Completed Prompt(s)

[Lisette]

Congrats Anna!

[Ghost in the Stacks]

Prompt 5: Comfort Reads
Goal: 8 books

1. The Last Beginning 10/25
2. The Invited 10/27
3. Blood on the River: James Town, 1607 10/27
4. Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth: And Other Pop Culture Correspondences 10/28
5. One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories 10/29
6. The God of Small Things 10/30
7. Strange Magic 10/30
8. The Terror 11/4

[Amy]

Prompt 4: Finish that series
Goal - 20 books - DONE!

1. Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2) - Completed 5/15/20
2. The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #11) - Completed 5/10/20
3. Survive the Night (Rocky Mountain K9 Unit, #3) - Completed 5/17/20
4. The President's Shadow (Culper Ring, #3) - Completed 4/10/20
5. The 19th Christmas (Women's Murder Club, #19) - Completed 4/21/20
6. A Twist of the Knife (Brigid Quinn, #3) - Completed 4/24/20
7. Maximum Ride Forever (Maximum Ride #9) - Completed 5/21/20
8. When You See Me (Detective D.D. Warren, #11) - Completed 5/9/20
9. Way Down on the High Lonely (Neal Carey, #3) - Completed 4/26/20
10. A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12) - Completed 5/11/20
11. Backlash (Scott Harvath, #19) - Completed 8/7/20
12. Beneath This Ink (Beneath, #2) - Completed 7/13/20
13. Deck the Hounds (Andy Carpenter, #18) - Completed 7/29/20
14. No Mercy (Ellery Hathaway, #2) - Completed 8/23/20
15. America the Dead (White Flag of the Dead, #3) - Completed 7/1/20
16. Rise Again: Below Zero (Rise Again, #2) - Completed 10/22/20
17. All the Best Lies (Ellery Hathaway, #3) - Completed 11/7/20
18. Bark of Night (Andy Carpenter, #19) - Completed 10/24/20
19. The Silent Wife (Will Trent, #10 - Completed 9/20/20
20. When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2) - Completed 9/10/20

[[deleted user]]

Lusie wrote: "Congrats Anna!"

Thanks Lusie!

[Elvenn]

I've completed Prompt 1!

Prompt 1: Read out of your comfort zone - 5 books ~ ~ ~ (5/5 read)

Modern Classics:
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ✔ (finished July 4, 2020)

Argentina:
- Soy paciente (Patient) by Ana María Shua ✔ (finished Jan 12, 2020)
- La hermana menor: Un retrato de Silvina Ocampo [The Younger Sister: A Portrait of Silvina Ocampo] by Mariana Enríquez ✔ (finished Jan 27, 2020)
- Los libros y la calle [The Books and The Street] by Edgardo Cozarinsky ✔ (finished Jan 30, 2020)
- Los ídolos [The Idols] by Manuel Mujica Lainez ✔ (finished Nov 8, 2020)

[[deleted user]]

Well done Elvenn!

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Prompt 5 completed
5238/5000 pages
Fantasy
Lady Knight
Completed 05/14/20
Alanna: The First Adventure
Completed 06/9/20

A Study in Sable
Completed 05/23/20
Favorite Authors
The Great Alone
Completed 04/26/20
The Oathbound
Completed 07/3/20
Oathbreakers
Completed 7/10/20
Oathblood
Magic's Promise
Completed 07/3/20
Magic's Price
Completed 08/4/20
Magic's Pawn
Completed 06/28/20
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Completed 10/9/20

Mystery
Tales of the Wolf
Completed 05/1/20
Cross Country
Completed 05/28/20
One for the Money
Completed 06/6/20
Peril at End House
Completed 07/7/20
Mary, Mary
completed 09/18/20
The 8th Confession
Completed 11/7/20

[Nat]

Prompt 1: Outside of comfort zone

Finished: 11/11/20
Goal: 6000 pages

Non-fiction
1. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (371 pgs) -- 7/28
2. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (273 pgs) -- 7/4
3. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (225 pgs) -- 10/28
4. Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border (272 pgs) -- 11/11

Books I've picked up before and didn't make it through
1. When Fox is a Thousand (272 pgs) -- 6/11
2. The Blind Assassin (637 pgs) -- 4/22
3. Between the World and Me (152 pgs) -- 9/30

Memoir
1. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (153 pgs) -- 2/1
2. All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir (240 pgs) -- 5/15
3. Men Explain Things to Me (130 pgs) -- 6/6
4. I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (73 pgs) -- 2/1
5. The Argonauts (160 pgs) -- 1/17
6. Something That May Shock and Discredit You (256 pgs) -- 3/6
7. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (63 pgs) -- 8/20
8. The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures (208 pgs) -- 5/27
9. The Witches Are Coming (260 pgs) -- 8/30

Short Stories
1. Growing Things and Other Stories (352 pgs) -- 1/16
2. Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories (304 pgs) -- 2/29
3. Full Throttle (480 pgs) -- 6/23
4. Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales (194 pgs) -- 1/18
5. Get in Trouble (339 pgs) -- 6/2
6. The Mythic Dream (368 pgs) -- 10/18
7. The Devil and the Deep (320 pgs) -- 11/3


Completed = 6102/6102

[Amy]

Prompt 1: Outside my comfort zone
Goal: 20 books - DONE!

Nonfiction
✔1. Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind - Completed 4/4/20
✔2. The New Buffettology: The Proven Techniques for Investing Successfully in Changing Markets That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Famous Investor - Completed 5/30/20
✔3. Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life - Completed 8/13/20
✔4. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement - Completed 8/24/20
✔5. We're Going to Need More Wine - Completed 9/27/20
✔6. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History - Completed 11/1/20

Classics (and a play...double torture)
✔7. An Enemy of the People - Completed 3/18/20
✔8. The Quiet American - Completed 6/28/20
✔9. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Completed 8/7/20

Graphic novels
✔10. My Friend Dahmer - Completed 2/9/20
✔11. Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir - Completed 11/18/20

Paranormal
✔12. Strange the Dreamer - Completed 2/4/20
✔13. Mortal Heart - Completed 1/23/20
✔14. Shadowshaper- Completed 2/8/20

Romance
✔15. Becoming Mrs. Lewis - Completed 2/9/20
✔16. Fortune's Pawn - Completed 2/29/20
✔17. Never Change - Completed 8/16/20
✔18. Catching the Last Tram - Completed 10/10/20

Steampunk and Magical Realism
✔19. Everland - Completed 1/9/20
✔20. Conjure Women - Completed 10/28/20

[Tien]

Completed: 15,070/15,000 pages as at 11/19

🗸 341p - Every Breath (Every #1) -Read 03/16
🗸 336p - The Ultimatum (The Guardian #1) -Read 03/18
🗸 416p - Mystic City (Mystic City #1) -Read 03/19
🗸 437p - Godsgrave (The Nevernight Chronicle #2) -Read 03/31
🗸 392p - The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling -Read 04/01
🗸 368p - A Curse of Ash and Embers (Tales of the Blackbone Witches #1) -Read 04/07
🗸 206p - Wolf Girl: Into the Wild (Wolf Girl #1) -Read 04/13
🗸 412p - Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels #1) -Read 04/16
🗸 309p - Ballad for a Mad Girl -Read 04/25
🗸 320p - Saint X -Read 04/26
🗸 304p - The Year the Maps Changed -Read 04/29
🗸 337p - The Light After the War -Read 04/30
🗸 418p - The Killing Moon (Dreamblood #1) -Read 05/13
🗸 421p - Starry Eyes -Read 05/14
🗸 336p - Fly on the Wall -Read 05/19
🗸 352P - The Other Side of the World -Read 05/24
🗸 430p - Find Them Dead (Roy Grace #16) -Read 05/27
🗸 294p - Notes from the Teenage Underground -Read 05/28
🗸 400p - Sticks and Stones -Read 06/02
🗸 367p - On Agate Hill -Read 06/25
🗸 331p - Nylon Angel (Parrish Plessis #1) -Read 07/14
🗸 304p - Somme Mud Kids: An Australian Teenager in the First World War -Read 07/18
🗸 357p - Jack Maggs -Read 07/23
🗸 464p - The Court of Miracles (A Court of Miracles #1) -Read 07/29
🗸 253p - The Red-Haired Woman -Read 07/30
🗸 729p - Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen #1) -Read 08/02
🗸 348p - The Magnolia Sword -Read 08/03
🗸 272p - The Bit In Between -Read 08/11
🗸 384p - A Wish in the Dark -Read 08/12
🗸 330p - Born Wicked (The Cahill Witch Chronicles #1) -Read 08/21
🗸 272p - The Last Migration -Read 08/22
🗸 457p - Anansi Boys (American Gods #2.0) -Read 09/11
🗸 408p - The Pearl Thief -Read 09/12
🗸 480p - Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle #1) -Read 09/13
🗸 374p - Hunter (Hunter #1) -Read 09/16
🗸 370p - We All Looked Up -Read 09/21
🗸 304p - Big Cherry Holler (Big Stone Gap #2) -Read 09/23
🗸 336p - Indigo Owl -Read 09/29
🗸 185p - Mr Galliano's Circus (Circus Series #1) -Read 10/10
🗸 320p - Dragon Pearl -Read 10/14
🗸 184p - Hurrah for the Circus! (Circus Series #2) -Read 11/13
🗸 212p - Fabled Kingdom (Fabled Kingdom #1) -Read 11/18
🗸 200p - Little Jiang -Read 11/19

[Tien]

Sorry, I've been a bad moderator this year. I promise to do better next year!!

I'll update this thread this coming weekend too :)

[Susan]

Tien wrote: "Sorry, I've been a bad moderator this year. I promise to do better next year!!"

Omigosh, Tien. You have NOT been a bad moderator!!! You do so much, and everyone in the group appreciates it, even if we can only imagine how much time it takes from the rest of your life.

[Amy]

Susan wrote: "Tien wrote: "Sorry, I've been a bad moderator this year. I promise to do better next year!!"

Omigosh, Tien. You have NOT been a bad moderator!!! You do so much, and everyone in the group appreciat..."

I second that, Susan. You're awesome, Tien!

[Amy]

Prompt 5: Comfort Zone
Goal: 20 books- DONE!

Authors I enjoy
1. A Small Town: A Novel of Crime - Completed 5/21/20

Historical Fiction
2. The Night Watchman - Completed 5/14/20

Music
3. Me: Elton John Official Autobiography - Completed 5/23/20

Mysteries and Thrillers
4. Caged - Completed 5/20/20
5. A Matter of Chance - Completed 5/16/20
6. Before She Knew Him - Completed 5/5/20
7. Rewind - Completed 5/18/20
8. The Cairo Affair - Completed 5/13/20
9. The Stories She Tells - Completed 5/5/20
10. The Drifter - Completed 8/20/20
11. Camino Winds - Completed 7/6/20
12. Paranoid - Completed 8/22/20
13. Before She Was Found - Completed 8/18/20
14. The Perfect Lie - Completed 7/10/20
15. Big Lies in a Small Town - Completed 8/25/20
16. This Is Our Story - Completed 8/27/20
17. In Her Bones - Completed 11/10/20
18. The Never Game - Completed 11/19/20
19. Burning Bright - Completed 9/7/20
20. One Last Step - Completed 9/26/20

Love my Dogs
21. Craig & Fred: A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other - Completed 5/23/20

[Tien]

Thanks, Susan & Amy :)

I was sooo distracted by another challenge in another group so I felt bad for putting this below that challenge on my priorities lol
But that's over now, thankfully :)

[Tien]

All updated!!

Let me know if I missed you, please :)

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Prompt 6
Prompt 6
Books I own tbr
Total pages 5042/5,000
1)Alanna: The First Adventure
Completed 06/9/20
2)In the Hand of the Goddess
Completed 06/11/20
3)Lioness Rampant
Completed 06/22/20
4) Cross Country
Completed 05/28/20
5)The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Completed 06/14/20
6) One for the Money
Completed 06/6/20
7) The Matchmaker
Completed 06/3/20
8) Magic's Pawn
Completed 06/28/20
9)The Oathbound
Completed 07/3/20
Magic's Promise
Completed 07/3/20
12)Oathbreakers
Completed 07/10/20
13) Oathblood
14)Magic's Price
Completed 08/4/20
15) Arrows of the Queen
16) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Completed 10/9/20
17) The Case of the Spellbound Child
Completed 10/17/20
18) Cloaked Completed 11/21/20

[Amy]

Prompt 3: Read Owned Books
Downloaded audiobooks from Sync

Goal: 20 books - DONE!

1. Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices - Completed 5/29/20
2. Blindside - Completed 3/30/20
3. The Amulet of Samarkand - Completed 5/26/20
4. Bronx Masquerade - Completed 5/15/20
5. Olivia Twist - Completed 5/12/20
6. The Devil's Highway: A True Story - Completed 3/25/20
7. Shadows on the Moon - Completed 5/30/20
8. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad - Completed 4/30/20
9. How It Went Down - Completed 5/17/20
10. The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War - Completed 5/25/20
11. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers - Completed 7/23/20
12. Monday's Not Coming - Completed 8/6/20
13. In the Heat of the Night - Completed 8/16/20
14. Stalking Jack the Ripper - Completed 6/27/20
15. In Search Of Us - Completed 8/26/20
16. Echoes of an Angel: The Miraculous True Story of a Boy Who Lost His Eyes but Could Still See - Completed 8/24/20
17. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives - Completed 8/27/20
18. Monstrous Beauty - Completed 9/3/20
19. Of Beast and Beauty - Completed 9/1/20
20. Easy Prey - Completed 11/26/20

[Nat]

Prompt 4: Finish That Series

Finished: 11/26/20
Goal: 6000 pages

1. The Inheritance Cycle
Eldest (#2) (704 pgs) 5/3
Brisingr (#3) (748 pgs) 6/6

2. Pendragon Series
Black Water (#5) (427 pgs) 4/2
The Rivers of Zadaa (#6) (405 pgs) 4/25
The Quillan Games (#7) (486 pgs) 6/12
The Pilgrims of Rayne (#8) (560 pgs) 6/28
Raven Rise (#9) (544 pgs) 7/4

3. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
A Trick of the Light (#7) (339 pgs) 3/28
The Beautiful Mystery (#8) (390 pgs) 6/8
How the Light Gets In (#9) (405 pgs) 7/16
The Long Way Home (#10) (373 pgs) 10/5

4. The Bartimaeus Trilogy
The Golem's Eye (#2) (562 pgs) 5/12
Ptolemy's Gate (#3) (501 pgs) 11/26

Completed = 6444/6444

[Amy]

Prompt 6 - DIY
Goal: 20 books - DONE!

Books on TBR that are not available on audio
✔1. We Came Here to Forget - Completed 8/22/20
✔2. Bodily Harm - Completed 8/30/20
✔3. Stolen Souls - Completed 7/17/20
✔4. The Kiss Thief - Completed 10/21/20
✔5. Out of the Dark - Completed 7/18/20
✔6. Close to Home - Completed 7/25/20
✔7. A Steep Price - Completed 8/12/20
✔8. The Voice Inside - Completed 6/15/20
✔9. The Crooked Street - Completed 7/11/20
✔10. Have You Seen Luis Velez? - Completed 7/28/20
✔11. Thief River Falls - Completed 8/26/20
✔12. The Rosie Result - Completed 7/6/20
✔13. A Better World - Completed 8/9/20
✔14. The Rules for Disappearing - Completed 7/31/20
✔15. A Cold Trail - Completed 8/19/20
✔16. Written in Fire - Completed 11/12/20
✔17. The Final Silence Completed 11/30/20
✔18. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Completed 10/31/20

Reread an old favorite
✔19. Water for Elephants - Completed 8/28/20

Missed one in a series
✔20. Haunted - Completed 8/29/20

[Sandy]

Prompt #2: Big and/or Intimidating books
COMPLETED 12/2/20
And that's all the prompts completed!
Goal 10,000 pages.
10,184/10,000

1. Wolf Hall - 3/7/20 - 653 pages
2. Bring Up the Bodies - 3/24/20 - 412 pages
3. Daughter of the Forest - 3/29/20 - 669 pages
4. The Collected Short Stories of Saki - 4/22/20 - 512 pages.
5. A Plague of Giants - 5/18/20 - 641 pages
6. A Blight of Blackwings - 5/23/20 - 560 pages
7. 17. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. 6/2/20. 540 pages
8. The Mirror & the Light - 6/7/20 - 784 pages.
9. Vagabonds - 6/18/20. 640 pages.
10. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - 7/1/20. 585 pages.
11. Dune - 7/3/20. 688 pages.
12. A Dance with Fate - 7/25/20. 512 pages.
13. The Priory of the Orange Tree - 9/4/20. 848 pages.
14. Ship of Magic - 9/12/20. 832 pages.
15. Complex - 11/14/20. 700 pages.
16. Moonflower Murders - 12/2/20. 608 pages.

[Dee]

Dee's Prompt 4
Completed - 12/3/20

Goal: 12000pgs
Progress: 12088/12000

Series:
Department Q
A Conspiracy of Faith - book 3 - Finished - 5/15/20 - 504pgs

Gaslight Mystery
Murder on St. Mark's Place - book 2 - finished - 4/25/20 - 277pgs
Murder on Gramercy Park - book 3 - finished - 5/4/20 - 329pgs
Murder on Mulberry Bend - book 5 - Finished - 5/16/20 - 343pgs
Murder on Marble Row - book 6 - Finished - 6/1/20 - 320pgs
Murder on Lenox Hill - book 7 - Finished - 6/11/20 - 291pgs
Murder in Little Italy - book 8 - finished - 6/13/20 - 293pgs
Murder in Chinatown - book 9 - Finished - 6/18/20 - 320pgs
Murder on Waverly Place - book 11 - Finished - 6/21/20 - 296pgs
Murder on Lexington Avenue - book 12 - finished - 6/29/20 - 328pgs
Murder on Fifth Avenue - book 14 - Finished - 6/29/20 - 296pgs
Murder in Chelsea- book 15 - Finished - 7/3/20 - 296pgs
Murder on Amsterdam Avenue - book 17 - Finished - 7/4/20 - 291pgs
Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue - book 18 - Finished - 7/17/20 - 310pgs
Murder in Morningside Heights - book 19 - Finished - 7/19/20 - 296pgs
Murder in the Bowery - book 20 - Finished - 7/19/20 - 295pgs
Murder on Union Square - book 21 - Finished - 7/21/20 - 332pgs
Murder on Trinity Place - book 22 - finished - 8/12/20 - 332pgs
Murder on Pleasant Avenue - book 23 - finished - 9/2620 - 336pgs

Alpha and Omega
Dead Heat - book 4 - Finished - 5/5/20 - 324pgs
Burn Bright - book 5 - Finished - 7/8/20 - 308pgs

Bromance Book Club
Undercover Bromance - book 2 - finished - 4/11/20 - 320pgs

The Hartigan’s
Muffin Top - book 2 - Finished - 4/26/20 - 320pgs
Tomboy - book 3 - Finished - 5/1/20 - 280pgs

Remington Memorial:
Between Me & You - book 3 - Finished - 4/18/20 - 337pgs
Baby, It's Cold Outside book 3.5 - Finished - 4/11/20 - 79pgs
Beyond Just Us book 4 - finished 7/13/20 - 346pgs

Lady Astronaut
The Relentless Moon book 3 - finished 8/9/20 - 544pgs

Psy-Changling
Alpha Night - book 19 - finished 7/20/20 - 368pgs

Mercy Thompson
Smoke Bitten - book 12 - finished - 10/11/20 - 352pgs

Chronicles of St Mary's
Plan for the Worst - book 11 - finished 10/26/20 - 416pgs

Jane Yellowrock
Mercy Blade - book 3 - finished - 9/6/20 - 305pgs

Dogfather (previously read 1, 6)
New Leash on Life - book 2 - finished - 10/26/20 - 316pgs
Leader of the Pack - book 3 - finished - 11/5/20 - 334pgs
Santa Paws is Coming to Town - book 3.5 - finished - 11/23/20 - 52pgs
Bad to the Bone - book 4 - finished - 12/1/20 - 364pgs

Surrender to Them (previously read #1, #3)
Temptation & Trouble - book 2 - finished - 4/20/20 - 112pgs
Heat & Desire - book 4 - finished - 4/22/20 - 186pgs
Quiver & Burn- book 5 - finished - 4/23/20 - 199pgs
Vegas Bets - book 6 - finished - 4/24/20 - 144pgs

[Ghost in the Stacks]

Prompt 6: DYI : Audio
Goal: 8 books

1. Kill and Tell 11/5
2. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple 11/9
3. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee 11/11
4. A Living Nightmare 11/17
5. The Fisherman 11/18
6. The Song of Achilles 11/19
7. Dear Haiti, Love Alaine 11/20
8. Indelicacy 11/20

[Amy]

Prompt 2: Read big and/or intimidating books
Goal: 20 books - DONE!

✔1. Knife (531 pages) - Completed 2/1/20
✔2. Lies (498 pages) - Completed 2/11/20
✔3. The Nix (640 pages) - Completed 3/29/20
✔4. One Good Deed (628 pages) - Completed 3/7/20
✔5. Iron Gold (601 pages) - Completed 5/3/20
✔6.The Heart's Invisible Furies (592 pages) - Completed 2/25/20
✔7. Masked Prey (640 pages) - Completed 5/8/20
✔8. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (540 pages) - Completed 6/16/20
✔9. The Fountains of Silence (512 pages) - Completed 4/15/20
✔10. The Border (768 pages) - Completed 5/4/20
✔11. Plea of Insanity (608 pages) - Completed 10/18/20
✔12. Long Bright River (482 pages) - Completed 6/25/20
✔13. New York 2140 (624 pages) - Completed 9/9/20
✔14. Memories of Glass (432 pages) - Completed 8/9/20
✔15. This Tender Land (450 pages) - Completed 7/31/20
✔16. An Ember in the Ashes (446 pages) - Completed 9/9/20
✔17. High Noon (480 pages) - Completed 11/15/20
✔18. Dark Age (704 pages) - Completed 10/8/20
✔19. Troubled Blood (994 pages) - Completed 12/7/20
✔20. The Program (464 pages) - Completed 11/20/20

Finished all mini challenges and prompts. Thanks for another great challenge!

[Kristina Simon]

Prompt 5: Comfort Reads
Goal: 5,000 pages
Progress: 5,113/5,000 pages

1. Favorite Series
The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn (320 pages) Read: 10/21/20
Cockatiels at Seven by Donna Andrews (304 pages) Read: 9/4/20
Shark River by Randy Wayne White (320 pages) Read: 10/19/20
Deep South by Nevada Barr (352 pages) Read: 6/20/20
Network Effect by Martha Wells (350 pages) Read: 8/9/20

2. Highly Anticipated
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey (175 pages) Read: 5/12/20
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite (322 pages) Read: 5/14/20
Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn (352 pages) Read: 5/29/20
Cinder by Marissa Meyer (390 pages) Read: 7/8/20
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia (359 pages) Read: 11/1/20
Suggested Reading by David Connis (385 pages) Read: 11/4/20
Slay by Brittney Morris (323 pages) Read: 6/13/20

3. Light and Fun
Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed (436 pages) Read: 5/9/20
Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie (419 pages) Read: 5/19/20
Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich (306 pages) Read: 5/19/20

[Rosemary]

I have finished Prompt 5, which was my last one ... so I have completed Just Read It!

Prompt 4: Finish that series
My goal: 3500 pages - COMPLETED 12 Dec 20

Only series where you have already read at least one book.

Read: 14 books, 3679 pages

Miss Julia by Ann B. Ross
Miss Julia Lays Down the Law by Ann B. Ross, 19 May 20, 17th - 320 pages

A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell, 16 Apr 20, 4th in series - 272 pages
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell, 19 May 20, 5th - 240 pages
The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell, 31 Oct 20, 6th - 254 pages
The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell, 12 Dec 20 - 254 pages

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck, 21 Apr 20, 2nd in series - 249 pages

Roderick Alleyn by Ngaio Marsh
Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh, 1 June 20, 8th - 256 pages

The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante, 4 June 20 - 418 pages

Francis Pettigrew by Cyril Hare
That Yew Tree's Shade by Cyril Hare, 1 July 20 - 224 pages
The Wind Blows Death by Cyril Hare, 30 Aug 20 - 254 pages

The Asterisk Club by Pamela Branch
Murder Every Monday by Pamela Branch, 1 Aug 20 - 224 pages

Gervase Fen by Edmund Crispin
Holy Disorders by Edmund Crispin, 9 Nov 20 - 224 pages

Beloved Trilogy by Toni Morrison
Jazz by Toni Morrison, 15 Nov 20 - 229 pages

Inspector Rebus by Ian Rankin
Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin, 27 Nov 20 - 261 pages

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Well done Rosemary!!

[LaurLa]

Prompt 2 DONE... I cheated a little and switched out a book. Still an intimidating book for me though.


Prompt #2: Read Big and/or Intimidating Books (size or content)

Prompt Goal: 10 books | Total Read: 10

Big Books (page count)

✔🍬772 pp ~ Alone In the Dark ~ 02.24 ★★★★★
✔🍬673 pp ~ Lover Mine ~ 04.20 ★★★★
✔🍬563 pp ~ The Time in Between ~ 04.18 ★★★★
✔🍬499 pp ~ Wild at Heart ~ 07.19 ★★★★
✔🍬556 pp ~ Lover Avenged ~ 03.28 ★★★★
✔🍬461 pp ~ Sommersgate House ~ 11.15 ★★★★
✔🍬511 pp ~ Lover Unleashed ~ 05.19 ★★★★
✔🍬521 pp ~ The Stopover ~ PaS Monthly - April ~ 04.29 ★★★★

Intimidating (not usual genre, dreading finishing the book)

✔🍬straight (non-romance) sci-fi/fantasy ~ Animal Farm ~ 11.02 ★★★
✔🍬dread to finish ~ Axeman's Jazz ~ 04.28 ★★★

[LaurLa]

Prompt 4 DONE!!! On a roll :-)


Prompt #4: Finish that series

Prompt Goal: 10 books | Total Read: 10

Series with 1 or 2 books left and not read in over a year



✔🍬Cat DeLuca ~ There Was a Crooked Man ~ 07.20 ★★★★
✔🍬Wild Half ~ Running Wild ~ 12.14 ★★★
✔🍬Servants of Fate ~ Claimed ~ 06.22 ★★★★
✔🍬Broke and Beautiful ~ Make Me ~ 11.13 ★★★★
✔🍬Wild Men of Alaska ~ Dreamweaver ~ 07.03 ★★★
✔🍬Wild Men of Alaska ~ Bearing All ~ 07.05 ★★★
✔Nikki Heat ~ High Heat ~ PaS Monthly - April ~ 04.27 ★★★★
✔🍬Nikki Heat ~ Heat Storm ~ 08.21 ★★★★
✔🍬In Other Words ~ The Other P-Word ~ 10.31 ★★★★
✔🍬Intimate ~ Intimate Surrender ~ 10.30 ★★★★

[LaurLa]

Prompt 6 DONE - final prompt - woohoo!!!


Prompt #6: DIY

Prompt Goal: 10 books | Total Read: 10

Abandoned series books ~ next in series (not last) with 12+ months since previous book read



✔🍬Blades of the Rose ~ Rebel ~ 10.28 ★★★★
✔🍬SCVC Taskforce ~ Deadly Intent ~ 08.17 ★★★★
✔🍬Southern Electric ~ Peachy Flippin' Keen ~ 06.01 ★★★
✔🍬Hard Ink ~ Hard to Let Go ~ 12.01 ★★★★
✔🍬Elder Races ~ Serpent's Kiss ~ 07.25 ★★★★
✔🍬Friend-Zoned ~ Sugar Rush ~ 10.21 ★★★★
✔🍬Jack Daniels ~ Bloody Mary ~ 06.09 ★★★
✔🍬Phoenix Pack ~ Wild Hunger ~ 09.09 ★★★★
✔🍬Sydney Dovedale ~ Lady Mercy Danforthe Flirts with Scandal ~ 11.22 ★★★★
✔🍬Cold Fury Hockey ~ Ryker ~ 11.21 ★★★★

[Elvenn]

Prompt 2 done as well!

Prompt 2: Read Big and/or Intimidating Books - 5 books ~ ~ ~ (5/5 read)

- Textos cautivos by Jorge Luis Borges (reviews, essays and biographies... by Borges) ✔ (finished February 28, 2020)
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (692 pages of tiny font) ✔ (finished March 11, 2020)
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (502 pages of tiny font) ✔ (finished April 23, 2020)
- La muerte del comendador, Libro 2 by Haruki Murakami (496 pages) ✔ (finished December 9, 2020)
- El tesoro de Troya: La odisea de Heinrich Schliemann, el arqueólogo más famoso del siglo XIX [The Treasure of Troy] by Philipp Vandenberg (exhaustive biography of H. Schliemann in my tbr since... 1997...) ✔ (finished December 18, 2020)

[Christina (AKA Babbling)]

Prompt #3: Read Owned Books

prompt 3


✔ The Book Jumper by Mechthild Gläser 4 July 2020 ★★★★★
✔ The Diva Sweetens the Pie by Krista Davis 12 August 2020 ★★★★
✔ The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Krista Davis 17 November 2020 ★★★
✔ Color Me Murder by Krista Davis 20 December 2020 ★★★
✔ Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs 22 September 2020 ★★★★★
✔ By Book or By Crook by Eva Gates 6 September 2020 ★★★
✔ Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine 14 September 2020 ★★★★★
✔ The Many Sins of Cris de Feaux by Louise Allen 16 August 2020 ★★★★
✔ The Truth About Lady Felkirk by Christine Merrill 26 March 2020 ★★★★
✔ An Unlikely Duchess by Mary Balogh 30May 2020 ★★★

[Christina (AKA Babbling)]

Prompt 1: Read outside of comfort zone
10 books
LGBT

✔ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee 18 April 2020 ★★★★
✔ The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards 9 April 2020 ★★★★★
✔ The Fever King by Victoria Lee 15 August 2020 ★★★★
✔ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 13 January 2020 ★★★★★
✔ The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 18 May 2020 ★★★
✔ Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 24 December 2020 ★★★★★
✔ The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin 7 June 2020 ★★★
✔ Dread Nation by Justina Ireland 24 June 2020 ★★★★★
✔ The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon 20 September 2020 ★★★★
✔ City of Bones by Cassandra Clare 26 September 2020 ★★★

[Lagullande]

I hardly read at all between March and October this year, so I am pleased to have finished one prompt

PROMPT 1 - Outside My Comfort Zone
Goal: 4,040 pages per Prompt
Read : 4,237/4,040

**=Matches a monthly shelf:
January: latin-america
February: speculative-fiction
March: mystery

1. Translated
I do read foreign fiction, but I often find them hard work so they are definitely not comfortable
✔️17/1/20 I Didn't Talk 160pp**
✔️28/1/20 Mr Darwin's Gardener 112pp
✔️8/5/20 The Hotel Tito 236pp

2. Violence
Not sure why I would set myself this goal...except I want to get through A Brief History of Seven Killings
✔️12/2/20 The Enchanted 233pp**
✔️6/3/20 Girl 240pp

3. Short Stories
I have only read a few
✔️19/1/20 A Visit from the Goon Squad 288pp
✔️24/2/20 The Innocence of Father Brown 248pp
✔️25/2/20 The Guardian Review Book of Short Stories 128pp
✔️24/4/20 Dimanche and Other Stories 270pp

4. Romance
Nope, I never go here
✔️13/1/20 Wide Sargasso Sea 160pp**
✔️28/1/20 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 320pp
✔️4/2/20 The End of the Affair 160pp
✔️4/2/20 A Single Thread 352pp
✔️7/2/20 The Awakening 195pp
✔️9/2/20 Sanditon 240pp
✔️12/2/20 A Month in the Country 128pp
✔️15/3/20 Valley of the Dolls 432pp
✔️27/12/20 My Cousin Rachel 335pp

5. Over 500 pages
I only read/listened to three 500+pp books in 2019, but there are 34 on my TBR/wishlist (4 are on my LOST 2020 list)

[Nat]

Finished just in time!

Prompt 6: DIY
Goal: 6000 pages
Books from lists:

1. Newbery Medal Winner Books

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (387 pgs) 5/29
Missing May (89 pgs) 6/2
The Higher Power of Lucky (144 pgs) 9/6
Jacob Have I Loved (244 pgs) 11/24
A Single Shard (192 pgs) 10/7
Caddie Woodlawn (288 pgs) 11/28
The Midwife's Apprentice (128 pgs) 10/23
Bud, Not Buddy (243 pgs) 12/4

2. Novels mentioned in Among Others by Jo Walton

Breakfast of Champions (303 pgs) 12/26
Childhood's End (224 pgs) 11/28
Dragonflight (299 pgs) 9/19
The Left Hand of Darkness (304 pgs) 9/10

3. Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Winners

The Thief (280 pgs) 10/17
Redemption in Indigo (188 pgs) 11/29
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (442 pgs) 10/16

4. Hugo 2020 Eligible Novels

A Memory Called Empire (462 pgs) 11/9
This Is How You Lose the Time War (209 pgs) 8/5
Gideon the Ninth (448 pgs) 10/18
The Starless Sea (498 pgs) 9/2
The Dragon Republic (658 pgs) 12/13

Completed = 6030/6000

[Christina (AKA Babbling)]

Prompt #2

✔ Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden 16 June 2020 ★★★★
✔ Back in the Fight: The Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up by Joseph Kapacziewski
✔ Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon 24 March 2020 ★★★★★
✔ The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 26 July 2020 ★★★
✔ Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer 5 October 2020 ★★★★
✔ Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre 11May 2020 ★★★★
Spartacus: A Novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon DNF November 2020
replacement: The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff 22 November 2020 ★★★★★
✔ Helen of Sparta by Amalia Carosella 18 August 2020 ★★★
✔ The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America by Allison Pataki 14 November 2020 ★★★★
✔ Nefertiti by Michelle Moran 27 December 2020 ★★★★

[Elvenn]

And last, but not least!

Prompt 6: DIY - 5 books ~ ~ ~ (5/5 read)

Well, in the spirit of the 25th of May* I had decided to go with books from the countries of my ancestors :)

- Aquí viven leones: Viaje a las guaridas de los grandes escritores [Here Live Lions: Travel to the Lairs of the Great Writers] by Fernando Savater ✔ (finished July 17, 2020)
- Menfreya in the Morning by Victoria Holt ✔ (finished August 27, 2020)
- Pista negra (Black Run) by Antonio Manzini ✔ (finished December 6, 2020)
- My Own Affairs by Princess Louise of Belgium ✔ (finished December 31, 2020)
- Cuentos completos (Hauff's Fairy Tales) by Wilhelm Hauff ✔ (finished December 21, 2020)

* Our main patriotic holiday, the date when the Spanish Viceroy was deposed and replaced with our first independent government, 210 years ago.

[Tien]

Congratulations all who have completed 1 or all of JRI! Prompts! What an achievement!