2022 Paint by Numbers Challenge

[Carolien]

The goal of this challenge is to find a logical connection between a number from 1-25 and a book you have read about between January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022 and list it below.

Example:
1 - Ghana Must Go Debut book by author
2 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Second in series
3 - Zululand Snow Three friends
4 - The Bromance Book Club Four words in the title

You may use books you read for other challenges. Any format is acceptable - paper, audio and ebooks.

Total books to be read is 25. You may not use the same book twice.

Please remember that only books with 120 pages or more counts.

You can keep track of your challenge in this thread.

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[Lu]

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[Wayne]

Wayne J's 2022 Read By Numbers Challenge (25/25)

1 : Setting Free the Bears (John Irving's debut novel)
2 : The Last Disco In Outer Mongolia (The book is based on two trips undertaken by Nick Middleton)
3 : Travels in West Africa (Three fish collected by Mary Kingsley named after her)
4 : Butterfly Burning (Fourth novel by Yvonne Vera)
5 : Shogun: A Novel of Japan (5 members on Council of Regents)
6 : Susters van Eva (One of the male characters is called Ses (6))
7 : Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter (The bomb attack happened on 7 April 1988)
8 : Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh had 8 friends)
9 : Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (The narrator is nine years old when his father sufferes his first heart attack)
10 : The Firm(Mitch steals $10 million from the Mafia)
11 : Poirot Investigates (number of short stories)
12 : Baudolino (Baudolino and 11 other companions travel in search of the land of Prester John)
13 : The Red Tent (thirteen children in total, Dinah and twelve brothers)
14 : In Chancery (John Galsworthy born on 14 August 1967)
15 : Half of a Yellow Sun(Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born on 15 September 1977)
16 : Yes Please (Amy Poehler was born on 16 September 1971)
17 : The Villagers (age of Lolita when she falls pregnant)
18 : The Late Monsieur Gallet (Emile Gallet deceived his wife for 18 years)
19 : No Longer at Ease (number of chapters)
20 : The Pearl (John Steinbeck died 20 December 1968)
21 : Endless Night(Age of Ellie when she died, a week before her 22nd birthday)
22 : Children of the New World (22 characters in the book)
23 : The League of Youth (Henrik Ibsen died on the 23 May 1906)
24 : The Razor's Edge (the plot spans a period of 24 years - 1919 - 1943)
25 : Homage To Catalonia(George Orwell was born on 25 June 2022)

[Carolien]

1- The Religious Body - 1st in series
2 - The Henna Artist - 2 sisters
3 - Bird Summons - 3 friends
4 - Ancestor Stones - 4 women's stories
5 - A Death in the Family - 5ht in series
6 - Angel - 6th book by author
7 - The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter - bomb attack on 7 April 1988
8 - The Moonstone - 8 narratives
9 - Dead Man's Ransom - 9th book in series
10 - Dictator's Way - 10th book in series
11 - The Harafish - Naguib Mahfouz born on 11 December
12 - Suspects Nine - 12th in series
13 - Susters van Eva - Dalene Matthee born on 13 October
14- Behold, Here's Poison - 14 chapters
15 - Murder on the Ballarat Train 15 chapters
16 - Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes - 16 chapters
17 - Arabella - 17 chapters
18 - The Sirens Sang of Murder - 18 chapters
19 - The Winter Sea - 19 chapters
20 - Inspector French's Greatest Case - 20 chapters
21- Death in the Andamans - M.M. Kaye born on 21 August
22 - The Other Man - Disha is 22 years old
23 - Comes a Stranger - author E.R. Punshon died on 23 October
24 - Dear Hugo - 24 Chapters
25 - Tragedy at Law - author Cyril Hare died on 25 August

[Monique]

1 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - First book in the series
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5 - Ikarus by Deon Meyer - 5th book in the series
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7 - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab - Author born on 07 July
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[Marlese]

Marlese’s spot: 25/25

1: Untamed shore (Silvia Moreno Garcia) 1st book read by this author
2: Dark planet falling (Anna Carven) 2nd book in the series
3: Dance with the devil (Sherrilyn Kenyon) 3rd book in the series
4: Out of darkness (Anna Carven) 4th book in the series
5: Emerald Blaze (Ilona Andrews) 5th book in series
6: Walkyr (main character) is one of 6 brothers (Heart of the Cat)
7: ELectric heart (Anna Carven) 7th book in the series
8: Merciful secrets (Shawn McGuire) 8th book in the series
9: Death at La Fenice (Donna Leon) - author born in September
10: Forged in darkness (Anna Carven) 10 soldiers in the First division
11: Die again (Rizzoli & Isles) 11th in the series
12: Peril at End house (Agatha Christie) died 12 Jan 1976
13: The girl in cabin 13 (AJ Rivers) - appears in title
14: Dark planet warriors (Anna Carven) 14 chapters incl epilogue
15: Our game (John le Carre) - 15 chapters
15: The secret of Chimneys (Agatha Christie) born 15 Sept 1890
16: Broken (Karen Slaughter) wrote 16 books in 2 series
17: Three dog knight (Annabel Chase) - 17 chapters
18: Fellowship of fear (Aaron Elkins) - 18 books in the series
19: Pink Moon (Annabel Chase) - 19 chapters
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21: Sanctuary (Anna Carven) - 21 chapters
22: The dark witch (Nora Roberts) - 22 chapters incl epilogue
23: Into the light (Anna Carven) - 23 chapters
24: Loving the Highlander (Janet Chapman) - 24 chapters
25: Death at La Fenice (Donna Leon) - 25 chapters

[Diane]

Diane's Spot:

Challenge completed

1 – The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green [first non-fiction book written]
2 - Black Coral: Underwater Investigation Unit #2 by Andrew Mayne [second in a series]
3 – Year of wonders by Geraldine Brooks [three people working together to tend the sick in the village
4 – The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
5 - Five, the age Colleen McCullough starting writing - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
6 - The Last Thing He Told me by Laura Dave [6 words in title]
7 - Kindred by Octavia Butler [Dana travels back to the 1800s 7 times
8 - Souls to rescue - Coraline Graphic Novel by P. Craig Russell and Neil Gaiman
9 – Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner – Michelle moved to the USA when she was 9 months old
10 - Ten times, the number of time the boy counts everything - The One-In-A-Million Boy by Monica Wood
11 – Eleven people die in Catch 22 by Jospeh Heller
12 - Twelve, the age Costa wrote a letter to his younger self - I am Costa by Costa Carastavrakis
13 - Thirteen Guests. One body - The Guest List by Lucy Foley
14- Fourteen years the story spans - Rock paper scissors by Alice Feeney
15 – Everything I Never Told you by Celeste Ng has been translated into 15 languages
16 – How to Win Friends & influence people by Dale Carnegie [16 million copies sold]
17 - The Last by Hanna Jameson who wrote her first novel at age 17
18 – The age David Grohl was when he became a professional musician in The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by David Grohl
19 - Missing & Endangered [Joanna Brady #19] by J.A. Jance
20 - Number of books written by Louise Penny - State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
21- 2021 Booker prize winner: The Promise by Damon Galgut
22 - North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell - was intended to be 22 weekly episodes but landed up being 20
23 - The age Bear Grylls climbed Mount Everest in Mud, Sweat and Tears by Bear Grylls
24 - Freckles by Cecelia Ahern - Freckles was 24
25- The Cellist by Daniel Silva [Gabriel Allon #21] - number of translations the author's books have been translated into

[Carolien]

Well done, Diane!

[Wayne]

Done with this challenge

[Diane]

Congrats, Wayne!

[Wayne]

Diane wrote: "Congrats, Wayne!"

Thank you Diane. Joining you in the finish circle.

[Carolien]

Congrats, Wayne! I've been missing 22 for weeks. Eventually I suppose it will pitch up.

[Wayne]

Thanks Carolien, you didn't finish any books yesterday?
;,>)

[Carolien]

No, But I'm sure I started another one!

[Carolien]

Done!