The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

If you would like a place to plan or share what you'll be reading for the Summer 2022 Challenge you may post a list in this thread. You are NOT required to post here to participate in the challenge.

Boston Kate

5.1 Practical Magic
5.2 Wish You Were Here
5.3 Build Your House Around My Body
5.4 Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts
5.5 Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
5.6 The Sanatorium
5.7 Black Tide
5.8 The Sun Down Motel
5.9 Sundial
✔5.10 U4 - Koridwen

10.1 Unlikely Animals
✔10.2 Tell the Wolves I'm Home
10.3 Blackout
10.4 Little Souls
10.5 Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga
10.6 Saga, Volume 1
10.7 The Night Ship
10.8 The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
10.9 Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter
10.10 On Gin Lane

15.1
The Rib King
A Million Quiet Revolutions
15.2
What Moves the Dead
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
15.3 Home Field Advantage
✔15.4
Razorblade Tears
Twice a Quinceañera
15.5 Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
15.6 Leech
15.7 All Boys Aren't Blue
15.8 Damnation Spring
15.9 Kindred
✔ 15.10 The Woman in the Library

20.1 The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
20.2 NO TASK
20.3 (1) Leah on the Offbeat
20.4 (2) This Is How You Lose the Time War
20.5 (1) A Bend of Light
20.6 The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
20.7 The Cartographers
20.8 (1) Send Her Back and Other Stories
✔20.9 (1) Carrie Soto Is Back
20.10 The Maid

25.1
With the Fire on High
White Noise
25.2
Victories Greater Than Death
After the Funeral
25.3
The Impatient
Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
25.4
(1) Magonia
(2) The Prisoner of Heaven
25.5
(2) Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
(3) Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep: Ghost Stories
25.6
(1) Hide
(4) Light from Uncommon Stars
25.7
(1) The Boy with a Bird in His Chest
(4) Long Story Short
25.8
(1) The Library of the Unwritten
(4) Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
25.9
(B1) Seasons of Purgatory
(B2) The Labyrinth of the Spirits
25.10
(2) The Yield
(4) Crying in H Mart

✔30.1
(1) The Book of Cold Cases
(4) Bitch: On the Female of the Species
30.2
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
A Black and Endless Sky
30.3
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
Silence Fallen
✔30.4
(1) Just After Sunset
(3) The Left Hand of Darkness
30.5
(1) Dune
(4) The Diamond Eye
30.6
(1) Not Good for Maidens
(2) Night of the Living Rez
30.7
(1) Daphne
(2) Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1
30.8
(2) Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
(3) The Meeting Point
30.9
(1) The Shining
(3) Bones Are Forever

50.1
(B2) The Extraordinaries
(B2) Flash Fire
(B2) The Toll

Tasks

5.1 A Letter to Three Witches
5.2 It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake.
5.3 Down and Out in Paris and London
5.4 Here Comes the Bride
5.5 Newspaper, Pennies, Cardboard, and Eggs--For Growing a Better Garden: More than 400 New, Fun, and Ingenious Ideas to Keep Your Garden Growing Great All Season Long. 6.7.22
5.6 Hygge : the Danish art of happiness
5.7 That Summer
5.8 The Kiss Quotient
5.9 84, Charing Cross Road 6.2.22
5.10 (Any Book)

10.1 Adult Assembly Required
10.2 As Bright As Heaven
10.3 The City We Became
10.4 The Alice Network 6.5.22
10.5 The Unhoneymooners. 6.11.22
10.6 Old Man's War
10.7 Lowcountry Summer
10.8 Four Aunties and a Wedding 6.2.22
10.9 (50% in Canada) The Day the World Came to Town
10.10 (Beverage in Sub/Title) Of Literature and Lattes

15.1 The Queen's Gambit AND The Lady and the Lionheart
15.2 Christmas at Harrington's. 6.9.22 AND U is for Undertow
15.3 Met Her Match
15.4 Prom
15.5 The Recovery Agent. 6.3.22
15.6 Peace Like a River
15.7 A Separate Peace
15.8 The Shadow of the Wind
15.9 My Name Is Mary Sutter. 6.2.22
15.10 The Cartographers. 6.4.22

20.1 A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons
20.3 Home
20.4 Snow Falls
20.5 A Week at the Shore
20.6 44 Scotland Street
20.7 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
20.8 A Night in the Lonesome October
20.9 All I Did Was Shoot My Man
20.10 The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World. 6.12.22

25.1 Bloomsbury Girls AND A Slice of Heaven
25.2 A Girl is a Body of Water
25.3 Things Fall Apart/Behind the Beautiful Forevers
25.4 A Long Petal of the Sea AND Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
25.5 The Half-Drowned King AND The Lady and the Unicorn
25.6 Something Wicked This Way Comes AND The Light Over London
25.7 A Single Thread AND The Dictionary of Lost Words
25.8 The Book Woman's Daughter AND The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
25.9 A Woman of No Importance
25.10 The Cat Who / Ten Thousand Doors of January

30.1 O1: Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books 6.6.22 /O5: The Giver of Stars
30.2 (CL) B1: Something Wilder B2: The Death Class
30.3 B1: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness. 6.15.22
B2: Arrow's Flight. 6.8.22
30.4 B1: The Last House on the Street, B4: Geekerella. 6.13.22
30.5 B1: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, B2: Robyn Carr
30.6 O1: list: Women in White Howards End
O2: T*I*G*E*R in title The Night Masquerade
30.7 Option1: A Prayer for Owen Meany. 6.13.22
Option 4: Big Stone Gap
30.8 The English Patient AND The Sparrow Sisters
30.9 The Cousins AND Mildred Pierce

50.1

5.1 Theatre of Marvels
5.2 Thrown Changed to Murder on the Ballarat Train
5.3 To the Land of Long Lost Friends
5.4 The Girl Beneath the Sea Changed to Everything on the Line
5.5 Heaven Adjacent
5.6 The Post Box at the North Pole
5.7 Words in Deep Blue Changed to A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
5.8 Little Boxes Changed to The Summer House
5.9 Mrs. March
5.10 The Box in the Woods Changed to The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story

10.1 The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily
10.2 Tell Me an Ending
10.3 Clap When You Land
10.4 The Victory Garden
10.5 Play to Kill
10.6 Project Hail Mary
10.7 Miss Aldridge Regrets
10.8 Deadline Changed to Sword in the Stars
10.9 The Christie Affair Changed to The Third Girl
10.10 Under Milk Wood

15.1a The Ice Princess
b The Lion
15.2a The Green Mill Murder Changed to Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
b Meredith, Alone
15.3 The Sunday Lunch Club
15.4 a. The Box in the Woods
b. The Last Picture Show
15.5 Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
15.6 Dead Man’s Grave
15.7 When Dad Killed Mom
15.8 Murder on the Ballarat Train Changed to The Green Mill Murder
15.9 March
15.10 The Cartographers Changed to Death at the Voyager Hotel

20.1 In the Blood
20.2 NO TASK
20.3 The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
20.4 Tales of the City
20.5 A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood Changed to Survivor Song
20.6 The Carnival Of Ash
20.7[ book:The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection|12405126]
20.8 The Wives of Los Alamos Changed to The Shape of Family
20.9 Hope to Die
20.10 An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

25.1a Secrets in Death
b Companion Piece

25.2a The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
b Reputation

25.3a Precious and Grace
b Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

25.4 NOT my Favourite task. Go for shortest book options
a Leaving the Atocha Station
b Bryony and Roses

25.5a The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
b Run Away

25.6a The Editor's Wife
b Blood and Circuses

25.7a One Last Secret: A Novel
b When Elephants Fly


25.8. YUCK YUCK YUCK LISTS (niche non fiction / books about books and libraries)
a. Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks (on both lists)
b. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

25.9a The Atlas Six CHANGED Shades of Grey
b ‎Common Sense

25.10a Yesterday's News Changed to One Enchanted Evening
b Complicit


30.1a The Holiday Bookshop
b Landing Gear Changed to Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames

30.2a How to Pronounce Knife: Stories
b Nothing Stays Hidden

30.3a Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
b Amongst Our Weapons

30.4a The Dance Tree
b Crazy Love You

30.5a The Giant Dark
b The Blood Tide

30.6a First Person Singular: Stories Changed to The Hanging Garden
b The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher Changed to Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee

30.7a All The Broken Places
b Nightmare Alley

30.8a Hummingbird Salamander CHANGED Play to Kill
b A Walk to Remember CHANGED Three Act Tragedy

30.9a The Interview
b The Release of Jonathan Flite


50.1
a Connections in Death
b Widdershins
c Dreamland

50 POINT TASK OPTIONS - Pre Poll

Read but not claimed:
The Flag and the Cross
We Two Alone
Klara in the Sun

Tasks

5.4 (Name Matches - Artie Shaw Andrew Andrews Ella Fitzgerald Bob Hope Shirley Ross Roy Acuff Fred Astaire Benny Goodman Bunny Berigan Bing Crosby Larry Clinton)
5.5 (Money Word in Sub/Title) Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist
5.6 (50% in Finland Denmark Iceland Switzerland Netherlands Luxembourg Sweden Norway Israel New Zealand)

10.3 (Audie Award Winner) Watchers OR The Hike OR Fuzzy Nation OR Duma Key OR Harry Potter 6 OR The Talisman OR The Green Mile OR Artemis OR Leviathan Wakes
10.10 (Beverage in Sub/Title)

15.1 (2 Books)
(Book 1: King Queen Prince or Princess in Title) Queen of the Cicadas READ
(Book 2: Lion Intact in Title)
15.7 (Banned Books List) Harry Potter 6 OR The Color Purple OR Ender's Game OR Rebecca OR Fried Green Tomatoes OR Oliver Twist OR Schindler's Ark
15.10 (100 Thrillers by Setting List) We Were Never Here OR A Thousand Steps OR Smaller and Smaller Circles OR The Decagon House Murders OR The Honjin Murders

20.7 (Exactly 3 P's in Sub/Title, Series, Author)
20.10 (Group Read) The Maid

25.1 (2 Books)
Book 1 - Favourite Book - Know My Name
(Option 1: Same Author)
(Option 2: Same Title Word 3+ Letters Long)
(Option 3: Readers Also Enjoyed)
Book 2 - Worst Book - End of the World House
(Option 1: Same Author)
(Option 2: Same Title Word 3+ Letters Long) 100 Animals That Can F*cking End You READ
(Option 3: Readers Also Enjoyed) Road of Bones
25.3 (2 Books No Kids 1 Comic Ok)
(Book 1: 70% in Sub-Saharan Africa)
(Book 2: 70% in India)
25.4 (2 Books)
(Option 1: Single Feather on Cover)
(Option 2: 50% in Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Jersey, Montenegro, Spain, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, or Sri Lanka)
(Option 3: Beauty and the Beast Retelling Lists)
(Option 4: Feline Shapeshifter)
25.8 (2 Books No Kids 500+)
(List 1: Books About Books and Libraries) The Library Book 310 OR On Writing 320 OR Danse Macabre 464 OR The Book of Speculation 339 OR The Diary of a Bookseller 310
(List 2: Rainforests and Jungles of the World)
(List 3: Nonfiction Books about Gypsies & Travellers)
(List 4: Niche Non-Fiction) The Library Book 310 OR Burning Down the Haus 384
25.10 (2 Books)
(Option 1: #1 in Series)
(Option 2: Month in Title OR Name)
(Option 3: Red Black AND Green Cover)

30.2 (2 Books - Consonant Clusters bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tw)
(Book 1: First & Last Match Cluster)
(Book 2: Word in Title Starts with Same Cluster)
30.3 (2 Books Both New to Me 300+ Each)
(Book 1: Non-Fiction AND MPG Health)
(Book 2: MPG Urban Fantasy OR Epic Fantasy) The Night Shift READ
30.6 (2 Books 500+)
(Option 1: Women in White List)
(Option 2: TIGER in Title) When the Corn is Waist High 294 Pages READ
(Option 3: Published 2008)
(Option 4: 50% in India)

Completed Tasks

5.1 Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
5.2 Out There
5.3 The Mad Women's Ball
5.7 You Will Love What You Have Killed
5.8 Elsewhere
5.9 Disability Visibility
5.10 The Only Harmless Great Thing
10.1 The Women Could Fly
10.2 Just Like Home
10.4 Pandemic 1918
10.5 March Sisters
10.6 Landscape with Invisible Hand
10.7 The Peacekeeper
10.8 Tracy Flick Can't Win
10.9 The Birth Yard
15.2
(Book 1) The Secret Talker
(Book 2) Aurora
15.3 (2-in-1) Feeding My Mother
15.4 (Option 2) Hidden Pictures
15.5 Red Dust
15.6 The Measure
15.8 One's Company
15.9 The Woman They Could Not Silence
20.1 (Option 2) Klara and the Sun
20.3 (Option 1) The Storm is Upon Us
20.4 (Option B) Elegy for the Undead
20.5 (Option A) The Cold Vanish
20.6 (Option 1) We Hear Voices
20.8 (Option 2) Followers
20.9 (Option 1) We Had to Remove This Post
25.2
(Book 1) Dear Laura
(Book 2) The Monster's Bones
25.5
(Option 1) Just Like Mother
(Option 3) The Employees
25.6
(Option 1) Hide
(Option 4) Nightmare Fuel
25.7
(Option 1) Minique
(Option 5) The Language of Dying
25.9
Option A
(Book 1) The Album of Dr. Moreau
(Book 2) Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
30.1
(Option 1) The Laws of the Skies
(Option 3) Florida Woman
30.4
(Option 1) Best. Movie. Year. Ever.
(Option 4) Mary
30.5
(Book 1) The Girl from the Well
(Book 2) The Wandering Earth
30.7
(Option 1) Waswanipi
(Option 2) How to Be Eaten
30.8
(Option 2) Rogues
(Option 3) Patricia Wants to Cuddle
30.9
(Option 1) The Change
(Option 2) What Moves the Dead
50.1
(Book 1) Being Seen
(Book 2) Election
(Book 3) Maggots Screaming!

Points Earned This Post: 0
Total Points Earned: 715
It's A Fact Tickets: 13
Golden Oldie Tickets: 0
Big Book Tickets Total: 1
Big Books Read By Page Count: 1 (500) / 0 (750) / 0 (1000)

Mine

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Wayne's Summer 2022 Reading Plan


5 point tasks

5,1 - That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
X5.2 - Pourin' Down Rain: A Black Woman Claims Her Place in the Canadian West by Cheryl Foggo
5.3 - The White Girl by Tony Birch
X5.4 - Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
X5.5 - Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
5.6 - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
5.7 - The Look of Love by Mary Jane Clark
5.8 - The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
X5.9 - First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
5.10 - Jameela Green Ruins Everything by Zarqa Nawaz

20/50

10 point tasks

X10.1 - Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
10.2 - The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
10.3 - The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
10.4 - The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
10.5 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and [[author:Annie Barrows|63116]
10.6 - I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Rebel Allies by Pittacus Lore
10.7 - An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude by Ann Vanderhoof
10.8 - After You by Jojo Moyes
X10,9 - The Good Women of Safe Harbour by Bobbi French
X10.10 - I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max

20/100

15 point tasks

15.1 - Book 1: The Last Princess by Galaxy Craze
Book 2: The Lion Is in by Delia Ephron
15.2 - Book 1: If She Could Take All These Men by Ken Rivard
Book 2: The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence
15.3 - Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions by Neil Gaiman
15.4 - Christine by Stephen King
15.5 - Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff
15.6 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
15,7 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
15.8 - The Hunting Party by Robyn Harding (party of jays)
15.9 - The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
15.10 - The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk

20 point tasks

20.1 - Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
20.2 - NO TASK
20.3 - The Here and Now by Ann Brashares
20.4 - Option 1: Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson
20.5 - Option C: Thud! by Terry Pratchett
20.6 - 419 by Will Ferguson (born in Fort Vermillion, AB - see Wikipedia)
20,7 - Poppy's War by Lily Baxter
20.8 - Option 2: La Prisonniere by Malika Oufkir
20.9 - Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton FP 1911
20.10

25 point tasks

25.1 Book 1: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Option 1: [book:The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin
Book 2: Hello, Friends!: Stories from My Life and Blue Jays Baseball by Jerry Howarth
Option 3: The Last Goodbye by Fiona Lucas
25.2 - Book 1: August and Everything After by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
Book 2: A Hundred Flowers by Gail Tsukiyama
25.3 - Book 1: The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Kenya
Book 2: Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
25.4 - Option 2 The City of Mist: Stories by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Option 3: Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
25.5 - Option 1: Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman
Option 3: The Redhead Plays Her Hand by Alice Clayton
25.6 - Option 1: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Option 2: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
25.7- Option 1: Eve by Anna Carey
Option 3 Lust for Life by Irving Stone
25.8 -Option 1 The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
4 Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson
25.9 - C: The Electives
Book 1:Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
Book 2: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
25.10 - Option 1: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Option 2: Goodnight June by Sarah Jio
30 point tasks

30.1 - Option 1: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Option 3: Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
30.2 - Book 1: Someone We Know by Shari Lapena (SL)
Book 2: Slip of the Knife by Denise Mina
30,3 - The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston
Book 2: Green Rider by Kristen Britain IL - UG
30.4 - Option 1: The Time Traders by Andre Norton (TRADERS)
Option 3: The Left-Handed Twin by Thomas Perry
30.5 - Book 1: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (grandiloquent-told) 344 pg
Book 2: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (kaleidoscopic-le) 387 pg
30.6 - Option 1: The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
Option 2: The Library of Light and Shadow by M.J. Rose
X30.7 - Option 1: NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
XOption 3: The Goldfinch by DonnaTartt
30.8 - Option 1: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Option 4: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
30.9 - Option 1: The Maid by Nita Prose
Option 2: A Damsel in Distress by P.G. Wodehouse

✔Summer 2022

✔5.1 This Time Tomorrow
✔5.2 Girls in White Dresses
5.3 Christmas at the Cupcake Café
✔5.4 The Homewreckers
5.5 The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
✔5.6 An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
✔5.7 The Book of Magic
✔5.8 The Lost Summers of Newport
✔5.9 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
✔5.10 Dinner on Primrose Hill

✔10.1 A Family Affair
✔10.2 Summer Love
✔10.3 The Witness
10.4 The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
✔10.5 Reunion Beach: Stories Inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank
10.6
✔10.7 Meant to Be
✔10.8 The Man Who Died Twice
10.9 Earthly Delights
✔10.10 On Gin Lane

15.1
1. The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
2. Lions
15.2
✔1. Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
✔2. The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle
15.3
✔1. Nightwork
✔2. The Love Hypothesis
15.4
✔1. The Tobacco Wives
✔2. The Summer Seekers
✔15.5 Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt
✔15.6 Book Lovers
✔15.7 Speak
✔15.8 Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
✔15.9 Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
✔15.10 The Bombay Prince

✔20.1 1. Musical Chairs
✔20.3 3. Sunday at the Sunflower Inn
✔20.4 C. The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet
✔20.5 D. Black Cake
✔20.6 Christmas on the Island
✔20.7 Small Admissions
✔20.8 The Social Graces
✔20.9 Breakfast at the Honey Creek Café
✔20.10 An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

25.1
✔1-3. If I Were You
✔2-3. And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
25.2
✔1-1. Our Last Days in Barcelona
✔1-2. The Good Left Undone
25.3
✔1. Stay with Me
✔2. The Widows of Malabar Hill
25.4
✔1. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
✔3. Beast
25.5
✔3. Having and Being Had
✔4. Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery
25.6
✔1. The Life She Was Given
✔2. Hamnet
25.7
✔1. Loud and Clear
✔3. The Madonnas of Leningrad
25.8
✔1. My Reading Life
✔2. Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
25.9
✔A1. Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
✔A2. Well-Schooled in Murder
25.10
✔1. Julie and Romeo
✔2. Home Sweet Home
30.1
✔2. Finding Our Forever
✔3. The Stepsisters
30.2
✔1. Chasing Perfect
✔2. Smile: The Story of a Face
30.3
✔1. Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
✔2. Magic for Liars
30.4
✔1. The Unsinkable Greta James
✔3. We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
30.5
✔1. Feels Like Family
✔2. Ana of California
30.6
✔3. The Diva Runs Out of Thyme
✔4. The Satapur Moonstone
30.7
✔1. Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and FutureNew York, Actually
✔2. Eagle & Crane
30.8
✔2. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
✔3. New York, Actually
30.9
✔1. The Swimmers
✔3. Ceremony in Death

50.1
✔1. Christmas at the Island Hotel
✔2. Picnic in Someday Valley
✔3. French Braid

Summer 2022 Reading Plan

5.1 - Fevered Star
5.2 - Here be Dragons
5.3 - The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, A Book of American Martyrs, American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
5.4 - Leonardo and the Last Supper, How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
5.5 - Half a Crown
5.6 - Independent People
5.7 - To the Bright Edge of the World
5.8 - Dune Messiah
5.9 - Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
5.10

10.1 - The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible
10.2 - Jade City
10.3 - The Dispatcher, The End of the Affair
10.4 - The Guns of August
10.5 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, America's First Daughter
10.6 - Caliban's War, Semiosis, For We Are Many, Shards of Earth
10.7 - Jamaica Inn
10.8 - One Corpse Too Many
10.9 - The Dry✔ 2793
10.10

15.1 - 1: The Iron King
2: Dandelion Wine, Lion's Blood
15.2 - 1: 100-200 pages
2: At least 400 pages
15.3 - 2: Good Morning, Midnight
15.4 - 1: Olive Kitteridge
2: Trail of Lightning
15.5 - Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate
15.6 - Gathering Blue
15.7 - Bleak House, The House of the Spirits
15.8 - Shards of Earth, The Pillars of the Earth (earth)
15.9 - Gilead (Civil War page 8)
15.10 - Moonflower Murders

20.1 - 1: The Oedipus Plays
2: The Beautiful Mystery, One Corpse Too Many, The Grace of Kings
20.2 - NO TASK
20.3 - 1: Sisters of the Forsaken Stars✔ 885
20.4 - B: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy✔ 2040
20.5 - D: Today Will Be Different✔ 1662
20.6 - 1: The Women of Troy✔ 886
20.7 - The Pickwick Papers, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
20.8 - 2: Children of God✔ 1185
20.9 - 3: Farthing, Midnight Riot
20.10 - An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good✔ 1504

25.1 - 1.1: (A Line To Kill) The Twist of a Knife
2.2: (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) The Queen's Man, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Paris Wife, A Canticle for Leibowitz, For We Are Many
25.2 - 2: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
25.3 - 1: The Rosewater Redemption
2: The Far Pavilions
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25.8 - 1: People of the Book✔
4: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit✔ 2704
25.9 - C.1&2: The Pearl that Broke Its Shell (page 15 of Gender list)
25.10 - 1: #1 in a series
2: Fourth of July Creek

30.1 - How High We Go in the Dark
6: The Mercies
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30.3 - 1: Burn: New Science Reveals How Metabolism Shapes Your Body, Health, and Longevity
2: Urban Fantasy or Epic Fantasy
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30.6 - 1: Gathering Blue, Wild Seed, The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court
3: Heir to Sevenwaters
30.7 - 2: The Passage
3: The Sense of an Ending
30.8 - 3: Half a Lifelong Romance
4: Bellwether
30.9 - 1: The Immortals
3: The Moving Finger

50.1 - B2: Farthing, Ha'penny, Half a Crown

✔ Challenge Completed

✔5.1 -"I'll Take Lyricists for $1000, Alex"
Girl Made of Stars--Ashley Herring Blake
✔5.2 - Oscar Time, Baby!
Livvie Owen Lived Here--word "HERE"
✔5.3 - Song of the Century?
Exit West--West Side Story/West
✔5.4 - The 1938 Hit Parade
Cat on the Edge: A Joe Grey Mystery, #1--Shirley
✔5.5 - Making the World Go Round
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop--Won in Wonder/South Korea
✔5.6 - Happy Happy Joy Joy
The Reckless Kind--Norway
✔5.7- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
Vinyl Moon--Moon
✔5.8 - Meanwhile, Back in Oz....
Golden Boys--Yellow Letter
✔5.9 - Rescued from the Cutting Room Floor
Displacement--No "the"/series
✔5.10 - Swing, Baby, Swing!
Pumpkin

✔10.1 - Cowardly
Truly Devious--Word ending "LY"
✔10.2 - What A Drag It Is Getting Old
Silent Night, Holy Night: A Colleen Coble Christmas Collection--Night
✔10.3 - Press Play
Homegoing--Audie Award
✔10.4 - Fields of Poppies
A Duty To The Dead--MPG WWI
✔10.5 - Girls Together
Great or Nothing--2+ women authors
✔10.6 - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe--Alien List Page 2
✔10.7 - To The Sea
A Christmas Resolution--Passenger boat
✔10.8 - Apple II
Second Grave on the Left--Series #2
✔10.9 - Her Majesty
Anne of Avonlea--Canada
✔10.10 - Liquid Courage
Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys--Beverage-Tea

✔15.1 – If I were King of the Forest!
Book 1 –The Snow Queen--Queen
Book 2 – Whiskers of the Lion--Lion
✔15.2 – The Long and the Short of It
Book 1 – The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition--short 153 pgs
Book 2 – Last Night at the Telegraph Club--long 416 pgs
✔15.3 – Just Call Me Judy
Option 2/1 book: Take Me Home--Dorothy Garlock/T, M, H
✔15.4 – Summer Road Trip-North and South
Book 1 – Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse--Massachusetts
Book 2 –Boys of the Beast--car on cover
✔15.5 – Of Course I'm Brave, I've Got a Medal!
The Hunger Games--Adventure
✔15.6. Leo the Lion.
Margaritas, Marzipan, and Murder (Cape Bay Cafe Mystery, #3)--Harper Lin
✔15.7 – If You Don’t Want Me to Read It, I Surely Will!
The Awakening--List Page 4
✔15.8 - There's More than One of Us
The Moonlight School--Porpoise/School
✔15.9 - The End of Slavery!
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman--Antebellum List Page 1
✔15.10 – Location, Location, Locations
The Hound of the Baskervilles--In a country House

✔20.1 - Most Improved Player -Paul's Task: Dancing With the Stars
Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker--theatre
✔20.2 - Rookie at the Top - NO TASk
✔20.3 - Best Review -Kathy KS's Task: The Other Side of the Rainbow
Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria
✔20.4 - Golden Oldies -Julia103's Task: A Group of Prides
Option B: Under the Whispering Door--MPG Queer
✔20.5 - Bigger is Better -Book Concierge’s Task: Family Vacations
Put Out to Pasture--Family
✔20.6 - Seasoned Reader -Trishhartuk's Task: Hugos Season
Option 1:Rolling in the Deep--MPG Fantasy & Science Fiction
✔20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Coralie's Task: Poppy the three-legged dog
Perhaps She'll Die--3 Ps title & author
✔20.8 - Nickels & Dimes -Lucy Bookworm's Task: Flying the Flag
The Long Winter--3 people on cover
✔20.9 - Moderator’s Pet –CynBaxter's Task - The Underscore
Amish Outsider--series #1
✔20.10 - Group Reads
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

✔ 25.1 -MegSCL's Task: Best and Worst of the Spring Challenge
Option 2 : Spencer's Forbidden Passion--Forbidden
Option 3: Harlem Shuffle--read alike

✔25.2 -XBM's Task: A's all around
Option 1: Marshmallow Malice--3 A's in Title
Option 2 : Lemon Drop Dead--3 A's author/Amanda Flower

✔25.3 -Cat's Task: Lion Range
Option 1: Purple Hibiscus--Nigeria
Option 2: The Secrets Between Us: A Novel--India

✔25.4 -Lauren Jodi's Task: Literary Lions
Option 2: The Fountains of Silence--Spain
Option 4: Change of Heart--cat shifter werepanther

✔25.5 -Amy FL’s task: Just a Dandy-Lion
Option 1: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader--Dawn
Option 4: An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed--author HT

✔25.6 -TraceyL's Task: Niagara Falls
Option 2: Get a Life, Chloe Brown--England
Option 4: The Light in Hidden Places--light(s)

✔25.7 -Hannelore’s Task: Hoi! Nice to meet you!
Option 1: Black Beauty--author name Anna
Option 3: Last Wool and Testament--crafty cozy mysteries page 1

✔25.8 -Andy P.’s Task: Choose Your Favorite List
Option 1: This Is All Your Fault--page
Option 4: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women--page 1

✔25.9 -Dee's Task: It's Graduation Time…
Option A Book 1 : Farm to Trouble
Option A Book 2 : Good to Know--Canada

✔25.10 - Jen K's Task: Malawi and Zambia
Option 1: The Beekeeper's Son--series #1
Option 2: Forward March--month in title

✔30.1 -Katrisa's Task: I Love Santa Fe!
Option 1: The Book of Cold Cases--KOA
Option 2: The Ballad of Frankie Silver--Silver

✔30.2 -TessaVanessa's Task: Consonant Clusters
Option 1: In a Holidaze--CL
Option 2: The Skeleton in the Closet--CL

✔30.3 - Schatzie's Task : Escaping My Box
Option 1: The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder--MPG Health
Option 2 : Third Grave Dead Ahead--MPG Urban Fantasy

✔30.4 -Dlmrose's Task: Sinistromanual
Option 3: The Case of the Left-Handed Lady--left
Option 4:Dumplin'--Texas

✔30.5 -Sandy's Task: Impress Your Friends!
Option 1:Gone with the Wind--Gone
Option 2: Message Not Found--Dante

✔30.6- Nick KY’s Task: The White Tiger
Option 3: Separate From The World--Pub 2008
Option 4: The Henna Artist--India

✔30.7 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: Doublejs Doubled
Option 2: Bluebird--WWII
Option 5: Red at the Bone--Red in title

✔30.8 -Tien’s Task: Drinks to keep you Warm
Option 1:This Side of Paradise--Classics
Option 3: I Kissed Shara Wheeler--Romance

✔30.9 - Brooklyn's Task: The Purge
Option 2: The Names of Our Tears--author uses initials
Option 3:Book Clubbed--series

✔50 Point Task
Option B 1: Murder, Plain and Simple--sereies #1
Option B 2: Puddin'--series #2
Option B 3:The Dawn of Christmas: A Romance from the Heart of Amish Country--series #3

𝓜𝒾𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓀𝒶

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20.3 - Best Review-Kathy KS's Task: The Other Side of the Rainbow. ✅
✓ Option 1. Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love by Kim Fay (192 p.)

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20.6 - It's a Fact - Trishhartuk's Task: Hugos Season. ✅
✓ Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak (373 p.) (6/11/22)

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25.10 - Jen K's Task: Malawi and Zambia.


30.1 - Katrisa's Task: I Love Santa Fe! ✅
✓ Option 2. A ​Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas (757 p) 📚📚
✓ Option 3. A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas (272 p) (91.2% blue)

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30.4- Dlmrose's Task: Sinistromanual. ✅
✓ Book 1: Option 2. Verity by Colleen Hoover (336 p.) (6/9/22)
✓ Book 2: Option 3. Left: A Love Story by Mary Hogan (256 p.) (8/21)

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30.7 - Robin (Saturndoo)'s Task: Doublejs Doubled.

30.8 - Tien’s Task: Drinks to keep you Warm.

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50.1 - Lisa MD: “I’M GOING TO TEACH YOU HOW TO SING IT OUT”. ✅
✓ 1. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (419 p.) (8/7/22)
✓ 2. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (719 p.) (8/14/22) 📚
✓ 3. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (641 p.) (8/11/22) 📚

𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝐼'𝓋𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹:




✓ Goal: 150/100 points
Pages Read... This Season: 3,942 || SRC All Time: 43,177
🌟 Golden Oldies: 0 || SRC All Time: 18
📚 Big Book: 4 || SRC All Time: 31
❗It's a Fact: 0 || SRC All Time: 0


𝒫𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈:

➵ Most points earned in one season: 200 (Winter 2017, Spring 2018)
➵ Most pages read in one season: 5,447 (Summer 2018)
➵ Most books read in one season: 12 (Winter 2017)

Brigia's Summer Reading Challenge

Points: 300
# Books Read: 35

✅ 5.1 - "I'll Take Lyricists for $1000, Alex"
Read a book by an author all of whose initials appear in EDSEL YIPSEL HARBURG: Survive the Night

✅ 5.2- Oscar Time, Baby!
Read a book with a word of four or more letters in the title/subtitle that can be made from "OVER THE RAINBOW": King's Heat
--> "heat" - ovEr THe rAinbow

✅ 5.3 - Song of the Century?
Read a book with a word in the title that is also found in the title of one of the top 10 songs (per RIAA) of the twentieth century: Just Like That
--> song: 9. "YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN FEELIN" THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS
--> word: "that"

✅ 5.4 - The 1938 Hit Parade
Read a book written by a single author who shares a name with these musical artists from 1938: On the Edge

5.5 - Making the World Go Round
Read a book in which a monetary unit is found intact in the title or subtitle.

✅ 5.6 - Happy Happy Joy Joy
Read a book set 50% or more in one of the 10 happiest countries in the world ( per the World Happiness Report): The Last Bear (Norway)

✅ 5.7- I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
Read a book with a word of at least four or more letters from the title of one of the above songs found intact in its title/subtitle: A Place to Hang the Moon (moon: It's Only a Paper Moon)

✅ 5.8 - Meanwhile, Back in Oz....
Read a book with a yellow letter on its cover: 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) with Quoates

✅ 5.9 - Rescued from the Cutting Room Floor
Read a book that does not contain the word "the" in its title, and that is not part of a series: One Last Stop

✅ 5.10 - Swing, Baby, Swing!: Top Shelf

✅ 10.1 - Cowardly
Read a book with a word in the title that ENDS in LY: Wicked Lovely

✅ 10.2 - What A Drag It Is Getting Old
Read a book with a word of at least three letters in the title or subtitle from a song title from the setlist: We All Fall Down
-->Ride Em On Down

10.3 - Press Play
Read a book that has WON an Audie Award.

10.4 - Fields of Poppies
Read a book with a genre of World War I.

✅ 10.5 - Girls Together
Read a book written by at least 2 women: Changing Lines

10.6 - E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Read a book from the first 25 pages shelved as Aliens

10.7 - To The Sea
Read a book with a boat or water vessel on the cover. The boat must be capable of (even if they aren't visible) carrying at least two people and does not need to have a motor.

✅ 10.8 - Apple II
Read a book that is number #2 in a series: Breaking News

10.9 - Her Majesty
Read a book set at least 50% in one of the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tuvalu, United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).

10.10 - Liquid Courage
Read a book with a type of beverage in the title or subtitle. Alcoholic beverages are encouraged, but optional. The beverage must be listed on this Wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of....

15.1 – If I were King of the Forest!
Book 1 – Read a book with King, Queen, Princess, or Prince in its title (not subtitle). Plurals and possessives may be used, but no other variations.
AND
Book 2 – Read a book with “Lion” found intact in a word in its title (not subtitle)

✅ 15.2 – The Long and the Short of It
✅ Book 1 – Read a short book – 100-200 pages: Destiny Awaits
AND
✅ Book 2 – Read a long book – at least 400 pages: Todesfalle

✅15.3 – Just Call Me Judy
Option 1:
✅ Book 1 - Read a book written by an author whose initials (all) can be found in Judy Garland: Portrait of a Thief
AND
✅ Book 2 – Read a book with a title of at least 3 words, with the initial letter of each word found in Frances Ethel Gumm: Hook, Line, and Sinker
OR
Option 2 – Read one book that satisfies the requirements for both books for option 1.

✅ 15.4 – Summer Road Trip-North and South
Option 1
✅ Book 1 – Read a book set at least 50% in one of these states: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine: First Born
--> set in New York
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✅ Book 2 – Read a book with a motor vehicle on the cover: Wicked Heat

15.5 – Of Course I'm Brave, I've Got a Medal!
Read a book with a MPG of Adventure or Action.

15.6. Leo the Lion.
Read a book with the author’s initials (all of them) appearing in LEO THE LION.

15.7 – If You Don’t Want Me to Read It, I Surely Will!
Read a book from this list: Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books

15.8 - There's More than One of Us
Read a book with a word in the title or subtitle from this list of collective nouns for animals . https://www.treehugger.com/strange-co... (Collective animal names)

15.9 - The End of Slavery!
Read a book from the first 25 pages of one of these lists :
Civil War Books
Antebellum Books

15.10 – Location, Location, Locations
Read a book from this list - 100 Mystery and Thriller Recommendations by Setting

✅ 20.1 - Most Improved Player - Paul's Task: Dancing With the Stars
Option 1: read a book with an MPG of DANCE, MUSIC, or THEATER/THEATRE. The MPG can be standalone or embedded: Good Intentions

20.2 - Rookie at the Top - NO TASK

✅ 20.3 - Best Review-Kathy KS's Task: The Other Side of the Rainbow
Option 1. Read a book whose author’s initials (all of them) can be found in his name: L FRANK BAUM: A Kingdom of Ruin
--> written by K.F. Breene

✅ 20.4 - Golden Oldies - Julia103's Task: A Group of Prides
Option B. Read a book with one of the following MPGs: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual, non-binary, or queer: Inside Affair

✅ 20.5 - Bigger Is Better - Book Concierge’s Task: Family Vacations
Required Book must be a minimum of 250 pages
Restrictions - NO books with main page genre “Childrens” or “kids.”
Option D: • Read a book with a main page genre of FAMILY: Headlines

✅ 20.6 - It's a Fact - Trishhartuk's Task: Hugos Season
Option 1: read a book with an MPG of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Science Fiction Fantasy: Significance

20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter - Coralie's Task: Poppy the three-legged dog
Read a book with exactly three P's in any combination of title, sub-title, series name and author.

20.8 - Nickels & Dimes - Lucy Bookworm's Task: Flying the Flag
1) Read a book with a flag or bunting on the cover
2) Read a book with at least 3 people on the cover

✅ 20.9 - Moderators' Pet - CynBaxter's Task - The Underscore
Option 3: Read a book that is first in a series: The Conduit

20.10 - Group Reads

✅ 25.1 - MegSCL's Task: Best and Worst of the Spring Challenge
✅ Book 1: Option 2 - read a book with a word in the title (no subtitles) that is the same as a word in the title (no subtitles) of your favourite book: The Book of Cold Cases
--> favorite spring challenge book: Book Lovers
✅ Book 2: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
--> least favorite book: Book of Night

25.2 - XBM's Task: A's all around
✅ Book 1: Read a book with 3 or more A's in the title/subtitle: Einschlafzauber: Das sanfte Einschlafritual für Kinder. Für Kinder bis 8 Jahre
AND
Book 2: Read a book with 3 or more A's in the author's name. All name parts are included. Single authors only.

25.5 - Amy FL’s task: Just a Dandy-Lion
✅ Option 4: Read a book by an author whose initials appear in BETCHA CAN’T EAT JUST ONE: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

25.7 - Hannelore’s Task: Hoi! Nice to meet you!

25.9 - Dee's Task: It's Graduation Time…
Option A – The Degree and my Cohort
✅ Book 1 - Read a book with all the words in the title starting with letters found in GOVERNMENT INFORMATION LEADERSHIP. Letters may be used as often as they are found. The title must have at least 3 words: It Happened One Summer

25.10 - Jen K's Task:
✅ Option 1: Start something new and read a book that is #1 in a series: Bad Intentions
✅ Option 3: Read a book with a cover that includes the colors black, red AND green: The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World's Happiest People

30.1 - Katrisa's Task: I Love Santa Fe!
Option 3 - Read a book with a cover that is 75% blue and/or green according to Tineye.

30.2 - TessaVanessa's Task: Consonant Clusters
Book 1: Read a book by an author with initials (first name then last name, ignore middle initials) that form one of these sound clusters. State the cluster used when posting.
✅ Book 2: Read a book with a word in the title only (not subtitle) that begins with the same sound cluster as used in Book 1. State the word: Stuck with You - st

30.4- Dlmrose's Task: Sinistromanual
✅ Option 4: Read a book by an author who was born in or currently resides in the American South: The Bodyguard

30.5 - Sandy's Task: Impress Your Friends!
✅ Book 1 – chose 1 of these words and read a book with a title (not subtitle) containing a word of at least 4 letters that can be made from the letters in the target word: Leitwölfe sein: Liebevolle Führung in der Familie - letters "sein" in quINtESsence
Book 2 - chose a second (different) word, and read a book with a single author with one name part that can be made from the letters in the target word.
--> author's last name "Tan" in grANdiloquenT

50.1 Lisa MD: “I’M GOING TO TEACH YOU HOW TO SING IT OUT
Books should total 750 pages or more. No books with the main page genre of childrens or kids may be used
Option 1: ABC
Read one book where the first word of the title begins with either the letter A, B, or C. All title words count, including “A” or “An.:
Option 2: 123
Read one book which is either number 1,2, or 3 in a series. Series name and number must appear in greysca

Heather's Plan

✓5.1 River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
✓5.2 Hear the Wind Sing
✓5.3 Break Your Glass Slippers
✓5.4 Brat: An '80s Story by Andrew McCarthy
✓5.5 Nickel Plated
5.6 Hunger
✓5.7 The Pull of the Moon
5.8 Daffodil: Biography of a Flower or Awakened
✓5.9Black Water
5.10

10.1 Dearly
10.2 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
10.3 What I Know for Sure
10.4 The Return of the Soldier
✓10.5 Burned
10.6 Clean Sweep
✓10.7 Sail Away
10.8 The Murder on the Links
✓10.9 Fight Night
✓10.10 We're Going to Need More Wine

15.1 Chasing the King of Hearts and Dandelion
15.2 The Stepford Wives and Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
15.3 The Spinning Heart
15.4 The Iceman Cometh
✓15.5 Never Fall Down
✓15.6 Fresh Girls and Other Stories
✓15.7 Flowers for Algernon
✓15.8 The Kalahari Typing School for Men
✓15.9 An Extraordinary Union
15.10 The Guest List

20.1 Where She Went
20.2 NO TASK
✓20.3 Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
20.4 Death Comes to Pemberley or Dancer from the Dance
20.5 Unspeakable Things or W is for Wasted
20.6 Awakened or The Push
20.7The Red Queen
20.8 Empire of the Sun
✓20.9 A Map of the World
✓20.10An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

25.1Favorite Book: The Girl who takes and Eye for an Eye: Daddy's Girl
Least favorite book Autobiography of red: Autobiography of a Face
25.2 A Girl Is a Body of Water
25.3 The Full Cupboard of Life and Water
25.4 The City of Mist: Stories and Magic Bleeds
25.5 Have a Nice Guilt Trip and The Bricklayer
25.6 Nightmare Alley and The War of the Worlds
✓25.7 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and An Artist of the Floating World
25.8 Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books and The Argonauts
25.9 The Map of Time
25.10The Vine Witch and January

✓30.1 Look Alive Twenty-Five and Silver Borne
30.2 An Unwanted Guest and And Miles to Go Before I Sleep
30.3 The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss and Magic Slays
30.4 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Angelfall
✓30.5 The Girl Who Lied and W is for Wasted
30.6 Northanger Abbey and Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
30.7 Fluke and Station Eleven
30,8 People We Meet on Vacation and The Lathe of Heaven
30.9 The Awakening and Sugar Cookie Murder

50.1

5.1 (All Initials in EDSEL YIPSEL HARBURG)- The Ministry of Flowers
5.2 (4+ Letter Word in Sub/Title from OVER THE RAINBOW) - Strange Fruit & Other Plays
Obit
The Taker and Other Stories
5.3 (Word in Title - Lost- Fairytales for Lost Children
5.4 (Name Matches - Hope )
5.5 (Money Word in Sub/Title)
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5.8 (Yellow Letter on Cover) - House Built on Fog & Sand: A Collection of Poems and Artwork
5.9 ("The" NOT in Title AND NOT a Series) - Strange Fruit & Other Plays; House Built on Fog & Sand: A Collection of Poems and Artwork; Dancing at Lughnasa; Fairytales for Lost Children
Cat Talk: What Your Cat Is Trying to Tell You
Obit
5.10 (Any Book)

10.1 (Word in Title Ends in "LY") Adult
10.2 (Word in Sub/Title Matches - "YOU"- Cat Talk: What Your Cat Is Trying to Tell You
10.3 (Audie Award Winner)
10.4 (MPG World War I)
10.5 (2+ Women Authors No Men)
10.6 Old Man's War
10.7 (Boat on Cover)
10.8 (#2 in Series)
10.9 (50% in Canada)
10.10 (Beverage in Sub/Title)

15.1 (2 Books)
(Book 1: King Queen Prince or Princess in Title)
(Book 2: Lion Intact in Title)
15.2 (2 Books)
(Book 1: 100-200 Pages) - The Ministry of Flowers- and many others
(Book 2: 400+ Pages)
15.3 (2-in-1)
(All Initials in JUDY GARLAND and 3+ Word Title Initials in FRANCES ETHEL GUMM)
15.4 (2 Books or 2-in1)
(Book 1: 50% in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine)- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
(Book 2: Motor Vehicle on Cover)
15.5 (MPG Action or Adventure)
15.6 (All Initials in LEO THE LION)
15.7 (Banned Books List)
15.8 (Word for Animal Group -Jaguars)
15.9 (Civil War List)
15.10 (100 Thrillers by Setting List)

20.1-Opt.1- Dancing at Lughnasa; The Pillowman
20.2-NO TASK
20.3-Opt.1- Dancing at Lughnasa
The Taker and Other Stories
20.4-Opt.B- Fairytales for Lost Children
20.5-Opt.C- Fairytales for Lost Children
20.6-Opt.3- The Ministry of Flowers-and many others
20.7
20.8
20.9-Opt.1-The Taker and Other Stories
20.10-

25.1
25.2 Opt.1A- Cat Talk: What Your Cat Is Trying to Tell You; Dancing at Lughnasa
Opt.1B-House Built on Fog & Sand: A Collection of Poems and Artwork
25.3
25.4
25.5-Opt.4 -Initials in BETCHA CAN’T EAT JUST ONE- Fruit & Other Plays|59495090]
25.6
25.7-Opt.1- House Built on Fog & Sand: A Collection of Poems and Artwork by Anna Casamento Arrigo
25.8
25.9-Opt.A-1- The Ministry of Flowers
25.10-2 bks,- Opt.3- The Taker and Other Stories
Opt.4- The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
30.1 O1: Cat Talk: What Your Cat Is Trying to Tell You
The Taker and Other Stories
Opt.5- Dancing at Lughnasa
30.2 B2- (FL)-The Ministry of Flowers
B3- The Ministry of Flowers
30.3 B1:
30.4 B1:
30.5 B1:
30.6 (2 bks-T=500p)-O1:
O2: T*I*G*E*R in title - Strange Fruit & Other Plays 140p....but needs page count
O3: 2008 published book
O4: 50% or more in India 30.7 Option1:
Option 4: Read a book from Best Southern Literature Big Stone Gap

30.8
30.9-Opt.1- The Pillowman
Opt.2- Cat Talk: What Your Cat Is Trying to Tell You
30.10

50.1

CHRISTENE PAULA

In the Shadow of a Wish

5 POINTS

5.1 - Book Lovers ✔️
5.2 -
5.3 - American Dirt
5.4 -
5.5 -
5.6 -
5.7 - Black Cake
5.8 -
5.9 -
5.10 -

10 POINTS

10.1 - Remarkably Bright Creatures
10.2 - Hush, Hush
10.3 - Local Woman Missing
10.4 -
10.5 - The Awakening
10.6 - Cinder
10.7 -
10.8 - The Dark One
10.9 -
10.10 -

15 POINTS

15.1 -
B1: The Wicked King
B2: word "lion"
15.2 -
15.3 -
15.4 -
15.5 -
15.6 -
15.7 - The Diary of a Young Girl
15.8 -
15.9 -
15.10 - The Woman in the Library
"In a Library"

20 POINTS

20.1 - Most Improved Player -
20.2 - Rookie At The Top -
20.3 - Best Review –
20.4 - Golden Oldies -
20.5 - Bigger is Better –
20.6 - Seasoned Reader -
20.7 - Shorter is Sweeter -
20.8 - Nickels & Dimes -
20.9 - Moderator's Pet -
20.10 - Group Reads.

Reading Plan

5.1:

Reading Plan (if you're searching for ideas note that these might not all have useable MPGs / be on lists etc., not going to formally claim points)

15.8 (Collective animal tw): The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson
30.1.5 (1930's setting) Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
30.4.1 (Qwerty Left ti) Exiles of the Stars by Andre Norton
30.4.2 (Sinister) Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
30.4.3 (Left t) Left-Handed Wolf by Adam Day
30.4.4 (Southern US a) Henry Louis Gates's Memoir
30.5.1 (Grandiloquent tw): Amadis of Gaul III/IV by Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo currently-reading
30.5.2 (Magniloquence an): Three Kingdoms: Part Two by Luo Guanzhong
30.6.1 (Woman in White): The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
30.6.2 (TIGER in t): Three Kingdoms: Part One by Luo Guanzhong currently-reading
30.6.3 (2008 pub): Blood Colony by Tananarive Due
30.6.4 (India): Phoenix Fled by Attia Hosain
30.7.1 (J name male a): Tirant lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell
30.7.2 (Horror): The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
30.7.3 (2010s): The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman
30.7.4 (Southern Lit): The Known World by Edward P Jones
30.7.5 ('Red' in t): The Red Years by Bandi
30.8.1: (Classic w/ THE BERRY TEA SHOP ti): The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede currently-reading
30.8.2: (Crime w/ "kill" t): Killer Pancake by Diane Mott Davidson
30.8.3: (Romance w/ NESTLE etc. ai): Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes
30.8.4: (SF w/ animal c): Forty Thousand in Gehenna by CJ Cherryh currently-reading
30.9.1: (2 word 'The' title): The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
30.9.2: (I in an): A Middle English Anthology edited by Ann S Haskell
30.9.3: (10+ s): Voyager in Night by CJ Cherryh
30.9.4: (Cake or Balloon c): The Last Suppers by Diane Mott Davidson