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Challenges: Year Long Main 2025
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Alexandra‘s Alphabet Challenge 2025
Badge 4List 7 - specific word in title
A- Away - Stay Away from Gretchen: Eine unmögliche Liebe
B- Black - The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
C- Crow - The Crow Trap
D- Dark - All the Colors of the Dark
E- Evening - The Garden of Evening Mists
F- Fortune - The Impossible Fortune
✔️ G- Girl - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
H- Hand - The Watchmaker’s Hand
I- Island - The Island of Missing Trees
J- June - The Unmaking of June Farrow
K- Kind - The Drowning Kind
L- Lord - The Lords of Time
M- Murder - The Marlow Murder Club
N- Name The Café with No Name
O- Opal - The Final Revival of Opal & Nev OR Opal
P- People - The Wedding People
✔️ Q- Quiet - All Quiet on the Western Front
R- Rain - The Art of Racing in the Rain
S- Silver - The Silver Music Box
T- Tree - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
U- Under - Unter Leuten
V- Valley - The Valley of Fear
W- West - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Y- Young - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
✔️ Z- Zebra - Zebras im Schnee
Janice wrote: "Enjoy!"Thank you, Janice! And also thank you for this wonderful challenge that draw me back to reading again!!!
Badge 3 List Two - Titles
✔️ A - Alte Sorten
✔️ B - Babylonia
✔️ C - A Curious Beginning
✔️ D- Dream Count
✔️ E - Die Enkelin
✔️ F - Für Polina
✔️ G - The Girl in the Ice
✔️ H - Hard Land
✔️ I - I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
✔️ J - The Japanese Lover
✔️ K - Knots and Crosses
✔️ L - Lost in the Spanish Quarter
✔️ M - Marseille 1940: Die große Flucht der Literatur
✔️ N - Der nasse Fisch
✔️ O - Onyx Storm
✔️ P - Pi mal Daumen
✔️ Q - The Queen of Poisons
✔️ R - Die Richtige
✔️ S - Die schönste Version
✔️ T - Ten Years
✔️ U - The Usual Desire to Kill
✔️ V - Vom Leben und anderen Zumutungen: Gespräche mit Zeitgenossen
✔️ W - The Water Rituals
✔️ Y - You Gotta Have Balls
✔️ Z - Der Zauberberg
Badge 2 - List Three & Four combined into one list: books by male and female authors.✔️A - Autocracy, Inc.
✔️B - A Man Called Ove
✔️C - Deal Breaker
✔️D - The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
✔️E - Things Don't Break on Their Own
✔️F - The Pillars of the Earth
✔️G - In einem Zug
✔️H - Orbital
✔️I - The Magic of Silence: Caspar David Friedrich's Journey Through Time
✔️J - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
✔️K- The River We Remember
✔️L - Kummer aller Art
✔️M - Cleopatra and Frankenstein
✔️ N - Eine unbeliebte Frau
✔️O - We Solve Murders
✔️P - The Sanatorium
✔️Q - The Briar Club
✔️R - Midnight’s Children
✔️ S - Where You Come From
✔️T - The Secret History
✔️ U - February 1933: The Winter of Literature
✔️V - Nochmal von vorne
✔️W - 22 Bahnen
✔️Y - Iron Flame
✔️Z - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Yay, first book finished:Badge 1, Book 1
Theme V - Villainy
Insidious Intent
514 pages
The story is about capturing a very villainy serial killer.
Yay! First book done and dusted. :) Enjoy the remaining books.
Badge 1, Book 2Theme T - True Crime
Crime
208 pages
The author describes the most curious cases that he experienced for real in his job as criminal defense attorney
Badge 1, Book 3Theme C - Childhood
Echtzeitalter
365 pages
„Echtzeitalter“ describes the process of growing up of the protagonist Till in the privileged yet restrictive environment of a Viennese boarding school.
Badge 1, Book 4Theme P - Pirates
Frenchman's Creek
260 pages
Lady Dona St. Columb, who, seeking escape from her stifling aristocratic life, falls in love with a charming French pirate, leading to a passionate yet doomed affair.
Badge 1, Book 5Theme R - Religion
The Running Grave
960 pages
The story centers around a religious cult.
I'm only at book 5 in that series.
And do you like the series?The story here was quite interesting and the book is very well written. But it’s again such a chunkster, taking a good 200 pages until suspense picks up. I probably would have given it 4 or 5 stars if it was a bit shorter.
I have enjoyed the books I've read so far. I hope to read book 5 in the next badge. I do find the length of the books offputting. Book 5 is something like 31 hours to listen to on audiobook.
Badge 1, Book 6Theme S - Survival
Mon Chéri und unsere demolierten Seelen
503 pages
The book is about facing and surviving life‘s hardships.
Badge 1, Book 7Theme H - History
1913: The Year Before the Storm
320 pages
A portrait of the year 1913.
Badge 1, Book 8Theme M - Mythology
The Song of Achilles
408 pages
The book is about Achilles, one of the greatest figures of Ancient Greek mythology
Badge 1, Book 9Theme B - Books
The Little Paris Bookshop
392 pages
The story is about the healing qualities of books - so true!
It is so true. It was a cute story. And doesn't it have recipes in the back?
It does, I haven’t tried them though but they sounded delicious. It really made me want to cook one of those meals that you eat right out of the pan with some rustic French bread… hmm
Badge 1, Book 10Theme L - Love
Bride
410 pages
The story is about the dangerous love between a vampire and a werewolf (oh well)
Badge 1, Book 11Theme N - Nature
The Secret Life of Bees
302 pages
In The Secret Life of Bees, nature plays a significant role, both symbolically and practically. Bees and beekeeping serve as a central motif, representing community, femininity, and survival.
Badge 1 - Book 12Theme F - Fantasy
Fourth Wing
663 pages
A fantasy story about a college for dragon riders.
I'm debating on whether or not to read this one. Does it live up to its hype?
Well, I think it does. I read it for the same reason - I was curious by the hype and it turned out as an entertaining book that I could not put down (and I’m normally not into fantasy). I will definitely read the next book in the series. Did you read and enjoy the hunger games? If you did then I think you’ll like this story as well.
I did enjoy the Hunger Games, so I will keep that in mind.
If you should read it, let me know if you liked it ;-)
Badge 1 - Book 13Theme W - Women
Bright Young Women
384 pages
Bright young women is based on the real life female victims of Ted Bundy.
Badge 1, Book 14Theme G - Ghosts
Was man bei Licht nicht sehen kann
480 Pages
The story is about a boy who can see ghosts and fantastic creatures after having an accident
Badge 1, book 15 (yay :-))Theme D - Dogs
About People
416 pages
The book is about a woman and her dog who move to the countryside, it’s about prejudice and connections. The dog is rather „best supporting actress“ but plays an important role nevertheless.
Congrats on earning Badge 1.
Thank you very much, Janice! And once again thank you so much for pulling me back to reading with this fun challenge!!!
Badge 2, book 3Task 3 and 4 combined (author) - J
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
433 pages
Badge 2, book 4Task 3 and 4 combined (author) - E
Things Don't Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins
295 pages
Badge 2, book 9Task 3 and 4 combined (author) - D
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
643 pages
Badge 2, book 12Task 3 and 4 combined (author) - K
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
432 pages
Badge 2, book 14Task 3 and 4 combined (author) - Z
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
401 pages
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Books mentioned in this topic
Zebras im Schnee (other topics)All Quiet on the Western Front (other topics)
The Watchmaker’s Hand (other topics)
Unter Leuten (other topics)
A Perilous Undertaking (other topics)
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✔️B - Books about books The Little Paris Bookshop
✔️C - Childhood Echtzeitalter
✔️D - Dogs About People
✔️ F - Fantasy Fourth Wing
✔️G - Ghosts Was man bei Licht nicht sehen kann
✔️H - History 1913: The Year Before the Storm
✔️L - Love Bride
✔️ M - Mythology The Song of Achilles
✔️N - Nature The Secret Life of Bees
✔️P - Pirates Frenchman's Creek
✔️R - Religion The Running Grave
✔️ S - Survival Mon Chéri und unsere demolierten Seelen
✔️T - True Crime Crime and Guilt: Stories
✔️V - Villainy Insidious Intent
✔️ W - Women Bright Young Women