Play Book Tag discussion

No stress. No fuss. Just reading. And an occasional challenge.

PBT Monthly Tag
January: food A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
February: England Fools and Mortals; The Serpent's Shadow. Started "In Our Mad and Furious City" though didn't finish till March 3
March Japan nothing yet
April friendship My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
May indigenous
June immigration Mrs. M
July adventure Daughter of the Forest
August moral dilemmas Royal Assassin
September literary fiction
October
November
December

Happy Birthday PBT: candles
1 Historical fiction: A Right Royal Face-Off: A Georgian Entertainment Featuring Thomas Gainsborough and Another Painter, Legacy of Hunger. Cry of the Curlew
3 5 star book from any admin The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
5 India (least read tag) The Serpent's Shadow tagged India by 14 people
6 Mystery (most read tag) The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August tagged mystery by 98 people
9 World War II Bruno, Chief of Police
10 A book in Amy's honour My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
13 Survival Children of Blood and Bone
14 Favourite tag previously read for - fantasy Siege and Storm; King of Ashes

2 A book connected with/occurring in February
4 Yearly top 10 list
7 Top 100 non-fiction books
8 Top 100 fiction books City of Thieves
11 A buddy read book
12 Either Fall Flurries or Trim the TBR
15 Book published in 1979

Subdue The Shelf game boards
CLERK - 15 books read

- Siege and Storm
- Legacy of Hunger
- (additional book required by roll: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
- Wyrde and Wicked
- King of Ashes
- A Right Royal Face-Off: A Georgian Entertainment Featuring Thomas Gainsborough and Another Painter
- Shuggie Bain
- The Cowboy Encounter
- Pendomus
- Spindown
- Magic of Thieves
- Fools and Mortals
- Archaeopteryx
- Cry of the Curlew
- Song of Smoke and Fire

PORTER gameboard - 10 books read
- The Serpent's Shadow
- The Unusual Abduction of Avery Conifer
- The Quarantine Station
- In Our Mad and Furious City
- Lady of Devices
- The Trees
- Dark Matter
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
- Emotionally Weird
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Katrine's ENGINEER level (round 1)
- Soulbound
- The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
- Breaking Gravity
- The Hanover Square Affair
- Mrs. M
- The House with the Golden Door
- Semester Aboard
- The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
- Bruno, Chief of Police
- Children of Blood and Bone
- The Huntress
- The Constant Rabbit
- This Calling Master
- The Diamond Eye
- Brooklyn
- Daughter of the Forest
- The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
- The Shape of Water
- Exin Ex Machina
- The Templar's Cross
- Blades of Magic
- Tell the Machine Goodnight
- SWAP Troubled Blood

Two swaps. Benefits to carry over: 1 move + 5 moves

Popsugar Challenge
I gave up on the 2022 list, but 2023 looks quite promising.

1 A book you meant to read in 2022 The Trees
2 A book you bought from an independent bookstore
3 A book about a vacation
4 A book by a first-time author Archaeopteryx
5 A book with mythical creatures Legacy of Hunger (Fae)
6 A book about a forbidden romance
7 A book with "Girl" in the title
8 A celebrity memoir
9 A book with a color in the title
10 A romance with a fat lead
11 A book about or set in Hollywood
12 A book published in spring 2023
13 A book published the year you were born
14 A modern retelling of a classic
15 A book with a song lyric as its title
16 A book where the main character's name is in the title Shuggie Bain
17 A book with a love triangle The Cowboy Encounter
18 A book that's been banned or challenged in any state in 2022
19 A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge
20 A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023
21 A book set in the decade you were born
22 A book with a queer lead Shuggie Bain
23 A book with a map Shadow and Bone
24 A book with a rabbit on the cover The Constant Rabbit
25 A book with just text on the cover Dark Matter
26 The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
27 A #BookTok recommendation
28 A book you bought secondhand Emotionally Weird
29 A book your friend recommended
30 A book that's on a celebrity book-club list
31 A book about a family The Quarantine Station
32 A book that comes out in the second half of 2023
33 A book about an athlete/sport
34 A historical-fiction book A Right Royal Face-Off: A Georgian Entertainment Featuring Thomas Gainsborough and Another Painter
35 A book about divorce
36 A book you think your best friend would like
37 A book you should have read in high school
38 A book you read more than 10 years ago
39 A book you wish you could read for the first time again
40 A book by an author with the same initials as you Semester Aboard - Elizabeth Kirke
41 A book written during NaNoWriMo Legends & Lattes
42 A book based on a popular movie
43 A book that takes place entirely in one day
44 A book that was self-published Wyrde and Wicked
45 A book that started out as fan fiction
46 A book with a pet character The Unusual Abduction of Avery Conifer
47 A book about a holiday that's not Christmas
48 A book that features two languages
49 The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
50 A book with alliteration in the title Siege and Storm

Ticking off some more WPF authors

I didn't get around to reading most of the WPF authors during the year as I got distracted by reading long series. So it would be good to keep chipping away at the list during 2023, particularly those authors whom I haven't read before.

Fiona Davis
Elena Ferrante
Ruth Ozeki
Robert Hellenga
John Sandford
Diana Gabaldon
Lisa See
Talia Hibbert
Jodi Picoult
Mary Doria Russell
Stephen Graham Jones
Isabel Allende
Kent Haruf
Amy Harmon
Elizabeth Strout
Ann Patchett
Antonia Hodgson
Sophie Kinsella
Alice Hoffman
Lisa Wingate
Hala Alyan
Sharon Shinn
Lianne Moriarty
Terry Pratchett
Margaret Atwood
Connie Willis
Katherine Center
Coco Simon
Robert Caro
Kazuo Ishiguro
Ray Bradbury
Rachel Joyce
Mitch Albom
Barbara Delinsky
Agota Kristof
James Michener
Linwood Barclay
Jane Austen
Nevil Shute
Colleen Hoover
PD James
Kate Morton

Leftover Trim

1. Philip Pullman “The Secret Commonwealth”
2. Robert Galbraith “Troubled Blood”
3. Janny Wurts “Destiny’s Conflict”
4. CJ Sansom “Tombland”
5. Janny Wurts “That Way Lies Camelot”
6. Liane Moriarty “What Alice Forgot”
7. Lisa Genova “Every Note Played”
January 8. Hope Jahren “The Story of More”
9. September VE Schwab “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue”
10. Richard Powers “Bewilderment”
11. Pat Barker “The Women of Troy”
12. Salman Rushdie “Quichotte”
13. Anita Brookner “Hotel du Lac”
14. Elizabeth Moon “Oath of Fealty”
15. Matt Haig “The Dead Fathers Club”
16. Bernhard Schlink “The Woman on the Stairs”
17. Jessie Burton "The Miniaturist"
18. Colum McCann "Apeirogon"
19. Elizabeth Strout "Olive Kitteridge"
20. Janice Hadlow "The Other Bennet Sister"

Dragon Hop

Starting tag: science