2025 Reading Challenge discussion

SPELL A BETTER WORLD
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

What better way to build a better world than to spell one with book titles? Not only is it fun, it has the added benefit of reminding you how you've chosen to contribute to the improvement of life. This can be large-scale global contributions, family contributions, or personal contributions of improving or maintaining your positive force on the world. Will you plant a tree, donate to charity, or perhaps simply smile more? Let us know here and we will help each other create a better world!

You can use any of the first letters of the main words in a title of a book (don't use words like "a", "an", "the", or "of").

Example:

My goal is to be kind.

K: The Knife of Never Letting Go
I: Illuminae
N: Nine Perfect Strangers
D: Dark Matter

If you are super ambitious in your reading goals, feel free to spell out entire sentences or multiple words!

Happy Reading!

How to Participate:

1. Post here telling the challenge leader that you'd like to join the challenge. You can choose your books for the challenge at the beginning, or add them as you go. You can join a challenge at any time, as long as the challenge is still active. You must choose a goal for the challenge.

2. Whenever you finish a book for the challenge, post here and let the challenge leader know so they can update your progress. Please be sure to post the number of books you have completed and the number of your original message every time you post an update.
The challenge leader is not able to keep track of your total number of books for you because of the number of participants in the challenge. The number of the original post is used to identify you, as there can be many members with the same name. The challenge leader will not look at this post to track your progress.

Example:
message 32 updated! 2/25 books read!

For more information about how challenges work, check out this thread or ask your challenge leader.

PS. Please do not delete posts! It makes updating very confusing for the Moderators! If you decide to leave the challenge, please just let us know. You can edit your original post to say {redacted}. Thank you!

Participants:

Aiko - 0 / 9
Alekhya - 7 / 9
Allie - 20 / 20
Alyana - 17 / 17
Amber M. - 11 / 23
Anissa - 2 / 10
Anu - 2 / 11
AurorainBookland - 2 / 3
aya - 30 / 45
Beverly - 22 / 22
Bobbi - 34 / 36
Carmen - 15 / 15
Carol - 20 / 20
Caz - 0 / 8
Clare - 1 / 14
Crystal - 0 / 12
D.L. - 16 / 20
Debra - 0 / 15
Diane L - 42 / 42
Elsbeth - 20 / 20
Emma - 12 / 13
Erica - 6 / 8
Gail - 9 / 9
Gloria - 0 / 9
Hayley - 0 / 9
Hinaha - 0 / 9
Ilona - 6 / 7
Jaida - 10 / 12
Jennifer - 0 / 29
Jenny - 5 / 12
Johanne - 4 / 25
Jordynn - 0 / 18
Joy D - 12 / 12
jude - 0 / 12
Julie - 0 / 8
Justicia - 0 / 10
Karin (msg 20) - 0 / 23
Karin (msg 74) - 10 / 10
Kasthuri - 0 / 9
Katlyn - 0 / 5
Kay (PhoenixArisen) - 6 / 20
Kerrie - 3 / 16
Kylie - 8 / 11
Lauri - 5 / 19
Leena - 8 / 32
Lennon - 0 / 19
Leona - 0 / 4
Lindsey - 0 / 36
Luci - 0 / 7
Lynn - 0 / 50
Manda - 9 / 9
Manni - 0 / 15
Marleen - 6 / 6
Marta - 33 / 35
Mary - 6 / 16
Maureen - 11 / 16
Megan - 16 / 16
Meghna - 0 / 8
michelle-belle - 2 / 6
Mie - 26 / 26
Nedge - 23 / 23
Nikki - 12 / 12
Pooja - 4 / 10
Rachael (msg 11) - 15 / 15
Rachael (msg 170) - 4 / 25
Rachel - 0 / 21
Raimondo - 5 / 19
Rebecca - 48 / 69
Regina - 10 / 20
ReGina - 10 / 10
Sara - 7 / 24
Sarah - 35 / 35
Sarah c - 3 / 8
SarahKat - 24 / 24
Sean - 17 / 17
selina - 0 / 19
Shannon - 9 / 16
Sharon (msg 53) - 0 / 33
Sharon (msg 77) - 0 / 4
Sheila - 48 / 69
Sunny - 14 / 14
Sunshine - 0 / 20
SuzAnNe - 4 / 18
Suzanne - 8 / 17
Tammy - 12 / 12
TCampbell - 11 / 11
TerryJane - 52 / 52
Tianna - 2 / 9
Tima - 2 / 15
Ursula - 19 / 19
W.J. - 0 / 67
Zeejane (Sara) - 4 / 4
Ziggy - 23 / 23

Reserved

This year my goal is to Listen to other people more.
I aim to spell
LISTENING.
L - 'Salem's Lot
I - It Only Happens in the Movies
S - Hidden in Plain Sight
T - The Anthropocene Reviewed
E - Eleanor & Park
N - Normal People
I -
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G - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

I'll join in with two words:

ACTIVISM and LEARNING

A - Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison
C - Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green - completed January 2021
T - Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer - completed January 2021
I - I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel - completed January 2021
V - Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai - completed April 2021
I - In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire - completed March 2021
S - Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski - completed January 2021
M - The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict - completed January 2021

L - The Lines We Leave Behind by Eliza Graham - completed January 2021
E - Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole - completed March 2021
A - Awaken the Dragon by A. C. Arthur - completed January 2021
R - Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnes Martin-Lugand, translated by Sandra Smith - completed January 2021
N - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead - completed January 2021
I - If the Boot Fits by Rebekah Weatherspoon - completed May 2021
N - The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family by Darryl Cheng - completed February 2021
G - Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl - completed January 2021

16/16 - challenge completed!

Latest update message #370

Reserved. Want to read more about disabilities/chronic illnesses/mental health so my word(s) is likely to be one of them. IF I can I'm going to try to make them either a non-fiction about it, or an #ownvoices book.

UPDATE 15/12/20 My words are going to be MENTAL HEALTH, so please put me down for 12 books.

5/12

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NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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Heart: A History
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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I'd like to join this challenge, but will have to think about all of the words I want to use. But I'm sure I'll read at least 20 books, so I'll start there and update my goal as needed if that's OK.

20/20 books completed -- Challenge completed!

My first goal is to promote UNDERSTANDING: (13)
* U: The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe - finished 4/10/21
* N: The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad by Mike Birbiglia - finished 3/26/21
* D: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - finished 5/24/21
* E: Echoes by Jamilah Kolocotronis - finished 4/20/21
* R: Redneck Romeo by Randi Alexander - finished 4/6/21
* S: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway - finished 4/14/21
* T: Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr - finished 7/21/21
* A: Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna - finished 4/8/21
* N: Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story by Anne Carroll Moore - finished 7/26/21
* D: Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa finished 1/28/21
* I: If I Stay by Gayle Forman - finished 1/12/21
* N: Norfolk Noir by B.S. Tivadar - finished 2/1/21
* G: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - finished 8/13/21

My second goal is to show EMPATHY: (7)
* E: Empire of Ancient Egypt by Wendy Christensen - finished 3/29/21
* M: Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan - finished 4/27/21
* P: Pet by Akwaeke Emezi - finished 1/1/21
* A: Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe by Charles Seife - finished 1/5/21
* T: Tirant lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba - finished 4/1/21
* H: The Haunted Hotel by J.A. Whiting - finished 4/28/21
* Y: Yogi: It Ain't Over by Yogi Berra - finished 4/23/21

SPELL A BETTER WORLD
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

This is soooo cool! Great idea!

You can use any of the first letters of the main words in a title of a book.

I have so many, but will begin with these initial ideas.
BUILD BACK BETTER
KINDER AND GENTLER

I imagine I will read at least 50 books that will work for this challenge. Time will tell...

Letters to use:

The Night Masquerade
Black Swan Green
All the Bright Places
Holiday Magic
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
The Adolescence of Zhenya Luvers
Dear Edward
The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line
We Should All Be Feminists
Cards on the Table
Nursery Crimes
The Catcher in the Rye
The Big Nap
A Playdate With Death
Inside the O'Briens
Ghost Talkers
The Wall of Storms
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
You Should See Me in a Crown
The Snow Child
Every Note Played
Fangirl
Ready Player Two
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
The Secret Place
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
Beauty
Saving Shiloh
A Night to Remember
The Islander
A Shiloh Christmas
Memories of Summer
The Secret History
Magpie Murders
Death of a Gossip
Oliver's Story
Calico Joe
The Magician's Elephant
Blue Asylum
The Trespasser
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Midnight Library
Yes No Maybe So
Anxious People
Ender's Game
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
The Secret Garden
Inside Out & Back Again
The Handsome Man's Deluxe Café
Ayesha at Last
Whose Body?
Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
The Secret Garden
Anyone But You
The Black Stallion
Artificial Condition
The Bookshop at Water's End
Amal Unbound
A War of Gifts: An Ender Battle School Story
The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal
Monogamy
Dear Martin
Along Came a Spider
Skyward
The Thursday Murder Club
First Meetings in Ender's Universe
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
Moonflower Murders
Song for a Whale
Ender in Exile
Moon Pie
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
Origin
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Speaker for the Dead
Kiss the Girls
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
Good Wives
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Precious and Grace
The Alcatraz Rose
Force of Nature
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Catherine House
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology
The Night Watchman
Fat Like The Sun
The Age of Innocence
Xenocide
The Third Angel
Our Harlem: Seven Days of Cooking, Music and Soul at the Red Rooster
Jack & Jill
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
Love Story
Of Mice and Men
Elsewhere, Home
Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
The Original by Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal
The Lady Matador's Hotel by Cristina García
Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
P.S. Be Eleven (Gaither Sisters #2) by Rita Williams-GarciaRita Williams-Garcia
A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic #2) by V.E. Schwab
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Cat & Mouse (Alex Cross #4) by James Patterson
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous/Beatrice Sparks
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga #4) by Orson Scott Card
City of Silver: A Mystery by Annamaria Alfieri
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Sound and the Furry (Chet & Bernie #6) by Spencer Quinn
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Pop Goes the Weasel (Alex Cross #5) by James Patterson
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary by Harryette Mullen
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

The Water Dancer
Eva Luna
Paradise
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Spell A Better World
Duration: January 1-December 31, 2021

This one sounds like fun, please count me in! My word will be COMPASSION (10 books).

Progress: 2/10

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A: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Completed: 04/05/21)
S: Shadow Frost (Completed: 02/18/21)
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In 2021, I'm following in the footsteps of the Lion King with my goal: HAKUNA MATATA-ISH (* hakuna matata means no worries but I'm setting a more realistic goal to worry less about work, family and life in general to make my own little world better)

COMPLETED: 15/15 books

✔️ H - How the Marquis Got His Coat Back
✔️ A - April Lady
✔️ K - The Keeper of Lost Things
✔️ U - Uprising
✔️ N - Neverwhere
✔️ A - Anna Dressed in Blood
✔️ M -Midnight Sun
✔️ A - The Absolute Book
✔️ T - Troll Bridge
✔️ A - Any Way the Wind Blows
✔️ T - The Tinderbox
✔️ A - Ascent
✔️ I - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
✔️ S - The Sin Eater
✔️ H - Hill of Bones: A Historical Mystery

(order completed: S, M, I, A, A, A, N, H, A, T, A, K, T, H, U)

Progress: 12/20

✅R - Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
✅A - The A.B.C. Murders
N -
✅D - The Driver's Seat
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✅M - Miss Plum and Miss Penny

✅A - After the Funeral
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✅T - Tipping the Velvet
✅S - Summerwater

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✅F - Five Little Pigs

✅K - Klara and the Sun
✅I - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
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✅D - The Dead Hour
N -
✅E - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
S -
✅S - The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

I will join! I am literally going to read for "A Better World" - 12 books:

Completed 12/12 as of 2/4/21

✅A - Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane - 1/11/21
✅B - The Ballroom by Anna Hope - 1/6/21
✅E - Every Notes Played by Lisa Genova - 1/7/21
✅T - Turtles All the Way Down - John Green - 1/18/21
✅T - They Were Counted - Miklós Bánffy - 1/29/21
✅E - Everything Here Is Beautiful - 1/26/21
✅R - Revolutionary Mothers by Carol Berkin - 1/1/21
✅W - The Window Seat by Aminatta Forna - 1/5/21
✅O - The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson - 2/4/21
✅R - Range by David Epstein - 1/20/21
✅L - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson - 2/1/21
✅D - Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee - 1/2/21

Let's Celebrate Diversity! 22/22

L Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn FINISHED 2/17
E E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton FINISHED 1/5
T Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas Kristof FINISHED 1/11
S Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe FINISHED 1/2

C Cabal by Clive Barker FINISHED 1/19
E Easter Bunny Murder by Leslie Meier FINISHED 2/22
L Later by Stephen King FINISHED 3/13
E Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman FINISHED 4/7
B Born Survivors by Wendy Holden FINISHED 1/7
R Relic by Douglas Preston FINISHED 1/5
A Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber FINISHED 2/9
T Turkey Trot Murder by Leslie Meier
E Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein FINISHED 4/13

D Death On Demand by Carolyn G. Hart FINISHED 1/19
I I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi FINISHED 1/17
V Vanilla Vengeance by Molly Maple FINISHED 6/16
E Eternal by Lisa Scottoline FINISHED 5/15
R Round Robin by Joseph Flynn FINISHED 1/19
S Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane FINISHED 1/19
I If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch FINISHED 1/23
T Treasure Hunters by James Patterson FINISHED 7/5
Y Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim FINISHED 4/13

Hola!
My goal this year is to simplify and get rid of the clutter in my life.

PROGRESS: 15/15

D: Death of a Naturalist ✔
E: Ensayo sobre la ceguera ✔
C: Cartas entre un padre y un hijo: Los años de Oxford ✔
L: Louisiana Longshot✔
U: Under the Midnight Sun✔
T: They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan✔
T: Taken at the Flood✔
E: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future✔
R: Rayuela✔

M: Murder in the Mews✔
Y: Years ✔

L: Life and Death are Wearing Me Out✔
I: Interpreter of Maladies✔
F: Final Curtain✔
E: The Epic of Gilgamesh✔

I love it! 😍

Welcome everyone! I love all of these so much!!

Finally landed on a portion of a bible verse I had journaled last year (Hebrews 13:5), that I STILL need to remind myself constantly.

21/24

Hebrews 13:5

B: Broken Harbor by Tana French
E: Eartheater by Dolores Reyes

C: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
O: One by One by Ruth Ware
N: Night by Elie Wiesel
T: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
E: An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
N: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
T: The Trespasser by Tana French

W: When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
I: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
T: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
H: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

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H: Himself by Jess Kidd
A: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
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Y: You by Caroline Kepnes
O: Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
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H: Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker
A: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
V: The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters
E: Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

Spell A Better World
Duration: January 1-December 31, 2021
0/15

B-Business As Unusual: A Futurist’s Unorthodox, Unconventional, and Uncomfortable Guide to Doing Business
E- Evil Silent Games

A- Apple Pie a la Murder2/5/21

B-The Bear Trap2/15/21
E-Elevation
T-That Girl
T-Taken!
E-Even Witches Get the Blues
R-Rumors and Secrets

P-Prom Dates to Die for
E-Everything to Me, Book 1
R- Right Between The Eyes (A Shaun Riker Investigation)
S- Skid Out
O-Overkill
N-No Man's Land

Carmen wrote: "Hola!
My goal this year is to simplify and get rid of the clutter in my life.

PROGRESS: 0/15

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love this !!!!

Spell A Better World
Duration: January 1-December 31, 2021
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Spell A Better World
Duration January 1 - December 31, 2021
Progress: 0/9

My word is VISIONARY. We must first see the possibilities in our minds.....

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I am reading all your words and sentences and enjoying it so much that I decided to join, even though I told myself to only join a few challenges this year. XD

My word is Present: I want to enjoy every day, be mindful, and also be present for the people I love.

Progress: 6/7

P: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
R: Ready Player Two
E: An Echo of Things to Come
S: Strange the Dreamer
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N: Muse of Nightmares
T: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

SPELL A BETTER WORLD
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021

I like to join, my words are Make Self- Care A Priority

Reading some of the historicals I 've been meaning to get to

0/21


M: Miss Serena's Secret By Carolyn Miller
A : Across the Winding River By Aimie K. Runyan
K: Katharine of Aragon: The Wives of Henry VIII By Jean Plaidy
E : Elizabeth I By Margaret George

S : Shadow on the Crown By Patricia Bracewell
E: The English Wife By Lauren Willig
L : The Lady in the Tower By Jean Plaidy
F : The First Lady and the Rebel By Susan Higginbotham

C: The Courtesan By Alexandra Curry
A : Atomic Love By Jennie Fields
R A Rose for the Crown By Anne Easter Smith
E: The Exiles: A Novel By Christina Baker Kline

A : Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession By Alison Weir

P: Pachinko By Min Jin Lee
R: Royal Mistress BY Anne Easter Smith
I: Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers By Sara Ackerman
O: The Other Bennet Sister By Janice Hadlow
R The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Anne of York By Jean Plaidy
I: Innocent Traitor By Alison Weir
T: Tsarina By Ellen Alpsten
Y: Year of Wonders By Geraldine Brooks

What a lovely challenge! This year I've been working on my self esteem and I have a clear goal for 2021: to show my COURAGE

4/7

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📕 O: A Man Called Ove
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📕 A: American Dirt
📕 G: El guardián invisible
📕 E: Everything I Never Told You

Progress: 48/69

I'm attempting to add to my character/virtues this year, so I'm going to try and spell out the Christian fruits of the spirit to remind me these are the virtues I want to have.

L The Lost Love Song
O Once Upon a Time in Silver Lake
V A Vow So Bold and Deadly
E Every Note Played

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O On Writers and Writing
Y Yellow Wife

P The Princess Game
E The Ex Talk
A Any Duchess Will Do
C The Chicken Sisters
E Everything Inside

P Please Like Me But Keep Away
A Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry
T Taken By Her Mates
I Intimations
E
N The Name of the Wind
C The Cleaners
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K Kind of Hindu
I Insurrections
N The Neil Gaiman at the End of the Universe
D The Dating Plan
N Night at the Fiestas
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S Searching for Coach Taylor
S Strengthening Marital Intimacy: Elements in the Process

G Good-bye Stacey, Good-bye
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D Don't Know Much About the 50 States
N Neanderthal Seeks Human
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S Shipped
S Surrender to the Cyborgs

F Five Children and It
A The Alien's Mate
I In the Country
T Tamed By The Beast
H Help Is On the Way
F Firekeeper's Daughter
U Upright Women Wanted
L A Literary Holiday Cookbook: Festive Meals for the Snow Queen, Gandalf, Sherlock, Scrooge, and Book Lovers Everywhere
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S The Soul of a Woman
S Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News

G The Good Luck Charm
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T Thunderhead
L The Last Smile in Sunder City
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S Starfish
S Still Life

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C Claimed By Her Mates
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T This Country of Ours
R Relic
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L Love at First

PROGRESS: 12/12 Finished December 28, 2021!

I'm using this challenge to steal the title of (and read) a book on my TBR list!

W: What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism by Dan Rather
H: How to Raise an Elephant
A: After Alice Fell
T: These Tangled Vines

U: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
N: Nine Elms
I: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
T: Throne of Glass
E: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
S: Sadie

U: The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
S: Stillhouse Lake

Progess 0/8

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Karin wrote: "Carmen wrote: "Hola!
My goal this year is to simplify and get rid of the clutter in my life.



love this !!!!"
Thanks Karin, hope you achieve all your goals next year! 🤗

I'm in for 32

Progress : 8/32

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U : Unmarriageable
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H : How to Turn a Frog into a Prince
O : Obsession & Wild Pigeons
R : The Risqué Target
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♾ Mandu: The romance of Roopmati and Baz Bahadur

im.loving this.Thank your all for your great imaginations.

Put me down for 35 books

35/35-COMPLETED

My first goal is to be UNDERSTANDING (13/13)
✅U-The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity(21/1/21)
✅N-The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County(4/1/21)
✅D-Dying to be Famous(1/2/21)
✅E-Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World(9/2/21)
✅R-The Rise & Fall of the Queen of Suburbia(26/2/21)
✅S-Snow(21/2/21)
✅T-Titbottom's Spectacles(2/1/21)
✅A-Archie 1955 #1(16/2/21)
✅N-Best of the Nineties(22/8/21)
✅D-The Duchess War(5/4/21)
✅I-Interview with the Vampire(25/10/21)
✅N-New Kids on the Block: Between Brothers(4/9/21)
✅G-Green Eggs and Ham(6/9/21)

My second goal is to be MINDFUL (7/7)
✅M-My Double; and How He Undid Me(3/1/21)
✅I-Innocent Traitor(11/2/21)
✅N-Being Nikki(14/9/21)
✅D-Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood of the New Kids on the Block(2/9/21)
✅F-The First Lady: One secret can bring down a government(8/9/21)
✅U-Under the Paw: Confessions of a Cat Man(22/2/21)
✅L-Life's What You Make It(7/9/21)

My third goal is to have more HAPPINESS (8/9)
✅H-Hoop Skirts and Ponytails: A True Story of Growing Up in the 50s(26/6/21)
✅A-Archie Annual #14(6/9/21)
✅P-Pretty Little Liars(30/6/21)
✅P-Polly(3/8/21)
✅I-The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln(22/12/21)
✅N-Prom Nights from Hell(5/8/21)
✅E-Elder Brown's Backslide(4/1/21)
✅S-Sin's Daughter(15/9/21)
✅S-A Suitable Boy(24/9/21)

My fourth goal is to be more CARING (4/6)
✅C-Charlotte's Web(22/10/21)
✅A-Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV(1/9/21)
✅R-The Rise & Fall of the Queen of Suburbia(26/2/21)
✅I-The Innocence of Father Brown(19/12/21)
✅N-Nancy Drew Diaries #4(14/4/21)
✅G-Girl at Sea(23/10/21)

SPELL A BETTER WORLD CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2021

My words for this challenge are HAPPINESS and POSITIVITY. My goals this year are to have more happiness in my life through friendships and relationships and to be more positive and spread positivity to others.

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Books read: 0/19

Hi SarahKat. Please sign me up for 26 📚

I will attempt to spell out:
THE NEW NORMAL (12)
READING IS BLISS (14)

Personal thread - 26/26 - COMPLETE ✔️

📗 T - Troubled Blood
📗 H - The Hound Of Death: And Other Stories
📗 E - Den tavse enke

📗 N - The Nursing Home Murder
📗 E - The Little Shop of Happy Ever After
📗 W - The Willow Pattern

📗 N - Natmanden
📗 O - The Old Man and the Sea
📗 R - Rogue Protocol
📗 M - The Three Musketeers
📗 A - Broken April
📗 L - Still Life

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📗 R - Rage Against the Dying
📗 E - Death in Ecstasy
📗 A - Artemis
📗 D - Don't Let Go
📗 I - Poirot Investigates
📗 N - I Am Number Four
📗 G - China Rich Girlfriend

📗 I - In the Woods
📗 S - The Christmas Sisters

📗 B - Burial Rites
📗 L - Rogue Lawyer
📗 I - Undulaten der ikke ville dø
📗 S - The Fifth Season
📗 S - Two Can Keep a Secret

Carmen wrote: "Karin wrote: "Carmen wrote: "Hola!
My goal this year is to simplify and get rid of the clutter in my life.



love this !!!!"
Thanks Karin, hope you achieve all your goals next year! 🤗"


The same to you ! Decluttering is a good start :)

I'll join the challenge, what a great idea!

Progress: 9 / 11

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U - The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
A - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
I - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
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T - Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness
R - Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
E - The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
L - Shoe Lust: Schuh-Lust Desire de Chaussures by Pepin van Roojen
L - The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
E - A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor

I'll join with:
COMMUNITY

This year I want to do two things more so my words are:

C:Cultural Humility: Engaging Diverse Identities in Therapy
O:Out on a Limb
N:
T:Two Little Girls in Blue
R:Roughing It
I: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
B:Beloved
U:
T:The Alchemist
E:

A: Active Defense
N:
D: Dead Reckoning

L:Land's End
E:
A:A Dream Fulfilled
R:Riptide
N:

0/18

Love this challenge! going to do 'a better world' literally!

Progress: 10/12

A-All in Pieces ✅
B- Breaking Dawn ✅
E-Eclipse ✅
T-The Night Swim ✅
T-Tweet Cute ✅
E-Exodus ✅
R-The Roanoke Girls ✅
W-A Winter's Promise ✅
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L-Library of Souls ✅
D-The Gunslinger aka The Dark Tower ✅

I'm in! I want to pray more in 2021.


P Pretty Things
R Recursion
A After the Green Withered
Y You Are Never Alone: Trust in the Miracle of God's Presence and Power

M MINDSET: How Positive Thinking Will Set You Free & Help You Achieve Massive Success In Life
O Olive Kitteridge
R Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
E Eve

Count me in!

B-Blood Debt
E-Educated

T-Talented
H-The Hound of the Baskervilles
E-Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

R-The Round House
E-Eleanor & Park
A-The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
S-Steve Jobs
O-The Ocean at the End of the Lane
N-The Night Circus

S-Saving Karma: A full-throttle thriller throughout Asia
O-One for the Money
M-My Not So Perfect Life
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I-In the Bleak Midwinter
L-Lark Ascending
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T-Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love
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D-Deputy: 35 Years as a Deputy Sheriff from Upstate NY to LA
A-Angelfall
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SPELL A BETTER WORLD CHALLENGE
1 January - 31 December 2021

Words: BE KIND, BE GRATEFUL

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B A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
E Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine ✔ 9/3/2021
K Klara and the Sun ✔ 6/4/2021
I In Praise of the Bees
N The Nickel Boys ✔ 24/3/2021
D The Draycott Murder Mystery ✔ 15/3/2021
B Big Pharma, Dirty Lies, Busy Bees and Eco Activists: 20 Environmental Stories from South Africa ✔ 18/1/2021
E
G Gilead OR The Girl with the Louding Voice OR The Garden of Evening Mists OR The Garment Maker's Daughter OR The Good Lord Bird
R Ready Player One ✔ 3/1/2021
A Anxious People ✔ 5/1/2021
T The Thursday Murder Club ✔ 28/1/2021
E Everyone Knows You Go Home
F The Fountains of Silence
U The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
L Love and Other Consolation Prizes ✔ 21/2/2021

SPELL A BETTER WORLD - Yearly Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2021
Progress: 52/52 Books -- COMPLETE

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it. ~ Nelson Mandela

🌎 I - The Island of Sea Women
🌎 T - The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor

🌎 I - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
🌎 S - The Snow Queen

🌎 I - I See You
🌎 N - The Nightingale

🌎 Y - You
🌎 O - On the Jellicoe Road
🌎 U - Unhinged
🌎 R - Rascal

🌎 H - Hard Truth
🌎 A - Aunty Lee's Delights
🌎 N - No Exit
🌎 D - Destroyer Angel
🌎 S - Station Eleven

🌎 T - Thai Die
🌎 O - One by One

🌎 C - Cutwork
🌎 R - Rules
🌎 E - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
🌎 A - American Fire
🌎 T - Transcription
🌎 E - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

🌎 A - The Adventure of the ‘Western Star'

🌎 B - Borderline
🌎 E - Embroidered Truths
🌎 T - The Tiger's Wife
🌎 T - Threadbare
🌎 E - Even Money
🌎 R - Recursion

🌎 W - The Wish List
🌎 O - Over the Top
🌎 R - The Rope
🌎 L - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
🌎 D - Death of a Cozy Writer

🌎 F - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
🌎 O - The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
🌎 R - Repair to Her Grave

🌎 A - The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
🌎 L - Love Her or Lose Her
🌎 L - The Lost Mine

🌎 W - Winter Study
🌎 H - High Country
🌎 O - Ordinary Grace

🌎 L - Loki: Agent of Asgard, Vol. 1: Trust Me
🌎 I - I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
🌎 V - The Veiled Lady
🌎 E - Elevation

🌎 I - If I Had Your Face
🌎 N - Nightcrawler Vol. 1: Homecoming

🌎 I - Ink and Shadows
🌎 T - There There

SPELL A BETTER WORLD
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
3/8


T The Tattooist of Auschwitz 24 Jan
H The Holiday
A The Assistant
N The Last Night Out 24 feb
K The Kiss on Castle Road 17 may
F Find Layla: A Novel
U Girl Unknown
L The Last Thing She Ever Did

Welcome all! I still love reading all of these! It makes me so happy :)

SarahKat wrote: "Welcome all! I still love reading all of these! It makes me so happy :)"

Makes me happy, too :)

Spell A Better World
Duration: 2021

42/42

Talk to Yourself Like You Would to Someone You Love

T Trick or Treat Murder, 4 Jan 2021
A After the Flood, 24 May 2021
L Listening Woman, 25 Jan 2021
K How I KILLED Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, 6 Jan 2021

T The Clerk's TALE, 20 Jan 2021
O One Candle, 3 Jan 2021

Y You Are More Than Enough: You Are Magnificent, 4 Apr 2021
O Off the Page, 4 May 2021
U Unnatural Death, 2 Mar 2021
R The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down, 28 May 2021
S Shards of Honor, 31 May 2021
E Sun, Moon, EARTH: The History of Solar Eclipses, from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets, 13 Feb 2021
L The Last Mrs. Parrish, 26 Jan 2021
F The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better, 5 Jan 2021

L Life's Lessons Learned: Personal Reflections, 17 Jan 2021
I Inside Out & Back Again, 4 Jan 2021
K The Beggar KING, 28 Apr 2021
E How to Remember EVERYTHING in the New Testament and General Conference, 21 Mar 2021

Y We Wish to Inform YOU That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, 17 Apr 2021
O Olive's Ocean, 15 Feb 2021
U Undercurrents, 8 Apr 2021

W Washington: A Life, 15 Jan 2021
O Out of the Blue: A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival, 3 Mar 2021
U Once UPON a River, 1 May 2021
L A Light in the Window, 16 Feb 2021
D Dance Hall of the Dead, 16 Jan 2021

T This Mortal Coil, 2 Feb 2021
O Death OVERDUE, 21 Apr 2021

S Satan in St Mary's, 3 Feb 2021
O One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 2 Apr 2021
M Meet Me at the Museum, 22 May 2021
E Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life beyond Our Solar System, 6 May 2021
O The Outcasts of Time, 9 Apr 2021
N The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, 13 Jan 2021
E Embroidered Truths, 4 Feb 2021

Y The Year of Magical Thinking, 24 Apr 2021
O On the Fringe=, 14 Apr 2021
U Under the Egg, 24 May 2021

L The Lady and the Highwayman, 24 Jan 2021
O One Second After, 19 Apr 2021
V Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution, 24 Feb 2021
E Edenbrooke, 7 Feb 2021

I wasn’t going to do this one (there are too many fun yearlies!) but seeing everybody’s words is so lovely, that I’ve decided to join in with a short word. So I’m in for 6 books.

Might swap out the books, but these are the plans for now.

Progress 6/6

✅G - The Gunslinger
✅R - Redshirts
✅O - The Obelisk Gate
✅W - Warbreaker
✅T - The Time Machine
✅H - Howl's Moving Castle

I absolutely love this challenge! My goal is to take care of my own mental health in the coming year and I'm going to use a statement that a former co-worker uses all the time.

19/19

M: Mere Christianity
E: Educated
N: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
T: Those Episkopols
A: All the President's Men
L: Little Fires Everywhere

H: I Heard God Laugh: A Practical Guide to Life's Essential Daily Habit
E: The Emotionally Sensitive Person: Finding Peace When Your Emotions Overwhelm You
A: Ashes
L: The Last Empress
T: The Taming of the Shrew
H: The House on Mango Street

M: A Mind at Peace
A: Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
T: A Terrible Fall of Angels
T: 10 Things I Hate About Pinky (counting this as a T even though it is a number)
E: Empress Orchid
R: Rafael
S: To Sir Phillip, With Love

In 1987 The Smiths released a song called Death of a Disco Dancer. Some of the lyrics go:

Love, peace and harmony
Oh, very nice
Very nice
Very nice
Very nice
...but maybe in the next world

If you are familiar with The Smiths, you know that this song was not written with any hopeful intention...

But I am taking the same lyrics and giving them my own intention. This "next world" will be the world that we create. We start creating it now. Let's create it as "A Better World" and incorporate:

Love, Peace & Harmony

17/17 - COMPLETE!

L - Farewell, My Lovely - 02/09/21
O - Our Ancestors - 04/27/21
V - The Cloven Viscount - 04/21/21
E - The Non-Existent Knight -04/21/21

P - Promise at Dawn - 05/18/21
E - Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories - 07/08/21
A - Alamut - 04/18/21
C - Cryptonomicon - 01/13/21
E - Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West - 11/16/21

& - Cutter & Bone - 2/11/21

H - Red Harvest - 01/04/21
A - Midaq Alley - 03/04/21
R - The Cider House Rules - 03/13/21
M - The Radetzky March - 1/19/21
O - The Once and Future King - 05/24/21
N - Sometimes a Great Notion - 07/25/21
Y - Thank You, Jeeves - 1/14/21

Update to message #55
1/16- Completed Rosie Project. 5 stars.

Hi I'd like to see more COMPASSION and CARING in the world, and I can start locally spreading these in my own actions.

Books 0/16
C- Coastliners
O- The Ocean At the End of the Lane
M- Molly Fox's Birthday
P- Practical Magic
A- Amazed by Spain
S- Such a Fun Age
S- The Sky is Everywhere
I- I've Got My Eyes On You
O- Open House
N- Not My Daughter


C- The City in the Middle of the Night
A- Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred year Old Man
R- The Rosie Project
I- In Darkness, Look for Stars
N- Night Road
G- Guest List

Please add me with the word “Integrity”

9/ 9
INTEGRITY

I: Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist
N: Nothing Ventured
T: Dust tracks on the road
E: An Extravagant Death
G: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
R: Beach Read
I: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
T: This Tender Land
Y: Us Against You