Margo's 2020 Reading Resolutions

[Margo]

JUNE CHALLEGE IRISH BIRD IS Northern lapwing



AUTHER "N" or "L"
Little Fires Everywhere
After the Fall
Capital

WING COLOUR mainly black and white, but the back is tinted green.






LIVES IN lowlands of westernmost European : Marsh or wetland

MIGRATES TO north African, India, Pakistan, China.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Children of Blood and Bone
The Valley of Amazement
Paper Wife
When the Ground Is Hard

IRISH TRANSLATION of name is pilibín, "little Philip"
The Little Friend
Our Little Lies
Dirty Little Secrets
The Secret Commonwealth

EDIT: I forgot about the Toppler! No way will I get an extra book read this month unless it's toppler friendly :-/

[Margo]

Hands:
Each team completes the same hands. Complete hands in order for scoring. (Reading does not need to be in order as long as the books are finished before the end of the toppler to be counted.) For example, you can read hand four before [bookhand three, but you can not get points for hand four until hand three is completed.

DEFINITES
Hand 1:
✔6 [book:Dear Mrs. Bird|36373413]
Hand 2
✔9 In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: The Complete Black Room Story
✔1 Shadowplay
✔5 Mustard Seed

POSSIBLES
Hand 3:
✔9 In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: The Complete Black Room Story

✔His and Hers

[Margo]

1 Bird Box first in series
5 When We Were Orphans
9 The Silent Companions

[Margo]

JULY CHALLENGE What's in a name?

Roy Ognen
Basics
Gender: Masculine
Type: Adolescent
Nationality: British
Location: Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom
Language: English
Life & Times
Age: 15
Birth date: October 19, 2004 (6:07 PM)
Physical
Height: 177 cm / 5 ft 10 in
Weight: 68 kg / 149 lbs
Handedness: Right
Blood type: O-
Future Outlook
Death date: December 3, 2082 (3:55 PM)
Lifespan: 78
Cause of death: Cancer

scotish writer:
TBR Position
3
15
19
68
78

[Janice, Moderator]

I have an Irish name, Margo. I will have to look at all my possibilities yet.

[Margo]

There are some great Irish writers. I just read one you might enjoy, Shadowplay. Very dark and moody. It's based Bram Stoker life and set in Jack the Rippers London. Very creepy!!!

[Janice, Moderator]

Thanks for the recommendation, Margo. I've added it to my audible wishlist.

[Margo]

JUNE PLAN EXECUTED

GROUP READ
✔The Night Watch card 27

BBC
✔Britt-Marie Was Here card 18

ANNUAL CHALLENGE
✔The Confessions of Frannie Langton card 4
✔The Valley of Amazement card 19

TOPPLER
✔Shadowplay
✔Mustard Seed card 14
✔ In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: The Complete Black Room Story card 21
✔His and Hers card 2
✔Bird Box card 22

PURCHASED THIS MONTH ONE YEAR AGO
✔A Court of Mist and Fury card 29

[Margo]

Challenge books to be updated:
Shadowplay 5
Conviction 11
The Wicked King 14
When We Were Vikings
Mr. Loverman 29

[Margo]

AUGUST CHALLENGE

Using the word, "Dynamic", read a book that has a title that starts with one of the letters in the word and is only one word. Articles are not allowed. The title may not have a sub-title.

Insomnia
Caligula
Capital
Melmoth

[Margo]

August Toppler - Reading Adventures in Wonderland!

Characters:
Alice - Read a book with a main character or author named Alice. The Rules of Magic 11h
The Queen of Hearts - Read a book with "queen" in the title. Queen of Someday 7h
The Gryphon - Read a book with a main page genre of mythology. The Children of Jocasta 9h The King Must Die
The Mouse - Read a book with a main page genre of horror. The Silent Companions 11h

The Pigeon - Read a book where the main character is a mother.

Two, Five, and Seven - Read a book that is number Two, Five, or Seven in a series.

Bill - Read a book with a main character or author named Bill.

[Janice, Moderator]

Hey Margo, check out the main character in Forged in Desire.

[Margo]

Hey, that's cool! I always felt my life was providing entertainment for someone LOL If I had my choice it wouldn't be a romance though 🤨

[Janice, Moderator]

LOL! It's the Audible deal of the day today. I looked at it and thought, wait! That name is familiar. :)

[Margo]

If it had been a DD on the uk site I would honour bound to buy it 😁

[Margo]

September Challenge - Spring Sprung

Black maple – Acer nigrum
Black House
Garlic root – Alliaria petiolata
Root of the Tudor Rose
Orange swallow-wort – Asclepias tuberosa
Blood Orange
Sweet birch – Betula lenta
Sweet Little Lies
Sweet Sorrow

[Janice, Moderator]

Margo wrote: "September Challenge - Spring Sprung

Black maple – Acer nigrum
Black House..."

I'm currently reading this book, but I'm reading it for the group themed read rather than the challenge.

[Margo]

Reading or listening Janice? This one has the honour of being the very last (as in final) physical MP3-CD I ever bought before going entirely digital! I remember it took about 3 months to arrive.

[Janice, Moderator]

I'm listening to it. Frank Muller is the narrator. I love his narration of Stephen King's books. It's sad that he passed away. I jump at the chance to listen to books that he narrated.

[Margo]

I'm not actually a fan, which is probably why I preferred the print book but I am sad to hear he died.

[Margo]

October Challenge

The challenge this month is to take 5 items from your bucket list and pick a book that would fit that item in some way.

My Short Term Goals
1. Swim with dolphins/go on a dolphin watch
2. Walk a mile with just my stick and no other walking aid.
3. See the Giants Causeway (It's always the stuff on our doorstep that gets missed)
4. Become a fluent irish speaker (ongoing)
5. Visit Castle Dracula in dublin ( I'm love to go to Transylvania but keeping it real ;-))

[Janice, Moderator]

I've done #1. It was amazing interacting with the dolphins. I have a picture at my desk of me and a dolphin kissing.

There's a Castle Dracula in Dublin? I wish I had known that when we were there. But there is a lot to see and do there as it is. I'm not sure my companions would have wanted to fit it in.

[Margo]

I need to convince Pete to come with me. He's as seduced by the idea of vampires as me!

My choice for the monthly challenge is The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires.

[Margo]

Janice wrote: "I've done #1. It was amazing interacting with the dolphins. I have a picture at my desk of me and a dolphin kissing.

There's a Castle Dracula in Dublin? I wish I had known that when we were there...."

The dolphin photo is a lovely reminder to have.

[Margo]

OCTOBER TOPPLER -AUTUMN SCAVENGER HUNT

acorn Human Croquet
apple
autumn
brown Piranesi
candy
chestnuts
cider
cobweb
cookies
corn
cornucopia
costume
cranberry
elections
fair
food
Halloween
harvest
hay
latte
November
nuts
October
orange
pine cone
pumpkin
pie
quilt
raincoat
rake
scarecrow
school
September
skeleton or skull
Thanksgiving
turkey
yellow

[Margo]

Finished The Girl in the Tower ⭐⭐⭐ and The King Must Die ⭐⭐⭐

Continuing Such a Fun Age - mah

Starting Old Baggage for card 4.

[Margo]

DECEMBER CHALLENGE = The Oversight

09. Christmas Gifts - The Three Wise Men arrived bearing gifts for the baby Jesus. Read a book that is in a trilogy.