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I still haven't finished my Part III paperwork, but I need new reading goals!And now that I've read the prompts, I'm going to change my typical M.O. To have time to do these properly--and still have time for my other books, and to live my life--I'm going to do all 12 prompts all year round. We'll see how it goes. Wish me luck!
1 ~ Your favorite book. Spell-it-out using other books. Bonus - spell-it-out with other books from the same genre.
2 ~ Your favorite place to read. Spell-it-out. Or read 4 books that have a depiction of it on the cover. (Examples ~ chair, couch, bedroom, library....)
3 ~ Your TBR ~ read 3 or 4 books with the same title. If you don't have multiple books with the same title, find a book on your TBR with a seemingly common title and find other books to read with that title.
4 ~ Read three or four books that are basically like your favorite current T.V. shows. Give reasons as to why they fit.
(Using same examples from part 3)
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5 ~ Do you collect anything? Spell-it-out. Or read 3-4 books with it depicted some way on the cover. If you don't collect anything, did you as a child? Use that. If you've never collected anything, use something you would collect, if you were a collector. :)
6 ~ Oceans, Deserts, Arctic, Jungles, Mountains, Grasslands, Rivers, Cities ~ What's your favorite environment? Read 3-4 books set in that location, with a cover showing that location, or spell-it-out.
7 ~ Last food or beverage you ate or drank ~ spell-it-out.
8 ~ Your TBR ~ read 3 or 4 of the books that have been on your TBR the longest.
9 ~ A historical event that you like. Read 3 or 4 book about the event or spell-it-out.
10 ~ Your TBR ~ set it so that 100 books show on each page. Read 1 book off of 4 or 5 different pages. If you don't have a TBR with 500+ books (gasp!) then read 2 off each page you do have, or 3.... however many it takes to get to 4 or 5.
11 ~ Your favorite season. Spell-it-out. Or read 4 books set in that time of the year.
12 ~ Repeat your favorite challenge month from “All About You, Part 1” or “All About You, Part 2” or "All About You, Part 3".
Am I too late? I saw it was "last call" but I may have been reading yesterday's email
Why not? Well, maybe I can't keep up. Life gets more hectic now. But I may as well give it a try.
Thanks
I like this idea. But how many I get to in 1 month will depend more on my library's Covid-encouraged wait-lists than my reading time.
This may be the closest I get to baseball this year so I’m in. Details TK
To honor my good friend’s first grandchild, a proud Australian who will turn 18 on April 25, I will spell the home town:D -
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January 22 -- 272 pages (was left off my previous posting)
February 6 -- 158 pages
February 12 -- 128 pages -- 409 pages
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February 14 -- 146 pages -- 480 pages
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February 19 -- 248 pages
February 20 -- 368 pages -- 270 pages
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February 21 -- 326 pages
February 23 -- 352 pages -- 128 pages
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February 26 -- 201 pages -- 125 pages
-- The Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their WorkFebruary 27 -- 368 pages
I Almost Forgot About You
February 29 -- 255 pages
Death in Berlin
Total Pages: 290,803
I'm in. Should I include my "already read" from 2020 or should I give myself until March 27, 2021?A - award winner:
A - award winner:
A - award winner:
A - debut novel:
E - enormous book: The Marvels by Brian Selznick / 664 pages
A B C D E
Not sure what I've had (and I'm still recovering), but I lost a week. So here's January.January 2 -- 128 pages
January 3 -- 410 pages
January 5 -- 192 pages
January 6 -- 129 pages -- 352 pages
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January 8 -- 306 pages
January 13 -- 340 pages
January 15 -- 134 pages -- 222 pages
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January 16 -- 195 pages
January 17 -- 192 pages
January 21 -- 104 pages
January 23 -- 346 pages
January 24 -- 214 pages
January 27 -- 275 pages
January 30 -- 525 pages
January 31 -- 480 pages
Group Total Pages: 124,422
In 2019 I spent so long deciding whether to finish Audio 1 (from 2018) or start Audio 2 that I didn’t do either. So right or wrong, here goes◈ Foreign Book
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez / July; I did listen to some shorter stuff on compiliations, but I'll use Cholera (I'm still not sure if the narrator or the MC is supposed to have English as a second language, but this covers me either way)
◈ Book to Movie
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell / January
◈ Author Narration
I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan / February; Great job! Not true for all others
◈ For a challenge
Listen to an audio book in order to finish one of your reading challenges or for a team challenge
◈ Across the globe
Read a book that is set in, or where the author is from:
✣ USA or Canada
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya / January / set in Puerto Rico
✣ Europe
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes / February / set in France, Germany
✣ UK
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or On the Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. King / January / set in several spots around England including Sussex Downs
✣ Asia
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani / May / set in India and what is now Pakistan; learned a lot of history from this one
✣ Australia or New Zealand
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak / April / set in Australia; I thought they'd said which city but I didn't write it down
Not sure why they're missing but while I was traveling anyway ...
+ Africa
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho / set in Morocco, the Sahara, Egypt
+ South America
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett / set in the country's vice president's home "somewhere"
◈ Series Books
Listen to a book that is:
✣ 1st in a series
Mage's Apprentice by Sean Fletcher / January / Mage's of New York #1
✣ 2nd in a series
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis / April / Space Trilogy #2
✣ 3rd in a series
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman / March / His Dark Materials #3
✣ 4th in a series
Under Orders by Dick Francis / June / Sid Halley #4
✣ 5th in a series
Damsel in Distress by Carola Dunn / April / Daisy Dalrymple #5
✣ 6th in a series
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie / April / Hercule Poirot #6
✣ 7th in a series
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley / April / Flavia de Luce #7
✣ 8th in a series
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder / July / Little House #8
✣ 9th in a series
Original Sin by P.D. James / April / Adam Dalgliesh #9
✣ 10th or more in a series
As Time Goes By by Mary Higgins Clark / March / Alvirah & Willy #10
◈ Genres
Listen to a book where one of the top listed genres is:
✣Fiction
✣Historical Fiction
✣Horror
✣Non fiction
✣Suspense
✣Humour
✣Contemporary
✣Sci-fi
✣Fantasy
✣Romance
✣Young adult
✣Mystery
✣Thriller
◈Go back in time
✣Part 1 - Listen to an audio book that was written in the 19th century (January 1, 1801 – December 31, 1900)
✣Part 2 - Listen to an audio book that was written in the 20th century (January 1, 1901 - December 31, 2000)
✣Part 3 - Listen to an audio book that was written in the 21st century (January 1, 2001 - current)
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Thank you, your Highness, for the spreadsheet.My new question is about the bonus points.
For many of the tasks, the instructions say "You may pick one or more books" to design your dress or hat or adult beverage, with bonus points awarded once complete. How do I/you/the spreadsheet know when the task is complete? One item? Three items? Just wondering how to best use my reading.
Thanks you for your time, your Majesty
Help! I don't see my spreadsheet. I know I'm probably just doing too much and getting confused, but can you help. I signed up earlier today, so I should have been well before the "end" of January 10
Ah, New Year's Day. My annual catch-up with GR paperwork. Including signing up for another year of paperwork. So here I am.I warned that I was bad with paperwork. I'm here now at the end of March filling in my answers for the first quarter....
And now it's worse. I'm filling in basically since the pandemic shutdown on Labor Day Weekend
Month 1: Your favorite singer: Billy Joel (everyone was doing Classical and I wasn't signing on for 2 Zs and a J; then I couldn't find a Y)
B - Beloved by Toni Morrison
I - "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" from Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel
L - Lizzie in Give Murder A Hand by Beth Prentice
L - Lucien Dunadine in Mage's Apprentice by Sean Fletcher
Y -
J - Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
O - Colleen Oakes's Queen of Hearts
E - Educated by Tara Westover
L - Langston Hughes in Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story by Peter Bagge
Month 2: Your favorite pet: Cat
-Brundibar by Tony Kushner / The talking cat who helps the children get milk
-The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes / Marion Andrews's cat at her interview
-The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman / Moxie and the endangered tabby
-Proposals and Poison by Rachelle J. Christensen / Tux
-As Time Goes By by Mary Higgins Clark / An adopted cat is important to an alibi
-(Death in Berlin by M.M. Kaye / Descibing folks as "Aunt Hetty-ish" aka nervous as cats)
Month 3: Your favorite cartoon character: The Brain
T - The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury
H - H.G. Wells's The Time Machine
E - Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Gods of Mars
B - Billy Kinsey in The Tragic Age by Stephen Metcalfe
R - Roger in The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
A - Attica Locke's The Cutting Season
I - Ian Fleming's Casino Royale
N - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Month 4: Read three or four books whose book covers you consider “artistic”:
Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by Alan Bradley
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
Original Sin by P.D. James
Month 5: Your favorite beverage: Bourbon (will be back later with second O)
B - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
O - Paddy O'Finch from Under Orders by Dick Francis
U - Rajneesh Uncle from The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
R - Rachel Heng's Suicide Club
B - Bradbury, Ray's Fahrenheit 451
O -
N - Nolan, William F.'s Logan's Run
Month 6: Read Reminders of Favorite Childhood TV:
Month 7: Read Favorite Movies from Books:
Month 8: Read Favorite Childhood Boardgame:
Month 9: Read Favorite Beauty Product:
Month 10: Read Favorite Bad Boy:
Month 11: Read Favorite Sport:
Month 12: Read Favorite Holiday: Christmas
1. Deck the Halls by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
2. Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf by Wendelin Van Draanen
3. When Elves Attack by Tim Dorsey
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
5. Christmas by Injunction by O. Henry
6. The Dead by James Joyce
7. Christmas in Absaroka County by Craig Johnson
8. The Romance of a Christmas Card by Kate Douglas Wiggin
9. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
So far behind in my paperwork, but here's November...November 5 -- 342 pages
November 6 -- 192 pages
November 8 -- 288 pages
November 12 -- 256 pages -- 289 pages
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November 13 -- 144 pages
November 15 -- 384 pages
November 16 -- 296 pages
November 18 -- 288 pages -- 349 pages
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November 21 -- 240 pages
November 24 -- 272 pages
November 25 -- 174 pages
November 26 -- 107 pages
November 27 -- 176 pages
November 30 -- 200 pages
Group Total: 1,514,888 pages
Here come the spookies...October 2 -- 491 pages -- 306 pages
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October 3 -- 303 pages
October 5 -- 146 pages
October 7 -- 345 pages
October 14 -- 347pages
October 16 -- 160 pages
October 17 -- 835 pages
October 22 -- 264 pages -- 211 pages
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October 24 --182 pages
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(Thanks to library availability, I had to switch editions)October 29 --212 pages
October 30 -- 393 pages
October 31 -- 133 pages
Group Page Total: 1,369,640
Catching up with September...September 1 -- 149 pages
September 5 -- 274 pages
September 6 -- 317 pages
September 8 -- 256 pages
September 12 -- 175 pages
September 14 -- 128 pages
September 15 -- 530 pages
September 19
301 pages -- 121 pages
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September 23 -- 146 pages
September 24 -- 64 pages
September 25 -- 394 pages
September 29 -- 231 pages
September 30 -- 96 pages
Group Total: 1,277,622 pages
August stats...August 1 -- 297 pages
August 3 -- 90 pages
August 6 -- 200 pages
August 7 -- 304 pages
August 12 -- 179 pages - 86 pages
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August 14 -- 247 pages
August 16 -- 370 pages
August 19 -- 176 pages
August 20 -- 289 pages
August 22 -- 272 pages - 314 pages
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August 25 -- 96 pages
August 27 -- 307 pages
August 29 -- 275 pages
August 30 -- 128 pages
August 31 -- 149 pages
Group Total: 1,125,014 pages
This looks fun--and maybe it will cause me to think about my IRL house. I'll try for a Freestyle Condo (though I've never seen a condo bigger than a mansion, or with so many fences).
Second half of the year, here we go ...July 4 -- 368 pages
July 8 -- 304 pages
July 9 -- 304 pages
July 10 -- 272 pages
July 13 -- 228 pages
July 16 -- 208 pages
July 17 -- 265 pages -- 280 pages
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July 21 -- 241 pages
July 22 -- 240 pages
July 24 -- 208 pages
July 27 -- 377 pages
July 28 -- 184 pages
July 30 -- 239 pages
July 31 -- 192 pages -- 144 pages -- 487 pages
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Group Page Total: 971,714
Wow, what a total. I'd like to thank my insomnia and audio books.June 1 -- 373 pages
June 2 -- 265 pages
June 11 -- 336 pages
June 12 -- 289 pages/559 pages
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June 16 -- 100 pages
June 19 -- 324 pages
June 21 -- 208 pages
June 24 -- 320 pages
June 28 -- 136 pages
June 30 -- 192 pages
Group Total: 823,058
