Completed Prompts

[Bea]

Finished list still does not show my finish of 3 and 6...and now 10

[Susan]

Bea's post made me think that I should check mine.

Please see message # 167 for my completion of Prompt #7.

[Susan]

Fifteen for Fifteen (2023) > Prompt 14. Arrays

Read 14 books:
2 books from 7 different shelves* (ie. 7 shelves only from which you will read 2 books each)

1. audiobook (Jan 2015)
✔Case Histories, added 5/15/2020 - fin 5/20
✔The Girl Who Drank the Moon - fin 6/20

2. mystery (Mar 2020)
✔The Sleeping Nymph - fin 5/3
✔The Day After Tomorrow - fin 6/10

3. crime (Feb 2015
✔1. The Game(Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes # 7), - fin 3/9
✔2. Locked Rooms - fin 6/17

4. science fiction (May 2009)
✔Redwood and Wildfire - fin 4/18
✔ The Peripheral (Jackpot #1) - fin 7/4

5.historical fiction (sept 2009)
✔Correspondents: A Novel - fin 5/31
✔The Vanishing Half - fin 7/9

6. Romance (Aug 2009)
✔Set My Heart to Five - fin 5/13
✔In the Lives of Puppets - fin 6/25

7. Contemporary (Jan 2014)
✔The Probable Future - fin 7/17
✔The Unit - fin 8/11

completed 8/11

[LynnB]

Prompt 12, Monthly Shelves
Complete 8 Aug 2023

📗January 9 - Young Adult, p. 1, 2942 times
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling, 7 Aug 2023

📗February 10 - Adventure, p. 2, 6 times
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country, Helen Russell, 25 July 2023

📗March 12 - Classics, p.1 - 12 times
Confusion, Elizabeth Jane Howard, 19 May 2023

📗April 9 - Travel, p. 1 - 35 times
Fly Girl: A Memoir, Ann Hood, 9 May 2023

📗May 19 -Stand-Alone - p. 2, 2 times
A Map for the Missing, Belinda Huijuan Tang, 29 May 2023

📗June 22 - Epistolary, p. 1, 101 times
The Appeal, Janice Hallett, 8 Aug 2023

📗July 15 - Family - p. 1, 33 times
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan, 19 Mar 2023

📗August 22 - Chick Lit, p. 1, 103 times
The Chicken Sisters, K.J. Dell'Antonia, 27 Apr 2023

📗September 11 - Historical Fiction, p.1, 89 times
Where Coyotes Howl, Sandra Dallas, 3 June 2023

📗October 21 - Classics, p. 1, 10 times
Casting Off, Elizabeth Jane Howard, 22 May 2023

📗November 10 - Time Travel - p. 1, 257 times
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?, Jodi Taylor, 3 Apr 2023

📗December 9 - Humor - p.1, 73 times
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops, Shaun Bythell, 19 Apr 2023

[Amy]

Prompt 12: Wheel of Shelves - DONE!

1. Jan-14 Contemporary - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (page 4) - Completed 4/7/23
2. Feb-16 Series - Immortal in Death (page 22) - Completed 7/19/23
3. Mar-22 slow-burn - Things You Save in a Fire (page 16) - Completed 8/15/23
4. Apr-12 Alternate-History - The Kaiju Preservation Society (page 14) - Completed 4/1/23
5. May-21 supernatural - Hex Hall (page 2) - Completed 5/10/23
6. Jun-10 chick-lit - Someone Else's Shoes (page 25) - Completed 4/23/23
7. Jul-19 authors-of-color - The Bluest Eye (page 1) - Completed 5/15/23
8. Aug-21 love-hate-relationship - Rock Paper Scissors (page 17) - Completed 8/10/23
9. Sep-15 fairy-tales - Cursed (page 16) - Completed 6/11/23
10. Oct-14 music - They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (page 3) - Completed 7/22/23
11. Nov-14 life-changers - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (page 12) - Completed 7/25/23
12. Dec-10 contemporary-fiction - The Winners (page 11) - Completed 5/19/23

[LynnB]

Prompt 9: Square Number
Completed 16 Aug 2023

Author #1: Ellis Peters
1. The Pilgrim of Hate, Ellis Peters, 10 May 2023
2. An Excellent Mystery, Ellis Peters, 11 Aug 2023
3. The Raven in the Foregate, Ellis Peters, 16 Aug 2023

Author #2: Charles Todd
1. The Shattered Tree, Charles Todd, 27 Feb 2023
2. A Divided Loyalty, Charles Todd, 27 May 2023
3. A Fatal Lie, Charles Todd, 29 June 2023

[Lauren]

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #2: Heads or Tails

My last book was Twisted Lies by Angela Marsons. This is book #14 in the DI Kim Stone series.

✔︎ 1. Heads - Reflections by Nora Roberts
Read: January 30, 2023
✔︎ 2. Heads - Calculated Risk by Janie Crouch
Read: March 10, 2023
✔︎ 3. Heads - The Secrets We Bury by Debra Webb
Read: April 8, 2023
✔︎ 4. Tails - The Viscount and the Vixen by Lorraine Heath
Read: January 10, 2023
✔︎ 5. Tails - A Lady Never Surrenders by Sabrina Jeffries
Read: February 8, 2023
✔︎ 6. Tails - A Farewell to Charms by Molly Harper
Read: February 9, 2023
✔︎ 7. Heads - An English Bride in Scotland by Lynsay Sands
Read: April 12, 2023
✔︎ 8. Tails - The Darkness We Hide by Debra Webb
Read: May 10, 2023
✔︎ 9. Heads - Deadly Descent by Kaylea Cross
Read: April 18, 2023
✔︎ 10. Heads - Against the Wall by Rebecca Zanetti
Read: May 1, 2023
✔︎ 11. Tails - Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews
Read: May 15, 2023
✔︎ 12. Heads - Murder at Haven's Rock by Kelley Armstrong
Read: June 11, 2023
✔︎ 13. Tails - The Wedding Bargain by Yvonne Lindsay
Read: June 16, 2023
✔︎ 14. Tails - Beautiful Sinner by Sophie Jordan
Read: July 19, 2023

[[deleted user]]

Prompt 7: Lucky Seven (Complete)

Red - The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (3/18)
Orange - Dragon Hoops (3/23)
Yellow - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (2/24)
Green - Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together (4/7)
Blue - The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World (5/23)
Indigo - The Falling Season: Inside the Life and Death Drama of Aspen's Mountain Rescue Team (8/2)
Violet - The Sirens of Titan (8/17)

[Susan]

Completed #6 and #9. I'm a bit late posting them.
#6 is message 8 in that thread
#9 is message 35 in that thread

[Joanna]

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #3: Third Time's the Charm

Completed: 3/3 - Finished 8/20/23


Gabrielle Zevin
✅Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - completed 2/17/23
✅Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - completed 8/20/23
✅The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - completed 2/19/23

[Nat]

Prompt 15: Happy 15th!

LOST 2023
1. The Wrath and the Dawn 5/26

Trim that TBR
2. The Sleepless 7/25
3. Something Wicked This Way Comes 8/19

Seriously Serial '23
4. Oh William! 7/11
5. Along the Saltwise Sea 5/3
6. Longshadow 5/13
7. Hag's Nook 5/29

By the Month
8. The Forest of Stolen Girls 4/25
9. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography 4/22
10. Black Water Sister 5/13
11. Sorrowland 5/20
12. Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey 5/12
13. The Old Woman with the Knife 5/11
14. In the Dark 5/14
15. The Darkest Corners 8/20

[Meg]

Prompt 15

Lost 2023
The Swan Song of Doctor Malloy✔️
There but for the✔️
Foal's Bread✔️
Larry's Party✔️
Dancing Girls and Other Stories✔️
Harvest✔️

By the month
Great Circle✔️
Starfish✔️
The Bay✔️
The Murder Rule✔️
Black and Blue✔️
Return to Valetto✔️
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech✔️

Moving mountains
Broken✔️

Found 2023
Solito✔️

[LynnB]

Prompt 14. Arrays
Completed 26 Aug 2023

Read 14 books:
2 books from 7 different shelves* (ie. 7 shelves only from which you will read 2 books each)

✔Contemporary (Jan 14)
1. Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting, Clare Pooley, 31 Mar 2023
2. Earth's the Right Place for Love, Elizabeth Berg, 5 May 2023

✔Historical-Fiction (Sept 09)
1. Stormy Weather, Paulette Jiles, 5 Apr 2023
2. The Night Travelers, Armando Lucas Correa, 7 May 2023

✔Short-Story-Collection (May 14)
1. The Best of Connie Willis, Connie Willis, 13 Apr 2023
2. Seasonal Work: Stories, Laura Lippman, 28 Apr 2023

✔Crime (Feb 15)
1. The Body in the Dales, J.R. Ellis, 15 Apr 2023
2. Children of the Revolution, Peter Robinson, 17 May 2023

✔Non-Fiction (Dec 08)
1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson, 18 Apr 2023
2. The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, Katherine Sharp Landdeck, 6 May 2023

✔Canada (Jul 16)
1. Last Winter, Carrie Mac, 2 May 2023
2. The Librarianist, Patrick deWitt, 26 Aug 2023

✔Biography (Oct 10)
1. The Gatekeeper, Kathryn Smith, 13 May 2023
2. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, Ilyon Woo, 16 May 2023

[Kristina Simon]

Prompt 14: Arrays ~ my post

Read 2 books from 7 different monthly shelves

SHELF: Nov-19 lesbian
✓ 1. One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (p. 1) Read: 5/9/23
✓ 2. The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows by Olivia Waite (p. 7) Read: 7/18/23

SHELF: Jun-17 southern
✓ 3. Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron (p. 5) Read: 5/22/23
✓ 4. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (p. 4) Read: 6/21/23

SHELF: Jun-10 chick-lit
✓ 5. How to Walk Away by Katherine Center (p. 6) Read: 5/23/23
✓ 6. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary (p. 1) Read: 7/2/23

SHELF: Feb-15 Crime
✓ 7. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett (p. 6) Read: 5/27/23
✓ 8. The Alienist by Caleb Carr (p. 2) Read: 6/13/23

SHELF: Sep-09 historical-fiction
✓ 9. The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton (p. 16) Read: 6/22/23
✓ 10. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (p. 5) Read: 7/4/23

SHELF: Nov-13 animals
✓ 11. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun (p. 12) Read: 7/1/23
✓ 12. How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior (p. 14) Read: 8/26/23

SHELF: Feb-17 Magical Realism
✓ 13. Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire (p. 14) Read: 7/5/23
✓ 14. Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (p. 3) Read: 7/25/23

[Marina]

Prompt 3: Third time's the charm - COMPLETED 29/08

Jo Nesbø

1. Macbeth - read 27/01
2. The Bat - read 01/05
3. Headhunters - read 29/08

[Kristina Simon]

Prompt 12: Monthly Shelves ~ COMPLETE

✓ 1. Jan 16: Debut ~ Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (p. 1) Read: 3/20/23
✓ 2. Feb 20: Speculative Fiction ~ Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (p. 1) Read: 4/22/23
✓ 3. Mar 17: Psychological Fiction ~ Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (p. 2) Read: 4/2/23
✓ 4. Apr 14: Europe ~ A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (p. 2) Read: 6/4/23
✓ 5. May 13: 5-stars ~ Wolfsong by T.J. Klune (p. 10) Read: 6/24/23
✓ 6. Jun 13: death ~ Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (p. 2) Read: 4/22/23
✓ 7. Jul 10: history ~ Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (p. 3) Read: 8/29/23
✓ 8. Aug 18: mythology ~ This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron (p. 8) Read: 6/8/23
✓ 9. Sep 20: kick-ass-heroines ~ School's Out—Forever by James Patterson (p. 7) Read: 5/24/23
✓ 10. Oct 09: paranormal ~ Undead and Unreturnable by MaryJanice Davidson (p. 13) Read: 5/16/23
✓ 11. Nov 11: childhood ~ Watership Down by Richard Adams (p. 4) Read: 8/11/23
✓ 12. Dec 11: suspense ~ Home Before Dark by Riley Sager (p. 2) Read: 3/23/23

[Meg]

Prompt 8: Oxygen

Read 8 comfort/guilty pleasure books. (all rereads)

Read: 8/8

1. Nimona✔️
2. Carry On✔️
3. The Shadow of the Wind✔️
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower✔️
5. Matilda✔️
6. One Hundred Years of Solitude✔️
7. The Joy Luck Club✔️
8. Room✔️

[Meg]

Prompt 12: Monthly shelves

Jan-2018 Read in 2017
The Girl Who Drank the Moon✔

Feb-2017 Magical realism
The Cat and The City✔

Mar-2012 Classics
The Picture of Dorian Gray✔

Apr-2019 1990s
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow✔

May-2015 Gothic
The Confessions of Frannie Langton✔

Jun-2009 Classics
The Arabian Nights✔

Jul-2015 Family
Starfish✔

Aug-2016 Creepy
The Good Daughter✔

Sep-2021 Domestic thriller
The It Girl✔

Oct-2014 Music
The Unsinkable Greta James✔

Nov-2012 French literature
Exile and the Kingdom✔

Dec-2010 Contemporary fiction
The Bread the Devil Knead✔

[LaurLa]

COMPLETE - Prompt 14: Arrays


My Prompt 14 Plan (msg 23)

Prompt ➖ Serial reads: 2 books from 7 different series


➖#2 Dakota Hearts ➖ Badland Bride ➖ 04.24 ★★★
➖#3 Dakota Hearts ➖ Dakota Heat ➖ 07.13 ★★★


➖#1 Dr. Samantha Owens ➖ A Deeper Darkness ➖ 04.16 ★★★★
➖#2 Dr. Samantha Owens ➖ Edge of Black ➖ 06.08 ★★★★


➖#1 Great Wolves Motorcycle Club ➖ Dex ➖ 04.08 ★★★★
➖#2 Great Wolves Motorcycle Club ➖ Sly ➖ 07.16 ★★★★


➖#1 Miami Nights ➖ How Much I Feel ➖ 04.15 ★★★★
➖#2 Miami Nights ➖ How Much I Care ➖ 07.31 ★★★★


➖#1 SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team ➖ Hungry Like the Wolf ➖ 05.06 ★★★★
➖#2 SWAT: Special Wolf Alpha Team ➖ Wolf Trouble ➖ 07.11 ★★★★


➖#1 Frenched ➖ Frenched ➖ 06.13 ★★★★
➖#1.5 Frenched ➖ Yanked ➖ 06.13 ★★★★


➖#2 Quiet ➖ Crazy Quiet ➖ 08.06 ★★★★
➖#3 Quiet ➖ Extra Quiet ➖ 08.28 ★★★★

[Lauren]

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #7: Lucky Seven - Complete

Seven Colors of the Rainbow

✔︎ Red - Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper
Read: January 27, 2023
✔︎ Orange - Faceless by Alexandra Ivy
Read: February 3, 2023
✔︎ Yellow - Illusion Town by Jayne Castle
Read: March 15, 2023
✔︎ Green - Collateral Damage by Kaylea Cross
Read: August 24, 2023
✔︎ Blue - Dark of Night by Suzanne Brockmann
Read: February 16, 2023
✔︎ Indigo - Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz
Read: February 19, 2023
✔︎ Violet - Tactical Strike by Kaylea Cross
Read: May 23, 2023

[Lauren]

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #9: Square Number - Complete

Trilogy #1: The Society of Single Ladies
✔︎ 1. The Girl with the Pearl Pin
Read: January 2, 2023
✔︎ 2. The Making of a Marquess
Read: April, 26, 2023
✔︎ 3. Virginia and the Wolf by Lynne Connolly
Read: July 9, 2023

Trilogy #2: Blood by Kay Hooper
✔︎ 1. Blood Dreams
Read: March 21, 2023
✔︎ 2. Blood Sins
Read: July 28, 2023
✔︎ 3. Blood Ties
Read: August 22, 2023

[Lauren]

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #13: Baker's Dozen - Complete

✔︎ 1. Blind Trust by Lynda Aicher(The Boardroom #2)
Read: May 26, 2023
✔︎ 2. The Lies We Tell by Debra Webb (The Undertaker's Daughter #2)
Read: May 9, 2023
✔︎ 3. Fury on Fire by Sophie Jordan (Devil's Rock #3)
Read: April 22, 2023
✔︎ 4. Head Over Heels by Jill Shalvis (Lucky Harbor, #3)
Read: July 9, 2023
✔︎ 5. Danger Close by Kaylea Cross (Bagram Special Ops, #4)
Read: July 23, 2023
✔︎ 6. Dead Against Her by Melinda Leigh (Bree Taggert #5)
Read: April 13, 2023
✔︎ 7. On the Prowl by Christine Warren (The Others #6)
Read: May 26, 2023
✔︎ 8. Dying Wish by Shannon K. Butcher(Sentinel Wars #6)
Read: June 28, 2023
✔︎ 9. The Bride Wore White by Amanda Quick (Burning Cove #7)
Read: May 13, 2023
✔︎ 10. Breaking the Rules by Suzanne Brockmann (Troubleshooters #16)
Read: April 20, 2023
✔︎ 11. Forgotten in Death by J.D. Robb (In Death #53)
Read: June 8, 2023
✔︎ 12. Best of My Love by Susan Mallery (Fool's Gold #20)
Read: August 24, 2023

New series+new author
✔︎ 13. Shooter by Dahlia West
Read: 16 August, 2023

[Joyce]

Fifteen for Fifteen - Finished
Prompt #3 - Read 3 books by 1 author

Author- Agatha Christie
1.And Then There Were None 1/23/23
2.Sparkling Cyanide 2/5/23
3.4:50 from Paddington 8/12/23

[Susan]

Prompt #12: Read 12 books as determined by the Wheel & list of past shelves below.

✔J 2012 speculative fiction: Sea of Tranquility - fin 5/3
✔F 2021 Greece Cruel Beauty - fin 6/16
✔Mr 2014 stand-alone The House in the Cerulean Sea - fin 4/2
✔A 2015 world-lit A Gentleman in Moscow - fin 8/31
✔My 2016 humour everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too - fin 6/16
✔Je 2020 futuristic The City of Mirrors - fin 5/30
✔Jy 2015 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse - fin 6/8
✔Ag 2019 asia Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, p. 2 - fin 4/27
✔S 2013 debut-novels Reconstructing Amelia, p. 3 - fin 4/22
✔O 2014 The Leavers - fin 5/25
✔N 2022 female-detective Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs #2) - fin 6/21
✔D 2019 fantasy Children of Earth and Sky - fin 5/22

COMPLETED 8/31

[Susan]

Reposting, because I guess I didn't do it completely before:

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #9: Square Number

9 square number - 2 trilogies, or 2 x 3 books from an author

Lauren Oliver
✔Raven - fin 3/29
✔Annabel - fin 4/29
✔Alex - fin 6/17

Ruth Galloway
✔1. The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway #1) - fin 2/20
✔2. The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway #2) - fin 3/31
✔3. The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway #3)-fin 7/7

COMPLETED 7/7

[Susan]

Tien,
Just checking. It's totally understandable if you aren't totally caught up. But these are prompts I've posted that I don't see in the finished list yet:
#6 - post 154
#7 - post 167 (which was, weirdly the second posting for that one. I had previously posted it as finished in message 133, with a different book listed for #5. Confusing, I know. I'm sorry. Guess I had forgotten about the first one.)
#14 - post 203
(and #9, which was my own fault, and #12, which I posted just now - see posts # 224 & 225, just above)

[Amy]

Prompt 15: Happy 15th!! - DONE!!

By the Month - May
1. Project Hail Mary - Completed 5/27/23
2. The Secret To Superhuman Strength - Completed 5/23/23
3. What Makes Us - Completed 5/13/23
4. Keep This to Yourself - Completed 5/10/23
5. Before You Knew My Name - Completed 5/4/23
6. The Inside Ring - Completed 5/8/23
7. Just After Midnight: A Novel - Completed 5/6/23
8. West with Giraffes - Completed 5/21/23

Seriously Serial
9. The 23rd Midnight (Women's Murder Club #23) - Completed 9/1/23
10. Amok (Dox Thriller, #1) - Completed 8/14/23
11. The Light We Lost (Lost Light #1) - Completed 8/13/23
12. The Distant Echo (Karen Pirie, #1) - Completed 8/17/23
13. While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene #1) - Completed 6/17/23
14. An Unequal Defense (David Adams, #2) - Completed 7/6/23
15. Dark Angel (Letty Davenport, #2) - Completed 7/16/23

That's it for me; all prompts completed!

[LynnB]

PROMPT #1, completed 8 Sept 2023

My second longest book in 2022 was 784 pages, so I have three possibilities:

1014 pp., World Without End
909 pp., Peter the Great: His Life and World
✔816 pp., The Lady Brewer of London, Karen Brooks, 8 Sept 2023

[Kristina Simon]

Prompt 13: Baker's dozen ~ COMPLETE

Series already started (12 different series)
✓ 1. A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong (Rockton/Casey Duncan #2) Read: 3/25/23
✓ 2. Blood Rites by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files #6) Read: 3/28/23
✓ 3. No Cats Allowed by Miranda James (Cat in the Stacks #7) Read: 5/25/23
✓ 4. The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #3) Read: 5/31/23
✓ 5. A Fistful of Collars by Spencer Quinn (Chet and Bernie Mystery #5) Read: 6/17/23
✓ 6. Silent Scream by Karen Rose (Romantic Suspense #11) Read: 6/30/23
✓ 7. The Hen of the Baskervilles by Donna Andrews (Meg Langslow #15) Read: 7/14/23
✓ 8. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (MaddAddam #2) Read: 7/17/23
✓ 9. Listen To Me by Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli & Isles #13) Read: 8/11/23
✓ 10. The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (The Inheritance Games #3) Read: 8/30/23
✓ 11. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #3) Read: 9/5/23
✓ 12. Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire (October Daye #6) Read: 9/10/23

NEW series by NEW-to-me author
✓ 13. Elementary, She Read by Vicki Delany (Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery #1) Read: 8/22/23

[Joanna]

Prompt 11: repdigit

Read: 2/2 - Completed 9/13/23

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)

✔︎ Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto - 9/13/23
✔︎ Galveston by Suzanne Morris - 9/10/23

[Susan]

Fifteen for Fifteen (2023) > Prompt 13. Baker's dozen
Read:
12 books from 12 different series* which you have read at least 1 book from
AND
1 book from a series* which is new to you (you have not read any books from this series) AND author is also new to you

all different series - have read at least 1 book

✔1. The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War #2) - fin 4/6
✔2. Night’s Slow Poison (Imperial Radch # 0.5) - fin 7/5
✔3.A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - fin 7/10
✔4. The Harsh Cry of the Heron (Tales of the Otori #4) - fin 7/31
✔5. A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #7) - fin 8/8
✔6. The Ghost Walker (Wind River Reservation #2) - fin 8/9
✔7. Ringer (Replica #2) - fin 8/13
✔8. X (Kinsey Millhone #24) - fin 8/17
✔9. The Ganymede Club (Cold as Ice #2) - fin 8/28
✔10. Across the Sand (The Sand Chronicles #3) - fin 8/31
✔11. Unlocked (Lock In # 0.5 - fin 9/5
✔12. The Damascened Blade (Joe Sandilands #3) - fin 9/9

new to me series and author
✔13. The Trusted, by John M Green - fin 4/30

COMPLETED 9/9

[Kristina Simon]

Prompt 15: Happy 15th!! ~ COMPLETE

Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges

LOST 2023 ~ oldest books on TBR
✓ 1. The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst (TBR Jun 29, 2010) Read: 6/17/23
✓ 2. Beachcombers by Nancy Thayer (TBR Jul 12, 2010) Read: 7/21/23

FOUND 2023 ~ finished LOST (above) on: 7/21
✓ 1. MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood (TBR May 27, 2023; pub 2013) Read: 7/23/23
✓ 2. Charlatans by Robin Cook (TBR Jun 6, 2023; pub 2017) Read: 8/16/23

Moving Mountains (2023) ~ books must be on TBR prior to January 1, 2023
✓ 1. 6 ♥️ (blue cover; at least 10,000 ratings) ~ Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark Read: 4/27/23
(81.3% blue; 30,698 ratings)
✓ 2. J ♠️ (2-3 colours; stand alone)
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Read: 8/14/23
(blue, yellow, green)
✓ 3. J ♣️ (2-3 colours; part of a series)
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman Read: 7/11/23
(blue, grey, white; Beartown #2)
✓ 4. 4 ♦️(yellow cover; won/nominated for award)
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Read: 9/16/23
(58.6% yellow; 2022 Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction)
✓ 5. 9 ♠️ (black or white cover; stand alone)
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez Read: 7/16/23
(78.9% white)

Trim That TBR (2022) ~ TBR ends in 6
How many?!?! ~ Read 6 books added to TBR before Oct 1, 2022
✓ 1. Genuine Lies by Nora Roberts (TBR Apr 21, 2015) Read: 4/18/23
✓ 2. Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl (TBR Jun 4, 2019) Read: 4/23/23
✓ 3. Kitty Confidential by Molly Fitz (TBR May 17, 2019) Read: 5/19/23
✓ 4. The Wife by Meg Wolitzer (TBR Jun 2, 2019) Read: 6/7/23
✓ 5. Artifacts by Mary Anna Evans (TBR Mar 30, 2012) Read: 8/11/23
✓ 6. Summer at Mustang Ridge by Jesse Hayworth (TBR Jul 22, 2013) Read: 8/23/23

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Prompt 13: Baker's Dozen

Already started series:
1. China Rich Girlfriend 3/30
2. A Crown of Swords (4/3)
3. The Adventure Zone: The Eleventh Hour (4/13)
4. East of West, Vol. 4: Who Wants War? (4/13)
5. Barbarian's Seduction (4/23)
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes (4/27)
7. Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Two (5/2)
8. Saga, Volume 10 (5/7)
9. Undercover Bromance (5/27)
10. Any Way the Wind Blows (5/31)
11. The Well of Ascension (7/11)
12. B is for Burglar (9/17)

New series and new author:
13. The Cold Dish (8/13)

[Nat]

Prompt 8: Comfort reads


Childhood rereads:
1. The Tail of Emily Windsnap 1/28
2. Inkheart 3/23
3. Artemis Fowl 2/17
4. The Hostile Hospital 4/29

Favorites rereads:
5. The House in the Cerulean Sea 5/29
6. The Secret History 9/7
7. The Thief 6/11
8. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 5/8

[Joanna]

Prompt 15

This is great since I try to overlap most of my books anyway!

Read: 15/15 - Completed 9/26/23

Lost 2023
✅ Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America - 5/31/23
✅ Emperor of the Air - 4/26/23
✅ Ghostwritten - 8/25/23
✅ The Wishbones - 5/31/23
✅ Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas - 6/8/23

By the Month
✅ Exhalation (added June 2020) - 6/1/23
✅ Signs Preceding the End of the World - 7/17/23
✅ If Cats Disappeared from the World - 8/30/23
✅ Bad Feminist - 8/31/23
✅ I'll Give You the Sun - 9/9/23
✅ Less Is Lost - 9/17/23
✅ The Love Hypothesis - 9/21/23
✅ Heaven - 9/25/23


Seriously Serial
✅ The 42nd Parallel - 5/29/23
✅ The City of Ember - 9/3/23

[Rosemary]

COMPLETED
Prompt 14 - Arrays

7 books each from 2 shelves

Feb 2015: Crime
1. The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood, 26 May 23, p25
2. Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny, 31 May 23, p21
3. Tell No One by Harlan Coben, 29 Jun 23, p5
4. The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths, 6 Jul 23, p20
5. Blacklands by Belinda Bauer, 8 Aug 23, p16
6. Heartstone by C.J. Sansom, 14 Aug 23, p22
7. Malice by Keigo Higashino, 9 Sept 23, p14

Dec 2016: 1
1. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor, 25 Jun 23, p23
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, 29 Jun 23, p5
3. The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga, 19 Jul 23, p23
4. Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery, 22 Aug 23, p14
5. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal, 19 Aug 23, p21
6. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 27 Aug 23, p9
7. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, 24 Sep 23, p3

[Marie (UK)]

Prompt 11 COMPLETED 11 is the fist repdigit (repeated digit)

Read 2 books where:
titles (excluding subtitles / series names) contain same EXACT word/s

The Winter Garden 03/09/2023

AND The Winter Garden 28/09/2023

[Susan]

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #8: O2

Read 8 of your comfort books by favorite authors

✔1. Beaker's Dozen, Nancy Kress - fin 2/19
✔2. Golden Fool (Tawny Man #2), Robin Hobb - fin 2/6
✔3. Seveneves, Neal Stephenson - fin 3/14
✔4. Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2) - fin 4/9
✔5. Pastwatch, Orson Scott Card- fin 6/29
✔6. Night’s Slow Poison, Ann Leckie - fin 7/5
✔7. Future Perfect, Nancy Kress - fin 7/10
✔8. The Labyrinth of the Spirits, Carlos Ruiz Zafón - fin 10/3

COMPLETED 10/3

[Susan]

Fifteen for Fifteen (2023) > Prompt 15.

Read 15 books across all the different PAS challenges (not counting this annual one)
(BTM,LOST,MM, Trim, FOUND)

LOST
✔1. Day After Night - fin 9/18

Moving Mountains
✔2. The Ganymede Club (Cold As Ice #2) - fin 8/27
✔3. Across the Sand - fin 8/31

Trim 2022
✔4.The Golden Enclaves - fin 6/3
✔5.Death in Kashmir - fin 9/16

FOUND
✔6. The City Born Great, added 4/23/23 - fin 9/19

By the Month
✔7. Camouflage, BTM Aug - fin 8/18
✔8. Point Of Origin (Kay Scarpetta #9), BTM Aug - fin 8/22
✔9. Earth Girl BTM Aug - fin 8/23
✔10. Under the Whispering Door BTM Sept- fin 9/10

Trim 2023
✔11. A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway #4) - fin 9/18
✔12. Endgame - fin 9/25
✔13. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) - fin 10/4
✔14. Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch #3) - fin 10/5
✔15. She Commands Me and I Obey (Imperial Radch #0.6), added 4/9/23 - fin 10/5

COMPLETED 10/5

[Susan]

Message # 239 above is my completed record for prompt 15. That's my last prompt, so I've now completed the entire thing. Do I need to post that somewhere else?

[Lauren]

Susan wrote: "Message # 239 above is my completed record for prompt 15. That's my last prompt, so I've now completed the entire thing. Do I need to post that somewhere else?"

Well done, Susan! Congrats.

[Snowtulip]

PROMPT 10: The Roman numeral for 10 is X

Read book/s where "x" is found in:
1. title (no subtitle)
2. author's name

You can read 2 books (one for each condition) or 1 book which meets both conditions

1. Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell, 5/24/23, 2 stars

2. The True Love Experiment, 7/27/23, 4 stars

[[deleted user]]

Prompt 3: Third Time's the Charm

Author: RayBradbury

1. Dandelion Wine (1/26)
2. Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland (4/3)
3. The Halloween Tree (10/16)

[[deleted user]]

Prompt 12: Monthly Shelves

January 2013 - Magic
Wayward Son (4/4)

February 2009 - Fantasy
Rhythm of War (9/16)

March 2020 - Mystery
Dark Matter (8/20)

April 2013 - Dark
East of West #10 (8/31)

May 2010 - French
Lie With Me (10/17)

June 2022 - Epistolary
The Screwtape Letters (10/9)

July 2013 - Adventure
Nimona (8/17)

August 2020 - Family Saga
Commonwealth (6/16)

September 2012 - Urban Fantasy
Storm Front (5/13)

October 2019 - 20th Century
Player Piano (7/20)

November 2022 - Female Detective
A is for Alibi (9/3)

December 2013 - Road Trip
Travels with Charley: In Search of America (10/15)

[Meg]

I have completed prompt 14 - which I think is my last prompt!

Read 14 books: 7 books from 2 different shelves

Shelf 1. Around-the-world

1 The Island of Sea Women✔️
2 Before the Coffee Gets Cold ✔️
3 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ✔️
4 The Angel's Game✔️
5 Miss Benson's Beetle✔️
6 The Beekeeper of Aleppo✔️
7 Exit West✔️

Shelf 2. Domestic-thriller

1 The Younger Wife✔️
2 Family of Liars ✔️
3 The Roanoke Girls✔️
4 An Anonymous Girl✔️
5 Lock Every Door✔️
6 Wrong Place Wrong Time✔️
7 The Maid✔️

[Bea]

I did it! I completed that biggest book on my TBR, finally!

Prompt 1: BIG Book: >705p
Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy
(Actual page count 756p)

Currently I have completed prompts 1-6 and 10-11. Not all are showing in the completed listings.

[Lagullande]

Prompt #5 Prime Number -- DONE

Read a book where page number is a prime number
A Silent Death by Peter May
421 pages 19/10/23

[[deleted user]]

Prompt 14: Arrays

7 books from 2 different shelves.

GLBT (Feb 13)
1. If I Was Your Girl (4/2)
2. We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film (5/23)
3. A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar (6/1)
4. Giovanni's Room (6/14)
5. Unprotected: A Memoir (8/15)
6. Bloom (8/16)
7. They Both Die at the End (10/22)

Graphic Novels and Comics (May 17)
1. East of West, Vol. 2: We Are All One (4/5)
2. East of West, Vol. 3: There Is No Us (4/5)
3. Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Three (5/7)
4. Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Four (5/9)
5. Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Five (5/9)
6. East of West, Vol. 6 (6/27)
7. East of West, Vol. 7 (6/28)

[Lauren]

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #10: X - Complete

✔︎ 1. X in title: Tex by Dahlia West
Read: October 23, 2023
✔︎ 2. X in author: Unstable by Alexandra Ivy
Read: September 5, 2023

[[deleted user]]

Prompt 9: Square Number

Trilogy 1: Broken Earth
1. The Fifth Season (9/12)
2. The Obelisk Gate (9/21)
3. The Stone Sky (10/1)

Trilogy 2: Winternight
1. The Bear and the Nightingale (10/9)
2. The Girl in the Tower (10/18)
3. The Winter of the Witch (10/24)