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June 2020 Lighten TBR Shelf Challenge
Name: BennyBook Title: Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Date Completed: 14 June
Rating: 5/5
Prompt: A book with a queer MC.
How it Fits the Prompt: I believe Ari is queer.
Name: Domitylle Book Title: Magnus Chase and the Hammer of Thor
Author: Rick Riordan
Rating: 5/5
Prompt Completed: MC is pansexual (I think, I don't really know his sexuality but I know he is LGBTQ+)
How it Fits the Prompt: Magnus Chase is pansexual (same as above : I think)
Name: Natalie
Book Title: Orphan Monster Spy
Author: Matt Killeen
Date Completed: June 15th
Rating: 5/5
Prompt Completed: Ask a friend to rec you a book, now you have to read it
How it Fits the Prompt: My best friend (in real life) told me to read this book
Book Title: Orphan Monster Spy
Author: Matt Killeen
Date Completed: June 15th
Rating: 5/5
Prompt Completed: Ask a friend to rec you a book, now you have to read it
How it Fits the Prompt: My best friend (in real life) told me to read this book
Name: NecmiBook Title: All Our Yesterdays
Author: Cristin Terrill
Date Completed: 15th of June, 2020
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Prompt Completed: A book that takes you back in time (time travel)
How it Fits the Prompt: MCs em & Finn travel to the past.
Name: ElenaBook Title: Truly, Devious
Author name: Maureen Johnson
Rating: 4.75/5
Date completed: June 12
Prompt: lesbian MC
How it fits prompt: Janelle, one of the best friends to the MC is lesbian
name: Mackenziebook title: freaking romance
date completed: June 16th 2020
rating: 5/5
prompt completed: bisexual mc
how it fits the prompt: Mc has had a crush on her best friend.
Name: BennyBook Title: Date me, Bryson Keller
Author: Kevin van Whye
Date Completed: 19 June
Rating: 5/5
Prompt: A book with a gay MC
How it Fits the Prompt: Kai is gay.
I also wanted to ask if it counts towards ‘a book recommended by a friend’ if the person isn’t in goodreads.
Benny wrote: "I also wanted to ask if it counts towards ‘a book recommended by a friend’ if the person isn’t in goodreads."
Yes! That does count :)
Yes! That does count :)
Name: TessaBook Title: Passenger
Author: Alexandra Bracken
Date completed: June 18th
Rating: 3/5
Prompt: Time travel
How It Fits the Prompt: it's based off of time travel, and the characters travel back in time
Name: NecmiBook Title: Dune (Dune, #1)
Author: Frank Herbert
Date Completed: 21th of June, 2020
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Prompt Completed: The longest book on your tbr list
How it Fits the Prompt: This book has 712 pages and it was the longest book on my tbr list.
Name: BennyBook Title: Red, white and royal blue
Author: Casey McQuiston
Date Completed: 21 June
Rating: 5/5
Prompt: A book that won a 2019 goodreads award
How it Fits the Prompt: It won the award for best debut novel and romance.
Does ‘Fable’ by Chanda Hahn count as a fairytale retelling because this is the third book in the instalment but I’m not sure what fairytale it’s going to reinvent. The two previous books were retellings and this is classified as a fairytale retelling but it’s not specified as which.
Name: ElenaBook Title: city of fallen angels
Author: Cassandra Clare
Date completed: June 22
Rating: 5/5
Prompt: gay MC
How it fits the prompt: Alec Lightwood is gay
Name: Elena Book Title: city of lost souls
Author: Cassandra Clare
Date completed: June 22
Rating: 5/5
Prompt: bisexual MC
How it fits the prompt: Magnus Bane is bisexual
I don’t think Magnus counts as a main character in this book
Name: SuditiBook Title: It
Author: Stephen King
Date Completed: June 23
Rating: 3/5
Prompt Completed: The longest book on your tbr list
How it Fits the Prompt: This book had a total of 1116 pages, longest on my tbr shelf
Oh he doesn’t? Cassie usually refers to him as part of the TMI 6 - Clary, Izzy, Simon, Jace, Alec, and Magnus
Yes, but main characters would be like Clary and Jace.
Name: Natalie
Book Title: 10 Blind Dates
Author: Ashley Elston
Date Completed: July 23rd 2020
Rating: 5/5
Prompt Completed: Ask a friend to rec you a book, now you have to read it
How it Fits the Prompt: One of my goodreads friends sent me this as a rec.
Book Title: 10 Blind Dates
Author: Ashley Elston
Date Completed: July 23rd 2020
Rating: 5/5
Prompt Completed: Ask a friend to rec you a book, now you have to read it
How it Fits the Prompt: One of my goodreads friends sent me this as a rec.
Elena I haven't updated your TMI ones yet, beacuse I personally don't count Alec or Magnus as MCs but if you want to, then I can
oh whatever u want, i think they are MCs but ur decision
Name: BennyBook Title: Fairest
Author: Chanda Hahn
Date Completed: 24 June
Rating: 4/5
Prompt: A fairytale retelling
How it Fits the Prompt: It’s a Snow White and Sleeping Beauty retelling.
Name: TessaBook Title: A Heart so Fierce and Broken
Author: Brigid Kemmerer
Date Completed: 6/23/2020
Rating: 5/5
Prompt Completed: Ask a friend to rec you a book, now you have to read it
How it Fits the Prompt: My friend recommended me the series
Name- AbriannaBook Title- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (reread)
Author- JK Rowling
Date Completed- June 24, 2020
Rating- 5/5
Prompt- Recommended Read
How it Fits the Prompt- My friend recommended for me to read the whole series again😂
Name: DaliaBook Title: Shatter The Sky
Author: Rebecca Kim Wells
Date Completed: Jun 24
Rating: not sure
Prompt Completed: book with a bisexual mc
How it Fits the Prompt: Maren is a bisexual mc
Name: SuditiBook Title: Daisy Jones and The Six
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Date Completed: June 25
Rating: 5/5
Prompt Completed: A book that a 2019 Goodreads award
How it Fits the Prompt: It won the Best Historical Fiction 2019 Award.
Name: NecmiBook Title: Mathias Sandorf (Extraordinary Voyages series #27)
Author: Jules Verne
Date Completed: 25th of June, 2020
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Prompt Completed: Ask a friend to rec you a book, now you have to read it
How it Fits the Prompt: My GR friend Luís C. recommended it.
Name: BennyBook Title: Real Kind of Love
Author: Sara Rider
Date Completed: 26 June.
Rating: 4/5
Prompt: A book recommended by a friend.
How it Fits the Prompt: A friend from school recommended it to me a while ago.
Name: Natale
Book Title: Shadow and Bone
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Date Completed: 6/25/30
Rating: 4/5
Prompt Completed: Ask a friend to rec you a book, now you have to read it
How it Fits the Prompt: My friend from art class told me (basically begged me) to read this book
Book Title: Shadow and Bone
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Date Completed: 6/25/30
Rating: 4/5
Prompt Completed: Ask a friend to rec you a book, now you have to read it
How it Fits the Prompt: My friend from art class told me (basically begged me) to read this book
Does Percy Jackson count as a fairytale retelling because of the Greek myths?
AspiringAuthor wrote: "Does Percy Jackson count as a fairytale retelling because of the Greek myths?"It doesn't retell anything, though. It includes Greek myths, yes, but it doesn't retell them
name: AspiringAuthor
book title: A Thousand Endings and Beginnings
author: Ellen Oh [editor]
date completed: June 22
rating: 4/5
prompt completed: fairytale retelling
how it fits the prompt: it's a compilation of Asian myth retellings
book title: A Thousand Endings and Beginnings
author: Ellen Oh [editor]
date completed: June 22
rating: 4/5
prompt completed: fairytale retelling
how it fits the prompt: it's a compilation of Asian myth retellings
Name: DaliaBook Title: Ruby Red
Author: Kristen Gier
Date Completed: Jun 25
Rating: Idk
Prompt Completed: time travel
How it Fits the Prompt: The main character time travels
Name: NecmiBook Title: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Date Completed: June 26th, 2020
Rating: 3.75/5.0
Prompt Completed: A book with a gay MC.
How it Fits the Prompt: MCs Dante & Ari are both gays.
Name: DaliaBook Title: True Letters From. A Fictional Life
Author: Kenneth Logan
Date Completed: Jun 26
Rating: I’m not good with number ratings
Prompt Completed: book with a gay mc
How it Fits the Prompt: James is gay
Name: BennyBook Title: Fable
Author: Chanda Hahn
Date Completed: 27 June
Rating: 4/5
Prompt: A book that is a fairytale retelling
How it Fits the Prompt: Mina has to defeat Rumpelstiltskin’s descendant, Templestiltskin.
Name: TessaBook Title: Everything Leads To You
Author: Nina LaCour
Date completed: 6/27/2020
Rating: 4/5
Prompt Completed: Lesbian MC
How It Fits the Prompt: Emi, the MC, is lesbian
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Book Title: After Rain
Author: William Trevor
Date Completed: 12th of June, 2020
Rating: 3/5
Prompt Completed: Ask a friend to rec you a book, now you have to read it
How it Fits the Prompt: My GR friend Luís C. recommended it.