Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2022

[Greg]

Update to message 82:

Books longer than 500 pages: Night Fall

11/30

[Ashleigh]

Update to #8

9/15 total

2/4 Author - Rachel Caine - Ash and Quill

[Sean]

Update Msg #17

28/40

✔✔*Diversity - LGBTQ Topic - 2/2
✅The Waves - 3/14/22
✅Kafka on the Shore - 3/24/22

[Patty]

Update. message 62. 5/48

[Ashleigh]

Update to #8

10/15 total

4/5 Science and Technology - Space words in title

Aurora Blazing

[Chrissie]

Update on message #59: finished 23/46 reads.

[Chalmation]

Updated message #39

16/40

[Brittany]

updated post 11

14/41

[Sean]

Update Msg #17

29/40

✔✔*A Book Genre - Mystery - 2/2
✅The Long Goodbye - 1/21/22
✅The Spy Who Came In from the Cold - 3/26/22

[Sean]

Update Msg #17

30/40

✔✔*A Listopia - 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - 2/2
✅The Violent Bear It Away - 1/30/22
✅Pastoralia - 3/29/22

[Chalmation]

Updated message #39

17/40

[D.L.]

20/32 now complete :)

[Mie]

Update msg 29: 25/35 📚

[Eggp]

March update: message #70
Goal: 11/25, 44.00%

Book Length: 500+ pages - 3/3
 01. The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) - 12 Mar 2022, 4/5
 02. Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1) - 26 Mar 2022, 3/5
 03. Uzumaki - 28 Mar 2022, 5/5

[Alyana]

update to message 6
Progress: 25/30

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #48: 56/65

[Rachael]

Updated message 13: 10/20

[Chrissie]

Update on message #59: finished 24/46 reads.

[oshizu]

Updated msg #21: 24/60

[Sunny]

Updated Msg #31:

8/35

Thanks Oshizu! 😊

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 17/89

[Karen]

End of March update to Message #56 - Karen

Progress: 11/24

[Jane]

Updated message 65

7/21 books done!

[Chalmation]

Updated message #39

18/40

[Rhonda]

Updated message 67

14/32

[oshizu]

Bookworms Take Shelfies: March Summary

If you've recently posted, your progress has been updated!
Look at us go! We're nearly one-third finished with our pledged books though we're only one-fourth of the way through the year!


Books pledged: 2,353
Books finished: 763 (32.4% of books pledged)
Challenges begun 60
Challenges done 1 (1.7% of challenges started)

Best wishes for a marvelous second quarter of reading, friends!

[Beverly]

Updated message #15: 15/40

[Patty]

Updated message 62 6/48

[Amy]

Updated message 26-- 10/30

[Chalmation]

Updated message #39

19/40

[Kelly]

update message 84
12/20

Author Shelf:
Marie Benedict
Carnegie's Maid
Her Hidden Genius

[Patty]

Update Message 62 7/48

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 34. Progress: 7/16

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #48: 62/65

[Chalmation]

Updated message #39

20/40

*Travel: Air & Sea: 1/3
Five Weeks in a Balloon

[Michelle]

Update to message 272:
25/30 books

Author - Anna Carey -

Genre -
- Historical fiction
- Fantasy
- Reverse Harem
Diversity (in any of its forms) LGBTQ+


*Friendship, Love, and Marriage Romance

[Ashleigh]

Update tp #8

11/5 total

3/4 Author: Rachel Caine

Smoke and Iron

[Rachel]

MSG #50

4/30

[Sean]

Update Msg #17

31/40

*Memoirs, Auto-Biographies, and Biographies - 1/2
✅Memoirs of Hadrian - 4/11/22

[Mie]

Update msg 29: 31/50
I have changed my goal from 35 to 50. This is going a lot better, than I thought 🎊

[Gretchen]

Edit Msg 66
Read 20/25

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #48: 67/65

[Darlene]

Update Message #45

19/20

95%

[Kelly]

Update message 84: 16/20

An Author: Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express
The Murder on the Links

Genre (Mystery)
The Nature of the Beast
Manhattans & Murder

[oshizu]

Updates msg #21: 28/60

A Book Genre: Historical Mystery: 5/8
✔️5. Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens

Book Length: Chunksters (500 or more pages): 3/8
✔️3. Jade Legacy - 736 (Apr)

Diversity: Transgender or Non-Binary Author/Protagonist: 1/6
✔️1. Gender Queer (Transgender, Apr)

Diversity: Women in Translation: 5/16
✔️5. Flights (Polish)

A Listopia: Best Literary Mysteries: 2/12
✔️2. A Rule Against Murder #4

[oshizu]

Mid-April Howdy!

Everyone's progress has been updated to here.

Congratulations to Ziggy and TerryJane for reaching their challenge goals. Well done, friends!

[Patty]

Updated Message 62

8/48

A novella to kick off this series

[Sean]

Update Msg #17

32/40

✔✔*A Time - Published in 1864 - 2/2
✅Journey to the Center of the Earth - 3/4/22
✅Notes from Underground - 4/18/22

[Beverly]

Updated message #15: 16/40

[Carol]

continuation of message #12: (I ran out of characters)

*Diversity (in any of its forms)
Race, religion, sexual preference, gender identity, etc. (6/???)
1. Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red by Harry Kemelman - religion - finished 2/16/22
2. The Beach Affair by Barbara Johnson - sexual preference - finished 2/21/22
3. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe - gender identity - finished 3/13/22
4. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli - ethnicity - finished 5/2/22
5. Thursday the Rabbi Walked Out by Harry Kemelman - religion - finished 5/18/22
6. Best Served Cold by Jimmie Ruth Evans - race and sexual preference - finished 7/8/22

*Friendship, Love, and Marriage
The plot highlights relationships of friendship, love, and/or marriage (8/???)
1. See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy - finished 2/12/22
2. Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis - finished 2/17/22
3. The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins - finished 2/26/22
4. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - finished 4/30/22
5. Flamingo Fatale by Jimmie Ruth Evans - finished 5/19/22
6. Queen of Ambition by Fiona Buckley - finished 6/29/22
7. The Color of Destiny by Julianne MacLean - finished 12/9/22
8. In the Shadow of Evil by Nancy C. Weeks - finished 12/17/22

*A Feeling (joy, grief, love, adventurous, envy)
All strong emotions (4/???)
1. The Divinity Complex by P.H. Figur - fear, envy, jealousy - finished 4/8/22
2. The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer - fear, anxiety - finished 5/1/22
3. Murder Over Easy by Jimmie Ruth Evans - love, obsession, fear - finished 6/10/22
4. The Social Media Murders by Jon Athan - extreme fear, anxiety, anger, hatred - finished 11/19/22

*Film & Theater
Includes a performance by a main character (3/???)
1. Irene's Last Waltz by Carole Nelson Douglas - Irene plays the lead in an opera - finished 3/24/22
2. My First Murder by Leena Lehtolainen - victim, killer, & witnesses are all members of a performing choir who perform at the victim's funeral & the victim was killed while the choir was was staying at the victim's house for a rehearsal weekend - finished 6/8/22
3. The One You Love by Paul Pilkington - majority of characters are film & TV actors - finished 11/21/22

*A Fine Art (visual arts, music, plastic arts)
Dance, Painting/drawing, Sculpture, Music, Artistic craft (3/???)
1. Tutu Deadly by Natalie M. Roberts - Ballet - finished 1/16/22
2. Pussyfoot by Carole Nelson Douglas - Erotic dance - finished 1/26/22
3. Among the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan - Jewelry making - finished 2/11/22


*Food & Beverage
Food is a primary feature of the plot and/or includes featured recipes (6/???)
1. Scandal at the Gala by Wendy Meadows - finished 1/17/22
2. Farm Fresh Murder by Paige Shelton - finished 2/22/22
3. Bring Your Own Poison by Jimmie Ruth Evans - finished 7/18/22
4. Leftover Dead by Jimmie Ruth Evans - finished 9/9/22
5. State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy - finished 9/29/22
6. The Darling Dahlias and the Poinsettia Puzzle by Susan Wittig Albert - finished 11/28/22

*Heritage & Culture
Written from the point of view of somebody who is immersed in a heritage/culture that is not my own (11/???)
1. The Slaughterman’s Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits - finished 1/6/22
2. Bosambo of the River by Edgar Wallace - finished 1/11/22
3. The She-Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya - finished 1/25/22
4. The Valley by John Renehan - finished 2/8/22
5. Death of a Winter Shaker by Deborah Woodworth - finished 2/14/22
6. The Mask of Ra by Paul Doherty - finished 4/7/22
7. Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris - finished 5/13/22
8. Cassandra by Kerry Greenwood - finished 5/24/22
9. Electra by Kerry Greenwood - finished 7/16/22
10. The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan - finished 8/23/22
11. Sandi, The King-Maker by Edgar Wallace - finished 10/18/22

*A Hobby or Pastime
Anything done purely for enjoyment (4/???)
1. A Patchwork of Clues by Sally Goldenbaum - quilting - finished 3/1/22
2. Outfoxed by Rita Mae Brown - fox hunting - finished 3/3/22
3. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman - discussing and solving murders is their hobby - finished 6/13/22
4. Paper, Scissors, Death by Joanna Campbell Slan - scapbooking - finished 12/6/22

*A Listopia
Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (34/56)
1. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus by Alexander Pope et al - finished 1/1/22
2. City Sister Silver by Jáchym Topol - finished 1/9/22
3. Vathek by William Beckford - finished 1/10/22
4. Evelina by Frances Burney - finished 1/19/22
5. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift - finished 1/24/22
6. Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland - finished 2/15/22
7. Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot - finished 2/24/22
8. Love in Excess by Eliza Fowler Haywood - finished 3/9/22
9. A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne - finished 4/11/22
10. A Tale of a Tub by Jonathon Swift - finished 4/20/22
11. Cecilia by Frances Burney - finished 4/28/22
12. Amelia by Henry Fielding - finished 5/7/22
13. Anton Reiser by Karl Philipp Moritz - finished 5/8/22
14. The Nun by Denis Diderot - finished 5/9/22
15. Candide by Voltaire - finished 5/16/22
16. Camilla: By Frances Burney - Illustrated by Frances Burney - finished 5/25/22
17. The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade - finished 5/26/22
18. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald - finished 6/6/22
19. Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac - finished 6/14/22
20. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - finished 6/29/22
21. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole - finished 9/21/22
22. The Bitter Glass by Eilís Dillon - finished 10/10/22
23. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson - finished 10/14/22
24. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - finished 10/17/22
25. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - finished 10/20/22
26. The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis - finished 10/31/22
27. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe - finished 11/05/22
28. At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill - finished 11/9/22
29. Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. by Jonathan Swift - finished 11/13/22
30. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - finished 11/15/22
31. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith - finished 11/17/22
32. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett - finished 11/25/22
33. Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - finished 12/1/22
34. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - finished 12/11/22


continued on #408