Read Your Word (Jul-Sep 2023)

[laurel [the suspected bibliophile]]

Welcome to our third quarter challenge!

Like all of our challenges, this one is about you choosing your own path.

The rules are simple, but following them will be a little...difficult...depending on how hard or easy you make it for yourself.

There are two options for this challenge.

1. Spell a Word
Pick a 4, 5 or 6-letter word of your choice (yes, it needs to be a word in English). Choose books with titles that start with each letter, to spell out your word. For example:
My word is BOOK
B Bitten
O Oona Out of Order
O One Last Stop
K King of Scars

2. Title Chain
Read 4-6 book titles that start with the last word of the previous book. For example;
The Wicked King
King of Scars
Scars Like Wings
The Winged Histories
History Is All You Left Me
Me Talk Pretty One Day

As always, there are no page limits for our quarterly challenges, and you don't have to read the books in order unless you want to.

This challenges runs from July 1st to September 30th

[laurel [the suspected bibliophile]]

Participants

Aliana (7)
✨ Brianna Raquel ✨ (16) 8/10
Edith (5) 2/4
Ela (3) 2/6
Elizabeth (12) 1/6
Judy (9)
Juliane (11) 2/5
Leslie (13)
LiteraryCryptid (8) 4/6
Madhuparna (14) 3/4; 0/4
Pani (10) 3/5
Sarah (15)


Finishers

Ela (3) Congrats!!
Hina ♡ (4) Congrats!!
Mara (6) Congrats!!

[Ela (Mouse333)]

Spell a Word - Completed: 5/5

Moon
Apex Basilisk
Glimmer of Death
I Married Wonjin
Challenge of the Court

Title Chain - Completed: 2/6

1. The Broken One
2. One Look
3. Look But Don't Touch
4. Touch the Dark
5. Dark Mafia Prince
6. Prince Albert

[Hina]

Spell a Word - 4/4

B - Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman 9/7
O - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 15/7
A - Abduction! by Peg Kehret 14/7
T- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 17/7

[Edith, Group/Buddy Reads Procrastinator]

Word—FAIL

Completed: X/7

F: Fourth Wing
A: Ariadne
I: Iron Widow
L: Lone Women

[Mara]

I'll try (*^▽^*)

Completed: 5/5 ヾ(≧▽≦*)o

Spell a Word:
W: Witchlings (Witchlings #1) --> finished on 7/29
I: It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters #1) --> finished on 7/29
T: To Poison a King (The Heirs of Isla #1) --> finished on 7/23
C: Cupcake --> finished on 9/6
H: Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters #2) --> finished on 8/7

[Aliana]

Count me in!

Spell a Word - 0/5
☐ N: Noor
☐ O: Our Violent Ends
☐ B: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
☐ L: Leia: Princess of Alderaan
☐ E: El Deafo

[LiteraryCryptid]

Jumping in on this:

P
R Rogue Protocol Finished 09/01/2023
E Exit Strategy Finished 09/03/2023
T The Eyre Affair Finished 07/13/2023
T This Winter Finished 08/23/2023
Y

[Judy]

I'm In! My word is: TIME
This is How You Lose the Time War
I
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E

[Pani]

My favourite challenge :)
Spell a Word: Lemon 3/5

L The Lighthouse Witches ✓
E Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
M Maurice ✓
O On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
N Nick and Charlie ✓

[Juliane]

I'm in:

Spell a Word: 3/5

M Master and Commander
✓I Inheritance
N Nerd Do Well
✓ D Die rätselhaften Honjin-Morde: Kriminalroman
✓ S Sweetbitter

[Elizabeth]

I'm in!

G-A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
O-Oathbringer
L-Love, Theoretically✓
D-Dune
E-Ender’s Game
N-Nettle & Bone

[Leslie]

I haven't decided whether I will just do one or both. updated: I did both!!!

Spell a word:
D: Dungeon Crawler Carl finished 8/6/23
R: Red Gambit finished 8/21/23
A: Asking for a Friend finished 8/15/23
G: Georgie, All Along finished 8/9/23
O: One Italian Summer finished 8/7/23
N: Neon Gods finished 9/4/23

Title Chain:

Happy Trail (8/28/23) -->
Trail of Lightning (9/30/23) -->
The Lightning Thief (9/3/23) -->
Thief Liar Lady (9/29/23) -->
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (9/17/23)

[Madhuparna]

I'm in~

Spell A Word: 3/4
A- Across the Green Grass Fields
T- The London Seance Society
T- The Historian
I- In Mercy, Rain
C- Catherine House

[Sarah]

I'm very excited about this one!

Spell A Word: 0/5
L- Love on the Brain
O- Once More with Feeling
V- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
E- Eleanor & Park
D- Dreamland: A Novel

[✨ Brianna Raquel ✨, New Procrastinator]

I'm late adding to the thread, but I'm in!

10/10

L — Lucky🌸
I — I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki🌸
B — Blackout🌸
R — Right Where I Left You 🌸
A — Anatomy of a Meet Cute 🌸

C — Cupid Calling 🌸
R — A Raisin in the Sun🌸
O — One of Us Is Back 🌸
W — Whiteout🌸
D — Does My Body Offend You?🌸

[laurel [the suspected bibliophile]]

FINAL UPDATE


Congrats Ela, Hina and Mara, our latest finishers!