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Challenges: Year Long Main 2025
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Beth's practicing her ABCs
Planning Post (Janice ignore unless just curious): 📍B - Books about books - On Writers and Writing
📍C - Childhood - Ham on Rye
📍D - Dogs - Tender Is the Bite
📍F - Fantasy - The Storm of Echoes
📍G - Ghosts - Slade House
📍H - History John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial
📍L - Love If Beale Street Could Talk,
📍M - Mythology - Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
📍N - Nature - Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
📍P - Pirates - Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
📍R - Religion Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
📍S - Survival - Dawn
📍T - True Crime - The Pale-Faced Lie
📍V - Villainy It Can't Happen Here
📍W - Women --Cantoras
List 2 Titles:
A- Abandoned in Death
B- Babbitt
C-Cross Her Heart
D-Dead to Her
E-Elizabeth Is Missing
F-The French Girl
G-A Gentleman's Murder
H- Harlem Shuffle
I-Insomnia
J-Judgement Prey
K- A King's Ransom
L-Land of Wolves
M-Miseducated: A Memoir
N-The Next Mrs. Parrish
O- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
P- Purple Hibiscus
Q-Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
R-The Razor’s Edge
S- A Serpent's Tooth
T-The Tenth Muse
U-Unnatural Ends
V-Victory City
W-Wish You Were Here
Y-Yes No Maybe So
Z-Zero Days
Planning Post 2 (Janice, Ignore unless curious):List Five - Specified Object on Cover
📍A- Airplane--Blood is the Sky
📍B- Butterfly - Goodnight Beautiful
📍C- Chair - The Return
📍D- Dishes - Stowed Away
📍E- Elephant - The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
📍F- Fruit--The Safekeep
📍G- Gate - Death in the Spires
📍H- Horse--You Dreamed of Empires
📍I- Insect--Let Us Descend
📍J- Jewel/Jewelry- Girl with the Pearl Earring, Kaikeyi
📍K- Key--Moonflower Murders
📍L- Lighthouse -- The Light Between Oceans
📍M- Mansion--Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
📍N- Night Sky -- The Killing Moon
📍O- Orange Fruit OR 75% Orange Cover The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
📍P- Picture within a picture
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
📍Q- Quilt--Murder, Plain and Simple
📍R- Ros--A Column of Fire
📍S- Sky (50% of cover) An Obvious Fact
📍T- Tea Cup--Mystic Tea
📍U- Umbrella - Maisie Dobbs
📍V- Vase with flowers - Slated for Death
📍W- Water - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
📍Y- Yacht OR 75% Yellow Cover Missionaries
📍Z- Zeppelin: Vango: Entre ciel et terre
List 6 - Specified Location
📍A- Alaska
📍B- British Columbia
📍C- Congo
📍D- Detroit
📍E- Egypt
📍F- France
📍G- Georgia US
📍H- Hawaii
📍I- Iceland - Independent People
📍J- Jamaica
📍K- Kenya
📍L- London - Saturday (shelves),
📍M- Moscow
📍N- Nevada
📍O- Oslo
📍P-Pakistan
📍Q- Queensland, Australia
📍R- Rome
📍S- Spain
📍T- Tuscany
📍U- Ukraine
📍V- Venice
📍W- Wisconsin
📍Y- Yellowstone
📍Z- Zurich
List 7 - Specific Word in Title
📍A- Away - The Man That Got Away
📍B- Black -Black Notice
📍C- Crow
📍D- Dark - A Shot in the Dark
📍E- Evening Our Evenings
📍F- Fortune
📍G- Girl - The Summer Girl
📍H- Hand
📍I- Island - Island
📍J- June
📍K- Kind Our Kind of Traitor
📍L- Lord - Lord Emsworth and Others
📍M- Murder - The Murder Room
📍N- Name - Before You Knew My Name
📍O- Opal--The Opal Deception
📍P- People--Decent People
📍Q- Quiet--A Quiet Flame
📍R- Rain - The Boy in the Rain
📍S- Silver - The Man with the Silver Saab
📍T- Tree--Tree of Smoke
📍U- Under--Under the Cold Bright Lights
📍V - Valley Wonder Valley
📍W- West The Last Train to Key West
📍Y- Young -- Young Mungo
📍Z- Zebra or Zero--Minute Zero
I'm a snoopy one. I'm always interested in what you've got in the works. :)
List Male Authors:A-Never Ask Me, Selection Day, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, The Orphan Master's Son, Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
B-Don't Cry for Me, Miseducated: A Memoir
C- The Devil and Miss Prym, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, Out of the Black, Warrior King, Children of the Land, A Gentleman's Murder, Land of Wolves, An Obvious Fact, As The Crow Flies, A Serpent's Tooth, Any Other Name, The Highwayman
D-Don't Cry for Me, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To BookA Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories
E-The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, Out of the Black, Warrior King, kaddish.com
F-Miseducated: A Memoir, Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, A Column of Fire, The Evening and the Morning
G-The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, A King's Ransom, The Last Monument
H-Independent People, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading, A Gentleman's Murder
I-Saturday (shelves)
J-Never Ask Me, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, A King's Ransom, Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book, The Orphan Master's Son, Land of Wolves, An Obvious Fact, As The Crow Flies, A Serpent's Tooth, Any Other Name The Highwayman
K-A Column of Fire, The Evening and the Morning, Heavy
L- Independent People, Heavy, Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love, Babbitt, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect
M-Saturday (shelves), Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, The Last Monument, Children of the Land, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect, A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories
N-kaddish.com
O-
P-Portnoy’s Complaint, The Devil and Miss Prym
Q-
R-Portnoy’s Complaint, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading
S-Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Babbitt,
T-
U-
V-
W- Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book
Y-
Z-
List 4 Female Authors
A-Pigeon
B-Whose Names Are Unknown
C-The Fall Girl
D- Thinking In Systems: A Primer
E-Olive, Again
F-The Paris Apartment
G- Silas Marner
H- Paper Ghosts
I- Woven in Moonlight
J-The Henna Artist
K- After Alice Fell
L- Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
M-The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
N-Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
O-The Marriage Portrait
P-Behind Her Eyes
Q-The Whalebone Theatre
R-Forgotten in Death
S- The Tale of Genji
T- The Witch Elm
U-The Fortunate Ones
V-The Waves
W-Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
Y-The Lost Girls
Z- The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
1. Badge 1, Book 12. List 1, Task 1
3. On Writers and Writing
4. Audio: 6:33
5. Books about Books
6. Atwood exploring what authors are up to when they create their work, what books are, what they are "for".
Wow! You get the prize for the first person reporting a book read for the 2025 challenge. :)
1. Badge 1, Book22. List 1, Task 2
3. It Can't Happen Here
4. Audio: 14:28
5. Villany
6. US is taken over by a villainous dictator.
You're kicking up some dust, Beth. :)
1. Badge 1, Book 32. List 1, Task 3
3. If Beale Street Could Talk
4. Audio: 7:07
5. Love
6. All about a young couple with a baby on the way and separated by a false rape accusation. Lots of love and struggle in this one.
1. Badge 1, Book 42. List 1, Task 4
3. The Storm of Echoes
4. Audio: 15:03
5. Fantasy
6. Listed on main page as first genre...
Ooops, Janice, so sorry. Hit enter by mistake:5. Fantasy
6. Listed on main page as first genre...
1. Badge 1, Book 52. List 1, Task 5
3. The Pale-Faced Lie
4. Audio: 11:53
5. True Crime
6. Listed on main page
(now I really need to sleep--somehow never actually turned it off and slept last night, which is crazy!!!)
Five books in 4 days is a feat. Enjoy your rest.
2/3rds of the way through the next one!!! But I slept for a few hours.
1. Badge 1, Book 62. List 1, Task 6
3. John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial
4. Audio: 9:53
5. History
6. About John Adams's role in defending the soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre.
1. Badge 1, Book 72. List 1, Task 7
3. Cantoras
4. Audio: 13:37
5. Women
6. Book about lesbian friends in the context of the political changes over decades in Uruguay
1. Badge 1, Book 82. List 1, Task 8
3. Ham on Rye
4. Audio: 7:38
5. Childhood
6. Focuses on a boy growing up in an immigrant family in LA
1. Badge 1, Book 92. List 1, Task 9
3. Slade House
4. Audio: 6:54
5. Ghosts
6. Ghosts and other supernatural/occult stuff are the focus of this book.
We read Slade House a few years ago either as a goup themed read, or a buddy read. I like Mitchell's writing.
Janice wrote: "We read Slade House a few years ago either as a goup themed read, or a buddy read. I like Mitchell's writing."He is one of my all time favorites!
1. Badge 1, Book 102. List 1, Task 10
3. Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
4. Audio 8:14
5. Pirates
6. 17th Century Pirate
1. Badge 1, Book 112. List 1, Task 11
3. Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
4. Audio: 15:26
5. Mythology
6. Very funny retelling of many myths
1. Badge 1, Book 122. List 1, Task 12
3. Tender Is the Bite
4. Audio: 8:51
5. Dogs
6. Told from perspective of a dog.
Enemy of all mankind sounds like it would fit several themes.I have Mythos, and I'm happy to hear that it's funny.
1. Badge 1, Book 132. List 1, Task 13
3. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
4. Audio: 12:38
5. Nature
6. All about beavers, most of it focused on how good they are for environment.
Eager beavers, reshaping the land. Was it an interesting read?
It was really good except the part about trapping was hard to read. But the stuff about how they impact the environment and rejuvenate natural areas was really cool. And I actually know one of the people she talks about quite a bit in a couple chapters (and she talks about the river that is running not far from our backyard!
That is cool. It's fun to read books that are "close to home" like that. Years ago, I was reading a novel and it mentioned arriving at the Clairmont corner. I thought it interesting because we have a Clairmont corner in the area. Then the protagonist pulled into my city. She was stationed in the hamlet where I was living. I kept that book for years, but I think it got lost at some point.
That is so cool!!1. Badge 1, Book 14
2. List 1, Task 14
3. Dawn
4. Audio: 8:26
5. Survival
6. Humans trying to remain human while being held by aliens in a post-apocalyptic world.
1. Badge 1, Book 15!!!!2. List 1, Task 15
3. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
4. Kindle: 484
5. Religion
6. About a Jewish man at the time of Christ who thinks he is helping a King in the worldly sense, but in then end is ok with it being spiritual.
Yay! Badge finished! Congrats.
1. Badge 2, Book 12. List 4, L (Task 1)
3. Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
4. Audio: 7:10
5. Female Author L
6. Ellen Langer
1. Badge 2, Book 22. List 4, W (Task 2)
3. Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
4. Audio: 6:06
5. Female Author W
6. Dana K. White
1. Badge 2, Book 32. List 4, D (Task 3)
3. Thinking In Systems: A Primer
4. Audio: 6:26
5. Female Author D
6. Donnela H. Meadows
1. Badge 2, Book 42. List 4, M (Task 4)
3. The Tale of Genji
4. Audio: 35: 35
5. Female Author, beginning with M
6. Murasaki Shikibu
I think I'll do female authors as my third badge.
Janice wrote: "I think I'll do female authors as my third badge."I was doing fine until I thought Wilkie Collins was female. Oh well, no double dip for the monthly challenge this month...
1. Badge 2, Book 52. List 4, V (Task 5)
3. The Waves
4. Audio: 8:55
5. Name begins with V
6. Virginia Woolf
1. Badge 2, Book 62. List 4, O (Task 6)
3. The Marriage Portrait
4. Audio: 13:21
5. Name begins with O
6. Maggie O'Farrell
1. Badge2., Book 72. List 4, K (Task 7)
3. After Alice Fell
4. Audio: 8:35
5. Name begins wiht K
6. Kim Taylor Blackmore
1. Badge 2, Book 82. LIst 4, G (Task 8)
3. Silas Marner
4. Audio 6:42
5. Name begins with G
6. George Eliot
You're making great headway.
1. Badge 2, Book 102. List 4, C (Task 10)
3. The Fall Girl
4. Audio: 10:52
5. Name starts with C
6. Marcia Clark
1. Badge 2, Book 112. LIst 4, B (Task 11)
3. Whose Names Are Unknown
4. Audio: 8:45
5. Name begins with B
6. Sanora Babb
1. Badge 2, Book 122. List 4, Z (Task 12)
3. The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights
4. Audio: 10:33
5. Name begins with Z
6. Kitty Zeldis
1. Badge 2, Book 132. List 4, N (Task 13)
3. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
4. Audio: 8:59
5. Name begins with N
6. Kristin Neff
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Our Kind of Traitor (other topics)
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