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Karsyn ’s comments from the Badass Reading Challenges group.

The one Teddie listed and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making ~ it seems to fit a LOT of long crazy words. :) Will look some more in a bit, I'm still on Ch 7, so I haven't looked for anything for Ch 8 yet.

YAY for all the good suggestions, sorry I just got up and saw this. You can always look at my Hogwarts thread for any suggestions if you need 'em. I don't have everything with a suggestion, but working on it. :)


The boy books I had were:

romance / erotica
YA mystery
YA contemporary

My Round One Bracket


With a few tweaks to the randomizer, my bracket looks like this:

64 Books of 2017

Here's some closeups:
Bracket A ~ (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]
Bracket B ~ (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]
Bracket C ~ (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]
Bracket D ~ (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]


The Books:
         📖 Murder Games
         📖 Look Behind You
         📖 Justice Calling
         📖 Dare Mighty Things
         📖 Evil Spark
         📖 Moon Called
         📖 The Delphi Effect
         📖 Last Year
         📖 The Diabolic
         📖 Two Can Play
         📖 Artemis
         📖 The Fourth Monkey
         📖 The Secret Keepers
         📖 Jackaby
         📖 The Apprentice
         📖 The Storybook of Legends

         📖 The Land: Founding
         📖 Magic Bites
         📖 The Archived
         📖 NPCs
         📖 Justice for Corrie
         📖 Waypoint Kangaroo
         📖 Spider's Bite
         📖 Rivers of London
         📖 Dungeon Crawl
         📖 Skulduggery Pleasant
         📖 Odd Thomas
         📖 A Court of Thorns and Roses
         📖 Stoneheart
         📖 The Crown Conspiracy
         📖 Opening Moves
         📖 The Candy Shop War

         📖 Midnight Rescue
         📖 The Caller
         📖 A Murder in Time
         📖 Bound
         📖 Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book
         📖 Secrets in Death
         📖 And the Rest is History
         📖 Survivor
         📖 Dark Matter
         📖 The Feedback Loop
         📖 Free Agent
         📖 Follow You
         📖 The Steel Remains
         📖 Enemies of the State
         📖 The Shadow Cipher
         📖 My Sister's Grave

         📖 Rotherweird
         📖 The Book Jumper
         📖 The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
         📖 The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase
         📖 The Wise Man's Fear
         📖 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
         📖 Keys
         📖 In the Woods
         📖 Scrappy Little Nobody
         📖 Solitude
         📖 Mortal Danger
         📖 H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education
         📖 Traveler
         📖 A Merciful Truth
         📖 Nyxia
         📖 Fatal Shadows


I think I know what my top 4 will be. Anyone wanna take guesses on them? :)

Awesome Kirby! :) I hope you had fun with it! :) Thanks for sharing!

No worries. :)

Haven't had anyone ask that before. But yeah, it needs to remain the same, that you'd have to use it for the next chapter AND your own completion tasks. Because that's the point of the ones with "all" in it, you have to do all to complete that one.

But if you want to use the one as a Chapter criteria but not as one of your two, that'd be fine, you'd just have to read extra.

And you're a Ravenclaw, so stick with that. While we'll do more with the houses, we won't have it for opening the Next Chapter, so our few Slytherins won't mater.

Woohoo!! Awesome finds ladies!

Good idea on the Randomizer Jenny! :) I had started off doing mine in order, but didn't quite have enough so I started over and used the randomizer so I'd know how many I had.


My List
         ALL new-to-me books, no re-reads
         Only one book of a series featured, may or may not be 1st book
         52 books of 4&5 star rating reviews, the rest filled in with good 3 stars

Will post bracket tomorrow.

It's up to everyone on how they would like to post their stuff, But what I'm planning on doing is posting an image on the days of each round. Probably be a few images, so they can be seen, but that's what I plan on doing.

You can do that, or just list 'em in the post and weed it down that way, or however you prefer. :)

You can also post why/how you made your decisions once we start narrowing the field down. However you wanna do it, just have fun with it!

I'm looking Ashley, so far I haven't found it.

Let me look a little tomorrow. If no one finds any by then, then we'll change just that one to be any tense of "bewitch".


Just noting any tenses I find:

City of Skies ~ bewitched

If anyone is waiting, Chapter 8 will be out soon, just working on a few things, then it'll be posted. :)

Completion Post ~ *honorary* Slytherin


Slytherin Task
Task: Read a Book with an AUTHOR whose first or last name is any of Gregory Goyle
Book: Alistair Grim's Odd Aquaticum
Author: Gregory Funaro
Pages: 448
Start Date: 11/28/17
Finish Date: 11/10/17
How it Fits: Author Gregory Funaro

Dang! Everyone has been on the ball with this chapter, except me. :/ I'm a little over half way on my book and will probably finish it late tonight, so will post it first thing tomorrow. I'll post if I finish it earlier.

I'm sure Plethora will be around. I will in the meantime tho. It's my fault, not hers, since I totally didn't post til the 5th. Sorry about that. I'm making a calendar so I can remember to post things on time when I still have other things going on (which is rare, but happens).

If you want to use either of my picks, I'll say:

as I found it enjoyable
as I read Theft of Swords and really liked the characters. I didn't even know about this book, so I'm gonna have to read it too. :)

Hey Danielle! For you, I pick:


because I really liked it, though I didn't like the 2nd one

because the cover really caught my attention and I couldn't look at anything else. So pretty!! :)


Thanks for my pick Lauri, I look forward to them, especially the NPH one. I hope it's good!

Completed Tasks ~ 3 Tasks / 3 Books + 1 honorary book
In Progress ~ 1 Task / 2 of 4 Books completed


Chapter Seven ~ The Sorting Hat


Read ALL of the following:
         a Book with the word FOUR in the Title (may be numerical)

Task: Read a Book that is the Fourth book in a Series
Book: The Land: Catacombs
Author: Aleron Kong
Pages: 391
Start Date: 11/30/17
Finish Date: 12/4/17
How it Fits: 4th book in The Land series


         a Book that has a Four letter Title

Task: Read a Book with the number 4 in the page count
Book: Spider's Revenge
Author: Jennifer Estep
Pages: 404
Start Date: 12/5/17
Finish Date: 12/8/17
How it Fits: a 4 in the page count


Hufflepuffs: Read a Book with LOYAL or TRUE in the Title


Task: Read a Book with an AUTHOR whose first OR last name is Susan Bones
Book: Justice for Boone
Author: Susan Stoker
Pages: 328
Start Date: 12/12/17
Finish Date: 12/14/17
How it Fits: Author's first name is Susan



Task: Read a Book with an AUTHOR whose first name is Gregory
Book: Alistair Grim's Odd Aquaticum
Author: Gregory Funaro
Pages: 448
Start Date: 11/28/17
Finish Date: 11/10/17
How it Fits: Author Gregory Funaro



Task: Read a Book that has all the letters of SORTING HAT in its title
Book: Just One Damned Thing After Another: An Audible Original Drama
Author: Jodi Taylor
Pages: 296
Start Date: 12/10/17
Finish Date: 12/11/17
How it Fits: Sorting Hat in Title: juST One dAmned THING afteR another
Rating: 5 stars



Task: Read a Book with Song lyrics in it
Book: The Magic Misfits
Author: Neil Patrick Harris
Pages: 224
Start Date: 12/16/17
Finish Date: 12/16/17
How it Fits: A Barbershop quartet from the carnival sings to the crowds several times and lyrics of what they sang is in the book.
Rating: 5 stars

ARC's, GoodReads giveaways. There's plenty of "read now" books at NetGalley that you don't have to be approved for, or request books you are interested in there.

In that case it has to be D for Dr. I agree with you, that the actual title is "The Stone Rose" but that's just not how they list it. I'm reading a LitRPG series that is the same way. It's annoying, cuz how it has it listed the titles are all "The Land" then a subtitle. Annoying, but since that's the way it's listed here, that's what I've gone by.

Eh. Hard one. I'm gonna have to go with no, since it's so dark. It's almost just like a shadow, rather than a defined outline of a motorcycle. Sorry!

When we came up with this idea for the Houses, we'd thought it'd be more equally distributed among the Houses.

Since Slytherin is not well represented and none of the Slytherins are on the current chapter, Angie and I will do the 2 for the Slytherins this time. We won't do a lot of the House separations, so when we do do one again, hopefully the few Slytherins will be caught up. :)