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Just Read It! (Music edition) - Prompt 6: Sweet Books (Are Made Of This)
January - December 2022
My Prompt 6 Plan (msg 26)
Prompt Goal ➺ 12 books ➺ COMPLETE
Prompt ➺ Read book/s with your favourite trope/s
🔹no-strings fling ➺ My Favorite Half-Night Stand ➺ 01.02 ★★★★
🔹no-strings fling ➺ A Week in New York ➺ 01.09 ★★★★
🔹no-strings fling ➺ Crashed ➺ 02.02 ★★★★
🔹no-strings fling ➺ Wishful Sinful ➺ 05.09 ★★★★
🔹frenemies to lovers ➺ Bite Me ➺ 01.23 ★★★★
🔹frenemies to lovers ➺ Duncan ➺ 08.20 ★★★★
🔹frenemies to lovers ➺ The Darkest Destiny ➺ 05.26 ★★★★
🔹frenemies to lovers ➺ Love On Anchor Island ➺ 11.17 ★★★★
🔹pretend lovers ➺ Well Matched ➺ 03.23 ★★★★
🔹pretend lovers ➺ Misadventures of a Backup Bride ➺ 01.27 ★★★
🔹second chance love ➺ All We Know of Heaven ➺ 11.19 ★★★
🔹second chance love ➺ Scandal with a Prince ➺ 01.19 ★★★
Just Read It! (Music edition) - Prompt 5: Bibliophile Rhapsody
January - December 2022
My Prompt 5 Plan (msg 30)
Prompt Goal ➺ 12 books ➺ COMPLETE
Prompt ➺ Read: 1. poetries; 2. anthologies; 3. music-related books
🔹anthology ➺ Double the Heat ➺ 10.16 ★★★
🔹anthology ➺ Nothing Like I Imagined ➺ 05.18 ★★★★
🔹anthology ➺ Shopping for a Billionaire Box Set One ➺ 08.12 ★★★
🔹anthology ➺ The Lady Most Likely... ➺ 08.03 ★★★★
🔹music ➺ Days like This ➺ 01.26 ★★★★
🔹music ➺ Lead ➺ 07.08 ★★★★
🔹music ➺ It Had to Be Fate ➺ 03.27 ★★★
🔹music ➺ Out of the Blue ➺ 06.15 ★★★★
🔹music ➺ Pecan Pie and Deadly Lies ➺ 06.04 ★★★★
🔹music ➺ Ten Days of Perfect ➺ 06.06 ★★★
🔹music ➺ Random Acts of Crazy ➺ 07.10 ★★★★
🔹music ➺ Hot Buttered Yum ➺ 08.28 ★★★★
Just Read It! (Music edition) - Prompt 4: Your Story is a Wonderland
January - December 2022
My Prompt 4 Plan (msg 21)
Prompt Goal ➺ 12 books ➺ COMPLETE
Prompt ➺ Read books with fictionalized settings
🔹dystopian Georgia, USA ➺ Blood Heir ➺ 01.13 ★★★★
🔹futuristic NYC ➺ Vendetta in Death ➺ 02.22 ★★★★
🔹post-apocalyptic United States ➺ The Devil You Know ➺ 01.29 ★★★★
🔹Eden/dystopian USA ➺ Beyond Possession ➺ 06.26 ★★★★
🔹space station ➺ Spy Night on Union Station ➺ 04.18 ★★★
🔹The Edge ➺ Fate's Edge ➺ 05.13 ★★★★
🔹Mystic Bayou ➺ Always Be My Banshee ➺ 06.08 ★★★★
🔹Ardnoch Estate ➺ There with You ➺ 11.19 ★★★★
🔹Butler, Vermont ➺ Every Little Thing ➺ 07.09 ★★★★
🔹Talamh ➺ Sweet Adventure ➺ 10.31 ★★★★
🔹Happily Inc. ➺ Meant to Be Yours ➺ 10.29 ★★★★
🔹dystopian Detroit ➺ The Queen of Zombie Hearts ➺ 09.24 ★★★★
Just Read It! (Music edition) - Prompt 3: Read the World
January - December 2022
My Prompt 3 Plan (msg 22)
Prompt Goal ➺ 12 books
Prompt ➺ Read a book set in (at least 50%) AND written by author born/live in another continent from your current residence
🔹England ➺ United Kingdom ➺ The Corinthian ➺ 02.12 ★★★★
🔹England ➺ Ireland ➺ A Shadow of Guilt ➺ 07.11 ★★★
🔹England ➺ Wales ➺ An Inheritance of Shame ➺ 07.16 ★★★
🔹England ➺ Wales ➺ Irresistible ➺ 05.30 ★★★
🔹England ➺ United Kingdom ➺ Postern of Fate ➺ 09.05 ★★★
🔹England ➺ United Kingdom ➺ X Y, Z ➺ 07.15 ★★★★
🔹Australia ➺ Argentina ➺ Kept at the Argentine's Command ➺ 03.25 ★★★
🔹England ➺ United Kingdom ➺ Autumn in London ➺ 06.19 ★★★★
🔹England ➺ United Kingdom ➺ The Seduction of Emily ➺ 04.14 ★★★
🔹Afghanistan ➺ United Kingdom ➺ The Killing Game ➺ 08.28 ★★★★
🔹Scotland ➺ United Kingdom ➺ Here With Me ➺ 08.26 ★★★★
🔹United Kingdom ➺ United Kingdom ➺ Get a Life, Chloe Brown ➺ 11.11 ★★★★★
Just Read It! (Music edition) - Prompt 2: We Will, We Will Read You
January - December 2022
My Prompt 2 Plan (msg 27)
Prompt Goal ➺ 12 books ➺ COMPLETE
Prompt ➺ Read first book in series not started but on TBR 5+ years
🔹Wedding Series ➺ added 2013 ➺ Prelude to a Wedding ➺ 03.29 ★★★
🔹Willow Creek ➺ added 2013 ➺ The Lawman ➺ 03.19 ★★★
🔹January Cove ➺ added 2013 ➺ The One for Me ➺ 02.03 ★★★
🔹Dare to Love ➺ added 2014 ➺ Dare to Love ➺ 08.28 ★★★★
🔹Hard Ink ➺ added 2014 ➺ Hard as Steel ➺ 11.14 ★★★★
🔹Sweet ➺ added 2014 ➺ Sweet Surrender ➺ 05.05 ★★★
🔹Love and Football ➺ added 2015 ➺ Blitzing Emily ➺ 04.16 ★★★
🔹Hostage Rescue Team ➺ added 2015 ➺ Marked ➺ 05.18 ★★★★
🔹Red River Valley ➺ added 2015 ➺ It's In His Heart ➺ 03.05 ★★★★
🔹Naked Men ➺ added 2016 ➺ Risking It All ➺ 08.18 ★★★★
🔹Immortal Descendants ➺ added 2016 ➺ Marking Time ➺ 07.06 ★★★★
🔹Red Moon ➺ added 2017 ➺ Free-Wrench ➺ 09.14 ★★★★
Just Read It! (Music edition) - Prompt 1: Killing Me Serially
January - December 2022
My Prompt 1 Plan (msg 31)
Prompt Goal ➺ 12 books
Prompt ➺ Only series books will qualify in this round
🔹Tryst Island #1 ➺ Rebound ➺ 01.08 ★★★
🔹Masters of Love #2 ➺ Professor Feelgood ➺ 01.17 ★★★★
🔹New York #3 ➺ Completely ➺ 02.19 ★★★★
🔹Rokesby #4 ➺ First Comes Scandal ➺ 03.20 ★★★★
🔹Moreno Brothers #5 ➺ Making You Mine ➺ 01.31 ★★★
🔹Stephanie Plum #6 ➺ Wild Child ➺ 07.31 ★★★★
🔹Wildstone #7 ➺ Love for Beginners ➺ 01.16 ★★★★
🔹Red Team #8 ➺ Deadly Creed ➺ 01.04 ★★★★
🔹Chicago Stars #9 ➺ When Stars Collide ➺ 02.07 ★★★★
🔹Lexi Graves #10 ➺ Ready, Aim, Under Fire ➺ 03.24 ★★★
🔹Guardians of Eternity #11 ➺ Hunt the Darkness ➺ 03.11 ★★★★
🔹Black Dagger Brotherhood #12 ➺ The King ➺ 02.11 ★★★★
I'm in and I will go for 12 books per prompt. That would be a total of 72 books which should be doable - assuming Tien hasn't been too wicked with the prompt tasks!
Trim That TBR
January - December 2022
My Trim That TBR Challenge (msg 32)
Books Read ➺ 22
1. How many?!?! Look at the total number of your TBR, take the last digit and read that many books off your TBR.
TBR Owned shelf = 2697
🔹Completely ➺ 02.19 ★★★★
🔹The Rogue ➺ 05.24 ★★★★
🔹Duncan ➺ 08.20 ★★★★
🔹Betwixt ➺ 01.15 ★★★★
🔹Hot Six ➺ 08.22 ★★★
🔹Crashed ➺ 02.05 ★★★★
🔹When Stars Collide ➺ 02.07 ★★★★
2. Share the love Sort your TBR by date added and read:
a. Books with the most recent date
🔹Dec 2021 ➺ The Bromance Book Club ➺ 04.12 ★★★★
🔹Dec 2021 ➺ You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried ➺ 04.30 ★★★
🔹Dec 2021 ➺ Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door ➺ 02.18 ★★★★
b. Books with the oldest date
🔹Mar 2013 ➺ Days like This ➺ 01.26 ★★★★
🔹Mar 2013 ➺ The Next Little Thing ➺ 02.13 ★★★★
🔹Mar 2013 ➺ A Fine Madness ➺ 06.28 ★★★
🔹Mar 2013 ➺ Dry Adultery, Wet Ambition ➺ 07.02 ★★★
3. Monstrosity Read 1 (one) of the 5 thickest books on your TBR
🔹649 pp ➺ Breathe ➺ 08.21 ★★★★
4. Catch Up Read that last book in the series! Or at least, catch up to the latest instalment
🔹Body Movers #9 ➺ 9 Bodies Rolling ➺ 04.08 ★★★
🔹Naughty Princess Club #3 ➺ Kiss the Girl ➺ 10.18 ★★★★
🔹I-Team #9 ➺ Chasing Fire ➺ 02.14 ★★★★★
🔹It Had to Be #4 ➺ It Had to Be Them ➺ 06.23 ★★★
🔹Moreno Brothers #5.5 ➺ Tangled ➺ 03.08 ★★★
🔹Remingtion Family #3 ➺ Something Wild ➺ 04.05 ★★★
🔹Wahyas of Walker’s Run #5 ➺ Tamed by the She-Wolf ➺ 09.25 ★★★
Moving Mountain - 2022
January - December 2022
My Moving Mountain Challenge (msg 44)
Level ➺ 25 Draws | Books Read ➺ 28
✅Wild
🔹random ➺ Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs ➺ 11.22 ★★★★
✅Green Skip
🔹blue cover ➺ The 5th Horseman ➺ 05.31 ★★★★
✅Green 8
🔹green cover | added 2013 ➺ Rusty Nail ➺ 08.23 ★★★★
✅Red 2
🔹red title | pubbed 2012 ➺ Bared to You ➺ 07.03 ★★★★
✅Blue 1
🔹blue cover | pubbed 2021 ➺ It Happened One Summer ➺ 09.11 ★★★★
✅Red Draw 2
🔹red cover ➺ Born to Bite ➺ 08.24 ★★★★
🔹red cover ➺ Phantom Kiss ➺ 03.17 ★★★★
✅Red Skip
🔹blue cover ➺ Edge of Darkness ➺ 11.27 ★★★★
✅Yellow Skip
🔹blue cover ➺ Sweet Stuff ➺ 04.09 ★★★★
✅Green 4
🔹green cover | pubbed 2014 ➺ More to Give ➺ 07.28 ★★★★
✅Yellow Skip
🔹blue cover ➺ A Week in New York ➺ 01.09 ★★★★
✅Red 6
🔹red author | added 2015 ➺ Unrequited ➺ 08.14 ★★★★
✅Blue Draw 2
🔹blue title ➺ Blue Flame ➺ 08.08 ★★★★
🔹blue title ➺ Out of the Blue ➺ 06.15 ★★★★
✅Blue 9
🔹blue cover | pubbed 2019 ➺ The Bromance Book Club ➺ 04.12 ★★★★
✅Yellow 1
🔹yellow cover | pubbed 2021 ➺ When Stars Collide ➺ 02.07 ★★★★
✅Red Skip
🔹blue cover ➺ Well Matched ➺ 03.23 ★★★★
✅Green Reverse
🔹green cover ➺ With True Love's Kiss ➺ 07.17 ★★★★
✅Blue 4
🔹blue cover | added Aug 2021 ➺ Night Shadow ➺ 08.26 ★★★★
✅Red 5
🔹red cover | pubbed 2015 ➺ Adored ➺ 11.24 ★★★
✅Green 8
🔹green cover | added 2013 ➺ Something Wild ➺ 04.05 ★★★
✅Red 3
🔹red cover | pubbed 2013 ➺ The Seduction of Emily ➺ 04.14 ★★★
✅Green 3
🔹green author | pubbed 2013 ➺ A Shadow of Guilt ➺ 07.11 ★★★
✅Red Draw 2
🔹red cover ➺ Happily This Christmas ➺ 12.17 ★★★★
🔹red cover ➺ Dirty Martini ➺ 11.06 ★★★★
✅Yellow 2
🔹yellow cover | pubbed 2012 ➺ Finding Infinity ➺ 08.15 ★★★
✅Red Reverse
🔹red skip: green cover ➺ Bound by Flames ➺ 10.12 ★★★★
✅Green 3
🔹green cover | added 2018 ➺ Ready, Aim, Under Fire ➺ 03.24 ★★★
Seriously Serial '22
January - December 2022
My Seriously Serial '22 Challenge (msg 33)
Books read ➺ 33
🔹1 ➺ Aurelia Ryder #1 ➺ Blood Heir ➺ 01.13 ★★★★
🔹2 ➺ Masters of Love #2 ➺ Professor Feelgood ➺ 01.17 ★★★★
🔹3 ➺ Crossing the Line #3 ➺ Boiling Point ➺ 02.24 ★★★★
🔹4 ➺ Rokesby #4 ➺ First Comes Scandal ➺ 03.20 ★★★★
🔹5 ➺ Moreno Brothers #5 ➺ Making You Mine ➺ 01.31 ★★★★
🔹6 ➺ Stephanie Plum #6 ➺ Hot Six ➺ 08.22 ★★★
🔹7 ➺ Wildstone #7 ➺ Love for Beginners ➺ 01.16 ★★★★
🔹8 ➺ Red Team #8 ➺ Deadly Creed ➺ 01.04 ★★★★
🔹9 ➺ Pride #9 ➺ Bite Me ➺ 01.23 ★★★★
🔹10 ➺ Lexi Graves #10 ➺ Ready, Aim, Under Fire ➺ 03.24 ★★★
🔹11 ➺ Guardians of Eternity #11 ➺ Hunt the Darkness ➺ 03.11 ★★★★
🔹12 ➺ Black Dagger Brotherhood #12 ➺ The King ➺ 02.11 ★★★★
🔹13 ➺ T-FLAC #13 ➺ Night Secrets ➺ 06.05 ★★★★
🔹14 ➺ Dark Protectors #14 ➺ Immortal's Honor ➺ 03.03 ★★★★
🔹15 ➺ #7 + #8 ➺
Krewe of Hunters #7 ➺ The Unspoken ➺ 07.24 ★★★★
Escape to New Zealand #8 ➺ Just in Time ➺ 03.30 ★★★★
🔹16 ➺ #8 + #8 ➺
Once Upon a Wedding #8 ➺ The Lighthouse Keeper's Bride ➺ 07.21 ★★★
Krewe of Hunters #8 ➺ The Uninvited ➺ 11.16 ★★★★
🔹17 ➺ #3 + #5 + #9 ➺
Getting Some #3 ➺ Getting Real ➺ 01.30 ★★★★
Anchor Island #5 ➺ Love On Anchor Island ➺ 11.17 ★★★★
Body Movers #9 ➺ 9 Bodies Rolling ➺ 04.08 ★★★
🔹18 ➺ #9 + #9 ➺
Chicago Stars #9 ➺ When Stars Collide ➺ 02.07 ★★★★
I-Team #9 ➺ Chasing Fire ➺ 02.14 ★★★★★
🔹19 ➺ #6 + #6 + #7 ➺
Happily Inc #6 ➺ Happily This Christmas ➺ 12.17 ★★★★
Krewe of Hunters #6 ➺ The Unholy ➺ 02.27 ★★★★
Once Upon a Wedding #7 ➺ The Twelfth Night Bride ➺ 06.30 ★★★
🔹20: #5 + #5 + #10 ➺
Rainshadow #5 ➺ Rain Shadow ➺ 02.20 ★★★
Women's Murder Club #5 ➺ The 5th Horseman ➺ 05.31 ★★★★
Dancing Moon Ranch #10 ➺ Forbidden Spirits
🔹21 ➺ Gansett Island #21 ➺ Blackout After Dark ➺ 05.23 ★★★★
🔹22 ➺ #5 + #6 + #11 ➺
Tommy and Tuppence #5 ➺ Postern of Fate ➺ 09.05 ★★★
Rock Royalty #6 ➺ Wild Child ➺ 07.31 ★★★★
Red Stone Security #11 ➺ Sworn to Protect ➺ 07.16 ★★★★
LOST 2022
January - December 2022
My LOST 2022 Challenge (msg 49)
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Days like This ➺ 01.26 ★★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ A Fine Madness ➺ 06.28 ★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Dry Adultery, Wet Ambition ➺ 07.03 ★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Night Secrets ➺ 06.05 ★★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Fortune ➺ 08.16 ★★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Rusty Nail ➺ 08.23 ★★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Come Share My Love ➺ 03.12 ★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Guarding Kelsey ➺ 03.19 ★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ The Fire Still Burns ➺ 08.07 ★★★★
🔹added Mar 2013 ➺ Irresistible ➺ 05.30 ★★★
THIS YEAR I AM GOING TO FINISH THIS LIST BEFORE OCTOBER!Right, so that's the new goal. Finish so I can have a real chance at also finishing FOUND and LOST and FOUND 😁
Well, getting a little creative I was able to almost finish! Two left...I have to start finishing LOST earlier in the year!
Thanks and Happy New Year!!
Updated post: My LOST and FOUND 2021 Challenge (msg 6)
And with the above post, I've completed all months! It took a little creative rearranging but I think I kept with the spirit of the challenge! Thanks and Happy New Year!!
Let's Book It! (2021)
-- COMPLETEMay - December 2021
My May Plan (msg 26)
Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Completed plan
May Tasks:
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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for May
✔🔹science-fiction - Dark in Death - 05.28 ★★★★
✔🔹5-stars - Equal Rites - 05.07 ★★★
✔🔹gothic - Lacybourne Manor - 05.11 ★★★★
✔🔹stand-alone - Love's Wild Desire - 05.03 ★★★
2. TBR 1 - Read random pick from your TBR
✔🔹A Child's Heart - 05.14 ★★★
✔🔹Baptism by Blood - 05.09 ★★★
3. Borrowed - Read book/s you borrowed
friends
✔🔹friend - Already Freakn' Mated - 05.19 ★★★
✔🔹friend - Twice Tempted - 05.12 ★★★★
4. Recommendation 3 - Go to Which Book and read one of the books listed/recommended
✔🔹happy - Alison Wonderland - 12.05 ★★
5. Last Month 3 - Pick your best read from last month and read from Readers Also Enjoyed…
✔🔹Saturdays at Noon - The Christmas Holiday - 12.31 ★★★★
Let's Book It! (2021)
-- COMPLETENovember - December 2021
My November Plan (msg 20)
Monthly Goal: 10 books
Plan: Complete plan
November Tasks:
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1. Revisit - Read from any picked shelves for November
✔🔹historical-fiction - The Governess Game - 11.06 ★★★★
✔🔹sequels - Law Man - 12.09 ★★★★
✔🔹sequels - Since I Fell for You - 11.04 ★★★★
2. Last Month 4 - Pick an author you read last month and read a book from an author listed under "Similar authors"
✔🔹Alexandra Ivy - Rebecca Zanetti - Vampire
✔🔹Lauren Blakely - Vi Keeland/Penelope Ward - Not Pretending Anymore - 11.29 ★★★★
✔🔹Samantha Chase - Jane Porter - Christmas at Copper Mountain - 12.26 ★★★
3. Pick-a-Shelf 2 - Read a book found on the PAS bookshelf
✔🔹Getting Played - 12.31 ★★★★
4. Recommendation 4 - Go to whatshouldireadnext.com/, type in the title of your last 5-stars read, and read one of the books listed/recommended
✔🔹The Will - The Wall of Winnipeg and Me - 12.13 ★★★★
5. Recent Release - Read book/s published in 2020
✔🔹The Somerset Girls - 12.19 ★★★★
✔🔹When You Kiss Me - 12.07 ★★★★
Wasn't sure I'd manage it but finished my second go!Updated post: My Seriously Serial '21 Challenge -- Round 2 (msg 71)
Challenge complete! Thank-you!!!Updated post: My Moving Mountain Challenge (msg 37)
Level: 52 Books | Books Read: 52
Tien wrote: "Bea wrote: "Gee, I am confused! I looked back at the TRIM that I am working on and it is labelled 2020! (However, I did notice that it was posted December 2020, so I do not feel too bad.)I still ..."
Bea wrote: "You are just keeping me on my toes, Tien."
Add me to the confused ones!! I usually think of the challenge years as when the reading actually takes place rather than when posted so it threw me for a loop as well! But since it's all open-ended, I guess it doesn't really matter :-)
