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Sorry guys I am here still playing! I’ve gotten off to a slow start on my reading, having only finished one and will probably finish my second today or tomorrow. I have not had a chance to get on the spreadsheet but I will log my books today. I will be starting the traveling cat chronicles tomorrow and hopefully I don’t ball my eyes out
I also got The Traveling Cat Chronicles to go too!
I have a dumb question, I don't understand this task, I feel like it can have a couple different meanings. Can someone help me out?Task: Read a book that has 3 consecutive letters in the title
Hello everyone! I live is Colorado with my husband and 5 month old daughter! I tend to listen to audiobooks more now than I use to but I usually have a different book and audiobook going at the same time. I read anything and everything but I think I read more romance than all the other genres. I’ve never done a tower team challenge before so I am excited for it. I will link my shelf when I can get onto my computer
I would like to try hard please!
2022 Serious Readers ChallengeLevel One - 100 Books
January:
1. Leaving Time 1/1/22
2. Breathless 1/3/22
3. Chicken Soup for the Father and Daughter Soul: Stories to Celebrate the Love Between Dads and Daughters Throughout the Years (Chicken Soup for the Soul 1/4/22
4. Falling for the Billionaire 1/6/22
5. City of Ashes 1/9/22
6. Fifty Shades Freed 1/12/22
7. Defining Destiny 1/13/22
8. Wrong Bed, Right Guy 1/14/22
9. Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland 1/17/22
10. Magic Rises 1/19/22
11. First Grave on the Right 1/22/22
12. All I Want is You 1/24/22
13. If Loving You Is Wrong 1/24/22
14. You Are All I'll Ever Need 1/25/22
15. Having You Is Never Enough 1/25/22
16. We Belong Together 1/26/22
17. You Have My Heart 1/27/22
18. You Will Be Mine 1/28/22
19. Savage Run 1/30/22
February:
20. Banking on Him 2/2/22
21. Storm Front 2/7/22
22. Price of Passion 2/9/22
23. Let Me Be the One 2/10/22
24. It Happened One Summer 2/12/22
25. All the Bright Places 2/15/22
26. The Way We Break 2/17/22
27. Investing in Love 2/22/22
28. A Forever Thing 2/24/22
29. In Cold Blood 2/26/22
30. Mercy 2/28/22
March:
31. Knowing Your Worth 3/2/22
32. Beloved 3/6/22
33. Ruthless Saints 3/7/22
34. The Soulmate Equation 3/8/22
35. Treasured Forever 3/10/22
36. Room for More 3/14/22
37. Banking on Christmas 3/16/22
38. The Onion Field 3/18/22
39. Lucifer's Sin 3/18/22
40. Magic Steals 3/24/22
41. Magic Breaks 3/24/22
42. A is for Alibi 3/25/22
43. Hand Me The Reins 3/27/22
44. Nobody's Lost 3/31/22
April
45. Hook, Line, and Sinker 4/1/22
46. Sweep with Me 4/7/22
47. Single Dad Next Door 4/13/22
48. Never Fall for Your Back-Up Guy 4/15/22
49. The Lincoln Lawyer 4/17/22
50. Gone Girl 4/22/22
51. Catching Cassidy 4/23/22
52. Wicked Appetite 4/29/22
53. Pretty Little Liars 4/30/22
May:
54. Head Over Heels 5/6/22
55. A Secret for a Secret 5/12/22
56. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 5/13/22
57. The Cellar 5/20/22
58. The Travelling Cat Chronicles 5/28/22
59. Her Heartless King 5/29/22
60. The Cinderella Murder 5/29/22
June:
61. Peony Red: A Contemporary Romance Novel 6/3/22
62. Wicked Wolf 6/7/22
63. The Goldfinch 6/11/22
64. White Hot 6/13/22
65. Burned 6/18/22
66. Instant Gratification 6/23/22
67. A Beautiful Mess 6/25/22
68. The Memory Box 6/29/22
July:
69. My Friend Dahmer 7/1/22
70. Fairest of All 7/3/22
71. Magic Shifts 7/6/22
72. True Believer 7/13/22
73. Guilty 7/16/22
74. Torch 7/19/22
75. Peacekeeper 7/26/22
August:
76. Hide 8/2/22
77. B is for Burglar 8/8/22
78. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 8/16/22
79. Bittersweet 8/25/22
80. All the Stars and Teeth 8/26/22
September:
81. The Kingmaker 9/3/22
82. The Ranger 9/3/22
83. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 9/3/22
84. The Redemption 9/7/22
85. Sky in the Deep 9/7/22
86. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders 9/7/22
87. The Spanish Love Deception 9/15/22
88. This Love Hurts 9/17/22
89. Hushabye 9/17/22
90. Someone to Love Me 9/23/22
91. Wolf Kissed 9/24/22
92. There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll 9/24/22
93. Donovan 9/26/22
94. Something Real 9/28/22
95. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 9/30/22
October:
96. When You're Ready 10/1/22
97. Murder Girl 10/5/22
98. Fated In Winter 10/6/22
99. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10/8/22
100. Etched in Honor 10/8/22
Decades Challenge - 2022Duration: 22 February, 2022 - 23 February, 2023
Level VIII = 231 books
Progress: 132/231
2001-2/26/22
1. In Cold Blood 2/26/22
2002
2003 1/4/23
1. Dune 11/20/22
2.A Game of Thrones 1/4/23
2004
1. Beloved 3/6/22
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 10/14/22
2005
1. A is for Alibi 3/25/22
2. The Lincoln Lawyer 4/17/22
3. B is for Burglar 8/8/22
2006
1. Pretty Little Liars 4/30/22
2. True Believer 7/13/22
3. To Kill a Mockingbird 10/29/22
2007
1. The Onion Field 3/18/22
2. Hide 8/2/22
3. Water for Elephants 11/6/22
4. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 11/14/22
2008
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 8/16/22
2. Graceling 12/7/22
3. Firefly Lane 1/29/23
4. Cry Wolf 2/14/23
2009
1. Instant Gratification 6/23/22
2. Say You're One of Them 11/27/22
3. Bone Crossed 12/2/22
2010
1. Wicked Appetite 4/29/22
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 9/3/22
3. The Iron King 10/25/22
4. Four to Score 11/12/22
5. Silver Borne 12/9/22
2011
1. A Forever Thing 2/24/22
2. Mercy 2/28/22
3. Head Over Heels 5/6/22
4. Small Town Christmas 10/19/22
2012
1. My Friend Dahmer 7/1/22
2. Fairest of All 7/3/22
3. Torch 7/19/22
4. The Game 12/11/22
2013
1. The Goldfinch 6/11/22
2. A Beautiful Mess 6/25/22
3. Hushabye 9/17/22
4. When You're Ready 10/1/22
5. Everbound 11/26/22
2014 1/15/23
1. Let Me Be the One 2/10/22
2. Magic Breaks 3/24/22
3. Nobody's Lost 3/31/22
4. Gone Girl 4/22/22
5. The Cellar 5/20/22
6. The Cinderella Murder 5/29/22
7. The Memory Box 6/29/22
8. Someone to Love Me 9/23/22
9. There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll 9/24/22
10. The Silkworm 11/10/22
11. Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese 11/29/22
12. Between Us 11/30/22
13. Bird Box 12/12/22
14. Pillbillies 1/15/23
2015
1. All the Bright Places 2/15/22
2. The Way We Break 2/17/22
3. Room for More 3/14/22
4. Catching Cassidy 4/23/22
5. Wicked Wolf 6/7/22
6. Magic Shifts 7/6/22
7. Something Real 9/28/22
8. The Air He Breathes 10/25/22
9. Illuminae 11/23/22
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 12/21/22
11. Moment in Time 12/21/22
12. Everything and More 2/9/23
2016
1. Magic Steals 3/24/22
2. Bittersweet 8/25/22
3. All Chained Up 10/15/22
4. Career of Evil 12/14/22
5. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay 12/20/22
6. Gemina 12/25/22
7. The Hammer of Thor 12/26/22
8. A Cowboy to Remember 12/31/22
2017
1. White Hot 6/13/22
2. Guilty 7/16/22
3. The Ranger 9/3/22
4. We Own Tonight 1/4/23
2018
1. Banking on Him 2/2/22
2. Price of Passion 2/9/22
3. Investing in Love 2/22/22
4. Knowing Your Worth 3/2/22
5. Treasured Forever 3/10/22
6. Banking on Christmas 3/16/22
7. Single Dad Next Door 4/13/22
8. The Travelling Cat Chronicles 5/28/22
9. Peony Red: A Contemporary Romance Novel 6/3/22
10. The Redemption 9/7/22
11. Sky in the Deep 9/7/22
12. Ensnared 10/22/22
13. Cause to Dread 12/17/22
14. Obsidio 1/13/23
15. Her Bodyguard 1/18/23
16. If She Knew 2/3/23
17. If She Saw 2/14/23
2019
1. The Kingmaker 9/3/22
2. I Owe You One 11/30/22
3. Butterfly in Frost 1/22/23
2020
1. Sweep with Me 4/7/22
2. A Secret for a Secret 5/12/22
3. Peacekeeper 7/26/22
4. All the Stars and Teeth 8/26/22
5. This Love Hurts 9/17/22
6. Murder Girl 10/5/22
7. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 10/8/22
8. Bourbon Nights 10/21/22
9. Bourbon Fireball 12/3/22
10. Once Chosen 12/14/22
11. Steady 12/22/22
12. Real Men Knit 1/2/23
2021
1. It Happened One Summer 2/12/22
2. The Soulmate Equation 3/8/22
3. Hand Me The Reins 3/27/22
4. Never Fall for Your Back-Up Guy 4/15/22
5. Burned 6/18/22
6. The Spanish Love Deception 9/15/22
7. Wolf Kissed 9/24/22
8. Donovan 9/26/22
9. The Love Hypothesis 11/16/22
10. The Office Rival 11/18/22
11. Random Encounter 12/6/22
12. The Beach House 12/18/22
13. Change on the Fly 1/24/23
2022
1. Ruthless Saints 3/7/22
2. Lucifer's Sin 3/18/22
3. Hook, Line, and Sinker 4/1/22
4. Her Heartless King 5/29/22
5. Fated In Winter 10/6/22
6. Etched in Honor 10/8/22
7. His Broken Queen 10/29/22
8. The American Roommate Experiment 11/1/22
9. Wild Souls 1/29/23
10. Must Love Books 2/8/23
I finished a book but I won’t have access to add it to the spreadsheet before the end of the challenge if someone can please log it for me. Book: Rescuing Riley, Saving Myself: A Man and His Dog's Struggle to Find Salvation by Zachary Anderegg
Read: 12/17
Can only work for R title and A authors name
My current read will work for F too if we are needing more F's
I’ll be finishing a book before the deadline that will work for S, H, A, M or C
Here is my shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...I'm going to start with Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey
It has bicycle wheels on the cover
I found a book with a wheel on it that I can read
Thanks all! :) I'm not really a book planner either, I usually just try and fit my book wherever it can go
Hello all, I’m Cindy and I’m from Colorado. I live with my husband and we are expecting a baby girl due 12-4-21. It’s our first so we are super excited and nervous. I work in a hospital pharmacy and I get through a lot of my audiobooks there. I pretty much read anything and everything. I’ve did the wheelathon last year and that was my first time but I have done uno and love that one too.
Day 3 DQs11. In the beginning of this section, we find out that Noa not only looks like a middle class Japanese boy, he also wants to be one. What are you opinions on this and why do you think he wants this? What do you think would happen if he shared this with his parents?
I think he wants to be this because of the environment that he lives in. How Japanese are treated versus how Korean people are treated. I think his parents would probably feel shameful if they found out.
12. Isak is back from jail finally after two years. I found this to be a bit of a surprise because I was expecting him to die in jail. I wasn't expecting him to be let out. What were your thoughts on him being let out of jail to die in his home. He was obviously let out to die at home, but did you find this mercy surprising? Did you expect this?
I didn't expect him to be let out, i thought he would have died in jail also.
13. A run in with Hansu. I thought it was super creepy that Hansu has been keeping tabs on Sunja (even though one of the kids is his). What are your opinions on this? And then he drops the whole "we're about to get bombed" curveball. Do you like him more because he warned Sunja or do you still think he's being selfish and trying to keep his only son alive?
I thought it was weird and creepy for him to keep tabs also, it was like he was waiting for the right moment to drop in. I think he only warned her because it was gonna benefit him and give him the opportunity to be in his sons life because Sunja and everyone are gonna feel like the will be indebt to him for this.
14. Wow. Hansu lying to Yoseb about his parents being dead. That is beyond harsh. Why do you think Hansu did this? He obviously wants his child, Noa, but do you think he is also planning on getting Sunja back?
I think he did this because he didn't want them to take Noa to where they were wanting him to go because then he wouldn't be able to be apart of his life like he is now. He wants to be able to control what happens to Noa.
15. Hansu later tells Kim that Yoseb is dying and to scoop up Kyunghee before she gets old. Talk about a jerk. What do you think of Hansu after this? What about Kim? Do you think Kim will eventually try?
I have not liked him since the beginning of the book. I think kim is a nice guy and i know he has feelings for Kyunghee but he wouldnt act on it because hes not that type of guy, and he knows she is not the type to cheat or do anything to go against her husband
DQ - Day 26. I might be too judgmental, but her pining for Hansu is constantly making me frown. She promised to care for and honor her husband, never to betray him. Yet she keeps marveling about her lost "love", how she misses him, how she wants to see him, how she has already been in the city with him in her mind, etc. Are such thought not a kind of betrayal? She is so rational and reasonable about what happened and knows full well how he lured her in and used her, but cannot stop the pining and reminiscing about it. Why do you think she can't let it go and focus on her future?
I think its hard for her in the beginning because she loved him and he would be her first love. I feel like him being the father of her baby also has alot to do with it.
7. After all Isak said about his successful brother and all his dreams about the better life in the city, he arrived to some harsh revelations. I am starting to think they might have been better staying on the island. Isak's brother's revelations about his house, his neighbors, the judgement in the city, the discrimination at work and spying everywhere are very disappointing and brutal. Do you think it a natural disillusion of impossible dreams? Or Yoseb's hope that it might be better for his brother here, where he can watch over him?
I feel like he thinks its better if he can watch over him and care for them both. Since Isak has been sick most of his life he may feel like its his duty to protect and care for him. I think he also felt like the weather there would be better for him health wise than what is was where they are from.
8. That scene in the church with the brother and sister. The pastor discussing what it actually means when a wealthy man wants to be a young girl's "friend". The duplicity of the pastor - being nice and not judgmental to the siblings, yet judging them harshly when they have left was not surprising but annoying still. The sweet talk to their face, but harsh berating behind their back would have been exactly what happened to Sunja and her family. Do you think this scene was included to reveal to Isak more truths about his wife's condition and impossible choices to help him understand her?
I thought it was a coincidence that the situation was pretty much what Sunja went through but i don't know if Isak realized it or not since Sunja had never told him what happened and who it had happened with.
9. The pastor's reason for hiring Isak was revealed as well - to get money from his family and avoid paying him wages - and I must admit it didn't endear the pastor to me at all. And the pawnbroker and his greed, the loan sharks and their scare tactics. We get introduced to many characters that are not really likable and portray humanity at its worst. Do you think it is a decision by the author to reveal the true nature of people in all kinds of positions in general or is it included to especially note how people get in times of oppression and hard times? I am starting to think Isak coming to Japan was a huge mistake with every little revelation. Do you think it will work out? Or do you agree it was a mistake?
I think the author included all of this in the book because it was probably things that happened really did happen at that time, i mean it still happens today.
10. The debacle with the watch was very educational. We get to see a merchant's attitude towards women, husband's attitude towards a wife in stark contrast to how men are treated. Yoseb is enraged with his wife and sister-in-law, he can't forgive them or appreciate the help, yet he can forgive and accept when his brother asks him to. Do you think he would have gotten over it in time if his brother hadn't asked him? Or would he be always resentful towards women? The whole "head of the house" part further gets the point home that women will always be under the command of a man, even in regards to baby names. The prison scene also drives home how women are still supposed to be home and stay away from men's troubles, too weak to do something about it. And women who work are still frowned upon, even in their own family. Do you think it will change further in the story? Will oppression and war open their minds towards changing a woman's role in the family and world?
I thought it was a little much how mad he got over it but then again I haven't lived through times like these or ever had to experience something like that. Maybe the whole working women situation with get better as the story goes on but i could also see it continuously being frowned upon
1. This novel starts with the sentence: "History has failed us, but no matter." Did you like this opening line? What do you think it means, and why do you think the author chose it?I think it was a good opening line. I think it could mean that history has a way of repeating itself and and we fail to learn from it. I could also see it has stuff happens but life goes on anyways.
2. I am half-Korean, and my mom has shared a lot of the history of her own family and how it's interwoven with Korean history in general. What, if anything, did you know of the Japanese colonization of Korea -- or the history of Korea, Japan, and China in the 20th scentury in general -- before beginning to read this book?
I dont really know anything about the subject.
3. Hansu seems like a complicated character. What were your thoughts on him? Did you hate him?
I thought that he just wanted to use her and take advantage of her from the start, from the way that he was staring at her in the market and wouldn't speak to her in front of others, that it had to be like their little secret.
4. What did you think of Sunja's decision to not accept being Hansu's mistress? Why do you think she chose to reject him? Do you think she made the right decision?
I think it was a good decision for her. I think it was hard for her to do because of the shame and how she would be living her life and what not. I think she knew that she didn't know much about alot of things but that she knew how she should be treated.
5. In this first section of the novel, we see two couples wed -- Hoonie and Yangjin, and then Isak and Sunja. What were some of the similarities between these marriages, and what were the differences?
Some similarities between them would be that they didn't really know anything about each other until they were married and that they both had to learn something new for their husbands.
I’m thinking I’ll be able to finish one more book if not two for this round
I’m trying to finish 3 books by the end of round three. Right now I’m reading into thin air and it’s a little slow going for me.
