Shirley makes even more lists

[Shirley]

YLTO Goes Listmania 15 books.
Reporting:
1. Badge 1, book 1 (2, 3, 4, etc.)
2. Badge 1 Task 1
3. Link to book read.
4. List the number of pages of the edition you read, or the number of hours if audiobook
5. Give a very brief summary of the task.
6. State how the book fits the criteria.
Shirley's 2025 Reading Plans:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Shirley]

Badge One - Themes - 15 books
📕Badge 1 Task B The Sequel
📕Badge 1 Task C The Eight Mountains
📕Badge 1 Task D My Name is Gucci: A Dog’s Story
📕Badge 1 Task F Death of the Author
📕Badge 1 Task G The Echoes
📕Badge 1 Task H Chloé
📕Badge 1 Task L A Brief Affair
📕Badge 1 Task M The Women of Troy
📕Badge 1 Task N The Axeman's Carnival
📕Badge 1 Task P Saltblood
📕Badge 1 Task R The Mission House
📕Badge 1 Task S James
📕Badge 1 Task T Murder at Myall Creek
📕Badge 1 Task V Lady Macbeth
📕Badge 1 Task W The Brightest Star

[Shirley]

Badge 2 - 25 books 21/25
List Two - Titles. Read books alphabetically by Title. Articles such as a, an, the, etc will be ignored. A Night to Remember may be read as N, but not as A. The Bat may be read as B, but not as T. Books can be read in any order.
A📕Atmosphere
B📕Black Woods Blue Sky
C📕The Correspondent: A Novel
D📕The Dream Hotel
E📕The Emperor of Gladness
F📕The Fisherman's Gift
G📕The God of the Woods
H📕Heart, Be at Peace
I📕The Informers
J The Jackal's Mistress
K📕Kosciuszko: The incredible life of the man behind the mountain
L📕A Little Trickerie
M📕The Midnight Carousel
N📕The Names
O📕Once the Deed Is Done
P The Puzzle Wood
Q Queen Hereafter Bhc
R📕Run to the Western Shore
S📕Shirley
T📕Twist
U📕The Unquiet Grave
V📕Versailles
W📕We of the Never Never
Y📕Yoko: A Biography
Z The Zookeeper's War Logan ebook and audio; The Zookeeper of Belfast

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1..Badge 1, book 1
2. Badge 1 Task H
3. Chloé
4. ebook 270 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of history
6. "Chloé" is an 1875 oil painting by French painter Jules Lefebvre. This book depicts the life of Maria, the model who sat for the painting which is now on display in the Young and Jackson Hotel in Melbourne, Australia, where it has been since 1909.

[Janice, Moderator]

First book! Yay!

[Shirley]

Janice wrote: "First book! Yay!"
Yep, and only 14 to go.

[Janice, Moderator]

You'll have those under your belt in no time.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1, book 2
2. Badge 1 Task S
3. James
4. Audiobook 7 hours 49 minutes
5. Read a book with a theme of survival.
6. This book is inspired by the story of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. James, a slave, takes a dangerous journey by raft down the Mississippi, surviving floods, storms, and encounters with a number of people who aim to capture/ harm him.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 3
2.Badge 1 Task N
3. The Axeman's Carnival
4. Ebook 318 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of nature.
6. This book follows the story of a magpie who is rescued from the wild as a baby, by Marnie, a farmer’s wife in New Zealand. The natural world of the magpie is contrasted with the human world as a relationship develops between the two.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 4
2.Badge 1 Task P
3.Saltblood
4. ebook 328 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of pirates
6. This book of historical fiction is based on the life of Mary Read, an Englishwoman who had been brought up as a boy, later becoming a pirate, and working throughout the West Indies in the early 18th Century.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 5
2.Badge 1 Task T
3.Murder at Myall Creek
4. 269 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of true crime.
6. In 1838, eleven men were put on trial for the murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in New South Wales. This book details the crime, the trial, and its consequences. The trial created controversy at the time because it was almost unknown for Europeans to be charged with the murder of Aborigines.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 6
2.Badge 1 Task L
3.A Brief Affair
4. Paperback 261 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of love.
6. This book’s theme is love. At a conference in China, Dr Frances Egan has a brief affair with a man she meets on a bus. At home in Australia, she has a family (husband and 2 children), that she loves. In her office at the university, which had previously been a mental hospital, an old diary is found. Valerie, a patient there, describes her passionate love for another patient.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 7
2.Badge 1 Task V
3.Lady Macbeth
4. Paperback 320 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of villainy
6. This book is based very loosely on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are villains, scheming and plotting, killing and manipulating to overthrow the King of Scotland in order to gain the throne themselves.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 8
2.Badge 1 Task G
3.The Echoes
4. Paperback 260 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of ghost
6. The ghost in this story is Max who, after his death, watches his girlfriend Hannah grieving, and discovers parts of her life that she kept secret.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 9
2. Badge 1 Task C
3. The Eight Mountains
4. Paperback 256pages
5. Read a book with the theme of childhood.
6. This is the story of the friendship between two boys, Pietro, a lonely boy living in Milan, and Bruno who he meets while on vacation in the mountains of north-eastern Italy. Together they spend many summers exploring the mountain's meadows and peaks and discover the similarities and differences in their lives, their backgrounds, and their futures.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 10
2. Badge 1 Task W
3. The Brightest Star
4. Audiobook 11 hours.
5. Read a book with the theme of women.
6. Set in 1496 Renaissance Italy, the young daughter of a businessman has been brought up to value learning, and she pursues her passion for astronomy. But Renaissance Italy is too dangerous a place for a free-thinking woman and she brings her family into grave danger. "Feminism" is one of the themes on the main book page on Good Reads.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 11
2. Badge 1 Task D
3. My Name is Gucci: A Dog’s Story
4. Paperback 272 pages
5. Read a book with the theme of dogs
6. This story, told by a rescue dog called Gucci, is about the relationships between pets and their owners.

[Janice, Moderator]

It won't be long till you're finished badge 1. :)

[Shirley]

Janice wrote: "It won't be long till you're finished badge 1. :)"
Yes, I’m having a great reading year so far.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 12
2. Badge 1 Task R
3. The Mission House
4. Hardcover 240 pages
5. Read a book with the theme of religion
6. An Englishman finds solace staying in a mission house with the padre and his daughter. Its location is a former British hill station in southern India, at a time of religious tensions across the region.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 13
2. Badge 1 Task F
3. Death of the Author
4. Paperback 448 pages
5. Read a book with the theme of fantasy
6. This is a science fiction/ fantasy drama. It features both the real world and an imaginary world where robots and other automatons take on human characteristics after the extinction of humanity.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 14
2. Badge 1 Task M
3. The Women of Troy
4. Audiobook 11 hours. Paperback is 304 pages.
5. Read a book with the theme of mythology
6. This is a story recreating the lives of four women in the aftermath of the Trojan War, based on Greek mythology.

[Janice, Moderator]

How was it? I have it on audiobook, but I got a little burnt out on Greek mythology. The Greek gods were rather nasty.

[Shirley]

Janice wrote: "How was it? I have it on audiobook, but I got a little burnt out on Greek mythology. The Greek gods were rather nasty."
I e enjoyed Greek mythology on and off since I was a kid, but I’m starting to get over the “feminist retelling” genre. The audio narration was excellent in my opinion.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 1 Book 15
2. Badge 1 Task B
3. The Sequel
4. Paperback is 352 pages.
5. Read a book with the theme of books.
6. This is about the sequel to the book that was the main subject in The Plot.
The Sequel itself is a sequel to The Plot in “The Book Series” by Jean Hanff Korelitz https://www.goodreads.com/series/3901...
Very clever.

[Janice, Moderator]

Congrats on finishing your first badge. :)

[Odette]

Congratulations on finishing your first badge.
What did you think of Chloé. It has been on my tbr for a while. I was interested in it as a great aunt and uncle were once licensees of Young and Jackson. I went to a family reunion lunch there a few years ago and admired the painting.
I was nearly going to read Saltblood for the pirate theme.

[Shirley]

I really liked Chloe. The painting has such a fascinating back story.

[Shirley]

Janice wrote: "Congrats on finishing your first badge. :)"
Thank you Janice.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 1
2. Task B
3. Black Woods Blue Sky
4. Hardcover 304 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with B
6. Black

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 2
2. Task I
3. The Informers
4. Ebook 352 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with I
6. Informers

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 3
2. Task L
3. A Little Trickerie
4. HC 371 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with L
6. Little

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 4
2. Task W
3. We of the Never Never
4. PB 323 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with W
6. We

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 5
2. Task T
3. Twist
4. PB 368 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with T
6. Twist

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 6
2. Task G
3. The God of the Woods
4. PB 437 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with G
6. God

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 7
2. Task D
3. The Dream Hotel
4. PB 322 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with D
6. Dream

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 8
2. Task R
3. Run to the Western Shore
4. HC 208 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with R
6. Run

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 9
2. Task Y
3. Yoko: A Biography
4. HC 384 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with Y
6. Yoko

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 10
2. Task C
3. The Correspondent
4. Paperback 271 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with C
6. Correspondent

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 11
2. Task A
3. Atmosphere
4. HC 337 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with A
6. Atmosphere

[Janice, Moderator]

How did you enjoy Atmosphere? I've been eye-balling it.

[Shirley]

Janice wrote: "How did you enjoy Atmosphere? I've been eye-balling it."
Hi Janice. I quite liked it.
I hadn’t known very much about NASA’s programs encouraging women to apply, so I found that all very interesting.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 12
2. Task E
3. The Emperor of Gladness
4. Pb 406 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with E
6. Emperor

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 13
2. Task N
3. The Names
4. Pb 336 pages
5. Read a book where title starts with N
6. Names

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 14
2. Task S
3. Shirley
4. Pb 494 pages
5. Read a book where the title starts with S
6. Shirley

[Janice, Moderator]

Good one Shirley. :)

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 15
2. Task U
3. The Unquiet Grave
4. Pb 385 pages
5. Read a book where the title starts with U
6. Unquiet

[Shirley]

Janice wrote: "Good one Shirley. :)"
It’s been on my shelf for ages, but the small size of the print really put me off. I’m glad I was able to finish it because I really liked it.

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 16
2. Task V
3. Versailles
4. Pb 224 pages
5. Read a book where the title starts with V
6. Versailles

[Shirley]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2, Book 17
2. Task M
3. The Midnight Carousel
4. HC 400 pages
5. Read a book where the title starts with M
6. Midnight