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Fifteen for Fifteen (2023)
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Completed Prompts

Read: 13/13 - Completed 10/29/23
Series books:
✅ 1. Odalisque (Comfort 3) - 6/18/23
✅ 2. Empire of Ivory (Temeraire 4) - 7/23/23
✅ 3. Dark Age (Red Rising 5) - 6/16/23
✅ 4. Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants (Georgia Nicholson 4) - 7/27/23
✅5. Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story (Heist Society 2.5) - 7/15/23
✅ 6. The Chateau (Original Sinners 8.4) - 6/30/23
✅ 7. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (Murderbot 4.5) - 6/17/23
✅ 8. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children 8) - 10/29/23
✅ 9. I Will Not Beg (Mtn Masters & Dark Haven 6) - 6/9/23
✅ 10. The Survival of Molly Southbourne (Molly Southborne 2) - 6/9/23
✅ 11. The Effing List (Club Shadowlands 14) - 6/16/23
✅ 12. Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple 2) - 10/27/23
AND
✅ 13. The Keeper of Lost Causes (Dept. of Q 1) - 9/6/23
Prompt 8: O2
Guilty Pleasure Reads: Romance
1. Barbarian's Redemption (2/28)
2. Barbarian's Lady (3/5)
3. Barbarian's Rescue (3/13)
4. Barbarian's Tease (3/23)
5. Barbarian's Treasure (5/8)
6. Below Zero (9/17)
7. Love on the Brain (9/20)
8. Love, Theoretically (10/30)
Guilty Pleasure Reads: Romance
1. Barbarian's Redemption (2/28)
2. Barbarian's Lady (3/5)
3. Barbarian's Rescue (3/13)
4. Barbarian's Tease (3/23)
5. Barbarian's Treasure (5/8)
6. Below Zero (9/17)
7. Love on the Brain (9/20)
8. Love, Theoretically (10/30)

Roll = 5
1. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children #8) 1/28
2. The Atlas Paradox (The Atlas #2) 2/5
3. The Last Emperox (The Interdependency #3) 1/21
4. Keeper of Enchanted Rooms (Whimbrel House #1) 11/4
5. Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under #1) 4/16

My Prompt 9 Plan (msg 31)
Prompt🔹Read 2 trilogies
Trilogy #1🔹Manhunt



💟Book 1🔹Safe in His Arms🔹03.09 ★★★
💟Book 2🔹Safe by His Side🔹04.22 ★★★
💟Book 3🔹Safe With Him🔹06.09 ★★★
Trilogy #2🔹Glimmer Lake



💟Book 1🔹Suddenly Psychic🔹04.20 ★★★★
💟Book 2🔹Semi-Psychic Life🔹05.17 ★★★★
💟Book 3🔹Psychic Dreams🔹11.09 ★★★★

GR says my second biggest book of 2022 was The Golem and the Djinni with 657 pages.
But that ignores the audio versions of books that I listened to, which don't show a number of pages. Taking those into account means my second biggest book was Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family with 731 pages.
My possibilities:
946pp The Life of Charles Dickens
✔️883pp The Mirror & the Light Read 14/11/23
864pp Anna Karenina
742pp Cathedral of the Sea
737pp A Little Life

prompt 8 o2
guilty pleasure
1. Abandoned in Death 23/03/2023
2 Desperation in Death 28/04/2023
3 Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery 24/04/2023
4 Death in the Clouds 30/04/2023
5 Death by Dumpling 04/09/2023
6 Winter at Mistletoe Gate Farm 04/11/2023
7 The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay 24/08/23
8 The Last Devil to Die 23/09/2023

Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges (not counting this annual one).
Note the slight amendments (above) to allow if you aren't participating for the whole year. Mix and match as how you can fit 15 books into however there should be at least 2 challenges.
LOST 2023
1. Watching the Dark, Peter Robinson, 22 Apr 2023
2. The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware, 4 July 2023
3. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling, 7 Aug 2023
4. Betsy: The Dramatic Biography of Prison Reformer Elizabeth Fry, Jean Hatton, DNF 30 Aug 2023 (read over 1/2)
5. The Lady Brewer of London, Karen Brooks, 8 Sept 2023
6. American Princess, Stephanie Marie Thornton, 21 Oct 2023
Trim that TBR 2022
7. The Engineer's Wife, Tracey Enerson Wood, 24 May 2023
8. Love in the Time of Bertie, Alexander McCall Smith, 25 June 2023
9. Adult Assembly Required, Abbi Waxman, 29 Aug 2023
Seriously Serial '23 #1 series books
10. Buried in a Good Book, Tamara Berry, 27 June 2023, By the Book Mysteries #1
11. An American in Scotland, Lucy Connelly, 20 July 2023, Scottish Isle Mystery #1
12. Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara, 10 Sept 2023, A Japantown Mystery #1
13. Murder at Melrose Court, Karen Baugh Menuhin, 11 Oct 2023, Heathcliff Lennox #1
14. Circle of Influence, Annette Dashofy, 26 Oct 2023, Zoe Chambers Mystery #1
15. The Broken Spine, Dorothy St. James, 5 Nov 2023, A Beloved Bookroom Mystery #1
Just a head's up for all you who have posted and not yet found acknowledgement in the list of completed tasks. I have caught up all posts through April as well as all done in November. (I started learning how to do this in the past few days and so started at the end. Bea)
Marie (UK) wrote: "Can any mod tell me if the books in post 135 work for that prompt as it hasnt made finish list yet - thanks"
Yes, it is now in the finish list. I am sorry that it took so long to acknowledge your post.
Yes, it is now in the finish list. I am sorry that it took so long to acknowledge your post.
Marie (UK) wrote: "And can somebody please tell me if my post for prompt 11 is allowable. I have posted twice but is still not showing on completed prompts."
I apologize for the delay in updating this thread, Marie, and the anxiety it caused you.
I am not at this time checking your posts but simply assuming that you have made sure they met the requirements. All I am doing is updating the completed list to reflect your post of that task in this thread.
I apologize for the delay in updating this thread, Marie, and the anxiety it caused you.
I am not at this time checking your posts but simply assuming that you have made sure they met the requirements. All I am doing is updating the completed list to reflect your post of that task in this thread.
In post #167, Susan wrote: " This appears to be a duplicate. I must've lost track of the fact that I posted as finished on 4/13 (message 133), with a different book listed for #5."
Susan, the earlier one now is already in the list. Should I make the book change? NEVERMIND. I have arrived at a later post in which you reiterate that the second posting is the correct one for #7. I have replaced the first posting with the second. Let me know if it is correct now, please. Thank you.
Susan, the earlier one now is already in the list. Should I make the book change? NEVERMIND. I have arrived at a later post in which you reiterate that the second posting is the correct one for #7. I have replaced the first posting with the second. Let me know if it is correct now, please. Thank you.
Please remember to post the prompt task # rather than the prompt task name. Not having the # means I have to look it up before posting as the completed list is by number not name.
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?"
No...you are fine.
No...you are fine.
Meg wrote: "I have completed prompt 14 - which I think is my last prompt!"
Meg, I don't have prompt #13 recorded for you. Did I miss it?
Meg, I don't have prompt #13 recorded for you. Did I miss it?
CAUGHT UP!
At least I think the list is complete to here. Please check your completed prompts to be sure that I did not miss any.
At least I think the list is complete to here. Please check your completed prompts to be sure that I did not miss any.

Apologies. Guilty as charged!
PAS wrote: "In post #167, PAS wrote: " Let me know if it is correct now, please."
Yes, thank you for fixing it.
Yes, thank you for fixing it.

prompt 8 o2
guilty pleasure
1. Abandoned in Death 23/03/2023
2 Desperation in Death 28/04/2023
3 Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery 24/04/2023
4 Death in the Clouds 30/04/2023
5 Death by Dumpling 04/09/2023
6 Winter at Mistletoe Gate Farm 04/11/2023
7 The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay 24/08/23
8 The Last Devil to Die 23/09/2023

Prompt 10
Read book/s where "x" is found in:
1. title (no subtitle) The Foxhole Court 02/05/2023
2. author's name The Winter Garden Alexandra Bell 28/09/2023

Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #3: Third Time's the Charm
Agatha Christie:
✔Murder on the Orient Express 8/1/23
✔Crooked House 31/1/123
✔Murder at the Vicarage 30/11/23

2 books where title OR author's first & last name are exactly the same
✓ 1. Family Tree by Susan Wiggs Read: 12/2/23
✓ 2. Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky Read: 10/21/23

Read 2 books where:
titles (excluding subtitles / series names) contain same EXACT word/s
Three Wishes, Liane Moriarty, 13 Dec 2023
Three Wishes, Barbara Delinsky, 15 Dec 2023

12 books from 12 different authors, 1 new author:
1. The Curator (Washington Poe #3) 6/2
2. Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy #3) 8/26
3. Jade War (The Green Bone Saga #2) 4/2
4. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3) 4/18
5. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club #4) 11/21
6. Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales #2) 4/24
7. Hell Bent (Alex Stern #2) 4/4
8. Honor Lost (The Honors #3) 7/30
9. The Darkest Road (The Fionavar Tapestry #3) 11/19
10. Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) 3/27
11. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle #4) 11/5
12. The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire #2) 9/17
13. Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1) 5/31

Prompt 12 - Monthly Shelves
FInished 17 Dec 23
✔ Jan 2013: Magic
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, 25 Jul 23, on shelf page 1
✔ Feb 2015: Crime
Dead Simple by Peter James, 29 Apr 23 - page 8
✔ Mar 2021: 2020 Releases
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, 6 Nov 23 - page 10
✔ Apr 2022: Gothic
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths, 7 Apr 23, page 2
✔ May 2010: French
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier, 12 June 23, page 2
✔ June 2017: Southern
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, 8 Oct 23, page 3
✔ July 2011: Western
Wanderer of the Wasteland by Zane Grey, 16 Apr 23, page 18
✔ Aug 2022: Chick-lit
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, 26 Mar 23, page 11
✔ Sept 2015: Fairy Tales
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco, 23 Mar 23, page 13
✔ Oct 2014: Music
Just Kids by Patti Smith, 27 Sep 23, page1
✔ Nov 2021: Fae
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, 17 Dec 23, on p22
✔ Dec 2016: 1
Mere Christianity by C S Lewis, read 7 Apr 23, on shelf page 17
Prompt 11: Repdigit
2 books with the same title:
1. Husband Material (12/15)
2. Husband Material (12/23)
2 books with the same title:
1. Husband Material (12/15)
2. Husband Material (12/23)
Ellis wrote: "Prompt 11: Repdigit
2 books with the same title:
1. Husband Material (12/15)
2. Husband Material (12/23)"
Congrats! Your finish is noted.
All to here are listed.
2 books with the same title:
1. Husband Material (12/15)
2. Husband Material (12/23)"
Congrats! Your finish is noted.
All to here are listed.

Option 2 - Shelves
7 books from 2 shelves
Shelf #1: Romance
✔︎ 1. Beautiful Lawman by Sophie Jordan
Read: June 20, 2023
✔︎ 2. Falling Blind by Shannon K. Butcher
Read: July 1, 2023
✔︎ 3. Summer Desserts by Nora Roberts
Read: July 6, 2023
✔︎ 4. Her Wanton Wager by Grace Callaway
Read: July 14, 2023
✔︎ 5. The Designs of Lord Randolph Cavanaugh by Stephanie Laurens
Read: August 1, 2023
✔︎ 6. Drive Me Wild by Christine Warren
Read: August 2, 2023
✔︎ 7. Rising Assets by Rebecca Zanetti
Read: September 30, 2023
Shelf #2: Crime
✔︎ 1. Abandoned in Death by J.D. Robb
Read: July 16, 2023
✔︎ 2. Lie To Her by Melinda Leigh
Read: August 12, 2023
✔︎ 3. A Bride’s Guide to Marriage and Murder by Dianne Freeman
Read: September 6, 2023
✔︎ 4. Haven by Kay Hooper
Read: October 4, 2023
✔︎ 5. Fatal Affair by Marie Force
Read: October 18, 2023
✔︎ 6. Fatal Justice by Marie Force
Read: November 7, 2023
✔︎ 7. Hostage by Kay Hooper
Read: December 24, 2023

Moving Mountains
✔︎ 10 - Grey: Willing Sacrifice by Shannon K. Butcher
Tineye: 71.3%
Read: August 31, 2023
✔︎ 9 - Black: Guild Boss by Jayne Castle
Tineye: 52.1%
Read: September 25, 2023
✔︎ 3 - Green: Fountain Of Secrets by Anita Clenney
Tineye: 51.2%
Read: December 1, 2024
✔︎ 2 - Red: Phoebe by Minerva Spencer
Tineye: 50.7%
Read: December 26, 2023
✔︎ Ace - 5 colors: Binding Ties by Shannon K. Butcher
Tineye: Green, Grey, Black, Blue, Brown, Yellow
Read: September 17, 2023
✔︎ 7 - Brown: Her Prodigal Passion by Grace Callaway
Tineye: 50.7%
Read: October 9, 2023
✔︎ 6 - Blue: Midnight Jewels by Jayne Ann Krentz
Tineye: 79.7%
Read: October 2, 2023
✔︎ 6 - Blue: Catch Her Death by Melinda Leigh
Tineye: 80.4%
Read: September 12, 2023
✔︎ 10 - Grey: The Pursuits of Lord Kit Cavanaugh by Stephanie Laurens
Tineye: 69.8%
Read: November 18, 2023
✔︎ 7 - Brown: Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters
Tineye: 59.2%
Read: November 12, 2023










Seriously Serial
✔︎ 1. Guardians of Stone by Anita Clenney (Relic Hunters, #1)
Read: October 25, 2023
✔︎ 2. When the Rogue Returns by Sabrina Jeffries (The Duke's Men, #2)
Read: October 27, 2023
✔︎ 3. Fatal Consequences by Marie Force (Fatal, #3)
Read: December 6, 2023
✔︎ 4. Over the Top by Rebecca Zanetti (Maverick, Montana, #4)
Read: November 9, 2023
✔︎ 5. Bending the Rules by Marie Harte (Wicked Warrens, #5)
Read: November 22, 2023

Got it. Congrats!"
Thanks Bea!
After posting Prompt 15 I have one more book to read to complete the challenge. I hope to finish by the end of 2023.

I was the first finisher for prompt 6, so I'm listed 1st.
The prompt I have left is 12 - Monthly Shelves.

My Prompt 3 Plan (msg 26)
Prompt🔹Read 3 books of 1 author
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.
author🔹Rebecca Zanetti



Laurel Snow🔹You Can Run🔹02.11 ★★★★
Blood Brothers🔹Lethal Lies🔹01.15 ★★★★
Scorpius Syndrome🔹Shadow Falling🔹09.10 ★★★★

My Prompt 7 Plan (msg 6)
Prompt🔹Read 7 books featuring 'Seven'
Riding Hard series🔹7 primary books







Book 1🔹Adam🔹01.31 ★★★★
Book 2🔹Grant🔹05.21 ★★★
Book 3🔹Carter🔹07.07 ★★★
Book 4🔹Tyler🔹08.08 ★★★★
Book 5🔹Ross🔹09.30 ★★★★
Book 6🔹Kyle🔹12.02 ★★★
Book 7🔹Ray🔹12.08 ★★★

My Prompt 12 Plan (msg 22)
Prompt🔹Read 12 books as determined by the Wheel & list of past shelves












Spin 1🔹2014🔹Contemporary🔹pg 5🔹tagged 959 times
💟Hook, Line, and Sinker🔹12.12 ★★★★
Spin 2🔹2021🔹greece🔹beyond pg 25🔹tagged 3 times
💟Frayed🔹10.10 ★★★
Spin 3🔹2010🔹Dystopia🔹beyond pg 25🔹tagged 45 times
💟Beyond Innocence🔹05.07 ★★★★
Spin 4🔹2019🔹1990s🔹pg 1🔹tagged 189 times
💟Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets🔹04.24 ★★★★
Spin 5🔹2015🔹gothic🔹beyond pg 25🔹tagged 3 times
💟Faefever🔹05.07 ★★★★
Spin 6🔹2016🔹must-read🔹pg 13🔹tagged 39 times
💟Book Lovers🔹03.23 ★★★★
Spin 7🔹2009🔹realistic-fiction🔹beyond pg 25🔹tagged 75 times
💟Homecoming King🔹05.01 ★★★★
Spin 8🔹2022🔹chick-lit🔹pg 21🔹tagged 114 times
💟Grin and Beard It🔹07.22 ★★★★
Spin 9🔹2017🔹diversity🔹pg 21🔹tagged 68 times
💟The Bride Test🔹04.05 ★★★★
Spin 10🔹2011🔹anthology🔹beyond pg 25🔹tagged 1 time
💟Off the Grid🔹12.14 ★★★
Spin 11🔹2013🔹animals🔹beyond pg 25🔹tagged 9 times
💟Sit, Stay, Love🔹05.15 ★★★★
Spin 12🔹2019🔹fantasy🔹beyond pg 25🔹tagged 260 times
💟Into the Fire🔹05.16 ★★★★

My Prompt 15 Plan (msg 25)
Prompt ➖ Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges
By the Month



💟Master of the Dark Side ➖ 05.02 ★★★★
💟Avenge Me ➖ 05.07 ★★★★
💟Sweet Filthy Boy ➖ 05.24 ★★★★
LOST 2023



💟Her Perfect Stranger ➖ 09.17 ★★★★
💟Precious and Fragile Things ➖ 08.26 ★★★★
💟All Good Things... ➖ 09.03 ★★★
Moving Mountains - 2023 Ed



💟The Honeymoon Cottage ➖ 07.10 ★★★★
💟The 6th Target ➖ 11.18 ★★★★
💟Racked and Stacked ➖ 05.09 ★★★★
Seriously Serial '23



💟Deeper Than The Ocean ➖ 08.22 ★★★★
💟Secret Obsession ➖ 07.21 ★★★★
💟Lucas ➖ 05.27 ★★★
Trim That TBR (2022)



💟A Scandal in the Headlines ➖ 05.06 ★★★
💟Ice Cold ➖ 06.19 ★★★★
💟Lethal Nights ➖ 11.04 ★★★★
Lauren wrote: "Bea wrote: "Lauren, I don't see Prompt 6 or 12 recorded as finished. Which are you working on?"
I was the first finisher for prompt 6, so I'm listed 1st.
The prompt I have left is 12 - Monthly She..."
Ah...that is why I missed your name. I was looking down the alphabet list, not at the top!
I was the first finisher for prompt 6, so I'm listed 1st.
The prompt I have left is 12 - Monthly She..."
Ah...that is why I missed your name. I was looking down the alphabet list, not at the top!

No worries!
Thanks, Bea.

8 Jan 2024
Prompt 7: "Lucky Seven"
Completed 8 Jan 2024
Read 7 books that feature 'Seven'
- chose 7 continents
1. Africa - Love in Color, Bolu Babalola, 5 Jan 2024, (short stories in various countries)
2. Antarctica - Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins, Gavin Francis, 8 Jan 2024
3. Asia - Honor, Thrity Umrigar, 20 Feb 2023, (India)
4. Australia - Exiles, Jane Harper, 4 Feb 2023
5. Europe - The World That We Knew, Alice Hoffman, 22 Jan 2023, (France/Germany)
6. North America - Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard, 25 Jan 2023, (Canada/US)
7. South America - Portrait of an Unknown Lady: A Novel, María Gainza, 21 July 2023, (Argentina)








Fifteen in Fifteen - Prompt #12: Monthly Shelves - Complete
✔︎ 1. January 2010 - Mystery Thriller (p.11) - Exiles by Jane Harper
Read: September 10, 2023
✔︎ 2. February 2015 - Crime (p.1) - (p.20) - Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter
Read: March 25, 2023
✔︎ 3. March 2014 - Stand Alone (p.12) - The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Read: April 14, 2023
✔︎ 4. April 2011 - Medieval (p.14) - To Marry a Scottish Laird by Lynsay Sands
Read: October 15, 2023
✔︎ 5. May 2019 - Stand Alone (p.5) - Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
Read: January 17, 2024
✔︎ 6. June 2010 - Chick-Lit (p.7) - Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James
Read: February 23, 2023
✔︎ 7. July 2011 - Western - (p.3) Annie's Song by Catherine Anderson
Read: April 10, 2023
✔︎ 8. August 2009 - Romance (p.14): The Perfect Hope by Nora Roberts
Read: December 14, 2023
✔︎ 9. September 2012 - Urban Fantasy (p.4): Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews
Read: April 3, 2023
✔︎ 10. October 2009 - Paranormal (p.6) - Wicked Cravings by Suzanne Wright
Read: September 25, 2023
✔︎ 11. November 2018 - Retellings (p.4) - The Wish Granter by C.J. Redwine
Read: May 28, 2023
✔︎ 12. December 2018 - Archaelogy (p.3) - The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters
Read: August 14, 2023

Read 8 comfort/guilty pleasure books.
Read: 8/8
1. Misbehaving Read: 2/19/23
2. Illicit Read: 2/27/23
3. The Anatomy of Jane Read: 5/2/23
4. Darling Discovered: A True Story of Submission Read: 5/20/23
5. Simon Says: Mine Read: 6/8/23
6. Stealing His Thunder Read: 6/18/23
7. Web of Desire Read: 7/4/23
8. Fueling His Hunger Read: 1/16/24
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Prompt #15 -Read a total of 15 books across different PAS challenges (not counting this annual one).
15/15
By the Month... (2023) whole year challenge
Break Shot: My First 21 Years Used in March 3/20/23
The Original used in March 3/23/23
Naked City used in July 7/31/23
A Murder in Time used in May 5/10/23
It's Like This, Cat Used in May 5/13/23
Making Contact With the Other Side: How to Enhance Your Own Psychic Powers Used in May 5/29/23
The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent Used in May 5/31/23
The Real Sherlock Used in May 5/31/23
Death Be Blue Used in October 10/3/23
LOST 2023
Locked Rooms 3/29/23
Quicksand: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller 4/6/23
Tithe 4/16/23
FOUND 2023
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife 7/27/23
Moving Mountains - 2023 Ed
Slade House 2/9/23
Seriously Serial '23 - whole year challenge
The Orc from the Office 7/18/23 used to help make up #21