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Challenges: Year Long Main 2025
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Almeta's List as Long as My Arm
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📍A- Alaska ~ Cold Storage, Alaska
📍B- British Columbia ~In the Shadow of the Glacier
📍C- Congo ~ The Villain's Dance
📍D- Detroit ~Motor City Blue
📍E- Egypt
The Egyptian 📍F- France The Second-Worst Restaurant in France
📍G- Georgia US The Toll
📍H- Hawaii Where There's a Will
📍I- Iceland The Darkness
📍J- Jamaica Dead Fast
📍K- Kenya One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir
📍L- London The Looking Glass War
📍M- Moscow Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia
📍N- Nevada Nevada
📍O- Oslo
Norway Medusa 📍P-Pakistan In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
📍Q- Queensland, Australia Brisbane
📍R- Rome The Silver Pigs
📍S- Spain A Fatality in Spain
📍T- Tuscany My Italian Bulldozer
📍U- Ukraine The Child Thief
📍V- Venice Mermaid of Venice
📍W- Wisconsin Figure Eight: A Northern Lakes Mystery
📍Y- Yellowstone Lords of Badassery
📍Z- Zurich Beating Ruby
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1. Badge 1, Book 12. List 1, Task 1
3. Link – Curiosity
4. Listened to Audiobook, 15.9 hrs
5. Read a book about books
6. The MPG is listed as "Books About Books". In this book Alberto Manguel wrote about authors who had a philosophic curiosity and wrote books that challenged him (and us) to explore as well.
1. Badge 1, Book 22. List 1, Task 2
3. Link – An American Childhood
4. Listened to Audiobook, 18.5 hrs
5. Read a book about childhood
6. Annie Dillard recounts her childhood with her eccentric parents growing up in Pennsylvania.
And she's off and running! Great start, Almeta.
1. Badge 1, Book 32. List 1, Task 3
3. Link – A Farewell to Arfs
4. Listened to Audiobook, 9 hrs
5. Read a book about dos
6. The dog Chet the Jet narrates and his neighboring dog Iggy goes berserk as usual, and female Trixie smells nice! All are helping human PI Bernie Little solve a mystery.
The main book page is marked "Dogs"
1. Badge 1, Book 42. List 1, Task 4
3. Link – Time Shelter
4. Listened to Audiobook 10.3 hrs
5. Read a Fantasy book
6. This is a MPG Fantasy time travel book
I read the first book in Chet & Bernie series, and I may have to read it again to refresh my memory of it (cause it's gone), and then read on.
1. Badge 1, Book 52. List 1, Task 5
3. Link – Spook:Science Tackles the Afterlife
4. Listened to Audiobook 8.5 hrs
5. Read a book about Ghosts
6. Main book Page is labeled "Ghosts". Author Mary Roach investigates the search for ghosts and the existence of souls.
YLTO! year-long challenge has been my main reading plan for several years now. Other reading challenges have to either coincide or not be done :)
Lanelle wrote: "YLTO! year-long challenge has been my main reading plan for several years now. Other reading challenges have to either coincide or not be done :)"Love it!
1. Badge 1, Book 62. List 1, Task 6
3. Link – Distant Mirror: Calamitous 14th Century
4. Listened to Audiobook 28.6 hrs
5. Read a book about History
6. Main book Page is labeled "History" and is about the 14th century
1. Badge 1, Book 72. List 1, Task 7
3. Link – Writers & Lovers
4. Listened to Audiobook 8.2 hrs
5. Read a book about Love
6. Main book Page is labeled "Romance" The protagonist falls for two very different men at the same time.
1. Badge 1, Book 82. List 1, Task 8
3. Link – Bulfinch's Mythology
4. Listened to Audiobook 14.5 hrs
5. Read a book about Mythology
6. Main book Page is labeled Mythology. It is a genealogy of sorts of mythical gods and their exploits with humans.
1. Badge 1, Book 92. List 1, Task 9
3. Link – Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
4. Listened to Audiobook 7.2 hrs
5. Read a book about Nature
6. Main book Page is labeled Nature
1. Badge 1, Book 102. List 1, Task 10
3. Link – Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
4. Listened to Audiobook 7.7 hrs
5. Read a book about Pirates
6. Main book page is marked "pirates" and the theme is about Peter Pan, the Lost Boys and pirates
1. Badge 1, Book 112. List 1, Task 11
3. Link – Lost Boy: American Rapture
4. Listened to Audiobook 14.6 hrs
5. Read a book about Religion
6. Main book page is marked Religion
1. Badge 1, Book 122. List 1, Task 12
3. Link – Hard Knocks
4. Listened to Audiobook 11.6 hrs
5. Read a book about Survival
6. A story of survival in outer space when a multitude of various problems arise with the ship's systems
1. Badge 1, Book 132. List 1, Task 13
3. Link – Thunderstruck
4. Listened to Audiobook 11.9 hrs
5. Read a book about True Crime
6. Main book page is marked True Crime
Janice wrote: "Almost badge time for you."Yes, and here they are!
1. Badge 1, Book 14
2. List 1, Task 14
3. Link – Bad News
4. Listened to Audiobook 9.5 hrs
5. Read a book about Villainy
6. Fitzroy Guilderpost is the criminal mastermind of this caper.
1. Badge 1, Book 152. List 1, Task 15
3. Link – The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
4. Listened to Audiobook 12.4 hrs
5. Read a book about Women
6. the story of inseparable friends Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean
Congrats on finishing Badge 1. :)
It's only January, Almeta, and you're already done with Badge 1. Nice job.
1. Badge 2, Book 12. List 2, Task 5D
3. Link – Dark Knight Station: Origins
4. Listened to Audiobook, 14.4 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with a "D"
6.The title begins with a "D"
1. Badge 2, Book 22. List 2, Task 2B
3. Link – .Baskets and Beignets
4. Listened to Audiobook, 9.7 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with a "B"
6.The title begins with a "B"
1. Badge 2, Book 32. List 2, Task 18R
3. Link – The Rest of Us Just Live Here
4. Listened to Audiobook, 6.4 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "R"
6.The title begins with an "R"
1. Badge 2, Book 42. List 2, Task 19S
3. Link – Such Sharp Teeth
4. Listened to Audiobook, 9.1 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "S"
6.The title begins with an "S"
1. Badge 2, Book 52. List 2, Task 9I
3. Link – The Inheritance
4. Listened to Audiobook, 10.7 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "I"
6.The title begins with an "I"
1. Badge 2, Book 62. List 2, Task 23W
3. Link – The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
4. Listened to Audiobook, 15.3 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "W"
6.The title begins with an "W"
1. Badge 2, Book 72. List 2, Task 20T
3. Link –Twisted Love
4. Listened to Audiobook, 10.7 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "T"
6.The title begins with an "T"
Almeta wrote: "1. Badge 2, Book 62. List 2, Task 23W
3. Link – The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
4. Listened to Audiobook, 15.3 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning wi..."
Now that's a title.
1. Badge 2, Book 82. List 2, Task 5E
3. Link –Elon Musk
4. Listened to Audiobook, 20.7 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "E"
6.The title begins with an "E"
1. Badge 2, Book 92. List 2, Task 6F
3. Link –Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
4. Listened to Audiobook, 9.9 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "F"
6.The title begins with an "F"
1. Badge 2, Book 102. List 2, Task 3C
3. Link –The Covenant of Water
4. Listened to Audiobook, 31.3 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "C"
6.The title begins with an "C"
1. Badge 2, Book 112. List 2, Task 7G
3. Link –Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
4. Listened to Audiobook, 8.9 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "G"
6.The title begins with an "G"
1. Badge 2, Book 122. List 2, Task 12L
3. Link – The Last Bookshop in London
4. Listened to Audiobook, 8.2 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "L"
6.The title begins with an "L"
1. Badge 2, Book 132. List 2, Task 16P
3. Link – Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
4. Listened to Audiobook, 10.5 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "P"
6.The title begins with an "P"
1. Badge 2, Book 142. List 2, Task 8H
3. Link – An Heiress's Guide to Deception and Desire
4. Listened to Audiobook, 7.7 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "H"
6.The title begins with an "H"
1. Badge 2, Book 152. List 2, Task 10J
3. Link – Judgment Prey
4. Listened to Audiobook, 11 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "J"
6.The title begins with an "J"
1. Badge 2, Book 162. List 2, Task 25Z
3. Link – The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead
4. Read the Hardback, 263 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "Z"
6.The title begins with an "Z"
1. Badge 2, Book 172. List 2, Task 22V-
3. Link – 'v' Is For Vengence
4. Listened to Audiobook, 15.2 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "V"
6.The title begins with an "V"
1. Badge 2, Book 182. List 2, Task 21U
3. Link –Unnatural Death
4. Listened to Audiobook, 11.8 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "U"
6.The title begins with an "U"
1. Badge 2, Book 192. List 2, Task 24Y
3. Link –The Yellow Room
4. Listened to Audiobook, 8.9 hrs
5. Read a book with a title beginning with an "Y"
6.The title begins with an "Y"
One to go and you'll have badge 2 in the bag.
Janice wrote: "One to go and you'll have badge 2 in the bag."You are being generous! I've run behind in timely reporting.
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2025 YLTO! Goes Listmania
General Help and Discussion
175+ pages/6 hours long.
Report each book as follows:
1. Progress: Identify where you are in the challenge – Badge 1, book 1 (2, 3, etc.)
2. List the Badge number and Task number.
3. Link to book read. Link to the title and not to the cover of the edition you 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. Any requirements must be included in this section