Jannene has popcorn in her teeth...pass the floss!

[Janice, Moderator]

Dom is cracking the whip!

[Dominique]

Janice wrote: "Dom is cracking the whip!"

I have to but in a good way. She knows I don't pressure her. All in good fun!

[Janice, Moderator]

It's the best kind of fun. My friends urge me to quilt by showing me their progress.

[Jannene]

Dominique wrote: "Jannene wrote: "Yay!! Now onto the next badge. That will probably take 2-3 months."

come one.. 1-2 months!! lol"

You’ll drag me behind you. LOL

[Dominique]

Janice wrote: "It's the best kind of fun. My friends urge me to quilt by showing me their progress."

Oh we want to see!!

[Dominique]

Jannene wrote: "Dominique wrote: "Jannene wrote: "Yay!! Now onto the next badge. That will probably take 2-3 months."

come one.. 1-2 months!! lol"

You’ll drag me behind you. LOL"

You'll be fine for now.. by the end of the year you'll sleep for a good 6 months!

[Janice, Moderator]

Dominique wrote: "Janice wrote: "It's the best kind of fun. My friends urge me to quilt by showing me their progress."

Oh we want to see!!"

I'm a slow poke. We decided to do a challenge for a quilt called "Omigosh". The other two are finished. I'm nowhere close and complain about it endlessly. Now, one of my friends wants to do one called "Gypsy Wife". I want to abandon the Omigosh and start this one.

I'm going to do what my one friend does. She has about 3 big projects on the go. When she gets bored with one, she switches to another. I have two on the go - Omigosh, Cake Mix, and now I'll start Gypsy Wife.

[Dominique]

Janice wrote: "Dominique wrote: "Janice wrote: "It's the best kind of fun. My friends urge me to quilt by showing me their progress."

Oh we want to see!!"

I'm a slow poke. We decided to do a challenge for a qui..."

That's a lot of projects

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 3
2. Book 15, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
3. Task 2 - Author
4. The Whispered Word
5. Audiobook, 224 pages for hardback
6. Read a book about a library or book shop.
7. This book took place at the book shop and the shop owner recommends a lot of books for people having hard times.
8. No specifications.

[Cherie]

I like your new picture!

I know you and Dom are planning to read Red Sparrow together. I saved this audiobook for last, from all of the ones I got from my library two weeks ago. I started it two days ago and like it but the Russian names are impossible to keep up with and I was totally lost in the story. I downloaded the ebook from my library today and restarted the audiobook. I bumped up the speed to 1.25 and can follow along quite nicely. I'm at 35% through already. MUCH better!
I can't wait to hear what you think of the story.

[Jannene]

Thanks Cherie! I got my hair done yesterday. This is the longest it has been in over 10 years, I think.

My dad would rename characters if he couldn’t keep up or pronounce them in his head. I thought that was ingenious!

We probably would have been on that book by now but I was reading pretty slowly lately. She’s already 1.5 books ahead of me. I just finished our book read Six Years and she is already on our next read Ready Player One. She gets some of the audio versions and listens to them at work. I hope I don’t have the same experience as you did since I have that book in paperback. Maybe I’ll have to rename them!

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 4
2. Book 24, Meg
3. Task 5 - Genre
4. Six Years
5. Paperback, 448 pages
6. Read a book that is classified as Action and/or Thriller. The genre must be listed on the book's main page. Six Years - Classified as “Thriller-Mystery thriller”
7. The main page lists it as “thriller-mystery thriller”.
8. No other specifications

[Dominique]

Jannene wrote: "Thanks Cherie! I got my hair done yesterday. This is the longest it has been in over 10 years, I think.

My dad would rename characters if he couldn’t keep up or pronounce them in his head. I thou..."

Probably by next week, we'll start Red Sparrow

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 5
2. Book 7, The Darkest Minds
3. Task 4 - Setting
4. Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
5. Paperback, 325 pages
6. Read a WWII story.
7. The main page says that it is a WWII story.
8. No other specifications.

[Cherie]

I finished Red Sparrow early this morning. Got my four stars for the story but I'm not sure I really like her.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 6
2. Book 17, The House with a Clock in Its Walls
3. Task 1 - Book
4. The House with a Clock in Its Walls
5. Audiobook, 179 pages hardback
6. Read the book.
7. Read the book.
8. No other specifications.

[Jannene]

Cherie wrote: "I finished Red Sparrow early this morning. Got my four stars for the story but I'm not sure I really like her."

Maybe the movie is better?

[Janice, Moderator]

Jannene wrote: "1. Badge 2, Book 6
2. Book 17, The House with a Clock in Its Walls
3. Task 1 - Book
4. The House with a Clock in Its Walls
5. Audiobook, 179 pages hardback
6. Read the ..."

I plan on reading this one for the toppler. It's a quick read.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 7
2. Book 19, The Jungle Book
3. Task 1 - Read the book.
4. The Jungle Book
5. Audiobook, 253 hardbook pages
6. Read the book.
7. Read the book.
8. No specifications.

[Cherie]

Cracks me up to see "read the book" and think about how the inflection on read changes with how you say it.

[Jannene]

So true!

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 8
2. Book 30, Ready Player One
3. Task 1 - Read the book.
4. Ready Player One
5. Paperback 603 pages
6. Read the book.
7. Read the book.
8. No specifications.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 9
2. Book 8, The Death Cure
3. Task 5 - Genre: Dystopia
4. Scythe
5. Audiobook, 435 pages for hardback
6. Read a book with "Dystopia" listed on the main book page.
7. Main page says Dystopia.
8. No specifications.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 10
2. Book 18, Juliet, Naked
3. Task 4 - Setting - Pennsylvania
4. Everywhere That Mary Went
5. Audiobook, 352 pages for paperback (no hardback listed)
6. Read a book set in Pennsylvania.
7. The book was set in Pennsylvania.
8. No specifications.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 11
2. Book 33, A Simple Favor
3. Task 3 - Actor
4. Frame Up
5. Hardback, 278 pages
6. Read a book set in the 2000's to present day.
7. The book was set in the 2000’s.
8. No specifications.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 12
2. Book 10, Fahrenheit 451
3. Task 1 - Read the book
4. Fahrenheit 451
5. Audiobook, 227 hardback pages (edited)
6. Read the book.
7. Read the book.
8. No specifications.

[Cherie]

The Simon & Schuster Classic hardback edition has 191 pages.

[Janice, Moderator]

When you pull up all editions and sort by hardcover and "num ratings", you take the first one that comes up. In this case, it's Fahrenheit 451 which is 227 pages.

I checked all the pages lengths of the books before selecting them for the challenge.

[Jannene]

Thanks Janice and Cherie!

[Margo]

Well done Jannene :-)

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 13
2. Book 25, Monster
3. Task 3 - Actor
4. Black Diamond
5. Hardback, 272 pages
6. Read a book with sports as a main theme.
7. This book was about horse racing and the horse was named Black Diamond.
8. No specifications.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 14
2. Book 31, Red Sparrow
3. Task 1 - Read the book
4. Red Sparrow
5. Paperback, 431 pages
6. Read the book.
7. Read the book.
8. No specifications.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 15
2. Book 15, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
3. Task 4 - Setting
4. And Then There Were None
5. Audiobook, 252 hardback pages
6. Read a book set on an island.
7. The plot took place on Soldier Island.
8. No specifications.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 16
2. Book 23, Mary Poppins
3. Task 2 - Author
4. Deadly Diamonds
5. Ebook, hardback 287 pages
6. Read a book where the main character is human and over the age of 60.
7. One of the two main characters, Lex Devlin is over 60 years. It doesn’t say his exact age but in one paragraph it says we met over 50 some years ago. They met when they were teenagers in school. Doing math in my head Lex is at least 63 years of age.
8. No specifications.

[Jannene]

Dominique wrote: "Jannene wrote: "Yay!! Now onto the next badge. That will probably take 2-3 months."

come one.. 1-2 months!! lol"

May make it in 2 months. We both have 8 books to read this month that have to fit. We both have 16 books completed.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 17
2. Book 2, Annihilation
3. Task 4 - Setting
4. Sacred
5. Audiobook, hardback 288 pages
6. Read a book set in Florida.
7. The book was set in Florida and Boston.
8. No specifications.

[Dominique]

Jannene wrote: "Dominique wrote: "Jannene wrote: "Yay!! Now onto the next badge. That will probably take 2-3 months."

come one.. 1-2 months!! lol"

May make it in 2 months. We both have 8 books to read this month..."

End of March we'll have our Badge!

[Jannene]

Woot!!

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 18
2. Book 27, Nutcracker and Mouse King and the Tale of the Nutcracker
3. Task 5 - Genre
4. Storm Front
5. Kindle book, hardback 311 pages
6. Read a book from the Fantasy genre.
7. Fantasy is listed on the main page.
8. No specifications.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 19
2. Book 31, Red Sparrow
3. Task 6 - Trivia
4.
5. Hardback, 352 pages
6. Read a book with a bird on cover.
7. A macaw (bird) was on the cover.
8. No specifications.

[Cherie]

That one looks like an interesting story. I added the first book to my TBR list.

[Jannene]

Cherie wrote: "That one looks like an interesting story. I added the first book to my TBR list."

I didn’t know that there really is animal smuggling until I read this book. It is kind of crazy!

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 20
2. Book 11, Fifty Shades Freed
3.Task 6 - Trivia
4. Clockwork Angel
5. Audiobook, hardback 481 pages
6. Read a book with "Angel" or "Seraphim" in the title.
7. The book has “angel” in the title.
8. No specifications.

[Cherie]

I really liked that one too. I just haven't had the chance to get back to it. There are so many books in her interwoven series. She is quite prolific.

[Jannene]

Cherie wrote: "I really liked that one too. I just haven't had the chance to get back to it. There are so many books in her interwoven series. She is quite prolific."

It was very good. I want to finish that series but like you. There are too many! I just emailed Dom that I am trying to finish the series where I have just 3-4 left on them. I can then tackle the bigger ones.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 21
2. Book 14, The Girl in the Spider's Web
3. Task 6 - Trivia
4. Name Withheld
5. Audiobook, hardback 293 pages
6. Read a book where the main character is named Elizabeth, Liz, Beth, or Betty.
7. The MC’s victim was named Lizbeth. He kept trying to find her killer.
8. No specifications.

[Jannene]

1. Badge 2, Book 22
2. Book 16, The Hate U Give
3. Task 5 - Genre
4. I Know A Secret
5. Hardback 319 pages
6. Read a book that is Realistic Fiction. Use this genre page as a tool. Required - explain how the book fits this genre.
7. Realistic Fiction seems like real life, with characters dealing with real life problems. The book I Know A Secret could very well have been real. The detective is trying to find out a murder with many twists and turns. This is much like real life as they are always trying to solve murders or missing people. The secret revolves around a 9 year old girl who comes up missing and what ends up happening to her.
8. No specifications.

[Cherie]

Oh, I know which book I'll be reading next! I don't think I have a book selected for that category yet. I have read all of the other books in that series and killed it off at some point. I will be reading it as an orphan. In my head, the actress who played Rizzoli in the TV show is the person that I identify with for Angie.

[Jannene]

Cherie wrote: "Oh, I know which book I'll be reading next! I don't think I have a book selected for that category yet. I have read all of the other books in that series and killed it off at some point. I will be ..."

This was one of my orphans. I had hoped that Janice would accept this book for this task. It wouldn't fit elsewhere. May want to make sure she's okay before you complete it. ;)

[Cherie]

If she said ok to you, how could she deny it to someone else?
I was going to use the current group read book, Salt to the Sea for this task though. It is on the list that she gave as a tool.