SharonBiskit Finds Bliss Among the Lists

[Sharon]

Badge 1:
📍B - Books about books
📍C - Childhood
📍D - Dogs
📍F - Fantasy
📍G - Ghosts
📍H - History
📍L - Love
📍M - Mythology
📍N - Nature
📍P - Pirates
📍R - Religion
📍S - Survival
📍T - True Crime
📍V - Villainy
📍W - Women

[Sharon]

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[Sharon]

Badge One - Themes ~15 books. DONE 1/28/25

✔️B - Books about books: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
✔️C - Childhood ~ When the children come
✔️D - Dogs ~ A Borrowing of Bones
✔️F - Fantasy ~ Heir of Svartån
✔️G - Ghosts ~Blueberry Muffin Murder
✔️H - History- The Call to Serve
✔️L - Love ~ Peach Tea Smash
✔️M - Mythology ~ Norse Mythology
✔️N - Nature ~The Wild Inside
✔️P - Pirates ~ Pirate Latitudes
✔️R - Religion ~ The House of Lost Secrets
✔️S - Survival ~ The Challenge
✔️T - True Crime ~ Murder in St. Augustine: The Mysterious Death of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley
✔️V - Villainy ~Expose
✔️W - Women~The Women

[Sharon]

Badge 1 Book 1
2. Badge 1 Task 1-B (Books)
3. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
4. Kindle, 435 pp.
5. Read a book about books.
6. This is a book about books: pen pals and book discussions, developing a book store, matching books and people and complete with a LONG lists of books mentioned in the story at the end.

[Janice, Moderator]

Super! First book done and dusted.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 2
2. List 1: Task 14
3. Expose
4. Audible, 11 hrs., 47 min.
5. Read a book with a villain.
6. This book’s villain is a template for villains. This is the third in the series. Dr. Anna Schwartzman’s ex husband is a murderer, stalker, kidnapper, rapist and very charming. He understands patience. He is determined to make her pay. On top of that, Schwartzman is on the hunt (as a medical examiner) for a murderer who is taking out his victims from a long time ago…torture and rape.

[Janice, Moderator]

Sounds tense!

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 3
2. List 1: Task 3
3. A Borrowing of Bones
4. Kindle, 311 pp.
5. Read a book about or with dogs as predominant characters.
6. This book features two search/rescue dogs (and their handlers): Susie Bear, a Newfoundland, and Elvis, a Belgian Shepherd.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 4
2. List 1: Task 8
3. Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
4. Audible, 6 hrs. 29 min.
5. Read a book about mythology.
6. This book has an MPG of Mythology. It is a collection of Norse myths.

[Janice, Moderator]

Racing right along!

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 5
2. List 1: Task 11
3. The House of Lost Secrets
4. Kindle, 332 pp.
5. Read a book that has a theme of religion.
6. This book touches often on the theme of religion. So much of the action, characters and outcomes centered around religious beliefs. It was a theme that ran throughout the book.

Cold January and snuggly blankets make me read faster!

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 6
2. List 1: Task 5
3. Blueberry Muffin Murder
4. Kindle, 324 pp.
5. Read a book with ghosts. Ongoing theme.
6. This book has an ongoing theme of a ghost tied to murder and is tagged “ghost” by six people.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 7
2. List 1: Task 4
3. Heir of Svartån
4. kindle, 210 pp.
5. Read a Fantasy novel.
6. This book is Book 1 in the The Lohikarren Chronicle series. (1/5) It has an MPG of Fantasy.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 8
2. list 1: Task 12
3. The Challenge: A Novel
4. Kindle, 272 pp.
5. Read a book with a theme of survival.
6. This book has a theme of survival in a couple of ways: Seven children have to survive being lost in the mountains for three days while having to survive fire, flash floods, wildlife, and medical emergencies. Plus, both adults and children have to survive life’s issues which include abandonment, divorce, death, adultry, and alcoholism.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 9
2. List 1: Task 7
3. Peach Tea Smash
4. Kindle, 314 pp.
5. Read about LOVE in any form: romantic, pets, friends, etc.
4. How it Fits: Theo, the MC, professes love for her Tea Shoppe she owns and runs and her “tea family” : Drayton, Hayley and Miss Dimple. Ch. 4, p. 26::” How much I love this place!”. Also after a break in at the tea shoppe, all Theo cares about is whether or not Hayley is safe and she protects Drayton from harm later on.

[Janice, Moderator]

Over half way!

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 10
2. List 1: Task 15
3. The Women
4. HC 471 pp.
5. Read a book that highlights women.
6. This book highlights the women (nurses) who served in Vietnam as well as those that spearheaded the movements to free MIA/POW.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 11
2. List 1: Task 6
3. The Call to Serve
4. Kindle, 286 pp.
5. Read a book that falls under the umbrella of History.
6. This book highlights the women the women who held down the home front during WWII and their relationships. It also has anMPG of Historical Fiction.

[Janice, Moderator]

Ummm.. "Read a book that falls under the umbrella of Florida."

I'm not sure if that's a typo. It's read a book with a theme of history. The book fits that so I'm thinking it's a just a typo - or autocorrect went wonky.

[Sharon]

Janice wrote: "Ummm.. "Read a book that falls under the umbrella of Florida."

I'm not sure if that's a typo. It's read a book with a theme of history. The book fits that so I'm thinking it's a just a typo - or a..."

Yes, it was history. This book had nothing to do with Florida. My face is red.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 12
2. List 1: Task 13
3. Murder in St. Augustine: The Mysterious Death of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley
4. Kindle, 228 pp.
5. Read a book that is about True Crime.
6. This book is a True Crime book about the murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley in St. Augustine, Florida.

[Janice, Moderator]

Blame it on auto correct. LOL!

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 13
2. List 1: Task 2
3. When the children come
4. Kindle, 296 pp.
5. Read a book about childhood.
6. This is a book about childhood. It explores what children are capable of, how they can be underestimate and what brave souls they are even while being underestimated.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 14
2. List 1: Task 10
3. Pirate Latitudes
4. Kindle, 324 pp.
5. Read a book about pirates.
6. This book was about pirates in the 1660s.

[Janice, Moderator]

One more to go, Sharon.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 1: Book 15
2. List 1: Task 9
3. The Wild Inside
4. Kindle, 336 pp.
5. Read a book about nature.
6. This book has an MPG of nature.

[Janice, Moderator]

Congrats on finishing the first badge.

[Sharon]

📚BADGE 2: Titles📚
Finished: 3/12/25

✔️📍A-All the Way Down]
✔️📍B-The Betrayals
✔️📍C-Cold Revenge
✔️📍D-Dead of Winter
✔️📍E-Elevator Pitch
✔️📍F-The Fallen Man
✔️📍G-The Gift
✔️📍H-Heaven's Keep
✔️📍I-In the Hour of Crows
✔️📍J-Justified
✔️📍K-Killer Magic
✔️📍L-The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club
✔️📍M-The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
✔️📍N-Nantucket Homes
✔️📍O-Open Evening
✔️📍P-A Place for Us
✔️📍Q-Quiet the Dead
✔️📍R-Reckoning
✔️📍S-Seven Deadly Wonders
✔️📍T-Tales of Wychwood
✔️📍U-The Unhoneymooners
✔️📍V- A Valentine Murder
✔️📍W-What Lies in the Woods
✔️📍Y-Yellowstone Inferno
✔️📍Z-Z is for Zachariah

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 1
2. List 2 (Titles): Task 21
3. The Unhoneymooners
4. Audible, 9 hrs. 14 min.
5. Read a book that starts with “U”.
6. This book starts with a “U”.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 2
2. List 2: Task 9
3. In the Hour of Crows
4. Kindle, 288 pp.
5. Read a book whose title begins with an “I”
6. This book’s title begins with an ‘I”.

[Janice, Moderator]

Please report each book in a separate message.

[Sharon]

Badge 2: Book 3
List 2: Task 8
Heaven's Keep
Audible: 11 hours, 44 min.
Read a book that starts with an H.
This book begins with an H.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 4
2. List 2: Task 15
3. Open Evening
4. Kindle, 332 pp.
5. Read a book that begins with an O.
6. This book begins with an O.

[Janice, Moderator]

Thanks.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 5
2. List 2: Task 4
3. Dead of Winter
4. Kindle, 389 pp.
5. Read a book with a title that begins with a “D”.
6. This title begins with a “D”.

No problem!

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 6
2. List 2, Task 14
3. Nantucket Homes
4. 233 pp.
5. Read a book that begins with an “N”.
6. This book begins with an N.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 7
2. List 2, Task 2
3. The Betrayals
4. Audible 14 hrs. 36 min.
5. Read a book that begins with a “B”.
6. This book begins with a “B”.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 8
2. list 2: Task 23
3. What Lies in the Woods
4. Kindle, p. 336
5. Read a book that begins with a “W”.
6. This book begins with a “W”.

[Janice, Moderator]

It looks like you didn't quite finish your report. Missing page length, for one.

[Sharon]

Janice wrote: "It looks like you didn't quite finish your report. Missing page length, for one."

I think it’s complete now. LOL! I couldn’t figure out how to check the page numbers so I quickly posted and looked before finishing…you caught me! Sorry about that!

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 9
2. List 2: Task 22
3. A Valentine Murder
4. Kindle, 216 pp.
5. Read a book that begins with a “V”.
6. This book’s title begins with a “V”.

[Janice, Moderator]

Ha Ha... no problem, Sharon.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 10
2. List 2: Task 19
3. Seven Deadly Wonders
4. Kindle, 576 pp.
5. Read a book with a title that begins with “S”.
6. This book’s title begins with “S”.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 11
2. List 2: Task 1
3. Above the Bridge
4. Kindle, 344 pp.
5. Read a book that starts with “A”.
6. This book’s title begins with an “A”.

[Sharon]

1. badge 2: Book 12
2. List 2: Task 17
3. Quiet the Dead
4. Kindle, 239 pp.
5. Read a book with a title that begins with “Q”.
6. This book’s title begins with a “Q”

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 13
2. List 2: Task 24
3. Yellowstone Inferno
4. Kindle, 288 pp.
5. Read a book with a title that begins with a “Y”.
6. this title begins with a “Y”.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 14
2. List 2: Task 12
3. The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
4. Kindle, 352
5. Read a book with a title that begins with “M”.
6. This book’s title begins with “M”.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 15
2. List 2: Task 18
3. Reckoning
4. Kindle, 400 pp.
5. Read a book with a title that begins with an “R”.
6. This book’s title begins with an “R”.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 16
2. List 2: Task 25
3. Z for Zachariah
4. Read a book with a title that begins with a “Z”.
5. This book’s title begins with the letter “Z”.

[Sharon]

1. Badge 2: Book 17
2. List 2: Task 7
3. The Gift
4. Read a book that has a title that begins with a “G”.
5. This book’s title begins with the letter “G”.