**Summer Challenge 1/12/20 - 28/2/21**

[Sarah]

Veronique wrote: "I have quite a few favourite books so decided to go for one that's also a classic - and an awesome movie too: A Room with a View"

That's one of my favourites too, Veronique! It was a superb movie adaptation.

[Veronique]

Brenda wrote: "Veronique and Sarah, you're both linked. Veronique don't forget to use the "A" to start with...."
Oh yes, sorry Brenda, I have just realised that I had misunderstood the instructions! Will fix this now...14 books it is then!

[Cherie]

Summer Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level: Easy
14/14 (2 AA)

Favourite book Ready Player One by Ernest Cline



R - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 5 stars
E - Emergence by John Birmingham AA 1 star
A - All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton AA 3 stars
D - Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend by Victoria Laurie 3.5 stars
Y - Frankly in Love by David Yoon 3 stars

P - Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee 3 stars
L - Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun by Victoria Laurie 3.5 stars
A - Rage and Ruin by Jennifer L. Armentrout 3.5 stars
Y - You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day 5 stars
E - The Disasters by M.K. England 4 stars
R - Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline 4.5 stars

O - One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London 3 stars
N - The Night Country by Melissa Albert 3 stars
E - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune 4 stars

[Janelle]

Definitely not doing The Unbearable Lightness of Being so chose something else from my favourites shelf!


W Wolf Winter Cecilia Ekbäck finished Dec5
A Paul Auster The Music of Chance fin Dec19
N Nicole Krauss The History of Love finished Feb10 5*
T Trust Chris Hammer AA finished Jan5
I Incidental Music: Stories by Françoise Sagan finished Jan11
N Nightwood Djuna Barnes
G Good Girl, Bad Girl Michael Robotham AA

There’s not much on the cover so hope colour is ok...

R Katherine Reay The Brontë Plot finished feb14
E Émile Zola The Fortune of the Rougons finished 4/12
D David Mitchell Ghostwritten finished Dec8

[Sarah]

Brenda wrote: "Veronique and Sarah, you're both linked. Veronique don't forget to use the "A" to start with...."

Thanks Brenda! It's fantastic learning everyone's favourite (or one of their favourite) books!

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

I am surprised no one is doing The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Haha!! Isn't that your challenge Phrynne 😅😉

[Krystal]

Phrynne wrote: "I am surprised no one is doing The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making"

That would be quite a challenge indeed!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Cherie and Janelle - you're both linked :)

[Jane]

Krystal wrote: "Okay FINE but please let the record show that Three Musketeers is my all time favourite. Everything else is a tie for second XD

Summer Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level: EASY..."

'Contest' was also one of my alternate favourites! Glad you could chose another!

[TheMadHatter]

HARD - Minimum 4 Aussie authors
14 of 14 as of 28 Feb 2021

This book would be up there in my top three - especially because this edition was given to me by the lovely Cherie :-). The fact that the letters also work with my December reading requirements is icing on the cake (Sorry Finnikin....you are still my fave, but a girl has to do what a girl has to do).



P Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (3.5 Stars)
E An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (2.5 Stars)
R Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (4 Stars).
S Slayer by Kiersten White
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (2 Stars)
U Up for Heir by Ruth Cardello
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (3 Stars)
A Akarnae by Lynette Noni AA
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (3.5 Stars)
S Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (3.5 Stars)
I An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (3.5 Stars)
O The Other Side of the Sky by Amie Kaufman AA
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (3 Stars)
N None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney AA
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (4 Stars)

And I had to choose the iconic writing desk where Wentworth wrote "The Letter" :-P
D DEV1AT3 by Jay Kristoff AA
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (3.5 Stars)
E Engagement and Espionage by Penny Reid
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (3.5 Stars)
S Slammed by Colleen Hoover
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (3.5 Stars)
K Kissing Tolstoy by Penny Reid
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... (3.5 Stars)

[Cherie]

Yay you did it - Finnikin will never know :)


TheMadHatter wrote: "HARD - Minimum 4 Aussie authors

This book would be up there in my top three - especially because this edition was given to me by the lovely Cherie :-). The fact that the letters also work with my ..."

[TheMadHatter]

Cherie wrote: "Yay you did it - Finnikin will never know :)


TheMadHatter wrote: "HARD - Minimum 4 Aussie authors

This book would be up there in my top three - especially because this edition was given to me by..."

Yep. The fact that I am sitting here now rocking back and forth while breathing rapidly into a brown paper bag is not all indicative of me having a meltdown :-P :-P :-P.

And while everyone is going "how can you only have one favourite?", I am sitting her going "How do you have more than one favourite?". Lol!!!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Kim wrote: "Summer Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level: Easy
0/7 (AA 0/2)

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/comp..."

Lottery by Patricia Wood

[Kim]

Summer Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level: Easy
7/7 (AA - 2/2) - COMPLETED 7/2/21



L - (title):-
The Lake House by Kate Morton - AA -
FINISHED 20/1/21 - 5* (9.5/10)
O - (author surname):-
My Coney Island Baby by Billy O'Callaghan -
- FINISHED 7/12/20 - 4* (8/10)
T - (author surname):-
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler -
- FINISHED 5/12/20 - 4* (9/10)
T - (author surname):-
Strangers by C.L. Taylor -
- FINISHED 2/1/21 - 4* (9/10)
E - (title):-
Early Warning by Jane Smiley -
- FINISHED 1/1/21 - 4* (8/10)
R - (author surname):-
When She Was Good by Michael Robotham - AA -
- FINISHED 9/12/20 - 5* (10/10)
Y - (title):-
You Belong To Me by Samantha Hayes -
- FINISHED 7/2/21 - 4+* (9+/10)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

You're both linked MH and Kim :) Kim just do like I did if you can't manage the enlarged pic :)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Kim wrote: ""

Great job! Now edit, copy and paste it into your original comment :)

[Lucinda]

Summer Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level:
0/?



1.E Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
2.N Year One by Nora Roberts
3.D The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
4.E
5.R
6.S Scrublands by Chris Hammer AA

7.G The Guest List by Lucy Foley
8.A All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent DaltonAA
9.M
10.E

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Lucinda, you are linked :)

[Jenn]

Summer Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level: Hard
14/14

Favourite book:
M -Author - The Halloween Spell by Morgana Best AA 3 stars
A - Author - Eggnog Trifle Trouble by Addison Moore 4 stars
G - Author - Dragon Wytch by Yasmine Galenorn 5 stars
I - Title - Into the Fire by Jeaniene Frost 5 stars
C - Title - Clariel by Garth Nix AA 5 stars
I - Author - Pleasure Unbound by Larissa Ione 4 stars
A - Author - Magic Misled by Keri Arthur AA 5 stars
N - Author - Stone Country by Nicole Alexander AA 4 stars


On the cover:

C - Title - The CEO by Victoria Purman AA 4 stars
A - Author - What Love Sounds Like by Alissa Callen AA 4 stars
S - Title - Something in the Wine by Tricia Stringer AA 4 stars
T - Author - Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend AA 5 stars
L - Title - Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward 4 stars
E - Author - Eve Silver - Sins of the Flesh 4 stars

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Wow Jennifer, that's an impressive cover!! You're linked :)

[Jenn]

Brenda wrote: "Wow Jennifer, that's an impressive cover!! You're linked :)"

Thanks Brenda :)

[Niamh]

Okay, this is an interesting challenge, I like the concept! Let's see how many I can commit to reading this season, because I usually get distracted and don't actually end up reading what I set myself at the start.

Summer Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level: Hard
10/14 (4 AA 🦘)



✅U - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren 4🌟
N - Burn by Patrick Ness
⛔E - Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks 🦘 - DNF at 20%
✅A - Future Girl by Asphyxia 🦘 4🌟
R - Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah 🦘
✅T - The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan 4🌟
✅H - A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer 4🌟
✅L - In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren 4🌟
✅Y - Fable by Adrienne Young 4.5🌟

Item on cover: Smoke
✅S - The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler 4🌟
M - A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs
✅O - Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout 3.5🌟
✅K - Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman 🦘 4.5🌟
✅E - Everything All at Once by Katrina Leno 4🌟

[Niki]

Summer Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level: hard
0/18

I definitely have too many favourites so I have chosen this years favourite read. Purple Threads by Jeanne Leanne (AA). I have also slightly cheated and used all the books I have out from the library all except 2 which are already in my to read pile, have just quickly renewed them all so I can start them all in December.
Purple Threads by Jeanine Leane

P: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
U: Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
R: Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
P: Princess: Stepping Out Of The Shadows by Jean P Sasson
L: Lowitja: The Authorised Biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue by Stuart Rintoul (AA)
E: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

T: The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
H: How to Be Second Best by Jessica Dettmann (AA)
R: A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville (AA)
E: Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee (AA)
A: A Keeper by Graham Norton
D: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
S: Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson (AA)

There is a child on the cover
C: Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M.E. Thomas
H: Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
I: Infinite Splendours by Sofie Laguna (AA)
L: Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
D: The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Niamh and Niki - you're both linked :)

[🌸Teresa🌸]

Summer Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level:
14/14 - AA 5/5

Favourite Book The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah



T - A Lifetime of Impossible Days Tabitha Bird AA Read 10/1/21 5*
H - The Horse Dancer Jojo Moyes Read 23/1/21 5*
E - Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell Read 10/2/21 5*

N - The Jane Austen Society Natalie Jenner Read 17/1/21 4*
I - Immortal in Death J.D. Robb Read 2/1/21 4*
G - The Good People Hannah Kent AA Read 7/2/21 5*
H - Bruny Heather Rose AA Read 16/1/21 5*
T - The Testaments Margaret Atwood Read 21/1/21 4*
I - Illuminae Amie Kaufman AA Read 14/12/20 4*
N - Dear Edward Ann Napolitano Read 27/1/2021 4*
G - Golden Earrings Belinda Alexandra AA Read 15/2/21 5*
A - An American Marriage Tayari Jones Read 5/12/20 3*
L - An Almost Perfect Holiday Lucy Diamond Read 24/12/20 4*
E - The Missing Sister Elle Marr Read 25/2/21 4*

[Jonquil]

Summer Challenge 2020/2021
12/1/20 - 2/28/21
Level: Easy

DONE



The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Even though I only read it once (after my 8th grade teacher read it aloud to our class), for decades I tormented strangers with drawings of elephants in boa constrictors.

T The Time of Thunder Greg Barron AA 12/16 ★★★★
H High-Priority Asset Juno Rushdan 1/4 ★★★★
E The Persian Always Meows Twice Eileen Watkins 12/7 ★★★★
L Claret and Clippers Daisy Linh AA 12/5 ★★★
I Imitation in Death J.D. Robb 12/5 ★★★★★
T The Vanishing David J. Delaney AA 12/18 ★★★★★
T The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily Rachel Cohn 12/1 ★★★
L Cabernet and Confessions Daisy Linh AA 12/29 ★★★★★
E Street of the Five Moons Elizabeth Peters 12/6 ★★★★
P Purring around the Christmas Tree Liz Mugavero 12/6 ★★★★
R Smoke Signal L.T. Ryan 12/9 ★★★★★
I The Inheritance Games Jennifer Lynn Barnes 1/8 ★★★★
N Close Range Christmas Nicole Helm 12/8 ★★★
C Chaos in Little Leaf Creek Cindy Bell 1/1 ★★★
E Silhouette in Scarlet Elizabeth Peters 12/7 ★★★★

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Teresa and Jonquil - you're both linked :)

[Trevor]

AR Summer Challenge 2020/2021
My Favourite Book Challenge
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level: EASY - minimum 6 books - Spell out title (min 2 AAs)
Progress: 0/15

Favourite book - Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood



G Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
O One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson - 4★
O Orient Express by Graham Greene
D Consolation by Garry Disher AA
B Mr. Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo
Y Marching Powder by Rusty Young AA - 3★
E Chaos by Edmund White

T White Throat by Sarah Thornton AA
O Out of the Shelter by David Lodge - 4★

B Lie With Me by Philippe Besson - 4★
E The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
R Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
L The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard AA
N A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Trevor, you're linked :)

[Amanda]

Summer Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level: EASY
Progress: 8/8



E - What's Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing - Merve Emre - 3* - 29/12/2020
D - From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty - 4* - 8/12/2020
U - Unseen The secret world of chronic illness - Jacinta Parsons - AA - 4* - 11/12/2020
C - Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times - Carmen Callil - AA - 3* - 18/12/2020
A - Moonflower Murders - Anthony Horowitz - 4* - 06/12/2020
T - Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir - Natasha Trethewey - 4.5* - 01/12/2020
E - The End: The Human Experience Of Death - Bianca Nogrady - AA - 3* - 16/01/2020
D - Ghosts - Dolly Alderton - 3.5* - 6/12/2020

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Amanda, you're linked..

[Deb]

If I can join without posting the large image, I will go with an old favourite and use the opportunity to re-read it. I have tried five times to do the enlarged copy and I can't get it to work. In any case, this is not the cover I own, my cover is a SF Masterworks copy and is not in the system.


I - I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson

A - Akarnae by Lynette NoniAA
M - Miss Harriet by Guy de Maupassant

L - Lexicon by Max Barry AA
E - Equations of Life by Simon Morden
G - Ghost Species by James BradleyAA
E - Emerald Springs by Fleur McDonaldAA
N - Nest by Inga Simpson AA
D - Dreamer's Pool by Juliet MarillierAA

[Trevor]

Deborah wrote: "If I can join without posting the large image, I will go with an old favourite and use the opportunity to re-read it. I have tried five times to do the enlarged copy and I can't get it to work. In ..."

I'm surprised that more people aren't taking the opportunity to reread their favourite (or one of their favourite) books.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

You're linked Deborah :)

[Melly]

Great challenge! I'm going with one of my fav books by an Aussie author :)

Summer Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: 1/12/20 - 28/2/2021
Level: EASY
Progress: 10/10



✅T - The Two Lost Mountains by Matthew Reilly (AA) 4🌟
✅H - The Survivors by Jane Harper (AA) 3.5🌟
✅E - Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey 3🌟

✅O - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 4🌟
✅R - A Room with a View by E.M. Forster 5🌟
✅C - Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie4.5🌟
✅H - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 5🌟
✅A - 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie 4🌟
✅R - The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (AA) 5🌟
✅D - Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (AA) 4🌟

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Melissa - great cover! You're linked :)

[Melly]

Brenda wrote: "Welcome Melissa - great cover! You're linked :)"

Thanks Brenda :)

[Li'l Owl]

Summer Book Cover Challenge 2020/2021
Duration: December 1, 2020 - February 28, 2021
Level: Easy (4 AA)
Option b: Spell out Item on the Cover
Progress: 4/9

Favourite Book The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend



U Unsolved Australia: Lost Boys, Gone Girls by Justine Ford AA
M Murder in Montparnasse by Kerry Greenwood AA
B Banker by Dick Francis 1/14/21 5★'s
R Hell to Pay by Rachel Amphlett 1/23/21 4★'s
AA
E Hidden on the Fens by Joy Ellis 12/12/20 ★'s
L Let Sleeping Dogs Lie by Rita Mae Brown
L Lost Girls by Angela Marsons
A Away with the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood AA
S Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey 12/31/20 5★'s
AA

U*M* L*L*A*

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Owl :) You're linked.

[Heather]

My favourite Christmas book is
"Bill Frog to the Rescue" by CAM(Barbara Mary Campbell )(the book is older than me)

Anyway it has scarves on the cover
S – Solitaire by Jane Thynne 4 ★
C – The Child by Fiona Barton 5 ★
A – The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
R – Redemption Point by Candice Fox - AA 5 ★
V – Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas 5 ★
E – The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde 5 ★
S – The Survivors by Jane Harper – AA 5 ★

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

What a cute cover Heather!!! You're linked :)

[Heather]

Brenda wrote: "What a cute cover Heather!!! You're linked :)"
The whole book has beautiful illustrations and a wonderful Old English font

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Heather wrote: "Brenda wrote: "What a cute cover Heather!!! You're linked :)"
The whole book has beautiful illustrations and a wonderful Old English font"

I would imagine well out of print now :(

[Niamh]

Finished my first book of the challenge, with In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren getting 4🌟 from me

[Carol]

Sign me up please - I will use this as a chance to clear some old books from my bookshelf.

For favourite book I have chosen Cloudstreet





C: A Model Wife by Maggie Christensen - AA Finished 3⭐
L: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh Finished 4 ⭐
O: Old Filth by Jane Gardam Finished 3.5 ⭐
U: Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi Finished 3.5 ⭐
D: The Diamond Hunter by Fiona McIntosh Finished 4 ⭐
S: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Finished 3 ⭐
T: A Lifetime of Impossible Days by Tabitha Bird - AA Finished 5⭐
R: The Rip by Mark Brandi - AA Finished 4 ⭐
E: Paris Never Leaves You by Ellen Feldman Finished 4 ⭐
E: House on the Hill by Estelle Pinney - AA Finished 3.5 ⭐
T: The Survivors by Jane Harper - AA Finished 4 ⭐

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Welcome Carol, you're linked.

[Kim]

Finished my first of this Challenge:-

'T' from 'LOTTERY' - author's surname - with:-
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

Love this author's books - rated it 4* (9/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

For some reason, the link at the front of the thread didn't take me directly to my post. only to the beginning of the page it was on?!

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Kim wrote: "Finished my first of this Challenge:-

'T' from 'LOTTERY' - author's surname - with:-
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler [bookcover:Redhead by the Side of th..."

Not sure what or why Kim, but it's fixed now. Sorry about that!

[Kim]

Brenda wrote: "Kim wrote: "Finished my first of this Challenge:-

'T' from 'LOTTERY' - author's surname - with:-
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler [bookcover:Redhead by th..."

Thanks for sorting it, Brenda 😊