Week 12 - March 19, 2023

[Lindsey]

WEEKLY CHECK-IN
March 19, 2023 -- Week 12

What are your last, current, and next reads?
Any specific prompts you're putting them toward?

[Lindsey]

Last - Blood Magick by Nora Roberts
Current - The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
Next - The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes

The first one I used for Prompt #51, I don't think I'll be using the other two

[Larissa]

Last- Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices
Current- The Chronicles of Narnia
Next- The Paris Seamstress

The first one I don't have a specific prompt for, but the second one I am using for High Fantasy and the third will be for "city/country name in the title".

[Niki]

Last - Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Current - What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Next - The Golden Cage

Prompts (in order) are 12, 29, and 24.

[Lori]

Last - Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Current - Fairy Tale by Stephen King
** maybe for prompt 41 - a character who is a refugee -

Next - Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
** prompt 7 - a city or country name in title

[Megan]

Last - Crying in H Mart byMichelle Zauner for prompt 43- a book "everyone" has read

Current- A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage for prompt 19- Typographic Cover

Next- The Orphan Collector byEllen Marie Wiseman I'm still deciding which prompt to use

[Kathi]

Last read was The Bone Ship's Wake by R.J. Barker, fits prompts 26 & 39 (has an epilogue and final book in a series). Not sure where I will finally place it.

Current read is Geomancer by Ian Irvine, fits prompts 3 & 21 (title starts with G and is a second hand book). Not sure where I will finally place it.

Next up is probably Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, not sure what prompts it will fit.

[Beth]

Just finished -- The Girl in His Shadow by Audrey Blake (#29 rabbit-hole or #37 present tense?)
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen(#6 >200 pgs or #16 seven deadly?)
Currently in progress -- That was Now, This is Then by Michael Z. Williamson (#14 survival or #36 cliffhanger chapters or #41 refugees?)
Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies by Dave Addey (#19 typography)
Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation by Aisha Tyler (#40 by a comedian)
Next up -- Not sure yet. Maybe Rook for the March mini challenge about feathers?
Hard to decide where to put them... Difficult to read one at a time, too...

[Anna]

Audio books
Last - I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death for March Mini-challenge
Current - H is for Hawk also for March Mini-challenge
Next - either Love in the Time of Cholera or The Two Towers depending on holds.

Print/Ebooks
Last - Bengali Folk Tales
Current - Madame Bovary for deadly sins
Next - Hum If You Don't Know the Words unknown

[Michele]

Last -- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko for the mini challenge: it has a feather on the cover.
Current -- The Physician by Noah Gordon, no particular prompt, just because I wanted to.
Next -- The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie for the mini challenge of a book told from an animal's POV

[Marie]

Last: Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes
Current: French Braid by Anne Tyler
Next: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

[Kathy]

📚 LAST The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides for prompt 16 One of the “seven deadly sins”

📚 CURRENT The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson for prompt 21 Secondhand book

📚 NEXT The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison for prompt 33 A Banned Book

[Haley]

Last - Gambit: Thick As Thieves (Gambit & Murder Book: A Novel

*I've already done Prompt 50: Related to the word "Murder" so Murder Book: A Novel is that prompt repeated. Gambit: Thick As Thieves (Gambit was just a new comic my library got and it looked pretty good.

Current - Wrong Place Wrong Time, Mr. & Mrs. Witch, & Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

*Wrong Place Wrong Time is my Prompt 42: Time in the Title. Mr. & Mrs. Witch is my Prompt 37: Written in Present Tense. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers is a repeat of Prompts 50 & 52 and so far this book is hilarious.

Next Reads - If the Shoe Fits & Revelle

*There are plenty more but those are in positions #1 and #2 on my Want to Read. If the Shoe Fits fits Prompt 5: Title Starts with the Letter "I." Revelle would be a repeat as I've already finished Prompt 52: Published in 2023. Again, I saw it was a new book coming to my library and it looked interesting.

[Melanie]

Last: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Prompt #11 - A book about secrets

Current: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Prompt #15 - Set in Australia

Next: The Obelisk Gate
Prompt #8 - Dystopian fiction

[GailW]

Last: Swann by Carol Shields
Prompt #11 - A book with secrets

Current: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
Prompt #4 - Title Starting with the letter "H"

Next: A Sunlit Weapon by Jacqueline Winspear
Prompt #32 - Published by McMillan

[Carol]

Last-Our Missing Hearts for March Mini-Challenge (feather on the cover) and Prompt 36-chapters have cliffhangers

Last audiobook-I Am A Girl From Africa-Title starts with “I”

Current-Take My Hand and Hello Beautiful

Next-Three Act Tragedy-Agatha Christie

[Jeni]

Last: Sign Here by Claudia Lux (set in a workplace)
Current: Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Next: probably Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
I could double up on the funeral and murder prompts since I've already done them, but if not, my current and next books will at least count toward my 2023 reading goal

[Lizz]

Last - Book of Night by Holly Black - Sends you down a rabbit hole

Current- The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar - A character who is a refugee or Set during a war other than WWI or WWII (Syrian war) and The StoryGraph Reads the World 2023 - Syria

Next- The Family Jewels The Dublin Trilogy by Caimh McDonnell - Set in the city of Dublin

[Nicole]

Last: Other Birds- Mini challenge Mar
Current: Mexican Gothic - Book Club Book
Next: Oryx and Crake- Mini challenge Mar

[Zermeena]

Last book: The Alpine Christmas - no prompt
Last audiobook: Strong Poison - no prompt

Current book: Singapore Sapphire - 20 A book about Siblings
Current audiobook: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - 19 Typographic cover

Next book and audiobook ???

[Milena]

I am also going to do one each for audiobook and digital/print. I am always reading one of each.

Last book: Babel: An Arcane History - a book with a subtitle
Current book: Demon Copperhead - no prompt
Next book: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - not sure yet

Last audiobook: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - no prompt
Current audiobook: It Happened One Summer - no prompt
Next audiobook: I Have Some Questions for You - typographic cover

[Barbara]

Last read: Bases to Bleachers: A Collection of Personal Baseball Stories from the Stands and Beyond by Eric C. Gray (no prompt)
Current read: The Devourers by Indra Das ?
Next read: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé ?

[Kim]

Last - I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910 by Lauren Tarshis
Current - The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Next - Secondhand Magic by Ruth Chew.
I'm not assigning books to prompts yet, I'm keeping a spreadsheet and when I read a book, I list it under every prompt it fits. I will start assigning around the end of June and see what I still need to fill.

[Mel]

The last book I finished was Uzumaki by Junji ito (for the book that contains a funeral prompt), my current read is Maya Angelou - The Complete Poetry (for the Book that has a dedication prompt). As for my next read, I'm not sure yet. Maybe Vanity Fair (for the second hand prompt)?

[Edit]

Last book: Expedíció by Jeff VanderMeer - 11. A book about secrets
Last audio book: Münchhausen báró csodálatos kalandjai by Rudolf Erich Raspe

Current books:
- Hosszú út egy kicsi és dühös bolygóhoz by Becky Chambers - 4. Title strating with the letter "H"
- The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite
- The Weave of Fate by S.L. Matthews

Next book (probably): Az utolsó 450 év by Zoltán Kőhalmi - 40. Written by a comedian

[Laura]

Last book: Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 5 (Title starts with "H")
Current book: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Manhua) Vol. 1 (Published in 2023)
Next book: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2 (High fantasy)

[Necmi]

Last: Mercan Adası by R.M. Ballantynt
Current: Ufak Yangınlar by Celeste Ng
Next: Trendeki Kız by Paula Hawkins

[Heather]

Last: The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Current: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
Current: The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Next: Probably House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Mass, The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten, or The Curator by Owen King... or maybe all three. I don't know...
I'm not assigning any of them to prompts just yet. I have a spreadsheet where I am keeping track of all the prompts and I fill some in as I go along, but for most of them I'm waiting to see what all I read and where they fit.

[Clara]

My last read was "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom. I put this on #20 A Book About Siblings. My current read is "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. This will be for #33 A Banned Book. My next book is "Atomic Habits" by James Clear. I expect it to go on #16 One of the Seven Deadly Sins.

[Adrienne]

Last book: Black Beauty Newbery Award winner
Current book: The Bandit Queens Published in 2023
Next book: In the Dream House

[Gerry]

Last: The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson, used for #4 (begins with H) and rated it 4.5 stars
Current: Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow, to be used for #7 (city name in title)
Next: so many options! Most likely one of the many library books on my desk for #27), for #33, for #40, or just for kicks.

[Lisa Marie]

Since I am behind in these posts these are from the week ending May 13, 2023 :
LAST:

Darling Girl by Liz Michalski

CURRENT:

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

and


High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life by Tiffany Jenkins

NEXT:

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

[Denise]

Also behind in these posts so as of may 12:

Last: Shanghai Girls
Current: Tales from the Cafe, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius , Thinking: Fast and Slow

Next: Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion , The Vicar of Wakefield, and Girlhood

[Hilde]

I have read Tidsvampyrene by Aleksander Kirkwood Brown for the prompt #42 Time in the title. Tid is Norwegian for time.