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OK, I'll try.Decades Challenge 2018
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Jan 01, 2018 11:27AM
The Lake Effect by Erin McCahan
It’s the summer after his senior year, and Briggs Henry is out the door. He’s leaving behind his ex-girlfriend and his parents’ money troubles for Lake Michigan and its miles of sandy beaches, working a summer job as a personal assistant, and living in a gorgeous Victorian on the shore. It’s the kind of house Briggs plans to buy his parents one day when he’s a multi-millionaire. But then he gets there. And his eighty-four-year-old boss tells him to put on a suit for her funeral.
So begins a summer of social gaffes, stomach cramps, fraught beach volleyball games, moonlit epiphanies, and a drawer full of funeral programs. Add to this Abigail, the mystifying girl next door on whom Briggs’s charms just won’t work, and “the lake effect” is taking on a whole new meaning.
Erin: You can add Mormon and Orthodox Christian (Greek, Russian, etc. to the list.What's the difference between Islam and Muslim? You could do Sunni and Shia Muslims.
Or Reform Jew vs. Conservative vs. Orthodox. Lots of options! Australian Indigenous.
I do like the idea of being able to get to the highest level with Option 1.
OK, I'm starting on 12/4 and I'll see how far I get.OPTION 1
Read a book about or where one of the main characters are from the following religions :
-Catholic
-Muslim
-Jewish
-Christian
-Buddhist
-Atheist
-Confucius
-Native American
-Hindu
-Traditional Indigenous
-Scientology
-Greek Mythology
-Roman Mythology
-Egyptian Mythology
-Wiccan
So I count all Protestants and Orthodox Christians under Christian? Do you count Mormons as Christians or are they just left out? And is Traditional Indigenous for non-Americans? or just non-USAns? (South America, Canada, Mexican?)
I updated at message 101 with my five books!
I will try for the tasks this month.Update 5 -- I squeaked into Moderate.
1. Read a book with a military hero. Make Me, Lee Child 11/10/17 (Jack Reacher)
2. Read a book with a predominately blue cover, the color of “forget-me-not” flowers.
, An K J Charles 11/6/176. Read a book that is a memoir.
, Paul Kalanithi 11/23/177. Read a book where a character reminiscences. Bright Candles, Nathaniel Benchley 11/30/17 (book is told remembering the past)
8. Read a book you read long ago, but can’t quite recall. Expendable, James Alan Gardner 11/20/17
I'm in!12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
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11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
Cold Comfort Farm
Towers of Trebezond
What I Thought I Knew
Running the Books
Zeitoun
A Long Walk to Water
Complications (Gawande)
Sureblood (Susan Grant) (may be hard to find)
Bobby the Brave
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Thirteen Reasons Why
10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
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OK. I'm in!1. Subject: Sports
Task: Classroom
Book: Superstar, Mandy Davis 9/2/17
Task: Dress for Success:
Book: Under the Egg, Laura Marx Fitzgerald 9/9/17
Task: Preparing the Backpack
Book: Labyrinth Lost, Zoraida Cordova 9/8/17 (September)
2. Subject: Science (Sci-Fi & Dystopian)
Task: Lunch break
Book: The Pirate Captain's Daughter, Ruby Lionsdrake 9/3/17
3. Subject: History (Historical Fiction)
Task: Homework
Book: The Sunbird, Elizabeth Wein 9/5/17 (about King Arthur's grandson)
Task: Homecoming
Book:Black Butler, Vol. 9, Yana Toboso 9/6/17 (graphic novel, 150+ pages)
Last fix:Shannon: I'm not seeing The Catch Trap on your tower shelf.
And thanks to everyone for being a great team!
Shannon: I'm not seeing The Catch Trap on your tower shelf.
Finished my last book with 2 minutes to spare! Whew.
White Hot had much more explicit sex than its predecessor. I feel a bit uncomfortable sharing this series with my 18 year old son, but I guess it's too late to worry about that now. At least we weren't listening to the audio book together or something. That would have been a very awkward car trip.
OK, I finished one book and I might squeak in a final one. But I'd better get to bed first...
The Soldier's Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian
BOM: Nope
Rating: 4 stars -- fun and sweet
Finished: 7/28/17
Pages: 308
Oh, and Rachel, I can't find your comment on Flame in the Mist BOM discussion, so you aren't getting your extra points yet.And finally, did anyone do that extra challenge with Rachel Caine? I think we have to manually add those. I don't think we had anyone on that, but I'm fuzzy. Kristie, did you bite?
Cross posting from the BOOKS READ thread:Vanessa, I'm not seeing Carve the Mark -- I think it's not tagged for your tower shelf.
Carolyn, Let's Misbehave isn't showing up on your tower shelf, so we aren't seeing it.
(I checked through message 425)
Vanessa, I'm not seeing Carve the Mark -- I think it's not tagged for your tower shelf.Carolyn, Let's Misbehave isn't showing up on your tower shelf, so we aren't seeing it.
I'm hoping to finish two more of my in-progress, and if White Hot is a fast read maybe I'll get that as well. I'm off to catch up on the BOOKS READ thread so we have time to fix stuff.
