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15.10 CYOA2Mystery-->Holmes-->Disability-->IRL-->100k+ ratings-->Writer-->Series-->Numbered chapters-->My decade-->Thriller
Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
+15 Task
+100 CYOA finish
Task total: 115
Grand total: 625
15.9 CYOA2Mystery-->Holmes-->Disability-->IRL-->100k+ ratings-->Writer-->Series-->Numbered chapters-->My decade
A Boy at the Hogarth Press by Richard Kennedy
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 510
15.8 CYOA2Mystery-->Holmes-->Disability-->IRL-->100k+ ratings-->Writer-->Series-->Numbered chapters
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 495
15.7 CYOA2Mystery-->Holmes-->Disability-->IRL-->100k+ ratings-->Writer-->Series
Dungeon Master by Golden Angel
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 480
15.6 CYOA2Mystery-->Holmes-->Disability-->IRL-->100k+ ratings-->Writer
Mona by Pola Oloixarac
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 465
15.5 CYOA2Mystery-->Holmes-->Disability-->IRL-->100k+ ratings
Bunny by Mona Awad
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 450
Kathleen (itpdx) wrote: "I am having difficulty deciding if An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin qualifies for 20.10 narrative nonfiction and 20.3..."This works for both tasks.
Valerie wrote: "Should I just boldly go ahead and count Vuong? I see the book is coming for me (to the library)."Yes, that will be fine.
SU 24 - Decathalon100m: The Seduction (100-199pp)
Long Jump: The Lake Escape (Thriller)
Shot Put: You Were Wrong (Rating lower than 3.0)
High Jump: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Rating higher than 4.25)
400m: Flashlight (400-499pp)
Hurdles: Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger (nonfiction)
Discus Throw: Guards! Guards! (Discworld)
Pole Vault: The Calculating Stars (awards)
Javelin Throw: The Measure (auth initials in JAVELIN THROW)
1500m: The Scar (500+ pp)
FA 19 - Pick N Mix 2
A1 The Husbands (set in USA)
A3 The Catch (set in Europe)
B1 Mean Moms (pub 2025)
B2 The Book of Ruth (pub 1988)
C4 Snow in August (3d person narrator)
D5 The Proposal (romance)
D6 The Monsters of Templeton (literary fiction)
E3 Then We Came to the End (title=full sentence)
F2 Slut Lullabies (Auth name E-H)
F6 No Body No Crime (Auth name T-Z)
Maybe next: SU 18 - Listopia Tags
Plan away -- the subchallenge summer is now posted!
Note, CYOA from this season is allowed for summer even though the thread hasn't moved to the archive link yet.
Here's a spot for posting plans. Plans are required if the original subchallenge required that a plan be posted. Otherwise, feel free to do any planning that you want here.
Here is a place for your questions for our subchallenge summer.
Feelin' Free Summer SubsThis summer, we're giving you the chance to revisit subchallenges of past seasons - any subchallenges you choose!
Find them here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
Your first subchallenge should be numbered 15.1, 15.2, etc to 15.10.
You may also choose to work on a second subchallenge at the same time (but not more). Tasks for your second subchallenge should be numbered 15.11, 15.12, etc.
After you complete one of these two, you may start a third that will be numbered 15.21, 15.22, etc.
You are free to complete as many different subchallenges as you like, but if you want to repeat a subchallenge, you need to complete a different one between the repeats.
Please include the name of the subchallenge and the original task number and task description in all of your posts.
If the subchallenge required a plan, please post your plan in the planning thread for this season. You're welcome to do other planning there, too.
All tasks are worth 15 points, even if the scoring system in the original subchallenge was different.
Bonuses:
+5 Old: for books published 2000 and earlier
+5 Big: for books whose MPE is 500 pages or more
Completion bonuses:
+50 points for your first subchallenge completion
+100 points for your second subchallenge completion
+150 points for your third and subsequent subchallenge completions.
Note: as stated in the Spring season Styles & Bonuses thread, Spring season winners will pick tasks and group reads for the Fall season.
For the summer season, we will apply the Lexile rule (books listed as YA/YA-Assignment at BPL must have a Lexile score of 700), but we will allow graphic novels for summer posts.
20.8 Temple Bar PubA Love So Dangerous by Jessie Evans
This one did not work for me at all. I know we're supposed to root for these characters and find their Robin-Hood-esque crime okay because their exacting retribution on bad people, but I hated everything about this. First, the male lead is the son of a criminal defense lawyer and he's using access to his father's case files to decide which people to rob because they weren't punished enough by the legal system for their alleged crimes. I hated the idea that the book portrays criminal defense attorneys as bad people working against justice.
Next, the male lead is endangering the whole family that the female lead has worked so hard to hold together. Sure, he thinks they won't get caught. But they totally might. Indeed, the cliffhanger ending shows the risks.
Finally, I just didn't believe the romance at all. Nothing about it felt compelling to this reader.
I will not be continuing with this series.
+20 Task ("I had my second whiskey sour two hours ago; I’m fine to drive.")
+10 Review
Task total: 30
Grand total: 435
15.4 CYOA2Mystery-->Holmes-->Disability-->IRL
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn
+15 Task
Task total: 15
Grand total: 405
15.3 CYOA2Mystery --> Holmes --> Disability
Dark Pines by Will Dean
+15 Task (protagonist is deaf)
Task total: 15
Grand total: 390
20.8 Temple Bar PubDeep Cuts by Holly Brickley
I loved reading about people with a skill I'm entirely missing. I don't know why, but I've never been able to hear music in my head if it's not playing right then. I just can't remember songs or melodies AT ALL. Like, it's literally hard for me to remember the tune to Happy Birthday if other people aren't singing. That's not to say I don't like music. I do. I love live music, I enjoy listening to music when it's on. I just can't recreate it when it's not on.
So, it was fascinating to read about characters with encyclopedic knowledge of songs, the ability to play a song, think about it, then replay it with small changes. I loved the way that they were able to come up with the perfect song for any activity or emotion. What an awesome reference point.
These characters also just felt so vividly real. They were messy and young and yearning. It's what I loved in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. But unlike that book, this one didn't try to trace into their future. It only did the early parts. Which is cool, but also felt sort of unfinished or unsatisfying. I don't need everything to always work out in the end for my book characters, but I wanted more next steps from these characters.
The narrator for the audible version was good. The book translates very well to audio format because so much of it is in the protagonist's head anyway.
+20 Task (there's a lot of alcohol in this book, including numerous beers and whiskeys)
+10 Review
+5 Combo (10.7)
Task total: 35
Grand total: 375
15.2 CYOA 2Mystery --> Holmes
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin
Task total: 15
Grand total: 340
