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Challenges: Year Long Main 2021
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1. Badge 1, book 12, 2/4 Museums Completed2. Museum 1; Location
3. Stay with Me
4. Audio; top paper has 260 pages
5. Task: Read a book set in Africa or written by an African author.
6. Set entirely in Nigeria and the author was born in Nigeria
1. Badge 1, book 13, 2/4 Museums Completed2. Museum 23; Location
3. Cathedral of the Sea
4. 611 pages
5. Task: Read a book set in Spain.
6. It is set in Barcelona and the area around Barcelona, Spain
I have had The Cathedral of the Sea on my TBR since 2014. Did you like it?
Cherie wrote: "I have had The Cathedral of the Sea on my TBR since 2014. Did you like it?"I did. I never thought it was slow-paced but there is a long setup. I'm glad to have read it. The more I learn about history the more I think humans haven't changed much at all :(
✔️ I really enjoyed the book and gave it 5 stars. I agree with your sentiment.
1. Badge 1, book 14, 3/4 Museums Completed2. Museum 23; Collection
3. Who Buries the Dead
4. ebook; top paper 338 pages
5. Task: Read a book with a man wearing a hat on the cover.
6.
<- He has a hat!
I am 2 books away from the first badge, and I have 5 Museums with 2 of 4 completed but none of my upcoming books are for any of those museums.I'm going to have to really focus starting next month if I'm going to try and get badges 1 and 2 this year.
1. Badge 2, book 10, 0/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 6; Collection
3. The Subtle Knife
4. audio; top paper has 326 pages
5. Read a book with "knife" or "knives" in the title.
6. It has "knife" in the title
It's funny how some series just seem to fit so perfectly to an annual challenge. This year had "gold" root word and the first book is The Golden Compass, Also "Knife" for book 2. I'm planning on using book 3 for the theme of angels task. Book 2 would fit that so I hope angels are as big a deal in the next book too, which I think they will be
This should be my last Museum. Have to be disciplined from here on out
1. Badge 1, book 15, 3/4 Museums Completed2. Museum 22; Interactive
3. Dairy Queen
4. Audio; top paper has 275 pages
5. Read a book with a barnyard animal on the cover
6. (view spoiler) There's a cow on the cover
1. Badge 1, book 16, 4/4 Museums Completed2. Museum 22; About
3. The Off Season
4. Audio; Top paper has 277 pages
5. Read a book with a significant character or author with the name Catherine
6. The author is Catherine Gilbert Murdock
That's it!! Woo~hoo!!
✔️Congrats on finishing your first book! Go ahead and request your badge. :)
1. Badge 2, book 11, 0/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 35; Interactive
3. The Song of Achilles
4. ebook; Top paper has 352 pages
5. Task: Read a book with metal armor or someone clearly wearing metal armor on the cover
6.(view spoiler)
1. Badge 2, book 12, 0/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 6; Interactive
3. Love in the Time of Cholera
4. 348 long pages
5. Task: Read a book set in the Caribbean. (based on the title of my art piece)
6. I did not expect to be using this book for this task when I started it. When I think Caribbean I think Island. But this book described the setting as Caribbean so many times that I have been convinced. We had a hurricane and then Caribean heat or sun or something all throughout the book. It is set around Cartagena a city on the north coast of Colombia on the Caribbean sea.
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1. Badge 2, book 13, 0/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 21; Collection
3. The Amber Spyglass
4. Audio; top paper has 465 pages
5. Task: Read a book with a theme of angels
6. There is a conflict between different sects of Angels and their various allies.
1. Badge 2, book 14, 0/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 6; About
3. Recursion
4. 326 pages
5. Read a book with a cover that is 75% yellow
6. It's quite yellow:
1. Badge 2, book 15, 0/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 4; Location
3. The Samurai's Garden
4. Audio; top paper has 211 pages
5. Read a book set in Japan.
6. It is set in Tarumi which is near Kobe, Japan
1. Badge 2, book 16, 0/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 4; About
3. The Queen of Attolia
4. 279 pages
5. Read a book that is the 2nd in a series.
6. It is book 2 in the series The Queen's Thief
1. Badge 2, book 17, 1/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 6; Location
3. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
4. Audio; top paper has 289 pages
5. Read a book set in South Africa or written by a South African Author
6. Fits both criteria. Trevor Noah is from South Africa and this was set entirely in South Africa
1. Badge 2, book 18, 2/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 4; Interactive
3. Swallows of Kabul
4. 195 pages
5. Task: Read a book where the title is written in cursive font
6. (view spoiler)
1. Badge 2, book 19, 2/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 30; Location
3. From Sand and Ash
4. Audio; top paper has 375 pages
5. Read a book set in Italy (excludes Venice), or written by an Italian author.
6. This book is set in Italy during WWII. In Florence and Rome.
1. Badge 2, book 20, 3/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 35; Collection
3. The Thirteenth Tale
4. 406 pages
5. Task: Read a book that has two main words with the same initial in the title.
6. All the words start with "T"
1. Badge 2, Book 21, 4/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 30; Interactive
3. Still Lives
4. audio; top paper has 275 pages
5. Task: Read a book featuring a museum or art gallery
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1. Badge 2, Book 22, 5/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 21; Location
3. The Girl in the Tower
4. 346 pages.
5. Read a book with the word tower in the title
Thanks Cherie! I should be good, my last two books are in progress but I'm about to run out of time on my library audio book for Family Matters. Thankfully I own it in paper too to finish up.
1. Badge 2, book 23, 5/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 33; About
3. Looking for Alaska
4. 272 pages
5. Read a book from the Mazes and Labyrinths List
6. At this moment it is # 53 on the list
1. Badge 2, book 24, 6/6 Museums Completed2. Museum 33; Collection
3. Family Matters
4. Audio; top paper has 431 pages
5. Read a book with a human character who is male and over the age of 70.
6. The book begins on Nariman's 79th birthday party. He is one of the main characters, we see flashbacks to some earlier parts of his life throughout.
Congrats on finishing badge 2. :)
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2. Museum 23; Interactive
3. book:The Golden Compass|48906589]
4. audio; top paper has 399
5. Task: Read a children's book with a young girl protagonist.
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Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-waiting)
Diego Velázquez
1656
Oil on canvas
The painting shows 5-year-old Infanta Margaret Theresa surrounded by her entourage of maids of honour, chaperone, bodyguard, two dwarfs and a dog. link
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6. State how the book fits the task. The MC is Lyra. She's around 10 or 12 years old. MP genre shows Children's and Middle grade.