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Ah, ahoy maties! I love pirates. Perfect for my b-day month!

September 2021
Option 4
Captain: 14/31

Lingo:
🏴‍☠️ Ahoy 2/4
A: Andrews, Ilona (Magic Burns) 💎💎💎💎 9/11
H: The Hunting Wives 💎💎💎💎 9/4
O
Y

🏴‍☠️ Begad 2/5
B: The Beach 💎💎💎 9/12
E: Enclave 💎💎💎💎 9/28
G
A
D

🏴‍☠️ Corsair 6/7
C: Curtis M. Lawson (Devil's Night) 💎💎 9/27
O
R: Rogue Protocol 💎💎💎💎 9/7
S: Stolen Tongues 💎💎💎💎💎 9/8
A: Awfully Appetizing 💎💎💎💎 9/26
I: Into the Drowning Deep 💎💎💎 9/6
R: Rio, M.L. If We Were Villains 💎💎💎💎 9/17

🏴‍☠️ Jack Ketch 3/9
J: John Marrs (The Passengers) 💎💎💎💎💎 9/25
A
C
K

K
E
T: Track of the Cat 💎💎💎 9/17
C
H: Hesse, Monica (They Went Left) 💎💎💎💎 9/22

🏴‍☠️ Shanty 1/6
S: Survive the Night 💎💎💎 9/9
H
A
N
T
Y

(view spoiler)[◈A◈

Addled
Addlepate
Aft
Ahoy
All hands on deck!
Arr!/Arg!
Avast!
Aye

◈B◈

Bandanna
Batten
Batten down the hatches
Begad!
Belay
Bilge!
Bilge-pump
Bilge Water
Black Spot
Blow me down!
Blow the man down
Blimey!
Boatswain
Booty
Bosun
Bounty
Buccaneer
Bucko

◈C◈

Cap'n
Cat o'nine tails
Chantey
Clap of Thunder
Cleave him to the brisket
Corsair
Crow's nest
Cutlass
Cutthroat

◈D◈

Davy Jones' locker
Deadlights
Dead men tell no tales
Deck
Dog
Doubloon

◈E◈

Eagle/Spread Eagle
Earring
St. Elmo’s Fire
Eye of the Wind
Eye Patch

◈F◈

Fair winds!
Feed the fish
Fore, or forrard
Flogging

◈G◈

Gangway!
Godspeed!
Grub

◈H◈

Hands
Handsomely
High seas
Hornswaggle

◈I◈

ill-gotten
infamous

◈J◈

Jack Ketch
Jewels
Jollyboat
Jolly Roger

◈K◈

Keelhaul
Kiss/Marry/Hug the gunner's daughter

◈L◈

Lad
Lass
Landlubber 'lubber'
Larboard
Letters of Marque
Line
Lookout

◈M◈

Maroon
Matey
Man-O-War
Me
Me hearties
Mizzen
Mutiny

◈N◈

No quarter!

◈O◈

Old Salt
Overboard

◈P◈

Pieces of eight
Pillage
Pirate
Poop deck
Poxy, poxed
Privateer

◈Q◈

Quarter
Quarterdeck
Quay
Quayside


◈R◈

Run a shot across the bow
Rope's end
Rum

◈S◈

Sail ho!
Salt, old salt
Saucy
Savvy?
Scallywag
Scurvy
Scuttle
Sea dog
Shanty
Shark bait
Shipshape
Shiver me timbers!
Sink me!
Skull and Crossbones
Smartly
Son of a Biscuit Eater
Splice the mainbrace
Spoils
Starboard
Stern
Swab
Swag
Swashbuckler

◈T◈

Thar
Thar she blows!
Three sheets to the wind
Treasure

◈U◈
Upper Deck

◈W◈

Walk the plank
Weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen!
Wench

◈X◈

X marks the spot

◈Y◈

Ye
Yo ho ho

◈Z◈

Zenith (hide spoiler)]

DQ Day 1-2 : beginning to 32% (p101)

1. What attracted you to this book? Do you tend to read a lot of horror/thriller/suspense novels (or not), and what are your expectations for them?
✴I love a good cover. I saw it on the shelf at my library and it called to me. I read a ton of horror/thriller/suspense novels. My expectations for one are a plot that grabs my attention in the first 100 pages and keeps me engaged while also giving me goosebumps.

2. Poor doomed Silvertjärn was a "Company Town" where the company shut down. Do you think the 1950s sections do a good job of describing what it was like for the townspeople at that time?

3. The relationships in the modern day sections are interesting. Things seem complex and messy, especially between the female characters. Alice is the only one who knows about Tone's real connection to Silvertjärn. The bad blood between Alice and Emmy causes a lot of tension. The possible romantic entanglements are unclear. What are your thoughts about these relationships? What do you think of Alice's reasons for bringing Max, Tone, Emmy, and Robert onto this film project?

4. We're getting hints that Pastor Mattias was at the center of a weird religious sect. Do you think this will turn out to be true, or just a red herring?

5. Before the "official" DQs kicked off, our lovely mod Cat mentioned being struck by the timeliness of reading "a book about how society views women suffering from mental illness." How do you think the book has handled this topic so far?

I'm gonna stray from my usual spell out route.


August 2021
Option 3
Progress: 14/25

Events
Archery
Artistic swimming
Athletics
Badminton
Baseball
🇺🇸 Basketball 🇺🇸 (view spoiler)[You were playing ball—I don’t know if it was basketball, baseball, or what—but you couldn’t come over until later. (7%) Thirteen Reasons Why 🏅🏅🏅 8/7 (hide spoiler)]
Boccia
Boxing
Canoeing
🇺🇸 Cycling 🇺🇸 (view spoiler)[No dread of Mom cycling in and out of herself in ways I can’t predict or anticipate. pg. 122 Find Layla 🏅🏅8/23 (hide spoiler)]
🇺🇸 Diving 🇺🇸 (view spoiler)[Alina was next to me. I saw the volcra diving, and I knew it was coming for us. I said something and—” pg. 46 Shadow and Bone 🏅🏅🏅🏅 8/11 (hide spoiler)]
Equestrian
Fencing
Field hockey
🇺🇸 Football 🇺🇸 (view spoiler)[Wade Thomas, a barrel-chested white guy, turns around from the football team's bench. pg. 54 Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite 🏅🏅🏅 8/13 (hide spoiler)]
Football 5-a-Side
Goalball
🇺🇸 Golf 🇺🇸 (view spoiler)[They look like very large and terrible bee stings. Some are the size of golf balls. pg. 216 The Troop 🏅🏅🏅🏅 8/12 (hide spoiler)]
Gymnastics
Handball
Judo
J: Julian Adams (character) The Hunting Party 🏅🏅🏅 8/30
U
D: Downing, Samantha (He Started It) 🏅🏅🏅🏅 8/29
O

Karate
Modern pentathlon
Powerlifting
Road cycling
Rowing
R: Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons 🏅🏅🏅 8/1
O: Oceanos (character) Circe 🏅🏅🏅🏅 8/16
W
I: Isabelle Lightwood (character) City of Bones 🏅🏅🏅 8/3
N: Nausicaa (character) Hex Hall 🏅🏅🏅🏅 8/2
G: Garrett Mortimer (character) Immortally Yours 🏅🏅🏅🏅 8/23

Rugby sevens
Sailing
🇺🇸 Shooting 🇺🇸 (view spoiler)[We had shooting before the Tox, too, a tradition left over from the start of the school, but it wasn’t like it is now. pg. 17 Wilder Girls 🏅🏅🏅 8/27 (hide spoiler)]
Skateboarding
Softball
Sport climbing
Surfing
Swimming
Table tennis
Taekwondo
🇺🇸 Tennis 🇺🇸 (view spoiler)["...After the tennis thing she couldn't sleep; she stopped playing and that was her life; she lost weight. pg. 193 The Final Girl Support Group 🏅🏅🏅🏅 8/21 (hide spoiler)]
Track cycling
Triathlon
Volleyball
Water polo
Weightlifting
Wheelchair basketball
Wheelchair fencing
Wheelchair rugby
Wheelchair tennis
Wrestling

June 2021
Option 1
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: 25+ books
Progress: 12/25+

Alderflies
Ants
Antlions
Archaeognatha
Barklice
🦋Bees🦋 (view spoiler)[B: Brittany (character) The Last Final Girl 🐛🐛
E: Eric (character) Divergent 🐛🐛🐛
E: Eragon 🐛🐛🐛🐛
S: The Selection 🐛🐛🐛 (hide spoiler)]
Beetles
Biting lice
Booklice
Butterflies
B: Baptiste Cochios (character) Haunted Flint 🐛🐛
U: Unwind 🐛🐛🐛🐛
T: They Called Us Enemy 🐛🐛🐛🐛
T: Tom Weylin (character) Kindred 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛
E: The Eagle of the Ninth 🐛🐛🐛
R
F: The Farm: A Novel 🐛🐛🐛
L
I: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 🐛🐛🐛🐛
E
S: Sally Hepworth (The Good Sister) 🐛🐛🐛🐛
Bugs
Caddisflies
Cockroaches
Crickets
Damselflies
Dobsonflies
Dragonflies
Earwigs
Fleas
Flies
Grasshoppers
Lacewings
Leaf insects
Lice
Mantids
Mayflies
Moths
Praying Mantids
Scorpionflies
Snakeflies
Stick insects
Stoneflies
Strepsipterans
Sucking lice
Termites
Three-pronged bristletails
Thrips
True Bugs
Wasps
Web-spinners
Zorapterans
brown recluse
comb-footed spiders
black widows
redback
crab spiders
funnel weavers
funnel-web spiders
jumping spiders
Bagheera
lynx spiders
nursery-web spiders
ogre-faced spiders
orb weavers
garden spider
pirate spiders
ray spiders
sac spiders
sheet-web weavers
silk spiders
spitting spiders
tarantulas
trap-door spiders
wandering spiders
water spider
wolf spider

Gotta represent where my family is from, right?

Option One
Fireworks, light show, and a wink 21+ books
Progress: 7/24

Germany ; Taken by a Stranger
G
E
R: Ryan, Carrie (The Forest of Hands and Teeth) 🎤🎤🎤🎤
M: The Midnight Library 🎤🎤
A: The Accident 🎤🎤
N
Y

T: The Last Dragonslayer 🎤🎤🎤
A: The Art of Hummingbird Gardening: How to Make Your Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Hummingbirds 🎤🎤🎤
K: Kill Me Softly 🎤🎤🎤
E
N

B
Y

A

S
T
R: Road Rage 🎤🎤🎤
A
N
G
E
R

May 2021
Option 2
Teatotaler: read 10 + books
Progress: 7/10+

Earl Gray
Oolong
Herbal
H: Haig, Matt (The Midnight Library) 🍵🍵
E
R: Road Rage 🍵🍵🍵
B
A
L
Jasmine
Peppermint
Green
Black
B
L
A
C: Carrie Ryan (The Forest of Hands and Teeth) 🍵🍵🍵🍵
K: Kill Me Softly 🍵🍵🍵
White
Yellow
Rooibos
Mate
M: Mathew Tekulsky (The Art of Hummingbird Gardening: How to Make Your Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Hummingbirds) 🍵🍵🍵
A: The Accident 🍵🍵
T: The Last Dragonslayer 🍵🍵🍵
E
Blooming
Honeybush
Spearmint
Chamomile
Assam
Nilgiri
Oolong
Masala
Badam
Keemun
Yunnan
Genmaicha
Pu-erh
Chai
Builder's Tea

Click the coins to be taken to the threads where they were earned.

🦖T The Maze Runner 🌟🌟🌟
🦖Yáo (character) Project Hail Mary 🌟🌟🌟🌟
🦖Reyes Farrow (character) Second Grave on the Left 🌟🌟🌟🌟
🦖Abigail Dean (Girl A) 🌟🌟🌟🌟
🦖Nyx Halliwell (Of Potions and Portents) 🌟🌟🌟
🦖Nora (character) The Midnight Library 🌟🌟
🦖Orik (character) Eragon
🦖Simone st James (The broken girls) 🌟🌟🌟🌟
🦖Anna Latham (character) Cry Wolf 🌟🌟🌟🌟
🦖U: Unwind 🌟🌟🌟🌟
🦖Richard Matheson (Road Rage) 🌟🌟🌟
🦖U: Ulrika Vanger (character) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 🌟🌟🌟🌟
🦖Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians) 🌟🌟🌟🌟

🦖Roxanne Rhoads (Haunted Flint) 🌟🌟
🦖E: Eisinger, Justin (They Called Us Enemy) 🌟🌟🌟🌟
🦖X: Xiao Qiong (character) From the Dragon's Mouth: 10 True Stories that Unveil the Real China 🌟🌟🌟

Game of Thrones Reading Challenge
Queen 25+ books


◆ House Arryn:
Motto: “As High As Honor”
(view spoiler)[A: The Accident 🐦🐦
S: Second Grave on the Left 🐦🐦🐦🐦

H: Haunted Flint 🐦🐦
I: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 🐦🐦🐦🐦
G: Girl A 🐦🐦🐦🐦
H: Hepworth, Sally (The Good Sister) 🐦🐦🐦🐦

A: The Art of Hummingbird Gardening: How to Make Your Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Hummingbirds 🐦🐦🐦
S: The Selection 🐦🐦🐦

H: Hex Hall 🐦🐦🐦🐦
O: The Only Good Indians 🐦🐦🐦🐦
N: Nadia (character) Shadow and Bone 🐦🐦🐦🐦
O: Octavia E. Butler (Kindred) 🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦
R: Road Rage 🐦🐦🐦 (hide spoiler)]


◆ House Baratheon:
Motto: “Ours is the Fury”
(view spoiler)[O: Of Potions and Portents 🦌🦌🦌
U: Unwind 🦌🦌🦌🦌
R: Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons 🦌🦌🦌
S: Stephen Graham Jones (The Last Final Girl) 🦌🦌

I: Isabelle Lightwood (character) City of Bones 🦌🦌🦌
S: Stieg Larsson (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) 🦌🦌🦌🦌

T: The Maze Runner 🦌🦌🦌
H: Hannah Baker (character) Thirteen Reasons Why 🦌🦌🦌
E: Eragon 🦌🦌🦌🦌

F: The Forest of Hands and Teeth 🦌🦌🦌🦌
U: Uglies 🦌🦌🦌
R: Raul (character from Bestiary by Laura Ruby) Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite 🦌🦌🦌
Y: Yu, Eileen (character) Find Layla 🦌🦌 (hide spoiler)]


◆ House Greyjoy:
Motto: “We Do Not Sow”
(view spoiler)[W: Weir, Andy Project Hail Mary 🐙🐙🐙🐙
E: The Eagle of the Ninth 🐙🐙

D: The Demon in the Wood 🐙🐙🐙
O: O'Neill, Sophie (character) The Hunting Wives 🐙🐙🐙🐙

N: Norma Henderson (character) Survive the Night 🐙🐙🐙
O: Olsen, Julie (character) Magic Burns 🐙🐙🐙🐙
T: The Midnight Library 🐙🐙

S: S.F. Kosa (The Quiet Girl) 🐙🐙🐙
O: Ohrmann, Mr. (character) They Went Left 🐙🐙🐙🐙
W: Wilder Girls 🐙🐙🐙 (hide spoiler)]


◆ House Lannister:
Official Motto: “Hear Me Roar!”
(view spoiler)[H: He Started It 🦁🦁🦁🦁
E: Étienne (character) The Beach 🦁🦁🦁
A: Ashley Audrain (The Push) 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁
R: Rogue Protocol 🦁🦁🦁🦁

M: The Maidens 🦁🦁🦁
E: Einar (character) The Lost Village 🦁🦁🦁

R: Richelle Mead - Frostbite 🦁🦁🦁
O: Ophie's Ghosts 🦁🦁🦁🦁
A: Arden, Claire (character) The Passengers 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁
R: Rio, M.L., If We Were Villains 🦁🦁🦁🦁 (hide spoiler)]


◆ House Martell:
Motto: “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken”
(view spoiler)[U: Under a Graveyard Sky ☀
N: Nothing But Blackened Teeth ☀☀☀☀
B: The Broken Girls ☀☀☀☀
O: The October Faction, Vol. 1 ☀☀☀
W: Wilde, Max Vile Blood ☀☀
E: Eileen ☀☀
D: Drop Dead Gorgeous ☀

U: Underwood, Grover (char) The Lightning Thief ☀☀☀☀
N: Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood ☀☀☀☀☀
B: Blackwell, Felix Stolen Tongues ☀☀☀☀☀
E: Evie (char) Tell Me I'm Wrong ☀☀☀
N: Nicole Matheson (char) The Dead Girls Club ☀☀☀☀
T: They Called Us Enemy ☀☀☀☀

U: Uncle Mike (char) Bone Crossed ☀☀☀☀
N: Narigorm (char) Company of Liars ☀☀☀
B: Barr, Nevada Track of the Cat ☀☀☀
R: Ring Shout ☀☀☀
O: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ☀☀☀☀
K: Kill Me Softly ☀☀☀
E: Etta Smith/Zuretta Palmer (character) The Perfect Place to Die ☀☀☀
N: Ned Stark (char) A Game of Thrones ☀☀☀☀ (hide spoiler)]


◆ House of Mormont:
Motto: “Here We Stand”
(view spoiler)[H: The Hunting Party 🐻🐻🐻
E: Ex-Heroes 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻
R: Richard Bachman - The Long Walk 🐻🐻🐻🐻
E: Edita Adler (character) The Librarian of Auschwitz 🐻🐻🐻

W: Waking Up Dead 🐻🐻
E: Ex-Patriots 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻

S: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻
T: The Farm: A Novel 🐻🐻🐻
A: Agustina Bazterrica - Tender Is the Flesh 🐻🐻🐻🐻
N: Night 🐻🐻🐻🐻
D: Divergent 🐻🐻🐻 (hide spoiler)]

NBRC Alphabet: Animals
Duration: 4/8/21-4/7/23
Completed words: 26/26
Books read: 128/128

💜Ape💜 3/3
(view spoiler)[A: The Art of Hummingbird Gardening: How to Make Your Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Hummingbirds 🦍🦍🦍
P: Prince Maxon (character) The Selection 🦍🦍🦍
E: Eragon 🦍🦍🦍🦍 (hide spoiler)]
💜Bear💜 4/4
(view spoiler)[B: The Broken Girls 🐻🐻🐻🐻
E: Eric (character) Divergent 🐻🐻🐻
A: The Accident 🐻🐻
R: Reyes Farrow (character) Second Grave on the Left 🐻🐻🐻🐻 (hide spoiler)]
💜Crow💜 4/4
(view spoiler)[C: Connor, Blythe (character) The Push 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
R: Reid, Taylor Jenkins The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊
O: Oliver McCanty (character) The Troop 🕊🕊🕊🕊
W: Westerfeld, Scott (Uglies) 🕊️🕊️🕊️ (hide spoiler)]
💜Dog💜 3/3
(view spoiler)[D: The Demon in the Wood 🐕🐕🐕
O: The Only Good Indians 🐕🐕🐕🐕
G: The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories 🐕🐕 (hide spoiler)]
💜Elk💜 3/3
(view spoiler)[E: Eisinger, Justin (They Called Us Enemy) 🐾🐾🐾🐾
L: Lauren Landish (Drop Dead Gorgeous) 🐾
K: Kill Me Softly 🐾🐾🐾 (hide spoiler)]
💜Frog💜 4/4
(view spoiler)[F: Fforde, Jasper (The Last Dragonslayer) 🐸🐸🐸
R: Ryan, Carrie (The Forest of Hands and Teeth) 🐸🐸🐸🐸
O: Owen (character) The Good Sister 🐸🐸🐸🐸
G: Greenwood, Alice (character) Kindred 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 (hide spoiler)]
💜Goat💜 4/4
(view spoiler)[G: Girl A 🐏🐏🐏🐏
O: Of Potions and Portents 🐏🐏🐏
A: Anna Latham (character) Cry Wolf 🐏🐏🐏🐏
T: The Maze Runner 🐏🐏🐏 (hide spoiler)]
💜Horse💜 5/5
(view spoiler)[H: Haig, Matt (The Midnight Library) 🐎🐎
O: Olesya Ilyukhina (character) Project Hail Mary 🐎🐎🐎🐎
R: Road Rage 🐎🐎🐎
S: Stephen Graham Jones (The Last Final Girl) 🐎🐎
E: The Eagle of the Ninth 🐎🐎🐎 (hide spoiler)]
💜Ibis💜 4/4
(view spoiler)[I: Immortally Yours 🦢🦢🦢🦢
B: Bette Sanderson (character) Find Layla 🦢🦢
I: Ingvar (character) The Hunting Party 🦢🦢🦢
S: Samantha Downing (He Started It) 🦢🦢🦢🦢 (hide spoiler)]
💜Jaguar💜 6/6
(view spoiler)[J: Joanne Ramos (The Farm: A Novel) 🐆🐆🐆
A: Aldrich, Fred (character) Haunted Flint 🐆🐆
G: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 🐆🐆🐆🐆
U: Unhygienix (character) The Beach 🐆🐆🐆
A: Addie LaRue (character) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 🐆🐆🐆🐆
R: Risa Ward (character) Unwind 🐆🐆🐆🐆 (hide spoiler)]
💜Koala💜 5/5
(view spoiler)[K: Kullman, Elsa (character) The Lost Village 🐨🐨🐨
O: Ozera, Christian (character) Frostbite 🐨🐨🐨
A: Asher, Jay (Thirteen Reasons Why) 🐨🐨🐨
L: Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone) 🐨🐨🐨🐨
A: Angela Dunleavy (character) Survive the Night 🐨🐨🐨 (hide spoiler)]
💜Leopard💜 7/7
(view spoiler)[L: Lynette Tarkington (character) The Final Girl Support Group 🐆🐆🐆🐆
E: Enclave 🐆🐆🐆🐆
O: O'Neill, Sophie (character) The Hunting Wives 🐆🐆🐆🐆
P: The Passengers 🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆
A: Alexander Vass (character) If We Were Villains 🐆🐆🐆🐆
R: Regis Thomas (character) Later 🐆🐆🐆
D: Devil's Night 🐆🐆 (hide spoiler)]
💜Monkey💜 6/6
(view spoiler)[M: The Maidens🐒🐒🐒
O: Oceanos (character) Circe 🐒🐒🐒🐒
N: Nevada Barr (Track of the Cat) 🐒🐒🐒
K: Kevin Bridges (character) Hex Hall 🐒🐒🐒🐒
E: Edna (character) The Giver 🐒🐒🐒
Y: Yūsei Matsui - Assassination Classroom, Vol. 1 🐒🐒🐒🐒 (hide spoiler)]
💜Newt💜 4/4
(view spoiler)[N: Nina Ross (character) Pretty Things
E: Eileen 🦎🦎
W: Wells, Martha Rogue Protocol 🦎🦎🦎🦎
T: They Went Left 🦎🦎🦎🦎 (hide spoiler)]
💜Otter💜 5/5
(view spoiler)[O: Ophie's Ghosts 🦦🦦🦦🦦
T: Tim Meyer - Paradise Club 🦦🦦🦦🦦
T: Tender Is the Flesh 🦦🦦🦦🦦
E: Evie (character) Tell Me I'm Wrong 🦦🦦🦦
R: Ringo, John - Under a Graveyard Sky 🦦 (hide spoiler)]
💜Panther💜 7/7
(view spoiler)[P: Pearse, Sarah - The Sanatorium 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
A: The Assassin Game 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
N: Noelle Mack - Wicked 🐈‍⬛
T: Twice Bitten 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
H: The Hawthorne Legacy 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
E: Erik Larson - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛
R: Rachel Hollis - Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ (hide spoiler)]
💜Quail💜 5/5
(view spoiler)[Q: The Quiet Girl 🦆🦆🦆
U: Ugad the Hammer (character) Magic Burns 🦆🦆🦆🦆
A: Allerton-Jones, Titus (character) The Dinner Guest 🦆🦆🦆🦆
I: Isabelle Lightwood (character) City of Bones 🦆🦆🦆
L: The Long Walk🦆🦆🦆🦆 (hide spoiler)]
💜Raccoon💜 7/7
(view spoiler)[R: Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons 🦝🦝🦝
A: Awfully Appetizing 🦝🦝🦝🦝
C: Come Closer 🦝🦝🦝🦝
C: Clines, Peter - Ex-Patriots 🦝🦝🦝🦝🦝
O: The October Faction, Vol. 1 🦝🦝🦝
O: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 🦝🦝🦝🦝
N: Natalie D. Richards - Five Total Strangers 🦝🦝🦝🦝 (hide spoiler)]
💜Stallion💜 8/8
(view spoiler)[S: Scott Kenemore - Zombie, Ohio 🐴🐴
T: Trout, Billy (character) Fall of Night 🐴🐴🐴🐴
A: Anderson, Rachel (character) The Dead Girls Club 🐴🐴🐴🐴
L: The Librarian of Auschwitz 🐴🐴🐴
L: Louisa Ward (character) How the Dukes Stole Christmas 🐴🐴🐴
I: In the Garden of Spite 🐴🐴🐴🐴
O: Octavia (character) The Low, Low Woods 🐴🐴
N: Night 🐴🐴🐴🐴 (hide spoiler)]
💜Tiger💜 5/5
(view spoiler)[T: Trevor Noah - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood 🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅
I: I Hunt Killers 🐅🐅🐅🐅
G: Gene Martindale (character) Vile Blood 🐅🐅
E: Ex-Heroes 🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅
R: Rock Paper Scissors 🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅 (hide spoiler)]
💜Urraca💜 6/6
(view spoiler)[U: Uncle Mike (char) Bone Crossed 🐦🐦🐦🐦
R: R.L. Wood - Dark Little Women: Girl Power! 🐦🐦🐦
R: R.L. Stine - Stay Out of the Basement 🐦🐦🐦
A: Alice (char) The Dollhouse Family 🐦🐦🐦🐦
C: Christine M. Butler - Birthrights 🐦🐦
A: Andy (char) Monster Blood 🐦🐦 (hide spoiler)]
💜Viper💜 5/5
(view spoiler)[V: Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite 🐍🐍🐍
I: Into the Drowning Deep 🐍🐍🐍
P: The Perfect Place to Die 🐍🐍🐍
E: Emma in the Night 🐍🐍🐍
R: R.L. Stine - Welcome to Dead House 🐍🐍🐍 (hide spoiler)]
💜Wolf💜 4/4
(view spoiler)[W: Wilder Girls 🐺🐺🐺
O: Osmund (char) Company of Liars 🐺🐺🐺
L: Lore Olympus: Volume One 🐺🐺🐺🐺
F: Full Throttle 🐺🐺🐺 (hide spoiler)]

Part 2

April 8, 2021 - April 8, 2024
Level: Eyes on Target
Goal: 63/78

✔️12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
🦄Girl A 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Only Good Indians 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄Enclave 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄Later 🌠🌠🌠
🦄They Called Us Enemy 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Farm 🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Good Sister 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄Project Hail Mary 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Quiet Girl 🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Dinner Guest 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦄The Push 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
🐾Shutter Island
🐾Déjà Dead
🐾The Lightning Thief 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐾Once Burned
🐾Some Girls Bite
🐾Spider's Bite
🐾Firelight
🐾Darkness Unbound
🐾Unwind 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐾Time Thief
🐾A Darker Shade of Magic

✔️10 books you randomly select from shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
🐺Drop Dead Gorgeous 🌠
🐺Of Potions and Portents 🌠🌠🌠
🐺The Last Dragonslayer 🌠🌠🌠
🐺Kill Me Softly 🌠🌠🌠
🐺Haunted Flint 🌠🌠
🐺The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐺Hex Hall 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐺Shadow and Bone 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐺The Troop 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐺Circe 🌠🌠🌠🌠

✔️9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
👸Second Grave on the Left 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸The Unbound
👸Cry Wolf 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸Immortally Yours 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸Rogue Protocol 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸Magic Burns 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸Frostbite 🌠🌠🌠
👸Ex-Patriots 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
👸The Hawthorne Legacy 🌠🌠🌠🌠

✔️8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.
🤴The Demon in the Wood 🌠🌠🌠
🤴"The Soldiers of the 115th Regiment" from The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories 🌠
🤴"Dark Carousel" from Full Throttle 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
🤴"Duel" from Road Rage 🌠🌠🌠
🤴The Accident 🌠🌠
🤴"The Thing About Cassandra" from Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🤴"A Guidebook for the Newly Sired Desi Vampire" from Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
🤴"Monkey House" from Zombie Zoology 🌠🌠🌠

✔️7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
👑The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 🌟🌟🌟🌟
👑The Midnight Library 🌠🌠
👑Divergent 🌠🌠🌠
👑City of Bones 🌠🌠🌠
👑Eragon 🌠🌠🌠🌠
👑Kindred 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
👑The Eagle of the Ninth 🌠🌠🌠

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)
🐲Survive the Night 🌠🌠🌠
🐲The Mary Shelley Club
🐲Ophie's Ghosts 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐲The Final Girl Support Group 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐲The Maidens 🌠🌠🌠
🐲Meant to Be Immortal

✔️5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
🐉The Broken Girls 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐉The Last Final Girl 🌠🌠
🐉If We Were Villains 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐉The Passengers 🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐉Find Layla 🌠🌠

✔️4 books that you started but never finished
🎭The Long Walk 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🎭The Maze Runner 🌠🌠🌠
🎭The Selection 🌠🌠🌠
🎭The Giver 🌠🌠🌠

✔️3 books that you've already read before
🔔Welcome to Deadhouse 🌠🌠🌠
🔔Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🔔Uglies 🌠🌠🌠

✔️2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
🗝The Forest of Hands and Teeth 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🗝Thirteen Reasons Why 🌠🌠🌠

1 book that intimidates you
🏹House of Leaves


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April 8, 2021 - April 8, 2022
Ursa Major: 11 + Constellation
Progress: 59/25+ books | 11/11 constellations

Constellations by Month

◉January
💫Dorado (Dolphinfish/Swordfish)💫
(view spoiler)[🌠D: The Demon in the Wood
🌠O: The Only Good Indians
🌠R: Reyes Farrow (Character) Second Grave on the Left
🌠A: Abigail Dean (Girl A)
🌠D: Dashner, James (The Maze Runner)
🌠O: Olivia (character) Drop Dead Gorgeous (hide spoiler)]
💫Taurus (Bull)💫
(view spoiler)[🌠T: The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
🌠A: The Accident
🌠U: Unwind
🌠R: Ryan, Carrie (The Forest of Hands and Teeth)
🌠U: Uglies
🌠S: Stephen King (Road Rage) (hide spoiler)]

◉February
💫Canis Major (Greater Dog)💫
(view spoiler)[🌠C: Charlie Allerton-Jones (character) The Dinner Guest
🌠A: Ashley Audrain (The Push)
🌠N: Nadia (character) Shadow and Bone
🌠I: Isabelle Fortenay (character) Hex Hall
🌠S: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
🌠M: Morty (character) Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons
🌠A: Alex Michaelides (The Maidens)
🌠J: Jones, Stephen Graham (The Last Final Girl)
🌠O: Owen (character) The Good Sister
🌠R: Roxanne Rhoads (Haunted Flint) (hide spoiler)]
💫Gemini (Twins)💫
(view spoiler)[🌠G: George Takei (They Called Us Enemy)
🌠E: Evelyn/Ate (character) The Farm: A Novel
🌠M: Maxon (character) The Selection
🌠I: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
🌠N: Nigel (character) Kindred
🌠I: Isabella Vanger (character) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (hide spoiler)]
💫Lepus (Hare/Rabbit/Bunny)💫
(view spoiler)[🌠L: Lois Lowry (The Giver)
🌠E: Ephraim Eliot (character) The Troop
🌠P: Project Hail Mary
🌠U: Unhygienix (character) The Beach
🌠S: SF Kosa (The Quiet Girl) (hide spoiler)]

◉March
Cancer (Crab)
🌠C: Cobb, May The Hunting Wives
🌠A: Adams, Miranda (character) The Hunting Party
🌠N: Norma Henderson (character) Survive the Night
C
🌠E: Eddie Morgan (character) He Started It
🌠R: Rory Power (Wilder Girls)

💫Vela (Sails of a Ship)💫
(view spoiler)[🌠V: Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite
🌠E: Elison, Meg (Find Layla)
🌠L: Lynsay Sands (Immortally Yours)
🌠A: Aeëtus (character) Circe (hide spoiler)]

◉April
💫Crater (Cup)💫
(view spoiler)[Of Potions and Portents (teacup on cover) (hide spoiler)]

Sextans (Astronomical Sextant)
🌠S: Simone St. James (The Broken Girls)
🌠E: Eric (character) Divergent
🌠X
🌠T: The Last Dragonslayer
🌠A: The Art of Hummingbird Gardening: How to Make Your Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Hummingbirds
🌠N: Nora (character) The Midnight Library
🌠S: Sarah Cross (Kill Me Softly)

◉May
💫Virgo (Virgin)💫
(view spoiler)[🌠V: Valentine Morgenstern (character) City of Bones
🌠I: Into the Drowning Deep
🌠R: Ryan Shaver (character) Thirteen Reasons Why
🌠G: Grady Hendrix (The Final Girl Support Group)
🌠O: Olsen, Julie (character) Magic Burns (hide spoiler)]

◉June
Libra (Weighing Scales)
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🌠B: Blackwell, Felix Stolen Tongues
🌠R: Rogue Protocol
A

💫Lupus (Wolf)💫
(view spoiler)[🌠Cry Wolf (The MCs are werewolves) (hide spoiler)]

◉July

◉August

◉September
💫Aquila (Eagle)💫
(view spoiler)[🌠The Eagle of the Ninth Title and MC has to find the missing eagle (hide spoiler)]

◉October
💫Lacerta (Lizard)💫
(view spoiler)[🌠Eragon - Dragons are essentially giant lizards. Saphira is a dragon. (hide spoiler)]

◉November

◉December

The Harry Potter Sorting Hat Reading Challenge
Duration: Open
Level: Hard
Progress: 24/24
Winning House: Hufflepuff

3.5 🌟
🦁Gryffindor's emblematic animal is the lion: Read a book about a lion (or a shape shifter who turns into a lion). Magic Burns 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦁Gryffindor's emblematic colors are scarlet and gold: Read a book that has a predominately scarlet or gold cover. Girl A 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦁"Nearly Headless Nick" is the house ghost of Gryffindor: Read a book featuring ghosts or read a book in which someone was decapitated or beheaded. Yikes! The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories 🌠🌠
🦁Members of Gryffindor are described as courageous, chivalrous, and brave to the point of recklessness (sometimes) : Read a book in which the protagonist portrays one of these qualities consistently throughout the book. The Demon in the Wood 🌠🌠🌠
🦁Godric Gryffindor was known as the most skilled duelist of his time. Read a book where the main character is a great swordsman/swords woman. Immortally Yours 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦁Godric Gryffindor left behind 2 known relics, the Sorting Hat and a goblin-made ruby encrusted sword. Read a book with a decorated sword on the cover. Enclave 🌠🌠🌠🌠



3⭐
🐍Slytherin's emblematic animal is the snake: Read a book which features a snake on the cover or in the story. Reckless Girls 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐍Slytherin's emblematic colors are green and silver: Read a book that has a predominately green or silver cover. The Maze Runner 🌠🌠🌠
🐍The Bloody Baron is the house ghost of Slytherin: Read a book in which a suicide or murder takes place. You can also read a book where the protagonist loves someone who does not love them back. Kill Me Softly 🌠🌠🌠
🐍Members of Slytherin are described as cunning and shrewd: Read a book in which the protagonist portrays one of these qualities consistently throughout the book. Or read a book in which the protagonist irked you. Divergent 🌠🌠🌠
🐍Salazar Slytherin was a skilled Legilimens. Read a book where the main character is telepathic. Cry Wolf 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🐍The locket used as a Horcrux was said to have belonged to Salazar Slytherin. It was silver with a large "S" engraved on the front. Read either a book with a locket, or other large metal necklace on the cover or read a book by an author who's first name and last name both begin with the same letter. Drop Dead Gorgeous 🌠



3.8 ⭐
🦡Helga Hufflepuff, the founder of Hufflepuff, was a witch during medieval times: Read a book that is set in a medieval time period (between 5th to the 15th century) Company of Liars 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦡Hufflepuff's emblematic colors are yellow and black: Read a book that has a predominately yellow or black cover. The Only Good Indians 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦡Fat Friar, the house ghost of Hufflepuff, dedicated his life to religion: Read a book about someone who is extremely religious. The Forest of Hands and Teeth 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦡Members of Hufflepuff are described as hard working, patient, and loyal: Read a book in which the protagonist portrays one of these qualities consistently throughout the book. The Broken Girls 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦡 The relic of Helga Hufflepuff used by Voldemort as a Horcrux was a small golden cup. Read a book with a cup on the cover. Of Potions and Portents 🌠🌠🌠
🦡Helga Hufflepuff was known to be skilled with food related charms, Harry Potter wikia states, the basis of her charms are still used for Hogwarts feasts. Read a book with food on the cover. Awfully Appetizing 🌠🌠🌠🌠



3.16 🌟
🦅Ravenclaw's emblematic animal is the eagle: Read a book which features an eagle on the cover or in the story. You can also read a book about someone who can shape shift into a bird of any type. The Eagle of the Ninth 🌠🌠🌠
🦅Ravenclaw's emblematic colors are blue and bronze: Read a book that has a predominately blue or bronze cover. Second Grave on the Left 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦅Rowena Ravenclaw, the founder of Ravenclaw, was Scottish: Read a book that takes place in Scotland. The Hunting Party 🌠🌠🌠
🦅Members of Ravenclaw are described as intelligent, witty, and wise: Read a book in which the protagonist is scholarly, bookish, all knowing, etc... The Midnight Library 🌠🌠
🦅Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem was a magical artifact that was charmed to enhance the intelligence of the wearer. Read a book with a pronounced diadem, crown, etc. on the cover. The Final Gambit 🌠🌠🌠🌠
🦅Rowena Ravenclaw's daughter, Helena, who was murdered by the Baron, was the ghost of Ravenclaw known as the Grey Lady. Read a book that either has an author or main character's name is Helena/Helen or that has the word "Grey" or "Lady" in the title. The Last Dragonslayer 🌠🌠🌠

Aiswrya wrote: "Great progress Bobbi & Jessi!"

Thank you! ❤

Full send.
Level: Ti
Option 2

My Favorite Things
(view spoiler)[
Easy
Raindrops
Roses
Kittens
Ponies
Doorbells
Sleigh
Noodles
Geese
White dresses
Snowflakes

Medium
Whiskers
Brown Paper
Packages

Hard
Copper Kettles
Woollen Mittens
Apple Strudels
Satin Sashes
Silver White (hide spoiler)]

The Sound of Music
(view spoiler)[
Easy
Hills
Music
Heart
Chime
Church
Stones

Medium
Beat
Lake
Breeze

Hard
Thousand Years
Brook
Lark (hide spoiler)]

Sixteen going on Seventeen
(view spoiler)[
Easy
Stage
Light
Page
Wine
Naive
Bachelors
Brandy

Medium
Fate
Brink
Timid

Hard
Canny
Young lads
Ken (hide spoiler)]

Climb Ev'ry Mountain
(view spoiler)[
Easy
Mountain
Path
Stream
Dream

Medium
Ford
Rainbow

Hard
Byway (hide spoiler)]

The Lonely Goatherd
(view spoiler)[
Easy
Lonely
Voice
Folks
Town
Bridge
Road
Table
Beer
Trio

Medium
Remote
Lusty
Throat
Prince
Castle
Foam
Duet

Hard
Goatherd / herd of goats
Moat
Tote
Pale Pink Coat
Yodeled
Gleaming Gloat (hide spoiler)]

Do Re Mi
(view spoiler)[
Easy
Deer
Sun
Thread
Jam
Tea
Bread

Medium
Needle
Doe
Ray (hide spoiler)]

Maria
(view spoiler)[
Easy
Tree
Knee
Meal
Cloud
Sand
Stair

Medium
Waltz
Curlers
Wave
Feather
Lamb
Demon

Hard
Abbey
Chapel
Moonbeam
Hornet
Wimple
Wisp (hide spoiler)]

So long, Farewell
(view spoiler)[
Easy
Clock
Bells
Bird
Sight
Bed

Medium
Champagne
Flee
Heave a sigh
Nursery

Hard
Steeple
Cuckoo
Farewell
Fleetly (hide spoiler)]

Something Good
(view spoiler)[
Easy
Truth
Good

Medium
Childhood
Youth
Past (hide spoiler)]

Edelweiss
(view spoiler)[
Easy
White
Clean
Bright
Grow
Small

Medium
Greet

Hard
Edelweiss (hide spoiler)]

Easy
1. Noodles: pg. 13 Only Daughter
2. Voice: pg. 13 Only Daughter
3. Heart: pg. 20 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
4. Good: pg. 100 The Broken Girls
5. Road: pg. 100 The Broken Girls
6. Mountain: pg. 168 Second Grave on the Left
7. Lonely: pg. 179 Second Grave on the Left
8. Clean: Loc 215 Of Potions and Portents
9. Hill: pg. 6 The Forest of Hands and Teeth
10. Bread: pg. 213 The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Medium
1. Beat: pg. 144 The Maze Runner
2. Lake: pg. 2 The Maze Runner
3. Rainbow: pg. 20 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
4. Greet: pg. 8 The Demon in the Wood
5. Demon: pg. 11 The Demon in the Wood
6. Past: pg. 4 The Only Good Indians
7. Youth: pg. 29 The Only Good Indians
8. Packages: pg 171 Drop Dead Gorgeous
9. Childhood: pg. 1 Cry Wolf
10. Feather: Loc 315 Of Potions and Portents

Hard
1. Wisp: pg. 19 The Wife Upstairs
2. Chapel: pg. 111 The Wife Upstairs
3. Farewell: pg. 181 Girl A
4. Moat: pg. 2 Girl A
5. Fleetly: pg. 170 The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
6. Hornet: pg. 44 The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
7. Ken: pg. 2 Drop Dead Gorgeous
8. Brook: pg. 457 Full Throttle
9. Lark: pg. 8 Full Throttle
10. Canny: pg. 253 Cry Wolf

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☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "So, we got 5 readers on board already. Yay!

☑Alyana
☐delirious reader ?
☑Misericordia
☑Saar the Book Owl
☐Stephanie - ?
☐Storm - ?
☐Thea - ?
☑Bobbi
☑Pooja
I PMed the rest of the team.
(Yep, ..."

I was reading My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell so it only fits for R as the main characters are Vanessa and Jacob and is a standalone, so no series name to go by, sadly.

I finished reading my A this afternoon. Artificial Condition

Okay, new plan. Tell me what's left when y'all are done, because I just wasted my entire afternoon reading for R, only to have it snaked, after S was already taken after I called dibs.

Okay, guess I'm not doing S lol

I'll get R instead.

☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "I think I'll offer to take U (as one of the rarer letters, if no one else wants it) with [book:Useful Delusio..."

That sounds really interesting!