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Member Challenge Tracking 2025
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List 1 completions:1. Read a book set in a country with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea
A Daughter of Fair Verona by Christina Dodd. 3 stars. Completed 4/20/2025
2. Read a book about the closest sports franchise to where you live. Sport of your choice.
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, and Craig Walsh. 3.5 stars. Completed 2/4/2025
3. Read a book that challenges you.
Murder by Tradition by Katherine V. Forrest . 4 stars. Completed 2/15/2025
4. Read a book written by an author that shares your initials.
The Good Samaritan by John Marrs. 4 stars. Completed 4/6/2025
5. A book with a setting or plot that includes a theatrical performance
Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood. 4 stars, Completed 1/10/2025
6. Re-read the first book you remember reading that you thought was an adult book (as opposed to a childrens book)
Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews . 3 stars. Completed 3/23/2025
7. A book set somewhere you would like to visit
11/22/63 by Stephen King. 4.5 stars. Completed 2/23/2025
8. A book featuring a love story
The Lightkeeper by Susan Wiggs. 3 stars, completed 1/17/2025
9. Read a book that has a subtitle
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron . 4 stars. Completed 3/22/2025
10. A book where the main character has a pet.
Out of Time by Lynn Abbey. 3 stars, Completed 1/12/2025
11. A book that fits “hip, hippy or hipster.”
Hippie by Paulo Coelho. 3.5 stars. Completed 4/19/2025
12. Read a book with the name of a place in the title
Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman. 3 stars. Completed 4/27/2025
List 2 completions:
1. A book with at least 5 historical fiction tags.
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross. 4.5 stars. Completed 6/27/2025
2. Read a book with an adjective in the title
White Rose Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey. 3 stars. Completed 5/17/2025
3. Read a book that is set in the opposite season from what you are currently in (Anita's note: This would be fall right now.)
Pet Sematary by Stephen King. 4 stars. Completed 6/13/2025
4. Read a book that's been on your TBR for more than a year
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. 4 stars. Completed 5/17/2025
5. Read a book with a main-page genre of HUMOR. (Tag appears on the book's main page)
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel. 3 stars. Completed 6/1/2025
6. A travel book
We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels by Gary Janetti. 3 stars. Completed 5/31/2025
7. A contemporary romance book
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han. 4 stars. Completed 5/26/2025
8. Read a book with an extremely wealthy or extremely poor main character
Rapture in Death by JD Robb . 3.5 stars. Completed 5/10/2025
9. Read a book about Vietnam
The Colors of April: Fiction on the Vietnam War’s Legacy 50 Years Later by Quan Manh Ha (editor) and Cab Tran (editor). 4 stars. Completed 5/23/2025
10. A book with a bird on the cover
The Night Bird by Brian Freeman. 4 stars. Completed 5/10/2025
11. Read a book written by an author that shares your initials.
The One by John Marrs. 5 stars. Completed 5/31/2025
12. A book that includes a disease, epidemic, or pandemic
A Twisted Riposte by Alyn Troy. 2 stars. Completed 5/11/2025
List 3 completions:
1. A book set in a country's official territory - must be currently a territory. Examples: US Virgin Islands, French Polynesia, Falklands.
2. Fiction or non-fiction featuring the history of Africa
3. A book with a title that begins with U
Under Falling Skies by Kate MacLeod. 3 stars. Completed 7/3/2025
4. A book with 7 or more vowels in the title
5. Read a book you've been avoiding or keep putting off
Flowers For Elvis by Julia Schuster. 2 stars. Completed 7/26/2025
6. Read a magical book
Beguiled by Darynda Jones. 4 stars. Completed 8/7/2025
7. Read a book set during the American Civil War.
8. Read a book with an ordinal number in the title
9. Read a book featuring wildlife.
10. Read a book with a "new to you" author.
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley. 4 stars. Completed 7/13/2025
11. Book where main character works in the music or theater industry, in any role
12. A book about marriage
Compass tracking:Luggage tag #1: a lighthouse
Departing: San Francisco, California
Heading: North
Destination: Cape Disappointment, Washington
Distance: 738 miles
The Lightkeeper by Susan Wiggs. 3 stars, completed 1/17/2025
Quote:
"The morning had dawned like all the others - a chill haze with the feeble sun behind it, iron-colored swells gathering muscle far offshore, then hurling themselves against the huddled sharp rocks of Cape Disappointment." (pp.16)
Luggage tag #2: an hourglass
Departing: Cape Disappointment, Washington
Heading: East
Destination: Lisbon Falls, Maine; then to Dallas, Texas
Distance: 3,323 miles; 1,894 miles
Total miles traveled to date: 5,955 miles
11/22/63 by Stephen King. 4.5 stars. Completed 2/23/2025
Quote for arrival city (Maine):
"I knew where I was; Lisbon Falls, Maine, deep in the heart of Androscoggin County." (pp.31)
Quote for departure city (Jodie - fictional town near Dallas):
"Dusk of a summer night in the town of Jodie, Texas. It’s a little bigger than it was in 1963, but not much." (pp.837)
Luggage tag #3: a pistol
Departing: Dallas, TX
Direction: West
Destination: Tombstone, AZ
Distance: 923 miles
Total miles traveled to date: 6,878 miles
The Last Woman Standing by Thelma Adams . 2 stars. Completed 3/13/2025
Quote for location (Tombstone, Arizona):
"Tombstone kicked my ass and I kicked back." (pp.1)
Luggage tag #4: a canoe
Departing: Tombstone, AZ
Direction: Northwest
Destination: Joseph, OR
Distance: 1345 miles
Total miles traveled to date: 8,223 miles
The Shack by William Paul Young. 3 stars. Completed 4/6/2025
Quote for location:
"Here they left I-84 and took the Wallowa Lake Highway, which would take them the final seventy-two miles to the town of Joseph." (pp.18)
Luggage tag #5: peace sign
Departing: Joseph, Oregon
Direction: Southeast
First stop: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (6607 miles)
Second stop: Amsterdam, Netherlands (5947 miles)
Final stop: Istanbul, Turkey (1657 miles)
Distance: 14,211 miles
Total miles traveled to date: 22,434 miles
Hippie by Paulo Coelho. 3.5 stars. Completed 4/19/2025
Quotes for locations:
Brazil:
"Everyone knew of Vila Velha’s existence, but the less informed would drive on past to a beach in a state bordering Rio de Janeiro." (pp. 26)
Amsterdam:
"She said goodbye to Wilma, they agreed to meet at Paradiso the next day, and she set off for the hostel where she’d spent those monotonous days in Amsterdam, the city of dreams for so many who had crossed the world just to get there." (pp. 60)
Istanbul:
"There, in Istanbul—a place where they might have visited the many attractions that had been suggested to them—they’d chosen to journey into their own souls and there was nothing better or more comforting than this." (pp. 277)
Luggage tag #6: a white rose
Departing: Istanbul, Turkey
Direction: Northwest
First stop: Freiburg, Germany (1,391.1 miles)
Destination: Basel, Switzerland (43.9 miles)
Distance: (1,435 miles)
Total miles traveled to date: 23,869 miles
White Rose Black Forest by Eoin Dempsey. 3 stars. Completed 5/17/2025
Locations were identified with chapter headers:
Chapter 1: The Black Forest Mountains, southwest Germany, December 1943
Chapter 15: The countryside outside the city of Basel, Switzerland, October 1945
Luggage tag #7: bag of popcorn
Departing: Basel, Switzerland
Direction: South
Destination: Lagos, Nigeria
Distance: 4,022.8 miles
Total miles traveled to date: 27,891.8 miles
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. 4 stars. Completed 5/24/2025
Quote for location:
"I don’t know whether or not they have the tech for a thorough crime scene investigation in Lagos, but Ayoola could never clean up as efficiently as I can." pg.3
Luggage tag #8: baby pram
Departing: Lagos, Nigeria
Direction: Northwest, after cashing in a ticket change (original spin: South)
Destination: New York City
Distance: 5,261 miles
Total miles traveled to date: 33,152.8 miles
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin. 3 stars. Completed 6/11/2025
Quote for location:
"When Rosemary had first come to New York in June of 1962 she had joined another Omaha girl and two girls from Atlanta in an apartment on lower Lexington Avenue." (pg.13)
Luggage tag #9: castle
Departing: New York City
Direction: East
Destination: Bilbao, Spain
Distance: 3,538 miles
Total miles traveled to date: 36,690.8 miles
Castle of the Cursed by Romina Garber. 2.5 stars. Completed 7/3/2025
Quote for location:
"We’ve been driving through northern Spain for two hours, but it’s only now that castillo Brálaga’s silhouette burns into the horizon." (pg.8) -- town in the story is fictional so will mark Bilbao as the destination as it is the largest city in northern Spain.
CompletedIn Progress
Trim the TBR:
1. Revenge of the Witch (Seventh Son) - Joseph Delaney - April
2. We Set the Dark on Fire - Tehlor Kay Mejia
3. Murder by Tradition by Katherine V. Forrest- February
4. The Host - Stephanie Meyer
5. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein - September
6. The Secret Healer - Ellin Carsta
7. American Gods - Neil Gaiman - August
8. The Walk on Cabaret - Andrea Sneed -July
9. Interrupt - Jeff Carlson - June
10. Night Bird - Brian Freeman - May
11. The Last Woman Standing - Thelma Adams - March
12. 11/22/63 - Stephen King - January
Placeholder for noting my Chunky Monkey books for the year.1) 11/22/63 by Stephen King. 4.5 stars. Completed 2/23/2025. 866 pages, done through a combo of Kindle and audiobook.
2) Seventh Son by Joseph Delaney. 4 stars. Completed 5/11/2025.
688 pages, done through a combo of physical and audiobook.
3) Moby Dick by Herman Melville. 3.5 stars. Completed 8/2/2025.
720 pages, done through audiobook.
4) American Gods by Neil Gaiman. 3.5 stars. Completed 8/25/2025.
565 pages, done through a combo of Kindle and audiobook.
Monthly tagJanuary - Canada
Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood. 4 stars, Completed 1/10/2025
February - Science
11/22/63 by Stephen King. 4.5 stars, Completed 2/23/2025
March - Thriller
Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews. 3 stars. Completed 3/23/2025
April - Fun
A Daughter of Fair Verona by Christina Dodd. 3 stars. Completed 4/20/2025
May - Strong Women
Rapture in Death by JD Robb. 3.5 stars. Completed 5/10/2025
It's Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan. 4 stars. Completed 5/10/2025
The Colors of April: Fiction on the Vietnam War’s Legacy 50 Years Later by Quan Manh Ha (editor) and Cab Tran (editor). 4 Stars. Completed 5/23/2025
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. 4 Stars. Completed 5/25/2025
June - Summer
Pet Sematary by Stephen King. 4 stars. Completed 6/13/2025
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. 4 stars. Completed 6/20/2025
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms. 5 stars. Completed 6/22/2025
July - Speculative Fiction
Beasts by Ingvild Bjerkeland. 4 stars. Completed 7/3/2025
The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick. 5 stars. Completed 7/13/2025
August - Family Drama
The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O'Neill. 5 stars. Completed 8/23/2025
September - Around the World
1. Read a book set in a country with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea2. Read a book about the closest sports franchise to where you live. Sport of your choice.3. Read a book that challenges you.4. Read a book written by an author that shares your initials.5. A book with a setting or plot that includes a theatrical performance6. Re-read the first book you remember reading that you thought was an adult book (as opposed to a childrens book)7. A book set somewhere you would like to visit8. A book featuring a love story9. Read a book that has a subtitle10. A book where the main character has a pet.11. A book that fits “hip, hippy or hipster.”12. Read a book with the name of a place in the title