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A-Z Challenge: Character Edition - 2021
I will sign up to do all 26. A-Z Challenge: Character Edition
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
26/26 COMPLETE!!
A - Anna Kate Midnight at the Blackbird Café
B - Burl A Children's Bible
C - Celia The Night Circus
D - Dee New Boy
E - Eleanor The Wedding Dress
F - Freddie Beauchamp Hall
G - Goldy Catering to Nobody
H - Hannah A Hopeful Heart
I - Irina Daughters of the Resistance
J - Jazz Artemis
K - Kirsten Station Eleven
L - Lydie Secrets of Paris
M - Minnie The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
N - Nora The Midnight Library
O - Odile The Paris Library
P - Pearl Shanghai Girls
Q - Queenie The Persian Pickle Club
R - Reed Shelter in Place
S - Stephanie Fortune and Glory
T - Tyla Neighbors
U - Ulf Winterfrost
V - Violet A Single Thread
W - Will Best Beach Ever
X - Xan The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Y - Ying Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters
Z - Zora The Tiger's Wife
Update to message 72;K - Katrina from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Progress: 5/20
Update message 37, 7/26✓F: Farley Mowat in Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves by Farley Mowat (finished 2/3), my review is here
Update to message 21012/26
D - Geraldine Dillard - Sold on a Monday
K - Kayla Ramirez - Claws of Death
M- Marco Olsen - The Awakening
Alyana wrote: "Hi Winter, how many times in a month do you post the progress of the participants? I would just like to note in my corner so I can post updates in a timely manner. Thank you 😊"Hi Alyana :)
It varies a lot to be honest with you. Depends on activity here, my own life etc. Everything from every other day to once a month. Sorry I can't be more precise. I'm not quite caught up yet. Health has prevented me from sitting on computer for long at a time this month, but I will be caught up fairly soon and will post an update then!
update message #36: 7/26P - Billy Pilgrim, in: Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade
Update to Message #86:D - Dobby from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Illustrated) by JK Rowling and illustrated by Jim Kay
9/26
Winter wrote: "Hi all! So sorry it's so late in getting you all added and updated this year. I'm having some health issues so it's taking a while, but I'm working on it and I will add the spreadsheet to the parti..."I hope you feel better soon!
Tanya wrote: "I’m in! Can a mod let me know what message I am please. I’m new to all of this. Also; how do you reply to a message where it puts the original message first? Duration Jan 1st, 2021 to Dec 31st, 2..."
Hi. I'm sorry for the late answer. You have no original message, but I will add you and use this one. The important thing when I update you isn't the original message though. It is that you tell me how many books you have completed when you update me. You can use your original message, but you don't have to :)
Tanya wrote: "I’m in! Can a mod let me know what message I am please. I’m new to all of this. Also; how do you reply to a message where it puts the original message first? Duration Jan 1st, 2021 to Dec 31st, 2..."
For the record your message is 218.
I'm a bit late to the party it being mid-February and all, but I would like to attempt all twenty six.
Update message #80: 26/26! Finished!A: Ashbery: File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents
B: Briseis: The Song of Achilles
C: Charlie Spring: Heartstopper: The Mini-Comics
D: Dr. Molovo: The Wild Robot Escapes
E: Ella Brook: Mummy Fairy and Me: Fairy-in-Waiting
F: Fink: The Wild Robot
G: Greta: The Tea Dragon Society
H: Haru: BEASTARS 10
I: Ibuki: BEASTARS 11
J: JONES, Tara: Heartstopper: Volume Two
K: Kleitos: The Tea Dragon Tapestry
L: Lemony Snicket: When Did You See Her Last?
M: Mortina: Mortina e o Amigo Fantasma
N: Nadidah: Habibi
O: Orion: Orion and the Dark
P: Pecuchet Belerofonte: Who Could That Be at This Hour?
Q: QUINT, Peter: The Turn of the Screw
R: Rinn: The Tea Dragon Festival
S: Stella: How to Talk to Girls at Parties
T: Tristão: Ghoulia and the Mysterious Visitor
U: Uncle Gary: The Deep End
V: Vladric: Princess Princess Ever After
W: Wilhelmina Murray: Dracula
X: XU, Tao: Heartstopper: Volume One
Y: Youssef Farouk: Heartstopper: Volume Three
Z: Zoe: Mummy Fairy and Me
Update to Message 17: 6/266/25
D: Count D Pet Shop of Horrors, Vol. 1 by Matsuri Akino
E: Effie Ascender, Vol. 3: The Digital Mage by Jeff Lemire
H: Helda: Ascender, Vol. 2: The Dead Sea by Jeff Lemire (Andy)
M: Mila Ascender, Vol. 1: The Haunted Galaxy by Jeff Lemire
Q: Quon from Descender, Vol. 5: Rise of the Robots by Jeff Lemire
T: Tim-21 Descender, Vol. 6: The Machine War by Jeff Lemire
Just posting here now, but I'm in for all 26 and so far have 20/26Abby Putnam from We Ride Upon Sticks
Bharadwaj from All Systems Red
Constance from We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Evita from The Butterfly Garden
FitzChivalry from Assassin's Apprentice
Gray from Hazel and Gray
H. H. Holmes from The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Immanuelle from The Year of the Witching
Jenny from The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Kara from The Hollow Places
Laia from A Sky Beyond the Storm
Mark Hess from The Chestnut Man
Nancy from They Called Us Enemy
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Phalue from The Bone Shard Daughter
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Ragostok from Uprooted
Shiva from The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 1
Teddy from Starving Ghosts in Every Thread
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Vivian from Elatsoe
Whitty from Legendborn
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Zooey from We Are the Ants
Update to message 21015/26
E- Erika Berger - The Girl who Lived Twice
H - Gideon Halley - Escape Claws
J - Julian True - Angel Falls
Carmen wrote: "Update to message #23PROGRESS: 25/25
Challenge completed!!!
Thanks so much, Winter 🤗"
Congrats Carmen!! Well done! You were so fast I haven't been able to post the participate list yet. Sorry it's so slow this year. You will see your name in the list soon though. I'm almost up to date now :)
If anyone is still looking for an X name, here are a couple of options.Xanthe Westlake is in Paula Brackston's Found Things series. The books are an unusual mix of historical fiction, fantasy, time travel, mystery, and romance. I enjoyed the first two titles, and am hoping to read the third this year.
I also recently added The Poet X to my TBR. It's an award-winning poetry, young adult, coming-of-age debut with a lead character named Xiomara Batista.
Update to Msg# 279Progress: 4/26
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J - Jaycee Dugard in Freedom: My Book of Firsts
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M - Maudene in Little Mercies
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V - Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two
W - Wayne Carmody in N0S 4A2
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Gabriella wrote: "Update message #80: 26/26! Finished!A: Ashbery: File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents
B: Briseis: The Song of Achilles
C: Charlie Spring: [book:Heartstopper: The Min..."
Wow so quickly!! Congrats Gabriella, well done!
Finally updated you all! I'm very sorry it took so long. You all have read so much already!! Have a great weekend everyone!
Winter wrote: "Finally updated you all! I'm very sorry it took so long. You all have read so much already!! Have a great weekend everyone!"Hi Winter, thanks for the update. My name has been entered twice on the list with two different goals. My original message is #7 and the original goal was 10. If you can raise my goal to 26 that would be great as I have my progress on 18/26 now. Thank you so much.
P.S. Alyana and Alyana Pearl are both me. You can just leave it as Alyana with 18/26.
Put me down for 26. 26/26FINISHED!
A-Aziraphale Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
B-Beatrice Belladonna The Once and Future Witches
C-Rachel Cohen (also known as Catherine Colin) Catherine's War
D- Sadie Donovan The Lions of Fifth Avenue
E-Evelyn Hugo The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
F-Theo Faber The Silent Patient
G- Raymond Gibbons Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
H-Josie and Stella Higly Saltwater Secrets
I- Isabella A Good Kind of Trouble
J-Jesse The List of Things That Will Not Change
K-Kasia Kuzmerick Lilac Girls
L- Loretta Little Loretta Little Looks Back: Three Voices Go Tell It
M-Moon Lin Stargazing
N- Nestor Lopez The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez
O- Otto Alston The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
P-Ajax Penumbra Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Q- Quan The Kiss Quotient
R-Rill Foss Before We Were Yours
S-Snapdragon Snapdragon
T-Theo Camden The Address
U-Ulysses The Song of Achilles
V- Valentine Darsee Unmarriageable
W- Willa (last name since forgotten) Willa and the Whale
X-XR_935 The Last Human
Y-Yasmin Nightbooks
Z-Zachary Kermit The Unteachables
Update message 37, 8/26✓S: Sarah Balch in The Secret of Van Rink's Cellar by Beverly Haskell Lee (finished 2/11), my review is here
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