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Book: The Fall of the Blade: A Girl's French Revolution Diary 1792-1794Author: Sue Reid
Pages: 190
Started: 27/8
Finished: 28/8
Task: 'Writing' because it's a diary so the main character writes in it
OR
'of' in the title
Book: A Touch of GreekAuthor: Tina Folsom
Pages: 228
Date started 8/27
Date ended 8/28
Task - could fit "title includes touch", "title includes of" or maybe riding banana - zeus, king of the gods, plays a large role and he's the "top banana" of the group.
Book : La colline aux esclavesAuthor : Kathleen Grissom
Pages : 492
Date started : 20/8
Sate ended : 28/8
Task : fits the "rides a banana" picture, as the main character escaped her house riding a horse, and ends up selling horses as a living.
Book: One ShotAuthor: Lee Child
Pages: 466
Date started: 8/26
Date ended 8/28
Task - I think this is pushing the boundary, but the plot revolves around a sniper who shot a group of people leaving their office. It was referred to in the book as "shooting fish in a barrel". Maybe works for fish? If not, maybe next card.
Book: Whiskey SourAuthor: J.A. Konrath
Pages: 270
Started: 8/27
Finished: 8/29
Task: Kicked picture square. Jack kicks a lot of ass and also kicks out her boyfriend/his stuff.
Book: The Infinite SeaAuthor: Rick Yancey
Pages: 300
Started: 29/8
Finished: 30/8
Task: Either lake square because 'sea' like 'lake'
OR
'sailboat' square because sailboat sails on seas
OR maybe even
'number' square if 'infinite' counts as a number :p
Book: Lightning LingersAuthor: Barbara Freethy
Pages: 319
Date started 8/29
Date finished 8/30
Task: Fits lightning square, "B" square for author name, published in 2016 & possibly fern (majority takes place in jungle, which would have ferns in it) also lake based on water on cover
Book: The HeirAuthor: Kiera Cass
Pages: 342
Started: 30/8
Finished: 31/8
Task: Maybe '4' square because it's the 4th in the series
OR
'lightbulb' square because her parents had the good idea to start up another Selection
Book : DraculaAuthor : Bram Stoker
Pages : 488
Started : 3/8
Ended : 31/8
Task : The B square as the author's first name is Bram
Book: A Court of Thorns and RosesAuthor: Sarah J. Maas
Pages: 414
Started: 24/7
Ended: 31/8
Task: BR book
Book: All Fired UpAuthor: Vivian Arend
Pages: 259
Date started and ended 8/31
Task - Fits title contains up
Book: Jasper JonesAuthor: Craig Silvey
Pages: 397
Date started: 31/7
Date completed: 31/8
Task: Basketball square - MC's best friend is a talented cricketer and plays a lot of cricket in the book/cricket is a sport and so is basketball
Book: Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians SeriesAuthor: Rick Riordan
Pages: 209
Date started 8/31
Date ended 9/1
Task - Will work for Zeus square (he's mentioned multiple times) and "Monsters in title" square
Book: Golden SonAuthor: Pierce Brown
Pages: 430
Date started: 8/20
Date completed: 8/30
Task: already used for Dholes
Book: The New EvilAuthor: R.L. Stine
Pages: 199
Date started: 9/1
Date completed: 9/1
Task: maybe christmas shopping? It has a santa claus on the cover?
Book: DisarrangedAuthor: Sara Wolf
Pages: 136
Date started: 2/9
Date completed: 2/9
Task: Single dollars - 2 of the characters are very wealthy/the complication in the story arises because of money
Book: Stone in the SkyAuthor: Cecil Castellucci
Pages: 313
Date started: 8/31
Date completed: 9/1
Task: already used for light
Book: The Edge Chronicles 1: The Curse of the Gloamglozer: First Book of QuintAuthor: Paul Stewart
Pages: 338 (none of them have 338 but this was the cover I read too)
Started: 2/9
Ended: 3/9
Task: Doesn't count anywhere currently.
Book: The Curse of ChalionAuthor: Lois McMaster Bujold
Pages: 496
Date started: 8/27
Date Ended: 9/3
Task - has a house on the cover
Book: The Sleeping PrinceAuthor: Melinda Salisbury
Pages: 336
Date started: 8/29
Date finished: 9/3
Task: - published in 2016 (May 31, 2016)
Book: The Legend of Sleepy HollowAuthor: Washington Irving
Pages: 108
Date started: 9/3
Date finished: 9/3
Task - fern - cover has all sorts of green growing things on it.
Book: The Importance of Being EarnestAuthor: Oscar Wilde
Pages: 151
Date started and completed: 9/3
Task - I don't believe it fits anything open
Book: RuinedAuthor: Amy Tintera
Pages: 355
Date started: 24/8
Date completed: 4/9
Task: Skeleton/skull or ghost picture - a lot of people are killed/die and skeletons and ghosts are associated with death; Sword and shield - lots of fighting with swords in book; Decision - good and evil is blurred and characters have to decide whether they are doing the right thing or not/morality is questioned
Book: Highlander's CastleJoanne Wadsworth
Pages: 155
Date started 9/3
Date ended: 9/4
Task - has castle in the title
Book : The NightingaleAuthor : Kristin Hannah
Pages : 440
Date started : 8/24
Date ended : 9/4
Task :
-Skeleton (as there is manu death in the books, and hanging skeleton in the closet when Viannes's husband returns from war).
-Decision : The main character, Isabelle, makes the hard decision to help in the war even with all that was at stakes. She helped drowned airmen go to spain.
-Sword and shiel : The main character, Isabelle, is a hero of war as she saved over 100 men in the war.
Book: RosesAuthor: Rose Mannering
Pages: 328
Date started: 9/2
Date finished: 9/4
Task:
Dire wolves - maybe? one of the characters is a beast
Book: Off PointeAuthor: Leanne Lieberman
Pages: 128
Date started: 9/3
Date completed: 9/4
Task: not really sure it fits for anything. Perhaps the skeleton? MC is a dancer and book is about moving your body?
book: Love is a BattlefieldAuthor: Vivian Arend and Elle Kennedy
Pages; 224
Date started 9/3
Date ended 9/4
Task - Markhor - book is on Sunshine's to read shelf
Book: Being a GirlAuthor: Hayley Long
Pages: 224
Date started: 4/9
Date completed: 5/9
Task: This book is about teen girls embracing themselves, whether that's feeling beautiful inside or out/mermaid is a 'pretty'; this might be a bit of a stretch
Homicide in HardcoverKate Carlisle
Pages: 210
Started: 8/26
Finished: 9/5
Maybe knife since it is homicide.
Book: The Moon Is DownAuthor: John Steinbeck
Pages: 144
Date started: 9/4
Date completed: 9/5
Book: The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Author: J.K. Rowling
Pages: 109
Date started and completed: 9/4
Book: Shield of JusticeAuthor: Radclyffe
Pages: 216
Date started and ended 9/5
Task - originally published in 2002
Book- TalentedAuthor: Alexandra Moody
Pages: 187
Date started and ended 28/8-29/8
Task used in previous bingo card- one word title.
Book: Terrifying TalesAuthor: Edgar Allan Poe
Pages: 109
Date started and ended 07/09-06/09
Task - none currently
Book: BluffAuthor: Julie Dill
Pages: 250
Date started: 6/9
Date completed: 6/9
Task: Single dollars - MC is very poor and resorts to playing poker to keep her and her father afloat//every time she wins she cashes in her chips for bank notes
Book: Jack: Grime and PunishmentAuthor: Z.A. Maxfield
Pages: 166
Started and finished 9/7
Task - title starts with letter "J"
Book: CarrieAuthor: Stephen King
Pages: 304
Started: 9/7
Finished: 9/8
Task: For the "Not Pregnant" square. For many of the chapters the reader/one of the main characters thinks that the character is pregnant, only to find out near the end of the book that she is not.
Paper and FireAuthor: Rachel Caine
pages: 357
Began: 8/31
Finished: 9/8
Will fit: K - MC first name is Khalila
Book: Midwinter Night's DreamAuthor: Eli Easton
Pages: 122
Date started and ended: 9/8
Task - has dream in the title
Book : La sélectionAuthor : Kiera Cass
Pages : 344
Date started and ended : 8/9
Task - yo-yo image !! As she is trying to find the right boy for her and she is thrown off between two of them. So she is yo-yoing between them
Book: Circle of BonesAuthor: Christine Kling
Pages: 526
Date started: 9/3
Date ended: 9/9
Task: "K" for author's name
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Pages: 194
Task: Earth is desolate and no longer livable