Play Book Tag discussion

Primary reading goal: 175 books
Secondary Goal - read oldest books on my TBR pile - those added in 2012 when I joined GR

PBT Challenges:
Monthly Tag
Poll Ballot
Decades Bingo
Unofficial Trim Challenge Continuation

PBT Monthly Tags

January Thriller
The Huntress – Kate Quinn (5 stars) 1/6/20
Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #11) – Nancy Atherton (4 stars) 1/8/20
Darkship Renegades (Darkship, #2) - Sarah Hoyt (3 stars) 1/26/20
Justice Calling - Annie Bellet (3 stars) 1/29/20
B is for Burglar - Sue Grafton (4 stars) 1/31/20

February - Survival
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories – Nancy E. Turner (5 stars) 2/21/20

March - Journalism
1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina - Chris Rose (4 stars) 3/8/20

April - Science Fiction
Moonstruck (Borderlands, #1) – Susan Grant (4 stars) 4/20/20 2008 [378]

May - Comedy
Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (A Psychic Eye Mystery, #1) – Victoria Laurie (5 stars) 5/26/20

June - Suspense
Buried (Mountain Cove, #1) – Elizabeth Goddard (3 stars) 6/4/20
Backfire (Mountain Cove, #3) – Elizabeth Goddard (2 stars) 6/5/20
Poison Pen (A Forensic Handwriting Mystery, #1) – Sheila Lowe (4 stars) 6/8/20
White Heat (An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery, #1) – M. J. McGrath (4 stars) 6/11/20

July - Southern
Dead Over Heels (Aurora Teagarden, #5) – Charlaine Harris (3 stars) 7/10/20
Shakespeare's Champion (Lily Bard, #2) – Charlaine Harris (4 stars) 7/13/20
No Cats Allowed (Cat in the Stacks, #7) – Miranda James (3 stars) 7/21/20
Above the Waterfall – Ron Rash (3 stars) 7/27/20 [252]

August - Witches
Dead Heat (Alpha & Omega, #4) – Patricia Briggs (4 stars) 8/7/20
All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7) – Charlaine Harris (4 stars) 8/9/20
From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8) – Charlaine Harris (4 stars) 8/10/20

September - Psychological
None

October - Animals
Digging Up the Dirt (A Southern Ladies Mystery, # 3) – Miranda James (3 stars) 10/7/20
Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome (4 stars) 10/18/20
Dragonsong (Harper Hall of Pern #1) – Anne McCaffrey (5 stars) 10/24/20
Dragonsinger (Harper Hall of Pern #2) – Anne McCaffrey (4 stars) 10/26/20
Shiver (The Werewolves of Mercy Falls, #1) – Maggie Stiefvater (3 stars) 10/30/20

November - Books to Screen
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) – L. M. Montgomery (4 stars) 11/6/20

December - International
Dancing in a Distant Place– Isla Dewar (3 stars) 12/24/20

PBT Decades Bingo Got a BINGO with last 2 numbers called!
books must be originally published in the year called
My Card
Years picked:

December 26: G-2007 - Aunt Dimity Goes West (Aunt Dimity Mystery, #12) – Nancy Atherton (4 stars) 1/11/20
January 15: N-1999 - not on my card
February 1: B-1975 - not on my card
February 15: I-1984 - The Lurid Lady Lockport (Alphabet series, #4) - Kasey Michaels (4 stars) 2/29/20
March 1: I-1988 - The Bargain – Mary Jo Putney (3 stars) 4/26/20
March 15: G-2009 - not on my card
April 1: I-1989 - The Promissory Note – Rebecca Ward (3 stars) 4/22/20
April 15: N-1991 - not on my card
May 1: N-1990 - Quench The Lamp - Alice Taylor (4 stars) 5/4/20
May 15: G-2003 - Tied with a Bow - Dominique Adair, Jennifer Dunne, & Madeleine Oh (3 stars) 7/30/20
June 1: B-1971 - Jeeves and the Tie That Binds - P. G. Wodehouse (3 stars) 7/5/20
June 15: I—1986 - Red Rose - Mary Balogh (4 stars) 7/2/20
July 1: I-1980 - not on my card
July 15: B-1973 - not on my card
August 1: O-2010 - Moon Spinners - Sally Goldenbaum (3 stars) 11/23/20
August 15: O-2016 - not on my card
September 1: I-1980 - not on my card
September 15: N-1993 - Thea's Marquis - Carola Dunn (3 stars) 12/6/20
October 1: O-2012 - not on my card
October 15: I-1983 - not on my card
October 31-Bonus: G-2004 - Theft on Thursday - Ann Purser (3 stars) 11/10/20
November 1: I-1985 - not on my card
November 15: B-1978 - The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin (3 stars) 12/15/20
November 25-Bonus: B-1970 - not on my card
December 1: G-2000 - Suddenly You - Lisa Kleypas (4 stars) 12/14/20
December 15: O-2019 - The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes (3 stars) 12/15/20
December 15: Bonus: N-1998 - Spirit Catcher - Elizabeth Hallam (3 stars) 12/21/20

PBT Unofficial Trim Challenge Continuation - reading list


1. The Lost Girls of Paris - Pam Jenoff
2. Rules of Civility - Amor Towles
3. Tiffany Girl - Deeanne Gist
✔4. About a Dragon – G.A. Aiken
5. Alien Proliferation - Gini Koch
✔6. The Bartender's Tale - Ivan Doig
7. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal - Mary Roach
8. The Obsession - Nora Roberts
✔9. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World - Mark Miodownik
✔10. The Bridal Quest - Candace Camp
✔11. A Study in Silks - Emma Jane Holloway
✔12. Darkship Renegades - Sarah A. Hoyt
13. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
14. Left Neglected - Lisa Genova
✔15. Whiter Than Snow – Sandra Dallas
✔16. The Sweetest Thing - Jill Shalvis
✔17. Dancing in a Distant Place - Isla Dewar
18. Ginger: My Story - Ginger Rogers
✔19. The Marriage Wager – Candace Camp
20. Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World-from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief - Tom Zoellner
✔21. The Measure of a Lady - Deeanne Gist
✔22. The Prize – Julie Garwood
23. Lessons in French - Laura Kinsale
24. Low Pressure - Sandra Brown

PBT Unofficial Trim Challenge Continuation

Monthly Picks

January #12 Darkship Renegades (3 stars) - 1/26/20
February #9 Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World - (4 stars) - 2/23/20
March #22 The Prize - (3 stars) - 4/29/20
April #6 The Bartender's Tale - (4 stars) - 5/18/20
May #21 The Measure of a Lady - (2 stars) - 6/19/20
June #19 The Marriage Wager - (4 stars) - 7/1/20
July #15 Whiter Than Snow - (4 stars) - 11/14/20
August #4 About a Dragon - (4 stars) - 9/1/20
September #11 A Study in Silks
October #16 The Sweetest Thing - (3 stars) - 10/3/20
November #17 Dancing in a Distant Place - (3 stars) 12/24/20
December #10 The Bridal Quest

Poll Ballot - States & Tags

Alabama - civil rights
✔Alaska - Inuit - 1
Arizona - Grand Canyon
✔Arkansas - education -2
✔California - Hollywood - 1
✔Colorado - Rocky Mountains - 4
✔Connecticut - Constitution - 1
✔Delaware - business - 2
District of Columbia - presidents
Florida - Disney
✔Georgia - antebellum - 1
Hawaii - volcanoes
✔Idaho - nature - 4
✔Illinois - comedy - 16
✔Indiana - auto racing - 1
✔Iowa - politics - 2
✔Kansas - weather - 2
✔Kentucky - horses - 2
✔Louisiana - southern gothic - 2
Maine - Stephen King
✔Maryland - Navy - 2
✔Massachusetts - witches - 10
Michigan - Great Lakes
✔Minnesota - vikings - 2
Mississippi - blues
✔Missouri - pioneers - 2
✔Montana - wildlife - 1
Nebraska - farming
Nevada - gambling
New Hampshire - hiking
New Jersey - mafia
New Mexico - extraterrestrials
New York - Broadway
✔North Carolina - Appalachia - 3
North Dakota - paleontology
✔Ohio - industry - 2
Oklahoma - Great Depression
✔Oregon - ecology - 2
Pennsylvania - Amish
✔Rhode Island - sailing - 1
South Carolina - pirates
South Dakota - frontier
Tennessee - country music
✔Texas - space - 4
Utah - Mormon
✔Vermont - libraries - 3
Virginia - FBI
✔Washington - coffee - 1
West Virginia - mining
✔Wisconsin - cheese - 1
✔Wyoming - western - 8

States - 28
Books - 83