You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

First attempt at a challenge!

Good luck Kristi.

Woohoo! Good luck Kristi!

Great thread name 😆 Good luck!

This week's plan:
Puzzle 5, #9 - Empire of Pain
Puzzle 7, #4 - The Last Party
Puzzle 10, #6 - Things we Hide from the Light

Next steps:
Puzzle 1, #8 (Significant character is a cowboy) - All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
Puzzle 3, #3 (MPG of humor) - Vacuuming in the Nude, Peggy and Mike Rowe
Puzzle 4, #1 (Significant character is a painter) - The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell

I am so sorry, I'm a little behind...learning here but do appreciate your time and efforts!!

1. Challenge Progress: I have read 1 book for Badge 1.
2. Puzzle 5, Task #9.
3.Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
4. 441 pages - Hardcover
5. Main character is a businessman or businesswoman.
6. Many members of the Sackler family's business dealings, starting with Arthur Sackler but also predominantly Richard Sackler, were discussed. Richard was the latest executive of Perdue Pharma, the manufacturer of oxycontin.

1. Challenge Progress: I have read 2 books for Badge 1.
2. Puzzle 10, Task #6.
3.Things We Hide from the Light
4. 589 pages - Kindle edition.
5. A significant character is a bachelor or bachelorette.
6. The entire book revolves around Nash Morgan and ultimately his relationship with Lina.

1. Challenge Progress: I have read 3 books for Badge 1.
2. Puzzle 7, Task #4.
3. The Last Party
4. 432 pages, Hardcover.
5. Set in Wales or written by a Welsh author.
6. Clare Mackintosh (author) lives in North Wales but the story is also set in Wales (mostly, there is some discussion about who has law enforcement jurisdiction).

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 4.
2. Puzzle 4, Task #1.
3. The Marriage Portrait
4. 355 pages, Hardcover.
5. A significant character who is a painter.
6. There are several painters, pointedly Lucrezia and Il Bastianino (commissioned to paint Lucrezia's marriage portrait).

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1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 5.
2. Puzzle 8, Task #8.
3. Hello Beautiful
4. 400 pages, Hardcover.
5. Author with the last name of N who I've never read before.
6. First book read by Ann Napolitano (although Dear Edward is on TBR list).

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1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 6.
2. Puzzle 2, Task #4.
3. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
4. 548, paperback.
5. A book with a higher than 4.1 average rating on Goodreads.
6. This book is sitting at a 4.13 rating with over 93,000 ratings.

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Moving my Puzzle #4, Task #1 The Marriage Portrait book to Puzzle #1, Task #7 Set in Italy task to make room for my Toppler book. Marriage Portrait is set in Tuscany.

Replacing my Puzzle #4 book is:

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 7.
2. Puzzle #4, Task #7.
3. Heart Bones
4. 348, paperback.
5. Book with bone(s) in the title.
6. Heart Bones is the title!

Badge 1 to date:

Puzzle #1 - Task 7, The Marriage Portrait.
Puzzle #2 - Task 4, The Stranger Beside Me.
Puzzle #3 -
Puzzle #4 - Task 7, Heart Bones.
Puzzle #5 - Task 9, Empire of Pain.
Puzzle #6 -
Puzzle #7 - Task 4, The Last Party.
Puzzle #8 - Task 8, Hello Beautiful.
Puzzle #9 -
Puzzle #10 - Task 6, Things We Hide From the Light.
Puzzle #11 -
Puzzle #12 -

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 8.
2. Puzzle 11, Task 8.
3. Yours Truly
4. 413 pages, paperback.
5. Read a book with a puppy or dog on the cover.
6.
Lieutenant Dan made the cover!

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1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 9.
2. Puzzle 9, Task 4.
3. A Court of Thorns and Roses
4. 433 pages, Kindle edition.
5. Title or cover must have thorn or thorns.
6. The title includes thorns.

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Would A Court of Mist and Fury qualify as Puzzle 3, Task 5 "someone is protecting someone else". I was going to read it as a throw away to get to the 3rd book which qualifies for several tasks but now that I'm 90% done with it, I think it likely would but seeking a ruling. The book begins with Tamlin protecting Feyre but with the political and magical implications, the rest of the book involves Rhysand protecting Feyre, and Amren, Azriel, Mor, and Cassien all doing a good bit of protecting each other as well as Rhysand and Feyre. Thoughts?

Yes, it will work.

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, book 10.
2. Puzzle 3, Task 5.
3. A Court of Mist and Fury
4. 641 pages, Kindle edition.
5. Someone is protecting someone else.
6. The book begins with Tamlin protecting Feyre but with the political and magical implications, the rest of the book involves Rhysand protecting Feyre, and Amren, Azriel, Mor, and Cassien all doing a good bit of protecting each other as well as Rhysand and Feyre.

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, book 11.
2. Puzzle 12, Task 10.
3. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
4. My paperback copy had 380 pages.
5. Originally published in 2015.
6. Missoula was first published on April 21, 2015.

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Please do separate posts for each book reported.

Thanks

I have been, the first of that post you already approved, I was just making it official. It sounds like I need to make an official post of an unofficial ruling as two posts for the same book. Noted!

You asked for a ruling. That is not the same thing as reporting the book as completed.

Ok, I'm new and learning, noted again!

Thanks. It makes it easier for me to track.

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, Book 12.
2. Puzzle 6, Task 7.
3. Mustard Seed
4. I floated between the Kindle edition, which was 282 pages, and the audible version which was 9 hours, 17 minutes.
5. Character was a teacher.
6. Jordan was a primary character and was a black woman who had moved to Ohio after the Civil War and taught children there.

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Congrats on finishing the first badge. You may request your badge in the appropriate thread if you haven't already done that.

1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Puzzle 3.
2. Puzzle 1, Task 1.
3. All the Pretty Horses
4. 302 pages, Paperback.
5. Set in Mexico.
6. While the book began in San Angelo, Texas, the majority of it was set in Mexico.

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1. Challenge Progress: Badge 1, book 4.
2. Puzzle 3, Task 7.
3. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
4. 352 pages, Paperback.
5. The main character sets forth on a journey.
6. The author/main character of this autobiography goes on two journeys in this book. The first half of the book was dedicated to her journey to survive cancer, which she does. The second half of the book takes her on a cross-country travel journey to meet influential people that wrote to her during her cancer journey.

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Should this not be Badge 2, Book 2? (which is what I tracked it as.) You show it as Badge 1, book 4.

Badge 2, yes, sorry. Book 4 for Badge 2 if you count the 2 already read for Badge 1.

Gotcha, thanks. You don't need to count the books you finished in badge 1 - just the books you're finished for badge 2.

Finished a long, slow read, FINALLY!

1. Challenge Progress: Identify where you are in the challenge – Badge 2, Book 3.
2. Puzzle 1, Task 3.
3. Babel: An Arcane History
4. 544, Hardcover.
5. Set at a university or boarding school.
6. The book was set at Babel, a language translation campus/building at Oxford University.

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1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 4.
2. Puzzle 3, Task 6.
3. Meet Me at the Lake
4. 336 pages, Paperback.
5. Read #50 on your TBR or other personal shelf.
6. This is an interactive task so I'm not sure exactly what to do but Meet Me at the Lake is #50 on my 2023 TBR shelf. https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

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1.Challenge Progress: Badge 2, book 5.
2. Puzzle 1, Task 6.
3. Maude
4. 498 pages, Ebook.
5. Book with a photograph on the cover.
6.

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1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 6.
2. Puzzle 3, Task 1.
3. Braiding Sweetgrass
4. 391 pages, paperback.
5. Book about the environment.
6. Environment is on its MPG and it is just a lovely book about the symbiosis of plants and people.

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1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 7.
2. Puzzle 3, Task 8.
3. A Court of Wings and Ruin
4. 699 pages, Ebook.
5. Book that is third or ninth in a series.
6. This book is #3 in the ACOTAR series of five books (A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Court of Mist and Fury are the first two).

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1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 8.
2. Puzzle 1, Task 8.
3. Centennial
4. 1056 pages, Paperback.
5. Significant character is a cowboy.
6. There were many cowboys throughout the middle part of the book. Jim Lloyd, Coker, Calendar, and, although primarily a rancher, John Skimmerhorn (Jr.).

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1. Challenge Progress: Badge 2, Book 9.
2. Puzzle 3, Task 3.
3. Vacuuming in the Nude: And Other Ways to Get Attention
4. 240 pages, Ebook.
5. MPG of humour.
6. Humor is the first genre listed on the book's main page.