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🗸 304p - The Dark In-Between -Read 05/07
🗸 390p - The Word Is Murder (Hawthorne #1) -Read 05/09
🗸 275p - The Silver Brumby (Silver Brumby #1) -Read 05/09
🗸 400p - Whiskey When We're Dry -Read 05/09
🗸 336p - Looking Good Dead (Roy Grace #2) -Read 05/11
🗸 60p - Flesh Series: Shorts -Read 05/11
🗸 150p - The Swan Maiden: An Australian Faery Tale -Read 05/14
🗸 496p - Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace #3) -Read 05/17
🗸 128p - Checkers -Read 05/19
🗸 191p - The Body in the Library (Miss Marple #2) -Read 05/20
🗸 232p - Just Visiting (Crocodile Spirit Dreaming #1) -Read 05/22
🗸 354p - Ghost of a Chance (Chintz 'n China Mystery #1) -Read 05/25
🗸 224p - Rocky Mountain Heat (Six Pack Ranch #1) -Read 05/29
🗸 290p - Dog Boy -Read 06/01
🗸 336p - When We Were Vikings -Read 06/03
🗸 353p - Quantum (Captain Chase #1) -Read 06/03
🗸 176p - Songbird -Read 06/04
🗸 162p - The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) -Read 06/04
🗸 304p - Going Off Script -Read 06/05
🗸 496p - Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls #1) -Read 06/11
🗸 304p - While I Live (The Ellie Chronicles #1) -Read 06/17
🗸 304p - Deadly Curious -Read 06/20
🗸 459p - Russian Winter -Read 06/22
🗸 350p - Dragonquest (Dragonriders of Pern #2) -Read 06/28
🗸 384p - Mulan: Before the Sword -Read 06/30
🗸 384p - Get Shorty (Chili Palmer #1) -Read 07/02
🗸 436p - Pillars Of The World (Tir Alainn #1) -Read 07/06
🗸 202p - Catching Teller Crow -Read 07/09
🗸 370p - The Boy in the Snow (Edie Kiglatuk #2) -Read 07/11
🗸 400p - The Harp of Kings (Warrior Bards #1) -Read 07/17
🗸 513p - Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove #1) -Read 07/21
🗸 420p - A Dance With Fate (Warrior Bards #2) -Read 07/21
🗸 160p - Blossoms on the Roof (Amish Frontier #1) -Read 07/21
🗸 192p - Plain Jeopardy (Apple Creek #7) -Read 07/24
🗸 368p - Plain Peril (Apple Creek #2) -Read 07/25
🗸 368p - Stranded (Military Investigations #7) -Read 07/26
🗸 250p - Midnight Rainbow (Rescues #1) -Read 07/27
🗸 160p - The Treasure Hunt (Amish Frontier #2) -Read 07/27
🗸 381p - An Amish Heirloom -Read 07/28
🗸 160p - Silver Brumby's Daughter (Silver Brumby #2) -Read 07/31
🗸 328p - Assaulted Caramel (Amish Candy Shop Mystery #1) -Read 08/02
🗸 384p - In The Groove (NASCAR #2) -Read 08/14
🗸 384p - On The Edge (NASCAR #3) -Read 08/15
🗸 322p - Leaving (Bailey Flanigan #1) -Read 08/19
🗸 272p - Her Secret (The Amish of Hart County #1) -Read 08/20
🗸 336p - Curses and Smoke -Read 08/21
🗸 304p - His Guilt (The Amish of Hart County #2) -Read 08/26
🗸 288p - They Came on Viking Ships -Read 08/27
🗸 320p - God of Vengeance (The Rise of Sigurd #1) -Read 08/29
Prompt 5: Comfort Reads - 5 books ~ ~ ~ (5/5 read)- Hablaré cuando esté muerto [I'll speak when I'm dead] by Anna Jansson (Mystery) ✔
- Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriðason (Mystery) ✔
- The Book of the Dead by John Lloyd (Non-fiction) ✔
- A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt (Science Fiction) ✔
- Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart (Mystery) ✔
Prompt 5: Comfort ReadsRead those that gives you comfort; all your guilty pleasures, brain fluffs, or whatever that tickles your fancy.
Mysteries, chick-lit, family stories, humor, travel.
1. Every Day in Tuscany, read 30 Apr 2020
2. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris: A Novel in Recipes, read 3 May 2020
3. Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party, read 3 May 2020
4. A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge, read 5 May 2020
5. The Book Supremacy, read 6 May 2020
6. Far From the Tree, read 8 May 2020
7. Six Cats a Slayin', read 9 May 2020
Prompt 5: comfort reads ✔ ❑ ☑Read: 20 / 20 books
Romance
☑ I Believe in a Thing Called Love [9-may-2020] ★★★★
☑ Written in the Stars [17-may-20] ★★★★
☑ Infinite Us [28-may-20] ★★★
☑ Who Rescued Who [1-jun-20] ★★★★
☑ Amy & Roger's Epic Detour (Prompt 5) [15-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Saving Juliet [22-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Starry Eyes [23-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Beach Read [29-jun-20] ★★★★ (prompt 5)
☑ One Perfect Summer [26-jul-20] ★★★★
☑ Four Weddings and a Sixpence: An Anthology [28-jul-20] ★★★
☑ True Colors [23-aug-2020] ★★
☑ Life on the Leash [27-aug-2020] ★★
☑ The Secret Cove in Croatia [3-sep-2020] ★★★
Thriller/Mystery
☑ Seeking Glory [17-may-20] ★★★★
☑ Homicide: Party of Twelve [1-sep-2020] ★★★
Fantasy
☑ The Glass Magician [2-jun-20] ★★
☑ The Black Tides of Heaven [14-jun-20] ★★★
☑ Mermaid Moon [19-jul-20] ★
☑ To Kill a Kingdom [27-jul-20] ★★
☑ Once Upon an Autumn Eve [29-aug-2020] ★★
Prompt 5: Comfort Reads - 5,000 pagesDeath's Golden Whisper: A Meg Harris Mystery - 16/05/2020 - 344 p.
Unnatural Death - 20/05/2020 - 308 p.
I delitti di Mangle Street - 25/05/2020 - 288 p.
The Hobbit - 01/06/2020 - 305 p.
La bellezza non ti salverà - 03/06/2020 - 242 p.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - 06/06/2020 - 154 p.
Murder is Binding - 15/06/2020 - 281 p.
The Datchet Diamonds - 17/06/2020 - 148 p.
The Fellowship of the Ring - 12/07/2020 - 398 p.
The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen - 18/07/2020 - 299 p.
A Cold Day For Murder - 21/07/2020 - 212 p.
The Two Towers - 31/07/2020 - 329 p.
The Return of the King - 14/08/2020 - 464 p.
The Crime at Black Dudley - 15/08/2020 - 208 p.
Lupo mannaro - 19/08/2020 - 86 p.
Mexican Gothic - 20/09/2020 - 336 p.
Winnie-the-Pooh - 29/09/2020 - 145 p.
La donna di picche - 07/10/2020 - 208 p.
Less - 03/11/2020 - 273 p.
Total: 5,028/5,000 - COMPLETED 03/11/2020
Prompt 5 - Comfort Reads - COMPLETED 10/29/20 Post 92 in Completed Prompts Thread10,171/10,000 pages
Rereads - 4806
Old Man's War - 5/5/20. 355 pages.
The Hunger Games - 5/19/20. 374 pages.
Catching Fire 5/23/20. 391 pages
Mockingjay 5/25/20. 390 pages.
The Hills Have Spies. 5/30/20. 366 pages.
Eye Spy. 5/31/20. 368 pages.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - 6/25/20. 290 pages.
Modesty Blaise - 7/26/20. 224 pages.
All the Birds in the Sky - 7/20/20. 313 pages.
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang - 8/2/20. 255 pages.
Homeland - 8/14/20. 396 pages.
A Gentleman in Moscow - 9/17/20. 462 pages.
At the Seventh Level - 10/111/20. 142 pages.
Doing Time - 10/14/20. 480 pages.
Golden Age mystery writers - 2567
The Golden Ball and Other Stories by Agatha Christie - 5/7/20. 288 pages.
Singing in the Shrouds by Ngaio Marsh - 5/12/20. 235 pages.
Killer Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh - 5/13/20. 288 pages.
The Moving Finger. 6/10/20. 299 pages.
Curtain by Agatha Christie. 7/1/20. 215 pages.
A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie. 7/8/20. 220 pages.
Dead Water by Ngaio Marsh. 7/23/20. 198 pages.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. 8/25/20. 264 pages.
The Big Four. 9/2/20. 272 pages
The Pale Horse - 9/7/20. 288 pages.
Humor - 2798
I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood - 7/31/20. 254 pages.
Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why - 9/14/20. 240 pages.
The Uncollected David Rakoff: Including the entire text of Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish - 9/25/20. 352 pages.
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems - 9/29/20. 240 pages.
Anxious People - 10/5/20. 352 pages.
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride - 10/6/20. 259 pages.
Life Among the Savages - 10/18/20. 240 pages
The Snake Has All the Lines - 10/23/20. 128 pages.
Plan for the Worst - 10/27/20. 413 pages.
Raising Demons - 10/29/20. 320 pages.
Prompt 5: Comfort ReadsGoal: 5238/5000 pp - Completed
✔Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk - 287pp - 4/29/20
✔The City We Became - 437pp - 5/3/20
✔Scythe - 445pp - 5/3/20
✔Because I Said So! : The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids - 237pp - 5/7/20
✔Daisy Jones & The Six - 5/15/20
✔The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World - 273pp - 5/18/20
✔Island of Silence - 416pp - 5/23/20
✔Island of Fire - 464pp - 6/17/20
✔The Toll - 625pp - 7/8/20
✔Island of Legends - 377pp - 7/21/20
✔Island of Shipwrecks - 480 - 8/20/20
✔The Siren - 432pp - 9/2/20
✔The Angel - 410pp - 9/8/20
Some possibilities:
Next "In Death" book
John Scalzi
YA novels
Christopher Moore
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World - 273pp
Joshilyn Jackson
Liane Moriarty
Peeps - 312pp
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(Read those that gives you comfort; all your guilty pleasures, brain fluffs, or whatever that tickles your fancy.)
Goal: 5 books
√1. Savannah Breeze - Read 6/14/20
√2. The Witch Squad - Read 6/19/20
√3. Ice Cream Murder - Read 5/27/20
√4. A Thrift Shop Murder - Read 5/14/20
√5. The Dragon Whisperer - Read 7/14/20
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You are right, Bea. lol didn't even see that.
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It seems like Tien has corrected it everywhere except in the name of the thread. I wonder whether that can be changed once people have started posting of not.
edited - I discovered that I could fix it. It should be correct now.
Prompt 5: Comfort ReadsGoal: 10 books
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Romance Books
✔︎1. Once Upon a Wild Fling 5/1/20
✔︎2. Lumberjack Werebear 5/3/20
✔︎3. Edge 5/3/20
✔︎4. The Billionaire Wins the Game 5/4/20
✔︎5. Bad Apple 5/5/20
✔︎6. We Own Tonight 5/7/20
✔︎7. Outfoxed by Love 5/10/20
✔︎8. Well Suited 5/14/20
✔︎9. How to Raise an Honest Rabbit 5/15/20
✔︎10. What a Dragon Should Know 5/15/20
always up for comfort reads12886/12000
Historical Romance
Stages of the Heart - finished - 5/7/2020 - 416pgs
Texas Mail Order Bride - finished - 5/21/2020 - 352ogs
Marry in Scarlet - finished - 6/5/20 - 336pgs
Captive Bride - finished - 7/19/20 - 384pgs
Brave the Wild Wind - finished - 8/15/20 - 344pgs
Sports Romance
Kat & Mouse: a Crosscannon Roller Derby romance - finished- 5/25/2020 - 406pgs
Squeeze Play - finished - 5/31/20 - 366pgs
Swing and a Miss - finished - 7/6/20 - 310pgs
A Complete Game - finished - 7/14/20 - 370pgs
Alien Romance
Mastered By Her Mates - finished - 5/22/2020 - 208pgs
Surrender to the Cyborgs - finished - 9/7/20 - 222pgs
Alien Mischief - finished - 10/10/20 - 177pgs
Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
Justice Calling - Finished - 5/31/20 - 154pgs
Archangel's Heart - finished - 7/1/20 - 381pgs
Bound to the Bear- finished - 7/26/20 - 304pgs
Baby for the Soldier Cougar - finished - 8/22/20 - 151pgs
Loving Their Vixen Mate - finished - 9/20/20 - 288pgs
Rescued By The Soldier Bear - finished - 9/26/20 - 145pgs
Dragon's Surrogate MatchMate - finished - 9/26/20 - 152pgs
Contemporary Romance
Hollie Porter Builds a Raft - finished - 6/14/20 - 394pgs
F-Stop - Finished - 6/17/20 - 312pgs
Just Jilted - finished - 8/28/20 - 259pgs
Flirtasaurus - finished - 8/29/20 - 213pgs
The Marriage Game - finished - 9/25/20 - 338pgs
Erotic Romance/Erotica
Claiming Fifi - finished - 5/17/20 - 266pgs
Taming Avery - finished - 6/19/20 - 242pgs
Keeping Kiera - finished - 6/22/20 - 263pgs
Bombshell - finished - 6/24/20 - 366pgs
Big Sky - finished - 6/24/20 - 188pgs
At Her Command - finished - 7/26/20 - 503pgs
Playing with Her Doctors -finished - 8/22/20- 198pgs
Playing with the Criminals - finished - 8/22/20 - 198pgs
Claimed By The Cowboys - finished - 8/23/20 - 266pgs
Four Ranchers' Bride - finished - 8/24/20 - 135pgs
Three Irish Brothers - finished - 8/29/20 - 192pgs
Fifty Shades of Alice in Wonderland - finished - 9/26/20 - 115pgs
Books by Nordic authors (Norway/Sweden etc)
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - finished - 6/29/20 - 372pgs
True Crime
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter - finished - 8/29/20 - 352pgs
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia - finished - 9/6/20 - 336pgs
Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls - finished - 10/6/20 - 320pgs
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes - finished - 10/6/20 - 432pgs
WW2 Historical Fiction
The Book of Lost Names - finished - 9/23/20 - 400pgs
The Light Over London - finished - 10/25/20 - 336pgs
The Librarian of Auschwitz - finished - 10/25/20 - 424pgs
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Goal: 10 books
mysteries, science fiction, ya
✔1 All the Birds in the Sky, sci fi - fin 5/4
✔2 All Systems Red (Murderbot #1), sci fi - fin 5/10
✔3 Wish You Well, favorite author - fin 5/13
✔4 The Long Earth, sci fi - fin 5/23
✔5 They Both Die at the End. YA - fin 6/14
✔6 Every You, Every Me, YA - fin 6/17
✔7 Odd One Out, YA - finished 6/25
✔8 You Know Me Well, YA -fin 7/17
✔9 Only Time Will Tell , mystery - fin 8/11
✔10 Sea Change, favorite author - fin 8/28
COMPLETED 8/28
Comfort reads(rereads, favourite authors, light and fluffy)
Goal 5000 pages : Progress 5458
REREADS
The Kite Runner 371 - DONE
The Poisonwood Bible - 616 - DONE
FAVOURITE AUTHORS
Tipping the Velvet 472 - DONE
Wayward Son 356 - DONE
Public Library and Other Stories 220 - DONE
The Pull of the Stars - 295 - DONE
The Glass Hotel -302 - DONE
Yes No Maybe So - 448 - DONE
Kindred Spirits 96 - DONE
LIGHT AND FLUFFY
Rachel's Holiday 578 - DONE
The Undomestic Goddess 404 - DONE
Precious and Grace 227 - DONE
Beautiful Ruins 337 - DONE
The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton 352 - DONE
The Cactus - 384- DONE
Prompt #5: Comfort ReadsFinished: 3/10 books
Fantasy
1. Starcrossed - 5/16/2020
2. The Dark Is Rising - 9/17/2020
3. The Secret Horses of Briar Hill - 12/13/2020
5 booksGoal: 5238/5000-Completed
Fantasy
Lady Knight
Completed 05/14/20
Alanna: The First Adventure
Completed 06/9/20
A Study in Sable
Completed 05/23/20
Favorite Authors
The Great Alone
Completed 04/26/20
The Oathbound
Completed 07/3/20
Oathbreakers
Completed 7/10/20
Oathblood
Magic's Promise
Completed 07/3/20
Magic's Price
Completed 08/4/20
Magic's Pawn
Completed 06/28/20
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Completed 10/9/20
Mystery
Tales of the Wolf
Completed 05/1/20
Cross Country
Completed 05/28/20
One for the Money
Completed 06/6/20
Peril at End House
Completed 07/7/20
Mary, Mary
completed 09/18/20
The 8th Confession
Completed 11/7/20
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It seems like Tien has corrected it everywhere except in the name of the thread. I wonder whether that can be changed once people have..."
Thanks heaps, Susan! I am notorious for copy & paste but then, I always missed to fix something somewhere :p
Prompt 5: Comfort Zone Goal: 20 books- DONE!
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Prompt 5: Comfort ReadsMy goal: 3500 pages
COMPLETED 24 July 2020
Read: 13 books, 3558 pages
1. Golden Age Crime
Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley, 21 May 20 - 238 pages
With a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare, 14 June 20 - 183 pages
The Allingham Minibus by Margery Allingham, 24 July 20 - 269 pages
2. Cosy Mystery
3. YA
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 28 Apr 20 - 160 pages
Are You Experienced? by William Sutcliffe, 5 May 20 - 235 pages
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman, 7 June 20 - 256 pages
Clay by David Almond, 8 June 20 - 296 pages
New Boy by William Sutcliffe, 10 June 20 - 200 pages
Diamond Boy by Michael Williams, 23 June 20 - 400 pages
Now Is the Time for Running by Michael Williams, 27 June 20 - 228 pages
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen, 14 July 20 - 391 pages
Black Rabbit Summer by Kevin Brooks, 22 July 20 - 438 pages
4. Persephone
Earth and High Heaven by Gwethalyn Graham, 12 May 20 - 264 pages
Comfort ReadsEscape to the Future
This Alien Shore completed May 9
Luna: New Moon completed June 14
Forty Thousand in Gehenna completed June 20
Chasm City completed August 9
The Risen Empire completed August 10
Firewalkers completed August 31
Future Home of the Living God completed September 19
Escape to the Past
Children of Earth and Sky completed May 12
One Night for Love completed June 14
The Death Maze completed July 4
A Trick of Fate completed July 16
The System of the World completed July 24
The Bartered Brides completed July 25
A Christmas Gathering completed July 30
The Silence of the Girls completed August 1
European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman completed August 15
The Warlock's Curse completed August 23
Barchester Towers completed September 10
The Man Who Loved Children completed September 12
The Inexplicables completed September 20
Escape to another World
Lord Valentine's Castle completed May 30
The Widow's House completed August 15
The Masked City completed August 27
The Core completed august 28
24/30
Prompt 5: Comfort Reads -- COMPLETEDGoal: 5000p.
Completed: 5046 p.
Romance:
Red Wolf 5/13/20 336p.
Closer 6/9/20 107p.
Chasing Cassandra 6/17/20 384p.
Tempting the Player 6/24/20 228 p.
Breaking Point 7/18/20 355p.
Deadly Silence 7/20/20
Officer off Limits 7/28/20 250p
Mystery:
My Sister's Grave 5/9/20 416p
Cold Waters 5/22/20 326p.
Nora Roberts/JD Robb:
Big Jack 5/17/20 309p.
Of Blood and Bone 6/5/20 453p.
Vendetta in Death 6/8/20 368p.
Golden in Death 6/30/20 387p.
Ilona Andrews:
Magic Triumphs 7/21/20 327p.
Sapphire Flames 7/28/20 400p.
Prompt 5- Comfort ReadsGoal : 5 books
Going to use mystery/thrillers for this spot
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PROMPT #5 ~ COMFORT READSGoal ~ 10 books
Historical Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary Fiction, Award Winners
1. Historical Fiction / Southern Fiction
Read ~ 5.2.20
2. Contemporary Fiction
Read ~ 5.9.20
3. Newbery Medal Nominee (2018), National Book Award Nominee for Young People's Literature (2017), Odyssey Award Nominee (2018), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2017), Edgar Award for Best Young Adult (2018)
Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2018), South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult (2020), Flicker Tale Children's Book Award for Young Adult (2019), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2019), Evergreen Teen Book Award Nominee for Middle School (2020), Coretta Scott King Book Award Nominee for Author Honor (2018), Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Nominee (2018), Lincoln Award Nominee (2020), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Poetry (2017), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2019), NAACP Image Award Nominee for Youth/Teens (2018)
Read ~ 5.15.20
4. Contemporary Fiction
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Read ~ 5.16.20
5. Garden State Book Award for Fiction (Grades 6-8) (2004), Massachusetts Children's Book Award (2003), Blue Hen Book Award for Chapter Book (2003), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2002), Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award for Intermediate (2004)
Read ~ 5.18.20
6. William C. Morris YA Debut Award (2017), Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2018), Evergreen Teen Book Award Nominee (2019), Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2017), Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Nominee (2017)
Lincoln Award Nominee (2018), Great Lakes Great Books Award for 9-12 (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Debut Goodreads Author & for Young Adult Fiction (2016), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2018)
Read ~ 5.22.20
7. Historical Fiction
Read ~ 5.25.20
8. Historical Fiction, Orange Prize for Fiction (2003)
Read ~ 5.27.20
9. Contemporary Fiction, Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2014), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2015), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2016)
Read ~ 5.28.20
10. Mystery
Read ~ 5.28.20
Prompt 5: Comfort ReadsGoal: 5,000 pages
Progress: 5,113/5,000 pages
1. Favorite Series
The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn (320 pages) Read: 10/21/20
Cockatiels at Seven by Donna Andrews (304 pages) Read: 9/4/20
Shark River by Randy Wayne White (320 pages) Read: 10/19/20
Deep South by Nevada Barr (352 pages) Read: 6/20/20
Network Effect by Martha Wells (350 pages) Read: 8/9/20
2. Highly Anticipated
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey (175 pages) Read: 5/12/20
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite (322 pages) Read: 5/14/20
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn (352 pages) Read: 5/29/20
Cinder by Marissa Meyer (390 pages) Read: 7/8/20
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia (359 pages) Read: 11/1/20
Suggested Reading by David Connis (385 pages) Read: 11/4/20
Slay by Brittney Morris (323 pages) Read: 6/13/20
3. Light and Fun
Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed (436 pages) Read: 5/9/20
Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie (419 pages) Read: 5/19/20
Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich (306 pages) Read: 5/19/20
prompt 5cozy mysteries
1. Death Is Like a Box of Chocolates by Kathy Aarons
2. Pepperoni Pizza Can Be Murder by Chris Cavender
3. Asking for Truffle by Dorothy St. James
4. Recipe For Treason byAndrea Penrose
5. Cinderella Six Feet Under by Maia Chance
humorous
6. No Quest For The Wicked by Shanna Swendson
favorite authors
7. Rock Redemption by Nalini Singh
8. Crosstalk by Connie Willis
9. Archangel's Consort by Nalini Singh
10. Simply Irresistible by Deborah Cooke
Just Read It! (2020)
January - December 2020
Prompt #5: Comfort Reads
Prompt Goal: 10 books | Total Read: 10
May Prompt (msg 30)
Authors I trust, series I love, guilty pleasure
✔🍬Your Love Is Mine ~ 05.02 ★★★★
✔🍬On Hart’s Boardwalk ~ 05.02 ★★★★
✔🍬Fast Lane ~ 05.25 ★★★★
✔🍬Summoned to Thirteenth Grave ~ 05.07 ★★★★
✔🍬Defiance ~ 05.14 ★★★★
✔🍬Xander's Mate ~ 07.05 ★★★
✔🍬Any Duchess Will Do ~ 07.03 ★★★★
✔🍬Perfect for the Beach ~ 05.15 ★★★
✔🍬Victoria & Shannon ~ 08.01 ★★★★
✔🍬About That Kiss ~ 06.21 ★★★★
Goal: 4,040 pages per Prompt Read : 266/4,040
**=Matches a monthly shelf:
1. Classic Crime:
✔️10/5/20 The Blotting Book 266pp
Goal: 6000 pagesDONE!!
1. Books from childhood
2. Mysteries
3. Rereads
Completed = 6259/6259
Prompt #5; COMFORT READS : Happy/Feel Good Romance1. The Pregnancy Test 6/23/20
2. Royally Screwed 6/24/20
3. Crazy for Loving You 7/7/20
4. It's Complicated 7/22/20
5. Too Much Information 7/26/20
6. Happily Letter After 10/30/20
7. Marrying My Billionaire Hookup 11/3/20
8. Hot Single Dad 11/6/20
9. One Moment Please 11/22/20
10. The Fix 11/30/20
Prompt 5: Comfort Reads
Goal: 10 Books per Prompt
Completed: 4/10
1. A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison
Completed 30/05/2020
2. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Completed 21/06/2020
3. I Choose You by Gayle Curtis
Completed 25/06/2020
4. The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry
Completed 26/09/2020
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Goal: 10 Books per Prompt
Completed: 4/10
1. A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison
Completed 30/05/2020
2. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Completed 21/06/2020
3. I Choose You by Gayle Curtis
Completed 25/06/2020
4. The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry
Completed 26/09/2020
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Goal: 5 books
1. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act
2. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 2: Fandemonium
3. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 3: Commercial Suicide
4. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 4: Rising Action
5. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 5: Imperial Phase, Part I
Finishes:
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1. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act
2. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 2: Fandemonium
3. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 3: Commercial Suicide
4. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 4: Rising Action
5. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 5: Imperial Phase, Part I
Finishes:
6/7
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Goal: 5 books1. Our Little Secret (Mystery)
2. City of Refuge (Historical Fiction)
3. We Hope for Better Things (Historical Fiction)
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Prompt 5: Comfort ReadsGoal: 8 books
1. The Last Beginning 10/25
2. The Invited 10/27
3. Blood on the River: James Town, 1607 10/27
4. Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth: And Other Pop Culture Correspondences 10/28
5. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories 10/29
6. The God of Small Things 10/30
7. Strange Magic 10/30
8. The Terror 11/4
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill (other topics)The Dog Who Knew Too Much (other topics)
One Moment Please (other topics)
The Fix (other topics)
Marrying My Billionaire Hookup (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Spencer Quinn (other topics)Lucinda Berry (other topics)
Gayle Curtis (other topics)
Helene Hanff (other topics)
Michelle Harrison (other topics)
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Seeing the current climate, we all need this more than ever! Read those that gives you comfort; all your guilty pleasures, brain fluffs, or whatever that tickles your fancy.