D.L.’s Comments (group member since Dec 24, 2015)

D.L.’s comments from the 2025 Reading Challenge group.

April 2021

** We All Live in a Yellow Submarine

Progress: 3/3

√ 1. Mourning - Mexico and Ethiopia: Read a book by an author who has passed away or a book where a main character passes away.
Henry Huggins (4/11/21)

√ 2. Courage - Japan: Read a book you’re intimidated by or a book where a character must exhibit courage to survive.
Speak (4/11/21)

√ 5. Mystery fiction and thrillers - Italy: Read a mystery, thriller or true crime book.
Peppermint Twisted (4/13/21)

March 2021

** One-Word Wonder

Progress: 3/3

✔ 1. Beloved by Diana Palmer
✔ 2. Spyhunt by Michele Ashman Bell
✔ 3. Shrill by Lindy West



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** What a Wonderful World

Progress: 2/2

√ 1. Read a book set in or about a big city -- The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels (3/25/21)

√ 7. Read a book that prominently features a body of water of some kind (eg. river, lake, stream, ocean, beach etc) -- The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery (3/18/21)

QTR. 4

Bibliophiles for World Peace

Progress: 3/9

Titles
(Love) Love in Bloom
(Love) Love Me If You Dare
(Love) Love Unexpected: With All My Heart
(Together) Gather Together in My Name

Themes
(Friendship) - 2
✔ (Friendship) Mary Anne Saves the Day
✔ (Friendship) Dawn and the Impossible Three
✔ Kristy's Big Day

QTR. 3

Book Recycling

Progress: 11/10 - CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

1. Moving Day - donating to the library
2. The Case of the Mystery Meat Loaf - donating to the library
3. The Girls - donating to the library
4. Stolen Children - donating to the library
5. Brooke's Not-So-Perfect Plan - donating to the library
6. Be Mine - donating to the library
7. Safe in His Embrace - donating to the library
8. Secrets in the Hills: A Josefina Mystery - donating to the library
9. The Rancher's Summer Secret - borrowed from the library
10. The Sitter - donating to the library
11. Liar Liar - donating to the library

Genre Bingo



Progress: 2/2 Bingos - CHALLENGE COMPLETED!

Any book: Pick Your Poison by Kristi Holl (3/23/21)
Middle Grade: The Mystery at the Fair (Boxcar Children Mystery & Activities Specials #6) by Gertrude Chandler Warner (3/23/21)
Young Adult: The Prom Queen by R.L. Stine (3/20/21)
Romance: Beloved by Diana Palmer (3/21/21)
Mystery: The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels by Gertrude Chandler Warner (3/25/21)
Adventure: Spyhunt by Michele Ashman Bell (3/28/21)
Memoir: Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West (3/31/21)
Sci Fi: His Human Nanny by Michele Mills (4/9/21)
Book-to-Film: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (4/11/21)
Historical Fiction: Beth's Story, 1914 by Adele Whitby (4/19/21)
Thriller: Stolen Children by Peg Kehret (7/30/21)
Horror: Be Mine by Jane McFann (8/3/21)
Award Winner: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (8/10/21)
Suspense: Liar Liar by James Patterson (8/12/21)
Chick-lit: Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot (8/30/21)
Short Stories: BWWM Interracial Romance Short Stories 2 (10/12/21)

Clear the Shelves



Progress: 20/20

√ 1. The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery
√ 2. Beloved
√ 3. The Mystery at the Fair (Boxcar Children Mystery & Activities Specials #6)
√ 4. Pick Your Poison
√ 5. The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels
√ 6. Double Play
√ 7. Spyhunt
√ 8. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
√ 9. Dog's Best Friend
√ 10. The Dune Buggy Mystery
√ 11. All I Want Is You
√ 12. The Man Who Had Everything
√ 13. Somebody's Baby
√ 14. Speak
√ 15. Peppermint Twisted
√ 16. Death-Fires Dance
√ 17. Final Curtain
√ 18. Beth's Story, 1914
√ 19. The Witches
√ 20. Moving Day

Book Club

Progress: 3/8

** I will join 1 Group Read this year

**I will join 5 Buddy Reads this year
✅ 1. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

** I will join 2 TBR Twin reads this year
✅ 1. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
✅ 2. Smitten by Janet Evanovich

A-Z Challenge: Character Edition

Progress: 26/26 -- CHALLENGE COMPLETED

✔ A - Alexis Becker from Katie and the Cupcake War
✔ B - Bert Bobbsey from The Dune Buggy Mystery
✔ C - Christy Knight from All I Want Is You
✔ D - David Savage from Double Play
✔ E - Elsie Hawkins from Back to the Bedroom
✔ F - Fletcher, Sadie from Spyhunt
✔ G - Grant Clifton from The Man Who Had Everything
✔ H - Henry Alden from The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels
✔ I - Izzy Gilmore from Vanilla Bean Killer
✔ J - Jeri McKane from Pick Your Poison
✔ K - Kate MacGregor from Kate and Holly: The Beginning
✔ L - Leah from From Scratch
✔ M - Elizabeth "Lizzy" McVay from The Prom Queen
✔ N - Nicole from Speak
✔ O - Ophelia Redmond from Somebody's Baby
✔ P - Poonachi from Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
✔ Q - Sarah Quilliam from A Dash of Death
✔ R - Rafe Khatchadorian from Dog's Best Friend
✔ S - Samantha from The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery
✔ T - Tira Beck from Beloved
✔ U - Ursula Drake from Peppermint Twisted
✔ V - Violet Alden from The Mystery at the Fair (Boxcar Children Mystery & Activities Specials #6)
✔ W - Winchester, Teddy from 1-800-CUPID
✔ X - Xander Orlock from Vamps
✔ Y - Yinka from My Sister, the Serial Killer
✔ Z - Pedro Zamora from Secrets in the Hills: A Josefina Mystery

Unofficial Challenges

* Ashleigh's 2021 (Unofficial) Challenge *COMPLETED*

* Reading Adventures in April *COMPLETED*

Monthly Challenges

* March 2021 *COMPLETED*

* April 2021 *COMPLETED*

* August 2021 *COMPLETED*

* September 2021

* October 2021

* November 2021

Quarterly Challenges

QTR. 3 *COMPLETED*

OTR. 4

Yearly Challenges

A-Z Challenge: Character Edition *COMPLETED*

Book Club

Clear the Shelves *COMPLETED*

Genre Bingo *COMPLETED*

Spell a Better World

My original goal was to read 30 books. I upped it to 75 books in April.

I'm off to an incredibly slow start but I've completed one finally lol.

1/20

1/2 complete :)

Progress: 26/26 -- CHALLENGE COMPLETED

✔ A - Alexis Becker from Katie and the Cupcake War
✔ B - Bert Bobbsey from The Dune Buggy Mystery
✔ C - Christy Knight from All I Want Is You
✔ D - David Savage from Double Play
✔ E - Elsie Hawkins from Back to the Bedroom
✔ F - Fletcher, Sadie from Spyhunt
✔ G - Grant Clifton from The Man Who Had Everything
✔ H - Henry Alden from The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels
✔ I - Izzy Gilmore from Vanilla Bean Killer
✔ J - Jeri McKane from Pick Your Poison
✔ K - Kate MacGregor from Kate and Holly: The Beginning
✔ L - Leah from From Scratch
✔ M - Elizabeth "Lizzy" McVay from The Prom Queen
✔ N - Nicole from Speak
✔ O - Ophelia Redmond from Somebody's Baby
✔ P - Poonachi from Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
✔ Q - Sarah Quilliam from A Dash of Death
✔ R - Rafe Khatchadorian from Dog's Best Friend
✔ S - Samantha from The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery
✔ T - Tira Beck from Beloved
✔ U - Ursula Drake from Peppermint Twisted
✔ V - Violet Alden from The Mystery at the Fair (Boxcar Children Mystery & Activities Specials #6)
✔ W - Winchester, Teddy from 1-800-CUPID
✔ X - Xander Orlock from Vamps
✔ Y - Yinka from My Sister, the Serial Killer
✔ Z - Pedro Zamora from Secrets in the Hills: A Josefina Mystery

Priscilla wrote: "I would like to nominate White Oleander by Janet Fitch. Oleander is a flower which fits the theme of flora."

Seconding!

1. What three genres are you interested in reading next month?
Romance, Classics, YA

2. Have you participated within the last four months? Yes.

Progress: 3/3

✔ 1. Beloved by Diana Palmer
✔ 2. Spyhunt by Michele Ashman Bell
✔ 3. Shrill by Lindy West

I'd love to suggest the first Alex Cross book, Along Came a Spider by James Patterson for June though I am open to other months.

I'd also like to suggest The Dry by Jane Harper for July though I am open to other months.