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message 101: by Tien (new)

Tien (tiensblurb) | 9034 comments Mod
ooh slow down!! ha ha ha


message 103: by Lauren (new)

Lauren (laurenjberman) | 1224 comments Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #5: Prime Number

Hell Breaks Loose by Sophie Jordan - 359 pages

Read: March, 18 2023
Rating: 4 Stars


message 104: by Meg (new)

Meg (megscl) | 1074 comments Prompt 6: Dice

I rolled 6 😬

1 Dragon's Time✔️
2 False Value✔️
3 Hogfather✔️
4 The Daughter of Time✔️
5 Blood of Dragons ✔️
6 The Wedding Date ✔️


message 105: by Susan (new)

Susan | 3756 comments Mod
Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #1: READ 1 BIG* Book posted 1/1

READ 1 BIG* Book

2nd largest last year was Winter 832 pages

Seveneves,880 pages - fin 3/14

Whew!


message 106: by Meg (new)

Meg (megscl) | 1074 comments Prompt #7

Seven continents (setting in each)
✔️AFRICA - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
✔️ANTARTICA - How the Penguins Saved Veronica
✔️ASIA - The Palace of Illusions
✔️AUSTRALIA - P is for Pearl
✔️EUROPE - The Liar's Dictionary
✔️NORTH AMERICA - The Sentence
✔️SOUTH AMERICA - The Puma Years


message 107: by Coralie (new)

Coralie | 1658 comments Prompt #10

Book with X in title
Book with X in author's name
Last Exit by Max Gladstone completed March 23


message 108: by Rosemary (new)

Rosemary | 949 comments Completed Prompt 2: Heads or Tails

✔ 1. Tails - last book in series
The Diviners by Margaret Laurence, 3 Jan 23

✔ 2. Heads - first book in series
Blood on the Cowley Road by Peter Tickler, 20 Jan 23

✔ 3. Heads - first book in series
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton, 2 Mar 23

✔ 4. Heads - first book in series
The Lake District Murder by John Bude, 22 Mar 23

✔ 5. Tails - last book in series
The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell, 15 Jan 23


message 109: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 601 comments Prompt 6 completed

- Dice

2 series books
Away with the Fairies 24/01/23
Tooth and Nail 03/02/2023


Christina (AKA Babbling) (babblingbookreviews) | 147 comments Prompt 6: Dice

Rolled a 4.

Reading the In Death series. starting with book #2.

✔ 1.Glory in Death by J.D. Robb February 4, 2023 ★★★★★
✔ 2. Immortal in Death by J.D. Robb February 18, 2023 ★★★★★
✔ 3. Rapture in Death by J.D. Robb February 23, 2023 ★★★★★
✔ 4. Ceremony in Death by J.D. Robb March 14, 2023 ★★★★

Glory in Death (In Death, #2) by J.D. Robb Immortal in Death (In Death, #3) by J.D. Robb Rapture in Death (In Death, #4) by J.D. Robb Ceremony in Death (In Death, #5) by J.D. Robb


message 111: by Amy (new)

Amy | 2243 comments Prompt 8: Oyxgen - DONE!
Read 8 comfort/guilty pleasure books - latest in series


1. A World of Curiosities - Completed 3/3/23
2. Triple Cross - Completed 2/13/23
3. Righteous Prey - Completed 3/11/23
4. Racing the Light - Completed 3/7/23
5. The Zero Night - Completed 3/17/23
6. A Stranger in Town - Completed 2/7/23
7. Long Shadows - Completed 3/18/23
8. The Last Orphan - Completed 3/25/23


message 112: by Leena (new)

Leena Aluru (mgleena) | 55 comments Comlleted Prompt #10

✔️ Title : X Marks the Scot
4/3 🌟🌟🌟🌟

✔️Author: Christopher X. Sullivan book Hair That Laughs in the Wind
25/3 🌟🌟

Completed Prompt #11
✔️The Wedding Wager
23/3 🌟🌟

✔️The Wedding Wager
24// 🌟🌟🌟🌟


message 113: by Coralie (new)

Coralie | 1658 comments Prompt 11
Repdigit
2 books with the same title

Providence by Anita Brookner completed March 28
Providence by Max Barry completed March 24


message 114: by Nat (new)

Nat | 171 comments Prompt 10: X

1. Title: Exiles 3/27
2. Author: Mona by Pola Oloixarac 3/5


message 115: by Meg (new)

Meg (megscl) | 1074 comments Prompt 1 : big

My second longest book of 2022 was Seveneves at 867 pages
I read The Arabian Nights - 1049


message 116: by Susan (new)

Susan | 3756 comments Mod
Prompt 10: X Read book where "x" is found in:
1. title (no subtitle)
2. author's name

The Last Exit, by Max Gladstone - fin 3/28


message 117: by Susan (new)

Susan | 3756 comments Mod
11 is the fist repdigit (repeated digit)
Read 2 books where:
titles (excluding subtitles / series names) contain same EXACT word/s
OR
authors' names (first AND last) are the same (you may ignore middle name/initial but spelling must be identical)

started on on iPad - audiobook

Heaven's Prisoner's, author Matthew Angelo - fin 3/27
Heaven's Prisoner, author James Lee Burke - fin 3/28


message 118: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 620 comments Prompt 2 - COMPLETED

1. Heads - The Grace of Kings (Dandelion Dynasty 1) - completed 2/17/23
2. Heads - Perdido Street Station - 3/23/23


message 119: by Joanna (new)

Joanna (walker) | 620 comments Prompt 6: Dice - COMPLETED

Rolled a 2.

Completed: 2/2

✓1. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot 2) -Completed 1/28/23
✓2. The Murders of Molly Southbourne (Molly Southborne 1) - Completed 3/28/23


message 120: by Leena (new)

Leena Aluru (mgleena) | 55 comments Tien, Hi, you seem to have missed my update on completed prompt #11. updated on Sunday 26th Mar.


message 121: by Tien (new)

Tien (tiensblurb) | 9034 comments Mod
oh sorry, Leena, if you could please split them next time? ie post each complete prompts as separate comment :)


message 122: by Rosemary (new)

Rosemary | 949 comments Prompt 7: Lucky Seven - Completed

Seven colours of the rainbow in book covers.

Red:
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery, 17 Jan 23
Orange:
Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto, 17 Jan 23
Yellow:
Lucy by the Sea (Amgash, #4) by Strout Elizabeth Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout, 23 Jan 23
Green:
A Meditation on Murder (Death in Paradise, #1) by Robert Thorogood A Meditation on Murder by Robert Thorogood, 28 Jan 23
Blue:
When Breath Becomes Air THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER by Paul Kalanithi When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, 27 Jan 23
Indigo:
The Clicking of Cuthbert by P.G. Wodehouse The Clicking of Cuthbert by P.G. Wodehouse, 9 Feb 23
Violet:
The Cat Who Saw Stars (Cat Who..., #21) by Lilian Jackson Braun The Cat Who Saw Stars by Lilian Jackson Braun, 30 Mar 23


message 123: by Leena (new)

Leena Aluru (mgleena) | 55 comments Tien - sure no problem


message 124: by LaurLa (new)

LaurLa | 1391 comments COMPELTE - Prompt 10: X


My Prompt 10 Plan (msg 5)

Prompt🔹Read book/s where "x" is found in title and/or author name

Can't Text This (Texting, #3) by Teagan Hunter James (Across the Aisle #4) by Xyla Turner

💟1. title🔹Can't Text This🔹03.06 ★★★★
💟2. author's name🔹Xyla Turner🔹James🔹03.14 ★★★


message 125: by LaurLa (new)

LaurLa | 1391 comments COMPELTE - Prompt 13: Baker's Dozen

My Prompt 13 Plan (msg 8)

Prompt🔹Read 12 books from 12 different series AND 1 book from a series which is new to you

The Housewife Assassin's Killer App (The Housewife Assassin, #8) by Josie Brown Accidentally Married to...a Vampire? (Accidentally Yours, #2) by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff Blueprint for a Kiss (Take a Chance, #3) by Nancy Warren The Miles Between Us (Jackson Falls, #5) by Laurie Breton Ravenous (Quantum, #5) by Marie Force The End of Tomorrow (The Burrow, #3) by Tara Brown Garrett's Destiny (Dark Protectors, #15) by Rebecca Zanetti
The Night Is Watching (Krewe of Hunters, #9) by Heather Graham Finding My Happy Pace (Toronto, #8) by Heather Wardell Always You (Adair Family #3) by Samantha Young Sizzling Summer Nights (Made in Montana #16) by Debbi Rawlins Her Dakota Man (Dakota Hearts, #1) by Lisa Mondello 🔹 Hearts Collide Infinity Prism Book One (An Infinity Prism Series 1) by Kylie Walker

💟#8 Housewife Assassin🔹The Housewife Assassin's Killer App🔹03.18 ★★★
💟#2 Accidentally Yours🔹Accidentally Married to...a Vampire?🔹03.19 ★★★
💟#3 Take a Chance🔹Blueprint for a Kiss🔹03.20 ★★★★
💟#5 Jackson Falls🔹The Miles Between Us🔹03.21 ★★★★
💟#5 Quantum🔹Ravenous🔹03.23 ★★★★
💟#3 The Burrow🔹The End of Tomorrow🔹03.26 ★★★
💟#15 Dark Protectors🔹Garrett's Destiny🔹03.27 ★★★★
💟#9 Krewe of Hunters🔹The Night Is Watching🔹03.29 ★★★★
💟#8 Toronto🔹Finding My Happy Pace🔹03.30 ★★★
💟#3 Adair Family🔹Always You🔹03.31 ★★★★
💟#16 Made in Montana🔹Sizzling Summer Nights🔹03.31 ★★★
💟#1 Dakota Heartss🔹Her Dakota Man🔹03.31 ★★★★

💟#1 Infinity🔹Hearts Collide: Infinity Prism Book One🔹03.24 ★★


message 126: by [deleted user] (last edited Apr 02, 2023 07:40PM) (new)

Prompt 4: Family

I'll Be There: My Life with the Four Tops (4/2)
(4 people on the cover.)

I'll Be There My Life with the Four Tops by Duke Fakir


message 127: by Marina (last edited Apr 03, 2023 01:22AM) (new)

Marina (sonnenbarke) | 1513 comments Prompt 1: Big - COMPLETED 02/04

Second biggest book in 2022 was 868 pages long.

Il Visconte di Bragelonne - 2306 pages - read 02/04


Christina (AKA Babbling) (babblingbookreviews) | 147 comments Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #1: Big Book

My longest books were audiobooks:
The Stand by Stephen King 1,152
In the Land of the Long White Cloud by Sarah Lark 717
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas 705

Potential
Destiny by Sally Beauman March 27, 2023 ★ 848

Destiny by Sally Beauman


message 129: by Susan (new)

Susan | 3756 comments Mod
Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #3: Read 3 books of 1 author

Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye - fin 2/13
Tar Baby - fin 3/21
God Help the Child - fin 4/4


message 130: by Lagullande (new)

Lagullande | 484 comments Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #6: Dice - COMPLETED

Read the number of books as per your roll: 1

All books must be part of a series/

1. The Bone Farm (Jane Hawk series 0.5) finished 1/4/23


message 131: by Coralie (new)

Coralie | 1658 comments Prompt 7
Lucky 7

Seven notes on the musical scale

1. Do
Dogs of War completed Jan 30
2. Re
Remember Love completed Feb 26
3. Mi
Midnight Never Come completed Feb 27
4. Fa
Fated completed Feb 28
5. So
Someone to Remember completed Feb 9
6. La
Laurus completed Feb 23
7. Ti
Time Was completed April 10


message 132: by Amy (new)

Amy | 2243 comments Prompt 11: repdigit - DONE!

Two books with identical titles:


The Hiding Place by Paula Munier - Completed 3/16/23
The Hiding Place by Karen Harper - Completed 4/10/23


message 133: by Susan (last edited Sep 16, 2023 01:41PM) (new)

Susan | 3756 comments Mod
Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #7: Lucky Seven posted 1/15

Read 7 books that feature 'Seven' [Mix and Match]

Rainbow: cover has > 50% one particular color, or at least 7 colors

✔1. pink/red The Interior (Red Princess, #2) by Lisa See , 63.3% - fin 1/30
✔2. blue With a Hammer for My Heart by George Ella Lyon , 53.7 blue - fin 2/6
✔3. grey Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe Sneak Peek by Heather Webber 91.1% grey - fin 2/16
✔4. at least seven colors Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman , red, orange, yellow, green, grey, brown, black - fin 2/28
✔5. black The Bookman's Promise (Cliff Janeway, #3) by John Dunning , 55.6% black fin 3/23
✔6. green Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison 99.0% green - fin 4/9
✔7. orange The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse , 90.3% orange - fin 4/13

COMPLETED 4/13


message 134: by Jayme(theghostreader) (last edited Apr 21, 2023 12:31PM) (new)

Jayme(theghostreader) (jaymetheghostreader) | 1282 comments Prompt 4 Family complete
Link to post https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
How it fits: 1 person on book 1, 2 people on book 2, 1 person on book 3


message 135: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 601 comments prompt 11

I have read Sense and Sensibility and Sense & Sensibility

I hope they work as & and "and" mean the same


message 136: by Beth (new)

Beth | 581 comments Prompt #1 Big: Complete
Battle Cry of Freedom
904 pages


message 137: by Rosemary (new)

Rosemary | 949 comments COMPLETE: Prompt 8: O2

Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books:
20th-century mysteries and M/M romance

✔ 1. Other Half by Jordan Castillo Price, 31 Jan 23 (M/M romance)
✔ 2. Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh, 2 Feb 23 (1937 mystery)
✔ 3. Murder While You Work by Susan Scarlett, 9 Feb 23 (1944 mystery)
✔ 4. Lessons in Desire by Charlie Cochrane, 22 Feb 23 (M/M romance)
✔ 5. Subtle Bodies by Jordan Castillo Price, 1 Mar 23 (M/M romance)
✔ 6. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, 5 Mar 23 (1927 mystery)
✔ 7. Banker by Dick Francis, 21 Apr 23 (1982 mystery)
✔ 8. The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown & Other Stories by Peter Lovesey, 25 Apr 23 (1994 mysteries)


message 138: by Snowtulip (new)

Snowtulip | 103 comments Prompt #3: Third time's the charm

DONE: 3/3

Elizabeth Hunter

1. The Dancer and the Dark, 1/3/23, 4 stars
2. Saint's Passage, 1/22/23, 3.5 stars
3. Pearl Sky, 4/29/23, 4 stars


Christina (AKA Babbling) (babblingbookreviews) | 147 comments prompt #3: Third time's a charm

prompt #3: Third time's a charm
Nora Roberts
Read 3 books of 1 author
✔ 1. Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts February 9, 2023 ★★★★
✔ 2. Captive Star by Nora Roberts May 1, 2023 ★★★★
✔ 3. Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts January 29, 2023 ★★★


Morrigan's Cross (Circle Trilogy, #1) by Nora Roberts Captive Star (Stars of Mithra, #2) by Nora Roberts Heart of the Sea (Gallaghers of Ardmore, #3) by Nora Roberts

Series mini binge is ok but the intent behind this is to read an author's works other than their most popular/well-known series etc


message 140: by LaurLa (new)

LaurLa | 1391 comments COMPLETE - Prompt 1: BIG

My Prompt 1 Plan (msg 31)

Prompt🔹Read 1 BIG* Book
Prompt Goal 🔹greater than 637 pp

With Everything I Am (The Three, #2) by Kristen Ashley

674 pages🔹With Everything I Am🔹04.30 ★★★★


message 141: by [deleted user] (new)

Prompt 6: Dice

Completed: 5/4

I rolled a 4.

1. Crazy Rich Asians (1/19)
2. Lord of Chaos (2/17)
3. East of West, Vol. 5: All These Secrets (5/4)
4. Farewell Summer (5/4)


message 142: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 601 comments Can any mod tell me if the books in post 135 work for that prompt as it hasnt made finish list yet - thanks


message 143: by Dee (new)

Dee (austhokie) | 2695 comments Dee

Prompt 11

Notorious - Charlie Cochet - finished - 4/13/23
Notorious - Mae Thorn - finished - 5/5/23

2 books with the same title


message 144: by Snowtulip (new)

Snowtulip | 103 comments Prompt 6: Dice

DONE

Roll = 5 (Series)

1. Snowblind, 4/1/123, 3 stars #1 in series
2. Northland, 2/4/23, 3 stars #2 in series
3. One Moment Please, 4/7/23, 2.5 stars, #3 in series
4. The Spooky Life, 3/23/23, 3.5 stars, #4 in series
5. Silent Knight, 5/7/23, 4 stars, #5 in series


message 145: by Meg (new)

Meg (megscl) | 1074 comments Prompt 11 Repdigit
2 books with the same title or author name

Animal by Lisa Taddeo✔️
Animal by Sara Pascoe✔️


message 146: by Bea (new)

Bea | 5307 comments Mod
Prompt 11: repdigit COMPLETED

Two books with identical titles/different authors:
Broken by Karin Slaughter 5/1/23 - 4*
Broken by Karin Fossum 4/28/23 - 3*


message 147: by Bea (new)

Bea | 5307 comments Mod
Prompt #6: Dice COMPLETED

I rolled a 6.

1. The Trouble with Turkeys Read 1/18/23 - 3*
2. The Dogs of Riga Read 3/19/23 - 4*
3. Bluebird, Bluebird Read 1/30/23 - 4*
4. Chasing Midnight Read 5/6/23 - 4*
5. Town in a Strawberry Swirl Read 1/20/23 - 4*
6. Deadly Inheritance Read 1/25/23 - 4*


message 148: by Bea (new)

Bea | 5307 comments Mod
Prompt 3: Third time's the charm COMPLETED
I will read Ray Bradbury.

1. Zen in the Art of Writing Read 1/15/23 - 5*
2. The Illustrated Man Read 4/28/23 - 4*
3. Something Wicked This Way Comes Read 3/8/23 - 4*


Christina (AKA Babbling) (babblingbookreviews) | 147 comments Prompt 2: Heads or Tails

Last books of 2022 were Song of the Forever Rains (Mousai #1) and A Girl from Nowhere (The Firewall Trilogy #1) (both finished on the same day)

TAILS -Grave Phantoms by Jenn Bennett May 8, 2023 ★★★★★ (#3 Roaring Twenties trilogy)

Grave Phantoms (Roaring Twenties, #3) by Jenn Bennett


message 150: by Snowtulip (new)

Snowtulip | 103 comments Prompt 8: Oxygen COMPLETE
Read 8 of your comfort / guilty pleasures books - Romance

1. Hero, 2/2/23, 4 stars
2. Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail, 2/4/23, 4 stars
3. Infamous, 2/5/23, 4.5 stars
4. Meet Cute, 2/12/23, 4 stars
5. Girl Gone Viral, 2/22/23, 4 stars
6. Rescue You, 4/11/23, 3.5 stars
7. In the Dog House, 4/22/23, 3 stars
8. Before I Let Go, 5/10/23, 4 stars


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