D.L.'s trying for 75 books now!

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My original goal was to read 30 books. I upped it to 75 books in April.

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Yearly Challenges

A-Z Challenge: Character Edition *COMPLETED*

Book Club

Clear the Shelves *COMPLETED*

Genre Bingo *COMPLETED*

Spell a Better World

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Quarterly Challenges

QTR. 3 *COMPLETED*

OTR. 4

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Monthly Challenges

* March 2021 *COMPLETED*

* April 2021 *COMPLETED*

* August 2021 *COMPLETED*

* September 2021

* October 2021

* November 2021

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Unofficial Challenges

* Ashleigh's 2021 (Unofficial) Challenge *COMPLETED*

* Reading Adventures in April *COMPLETED*

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A-Z Challenge: Character Edition

Progress: 26/26 -- CHALLENGE COMPLETED

✔ A - Alexis Becker from Katie and the Cupcake War
✔ B - Bert Bobbsey from The Dune Buggy Mystery
✔ C - Christy Knight from All I Want Is You
✔ D - David Savage from Double Play
✔ E - Elsie Hawkins from Back to the Bedroom
✔ F - Fletcher, Sadie from Spyhunt
✔ G - Grant Clifton from The Man Who Had Everything
✔ H - Henry Alden from The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels
✔ I - Izzy Gilmore from Vanilla Bean Killer
✔ J - Jeri McKane from Pick Your Poison
✔ K - Kate MacGregor from Kate and Holly: The Beginning
✔ L - Leah from From Scratch
✔ M - Elizabeth "Lizzy" McVay from The Prom Queen
✔ N - Nicole from Speak
✔ O - Ophelia Redmond from Somebody's Baby
✔ P - Poonachi from Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
✔ Q - Sarah Quilliam from A Dash of Death
✔ R - Rafe Khatchadorian from Dog's Best Friend
✔ S - Samantha from The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery
✔ T - Tira Beck from Beloved
✔ U - Ursula Drake from Peppermint Twisted
✔ V - Violet Alden from The Mystery at the Fair (Boxcar Children Mystery & Activities Specials #6)
✔ W - Winchester, Teddy from 1-800-CUPID
✔ X - Xander Orlock from Vamps
✔ Y - Yinka from My Sister, the Serial Killer
✔ Z - Pedro Zamora from Secrets in the Hills: A Josefina Mystery

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Book Club

Progress: 3/8

** I will join 1 Group Read this year

**I will join 5 Buddy Reads this year
✅ 1. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

** I will join 2 TBR Twin reads this year
✅ 1. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
✅ 2. Smitten by Janet Evanovich

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Clear the Shelves



Progress: 20/20

√ 1. The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery
√ 2. Beloved
√ 3. The Mystery at the Fair (Boxcar Children Mystery & Activities Specials #6)
√ 4. Pick Your Poison
√ 5. The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels
√ 6. Double Play
√ 7. Spyhunt
√ 8. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
√ 9. Dog's Best Friend
√ 10. The Dune Buggy Mystery
√ 11. All I Want Is You
√ 12. The Man Who Had Everything
√ 13. Somebody's Baby
√ 14. Speak
√ 15. Peppermint Twisted
√ 16. Death-Fires Dance
√ 17. Final Curtain
√ 18. Beth's Story, 1914
√ 19. The Witches
√ 20. Moving Day

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Genre Bingo



Progress: 2/2 Bingos - CHALLENGE COMPLETED!

Any book: Pick Your Poison by Kristi Holl (3/23/21)
Middle Grade: The Mystery at the Fair (Boxcar Children Mystery & Activities Specials #6) by Gertrude Chandler Warner (3/23/21)
Young Adult: The Prom Queen by R.L. Stine (3/20/21)
Romance: Beloved by Diana Palmer (3/21/21)
Mystery: The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels by Gertrude Chandler Warner (3/25/21)
Adventure: Spyhunt by Michele Ashman Bell (3/28/21)
Memoir: Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West (3/31/21)
Sci Fi: His Human Nanny by Michele Mills (4/9/21)
Book-to-Film: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (4/11/21)
Historical Fiction: Beth's Story, 1914 by Adele Whitby (4/19/21)
Thriller: Stolen Children by Peg Kehret (7/30/21)
Horror: Be Mine by Jane McFann (8/3/21)
Award Winner: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (8/10/21)
Suspense: Liar Liar by James Patterson (8/12/21)
Chick-lit: Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot (8/30/21)
Short Stories: BWWM Interracial Romance Short Stories 2 (10/12/21)

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QTR. 3

Book Recycling

Progress: 11/10 - CHALLENGE COMPLETE!

1. Moving Day - donating to the library
2. The Case of the Mystery Meat Loaf - donating to the library
3. The Girls - donating to the library
4. Stolen Children - donating to the library
5. Brooke's Not-So-Perfect Plan - donating to the library
6. Be Mine - donating to the library
7. Safe in His Embrace - donating to the library
8. Secrets in the Hills: A Josefina Mystery - donating to the library
9. The Rancher's Summer Secret - borrowed from the library
10. The Sitter - donating to the library
11. Liar Liar - donating to the library

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QTR. 4

Bibliophiles for World Peace

Progress: 3/9

Titles
(Love) Love in Bloom
(Love) Love Me If You Dare
(Love) Love Unexpected: With All My Heart
(Together) Gather Together in My Name

Themes
(Friendship) - 2
✔ (Friendship) Mary Anne Saves the Day
✔ (Friendship) Dawn and the Impossible Three
✔ Kristy's Big Day

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March 2021

** One-Word Wonder

Progress: 3/3

✔ 1. Beloved by Diana Palmer
✔ 2. Spyhunt by Michele Ashman Bell
✔ 3. Shrill by Lindy West



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** What a Wonderful World

Progress: 2/2

√ 1. Read a book set in or about a big city -- The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels (3/25/21)

√ 7. Read a book that prominently features a body of water of some kind (eg. river, lake, stream, ocean, beach etc) -- The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery (3/18/21)

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April 2021

** We All Live in a Yellow Submarine

Progress: 3/3

√ 1. Mourning - Mexico and Ethiopia: Read a book by an author who has passed away or a book where a main character passes away.
Henry Huggins (4/11/21)

√ 2. Courage - Japan: Read a book you’re intimidated by or a book where a character must exhibit courage to survive.
Speak (4/11/21)

√ 5. Mystery fiction and thrillers - Italy: Read a mystery, thriller or true crime book.
Peppermint Twisted (4/13/21)

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August 2021

** Soulmates - Opposites Attract

Progress: 10/10

Plan/Random
✔️ 1. Brooke's Not-So-Perfect Plan
✔️ 2. Random Access Murder

Dangerous/Safe
✔️ 3. Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job
✔️ 4. Safe in His Embrace

Truth/Lies
✔️ 5. Shades of Truth
✔️ 6. Liar Liar

Summer/Winter
✔️ 7. The Rancher's Summer Secret
✔️ 8. Winter's Camp

Sister/Brother
✔️ 9. My Sister, the Serial Killer
✔️ 10. Her Brother's Keeper

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September 2021

** Do These Genes Make My Book Look Big?

Progress: 1/6

The Ancient Ones
~ Back in the Game
~ Close Enough to Touch
✅ Naked in Death (9/6/21)

The New Additions
~ Catch It Spinning
~ The Creek Killer
~ The Witching Place: A Fatal Folio

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October 2021

Spooky Spelling

My word is Zombies.

Progress: 4/7

✔ Z: Zombie Moon
O
✔ M: Mary Anne Saves the Day
✔ B: Bras & Broomsticks
I
✔ E: Epiphany with Tea: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
S

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November 2021

Things With Wings

Progress: 0/3
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Spell a Better World

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

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Ashleigh's 2021 (Unofficial) Challenge

Progress: 2/2 - COMPLETE!

1. A book set in Alabama, USA

2. A book where a character is or gets sick
Pick Your Poison by Kristi Holl (3/23/21)

3. A book set in South Africa
4. A book about a scientist (fiction or non-fiction)

5. A book involving shopping
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (11/10/21)

6. A book set in Poland
7. A book with the word 'attraction' or a variant in the title
8. A book about the Civil War (fiction or non-fiction)
9. A book involving superheroes
10. A book with a plant or flower in the title

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Reading Adventures in April

Progress: 2/2

2. Read a book with a 4 in the total page count.
✔ Peppermint Twisted (4/13/21)

✔ 4. Read a book with a 4-word title.
The Dune Buggy Mystery (4/2/21)

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I've upped my goal to 75 books. I think I can, I think I can lol

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Some personal goals I'm also working on:

Read 75 books (75/75)
Donate 20 books to charity or Little Libraries (17/20)
Finish at least 2 of the yearly challenges I signed up for (2/2)
Finish 2 book series' completely (1/2)
Read 5 books over 200 pages (5/5)
Read 5 books over 300 pages (5/5)
Read 2 books over 400 pages (0/2)
Finish at least 5 monthly challenges (3/5)

[Blagica , Challenges]

Look at you go do you have a standout favorite yet?

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Blagica wrote: "Look at you go do you have a standout favorite yet?"

Hi, sorry for the late reply. Nope, not yet. But I'm not done searching lol

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I just joined the Around the Year group and am starting to make my plan for 2022. This will be kind of tough but is exciting at the same time!

THE 2022 LIST
1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y: The Kite Runner
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021: The Nine-Month Marriage
3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name

6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover: When No One is Watching
7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2

10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3
11. A book from historical fiction genre
12. A book related to glass: The Mark on the Mirror
13. A book about a woman in STEM: Gorillas in the Mist

14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on Goodreads
15. A book without a person on the cover
16. A book related to Earth Day
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge

18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
22. A book with a Jewish character or author: The Diary of a Young Girl

23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
24. A book related to inclement weather
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages: Daddy-Long-Legs
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1

27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards: The Fault in Our Stars
29. A book set on or near a body of water
30. A book related to mythology

31. A book published at least 10 years ago: Déjà Dead
32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer: Murder on the Last Frontier
33. The next book in a series
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1

36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
38. A book by a Latin American author
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time

40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
41. A book with a theme of food or drink
42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
43. A book set in a small town or rural area: Peace Like a River
44. A book with gothic elements: Mexican Gothic

45. A book related to a game: Whack 'N' Roll
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
47. A book with handwriting on the cover
48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022

49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years
51. A book published in 2022
52. A book with a time-related word in the title

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