Lilisa fills in the blanks in 2023

[Lilisa]

Yay, here’s to a fun Puzzle Me This challenge in 2023!

Challenge: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Challenge rules:: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Lilisa]

Badge 1: 12 tasks from from each puzzle

Puzzle 1 ✅
Task #7
Read a book set in Italy
♦️Through a Glass, Darkly by Donna Leon

Puzzle 2 ✅
Task #10
Read a book from the first 5 pages of this list (https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...). It must be tagged as "adult" on the main book page
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Task #4
Read a book with a higher than 4.1 average rating on Goodreads.
♦️Task#1
Read a book set in the 21st century Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

Puzzle 3 ✅
Task #1
♦️Read a book about the environment About Face by Donna Leon
Task #2
Read a book set in Russia
Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan
Task #7
Read a book where the main character sets forth on a major journey.
TBD (use Boxed Wine at Sunset for Puzzle 6)
Task #8
Read a book that is the third or ninth book in a series.
Friends in High Places

Puzzle 4 ✅
Task #8
Read a book where the first letter of the title (not including articles) starts with ABCDE.
♦️The Cost of Sugar by Cynthia McLeod or Arrested Song by Irena Karafilly or Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin or Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton or The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Puzzle 5 ✅
Task #1
Read a book that is set in at least three different countries around the globe
♦️The Book Spy by Alan Hlad
or The Travelers by Chris Pavone

Puzzle 6 ✅
Task #4
Read a book set in Germany
The First Mrs. Rothschild by Sara Aharoni
Task#7
♦️Read a book where there is a character that is a teacher.
Boxed Wine at Sunset

Puzzle 7 ✅
Task #1
Read a book set between 1901-1946
The Book Spy by Alan Hlad (takes place in 1942) or ♦️The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill by Brad Meltzer (takes place in 1943)

Puzzle 8 ✅
Task #8 or Task #4
Task #8
Read a book where the author's last name starts with an n, and whom you've never read before.
♦️Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyōko Nakajima
Task #4
Read a book where a letter has a significant role. IE letters back and forth, found letters are significant to story. ???


Puzzle 9✅
♦️Task #2
Read a book that has a bar or saloon featured in it. A Man
Task #7
Read a book by a British author
Still Life by Sarah Winman or Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley or Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes

Puzzle 10✅
Task #10
Read a book set in Sweden or written by a Swedish author
A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir by Jason Timbuktu Diakité
♦️Task #6 Read a book where a significant character is a bachelor or bachelorette. The character must remain unmarried through the entire book. Exiles???

Puzzle 11✅
Task #4
♦️Read a book that is/was released in 2023
Independence: A Novel

Puzzle 12 ✅
Task #8
Read a book set in Africa
A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Nigeria) or A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda)
Task#10
Read a book originally publishing in 2015. ♦️ If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

[Lilisa]

Badge 2 - choose two puzzles from:

Puzzles 1, 3, 4, 5

Puzzle 1, Task #1
Read a book that is set in the 21st century. Yes, it may be set in the future, if it takes places prior to December 2100. Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu

[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 1
2. Puzzle 1, Task 7
3. Through a Glass, Darkly
4. Listened to the audiobook, hardcover edition is 256 pages
5. Read a book set in Italy
6. The book is set in Venice, Italy

[Janice, Moderator]

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[Lilisa]

Thanks Janice. And thanks so much for your work on creating the challenge and your year-long work on it! It must feel like Groundhog Day sometimes!🙂

[Janice, Moderator]

It's good to see you participate this year Lilisa. Enjoy. :)

[Lilisa]

Janice wrote: "It's good to see you participate this year Lilisa. Enjoy. :)"

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[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 2
2. Puzzle 7, Task 1
3. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
4. Read the book, hardcover edition is 400 pages
5. Read a book set between 1901-1946
6. The book is set primarily in 1943 with the assassination plot. It provides background starting in 1941 and references the Normandy invasion of 1944 and Hitler’s suicide in 1945.

[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 3
2. Puzzle 4, Task 8
3. The Cost of Sugar
4. Read the e-book, no hardcover edition, paperback edition is 296 pages
5. Read a book where the first letter of the title (not including articles) starts with ABCDE.
6. The book’s title The Cost of Sugar starts with a “C”

[Janice, Moderator]

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[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 4
2. Puzzle 5, Task 1
3. The Book Spy
4. Read the e-book, no hardcover edition, paperback edition is 304 pages
5. Read a book that is set in at least three different countries around the globe
6. The book is set in the U.S., Portugal, Austria, and Germany

[Janice, Moderator]

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[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 5
2. Puzzle 12, Task 10
3. If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
4. Read the paperback, no hardcover edition, paperback edition is 352 pages
5. Read a book originally publishing in 2015
6. The book was published January 1, 2015

[Janice, Moderator]

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[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 6
2. Puzzle 10, Task 6
3. Exiles
4. Listened to the audiobook, hardcover edition is 368 pages
5. Read a book where a significant character is a bachelor or bachelorette. The character must remain unmarried through the entire book.
6. The MC Aaron Falk is a bachelor and remains so throughout the book

[Janice, Moderator]

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[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 7
2. Puzzle 6, Task 7
3. Boxed Wine at Sunset
4. Read the paperback book - 254 pages
5. Read a book where there is a character that is a teacher.
6. The author and her husband were both teachers serving in the Peace Corps in this nonfiction book

[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 8
2. Puzzle 11, Task 4
3. Independence: A Novel
4. Read the hardcover book - 288 pages
5. Read a book that is/was released in 2023
6. The book was released January 17, 2023

[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 9
2. Puzzle 3, Task 1
3. About Face
4. Listened to the audiobook, hardcover edition is 278 pages
5. Read a book about the environment
6. Incinerators are releasing unacceptable levels of air pollutants into the environment, contaminated garbage is being dumped in waters. This murder mystery is about solving this case.

[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 10
2. Puzzle 9, Task 2
3. A Man
4. Read the e-book 285 pages, hardcover edition is 302 pages
5. Read a book that has a bar or saloon featured in it.
6. The MC frequents several bars during his investigation, and one of the characters works at a bar.

[Janice, Moderator]

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[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 11
2. Puzzle 2, Task 1
3. Birnam Wood
4. Read the e-book 426 pages, hardcover edition is 432 pages
5. Read a book that is set in the 21st century
6. The book is set in 2017

[Janice, Moderator]

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One to go!

[Lilisa]

1. Badge 1, Book 12
2. Puzzle 8, Task 8
3. Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
4. Read the paperback book 240 pages, hardcover edition is 256 pages
5. Read a book where the author's last name starts with an n, and whom you've never read before.
6. The author’s last name is Nawaz and I haven’t read any of her books before

[Janice, Moderator]

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Congrats on finishing Badge 1!

[Lilisa]

Yay, thanks Janice!