR option.
STOP: Sayre, Oklahoma
Task 41 - Read a book where a character is rather old-fashioned OR read a book with fog or an aura on the cover. Please post the cover if choosing the fog/aura option.
STOP: Erick, Oklahoma
Task 42 - Read a book with a view or vista on the cover OR read a book with an author with the first or last name of Eric (Erick, Erica, Erich or any spelling deviation is okay). Please post the cover if choosing the view/vista option. Please link the author’s name if choosing the Eric option. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
STOP: McLean, Texas
Task 43 – Read a book in which a character dies OR read a book that you obtained for less than 99 cents (freebies okay)
STOP: Groom, Texas
Task 44 - Read a book in which a wedding takes place within the storyline OR read a book where a character takes a fall or has an accident.
STOP: Cadillac Ranch, outside Amarillo, Texas
Task 45 - Read a book with a car on the cover. Please post the cover. The Hellfire Club
ROUTE 66 – The Mother Road - Cont'dSTOP: Cattle crossing! That’s a big herd; we are going to be here for a while.
Task 46 -Read a book with over 500 pages OR read the next 2 books in the same series of your choosing. Please tell us the name of the series, the names of both books, and the numbers where they fall in the series if choosing that option.
STOP: Tucumari, New Mexico
Task 47 - Read a book with page count that has two 2’s in it (do not have to be consecutive) OR read a book where at least one character speaks Spanish. Tell us the name of the Spanish speaking character. Tell us the page count if choosing that option.
STOP: Santa Rosa, New Mexico
Task 48 – Read a book with a cemetery/crypt/tombstone on the cover OR read a book with a large body of water on the cover. Please post the cover for either choice.
STOP: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Task 49 – Read a book that is out of your comfort zone OR read a different genre than you would normally read. Please tell us the different genre.
STOP: Bernalillo, New Mexico
Task 50 – Read a book with a place of worship on the cover OR read a book with a river on the cover. Please post the cover for either choice.
STOP: Pie-Town and Lightning Field, New Mexico
Task 51 – Read a book with a dessert on the cover or in the book title name OR read a book with lightning on the cover. Please post the cover for either cover option.
STOP: El Morro National Monument, Ramah, New Mexico
Task 52 – Read a book with either the book title or author’s name written in cursive. Please post the cover.
STOP: Gallup, New Mexico
Doris Day, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Mitchum, Errol Flynn, William Holden, Troy Donahue, John Wayne, W.C. Fields, Jackie Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Stewart, Alan Ladd, Rita Hayworth, Ronald Reagan, Gregory Peck, Peter Graves, and Paul McCartney
Task 53 – Read a book in which the authors’ first or last name is in the list above. While no variations or other spelling of the names are allowed for this task, feel free to use any of the names above as first or last names when choosing your author (e.g. Spencer Tracy = author Tracy Chevalier or Spencer Tracy = LaVyrle Spencer)
STOP: Painted Desert and Petrified Forest, Arizona
Task 54 – Read a book with 2 or more trees on the cover OR read a book with a framed painting or framed photograph on the cover. Please post the cover for either option.
STOP: Holbrook, Arizona
Task 55 – Read a book where any character visits a motel/hotel/inn/B&B OR read a book where any character owns their own business.
STOP: Winslow, Arizona
Task 56 – Read a book where any character is a musician OR read a book with over 500 ratings on Goodreads. Please tell us how many ratings.
STOP: Meteor Crater, outside Winslow, Arizona
Task 57 – Read a book with “Science Fiction” or “Fantasy” listed on the book’s main GR page OR read a book that takes place in one of the 4 corner states (Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico).
STOP: Twin Arrows, Arizona
Task 58: Read a book with twins OR read a book with an arrow on the cover OR read a book with a direction in the book title (North, South, East, West, Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast only please). Please post the cover if choosing the arrow option.
STOP: Flagstaff, Arizona
Task 59 – Read a book that was originally published in a year with a “9” in it. Tell us the year.
STOP: Side trip to Oak Creek Canyon and Sedona, Arizona
Task 60 – Read a book that you either purchased or was recommended to you (from any source).
ROUTE 66 – The Mother Road - Cont'dSTOP: Oh no! Wind Storm! We need to stop and wait for the storm to pass. We could be here awhile, so plan for two books.
Task 61 – As long as they follow the challenge rules, read 2 books of your choosing. Please post the names of both books.
STOP: Williams, Arizona
Task 62 – Read a book by any author with the first name Bobby, Bob, Robert, Will, Bill, or William OR read a book with any character whose first name is Bobby, Bob, Robert, Will, Bill, or William. First names only please.
STOP: Kingman, Arizona
Task 63 – Read a book with one human male on the cover and no others (men or women). Yes, part of that one human male is acceptable OR read a book with a crown on the cover. Please post the cover with either choice.
STOP: Side trip to London Bridge, Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Task 64 – Read a book that takes place in the 1800’s OR read a book that mostly takes place in England.
STOP: Needles, California
Task 65 – Read a book that takes place in the summer months (June, July, August and/or September) OR read a book that takes place completely in California (please tell us the location).
STOP: Well, well, well. What have we got here? A loop just south of what is now Interstate 40. There are several towns in this loop.
Task 66 - Please choose one town and spell out the name using the first letter of the book title (exclude A, An, The) or the first or last name of the author. You do not need to choose the town name when you sign up for the challenge. Feel free to wait until you get to Task 66. Choose from one of these town names only:
Danby
Chambless
Cadiz
Saltus
Amboy
Bagdad
Siberia
Klondike
Ragtown
Ludlow
STOP: Barstow, California
Task 67 – Read a book with an elderly woman as a character OR read a book over 400 pages.
STOP: Oro Grande, California
Task 68 – Read a book with a bottle or glass object on the cover. Please post the cover.
STOP: San Bernardino, California
Task 69 – Read a book with food on the cover (food or dessert – no beverages) OR read a book with a food or dessert mentioned in the title. Please post the cover if choosing that option.
STOP: Fontana, California
Task 70 – Read a book with a circle of some sort on the cover (yes, award circles count!) OR read a book with a predominantly orange cover. Please post the cover for either option.
STOP: Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
Task 71 – Read a book with a book on the cover OR read a book with wild flowers (not potted or picked) on the cover. Please post the cover for either option.
STOP: Pasadena, California
Task 72 - Read a book where any character participates in a sporting event (either player or watcher) OR read a book with roses on the cover. Please post the cover if choosing that option.
STOP: Los Angeles, California
Task 73 – Read a book with a celebrity of some sort (real or fictitious) OR read a book that takes place mostly in Los Angeles. Please tell us the name of the celebrity if choosing that option.
Task 74 – Read a book whose title begins with an “H” or “G” (exclude A, An, The).
STOP: Santa Monica, California
Task 75 – As we have just traveled 2,884 miles using 75 tasks over Route 66, read a book with a page count using any of the these numbers – 2,4,5,6,6,7,8,8. The numbers do not have to be consecutive and should be used only as many times as they appear in 2,4,5,6,6,7,8,8.
ROUTE 66 – The Mother Road - Cont'dReserved ... just in case
Crazy Challenge Connection groupUgly Once a Month
Duration: 8/1/2018-7/31/2019
Link to the Challenge
This is a year-long once-a-month interactive challenge designed to help you read the books on your TBR whose covers simply don't beguile you.
In general, every month between about the 19th and 24th, participants will post three "ugly" covers from their TBR.
On or around the 25th, pairs will be posted and picks will occur between then and the 30th. Each participant will pick what they think is the "ugliest" cover from the three submitted by the person they're paired with. That book becomes each participant's "ugly book" for the following month.
Pairs are bi-directional -- meaning if Barb and Connie are paired, Barb picks for Connie and Connie picks for Barb. New pairs will be posted each month of the 12-month challenge duration.
For the purposes of this challenge, "ugly" is defined as "If the cover was the ONLY thing I knew about this book, it would never have made it onto my TBR." Doesn't have to be genuinely ugly -- just not intriguing enough to catch your particular eye.
August:
Post books between 7/27 and 8/1
Pick book between 8/2 and 8/6 - Paired with Barb
✓ Book picked: Less Than Zero read 8/19/2018
September:
Post books between 8/19 and 8/24
Pick book between 8/25 and 8/30 - Paired with Kris
✓ Book picked: The Spanish Bow read 9/17/2018
October:
Post books between 9/19 and 9/24
Pick book between 9/25 and 9/30 - Paired with Olivermagnus
✓ Book picked: Above read 10/28/2018
November:
Post books between 10/19 and 10/24
Pick book between 10/25 and 10/30 - Paired with Rosa
✓ Book picked: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession read 11/23/2018
December:
Post books between 11/19 and 11/24
Pick book between 11/25 and 11/30 - Paired with Barb
✓ Book picked: The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow read 12/11/2018
January: Skipped
Post books between 12/19 and 12/24
Pick book between 12/25 and 12/30 - Paired with
Book picked:
February:
Post books between 1/19 and 1/24
Pick book between 1/25 and 1/30 - Paired with Loriidae
✓ Book picked: A Widow's Story read 2/28/2019
March:
Post books between 2/19 and 2/24
Pick book between 2/25 and 2/28 - Paired with Barb
✓ Book picked: Five-Carat Soul read 3/19/2019
April:
Post books between 3/19 and 3/24
Pick book between 3/25 and 3/30 - Paired with Suzanne
✓ Book picked: Perfume River read 7/10/2019
May: Skipped
Post books between 4/19 and 4/24
Pick book between 4/25 and 4/30 - Paired with
Book picked:
June: Skipped
Post books between 5/19 and 5/24
Pick book between 5/25 and 5/30 - Paired with
Book picked:
July:
Post books between 6/19 and 6/24
Pick book between 6/25 and 6/30 - Paired with Agnieszka
Book picked: Autumn read 8/22/2019
Wacky Reading Challenges group19X19 CHALLENGE
DATE: 01/01/19 - 12/31/19
Link to the Challenge
Here's how it works: Chose a level of participation, decide what categories want to work with, then read the corresponding number of books per category. It's totally up to you to decide how to combine your level and your categories.
LEVELS:
One: 1X9, 9 Books Total
Two: 1X19, 19 Books Total
Three: 9X9, 81 Books Total
Four: 9X19, 171 Books Total
Five: 19X19, 361 Books Total
81/81 Challenge completed!
✓ What's New Books added to my TBR in 2019
✓ 1. The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress (added 2/17/2019) read 3/3/2019
✓ 2. The Tattooist of Auschwitz (added 1/13/2019) read 6/13/2019
✓ 3. Where the Crawdads Sing (added 4/14/2019) read 7/1/2019
✓ 4. Returning From Camino (added 6/20/2019) read 7/15/2019
✓ 5. The War That Saved My Life (added 2/20/2019) read 8/7/2019
✓ 6. Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future (added 9/4/2019) read 9/17/2019
✓ 7. Never Have I Ever (added 1/23/2019) read 9/23/2019
✓ 8. The Library Book (added 9/9/2019) read 10/7/2019
✓ 9. A Drink Before the War (added 6/26/2019) read 10/15/2019
✓ Old Friends Books on my TBR for more than a year (2017 or earlier)
✓ 1. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend (added 8/18/2013) read 1/22/2019
✓ 2. Where the Heart Leads (added 6/11/2013) read 2/1/2019
✓ 3. The Last Romanov (added 4/26/2014) read 2/17/2019
✓ 4. The Last Original Wife (added 4/4/2014) read 2/20/2019
✓ 5. The Little French Bistro (added 8/11/2017) read 3/27/2019
✓ 6. Stella Bain (added 11/12/13) read 4/2/2019
✓ 7. The Girl You Left Behind (added 8/11/2013) read 4/11/2019
✓ 8. After Her (added 10/21/2013) read 4/24/2019
✓ 9. A House Among the Trees (added 8/11/2017) read 5/5/2019
✓ Something Borrowed Library books
✓ 1. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper read 3/17/2019
✓ 2. Hide read 4/14/2019
✓ 3. Beneath a Scarlet Sky read 6/8/2019
✓ 4. A Dog's Way Home read 6/9/2019
✓ 5. The Little Lady Agency and the Prince read 6/13/2019
✓ 6. The Suspect read 6/19/2019
✓ 7. The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year read 6/25/2019
✓ 8. Still Me read 6/25/2019
✓ 9. Saints for All Occasions read 7/10/2019
✓ I'd Like to Buy a Vowel Titles that begin with A, E, I, O, U (and sometimes Y)
✓ 1. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry read 1/14/2019
✓ 2. Idaho read 2/15/2019
✓ 3. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds read 4/25/2019
✓ 4. Under the Influence read 6/16/2019
✓ 5. The Amish Seamstress read 7/13/2019
✓ 6. The One-Way Bridge read 7/18/2019
✓ 7. Exit West read 7/21/2019
✓ 8. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine read 8/16/2019
✓ 9. Autumn read 8/22/2019
✓ Sitting on the Shelf Books I own
✓ 1. The Knitting Circle read 3/1/2019
✓ 2. Pachinko read 3/10/2019
✓ 3. Life Is Like a Sailboat: Selected Writings on Life and Living from The Philadelphia Inquirer read 4/1/2019
✓ 4. Where Wine Flows Like Water: A Gastronomic Pilgrimage Across Spain read 6/29/2019
✓ 5. Summer by the Sea read 7/19/2019
✓ 6. The Persian Pickle Club read 7/21/2019
✓ 7. Should I Stay or Should I Go?: The Truth About Moving Abroad and Whether it's Right for You read 7/21/2019
✓ 8. Bite Me read 10/14/2019
✓ 9. Babycakes read 10/16/2019
✓ I Love a Festival Books added to my TBR from the Decatur Book Festival
✓ 1. Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America read 1/27/2019
✓ 2. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America read 3/24/2019
✓ 3. Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour read 4/13/2019
✓ 4. Perfume River read 7/10/2019
✓ 5. Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy read 12/1/2019
✓ 6. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls read 12/3/2019
✓ 7. The Good Liar read 12/14/2019
✓ 8. The Color of Our Sky read 12/15/2019
✓ 9. The Great Believers read 12/22/2019
✓ Nice to Meet You Books by new-to-me authors
✓ 1. Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari read 1/10/2019
✓ 2. Darktown by Thomas Mullen read 1/14/2019
✓ 3. The Cranes Dance by Meg Howrey read 2/3/2019
✓ 4. News of the World by Paulette Jiles read 2/8/2019
✓ 5. The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon read 2/22/2019
✓ 6. Five-Carat Soul by James McBride read 3/19/2019
✓ 7. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whippleread 4/18/2019
✓ 8. The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro read 5/16/2019
✓ 9. Beautiful Exiles by Meg Waite Clayton read 5/16/2019
This is Your Life Memoir/biography/autobiography
✓ 1. The Smoking Nun read 1/9/2019
✓ 2. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose read 2/18/2019
✓ 3. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea read 2/23/2019
✓ 4. What Happened read 5/18/20019
✓ 5. Personal History read 7/8/2019
✓ 6. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother read 7/29/2019
✓ 7. With or Without You read 8/4/2019
✓ 8. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa read 8/18/2019
✓ 9. Reasons to Stay Alive read 11/13/2019
✓ Last Name, Please Authors who's last name begins with the following random letters
✓ 1. P Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda read 1/4/2019
✓ 2. W Artemis by Andy Weir read 7/14/2019
✓ 3. D The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick read 7/27/2019
✓ 4. O A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates read 2/28/2019
✓ 5. C Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine read 4/30/2019
✓ 6. N The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election by Malcolm Nance read 7/12/2019
✓ 7. T Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America by Helen Thorpe read 3/15/2019
✓ 8. M I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara read 1/18/2019
✓ 9. K The First Time She Drowned by Kerry Kletter read 1/22/2019
19X19 CHALLENGE Cont'dReserved, just in case
1st quarterJanuary reading plans
Book clubs:
Personal challenge:
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
1 book for Letter by Letter (no deadline) (15/20) The Last Romanov
January reading1. Visitation Street read 1/4/2019 ★★★★☆
2. Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents read 1/6/2019 ★★★★★
3. The Smoking Nun read 1/9/2019 ★★★☆☆
4. Modern Romance read 1/10/2019 ★★★☆☆
5. Darktown read 1/14/2019 ★★★★☆
6. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry read 1/14/2019 ★★★★☆
7. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer read 1/18/2019 ★★★★☆
8. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend read 1/22/2019 ★★★★☆
9. The First Time She Drowned read 1/22/2019 ★★★☆☆
10. Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America read 1/27/2019 ★★★★★
Good luck with all your challenges Susan!
Crazy Challenge Connection groupLOOKING BACK ON 2018
Duration: February 1, 2019 | No deadline to complete
Choose ONE task from each of our 2018 challenges and complete that task. Be sure to tell us which challenge each task is from. You MUST tell us which task you've chosen for each challenge when you sign up! If there are choices in that task, you must post your option NOW. See the posts below for an abbreviated sample sign-up post as well as for a challenge bonus; you can commit to the bonus now or wait till later, but books may only be used ONCE in the entire challenge.
Link to the Challenge
57/62 tasks
77/82 books
THE CHALLENGES
January Recipe of the Month
✓ Read a book whose title contains at least one word with consecutive double consonants The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper read 3/17/2019
January Scavenger
✓ Read a book whose title starts with "E" (disregard A, An, The) Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine read 8/16/2019
From Sea to Shining Sea: Alabama
✓ Read a book whose title has a word denoting the people of a country (for example, American Fire, The Good German, The English Passenger all work, Canada or China Dolls won't). Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America read 3/15/2019
One Hit Wonders of the 2000s
✓ Read a book from your TBR that ends on with a 0 - (10, 200, 3000) (Tell us the number) Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (#90) read 11/29/2019
Quilting Challenge- choose one block NOW and complete all four tasks
Eight Hands Around
✓ Read a book that is the eighth in a series; tell us the series. Mary Ann in Autumn (Tales of the City series)
✓ Read a book whose publication YEAR contains an "8;" tell us the year. The Great Alone (published in 2018) read 9/15/2019
✓ Read a book whose total page count contains an "8;" tell us how many pages. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (282 pages) read 11/28/2019
✓ Read a book whose cover clearly shows a hand or hands; post the cover. The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece read 7/27/2019
February Recipe of the Month
✓ Read a book with an "8" or "5" in the publication YEAR (tell us what year). Further Tales of the City (published 1982) read 10/4/2019
February Scavenger
✓ Read book #2 of a series; tell us the series name Fractured (Will Trent series) read 10/20/2019
2018 Remembering Them
✓ Read a book whose title starts with Z (disregard A, An, The) or that ENDS with Y Personal History read 7/8/2019
First Quarter Treasure Hunt - choose any two words NOW; find them in the text of your book. Remember to post the sentence and location/page number.
✓ Bad "He had a bad night on Wednesday, and by the next afternoon, Thursday, he was barely responsive." Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose page 187 read 2/18/2019
✓ Hope "We ate, had some laughs, and projected hope." Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose page 27 read 2/18/2019
Wolves and Penguins and Foxes, Oh My!
✓ Read a book written by an author whose first name on GR does not indicate gender (Chris, Terry, Alex, etc.) Sourdough by Robin Sloan read 7/24/2019
March Recipe of the Month
✓ Read a book with a 4-word title; all words count News of the World read 2/8/2019
March Scavenger
✓ Read a book by an author who uses three names, not just initials (i.e., Joyce Carol Oates or Orson Scott Card); post a link to the author's GR page The Amish Seamstress by Mindy Starns Clark https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
From Sea to Shining Sea: Maine
✓ Read a book whose title contains a major word greater than 4 letters with a single syllable. Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy read 12/1/2019
Fashion Designers
✓ Read a book whose title (ignore a/an/the) starts with a “V” Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour read 4/13/2019
Moldy Books- generate four random numbers between 1-500 and read books that correspond to those numbers; books do NOT have to be read in order
✓ 73 - Author was born in the same country as you (tell us where) Stella Bain (author Anita Shreve was born in the US) read 4/2/2019
✓ 399 - Title contains the same major word twice (ignore words like A, an, and, the etc.) Lookaway, Lookaway read 8/21/2019
✓ 171 - Title has a subtitle that says "A Novel" The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston read 10/21/2019
✓ 65 - Author has a last name that has a Van/De/O'/Mc Five-Carat Soul by James McBride read 3/19/2019
Spring Scavenger
✓ Read a book written by a female author The Cranes Dance by Meg Howrey read 2/3/2019
April Recipe of the Month
✓ Read a book with both 1 and 2 in the original publication year (tell us the year) Cronkite (published 2012) read 12/12/2019
April Scavenger
✓ Read a book having anything to do with politics. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency read 4/18/2019
Boston Marathon
✓ Read a book that you got for free (a library book, gift, ARC) The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress (library) read 3/3/2019
Amusement Parks
✓ Read a book whose title contains only words that are no more than five letters long (2-word minimum, ALL words count) The Boo read 6/4/2019
May Recipe of the Month
✓ Read a book with double consecutive digits in the total number of pages (ex. 288 and 336 would work, 242 would not). The Mothers (288 pages) read 8/29/2019
May Scavenger
✓ Read a book with over 10,000 ratings on GR; tell us how many ratings What Happened (39,911 ratings) read 5/18/2019
From Sea to Shining Sea: Missouri
✓ Read a book which involves a long journey the protagonist undertakes (this has to be physical, not metaphorical, tell us the source and destination) (the protagonist walks the Camino de Santiago from Oloron, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain) Where Wine Flows Like Water: A Gastronomic Pilgrimage Across Spain read 6/29/2019
Mother Goose
* Read a book with a storm scene somewhere in the story. And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
New-to-You Authors
✓ October - read a book by a new-to-you author whose first AND last initials can be found in SARCASTIC Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine read 4/30/2019
Triple Crown- choose three horses NOW and complete the tasks according to the challenge instructions
✓ 1995 Kentucky Derby - Thunder Gulch The Last Romanov read 2/17/2019
✓ 1908 Belmont Stakes - Colin Idaho read 2/15/2019
✓ 2016 Preakness - Exaggerator Evelyn, After read 9/20/2019
LOOKING BACK ON 2018 Cont'dJune Recipe of the Month
✓ Read a book by an author whose LAST name begins with D or B. Perfume River by Robert Olen Butler read 7/10/2019
June Scavenger
✓ Read a book set in a country other than your own (tell us where it's set and where you live). Pachinko Takes place primarily in Japan, I live in the United States read 3/10/2019
Kids' Card Games
✓ Read a book that has been honored with an award (tell us award name plus year). Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction - 2017) read 12/6/2019
Classic Arcade Games
✓ Read a book set in Italy, by an Italian author or with an Italian character; tell us the character. The Story of the Lost Child (set in Italy and by an Italian author) read 9/17/2019
Second Quarter Treasure Hunt - choose any two words NOW; find them in the text of your book. Remember to post the sentence and location/page number
✓ Afternoon - "If gun violence is an American epidemic, too vast and numbing to fully absorb, an afternoon with this still-grieving mother is a reminder that behind every black-and-white homicide statistic is a flesh-and-blook human being - and a family left behind." Life Is Like a Sailboat: Selected Writings on Life and Living from The Philadelphia Inquirer page 29 read 4/1/2019
✓ Each - "Each Sunday, we'd be out there on the lake, Dad and his three sons, scooting over the water on journeys to nowhere." Life Is Like a Sailboat: Selected Writings on Life and Living from The Philadelphia Inquirer page 24 read 4/1/2019
Sub-Genre Challenge - choose one genre NOW, read four different sub-genres within that genre
Non-fiction
✓ 1. Politics - The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year read 6/25/2019
✓ 2. True Story - Beneath a Scarlet Sky read 6/8/2019
✓ 3. Science - Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America read 3/24/2019
✓ 4. Memoir - When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa read 8/18/2019
Route 66 - choose any three CONSECUTIVE stops between tasks #1-15 NOW and complete the tasks IN ORDER
✓ Task 11 - Read a book which takes place in a United States capital city. Gone, Baby, Gone (Boston) read 6/26/2019
✓ Task 12 – Read a book where the author’s last name begins with M or H or J (no first names please). Please be sure to link the author’s name. Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson read 9/23/2019
✓ Task 13 - Read a book with “History” or “Historical” listed as a genre on the book title’s main GR page. The Library Book read 10/7/2019
Summer Scavenger
Read a book set in the southern USA (North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi or Florida); tell us the state Dear Martin Set in Atlanta, Georgia
July Recipe of the Month
✓ Read a book that is "fresh"--published in 2018 (tell us when). The Tattooist of Auschwitz (published Jan. 27, 2018) read 6/13/2019
July Scavenger
✓ Read a book with an intact "19" in its total page count; tell us how many pages. The Persian Pickle Club (196 pages) read 7/21/2019
From Sea to Shining Sea: Arkansas
✓ Read a book whose title has a word that is six letters or greater from this list of Johnny Cash's songs. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old read 8/26/2019 Song: It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
To Infinity and Beyond!
✓ Read a book with an apostrophe in the title. A Widow's Story read 2/28/2019
Shrink That TBR- choose one task NOW that requires reading at least two books (excluding #18)
✓ Read two books from your TBR list that you own – print books only please!
1. Returning From Camino read 7/15/2019
2. Should I Stay or Should I Go?: The Truth About Moving Abroad and Whether it's Right for You read 7/21/2019
August Recipe of the Month
✓ Read a book in the lower part of your TBR (anything less than the halfway point); tell us the position and the total of your TBR. Hide (#15 of 397) read 4/14/2019
August Scavenger
✓ Read a book with the letters F-A-R in the title (do NOT have to be in order). A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea read 2/23/2019
World's Smallest Countries
✓ Read a book with a one-word title (ALL words count). Artemis read 7/14/2019
A Murder of Crows: Collective Nouns
✓ Read a book with the word MURDER in the title (no variations!). The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator read 9/18/2019
Mmmmm, Chocolate!- choose one task NOW
✓ Read a book on a "most popular" list; post a link to the list The Girl You Left Behind read 4/11/2019 "Best Books of the Decade: 2010's" https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...
September Recipe of the Month
✓ Read a book with a "5" in the YEAR of publication (tell us the year). The Color of Our Sky (published 2015) read 12/15/2019
September Scavenger
✓ Read a book in which an author’s first and last initial can be found in LANTERN. The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron read 9/8/2019
From Sea to Shining Sea: Michigan
✓ Read a book from the list Popular Beach Reads. Still Me read 6/25/2019
My Favorite Things- choose one task from #6-10 NOW and complete that task
* What is your favorite location (beach, mountains, island, your favorite city, etc.)? Read 2 books set in that location. Favorite city - Paris
✓ 1. The Perfume Collector read 5/16/2019
✓ 2. Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife read 11/22/2019
2018 Fall Scavenger
* Read a book set in London. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
October Recipe of the Month
✓ Read a book with a 3-letter word in the title (do NOT count The, Are or And). We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves read 10/25/2019
October Scavenger
✓ Meatballs – Read a book with a plural word in its title. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 read 7/15/2019
Third Quarter Treasure Hunt - choose any two words NOW; find them in the text of your book. Remember to post the sentence and location/page number.
✓ House "We'll all go to the house tomorrow" page 278 The Knitting Circle read 3/1/2019
✓ Think "You can't work, you can't think, you can't read." page 20 The Knitting Circle read 3/1/2019
November Recipe of the Month
* Read a book set in or by an author from a country mentioned in one of Lonely Planet's best spice markets in the world. Last Train to Istanbul
November Scavenger
✓ Read a book with the letters S-A-L-T in its title, not necessarily in that order or in the same word Where the Heart Leads read 2/1/2019
From Sea to Shining Sea: Florida
✓ Read book #3 or #4 of a series. The Little Lady Agency and the Prince (3rd in the series) read 6/15/2019
On the Bottom of the Sea
✓ Read a book set in a state or province that borders one of the Great Lakes (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ontario or Quebec); tell us the setting. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls Takes place in Michigan read 12/3/2019
December Recipe of the Month
✓ Read a book originally published in 2018 Beautiful Exiles (published 8/1/2018) read 5/16/2019
December Scavenger
✓ Read a book in which the title of the book ends in a letter in REINDEER. The Sun Is Also a Star read 2/22/2019
Star Constellations
✓ Read a book with a crab or other crustacean creature on the cover (post the cover). Lowcountry Boil read 9/8/2019
The US Space Program: A Brief History
* Read a book that takes place during the 1950’s. The Hellfire Club
The Year in Astrology- choose one month NOW and complete one task for that month
AQUARIUS, January 21 – February 18
✓ Read a book with the words “WATER” OR “AIR” in the title; no variations. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother read 7/29/2019
Winter Scavenger
✓ Read book #238 on your TBR (sorted any way you choose) My Losing Season: A Memoir (sorted by title) read 12/29/2019
A-Z CHALLENGES:
For Our Annual A-Z Challenges:
Choose one letter NOW and use that letter to complete ALL of the A-Z challenges below. If you choose the letter D, for example, you would need to find a D author, a D title, a D item on a book cover (one-word item only!), a D female character, a D male character and a D location.
✓ N Authors The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election by Malcolm W. Nance read 7/12/2019
✓ N Titles Nine Perfect Strangers read 8/19/2019
✓ N Book Covers The Suspect read 6/18/2019 (notebook)
✓ N Female Characters Exit West (Nadia) read 7/21/2019
✓ N Male Characters The Last Original Wife (Nadar) read 2/20/2019
✓ N Locations Where the Crawdads Sing (North Carolina) read 7/1/2019
Crazy Challenge Connection groupLet's Talk About Cats
February 1 - July 31, 2019
Link to the Challenge
30/30
✓ 1. Abyssinian
🐾 Read a book set during ancient times -or- read a book whose title contains a preposition. News of the World 2/8/2019
✓ 2. American Shorthair
🐾 Read a book with America or American in the title (plurals okay) -or- read a book whose main character works hard for a living. The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election read 7/12/2019
✓ 3. Australian Mist
🐾 Read a book set in Australia -or- read a book which deals with some kind of ecological concern. Nine Perfect Strangers read 8/19/2019
✓ 4. Bengal
🐾 Read a book with a river important to the plot -or- read a book whose cover shows something that can be climbed up high (like the tops of a tree or a large building, post the cover). After Her read 4/24/2019
✓ 5. Birman
🐾 Read a book in which a physical transformation occurs -or- read a book in which a character is very talkative. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea read 2/23/2019
✓ 6. British Shorthair
🐾 Read a book whose main character is called Alice (no variations!) -or- read a book which deals with WWII. Beneath a Scarlet Sky read 6/8/2019
✓ 7. Chartreux
🐾 Read a book with a vegetable in the title or the cover (post the cover if using that option) -or- read a book with a religious main character. Where the Heart Leads read 2/1/2019
✓ 8. Devon Rex
🐾 Read a book with a character who loves fun -or- read a book whose title contains either Star or War (plurals allowed, no other variations). The Sun Is Also a Star read 2/22/2019
✓ 9. Donskoy
🐾 Read a book in which the main character rescues a child or an animal from cruelty -or- read a book with an older protagonist (>50 years) Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
✓ 10. Egyptian Mau
🐾 Read a book whose cover is mostly light green (post the cover) -or- read a book that you can read very fast. The Knitting Circle read 3/1/2019
✓ 11. Exotic Shorthair
🐾 Read a book in which a character is very lazy -or- read a book that has an X somewhere in its title or author's name. Beautiful Exiles read 5/16/2019
✓ 12. Havana
🐾 Read a book with smoke on the cover (post the cover) -or- read a book in which a character works with chocolate. The Suspect read 6/18/2019
✓ 13. Japanese Bobtail
Roll a dice and read a book depending on the number rolled:
🐾 6. Green: Read a book with a GR rating > 4.2. Pachinko (4.26 rating) read 3/10/2019
✓ 14. Khaomanee
🐾 Read a book in which the main character is not well traveled -or- read a book with a precious or semi-precious gem on the cover (post the cover). The Amish Seamstress read 7/13/2019
✓ 15. Korat
🐾 Read a book in which the main character meets with good fortune (tell us how) -or- read a book with either rain clouds or plants on the cover (post the cover). The Last Original Wife read 2/20/2019 Leslie discovers that her penny-pinching husband actually has $22 million in the bank, and her name is also on the account!
✓ 16. Lykoi
🐾 Read a book with a black and white cover (shades of grey allowed. Title and author can be in a different color, but nothing else. Post cover) -or- read a book made into a movie or a novelization of a movie (not a TV series or play, tell us which movie). Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America read 3/24/2019
✓ 17. Maine Coon
🐾 Read a historical book set in France (fiction or non-fiction) -or- read a book in which someone takes a long journey for whatever reason. Where Wine Flows Like Water: A Gastronomic Pilgrimage Across Spain read 6/29/2019
✓ 18. Manx
🐾 Read a book set on an island -or- read a book whose cover shows a round shape (post the cover). Artemis read 7/14/2019
✓ 19. Munchkin
🐾 Read a book whose main character is a detective (amateur sleuths don't count, they should be professional) -or- read a book set in a fantasy world. Hide read 4/14/2019
✓ 20. Nebelung
🐾 Read a book set in Germany -or- read a book with a mostly blue cover (post the cover). The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper read 3/17/2019
✓ 21. Norwegian Forest Cat
🐾 Read a book with royal characters -or- read a book with a legend of some kind important to the story. The Little Lady Agency and the Prince read 6/15/2019
✓ 22. Ocicat
🐾 Read a book whose title starts with an O (ignore A, An and The) -or- read a book whose cover contains a toy (post the cover). The One-Way Bridge read 7/18/2019
✓ 23. Persian
🐾 Read one of the oldest published books on your TBR (let us know when the book was published) -or- read a book whose cover shows a decorative item (post the cover). The Boo (published 1970) read 6/4/2019
✓ 24. Ragdoll
🐾 Read a book with a conspiracy theory important to the plot -or- read a book in which the main character is injured or sick and has to go to the hospital. The Little French Bistro read 3/27/2019
✓ 25. Russian Blue
🐾 Read a book with snow on the cover (post the cover) -or- read a book whose main character or author shares a name with an archangel (for the purpose of this task: Gabriel, Michael and Raphael. Reasonable variations are fine). The Last Romanov read 2/17/2019
✓ 26. Scottish Fold
🐾 Read a book whose cover shows any kind of folded item (post the cover) -or- read a book set in Scotland. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine read 8/16/2019
✓ 27. Siamese
🐾 Read a book whose title contains a shape name except for circle or its synonyms -or- listen to an audiobook (tell us who the narrator is). The Cranes Dance (narrator: Justine Eyre) read 2/3/2019
✓ 28. Siberian
🐾 Read a book whose cover shows a barrel (post the cover) -or- read a well researched non-fiction book. Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America read 3/15/2019
✓ 29. Turkish Angora
🐾 Read a book with two colors in the title and/or subtitle -or- read a book set in the middle east (let us know where). The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother read 7/29/2019
✓ 30. Turkish Van
🐾 Read a book whose location begins with a letter in ANATOLIA (tell us where) -or- read a book in which a character likes to run/jog (tell us who). Idaho takes place in Idaho read 2/15/2019
January Wrap-upPersonal challenges:
110 book reading goal: 10/110 = 9%
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
TBR Jar Challenge: 2/20 = 10%
Listopia Challenge: 2/18 = 11.1%
Clear Your Shelves: 2/20 = 10%
Quarterly:
Looking Back at the Best Challenge: 1/3 = 33%
Monthly:
Marathon Challenge: 10/10 = 100%
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
WRC: 19x19 Challenge: 9/81 = 11.1%
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
CCC: School Days: 4/18 = 22.2%
CCC: Quilting Challenge Phase 2: 6/20 = 30%
CCC: Letter by Letter: 15/20 = 75%
CCC: Route 66 11/75+ = 14.7%
1st quarterFebruary reading plans
Book clubs:
Over 50 Tucker Book Club –
Personal challenge:
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
2 books for CCC: Help Me Decide Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Semi-Yearly:
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
1 book for Scrabble, Anyone? (no deadline) (1 books to finish Set #7)
February reading11. Where the Heart Leads read 2/1/2019 ★★★☆☆
12, The Cranes Dance read 2/3/2019 ★★★☆☆
13. News of the World read 2/8/2019 ★★★★☆
14. Idaho read 2/15/2019 ★★★☆☆
15. The Last Romanov read 2/17/2019 ★★☆☆☆
16. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose read 2/18/2019 ★★★★★
17. The Last Original Wife read 2/20/2019 ★★★☆☆
18. The Sun Is Also a Star read 2/22/2019 ★★★☆☆
19. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea read 2/23/2019 ★★★☆☆
20. A Widow's Story read 2/28/2019 ★★★☆☆
February Wrap-upPersonal challenges:
110 book reading goal: 20/110 = 18%
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
TBR Jar Challenge: 6/20 = 30%
Listopia Challenge: 5/18 = 27.8%
Clear Your Shelves: 7/20 = 35%
Quarterly:
Looking Back at the Best Challenge: 2/3 = 66%
Monthly:
Marathon Challenge: 10/10 = 100%
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
WRC: 19x19 Challenge: 19/81 = 23.5%
Semi-yearly:
CCC: Let's Talk About Cats: 9/30 = 30%
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
CCC: School Days: 5/18 = 27.8%
CCC: Quilting Challenge Phase 2: 12/20 = 60%
CCC: Letter by Letter: 16/20 = 80%
CCC: Route 66 13/75+ = 17.3%
CCC: Looking Back on 2018: 10/62 = 16.1%
1st quarterMarch reading plans
Book clubs:
Personal challenge:
10 books for 110 book personal reading goal (20/110) The Knitting Circle, The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress, Pachinko, Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, Five-Carat Soul, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
0 books for TBR Jar Challenge (6/20)
0 books for Listopia Challenge (5/18)
0 books for Clear Your Shelves Challenge (7/20)
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
2 books for CCC: Help Me Decide The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, Sheltering Rain
Semi-Yearly:
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
1 book for Letter by Letter (no deadline) (16/20)
1 book for Route 66 (no deadline) (13/75)
March reading21. The Knitting Circle read 3/1/2019 ★★★☆☆
22. The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress read 3/3/2019 ★★★★☆
23. Pachinko read 3/10/2019 ★★★★☆
24. Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America read 3/15/2019 ★★★★☆
25. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper read 3/17/2019 ★★★★☆
26. Five-Carat Soul read 3/19/2019 ★★★☆☆
27. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America read 3/24/2019 ★★★★★
28. The Little French Bistro read 3/27/2019 ★★★☆☆
Crazy Challenge Connection groupHELP ME DECIDE CHALLENGE
DURATION: April 13, 2019 - March 28, 2020
Link to the Challenge
Please use this shelf: Pick 4 Me book shelf
ROUND 1: April 13 - picked by Lori
✓ The Perfume Collector read 5/16/2019
Also recommended: Artemis, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Paris
ROUND 2: April 27 - post your suggestions by April 30 Skipped
ROUND 3: May 11- post your suggestions by May 14 Skipped
ROUND 4: May 25 - post your suggestions by May 28 Skipped
ROUND 5: June 8 - picked by Katherine
✓ The Little Lady Agency and the Prince read 6/15/2019
Also recommended: You Suck, Artemis, Lowcountry Boil
ROUND 6: June 22 - picked by Joanne
✓ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine read 8/16/2019
Also recommended: The Great Alone, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
ROUND 7: July 6 - picked by Mandy
✓ Artemis read 7/14/2019
Also recommended: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Nine Perfect Strangers,
The Great Alone
ROUND 8: July 20 - picked by Nadine
✓ The War That Saved My Life read 8/7/2019
Also recommended: The Sunshine When She's Gone, We Are Never Meeting In Real Life, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
ROUND 9: August 3 - picked by Carrie
✓ The Most of Nora Ephron read 9/8/2019
Also recommended: This Is How You Lose Her, The Storyteller, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
ROUND 10: August 17 - picked by Maggie
✓ My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues read 8/27/2019
Also recommended: The Deep End of the Ocean, The Corrections, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
ROUND 11: August 31 - picked by Karen
✓ The Great Alone read 9/15/2019
Also recommended: Fractured, The Storyteller, The Best of Us
ROUND 12: September 14 - picked by Sunshine
✓ Never Have I Ever read 9/23/2019
Also recommended: Mud, Sweat and Tears, The Idiot
ROUND 13: September 28 - picked by Barb
✓ Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife read 11/22/2019
Also recommended: The Story of Arthur Truluv, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, The Storyteller
ROUND 14: October 12 - picked by Clair
✓ The Great Believers read 12/22/2019
Also recommended: We Are Never Meeting In Real Life, A Little Life, There There
ROUND 15: October 26 - picked by Sugar Snap
✓ Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City read 12/6/2019
Also recommended: There There, A Little Life
ROUND 16: November 9 - picked by Alison Ann
✓ Cronkite read 12/12/2019
Also recommended: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, We Are Never Meeting In Real Life
ROUND 17: November 23 - picked by Connie
✓ Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy read 12/1/2019
Also recommended: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, The Color of Our Sky
ROUND 18: December 7 - picked by Jimena
✓ The Good Liar read 12/14/2019
Also recommended: There There, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery. Missing Mom
ROUND 19: December 21 - picked by Andrea
✓ The Deep End of the Ocean read 12/25/2019
Also recommended: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. Red Notice, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
ROUND 20: January 4 - post your suggestions by January 7
ROUND 21: January 18 - post your suggestions by January 21
ROUND 22: February 1 - post your suggestions by February 4
ROUND 23: February 15 - post your suggestions by February 18
ROUND 24: February 29 - post your suggestions by March 3
ROUND 25: March 14 - post your suggestions by March 17
March Wrap-upPersonal challenges:
110 book reading goal: 28/110 = 25.5%
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
TBR Jar Challenge: 9/20 = 45%
Listopia Challenge: 6/18 = 33%
Clear Your Shelves: 8/20 = 40%
Quarterly:
Looking Back at the Best Challenge: 3/3 = 100%
Monthly:
Marathon Challenge: 10/10 = 100%
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
WRC: 19x19 Challenge: 27/81 = 33%
Semi-yearly:
CCC: Let's Talk About Cats: 15/30 = 50%
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
CCC: School Days: 6/18 = 33%
CCC: Quilting Challenge Phase 2: 16/20 = 80%
CCC: Letter by Letter: 17/20 = 85%
CCC: Route 66 13/75+ = 17.3%
CCC: Looking Back on 2018: 18/82 = 22%
2nd quarterApril/May reading plans
Book clubs:
Over 50 Tucker Book Club – (not attending)
Sagamore Hills - (not attending)
RBTW book club - Born A Crime
Personal challenge:
18 books for 110 book personal reading goal (28/110) Life Is Like a Sailboat: Selected Writings on Life and Living from The Philadelphia Inquirer, Stella Bain, The Girl You Left Behind, Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour, Hide, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
0 books for TBR Jar Challenge (9/20)
2 books for Listopia Challenge (6/18) The Girl You Left Behind
0 books for Clear Your Shelves Challenge (8/20)
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
1 books for CCC: Ugly Once a Month
2 books for CCC: Help Me Decide The Girl You Left Behind, Sheltering Rain, Stillhouse Lake
7 books for WRC: 19x19 Challenge (27/81) Life Is Like a Sailboat: Selected Writings on Life and Living from The Philadelphia Inquirer, Stella Bain, The Girl You Left Behind, Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour, Hide, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Semi-Yearly:
5 books for CCC: Let's Talk About Cats (15/30) Hide
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
1 book for School Days (no deadline) (6/18)
April reading29. Life Is Like a Sailboat: Selected Writings on Life and Living from The Philadelphia Inquirer read 4/1/2019 ★★★☆☆
30. Stella Bain read 4/2/2019 ★★★☆☆
31. The Girl You Left Behind read 3/11/2019 ★★★★☆
32. Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust--Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour read 4/13/2019 ★★★☆☆
33. Hide read 4/14/2019 ★★★★☆
34. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency read 4/18/2019 ★★★★☆
35. After Her read 4/24/2019 ★★★★☆
36. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds read 4/25/2019 ★★★☆☆
37. Stillhouse Lake read 4/30/2019 ★★★★☆
Awesome job so far! Keep it up!
May reading38. Sheltering Rain read 5/5/2019 ★★★☆☆
39. A House Among the Trees read 5/5/2019 ★★★☆☆
40. The Perfume Collector read 5/16/2019 ★★★★☆
41. Beautiful Exiles read 5/16/2019 ★★★☆☆
42. What Happened read 5/18/2019 ★★★★☆
April/May Wrap-upPersonal challenges:
110 book reading goal: 42/110 = 38.2%
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
TBR Jar Challenge: 10/20 = 50%
Listopia Challenge: 7/18 = 39%
Clear Your Shelves: 12/20 = 60%
Quarterly:
Looking Back at the Best Challenge: 3/3 = 100%
Monthly:
Marathon Challenge: 10/10 = 100%
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
WRC: 19x19 Challenge: 40/81 = 49.4%
Semi-yearly:
CCC: Let's Talk About Cats: 18/30 = 60%
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
CCC: School Days: 7/18 = 39%
CCC: Quilting Challenge Phase 2: 20/20 = 100%
CCC: Letter by Letter: 17/20 = 85%
CCC: Route 66 13/75+ = 17.3%
CCC: Looking Back on 2018: 27/82 = 33%
2nd quarterJune reading plans
Book clubs:
Over 50 Tucker Book Club –
Personal challenge:
13 books for 110 book personal reading goal (42/110) The Boo, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, A Dog's Way Home, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Little Lady Agency and the Prince, Under the Influence, The Suspect, The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year, Still Me, Gone, Baby, Gone, Where Wine Flows Like Water: A Gastronomic Pilgrimage Across Spain
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
0 books for TBR Jar Challenge (10/20)
2 books for Listopia Challenge (7/18) The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year
0 books for Clear Your Shelves Challenge (12/20)
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
1 books for CCC: Ugly Once a Month Perfume River
2 books for CCC: Help Me Decide The Little Lady Agency and the Prince, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Semi-Yearly:
7 books for CCC: Let's Talk About Cats (18/30) The Boo, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, The Little Lady Agency and the Prince, The Suspect, Where Wine Flows Like Water: A Gastronomic Pilgrimage Across Spain
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
1 book for Scrabble, Anyone? (no deadline)
1 book for Letter by Letter (no deadline) (17/20)
June reading43. The Boo read 6/4/2019 ★★★☆☆
44. Beneath a Scarlet Sky read 6/8/2019 ★★★★☆
45. A Dog's Way Home read 6/9/2019 ★★★★☆
46. The Tattooist of Auschwitz read 6/13/2019 ★★★★☆
47. The Little Lady Agency and the Prince read 6/15/2019 ★★★☆☆
48. Under the Influence read 6/16/2019 ★★★★☆
49. The Suspect read 6/18/2019 ★★★☆☆
50. The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year read 6/25/2019 ★★★★★
51. Still Me read 6/25/2019 ★★★★☆
52. Gone, Baby, Gone read 6/26/2019 ★★★★☆
53. Where Wine Flows Like Water: A Gastronomic Pilgrimage Across Spain read 6/29/2019 ★★★☆☆
Wacky Reading Challenge groupCharacters of M*A*S*H
Date: 04/01/19 - 00/00/00
To complete this challenge, you will need to read a book for each task for each of the characters below (a total of 44 tasks).
Link to the Challenge
44/44 tasks Challenge completed!
TASKS:
For each of the characters listed below, read a book for each of these four tasks. You will need to complete 44 tasks total.
1. TITLE/CHARACTER:
Read a book in which the first letter of each title word can be found in the character's name. No word count limit, but ALL words count.
2. AUTHOR/ACTOR:
Read a book in which the author's first and last initials can be found in the actor's name.
3. LOCATION/ROLE:
Read a book set in a location that begins with a letter found in the character's role. Example: Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce is the Chief Surgeon, so you would need to read a book set in a location in which the first letter of that location can be found in CHIEFSURGEON. Location information must be provided in your post.
4. PAGES/APPEARANCES:
Read a book in which the total page count contains at least one number found in the total number of appearances (found in parenthesis for each character). Page count information must be provided in your post, and it must match the book you link for this task.
CHARACTERS:
✓ 1. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce|Actor: Alan Alda|Role: Chief Surgeon|Appearances: 251
✓ Title/Character: Personal History read 7/8/2019
✓ Author/Actor: Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane read 6/26/2019
✓ Location/Role: Italy Beneath a Scarlet Sky read 6/8/2019
✓ Pages/Appearances: You Suck 328 pages read 8/3/2019
✓ 2. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan Penopscott|Actor: Loretta Swit|Role: Head Nurse|Appearances: 243
✓ Title/Character: The Suspect read 6/18/2019
✓ Author/Actor: Artemis by Andy Weir read 7/14/2019
✓ Location/Role: Spain Where Wine Flows Like Water: A Gastronomic Pilgrimage Across Spain read 6/29/2019
✓ Pages/Appearances: My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues 242 pages read 8/27/2019
✓ 3. Maxwell Q. Klinger|Actor: Jamie Farr|Role: Corpsman|Appearances: 219
✓ Title/Character: Autumn read 8/22/2019
✓ Author/Actor: The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride read 7/29/2019
✓ Location/Role: Poland The Tattooist of Auschwitz read 6/13/2019
✓ Pages/Appearances: Imagine That 331 pages read 9/11/2019
✓ 4. Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy|Actor: William Christopher|Role: Chaplain|Appearances: 218
✓ Title/Character: Saints for All Occasions read 7/10/2019
✓ Author/Actor A Dog's Way Home by W. Bruce Cameron read 6/9/2019
✓ Location/Role: London The Little Lady Agency and the Prince read 6/15/2019
✓ Pages/Appearances: Summer by the Sea 408 pages read 7/19/2019
✓ 5. Trapper John McIntyre|Actor: Wayne Rogers|Role: Surgeon |Appearances: 72
✓ Title/Character: Perfume River read 7/10/2019
✓ Author/Actor: The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year by Amy Siskind
✓ Location/Role: New York Still Me read 6/25/2019
✓ Pages/Appearances: pages 174 The Boo read 6/4/2019
✓ 6. Henry Blake|Actor: McLean Stevenson|Role: Commanding Officer|Appearances: 70
✓ Title/Character: Evelyn, After read 9/20/2019
✓ Author/Actor: The Amish Seamstress by Mindy Starns Clark
✓ Location/Role: Maine The One-Way Bridge read 7/18/2019
✓ Pages/Appearances: Lowcountry Boil 408 pages read 9/8/2019
✓ 7. Frank Burns|Actor: Larry Linville|Role: Executive Officer|Appearances: 118
✓ Title/Character: Fractured read 10/20/2019
✓ Author/Actor: The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron
✓ Location/Role: California Exit West read 7/21/2019
✓ Pages/Appearances: The Persian Pickle Club 196 pages read 7/21/2019
✓ 8. Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly|Actor: Gary Burghoff|Role: Company Clerk|Appearances: 156
✓ Title/Character: Under the Influence read 6/16/2019
✓ Author/Actor Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman read 8/16/2019
✓ Location/Role: Amsterdam The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old read 8/26/2019
✓ Pages/Appearances: Sourdough 259 pages read 7/24/2019
✓ 9. B.J. Hunnicutt|Actor: Mike Farrell|Role: Surgeon|Appearances: 187
✓ Title/Character: Calypso read 12/25/2019
✓ Author/Actor: Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty read 8/19/2019
✓ Location/Role: South Carolina My Losing Season: A Memoir read 12/29/2019
✓ Pages/Appearances: The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston 280 pages read 10/21/2019
✓ 10. Sherman T. Potter|Actor: Harry Morgan|Role: Commanding Officer|Appearances: 188
✓ Title/Character: The Mothers read 8/29/2019
✓ Author/Actor: The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election read 7/12/2019
✓ Location/Role: North Carolina Lookaway, Lookaway read 8/21/2019
✓ Pages/Appearances: The War That Saved My Life 316 pages read 8/7/2019
✓ 11. Charles Emerson Winchester III|Actor: David Ogden Stiers|Role: Surgeon|Appearances: 137
✓ Title/Character: Where the Crawdads Sing read 7/1/2019
✓ Author/Actor: These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner read 7/15/2019
✓ Location/Role: Sweden The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator read 9/18/2019
✓ Pages/Appearances: Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future 352 pages read 9/17/2019
June Wrap-upPersonal challenges:
110 book reading goal: 53/110 = 48.1%
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
TBR Jar Challenge: 11/20 = 55%
Listopia Challenge: 10/18 = 55.5%
Clear Your Shelves: 14/20 = 70%
Quarterly:
Looking Back at the Best Challenge: 3/3 = 100%
Monthly:
Marathon Challenge: 10/10 = 100%
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
WRC: 19x19 Challenge: 49/81 = 60.5%
Semi-yearly:
CCC: Let's Talk About Cats: 23/30 = 76.7%
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
CCC: School Days: 9/18 = 50%
CCC: Quilting Challenge Phase 2: 20/20 = 100%
CCC: Quilting Challenge Phase 3: 6/30 = 20%
CCC: Letter by Letter: 17/20 = 85%
CCC: Route 66 16/75+ = 21.3%
CCC: Looking Back on 2018: 38/82 = 46.3%
WRC: Characters of M*A*S*H: 10/44 = 22.7%
3rd quarterJuly reading plans
Book clubs:
Over 50 Tucker Book Club –
Sagamore Hills - (a memoir)
Personal challenge:
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
0 books for Clear Your Shelves Challenge (14/20)
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
3 books for CCC: Help Me Decide Artemis, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
0 books for WRC: 19x19 Challenge (49/81)
Semi-Yearly:
7 books for CCC: Let's Talk About Cats (23/30) The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election, The Amish Seamstress, Artemis, The One-Way Bridge, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
July reading54. Where the Crawdads Sing read 7/1/2019 ★★★★☆
55. Personal History read 7/8/2019 ★★☆☆☆
56. Perfume River read 7/10/2019 ★★★☆☆
57. Saints for All Occasions read 7/10/2019 ★★★★☆
58. The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election read 7/12/2019 ★★★☆☆
59. The Amish Seamstress read 7/13/2019 ★★★★☆
60. Artemis read 7/14/2019 ★★★☆☆
61. Returning From Camino read 7/15/2019 ★★★★☆
62. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 read 7/15/2019 ★★★★☆
63. The One-Way Bridge read 7/18/2019 ★★★☆☆
64. Summer by the Sea read 7/19/2019 ★★★☆☆
65. The Persian Pickle Club read 7/21/2019 ★★★☆☆
66. Should I Stay or Should I Go?: The Truth About Moving Abroad and Whether it's Right for You read 7/21/2019 ★★☆☆☆
67. Exit West read 7/21/2019 ★★★☆☆
68. Sourdough read 7/24/2019 ★★★☆☆
69. The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece read 7/27/2019 ★★★☆☆
70. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother read 7/29/2019 ★★★★☆
Wacky Reading Challenge groupHISTORICAL LANDMARKS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
3RD QUARTER, 2019
DATE: 07/01/19 - 09/30/19
Link to the Challenge
TASKS:
To complete the task section, read a book for each of the landmarks listed below. PLEASE NOTE: It must be clear which task option you are choosing to complete, and all required information for that task must be included in your post.
18/18 Challenge completed!
1. STONEHENGE:
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in Wiltshire, England. It consists of a ring of standing stones, each stone standing approximately 13 feet high, seven feet wide and weighing around 25 tons.
✓ Read a book whose title begins with S or ends with E, OR Saints for All Occasions read 7/10/2019
❂Read a book with a stone or rock formation shown on the cover.
2. OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE:
The Old Royal Naval College was built between 1696 and 1712, for the purpose of serving as the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
❂Read a book in which a hospital is mentioned or someone going to the hospital, OR
✓ Read a book in which at least one of the following numbers is found in the total page count: 1, 6, 9, 7 or 2. Personal History 642 pages read 7/8/2019
3. CHESTER ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE:
The Chester Roman Amphitheatre dates from the 1st century, and was in use through much of the Roman occupation of Britain. It fell into disuse around the year 350, and was only rediscovered in 1929 during construction work at the site. Excavation of the amphitheatre took place between 2000 and 2006.
❂Read a book in which some type of entertainment is part of the story, OR
✓ Read a book published between 2000 - 2006. The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece Published 6/28/2005 read 7/27/2019
4. RAGLAN CASTLE:
Raglan Castle is a late medieval castle located in south east Wales. The modern castle dates between the 15 and early 17th centuries. Surrounded by parkland, water gardens and terraces, the castle was considered to be the equal of any other in England or Wales.
❂Read a book with a park, water or terrace shown on the cover, OR
✓ Read a book in which the author's initials can be found in RAGLANCASTLE. Sourdough by Robin Sloan read 7/24/2019
5. GRAIN TOWER BATTERY:
The Grain Tower Battery is a mid 19th-century fortification tower, and was constructed to protect the dockyards at Sheerness and Chatham from a perceived French naval threat during a period of tension in the 1850's.
❂Read a book with one of the following words found in the text (page/location no and sentence required): Grain, Tower, Battery, OR
✓ Read a book with over 1,850 ratings shown here on GR. Artemis 132706 ratings read 7/14/2019
6. BYLAND ABBEY:
Byland Abbey is a ruined abbey located in North Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1135, it was plagued with disputes with no fewer than four other religious establishments: Furness Abbey, Calder Abbey, Rievaulx Abbey and Newburgh Priory. It was dissolved in 1538.
❂Read a book in which religion is part of the story, OR
✓ Read a book with the letters "Y" and "B" found somewhere in the title. The One-Way Bridge read 7/18/2019
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SPELL OUT:
Choose something related to the United Kingdom to spell out by using the following: (1) first letter of the book's title, or (2) first letter of the author's first or last name. I've provided a list of options below, but feel free to use something of your own.
✓ R Returning From Camino read 7/15/2019
✓ A The Amish Seamstress read 7/13/2019
✓ G The Great Alone read 9/15/2019
✓ L Lookaway, Lookaway read 8/21/2019
✓ A Should I Stay or Should I Go?: The Truth About Moving Abroad and Whether it's Right for You by Paul Allen read 7/21/2019
✓ N The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election by Malcolm W. Nance read 7/12/2019
✓ C The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother read 7/29/2019
✓ A Autumn read 8/22/2019
✓ S Summer By The Sea read 7/19/2019
✓ T These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 read 7/15/2019
✓ L Lowcountry Boil read 9/8/2019
✓ E Exit West read 7/21/2019
Hoping you are having a good year with books and in life. Doing great!
July Wrap-upPersonal challenges:
110 book reading goal: 70/110 = 63.6%
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
TBR Jar Challenge: 15/20 = 75%
Listopia Challenge: 12/18 = 66.6%
Clear Your Shelves: 19/20 = 95%
Quarterly:
Looking Back at the Best Challenge: 3/3 = 100%
Monthly:
Marathon Challenge: 10/10 = 100%
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
WRC: 19x19 Challenge: 63/81 = 77.8%
Semi-yearly:
CCC: Let's Talk About Cats: 28/30 = 93.3%
Quarterly:
Historical Landmarks of the UK: 14/18 = 77.8%
Monthly:
Ongoing:
CCC: School Days: 11/18 = 61.1%
CCC: Quilting Challenge Phase 2: 20/20 = 100%
CCC: Quilting Challenge Phase 3: 9/30 = 30%
CCC: Letter by Letter: 20/20 = 100%
CCC: Route 66 17/75+ = 22.7%
CCC: Looking Back on 2018: 52/82 = 63.4%
WRC: Characters of M*A*S*H: 23/44 = 52.3%
3rd quarterAugust reading plans
Book clubs:
Over 50 Tucker Book Club – Dear Bob and Sue
Personal challenge:
Group Challenges:
Yearly:
0 books for Clear Your Shelves Challenge (19/20)
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Other Group Challenges:
Yearly:
4 books for CCC: Help Me Decide The War That Saved My Life, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, The Most of Nora Ephron
0 books for WRC: 19x19 Challenge (63/81)
Semi-Yearly:
Quarterly:
Monthly:
Ongoing:
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
1 book for Route 66 (no deadline) (17/75)
August reading71. You Suck read 8/3/2019 ★★★★☆
72. With or Without You read 8/4/2019 ★★★☆☆
73. The War That Saved My Life read 8/7/2019 ★★★★☆
74. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine read 8/16/2019 ★★★★★
75. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa read 8/18/2019 ★★★☆☆
76. Nine Perfect Strangers read 8/19/2019 ★★★☆☆
77. Lookaway, Lookaway read 8/21/2019 ★★★☆☆
78. Autumn read 8/22/2019 ★★☆☆☆
79. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old read 8/26/2019 ★★★★☆
80. My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues read 8/27/2019 ★★★★☆
81. The Mothers read 8/29/2019 ★★★★★
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
My Losing Season: A Memoir (other topics)My Losing Season: A Memoir (other topics)
The Great Believers (other topics)
Calypso (other topics)
The Deep End of the Ocean (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Joshilyn Jackson (other topics)Nora Ephron (other topics)
Brit Bennett (other topics)
Elizabeth Berg (other topics)
Liane Moriarty (other topics)
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This is where I'll track my progress towards my 2019 reading goal, as well as my challenges in other challenge groups.
Link to my 2019 Member Corner page
Challenges carried forward from 2018:
Crazy Challenge Connection group:
Scrabble, Anyone? (no deadline)
School Days (no deadline) Challenge completed! 12/23/2019
Quilting Challenge (no deadline)
Letter by Letter (no deadline) Challenge completed! 7/21/2019
ROUTE 66 – The Mother Road (no deadline)
Help Me Decide 2018 (04/01/18-03/30/19)
Ugly Once a Month (8/1/2018-7/31/2019)
New challenges in 2019:
Ongoing:
CCC: Looking Back on 2018 (no deadline)
WRC: Characters of M*A*S*H (no deadline)
Yearly:
WRC: 19x19 Challenge (1/1/2019-12/31/2019) Challenge completed! 12/22/2019
CCC: Help Me Decide 2019 (04/13/19-03/28/20)
Semi-yearly:
CCC: Let's Talk about Cats (2/1/2019-7/31/2019) Challenge completed! 8/19/2019
Quarterly:
WRC: Historical Landmarks of the United Kingdom (7/1/2019-9/30/2019) Challenge completed! 9/15/2019
Monthly: