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Last Month of the year - Dec can be a mess, so my goal is just to read 2-3 and don't add any.Dec NetGalley Challenge
Beginning of month
Books on shelf: 32
Feedback ratio: 80%
Past Publication:
2019:
2020:
2021:
2022:
2023:
Made it for the year with book #45. I'll see if I get anymore done this year but Dec tends to be saved for those challenges I am behind on.This leaves me with 17 books from 2016 so by the end of next year, they will either be read or deleted. (I also only have 25 left from 2017).
Melanie, thank you for telling us and please focus on whatever you need to care for yourself. Hope you feel better soon.
Cordelia wrote: "So it can't be LGBT, it just has to be queer? That's annoying, they mean the same thing but one book I'm looking at has 11 lgbt tags and only 4 queer tags."Also, it has to be queer. I have a book with 4 myth tags so yes, it can be annoying when you are under, esp on newer books.
Countdown to the end of this week: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...Next week, our word is RAZORBLADE TEARS (pink) and at least 10 tags of Queer. (Link:https://www.goodreads.com/genres/queer)
The planning sheet is up.
Darren wrote: "Hi.I have added a book to one of the highlighted letters.
Also I think this book cover is red, so I have ticked the color box
"That works great. Thank you
Read one of my older ones -
(3 stars). Sadly, the author spent the second half of the book discussing philosophy versus writing some plot.
Alison wrote: "It doesn't currently fit any of the remaining letters on the planning sheet so ..."I moved books around so it fits now. We have O,U, T left and then I will open up a new word.
Alison wrote: "Would you say this is red enough? Or too much orange?
"I think it is orange
Great job, everyone. Teams have 12 hours to update sheets, but we are all good to start week 2.
There is no book limit this time so feel free to read as many books as you want
Darren, the last three books you added to the spreadsheet are all missing read dates on your wheel shelf. Could you please fix them, thank you
I have opened up a new word as we have filled the original two. However, if anyone is not going to finish their book in time, please remove it so I can move books around to make sure we only have 1 incomplete word.Just to repeat what Ariel said (which was correct), the first word can always be used, even if it is a The or A, and color books have to be over 50% that color, of which sadly neither book you mentioned it.
I will post the countdowns for each round at the top of the thread in message 7.
I've got a meeting in 25 minutes but posting for those that like to plan. Our word for next week is "THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET," The color cover is red, and books get extra points for at least 10 tags for "Mythology." I will get a planning sheet up this evening. (Also, just a FYI, in future weeks, we will get the next week's information on Saturday but got it early this week).Link: https://www.goodreads.com/genres/myth...
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love.
Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence on the misty, remote shores of Saoirse Island and running the family’s business, Blackwood’s Tea Shoppe Herbal Tonics & Tea Leaf Readings.
But when the island, rooted in folklore and magic, begins to show signs of strange happenings, Emery knows that something is coming. The morning she wakes to find that every single tree on Saoirse has turned color in a single night, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that the town has tried desperately to forget.
August knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night everything changed. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother’s ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from his past that has never healed—Emery.
The town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises spanning generations threaten to reveal the truth behind Lily’s mysterious death once and for all.
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…
Saar The Book owl wrote: "I'm starting my first book this weekend. Does it need to be word AND color or word OR color? And the last day of round 1 is Nov. 21th? Just to be sure ;)"Any book must fit for at least one letter in our word of the week. We have all 5 blue cover books claimed so that is good. We get an extra 5 points for books with over 10 tags for space opera but don't feel like you must read one. Hope that answers your question. I will post the countdown in the next post and add it to the top of the thread.
Melanie,When you have time, could you add page numbers to the kindle edition for Now Is Not the Time to Panic? It is 249 pages. (Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...)
Thank you
