Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Welcome to the Individual Challenge! This week your goal is to complete the acrostics below with either the first letter of the book's title or the first letter of the author's name (first or last, your choice). Choose whichever word(s) speak(s) to you the most. Good luck and happy reading!

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Absolutely stumped on the letter N, so I'm going with GROW.

⬜G - Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge
⬜R - Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
⬜O - Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde
⬜W - Six Stories by Matt Wesolowski

If I manage that I might maybe do AWAKE. (IF I can find two As. Maybe I will use another book to buy a vowel? Is that a thing? I might make that a thing, if I get this far.)

⬜A -
⬜W - Hydra by Matt Wesolowski
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✅K - What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
⬜E - The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami

Individual Planning/Tracking

Roxana's Individual Challenge
Individual Planning/Tracking Post


⬜R: Rainbow Rowell: Scattered Showers OR Rachel Hawkins: The Villa
⬜E: Emma Lord: Begin Again
⬜N: Naomi Novik: Spinning Silver
⬜E: Edward Eager: Knight's Castle
⬜W: Scott Bryan Wilson: Trve Kvlt #3

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☑️T: A Thousand Miles to Graceland
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⬜A: The Atlas Paradox
☑️N: Not Your Valentine
⬜S: Spinning Silver
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⬜O: The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies
⬜R:
⬜M: The Maker of Swans

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⬜G: Glitterland
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⬜O: The Oldest Boy: A Play in Three Ceremonies
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⬜A: The Atlas Paradox
⬜W:
⬜A: All the Horses of Iceland
☑️K: The Keeper of Night
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Kathy's January Challenge
☃️ - finished
I probably won't finish any one word.
Finished


☃️T - Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Audible
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☃️A - Sad Cypress - Agatha Christie book
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☃️S - City of Ghosts - Victoria Schwab book
☃️F - For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More - Graham Tarrant book
O - 1,001 Ways to Be Creative: A Little Book of Everyday Inspiration - Barbara Ann Kipfer book
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☃️M - Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe - Jenny Colgan Audible

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☃️W - The Bodies in the Library - Marty Wingate book
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☃️G - My Friend Maigret - Georges Simenon
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☃️W - Still Life - Sarah Winman Overdrive audio

T Sula by Toni Morrison
R Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim
A The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
N The World We Make by NK Jemisin
S South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby
F His & Hers by Alice Feeney
O One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
R Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
M Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith

I think I'll try this.

A - Adam Silvera - The First to Die at the End ✓ 01/25
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K - King, Stephen - Carrie ✓ 01/29
E - Everlove - Bis übers Ende dieser Welt hinaus by Tanya Byrne ✓ 01/22

My goal was 7 books for the team challenge. Lots of my options slot nicely into TRANSFORM, so I'm going to attempt squeezing in a few more *short* books to complete 9 and fill in:


✓ T - Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
✓ R - Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osmon (audio, just started)
✓ A -Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
✓ N (Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (audio)
✓ S - The Sentence by Louise Louise Erdrich (155p left) ||Skulduggery Pleasant
✓ F - Florida Woman by Deb Rogers
✓ O (Overnight Guest)
✓ R (Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake)
✓ M - Mindful of Murder by Susan Juby

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Update - Completed Sunday!

T - A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher (01/21)
R - The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury (01/23)
A - Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie (01/24)
N - Coraline by Neil Gaiman (01/26)
S - The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (01/22)
F - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
O - White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (01/25)
R - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (01/22)
M - The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike

Welcome to the Individual Challenge! This week your goal is to complete the acrostics below with either the first letter of the book's title or the first letter of the author's name (first or last, your choice). Choose whichever word(s) speak(s) to you the most. Good luck and happy reading!

Ugh. With the books I selected I was unable to make any of the words provided... :(

Uncertain which word I might be able to use...

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Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1) by Travis Baldree
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Paddington Marches On by Michael Bond
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The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
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Patina (Track #2) by Jason Reynolds
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Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
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The Women in Black by Madeleine St. John
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Alex Cross, Run (Alex Cross #20) by James Patterson
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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan by Hildi Kang
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T - A Trip to the Stars - 1/22
R - Ruslan and Ludmila - 1/21
A - The Red Notebook - author Antoine Laurain
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S - The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise - author Julia Stuart
F - Kim Fay author of Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love [ 1/24
O - [book:Our Missing Hearts|60149573]
R - However Long the Day - author Justin Reed
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I'm in!

R - Royal Valentine by Jenn McKinlay 1/22/23
E - An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan 1/27/23
N - The 9th Judgment by James Patterson; Maxine Paetro 1/29/23
E - Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi 1/23/23
W - With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo 1/24/23

T - Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse 1/29/23
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S - Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie 1/25/23
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O - Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman 1/27/23
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G - The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory 1/25/23
R - Fogged Inn by Barbara Ross 1/29/23
O - Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman 1/27/23
W - When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo 1/26/23

A - A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow 1/22/23
W - Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson 1/29/23
A - Answers in the Pages by David Levithan 1/22/23
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Excited to participate although I might not have much time to read this week. Soooo my plans are a bit ridiculous but it’s just for the fun, isn’t it? ;) maybe I’ll give myself two weeks to finish or five…


R - The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
E - L'Étranger
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E - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
W - What Moves the Dead

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T - Tress of the Emerald Sea
R - The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
A - L'Étranger by Albert Camus
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S - The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
F - Die Brüder Karamasov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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🎉- completed

🎉R - Runtime by S.B. Divya
🎉E - 8 by Dustin Lance Black
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🎉 T - Tell Her Story by Margot Hunt
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🎉 A - All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie
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🎉S - Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
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🎉O - Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
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🎉 M - Misconception by Liv Constantine

🎉 G - Goldilocks by L.R. Lam
🎉 R - See How They Run by Rachel Howzell Hall
🎉 O - The Ophelia Network by Mur Lafferty
🎉 W - (Wayward Children Series) In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

🎉A - Me: Moth by Amber McBride
🎉 W - Self Help by Ben H. Winters
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Other -
🎉BadAsstronauts by Grady Hendrix
🎉 The Prynne Viper by Bianca Marais
🎉 Lost Planet Homicide by Larry Correia
🎉 Direct Descent by Frank Herbert
🎉 Doctor Who Archives: Prisoners of Time Omnibus by Scott Tipton
🎉 The LEGO Neighborhood Book: Build Your Own LEGO Town! by Brian Lyles

I'm not sure I'll get too far with this one.


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✅A - When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
W - The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
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✅K - 1922 by Stephen King
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I'm in!


📚R: El fugitivo by Richard Bachman ✔️(Jan 23)
📚E: El silencio de los malditos by Carlos Pinto ✔️(Jan 21)
📚N: 20th Century Boys, volumen 2 by Naoki Urasawa ✔️(Jan 21)
📚E: La senda de la profecía by David Eddings ✔️(Jan 29)
📚W: What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe ✔️(Jan 25)

G - Good Neighbors
R - Ring Shout
O - The Old Woman with the Knife
W - When the Reckoning Comes

I haven't decided which word to use yet. Question - Could I use the series name, or just the individual name?

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Thomson A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson - Jan. 25th
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Stolen The Stolen Heir by Holly Black - Jan. 24th
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About About That Kiss by Jill Shalvis - Jan. 28th
Willder Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion by Louise Willder - Jan. 24th
Aunt The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay - Jan. 22nd
Killing A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire - Jan. 22nd
Erdrich The Sentence by Louise Erdrich - Jan. 29th

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - Jan. 25th
The Backup Plan by Jill Shalvis - Jan. 27th

I'll give this a try.

RENEW
TRANSFORM
GROW
AWAKE

I think this will be the best word for me to work on:


T: Thomas Harding: The House by the Lake

R: Ready Player One

A: Assembly

N: Nicola Yoon: The Sun Is Also a Star

S: Sulari Gentill: The Woman in the Library

F: Fathoms: The World in the Whale

O: Richard Osman: The Bullet That Missed

R: Robert Galbraith: The Ink Black Heart

M: Mrs March

Finished 28/1/23.

Missed the team sign-ups this time around, but excited for the individual challenge! I think at this point it'll mostly be the Miles Of Pages as I'm reading The Fellowship of the Ring!

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Kendra wrote: "I haven't decided which word to use yet. Question - Could I use the series name, or just the individual name?
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Do whatever makes you happy

I'm going to try AWAKE

A = Lysistrata, {A}ristophanes
W = The {W}hitstable Pearl Mystery, Julie {W}assmer
A = The Treasure Hunt, {A}ndrea Camilleri
K = Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu {K}awaguchi
E = Read and Buried, {E}va Gates