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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING CHALLENGE
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2021

This crazy LOVE Story has many beloved and not so beloved characters
Spell-out one/more characters listed below:

BEATRICE
BENEDICK
CLAUDIO
HERO
DON PEDRO
DON JOHN
BALTHASAR
LEONATO
MARGARET
BARACHIO
CONRAD
DOGBERRY
VERGES
ANTONIO
URSULA

CHALLENGE RULES:
• one book per letter
• books must be 100+ pages
• use 1st letter of the title (exclude A, An, or The)
• or use 1st letter of Author's FIRST/LAST name.

FOR EACH BOOK READ:
° Link to Title
° Indicate Author
° Give date you finished book

☆☆☆ Ratings are optional

Happy Reading

☆Completed☆
♡♡ Congratulations ♡♡
♡ Jonquil
♡ Donna
♡ Koren
♡ Carol
♡ Licha Olivia
♡ Connie

PARTICIPANTS
Updated: 3/01/21

JennH - MARGARET (6/8) & DOGBERRY (5/8) = (11/16)
Book Concierge - BEATRICE (7/8)
☆☆Donna - MARGARET (8/8) C
☆☆Carol - BALTHASAR (9/9) & MARGARET (8/8) = (17/17) C
☆☆Licha-Olivia - DON JOHN (7/7) C
☆☆Jonquil - ANTONIO (7/7) C
Jaret - BEATRICE (1/8)
Marilyn - BENEDICK (5/8)
☆☆Koren - BARACHIO (8/8) C
Diana S - BEATRICE (1/8) & DON PEDRO (3/8) = (4/16)
☆☆Connie - DOGBERRY (8/8) C

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING CHALLENGE
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2021

I'm not familiar with this story, so I'm going to randomly pick a couple of words that will work well with the books I have on my TBR.

✔M - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 2/6/21
✔A - 2nd Chance by James Patterson with Andrew Gross 2/18/21
✔R - In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware 2/3/21
✔G - The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George 2/14/21
A
✔R - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid 2/25/21
E
✔T - The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris 2/8/21

✔D - The Diva Spices it Up by Krista Davis 2/17/21
✔O - Kindred by Octavia Butler 2/1/21
✔G - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 2/18/21
✔B - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 2/1/21
E
R
R
✔Y - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu 2/27/21

LOVE this Shakespeare play ... especially the movie version w/ Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh and Denzel Washington!

February 2021 - Much Ado About Nothing
Begins: 01Feb21 / Ends: 28Feb21

8 / 8 completed


Beatrice
B - Brutal Telling ✔ - 24Feb21
E - Emma Cline / The Girls ✔ - 07Feb21
A - Anthony Horowitz / Moonflower Murders ✔ - 05Feb21
T - TAYLOR, Patrick / An Irish Country Christmas - ✔ - 05Feb21
R - Rick Bragg / All Over but the Shoutin' ✔ - 14Feb21
I - In the Country We Love: My Family Divided ✔ - 06Feb21
C - Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow ✔ - 26Feb21
E - Even in Paradise ✔ - 24Apr21

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Completed 8 / 8

I choose:

✔M ~~ Margaret Walker, author of ~~ Jubilee ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 04Feb21
✔A ~~ After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search ~~ by Sarah Perry ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 11Feb21
✔R ~~ Rupi Kaur, author of ~~ Milk and Honey ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 04Feb21
✔G ~~ The Guilty ~~ by David Baldacci ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 01Feb21
✔A ~~ Adam Higginbotham, author of ~~ Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 15Feb21
✔R ~~ Roxane Gay, author of ~~ Hunger ~~ 5 Stars ~~ 05Feb21
✔E ~~ Ephron, Nora, author of ~~ Heartburn ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 07Feb21
✔T ~~ Tretheway, Natasha, author of ~~ Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir ~~ 4 Stars ~~ 08Feb21

Much Ado about Nothing Challenge
17/17 - {9/9) & (8/8) - Completed 2/27

Boucher, Anthony - Nine Times Nine -2/2
Aiden Bates - Touch and Go/2/3
The Long Weekend - Clare Laydon -2/24
Tequila Sunrise - Layla Reyne -2/1
Herman, Kathy - Only by Death- 2/12
Annabeth Albert - Connection Error -2/13
Stephen Osborne - Pale as a Ghost - 2/1
Annabeth, Albert - Baked Fresh -2/4
Richards, Natalie - Five Total Strangers - 2/2

Melander, Jakob - The House That Jack Built -2/5
Applebotton Maxi - Deadlocked Dollhouse - 2/6
The Riddle of the Sands - Peter Hawkins - 2/26
Gilbert, L.A. The Coil - 2/10
Andrew Grey - Fire and Rain-2/11
Room in Chelsea Square - Michael Nelson - 2/16
Edge of Nowhere - Michael Ridpath - 2/14
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe -2/27

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING CHALLENGE
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2021

7/7 letters

D: Dare, Tessa The Duchess Deal (2/6/21)
O: Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood (2/28/21)
N: Notorious Pleasures Elizabeth Hoyt (2/21/2021)

J: Joan Johnston The Loner (2/8/21)
O: Once a Soldier Mary Jo Putney (2/26/21)
H: Hoyt, Elizabeth Wicked Intentions (2/12/21)
N: Neggers, Carla The Angel (2/23/21)

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING CHALLENGE
February 1 - February 28, 2021

7/7 DONE

A American by Day Derek B. Miller 2/2
N Sarah Noffke Magitech Rises 2/5
T Tall Tails Secret Book Club CeeCee James 2/9
O Over My Dead Body Rex Stout 2/9
N Nichole Severn The Fugitive 2/8
I Iron Lake William Kent Krueger 2/10
O One Foot in the Gravy Delia Rosen 2/6

I will read Beatrice
(3/8 completed)

Beatrix Potter's The Tale Of Peter Rabbit and other stories 3 stars 2/20/2021
E
The Alpine Xanadu by Mary Daheim 3 stars 2/15/2021
T
R
I
The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey 4 stars 2/21/2021
E

Book Concierge wrote: "LOVE this Shakespeare play ... especially the movie version w/ Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh and Denzel Washington!

February 2021 - Much Ado About Nothing
Begins: 01Feb21 / Ends: 28Feb21

0 / 8 c..."

It's one of my favorite movie : D

Dogberry
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sdNtnZb...

I've had difficulty in the past day or two using the "add book/author" feature. Please tell me I'm not alone? It isn't working right! I'll make changes to my entry once things are back in order.

Donna wrote: "I've had difficulty in the past day or two using the "add book/author" feature. Please tell me I'm not alone? It isn't working right! I'll make changes to my entry once things are back in order."

The search function seems to be wonky the last couple of days. I finally looked a book up on amazon.com ... then copy/pasted the ISBN into the "add book/author" tool and it finally brought up the book I wanted.

Book Concierge wrote: "Donna wrote: "I've had difficulty in the past day or two using the "add book/author" feature. Please tell me I'm not alone? It isn't working right! I'll make changes to my entry once things are bac..."

Thanks BC. I had just posted in my own group asking what was wrong that I couldnt find a book on Goodreads that I was reading. I tried searching by ISBN and found it!

February 2021 - Much Ado About Nothing
Begins: 01Feb21 / Ends: 28Feb21

5 / 8 completed

Benedick
✔B - Boyd, Natasha, author of The Indigo Girl--2/15/21
✔E - Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz--2/26/21
N
E
D
✔I - Isabel Allende, author of A Long Petal of the Sea--2/21/21
✔C - Charles King, author of Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century--2/6/21
✔K - Kidd, Sue Monk, author of The Book of Longings--2/4/21

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING CHALLENGE
Duration: February 1 - February 28, 2021

B-Bernard DuClos Fair Game finished 2/1
A-American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking California to New York, Alaska to Mexico by Michael Sean Comerford finished 2/11
R-Rivenes, Erik Dirty Doc Ames and the Scandal that Shook Minneapolis finished 2/18
A-Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman finished 2/23
C-Catherine Friend Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn finished 2/3
H-A Hand to Guide Me by Denzel Washington finished 2/13
I-I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Glezman Buttigieg finished 2/7
O-O'Neill, Bill The Great Book of Rock Trivia: Amazing Trivia, Fun Facts & The History of Rock and Roll finished 2/5

Donna wrote: "I've had difficulty in the past day or two using the "add book/author" feature. Please tell me I'm not alone? It isn't working right! I'll make changes to my entry once things are back in order."

I had the same problem :(
I just got out of GR - did a errand - and when I got back on - it resolve itself. :)

This problem has been happening a lot lately it very annoying.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING CHALLENGE
Books Read: 2/16

Spell-out: BEATRICE (1/8)


B
E
A
T
R
I
C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2/12/21) ☆☆☆☆☆
E

Spell-out: DON PEDRO (3/8)


Dying Breath by Heather Graham (2/14/21) ☆☆☆
O
Nick Tapalansky's Cast No Shadow (2/10/21) 2.5 ☆☆ :(

P - The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci (2/8/21) 3.5 ☆☆☆
E
D
R
O

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING CHALLENGE
February 1 - February 28, 2021

7/7 DONE

A American by Day Derek B. Miller 2/2
N Sarah Noffke Magitech Rises 2/5
T Tall Tails Secret Book Club CeeCee James 2/9
O Over My Dead Body Rex Stout 2/9
N Nichole Severn The Fugitive 2/8
I Iron Lake William Kent Krueger 2/10
O One Foot in the Gravy Delia Rosen 2/6

I've decided. I'd like to do DOGBERRY (8/8)


D Dallas, Sandra. Westering Women 2/10
O Outlaw Tales of Washington, 2nd: True Stories of the Evergreen State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats 2/20/21
G Griffiths, Elly. The Janus Stone 2/5/21
B Barker, Clive. Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War 2/4/21
E Elly Griffiths. The House at Sea's End 2/13/21
R Robert Dugoni. The Jury Master 2/5/21
R A Room Full of Bones. Elly Griffiths. 2/26/21
Y Yang , Kelly. Front Desk. 2/21/21

Finished!

Koren wrote: "Finished!"

Nice job, Koren!

Challenge Completed

Licha-Olivia wrote: "Challenge Completed"


Congratulations!

I'm finished too!

Got It! Great Reading Everyone!
March Challenge is up and ready to go :D

Update message # 5 - Challenge completed - 24Apr21