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🎵 Your Body STORY is a Wonderland 🎵

Read books with fictionalised settings
any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe

Amy

Anna's Reading Life

Bea

Christina (AKA Babbling)

Coralie

Dee

Ellis

Elvenn

Jayme(the ghost reader) COMPLETED

Joanna

Kristina Simon

Lagullande

Lauren COMPLETED

LaurLa

LynnB COMPLETED

Marina

Meg

Nat

Rosemary COMPLETED

Sandy COMPLETED

Snowtulip

Stacey

Susan COMPLETED

Tien

🎼Your Story is a Wonderland🎼

Progress: 10,487/10,000 pages as at 12/11

203p - Ella Minnow Pea -Read 01/05
551p - The North Wind -Read 01/18
404p - Immortal in Death (In Death #3) -Read 01/19
460p - Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy #1) -Read 01/27
464p - An Ember in the Ashes -Read 01/28
336p - Skin of the Sea (Skin of the Sea #1) -Read 02/01
336p - Nostromo -Read 03/12
432p - The Mystery Woman -Read 03/16
500p - Daughter of the Moon Goddess (The Celestial Kingdom Duology #1) -Read 03/20
608p - The Doors of Eden -Read 03/22
432p - League of Liars -Read 03/26
425p - Defy the Stars (Constellation #1) -Read 03/29
331p - The Runaway King (Ascendance #2) -Read 04/10
448p - Sebastian (Ephemera #1) -Read 04/17
285p - The Light Fantastic (Discworld #2) -Read 05/05
384p - The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1) -Read 05/06
465p - The Wolf (Under the Northern Sky #1) -Read 05/18
464p - Belladonna (Ephemera #2) -Read 06/26
213p - The Red Threads of Fortune (Tensorate #2) -Read 07/14
321p - Old Man's War (Old Man's War #1) - Read 10/20
121p - The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle #1) -Read 10/31
305p - Legends & Lattes -Read 11/01
501p - Stalking Darkness (Nightrunner #2) -Read 11/02
316p - Predator's Gold (Mortal Engines Quartet #2) -Read 11/08
190p - A Pale Box on the Distant Shore (Red Kingdom #0.5) -Read 11/23
704p - The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Zamonien #1) -Read 12/04
288p - Mars Awakens -Read 12/11

Progress: 6/6 (Completed 6/25)

Finishes:


Contenders:
Rosewater
Dune
Kill the Farm Boy
Wizard's First Rule

🎵 Your Body STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

Read books with fictionalised settings (any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe).
Goal 10 books.

1. The Invisible Husband of Frick Island, Colleen Oakley, 5 Feb 2022, Frick Island
2. A Legacy of Murder, Connie Berry, 17 Feb 2022, Long Barston, England
3. Unsettled Ground, Claire Fuller, 19 Feb 2022, Inkbourne, England
4. Small Blessings, Martha Woodroof, 21 Feb 2022, "a small college town" (not named)
5. All the Children Are Home, Patry Francis, 17 Mar 2022, unnamed town in Massachusetts
6. The Hangman, Louise Penny, 19 Mar 2022, Three Pines, Quebec
7. The Art of Betrayal, Connie Berry, 28 Mar 2022, Long Barston, England
8. A Pattern of Lies, Charles Todd, 1 May 2022, Cranbourne, Kent, England
9. A Deadly Bone to Pick, Peggy Rothschild, 7 May 2022, Pier Point, California
10. Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage, Nancy Atherton, 8 May 2022, Finch, England

Just Read It! (Music edition)
Prompt 4: 🎵 Your STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

Goal: 10 books

Read books with fictionalised settings (any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe).

√1. Old Man's War - space opera Read 12/8/22 - 4*
√2. Uglies - dystopia Read 5/31/22 - 4*
3. Children of the Mind - science fiction/space
√4. Z for Zachariah - dystopia Read 3/18/22 - 3*
√5. Cold Magic - fantasy Read 3/27/22 - 4*
√6. Eldest - fantasy Read 10/23/22 - 4*
√7. Sabriel - fantasy Read 2/18/22 - 4*
√8. The Wicked King - fantasy Read 10/25/22 - 4*
√9. The Poppy War - fantasy Read 3/7/22 - 4*
√10. The Midnight Library - fantasy Read 1/3/22 - 4*

alternatives:
Black Powder War - alternative history
Ink and Bone - alternative history, fantasy, dystopia, steampunk Read 7/26/22 - 4*
Thirteenth Child - alternative history, fantasy, steampunk

Prompt 4: 🎵 Your STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

GOAL: 6000 pages
PROGRESS: 6017

Fantasy settings:
357 - The Masked City✔
160 - No One Noticed the Cat ✔
616 - The Absolute Sandman, Volume Two✔
465 - Spinning Silver ✔
390 - The Library at Mount Char✔

Scifi settings:
659 - Gemina ✔
618 - Obsidio ✔
160 - A Psalm for the Wild-Built✔
147 - Herland✔
60 - The Armies of Those I Love✔
350 - Network Effect ✔
352 - The Stranger ✔
152 - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy ✔
84 - Memento ✔

Real world fictional settings:
303 - Pines✔
720 - To Paradise
384 - The Fated Sky✔
369 - The Boy on the Bridge✔
391 - Cedar Valley✔

🎵 Your STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
Finished 2 April 2022

Read books with fictionalised settings
any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe

GOAL: 2022 pages

Read 2048/2022

1. One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky, 29 Jan 22 = 144 pages
Fictional farm in the fictional future

2. When All Is Said by Anne Griffin, 7 Feb 22 = 272 pages
Fictional town in Ireland

3. The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare by Lilian Jackson Braun, 26 Feb 22 = 208 pages
Fictional town of Pickax, Minnesota

4. All Systems Red by Martha Wells, 5 Mar 22 = 152 pages
Fictional planet

5. Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse, 22 Mar 22 = 284 pages
Fictional village of Blandings Parva

6. Breakfast With The Nikolides by Rumer Godden, 24 Mar 22 = 220 pages
Fictional town of Amorra in Bangladesh

7. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling, 28 Mar 22 = 223 pages
I don't think Hogwarts is real...

8. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells, 30 Mar 22 = 158 pages
Fictional planets

9. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers, 2 Apr 22 = 385 pages
Fictional planets

🎼Your Story is a Wonderland🎼
Goal 5000 pages
5040/5000

Ha'penny - fictionalized England 1/15/22 - 332 pages
The Paper Magician - fictionalized England 2/2/22 - 226 pages
The Glass Magician - fictionalized England. 224 pages.
Rogue Protocol - space - 3/4/22 - 150 pages
Leviathan Wakes - space - 3/5/22 - 577 pages
Belgarath the Sorcerer - fantasy land - 3/8/22 - 736 p.
Midnight Crossroad set in Midnight, TX, a fictional town - 3/3/22 - 320 pages
Day Shift set in Midnight, TX, a fictional town - 3/13/22 - 320 pages
Night Shift set in Midnight, TX, a fictional town - 3/14/22 - 320 pages
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - futuristic California - 3/17/22 - 358 pages
Reboots: Undead Can Dance - in space - 3/18/22 - 335 pages
The City in the Middle of the Night - planet January. 3/20/22. 368 pages
No One Noticed the Cat - land of Esphania. 3/22/22. 160 pages.
The Martian Chronicles - Mars. 3/22/22. 182 pages
In a Garden Burning Gold - the fantasy country of Thyrakis. 3/28/22. 432 pages.

🎵 Your STORY is a Wonderland 🎵

Goal: 4000 pages

Read books with fictionalised settings
any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe

A Wizard of Earthsea - 229 pages - read 09/01
City of Golden Shadow - 851 pages - read 08/07
La concessione del telefono - 226 pages - read 09/07
La storia infinita - 420 pages - read 21/04
Circe - 411 pages - read 22/07
The Beautiful Ones - 306 pages - read 16/11

Total pages read: 2443/4000

Prompt 4: 🎵 Your Story is a Wonderland 🎵
Goal: 2,022 pages
Progress: 2,023/2,022 pages ~ COMPLETE

Books with fictionalised settings, including fictional towns.

240 pages - Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (Discworld) Read: 1/8/22 ✭✭✭
150 pages - Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire Read: 1/17/22 ✭✭✭✭✭
182 pages - Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire Read: 1/19/22 ✭✭✭✭
311 pages - Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller Read: 2/9/22 ✭✭✭
374 pages - Flash Fire by T.J. Klune Read: 4/1/22 ✭✭✭✭
329 pages - The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman Read: 4/3/22 ✭✭✭
128 pages - A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow Read: 6/24/22 ✭✭✭✭
309 pages - On the Edge by Ilona Andrews Read: 6/28/22 ✭✭✭

🎵 Your Body STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
Goal: 5000p.
Progress: 1029/5000

Read books with fictionalised settings
any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe

1. Things We Never Got Over 2/22/22 570 pages
2. All Systems Red 3/4/22 144p.
3. Sweep in Peace 4/25/22 315p.

🎼Your Story is a Wonderland🎼 - DONE!
Goal: 8 books

1. No One Will Miss Her (Copper Falls, Maine) - Completed 1/19/22
2. The Fate of the Tearling - Completed 1/9/22
3. The Loop - Completed 4/3/22
4. The Captive Kingdom - Completed 3/7/22
5. Such a Quiet Place - Completed 7/3/22
6. A History of Wild Places - Completed 3/23/22
7. Truly Devious (Fictional school) - Completed 1/15/22
8. Alive - Completed 4/30/22
9. Gemina (Space station) - Completed 6/20/22
10. The Vanishing Stair (Fictional school) - Completed 5/21/22
11. The Shattered Castle - Completed 10/20/22
12. The Swallows (Fictional school) - Completed 11/7/22
13. Space Murder (Spaceship) - Completed 9/17/22

Just Read It! (Music edition)
Prompt 4: 🎵 Your Body STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

Goal: 2,022 pages
Progress: 2,389/2,022 pages

Read books with fictionalised settings (any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe).

✔️849pp 11/22/63 finished 28/2/22; Jodie, Texas + alternate reality Texas and Maine
✔️339pp Get in Trouble: Stories finished 28/2/22; various
✔️368pp Red Clocks finished 30/3/22; Newville, Oregon
✔️147pp A Psalm for the Wild-Built finished 24/7/22; Panga
✔️382pp The Thursday Murder Club finished 28/9/22; Fairhaven, Kent
✔️304pp Olive, Again finished 19/10/22; Crosby, Maine

Fictional settings
2612/)2,500 pages
1) Take a Thief
Completed 02/4/22
435pp
2)Foundation
Completed 02/9/22
340 pp
3)Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar
338 pp
Completed 02/12/22
4) Intrigues
328pp
Completed 02/18/22
5) Changes
Completed 02/24/22
326pp
6)Bastion
Completed 03/2/22
351 pp
7) Closer to Home
362pp
8) Closer to the Heart
Completed 03/25/22
330 pp
Completed 03/25/22

Prompt 4: Your Story is a Wonderland

Jan 1 - December 31, 2022

Goal 2022 pages

Read books with fictionalized settings
any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe.

✔1. 416 The Water Dancer - fin 1/14
✔2. 400 Game Changer - fin 2/19
✔3. 170 The Man Who Fell to Earth- fin 2/23
✔4. 355 Miracle Creek - fin 3/21
✔5. 400 [The Witch's Boy|20312461]- fin 3/21
✔6. 336 If Tomorrow Comes - fin 3/24 [ or could be series or dystopia?]

read: 2077/2022 ok
COMPLETED 3/24

IV - 🎵 Your Story is a Wonderland 🎵    « 1,500 pages as goal »    (392 pages read)

Read books with fictionalised settings

- La tormenta de nieve (Åludden) - 392 pages ✔ read May 4, 2022
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🎵 Your STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
Goal: 10 books
Fictional City

1: Tower Lord, 3.5 stars, 1/6/22 (fictional world)
2: Dark Rise, 4 stars, 1/9/22 (fictional world)
3: The World Gives Way, 3.5 stars, 1/9/22 (set in space)
4: Wrath, 1/26/22, 5 stars, (set in fictional world)
5: Raybearer, 2/20/22, 4 stars (set in fictionalized Africa)
6: Piranesi, 4 stars, 2/21/22 (set in alternate world)
7: Woven in Moonlight, 3 stars, 3/13/22 (set in fantasy world)
8. Hunt the Stars, 2 stars, 3/19/22 (set in fantasy world)
9. Noor, 4 stars, 3/26/22, (alternate Nigeria)
10. Redemptor, 4 stars, 4/16/22 (set in fictionalized Africa)

Extra for Monopoly: House of Sky and Breath, 4 stars, 6/6/22

Goal: 4000 words - DONE!

Foundation (244 pgs) 3/24
For the Wolf (437 pgs) 2/20
Sufficiently Advanced Magic (621 pgs) 2/7
The Winged Histories (335 pgs) 3/27
Authority (341 pgs) 4/7
Cytonic (409 pgs) 1/18
The Unbroken (464 pgs) 2/11
The Sirens of Titan (224 pgs) 9/19
Dark Lord of Derkholm (328 pgs) 9/8
The Last Unicorn (304 pgs) 8/25
The Spirit Thief (310 pgs) 10/9

Completed = 4017/4017

Just Read It! (Music edition) - Prompt 4: Your Story is a Wonderland
January - December 2022

My Prompt 4 Plan (msg 21)

Prompt Goal ➺ 12 books ➺ COMPLETE

Prompt ➺ Read books with fictionalized settings




🔹dystopian Georgia, USA ➺ Blood Heir ➺ 01.13 ★★★★
🔹futuristic NYC ➺ Vendetta in Death ➺ 02.22 ★★★★
🔹post-apocalyptic United States ➺ The Devil You Know ➺ 01.29 ★★★★
🔹Eden/dystopian USA ➺ Beyond Possession ➺ 06.26 ★★★★
🔹space station ➺ Spy Night on Union Station ➺ 04.18 ★★★
🔹The Edge ➺ Fate's Edge ➺ 05.13 ★★★★
🔹Mystic Bayou ➺ Always Be My Banshee ➺ 06.08 ★★★★
🔹Ardnoch Estate ➺ There with You ➺ 11.19 ★★★★
🔹Butler, Vermont ➺ Every Little Thing ➺ 07.09 ★★★★
🔹Talamh ➺ Sweet Adventure ➺ 10.31 ★★★★
🔹Happily Inc. ➺ Meant to Be Yours ➺ 10.29 ★★★★
🔹dystopian Detroit ➺ The Queen of Zombie Hearts ➺ 09.24 ★★★★

🎵 Your STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
Goal 15 books

1. Masquerade in Lodi read Jan 12
2. S. N. U. F. F. read Jan 28
3. Emphyrio read Jan 29
4. The Tangled Lands read Feb 7
5. Fireheart Tiger read Feb 10
6. Blackveil read Feb 16
7. Firebird read Feb 19
8. One Day All This Will Be Yours read March 18
9. The Assassins of Thasalon read May 4
10. The Tower at Stony Wood read May 16

10/15

Does an alternate history of a real place work for this. For instance, Farthing, set in an England in which a settlement was reached with Hitler, so it's a very different place than the England we know.

Sandy wrote: "Does an alternate history of a real place work for this. For instance, Farthing, set in an England in which a settlement was reached with Hitler, so it's a very different place than t..."

yep, still fictional :)

Tien wrote: "Sandy wrote: "Does an alternate history of a real place work for this. For instance, Farthing, set in an England in which a settlement was reached with Hitler, so it's a very differen..."

thanks!

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Prompt 4: 🎵 Your Body STORY is a Wonderland 🎵

Read books with fictionalised settings
any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe

✔ 1. Breath of Fire by Amanda Bouchet November 24, 2022 ★★★★★
✔ 2. The Ippos King by Grace Draven June 16, 2022 ★★★★★
✔ 3. The Wolf Lord by Ann Aguirre July 7, 2022 ★★★★
✔ 4. Traitor Born by Amy A. Bartol September 26, 2022 ★★★★★
✔ 5. Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop February 16, 2022 ★★★★★
✔ 6. Ash and Quill byRachel Caine March 30, 2022 ★★★★★
✔ 7. The Rose and the Dagger by Renée Ahdieh April 14, 2022 ★★★★★
8. The Brass Queen by Elizabeth Chatsworth
✔ 9. Song of the Forever Rains by E.J. Mellow December 29, 2022 ★★★★
✔10. Scarlet Odyssey by C.T. Rwizi October 16, 2022 ★★★★

Your Story is a Wonderland
Goal: 2500 pages

any story with a fictional setting

Goal: 11 books
Progress: 9/11

All These Worlds by Dennis E. Taylor - 1/18/22
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey - 2/19/22
A Psalm for the Wild-Built - 4/18/22
The Causal Angel - 5/17/22
This Is How You Lose the Time War - 6/15/22
InterWorld - 9/25/22
The Empress of Salt and Fortune - 11/20/22
Where the Drowned Girls Go - 7/16/22
Beyond Shame - 4/14/22

Prompt 4: 🎵 Your Body STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
Goal: 6 Books

✔︎ 1. Setting: Fool's Gold, California
Book: Before We Kiss by Susan Mallery
Date read: April 13, 2022
Rating: 2 Stars

✔︎ 2. Setting: Ransom Canyon, Texas
Book: Winter's Camp by Jodi Thomas
Date read: April 22, 2022
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 3. Setting: Cooper's Chase Retirement Village, UK
Book: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Date read: April 11, 2022
Rating: 3 Stars

✔︎ 4. Setting: Briar Creek, Connecticut
Book: Killer Research by Jenn McKinlay
Date read: April 17, 2022
Rating: 4 Stars

✔︎ 5. Setting: Mystic Bayou, Louisiana
Book: Shifters in the Night by Molly Harper
Date read: April 14, 2022
Rating: 3 Stars

✔︎ 6. Setting: Bayou Breaux, Louisiana
Book: The Boy
Date read: May 24, 2022
Rating: 4 Stars

well shit i thought i'd signed up for this one ;)

goal: 11400

Current pg count: 5077/11400

books
Velocity Weapon - space/planet somewhere in the future - 544pgs - Finished - 1/22/22
Chaos Vector- space/planet somewhere in the future - 546pgs - Finished - 2/9/22
Gluttony - fictional city - 340pgs - finished - 3/12/22
The Bond That Ties Us - somewhere in a space on a planet - 173pgs - Finished - 3/25/22
Lust - fictional city - 328pgs - finished - 4/14/22
Feed - set 2040 US after a zombie apocalyse - 599pgs - finished - 4/24/22
Tell Me an Ending - some unidentified future - 448pgs - Finished - 6/23/22
The Dispatcher - some unidentified future - 130pgs - finished - 6/24/22
Murder by Other Means - some unidentified future - 192pgs - finished - 8/29/22
Pride - fictional city - 386pgs - finished - 8/30/22
The Invisible Library - fictional world - 329pgs - finished - 8/23/22
The Masked City - fictional world - 357pgs - finished - 9/18/22
The Burning Page - fictional world
Despair
Termination Shock - futuristic US, approx 2040ish - 705pgs - Finished - 9/20/21

Finished. See message 16

I have completed this prompt.
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Completed.

🎵 Your Body STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

Read books with fictionalised settings (any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe).
Goal 10 books.

1. The Invisible Husband of Frick Island, Colleen Oakley, 5 Feb 2022, Frick Island
2. A Legacy of Murder, Connie Berry, 17 Feb 2022, Long Barston, England
3. Unsettled Ground, Claire Fuller, 19 Feb 2022, Inkbourne, England
4. Small Blessings, Martha Woodroof, 21 Feb 2022, "a small college town" (not named)
5. All the Children Are Home, Patry Francis, 17 Mar 2022, unnamed town in Massachusetts
6. The Hangman, Louise Penny, 19 Mar 2022, Three Pines, Quebec
7. The Art of Betrayal, Connie Berry, 28 Mar 2022, Long Barston, England
8. A Pattern of Lies, Charles Todd, 1 May 2022, Cranbourne, Kent, England
9. A Deadly Bone to Pick, Peggy Rothschild, 7 May 2022, Pier Point, California
10. Aunt Dimity and the Enchanted Cottage, Nancy Atherton, 8 May 2022, Finch, England

Complete! I hope this link thing works. I don't know what I'm doing.

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Complete! Link is here (message 19).

I finished this prompt too!

Prompt 4: 🎵 Your STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

GOAL: 6000 pages
PROGRESS: 6017

Fantasy settings:
357 - The Masked City✔
160 - No One Noticed the Cat ✔
616 - The Absolute Sandman, Volume Two✔
465 - Spinning Silver ✔
390 - The Library at Mount Char✔

Scifi settings:
659 - Gemina ✔
618 - Obsidio ✔
160 - A Psalm for the Wild-Built✔
147 - Herland✔
60 - The Armies of Those I Love✔
350 - Network Effect ✔
352 - The Stranger ✔
152 - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy ✔
84 - Memento ✔

Real world fictional settings:
303 - Pines✔
720 - To Paradise
384 - The Fated Sky✔
369 - The Boy on the Bridge✔
391 - Cedar Valley✔

Completed this one!
Updated post: My Prompt 4 Plan (msg 21)

Prompt Goal ➺ 12 books ➺ COMPLETE

Finished this one :) Message 14

I'm counting this one done. I didn't read yet the one book in the original 10, but I did read one of the alternatives.

Just Read It! (Music edition)
Prompt 4: 🎵 Your STORY is a Wonderland 🎵
1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2022

Goal: 10 books

Read books with fictionalised settings (any fictional town in real country counts just as well as fictional universe).

√1. Old Man's War - space opera Read 12/8/22 - 4*
√2. Uglies - dystopia Read 5/31/22 - 4*
3. Children of the Mind - science fiction/space
√4. Z for Zachariah - dystopia Read 3/18/22 - 3*
√5. Cold Magic - fantasy Read 3/27/22 - 4*
√6. Eldest - fantasy Read 10/23/22 - 4*
√7. Sabriel - fantasy Read 2/18/22 - 4*
√8. The Wicked King - fantasy Read 10/25/22 - 4*
√9. The Poppy War - fantasy Read 3/7/22 - 4*
√10. The Midnight Library - fantasy Read 1/3/22 - 4*

alternatives:
Black Powder War - alternative history
Ink and Bone - alternative history, fantasy, dystopia, steampunk Read 7/26/22 - 4*
Thirteenth Child - alternative history, fantasy, steampunk