You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

♐️ Sagittarius ♐️ is my sign.

I'm going to post as I read them, 'cuz that's the rule!

Jump down to my message 15 for the first half of my list and 17 for the 2nd half to see what books I have planned and read.

Books read: 84
Badge #1: Done
Badge #2: Done
Badge #3: Done
Badge #4: Done

good luck

Thanks, Cody.

I did a little gophering and have book titles for all of the actors. It was harder than I thought for some of them. I was looking for books for the actual movie title. Lots were only screen plays, not based on books.

Eager to see what books you have planned Cherie. Don't keep it all to yourself ;-)

LOL! I am gophering on my spreadsheet right now, but I definitely have 12 books placed for Part 1. I have 36 tasks filled up with books that I own and about 8 for library book slots, including all of the actor/movie titles I have decided on. Amazingly, I own a book for Sissy Spacek. I still have a lot of categories with no books yet. I have no books for any of the months. I know that there must be titles in my TBR, but I haven't looked yet. My Excel spread sheet skills are pretty rusty and I think I have spent way too much time fixing the cells. I still don't like the way it looks yet.

Cherie wrote: "LOL! I am gophering on my spreadsheet right now, but I definitely have 12 books placed for Part 1. I have 36 tasks filled up with books that I own and about 8 for library book slots, including all ..."

I am exactly the same, used to be brilliant on excel and now rusty is probably an understatement

I was thinking of doing a spreadsheet then decided it against it once I thought to order my thread by star sign. My main worry was that I would miss a star sign.

I thought about that, too, but decided against also. I didn't want to look at such a BIG spreadsheet. 12 x 7 is fairly large, especially if you enter more than a few words of text.

Still have no idea who she is.

Rusalka wrote: "Still have no idea who she is."

A couple of the women I didn't know.

I am so bad at spreadsheets. I don't know why, it should be perfect for me since I love graphics, charts, maps, conceptual maps. My memory is very visual. But spreadsheets do not make me any favor...

Cherie wrote: "Thanks, Cody.

I did a little gophering and have book titles for all of the actors. It was harder than I thought for some of them. I was looking for books for the actual movie title. Lots were onl..."

I thought the same thing. And several of those that qualified, I'd already read. I'm glad we are allowed to read books by the same author!

Best of luck Cherie!

1st half list

Aries
★★★★★March March read Jan 7th
★★★★Truck on cover/driver The Longest Ride* read May 7th
★★★★★Red cover Crimson Shore * read April 1st
★★★★Iraq/Syria/Turkey Birds Without Wings read Nov 14th
★★★★1750-1850 The Hundred Days - 1815 read Mar 29th
★★★★Mythology/God Valkyrie Rising read Feb 11th
★★★Tim Curry Congo reading Timeline read Dec 15th

Taurus
★★★★April The Dead Cat Bounce read Jan 10th
★★★★Western Brimstone read April 30th
★★Black cover Earth* read Feb 5th
★★★★★Canada Still Life read Aug 20th
★★★★ Illness Doomsday Book read Jan 17th
★★★★Villain If We Were Villains read Dec 15th
★★Audrey Hepburn Green Mansions read July 11th

Gemini
★★May May Day read May 7th
★★★Two titles Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man original title Coming Attractions read May 29th
★★White cover Tuesday's Gone * read Feb 25th
★★★Scotland A Strange Scottish Shore read June 25th
★★★★★Profile The Book of the Dead* read May 18th
★★★Dystopian The Lost Code, The Dark Shore and The Far Dawn read Jan 29th
★★★★Johnny Depp Before Night Falls read Sept 23rd

Cancer
★★★★June Goodnight June read Mar 10th
★★★★★Crab Blue Monday read Feb 1st
★★★★Blue cover Hero * read Feb 16th
★★★South America Eva Luna: A Novel read July 28th
★★★★Pink cover Can You Keep a Secret? * read July 25th
★★★Horror The Pendergast Files: read April 8 th
★★★★Meryl Streep Ironweed read Sept 15th

Leo
★★July Out Stealing Horses read Sept 15th
★★★★★Africa Precious and Grace - Botswana read July 24th
★★★Fire on cover Fire * read Jan 19th
★★★Pacific NW The Violets of March read May 13th
★★★★Ancient Egypt The Beacon at Alexandria read June 9th
★★★★★Character over 60 Scourged read June 22nd
★★★★Sean Penn The Weight of Water read Dec 16th

Virgo
★★August The Girls of August read Feb 12th
★★★★★Single woman under 20 Timebound 16/17yo read Feb 6st
★★★Planet on cover The Long Utopia * read Aug 30th
★★★★★Russia The Girl in the Tower read Oct 21st
★★★★Royal character The Prince and the Pilgrim read Sept 2nd
★★★★★Raven title/bird cover Thursday's Children * read March 3rd
★★★Anne Meara The Boys from Brazil read Nov 15th

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Good job! lol!

All THAT boils down to THIS?

2nd half list

Libra
★★★★September The Water's Edge read Feb 13th
★★★★Legal thriller No Defense read Mar 19th
★★★★Clouds on cover The Obsidian Chamber * read Mar 14th
★★★★★New Zealand Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World Oct 31st
★★★★1400-1700 The Shakespeare Stealer - 1601 read Aug 4th
★★★★1977-2000 Wonderstruck - 1977 read July 29th
★★★★Viggo Mortenson Appaloosa read Feb 9th

Scorpio
★★★October The Day of the Dead read Aug 24th
★★★★★Poison The Poisonwood Bible read Oct 13th
★★★★Water on cover Cold Case * read Mar 16th
★★★★★Australia The Dry read Jan 2nd
★★★★★Metal weapon or tool on cover Waiting for Wednesday: A Frieda Klein Mystery - fork read March 2nd
★★★★Stand alone SF The Time Traveler's Wife read June 6th
★★Jodie Foster The Hotel New Hampshire read Dec 13th

Sagittarius
★★★★November A Murder Is Announced read July 14th
★★★★★Native American The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse read May 31st
★★★★Fire in title Written in Fire read Jan 14th
★★★★★Greece Circe read May 28th
★★★Hawaii The Money Dragon read Dec 2nd
★★★★2018 book The Chalk Man read Mar 14th
★Ralph Fiennes Oscar and Lucinda read Dec 4th


Capricorn
★★★December Dash & Lily's Book of Dares read May 25th
★★★★Scandanavian Lit The Dogs of Riga read Aug 26th
★★★★Earth in title The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms read Aug 7th
★★★★★KS, NM, TX, Mex Still Life With Crows - Kansas read April 18th
★★★Time travel To Say Nothing of the Dog read Jan 24th
★★★★★Civil or Napolanic War The Hidden Light of Northern Fires - civil war read Jan 21th
★★★Sissy Spacek The Early Stories of Truman Capote read Nov 17th

Aquarius
★★★Janurary Dance of Death read April 6th
★★★★Urn/Jug/etc on cover Cocaine Blues - teapot * read Feb 25th
★★★Air in title Air read Jan 17th
★★Switzerland/Netherlands The Dinner read Nov 12th
★★★★Magic Frost Burned read April 22nd
★★★★★Atlantis/Poseidon The Atlantis Plague read Jan 6th
★★★John Hurt Up At the Villa read Dec 24th

Pisces
★★★February Lincoln in the Bardo read Sept 30th
★★★★★Lake or river Friday on My Mind read Mar 4th
★★★★Water in title Water read Jan 6th
★★★★Alb/MT/ID/WY The Whistling Season - Montana read May 25th
★★★★China Empire of Dragons read Sept 5th
★★★Siren The Siren read Aug 22nd
★★★Glenn Close The Natural read Sept 23rd


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Book Report Format for each book read.

Badge X, Book Y of Z

Zodiac Sign:
Category:
Task:

Book Link:
★★★★★ read Month, Day
How It Fits:

Cherie wrote: "Almeta wrote: "Good job! lol!

All THAT boils down to THIS?"

You must have caught me when I was in the middle of editing.
I can't find a Janurary month book. ......."

ROLF! COME ON , I LIKED IT BETTER THE OTHER WAY! No frills, no editorials. I just figured that you'd be relying on your spreadsheet and would just fill things in as your reading progressed.

Cherie wrote: " Darn, I hate it when I leave the cover radio button on and have to go back and edit the links!..."

I KNOOOOOOW!

Here's a hint about bookcover HTML. The entire string is exactly the same as the "non-cover" HTML. So instead of having to use the HTML link ALL OVER AGAIN....just remove the word "cover" (from "bookcover") in the undesired string. TaDa! no cover, a link instead.

OMG, for some reason you hit a funny bone with Turkey Birds Without Wings! (Guess you had to be there.)

Never thought of it but "hieroglyphs" would offer the perfect cameo on the covers. Everyone should seek egyptian books.☻

It would be awesome if "2018 book Gentlemen Bastard #4" was actually released!

Are you aiming for the gusto, Cherie? That is - all 84 books.

Until you pointed it out, I completely missed the coincidence between Turkey and the book title, Almeta.

Yes, I know about removing "cover" from the link. It just makes me mad when I forget and have to go back ten or twelve books later.

I really did think about not posting all of the book titles at the start, but where's the fun in that?

I'm not sure, Janice, if I will complete the entire 84 tasks. I still have plenty of series books to be read and I am still working on titles from the Geo Challenge list that I want to read. There are a few cross over catagories that I need to see if I can swap titles. The Greece books came from there. I know that I can read 84 books, but I have quite a few chunksters included. I think I'm going to use the fruit machine to choose which book to read first. I can't decide.

Here's a January idea:

Lair of Dreams

"a small but enthusiastic crowd waited in the January drizzle"

"The last will and testament of Cornelus Rathbone, recorded this day, the fourth of January in the year of our Lord, One thousand nine hundred and seventeen"

"The gloom of January weighed on New Yorkers"

"Eight o'clock in the evening on January"

It is a sequel to The Diviners, which both you and I have given 5 stars.

@Almeta - I have The Diviners on my TBR list. I have not read it yet. It looks like Naomi did.

I scooped up a title from one of the new members. It was the only book link she had published on her list. It is a romance story, but I could live with it. I am interested in The Diviners though, so I will add Lair of Dreams too.. How old is Evie in the first book?

I reformatted my lists. I like that better. Thanks for the suggestion to put the covers at the bottom, Janice and Almeta.

I still want some bling. I might borrow my sign from Sarah's link and add some emojis from my iPod. Maybe...

I looks better, Cherie.

LOL, thanks Sandra. ;o)

Cherie wrote: "@Almeta - I have The Diviners on my TBR list. I have not read it yet......

Drat! I misread my rating as yours on your list.

.... I am interested in The Diviners though, so I will add Lair of Dreams too.. How old is Evie in the first book? ..."

Evie is seventeen!!!

So, that gives me three books with a teenager. I guess I will add it to my list. The Diviners can be read as single woman under 20. Thanks!

I think I saw that someone had posted it as magic, but I don't see that in the genre list on my iPod. I'll look tomorrow on-line.

I like the newly formatted lists, Cherie! It looks great and you have some good books there!

Suzanne wrote: "I like the newly formatted lists, Cherie! It looks great and you have some good books there!"

Thanks, Suzanne.

I'm going to have to "borrow" your format. What do they say about imitation? The sincerest form of flattery? 😉

Roz wrote: "I'm going to have to "borrow" your format. What do they say about imitation? The sincerest form of flattery? 😉"

Borrow away! I borrowed it from someone else but I had to do a lot of editing. It might be easier to have 4 messages of three signs each, just for the book linking. It was a pain scrolling up and down. It was easier too, after I had filled out my spreadsheet.

I am still working on the spread sheet as I find more titles, but I am not sure I will put all of them in the links here. Oh - that reminds me. You read The Man from Beijing, I think. Was it at least half in China? I was looking at what I had listed. Maybe you read The Ginger Tree. I can't remember now.

The Ginger Tree sounds interesting. I see I have it on my wishlist.

I lost my mind at a library book sale and bought about ten audio books, all on cassette tape, and The Ginger Tree was one of them. There are 8 double sided tapes. I have a tape player still, but it is not a portable one, which means I have to sit and listen to it. I guess I need to find a knitting project.

I like the way your lists have shaped up, Cherie. Many good books, too : )

It was so long ago that I read The Man from Beijing, but I mostly remember the parts in Sweden. I remember I didn't really like it. Haven't read The Ginger Tree but it's on my tbr. Right now I'm reading (listening) to The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, and it's primarily (so far) in China. I'm also finding out more about the tea industry than I ever knew.

Thanks, Roz. Well, you gave me another choice for China too.

I found another that I thought was just Romans, but it is about some Romans that were captured and became slaves in Persia and escape with a Chinese prince and go to China with him. I will find the title and post it.

The story line in the 2nd Robinson Crusoe book has him going back to the island, getting Friday, sailing to China and trekking overland into Siberia and Russia. I jus may have to breakdown and read it, just because.

I finally spotted your thread! Like the layout. It very easy to follow ;-)

Thank you, Margo.

Way to go, Cherie! You are certainly brave to aim to the full monty!

I think my list is pretty complete and I have no idea where I want to start first.

I ordered some books from my library, so I will start with which ever book comes first.

Wow...nice work. The spreadsheet was a great idea. I may copy you to help sort through all of this. Not sure where to start either

I was looking at the Next Patrick O'Brian book and it looks like I can use The Commodore for the Capricorn/Cannonball task (Civil or Napoleonic War). I thought I had read it, but didn't. I think I had it on hold but I must have missed the notice from my library last summer.

I am jumping off with March in hardback and The Atlantis Plague in audio for Aries and Aquarius respectively.

Great gophering Cherie! We have Lincoln in the Bardo and The Siren in common. Looking forward to your reads.

I loved March (and I am a Geraldine Brooks fan) - enjoy!

looks like your winning cherie :)

Lol, Cherie is always among the winners!