2024 Reading Challenge discussion

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📗 reading goal

y e a r l y:
🌱 52 book club challenge
🌱 hamlet reading challenge
🌱 popsugar reading challenge
🌱 popsugar reading challenge
🌱 new to you narrator challenge
🌱 penguins & polar bears
🌱 buzzword challenge
🌱 while i was reading
🌱 what’s in a name
🌱 pick your poison
🌱 give us a clue
🌱 i spy


q u a r t e r l y:
🍎 winter challenge
🍎 miles of smiles
🍎 wedding foods


m o n t h l y:
🌸 reset, relax, and refresh
🌸 i’m your biggest fan
🌸 wish upon a star
🌸 tunes & tomes ✅
🌸 media mayhem
🌸 may scattergories ✅
🌸 june scattergories ✅
🌸 pardon my french
🌸 red by any other name

🥇wishlist

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÷ deep water
÷ notes on a scandal
÷ the vanishing half
÷ i must betray you
÷ sorrow and bliss
÷ anxious people
÷ nothing girl
÷ good eggs
÷ joan is okay
÷ very cold people
÷ this will end badly
÷ the fates will find their ways


+ acts of violet
+ good neighbors
+ the golden couple
+ can't look away
+ rules for vanishing
+ notes on an execution
+ the last house on needless street
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🌱 hamlet reading challenge

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 4/?

2. a happy book:
☐
3. have prejudice against:
☐
6. title begins and end with same letter:
☐ sorrow and bliss by meg mason
☐ saints for all occasions by j. courtney sullivan
☐ the saturdays by elizabeth enright
☐ they went left by monica hesse
☐ the red car by marcy dermansky
☐ lethal by sandra brown
sisters, rumblestar, notes on an execution, small mercies, the shell seekers,
10. in country w/ fewer residents than finland: (ireland)
☐ on midnight beach by marie-louise fitzpatrick
good eggs by rebecca hardiman
the liar's girl by catherine ryan howard
14. related to sports:
✘ the cheat sheet by sarah adams
21. love the first sentence:
☐ deep water by patricia highsmith
↳ “”

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22. an unreliable narrator:
rock paper scissors by alice feeney
☐ unbecoming by jenny downham
☐ city of orange by david yoon
☐ 🎧 memoirs of a teenage amnesiac by gabrielle zevin
25. someone is on an island:
☐ 🎧 landslide by susan conley
☐ on the island by tracey garvis graves
27. in verse:
✘ 🎧 house arrest by k.a. holt
29. comic book related to japan:
✘ tenshi dattara yokatta by yuri nakagawa
32. originally in language you don’t know: (japanese)
✘ convenience store woman by sayaka murata
36. recommended by someone famous: (@janecampbell)
☐ the need by helen phillips
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completed:

🍁💥🍃 new to you narrator challenge 💯

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

level: listener
read: 4/10

1. julian rhind-tutt || gallant
1. soneela nankani || the red car
2. hayley atwell || the shell seekers
3. scott aiello || small mercies
4. eleanor bron || the enchanted april
5. heather long || what a shame
6. daisy edgar-jones || sisters ‼️ [marianne•normal people]
7. lauren coe || acts of desperation
8. aaron landon || this love story will self-destruct
9. tamaryn payne + bea holland || the family upstairs
10. cady mcclain + jon lindstrom || every last fear
11. rebecca lowman || landslide
12. tamsin kennard || can you see her?
13. julia knippen || you'd be home now 💯
14. josh hurley || clues to the universe
15. joyce maynard || under the influence
16. renata friedman || a midsummer's nightmare 💯
17. aimee horne || tell me lies
18. lydia wilson || fault lines 💯

📙📚 52 book club challenge: selected

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 2/?

1. a second-person narrative:
☐ notes on an execution by danya kukafka
☐ montpelier parade by karl geary
5. chapters with titles:
☐ beach read by emily henry
☐ the next great paulie fink by ali benjamin
13. includes a club:
liar & spy by rebecca stead
17. less than 2022 ratings on goodreads:
🎧 all my goodbyes by mariana dimópulos
everyone dies famous in a small town by bonnie-sue hitchcock
18. jane austen-inspired:
the jane austen society by natalie jenner
19. a book that has an alternative title:
☐ notes on a scandal by zoë heller
20. related to the word "gold":
☐ this golden state by marit weisenberg
26. with an “author’s note”:
✘ things have gotten worse since we last spoke by eric larocca

completed:


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30. book narrated by the author:
☐ 🎧 fight night by miriam toews
☐ 🎧 the disappearing act by catherine steadman
☐ 🎧 under the influence by joyce maynard
31. technology-themed:
☐ 🎧 the perfect wife by j.p. delaney
32. a book that intimidates you:
☐
35. from a villain’s perspective:
✘ there are no saints by sophie lark
39. a middle-grade novel:
☐ a place to hang the moon by kate albus
41. involves a second chance:
☐ bad things by r.k. lilley
☐ 🎧 the wall of winnipeg and me by mariana zapata
43. author who’s published more than one genre:
☐ the miracles of the namiya general store by keigo higashino
☐ 🎧 the family upstairs by lisa jewell
48. redo prompt (#30?) with different genre:
☐ how to fall in love with anyone by mandy len catron
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completed:

🌈 reset, relax, and refresh

start date: jan 1
end date: jan 31

read: 2/2

4. challenge your mind: numbers
✘ 🎧 the two-family house by lynda cohen loigman
9. drink plently of water: set in nz
✘ the rich man's blackmailed mistress

completed:

🔰 popsugar challenge 2022: selected

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 1/12

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7. an onomatopoeia in its title:
bang by barry lyga
☐ the postman always rings twice by james m. cain
8. protagonist who uses a mobility aid:
☐ perfect world vol. 1 by rie aruga
13. set in 1980s:
☐ frankie & bug by gayle forman
☐ 🎧 i must betray you by ruta sepetys
14. cutlery on the cover:
☐ dinner at the homesick restaurant by anne tyler
17. becoming a tv series/movie in 2022:
☐ deep water by patricia highsmith
20. title begins with the last letter of previous read:
☐ the nothing girl by jodi taylor
⇲⇲ previous read: convenience store woman

completed:


25. book about a secret:
✘ 🎧 the good lie by a.r. torre
26. misleading title:
☐ full of beans by jennifer l. holm
notes on your sudden disappearance by alison espach
33. a social-horror book:
☐ 🎧
35. a constellation on the cover or in the title:
☐ a constellation of vital phenomena by anthony marra
☐ 🎧 clues to the universe by christina li
40. favorite past prompt -> takes place in single day:
☐ the liar's room by simon lelic
☐ mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf
41. a reflected image on the cover:
☐ 🎧 the push by ashley audrain
☐ black swan affair by k.l. kreig
the roanoke girls by amy engel

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completed:

🌹🥀 what’s in a name 2022

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 2/6

1. compound word:
☐ how to fall in love with anyone by mandy len catron
☐ on midnight beach by marie-louise fitzpatrick
☐ everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily r. austin
2. speed:
☐
3. person and their description:
very cold people by sarah manguso
🎧 emily, alone by stewart o'nan
🎧 amelia unabridged by ashley schumacher
🎧 my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell
4. mythical creature:
✘ 🎧 the harpy by megan hunter
5. season:
✘ a midsummer's nightmare by kody keplinger
6. color:
☐ 🎧 the red car + white ivy
☐ 🎧 acts of violet by margarita montimore
☐ 🎧 the golden couple by greer hendricks
☐ city of orange by david yoon

completed:

🧩🪝 give us a clue

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: /9
deduction: /3

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Suspects
Read a book with any shade of the following colors on the cover.
Mr. Green - green
Colonel Mustard - yellow
Mrs. Peacock - blue
Professor Plum - purple
Miss Scarlet - red
Mrs. White - white

Weapons
Read a book with the following word (or related word, not limited to the examples below) on the cover or in the title.
Candlestick or flames or fire
Dagger or knife or sword
Lead Pipe or musical instrument or writing instrument
Revolver or gun or pistol
Rope or string or ribbon
Wrench or spanner or any other tool

Rooms
Ballroom: Read a book that includes music or dancing.
Billiard Room: Read a book that features a hobby, craft, game or sport.
Cellar: Read a detective, mystery or true crime book.
Conservatory: Read a book in which a person saves or conserves someone or something.
Dining Room: Read a book with a food or drink on the cover.
Hall: Read a book that is the first in a series.
Kitchen: Read a cookbook or a book about a food & beverage professional.
Library: Read a book you have borrowed from a library or from someone else.
Lounge: Read a book in a favorite genre.
Secret Passages: Read a book with "secret" in the title.
Study: Read a book featuring a subject you're passionate about or would like to learn more about.
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#1. I deduce it was [suspect] in the [dining room] with the [rope].

suspect:     ✘weapon:     ✘room:


#2. I deduce it was [suspect] in the [room] with the [weapon].

suspect:     weapon:     room:


#3. I deduce it was [suspect] in the [room] with the [poison].

suspect:     ✘weapon:     room:    


#4. I deduce it was [suspect] in the [room] with the [weapon].

suspect:     weapon:     room:


#5. I deduce it was [Mr. Green] in the [hall] with the [lead pipe].

✘suspect:     ✘weapon:     ✘room:


#6. I deduce it was [suspect] in the [room] with the [candlestick].

suspect:     weapon:     room:    

🧵🥯🎏 while i was reading

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 2/6

1. book with a question in the title:
can you see her? by s.e. lynes
3. book with a cover you don’t like:
early morning riser by katherine heiny
4. historical fiction not set in europe: (usa)
lily's crossing by patricia reilly giff
saints for all occasions by j. courtney sullivan
5. book with a character’s name in the title:
✘ the mason list by s.d. hendrickson
6. book featuring paranormal activity:
✘ the taker by alma katsu
7. book with a number in the title:
🎧 mickey7 by edward ashton
🎧 walk two moons by sharon creech
10. middle-grade book:
🎧 no fixed address by susin nielsen

completed:

🔍 👀🚨 i spy

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 5/?

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1. c o l o r: (view spoiler)[🎧 The Red Car Acts of Violet 🎧 The Golden Couple Black-Eyed Susans Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (hide spoiler)]
✘ 2. number: 🎧 the two-family house
3. things that grow:
☐ 🎧 the rose code the golden couple (rose)
4. season: winter in sokcho
✘5. first name:🎧 lily's crossing
6. place:
☐ 🎧 mansfield park
7. body part:
☐ 🎧
☐ how to fall in love with anyone (eyes)
8. weapon:
☐ 🎧 little threats (knife)
9. body of water:
☐ deep water
✘ 10. form of water: rock paper scissors (snow)
11. product of fire:
12. celestial body: orbiting jupiter the sun also rises
13. architecture:
☐ house arrest
☐ the house in the cerulean sea
14. senses: - sight, touch, taste
☐ the captives (blindfolded)
☐ 🎧 cold comfort farm
☐ 🎧 very cold people
☐ 🎧 can't look away
15. royal title
16. family member: 🎧 sisters Brother/Sister
18. time of day:
☐ 🎧 the night diary
☐ fight night
☐ on midnight beach
☐ early morning riser
saturdays at noon
19. metal: tin man
✘ 20. emotion/feelings: 🎧 every last fear
21. animal: last night at the lobster the nothing girl miss benson's beetle confessions of a class clown
22. something to read: 🎧 notes on a scandal the night diary
✘ 23. sports: the cheat sheet

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completed:

🐧🐾 penguins & polar bears

start date: jan 1
end date: mar 31

read: 2/6

January: Reset
February: Fandom
March: Happiness (bliss/misery)

April: Creativity
May: Media
✘✘June: Paris (✘romance/✘solitude)


August: Travels (journey/hometown)

✘✘September: Trust (✘honesty/✘deceit)

October: Moon (moon/sun)


(night/day)

November: Glass (fragile/tough)
✘December: Harmony (unity/✘conflict)

🐝📘 buzzword challenge

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

read: 3/?

JANUARY A book with one of the 5 W's in the title
🎧 When Friendship Followed Me Home
✅️ FEBRUARY A book with a pronoun in the title:
✘ I Dare You
MARCH A book with a location in the title
🎧 Gallant
🎧 Mansfield Park
APRIL A book with LITTLE or BIG (or similar word) in the title
This Little Family
A Little Princess
A Little Folly
✅ MAY A book with a direction in the title:
🎧 Out
They Went Left
✘🎧 The Family Upstairs
🎧 The Last House on Needless Street
JUNE A book with ALL in the title
🎧 All My Goodbyes
🎧 Saints for All Occasions
JULY A book with a book related word in the title
AUGUST A book with an item/object in the title
SEPTEMBER A book with LIGHT or DARK in the title
How High We Go in the Dark
🎧 A Certain Slant of Light
OCTOBER A book with an animal or creature in the title
The Harpy
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
✅ NOVEMBER A book with "ING" in the title:
🎧 The Disappearing Act
✘🎧 Rules for Vanishing
DECEMBER A book with a number in the title
🎧 One Last Shot
🎧 Walk Two Moons

completed:

👑💗🥇 i’m your biggest fan

start date: feb 1
end date: feb 28

read: 1/4



🥰 MR. CALEB LANDRY JONES ❤️

🥕he’s an adorable ginger - redhaired protagonist
frankie & bug
🩸 in byzantium - immortal being
the taker
😇 in heaven knows what - about drug addiction
✘🎧 you'd be home now
antiviral -
🏆 won canne's film festival 'best actor' for nitram - troubled male mc
🎧 house arrest
from texas - the lucky few

🛼🍒 pick your poison challenge

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

level: baker’s dozen
read: 4/12

1. letter z in title:
love from a to z by s.k. ali
2. color red on cover:
🎧 the maid by nita prose
3. author whose last name could be a first name:
✘ maybe in another life by taylor jenkins reid
5. book about memory loss:
✘ 🎧 rules for vanishing by kate alice marshall
🎧 the last house on needless street by catriona ward
6. cover that reminds you of a video game:
🎧 liar & spy by rebecca stead

7. book with multiple fonts on cover:
✘
8. author you've always wanted to read:

9. book under 150 pages:
✘ 🎧 things have gotten worse since we last spoke by eric larocca
10. set within 10 years of your birth:
the fates will find their way by hannah pittard (1985)
11. phantom of the opera--about a hidden world:
acts of violet by margarita montimore
🎧 the rose code by kate quinn
12. chicago--set in prison:
🎧 prisoner b-3087 by alan gratz
13. translated from another language:
🎧 all my goodbyes by mariana dimópulos (spanish)

completed:

⭐️🪐 march ☆ wish upon a star ☆

start date: mar 1
end date: mar 31

goal: 12☆
read: 7☆

✘the cheat sheet by sarah adams ☆☆
✘🎧 house arrest by k.a. holt ☆☆☆☆☆
🎧 clues to the universe by christina li

completed:

🥁🪗 tunes & tomes  ✅

start date: april 1
end date: april 30

read: 4/4

furr - blitzen trapper
✘ the mason list by s.d. hendrickson
⇘ ⇘ “When I was 17” 📙 YA book

sympathy - goo goo dolls
✘ goodbye, perfect by sara barnard
⇲ 📕

older - sasha slone
✘ a midsummer's nightmare by kody keplinger
⇘ ⇘ "My parents are no heroes" 📗

yume fuusen (yurikago version) - aqua timez
✘ convenience store woman by sayaka murata
⇲⇲ Solitude 📘

completed:

🎟🎥🎞 media mayhem

start date: may 1
end date: may 31

read: 1/5

◾ manga ⇲⇲ anime
spy x family, vol. 1 by tatsuya endo
chainsaw man, vol. 1 by tatsuki fujimoto

◾ manga ⇲⇲ live-action tv series
liar game, game I by shinobu kaitani

◾ manga ⇲⇲ live-action film
20th century boys, band 3 by naoki urasawa

◾ book ⇲⇲ tv series [soon on netflix]
✘ rock paper scissors by alice feeney

◾ book ⇲⇲ tv series
anxious people by fredrik backman

completed:

🧶🦥 may scattergories  ✅

start date: may 1
end date: may 31

goal: 12/12

may letter: g

recurring items:
✘1. title: the good lie
✘2. author: gotouge, koyoharu - kimetsu no yaiba, vol. 7
✘3. main character: the good lie (gwen)
✘4. secondary character: maybe in another life (gabby)
✘5. place: rules for vanishing (the ghost road)
✘6. item on cover: rules for vanishing (ghost)


may specials:
✘7. hold in your hand: the good lie
⇲ pg.22 "...right next to a gold butterfly broach."

✘8. where you exercise: rules for vanishing
⇲ pg.43 "...my feet don't quite touch the ground."

✘9. things that smell bad: rock paper scissors
⇲ pg.41 "...ghosts or gargoyles down here."

✘10. word begins with gr: the good lie
⇲ pg.32 "the grin that stretched across my cheeks fell..."

✘11. something yucky: rock paper scissors
⇲ pg.43 "the frozen curry wasn't as grim as I expected."

✘12. places you shouldn’t wear a suit: maybe in another life
⇲ pg.77 "you can't park in the garage here?"

completed:

🚂🚋✈️ have book, will travel

start date: aug 1
end date: aug 30

read: ?/?

5. travel by...
a form of transportation on the cover:
(van)
(bike)
(bike)
(car)

🐕‍🦺🌵 june scattergories

start date: jun 1
end date: jun 30

goal: 12/12

june letter: L

recurring items:
✘1. title: lily's crossing *6/21
✘2. author: lisa jewell - the family upstairs *6/2
✘3. main character: lily's crossing lily
✘4. secondary char: notes on your sudden disappearance lisa *6/30
✘5. place: the family upstairs london
✘6. item on cover: notes on your sudden disappearance ladder


june specials:
✘7. things money can't buy: notes on your sudden disappearance
⇲ pg.107 "...now people wanted to be my lab partner..."

✘8. opposite of tight: the family upstairs
⇲ pg.137 "all hell let loose."

✘9. middle of the day meal: lily's crossing
⇲ pg.92 "as soon as lunch was over..."

✘10. has to be done each week: notes on your sudden disappearance
⇲ pg.95 "billy messaged as soon as I logged on."

✘11. item in a backpack: notes on your sudden disappearance
⇲ pg.60 "mom threw her tube of lipstick in the air."

✘12. monthly payment: the family upstairs
⇲ pg.49 "...maserati parked on the driveway, leased no doubt..."

completed:

🎂👫 wedding foods

start date: jun 1
end date: nov 30

level: 1
read: 0/9

1. England: Fruitcake
🌏 Read a book set in England.

2. Germany: Hochzeitssuppe
🌏 Read a book set in Germany: Cloud and Wallfish

3. Italy: Jordan Almonds
🌏 Read a book set in Italy.

4. Japan: Kazunoko
🌏 Read a book with a yellow cover: Freshers The Golden Couple


5. Vietnam: Banh Xu
🌏 Read a book with a couple on the cover: Out of Love


6. Brazil: Bem Casados
🌏 Read a romance.

7. FRANCE Croquembouche.
🌏 Read a book set in France: The Switch Sorrow and Bliss

8. Armenia: Ghapama
🌏 Listen to an audiobook:
🌏 Read a book with fruit on the cover: Notes on a Scandal


9. Sweden: Prinsesstårta
🌏 Read a book with a green cover.
🌏 Read a book set in Sweden: Anxious People
🌏 Read a book with a cake on the cover: Rabbit Cake


10. India: Honey And Yogurt
🌏 Read a book set in India: A Little Princess

☃️❄ winter challenge

start date: jun 1
end date: aug 31

level: easy
read: 3/6

#1. The Queen's birthday is June 13th
Read a book from the genre Historical Fiction OR a book by a female author.
For Lucy by Jewel E. Ann

#2. read a book with a green cover:
✘ notes on your sudden disappearance by alison espach

#3. read a stand alone book:
✘ The Trivia Night by Ali Lowe (AA)

#4. Read a book which set in Canada:
I'm Good and Other Lies by Bev Katz Rosenbaum

#5. read a book which a friend on GR gave five stars:
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (AA)

#6. read a book which features a strong, independent woman:
✘ we are the brennans by tracey lange

red by any other name

start date: jul 1
end date: jul 31

read: 2/?

🌹Rose × flower on the cover: A Place to Hang the Moon

🏵 Garnet: Garnets are the January birthstone, so read a book set during January or published in January.
🍁 Crimson: Read a book with a red cover or a book with the word red in the title.

4. Ruby: Read a book with the word ruby in the title or a book with a character named Ruby.
🍷Wine: Read a book with a beverage in the title or a book that has a bottle on the cover.

✘🩸Blood: blood on the cover.

🍬 Candy: Read a book with candy on the cover or a book featuring candy in some way.
🍎🍏 Apple: Read a book with an apple on the cover or read a book with a fruit in the title.

👩🏻‍🦰 Auburn: Read a book featuring a redhead on the cover or a book with a main character with red hair.

✘👄Blush: a cover with someone is wearing cosmetics.

🌐🗺 miles of smiles

start date: jul 1
end date: sep 30

read: 0/?

The world's happiest countries, 2022 edition:

1. Finland
2. Denmark: Karate Chop
3. Iceland
4. Switzerland
5. Netherlands
6. Luxembourg
7. Sweden: Anxious People
8. Norway: Out Stealing Horses Adventures with Waffles
9. Israel
10. New Zealand
11. Austria: The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
12. Australia: Sorrow and Bliss
13. Ireland: Beautiful World, Where Are You
14. Germany: Cloud and Wallfish
15. Canada: I'm Good and Other Lies
16. United States
17. United Kingdom: Jane and Prudence The Switch
18. Czechia (Czech Republic)
19. Belgium
20. France

september featured author - jay kristoff

J ☆ For Lucy by Jewel E. Ann Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
A ☆ The Trivia Night by Ali Lowe (AA)
Y ☆ The Year We Fell Apart by Emily Martin

october scattergories

start date: oct 1
end date: oct 31

goal: 5/12

october letter: F
Recurring Items:
✅️ 1. Book Title: Filthy Vows
For Lucy Friction Frankenstein First Love
2. Author: Felix Blackwell - Stolen Tongues
Fredrik Backman - Anxious People The Thief - Fuminori Nakamura
3. Main Character: Stolen Tongues Felix
Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein Cold Comfort Farm Flora Poste
4. Secondary Character: Stolen Tongues Freya
Come Closer Leon Fields
✅️ 5. Place/Setting: Filthy Vows Florida
france, florida, fiji, fresno, frankfurt, fukushima, farm
6. Item on Cover: Frankenstein Stolen Tongues footprint

flower, fox, fence, fire, finger, fringe, field, football, family, face, food

Specials for October:
7. Something a ghost does: Anxious People
+ pg.87 "...they get to float through life with a feeling of moral superiority..."

8. Another word for a silly person: Anxious People
+ pg.157 "...the ability to fool the person you love.."

✅️ 9. Something that scares you: Filthy Vows
+ pg.19 "...unsure if I want to light this fire."

10. Person in uniform: Anxious People
+ pg.48 "That man there, he could be a fireman."

✅️ 11. Something found on a desk: Filthy Vows
+ pg.146 "Easton ordered the yellowtail fettuccine."

✅️ 12. You take this on a trip: Filthy Vows
+ pg.176 "A flashlight was cupped between us."
flashlight?, football

spring challenge

start date: sep 1
end date: nov 30

R
A ☆ Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
I ☆ I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
N ☆ The Nothing Girl by Jodi Taylor




W ☆ Where It All Lands by Jennie Wexler
A ☆ For Lucy by Jewel E. Ann
R ☆ The Risk by S.T. Abby
M ☆ The Year We Fell Apart by Emily Martin




G ☆ Girls in Boys' Cars by Felicity Castagna (AA) The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks
R ☆
O ☆ Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland (AA)
W ☆ Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang To Have and to Hoax by Martha Waters




L ☆ The Little Wave by Pip Harry (AA)
U ☆ Under the Influence by Joyce Maynard The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer
S ☆ Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (AA)
H ☆ Hale by K. Webster



Anew
Blue
Grow
Lush
Rain
Warm

september scattergories

start date: sep 1
end date: sep 30

goal: 0/12

september letter: W

Recurring Items:
1. Book Title: The Wall of Winnipeg and Me Wolf Hollow
2. Author:
3. Main Character: A Terrible Kindness William
4. Secondary Character: Sorrow and Bliss Winsome Very Cold People Winifred Cabot Fish
5. Place/Setting: wisconsin, washington, warsaw, wales, Wall Street, water park,
The Golden Couple dc A Terrible Kindness wales Very Cold People Waitsfield, Massachusetts Brother West Virginia(?)
6. Item on Cover: Sorrow and Bliss wall, wingback chair


whipped cream, wave, wine, wolf, window, windshield, wax

Specials for September:
7. An item that bends: Very Cold People
÷ pg.71 "...blowing soap bubbles through a plastic wand."

8. Something you can lean on - wall, walker, wood

9. Five letter word - wings, witch, whisk, woods, whine, wheat, watch, wheel

10. An item that you carry: The Year We Fell Apart
÷ pg.50 "From a hundred feet below there's a whistle."

walkman, working boots, wand, wallet, whistle

11. Something you talk about: Very Cold People weather, work
÷ pg.86 "The background of my life was white and angry, with violent weather."

12. A fresh food: The Year We Fell Apart
÷ pg.92 "...gourmet grilled cheeses, fried chicken and waffles."

waffle, wasabi, watermelon, walnut, watercress

calendar of books

january

the jane austen society by natalie jenner
joan is okay by weike wang
jellicoe road by melina marchetta

february

for lucy by jewel e. ann
frankenstein by mary shelley

march

misery by stephen king
my policeman by bethan roberts


june

hidden pictures by jason rekulak

july

every other weekend by abigail johnson

september

severance by ling ma

december scattergories

start date: dec 1
end date: dec 31

goal: /12

december letter: M

Recurring Items:
1. Book Title: My Dark Vanessa The Maid
2. Author: Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss
3. Main Character: Sorrow and Bliss Martha
The Maid Molly Gray
Juniper Hill Memphis
4. Secondary Character: Every Summer After Delilah Mason
5. Place/Setting: michigan, minnesota, mississipi, maldives, miami, melbourne, madrid, manchester, mansfield, manitoba, maine, milan, manhattan
All My Puny Sorrows manitoba
Juniper Hill quincy, montana
Middlemarch midlands, england
My Dark Vanessa maine
6. Item on Cover: man, mail, moon


Specials for December:
7. A word that a baby says:

8. You wear this: mask, makeup, mascara, mittens

9. A word with double letters like Debbie: missing

10. Things you replace:

11. An Inspirational, Powerful or Encouraging word:

12. Something you watch:

F ☆
R ☆ My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
E ☆ Bad Girl Reputation by Elle Kennedy
D ☆
E ☆ The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (AA)
R ☆ I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
I ☆ We Spread by Iain Reid
C ☆ Girls in Boys' Cars by Felicity Castagna (AA)
A ☆ Brother by Ania Ahlborn

i spy

start date: jan 1
end date: dec 31

goal: /

1. Transportation (car, train, skateboard)
2. Days of the week:
3. A food or drink:
4. Type of crime (thievery, murder, robbery)
5. Olympic sport (skiing, basketball, gymnastics)
6. Musical instruments (saxophone, piano, drums)
7. Cat family (tiger, tabby, cheetah)
8. School subject (mathematics, English, chemistry)
9. Type of weather: (stormy, rainy, sunny)

10. City in Europe:
11. Celebration (birthday, wedding, Eid)
12. Something you sit on:

13. A source of light (sun, lamp, torch)
14. Art or craft (painting, sewing, scrapbooking)
15. A measurement (metres, feet, pounds)
16. Something you hang on the wall (clock, picture, frame)
17. Something you find at a circus (clown, ringmaster, popcorn)
18. A direction (North, West, East)
19. An accessory (bag, necklace, scarf)
20. Name for a road:

21. Shade of purple (plum, violet, magenta)
22. Something you write (poem, book, essay)
23. Something you walk through:

24. Something you find in a house:

25. A bird:

buzzword challenge

Jan - "life" and "death"

Feb - verbs
Mar - "secret"
Apr - emotions
May - flavours, spices, seasonings
Jun - "other"

Jul - weather related words
Very Cold People
Aug - Body parts
Sep - Game related words
Oct - "magic"
Nov - "good"
Dec - Sound related words

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