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*****COMPLETED 4/4/19*****Untimely

Challenge #192--Wanderlust-see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Let's Celebrate the Chinese New Year
February 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019
7/8as of 3/31/19 but finished 8/8 on 4/4/19

Tasks

✔1. Lunar Calendar: Chinese New Year, also called the Lunar New Year is the first day of the new year on the lunar calendar. This calendar is based on the movement of the moon which is why the festival date changes every year. It has also long been called the Spring Festival because it marks the end of the long winter season and the beginning of spring.
🏮 Read a book that has the moon on the cover by Jeanette Winterson 4/4/19

or a book with a Spring setting.

✔2. History: It has been celebrated in China for thousands of years. The original legend tells of a lion-like monster named Nian that terrorized the Chinese villagers. One year, a wise monk advised them to use loud noises along with red paper cutouts hung over their doors to scare Nian away. It worked and the day the villagers were able to defeat Nian became the start of the New Year.
🏮 Read a book that is tagged RETELLING, MYTHOLOGY or FANTASY on its GR Homepage- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19

✔3. World-Wide: The Chinese New Year is one of the world’s most celebrated festivals with one sixth of it’s population participating. It is celebrated in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore as well as Chinatowns and other large cities all over the world. The celebration lasts 15 days, beginning the night before the new year, ending with the Lantern Festival on the 15th day.- Concrete by Thomas Bernhard 2/22/19 156p.
🏮 Read a book that takes place in an Asian country or a book with 15 (intact) in its total page count.

✔4. Zodiac Signs: The Chinese Zodiac cycle repeats every 12 years and features 12 different animals representing each year in a cycle. The signs play an integral part in Chinese culture and each animal has different meanings and characteristics assigned to it which are used to determine marriage compatibilities, career decisions and even the best time to have a baby. 2019 is the twelfth month in the cycle so it is the year of the pig.
🏮 Read a book with a MC whose first name starts with a letter in PIG or read a book published in 2012 or 2019. - George Milton is the MC in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3/19/19

✔5. Reunion Dinner: No matter where they are, people try their best to return home for the ritual Reunion Dinner on New Year’s Eve. The family feast includes special dishes like whole fish for prosperity, long noodles for happiness and long life, and sweet rice balls that brings family unity and togetherness. And they must make sure their plates are never empty, so their luck doesn't run out.
🏮 Read a book that has a family gathering in the story (tell us what it was for) -The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss 2/20/19- the family is gathered together as the result of a ship wreck...and stranded on an island for 13 years.
or a book with prepared food on the cover.

✔6. Red: Everything is Red!! In the Chinese culture it is the symbol of joy, happiness, and prosperity, and can ward off evil spirits and bring good luck. Everything is decorated with red lanterns and paper cuttings; people buy new red clothing to wear and red envelopes filled with money are handed out as presents to children and family members.
🏮 Read a book with a cover that is primarily red (please post cover)- by Mark Twain 2/13/19
or read a book where money is given to someone as a gift.

✔7. Lion & Dragon Dance: These popular dances usher in the new year in parades and celebrations hoping to bring prosperity and good fortune to all. Westerners often confuse the two dances. If there are two performers, one as the head and the other as the tail then it's the lion dance. The dragon dance has a team of nine or more performers, each holding a section of the dragon on poles, moving them in a manner that depicts the movement of the dragon.
🏮 Read a series book #2 or #9 or read a book with the word LION or DRAGON in the title.- How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays by Umberto Eco 2/19/19- #2 in a series

✔8. Fireworks & Firecrackers: A traditional part of the celebration is to light firecrackers. The Ancient Chinese believed that the loud noise would scare off the evil spirits. In some places, lighting real firecrackers has been banned so many decorate their homes with colorful plastic firecrackers. But large firework displays are still the norm, in fact, Chinese New Years can boast the largest usage of fireworks on the planet.
🏮 Read a book with a colorful abstract cover or read a book that has been banned at one time. Here is a list to help you out: Best Banned Censored and Challenged Books.- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 2/5/19- was originally censored when published.

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 5/8/20*****UNTIMELY

Challenge #193- Wanderlust
see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

A-Z Real Life Locations (2019)
February 1, 2019 - January 31, 2020
26/26

A-(4)Austria- Concrete by Thomas Bernhard 2/22/19; Algiers - Yasmina Khadra- Morituri 6/2/19; Australia- In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 6/17/19; Afghanistan- Afghanistan's Blue Treasure: Lapis Lazuli by Lailee McNair Bakhtiar 6/22/19
B-(3)Brazil- Sergeant Getúlio by João Ubaldo Ribeiro 3/24/19; Bolinas, California- In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan 6/9/19; Babylon- Tamburlaine the Great Part II by Christopher Marlowe 10/27/19
C-(12)-Cairo, Egypt- Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi 2/11/19; China- Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19; Cambridge, England- Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 6/19/19; Cranford, England- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranfor... Cape Verde- The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo by Germano Almeida 7/10/19; California- The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck 7/17/19; Central African Republic- The Emperor and the Elephants: A Peace Corps Volunteer's Story of Life During the Late 1970s in the Central African Empire by Richard W. Carroll 7/27/19; Chad- The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary 9/6/19; A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell 10/13/19; China- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham 10/15/19; City of the Sun- The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella 10/24/19; California- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 12/3/19
D-Dagestan, Russia- Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy 12/8/19
E- (8)-England- Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 2/5/19; England- The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 4/14/19; Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry 5/9/19; Wise Children by Angela Carter 5/11/19; Agatha Christie- Murder at the Vicarage 6/4/19; Moonraker by Ian Fleming 6/6/19; England-As You Like It by William Shakespeare 7/4/19; England- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 7/9/19; England-An Ideal Husband; A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde 7/12/19-256p.; England- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming 7/15/19; England- The Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton 7/15/19; England- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells-192p.-8/13/19
F-(3)-France- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust 6/14/19; France- Tartuffe by Molière 10/28/19; Florida-Florida Roadkill by Tim Dorsey 12/24/19
G(3)--Gambia- Toubab by Rob Coughlin 6/23/19; Guadaloupe - Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé 6/29/19; All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque-12/1/19
H-(2)-Hillsboro, TN- Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence 6/10/19; Hiroshima, Japan- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa 7/21/19
I-(11)India- Kim by Rudyard Kipling 3/9/19; India- Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag 3/29/19; Illinois- An Unobstructed View: A Personal Journey from Illinois to Arizona by Mark Johnson 5/13/19; Israel- The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow 8/1/19; Italy- Women Of Messina by Elio Vittorini 9/22/19; Italy- The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese 9/25/19; Iran- The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat 10/11/19; Italy- The White Devil by John Webster 10/20/19; Ireland- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 10/24/19; Italy- 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford 10/25/19; Volpone by Ben Jonson 10/28/19
J-(2)-Jerusalem- Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth 7/7/19; Japan- Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura 10/9/19
K-Kiev, Ukraine- The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 5/8/20
L-(4) Lapland (Finland)- The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 3/22/19; London- Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson 4/4/19; London- Loitering with Intentby Muriel Spark 5/22/19; London- Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 6/8/19; London- Saturday by Ian McEwan 9/11/19 ; Lebanon- A House at the Edge of Tears by Vénus Khoury-Ghata 9/19/19
M-(9)-Madrid, Spain- The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana 2/15/19; Massachusetts- The Map Thief by Michael Blanding 4/23/19; Malawi- In Search of a Smile by Keegan Longueira 6/27/19; Monaco- Loser Takes All by Graham Greene 7/28/19; Manama, Bahrain-Two Old Fools on a Camel: From Spain to Bahrain and Back Again by Victoria Twead-8/4/19; Malaysia- Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo by Eric Hansen-11/4/19; Melbourne, Australia- Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood 12/4/19; Manhattan- Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney 1/1/20 ; Mexico- Queer by William S. Burroughs1/5/20
N-(5)-Nicaragua- My Car in Managua by Forrest D. Colburn 6/30/19; NYC- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera 9/7/19; New York City- Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley 9/14/19; North Carolina- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 10/2/19; New York City- For You Mom, Finally by Ruth Reichl 1/11/20
O-Orange County, California- Raiders of the Lost Bark by Sparkle Abbey 12/4/19
P- (6)-Paraguay- The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/8/19; Philippines- Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan 4/20/19;
Pakistan- Shame by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19; Padua, Italy- The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde 5/18/19; Pianosa, Italy- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 8/27/19; Persia- Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe 10/26/19
Q-St. Pierre and MiQuelon - The Black Joke by Farley Mowat-218p.-8/13/19
R-(3)-Russia- The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9/4/19-144p.; Rhodes- The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont 9/23/19; Russia- Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein-11/21/19
S-(10)-Switzerland- A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain 2/13/19 and Heidi by Johanna Spyri 5/17/19 and Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 6/28/19; Senegal- Xala by Ousmane Sembène 7/1/19; Senegal- The Beggars' Strike by Aminata Sow Fall 7/19/19; Slovakia- Home Is Where You Live: A diary of teaching English abroad for the first time by Elliot Lord 7/25/19; Stranded in the Seychelles by Bev Spicer 7/31/19; Santa Monica, CA- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy 9/2/19 -122p.; Sicily- The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare 10/30/19; Scotland- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 1/1/20
T-(3)Tasmania- Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan 3/26/19; Tuvalu- Time and Tide: The Islands of Tuvalu by Tony Wheeler 6/1/19; Tilling, England- The Complete Tilling Tales: Mapp and Lucia Short Stories by Geoff Martin 10/21/19
U-(15)-UK-How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19; UK- The Return of Mr. Campion: Uncollected Stories by Margery Allingham 7/19/19; USA- The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter -8/11/19- 187p.; USA- Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog 9/19/19; Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton 9/23/19; UK- Gin & Daggers by Jessica Fletcher 9/29/19; USA- Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet 10/10/19; I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel 10/18/19; Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris 10/18/19; UK- Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett 10/22/19; UK- The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard-11/26/19; The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie 12/3/19; Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 12/5/19; UK- Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton 12/11/19 ; USA- The Overstory by Richard Powers 1/9/20
V (3)-Vietnam- Ru by Kim Thúy 3/15/19; Verona, Italy- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare-283p.- 8/30/19; Virginia- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 10/3/19
W-(3)Wisconsin- Little House in the Big Woods by Little House in the Big Woods 7/16/19; Washington- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford 10/7/19; Warsaw- The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman 12/21/19
X-AleXandria, Egypt- Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 6/11/19
Y-Yerevan, Armenia- I Am There: Armenia by Olivia Puccini 7/23/19
Z-(3)-AriZona- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner 3/3/19; UZbekistan- The Fires by Alan Cheuse 7/18/19; New Zealand-The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera 12/13/19

note - stopped posting books read after 1/11/20 for letters already attained

Archive from Original Post #1:
Ed's Challenges: This is a not-well-kept up to date list and link to my goals and challenges:

2018 Goals:

1) Read at least 100 books. 43 of 100
2) Read at least 25 more books on Boxall's list. 9 of 25
3) Read at least 20,000 pages during the year. 10968 of 20,000 (54.8%)
4) Listen to books while exercising for at least 75 hours during the year. 36:04 of 75:00 (4500)= 48.1%
5) In conjunction with Goal #4- Lose at least 15 pounds.
6) Complete my goal to read a book published each year of the 20th century and beyond. (Begun in 2016)
Note, this dovetails with WRC task see https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... post 145
7) Continue to reduce my backlog of Magazines and Community newspapers. Read at least 150. At least 30 of those should be magazines I read cover-to-cover* (such as The New Yorker).
12 of 150 total; 0 of 30 cover-to-cover*.
San Diego Reader-2; AARP-2; Mission Times Courier-2; USD Magazine-1; Vacations-1; Impact-2; Westways-1; American Way-1.
8) Keep track of male & female authors with a goal to not finish the year with less than 40% of either gender. M 145 (81.9%): F 32 (18.1%)
✔9) Virtual Travels- Virtually Visit through my readings the same number of countries as 2017 or more =116. So far: 132 of 116 (See post #3below)
10) Varied Authors- Read authors associated with at least 40 different countries. (See post #3 below) So far=12 of 40
11) Complete the 52 weeks of the Around the Year in 52 Weeks Challenge. (See post #10 in this thread) 26 of 52
12) Complete the Pop Sugar challenge.(See post #11 in this thread and post #9 in this one: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... )
23 of 50
13) Complete the A to Z challenge using the initials of novel authors for pre 2006 (19 of 26) and keep track of post-2006 fiction books (0 of 26) and Non-fiction (8 of 26) as well without expecting to complete the last two. (See post 17 in this thread)
14)(a)Complete the A to Z Title challenge. (20 of 26) (See post #18 in this thread)
(b)This dovetails with post #9 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... which however has a different time frame 2/1/18 to 1/31/19 and requires a minimum of 125 pages per book: 14/26
(c) It also dovetails with https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... post #8 which requires that the Titles be on my TBR prior to 2/1/18. Currently at 14/26
(d) and with WRC challenge starting 3/1/18 to 2/28/19- see post 11 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Currently at 9/26
15) Read at least 20 books on the 1001 Children’s Books I Must Read Before I Grow Up List. 1/20 see post #3 below.
16) (a) Receive at least three of the RwS quarterly Rewards.
✔Received Most Strategic Reader spot Winter & random B&N gift card.
(b) Place in the top 50% of the participants in the Seasonal Reading Challenge OR win one of the contests at least three times.
✔SRC Winter- ranked 42/187- top 22.5%
17) Make progress on other GR challenges:
(17a)Wacky Reading Challenge's (WRC) Monthly Word Search: Jan. -0 of 20 words plus 0 of 9 carryovers plus August 2017 words 0 of 20.
(17b) WRC's US States Challenge https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... post #173 - Started 1/2018 at 0/50 Now at 3/50
(17c) WRC's Bucket List Challenge 2 of 12 See https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... post 24
(17d) Seasonal Reading Challenge (SRC) I Heart Cat's Challenge Start at 33 of 53 See post #119 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Now at 42 of 53.
(17e) SRC's The Awesomeness of Dogs Challenge Start at 24 of 46 Now at 35 of 46- See post #108 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
(17f) My own word search list: Jan: start with p.1: 0 of 4; p.2: 0 of 31
(17g) Read the World's Challenge to read books set in each country: See https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... post#6. Starting with a blank slate on January 1, 2018. Currently at 15 of 197.
(17h) Progress on the Wacky's POI Challenge #2: Debbie (Doc)'s Journey https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
See post #69 starting at 0/136 on 1/19/18. Now at 29/136.
(17i) Progress on the All in the Cards Challenge See post 1044 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Starting at 0/399 on 1/20/18. Currently at 30/399
(17j) Make progress on the Author Alphabet Fun Challenge See post #120 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Starting 1/21/18 at 1 of 24.
(17k) Make progress on the Page Number Fun! Challenge See post #562 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... starting 1/21/18 at 0 of 70. Currently 19/70.
(17l) Make progress on the POI Spell Challenge #1 See posts #157- 163 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Starting at 0/516 on 1/22/18. Now at 24/516.
(17m) Make Progress on Completist Club goals: See Dickens at post 70 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
and Alexandre Dumas at post 5 of https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
and Anthony Trollope at post 15 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
17n) Progress on the Hidden Gems Challenge...see post#54 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Started at 0/50 on 1/26/18. Currently at 17/50
17o) Progress on the Misfit Challenge (Word search) 0/100 from 2/1/18 to 5/31/18) at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... post #11
17p) Make progress on the Audiobook Narrator Challenge see post 80 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Starting 1/26/18 at 7/26
17q) Make progress on the Around the World Random Travel Challenge- see post #306 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Begun 1/1/18. Currently at 1/20.
17r) Make progress on the How Many Names Can You Find Challenge See post #10 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
A total of FOUR names can be used per book read...no more. The names can be either character names or author names
Female Names 0/100
Male Names 0/100 From 1/01/18 to 12/31/18
17s) Make progress on the Song Title Word Search Challenge- See https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... post # 19 starting at 0/185 on 1/29/18.
17t) Make progress on the Audiobooks Challenge...see post #369 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 2 book at 5.5 hours
17u) Make progress on the Hot Springs National Park challenge at post # 4 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Begins 4/1/18
Currently at 0/10
17w) complete the Ohio Spell Challenge 04/01/18 - 06/30/18. See post#7 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
17x) Complete Historical Landmarks of Ohio challenge see post 16 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 4/1/18 to 6/30/18
0/10
17y) Complete the ELLIE challenge. 04/01/18 - 06/30/18 See post #5 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Currently at 0/5.
17z) Complete the Alpha author challenge with dates 04/01/18 - 03/31/19 -Book must have been on my TBR prior to 04/01/18.
- See See post #4 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Currently at 0/26
17z1) Complete WRC: Characters, A to Z (2018)
Date: 04/01/18 - 03/31/19 See post 5 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
0/26 Completed

17z2) Complete the WRC Book Tag Challenge #11
April 1 - June 30, 2018- See post #5 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Completed: 0/10
17z3) Participate in the Interactive Genre Challenge...my claimed book is Pygmalion - see https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
17z4) Complete the All Chhallenges Member Task Challenge Fairlee Date: 04/01/18 - 04/30/18 - See post #8 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

17z5) Make progress playing Snakes & Ladders at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...- started 4/1/18.
17z6) Find at least 75 books mentioned in other books 4/2/18-12/31/18:
1. Don Quixote mentioned in The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
2. The Laws of Plato in The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
3. Typee by Herman Melvillein The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
4. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon in The Trembling of A Leaf
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton in The Trembling of A Leaf
5. Don Quixote in The Trembling of a Leaf
6. The Odyssey by Homer in The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
7. The Iliad by Homer in The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
8. Politics by Aristotle in The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
and list references to other books as well:
1. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
2. Inferno by Dante Alighieri in The Trembling of a Leaf
3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare in The Trembling of A Leaf
17z7) Complete the WRC Nooks and Crannies Challenge to read 24 PHYSICAL books I own within a year. Starting on April 3, 2018 to April 3, 2019. See Post #251 at https://www.goodreads
(18) Book Riot Challenge. See post #21 below. 11/24
Non-Reading Goals:
19) One of the reasons I am cutting back some of my reading goals is that I want to watch more award-winning films. So my goal is to watch films which have cumulatively won or been nominated for 200 Academy Awards; and separately 100 Golden Globes. As of 1/25/18 at 19/200 and 11/100.
20) Post at least 750 Waymarks during the year and post at least 1250 visits to Waymarks. Starting at 13,539 Posts and 20,362 Visits.
21) Complete 75 additional hours of exercise which does not fit into Task #4. 5:49 of 75:00 (4500)= 7.8%
22) Increase the number of available hours on the DVR by watching all recorded shows. Starting with just 9 hours of recording space available 1/1/18. 7 hrs as of 1/8/18.
23) Reach 160,000 SparkPoints in Spark People https://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/s... (Starting at 154,589, so need 5,411 points. Currently at 154,634 (.008%)
24) Make progress watching the 221 Our Gang/Little Rascal short films. Starting at 12/221 as of 1/13/18.
25) Make progress on the 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die List which actually has 1199 movies on the list as of 2016. Start at 181/1199 (15.1%). Currently at 182/1199 (15.2%)

240.4;240.8F;240.6M;245A;243.4M; 229.4 12/3/18

*****COMPLETED 6/28/19*****


Challenge #194- Wanderlust- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Ski the World
February 1, 2019 - April 30, 2019
13/15 as of 4/30/19- but continuing
now 15/15

1. AUSTRIA: Hohe Tauern National Park
Hohe Tauern NP is the largest protected area in the Alps. The region extends over three Austrian provinces: Tyrol, Salzburg and Carinthia and boasts more than 200 summits over 3,000 m including the highest mountain in the country, the Grossglockner at an impressive 3,798 m. Vast glacier fields, rock walls, meadows, mountain lakes, and rushing streams make the landscape a nature lover’s dream. In winter, the region’s 34 ski resorts become a skier’s paradise.
✔❉Read a book with a mountain on the cover or a book whose author’s first and last initial can be found in GROSSGLOCKNER.- Nawal El-Saadawi- Woman at Point Zero 2/11/19

The sun is out and snow has covered the world in a myriad of glittering ice crystals and in the background stands the mighty Grossglockner. A day at the Grossglockner Ski Resort in Kals-Matrei is a fantastic experience, not just for winter sports enthusiasts, but also for photographers and anyone with an appreciation for truly breathtaking views. And for an exciting night time view take advantage of the floodlit slopes and toboggan runs.
✔❉Read a book with a main character whose first name starts with a letter in RESORT.- in The Double by José Saramago 2/9/19, the MC's first name is Tertuliano.

The Rauris Valley is the largest settlement in the park region and is often nicknamed the “hidden jewel”. Far removed from the hustle and bustle of mega ski resorts, Rauris is filled with deeply rooted charm, treating families to a sense of true hospitality and quality. The ski area offers perfect slopes and unlimited skiing enjoyment for every generation and ability. The kids, too, are in perfect hands, both on the baby hill as well as at the children’s ski school.
✔❉Read a book where the first letter of every word in the title can be found in HOHE TAUERN NATIONAL PARK (THREE Word Minimum). - A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain 2/13/19

2. FRANCE: Vanoise National Park
Located in the French Alps, Vanoise NP was created in 1963 and became the first national park of France. Its original intention was to help preserve the alpine ibex,
the iconic mountain goat of the alps. Their success is evident as they are now abundant throughout the park. Vanoise is a popular destination any season but during the winter months it is one of the leading ski areas in Europe with 13 ski resorts within the park’s boundaries.
❉Read a book with a wild animal on the cover - by Arto Paasilinna 3/22/19

or a book whose author’s first and last initial can be found in ALPINE IPEX.

Nestled at the foot of Grande Casse, the highest peak in the area, is the charming village of Pralognan. This small scale ski resort is full of character, architectural heritage and the locals are welcoming and friendly. With the magnificent setting beneath Grande Casse and several amazing glaciers, skiing here is incredible. For non-skiers, you can ice skate in the Olympic rink, take an historic torchlight village tour, or enjoy a winter horseback ride to an alpine lake.
✔❉Read a book with a main character whose first name starts with a letter in PROLOGNAN - Alice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19

For art lovers, one ski resort has been doing something original for the past ten years. Courchevel Ski Report and the Bartoux Galleries took up the daring challenge of combining art and mountains by creating an open-air museum. This surrealist exhibition "Art at the Top" allows skiers to interact on the slopes with monumental sculptures inspired by the art made by the illustrious artist Dali during the 1980s.
✔❉Read a book where the first letter of every word in the title can be found in VANOISE NATIONAL PARK (THREE Word Minimum). - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert 6/28/19

3. CANADA: Banff National Park
If you’re looking for a winter wonderland with some of the world’s best winter activities then you need to visit Banff NP in the heart of Alberta, Canada. The three ski resorts within the park are collectively known as the SkiBig3 and are a mecca for skiers and snowboarders alike, offering all levels of slopes. Two of them have incredible gondola rides that whisk you (warmly) up to the summit where you find jaw-dropping 360° Rocky Mountain views.
✔❉Read a book with three of the same thing on the cover (3 dogs, 3 people, 3 books, etc.) or read a book whose author’s first and last initial can be found in ROCKY MOUNTAINS.- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19

Banff’s crowning glory is Lake Louise and in winter it is hands down the most beautiful place in the world to ice skate! Surrounded by evergreen trees, jagged snow-capped mountain peaks and the prestigious Chateau Fairmont Hotel, you will feel like you are in a fairy tale. If you are visiting in January you can explore ice castles, ice bars and ice sculptures at the “magical” Ice Magic Festival hosted by the Chateau Fairmont.
✔❉Read a book with a main character whose first name starts with a letter in LOUISE. Umberto Eco is the MC in his own set of essays- How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays by Umberto Eco 2/19/19

Banff has some spectacular hiking trails and many are still accessible in winter though you may need a pair of snow shoes. A spectacular hike is the Johnston Canyon trail with its two dramatic frozen waterfalls. If you’re lucky you'll see ice climbers working their way up the frozen ice shoots. Warm up after all your activities at one of the three Hot Springs in the park. The naturally heated mineral water is the perfect remedy to soak tired muscles and restore your body’s defenses from the winter cold.
✔❉Read a book where the first letter of every word in the title can be found in BANFF NATIONAL PARK (THREE Word Minimum).- The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/8/19

4. NORWAY: Jotunheimen National Park
Norway’s Jotunheimen NP is in the core of the wildest and most arctic mountain area
in Europe. The name means “Home of the Jotuns” which are giants from old Nordic mythology. The giants in this park are the mountains, the highest in northern Europe and the glaciers, the biggest on the continent. The Glacier Hikes the park organizes are
a popular way to see these beautiful ice sheets and the whole color spectrum they display from pitch black to snow white to ice-blue.
✔❉Read a book with a cover that is primarily black, white or blue or read a book whose author’s first and last initial can be found in HOME OF THE JOTUNS.- Thomas Hardy- Tess of the D'Urbervilles 2/5/19

The diverse terrain makes Jotunheimen a popular destination in both winter and spring for cross-country skiing and ski touring. The Haute Route is the most enticing route for adventurers. It is a six-day journey of remarkable terrain that includes eight glaciers, seven summits and spending five nights in different staffed mountain cabins along the way. For the experienced skier, it is the trip of a lifetime.
✔❉Read a book with a main character whose first name starts with a letter found in HAUTE. - title character in The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana 2/15/19

The charming village of Lom is the "gateway" to the park and home to one of the few remaining wooden stave churches in Norway. Built in the Middle Ages, it’s impressive Romanesque architecture is a must-see along with its large collection of paintings by the famous Norwegian artist, Eggert Munch. Be sure to also stop by the Mountain Museum to see its interactive exhibitions about mountain history and man’s relationship with nature.
✔❉Read a book where the first letter of every word in the title can be found in JOTUNHEIMEN NATIONAL PARK (THREE Word Minimum). - A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll 3/17/19

5. ARGENTINA: Nahuel Huapi National Park
We can’t ignore the Southern Hemisphere - it has spectacular skiing opportunities too. June through October head to the heart of the Patagonia region to Nahuel Huapi, the oldest national park in Argentina. The park derives its name from the gorgeous lake which it surrounds, and is dominated by the snow-clad Andes, exquisite glaciers, rapid rivers, and extensive forests.
✔❉Read a book with a body of water on the cover - by Johann David Wyss 2/20/19
or a book whose author’s first and last initial can be found in PATAGONIA.

Cerro Catedral, a mountain named for its Gothic cathedral-looking granite spirals is located inside the park and home to the largest ski center in South America. Cerro Catedral Alta Patagonia is the perfect destination for any snow sport enthusiast. Skiers and snowboarders of all levels enjoy stunning views of the Andes and Lake Nahuel Huapi while enjoying over 1,500 skiable acres with more than 40 lifts.
✔❉Read a book with a main character whose first name starts with a letter found in CERRO CATEDRAL. - Rudolph is the MC in Concrete by Thomas Bernhard 2/22/19

Bariloche is a small city that serves as the gateway to the country’s renowned ski area and national park. Nicknamed the Switzerland of South America, it boasts beautiful Swiss-style chalets, world-class boutique hotels and stores dedicated to all things chocolate! For a lively evening of apres-ski, head to one of the many restaurants or discerning nightclubs and mingle with the locals.
✔❉Read a book where the first letter of every word in the title can be found in NAHUEL HUAPI NATIONAL PARK (THREE Word Minimum).-A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 5/6/19

Reserved

*****COMPLETED****** 3/9/19

Challenge #195-Booktivity

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February 2019 Mini Challenge - Love Is In the Air
Begins: 01Feb19 / Ends: 28Feb19

Here are five tasks ... but as February is a short month, you can call it completed when you've finished any four of them:
5/5

✔1. Main page genre: Romance-How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
✔2. Heart on the cover-it's small but there are hearts on the "card" of the pawn playing a drum on the cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
✔3. Red, Pink or White cover- by José Saramago 2/9/19
✔4. Author first and last initials in C H O C O L A T E S- Thomas Hardy- Tess of the D'Urbervilles 2/5/19- (also qualifies for #1.
✔5. Title Begins with a letter in: C U P I D (ignore A, An, The)- The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana 2/15/19

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 6/28/19***** UNTIMELY
Last word="ovulated"

Challenge #196-CCC- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'm starting a few days late (Feb. 4...but I'm in)

Treasure Hunt
Duration: February 1, 2019- May 31, 2019

150p.
Levels:
✔Beginner treasure hunter: 25 words- 25/100 on 2/5/19
✔Amateur treasure hunter: 50 words- 50/100 on 2/8/19
✔Serious treasure hunter: 75 words- 75/100 on 2/13/19
✔Master treasure hunter: 100 words 100/100 6/28/19

100/100

✔adulthood-p.362-Moab Is My Washpot-"...my adulthoodwith all its falsities and failures." 2/22/19
✔affairs-p.119-The Double-"...perhaps because she doesn't know as much about the affair..." 2/6/19
✔attracted-Ch. 48- A Tramp Abroad-"When I saw it twelve years ago I was not strongly attracted to it..." 2/11/19
✔avoided-Ch.44-A Tramp Abroad-"his dread is so lively that he is disposed to fly the track and avoid the implacable foe." 2/10/19
✔banished-p.56-The Duchess of Padua-"And I must banish love, and let in murder..." 3/5/19
✔betrayed-Ch.1- Kim-"...that most scandalously betrayed the five confederated Kings,..." 2/15/19
✔birth-p.160-A Tramp Abroad"...the whole air soon grew warmer after the splendid birth of the day."
✔bolt-p.34-The Double-"Like a devastating bolt of lightning, his depression fell from on high..." 2/5/19
✔bound-Part8- A Tramp Abroad-"The Trunk is bound or bordered with leather all around where the lid joins the main body." 2/6/19
✔box-p.18-The Double-"He absentmindedly picked up the box..." 2/5/19
✔bull-p.104- Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"...a 'pizzle', - a whip made from a bull penis." 2/6/19
✔castrated- Morituri-"...but if this excrement landed up in Paradise, I would castrate myself by a plumber." 2/14/19
✔cave-Ch. 58- Tess of the D'Urbervilles-"...and
the night grew as dark as a cave." 2/5/19
✔chained-p.240- The Double-"...like a rusty anchor chained to the past..." 2/8/19
✔chamber-Ch. 33- Tess of the D'Urbervilles"...to get a hurried glimpse of the unused chambers by feeing a servant." 2/6/19
✔children -p.168-A Tramp Abroad-"Ladies near her looked like children..." 2/4/19
✔concocted-p.47- Concrete-"...how carefully everything is concocted before she finally dishes it up in front of all these people." 2/13/19
✔consequences-p.169-A Tramp Abroad-"That chaos of clothing got mixed in the kitchen, and there were consequences." 2/4/19
✔consulted-Ch. 49-A Tramp Abroad-"...he could consult his esthetic tastes." 2/11/19
✔consummating-p.592- The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2"...I at length consummated my triumphs..." 3/2/19
✔cousin-p.45-Twenty Years After-"Is monsieur your cousin?" 2/10/19
✔cries-p.47-Russell Baker's Book of American Humor-"They were the cries of ancient Doberman souls..." 2/9/19
✔curiosity-p.165- A Tramp Abroad-"...but out of curiosity to find out how such a thing could manage to conceal itself..." 2/4/19
✔deformities-p.16- A Suitable Boy"...the Nation raises its robes to reveal terrifying deformities..." 2/17/19
✔devour-p.297-The Double-"...as if his own steps s they were taken had devoured the very substances..." 2/9/19
✔disgusted-p.21-Concrete-"...they ought to have been disgusted, as I was even then." 2/13/19
✔divided-Ch.58- Tess of the D'Urbervilles-"...if she were to become yours it would almost seem as if
death had not divided us..." 2/5/19
✔divinity-p.281-Moab Is My Washpot-"...flapping a hand towards the divinity." 2/9/19
✔eagle-p.476- Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales-"...no sparrow-hawk, eagle or kite will hurt him..." 2/9/19
✔emerged-p.197-The Double-"...an ambush from which he knows he will emerge alive..." 2/7/19
✔emetic-p.183-Wise Children-"...she found that emetic Shakespearian nettle soup..." 5/9/19
✔enemies-p.81-The Double-"...Afonso would not wish it on his worst enemy..." 2/6/19
✔fed-p.155-A Tramp Abroad-"We could see the streams which fedf the torrent..." 2/4/19
✔fire-p.160- A Tramp Abroad-"...a huge pyramid of fire rising out of the barren ocean of ice..." 2/4/19
✔flesh-p.168-A Tramp Abroad-"...and had come there to get rid of her extra flesh in the baths." 2/4/19
✔fly-p.156-A Tramp Abroad-"...there were very few birds that fly as high as his starting point." 2/4/19
✔forbid-p. 96- A Suitable Boy-"'No---heaven forbid,' said Maan." 2/19/19
✔genitals-p.104-Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"...courtesy of men who bequeathed their genitals to the museum." 2/6/19
✔goat-p.172-A Tramp Abroad-"'You never see a goat shedding tears in a Protestant canton..." 2/4/19
✔goddess-p.44-The Double-"...a very recent film by the same production company, called The Goddess of the Stage." 2/5/19
✔golden-p.103- Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"...intricate pattern derived from a combination of the golden ratio and Dene's own pineapple-inspired design." 2/6/19
✔guise-p.50-The Double-"...this time in the guise of a bank clerk being threatened by a gunman..." 2/5/19
✔head-p.156-A Tramp Abroad-"...across from the narrow head of the valley." 2/4/19
✔hope-Ch. 53- Tess of the D'Urbervilles-""I also hope that.'" 2/5/19
✔hundred-p.156-A Tramp Abroad-"...he should have had them if he had been a hundred and fifty." 2/4/19
✔husband-p.165-A Tramp Abroad-"The young husband was riding a little in advance..." 2/4/19
✔imprisoned-Ch.42- A Tramp Abroad-"If he had been imprisoned in a St. Nicholas private dwelling,..." 2/10/19
✔ingenious-p.223- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901-"How ingenious of you,, how quaintly unsophisticated!" 2/19/19
✔island-p.9- Around the Edge-"...I was planning to meet my wife, Edith, that afternoon on the next island down..." 2/5/19
✔kidnapped -p.196-The Double-"If you're afraid I'll kidnap you, for example, or eliminate you..." 2/7/19
✔king-p.14-The Double-"...the chapter about the Amorites, and, in particular, about their King Hammurabi..." 2/5/19
✔lightning-p.310-The Double-"...or the bolt of lightning that demolished the chimney..." 2/9/19
✔liver-p.248-The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection-"His face went dead and the colour of liver." 2/13/19
✔married-p.1- The Double-"...suffice it to say that he was married..." 2/5/19
✔merciless-p. 330-Moab Is My Washpot-"...Private Eye makes merciless fun of him..." 2/20/19
✔misfortunes-p.25-Twenty Years After-"They had the misfortune to be devoted to that very queen..." 2/6/19
✔mountain-p.156- A Tramp Abroad-"...what seemed to be the highest mountain near us." 2/4/19
✔night-Ch.58- Tess of the D'Urbervilles-"The night was strangely solemn and still." 2/5/19
✔nymph-p.193-How I Live Now-"As usual, she cornered the Wood Nymph market while I settled for Old Faithful." 2/23/19
✔overcome-p36-Twenty Years After-"Mazarin, overcome by this determination, read the two letters..." 2/10/19
✔ovulated-p..219- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History-"'Suci did not ovulate,' Roth announced..." 6/28/19
✔pleased-p.23-Twenty Years After-"...not like Monsieur de Richelieu, who went on just as he pleased." 2/6/19
✔plotted- p.651-Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales-"They began to seek revenge, and plotted with each other to destroy him." 4/14/19
✔priestess-p.135- Loitering with Intent-"She acts as High Priestess at the rites." 5/21/19
✔promptly-Ch. 1 of audiobook- Heidi- "Peter promptly thrust it into his pocket and his face beamed with delight, for it was not often that he was the happy possessor of such riches." 3/7/19
✔prophecy-p.265-The Double-"...The Trojans thought her mad and ignored her prophecies." 2/8/19
✔punishment-p.2- The Double-"...living alone has been the harshest of punishments..." 2/5/19
✔queen-p.70- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass-"All the time they were playing thr Queen..." 2/6/19
✔rain-p.180-A Tramp Abroad-"...he said he feared it was going to rain." 2/5/19
✔regenerated-p.104-Twenty Years After-"...and the man explained the mystery of this regenerated existence." 2/28/19
✔relationship- p.63-The Double-"...that's the worst thing anyone can say if they're trying to end a romantic relationship..." 2/6/19
✔retaliation-p.256- The Double-"...the right words were not vengeance, revenge, retaliation, retribution, redress..." 2/8/19
✔rotating-p.27-In a Sunburned Country-"...a column of rotating dust perhaps a hundred feet high..." 2/26/19
✔ruler-Loc. 24180 of the Kindle edition of Holy Bible: King James Version-"The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free..." 2/11/19
sacrificing-p.133-Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders- "Each one represents a woman who touched her red-painted hand to the wall before sacrificing herself..." 2/16/19
✔seeped-p.63-Sergeant Getúlio-"I shitted myself, it even seeped down my pants." 3/14/19
✔shower-p.100-The Double-"...at the mercy of the first shower of rain." 2/6/19
✔siblings-p.128-Smaller and Smaller Circles- "Ranulfo, a driver for one of the Saenz siblings..." 3/8/19

✔sickle-p.159- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901-"...and the Maldonados, all carrying pitchforks and sickles..." 2/18/19
✔sister-p.53- Twenty Years After- ""wish your sister good morning Master Peter." 2/11/19
✔sky-p.159-A Tramp Abroad-"The whole sky was blazing with stars..." 2/4/19
✔smote-Ch.47- A Tramp Abroad-" Poor old thing,
she murmured her thanks--they smote me to the heart." 2/11/19
✔snuck-p.65-The Swiss Family Robinson-"We snuck through the brush, fearing some monster..." 2/11/19
✔stone-p.168-A Tramp Abroad-"This pile of stone is peculiar..." 2/4/19
✔storms-p.159-A Tramp Abroad-"...and snowed on, and pelted and persecuted by the storms, nearly every day of its life..." 2/4/19
✔swaddling-p.65-The Map Thief-"We perceive the map trade in its swaddling clothes..." 3/12/19
✔swallowed-p.567- The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 2-"...and it appeared to do Mr. Shuttle worthy's heart good to see the old fellow swallow it..." 2/13/19
✔swan-p.117-The Swiss Family Robinson-"...and the boys on the shore caught a pair of black swans." 2/12/19
✔temples-p.118- Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"...he would ascend the stairs to the dome and look toward the Temple Mount." 2/7/19
✔trapped-p.276- Moab Is My Washpot-"Simply the act of raising his arm caused something trapped within me to leap..." 2/8/19
✔tricked-p.183-The Double-"...tricked the tensions in his body...." 2/7/19
✔twins-p.17-The Double-"...there's no shortage of resemblances in the world, twins for example..." 2/5/19
✔underground-p.151-The Double-"...he left the car in an underground garage three blocks away." 2/7/19
✔underworld-p65-Broadway Anecdotes-"The sardonic Armstrong, seeing immediate dramatic opportunity in the store of underworld lore known to Mizner..." 3/2/19
✔unlike-p.70-Twenty Years After-"In that respect unlike you, my dear Aramis, for you are still the same..." 2/12/19
✔vomit-p.30-Concrete-"...every time I hear the word it makes me want to vomit." 2/13/19
✔warned-p.231-The Double-"...you were warned, and you took no notice of it." 2/8/19
✔wheel-Ch. 56- Tess of the D'Urbervilles- "...as if it came from a soul bound to some Ixionian wheel." 2/5/19
✔wolf-p.14-The Double-"...and no one in their right mind would describe wolves as pathetic cowards." 2/5/19
✔youngest-p.475- Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales-"'In the merchant's garden,' said the youngest." 2/9/19

Challenge #197-WTR D books
see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Beginning 2/9/19

Books on WTR prior to February, 2019
Levels/Duration:
Easy: 3-5 Books, 6 Months from Start Date
Medium: 6-10 Books, 9 Months from Start Date
Hard: 11-15 Books, 1 Year from Start Date
Impossible: 16+ Books; 1.5 years from Start Date

Note...I categorize many of my books as "May Consider". I treat this as part of my WTR...but just with less urgency.

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 911/19*****UNTIMELY


Challenge #198- Game Night

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Old Maid
3/1/19-3/31/19


Old Maid
3/1/19-3/31/19


✔Greenthumb Gert - 3 books read- completed 3/6/19
✔Milkman Mo - 6 books read- completed 4/2/19
✔Diver Dan - 9 books read
Old Maid - 12 books read

Completed: 12/12

✔1) Doctor - Read a book where the main character is a medical professional (doctor, nurse, EMT, etc) or tagged as "medical" on the first page of tags.-Saturday by Ian McEwan 9/11/19 - the MC is a neurosurgeon

✔2) Police Officer - Read a book where the main character is in law enforcement (cop, FBI, etc.) or a book tagged "police procedural".-
The MC is a Magistrate in Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee 4/2/19

✔3) Lawyer - Read a book where the main character is a lawyer or tagged "legal".- Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence 6/10/19

✔4) Musician - Read a book with a musician character or with the letters MUSIC in the title.- An Ideal Husband; A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde 7/12/19-256p.

✔5) Astronaut - Read a book with Science Fiction as a main page genre or tagged "space".- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19

✔6) Cowboy - Read a book with a "outdoorsy" main character or a book with a horse on the cover. Sarah operates a cattle ranch in These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner 3/3/19

✔7) Chef - Read a book where the main character has a job involving food (baker, caterer, food critic, etc.) or with food on the cover. In Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag 3/29/19, the MC is a Director of a Spice company--- although he does hardly any work there.

✔8) Race Car Driver - Read a book with a car on the cover or with a character you consider to be reckless (your interpretation). Lennie is reckless in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3/19/19---even though it is unintentional.

✔9) Plumber - Read a book with water on the cover - it's hazy...but the cover depicts a lake with reflections- Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
or with a main character who works with his or her hands.

✔10) Teacher - Read a book with a teacher character or a book set in school (high school or college).- Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry 5/9/19
- takes place in several boarding schools including the high school years.

✔11) Pilot - Read a book with something that flies on the cover or read a book with the word "pilot" in the text.-p.67-Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History-"They saw little brown clusters of weed go floating by, and the leisurely, straight-swimming pilot fish on the point of the prow." 5/19/19

✔12) Old Maid - Read a book with an elderly character or a book published before 1950.- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3/6/19- the story's MC is in his 90s and telling the story of his time in the circus.

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 9/7/19***** UNTIMELY

Challenge #199-WRC
FAVORITE ALBUM - THE BETTER LIFE-
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FAVORITE ALBUM - THE BETTER LIFE
DATE: 03/01/19 - 04/30/19

10/10

✔1. THE BETTER LIFE:
The Better Life is the debut album by American rock band, 3 Doors Down.
♫Read a debut novel, - How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
OR read a book with the word "better" or "life" found in the title (subtitles may be used as well).

✔2. RELEASE DATE:
The Better Life was released on February 8, 2000.
♫Read a book published in February (any year) - Toubab by Rob Coughlin 6/23/19

or a book published in 2000.

✔3. GENRE:
The Better Life is considered Post-grunge and Alternative Metal.
♫Read a book in which the first letter of each title word can be found in POSTGRUNGEALTERNATIVEMETAL. No word count limit, but all words count (a, an, the, etc)- Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19

✔4. LENGTH:
The album is 40 minutes, 43 seconds in length.
♫Read a book from your WTR found somewhere between position #40 and #43 (inclusive).-probably #43- Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner- 6/28/19

✔5. KRYPTONITE:
Kryptonite was the first single released from the album.
♫Read a book in which the author's first and last initial can be found in KRYPTONITE.- Nancy E. Turner- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 3/3/19

✔6. RECORDED:
The Better Life was recorded in New York City, New York.
♫Read a book set in New York.- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera 9/7/19

✔7. BEST SELLING ALBUM:
The Better Life is the band's best-selling album to date, with sales of over 5,653,000 copies in the US as of July 2014.
♫Read a best-selling book or a book with over 5,653 ratings here on Goodreads (this is the correct number - I'm not asking for a book with over 5 million ratings :) ).- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3/6/19 has over 1.2 million ratings

✔8. PRODUCER:
The album was produced by Paul Ebersold.
♫Read a book with a character named Paul, OR a book by an author with the first or last name of Paul. Paul Capodistria in Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 6/11/19

✔9. SINGLES:
The following singles released from The Better Life all reached the Billboard Hot 100 charts - Kryptonite, Loser, and Be Like That, at number 3, number 55 and number 24 respectively.
♫Read a book in which the page number can be found somewhere in the following numbers: 35524 (the placement of numbers does not matter, as long as all page numbers are there).- Heidi by Johanna Spyri 5/17/19- 352p.

✔10. BONUS:
Spell out something related to this album using the following: (1) 1st letter of the book title, (2) 1st letter of the author's first or last name. What you choose to spell out is your choice, but it must relate to the album in some way. If the connection is not obvious, please tell us how it relates.

Down from 3 Doors Down

D- Charles Dickens- The Old Curiosity Shop 4/14/19
O- book:The Private Dining-room and Other Verses|2646651] by Ogden Nash 4/9/19
W- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3/6/19
N- Nancy E. Turner- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 3/3/19

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy Turner 3/3/19
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3/6/19
The Private Dining-room and Other Verses by Ogden Nash 4/9/19

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 12/15/19*****

Challenge #200- WEC- Authors, A to Z
Date: 03/01/19 - 02/29/20

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Authors, A to Z
Date: 03/01/19 - 02/29/20

For the difficult letters - Q, X, Y and Z, you may use an author in which the letter appears somewhere in the name.

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Challenge Rules:
The page limit requirement is 125 pages unless otherwise specified; however, participants are welcome to combine smaller books to reach the page limit.
Authors, A to Z

25/26

Date: 03/01/19 - 02/28/20

A.- (5)-Wise Children by Angela Carter 5/11/19; Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 6/28/19; The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo by Germano Almeida 7/10/19; The Return of Mr. Campion: Uncollected Stories by Margery Allingham 7/19/19; Raiders of the Lost Bark by Sparkle Abbey 12/4/19
B.-(10) F.H. Batacan- Smaller and Smaller Circles 4/20/19; In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 6/17/19; The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton 6/21/19; Afghanistan's Blue Treasure: Lapis Lazuli by Lailee McNair Bakhtiar 6/22/19; A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 7/9/19; The Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton 7/15/19; Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton 9/23/19; I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel 10/18/19; The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard-11/26/19; Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton 12/11/19
C.(8)-Lewis Carroll -Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass 3/9/19; Agatha Christie- Murder at the Vicarage 6/4/19; Toubab by Rob Coughlin 6/23/19; Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé 6/29/19; The Fires by Alan Cheuse 7/18/19;The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter -8/11/19- 187p.; Tamburlaine the Great Part II by Christopher Marlowe 10/27/19; The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie 12/3/19
D. (7)-Charles Dickens- The Old Curiosity Shop 4/14/19; Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 6/11/19; The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 9/4/19-144p.; Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet 10/10/19; Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 10/2/19; A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell 10/13/19; James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 12/3/19
E.-(3)- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 6/24/19; Home Is Where You Live: A diary of teaching English abroad for the first time by Elliot Lord 7/25/19; Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 10/24/19
F.(4)-Richard Flanagan- Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish 3/26/19; Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry 5/9/19; My Car in Managua by Forrest D. Colburn 6/30/19; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming 7/15/19
G.-(5)-Sara Gruen- Water for Elephants 3/6/19; Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 5/27/19; Loser Takes All by Graham Greene 7/28/19; The Roots of Heaven by Romain Gary 9/6/19 ; Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood 12/4/19
H.-(5)- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren 6/26/19; The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells-192p.-8/13/19; Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 8/27/19; The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat 10/11/19
I.(3)-The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 5/3/19; Moonraker by Ian Fleming 6/6/19; Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo by Eric Hansen-11/4/19; The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera 12/13/19
J. (6)- João Ubaldo Ribeiro- Sergeant Getúlio 3/24/19; Gin & Daggers by Jessica Fletcher 9/29/19; Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford 10/7/19; 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford 10/25/19; Volpone by Ben Jonson 10/28/19; Atomic Number Sixty by Dave Johnston -11/5/19
K.-(2)- Rudyard Kipling- Kim 3/9/19; In Search of a Smile by Keegan Longueira 6/27/19
L.- (2)-Lily Tuck- The News from Paraguay 4/8/19; Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence 6/10/19
M.-(10)- Michael Blanding- The Map Thief 4/23/19; Loitering with Intentby Muriel Spark 5/22/19; Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 6/8/19; The Black Joke by Farley Mowat-218p.-8/13/19; Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin 9/8/19; Saturday by Ian McEwan 9/11/19 ; Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire 9/18/19; The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham 10/15/19; The Complete Tilling Tales: Mapp and Lucia Short Stories by Geoff Martin 10/21/19; Tartuffe by Molière 10/28/19
N.-(3)- Nancy E. Turner- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 3/3/19; Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris 10/18/19; Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 12/5/19
O.-(3)- Ogden Nash- The Private Dining-room and Other Verses 4/9/19; An Ideal Husband; A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde 7/12/19-256p.; There There by Tommy Orange 10/10/19
P.(7)- Arto Paasilinna- The Year of the Hare 3/22/19; In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust 6/14/19; Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley 9/14/19; The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese 9/25/19; Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 10/3/19; Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett 10/22/19; The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 12/3/19
Q.- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque-12/1/19
R.-(4)- Meg Rosoff- How I Live Now 3/1/19; In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan 6/9/19; Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth 7/7/19; The Emperor and the Elephants: A Peace Corps Volunteer's Story of Life During the Late 1970s in the Central African Empire by Richard W. Carroll 7/27/19
S.-(11)- Shame by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19; Heidi by Johanna Spyri 5/17/19; As You Like It by William Shakespeare 7/4/19; The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck 7/17/19; Stranded in the Seychelles by Bev Spicer 7/31/19; They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera 9/7/19; The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket 9/15/19; Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare 10/29/19;The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare 10/30/19; The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket 11/8/19; Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein-11/21/19
T.- (2)- Kim Thúy- Ru 3/15/19; Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy 12/8/19
U.- Add a Dash of Pity by Peter Ustinov 12/15/19
V.- (4)- Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 6/19/19; Two Old Fools on a Camel: From Spain to Bahrain and Back Again by Victoria Twead-8/4/19; A House at the Edge of Tears by Vénus Khoury-Ghata 9/19/19; Women Of Messina by Elio Vittorini 9/22/19
W.- (5)- Jeanette Winterson- Sexing the Cherry 4/4/19; Time and Tide: The Islands of Tuvalu by Tony Wheeler 6/1/19; Little House in the Big Woods by Little House in the Big Woods 7/16/19; The White Devil by John Webster 10/20/19; The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf 10/25/19
X.-Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
Y.-(3)- Yasmina Khadra- Morituri 6/2/19; The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa 7/21/19; Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura 10/9/19
Z.-(3)- J.M. Coetzee- Waiting for the Barbarians 4/2/19; The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert 7/3/19;Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog 9/19/19

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 5/14/19***** Timely

SPRING SEASONAL CHALLENGE, 2019
DATE: 03/01/19 - 05/31/19

Challenge #201

WRC- see https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

SPRING SEASONAL CHALLENGE, 2019
DATE: 03/01/19 - 05/31/19

125p minimum

(1) Title:
The first letter of each title word found in the item; no word count limit, but all words count.

(2) Author:
The author's first and last initials found in the item

(3) Cover:
The item is found on the cover. Book cover must be posted.

(4) Text:
The item or phrase can be found in the text of the book. Must provide page/location number, and sentence containing the word or phase. Word/phrase must be exact - no substitutions.

(5) Spell Out:
Spell out the item by using the first letter of a book title or the first letter of the author's first or last name. Please Note: If choosing this option to complete your challenge, you must spell out enough words to cover the 20 book minimum. For example: You could not simply spell out SLED, as it only represents four letters. You would need to spell out additional words to reach the 20 book minimum.

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Challenge Rules:
The page limit requirement is 125 pages unless otherwise specified; however, participants are welcome to combine smaller books to reach the page limit. All books are allowed (children's, manga, graphic novels, audio, ebook, etc). Re-reads are fine - just be sure to re-read the entire book.

Challenge Updates:
You are welcome to post updates while working your way through the challenge. When posting an update, please include the following information: a link to the book title, the author's name, and the date you finished reading the book.

Completed Challenges:
When you have completed this challenge, copy and paste your entire challenge in a new message, letting us know it is completed. A completed challenge must include: a link to the book title, the author's name, and the date you finished reading the book. If this information is missing, your challenge is incomplete. Notes on how to post book title and author links can be found here.
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20/20

LIST OF ITEMS:
✔1. April-text- p.228-Lab Girl-"...the rainy April weather gives way to a dazzling bloom of May sunshine...." 5/14/19
✔2. Baseball-text-p.284-The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection- "But the boy was crazy about baseball..." 4/15/19
✔3. Bees- Tilte- Shame by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19
✔4. Cinco de Mayo-author-Ogden Nash- The Private Dining-room and Other Verses 4/9/19
✔5. Easter-text-p.388- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower-"But just you wait and see what Easter brings!" 4/13/19
✔6. Flowers-cover-A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 5/6/19
✔7. Grass-cover- by Arto Paasilinna 3/1/19 OR text- 45-An Unobstructed View-"...there was a small wedge of grass near the corner of our driveway..." 3/2/19
✔8. Green-text-p.46-Waiting for the Barbarians-"...my memory as I cross the yard is of the pile of green marrows on the table..." 3/12/19
✔9. March-text- p.41- Sergeant Getúlio-"We set the man on a march..." 3/10/19
✔10. May-Text- p.683- The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. A: Middle Ages-"So faire and fresh, as freshest flowre in May..." 4/24/19
✔11. May Day-text- p.14- Under the Net-"...a nice healthy English girl, as simple and sweet as May Day at Kew." 5/2/19
✔12. Memorial Day- Meg Rosoff- How I Live Now 3/1/19
✔13. Planting- Author- Nancy E. Turner- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 3/3/19
✔14. Rain-Title- Ru by Kim Thúy 3/15/19
✔15. Showers- Title- Heidi by Johanna Spyri 5/17/19
✔16. Softball-Author- Lily Tuck- The News from Paraguay 4/8/19
✔17. Spring Break- Author- Sara Gruen- Water for Elephants 3/6/19
✔18. Spring Cleaning-Author- Lewis Carroll- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
✔19. St. Patrick's Day- Author- Rudyard Kipling- Kim 3/9/19
✔20. Sunshine-text-p.593-The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe-"Through sunshine and through moonshine, I - wrote." 3/2/19

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 6/30/20***** UNTIMELY
Challenge #202-WRC
3/1/19-6/1/19
see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The page limit requirement is 125 pages
10/10

List of Tags:
✔1. 2010- The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 3/22/19
✔2. on-kindle- Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
✔3. i-own-it- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner 3/3/19
✔4. ipad- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling 6/30/20
✔5. travel- The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/8/19
✔6. all- Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 6/11/19
✔7. british- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
✔8. available-Shame by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19
✔9. modern- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3/6/19
✔10. to-read-own- Kim by Rudyard Kipling 3/9/19

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 5/3/19*****Untimely

Challenge #203-
WRC see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


MAR 2019 FEATURED AUTHOR - SHAYLA BLACK
DATE: 03/01/19 - 03/31/19
4/4 + spellout

TASKS:
To complete the task section, read a book that fits each of the items listed below. Please Note: You must post the task option you are choosing to complete.

✔1. SHAYLA BLACK:
Shayla Black, aka Shelley Bradley, is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.
☀Read a book by an author who publishes under more than one name, - The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 5/3/19
OR
☀Read a book by an author whose first or last name is also a color.

✔2. GENRE:
Ms. Black writes in the following genres: romance, contemporary, suspense, erotic, paranormal and historical.- romance- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
☀Read a book with one of these tags shown on the book's main page.

✔3. FIRST NOVEL:
According to romancewiki.com, Shayla Black's first book was Wicked Lovers, which comes up as Wicked Ties, here on Goodreads.
☀Read a book published under two different titles, OR
☀Read a book with the letters TIES found in the book's title. - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
Placement of letters does not matter, as long as all four letters are there.

✔4. FURTHER INFO:
Ms. Black graduated with a degree in Marketing/Advertising. She currently resides in Texas. She has two tabbies.
☀Read a book set in Texas, OR
☀Read a book in which the main character is involved in marketing or advertising, OR
☀Read a book with a cat shown on the cover (post the cover).- by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19

5. BONUS:
Read a book written by Shayla Black.

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SPELL OUT:
Choose something related to this author to spell out by using the following: (1) first letter of the book's title, or (2) first letter of the author's first or last name. Below is a list to choose from, but you are welcome to use something of your own.

B- Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan 4/20/19
L- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
A- The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 3/22/19
C- Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
K- Kim by Rudyard Kipling 3/9/19

1. Shayla Black (first, last, or both)-SAYL BLACK
2. Shelley Bradley (first, last, or both)-SHLLY BRADL
3. Marketing-MARKTING
4. Advertising-ADVRTTSING
5. Texas-TXAS
6. Tabbies-TABBIS
7. Romance-ROMANC
8. Contemporary-CONTMORARY
9. Suspense-SSPNS
10. Erotic-ROTIC
11. Paranormal-PARANORML
12. Historical-HSTORICAL

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
These is My Words by Nancy Turner 3/3/19
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3/6/19
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 3/9/19
Ru by Kim Thuy 3/15/19
A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll 3/17/19
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 3/22/19
Sergeant Getulio by Joao Ribiera 3/24/19
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan 3/26/19
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag 3/29/19
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee 4/2/19
Sexing the Cherry by Jeannette Winterson 4/4/19
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/7/19
The Private Dining-room and Other Verses by Ogden Nash 4/9/19
Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
Charles Dickens- The Old Curiosity Shop 4/14/19
Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan 4/20/19
The Map Thief by Michael Blanding 4/23/19
Shame by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 5/3/19
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 5/6/19
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry 5/9/19
Wise Children by Angela Carter 5/11/19
An Unobstructed View: A Personal Journey from Illinois to Arizona by Mark Johnson 5/13/19

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 5/13/19***** Untimely

Challenge #204-
Booktivity see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

March 2019 Mini Challenge - Cover Me in Books!
Begins: 01March19 / Ends: 31March19


5 / 5 completed

✔ 1, St Patrick's Day - Green Cover- by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19

✔2. Mardi Gras - Necklace (beads) on cover
by Ogden Nash 4/9/19

✔3. Daylight Savings - Obviously sunny scene on cover- - An Unobstructed View: A Personal Journey from Illinois to Arizona by Mark Johnson 5/13/19

✔4. National Oreo Day - Black & White cover- Charles Dickens- The Old Curiosity Shop 4/14/19


✔5. Women's History Month - Woman on the cover- by Jeanette Winterson 4/4/19

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 5/3/19*****Untimely

Challenge #205-Wanderlust
see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...



Cairo Spell Out
March 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019

S-Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3/6/19
P- The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 3/22/19
H- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
I- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 5/3/19
N- The Private Dining-room and Other Verses by Ogden Nash 4/9/19
X- Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19


Words to Choose From
Egypt-GYPT
Cairo-CAIRO
Egyptian-GYPTAN
Museum-MSM
Salah El-Din -SALAH -L -DIN
Citadel-CITADL
Khan el-Khalili-KHAN-L- KALIL
Coptic -COPTIC
Zamalek-ZAMALK
Pyramids -PYRAMIDS
Giza-GIZA
Sphinx-SPHINX

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
These is My Words by Nancy Turner 3/3/19
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3/6/19
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 3/9/19
Ru by Kim Thuy 3/15/19
A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll 3/17/19
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3/19/19
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 3/22/19
Sergeant Getulio by Joao Ribiera 3/24/19
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan 3/26/19
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag 3/29/19
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee 4/2/19
Sexing the Cherry by Jeannette Winterson 4/4/19
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/7/19
The Private Dining-room and Other Verses by Ogden Nash 4/9/19
Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
Charles Dickens- The Old Curiosity Shop 4/14/19
Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan 4/20/19
The Map Thief by Michael Blanding 4/23/19
Shame by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 5/3/19

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 5/24/19*****Timely

45 words, 84 days; 27 sources; last word- "amphitheater"; .538 words per day; 1.67 words per source

Challenge #206-Wanderlust
see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


Egypt Word Search
March 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019

45/45

Words

✔Afterlife-loc. 562 of Kindle edition of Afghanistan's Blue Treasure: Lapis Lazuli -"...Nephthys and other effigies assisted in manual labor in the afterlife." 4/8/19
✔Alabaster-p.593-The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe-"...bowing my head close to the alabaster page." 3/2/19
✔Amphitheater-p.223-Balthazar-"...desert stretched away on either side with its grotesque amphitheaters..." 5/24/19
✔Ancient-p.45-Of Mice and Men-"He reached over and patted the ancient dog..." 3/1/19
✔Avenue64-Broadway Anecdotes-"All his natural contacts...would direct his steps to Fifth Avenue..." 3/2/19
✔Bedrock-p.52-Lab Girl-"...an anchor that can swell and split bedrock..." 5/5/19
✔Bucket List-p.92-They Both Die at the End-"Bucket lists are pointless." 5/10/19
✔Camel- Ch.12 of audiobook- Kim- "Kim ducked under a Mewar camel-driver's greasy armpit and cannoned off a covey of jabbering Sikh matrons." 3/1/19
✔Chandelier-p.6- The News from Paraguay-"...with its velvet drapes, heavy crystal chandelier..." 3/1/19
✔Colossal-p.109-The Map Thief-"...it shows a collosal new southern continent in the Western Hemisphere..." 3/20/19
✔Complex-loc. 45 of Kindle edition of Afghanistan's Blue Treasure: Lapis Lazuli-"...and near Hamadan coupled the complex societies of earliest cultures..." 3/23/19
✔Crocodile-Ch.12 of audiobook- Kim- "I might have known that he is like the crocodile ..." 3/1/19
✔Cruise-p.74=In a Sunburned Country-"...lay a finger on the wheel, and cruise." 3/25/19
✔Cult-p.326-In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower-"...by his invocation of ' the black Ker,' as Bloch's Hellenic cult was a purely literary thing." 3/2/19
✔Dam-p.4-Waiting for the Barbarians-"...coming back from the irrigation dam with washbaskets on their heads." 3/1/19
✔Desert-p.1-Waiting for the Barbarians-"You would find them useful out here in the desert." 3/1/19
✔East-p.46-Arabian Nights; Volume 1-"...no one in the entire world from the far east to the far west!" 3/2/19
✔Excavation-p.12- Murder at the Vicarage-"...while he superintended the excavation of a barrow..." 4/21/19
✔Falcon-p.47-Arabian Nights; Volume 1-"...just as King Sinbad repented the killing of his falcon." 3/2/19
✔Fertile-p.7-The Pastures of Heaven-"Good land, though it was, well watered and fertile..." 3/22/19
✔Goddess-loc.73 of Kindle edition of Afghanistan's Blue Treasure: Lapis Lazuli-"...divisive cults of many gods and goddesses of the sun and moon and stars..." 3/23/19
✔Hieroglyphics-loc.80-of the Kindle edition of Afghanistan's Blue Treasure: Lapis Lazuli-{...the lapis lazuli story carries with it the many languages of the Silk Route, from cuneiform to hieroglyphics..." 3/23/19
✔Inscription-p.123-A Suitable Boy-"...when she noticed that there was no inscription." 3/11/19
✔Island-p.61-Broadway Anecdotes-"...a cross between Coney Island barker and costermonger." 3/2/19
✔Kingdom-p.324-These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901-"...I have written a letter addressed to a Bureau of Missing Persons in the Kingdom of Norway." 3/2/19
✔Lodging-p.254- The Old Curiosity Shop-"...notice to quit the old lodgings---staggerers..." 3/20/19
✔Man Made-p.95-In a Sunburned Country-"...just a scattering of government buildings in a man made wilderness." 4/4/19
✔Massive-p.159- Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"But given the massive body count, soldiers began removing just the noses..." 3/10/19
✔Mortuary-p.84-Morituri-"My department resembles a mortuary."5/4/19
✔Mummy- p.9-Sexing the Cherry-"Besides, I pride myself on having seen more than most, including a mummy from Egypt."
✔Noble-p. 78- The Duchess of Padua-"That mercy is more noble than revenge?" 3/8/19
✔Pavilion-p.140-Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"Resting in a shabby pavilion at Karachi Zoo is a creature..." 3/67/19
✔Pillar-p.82- Sexing the Cherry-"...a statue of Samson...chained between two pillars..." 3/23/19
✔Plateau-Ch.3 of audiobook of Heidi Johanna Spyri 1899- "down the rocks until they were all assembled on the green plateau,..." 3/13/19
✔Pyramid-p.81- Waiting for the Barbarians-"...that one can reach the top only by climbing a pyramid of bodies." 3/19/19
✔River-p.40-Of Mice and Men-"One day a bunch of guys was standin' around the Sacramento River." 3/1/19
✔Sail-p.16-The News from Paraguay-Lily Tuck-"On a rainy day in November, Ella set sail with Franco for Buenos Ayres..." 3/3/19
✔Sanctuary-p.267-"Shame-"...yes, there might be sanctuary across the frontier..." 3/8/19
✔Site-p.89-Ru-"...I walked across the site too quickly..." 3/2/19
✔Stone-p.9-Waiting for the Barbarians-"...like a banshee beneath a stone..." 3/1/19
✔Swimming Pool-p.45-"An Unobstructed View: A Personal Journey from Illinois to Arizona-"...she simply couldn't get the hang of climbing over the lip of our neighbor's swimming pool..." 3/2/19
✔Tomb-p.9-Sexing the Cherry-"...but I saw the gilded tomb as it passed through London..." 3/6/19
✔Tour-p.89-Sexing the Cherry- "He strays from the guided tour and finds himself..." 3/24/19
✔Valley-Ch.12 of audiobook- Kim-"Up
the valleys, down the valleys go they, saying, "Here is a place to
build a breastwork;..." 3/3/19
✔West-p.8-Waiting for the Barbarians-"...tribes of the north and west might at last be uniting." 3/1/19

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 5/17/19***** Timely

Challenge #207-Wanderlust

see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...



Egypt: Treasures of the Nile
March 1, 2019 - May 31, 2019
15/15-
Choose a level and enjoy your trip!
Daytripper: Complete one task per day for a total of 9 tasks.
Explorer: Complete 15 of the 20 tasks. You must complete at least one task per day.

✔DAY ONE: Cairo

Read a book with a MC who is a mother or complete a task from the Cairo Capital Challenge. Tell us which task including the completed book details.- The unnamed narrator who is also the main character is a mother of two boys in Ru by Kim Thúy 3/15/19

DAY TWO: Giza Necropolis, Saqqara & More

✔Read a book with the word FOUR in the title or read a book by an author whose first or last name includes an X or Z.- Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
✔Read a book with a cover that is mostly RED or PINK (post cover).- by Jeanette Winterson 4/4/19

✔Read a book that takes place in a capital city (tell us where).- Asuncion, Paraguay- The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/8/19

DAY THREE: Luxor East Bank

✔Read a book that features a boat trip of any type or read a book where the MC is an expert in something (tell us what).- In A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll 3/17/19, Mad Mathesis is a math expert.

✔Read a book that takes place in Ancient times (before 1000 AD) or read a book that features a sacred or religious site as part of the plot (tell us what it was).- IN The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 4/14/19- Little Nell and her grandfather make a home out of a quasi-abandoned cemetery chapel.

DAY FOUR: Qena

✔Read a book tagged ROMANCE on its GR Homepage- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
or read a book from this GR list: Popular Cult Classics Books

✔Read a book with a night scene on the cover or read a book that mentions HOLLYWOOD in the text (share page and phrase) .Wise Children by Angela Carter 5/11/19- p.119- "You'll find me in his famous Hollywood stories."
✔DAY FIVE: Luxor West Bank
Read a series book #2 - Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
or read a book from this GR list: The Unknown, Hidden Gems of Historical Fiction

Read a book that has a king or queen as one of the characters or read a book with a plot that includes a hidden treasure (tell us what it was).

DAY SIX: Nile Temple Hopping

Read a book with a bird on the cover or read a book with a MC whose first name starts with a letter in EDFU.

✔Read a book with a reptile on the cover or read a book with a MC whose first name starts with a letter in SOBEK.- Kim in Kim by Rudyard Kipling 3/9/19

DAY SEVEN: Aswan

Read a book by an author with the initials AC or read a book where a hotel, B&B or other lodging establishment was important to the plot.

✔Read a book that has all the letters in NILE found in the title (any order).- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19

✔Read a book where a birth occurs (tell us who was born) - The MC writes a diary in which she discusses giving birth to her 5 children...as well as the births of her sister in law in These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner 3/3/19

or read a book that was re-published with a new title (include links to both book titles).

DAY EIGHT: Camel Ride

✔Read a book with an animal you can ride on the cover or read a book with a desert setting (tell us where).- A significant part of the action takes place in an unnamed desert in an unnamed country in Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee 4/2/19

✔Read a book published in the 1970's or read a book that has over 100,000 ratings on its GR Homepage.- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3/19/19- has over 1.7 million ratings

✔Read a book that takes place in a location that starts with a letter in ASWAN.- Australia- Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan 3/26/19

✔DAY NINE: Abu Simbel

Read a "bucket-list" book or a newly published book you have been waiting for.- Heidi by Johanna Spyri 5/17/19
- I know it may seem strange to have this as a bucket list book...but I am working my way through the 1000 Children's Book You Should Read Before You Grow Up List...and this was an obvious "must do" on the list for me.
Read a book where the first letter of every word in the title can be found in TREASURES OF THE NILE (three word minimum)

Reserved

*****COMPLETED****** 4/11/19- Untimely


Challenge #208-Wanderlust
see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


Egypt's Capital: Cairo
March 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019
6/6

Tasks

✔1. Egyptian Museum
This world class museum is the perfect place to start your visit to Cairo with its staggering collection of antiquities. Tracing 5,000 years of Egyptian history with over 100,000 artifacts, it would take a lifetime to see everything displayed here. Begin with the Tutankhamun exhibit which features his stunning golden funeral mask. Then head to the Royal Mummy room with the remains of 11 pharaohs and queens from the 7th to the 21st dynasties. But if you feel intimidated by its size sign up for a tour or secure your own personal guide to help you navigate the incredible exhibitions.

✱ Read a book that shows a mask on the cover OR
✱ Read a series book #7, #11 or #21 OR
✱ Read a book whose author’s first & last initial is found in EGYPTIAN MUSEUM.- Sara Gruen- Water for Elephants 3/6/19

✔2. Salah El-Din Citadel
This massive fortress located in Islamic Cairo was constructed in 1176 by Salah al-Din. Within its walls lie a treasure trove of worthwhile attractions with the Mohamed Ali Mosque or “Alabaster Mosque” being the most visited site by far. It is the grandest sacred building in the city and quite the iconic sight. There are other mosques and several museums to explore, but save time for the beautiful Gawhara Palace, built by the Ottoman army commander Mohamed Ali for his last wife. The terrace has a spectacular panoramic view of the city.

✱ Read a book with a building with spires on the cover OR
✱ Read a book with a character that is in the military Jack is in the US Army in These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner 3/3/19
OR
✱ Read a book whose author’s first & last initial is found in SALAH EL-DIN CITADEL.

✔3. Khan el-Khalili
Also located in Islamic Cairo, this bustling market is the best taste of Cairo's vibrant and chaotic personality. The main streets have given themselves over to the tourist trade but head off the main drag into the surrounding labyrinth of alleyways for some of the best places to find authentic Egyptian products from antiques to locally woven textiles. Don’t be afraid to use your bargaining skills to get the best possible price.

✱ Read a book with a vibrant or chaotic looking cover - by Vivek Shanbhag 3/29/19
OR
✱ Read a book where the characters visit an outdoor market OR
✱ Read a book whose author’s first & last initial is found in KHAN EL-KAHLILI.

✔4. Coptic Cairo
Lying within the walls of Old Babylon, this neighborhood is the oldest in the city. The famous 7th century Hanging Church, named for its suspended nave, has a beautiful interior filled with over 100 holy icons. Next door is the Coptic Museum with its wealth of information and incredible display of Coptic art. Many come to visit the Church of St. Sergius & Bacchus, known as the place where baby Jesus and family sheltered during King Herod's massacre of male babies. And the Ben Ezra Synagogue is said to be the site where the pharaoh's daughter found Moses floating in his basket. This is definitely a place rich in history and legend.

✱ Read a book that is based on legend or tagged RETELLING on its GR Home Page OR
✱ Read a book that has the word OLD or HISTORY in its title OR
✱ Read a book whose author’s first & last initial is found in COPTIC CAIRO.- Arto Paasilinna- The Year of the Hare 3/22/19

✔5. Zamalek
The Nile island of Gezira is home to the district of Zamalek and the majority of Cairo's art galleries, boutiques and hipster restaurants. The entire area has a distinctly European feel to its architecture with wide boulevards rimmed by jacaranda trees and splendidly ornate mansions. Towering above all the lush greenery is the 187-meter Cairo Tower, built in 1961 by President Nasser. A trip up the observation deck at sunset to see dusk settle over the city is a must.

✱ Read a book that shows a sunset on the cover OR
✱ Read a book that takes place on an island OR- island of Great Britain- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
✱ Read a book whose author’s first & last initial is found in ZAMALEK

✔6. Pyramids of Giza & the Great Sphinx
Cairo's most popular attraction, the Pyramids of Giza, draw thousands of visitors every year. As one of the original Seven Wonders of the World, these three pyramids have stood the test of time, remaining intact for roughly 4,500 years. Not far from them is the monument of the Great Sphinx. Part pharaoh and part lion, archeologists are not sure who the figure is modeled after or when it was built. The Giza plateau definitely has that wow factor and will be the highlight of your visit to Cairo.

✱ Read a book that is on this Most Popular Books Published in 2019 List OR
✱ Read a book with a MC who first names starts with a letter in SPHINX - The author is the MC of her own book - Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
OR
✱ Read a book whose author’s first & last initial is found in GREAT PYRAMIDS.

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 3/4/20***** last word= "suspend"-UNTIMELY

Challenge #209-The Challenge Factory
see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


Bonus Scavenger Hunt: March 1, 2019 - April 30

The List

40/40


✔Alert-p.7-Sergeant Getúlio-"But if I weren't alert I'd still be back there..." 3/1/19
✔Artichoke-p.143-The News from Paraguay-"...another plate was filled with what tasted like artichokes..." 3/21/19
✔Balance-p.30-A Tangled Tale-"...5 of hers will but balance 3 of Zuzu's! 3/12/19
✔Batteries-p.123-The News from Paraguay-"...Julius Gintl invented how to do this with two batteries..." 3/20/19
✔Bud-p.380-In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower-"...it would be impossible to come upon a bouquet of rrer vareties than these buds..." 3/19/19
✔Bully-p.99-The News from Paraguay- "...who retaliated by calling him un maton, a bully." 3/15/19
✔Climb-Ch.1 of audiobook- Heidi Johanna Spyri 1899-"Dete, who was preparing to continue her climb up the mountain side," 3/7/19
✔Crop-Loc. Kindle edition of The Holy Bible: English Standard Version-"...the manger is clear, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox." 3/2/19
✔Dye-loc.942 on Kindle of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass-"But I was thinking of a plan to dye one's whisker's green,..." 3/4/19
✔Fatigue-p.106-Smaller and Smaller Circles-"Saenz hears the fatigue in Director Valdes's voice." 3/5/19
✔Flood-p.57-Of Mice and Men-"There's a place for alfalfa and plenty of water to flood it." 3/3/19
✔Flour-Ch.11 of audiobook- Kim-"It was the usual collection of small oddments: bits of cloth, quack medicines, cheap fairings, a clothful of atta - greyish, rough- ground native flour ..." 3/1/19
✔Fly (the winged insect)-p.4-Sexing the Cherry-"...he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung." 3/6/19
✔Guitar- p.323-These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901-"...or sometimes, he brings his guitar along and sings some tunes..." 3/2/19
✔Hatch-p.22- Around the Edge-"...I explored the maze of tubes and hatches on the Donald's deck..." 3/27/19
✔Hidden-p.82-Ru-"They were the hidden side of the war." 3/2/19
✔Hop-p.2-Sergeant Getúlio-"...hunger makes him bold and he hops closer to you..." 3/1/19
✔Humiliate-p.58-Operation Shylock: A Confession-"...spit at him, defraud and insult and humiliate him..." 6/21/19
✔Invitation-p.328-In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower-"The outcome...was an invitation to dinner." 3/2/19
✔Lead (the metal - pronounced 'led')-p.7-Sergeant Getúlio-"...so we had to fill him up quickly with lead." 3/1/19
✔Lightning-p.367-These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901-"...and the promise of severasl more dry lightning storms..." 3/3/19
✔Loom-p.54- In a Sunburned Country-"...the glass and concrete towers that loom behind." 3/22/19
✔Lunge-p.73-The News from Paraguay-"...her foot on the floor so that the lunge was done in two parts." 3/11/19
✔Map-p.24-The Map Thief-"...the Smith book, which the catalog record clearly listed as containing his map of New England." 3/2/19
✔Million-Ch.12 of Kindle version of Kim-"...or I will curse you by the three million Great Ones."' 3/3/19
✔Pilot-p.25-The News from Paraguay-"...the pilot was not listening to him." 3/5/19
✔Puddle-p.2-Sergeant Getúlio-"In the rain, there was nothing, only puddles." 3/7/19
✔Purr-loc.1152 of Kindle edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass-"This he did only on rare, judiciously selected occasions..." 3/2/19
✔scrub-p.34-Morituri-"He scrubs the counter before me..." 3/13/19
✔Secret-p.326-These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901-"...Jack just sat back and grinned his secret smile..." 3/2/19
✔Shame-p.253- Shame-"...no dupatta of modesty and shame." 3/5/19
✔Sparkle-loc.26228 of Kindle edition of The Holy Bible: English Standard Version-"Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup..." 3/9/19
✔Spider-p.328-These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901-"She fits right in with the scorpions and centipedes and poison spiders and all." 3/2/19
✔Story-p.325-These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901-"Tonight Jack told us the oddest story." /2/19
✔Suspend-p.45- Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories-"...we'll have to suspend our Youth Exchanges indefinitely." 3/4/20
✔Trophy-p.159- Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders-"...samurai took the severed heads of their victims as war trophies." 3/10/19
✔Whiskey-p.121-A Suitable Boy-"She ursed her glass of whisky." 3/11/19
✔Wrapper-ch.1 of audiobook- Heidi Johanna Spyri 1899-"And where are your two frocks and the red wrapper? " 3/7/19
✔Yellow article of clothing or accessory (not gold)-p. 114- A Suitable Boy- "...looking at her head, covered with a yellow scarf..." 3/7/19

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 7/18/20***** UNTIMELY

Challenge #210

The Challenge Factory- see-https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

This is a 1 year challenge.
3/1/19-2/28/20
No page limit. Re-reads are okay.
You can read the book itself, or a book suggested by the title.

56/56

Levels
✔Hannah Gruen (the housekeeper): 1 - 9 books- 3/19/19
✔Bess Marvin (a delicate, feminine friend): 10 - 18 books- 4/11/19
✔George Fayne (described as a tomboy, friend): 19 - 27 books-6/2/19
Carson Drew (father and attorney): 28 - 35 books
Ned Nickerson (boyfriend, student at college): 36 - 44 books
Nancy Drew (sleuth extraordinaire): 45 - 56 books

✔1. The Secret of the Old Clock (1930) - read a time travel book- Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson 4/4/19
✔2. The Hidden Staircase (1930) - read a book that has been hidden on your TBR list- Shame by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19- found a copy of the book at a free little library...and then discovered it was on my TBR.
✔3. The Bungalow Mystery (1930) - read a book with a house on the cover- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 7/9/19-
✔4. The Mystery at Lilac Inn (1930) - read a book where the mc stays at an inn or hotel- the narrator stays at a beachside hotel in In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust 6/14/19
✔5. The Secret of Shadow Ranch (1931) - read a book with horses in the story One of the MCs is a horse seller in Kim by Rudyard Kipling 3/9/19
✔6. The Secret of Red Gate Farm (1931) - read a book where the mc has a garden-Miss Marple observes plenty while working in her garden in Agatha Christie- Murder at the Vicarage 6/4/19
✔7. The Clue in the Diary (1932) - read an epistolary book- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner 3/3/19
✔8. Nancy's Mysterious Letter (1932) - read a book with a first name in the title- Stina by Lena Anderson 3/9/19
✔9. The Sign of the Twisted Candles (1933) - read a book where the mc uses a candle- Not only do ALL the characters use candles...one of the characters makes candles in Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 6/24/19
✔10. Password to Larkspur Lane (1933) - read a book with flowers on the cover- by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19
✔11. The Clue of the Broken Locket (1934) - read a book where the mc receives jewelry- The MC, Ella Lynch, receives jewelry several times from her lover, Francisco Lopez in The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/8/19
✔12. The Message in the Hollow Oak (1935) - read a book with a tree on the cover...They aren't big...but one can see a few trees through the window on the cover of Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 6/19/19
✔13. The Mystery of the Ivory Charm (1936) - read a book with a lot of white on the cover- by Kim Thúy 3/15/19
✔14. The Whispering Statue (1937) - read a book that has been recommended to you- Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
✔15. The Haunted Bridge (1937) - read a book set near a river- A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 5/6/19- although the river is named named.
✔16. The Clue of the Tapping Heels (1939) - read a book where the mc dances- Nora and Dora are the main characters in Wise Children by Angela Carter 5/11/19 and they are song and dance entertainers.
✔17. Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk (1940) - read a book with some kind of metal in the title- Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History by John Steinbeck-2/5/20
✔18. The Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion (1941) - read a book with a very large building on the cover- Home Is Where You Live: A diary of teaching English abroad for the first time by Elliot Lord 7/25/19-
✔19. The Quest of the Missing Map (1942) - read a book where the mc uses a map- the MC steals and re-sells maps in The Map Thief by Michael Blanding 4/23/19
✔20. The Clue in the Jewel Box (1943) - read a book with jewelry on the cover- Afghanistan's Blue Treasure: Lapis Lazuli by Lailee McNair Bakhtiar 6/22/19
✔21. The Secret in the Old Attic (1944) - read a book with antiques in the story- ancient Indian artifacts in The Professor's House by Willa Cather 1/22/20
✔22. The Clue in the Crumbling Wall (1945) - read a book where the mc is a prisoner for a time- The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 3/22/19
✔23. The Mystery of the Tolling Bell (1946) - listen to an audio book- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 3/6/19
✔24. The Clue in the Old Album (1947) - read a book where the mc uses a camera- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren 6/26/19- in at least one instance the MC, a scientist, uses a camera to film the growth of seedlings.
✔25. The Ghost of Blackwood Hall (1948) - read a book with a ghost in the story- two of the stories in this collection feature ghosts- The Return of Mr. Campion: Uncollected Stories by Margery Allingham 7/19/19
✔26. The Clue of the Leaning Chimney (1949) - read a book where the mc builds a fire- In The Overstory by Richard Powers 1/9/20- some of the MCs start a fire that kills a woman.
✔27. The Secret of the Wooden Lady (1950) - read a book written by a female author- Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 6/8/19
✔28. The Clue of the Black Keys (1951) - read a book with a lot of black on the cover- Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence 6/10/19
29. The Mystery at the Ski Jump (1952) - read a book set during the wintertime
✔30. The Clue of the Velvet Mask (1953) - read a book with a robbery in it- manuscripts stolen in Loitering with Intentby Muriel Spark 5/22/19
✔31. The Ringmaster's Secret (1953) - read a book with an animal on the cover- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
✔32. The Scarlet Slipper Mystery (1954) - read a book with a lot of red on the cover- by F.H. Batacan 4/20/19
✔33. The Witch Tree Symbol (1955) - read a paranormal book- Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 8/8/19
✔34. The Hidden Window Mystery (1956) - read a book with a window on the cover- Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 5/27/19
✔35. The Haunted Showboat (1957) - read a book that has been made into a movie- Sergeant Getúlio by João Ubaldo Ribeiro 3/24/19
✔36. The Secret of the Golden Pavilion (1959) - read a best seller- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 8/27/19
✔37. The Clue in the Old Stagecoach (1960) - read a historical book- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham 10/15/19
✔38. The Mystery of the Fire Dragon (1961) - read a fantasy book- Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll 3/9/19
✔39. The Clue of the Dancing Puppet (1962) - read a book with a small child in the story- There are several young children, including the MC in The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 4/14/19
✔40. The Moonstone Castle Mystery (1963) - read a book with a moon on the cover- Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé 6/29/19-
✔41. The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes (1964) - read a book where the mc plays a musical instrument-All the MCs play an instrument in their band in The Commitments by Roddy Doyle 4/19/20
✔42. The Phantom of Pine Hill (1965) - read a book set in the mountains- Heidi by Johanna Spyri 5/17/19
✔43. The Mystery of the 99 Steps (1966) - read a book with a number in the title-Atomic Number Sixty by Dave Johnston -11/5/19
✔44. The Clue in the Crossword Cipher (1967) - read a book where a puzzle of some kind is solved - In A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll 3/17/19 several math puzzles are presented with the answers provided in the appendix.
✔45. The Spider Sapphire Mystery (1968) - read a book with a lot of blue on the cover- In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 6/17/19
✔46. The Invisible Intruder (1969) - read a book with less than 50 ratings- The Private Dining-room and Other Verses by Ogden Nash 4/9/19. 40 ratings as of 4/9/19
✔47. The Mysterious Mannequin (1970) - read a book by an relatively unknown author- Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag 3/29/19
✔48. The Crooked Banister (1971) - read a book with stairs on the cover- The Public Image by Muriel Spark-6/24/20
✔49. The Secret of Mirror Bay (1972) - read a book that is set near a body of water- Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 6/11/19-set in Alexandria, Egypt on the Mediterranean
✔50. The Double Jinx Mystery (1973) - read a book with twins in it- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming 7/15/19
✔51. Mystery of the Glowing Eye (1974) - read a book with glowing reviews- Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee 4/2/19- has won many awards and is on Boxall's list of 1001Books to Read Before You Die.
✔52. The Secret of the Forgotten City (1975) - re-read a book that you read a long time ago- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 3/19/19- which can also qualify for #26- at one point, the MCs George and Lennie build a campfire in
✔53. The Sky Phantom (1976) - read a book where the mc flies on an airplane- the book begins with the author flying to Malawi- In Search of a Smile by Keegan Longueira 6/27/19
✔54. The Strange Message in the Parchment (1977) - read a hardback or paperback book (no ebooks)- read the paperback edition of Yasmina Khadra- Morituri 6/2/19
✔55. Mystery of Crocodile Island (1978) - read a book set on an island- Tasmania- Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan 3/26/19
✔56. The Thirteenth Pearl (1979) - read a book published in 2013-Angel On My Shoulder by John Pope 7/18/20

Reserved

*****COMPLETED***** 3/29/19 TIMELY

Challenge #211-ACATT

see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

MEMBER TASK CHALLENGE #19: GEE
DATE: 03/01/19 - 03/31/19

4/4 + Bonus

✔1. BOOKS - 390:
Read a from your WTR found somewhere between #1 and #390.- WTR#127/1877 - Ru by Kim Thúy 3/15/19
✔2. GENRE:
Read a book tagged Crime, Suspense, Mystery, Fantasy, Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction, or Self-Help. Tag must be shown on the book's home page. Historical Fiction- These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner 3/3/19

✔3. RATINGS:
Read a book with at least 177 ratings here on Goodreads.- over 35,000 ratings- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff 3/1/19

✔4. DATE:
Read a book published between February 2012 and January 2019.- Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag 3/29/19- pub. in 2013

✔5. BONUS:
Read a book in which all of the letters GEE can be found in the book's title. The order in which they appear does not matter, as long as all three letters are present.- A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll 3/17/19

Reserved

Challenge #212-Around the Year

3/1-3/10/19

Read-a-Thon #1 - Individual BINGO
see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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B1: Read 100 pages total 🌸
B2: A book published in the 21st century
B3: A book by a new to you author
B4: Read for 1 hour straight 🌸
B5: A book with a warm atmosphere

I1: A short story
I2: A book for the ATY read-a-thon 🌸
I3: Discuss a book in the A-Z folders
I4: A classic
I5: Read for 2 hours straight 🌸

N1: A book with the letters S-P-R-I-N-G in the title
N2: Read 250 pages total 🌸
N3: A book by a female author
N4: Listen to 2 hours of audiobook 🌸
N5: Add a read-a-thon book to TBR

G1: Listen to 5 hours of audiobook 🌸
G2: Complete a read-a-thon game
G3: A book from your favourite genre
G4: A book by an author under 30
G5: Read a story in one sitting

O1: A book with a pink, purple or green cover
O2: A nonfiction book
O3: Read 500 pages total 🌸
O4: A book set in the city
05: A thriller or mystery

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Challenge #213- Around the Year in 52 Movies
see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

1. A movie that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy
2. A movie with one of the 5 Ws in the title
3. A movie where the director's name contains A, T, and Y
4. A movie with a criminal character
5. A movie inspired by Shakespeare
6. A movie with a dual timeline
7. Two related movies
8. Two related movies
9. A movie from a top money making genre (draa, adventure, action, or drama for movies)
10. A movie featuring an historical figure
11. A movie related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese animals
12. A movie about filing, movies, or an actor or director
13. NYPL staff picks list
14. A movie related to an astronomical term
15. A book set in a Mediterranean country of with a director from a Mediterranean country
16. Multiple perspectives
17. Speculative fiction
18. A movie related to an element on the periodic table
19. A movie with a director or actor who has more than one movie on your watchlist (could be on netflix, amazon prime video, imdb etc.)
20. A movie featuring indigenous people of a country
21. A prompt that was polarizing or a close call
22. A movie with a number in the title
23. "something old"
24. "something new"
25. "something borrowed"
26. "something blue"
27. 1001 books to read before you die
28. A movie related to something cold
29. A movie released before 1950
30. A movie featuring an elderly character
31. Children's classic you've never watched
32. A movie that is 3 hours or longer
33. A movie you've owned for a year and have not watched or based on a book you've owned for over a year and have not read
34. A movie with a person's name in the title
35. Psychological thriller
36. NPR best book of the year
37. A movie set in a school or university
38. A movie with a non traditional format
39. A movie with a strong sense of place
40. A movie you stumbled upon
41. GR choice awards (any year as the ones from 2018 might not be made into movies yet)
42. A movie with a monster or monstrous character
43. A movie related to STEM
44. A movie related to a book you enjoyed
45. A multi-generational saga
46. (mostly) black cover
47. A movie related to food
48. National Book Award
49. Far east Asian director or setting
50. A movie that includes a journey
51. Released in 2019
52. A movie with a weird or intriguing title

Reserved

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Challenge #214- Magazine Virtual Visits (VV)- Make continual progress:
Beginning June 2017; Updated 8/17/25

69 Countries 3 other entities* 40 US States 2 Former countries

100-USA
1-Albania
4-Australia
2-Austria
2-Bahamas
1-Bermuda
1-Bhutan
1-Bosnia
1-Botswana
3-Brazil
1-British Virgin Islands
6-Canada
1-Chile
3-China
1-Colombia
1-Congo (Dem. Rep.)
2-Croatia
1-Curacao
11-Egypt
1-Fiji
9-France
3-French Polynesia*
1-French Southern & Antarctic Lands*
3-Germany
2-Greece
1-Haiti
1-Honduras
2-Iceland
4-India
2-Indonesia
3-Iraq
1-Ireland
3-Israel
7-Italy
3-Jamaica
4-Japan
1-Kenya
1-Kiribati
1-Kuwait
2-Latvia
1-Mali
1-Malta
1-Mauritania
7-Mexico
4-Morocco
2-Mozambique
1-Nauru
1-Netherlands
4-New Zealand
1-Norway
1-Oman
1-Palau
1-Panama
4-Peru
1-Portugal
2-Puerto Rico*
2-Russia
2-Saudi Arabia
1-Solomon Islands
1-Somalia
2-South Korea
3-Spain
2-St. Kitts & Nevis
1-St. Vincent & the Grenadines
1-Switzerland
2-Syria
2-Thailand
3-Turkey
17-UK
1-Uruguay
1-Uzbekistan
5-Vietnam
2-Yemen



STATES:

4-AK
1-AL
3-AZ
19-CA
4-DC
5-FL
2-GA
4-HI
1-IA
1-ID
5-IL
1-KS
2-KY
2-LA
3-MA
3-MD
1-ME
3-MI
3-MN
1-MS
1-MT
3-NC
1-ND
2-NE
1-NJ
2-NM
1-NV
6-NY
1-OH
1-OK
2-OR
3-PA
1-SC
1-SD
4-TN
5-TX
3-UT
6-VA
2-VT
2-WA

Countries that no longer exist:

1-Kingdom of Phrygia
1-Timurid Empire

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 6/21/19****** Timely

Challenge #215-
WRC-HISTORICAL LANDMARKS OF INDIA
2ND QUARTER, 2019
DATE: 04/01/19 - 06/30/19
see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

HISTORICAL LANDMARKS OF INDIA
2ND QUARTER, 2019
DATE: 04/01/19 - 06/30/19

8/8 plus Spellout
Challenge Rules:
The page limit requirement is 125 pages


✔*1. TAJ MAHAL:
Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983, this beautiful structure is an ivory white mausoleum that sits on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1932. It sits on a 42-acre complex and is enclosed on three sides by crenellated walls. Taj Mahal means "Crown of Palaces".
❂Read a book published between 1983 and 2019, * also qualifies for #3- Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson 4/4/19 pub. 1989
OR
❂Read a book with a palace shown on the cover, OR
❂Read a book whose title begins with "T".

✔2. QUTUB MINAR:
The Qutub Minar is one of the tallest ancient towers in the Indian history, at 240 feet tall. It is ta tapering tower with a base in diameter of 47 feet, with a peak that is 9 feet in diameter at the top. It contains a spiral staircase of 379 steps.
❂Read book from your TBR that is between position #9 and position #47 (position information required), -#27 on my TBR - Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee 4/2/19
OR
❂Read a book with steps (more than one) shown on the cover (book cover required), OR
❂Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with "Q".

✔3. AMER FORT:
This captivating fort made of red sandstone and marble sits atop a hill called Cheel kaTeela, and is safeguarded by the Maota Lake. A hidden tunnel in the fort leads to a path bridging to the Jaigarh Fort.
❂Read a book with a red cover (cover required), OR
❂Read a book with a body of water shown on the cover (cover required), - Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
OR
❂Read a book with a hill top shown on the cover (cover required).

✔4. AJANTA & ELLORA CAVES:
The beautiful rock-cut caves of Ajanta and Ellora were discovered in 1819. The Ellora caves contain beautiful artwork dating from the 600-1000 CE period. The Ajanta caves date from the 2nd century to about 480 CE. The enthralling caves of Ajanta and Ellora contain ancient rock-cut Indian art including beautiful sculptures and murals.
❂Read a book with a sculpture shown on the cover (cover required), OR
Read a book tagged as historical on the book's main page, - The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/7/19
OR
Read a book whose title begins with "E".

✔5. GATEWAY OF INDIA:
The Gateway of India is an iconic landmark overlooking the Mumbai Harbor. It was built by the British beginning in 1911, and being completed in 1924.
❂Read a book with a bright or colorful cover (cover required), - by Ogden Nash 4/9/19
OR
❂Read a book published between 1911 and 1924, OR
❂Read a book whose title begins with "I".

✔6. VICTORIA MEMORIAL:
Located in the heart of Kolkata, this elegant white marble structure was named after Queen Victoria. It was built between 1906 and 1921. Surrounded by lush green gardens, which together covers 64 acres of land.
❂Read a book in which the total page count contains the number 1, 9, 6, 2 or 0 (page number information required), OR
❂Read a book with a white cover (cover required), - by Charles Dickens 4/14/19
OR
❂Read a book with a character who is considered part of royalty (character information required - this can be a king, queen, president, etc.)

✔7. LAKE PALACE:
The Lake Palace is located on the island of Jag Niwas. Considered the most romantic hotel in the world, it consists of 83 rooms and suites featuring white marble walls.
❂Read a book tagged romance on the book's main page, - The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde 5/18/19
OR
❂Read a series book #8 or series book #3 (series information required), OR
❂Read a book with a boat shown on the cover (cover required).

✔8. CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI TERMINUS:
This historic railway station located in Mumbai has become a World Heritage Site, and is now known simply as CST. Built in 1887 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, it is one of busiest railway stations in India, serving as a terminal for both long-distance trains and commuter trains.
❂Read a book with a train or part of a train shown on the cover (cover required), OR
❂Read a book with the word "Gold" found in the title, OR
❂Read a book whose title begins with "C".- The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 5/27/19

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SPELL OUT:
Choose something related to India to spell out by using the following: (1) first letter of the book's title, or (2) first letter of the author's first or last name. I've provided a list of options below, but feel free to use something of your own.

Q-The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton 6/21/19
U- An Unobstructed View: A Personal Journey from Illinois to Arizona by Mark Johnson 5/13/19
T- The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/7/19
U- Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 6/8/19
B- book:Smaller and Smaller Circles|1431558] by F.H. Batacan 4/20/19

M- Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry 5/9/19
I- In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan 6/9/19
N- The Private Dining-room and Other Verses by Ogden Nash 4/9/19
A- A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 5/6/19
R- Shame by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19


1. Taj Mahal-TAJ MAHL
2. Qutub Minar-QUTUB MINAR
3. Amer Fort-AM FORT
4. Ajanta Caves-AJNTA CVS
5. Ellora Caves- LLORA CAVS
6. Gateway of India-GATWAY OF INDI
7. Victoria Memorial-VICTORIA MMORIAL
8. Lake Palace- LAK PALC
9. Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus-CATRPATI SHIVJI MINUS


Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee 4/2/19
Sexing the Cherry by Jeannette Winterson 4/4/19
The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/7/19
The Private Dining-room and Other Verses by Ogden Nash 4/9/19
Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
Charles Dickens- The Old Curiosity Shop 4/14/19
Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan 4/20/19
Shame by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 5/3/19
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 5/6/19
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry 5/9/19
Wise Children by Angela Carter 5/11/19
An Unobstructed View: A Personal Journey from Illinois to Arizona by Mark Johnson 5/13/19
Heidi by Johanna Spyri 5/17/19
The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde 5/18/19
Loitering with Intentby Muriel Spark 5/22/19
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 5/27/19
Time and Tide: The Islands of Tuvalu by Tony Wheeler 6/1/19
Yasmina Khadra- Morituri 6/2/19
Agatha Christie- Murder at the Vicarage 6/4/19
Moonraker by Ian Fleming 6/6/19
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 6/8/19
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan 6/9/19
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence 6/10/19
Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 6/11/19
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust 6/14/19
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 6/17/19
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 6/19/19
The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton 6/21/19

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*****COMPLETED 9/15/19***** TIMELY


Challenge #216
WRC-Characters of M*A*S*H
Begins: 01Apr19 / Ends: OPEN

see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Characters of M*A*S*H
Begins: 01Apr19 / Ends: OPEN

The page limit requirement is 125 pages
44/44 completed


1. TITLE/CHARACTER:
Read a book in which the first letter of each title word can be found in the character's name. No word count limit, but ALL words count.

2. AUTHOR/ACTOR:
Read a book in which the author's first and last initials can be found in the actor's name.

3. LOCATION/ROLE:
Read a book set in a location that begins with a letter found in the character's role. Example: Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce is the Chief Surgeon, so you would need to read a book set in a location in which the first letter of that location can be found in CHIEFSURGEON. Location information must be provided in your post.

4. PAGES/APPEARANCES:
Read a book in which the total page count contains at least one number found in the total number of appearances (found in parenthesis for each character). Page count information must be provided in your post, and it must match the book you link for this task.

CHARACTERS:
1. Benjamin Frankin "Hawkeye" Pierce|Actor: Alan Alda|Role: Chief Surgeon|Appearances: 251
✔Title/Character- Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 6/11/19
✔Author/Actor- The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket 9/15/19
✔Location/Role- China- Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
✔Pages/Appearances- Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee 4/2/19- 152 pages


✔2. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan Penopscott|Actor: Loretta Swift|Role: Head Nurse|Appearances: 243
✔Title/Character- Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson 4/4/19
✔Author/Actor-Shame by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19
✔Location/Role-United Kingdom- Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry 5/9/19
✔Pages/Appearances- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 5/3/19 -293p.

3. Maxwell Q. Klinger|Actor: Jamie Farr|Role: Corpsman|Appearances: 219
✔Title/Character- A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 5/6/19
✔Author/Actor- An Unobstructed View: A Personal Journey from Illinois to Arizona by Mark Johnson 5/13/19
✔Location/Role- Switzerland- Heidi by Johanna Spyri 5/17/19
✔Pages/Appearances- 712 pages- Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 5/27/19

4. Father John Patrick Francis Mulcahy|Actor: William Christopher|Role: Chaplain|Appearances: 218
✔Title/Character- The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/7/19
✔Author/Actor- Wise Children by Angela Carter 5/11/19
✔Location/Role-Padua, Italy- The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde 5/18/19
✔Pages/Appearances- Afghanistan's Blue Treasure: Lapis Lazuli by Lailee McNair Bakhtiar 6/22/19- 127p.

5. Trapper John McIntyre|Actor: Wayne Rogers|Role: Surgeon |Appearances: 72
✔Title/Character- The Map Thief by Michael Blanding 4/23/19
✔Author/Actor- Ogden Nash- The Private Dining-room and Other Verses 4/9/19
✔Location/Role-England- The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton 6/21/19
✔Pages/Appearances- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 6/24/19- 257p.

6. Henry Blake|Actor: McLean Stevenson|Role: Commanding Officer|Appearances: 70
✔Title/Character- Loitering with Intentby Muriel Spark 5/22/19
✔Author/Actor- Agatha Christie- Murder at the Vicarage 6/4/19
✔Location/Role-Algiers- Yasmina Khadra- Morituri 6/2/19
✔Pages/Appearances- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren 6/26/19 - 290p.

7. Frank Burns|Actor: Larry Linville|Role: Executive Officer|Appearances: 118
✔Title/Character- Saturday by Ian McEwan 9/11/19
✔Author/Actor-Home Is Where You Live: A diary of teaching English abroad for the first time by Elliot Lord 7/25/19
✔Location/Role-Tennessee- Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence 6/10/19
✔Pages/Appearances- My Car in Managua by Forrest D. Colburn 6/30/19- 148p.

8. Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly|Actor: Gary Burghoff|Role: Company Clerk|Appearances: 156
✔Title/Character-Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 6/8/19
✔Author/Actor- F.H. Batacan- Smaller and Smaller Circles 4/20/19
✔Location/Role-California - In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan 6/9/19
✔Pages/Appearances- In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson 6/17/19- 335p

9. B.J. Hunnicutt|Actor: Mike Farrell|Role: Surgeon|Appearances: 187
✔Title/Character- Toubab by Rob Coughlin 6/23/19
✔Author/Actor-Moonraker by Ian Fleming 6/6/19
✔Location/Role-Switzerland- Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 6/28/19
✔Pages/Appearances- Xala by Ousmane Sembène 7/1/19-112p.

10. Sherman T. Potter|Actor: Harry Morgan|Role: Commanding Officer|Appearances: 188
✔Title/Character- Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth 7/7/19
✔Author/Actor- The Return of Mr. Campion: Uncollected Stories by Margery Allingham 7/19/19
✔Location/Role-France- In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust 6/14/19
✔Pages/Appearances- Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé 6/29/19-208p.

11. Charles Emerson Winchester III|Actor: David Ogden Stiers|Role: Surgeon|Appearances: 137
✔Title/Character- Charles Dickens- The Old Curiosity Shop 4/14/19
✔Author/Actor- Time and Tide: The Islands of Tuvalu by Tony Wheeler 6/1/19
✔Location/Role- England- Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 6/19/19
✔Pages/AppearancesThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert 7/3/19-336p.