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message 1: by Laura (Lclwags) (last edited Mar 20, 2023 05:35AM) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments Badge 1
12 books - 1 task from each Crossword Puzzle for Badge

✔Puzzle 1 - Task 4 The Elite
✔Puzzle 2 - Task 5 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
✔Puzzle 3 - Task 8 The One
✔Puzzle 4 - Task 7 Quiet in Her Bones
✔Puzzle 5 - Task 4 The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
✔Puzzle 6 - The Finders
✔Puzzle 7 - Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits
✔Puzzle 8 - Task 8 All the Bright Places
✔Puzzle 9 - Task 5 Daisy Darker
✔Puzzle 10 - Task 6 Jackal
✔Puzzle 11 - Task 2 The Lies of Locke Lamora
✔Puzzle 12 - Task 1 The Library of Lost and Found The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick


message 2: by Laura (Lclwags) (last edited Jun 12, 2023 06:53AM) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments Badge 2
18 books from Puzzles 9 & 2
Puzzle 9
⚡Task 1 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
⚡Task 2 Kiss of the Irish
⚡Task 3 Dark Lover
⚡Task 4 A Court of Thorns and Roses
✔Task 5 Done on Badge 1
⚡Task 6 The Gates
⚡Task 7 The Midnight Library
⚡Task 8 20000 Leagues Under the Sea
⚡Task 9 Archangel's Kiss
⚡Task 10 Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Puzzle 2
⚡Task 1 All Good People Here
⚡Task 2 Pompeii
⚡Task 3 A Man Called Ove A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
⚡Task 4 Matilda
✔Task 5 Done on Badge 1
⚡Task 6 Skipping Christmas
⚡Task 7 Shoulder Season
⚡Task 8 Truth or Beard Truth or Beard (Winston Brothers, #1) by Penny Reid
⚡Task 9 Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma Imaginary Girls
⚡Task 10 The Night Circus


message 3: by Laura (Lclwags) (last edited Oct 30, 2023 07:41AM) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments Badge 3 Puzzle 10 and 11
Puzzle 10
🌵Task 1 The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
🌵Task 2 The Killer Angels
🌵Task 3 When Women Were Dragons
🌵Task 4 The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo
🌵Task 5 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) by C.S. Lewis
✔Task 6 Done on Badge 1
🌵Task 7 Book Lovers
Task 8
🌵Task 9 The Night Swim
Task 10 Let the Right One In

Puzzle 11
🌵Task 1 Beard Necessities
✔Task 2 Done on Badge 1
🌵Task 3 Murder at Whitehall
🌵Task 4 The Secret Book of Flora Lea
🌵Task 5 Doctor Who Meets Scratchman
Task 6 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
🌵Task 7 Cause to Kill
🌵Task 8 A Borrowing of Bones (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #1) by Paula Munier
🌵Task 9 A Bat in the Belfry
🌵Task 10 Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane

Future Badges
Puzzle 1
Task 1 Like Water for Chocolate
Task 2 Emma
Task 3 Marked
✔Task 4 Done on Badge 1
Task 5 Holes
Task 6 Parallel
Task 7 A Room with a View
Task 8 Leather and Lace
Task 9 Frenchman's Creek
Task 10 The Starless Sea

Puzzle 3
Task 1 Walden
Task 2 Anna Karenina
Task 3 The Color of Magic
Task 4 The Hawthorne Legacy
Task 5
Task 6 The Secret of Spellshadow Manor
Task 7 The Hobbit
✔Task 8 Done on badge 1
Task 9 The Heretic Queen
Task 10 Scarlet Feather


Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 1
2. Puzzle 5, Task 4
3. Link – The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
4. Listened to Audiobook, Hardcover edition is 236 pages
5. Read a book that is main page genre of young adult.
6. The first genre on the main page is Young Adult.


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Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 2
2. Puzzle 10, Task 6
3. Link – Jackal
4. Listened to Audiobook, Hardcover edition is 336 pages
5. Read a book where a significant character is a bachelor or bachelorette.
6. The main character Liz is single throughout the entire book.


Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 3
2. Puzzle 1, Task 4
3. Link – The Elite
4. Listened to Audiobook, Hardcover edition is 336 pages
5. Read a book that is included in a series of 5 primary works series.
6. This is the 2nd book in The Selection series which has 5 primary works.


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message 9: by Laura (Lclwags) (last edited Feb 27, 2023 09:35AM) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments Changing to Daisy Darker1. for this task and moving this book to Puzzle 4 Task 7 Bone(s) in title.
Badge 1, Book 4
2. Puzzle 9, Task 5
3. Link – Quiet in Her Bones
4. Listened to Audiobook, Hardcover edition is 374 pages
5. Read a book with an unreliable narrator. 
6. The narrator is unreliable because he eventually realizes he is having memory issues, so he has gaps in memory and is also misremembering things. The reader is left wondering if the narrator's version or the other character's version is correct during many plot points of the story. At one point (view spoiler)


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message 11: by Laura (Lclwags) (last edited Feb 10, 2023 09:13AM) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 5
2. Puzzle 11, Task 2
3. Link – The Lies of Locke Lamora
4. Listened to Audiobook, Hardcover edition is 499 pages
5. Read a book from this list Jesters, Fools, and Tricksters
6. The book was on this list and was one I've been meaning to read.


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message 13: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 6
2. Puzzle 3, Task 8
3. Link – The One
4. Listened to Audiobook, Hardcover edition is 323 pages
5. Read a book that is the third or ninth book in a series.
6. This book is the 3rd book in The Selection series.


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message 15: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 4 - Changing the task for this book.
2. Puzzle 4, Task 7
3. Link – Quiet in Her Bones
4. Listened to Audiobook, Hardcover edition is 374 pages
5. Read a book with Bone(s) in the title
6. The title contains Bones.


message 16: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 7
2. Puzzle 9, Task 5
3. Link – Daisy Darker
4. Listened to Audiobook, Hardcover edition is 352 pages
5. Read a book with an unreliable narrator. 
6. At the end of the book, we learn the narrator is unreliable due to her forgetting key memories.


message 17: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 8
2. Puzzle 2, Task 5
3. Link – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
4. Hardcover edition is 416 pages
5. Read a book with duplicated (or more) words in the title.
6. Tomorrow is in the title 3 times.


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message 19: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 9
2. Puzzle 8, Task 8
3. Link – All the Bright Places
4. Hardcover edition is 378 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 Niven and I had not heard of her before a coworker suggested I read this book.


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message 21: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 10
2. Puzzle 6, Task 1
3. Link – The Finders
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 288 pages
5. Read a book with a dog as a significant character.
6. The main character works with cadaver dogs and they play a significant role in the book, especially Vira the Golden Retriever.


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message 23: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 11
2. Puzzle 12, Task 1
3. Link – The Library of Lost and Found The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 352 pages
5. Read a book that shows shelves or stacks of books on the cover.
6. The cover has a stack of books with a teacup on top.


message 24: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 12
2. Puzzle 7, Task 3
3. Link – Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 304 pages
5. Read a book with a type of liquor in the title.
6. The title has Whiskey in it.


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Congrats on finishing the first badge.


message 26: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 1
2. Puzzle 9, Task 10
3. Link – Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 436 pages
5. Read a cozy mystery with food as the main theme.
6. Cozy Mystery is the 2nd genre on the main page and this series is about a bakery owner. The book even includes recipes.


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Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 2
2. Puzzle 2, Task 10
3. Link – The Night Circus
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 387 pages
5.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.
6. This book is on the first page of the list.


message 28: by Laura (Lclwags) (last edited Apr 02, 2023 04:04PM) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments Janice, Sorry to do 3 at once! Matlida is so short and great that I blew through it doing chores today.
1. Badge 2, Book 3
2. Puzzle 2, Task 4
3. Link – Matilda
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 240 pages
5.Read a book with a higher than 4.1 average rating on Goodreads.
6. This book has a 4.33 rating.


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message 30: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 4
2. Puzzle 2, Task 6
3. Link – Skipping Christmas
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 192 pages
5. Read a book with a Christmas theme.
6. This book has a Christmas theme and I assume Christmas with the Kranks is based on it. I haven't seen the movie and didn't realize there was a book when I picked this.


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Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 5
2. Puzzle 9, Task 3
3. Link – Dark Lover Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1) by J.R. Ward
4. I listened to the audio book, mass market paperback edition is 393 pages
5. Read a book whose cover is 75% dark red.
6. This book cover is 84% red.


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message 33: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 6
2. Puzzle 2, Task 1
3. Link – All Good People Here
4. I read the Hardcover edition which is 312 pages.
5. Read a book that is set in the 21st century. (Jan 1, 2001 - Present)
6. This book is set in 2019.


message 34: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 7
2. Puzzle 9, Task 9
3. Link – Archangel's Kiss
4. I listened to the audio book, mass market paperback edition is 323 pages
5. Read a book where a word in the title contains kiss - may be imbedded.
6. The title contains Kiss.


message 35: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 8
2. Puzzle 9, Task 7
3. Link – The Midnight Library
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 304 pages
5. Read a book written by a British author.
6. Matt Haig is from Sheffield, England.


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message 37: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 9
2. Puzzle 2, Task 7
3. Link – Shoulder Season
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 336 pages
5. Read a book with shoulder or round in the title.
6. The title contains Shoulder.


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message 39: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 10
2. Puzzle 2, Task 8
3. Link – Truth or Beard Truth or Beard (Winston Brothers, #1) by Penny Reid
4. I listened to the audio book, paperback edition is 375 pages
5. Read a book with a beard or top hat on the cover.
6. The cover has a cross stitch of a bearded face on it.


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message 41: by Laura (Lclwags) (last edited May 04, 2023 12:01PM) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 11
2. Puzzle 9, Task 1
3. Link – The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 444 pages
5. Read a book with Invisible in the title.
6. The title contains Invisible


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message 43: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 12
2. Puzzle 9, Task 2
3. Link – Kiss of the Irish
4. I listened to the audio book, paperback edition is 180 pages
5. Read a book that has a bar or saloon featured in it.
6. The male MC owns a pub and many of the scenes take place in the Pub.


message 44: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 13
2. Puzzle 2, Task 3
3. Link – A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 337 pages
5. Read a book with one person on the cover. Both arms must be showing.
6. The cover shows Ove walking away and both arms are showing.


message 45: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 14
2. Puzzle 9, Task 4
3. Link – A Court of Thorns and Roses
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 432 pages
5. Read a book with thorns on the cover or in the title.
6. The title contains thorns.


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message 47: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 15
2. Puzzle 2, Task 9
3. Link – Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 348 pages
5. Read a book with an ankle clearly showing on the cover.
6. The cover shows a woman underwater with her ankle showing.


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message 49: by Laura (Lclwags) (new)

Laura (Lclwags) (lclwags) | 698 comments Badge 2, Book 16
2. Puzzle 9, Task 8
3. Link – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
4. I listened to the audio book, Hardcover edition is 269 pages
5. Read a book that is set in the ocean on a ship or submarine.
6. This book takes place on a ship and a submarine.


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