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Challenges: Year Long Main 2025
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Marcus Alphabetizes
Badge 2, Book 15Book: Outer Dark
Format: softcover, 256 pages
Task: Read a book with title O
Exp: Title starts with O, bleak and dark western like all of Cormac McCarthy's stuff....so good
Badge 2, Book 14Book: Under a Graveyard Sky
Format: softcover, 473 pages
Task: read a book with Title U
Exp: title starts with U. zombies, boats at sea, not bad but had some plotting issues
Will you read more in the series?
Badge 2, Book 14Book: Memorials
Format: Hardcover, 472 pages
Task: read a book with Title M
Exp: Title starts with M, really good book about students making a film about the roadside memorials of traffic fatalities that takes a creepy turn
Badge 2, Book 14Book: Lord of the Feast
Format: e-book, 294 pages
Task: Read a book with title L
Exp: The title starts with L. This was a really unique and dark horror title
Badge 2, Book 14Book: Memorials
Format: Hard cover, 472 pages
Task: read a book with title M
Exp: title starts with M
Badge 2, Book 15Book: Outer Dark
Format: softcover, 256 pages
Task: read book with title O
Exp: title starts with O
Badge 2, Book 16Book: The Suicide Motor Club
Format: softcover, 360 pages
Task: read book with Title S
Exp: title starts with S
Badge 2, Book 17Book: Under a Graveyard Sky
Format: softcover, 367 pages
Task: read a book with title U
Exp: title starts with U
Badge 2, Book 18Book: Young Bloods
Format: e-book, 595 pages
Task: read a book with title Y
Exp: title starts with Y
There's no moss growing on you!
have entered enteries for books 14-18 and it has been erased repeatedly...not sure what is happening
Badge2, book 19Book: Night of Knives
Format: softcover, 282 pages
Task: book with Title N
Exp: title starts with N
That's strange. How many books have you read for badge 2. I see "Badge 2, Book 14" repeated a few times, so I'm thinking your count is off.
ahhh...i kept looking only at page one and reposting :) oooopsie. now im back on track with proper numbering.
Badge 2, Book 20Book: Viking Slave
Format: softcover, 213 pages
Task: Book with title V
Exp: title starts with V, great viking series!!
Badge 2, Book 21Book: The King of Shadows
Format: audiobook, 18hr, 17min
Task: book with title K
Exp: book title starts with K after article, matthew corbett book 8
You're almost to the finish line.
Janice wrote: "You're almost to the finish line." Woohoo!!
Badge 2, Book 22Book: Drood
Format: softcover, 773 pages
Task: Book starting with D
Exp: Title starts with D. This book was loooong but so good :) Will be seeking out more from Dan Simmons shortly...when I move into the third badge of Male Authors along with new books from Sai King and Joe Hill :)
I was using that book as a stand for my monitor. I likely won't read it.
Badge 2, Book 23Book: The Wild Inside
Format: softcover, 404 pages
Task: Book starting with W
Exp: minus the article, starts with W. It was ok...its a good intro to the flathead valley of Montana (my home) but new author at the time so it's a little rough in writing quality
Badge 2, Book 24Book: Jingo
Format: softcover, 455 pages
Task: Book starting with J
Exp: book starts with J. so hard to find J books for me this round. But yay discworld and yay badge 2 complete!!
Janice wrote: "I was using that book as a stand for my monitor. I likely won't read it." Ha! But it's really good! Maybe I just like Dan Simmons' style. Books like this are always intimidating but it was one of my favorite reads of this badge
Badge 3, Book 1Book: The Dangerous Book for Boys
Format: hardcover, 270 pages
Task: Male author name I
Exp: Conn Iggulden and his brother of same surname cowrote this book. I enjoy Conn's historical fiction books and this was a fun divergence full of historical stories and random facts that boys may typically gravitate toward
Badge 3, Book 2Book: The Others
Format: Audiobook- 10hr, 15min
Task: male author name J
Exp: Jeremy Robinson's "ininite timeline" series is interesting scifi aided greatly by the narration provided by RC Bray who also narrates the "expeditionary force" scifi series.
Badge 3, Book 3Book: Never Flinch
Format: Hardcover, 439 pages
Task: male author name K
Exp: Sai KING's newest novel...another book in the Holly Gibney series. It was ok and worth a read if you are a fan of this series of course or King in general although it was a little meh for me overall but good comfort reading and flowed by quickly like all King stories do.
Congrats on earning the 2nd badge. I was away for a few days earlier this week and just getting caught up. I love Holly Gibney. I started to read Holly on audiobook and was so turned off by the narrator's interpretation of Holly's voice (Will Patton is a hard act to follow) that I quit and finished in on ebook. I won't even try Never Flinch on audiobook and will go straight to ebook.
I just noticed that it's a different narrator for Never Flinch. I'll have to listen to the sample.
Janice wrote: "I just noticed that it's a different narrator for Never Flinch. I'll have to listen to the sample." Sounds like others may have had the same opinion. Let me know what you think.
Badge 3, Book 4Book: Sharpe's Rifles
Format: e-book, 304 pages
Task: Author with name B
Exp: The great Bernard Cornwell my favorite historical fiction author. Need to prioritize this series more
Badge 3, Book 5Book: The Primal Hunter
Format: e-book, 708 pages
Task: Male author name Z
Exp: Zogarth has written this amazingly fun RPG fantasy title. And it was long! And there are 13 books in the series! Uh oh other books for the remainder of this year. This may be my newest binge
Marcus wrote: "Janice wrote: "I just noticed that it's a different narrator for Never Flinch. I'll have to listen to the sample." Sounds like others may have had the same opinion. Let me know what you think."I'll be reading it in the next couple of weeks.
Badge 3, Book 6Book: The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing
Format: audiobook, 6hr,47min
Task: read a book author name E
Exp: Author Gavin Edwards
Badge 3, Book 7Book: 1632
Format: audiobook, 19hr,22min
Task: Read book by male author F
Exp: Written by Eric Flint. Interesting series
Badge 3, Book 8Book: A Mark of Kings
Format: e-book, 471 pages
Task: read a book by male author name O
Exp: Bryce O'Connor wrote this one. I was fairly meh about it but there are drow and dragons if that's your thing
Badge 3, Book 9Book: Mine
Format: e-book, 488 pages
Task: read male author name R
Exp: the great Robert McCammon who is my second favorite to Stephen King for contemporary horror
I'm with you on that, Marcus.
Janice wrote: "I'm with you on that, Marcus." Yay :)
Badge 3, Book 10Book: The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Format: Hardcover, 449 pages
Task: Read a book my male author M
Exp: Murakami!! Love his brand of fantasy so was excited to see a new release by him
Badge 3, Book 11Book: In the Mad Mountains: Stories Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft
Format: softcover, 256 pages
Task: Read a book by author name L
Exp: Joe R Lansdale has somehow evaded my TBR shelf for some time and I really need to fix that. His blend of western/horror/pulp and his style is right up my alley. started the first Hap and Leonard book on audible this week :)
Badge 3, Book 12Book: Mavericks
Format: audiobook, 17hr, 21 min
Task: read a book by male author name C
Exp: Craig Alanson's expeditionary force series has an awesome narrator and is very fun scifi. Recently a lot of the series was on sale on audible for just a couple dollars each so I had to snatch them up.
Badge 3, Book 13Book: Play of Shadows
Format: hardcover, 528 pages
Task: read a book by male author name S
Exp: Sebastian de Castell writes lovely fantasy. The greatcoats series was excellent, and I think this new series set in the same world is going to be a lot of fun as well.
Badge 3, Book 14Book: Viking Jarl
format: audiobook, 9hr,28min
Task: read a book by male author name H
Exp: Griff Hosker's viking series is so good! Enjoy it almost as much as the Last Kingdom series by Cornwell for viking action.
Badge 3, Book 15Book: Rabbit, Run
Format: softcover, 325 pages
Task: read a book with male author name U
Exp: My first novel by the John Updike. Not bad. Very immature protagonist makes lots of sad decisions.
I just learned of a new book published in June, The Last Vigilant that sounds intriguing. I've put it on my wishlist.
Janice wrote: "I just learned of a new book published in June, The Last Vigilant that sounds intriguing. I've put it on my wishlist." Oh cool. Added to mine as well. Thanks!!
Badge 3, Book 16Book: A Fire Upon the Deep
Format: softcover, 613 pages
Task: read a book with Male author name V
Exp: if this were scattergories, I'd get two points for Vernor Vinge. This book was fairly meh for me sadly
Badge 3, Book 17Book: Sexbot
Format: e-book, 206 pages
Task: read a book with male author name Q
Exp: finally found a Q author in Patrick Quinlan....while this is about a sexbot, its more a scifi action book...not smut. I promise :)
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Book: The Suicide Motor Club
Format: softcover, 360 pages
Task: read a book with title S
Exp: Title after the article starts with S. Great book about vampires on the roads