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You could mix it up and have a domestication wheel versus slaying so mythical creature you might want as a pet
We do need a team name. I am fine with that one but due to the wings, the picture is a German Wolpertinger
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...First Five Monsters:
1. Centaurs
2. Colchian Dragon
3. Sirens
4. Chimera
5.
(re-spun 5 to avoid duplicates)
Rules 1.) Each monster has a set of required tasks that must be completed in order to vanquish the monster.
2.) Books can be used to complete more than one task, but only for the same monster. If you can find a single book that meets all five tasks, congratulations, you defeated the monster with just one book! Expect other teams to notice this and copy your choice ;)
3.) Teams/individuals can have up to 5 monsters to vanquish at any time.
4.) Monsters are assigned at random and may be repeated by the same team/individual.
5.) We like players to be creative, that's what makes this fun. However, please do not hurt yourself over thinking the tasks. If there still is some indecision, post in the Q&A thread or just find a different book.
6.) Once you vanquish a monster and get a replacement it should be considered locked and you cannot swap out books.
The Walloping Wolpertingers' Marauding Monsters 2023 
Team Members:
Jenny
Judith
Angie
Lexi
Kate
Donna
Links:
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Master List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Greek Wheel: https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Typhon&am...
Asia Wheel:https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Ropen&...
Urban Myths Wheel:https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Hoop%20Sn...
Human Monsters Wheel:https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Mr.%20Bur...
Overly Specific Literary Monsters: https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Behemoth%...
Dr. Who: https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Ood&c...
Bad Romance: https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Hot%20Pro...
Vegi-Might: https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Ent&c...
Discworld: https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Mr%20Salz...
World: https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Anders%20...
I started the year with 542 and ended with 420. Lots of deleting as well as reading. I'm pretty happy with it. Likely less deleting next year, but my goal to end the year around 350.
New year, new goals: Jan NetGalley Challenge
Beginning of month
Books on shelf: 31
Feedback ratio: 80%
2019:
2020:
2021:
2022:
2023:
Drunk in title
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson
Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet.
She’s not the agency’s best translator, but what else is she going to do? She has no qualifications, and no discernible talent in any other field.
So when tragedy strikes, and Lydia finds herself at the center of an intergalactic incident, her future employment prospects look dire—that is, if she can keep herself out of jail!
But Lydia soon discovers that help can appear from the most unexpected source…
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels gradually wreak havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker; his pregnant wife, Frida; and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into the high winds to search for them. Left alone, Frida goes into premature labor and gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, whom she names after the catastrophic storm that ushers her into a society closer to collapse than ever before.
As Florida continues to unravel, Wanda grows. Moving from childhood to adulthood, adapting not only to the changing landscape, but also to the people who stayed behind in a place abandoned by civilization, Wanda loses family, gains community, and ultimately, seeks adventure, love, and purpose in a place remade by nature.
Told in four parts—power, water, light, and time—The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not see, the future we would rather not greet, and a call back to the beauty and violence of an untamable wilderness.
I read all 500 pages of
and it was just not a good fit for me. It was 32 stories so only 15 pages each. It just dragged by the end for me. Still, one of my longer ones so good to have read. I also added one this month so staying at an even 80% and 31 books to read.
I'm done as well. Good job everyone. I'll check back later; if anyone adds anything to the SS, just add it at the bottom please.
Checking in as we near the end of the last week, how it everyone doing? We got snow last night, which was pretty but not fun to drive in.
Just a general reminder that the page minimum for books is 160 pages.
I opened up another spelling on the planning spreadsheet.
Eldarwen wrote: "Yeah no need to keep books on your list that you aren't ever going to be able to get." I should probably do that too. I have access to three libraries, including Boston, since I have moved so many times in 2021 but those cards will expire so if not now, unlikely to have access in the future.
I'm back as well. I have made good strides on 2016 and 2017 and have 39 left for the two years. I also want to keep reading books from 2018-2019 since I will focus on them in 2024 most likely.2016 11/13
1. Plain Kate -1/3-****
2 The Winged Histories - 9/22-****
3 Leviathan Wakes-11/30-***
4 The Copper Promise- DNF but read first part as a novella (11/4-***)
5 The Goblin Emperor-5/25-*****
6 Dodger-6/11-***
7 The Grapes of Wrath
8 The Brothers Karamazov
9 Moll Flanders-DNF
10 Servant of the Underworld-7/8-***
11 Hild-DNF
12 Storykiller -DNF
13 A Curious Beginning - 9/13-***
14 Spellslinger-4/4-***
15 We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - 8/26-****
16. Parable of the Sower-2/26-****
2017 16/16
1. The Golem and the Jinni - 5/8-****
2. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?-1/4-****
3. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - DNF
4. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - 7/30-***
5. Defy the Stars-10/23-***
6. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia-12/8-***
7. The Curse of Chalion-1/9-*****
8. Shades of Grey-11/9-***
9. Star's End - DNF - library did not have and didn't want to buy
10. An Unkindness of Magicians-12/15-****
11. Noumenon- 12/26-****
12. The Restorer - DNF
13. A Gathering of Shadows-5/23-****
14. The Address - 10/2-***
15. Unearthed - 9/1-***
16. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal-DNF
17. Paradox Bound-6/1-***
18. The Beautiful Ones-3/9-***
19. Strangers - DNF
20. Tempests and Slaughter-10/12-***
21. The Tethered Mage-DNF
22. Now I Rise-DNF
23. Senlin Ascends-10/16-****
Other Years at start of 2023:
2018 -32
2019 - 56
2020 - 73
2021 - 75
Total TBR: 420
Planning Sheet Up
Sammy wrote: "#105 
I'd had this sitting in my bookcase for years, but after reading (and hating) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, it pretty much pl..."
I disliked the The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue but greatly enjoyed A Darker Shade of Magic and Vicious so makes perfect sense to me
Countdown to the end of this week: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...Next week, our word is THE GOOD WIFE OF BATH (green) and at least 10 tags of Zombies (Link:https://www.goodreads.com/genres/zombies)
The planning sheet will be up later today, and I have included some books that have >10 zombie tags as suggestions for people who aren't as fond of traditional zombie books.
Note: Illuminae,Magic Bites, &Sabriel also are great audiobooks
