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message 1: by Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors (new)

Donna (dkflynn33) | 8453 comments Mod
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This month we are celebrating Thanksgiving. Grab all your harvest & turkey themed reads and let's get this celebration started!

Runs: November 1-31
Time: Follow your time zone

Readathon Rules:
🦃Books must be finished within the dates listed above
🦃No page limits
🦃Re-reads, Fan fiction & Graphic Novels accepted
🦃Set your personal goal (ideas: # of books, # of pages, Start or finish a series, work on challenge books, etc)
🦃Set up a tracking post below


Optional Tasks
🦃Read a book with turkey on the cover
🦃Read a book where a character partakes in a feast
🦃Read a book that starts with a letter in THANKSGIVING
🦃Read a book that ends with a letter in HARVEST



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message 2: by CassieCruel (last edited Dec 01, 2024 12:25PM) (new)

CassieCruel | 293 comments I’m in!!

Optional Tasks
🦃Read a book with turkey on the cover
🦃Read a book where a character partakes in a feast
🦃Read a book that starts with a letter in THANKSGIVING - Hell for Hire - 9/11
🦃Read a book that ends with a letter in HARVEST - The Vampire and the Case of her Dastardly Death - 20/11


Nov 1: 4
Nov 2: 193
Nov 3: 72
Nov 4: 74
Nov 5: 220
Nov 6: 24
Nov 7: 161
Nov 8: 62
Nov 9: 111
Nov 10: 31
Nov 11: 18
Nov 12: 7
Nov 13: 14
Nov 14: 56
Nov 15: 46
Nov 16: 8
Nov 17: 59
Nov 18: 60
Nov 19: 220
Nov 20: 124
Nov 21: 19
Nov 22: 12
Nov 23: 32
Nov 24: 307
Nov 25: 31
Nov 26: 106
Nov 27: 32
Nov 28: 8
Nov 29: 74
Nov 30: 116



Total pages: 2300


Books completed:

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Kanna's Daily Life, Vol. 2 by coolkyousinnjya Magic, Movies, and Murder (Bewitcher's Beach Paranormal Cozy Mysteries #1) by Emily Fluke Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1) by Rachel Aaron Cupcakes and Crime (Gold Valley Mysteries #1) by April Browne Dewitched (Witchless In Seattle, #3) by Dakota Cassidy The Vampire and the Case of her Dastardly Death (The Portlock Paranormal Detective Series, #0.5) by Heather G. Harris Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1) by Rebecca Thorne


message 3: by Join the Penguin Resistance! (last edited Nov 13, 2024 11:57AM) (new)

Join the Penguin Resistance!   (readingreindeerproximacentauri) | 491 comments TBR: #SciFiMonth
Prompt: Feast: A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor
Ends with Letter in HARVEST: A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor
Starts with a letter in THANKSGIVING:
Inland "I"
Hoopla Virtual

Starbound: Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible
Turkey On Cover:

11/01: Starbound: Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible
The Answer Is No: A Short Story . New. Kindle First Reads.
Floreana. New. Kindle First Reads.

11/02: This Girl's a Killer . Libby Virtual.
The End of All Things Preview Excerpt by John Scalzi. NetGalley ARC Mount TBR to 7%
The Dispatcher NetGalley ARC Mount TBR to 28%
Do You Think She's a Witch?

11/03: Dreadful Dozen: Twelve Tales of Horror ARC review, new Release
The End of All Things
The Dispatcher
Pike Island NG ARC/KU to p. 4

11/04: Pike Island to p. 52

11/05: Pike Island
Inland Hoopla Virtual
A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor Hoopla Virtual

11/06: Pike Island

11/07: Snow Drowned new Release, NG ARC to 8%
The Ice Warden: A Constable Petra Jensen Novella new. KU Virtual

11/08: Snow Drowned to 30%
A Job for Penelope
The Three-Candle Prayer: A Novel. New, KU. To p. 72


11/09: The Three-Candle Prayer: A Novel . KU Virtual

11/10: I Bought a Haunted School KU to p..36


message 4: by Join the Penguin Resistance! (last edited Nov 21, 2024 10:15AM) (new)

Join the Penguin Resistance!   (readingreindeerproximacentauri) | 491 comments 11/11: Haunted Secrets: Tales of Eloise Volume Five www.scarestreet.com ARC
I Bought a Haunted School
Snow Drowned
Don't Squish a Slug
The Burrowers Beneath Hoopla

11/12: A Dead Man and Doggie Delights
The TERROR at MISKATONIC Falls
The Menace from Farside
THE CRONE: Don't Ever Let Her In KU

11/13: A Deadly Thaw. NetGalley ARC Mount TBR and Hoopla Virtual. To 47%.

11/14: A Deadly Thaw.
A Haunting in the Arctic NetGalley ARC Mount TBR to 10%
Arctic Adagio

11/15: A Haunting in the Arctic to 11%
I Think I Was Murdered Libby Virtual new Release to p. 102

11/16: I Think I Was Murdered

11/17: Rock Harbor Search and Rescue NetGalley ARC Mount TBR
Lost and Found NetGalley ARC Mount TBR
Another to 25% NetGalley ARC new

11/18: Another
Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky . NetGalley ARC, NetGalley Shelf, Virtual.
Survive This Safari . NetGalley ARC, NetGalley Shelf. Virtual.
Shiver. NetGalley ARC Mount TBR. 2%

11/19: Shiver to 41%

11/20: Shiver to 68%


message 5: by Join the Penguin Resistance! (last edited Nov 30, 2024 08:06PM) (new)

Join the Penguin Resistance!   (readingreindeerproximacentauri) | 491 comments 11/21: Shiver
The Ski Resort: A totally addictive psychological thriller with a shocking final twist. NetGalley ARC

11/22: APOCRYPHA: A Mystery Thriller. KU.
The Ski Resort: A totally addictive psychological thriller with a shocking final twist

11/23: Indian Burial Ground. NetGalley ARC/Native American Month/Unexpected Readathons Prompt. To 4%. Second in Series.

11/24: Sisters of the Lost Nation NetGalley ARC/Native American Month/Unexpected Readathons Prompt. First in Series. To 44%.

11/25:
Sisters of the Lost Nation
The Grinch Who Didn't Steal Christmas Mount TBR. Yule Spirit Challenge.
Sisters of the Lost Nation National Native American Heritage Month and Unexpected Readathon Prompt.

11/26: Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop
Black Sun. NG ARC Mount TBR and Yule Spirit Challenge. To p. 59.

11/27: Black Sun. NG ARC Mount TBR. NAHM and Yule Spirit Challenge (Winter Solstice). To p. 59.

11/28: Black Sun .



11/29: Vengeance From Beyond. SCARE STREET ARC
War Daddy: A Short Story .



11/30: Sherlock Holmes & the Christmas Demon Yule Spirit Challenge. Christmas Horror. Own Mount TBR.
A Holiday
Haunting at the Biltmore
. Yule Spirit Challenge.


message 6: by Join the Penguin Resistance! (last edited Nov 30, 2024 08:07PM) (new)

Join the Penguin Resistance!   (readingreindeerproximacentauri) | 491 comments TITLES READ:
🍗 The Answer Is No: A Short Story

🍗 This Girl's a Killer

🍗 Do You Think She's a Witch?

🍗 Dreadful Dozen: Twelve Tales of Horror

🍗 The End of All Things

🍗 The Dispatcher


🍗 Inland Hoopla

🍗 A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor

Pike Island

The Ice Warden: A Constable Petra Jensen Novella

A Job for Penelope

The Three-Candle Prayer: A Novel

Haunted Secrets: Tales of Eloise Volume Five www.scarestreet.com ARC

I Bought a Haunted School

Snow Drowned

Don't Squish a Slug

The Burrowers Beneath Hoopla

A Dead Man and Doggie Delights

The TERROR at MISKATONIC Falls



Arctic Adagio

A Deadly Thaw

I
Think I Was Murdered


Rock Harbor Search and Rescue

Lost and Found

Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky

Survive This Safari

Shiver

🤶The Grinch Who Didn't Steal Christmas

Sisters of the Lost Nation

🤶Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop

🤶Black Sun [Winter Solstice. Native American Heritage Month.]
Vengeance From Beyond SCARE STREET ARC

War Daddy: A Short Story.

🤶Sherlock Holmes & the Christmas Demon







PAGES READ: 67 + 435 + 29 + 158 + ? + 64 + 321 + 279 + 259 + 81 + 27 + 277. + 78 + 191 + 301 + 64 + 195 + 171 + 158 + 160 + 57 + 377 + 344 + 40 + 234 + 234 + 400 + 5 + 348 + 322 + ?ARC + 26 + 244

PROMPTS READ:


message 7: by Jayme(theghostreader) (last edited Nov 30, 2024 02:06PM) (new)

Jayme(theghostreader) (jaymetheghostreader) | 915 comments Pages read:996
Books read: 3
Moon Called
Dead Until Dark
"Home Front"-up to page 185

11/3-start Moon Called-46 pp
11/4-Moon Called-20 pp
11/5-Moon Called-48 pp
11/6-Moon Called-p 40 pp
11/7-Moon Called-10 pp
11/8-Moon Called-48 pp finished
11/9-Dead Until Dark-25 pp
11/10-Dead Until Dark 40 pp
11/11-Dead Until Dark-50 pp
11/12-Dead Until Dark-40 pp
11/13-Dead Until Dark-50 pp
11/14-Dead Until Dark-15 pp
11/15-Dead Until Dark-Dead Until Dark--15 pp
11/16-Dead Until Dark-62 pp finished
11/17
11/18-Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts-20 pp
11/19-Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts-20 pp
11/20-Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts-50pp
11/21-Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts-32 pp
11/22-Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts-25 pp
11/23-Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts-52pp
11/24-Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts-223 pp
11/25
11/26
11/27-Home Front-39 pp
11/28-Home Front-32pp
11/29-Home Front-44pp
11/30-Home Front-70pp


message 8: by Catsalive (last edited Nov 30, 2024 12:32AM) (new)

Catsalive | 1714 comments November RAT
Optional Tasks
✔🦃Read a book with turkey on the cover
✔🦃Read a book where a character partakes in a feast
✔🦃Read a book that starts with a letter in THANKSGIVING
✔🦃Read a book that ends with a letter in HARVEST

(view spoiler)

Total Pages Read: 10356

Books Finished: 35
Howloween Murder (A Melanie Travis Canine Mystery) by Laurien Berenson Pumpkin Spice Peril (Cupcake Bakery Mystery, #12) by Jenn McKinlay Gone with the Wool (Yarn Retreat Mystery, #4) by Betty Hechtman Reading Between the Crimes (Jane Doe Book Club Mystery, #2) by Kate Young Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) by Travis Baldree Death Overdue (The Haunted Library Mysteries, #1) by Allison Brook The Terrible Tide by Alisa Craig Persuasion by Jane Austen Going Postal (Discworld, #33) by Terry Pratchett Creation in Death (In Death, #25) by J.D. Robb Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1) by Jodi Taylor Dragonflight (Pern Dragonriders of Pern, #1) by Anne McCaffrey Lightning by Dean Koontz The Big Time by Fritz Leiber Bluestocking Bride by Elizabeth Thornton The Seachangers by Meredith Appleyard Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume The Edge by Dick Francis Night Watch (Discworld, #29) by Terry Pratchett Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller The Notorious Rake (Waite, #3) by Mary Balogh Bony Buys A Woman by Arthur W. Upfield Man of Two Tribes by Arthur W. Upfield Reaper Man (Discworld, #11) by Terry Pratchett Mistletoe and Mischief by Patricia Wynn Big Man and the Burn-Out by Clayton Bess Little Bookshop of Murder (Beach Reads Mystery, #1) by Maggie Blackburn Manhunt by Janet Evanovich Nemesis by Agatha Christie The Book Charmer (Dove Pond #1) by Karen Hawkins Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins


message 9: by Kat (last edited Dec 07, 2024 04:46AM) (new)

Kat (bookworm2017) | 1850 comments Currently reading:

1/11 - 51 pages
2/11 - 69 pages
3/11- 59 pages
4/11 - 72 pages
5/11- 51 pages
6/11- 28 pages
7/11- 39 pages
8/11 - 32 pages
9/11 - 83 pages
10/11- 40 pages
11/11 - 49 pages
12/11 - 50 pages
13/11- 42 pages
14/11 - 35 pages
15/11- 59 pages
16/11 - 70 pages
17/11 - 100 pages
18/11 - 29 pages
19/11 - 92 pages
20/11 - 60 pages
21/11 - 74 pages
22/11 - 184 pages
23/11 - 52 pages
24/11- 98 pages
25/11 - 30 pages
26/11 - 57 pages
27/11 - 93 pages
28/11 - 50 pages
29/11 - 39 pages
30/11 - 84 pages

Total pages: 1881

Finished books: The Guncle (The Guncle, #1) by Steven Rowley Heart Trick (East Coast, #1) by Kristen Granata Dead List (Calladine & Bayliss, #3) by Helen H. Durrant 20 Minutes Before Christmas (20 Minutes #8) by Daniel Hurst Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey Balls (Ball Games, #1) by Andie M. Long Haven (Kindled, #1) by Claire Kent Snow Balls (Ball Games, #2) by Andie M. Long Vanishing Girls (Detective Josie Quinn, #1) by Lisa Regan New Balls Please (Ball Games, #3) by Andie M. Long


message 10: by [deleted user] (last edited Nov 25, 2024 07:03AM) (new)

🍁Currently Reading:🍁 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6) by J.K. Rowling

11/1: Desertion During the Civil War 54pp. Dragonfly in Amber (from pg. 193) 43pp.
11/2: Desertion During the Civil War 146pp. (finished)
11/3: Dragonfly in Amber 70pp.
11/4: Voices in the Dead House - 155pp.
11/5: Voices in the Dead House - 126pp. (finished)
11/6: Dragonfly in Amber 90pp.
11/7: Dragonfly in Amber 108pp.
11/8: Dragonfly in Amber 206pp.
11/9: -- --
11/10: Dragonfly in Amber 33pp. (finished)
11/11: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 108pp.
11/12: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 115pp.
11/13: -- --
11/14: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 44pp.
11/15: -- --
11/16: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 92pp.
11/17: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 78pp.
11/18: -- --
11/19: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 65pp.
11/20: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 115pp.
11/21: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 140pp.
11/22: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 113pp (finished)
11/23: Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South - 125pp.
11/24: Longstreet - 238pp. (finished)

🍁Books Read:🍁
1. Desertion During the Civil War - 230pp. (11/2)
2. Voices in the Dead House - 281pp. (11/5)
3. Dragonfly in Amber - 743pp. (11/10)
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 870pp. (11/22)
4. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South - 363pp. (11/24)


message 11: by Jazzy (last edited Nov 09, 2024 03:10AM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) Welcome to November!


HOB November Read-a-thon 2024
Lest We Forget - A Time to Remember
1/11/24 - 30/1/24

WEEK ONE

Friday 1 November 2024 - WORLD VEGAN DAY
🎆 The Riviera House (2021) - Natasha Lester 480pp 1/11/24 5🌺
The Riviera House
Daily Page Total: 480
Page Total to Date: 480

Saturday 2 November 2024
🎆 The Survivors (2020) - Alex Schulman 240pp 2/11/24 5🌺
The Survivors by Alex Schulman
Daily Page Total: 240
Page Total to Date: 720

Sunday 3 November 2024
🎆 Agnes Grey (1847) - Anne Brontë 226pp 3/11/24 5🌺
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Daily Page Total: 226
Page Total to Date: 946

Monday 4 November2024
🎆 The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006) - Maggie O'Farrell 277pp 5🌺
Daily Page Total: 277
Page Total to Date: 1223


Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Guy Fawkes and his companions
Did the scheme contrive,
To blow the King and Parliament
All up alive.
Threescore barrels, laid below,
To prove old England's overthrow.
But, by God's providence, him they catch,
With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
A stick and a stake
For King James's sake!
If you won't give me one,
I'll take two,
The better for me,
And the worse for you.
A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,
A pint of beer to wash it down,
And a jolly good fire to burn him.
Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!

Tuesday 5 November 2024 BONFIRE NIGHT
Drums of Autumn (2018) - Diana Gabaldon 928pp 5/11/24 5
Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4) by Diana Gabaldon
Daily Page Total: 928
Page Total to Date: 2151

Wednesday 6 November 2024
🎆 The Ipcress File (1962) - Len Deighton 242pp 6/11/24 5🌺
The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1) by Len Deighton
Daily Page Total : 242
Page Total to Date : 2393

Thursday 7 November 2024
🎆 The Executioner's Song (1979) - Norman Mailer 1056pp 7/11/24 5🌺
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Daily Page Total : 1056
Page Total to Date : 3449




message 12: by Jazzy (last edited Nov 16, 2024 01:57AM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) WEEK TWO

The Soldier
by Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Friday 8 November 2024
🎆 Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (c.1819) - John Keats 144pp 8/11/24 5🌺
🎆 Swan Song (1987) - Robert McCammon 929pp 8/11/24 5🌺
Bright Star Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne by John Keats Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Daily Page Total : 1073
Page Total to Date : 4522

Saturday 9 November 2024
🎆 Batman '66 Meets the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2016) - Jeff Parker 200pp 9/11/24 5🌺
🎆 The Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist (2004) - Barrington Barber 352pp 9/11/24 5🌺
Batman '66 Meets the Man from U.n.c.l.e. by Jeff Parker The Complete Book of Drawing Essential Skills for Every Artist by Barrington Barber
Daily Page Total : 552
Page Total to Date : 5074


Sunday 10 November 2024 REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
🎆 Batman The Golden Age Omnibus 1 (1941) - Bill Finger 822pp 10/11/24 5🌺
Batman The Golden Age Omnibus 1 by Bill Finger
Daily Page Total : 822
Page Total to Date : 5896


Monday 11 November 2024 REMEMBRANCE DAY
🎆 Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) - Rebecca West 1181pp 11/11/24 5🌺
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Daily Page Total : 1181
Page Total to Date : 7077

Tuesday 12 November 2024
🎆 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (2007) - Nathalia Brodskaia 512pp 12/11/24 5🌺
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism by Nathalia Brodskaia
Daily Page Total : 512
Page Total to Date : 7589

Wednesday 13 November 2024
🎆 The Case of Comrade Tulayev (1948) - Victor Serge 400 13/11/24 5🌺
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
Daily Page Total : 400
Page Total to Date : 7989

Thursday 14 November 2024
🎆 First Impressions: Paul Gauguin (1990) - Howard Greenfeld 102pp 14/11/24 5🌺
First Impressions Paul Gauguin by Howard Greenfeld
Daily Page Total : 102
Page Total to Date : 8091


The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
(Cafe des Westens, Berlin, May 1912)

by Rupert Brooke

Just now the lilac is in bloom,
All before my little room;
And in my flower-beds, I think,
Smile the carnation and the pink;
And down the borders, well I know,
The poppy and the pansy blow . . .
Oh! there the chestnuts, summer through,
Beside the river make for you
A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep
Deeply above; and green and deep
The stream mysterious glides beneath,
Green as a dream and deep as death.
— Oh, damn! I know it! and I know
How the May fields all golden show,
And when the day is young and sweet,
Gild gloriously the bare feet
That run to bathe . . .
‘Du lieber Gott!’

Here am I, sweating, sick, and hot,
And there the shadowed waters fresh
Lean up to embrace the naked flesh.
Temperamentvoll German Jews
Drink beer around; — and THERE the dews
Are soft beneath a morn of gold.
Here tulips bloom as they are told;
Unkempt about those hedges blows
An English unofficial rose;
And there the unregulated sun
Slopes down to rest when day is done,
And wakes a vague unpunctual star,
A slippered Hesper; and there are
Meads towards Haslingfield and Coton
Where das Betreten’s not verboten.

. . . would I were
In Grantchester, in Grantchester! —
Some, it may be, can get in touch
With Nature there, or Earth, or such.
And clever modern men have seen
A Faun a-peeping through the green,
And felt the Classics were not dead,
To glimpse a Naiad’s reedy head,
Or hear the Goat-foot piping low: . . .
But these are things I do not know.
I only know that you may lie
Day long and watch the Cambridge sky,
And, flower-lulled in sleepy grass,
Hear the cool lapse of hours pass,
Until the centuries blend and blur
In Grantchester, in Grantchester. . . .
Still in the dawnlit waters cool
His ghostly Lordship swims his pool,
And tries the strokes, essays the tricks,
Long learnt on Hellespont, or Styx.
Dan Chaucer hears his river still
Chatter beneath a phantom mill.
Tennyson notes, with studious eye,
How Cambridge waters hurry by . . .
And in that garden, black and white,
Creep whispers through the grass all night;
And spectral dance, before the dawn,
A hundred Vicars down the lawn;
Curates, long dust, will come and go
On lissom, clerical, printless toe;
And oft between the boughs is seen
The sly shade of a Rural Dean . . .
Till, at a shiver in the skies,
Vanishing with Satanic cries,
The prim ecclesiastic rout
Leaves but a startled sleeper-out,
Grey heavens, the first bird’s drowsy calls,
The falling house that never falls.

God! I will pack, and take a train,
And get me to England once again!
For England’s the one land, I know,
Where men with Splendid Hearts may go;
And Cambridgeshire, of all England,
The shire for Men who Understand;
And of THAT district I prefer
The lovely hamlet Grantchester.
For Cambridge people rarely smile,
Being urban, squat, and packed with guile;
And Royston men in the far South
Are black and fierce and strange of mouth;
At Over they fling oaths at one,
And worse than oaths at Trumpington,
And Ditton girls are mean and dirty,
And there’s none in Harston under thirty,
And folks in Shelford and those parts
Have twisted lips and twisted hearts,
And Barton men make Cockney rhymes,
And Coton’s full of nameless crimes,
And things are done you’d not believe
At Madingley on Christmas Eve.
Strong men have run for miles and miles,
When one from Cherry Hinton smiles;
Strong men have blanched, and shot their wives,
Rather than send them to St. Ives;
Strong men have cried like babes, bydam,
To hear what happened at Babraham.
But Grantchester! ah, Grantchester!
There’s peace and holy quiet there,
Great clouds along pacific skies,
And men and women with straight eyes,
Lithe children lovelier than a dream,
A bosky wood, a slumbrous stream,
And little kindly winds that creep
Round twilight corners, half asleep.
In Grantchester their skins are white;
They bathe by day, they bathe by night;
The women there do all they ought;
The men observe the Rules of Thought.
They love the Good; they worship Truth;
They laugh uproariously in youth;
(And when they get to feeling old,
They up and shoot themselves, I’m told) . . .

Ah God! to see the branches stir
Across the moon at Grantchester!
To smell the thrilling-sweet and rotten
Unforgettable, unforgotten
River-smell, and hear the breeze
Sobbing in the little trees.
Say, do the elm-clumps greatly stand
Still guardians of that holy land?
The chestnuts shade, in reverend dream,
The yet unacademic stream?
Is dawn a secret shy and cold
Anadyomene, silver-gold?
And sunset still a golden sea
From Haslingfield to Madingley?
And after, ere the night is born,
Do hares come out about the corn?
Oh, is the water sweet and cool,
Gentle and brown, above the pool?
And laughs the immortal river still
Under the mill, under the mill?
Say, is there Beauty yet to find?
And Certainty? and Quiet kind?
Deep meadows yet, for to forget
The lies, and truths, and pain? . . . oh! yet
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?



message 13: by Jazzy (last edited Nov 23, 2024 07:50AM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) WEEK THREE


Friday 15 November 2024
🎆 Murder Mindfully (2019) - Karsten Dusse 328pp 15/11/24 5🌺
Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse
Daily Page Total : 328
Page Total to Date : 8419

Saturday 16 November 2024
🎆 Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (2012) - Deborah Feldman 273pp 16/11/24 5🌺
🎆 The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980 (2020) - Nicholas Griffin 330pp 16/11/24 Nicholas Griffin 5🌺
Unorthodox The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman The Year of Dangerous Days Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980 (A Wild Year in Miami's History) by Nicholas Griffin
Daily Page Total : 403
Page Total to Date : 9022

Sunday 17 November 2024
🎆 R : Goyhood (2024) - Reuven Fenton 288pp 5🌺
Goyhood by Reuven Fenton
Daily Page Total : 288
Page Total to Date : 9310



Monday 18 November 2024
🎆 You'll Like it Here (2022) - Ashton Politanoff 219pp 18/11/24 5🌺
You'll Like it Here (American Literature) by Ashton Politanoff
Daily Page Total : 288
Page Total to Date : 9498

Tuesday 19 November 2024
🎆 Austerlitz (2001) - W.G. Sebald
415pp 19/11/24 5🌺
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Daily Page Total : 415
Page Total to Date : 9913

Wednesday 20 November 2024
🎆 The Yemenite Girl : A Novel (1977) -
Curt Leviant 221pp 20/11/24 5🌺
The Yemenite Girl A Novel by Curt Leviant
Daily Page Total : 221
Page Total to Date : 10134

Thursday 21 November 2024
🎆 Writing Dylan: The Songs of a Lonesome Traveler (2005) - Larry David Smith 918pp 21/11/24 5🌺
Writing Dylan The Songs of a Lonesome Traveler by Larry David Smith
Daily Page Total : 918
Page Total to Date : 11052




message 14: by Jazzy (last edited Nov 23, 2024 11:22AM) (new)

Jazzy Lemon (jazzylemon) Adopt a Turkey
Each year, the United States slaughters 46 million turkeys for Thanksgiving. Most live in severe crowding and confinement on factory farms and endure painful mutilations, including debeaking and toe removal without anaesthesia. These living, feeling individuals deserve so much better.
https://www.farmsanctuary.org/adopt-a...



WEEK FOUR
Friday 22 November 2024
🎆 We Were the Lucky Ones (2017) - Georgia Hunter 350pp 22/11/24 5🌺
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
Daily Page Total : 350
Page Total to Date : 11402

Saturday 23 November 2024
🎆 Presumed Innocent (1987) - Scott Turow 421pp 11/23/24 5🌺
🎆 Until the Day I Die (2019) - Emily Carpenter 249pp 23/11/24 5🌺
Presumed Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #1) by Scott Turow Until the Day I Die by Emily Carpenter
Daily Page Total : 670
Page Total to Date : 11651

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message 16: by LaurLa (last edited Dec 01, 2024 05:15AM) (new)

LaurLa | 402 comments Month RAT: November 2024
November 2024

My Monthly Readathon (msg 16)

Total pages🚦6,854
Total books🚦27

November 1-7🚦1,397 pages
My True Love Gave to Me Twelve Holiday Stories by Stephanie Perkins Enslaved (Eternal Guardians, #5) by Elisabeth Naughton This Beautiful Thing (Young Love, #1) by Amanda Heath The Gargoyle Gets His Girl (Nocturne Falls, #3) by Kristen Painter Clash (Cal and Macy's Story, #1; Legal Affairs, #3) by Sawyer Bennett
(view spoiler)

November 8-14🚦1,611 pages
Dual Abduction (Alien Abduction #3) by Eve Langlais Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout, #1) by Lucy Score Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Martha Wells The Girl in the Woods (Misted Pines, #2) by Kristen Ashley
(view spoiler)

November 15-21🚦1,980 pages

Murder in the East End (Kat Holloway Mysteries #4) by Jennifer Ashley Fall Hard by J.L. Merrow Darkness Awakened (Darkness, #1) by Katie Reus Steel's Edge (The Edge, #4) by Ilona Andrews Delayed Satisfaction (Always Satisfied, #0.5) by Lauren Blakely Beard Science (Winston Brothers, #3) by Penny Reid The Loneliest Man in the Mountains (The Traherns #11) by Nancy Radke His Brother's Wife (Willow Creek, #5) by Lily Graison
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November 22-28🚦1,300 pages
The Lady Most Willing... (Lady Most..., #2) by Julia Quinn Quiet Man (Dream Team #0.5; Dream Man #4.5) by Kristen Ashley A Match Made for Thanksgiving (Holidays with the Wongs, #1) by Jackie Lau Cinnamon Spiced Omega (The Hollydale Omegas, #2) by Susi Hawke One Night Stand with Benefits (Unforgettable Fire, #2) by Amanda Usen Intimate Strangers by Sandra Marton Guest Night on Union Station (EarthCent Ambassador, #8) by E.M. Foner
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November 29-30🚦566 pages
Building Strength (Seal Team Heartbreakers Book 9) by Teresa J. Reasor Party of Two (The Wedding Date, #5) by Jasmine Guillory Rubbed Out (A Memphis BBQ Mystery, #4) by Riley Adams
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Prompts🚦Thanksgiving
My True Love Gave to Me Twelve Holiday Stories by Stephanie Perkins This Beautiful Thing (Young Love, #1) by Amanda Heath Murder in the East End (Kat Holloway Mysteries #4) by Jennifer Ashley A Match Made for Thanksgiving (Holidays with the Wongs, #1) by Jackie Lau
(view spoiler)


message 17: by Kayla (last edited Nov 02, 2024 06:55AM) (new)

Kayla (kaylaschwae) | 399 comments Happy November!!!

Goal: Read/Listen to 20 books/audiobooks

TBR:

Currently Reading: How to Keep House While Drowning A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by K.C. Davis The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

Finished: The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop

Nov. 1: The Third Gilmore Girl (audiobook)
Nov. 2:


message 18: by Jonathan (last edited Nov 23, 2024 12:07PM) (new)

Jonathan | 38 comments 👀Reading ✔️Finished 👽 Rollover 🎧 Audiobook
HoB November Readathon 2024
Runs: November 1-31
📚 Total Books Read:
📖 Total Pages Read:
🎧 Total Hours Listened: 28h 72m
🦃✔️The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip by Mac Barnett The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip (The First Cat in Space, #3) by Mac Barnett 272 pages
Hoopla
🦃 🎧✔️Mistletoe Murder by Leslie Meier Mistletoe Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery #1) by Leslie Meier 176 pages 6h 18m
Boundless
🦃🎧✔️Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 368 pages 11h 31m
🦃🎧✔️The Guncle by Steven Rowley The Guncle (The Guncle, #1) by Steven Rowley 326 pages 11h 23m

🦃Read a book with turkey on the cover
🦃✔️Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano Turkey Trouble (Turkey Trouble, #1) by Wendi Silvano 32 pages
🦃Read a book where a character partakes in a feast
Everand
🦃🎧✔️Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville 375 pages 9h 42m
🦃Read a book that starts with a letter in THANKSGIVING
Currently Reading American Rapture by C.J. Leede American Rapture by C.J. Leede 384 pages 14h 36m
🦃Read a book that ends with a letter in HARVEST


message 19: by Lauri (last edited Nov 16, 2024 10:30PM) (new)

Lauri (otwlauri) | 250 comments Lauri’s Spot!
HoB November Readathon 2024
Target: 5000 pages

Optional Tasks
🦃Read a book with turkey on the cover
🦃Read a book where a character partakes in a feast
🦃Read a book that starts with a letter in THANKSGIVING
🦃Read a book that ends with a letter in HARVEST

Fri 11/1: 121 pages
Sat 11/2: 147
Sun 11/3: 236
Mon 11/4: 162
Tues 11/5: 168
Wed 11/6: 98
Thurs 11/7: 82
Fri 11/8: 115
Sat 11/9: 161
Sun 11/10: 289
Mon 11/11: 176
Tues 11/12: 83
Wed 11/13: 66
Thurs 11/14: 121
Fri 11/15: 141
Sat 11/16:
Sun 11/17:
Mon 11/18:
Tues 11/19:
Wed 11/20:
Thurs 11/21:
Fri 11/22:
Sat 11/23:

Total pages read: 2166

Books used:

The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas Hawaii Time Cat Cozy Humor Mystery (Paradise Crime Cozy Mystery Book 3) by Toby Neal What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward Talking God (Leaphorn & Chee, #9) by Tony Hillerman Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis Murder on the Class Trip (Maya and Sandra Mystery, #3) by Lee Hollis The Do-Over by Suzanne Park Have Yourself a Beary Little Murder (Shamelessly Adorable Teddy Bear Mystery, #3) by Meg Macy Beyond the Four Corners of the World A Navajo Woman's Journey by Emily Benedek The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary Making Rounds with Oscar The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat by David Dosa Autumn (Seasonal Quartet, #1) by Ali Smith

Books finished:

The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas Hawaii Time Cat Cozy Humor Mystery (Paradise Crime Cozy Mystery Book 3) by Toby Neal Talking God (Leaphorn & Chee, #9) by Tony Hillerman Murder on the Class Trip (Maya and Sandra Mystery, #3) by Lee Hollis Making Rounds with Oscar The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat by David Dosa What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez


message 20: by MaRiSa (last edited Nov 25, 2024 02:49AM) (new)

MaRiSa (risamareads) HOB Readathon
𝓝𝒪𝓥𝓔ℳ𝓑𝓔ℛ

🎯 Optional Tasks
🦃Read a book with turkey on the cover
🦃Read a book where a character partakes in a feast
🦃Read a book that starts with a letter in THANKSGIVING
🦃Read a book that ends with a letter in HARVEST

📌 TBR
☑︎ The Goldfinch 864/864 🦃
☑︎ Der Wüstenplanet 800/800 🦃
☑︎ Shadow and Ember 784/784 🦃
Krieg und Frieden 519/2288
Das Werk 134/1070

Books Read
4. Nov - 10 Nov
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Death Note Another Note - The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases by NisiOisiN
11. Nov - 17. Nov
Lonely Heart (Scarlet Luck, #1) by Mona Kasten Der Pate by Mario Puzo Shadow and Ember (Eine Liebe im Schatten, #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout One Apocalypse (The Dark Side, #4) by Kristy Cunning
18. Nov - 24. Nov
Belladonna (Belladonna, #1) by Adalyn Grace An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1) by Sabaa Tahir "A Light in the House" Book One by Liam James Der Wüstenplanet (Dune, #1) by Frank Herbert Der Bote aus der Dunkelheit (City of Ghosts, #3) by Victoria E. Schwab
25. Nov - 30 Nov

📚 Total Books Read:
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message 21: by CassieCruel (new)

CassieCruel | 293 comments 2300 pages, not my best month but I did succeed in reading everyday


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