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Challenges: Year Long Main 2025
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Lori’s A to Z of books
1. Badge 1, Book 12. List 1, Task P - Pirates
3. Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
4. 259 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of Pirates
6. The Doctor has to battle space pirates in a story very much inspired by Treasure Island (characters include Jimm, Silver Sally and Captain Glint and people are afraid of getting killed by the Black Shadow)
1. Badge 1, Book 22. List 1, Task C - Childhood
3. The Silver Sword
4. 212 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of Childhood
6. The MCs are children. The story shows the affect that WW2 had on children in Nazi occupied countries. MPG childrens and I first read this as a child as part of a class in Primary School.
Great job, Lori! You're well on your way.
1. Badge 1, Book 32. List 1, Task G - Ghosts
3. The Hollow Boy
4. 401 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of Ghosts
6. This book is part of a series set in a parallel world where about 50 years ago ghosts started appearing. The MC is part of one of the agencies that fight and contain these ghosts on a nightly basis. There are also thoughts and investigations into why the ghosts appear, what they want and what the afterlife is like. Ghosts is a mpg genre.
1. Badge 1, Book 42. List 1, Task R - Religion
3. The House of Lost Secrets
4. 332 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of Religion
6. The MC’s mother becomes super religious. This seriously affects their relationship as the mother becomes supercritical and judgemental about the MC and her decisions.
1. Badge 1, Book 52. List 1, Task T - True Crime
3. The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury
4. 331 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of True Crime
6. MPG true crime. Recounts the finding of a body in a coal cellar and the subsequent investigation and murder trial.
1. Badge 1, Book 62. List 1, B - Books about books
3. The Well of Lost Plots
4. 361 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of Books about books
6. MPG books about books. The MC can jump into books and meets fictional characters like Miss Havisham. Lots of book references.
That sounds intriguing, Lori.
This series is great fun. It’s set in an alternative timeline/parallel universe where the MC works in Special Operations 27 or the Literary Detectives who work on cases of stolen or forged manuscripts. Through this she finds out there is an alternative universe The Bookworld where all characters and locations exist. There is a lot of humour and references to classic literature.
My wishlist is getting heavy, even if it's only a digital list.
1. Badge 1, Book 72. List 1, W - Women
3. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
4. 522 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of women
6. Focuses on the relationships between Evelyn & Ninny and Idgie & Ruth. Tagged feminism x144 and women x116
1. Badge 1, Book 82. List 1, F - Fantasy
3. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
4. 336 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of fantasy
6. Set in a world where faeries exist and the MC studies them. Fantasy is a mpg.
1. Badge 1, Book 92. List 1, D - Dogs
3. Toto
4. 368 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of dogs
6. A retelling of The Wizard of Oz from Toto’s point of view. In this version he can speak and interacts with the other characters.
1. Badge 1, Book 102. List 1, N - Nature
3. Miss Benson's Beetle
4. 400 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of nature
6. Miss Benson travels to New Caledonia to search for a golden beetle. There is info on the search in the jungles and mountainous region. As well as info on beetles in general. Tagged nature x38.
1. Badge 1, Book 112. List 1, L - Love
3. The Moonlight Market
4. 288 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of love
6. Tom finds his true love which is a forbidden love because they are from 2 different warring groups. Only their love can stop the war. Described as Romeo and Juliet meets Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere) which is pretty apt. MPG romance.
1. Badge 1, Book 122. List 1, V - Villainy
3. Brighton Rock
4. 9 hrs 10 mins (269 pages)
5. Read a book with a theme of villainy
6. One of the MCs Pinkie is a gangster and murderer with no redeeming features or remorse. Although not stated outright his internal thoughts show that he is a sociopath with no feelings for other people except revulsion.
1. Badge 1, Book 132. List 1, S - Survival
3. Firesong
4. 9 hrs 28 mins (341 pages)
5. Read a book with a theme of survival
6. The Manth people need to find their homeland (promised land). During the long journey there are various trials such as wintry conditions, lack of food and battling a tribe of people who steal some of the children. The majority survive these trials and make it to the homeland.
1. Badge 1, Book 142. List 1, M - Mythology
3. Ariadne
4. 322 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of mythology
6. Retelling of the myth of Ariadne, Theseus and the Minotaur. Mythology is a MPG.
1. Badge 1, Book 152. List 1, H - History
3. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
4. 339 pages
5. Read a book with a theme of history
6. MPG history. Non-fiction book about a shipwreck and mutiny that took place in the 1740s.
Badge 2 - Titles✅ A: Away with the Penguins
✅ B: Blackstone Fell
✅ C: Carry On, Jeeves
✅ D: Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
✅ E: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
✅ F: A Fatal Crossing
✅ G: Greenteeth
✅ H: The Humans
✅ I: I Married A Dead Man
✅ J: Joyland
✅ K: A Keeper
✅ L: Legends & Lattes
✅ M: Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons
✅ N: The Naturals
✅ O: Over My Dead Body
✅ P: A Pocket Full of Rye
✅ Q: The Quickening
✅ R: The Road to Roswell
✅ S: Sea of Tranquility
✅ T: There's Something About Mira
✅ U: Unnatural Death
✅ V: The Village Library Demon Hunting Society
✅ W: The Witness for the Prosecution: And Other Stories
✅ Y: Young Jane Young
✅ Z: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Congrats on earning Badge 1.
Thank you Janice. It was great fun acquiring it.
1. Badge 2 , Book 12. List 2, Title - E
3. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
4. 353 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with E
6. Title begins with E
1. Badge 2 , Book 22. List 2, Title - L
3.Legends & Lattes
4. 312 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with L
6. Title begins with L
1. Badge 2 , Book 32. List 2, Title - M
3. Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons
4. 421 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with M
6. Title begins with M
1. Badge 2 , Book 42. List 2, Title - S
3.Sea of Tranquility
4. 274 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with S
6. Title begins with S
1. Badge 2 , Book 52. List 2, Title - H
3. The Humans
4. 304 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with H
6. Title begins with H
1. Badge 2 , Book 62. List 2, Title - W
3. The Witness for the Prosecution: And Other Stories
4. 306 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with W
6. Title begins with W
1. Badge 2 , Book 72. List 2, Title - C
3. Carry On, Jeeves
4. 273 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with C
6. Title begins with C
1. Badge 2 , Book 82. List 2, Title - K
3. A Keeper
4. 321 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with K
6. Title begins with K
1. Badge 2 , Book 92. List 2, Title - P
3. A Pocket Full of Rye
4. 257 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with P
6. Title begins with P
1. Badge 2 , Book 102. List 2, Title - I
3. I Married A Dead Man
4. 232 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with I
6. Title begins with I
1. Badge 2 , Book 112. List 2, Title - O
3. Over My Dead Body
4. 337 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with O
6. Title begins with O
1. Badge 2 , Book 122. List 2, Title - D
3. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
4. 291 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with D
6. Title begins with D
1. Badge 2 , Book 132. List 2, Title - F
3. A Fatal Crossing
4. 447 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with F
6. Title begins with F
1. Badge 2 , Book 142. List 2, Title - Q
3. The Quickening
4. 336 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with Q
6. Title begins with Q
1. Badge 2 , Book 152. List 2, Title - J
3. Joyland
4. 285 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with J
6. Title begins with J
1. Badge 2 , Book 162. List 2, Title - Z
3. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
4. 385 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with Z
6. Title begins with Z
1. Badge 2 , Book 172. List 2, Title - B
3. Blackstone Fell
4. 383 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with B
6. Title begins with B
1. Badge 2 , Book 182. List 2, Title - Y
3. Young Jane Young
4. 321 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with Y
6. Title begins with Y
1. Badge 2 , Book 192. List 2, Title - N
3. The Naturals
4. 320 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with N
6. Title begins with N
1. Badge 2 , Book 202. List 2, Title - V
3. The Village Library Demon Hunting Society
4. 341 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with V
6. Title begins with V
1. Badge 2 , Book 212. List 2, Title - U
3. Unnatural Death
4. 324 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with U
6. Title begins with U
1. Badge 2 , Book 222. List 2, Title - R
3. The Road to Roswell
4. 399 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with R
6. Title begins with R
1. Badge 2 , Book 232. List 2, Title - T
3. There's Something About Mira
4. 314 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with T
6. Title begins with T
1. Badge 2 , Book 242. List 2, Title - G
3. Greenteeth
4. 372 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with G
6. Title begins with G
1. Badge 2 , Book 252. List 2, Title - A
3. Away with the Penguins
4. 385 pages
5. Read a book with a title beginning with A
6. Title begins with A
Congrats on finishing Badge 2.
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Badge One - Themes
✅ B - Books about books - The Well of Lost Plots
✅ C - Childhood: The Silver Sword
✅ D - Dogs: Toto
✅ F - Fantasy: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
✅ G - Ghosts: The Hollow Boy
✅ H - History: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
✅ L - Love: The Moonlight Market
✅ M - Mythology: Ariadne
✅ N - Nature: Miss Benson's Beetle
✅ P - Pirates: Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
✅ R - Religion: The House of Lost Secrets
✅ S - Survival: Firesong
✅ T - True Crime: The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury
✅ V - Villainy: Brighton Rock
✅ W - Women: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe