Suzanne's 2020 Trivia Challenge

[Suzanne]

Card 1

1. Geography YAY - A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle completed 06/06/20
2. Entertainment NAY - The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss completed 06/17/20
3. History NAY - King Rat by James Clavell completed 03/24/20
4. Art/Literature NAY - The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff completed 06/23/20
5. Science YAY - The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson completed 07/07/20
6. Sport NAY - A Night to Remember by Walter Lord completed 05/22/20

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Card 2

1, Geography YAY - Division Street: America by Studs Terkel completed 04/10/20
2. Entertainment YAY - Confederates by Thomas Keneally completed 04/05/20
3. History YAY - Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum by Edward T. O'Donnell completed 04/15/20
4. Art/Literature NAY - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn completed 04/14/20
5. Science NAY - The Call of the Wild by Jack London completed 04/03/20
6. Sport YAY - The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan completed 03/07/20

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Card 3

1. Geography YAY - The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell completed 09/05/20
2. Entertainment NAY - The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson completed 09/20/20
3. History YAY - Freedom: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War by William Safire completed 10/12/20
4. Art/Literature YAY - Wizard and Glass by Stephen King completed 11/18/20
5. Science NAY - Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah completed 11/25/20
6. Sport NAY - Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund (#26 on my shelf) completed 02/05/20

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Card 4

1. Geography NAY - The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman completed 01/12/21
2. Entertainment NAY - The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith by Stephanie Saldana completed 09/18/23
3. History NAY - The Tulip and the Pope by Deborah Larsen completed 09/28/24
4. Art/Literature NAY - Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz completed 09/01/23
5. Science NAY - The Ivory Trade: Music and the Business of Music at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition by Joseph Horowitz completed 01/19/20
6. Sport NAY - The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh completed 07/19/21

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Card 5

1. Geography YAY - Florence Gordon by Brian Morton completed 01/15/21
2. Entertainment NAY - Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare completed 11/03/21
3. History NAY - Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck
4. Art/Literature YAY - Mink River by Brian Doyle
5. Science YAY - Red River by Lalita Tademy completed 03/02/20
6. Sport YAY - Shadowbrook by Beverly Swerling completed 03/01/24

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Card 6

1. Geography NAY - Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe completed 09/14/24
2. Entertainment YAY - Primordial Threat by M.A. Rothman
3. History YAY - The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes completed 03/16/20
4. Art/Literature YAY - The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence by Robert Klara completed 06/12/25
5. Science NAY - The Searchers by Alan LeMay
6. Sport NAY - Peanut Butter and Naan: Stories of an American Mom in the Far East by Jennifer Hillman-Magnuson completed 05/05/22


Card 7

1. Geography NAY - Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom by Lucia Jang completed 04/27/22
2. Entertainment YAY - Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton completed 01/15/20
3. History NAY - The Unforgiven by Alan LeMay completed 12/27/23
4. Art/Literature NAY - The Rebels by John Jakes completed 02/17/24
5. Science YAY - Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan completed 01/22/25
6. Sport NAY - French Lessons in Africa: Travels with My Briefcase Through French Africa by Peter Biddlecombe completed 12/22/20

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Card 8

1. Geography NAY - Tubob: Two Years in West Africa with the Peace Corps by Mary E. Trimble completed 01/12/20
2. Entertainment YAY - The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova completed 05/25/21
3. History NAY - The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin completed 06/27/21
4. Art/Literature NAY - Fever by Mary Beth Keane completed 04/09/21
5. Science YAY - 1984 by George Orwell completed 07/20/20
6. Sport YAY - The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black completed 02/18/21

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Card 9

1. Geography YAY - Frog Music by Emma Donoghue completed 01/25/20
2. Entertainment NAY - Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator by Homer Hickam completed 01/02/24
3. History YAY - Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff completed 02/10/22
4. Art/Literature NAY - We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter completed 05/03/25
5. Science NAY - Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly completed 12/02/21
6. Sport NAY - Noble House by James Clavell completed 01/07/23


Card 10

1. Geography YAY - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman completed 08/20/20
2. Entertainment NAY - Dare Mighty Things by Heather Kaczynski completed 01/10/20
3. History YAY - Lessons from the Prairie: The Surprising Secrets to Happiness, Success, and (Sometimes Just) Survival I Learned on America's Favorite Show by Melissa Francis completed 08/27/20
4. Art/Literature NAY - Traveller by Richard Adams
5. Science NAY - Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith completed 04/06/20
6. Sport NAY - Between Love and Honor by Alexandra Lapierre completed 11/15/20


Card 11

1, Geography NAY - The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
2. Entertainment NAY - Pohutukawa Highway by Tammy Robinson completed 06/09/24
3. History NAY - Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks Dalton completed 06/26/23
4. Art/Literature YAY - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
5. Science NAY - Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949 by Virginia Nicholson
6. Sport NAY - The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar completed 02/09/20


Card 12

1. Geography YAY - My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories by David Lebovitz
2. Entertainment NAY - White Dog Fell from the Sky: A Novel by Eleanor Morse completed 01/10/20
3. History NAY - The White Princess by Philippa Gregory completed 04/21/24
4. Art/Literature YAY - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion completed 07/06/21
5. Science NAY - Navigators of Dune by Brian Herbert completed 02/17/21
6. Sport NAY - Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe completed 11/01/21


Card 13

1, Geography YAY - Where the Shadows Lie by Michael Ridpath completed 04/18/20
2. Entertainment NAY - Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince
3. History YAY - The Road by Cormac McCarthy completed 04/23/20
4. Art/Literature YAY - Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead by John Skipp, Stephen King, et al completed 05/17/20
5. Science YAY - The Bastard by John Jakes (#212 on my TBR list)
6. Sport NAY - A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter completed 05/16/20


Card 14

1, Geography NAY - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
2. Entertainment NAY - Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King
3. History NAY - Give Em Pumpkin To Talk About by Joyce Lavene completed 09/27/23
4. Art/Literature YAY - Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult completed 12/29/24
5. Science YAY - The Twelfth Transforming by Pauline Gedge completed 01/25/20
6. Sport NAY - The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan


Card 15

1. Geography NAY - Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China by Jen Lin-Liu completed 08/06/20
2. Entertainment NAY - I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn completed 05/27/20
3. History YAY - Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Belonging by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa completed 05/27/22
4. Art/Literature NAY - One Good Dog by Susan Wilson completed 11/23/20
5. Science NAY - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee completed 03/23/21
6. Sport YAY - The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy completed 02/01/20


Card 16

1, Geography YAY - The Christmas Train by David Baldacci completed 09/09/21
2. Entertainment NAY - The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith completed 01/07/25
3. History NAY - Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea by Robert D. Kaplan completed 01/15/20
4. Art/Literature NAY - Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray
5. Science NAY - David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell completed 11/23/20
6. Sport NAY - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra completed 12/17/23


Card 17

1. Geography NAY - The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield
2. Entertainment NAY - Dance Upon the Air by Nora Roberts completed 05/17/24
3. History YAY - The Iron King by Maurice Druon completed 01/08/20
4. Art/Literature NAY - The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan completed 06/19/21
5. Science NAY - A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family by Cheryl Lu Lien Tan completed 01/16/22
6. Sport NAY - Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber completed 06/20/21

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Card 18

1. Geography YAY - The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr completed 04/18/20
2. Entertainment NAY - Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean completed 06/23/20
3. History YAY - A Pledge of Silence by Flora J. Solomon completed 08/01/20
4. Art/Literature YAY - The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan completed 08/22/20
5. Science YAY - The Rogue by Lee W. Brainard completed 08/11/20
6. Sport YAY - Last Train to Istanbul by Ayse Kulin completed 02/20/20

[Suzanne]

Card 19

1. Geography NAY - Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor completed 04/18/25
2. Entertainment NAY - American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest by Hannah Nordhaus completed 03/24/20
3. History YAY - Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare completed 10/21/21
4. Art/Literature NAY - Mother Tongue: My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish by Christine Gilbert
5. Science NAY - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
6. Sport YAY - Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates

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Card 20

1, Geography YAY - Heart of the Country by Greg Matthews
2. Entertainment NAY - Contact by Carl Sagan completed 03/07/20
3. History NAY - Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert Massie dnf
4. Art/Literature YAY - The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore completed 01/19/21
5. Science NAY - The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz completed 08/12/24
6. Sport NAY - The Binding Chair or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society by Kathryn Harrison completed 09/10/21

Card 21

1. Geography NAY - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black completed 05/30/20
2. Entertainment YAY - The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel completed 07/24/20
3. History YAY - American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt by Karen Harper completed 08/02/20
4. Art/Literature YAY - Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare completed 08/15/20
5. Science NAY - Wings of Refuge by Lynn Austin (#1 on my TBR list) completed 02/15/20
6. Sport NAY - The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris completed 08/27/20


Card 22

1. Geography NAY - Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave completed 02/24/21
2. Entertainment NAY - In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides completed 03/08/20
3. History YAY - The Covenant by James Michener completed 07/19/21
4. Art/Literature NAY - Foundation by Isaac Asimov completed 01/03/22
5. Science NAY - A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back by Kevin Hazzard
6. Sport NAY - Dancing from the Heart: A Memoir by Frank Augustyn

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Card 23

1, Geography NAY - The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson completed 06/01/25
2. Entertainment NAY - Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos by Peter Allison completed 02/05/20
3. History NAY - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett completed 06/16/22
4. Art/Literature YAY - The Wicked King by Holly Black completed 07/31/20
5. Science NAY - 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
6. Sport NAY - The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith completed 04/06/23


Card 24

1, Geography YAY - The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel
2. Entertainment NAY - The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory completed 01/05/20
3. History NAY - The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank completed 5/11/20
4. Art/Literature NAY - Song of Susannah by Stephen King dnf
5. Science YAY - Pacific: The Ocean of the Future by Simon Winchester completed 08/30/1`
6. Sport YAY - Silence by Shusaku Endo completed 05/10/22


Card 25

1. Geography NAY - The Waste Lands by Stephen King completed 03/23/20
2. Entertainment NAY - Against All Things Ending by Stephen R. Donaldson completed 12/09/24
3. History NAY - A Column of Fire by Ken Follett
4. Art/Literature NAY - The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel
5. Science NAY - The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel
6. Sport NAY - Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan


Card 26

1. Geography YAY - The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah completed 01/25/20
2. Entertainment YAY - The Godfather by Mario Puzo completed 04/17/25
3. History YAY - Coffee With Poe by Andrew Barger completed 05/01/21
4. Art/Literature YAY - A Month of Italy: Rediscovering the Art of Vacation by Chris Brady completed 04/05/21
5. Science YAY - Where Are the Cocoa Puffs?: A Family's Journey through Bipolar Disorder by Karen Winters Schwartz completed 07/11/20
6. Sport YAY - Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts


Card 27

1. Geography NAY - The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon completed 01/19/20
2. Entertainment YAY - Three Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas Sparks
3. History YAY - Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult completed 09/29/22
4. Art/Literature YAY - The Birth House by Ami McKay completed 02/19/22
5. Science NAY - The Lake House by Kate Morton
6. Sport (YAY) - Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World by Theodore C. Bestor

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Card 28

1. Geography NAY - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty completed 02/26/20
2. Entertainment NAY - I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short completed 04/30/23
3. History YAY - Just Kids by Patti Smith completed 10/29/20
4. Art/Literature YAY - Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
5. Science NAY - Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh completed 05/05/22
6. Sport YAY - All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot completed 05/25/21



Card 29

1. Geography YAY - Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr completed 05/04/21
2. Entertainment NAY - The Taming of the Queen by Philippa Gregory completed 03/02/21
3. History YAY - Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler completed 02/19/20
4. Art/Literature YAY - Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin by Leon Uris completed 05/21/25
5. Science NAY - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett completed 02/05/21
6. Sport YAY - Poland by James Michener

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Card 30

1, Geography YAY - A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel completed 01/18/24
2. Entertainment YAY - America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray completed 07/30/21
3. History YAY - The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
4. Art/Literature NAY - The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare completed 02/16/20
5. Science YAY - Watergate by Thomas Mallon
6. Sport YAY - The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick completed 10/29/23

[Suzanne]

Badge 1:

1. The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory (Card 24)
2. The Iron King by Maurice Druon (Card 17)
3. Dare Mighty Things by Heather Kaczynski (Card 10)
4. White Dog Fell from the Sky: A Novel by Eleanor Morse (Card 12)
5. Tubob: Two Years in West Africa with the Peace Corps by Mary E. Trimble (Card 8)
6. Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea by Robert D. Kaplan (Card 16)
7. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (Card 7)
8. The Ivory Trade: Music and the Business of Music at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition by Joseph Horowitz (Card 4)
9. The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Card 27)
10. Frog Music by Emma Donoghue (Card 9)
11. The Twelfth Transforming by Pauline Gedge (Card 14)
12. The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah (Card 26)

[Suzanne]

Badge 2:

1. The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy (Card 15)
2. Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund (Card 3)
3. Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos by Peter Allison (Card 23)
4. The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar (Card 11)
5. Wings of Refuge by Lynn Austin (Card 21)
6. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Card 30)
7. Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler (Card 29)
8. Last Train to Istanbul by Ayse Kulin (Card 18)
9. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (Card 28)
10. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince (Card 13)
11. Red River by Lalita Tademy (Card 5)
12. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (Card 2)
13. Contact by Carl Sagan (Card 20)
14. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides (Card 22)
15. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes (Card 6)
16. The Waste Lands by Stephen King (Card 25)
17. King Rat by James Clavell (Card 1)
18. American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest by Hannah Nordhaus (Card 19)

[Suzanne]

Badge 3:

Card 1
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (Card 1)
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (Card 1)
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (Card 1)
The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff (Card 1)
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain (Card 1)

Card 2
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Card 2)
Confederates by Thomas Keneally (Card 2)
Division Street: America by Studs Terkel (Card 2)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Card 2)
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum by Edward T. O'Donnell (Card 2)

Card 13
Where the Shadows Lie by Michael Ridpath (Card 13)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Card 13)
A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury by Edith Pargeter (Card 13)
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead by John Skipp (Card 13)
The Bastard by John Jakes (Card 13)


Card 18
The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily Barr (Card 18)
Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen PreJean (Card 18)
A Pledge of Silence by Flora Solomon (Card 18)
The Rogue by Lee W. Brainard (Card 18)
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan (Card 18)

Card 21
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Card 21)
The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel (Card 21)
American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt by Karen Harper (Card 21)
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (Card 21)
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (Card 21)

[Suzanne]

Badge 4:

Card 3
The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell (Card 3)
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson (Card 3)
Freedom: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War by William Safire (Card 3)
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King (Card 3)
Winter Garden by Kristin Hallah (Card 3)

Card 7
French Lessons in Africa: Travels with My Briefcase Through French Africa by Peter Biddlecombe (Card 7)

Card 8
1984 by George Orwell (Card 8)

Card 10
Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith (Card 10)
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (Card 10)
Lessons from the Prairie: The Surprising Secrets to Happiness, Success, and (Sometimes Just) Survival I Learned on America's Favorite Show by Melissa Francis (Card 10)
Between Love and Honor by Alexandra Lapierre (Card 10)

Card 15
I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn (Card 15)
Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China by Jen Lin-Liu (Card 15)
One Good Dog by Susan Wilson (Card 15)

Card 16
Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray (Card 16)
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell (Card 16)

Card 23
The Wicked King by Holly Black (Card 23)

Card 24
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Card 24)

Card 26
Where Are the Cocoa Puffs?: A Family's Journey through Bipolar Disorder by Karen Winters Schwartz (Card 26)

Card 28
Just Kids by Patti Smith (Card 28)

[Suzanne]

Badge 5:

[Suzanne]

I finally have my list put together. There may some changes as I go along, but it's set for now. Awesome challenge. Like the Geocache challenge, I intend to finish this one eventually.

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 1


★★★★

2. Card: 24
3. Task: Nay, Entertainment
4. Link: The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory
5. Pages: I read the ebook, paper version has 584 pages
6. Task Summary: The main character has ginger-colored hair.
7. How the book fits: King Henry VIII, the main character, is a red-head.
8. Specifications:

[Janice, Moderator]

Glad to see you've got the first book finished. Its a chunkster too!

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 2


★★★★★

2. Card: 17
3. Task: Yay, History
4. Link: The Iron King by Maurice Druon
5. Pages: I read the ebook, paper version has 369 pages
6. Task Summary: The title has the word "Iron" in it.
7. How the book fits: The title has the word "Iron" in it.
8. Specifications:

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 3


★★★★

2. Card: 10
3. Task: Nay, Entertainment
4. Link: Dare Mighty Things by Heather Kaczynski
5. Pages: I read the ebook, paper version has 377 pages
6. Task Summary: The genre is Children's Middle Grade.
7. How the book fits: Listed as teen/ya in Goodreads. Also, Amazon description says age 13 and up. My daughter, 7th grade, read it with me. (We both loved it!)

[Lucy]

You have such a nicely fleshed out list of books to read! I've added a bunch to my TBR. It is never gonna get smaller. 🙄

[Suzanne]

Lucy wrote: "You have such a nicely fleshed out list of books to read! I've added a bunch to my TBR. It is never gonna get smaller. 🙄"

I know the feeling, Lucy. In spite of using these challenges to read the books I actually own, I feel like I add twice as many books to my TBR list from others lists!

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 4


★★★★1/2

2. Card: 12
3. Task: Nay, Entertainment
4. Link: White Dog Fell from the Sky: A Novel by Eleanor Morse
5. Pages: 354 pages
6. Task Summary: Theme of the book is refugees.
7. How the book fits: The main character is a South African refugee. Fearing for his life, he escapes to Botswana and attempts to make a life for himself there.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 5


★★★1/2

2. Card: 8
3. Task: Nay, Geography
4. Link: Tubob: Two Years in West Africa with the Peace Corps by Mary E. Trimble
5. Pages: I read the e-book, paper version has 326 pages
6. Task Summary: The book is set in Africa or written by an African author.
7. How the book fits: The book is a memoir of the author's Peace Corps experience in The Gambia.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 6


★★★★

2. Card: 16
3. Task: Nay, History
4. Link: Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea by Robert D. Kaplan
5. Pages: 240 pages
6. Task Summary: There are shoes on the cover.
7. How the book fits: There are shoes on the cover.

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 7


★★★★

2. Card: 7
3. Task: Yay, Entertainment
4. Link: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
5. Pages: 189 pages
6. Task Summary: Author is a Mary, Edith or Sybil
7. How the book fits: Author's first name is Edith.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 8


★★★

2. Card: 4
3. Task: Nay, Science
4. Link: The Ivory Trade: Music and the Business of Music at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition by Joseph Horowitz
5. Pages: 289 pages
6. Task Summary: Cover has a musical instrument.
7. How the book fits: There is a piano on the cover.

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 9


★★★1/2

2. Card: 27
3. Task: Nay, Geography
4. Link: The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
5. Pages: I read the ebook, paper version has 189 pages
6. Task Summary: The book was originally published in 2011.
7. How the book fits: The book was originally published in 2011.

[Lilisa]

Nice - you are moving right along, Suzanne!

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Cherie]

I have had your book #9 on my TBR list since 2011. I suspect that I added it because of the cover (the thimble), probably for a challenge. I can’t believe how many of them I come across.

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 10


★★★

2. Card: 9
3. Task: Yay, Geography
4. Link: Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
5. Pages: 432 pages
6. Task Summary: The book is set in Rwanda or California
7. How the book fits: The book is set in San Francisco, California

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 11


★★★1/2

2. Card: 14
3. Task: Yay, Science
4. Link: The Twelfth Transforming by Pauline Gedge
5. Pages: 407 pages
6. Task Summary: The cover has more than one woman on it.
7. How the book fits: There are multiple women on the cover.

[Suzanne]

Badge 1, Book 12


★★★★★

2. Card: 26
3. Task: Yay, Geography
4. Link: The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah
5. Pages: 368
6. Task Summary: Setting is Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia or Libya
7. How the book fits: The book takes place in Casablanca, Morocco

[Janice, Moderator]

Congrats on finishing the first badge! Woot!

[Suzanne]

Thanks Janice!

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 1


★★★★

2. Card: 15
3. Task: Yay, Sport
4. Link: The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
5. Pages: 238
6. Task Summary: The book is set between 1939 and 1949.
7. How the book fits: The book takes during World War II in Canada

[Janice, Moderator]

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[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 2


★★★★1/2

2. Card: 3
3. Task: Nay, Sport
4. Link: Four Spirits by Sena Jeter Naslund
5. Pages: 560
6. Task Summary: The book is positioned 0-40 on your Goodreads TBR shelf.
7. How the book fits: The book was #26 on my TBR shelf.

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 3


★★★★

2. Card: 23
3. Task: Nay, Entertainment
4. Link: Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos by Peter Allison
5. Pages: 241
6. Task Summary: The cover depicts one of these animals: Elephant, Sheep, Bird, or Turtle.
7. How the book fits: There is an elephant on the cover.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 4


★★★★

2. Card: 11
3. Task: Nay, Sport
4. Link: The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar
5. Pages: 336
6. Task Summary: The book is set in 2010 to present day.
7. How the book fits: The book was published in 2014 and was meant to take place at that time (ie, present day).

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 5


★★★

2. Card: 21
3. Task: Nay, Science
4. Link: Wings of Refuge
5. Pages: 397
6. Task Summary: Read the book that has been on your TBR the longest.
7. How the book fits: The book is #1 (by oldest date added) on my TBR list.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 6


★★★1/2

2. Card: 30
3. Task: Nay, Art/Literature
4. Link: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by George Elizabeth Speare
5. Pages: 256
6. Task Summary: The genre is historical fiction about witches.
7. How the book fits: The main character and another character are accused of being witches in Puritan Connecticut.

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 7


★★★★1/2

2. Card: 29
3. Task: Yay, History
4. Link: Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler
5. Pages: 448
6. Task Summary: The book is set in Modern Day China.
7. How the book fits: The book is set in Modern Day China.

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 8


★★★1/2

2. Card: 18
3. Task: Yay, Sport
4. Link: Last Train to Istanbul by Ayse Kulin
5. Pages: 395
6. Task Summary: The book was translated from another language to English.
7. How the book fits: The book was originally written in Turkish, but was translated into English.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 9


★★★1/2

2. Card: 28
3. Task: Nay, Geography
4. Link: The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
5. Pages: 396
6. Task Summary: The book was originally published in 2013.
7. How the book fits: The book was originally published in 2013.

[Janice, Moderator]

✔️

[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 10


★★★★

2. Card: 13
3. Task: Nay, Entertainment
4. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince
5. Pages: 249
6. Task Summary: Dance is the theme of the book.
7. How the book fits: The book is a memoir of a ballerina.

[Janice, Moderator]

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[Suzanne]

Badge 2, Book 11


★★★★

2. Card: 5
3. Task: Yay, Science
4. Red River by Lalita Tademy
5. Pages: 448
6. Task Summary: The title contains one of the following British cattle breeds: Highland, Galloway, Longhorn, Red Poll, British White, Aberdeen Angus, South Devon. Any word in the list is allowed, regardless if the breed is two words. eg. You may chose "red" or "poll", "British" or "white", etc. You may not divide a compound word like "longhorn".
7. How the book fits: The book had "Red" in the title.

[Janice, Moderator]

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