Out On a Limb - 2024

[Karen]

I'm in for 11 books. I may change some titles or add extra leaves along the way.

Read So Far: 10/11

Trunk: Moon of the Turning Leaves - Completed

Branch #1: One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing (Canadian Author) - Completed
Leaf 1: The Story of Us (Canadian Author) - Completed

Branch #2: We Meant Well (Topic: Colonization) - Completed
Leaf 1: White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver (Topic: Racism) - Completed

Branch #3: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Published in 2023) - Completed
Leaf 1: The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . (Published in 2023) - Completed

Branch #4: Fight Night (Set in Ontario, Canada)
Leaf 1: Apocalypse Child: Surviving Doomsday and the Search for Identity at the End of the World (Set in Canada) - Completed

Branch #5: Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle (Suspense) - Completed
Leaf 1: Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish (Same Series) - Completed

[Alison]

put me down for 10 please. I think I figured out my tree trunk book. Also I had a question. Can you repeat books for the limbs or leaves? Have the same book on two different limbs or leaves??

1/10

TREE TRUNK BOOK- The Housemaid (read in 2023)
Branch 1 (Same Author) Freida McFadden
-Ward D
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Branch 2 (Same Genre) Thriller
- The House that Jack Built (finished 1/4)
leaf-
Branch 3 (Same Topic)
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Branch 4 (Same Location) (NY)
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leaf-
Branch 5 (Same Series)
- The Housemaid's Secret
leaf- The Housekeeper (same word)

[Sarah]

Very cool idea! I'm going to try for 21 books.

Total: 0/21

[=MYSTIQUE=]

Please update Message #17 to 95 books. I have decided to do ONE big tree. Thank you.

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Alison wrote: "put me down for 10 please. I think I figured out my tree trunk book. Also I had a question. Can you repeat books for the limbs or leaves? Have the same book on two different limbs or leaves??"

Not unless you read the book twice. But one reading of one book can only be in one spot. :)

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Welcome everyone!

Looking forward to seeing our collective forest grow!

[Karen]

Update to Message 52: 1/11 books read.

[Asheena]

Update to Message No. 46

Progress:1/15

[Janine]

Please sign me up, I'll go for 12 books.

I'm going to go for Six of Crows as my trunk.

Trunk: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo


Branch 1: That Self-Same Metal (same genre: YA fantasy)
Leaf 1: Heartstopper: Volume Five (same publication year: 2023)

Branch 2: A Tempest of Tea (same plot element: heist)
Leaf 1: Bride (same theme / main character type: vampire)

Branch 3: Fourteen Days (number in title)
Leaf 1: The Eternal Ones (same publication year: 2024)

Branch 4: The Sword of Summer (same publication year: 2015)
Leaf 1: The Hammer of Thor (same series)
Leaf 2: The Ship of the Dead

Branch 5: Where Sleeping Girls Lie (bird on the cover)
Leaf 1: The Girls I've Been (same word in title: Girls)
Leaf 2: The Girl in Question (same genre: YA thriller / same word in title: Girl)
Leaf 3: Four Eids and a Funeral (same author: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé)
Leaf 4: Black Sun (crow wing on cover)

Branch 6: Divine Rivals (same award: Goodreads Choice YA Fantasy & Sci Fi)
Leaf 1: Ace of Spades (same format: dual POV)
Leaf 2: Tress of the Emerald Sea (same publication year: 2023)

Branch 7: Gideon the Ninth (same colour cover: black and white)
Leaf 1: Network Effect (same award: Goodreads Choice Sci Fi)
Leaf 2: Fugitive Telemetry (same award: Goodreads Choice Sci Fi)
Leaf 3: This is How You Lose the Time War (same award: Goodreads Choice Sci Fi)

Branch 8: And Then There Were None (both have a tv series adaptation)
Leaf 1: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (same author: Agatha Christie)

Branch 9: The Six Deaths of the Saint (Six in title)

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #30 .

I decided on Les Misérables for my trunk and built a humongous 12 branch tree. I may have gone just a tiny bit overboard, adding most of my plannned 2024 books as branches or leaves. Ahem. Please increase my goal to 200.

In my mind, I imagine my tree looking much like the 400-500 year old Angel Oak near Charleston, South Carolina.
https://angeloaktree.com/angel-oak-fr... 😃🌳
Some of this live oak's branches are so heavy that support posts have been added to avoid breakage. My branches 4 and 8 might need support. 😉

[Karen]

Update to Message 52:
3/11 books read

[Karin]

UPDATE
3/15
message 48

My apologies for accidentally making 2 posts but won't delete so I don't mess up any links people keep or the page numbers of this thread for some.

[Alison]

update to post #53. Im 1/10 now

[Asheena]

update to Message No.46

Progress:2/15

Trunk:The Final Empire

Branch 1:Six of Crows(same genre)


Branch 2:Divine Rivals(same genre)

[=MYSTIQUE=]

Updated message #17

🪵Trunk Broken Beasts of Beauty 1/6/24 5⭐️
🪵Root 3 Captive Mate 1/3/24 4⭐️
🪵Root 2 Woods of the Raven 1/3/24 5⭐️
🪵Root 1 Forsaken Fae: Book Three 1/2/24 5⭐️

🌳Progress: 4/95
🍃Leaves: 0/63
🌱Twigs: 0/21
🌿Branches: 0/7
🪵Trunk: 1/1
🪵Roots: 3/3
🌰Seed: 0/0

[Greg]

Update to message 24:

I just finished Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin. A detective story/mystery set in Scotland. I will use this for my trunk.

Trunk: Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin

1/50

[Crystal]

Update to message 26
Branch 2
Leaf 1:

Finished today

[Chrissie]

Update message #15 - 2/10

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Glad to see some little sprouts in our forest coming up!

TerryJane, that tree is amazing!

[TerryJane, Challenges]

SarahKat wrote: "Glad to see some little sprouts in our forest coming up!

TerryJane, that tree is amazing!"

Isn't it? Some of my South Carolina family members have had the chance to visit Angel Oak. I'm jealous! If I ever get back to the Charleston area, I plan to see it myself.

[Chrissie]

Update message #15 - 6/10

[Debra Diggs]

Update to message #5: 9/15

[Chrissie]

Update message #15 - 12/25

Raising my goal along the way as it turned to be easier than I thought

[Karin]

Update message 48 6/15

[Briana]

I would like to sign up for 15 books.

Trunk: All Systems Red

Branch 1: (same series) System Collapse finished 1/31
-Leaf 1: (same publication year) Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies finished 3/7
-Leaf 2: (same genre) A Half-Built Garden in progress
Branch 2: (main character is an armed fighter) Red Hood and the Outlaws, Volume 1: Redemption finished 3/11
-Leaf 1: (same series) Red Hood and the Outlaws, Volume 2: The Starfire finished 5/7
-Leaf 2: (main character on cover) Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women finished 6/8
Branch 3: (read within a week) The Black God's Drums finished 5/5
-Leaf 1: (set in usa) One of the Good Ones finished 8/13
-Leaf 2: (published pre-covid) The Rose That Grew from Concrete finished 9/25
Branch 4: (under 200 pages) Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency finished6/27
-Leaf 1: (written by queer poet) Tonguebreaker finished 9/15
-Leaf 2: (less than 2k goodreads ratings) How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir finished 9/22
Branch 5: ("all" in title) All Boys Aren’t Blue finished 2/16
-Leaf 1: (memoir) Counting the Cost finished 6/1
-Leaf 2: (same publication year) Upright Women Wanted finished 10/14

14/15

[Asheena]

update to Message No.46

Progress:3/15

Trunk:The Final Empire

Branch 1:Six of Crows(same genre)


Branch 2:Divine Rivals(same genre)
Leaf 1:Legendary(black cover)

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #30 : 7/200

[Brittany]

updated post 13
1/30

[Laura]

Update on message 21: 2/30 read

[Crystal]

Update to message 26
Branch 3
Leaf 1

[Karin]

Updated message 48

8/15

[Beth]

Update to post 25: Trunk and 2 branches completed. 14/24 books read.

[Crystal]

Update to message 26
Branch 4
Leaf 1

[Betty]

Updated msg 31
completed 1/30

[=MYSTIQUE=]

Updated message #17

🌿Branch 2 (O) Of Secrets and Wolves 1/19/24 4⭐️
🌿Branch 1 (R) Resurrection Reprise 1/16/24 4⭐️

🌳Progress: 6/95
🍃Leaves: 0/63
🌱Twigs: 0/21
🌿Branches: 2/7
🪵Trunk: 1/1
🪵Roots: 3/3
🌰Seed: 0/0

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 41. Progress: 2/15

[Laura]

Update to message 21:

Progress 3/30

[Laura]

Update for message 21: 4/30

[Karen]

Update to Message 52: 4/11

[Asheena]

update to Message No.46

Progress:4/15

Trunk:The Final Empire

Branch 1:Six of Crows(same genre)


Branch 2:Divine Rivals(same genre)
Leaf 1:Legendary(black cover)
Leaf 2:Forget Me Not(published in 2023)

[Karen]

Update to Message 52: 5/11

[Asheena]

update to Message No.46

Progress:5/15

Trunk:The Final Empire

Branch 1:Six of Crows(same genre)
Leaf 1:A Court of Thorns and Roses(published in 2015)

Branch 2:Divine Rivals(same genre)
Leaf 1:Legendary(black cover)
Leaf 2:Forget Me Not(published in 2023)

[Karin]

Update number and goal, message 48


12/20

[=MYSTIQUE=]

Updated message #17

🌿Branch 3 (M) More Than Life 1/25/24 5⭐️

🌳Progress: 7/95

[Betty]

Update msg 31
Progress: 2/30

[Debra Diggs]

Update to message #5: 12/35

Please increase my goal to 35.

Love. This. Challenge.

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Debra Diggs wrote: "Update to message #5: 12/35

Please increase my goal to 35.

Love. This. Challenge."

Glad you're enjoying it Debra!

[Brittany]

updated post 13

7/30

[Rachael]

Updated message 6: 1/10

[Sarah]

Message 42 Updated
6/31