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BOOKS READ: Team Gluttony
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Read Nov 5 Title/ Author: Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
Date Read: Nov 5
Pages: 337
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
Avarice - yellow
Envy - - Books that members from other teams have read (during 2019) Jammin Jenny has read it on Sept 16,2019
Amy "the book-bat" wrote: "Bookcover: 
Title/ Author: Wilder Girls by Rory Power
Date Read: 11/4/19
Pages: 359
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
sin bin..."
PSST... don't forget to add this one as a BOM on the ss
, Read Nov 6 Title/ Author: The Mystery of the Moving Image - C.S. Poe
Date Read: Nov 6
Pages: 214
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
Gluttony - • Books from a series or author that you can't stop binge reading.
Vanity - MPG contemporary + LGBT
Completion Post
Book: Up From the Grave ~ Jeaniene Frost
Pages: 384
Date Read: 11.06 ★★★★
Sins:
Vanity ~ Top Shelf Contemporary
Mini:
Where they met
Book / author: Bird Box / Josh Malerman
Pages: 305
Date: Nov 7, 2019
Sin: Avarice (Dystopia top shelves), Vanity (contemporary top shelves)
Lust Mini: part 1- what they went there for. Maybe potentially “what they were wearing” if we want to be liberal (creative) with these 🤣
Part 2 - on bad books listed and started in week 5. (Alternate cover listed in the thread
Bookcover:
Title/ Author: The Unwelcomed Child by V.C. Andrews
Date Read: 11/7/19
Pages: 400
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria:
envy - young adult MPG, green cover
vanity - contemporary
wrath - Books that enrage you - the grandmother is horrible and abusive
BOM: n/a
Lust mini challenge:
part 1 -
Adjective for person #One: unwelcomed
Person #One's name / role: The Unwelcomed Child
Adjective for person #Two: unwelcomed
Person #Two's name / role: The Unwelcomed Child
The consequence (a description of what happened after): The Unwelcomed Child
part 2 - n/a
Bookcover:
Title/ Author: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Date Read: 11/7/19
Pages: 318
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria:
sloth - •Books that have been on your TBR for at least 2 years. - added to TBR in 2016
BOM: n/a
Lust mini challenge:
part 1 -
Where they met: A room with a view
part 2 - is on the "Bad Books" list
Completion Post
Book: Year One ~ Nora Roberts
Pages: 419
Date Read: 11.08 ★★★★
Sins:
Avarice ~ Top Shelf Dystopia
Vanity ~ Top Shelf Contemporary
Read Nov 8Title/ Author: Honor Bound - Stormy Glenn
Date Read: Nov 8
Pages: 171
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
Avarice - anything goes
Gluttony - historical romance
Vanity - LGBT
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup
Date complete: 11/9/19
Pages: 528
Sin: Lust - red cover
BOM: Yes - all questions answered
Mini Challenge: Yes - "The Chestnut Man"
Read Nov 9 Title/ Author: Let It Snow - Heidi Cullinan
Date Read: Nov 9
Pages: 250
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
Vanity - contemporary, LGBT
Completion Post
Book: My Lucky Charm ~ Lisa Mondello
Pages: 191
Date Read: 11.08 ★★★
Sins:
Vanity ~ Top Shelf Contemporary
Mini:
What #1/2 wore
Read Nov 9Title/ Author: Kevin's Alpha - Amber Kell
Date Read: Nov 9
Pages: 128
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
Vanity - LGBT
A Song for Julia by Charles Sheehan-Miles
Date Read: 11/9
Pages: 376
Sins:
Vanity: MPG Contemporary
Mini:
Name #1/2
Book: The Tyrant's Tomb by Rick Riordan
Date: 8.11.19
Pages: 528
- 101177 words as it's tagged children ☺
Sins:
envy - young adult
Mini challenge
part 1 - why? where? what was said? consequence?
Book: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Date: 9.11.19
Pages: 409 (default edition as mine doesn't have pages)
Sins:
gluttony - historical romance
Mini challenge
part 1 - why? what was said? consequence?
part 2 - bad recommendation (Lauri)
Read Nov 9 Title/ Author: Icebound - David Axton
Date Read: Nov 9
Pages: 416
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
Sloth - blue
Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Bedding the Highlander by Sabrina York
Date Read: 11/9/19
Pages: 160
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria:
gluttony - historical romance
lust - guilty pleasure
BOM: n/a
Lust mini challenge:
part 1 -
- Adjective for person #One (highlander)
- Person #One's name / role (highlander)
- Adjective for person #Two (highlander)
- Person #Two's name / role (highlander)
- What they went there for (Bedding the Highlander)
- The consequence (a description of what happened after) (Bedding the Highlander)
part 2 - n/a
Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Party Princess by Meg Cabot
Date Read: 11/9/19
Pages: 306
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria:
gluttony - pink cover
envy - young adult MPG
vanity - contemporary MPG, • Books with a mirror or jewels on the cover. (mirror ball)
lust - guilty pleasure top shelf
BOM: n/a
Lust mini challenge:
part 1 -
- Person #One's name / role (Princess)
- Person #Two's name / role (Princess)
- What they went there for (Party)
- The consequence (a description of what happened after) (Party)
part 2 - n/a
Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
Date Read: 11/9/19
Pages: 354
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria:
envy - green cover
vanity - contemporary MPG, LGBT MPG
lust - Books that you lust after - new releases- published 2019 (Published June 4th 2019 by Tin House Books)
wrath - Books that enrage you (animal murder just for the sake of killing)
BOM: n/a
Lust mini challenge:
part 1 -
- Adjective for person #One (mostly dead)
- Adjective for person #Two (mostly dead)
- What they went there for (dead things)
- The consequence (a description of what happened after) (dead things)
part 2 - n/a
Title/Author: Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
Date Read: 11/10
Pages: 352
Sin: Lust Mini Challenge Part 1 - Person's name
Part 2- on the list of bad books
Title/ Author: Lime Gelatin and Other Monsters - Angel Martinez
Date Read: Nov 9
Pages: 147
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
Vanity - LGBT
Wrath - brown?
Completion Post
Book: Mr. Darcy Goes Overboard: A Tale of Tide & Prejudice ~ Belinda Roberts
Pages: 213
Date Read: 11.09 ★★★
Sins:
Vanity ~ Top Shelf Contemporary
Mini:
Part 1 - name
Part 2 - bad rec by Melindam
Completion Post
Book: Crown Jewels ~ Ella James
Pages: 330
Date Read: 11.10 ★★★
Sins:
Vanity ~ Top Shelf Contemporary
Mini:
Part 1 - wore
Part 2 - bad rec by Nicole
Book: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Date: 10.11.19
Pages: 850
Sins:
sloth - blue cover
gluttony - historical romance
Mini challenge
part 1 - who?
part 2 - bad recommendation (it was recommended couple of times. Melanie was first, I think)
Bookcover:
Title/ Author: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Date Read: 11/10/19
Pages: 128
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria:
avarice - anything goes
BOM: n/a
Lust mini challenge:
part 1 -
- What they went there for (art of war)
- The consequence (a description of what happened after) (war)
part 2 - n/a
Title/ Author: The Pirate's Witch - Jennifer Blackstream
Date Read: Nov 10
Pages: 168
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
Sloth - blue
Fifty Shades of Mr Darcy: A Parody by William Codpiece Thwackery
Date Read: 11/10
Pages: 192
Mini: Name
Need Chris' BOM links
Completion Post
Book: The Last Letter ~ Rebecca Yarros
Pages: 432
Date Read: 11.10 ★★★
Sins:
Vanity ~ Top Shelf Contemporary
Mini:
Card 1 - water - water on cover
Card 1 - silver - tags are silver
LaurLa wrote: "Need Chris' BOM links
The View from Alameda Island by Robyn Carr
Date read: 11/10/19
Pages: 320
Sin: Wrath (a character I really hated = Brad)
BOM links for Chestnut Man -
198- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
199 - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
200 - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
201 - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
225 - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
226- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
227 - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Read Nov 12Title/ Author: Becoming - Michelle Obama
Date Read: Nov 12
Pages: 464
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
Envy - - Books that members from other teams have read (during 2019) Jammin Jenny read Sept 24, 2019
Sloth - blue
Vanity - - • Only Award-Winning Books - Any Award as long as it can be linked or appears on Goodreads book page.
Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Date Read: 11/13/19
Pages: 411
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria:
wrath - Books that enrage you (HATED Bridget)
vanity - contemporary MPG, only award-winning books (Audie Award for Solo Narration - Female (2000), British Book of the Year (1998))
Sloth - •Books that have been on your TBR for at least 2 years. (added January 4, 2011)
lust - guilty pleasure (shelved by 115 people)
BOM: n/a
Lust mini challenge:
part 2 - is on the bad books list
Avarice mini challenge:
food - Bridget is always eating, cooking, or obsessing about food
champagne - there is a lot of champagne drinking
woman - MC is a woman
obese - Bridget thinks she is fat/obese even though she isn't
glutton - Bridget consistently over eats, over drinks, and smokes too much
Book: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Date: 13.11.19
Pages: 448
Sins:
envy - sin bingo (green cover, young adult, read by Jammin Jenny in Sloth)
Mini challenge
Lust part 2 - I can see why it ended in bad recs ☺
avarice
art(ist) - mc writes fanfic
talented - mc is talented writer (her professor sees great future for her as writer)
man/woman - on cover
glutton - mc's sister starts partying and drinks too much
Bookcover:
Title/ Author: The Diviners by Libba Bray
Date Read: 11/13/19
Pages: 578
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria:
envy - young adult
vanity - purple cover, • Books with a mirror or jewels on the cover. (pearls)
BOM: n/a
Lust mini challenge:
part 2 - n/a
Avarice mini challenge:
pearls - on cover
man - villain is male
woman - MC is female
mansion - a good portion of the plot takes place in an old mansion
artist - Theta is an actress/singer
champagne - they drank champagne in a speakeasy
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