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All About You, Part One!
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All Bout YouDate Started: 01/04/18
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Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
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This is the 1st time I'm taking a challenge. Please sign me in. I'm so excited about this.January: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
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Month 2: Read 3 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone (EMERALD)
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3. Obsidian
Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge) or Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with your favorite flower on the cover
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
✔Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)J The Death's Head Chess Club
John Donoghue Pages: 401 p. Read: 4/1/2018 Rating 4 stars Author JU Uitgeteld
Marja West Pages: 272 p. Read:30/1/2018 3 1/2 starsN Norse Mythology
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Ellen HopkinsPages: 583 p. Date read: day started: 1/1/2017 and day finished:
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Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 3 or 4 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title
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Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge) or Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with your favorite flower on the cover
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
P.S. If you want a specific part of the challenge to last longer than a month or shorter it's up to you. You decide. No pressure. It's just for fun. :)
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Enjoy your first challenge Priya, they can become very addicting!
All challenge posts are linked above
Been a long time since I did a challenge here, have been missing it. This seems like a wonderful place to start again. :)Am in
All About You
Duration: 1/1/18 - 12/31/18
Books read:
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 3 or 4 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title
Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge) or Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with your favorite flower on the cover
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
All Bout YouDate Started: 01/01/18
Date Finished: 12/31/18
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
Completed: 4/8
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C - Cress...FINISHED 1/30/18
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M - My Sergei: A Love Story...FINISHED 2/3/18
B - Britt-Marie Was Here...FINISHED 1/21/18
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R - Remembering Diana: A Life in Photographs...FINISHED...1/12/18
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Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge)
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Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
Completed: 1/9
C - Cat Playing Cupid...FINISHED...1/31/18
A - Anna Karenina...FINISHED...1/18/18
P - The Picture of Dorian Gray...FINISHED...2/5/18
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RICORNMonth 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge) or Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with your favorite flower on the cover
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Since I know I won't be able to finish these many books in one year I will try to shorten it up a bit. :)All About You, Part One!
Duration: Jan 21st 2018 - Jan 21st 2019
Books Finished: 2/
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Books published on my birthday)
~April~
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Month 2: Read your Birthstone (read 1 or 2 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 1 or 2 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title)
~Diamond ~
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Month 3: Read your sign (Authors who share my sign)
~Taurus~
1.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Books with my zodiac sign on the cover or in the title)
~Tiger~
1. Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck
Month 5: Read 1 or 2 books set in a country you'd like to visit
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Month 6: Read 1 or 2 books from your favorite genre
~High fantasy~
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Month 7: Read 1 or 2 books with your child or a friend
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Month 8: Read 1 or 2 books written by some of your favorite authors
1. Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
2. Black Iris by Elliot Wake
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
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Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
Month 11: Read 1 or 2 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
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Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
I'll play.All About You Challenge
Months Completed: 12/12
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
O Out of this World by J.D. Robb 2/2
C Cover of Night by Linda Howard 2/2
T The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer 2/7
O Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales 2/7
B Briggs, Patricia Cry Wolf 2/4
E Easter in Dry Creek by Janet Tronstad 2/22
R Robb, JD Vengeance in Death 2/5
Month 2: Read your Birthstone
O Ozark Reunion by Helen Gray 4/5
P Patricia Briggs Dead Heat 3/4
A Agatha Christie Dead Man's Folly 3/1
L Lee Tobin McClain A Family For Easter 3/4
Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
S Speare, Elizabeth George The Witch of Blackbird Pond 4/5
C Christie, Agatha The Man in the Brown Suit 4/3
O The Outlaw's Secret by Stacy Henrie 4/5
R Ross, Mia Blue Ridge Reunion 4/2
P Peck, Richard A Year Down Yonder 4/2
I Isabella Alan Murder, Plainly Read 4/6
O Ozark Wedding by Helen Gray 4/7
Month 4: Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge).
D Dorothy Gilman The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax 4/8
A Agatha Christie A Pocket Full of Rye 4/9
I Ireland, D.E. Wouldn't It Be Deadly 4/27
S The Secret Life of Sarah Hollenbeck by Bethany Turner 4/10
Y A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle 5/8
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
1. Australia Cooking the Books by Kerry Greenwood 5/11
2. Switzerland A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/7
3. Greece Decision at Delphi by Helen MacInnes 6/16
4. Italy Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King 6/17
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre - Historical Fiction
1. Bewildering Cares: A Week in the Life of a Clergyman's Wife by Winifred Peck 6/21
2. The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry 6/24
3. An Inconvenient Beauty by Kristi Ann Hunter 6/25
4. Wildfire by Zane Grey 7/5
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with my grandson.
1. HarperCollins Treasury of Picture Book Classics: A Child's First Collection by Katherine Brown Tegen 7/12
2. Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers 7/8
3. Mary Engelbreit's Nursery and Fairy Tales Collection by Mary Engelbreit 7/10
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors.
1. Immortal in Death by J.D. Robb 8/3
2. Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb 8/4
3. A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold 8/16
4. Clutch of Constables by Ngaio Marsh 8/17
Month 9: Read ebooks that you already own.
1. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano 11/9
2. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree 11/16
3. The Far West by Patricia C. Wrede 11/20
4. Mrs. Claus and the Santaland Slayings by Liz Ireland 11/23
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
C Coney I Shot You Babe by Leslie Langtry 12/7
H Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie 12/5
O Oliver The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie 12/2
C Cholmondeley Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre 12/9
O An Old-Fashioned Girl by Betty Neels 12/2
L Lucy Ribbing and Runes by Nancy Warren 12/1
A Angela Seven-Year Witch by Angela M. Sanders 12/4
T Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie 12/6
E Etched in Bone by Anne Bishop 12/2
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
1. Murder Most Festive by Ada Moncrieff 1/7
2. Dracula (Large Print, Annotated) by Bram Stoker 1/9
3. On Thin Icing by Ellie Alexander 1/10
4. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 1/23
5. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl 1/23
6. A Month In The Country by J.L. Carr 1/30
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
B Buchan The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 2/12
E E.H. Miss Mole by E.H. Young 2/1
R Regan King Lear by William Shakespeare 2/5
I The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 2/9
N No Wind of Blame by Georgette Heyer 2/19
G Georgette Venetia by Georgette Heyer 2/3
A Agatha The Hollow by Agatha Christie 2/2
R Roderick Death on the Air and Other Stories by Ngaio Marsh 2/15
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CompleteStart 3/1/2018
Duration 1 year
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
M - Michael in Storm of Lightning by Evans (3/1)
A - Anna in Fair Game by Briggs (3/4)
Y - Yorick in Lake Silence by Bishop (3/31)
Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 3 or 4 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title
E - E Is for Evidence by Grafton (3/2)
M - Mischief in Mudbug by Deleon (3/5)
E - Emrick's Death in Room 7 (3/6)
R - Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux (3/11)
A - Aaronovitch's The Hanging Tree (3/7)
L - Lee Goldberg's Total Fiction (3/4)
D - Dead Heat by Briggs (3/12)
Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
T - Tess in Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop (3/9)
A - Abducting Abby by S. E. Smith (3/8)
U - Under Cover of Daylight by Hall (3/9)
R - Rosenfelt's Open and Shut (3/13)
U - Unlikely Dad by Voeller (3/11)
S - Schaefer's Harmony Black (3/8)
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge) or Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with your favorite flower on the cover
R - Rachel in Surrender to the Cyborgs by Goodwin (4/1)
A - Anatomy of Evil by Thomas (4/3)
B - Beaton's Death of a Hussy (4/7)
B - Beaton's Death of a Snob (4/7)
I - Isabelle in Out of the Storm by Hedlund (4/3)
T - T. E. Kinsey's A Quiet Life in the Country (4/1)
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
1 - The Arctic Incident (5/2)
2 - A Spirited Manor (5/13)
3 - Magic Unbound (5/20)
4 - Over Sea, Under Stone (5/20)
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre - Fantasy
1 - Ice Planet Barbarians (6/3)
2 - Magic Bleeds (6/7)
3 - Spider's Bite (6/15)
4 - Gunmetal Magic (6/22)
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
1 - Paper and Fire (7/4)
2 - Dragon Teeth (7/6)
3 - Day Shift (7/11)
4 - Honor Among Thieves (7/12)
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
1 - Shakespeare's Champion (8/5)
2 - Sweep in Peace (8/17)
3 - Steel (8/27)
4 - Magic Triumphs (8/30)
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
Completed in September with 44 books despite post Tower Team exhaustion
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
L - Louise Penny's Bury Your Dead (10/1)
A - Amy Boyles' Southern Spells (10/2)
S - Shayne Silvers' Fairy Tale (10/3)
A - Ani Gonzalez' Here Comes the Witch (10/4)
G - Gonzalez, Ani's Fortune Favors the Witch (10/11)
N - Nash, Layla's Vaant (10/4)
A - Andrews, Ilona's On the Edge (10/11)
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
1 - Alex Grecian's The Yard (11/2)
2 - Evan Currie's Into the Black (11/3)
3 - C. N. Crawford's Infernal Magic (11/10)
4 - Steig Larson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (11/11)
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
A - Anino, Barbra's Tiger's Eye (12/1)
D - Deleon, Jana's Louisiana Longshot (12/1)
A - Andrews, Ilona's Diamond Fire (12/2)
M - My True Love Gave to Me by Perkins (12/7)
All About You1/3/18 – 28/2/18
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
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Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 3 or 4 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title
Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge) or Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with your favorite flower on the cover
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
Close but didn't quite make it!All About You Challenge - Level 1
March 1, 2017- March 1, 2018
(70/76) Books Read
✔ Month 1 (March):Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
(9/9)
S Sandford, John Invisible Prey 3/5/17
E Eleanor Herman Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge 3/5/17
P A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline 3/18/17
T The Ties That Bind by Erin Kelly 3/21/17
E Elizabeth Haynes Dark Tide 3/9/17
M Midwives by Chris Bohjalian 3/19/17
B Blume, Judy In the Unlikely Event3/11/17
E Ellison, J.T. Field of Graves 3/17/17
R Ruth Ware The Woman in Cabin 10 3/4/17
✔ Month 2 (April): Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge)
(8/8)
S The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian 4/17/17
A After the Fire by Jane Casey 4/9/17
P Pataki, Allison Sisi: Empress on Her Own 4/14/17
P Plaidy, Jean Myself, My Enemy 4/30/17
H Heather Young The Lost Girls 4/30/17
I Iles, Greg Mississippi Blood 4/12/17
R Rattle, Allison Mad Kings & Queens: History's Most Famous Raving Royals 4/29/17
E Edge of Black by J.T. Ellison 4/1/17
✔ Month 3 (May): Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
(5/5)
L The Last Boleyn by Karen Harper 5/17/17
I Iles, Greg Dead Sleep 5/23/17
B Brian Freeman Marathon 5/10/17
R Ruth Dugdall The Woman Before Me 5/25/17
A Alex Marwood The Darkest Secret 5/21/17
✔ Month 4 (June): Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge)
(9/9)
F Freeman, Brian The Night Bird 6/4/17
I If You Were Here by Alafair Burke 6/21/17
R Ruth Dugdall The Sacrificial Man 6/5/17
E Ella March Chase Three Maids for a Crown
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T The Three Crowns: The Story of William and Mary by Jean Plaidy 6/11/17
I I Found You by Lisa Jewell 6/25/17
G Greg Iles Sleep No More 6/24/17
E Eleanor Herman Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics 6/29/17
R Richard Montanari The Skin Gods 6/30/17
✔ Month 5(July): Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
(4/4)
1. The Stranger by Camilla Läckberg 7/7/17 (SWEDEN)
2. The Haunted Sisters by Jean Plaidy 7/7/17 (ENGLAND)
3. William's Wife by Jean Plaidy 7/15/17 (HOLLAND)
4. Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia by Michael Farquhar 7/25/17 (RUSSIA)
✔ Month 6 (August): Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre - THRILLER
(4/4)
1. Wicked Prey by John Sandford 8/3/17
2. The Chosen by Kristina Ohlsson 8/5/17
3. Let the Dead Speak by Jane Casey 8/6/17
4. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware 8/8/17
✔ Month 7(September): Read 3 or 4 books that you have been putting off
(4/4)
1. The Assistant by Bernard Malamud 9/17/17
2. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King 9/23/17
3. Gracelin O'Malley by Ann Moore 9/26/17
4. On Beauty by Zadie Smith 9/30/17
✔ Month 8 (October): Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
(4/4)
1. Saturday Requiem by Nicci French 10/12/17
2. The Warning by Sophie Hannah 10/14/17
3. Humber Boy B by Ruth Dugdall 10/18/17
4. The Flight by M.R. Hall 10/29/17
✔ Month 9(November): Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
(14/10)
1. The Chosen Dead by M.R. Hall 11/1/17
2. Dead Gone by Luca Veste 11/4/17
3. Tastes Like Fear by Sarah Hilary 11/6/17
4. Mistress of the Revolution by Catherine Delors 11/9/17
5. The Burning by M.R. Hall 11/11/17
6. Cordial and Corrosive by Sophie Hannah 11/16/17
7. Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek 11/16/17
8. Silent Scream by Angela Marsons 11/19/17
9. Nowhere Girl by Ruth Dugdall 11/23/17
10. Quieter Than Killing by Sarah Hilary 11/24/17
11. The Silent Dead by Claire McGowan 11/25/17
12. Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom 11/27/17
13. A Savage Hunger by Claire McGowan 11/30/17
14. The Girl In The Ice by Robert Bryndza 11/30/17
Month 10 (December): Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
(6/8)
I Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger 12/25/17
C Cohen, Tammy When She Was Bad 12/3/17
E Erin Kelly He Said/She Said 12/22/17
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A And She Was by Alison Gaylin 12/28/17
M McGowan, Claire Blood Tide 12/9/17
✔ Month 11 (January): Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
(4/4)
1. Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent 1/5/18
2. Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica 1/7/18
3. What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan 1/20/18
4. As Night Falls by Jenny Milchman 1/23/18
Month 12 (February): Read your favorite Book Crush's name
(4/7)
A Alafair Burke The Wife 2/4/18
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U Under Your Skin by Sabine Durrant 2/26/18
S Sarah Pinborough Behind Her Eyes 2/20/18
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If you want to extend your challenge to try and finish it check out this thread below
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
All About YouApril 1, 2018- April 1, 2019
April
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✔N - None of the Above 22.04⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔O -George Orwell - 1984 28.04.18 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔V - SG1-14 Valhalla 24.04 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔E - Exodus 30.04 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔M -Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami 21.04 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔B -Barbary Station 14.04 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and ✔ Born Survivors 20.04 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔E - Peter J. Evans- Oceans of Dust 29.04 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔R - A Rainha Sol 07.04 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(view spoiler)
May
8/7
✔C -Colleen McCullough - On, Off 18.05 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔I - Invasion 18.05 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔T - The Associate 06.05 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔R - Relativity26.05 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔I - Island Beneath the Sea 14.05 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔N - Nightfall24.05 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔E - The Eight29.05 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(view spoiler)
June
7/7
✔S - Sleep Writer 17.06 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔C - Fernando Correia, E se eu fosse deus? 12.06 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔O - Ouroboros 27.06 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔R - The Remnant Keeper 26.06 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔P - P.S. I Love You 14.06 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔I - Inheritors 29.06 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔O - One Hundred Years of Solitude 02.06 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
July
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✔D - Do No Harm 12.07 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔R - The Racketeer31.07 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔A - The Authenticator 26.07 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔G - Tess Gerritsen - The Mephisto Club 28.07 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔O - Only Time Will Tell 21.07 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔N - Norman Turrell - Generational: A starship adventure30.07 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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✔1 - Life of Pi (India and Canada) 29.08.2018⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔2 - Brimstone (USA) 22.08.2018⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔3 - A cabeça Decepada e outros Contos de Terror(France) 19.08.2018⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔4 -Money (England) 03.08.2018⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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October
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Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
November
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Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
December
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Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
January
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
February
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Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
March
All About You ChallengeApril 1, 2018 -
Completed: 30/93
✔ Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
A ~ Aldous Huxley | Brave New World 4-5-2018 | 3*
U ~ U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton 4-7-2018 | 3*
G ~ T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton 4-11-2018 | 3*
U ~ Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi 4-9-2018 | 3*
S ~ Skipping Christmas by John Grisham 4-1-2018 | 3*
T ~ Victoria Thompson | Murder on Astor Place 4-2-2018 | 3*
✔ Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 3 or 4 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title
P ~ Anne Perry | A Christmas Secret 4-8-2018 | 3*
E ~ Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica 4-12-2018 | 3*
R ~ The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Nielsen 4-26-2018 | 4*
I ~ Ilona Andrews | Magic Strikes 5-16-2018 | 4*
D ~ Sarah Dessen | The Truth About Forever 4-1-2018 | 3*
O ~ O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton 4-14-2018 | 3*
T ~ The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen 4-11-2018 | 3*
✔ Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
L ~ Jeff Lindsay | Darkly Dreaming Dexter 4-2-2018 | 4*
E ~ Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie 4-12-2018 | 3*
O ~ Ellen O'Connell | Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold 5-4-2018 | 4*
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge) or Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with your favorite flower on the cover
D ~ Dark Desire by Christine Feehan 4-5-2018 | 3*
O ~ Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore 12-2-2022
G ~ Sue Grafton | C is for Corpse 4-13-2018 | 3*
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
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1. The Bride's House by Sandra Dallas 4-14-2018 | 3*
2. The Lightkeeper's Daughter by Colleen Coble 4-22-2018 | 3*
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1. Karin Slaughter | Unseen 4-16-2018 | 3*
2. Janet Evanovich | Hardcore Twenty-Four 4-22-2018 | 3*
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C ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón | The Shadow of the Wind 4-4-2018 | 4*
H ~ Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 4-17-2018 | 3*
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L ~ Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 4-15-2018 | 3*
A ~ A New York Christmas by Anne Perry 4-9-2018 | 3*
T ~ The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork 4-15-2018 | 3*
E ~ Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert 11-29-2022
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
1. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 4-18-2018 | 3*
2. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward 11-29-2022
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Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
J ~ Janice Y.K. Lee | The Piano Teacher 4-26-2018 | 3*
A ~ Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 4-10-2018 | 4*
M ~ Maggie Stiefvater | Shiver 4-6-2018 | 3*
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Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Well done Lizz! Mini congrats!"Thank you
ALL ABOUT ME - Starting April 2018 COMPLETEDMonth 1: Read your Birthday Month
J - The Opal Dragonfly by Julian Leatherdale – 02/04/18 - 5★s
U - Undercover Amish by Ashley Emma – 22/11/18 - 4★s
L - Honeymoon for One by Lily Zante - 01/04/18 - 3★s
Y - You've Got Tail by Renee George – 15/08/1/ - 2★s
Month 2: Read your Birthstone
R - The Reaper Rescues the Genie by Kristen Painter – 26/05/18 - 5★
U - Unexpected Gifts by Elena Aitken -23/11/18 - 4★
B - Barbarian Lover by Ruby Dixon - 15/05/18 - 3★s
Y - A Year of Extraordinary Moments by Bette Lee Crosby - 20/11/18 - 5★s
Month 3: Read your sign
C - Mallee Boys by Charlie Archbold – 09/06/18 - 3★s
A - Arrivals and Arrests by Diana Xarissa - 12/05/18 - 4★s
N - New Corpse On town by Lucy Quinn – 16/09/18 - 4★s
C - Winter in Sweetwater County by Ciara Knight – 11/06/18 - 5★
E - Hardcore Twenty-four by Janet Evanovich - 23/08/18 - 5★
R – Rosemary’s Retribution by Nandita Chakraborty – 27/05/18 - 5★
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign
D - The Doctor falls for her Gargoyle by Cate Dean - 15/05/18 - 4★s
O - Once Hunted, Twice Shy by Mandy M. Roth – 20/07/18 - 5★s
G - The Spotted Dog by Kerry Greenwood – 25/09/18 - 5★
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit- France
1. Mistress Mine by Gabrielle Dubois – 01/04/18 - 3★s
2. Eventually Julie by Anthea Syrokou – 25/04/18 - 5★s
3. Wild Asparagus, Wild Strawberries by Barbara Santich – 09/05/18 - 4★s
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favourite genre - Romance
1. Hello Stranger by Lisa Klypas – 10/06/18 - 5★
2. Borrowed Dreams by Debbie Macomber - 08/07/18 - 3★s
3. The Secret Vineyard by Loretta Hill -06/08/18 - 5★
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend My daughter - who is my child even though she's in her late 30s - LOL!
1. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat by Sofie Kelly – 11/06/18 - 4★s
2. After the lights go out by Lili Wilkinson – 16/07/18 - 5★s
3. Shadow Spell by Nora Roberts – 27/07/18 - 2★s
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favourite authors
1. Nathan Fox: Seas of Blood by L. Brittney - 09/07/18 - 4★s
2. The summer of New Beginnings by Bette Lee Crosby – 18/05/18 - 5★s
3. The Art of Friendship by Lisa Ireland – 27/05/18 - 5★s
4. Last Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton – 21/07/18 - 3★s
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
My average is 8 so far this year – so I am aiming for a month more than 8 books - Completed 31/05/19 – Read 13 books:
1. Out of Reach by Kendall Talbot - 5★s
2. The Trip of a Lifetime by Monica McInerney - 4★s
3. Arrivals and Arrests by Diana Xarissa - 4★s
4. Children of Midgard by Siobhan Clark - 4★s
5. Silk Umbrellas by Carolyn Marsden - 2★s
6. The Pastor's Wife by Jennifer AlLee - 5★s
7. Barbarian Lover by Ruby Dixon - 3★s
8. The Doctor falls for her Gargoyle by Cate Dean - 4★s
9. The summer of New Beginnings by Bette Lee Crosby
10. Murder in Vail by Judy Moore
11. The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth
12. The Reaper Rescues the Genie by Kristen Painter
13. Rosemary's Retribution by Nandita Chakraborty
Month 10: Read one of your favourite foods
S - Silk Umbrellas by Carolyn Marsden – 06/05/18 - 2★s
A - Anzac Biscuits by Allison Reynolds – 15/06/18 - 4★s
L - Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas – 01/06/18 - 5★s
M - Murder in Vail by Judy Moore – 19/05/18 - 5★s
O - Her Loyal SEAL by Caitlyn O'Leary – 24/06/18 - 5★s
N - The Future Widows Club by Rhonda Nelson – 23/05/1/ - 5★s
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
1. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old by Hendrik Groen – 18/04/18 - 2★s
2. The Pastor's Wife by Jennifer AlLee – 14/04/18 - 5★s
3. The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth - 24/05/18 - 5★s
Month 12: Read your favourite Book Crush's name
Last of the Bonegilla Girls by Victoria Purman – 07/10/18 - 3★s
Month Seven
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I'm gonna do this one and try to make my way through all of these! (May take more than a year but here we go!)Date Started: 5/19/2018
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Well done, Lizz!
Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Lizz wrote: "Month SevenDONE
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1.Invision10/30/17
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2.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone2/17/18
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Month Twelve
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All About You, Part One!Duration: Aug 28, 2018 - Aug 27, 2019
80/80 books
J - The Juliet Code by Christine Wells -Read 9/9
U - Bushranger of the Skies (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte #8) by Arthur W. Upfield -Read 09/07
N - No Alibi by Valerie Hansen -Read 08/29
E - Everything I Don't Remember by Jonas Hassen Khemiri -Read 11/15
P - Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time by Doris Pilkington -Read 09/07
E - Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger -Read 02/04
A - The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen -Read 11/27
R - Remembering Babylon by David Malouf -Read 09/04
L - The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier -Read 08/29
G - The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan -Read 09/10
E - Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha #1) by Tasha Suri -Read 02/06
M - Meet Me at the Intersection -Read 09/13
I - I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister by Amélie Sarn -Read 08/30
N - Night and Day by Virginia Woolf -Read 09/14
I - I am Legend by Richard Matheson -Read 11/03
M - My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith -Read 09/29
O - Timeswept Lovers by Constance O'Day-Flannery -Read 09/19
N - Goldenhand (Abhorsen #5) by Garth Nix -Read 09/15
K - Budapest Noir (Bűnös Budapest #1) by Vilmos Kondor -Read 09/16
E - Empress of All Seasons by Emiko Jean -Read 03/13
Y - A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes #1) by Jin Yong -Read 11/13
1. Hiroshima by John Hersey -Read 11/5
2. The Master Key by Masako Togawa -Read 11/13
3. The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino -Read 11/19
1. Behemoth (Leviathan #2) by Scott Westerfeld -Read 09/22
2. The Foretelling of Georgie Spider (The Tribe #3) by Ambelin Kwaymullina -Read 09/26
3. Sightwitch (The Witchlands #2.5) by Susan Dennard -Read 01/10
4. Sun Warrior (Tales of a New World #2) by P.C. Cast -Read 10/26
1. City of Lies (Poison Wars #1) by Sam Hawke with Annie M -Read 10/03
2. Wildcard (Warcross #2) by Marie Lu (Carolyn G) -Read 10/15
3. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah (SRC group read) -Read 10/18
1. The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Gaskell -Read 09/10
2. Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu -Read 09/20
3. Navigating the Stars (Sentinels of the Galaxy #1) by Maria V. Snyder -Read 09/28
1. Follow Me (The Amateurs #2) by Sara Shepard -Read 09/04
2. Little Secrets by Anna Snoekstra -Read 09/19
3. A Dangerous Place (Maisie Dobbs #11) by Jacqueline Winspear -Read 09/22
4. The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser -Read 09/27
5. Burning Fields by Alli Sinclair -Read 09/27
6. The Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett -Read 10/02
7. Liar Liar (Detective Harriet Blue #3) by James Patterson & Candice Fox -Read 10/10
8. The Diggers Rest Hotel (Charlie Berlin #1) by Geoffrey McGeachin -Read 10/10
9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë -Read 10/10
10. The Killing Hour (Quincy & Rainie #4) by Lisa Gardner -Read 10/17
11. Deadly Obsession (Lexie Rogers #2) by Karen M. Davis -Read 10/19
12. Bro by Helen Chebatte -Read 10/20
13. All Fall Down (Circus Hearts #2) by Ellie Marney -Read 10/24
14. Cosmo Cosmolino by Helen Garner -Read 10/26
15. Wind Rider (Tales of a New World #3) by P.C. Cast -Read 10/31
16. A Guide for Murdered Children by Sarah Sparrow -Read 11/1
17. The Gendarme by Mark Mustian -Read 11/2
18. Juror #3 by James Patterson & Nancy Allen -Read 11/6
19. Lightning Tracks (Song Gate #1) by Alethea Kinsela -Read 11/6
20. Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires #1) by Rachel Caine -Read 11/7
21. My Name is Nobody by Matthew Richardson -Read 11/7
22. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera -Read 11/9
23. Viral Nation (Viral Nation #1) by Shaunta Grimes -Read 11/12
24. Mrs Kelly by Grantlee Kieza -Read 11/14
25. Princess Bari by Hwang Sok-yong -Read 11/15
26. The Real Thing (Les Norton #2) by Robert G. Barrett -Read 11/17
D - Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar #2) by Harlan Coben -Read 09/30
O - On the Road by Jack Kerouac -Read 09/21
N - Nemesis (Project Nemesis #1) by Brendan Reichs -Read 09/22
U - Under the Red Flag by Ha Jin -Read 11/20
T - Three Dog Night by Peter Goldsworthy -Read 09/06
1. The Desert Nurse by Pamela Hart -Read 10/16
2. All the Little Bones (Circus Hearts #1) by Ellie Marney -Read 10/21
3. The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries #1) by Sophie Hannah -Read 11/23
J - The Jungle by Upton Sinclair -Read 09/22
O - Out of the Darkness (The Finnegan Connection #3) by Heather Graham -Read 10/24
H - Huntress by Malinda Lo -Read 09/12
N - Firespell (The Dark Elite #1) by Chloe Neill -Read 09/26
T - Perfect Match by D.B. Thorne -Read 09/26
H - Stone Girl by Eleni Hale -Read 09/19
O - The Ones That Disappeared by Zana Fraillon -Read 11/7
R - Year One (Chronicles of The One #1) by Nora Roberts -Read 11/17
N - Never Look Back (DI Mike Lockyer #1) by Clare Donoghue -Read 11/4
T - A Taste for Love by Marita Conlon-McKenna -Read 10/23
O - O by Eka Kurniawan -Read 01/09
N - No One To Trust by Iris Johansen -Read 11/14
All About You, Part 1!Duration: 1 October 2018-30 September 2019
Completed 74/85
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
J- Julie Murphy = Puddin' - 28 Oct 18
A- Marjorie Agosín = I Lived on Butterfly Hill - 30 Oct 18
N- The Navigator's Touch by Julia Ember - 9 Oct 18
U- Tania Unsworth = The One Safe Place - 31 Oct 18
A- April Daniels = Dreadnought - 25 Oct 18
R- Robin Roe = A List of Cages - 15 Oct 18
Y- You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan - 17 Oct 18
Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge)
G- Garth Nix = Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron - 2 Nov 18
A- Jennifer Armstrong = In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer - 4 Nov 18
R- Ruta Sepetys = Between Shades of Gray - 1 Nov 18
N- Noemi Vidal (character) in Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray - 5 Nov 18
E- Eugenia Perez (character) in Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro - 10 Nov 18
T- Traest Kre'fey (character) in Ruin (Dark Tide, #2) by Michael A. Stackpole - 17 Nov 18
Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
A- Ahmad Al-Hadid (character) in The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker - 3 Dec
Q- Q9-X2 (character) in Jedi Eclipse (Agents of Chaos, #2) by James Luceno - 7 Feb
U- Ngozi Ukazu = Check, Please!: #Hockey, Vol. 1 - 3 Dec
A- Anita Diamant = The Red Tent - 5 Dec
R- Roo (character) in The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne - 27 Jan
I- Ialai Sadeas (character) in Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson - 8 Dec
U- Un-Haad, Aisha (character) in Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie - 1 Jan
S- Dai Sijie = Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - 5 Dec
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge)
G- Mortada Gzar = Iraq + 100: stories from a century after the invasion - 25 Jan
O- Olmahk (character) in Balance Point by Kathy Tyers - 11 Feb
A- Ariel Sabar = My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq - 27 Jan
T- Tla (character) in Hero's Trial by James Luceno - 31 Jan
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
Iceland
- Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson - 24 Feb
- The Flat Rabbit by Bárður Oskarsson - 25 Feb
- Boy on the Edge by Fridrik Erlings - 16 Mar
Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
Fantasy
- Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace - 13 Mar
- The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells - 20 Mar
- The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells - 23 Mar
- The Siren Depths by Martha Wells - 25 Mar
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books that are childhood favorites
- This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen - 10 Apr
- Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson - 15 Apr
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery - 20 Apr
Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
- Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery - 2 May
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin - 10 May
- Just Listen by Sarah Dessen - 13 May
- The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin - 24 May
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
The last couple of months I've read ~30 books per month, so I'll aim for 30-40 books
1. Words on Bathroom Walls | Julia Walton | 6/2/19
2. The Gods of Tango | Carolina De Robertis | 6/4/19
3. The Shattered Peace | Jude Watson | 6/4/19
4. With the Fire on High | Elizabeth Acevedo | 6/6/19
5. Daughter of the Burning City | Amanda Foody | 6/7/19
6. Dryland | Sara Jaffe | 6/7/19
7. The Prince and the Dressmaker | Jen Wang | 6/8/19
8. I Wish You All the Best | Mason Deaver | 6/9/19
9. Recovery | Troy Denning | 6/9/19
10. Star Wars: Boba Fett - Agent of Doom | John Ostrander | 6/9/19
11. The Afterward | E.K. Johnston | 6/11/19
12. Shadow of the Fox | Julie Kagawa | 6/11/19
13. The Deadly Hunter | Jude Watson | 6/11/19
14. You Asked for Perfect | Laura Silverman | 6/12/19
15. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | 6/13/19
16. The Stone Sky | N.K. Jemisin | 6/13/19
17. Star Wars: Darth Maul | Ron Marz | 6/14/19
18. If I Was Your Girl | Meredith Russo | 6/14/19
19. Not Your Villain | C.B. Lee | 6/16/19
20. Discount Armageddon | Seanan McGuire | 6/18/19
21. George | Alex Gino | 6/19/19
22. Summer | Cao Wenxuan | 6/21/19
23. My Papi Has a Motorcycle | Isabel Quintero | 6/21/19
24. Jabari Jumps | Gaia Cornwall | 6/22/19
25. Pink Is for Boys | Robb Pearlman | 6/22/19
26. Red: A Crayon's Story | Michael Hall | 6/22/19
27. The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy | Mackenzi Lee | 6/23/19
28. Shadow Hunter | Michael Reaves | 6/26/19
29. Star Wars: Infinity's End | Pat Mills | 6/26/19
30. The Poet's Dog | Patricia MacLachlan | 6/28/19
31. Not Your Backup | C.B. Lee | 6/28/19
Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
P- Laura Pohl = The Last 8 | 7/5/19
I- In the Key of Nira Ghani | Natasha Deen | 7/20/19
C- Casey McQuiston = Red, White & Royal Blue | 7/1/19
K- Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation | Octavia Butler, Damian Duffy | 7/20/19
L- James Luceno = Cloak of Deception | 7/17/19
E- Elizabeth Adams = Unwilling: A Pride and Prejudice Vagary | 7/12/19
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
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I'm in, starting Monday :) Start date: 1st October 2018
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
F The Summer Seaside Kitchen - character, Flora Mackenzie
E Eugene Onegin
B Skipper: the Dog from the Sea by Judith M. Berrisford
R Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
U Portal of a Thousand Worlds - character - Urfather
A The Last Lighthouse Keeper by Alan Titchmarsh
R Redcoat by Bernard Cornwell
Y Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Month Two - Read your birth stone
A Autistic Son, Desperate Dad: How one family went from low- to high-functioning
M Mutants
E Elevation
T The Dead Zone
H The Mermaid by Christina Henry
Y Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day
S Soon I Will Be Invincible
T The Colorado Kid
Month three
A To Bedevil a Duke - character Duke Athelby
Q Kushiel's Dart Character Quintillius Rousse
U Stop the World, I Want to Get Off...: Unpublished Letters to the Telegraph
A The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
R The Chimes - narrator Richard Armitage
I I Know You Got Soul: Machines With That Certain Something
U Pock's World - character Umandral
S Station Eleven
Month 4
S Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
H Verity by Colleen Hoover
E Frankenstein - character Elizabeth
E In One Year and Out the Other: A New Year's Story Collection by Eileen Rendahl
P Kushiel's Chosen - character Phedre
Month 5
USA
1 Chamomile Honey & Murder: An Oceanside Cozy Mystery Book 63
2 The Age of Innocence
3 Hannibal
4 The Devil Wears Prada
Month 6
Fantasy
1 When the Saints
2 Daughter of the Empire
3 The Name of the Wind
4 Paper and Fire
Month 7
1. The Running Man - read with hubby
2. Wintersmith - With nieces
3. The Fifth Season - NBRC BotM
Month 8
1. Making Money - Terry Pratchett
2. The Outsider - Stephen King
3. The Alchemist's Apprentice - Dave Duncan
Month 9
13/9+
1. Never Let Me Go
2. The Night Circus
3. The Light Fantastic
4. Matched
5. Ajax Penumbra: 1969
6. The Count of Monte Cristo
7. Four Past Midnight
8. The Bad Beginning
9. Perfect Formation
10. The Reptile Room
11. A Clockwork Orange
12. Don Quixote
13. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Month 10
S The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
T The Wise Man's Fear
E Empire of the Sun
A Dark Currents - Agent of Hel series
K Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King
Month 11
1. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
2. Death Comes to Pemberley - P.D. James
3. The Swimming-Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst
4. Arkady & Boris Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic
month 12
Joscelin Verreuil (from Kushiel's Dart et al)
J Pale Fire - Character John Shade
O Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
S The Slow Regard of Silent Things
C The Last Chronicle of Barset - series Chronicles of Barset
E The End of the World Running Club
L The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket
I The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
N Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
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