Vian's 2021 Corner

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Last year I went for 100. This year, I'm going to keep the trend going.

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Challenges:

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2021 Total

27/100

January
1. Wayward Son - by Rainbow Rowell
2. The Hidden Staircase - by Carolyn Keene
3. Station Eleven - by Emily St. John Mandel
4. The Prince and the Troll - by Rainbow Rowell
5. Heartstopper: Volume Two - by Alice Oseman
6. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - by Cho Nam-Joo
7. Fever Dream - by Samanta Schweblin

February
8. The Stranger Diaries - by Elly Griffiths
9. Fangirl - by Rainbow Rowell
10. The Girl Beneath the Sea - by Andrew Mayne
11. Club Dead - by Charlaine Harris
12. Black Coral - by Andrew Mayne
13. Ghost Wood Song - by Erica Waters
14. In a Holidaze - by Christina Lauren

March
15. Bridget Jones's Diary - by Helen Fielding
16. My Sister, the Serial Killer - by Oyinkan Braithwaite
17. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
18. Storm Front by Jim Butcher
19. The Witch Elm by Tana French
20. Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
21. The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
22. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
23. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
24. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
25. Amethyst Witch by Barbra Annino
26. One by One by Ruth Ware
27. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

April
28. The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan
29. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
30. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
31. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
32. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
33. Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon by Matt Fraction
34. Hawkeye, Volume 2: Little Hits by Matt Fraction
35. An Inquiry Into Love and Death by Simone St. James
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Mexican Gothic - by Silvia Moreno-Garcia













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Popsugar Reading Challenge 2021

1/30

1. A book that published in 2021
2. An Afrofuturist book
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover
4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign
5. A dark academia book
6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job
8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction
9. A book with a family tree
10. A bestseller from the 1990s
11. A book about forgetting
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.)
13. A locked-room mystery
14. A book set in a restaurant
15. A book with a black-and-white cover
16. A book by an indigenous author
17. A book that has the same title as a song
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about
19. A book that discusses body positivity
20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list
21. A genre hybrid
22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors
23. A book with something broken on the cover
24. A book by a Muslim American author
25. A book that was published anonymously
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title
27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts
28. A magical realism book
29. A book set in multiple countries
30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021
31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”
33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
34. A book about a social justice issue
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads
37. A book you think your best friend would like
38. A book about art or an artist
39. A book everyone seems to have read but you
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

Advanced Prompts
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t
47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random
49. A DNF book from your TBR list
✅ 50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) - Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin



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2021 OTOH Challenge: Around the World


JANUARY: South Korea

✅ - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
- The Plotters
- Human Acts
- Grass

FEBRUARY: Argentina
- Thursday Night Widows
- All Yours
- The Penguin Lessons
✅ - Tender Is the Flesh

MARCH: Norway
The Bat

APRIL: Zimbabwe


MAY: Ireland


JUNE: Iran


JULY: Poland


AUGUST: Egypt


SEPTEMBER: Jamaica


OCTOBER: India

- Burnt Sugar

NOVEMBER: Australia


DECEMBER: Philippines

[Vian]

UR UNSOLVED CASES
12/24

Current Level: Gumshoe

Who: 2/4, What 3/4, When 1/4, Where 2/4, How: 3/4, Why 2/4


WHO: 2/4
Solve cases featuring a main character (sleuth, perp, victim, or suspect) with a unique profession. Be sure they’re distinct; a chef, baker, caterer, and pastry chef are all in the culinary profession.
1. -> Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
- Robert Langdon is symbologist
✅ 2. (sleuth)Harry Dresden, Wizard
✅ 3. (suspect) Gone Girl, Nick Dunn, writer
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WHAT: 3/4
1. Has a punny title.
✅ 2. Written by an author of color. - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
3. Has a four-word title.
✅ 4. A crime fiction subgenre you rarely or never read. One by One by Ruth Ware
✅ 5. Has a color in the title. - Black Coral by Andrew Mayne
6. Has a plant or animal on the cover.
7. Related to the yearly or quarterly theme (state theme)

WHEN: 1/4
When did the dastardly deed take place or get reported?
1. In summer.
2. In the 1800s or earlier.
3. During an official holiday.
✅ 4. Between nightfall and sunrise. - The Witch Elm by Tana French
5. During a special event (festival, convention, party, etc.)
6. Reported (original publication or reprint) in your birthday month. - The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
7. Reported (published) in 2021. The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths

WHERE: 2/4
Where did the dastardly deed take place?
1. In the capital city of your country of residence.
2. In a different capital city.
3. “At home."
✅ 4. At a workplace. The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths (teacher murdered at a school)
5. Inside or on the premises of a public venue (hotel, restaurant, airport, etc.).
6. In a Nordic country.
✅ 7. In or near a body of water (beach, river, etc.) - The Girl Beneath the Sea by Andrew Mayne (muder/dumped in a canal)

HOW: 3/4
For this category, each means of murder must be distinctly different.
For example, pistols and rifles are both firearms; knives and daggers are too similar.
✅ 1. a hammer -> Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters
✅ 2. pills -> A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
✅ 3. fangs/claws -> Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
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WHY: 2/4
What motivated you to choose a particular case?
1. Your favorite mystery author or series.
2. Your favorite mystery subgenre.
✅ 3. Appears in a Goodreads listopia (which one?). The Hidden Staircase - by Carolyn Keene (Best Mysteries of the 20th Century)
✅ 4. Won a literary prize for crime fiction (which one?). -> Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (Edgar Award for Best Novel)
5. Read by a fellow participant in this challenge (who?)
6. A cold case (among your TBRs for over a year). -> the historian
7. Average Goodreads rating of 4 stars or above. ->Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

RANKS
Whenever you post a progress update, be sure to let us know if you’ve earned a promotion!
*Neighborhood Snoop: Less than 1 case in each category
*Gumshoe (6 cases): 1 case in each category
*Crime Scene Investigator (12 cases): 2 cases in each category
*Undercover Operative (18 cases): 3 cases in each category
*Forensic Analyst (24 cases): 4 cases in each category (24 books)
*Special Agent in Charge (30 cases): 5 cases in each category
*Assistant Chief of Detectives (36 cases): 6 cases in each category
*Chief of Detectives (42 cases): 7 cases in each category


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Pages Read


January
1. Wayward Son - by Rainbow Rowell
- finished: 1/8
- 356 pages
2. The Hidden Staircase - by Carolyn Keene
- finished: 1/15
- 182 pages
3. Station Eleven - by Emily St. John Mandel
- finished: 1/16
- 333 pages
4. The Prince and the Troll - by Rainbow Rowell
- finished: 1/19
- 26 pages
5. Heartstopper: Volume Two - by Alice Oseman
- finished: 1/20
- 320 pages
6. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - by Cho Nam-Joo
- finished: 1/23
- 176 pages
7. Fever Dream - by Samanta Schweblin
- finished: 1/24
- 183 pages

Jan Total: 1,576

February
8. The Stranger Diaries - by Elly Griffiths
- finished: 2/2
- 338 pages
9. Fangirl - by Rainbow Rowell
- finished: 2/12
- 438 pages
10. Mexican Gothic - by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- finished: 2/
- 304 pages
11. The Girl Beneath the Sea - by Andrew Mayne
- finished: 2/15
- 328 pages
12. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
- finished: 2/19
- 274 pages
13. Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters
- finished: 2/28
- 368 pages
14. Black Coral - by Andrew Mayne
- finished: 2/
- 317 pages
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2021 The Catch-Up Book Club

0/5

January
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) by Maya Angelou
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Outlander (Outlander, #1) by Diana Gabaldon

February
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

March
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
1984 by George Orwell


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The United States

West: (pacific nw, sw)
California -
Arizona -
Nevada -
New Mexico -
Oregon -
Washington -
Utah -
Colorado - Sadie
Idaho -
Montana -
Hawaii -
Alaska -

North:
Illinois -
Wisconsin -
North Dakota -
South Dakota
Wyoming -
Michigan -
Minnesota -
Indiana -

Midwest:
Texas -
Oklahoma -
Nebraska -
Arkansas-
Kansas -
Iowa -
Missouri -

East/Northeast:
New York -
New Jersey -
Pennsylvania -
Massachussets -
Delaware -
Maryland-
Connecticut -
Rhode Island -
Ohio -
Vermont -
Maine -
New Hampshire -
Washington DC -


South:
Georgia -
Florida -
Alabama -
South Carolina -
North Carolina -
Mississippi -
Tennessee -
Virginia -
Louisiana -
Kentucky -
Virginia
West Virginia -

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*East Bound*

☑️ - United States: The Girl Beneath the Sea by Andrew Mayne
- Mexico:
☑️ - Ireland: The Witch Elm by Tana French
☑️ - Scotland: The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
☑️ - England: The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
☑️ - France: One by One by Ruth Ware
Norway: The Bat - by Jo Nesbø
☑️ - Nigeria: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
☑️ - South Korea: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
☑️ - Japan: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Australia:
☑️ - Canada: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
☑️ - United States: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell


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