Q4 - Anything Goes

[Jennifer]

Updating message #13

1/22

Memoirs of a Geisha DONE

[Agnieszka]

Update message #37: 4/50

[[deleted user]]

I'd like to sign up with 10 books.

Personal Library Project: I'll be reading or rereading any book I own.

10/10
✅1. This Is How You Lose Her
✅2. Cranford
✅3. Quichotte
✅4. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
✅5. Quartet in Autumn
✅6. Miss Austen
✅7. Heat and Dust
✅8. Cakes and Ale
✅9. Magpie Murders
✅10. Interpreter of Maladies

[Lisanne]

Update to msg #14: 1/10

3. Read a book with a found family trope
✔️ The Son of Neptune - 4.5 ★ (rounded down)
This book deals with a lot of different familial relations and both Camp Jupiter and Camp Half Blood can be considered found families.

[Rebecca]

Update Message #9: 3/40

For my History/Biography category, I read Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation. It was a very good moderate to right-of-center assessment of the increasing political polarization and what the ramifications for it are.

[The Book Girl]

Update to message #25

Progress 4/30

Finished:
Meet Cute
Why I read this:
✅ A book that won an award in 2019
Cemetery Boys
Why I read this:
✅A book that's published in 2020

Aru Shah and the Song of Death
Why I read this:
for the series challenge I am participating in. This is the second book in the series.

[Sarah]

Sign me up for 41 books

41/41-COMPLETED

Category 1: Books to complete yearly challenges in this group
Kind of a Big Deal
✅1)Fifty Shades Darker: Official Movie tie-in edition, includes bonus material(560 pages)(11/10/20)
✅2)Fifty Shades Freed(579 pages)(23/10/20)
✅3)The Princess Trials(504 pages)(17/11/20)
✅4)The Woman in White(685 pages)(26/12/20)
✅5)A Court of Mist and Fury(626 pages)(27/12/20)
✅6)The Good Daughter(656 pages)(28/12/20)
✅7)Pretty Girls(548 pages)(28/12/20)

Popsugar Challenge
✅8)Tweet Cute....read for prompt #26 (read a book with a pun in the title)(5/10/20)
✅9)The Devil Wears Prada....read for prompt #38 (read a book by or about a journalist)(5/10/20)
✅10)20th Century Ghosts....read for prompt #42 (read a book with "20" or "twenty" in the title)(5/10/20)
✅11)Radio Girls....read for prompt #44 (a book set in the 1920s)(6/10/20)
✅12)One for the Money....read for prompt #49 (a book from a series with more than 20 books)(6/10/20)

Serial Reader Challenge
✅13)Ten Out of Ten(I am also reading this book for TBR Jar Challenge)(20/10/20)
✅14)Royal Wedding(21/10/20)
✅15)The Bride Wore Size 12(20/10/20)
✅16)Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets: Six Tudor Queens 4(11/10/20)
✅17)The King's Painter(17/10/20)
✅18)The Curse of the Hungerfords(18/10/20)
✅19)Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen(22/10/20)
✅20)The Princess of Scotland(3/11/20)

TBR Jar
✅21)The Granny(13/11/20)
✅22)Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit(13/10/20)
✅23)Keeping it Real(25/12/20)
✅24)I Heart New York(31/10/20)
✅25)Archie 75th Anniversary Digest #3(10/10/20)

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Category 2: Prompt randomly chosen by tbr prompt generator

✅26)Read a book written by a female author-The Family Holiday(Elizabeth Noble)(25/10/20)
✅27)Read the shortest book on your TBR-Your Pal Archie #1(12/11/20)
✅28)Read a science fiction book-Shatter Me(26/11/20)
✅29)Read a book released in 2018-The Wife(26/10/20)
✅30)Read a book featuring something you would like to do-The Sims 4: The Unofficial Guide(9/11/20)
✅31)Read a book with red on the cover-The Winters(4/11/20)
✅32)Read a sad book-The Diary of a Young Girl(4/10/20)
✅33)Read a book written by an author who is older than you-Fifty Shades Freed(E.L. James)(23/10/20)
✅34)Read a book with an animal on the cover-Dewey: The small-town library-cat who touched the world (3/11/20)
✅35)Read a classic book-Jane Eyre(1/11/20)
✅36)Read a book that was released before you were born-Walt Disney Pictures Presents The Little Mermaid Ariel's Underwater Adventure(I was born in 1991 and this book came out in 1989)(11/11/20)
✅37)Read a book with blue on the cover-Fallen (24/11/20)
✅38)Read a book with purple on the cover-Geekerella (2/11/20)
✅39)Read a book that you think suits the current season-Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus(2/11/20)
✅40)Listen to an audiobook-Starting Over(1/10/20)
✅41)Read a book written for Young Adults-Among the Beasts & Briars(27/11/20)

[Milly]

Please sign me up for 37 books!

Harry Potter Series:

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Finish Ruthless Empire:

1.

Start A Court of Thorns and Roses:

1.

28 other books:

[Agnieszka]

Update message #37: 5/50

[Carmen]

Sarah wrote: "Category 2: Prompt randomly chosen by tbr prompt generator

25)Read a book written by a female author
26)Read the shortest book on your TBR..."

Wow! Great idea, I love the TBR prompt generator! 😍

[Milly]

Update Message #58: 1/37

Harry Potter Series:

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Finish Ruthless Empire:

1.

Start A Court of Thorns and Roses:

1.

28 other books:

[Rebecca]

Update Message #9: 4/40

Read Austenland as an entry into the romance part of my challenge. It was short, breezy and full of fluff. Fun and yet probably forgettable.

[Sunny]

Updated thru #62.

🎈😀Welcome to the newcomers since my last posting!🎈😀

We have 10 of 32 readers turning pages.
21 books of 938 have been read.

Hope y'all are having a good week!

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 3/30 📚

[Greg]

Ok, as of the morning of October 1 I needed 23 books to finish my 2020 challenge. So put me down for 23.

Then I will take credit for the three books I finished on October 7:
Termite Hill, The Stars, Like Dust, and Rules of War.

3/23

[Karin]

update to #8 .
had to revamp , as one of series wont be available till xmas , so ive i've added 2 others , this doesnt change the number .

progress: 9/60

[Rachael]

Updated message 4: 4/25
(I'm going to do weekly updates for this challenge)

[Lisanne]

Update to msg #14: 3/10

4. Read a book with my boyfriend
✔️ Misery - 4 ★

8. Read a book set in my favourite foreign country
✔️ Radio Silence - 4.5 ★ (rounded down)
Set in England.

[Sunny]

Updated Msg #3

2/54

[Agnieszka]

Update message #37: 6/50

[Sunny]

🎵Read, read, read our books
gently turning pages.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
we will reach our goals.🎵

My sincerest and deepest apologies to Row Row Row Your Boat, (this doesn't even rhyme!) but that's the tune that came to mind :)

I will update things tomorrow -- weather permitting. We may have some bad weather in the area tomorrow that may interfere with the usual routine.

[L Y N N]

Update to message #17:

1/20 as of October 8!

Finally finished a book this month for this challenge!!! :)

[Leona]

I need:
1. A book set in Japan.
2. A book that won an award in 2019.
3. A book wirh a made-up language.
4. A book with an upside-down image on the cover.
5. A book by a WOC.

[Mikaela]

Update msg# 18

1/12 completed.

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

Read this book for the "anything goes" portion of my created prompt. All I have to saw after reading this book is WOW. Powerful read. Can truly say I haven't read anything like it this year

[Rebecca]

Update Message #9: 6/40

Read Winter Counts for the "All things Murderful" (i.e. crime novel) portion of the challenge. Was a great mystery!

Also read Before the Ever After because it was in the MMD Fall book preview.

[Carol]

Update message #12:

10/92 completed

[Sunny]

Updated thru #76.

🎈😀Welcome to the newcomers since my last posting!🎈😀

We have 15 of 34 readers turning pages.
55 books of 962 have been read.

If you haven't already, I encourage you to go put in your vote for the challenges of 2021: 2021 Yearly Challenges Poll. It's fun seeing if the challenge I voted for make it into the line-up for the upcoming year.

The Yearly Theme is also open for nominations: Yearly Theme. The theme suggestions are always creative and have such a wide-range of interests. Can't wait to see what gets chosen for next year.

Next update is on Weds the 14th.

[Sunny]

Lynn wrote: "Update to message #17:

1/20 as of October 8!

Finally finished a book this month for this challenge!!! :)"

Way to go Lynn!!! :)

Took me awhile to get some read myself!

[Sunny]

Leona wrote: "I need:
1. A book set in Japan.
2. A book that won an award in 2019.
3. A book wirh a made-up language.
4. A book with an upside-down image on the cover.
5. A book by a WOC."

Leona, I put you down for 5 books. Let me know if I need to change it. Glad to have you on board!

[Greg]

Certain Prey

4/23

[Jennifer]

Updating message #13:

2/22 completed

Homegoing DONE

Five stars! Highly recommend.

[Rebecca]

Update Message #9: 7/40

Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism which is a professional development book for me.

[Mikaela]

Update msg #18

2/12 completed

4) A book with the word Fall in the title
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z by Kate Messner

Really enjoyed this book! I don't read juvenile fiction often but found this book to be a nice change of pace for me. Would give it somewhere around 4.5 stars. It definitely tackled some important concepts and I enjoyed the writing style

[Rebecca]

Update Message #9: 8/40

Where the Sidewalk Ends for my "Read It to Teach it" category. This one isn't as magical as I remember, but it got plenty of giggles from my children, so I imagine it's just me that's changed, not the book.

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 4/30 📚

[Sunny]

I will be updating on Thursday rather than tomorrow. Thurs is the middle of the month rather than Weds (looked at my calendar wrong) and I'd planned on updating that day.

Hope y'all are enjoying your books!

[Agnieszka]

Update message #37: 9/50

[Lisanne]

Update to msg #14: 4/10

13. Read a translated book
✔️ Ik niet op jou - 3.5 ★ (rounded down)
Dutch translation from The Hating Game

[Karin]

update to message #8 -

PROGRESS : 13/60

[Alison]

update to message #7

5/15 books read :)

[Margie]

Update to message #33:

Progress: 5/25

1. Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah's Public Lands - Adventurer's Club challenge complete!
2. Island of Shattered Dreams - Global Voices challenge complete!
3. This Too Shall Pass - 1/10 remaining books for Find Your Flight challenge - books from Oceania & Europe
4. Vanity Fair - 1/8 remaining books for Listopia challenge to read from the 1001 Books list
5. Shirley - 2/8 remaining books for Listopia challenge to read from the 1001 Books list

[Jennifer]

Margie wrote: "Update to message #33:

Progress: 5/25

1. Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah's Public Lands - Adventurer's Club challenge complete!
2. [book:Isl..."

Oooh Red Rock Stories looks great. Just added it to my TBR list. :)

[Margie]

Jennifer wrote: "Margie wrote: "Update to message #33:

Progress: 5/25

1. Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah's Public Lands - Adventurer's Club challenge complet..."

I hope you enjoy it! Have you read anything by Terry Tempest Williams? If not, her books may appeal to you as well (conservation in Utah/Colorado Plateau, feminism, writing).

[Agnieszka]

Update message #37: 10/50

[Sunny]

Updated thru #94.

🎈77 Days Left to Reach Your Goal🎈

We have 16 of 34 readers turning pages.
83 books of 928 have been read.

Your leader made some adjustments in her goal so that she would not be so bogged down moving toward the end of the year; thus, her progress is now: 6/16.

I'll update again on Saturday.

[Ashleigh]

Update to #11

1/6

My first book of this month was Sabriel

[Lisanne]

Update to msg #14: 5/10

6. Animals: Read a book about animals. Real or mythical
✔️ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - 4 ★

[Agnieszka]

Update message #37: 11/50

[Jennifer]

Updating message #13

3/22

To The Bright Edge of the World DONE

[Jennifer]

1. Red Rock Stories: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah's Public Lands - Adventurer's Club ..."

"I hope you enjoy it! Have you read anything by Terry Tempest Williams? If not, her books may appeal to you as well (conservation in Utah/Colorado Plateau, feminism, writing)."

Thank you! Just added a few more to my list! Haha