Spell a Better World - 2021

[Sheila]

Sheila from NC just now signing up, because looking through these posts is really inspiring. I read a lot, and it’s a yearlong challenge, so I’m copying someone else’s idea and using these nine virtues for a whopping 69 books.LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS , GOODNESS ,FAITHFULNESS , GENTLENESS , SELF-CONTROL.
Thank you for a great challenge , and I will start spelling my words soon.

[Rebecca]

Update message #27

Progress: 30/69

N: The Name of the Wind

[Bobbi]

Update msg. 71

Progress: 19/36

[Ali]

Update to message 69

Progress: 14/20

[[deleted user]]

msg 7 updated - 2/12 done

[Alyana]

Update to message #6
Progress: 12/17

✔P: The Perks of Being a Wallflower - read on 03/03/21
✔R: Red, White & Royal Blue - read on 03/09/21

[Rebecca]

Update to message #27

Progress: 31/69

F: Five Children and It

[Marleen]

Update to message 51: 6/6, challenge completed!

I just finished The Time Machine, so I’ve completed my short word. Thanks for hosting SarahKat!

✅G - The Gunslinger
✅R - Redshirts
✅O - The Obelisk Gate
✅W - Warbreaker
✅T - The Time Machine
✅H - Howl's Moving Castle

[Bobbi]

Update msg. 71

Progress: 20/36

[Erica]

Update to message #264: 4/8

N: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

[Mie]

Update msg 36: 23/26 📚

[Rachael]

Updated message 11: 8/15

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #46. 37/52

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Welcome Sheila! Glad you found us!

Congrats on finishing the challenge Marleen! I hope your goal of growing this year is fulfilled as well!

[Megan]

Updated msg 5

Just completed another “I” title - In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire. I appreciate the author calling out sexism in education and family values. But I didn’t enjoy this one as much as the others in the series. The ending felt unfair, even if I understand it logically. But as the author herself says, this is not a fairytale. Worth reading. 4 stars

14/16

[Carmen]

Update to message #16

PROGRESS: 6/15

[Sheila]

update to message 268: 16/69
J-The Jane Austen Society
O-One of the Good Ones
Y-You Have a Match

P-Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
E-Edie Is Ever So Helpful
A-Austenland
C-The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
E-Every Breath You Take

P-The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and
Family
AAgainst the Paw
T-Terra Nullius
I-The Innocence of Father Brown
E-Etiquette & Espionage
N-Notes from a Young Black Chef
C-The Christmas Boutique
E-Enchanted Night

[Emma]

message 73 updated

progress 8/13

[[deleted user]]

Message 12
3/8 completed

[Rebecca]

Update message #27

Progress: 33/69

N The Neil Gaiman at the End of the Universe

L The Last Smile in Sunder City

[Sarah c]

Please update message 46
2/8

[Beverly]

Updated message #14: 16/22

[Carol]

update #8:

finished 10/20

[Rebecca]

Update message #27

Progress: 36/69

S Shipped

N Night at the Fiestas

S The Soul of a Woman

[Megan]

Updated msg 5

Just completed my first word - Activism!

V title - Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai. This was a delightful, charming novel that didn’t shy away from addressing big topics, like privacy and anxiety and ptsd. I loved both of these characters, and I smiled through most of the book. “Small talk was the fifth horseman of the apocalypse.” Also, loved learning about the early NorCal Punjabi settlers! I received this book as a free giveaway in exchange for my honest review. Definitely worth reading! 5 stars

15/16

[Ali]

Update to message 68

Progress: 16/20

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

I'm terrible at updating my yearly challenges even if I'm the one leading them! I'm at 16/24

16/24

Hebrews 13:5

B: Broken Harbor by Tana French
E: Eartheater by Dolores Reyes

C: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
O: One by One by Ruth Ware
N: Night by Elie Wiesel
T: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
E: An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
N: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
T

W
I: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
T
H: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

W
H: Himself by Jess Kidd
A: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
T

Y: You by Caroline Kepnes
O: Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
U

H
A
V: The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters
E: Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

[Sheila]

[Karin]

Updated message #75
9/10

[Mie]

Update msg 36: 25/26 - nearly there 🤗

[D.L.]

My words are forgiveness and gratitude.

Progress: 16/20


✅ F: Final Curtain
✅ O: Once Upon A Snow Day
✅ R: The Rancher's Summer Secret
G
✅ I: The Island House
✅ V: Vamps
✅ E: Epiphany with Tea: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
✅ N: Naked in Death
✅ E: Everything, Everything
✅ S: Stolen Children
✅ S: The Scare School


✅ G: The Girls
✅ R: Random Access Murder
A
✅ T: The Time Capsule
I
✅ T: The Therapist
U
✅ D: Death-Fires Dance
✅ E: Emily Dickinson Is Dead

[Beverly]

Updated message #14: 18/22

[Kerrie]

Update to message #55

2/16
Night Road

[Sunny]

Updated Msg #65:

9/14

Thank you, SarahKat :)

[Rebecca]

Update message #27

Progress: 39/69

S--Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News

L--Love Is a Rogue
T--This Country of Ours

[Sean]

Update Msg #53

9/17

Love, Peace & Harmony

A - Alamut - 04/18/21

[AurorainBookland]

Update message 60 1/3

Y - Stand Up, Yumi Chung! By Jessica Kim

[Kylie]

Msg #38 updated - 8 / 11 completed

[Mie]

Final update msg 36: 26/26 - COMPLETE ✔️

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Thank you for leading, SarahKat 🤗

[Sean]

Update Msg #53

10/17

Love, Peace & Harmony

V - The Cloven Viscount - 04/21/21

[Rebecca]

Update message #27 (though when I checked this thread this week, it looks like my message is now #26)

Progress: 40/69

I - Insurrections

[Anissa]

Updated message #10

Progress: 2/10

A: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
S: Shadow Frost

[Alyana]

Update to message #6
Progress: 14/17

✔P: The Push - read on 04/03/21
✔Y: Yes No Maybe So - read on 03/27/21

[Sean]

Update Msg #53

12/17

Love, Peace & Harmony

O - Our Ancestors - 04/27/21

E - The Non-Existent Knight -04/21/21

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Updated!

Congratulations Mie on completing the challenge!

Welcome D.L., good goals!

[Karin]

Message 74 Updated NB below

10/10

I used to be message 75, so someone must have deleted a message.. It also says 75 in the list on the first page.

[Raimondo]

Spell a Better World

Progress: 5 / 19 Books

In order to build a better world (for myself heh), I aim to hone to a fine edge my latent skills on LEADERSHIP and INFLUENCE.

L: The Lurid Sea by Tom Cardamone - May th
E: Elite: An Anthology by Caroline S. Hau - July th
A: Animal Farm by George Orwell - May th
D: Dusk by F. Sionil José - July th
E: Etiquette for Mistresses...and What Wives Can Learn from Them by Jullie Yap Daza - July th
R: A Room in Chelsea Square by Michael Nelson - May th
✓ S: The Sins of the Cities of the Plain by Jack Saul - April 20th
H: How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life by Epictetus - July th
✓ I: The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays by Oscar Wilde - January 6th
P: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - August th

✓ I: I, Claudius by Robert Graves - January 17th
N:
F:
✓ L: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - April 18th
U: Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. Wodehouse - May th
E: Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic by Daisy Butcher - May th
N: Narrow Rooms by James Purdy - May th
✓ C: Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina by Robert Graves - January 22nd
E: Ermita: A Filipino Novel by F. Sionil José - July th

[Erica]

Update to message #261: 6/8

H: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
A: Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

[Rachael]

Updated message 11: 12/15

[Rebecca]

Update to message #27: 41/69

L - Love at First