Bookworms Take Shelfies - 2023

[Greg]

Update to message 30:

Genre:
Science Fiction (1/5):
Caliban's War

5/30

[Chalmation]

Updated message #9

14/40

[Beth]

Update to message #45: 60/100 completed.

[Patty]

Update Message 42

24/40

[Rachel]

Update" MSG #13 6/25

[bailey, Challenges]

msg 27

Progress: 27/20

[Chalmation]

Updated message #9

15/40

[Greg]

Update to message 30:

Genre: Mystery (3/5):
Hidden Order

6/30

[Chalmation]

Updated message #9

16/40

[Greg]

Update to message 30:

3 books by Robert B. Parker (2/3)
Small Vices

7/30

[Truitt_T]

Update to message 20:

Books: 66/177 - 37%
Themes Begun: 12/18
Themes Completed: 1/18

[Chalmation]

Updated message #9

17/40

[Lilli Gilliam]

update 177 or 178
14/20

[Chrissie]

Update message #23 - 15/31

[Leticia]

BOOKWORMS TAKE SHELFIES
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
12/20

20 books:

*An Author - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Empire in Black and Gold
Dragonfly Falling
Children of Memory

*An Author - Michael J. Sullivan
Age of Swords
Age of War
Age of Legend
Age of Death
Age of Empyre


*Novella
Magic Tides
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
And Put Away Childish Things (3)

* 500 +

Children of Ruin

[Chrissie]

Update message #23 - 16/31

[Rachael]

Updated message 18: increasing my goal to 25 books
18/25 books completed

[Rachel]

Update: MSG #13 7/25

[Cordelia]

Update to 12, 19/35 read

[Kristina]

Update to message 29 - 49/155 books read.

[bailey, Challenges]

msg 27

Progress: 33/20

[Margie]

Update to message #39

Progress: 23/65

[bailey, Challenges]

The participants list has been updated!

Congratulations to everyone for making it through another month of 2023. We are inching closer to the middle of the year now!

[Greg]

Update to message 30:

Genre: Mystery (4/5)
Easy Prey

8/30

[Linda]

Please update #26

35/55

[Sarah]

Bookworms Take Shelfies:
Message 25 Updated

Progress: 44/55

[Chalmation]

Updated message #9

18/40

[Chalmation]

Updated message #9

19/40

[Robynne]

Updated Message 6

4/40

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 32. Progress: 4/10.

[Rachel]

Update: mSG #13 8/25

[Beth]

Update to message 45: 70/100 completed

[Dubhease]

Update to message 4

6/13

[Chrissie]

Update message #23 - 17/31

[Rachel]

Update: MSG #13 7/25 : I had to take off of a book, so needed to update on how many books I have completed.

[Kristin]

Update message #82 - 9/20

[Rachael]

Updated message 18. Having a lot of fun with my Shelfies so have increased my goal again.
Completed: 21/30 books.
Thanks

[Patty]

Update message 42

33/40 books completed

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 32. Progress: 6/10.

[Sarah]

Message 25 Updated

Progress: 45/55

[Truitt_T]

Message 20 updated:

Books:80/177 - 45%
Themes Begun: 13/18
Themes Completed: 3/18

[Kristina]

Update to message 29 - 57/155 books read.

[Margie]

Update to message #39

Progress: 32/65

[bailey, Challenges]

The participants list has been updated through here!

I might miss or be late on the mid-month update in June due to the readathon taking place at the same time.

[Beth]

As of Oct 23 - Complete!
Books: 200/200
Shelves: 10/10

An Author - Agatha Christie 5/5
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1. The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot #6)
2. Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot #20)
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
4. Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot, #36)
5. And Then There Were None
(hide spoiler)]

A Book Genre - crime fiction 45/45
(view spoiler)[
1. Paradise (DS Walker #2)
2. Blue Monday (Frieda Klein, #1)
3. Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey #1)
4. A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy #1)
5. Outback (DS Walker, #1)
6. Long Black Veil: A Novel
7. Who Killed Miss Finch? (Edward Crisp, #1)
8. Dog on It (A Chet and Bernie Mystery, #1)
9. Sewing Suspicion (A Quilting Cozy #1)
10. Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder (Inspector Chen Cao #12)
11. Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery #1)
12. My Sister, the Serial Killer
13. The Maid's Diary]
14. A Demon in My View
15. [book:The Silent Patient
16. A Town Called Solace
17. Dead or Alive
18. We Are All the Same in the Dark
19. The Girl on the Train
20. Dying to Be Her (Empty Coffin, #2)
21. The Searcher
22. The Boy in the Suitcase (Nina Borg #1)
23. The Soulmate
24. An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey, #1)
25. Pistachio Lemon Glazed Murder (Donut Hole Mystery #12)
26. The Chartreuse Clue (Bishop Regan and Davey Goldman Mystery, #1)
27. The Green Eyes of Bâst
28. Boldly Basil Murder (Papa Pacelli's Pizzeria #37)
29. Ten Green Bottles (Edward Crisp, #7)
30. The Girl in the Green Raincoat (Tess Monaghan, #11)
31. The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
32. Smiley Faces
33. Swing: A Mystery
34. The Perfect Neighborhood
35. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
36. The Girls in the Garden
37. Stabbing in the Senate (A Washington Whodunit Book 1)]
38. Elephants Can Remember (Hercule Poirot, #42)
39. The Guest List
40. In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
41. The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad #2)
42. Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
43. The Sisters Brothers
44. Mothered: A Novel
45. The Lost Apothecary
(hide spoiler)]

Book Length (under 200 or 500+ pages) - <=200 pages 45/45
(view spoiler)[
1. All My Darkest Impulses (House of Crows, #1)
2. Fog Descending (House of Crows, #2)
3. Circling the Drain (House of Crows, #3)
4. Love the Way You Lie (House of Crows, #4)
5. Apple Die (Apple Orchard #1)
6. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
7. Bad Mother Vol. 1
8. Bea Wolf
9. Ben and the Secrets of the Magic Cloak (The Adventures of Ben and the Magic Cloak Book 1)
10. Black Is a Rainbow Color
11. Charlotte's Web
12. Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
13. Cookiesaurus Rex
14. Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
15. Exercises in Style
16. Folsom Untold: The Strange True Story of Johnny Cash's Greatest Album
17. Fred & Rose West: Britain's Most Infamous Killer Couples
18. Haiku U: From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables
19. Hatchet
20. How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
21. I Am Quiet: A Story for the Introvert in All of Us
22. I Love My Body Because
23. It's like this, cat
24. Kapaemahu
25. Little Bear
26. Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison)
27. Looking for Alaska
28. My Name Is Lucy Barton
29. Obeying Evil: The Mockingbird Hill Massacre Through the Eyes of a Killer
30. Passing
31. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
32. Shopgirl
33. The ABCs of Black History
34. The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1)
35. The Chocolate Touch
36. The Night Dad Went to Jail: What to Expect When Someone You Love Goes to Jail (Life's Challenges)
37. The Velveteen Rabbit
38. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
39. Green Eggs and Horror: A Children's Story Inspired Anthology
40. Vader's Little Princess (Star Wars: Darth Vader and Son #2)
41. The Time Machine
42. Squirrel in the Museum (Twitch the Squirrel Book 3)
43. A Single Man
44. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
45. Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
(hide spoiler)]

Celebrations - Christmas/New Year's - 5/5
(view spoiler)[
1. Resting Scrooge Face
2. 1999: A Novella
3. Little Women
4. A Partridge in a Pear Tree (The Twelve Days of Christmas, #12)
5. Crewel Yule (A Needlecraft Mystery, #8)
(hide spoiler)]

A Fine Art - painting 5/5
(view spoiler)[
1. Hello Beautiful
2. Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1)
3. Under the Egg
4. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
5. Girl with a Pearl Earring
2. Demon Copperhead
3. All the Light We Cannot See
4. John Adams
5. The Nickel Boys
(hide spoiler)]

Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies - 25/25
(view spoiler)[
1. Spare
2. Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
3. I'm Glad My Mom Died
4. Wishful Drinking
5. A Heart That Works
6. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
7. Finding Me
8. Taste: My Life Through Food
9. My Mother Was Nuts
10. Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies
11. Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
12. Dad Is Fat
13. Enemies, A Love Story
14. Finding My Dance
15. No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon
16. Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
17. Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch
18. The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There
19. Thomas Jefferson, The Art of Power
20. Pear Shaped: The Funniest Book So Far This Year About Brain Cancer
21. In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
22. Olive Oatman: Explore The Mysterious Story of Captivity and Tragedy from Beginning to End
23. Who Was Dr. Seuss?
24. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
25. My Life in France
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A Time - 1915 to 1945 (WWI, between wars, WWII) - 25/25
(view spoiler)[
1. A Farewell to Arms
2. All Quiet on the Western Front
3. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
4. Code Name: Lise
5. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
6. Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
7. Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
8. The Book Thief
9. The Great Gatsby
10. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
11. The Kitchen Front
12. The Orphan Collector
13. The Snow Child
14. The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2)
15. The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
16. Their Eyes Were Watching God
17. They Called Us Enemy
18. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
19. X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II
20. Swing: A Mystery
21. Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
22. The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5)
23. A Hoxton Childhood
24. Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
25. Lost Horizon
(hide spoiler)]

Friendship, Love, and Marriage (I'm interpreting this as "and/or") 30/30
(view spoiler)[
1. A Gentleman in Moscow
2. A Monster Calls
3. Austenland (Austenland, #1)
4. Carrie Soto Is Back
5. Circus Mirandus
6. Does My Body Offend You?
7. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
8. Good Omens: A Full Cast Production
9. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
10. Jane & Edward: A Modern Reimagining of Jane Eyre
11. Johnny Tremain
12. Matilda
13. Meet Clay Brown
14. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
15. Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel
16. The Book Eaters
17. The Good Sister
18. The Joy Luck Club
19. The Song of Achilles
20. You Can Go Your Own Way
21. The Graveyard Book
22. Kitchen
23. The Moffat Museum (Moffats Book 4)
24. How Green Way My Valley
25. Kaleidoscope
26. Midnight in Austenland
27. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
28. Critical But Stable
29. Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries #3)
30. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
(hide spoiler)]

A Listopia - Best Nonfiction Books About Horrifying Events 10/10
(view spoiler)[
1. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
2. Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
3. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
4. Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War
5. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
6. Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
7. The Search for the Green River Killer: The True Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
8. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
9. The New York City Triangle Factory Fire (Images of America: New York)
10. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
(hide spoiler)]

[Beth]

Update to message 45: 77/100 completed.

[Ali]

Updated message #15: 11/25 completed.

[Ashleigh]

Update to #22

7/10

1/3 author - Victoria Aveyard

Glass Sword

[Chalmation]

Updated message #9

20/40

[Julie]

updated message 16
1/10