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Hi! I'm working on 18. I'm linking books by words in the titles. So far:1 - The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness
2 - Soul of Wood
3 - Little House in the Big Woods
4 - The Catcher in the Rye
5 - The People in the Trees
6 - The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
7 - The Judges of the Secret Court
8 - Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
9 - The Hate U Give
10 - Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
11 - Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life
12 - Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller
13 - Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
14 - Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
15 - Some Things That Meant the World to Me
16 - Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant
17 - At Night We Walk in Circles
18 - Our Souls at Night
Update #44. Candide by Voltaire
Completed 4/4/18 Rating 4 stars
Both books were originally written in French.
Voltaire is the pseudonym of François Marie Arouet who lived in Paris.
The original title of Land of Black Gold is Tintin au pays de l'or noir.
Author Hergé came from Belgium.
5. Land of Black Gold by Hergé
Completed 20/5/18 Rating 3 stars
5/6
updated message 95.Please change my maximum books to 15.
Updated! I'm sorry you had to wait a while. We lost internet for a week here.
Update: Message 251. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil -> a book with a city in the title
2. The Boston Girl -> a book where the main character has a difficult relationship with her parents
3. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows -> a book about a culture other than my own
4. Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them -> a book with a color in the title
5. Red Queen -> a book where the main character feels out of place
6. Crazy Rich Asians -> a book set on an island
7. Moloka'i
Challenge Complete!
Updated :) Congrats Chelsea, I hope you read some great books!
Updated message 5Total so far: 3/6
Updated message 7.Completed 4/6
I wasn't sure if was going to join this challenge but just got thinking my two books I finished should work. I had read/finished Hollow City which has time traveling loops and the finished The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. which is about a man named Harry who lives and ides 15 times going back in time to his original birth.
Hi! I’d like to join with 4 books for now please. Thank you!
Books I plan to complete for this challenge:Murder In Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
A Holiday for Murder by Agatha Christie
The land of stories: wishing spell by Chris Colfer
Savvy by Ingrid Law
Relations:
Book 1-2: both have the Hercule Poirot as the main detective
Books2-3: Author’s last name begins with C
Books 3-4: Both have female and male main characters
Hi! I’d like to update my challenge by Satin I’ve finished 1/4 books I finished Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
Robin wrote: "I wasn't sure if was going to join this challenge but just got thinking my two books I finished should work. I had read/finished Hollow City which has time traveling loops and the f..."How many do you want to join with?
Some of these links are a little tenuous but I did it!Duration: January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018
1. Blindness is a dystopian book about an epidemic of blindness translated from Portuguese
2. The Hummingbird is a nordic noir book translated from Finnish in which Anna Fekete investigates a string of murders
3. Catilina's Riddle is a historical mystery which also involves a string of murders resulting in some headless bodies appearing on Gordianus' propety. Gordianus' son Meto os frustrated to not be trusted and kept out of important discussions.
4. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter is also frustrated to be kept out of important decisions by the Order. He forms a group called Dumbledore's Army to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts.
6. In The Taliban Cricket Club Ruksahna forms a cricket team from her brothers and friends and teaches them how to play so that they can escape Afghanistan for a new life in Pakistan
7. In The Alchemist Santiago also journeys to another country to seek his personal treasure. He travels to Egypt in North Africa
8. Purple Hibiscus is also set in Africa in Nigeria. Kambili is growing up under the eye of her strict religious father.
9. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder also contains a religious and controlling parent in the form of Lady Marchmain. It follows the Wealthy Flyte family.
10. Orlando is also about a British aristocrat with apparent immortality as he lives across a variety of time periods.
11. The Time Traveler's Wife also takes place across different time periods from the 60s to the 2000s as Henry travels through time. When not time travelling, Henry works in a library.
12. In Boy, Snow, Bird, Boy works in a bookstore that acts as a library for a group of children who are not happy at school. At the end of the book, Boy finds out about her father's past.
13. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry finds out about Lord Voldermort's past and wrestles with his feelings for Ginny Weasley which he, at first, tries to deny to himself.
14. In The Time of My Life, Lucy is lying to herself and others about many things. She gets professional help to help her stop lying to the people in her life
15. In A Visit from the Goon Squad, Sasha also needs professional help to treat her kleptomania. As a teenager Sasha ran away to Naples to escape home and school life.
16. In The Exiled, Anna Fekete also wants to escape the pressure of her work in Denmark so takes and extended holiday in her hometown in Serbia, Eastern Europe.
17. The characters in The Historian travel around eastern Europe to collect clues to solve the mystery of a mysterious book
18. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows also involves the collection of items, the horcruxes, and the mystery of the deathly hallows. At the end of the book there is a big battle.
19. In A Princess of Mars there is a big battle between the tribes of Basoom. If a warrior of the tribe kills the chief, he can take his place.
20. This form of hostile takeover also occurs in the drug cartel world of The Power of the Dog. Pilar is married at a young age to Mendez and lives under protected seclusion on his ranch
21. Nazneen in Brick Lane is also married at a young age to an older man and lives in seclusion due mainly to fear and a language barrier. Her sister stays in Bangladesh and falls into the sex trade.
22. Cal in Middlesex also ends up in the sex trade when he runs away from his parents and home. He is intersex due to an unhealthy relationship between his grandparents.
23. An unhealthy sibling relationship is also present in The Fishermen after a madman stirs animosity amongst brothers making their home a toxic environment
24. The creation of a toxic home environment is also present in The Magpies where a couple are being driven mad by nightmare neighbours who want them to leave
25. Jeanette leaves her strange religious community in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
26. There is also a strange religious order in The Cartel where many bodies are disposed of during the Mexican drug wars
27. In The Woman in Cabin 10 a body is disposed of over the side of a boat but Laura is not believed when she reports this due to her history with mental illness
28. Many of the characters in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are mentally ill including McMurphy who is in a contest of sorts with Nurse Ratched
29. A contest is the topic of The Night Circus. The circus travels across the world including to Germany
30. The Book Thief is set in Germany in WWI the protagonist Lisel is an avid reader with a love for books
31. The eponymous Margaret the First (Margaret Cavendish) was also an avid reader and writer underestimated by the men of her time. She was an early author of fantasy novels.
32. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a fantasy book featuring a child protagonist
33. To Kill a Mockingbird also features a child protagonist
Hello! I’d like to update. I’ve finished A holiday for Murder by Agatha Christie which is my second book.
Winter wrote: "Robin wrote: "I wasn't sure if was going to join this challenge but just got thinking my two books I finished should work. I had read/finished Hollow City which has time traveling l..."I will try for 10
This may be a stretch but last book was The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and Harry searched different religions and science to find out why he was being reborn. Just finished Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Which the wicked witch sister and father were religious and believed in an Unnamed good.
Robin wrote: "This may be a stretch but last book was The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and Harry searched different religions and science to find out why he was being reborn. Just finished..."How many have you in total finished then ? :)
Winter wrote: "Robin wrote: "This may be a stretch but last book was The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and Harry searched different religions and science to find out why he was being reborn...."4
Update 5/10Last book wasWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West about a "wicked" witch. Finished The Isle of the Lost is mostly about the villains from fair tales. Both books are about make believe characters and they are not nice
Update msg 122 6/10The Isle of the Lost was about villains being imprisoned on a lost island. The Enchanted is about prisoners on death row.
Updated msg 122 7/10The Enchanted has an main character that is a priest. Because of Winn-Dixie has a main character that is a preacher.
edited message 7 - 6/6Challenge completed!
CrazyAsACupcake wrote: "edited message 7 - 6/6Challenge completed!"
Congrats, good job! Was it hard finding the links?
how can i get free books , could you help please im new on Goodread
Hussain wrote: "how can i get free books , could you help please im new on Goodread"Hi Hussain. This thread is for a specific challenge here in our group. I'm not sure what books you're looking for. Amazon kindle often has free books you can download and samples if you're unsure if you want to read it.
Other than that there are free books in the public domain, Gutenberg . org.
If you have any questions about our group, please refer to our threads for questions:
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-Winter
Edited post #10.Challenge completed 5/5.
Since I’m Swedish, I’ll start with a book about our one true king, King Zlatan.
I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic - READ
Zlatan’s parents were immigrants from former Yugoslavia. A guy who doesn’t like immigrants is the Norwegian right-wing extremist and mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people.
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway - READ
This brings us to Malala, who also got shot, but survived.
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - READ
Malala was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2014. Another female Nobel laureat is the brilliant Canadian author Alice Munro.
Too Much Happiness - READ
Is there too much happiness in the world today? Well, we better ask those little guys with happy feet.
Penguins - READ
Congratulations Berit :D
Sheila wrote: "message 155/5"Congrats Sheila :D
Message #90 updated: I've just completed my goal of 4 books for this challenge. I really liked this challenge :-)
I can't believe I actually completed my challenge - 18 books linked by words in the titles: (And I linked the last book title to the first book title!)1 - The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness
2 - Soul of Wood
3 - Little House in the Big Woods
4 - The Catcher in the Rye
5 - The People in the Trees
6 - The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
7 - The Judges of the Secret Court
8 - Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
9 - The Hate U Give
10 - Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
11 - Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life
12 - Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller
13 - Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
14 - Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
15 - Some Things That Meant the World to Me
16 - Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant
17 - At Night We Walk in Circles
18 - Our Souls at Night
Last update for this challenge. Congratulations Karen! Well done :D
A.L.Rossmaur - 14 /30 Adriana - 1 /10
AJ - 0 /6
Amanda - 5 /6
Amanda - 0 /6
Andrea - 10 /10 Completed!
Arushi - 0 /6
AttWaq - 8 /15
Berit - 5 /5 Completed!
Büscherhäschen 0 /5
Candice - 3 /10
Chelsea - 7 /7 Completed!
Cindy lll - 0 /5
CrazyAsACupcake - 6 /6 Completed!
Danielle - 3 /12
Daph - 0 /7
Debra - 0 /12
Eirelyn - 12 /12 Completed!
Eunice - 2 /8
Gem - 0 /5
Jess - 0 /24
Jessica - 0 /8
Jinx - 0 /24
Karen - 18 /18 Completed!
Kate - 0 /5
Katelin - 0 /6
Katherine - 4 /10
Kiriko - 2 /5
Kristin - 11 /12
Laura Jane - 0 /5
Lauri - 1 /10
Leona - 0 /5
Libby - 0 /5
Lindsay - 13 /12 Completed!
Lois - 1 /?
Margaret - 0 /5
Maris - 0 /5
Marissa - 6 /20
mary allyson cook-reneau - 0 /10
Mikayla - 0 /5
Mindy - 0 /10
Minnie - 0 /12
Nicole - 0 /5
Patricia - 4 /4 Completed!
Phill - 1 /10
Pooja - 0 /5
Q - 0 /5
ReadingByTheSea - 4 /10
Reija - 0 /10
Robin - 7 /10
Rowizyx - 15 /50
Satin - 2 /4
Shanna - 7 /7 Completed!
Sheila - 5 /5 Completed!
Sowndarya - 2 /5
Susan - 0 /12
Tania - 15 /12
Winter - 5 /5 Completed!
Wolf (Alpha) - 0 /50
2025 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The Catcher in the Rye (other topics)Little House in the Big Woods (other topics)
Soul of Wood (other topics)
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (other topics)
The People in the Trees (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Brenna Yovanoff (other topics)Hergé (other topics)
Voltaire (other topics)
Voltaire (other topics)
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