All Challenges All The Time discussion

My own word search lists:

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Challenge #23-PENDING-
CCC 3rd Quarter Misfit Challenge (Word Search) 10/1/18-1/31/19-150p.

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

-COMPLETED- CCC Treasure Hunt Misfit Challenge (Word search)-completed 1/7/19; 341 days; 100 words; last word= warbler; .293 words per day; 25 sources; 4 words per source.
2/1/18 to 5/31/18
See post #11 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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*****Challenge Abandoned after Site wiped out all saved Data*****
Challenge #24-All Challenges All the Time
How Many Names Can You Find Challenge
1/29/18 to 12/31/18
See post #10 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Reserved

Challenge #25-All Challenges All the Time

Challenge 472- Song Title #5 - Completed 1/6/20- need to compile stats- last word bop
see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Challenge 471- Song Title #4- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Challenge 470 - Song Title #3- see https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...- LAST WORD=" RAPPER'S"

Finished 1/1/20-Untimely- last word= "rapper's"


Challenge #469- Song Title Word Search #2
*****COMPLETED***** UNTIMELY
-ACATT Song Title Word Search #2 (6/1/18-3/20/24)-2120 days; Last Words="La Bamba"; 154 words; 27 sources; .073 wpd; 5.703wps
See post post#11 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...



Song Title Word Search Challenge
1/29/18 to 1/28/19
See post #9 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Reserved.

Challenge #26 AND Challenges 473- 493
Grab a Book & Play Booktivity Monthly Word Search:


Challenge 493-Jan. 2020- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
completed- TIMELY- LAST WORD="TSAR"

Challenge #492- Dec. 2019- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
20 words; 14 sources; last word ="winter wonderland"; 308 days; .065wpd; 1.429 wps

Challenge #491- Nov. 2019- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
COMPLETED 2/8/20- Last word=powwow

Challenge #490- October 2019- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Completed 1/10/2020- last word="limbo"

Challenge #489- September 2019\see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Completed Timely- 20 words- 27 days. 9 sources. Last word= iris (the flower); 0.74 words per day; 2.22 words per source.

Challenge #488- August 2019- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Challenge #487- July 2019- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Challenge #486- June 2019- see - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
6/1/19-6/23/20; last word-"Wi-Fi".

Challenge #485- May 2019- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

COMPLETED-UNTIMELY 10/17/19- 169 Days. Last word= Umbilical.
20 words. 15 sources. .118 words per day. 1.333 words per source.

Challenge #484- April 2019 see-
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Challenge #483- March 2019- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

completed 6/5/19; 97 days; last word="voracious"; 17 sources; 20 words.; 1.17 words per source; .206 words per day.

Challenge #482- February 2019- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

completed- untimely 7/18/19. 168 days. 20 words; last word- "white elephant"; 13 sources; 1.54 words per source; .11 words per day


Challenge #481- January 2019- see- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

134 days; 20 words; 12 sources; last word=hairspray; .149 words per day; 1.67 words per source

Challenge #480- December 2018- see https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Challenge #479- November 2018- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

completed 7/18/19-Untimely
261 days. Last word= sommelier. 20 words. 13 sources. 1.54 words per source. .077 words per day.

Challenge #478- October 2018- UNTIMELY- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
(10/1/18-2/17/21) 853 days; (last words="Bic pen"); 20 words; 12 sources; .023wpd; 1.667 wps

Challenge #477- September 2018- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

129 days; 20 words; last word="google"; 13 sources; .155 words per day; 1.538 words per source

Challenge #476- August 2018- https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
(8/1/18-10/15/21)- 1172 days; 20 words; 14 sources; .017wpd; 1.429wps.; last word="grass skirts"

Challenge #475- July 2018 see post#10 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

20 words; 193 days; 14 sources; last word="Purple Heart"
.104 words per day; 1.428 words per source

Challenge #474- June 2018 See post #24 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

20 words; 219 days; last word= "decanted"; 13 sources; 10.95 days per word; 1.538 words per source; .091 words per day

Challenge #473- May 2018 See #24 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
started 5/28/18- Completed untimely 8/17/19
20 words. 446 days. Last word= "foxhole". 14 sources. 22.3 days per word. 1.429 words per source. 0.0448 words per day.

Challenge #26-April 2018: See post #20 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

20 words; 440 days; last word= "klutz"; 10 sources; 22 days per word; 2 words per source; .045 words per day.

Reserved.

Challenge #27WRC's US States Challenge - See post #201 and 202 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Reserved

*****COMPLETED 7/15/19*****Timely

Challenge #28-Stress Free Reading Challenges I Heart Cat's Challenge - See post #119 at
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


I Heart Cats
Start: 10/19/2017
Completed 53/53 on 7/15/19

✔1. Read a popular book (has more than 100,000 Goodreads ratings).- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

✔2. Read a book of short stories.- You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs

✔3. Read a book whose title starts with a letter in CLOWDER.- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone by Tennessee Williams

✔4. Read a book that shows a person's ear on the cover.-The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories by Muriel Spark

✔5. Read a book that was so boring it almost put you to sleep (or actually did!).- The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk

✔6. Read a book with a title that ENDS with a letter in STUBBS.- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

✔7. Read a book that shows the back of something or someone on the cover. The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

✔8. Read a book with something on the cover that looks like it might taste good.- The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton 6/21/19-
✔9. Read a book that has a double letter in the title (ex: sweet, buddy, kitty)- Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera

✔10. Read a book that has some sort of medical theme to it.- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West (Shell shock...what we now call PTSD).

✔11. Read a large book (over 450 pages).- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

✔12. Read a book that has a main page genre of historical fiction.- The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

✔13. Read a book that cost you money to read (no free ebooks or library books)- Lucia on Holiday by Guy Fraser-Sampson

✔14. Read a book that starts with a letter in MILK.- Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther

✔ To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

✔15. Read a book that has a body of water on the cover. Salvation Army by Abdellah Taïa

✔16. Read a spy book.- Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

✔17. Read a book that has opposite words in the title (ex: left/right, night/day, life/death)-North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

✔18. Read a book that has a onomatopoeia (ex: boom, pop, sizzle, snap)- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming 7/15/19

✔19. Read a zombie book OR a book with a dog or cat on the cover.- The Pursuit of the House-Boat: Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, Under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. by John Kendrick Bangs- although not the typical "zombie" book, all the characters are dead yet living.

✔20. Read a book where a murder occurs.- Beloved by Toni Morrison

✔21. Read a book with a main page genre of Religion or Christian Fiction OR a book with demons.- The Green Man by Kingsley Amis 12/20/18

✔22. Read a book with the main page genre of History (not historical fiction) OR that has a mostly white cover.- The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

✔23. Read a book with a main page genre of Mythology OR that has a lion or other large cat on the cover.- Achilles by Elizabeth Cook

✔24. Read a book that has a 6 in the page number count.- Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes by Jim Holt

✔25. Read a book that a Goodreads friend thought was crappy (rated 1 or 2 stars).- The Crucible by Arthur Miller rated 2 stars by Tommie.

✔26. Read a book that has a baby in the story OR that has some sort of food on the cover.-A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan- many children and a few babies in the various stories

✔27. Read a book that is small (less than 200 pages).- Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry (113pages)

✔28. Read a book that shows a person's foot or feet on the cover.- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

✔29. Read a book that was written by a French author, takes place in France OR takes place in space. - Candide by Voltaire

✔30. Read a book with some kind of bone on the cover OR that shows a prominent arm on the cover.- by Andrew Robinson

✔31. Listen to an audiobook OR read a book that has something on the cover that would be loud in real life.- Remainder by Tom McCarthy

✔32. Read a book that has a cover picture that continues onto the back cover OR read a book that has a straight line on the cover.- A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh

✔33. Read a book where a character has cancer or other terminal illness OR a book that shows only a person's torso on the cover.- The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding

✔34. Read a book with a prominent nose OR a prominent hand(s) on the cover.- Emma by Jane Austen

✔35. Read a book that has a main page genre of Fairy Tale or Retelling OR a book that shows a tail on the cover.- pigeon's tail on cover- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

✔36. Read a book with some sort of punctuation mark in the title OR that has something you could lick on the cover. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

✔37. Read a book with a death in it.- Remainder by Tom McCarthy

✔38. Read a book that takes place outside of the US OR that has a mostly black cover. - Aya by Marguerite Abouet set entirely in Cote D'Ivoire

✔39. Read a book that shows someone wearing a coat OR that shows any kind of water on the cover.- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

✔40. Read a book that is one of the 50 oldest books on your TBR list.- The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr Norris/Goodbye to Berlin

✔41. Read a book with a main page genre of romance.-Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

✔42. Read a book that has a nighttime scene on the cover- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle-

✔43. Read a book that has the number 19 intact in the page count OR that was originally published on the 19th of any month.- Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell- 119 pages.

✔ 44. Read a book that makes you cry.- Brainswitch Out of Depression: Break the Cycle of Despair by A.B. Curtiss

✔45. Read a book that has a scene or premise that makes you sick.- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

✔46. Read a book that has any kind of beverage on the cover OR that takes place in any Asian country.- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

✔47. Read a book that shows only one eye on the cover.- The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry: Algerian Stories by Assia Djebar

✔48. Read a book that has a title with at least two words that start with the same letter.-My Mother and I by Elizabeth Gertrude Stern

✔49. Read a book that takes place in Russia OR that has been made into a movie.- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

✔50. Read a book that ENDS with a letter in DUSTY.- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

✔51. Read a book that you feel was all too similar to another book OR a book that has two C's in the title.- Pudd'nhead Wilson- very similar to Twain's Prince and the Pauper.

✔52. Read a book that was published in 2009.- If I Stay by Gayle Forman

✔53. Read a book that has the number 28 intact in the page number OR that was published on the 28th of any month.- Childhood by Patrick Chamoiseau

Reserved.

*****COMPLETED 6/17/20*****TIMELY

Challenge #29-Stress Free Reading Challenges- The Awesomeness of Dogs Challenge - See post #108 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


The Awesomeness of Dogs
Joined 10-19-17

9/9 Sections Completed
46/46 books read

Dogs Dogs Dogs

✔1. Read a book from a friend’s TBR list- Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges on Luis C.'s TBR
✔2. Read a book by an author with 3 names (Ralph Waldo Ellison), middle initials do not count Or read a Romance book- The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
✔3. Read a book where a main character dies Or read a murder mystery book- Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
✔4. Read a book where the author’s first name is Max, Molly, Sam, Zach or Maggie. Different forms of these names (Margaret) are accepted.- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
✔5. Read a book that has a sun/star on it’s cover Or read a book set in Italy.- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone by Tennessee Williams
✔6. Read a book where science is involved or Read a book with a snack on the cover- A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg


Mutts Kick Butt

✔7. Read book by a Russian Author Or Read a book with a form of transport on the cover- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
✔8. Read a book with a politician in it Or read a book that title ends in a letter found in “Mayor”-Salvation Army by Abdellah Taïa
✔9. Read a book where the main character travels Or read a book that takes place in a large city- Aya by Marguerite Abouet - takes place in Abidjan...capitol of Cote I'Voire.
✔10. Read a book published between 1923 and 1927 or a book with 2 words in the title- Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
✔11. Read a play- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Hound

✔12. Go to your TBR section and sort by author name, then read number 45, if you don’t have that many books read the last one on the list - A House at the Edge of Tears by Vénus Khoury-Ghata 9/19/19
✔13. Sort a friend’s TBR list by Author and read #7 or #10 on the list Or read a book that was published in July or October-The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie-6/17/20 which is #7 0n Jennifer Lynn's TBR
✔14. Read a book that a friend rated 2 stars on goodreads- The Crucible by Arthur Miller rated 2 stars by Tommie.
✔15. Read a “Classic” book Or read a book where the character hunts for something- Amok and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
✔16. Read a book where 36 is intact in the page numberOr read a book whose author name ENDS in a letter found in “sweetlips”- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Toy

✔17. Read a book with something yummy on the cover- The Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton 6/21/19-
✔18.Read a book with a piece of clothing on the cover that has a sleeve Or read a book where the character physically defends themselves- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
✔19. Read a book that has a double letter in the title (Papillon, meet, book)- You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs
✔20. Read a book that takes place in Germany Or read a book with a monkey or ape on the front cover- Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
✔21. Read a book with a boat on the cover Or read a “toy” book that is under 100 pages- e and Have Not|4630] To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

Terrier

✔22. Read a book with a gold cover Or read a book where a character pretends to be the opposite sex- Butterfly Burning by
✔23. Read a book with more than 350 pages Or read a “rare” book with under 1,000 ratings on Goodreads- Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther...just 997 as of 11/4/2017 when I posted this.
✔24. Read a book published in the 1990s- Childhood by Patrick Chamoiseau
✔25. Read a book with a game on the cover Or Read a book with an author name that ends with a letter in “Monopoly”- baccarat table on the cover of Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
✔26. Read a book where a white painted home is on the cover Or read a book where the character finds themselves in an embarrassing situation- Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Herding

✔27. Sort your TBR list by publication date (newest on top) and read #22 Or read a book with under 22 chapters- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West- 7 chapters.
✔28. Read a book where the main character is a genius Or read a book with over 100,000 ratings on goodreads- The Pursuit of the House-Boat: Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, Under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. by John Kendrick Bangs-Although there are many characters, Sherlock Holmes is arguably the main one...and he is a genius.
✔29. Read a book with “Life” in the title Or read a book where the is a character who is a musician- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
✔30. Read a book that has won a literary prize- Remainder by Tom McCarthy
✔31. Read a book with a queen or king in it Or read a book with a character in their 30s- Lucia on Holiday by Guy Fraser-Sampson- King of Bulgaria is a character posing as a valet.

Working

✔32. Read a book where a war takes place Or read a book with armor or a weapon on the front- The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian- takes place during WWI with one of the main characters being a combatant.
✔33. Read a book published in the 1800’s Or read book #40 on your friend’s TBR list- The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
✔34. Read a book with a witch or wizard Or read a book with the letters from “FANG” found in the title- Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar
✔35. Read a book set in a cold climate Or read a book that has blue or silver cover- Blue Octavo Notebooks by Franz Kafka
✔36. Read a book by a British or South African Author Or read a book with a nautical theme on the cover- Howards End by E.M. Forster

Sporting

✔37. Read a book where the main character has a dog Or read a book written from a dog’s point of view- Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
✔38. Read a book published on October 20th Or read a book with an ear on the cover - The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry: Algerian Stories by Assia Djebar
✔39. Read a book that has a scene close to a pond or lake- The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra (several stories center around Lake Mercury).
✔40. Read a book set in the Carolinas Or read a book with money or a bank on the cover- Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver 1/9/19
✔41. Read a book found in the Best Books of 2009 list- If I Stay by Gayle Forman #34 on the list

Non-Sporting

✔42. Read a book that was published in June- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
✔43. Read a book with a black cover- Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes by Jim Holt
✔44. Read a book that is 6th in the series or Or read a book with 6 words in the title- Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell
✔45. Read a book by a French Author or Read a book with a character who has a French accent or speaks French- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie- Hercule Poirot speaks French.
✔46. Read a book in the top 10 in one of the lists of NY Times Best Sellers - http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-b... The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Reserved.

Challenge #30-Read the World's Challenge to read books set in each country: See post #6 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Reserved.

Challenge #31-Wacky's POI Challenge #2: Debbie (Doc)'s Journey-See post #89 & 90 starting at
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Beginning 1/19/18
47/136

Reserved

Challenge #32-All in the Cards Challenge See posts 1087-1093 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

page=22
starting...January 20, 2018:
45/136

Reserved.

Abandoned after completing 5 sets instead of continuing to the goal of 8 sets.

Challenge # 33-Author Alphabet Fun Challenge See post #120 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
... Starting 1/21/18 at 1 of 24.

I finished 5 sets. That's enough for me.

I'll start now and my random letter was a "Z". I'll aim for the Level 3: 24 books (8 sets) NEW TO ME AUTHORS!

Level 1: 12 books (4 sets)
Level 2: 18 books (6 sets)
Level 3: 24 books (8 sets)

Set 1:

✔Z- So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance by Gabriel Zaid from my TBR list. Completed 1/30/18
✔A-then probably An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine-completed 2/22/18
✔Y-then possibly Crossing by Jan Yoors-completed 3/1/18

SET 2 Letter drawn=N
N-Naylor, Gloria- The Women of Brewster Place completed 6/2/18
M- Michelle Modesto-Revenge and the Wild
O- Chris Offutt- Out of the Woods-1/11/19

Set 3. Letter drawn=A
A- The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo by Germano Almeida 7/10/19
B-Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie 8/8/19
Z -The Parachute Drop by Norbert Zongo 4/29/20

Set 4. Letter Drawn=T
T-San Marino, the history in miniature: The very small history by Pierluigi Taddei-9/2/20
U- Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah - 6/7/21-
S- New Caledonia: Essays in Nationalism and Dependency by Michael Spencer-11/1/20

Set 5

K- Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum-1/6/22
J--Strange Fruit & Other Plays by Harold Jaffe-6/1/22-
L- A Cut Above by Judi Lynn-4/1/23

Reserved.

*****COMPLETED 12/8/19*****TIMELY

Challenge # 34-Page Number Fun! Challenge See post #562 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ... starting 1/21/18 at 0 of 70.

I'm in...I rolled a 7.
1/21/18-12/8/19
70/70
Levels must be completed in order, and one level at a time.

Level One: Page #1
Level Two: Page #2
Level Three: Page #3
Level Four: Page #4
Level Five: Page #5
Level Six: Page #6
Level Seven: Page #7
Level Eight: Page #8
Level Nine: Page #9
Level Ten: Page #0

Level 1

1. Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters by John Waters 144p 1/27/18
2. Candide by Voltaire 129p. 1/2/18
3. So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance by Gabriel Zaid 144p. 1/30/18
4. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel 112p.
5. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway 144p.
6. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 1392p.
7. Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces by Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces 512 pages

Level Two: Page #2
1. Atala / René by François-René de Chateaubriand 128 pages
2. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 521 p.
3. An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine 291p.
4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard-126p.
5.Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille-126p.
6. 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz-992p.
7. Brainswitch Out of Depression: Break the Cycle of Despair by A.B. Curtiss-320p.

Level Three: Page #3
1. A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh-136 pages
2. The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster 134 pages
3. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 143 pages.
4. Collected Stories by Ivan Bunin 398p.
5. The Changeling by Thomas Middleton 130p.
6. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff 322 p.
7. The Malcontent 136p.

Level 4: Page #4
1. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
2. What Is Man? 246p.
3. The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar 148p.
4. The Beaux Strategem, a Comedy; Adapted for Theatrical Representation by George Bernard Farquhar 432p.
5. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding 224p.
6. The Way of the World by William Congreve
7. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw- 134p.

Level 5: Page #5

1. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne-252p.
2. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier-352p.
3. Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker 165p.
4. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 542p.
5. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 159p.
6. Rain of Gold by Victor Villaseñor
7. The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang 355 p.

Level 6 Page 6
1. Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant
2. Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris 216p.
3. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories by Alice Munro 246p.
4. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 10/5/18- 160p.
5. The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston 11/4/18 326p.
6. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson 176p. 12/23/18
7. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 264p. 1/7/19

Level 7 Page 7
1. Calypso by David Sedaris 272p. 1/10/19
2. Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt 1/11/19 176p.
3. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 1/19/19 796p.
4. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain 2/13/19- 287p.
5. The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana 147p. 2/15/19
6. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson 4/4/19
7. The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 4/14/19 576p.

Level 8 Page 8
1.The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde 5/18/19-108p.
2. Agatha Christie- Murder at the Vicarage 6/4/19-288p.
3.Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 6/11/19- 280p.
4.Toubab by Rob Coughlin 6/23/19- 128p.
5.Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 6/28/19-184p.
6.Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé 6/29/19-208p.
7. My Car in Managua by Forrest D. Colburn 6/30/19-148p.

Level 9 Page 9
1.The Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton 7/15/19-198p.
2. Little House in the Big Woods by Little House in the Big Woods 7/16/19-198p.
3.The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells-192p.-8/13/19
4.Saturday by Ian McEwan 9/11/19 -289p.
5.Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley 9/14/19-198p.
6.The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese 9/25/19-192.p.
7.A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell 10/13/19-192 p.

Level 10 Page 0
1.-The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham 10/15/19-160 p.
2.The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella 10/24/19-100p.
3.Tartuffe by Molière 10/28/19-180p
4. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein-160p..
5.Raiders of the Lost Bark by Sparkle Abbey 12/4/19-206p.
6.Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 12/5/19-130p.
7.Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy 12/8/19-130p.

Reserved.

*****COMPLETED 12/22/24*****
See rest of postings at posts 141-145 starting at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


Challenge # 35-POI Spell Challenge #1 See posts #149 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...



I'm starting 1/22/18: 125 page minimum


Using the guidelines below, spell out each location (or your choice of locations):
1. First letter of the Book's title
2. First letter of the Author's first or last name
3. First letter of the Series title
4. First letter of a Main Character's first or last name

You may ignore articles such as "a", "an", "the" - or use them - your choice. For the difficult letters "Q", "X", "Y" and "Z", the letter need only be found in the book title, author's first/last name, series title or main character's first or last name.

READ: 516/516

1. Alaskan Glaciers

A-Athalie by Jean Racine (2/14/18)
L-Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
A-Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
S- So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance by Gabriel Zaid 1/30/18
K- Katherine Mansfield-In a German Pension: 13 Stories
A-Atala / René by François-René de Chateaubriand
N-Naylor, Gloria-The Women of Brewster Place

G- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
L- David Levithan- How They Met, and Other Stories
A- Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman
C-Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters by John Waters 1/27/18
I- The Illustrated History of Art: Art Through the Ages, Including: Medieval and Early Renaissance Art, the Sixteenth Century, the Baroque Era, Eastern Art by David Piper
E- Eugene O'Neill- Mourning Becomes Electra
R-Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
S-The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories by Ernest Hemingway

2. Antarctica

A- Edward Albee- Three Tall Women
N- No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late by Ayun Halliday
T-Thomas Middleton- The Changeling
A- Another Morocco: Selected Stories by Abdellah Taïa
R-The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton
C- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
T-Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
I-Christopher Isherwood- Goodbye to Berlin
C- Collected Stories by Ivan Bunin
A- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

3. Biltmore EstateGeorges Bataille

B- Blue of Noon by
I- Ian Fleming-From Russia With Love
L-The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
T- Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
M- The Malcontent by John Marston
O-1,000 Places to See Before You Die (One Thousand) by Patricia Schultz
R- Restless City and Christmas Gold, with Other Stories by Cyprian Ekwensi
E-Eliza Doolittle- main character in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

E- Embers by Sándor Márai
S-Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces by Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces
T- The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
A- Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
T-Take Me Out: A Play by Richard Greenberg
E-Emma by Jane Austen

4. Cabo San Lucas

C- William Congreve- The Way of the World
A- Kathy Acker- Blood and Guts in High School
B- Brainswitch Out of Depression: Break the Cycle of Despair by A.B. Curtiss
O-O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

S- The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
A- Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice
N- Nadine Gordimer- July's People

L- Leonardo Sciascia- The Day of the Owl
U-An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
C-Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
A-Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid's Tale
S-Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse

5. Carnegie Museum of Natural History

C-Carsick by John Waters
A- Louisa May Alcott- Little Women
R- Rain and Other South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham
N- Nick Charles- Main character in The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
E- Elizabeth Strout- My Name Is Lucy Barton 9/2/18
G- George Bernard Farquhar- The Beaux' Strategem
I- If I Stay by Gayle Forman
E- Evelyn Waugh- Decline and Fall

M- Mark Twain- What Is Man?
U- John Updike- Gertrude and Claudius 12/31/18
S-Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
E- Jennifer Egan-A Visit from the Goon Squad
U- An Unobstructed View: A Personal Journey from Illinois to Arizona by Mark Johnson 5/13/19
M-My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul

O- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
F- Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

N- Nina Sankovitch- Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading 12/11/18
A- Alice Munro- Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories
T-Katherine Cecil Thurston-The Masquerader
U-Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 6/8/19
R- The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar
A- Jane Austen- Sense and Sensibility
L-London Lovett-Marigolds and Murder

H- Henry Fielding- Joseph Andrews
I- In Morocco by Edith Wharton 1/27/19
S-Sarah Schulman- Rat Bohemia
T- Christina Thompson- Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story
O- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 10/26/18
R-Rudyard Kipling-Just So Stories
Y-Alicia Yánez Cossío - Beyond the Islands (Note- "Yanez") is the beginning of author's surname.)


6. Casino Pier

C-J.L. Carr- A Month in the Country
A- Andrew Robinson- The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius 10/16/18
S- Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris
I- Moonraker by Ian Fleming 6/6/19
N- Nina George- The Little Paris Bookshop 12/15/18
O- George Orwell- Coming Up for Air

P-A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh
I- Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence 6/10/19
E- Edward Abbey- The Monkey Wrench Gang 12/8/18
R-Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea

Reserved.

Challenge #36-Completist Club goals:
See Dickens at post 71 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔The Pickwick Papers (April 1836-November 1837)
✔The Adventures of Oliver Twist (February 1837 to April 1839)
✔The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (April 1838 to October 1839)
✔The Old Curiosity Shop (April 25, 1840 to February 6, 1841) 4/14/19
✔Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty' (February 13, 1841, to November 27, 1841) -8/1/20
✔The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (January 1843 to July 1844)
Dombey and Son (October 1846 to April 1848)
David Copperfield (May 1849 to November 1850)
Bleak House (March 1852 to September 1853)
Hard Times: For These Times (April 1, 1854, to August 12, 1854)
Little Dorrit (December 1855 to June 1857)
A Tale of Two Cities (April 30, 1859, to November 26, 1859)
Great Expectations (December 1, 1860 to August 3, 1861)
Our Mutual Friend (May 1864 to November 1865)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (April 1870 to September 1870).

Christmas Books:

✔A Christmas Carol (1843)
✔ The Chimes (1844) -11/16/23
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848)
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books (OUP 2008)

Other Works in Penguin:

✔Sketches by Boz
American Notes for General Circulation
Selected Journalism, 1850-1870
Pictures from Italy
Selected Short Fiction

Collaborative Works/ Other Miscellany from Hesperus Press:

A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire
Another Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire
The Holly-Tree Inn
A House to Let
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Mrs Lirriper
Mugby Junction
On London
On Theatre
On Travel
The Seven Poor Travellers
Somebody's Luggage
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
No Thoroughfare

and Alexandre Dumas at post 6 athttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

and Anthony Trollope at post 15 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Single novels

The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847)
The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848)
La Vendée: An Historical Romance (1850)
The Three Clerks (1858)
The Bertrams (1859)
Castle Richmond (1860)
Orley Farm (1862)
The Struggles of Brown, Jones & Robinson (1862)
Rachel Ray (1863)
Miss Mackenzie (1865)
The Belton Estate (1866)
The Claverings (1867)
Nina Balatka (1867)
Linda Tressel (1868)
He Knew He Was Right (1869)
The Vicar of Bullhampton (1870)
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite (1871)
Ralph the Heir (1871)
The Golden Lion of Granpère (1872)
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874)
Lady Anna (1874)
The Way We Live Now (1875)
The American Senator (1877)
Is He Popenjoy? (1878)
John Caldigate (1879)
An Eye for an Eye (1879)
Cousin Henry (1879)
Ayala's Angel (1881)
Doctor Wortle's School (1881)
The Fixed Period (1882)
Kept in the Dark (1882)
Marion Fay (1882)
Mr. Scarborough's Family (1883)
The Landleaguers (1883)
An Old Man's Love (1884)


Chronicles of Barsetshire

✔The Warden (1855)
✔Barchester Towers (1857)
✔Doctor Thorne (1858)
✔Framley Parsonage (1861)
✔The Small House at Allington (1864)
✔The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)


Palliser novels

✔ Can You Forgive Her? (1865)-12/21/24
Phineas Finn (1869)
The Eustace Diamonds (1873)
Phineas Redux (1874)
The Prime Minister (1876)
The Duke's Children (1880)


Short stories

Tales of All Countries--1st Series (1861)
Tales of All Countries--2nd Series (1863)
"Gentle Euphemia" (1866)
"Katchen's Caprices" (1866)
Lotta Schmidt & Other Stories (1867)
An Editor's Tales (1870)
"Christmas at Kirkby Cottage" (1870)
"Never, Never -- Never, Never" (1875)
"Catherine Carmichael" (1878)
Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and other Stories (1882)
The Two Heroines of Plumpington (1882)
"Not If I Know It"


Non-fiction

The West Indies and the Spanish Main (1859)
North America (1862)
Hunting Sketches (1865)
Travelling Sketches (1866)
Clergymen of the Church of England (1866)
On English Prose Fiction as a Rational Amusement (1869)
The Commentaries of Caesar (1870)
Australia and New Zealand (1873)
New South Wales & Queensland (1874)
South Africa (1878)
How the 'Mastiffs' Went to Iceland (1878)
Iceland (1878)
Thackeray (1879)
Life of Cicero (1880)
Lord Palmerston (1882)
An Autobiography (1883)
London Tradesmen (1927)
The New Zealander (1972)


Plays

Did He Steal It? (1869)
The Noble Jilt (1923)

And John Steinbeck...see post #4 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✔Cup of Gold (1929)
✔The Pastures of Heaven (1932)
✔The Red Pony (1933)-5/13/20
✔To a God Unknown (1933)-7/12/20
✔Tortilla Flat (1935)
✔In Dubious Battle (1936)
✔Of Mice and Men (1937)
✔ The Long Valley (1938)
✔ The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
✔ The Forgotten Village (1941)
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research (1941)
The Moon Is Down (1942)
Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team (1942)
✔Cannery Row (1945)
✔ The Wayward Bus (1947)-12/24/23
✔ The Pearl (1947)
A Russian Journal (1948)
✔ Burning Bright (1950)-8/30/24
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
East of Eden (1952)
Sweet Thursday (1954)
The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957)
Once There Was A War (1958)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
✔Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962)
America and Americans (1966)
Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969)
Viva Zapata! (1975)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989)
Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War (2012), Thomas E. Barden (Editor)



AGATHA CHRISTIE
The Poirot Novels:
Agatha Christie wrote over 30 books about Poirot and he has become her best-known character. Join the famous detective through a range of thrilling murder mysteries.

✔1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
✔2. The Murder on the Links-7/26/20
✔ 3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd-10/22/23
✔ 4. The Big Four
5. The Mystery of the Blue Train
6. Peril at End House
7. Lord Edgware Dies
✔8. Murder on the Orient Express
9. Death in the Clouds
10. Murder in Mesopotamia
11. The ABC Murders
12. Cards on the Table
13. Dumb Witness
14. Death on the Nile
15. Appointment with Death
16. Hercule Poirot's Christmas
17. Sad Cypress
18. Evil Under The Sun
19. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
20. The Hollow
21. Taken At The Flood
22. Mrs McGinty's Dead
23. After the Funeral
24. Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly
25. Hickory Dickory Dock
26. Dead Man's Folly
27. Cat Among the Pigeons
28. The Clocks
29. Third Girl
30. Hallowe'en Party
31. Elephants Can Remember
32. Curtain
33. Black Coffee


The Poirot Short Story Collections:
For some shorter adventures with the world-famous detective, check out one of Agatha Christie's Poirot short story collections.

✔1. Poirot Investigates
2. Murder in the Mews
3. The Labours of Hercules
4. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Poirot and Miss Marple short stories)
5. Poirot's Early Cases

Also note-Poirot Novels Written by Sophie Hannah:
These brilliant books were written by Sophie Hannah using Agatha Christie's classic character to bring the world some fresh Poirot mysteries.

1. The Monogram Murders
2. Closed Caske


The Miss Marple Novels:
Miss Marple is a very different kind of detective to the world-famous Poriot but she is just as entertaining and, with 12 books dedicated to her, her stories are sure to absorb you.

✔1. The Murder at the Vicarage
✔2. The Body in the Library 3/4/20
✔3. The Moving Finger-5/18/20
✔4. A Murder Is Announced
✔5. They Do it with Mirrors
✔6. A Pocket Full of Rye- 11/28/22
7. 4.50 From Paddington
8. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
9. A Caribbean Mystery
10. At Bertram's Hotel
11. Nemesis
12. Sleeping Murder

The Miss Marple Short Story Collections:
To read more Miss Marple mysteries, check out Agatha Christie's short story collections about this brilliant amateur detective.

✔1. The Thirteen Problems
2. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
3. Miss Marple's Final Cases

The Tommy and Tuppence Novels:
This crime-solving couple are the stars of four of Agatha Christie's novels and they prove solving mysteries doesn't have to be a lonely business.

1. The Secret Adversary
2. N or M
3. By the Pricking of My Thumbs
4. Postern of Fate

The Tommy and Tuppence Short Story Collection:
For more bitesize Tommy and Tuppence adventures check out the short story collection.

Partners in Crime

Novels Written as Part of the Detection Club:
The Detection Club was a writing group of British detective fiction authors who would advise each other about their own works and write novels collaboratively together. Agatha Christie was president of The Detection Club from 1957 to 1976. Discover great books by the best detective fiction authors of the 20th century in these collaborative classics.

1. The Floating Admiral
2. Ask A Policeman
3. Six Against The Yard

Novels as Mary Westmacott:
Agatha Christie wrote under her pseudonym, Mary Westmacott, when she wanted to explore her writing outside of the crime genre. Experience a very different type of story with her Mary Westmacott novels.

1. Giant's Bread
2. Unfinished Portrait
3. Absent in the Spring
4. The Rose and the Yew Tree
5. A Daughter's A Daughter
6. The Burden

Other Novels:
Not all Agatha Christie's mysteries featured Poirot and Miss Marple, dive into her huge range of crime novels to find some more obscure reads.

1. The Man in the Brown Suit
2. The Secret of Chimneys
3. The Seven Dials Mystery
4. The Sittaford Mystery
5. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
6. Three Act Tragedy
7. Murder is Easy
✔8. And Then There Were None
9. Five Little Pigs
10. Towards Zero
11. Death Comes At The End
12. Sparkling Cyanide
13. Crooked House
✔14. They Came to Baghdad
15. Destination Unknown
16. Ordeal By Innocence
17. The Pale Horse
18. Endless Night
19. Passenger to Frankfurt
20. The Unexpected Guest
21. Spider's Web


Other Short Story Collections:
If you're seeking some quick mysteries, get absorbed in one of Agatha Christie's brilliant short story collections.

1. The Mysterious Mr Quin
2. The Listerdale Mystery
3. Parker Pyne Investigates
4. The Harlequin Tea Set

Reserved.

*****COMPLETED 7/12/19*****Timely

Challenge # 37-Hidden Gems Challenge...see post#54 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'll join in...and aim for the sapphire level....and then maybe beyond afterwards.

Hidden Gems
Start Date: 1/26/18
Level: Sapphire (5 books in each)
Completed Categories: 1/5
Books Read: 50/50

Categories
Books With Less Than 100 Ratings
1. The Illustrated History of Art: Art Through the Ages, Including: Medieval and Early Renaissance Art, the Sixteenth Century, the Baroque Era, Eastern Art by David Piper- 54 ratings as of 2/7/18
2. Brainswitch Out of Depression: Break the Cycle of Despair by A.B. Curtiss- 27 ratings as of 2/26/18. My rating= 3 stars
3. The Go-Away Bird and Other Stories by Muriel Spark- 66 ratings as of 3/23/18. My rating=4 stars.
4. Restless City and Christmas Gold, with Other Stories by Cyprian Ekwensi 1 ratings as of 3/26/18. My rating=4 stars.
5. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Stephen Sondheim 1472 ratings as of 4/6/18 My rating=5 stars
6. Another Morocco: Selected Stories by Abdellah Taïa 17 ratings as of 4/28/18. My rating=4 stars.
7. Beyond the Islands by Alicia Yánez Cossío 9 ratings as of 6/3/18. My rating = 4stars
8. Crossing by Jan Yoors 23 ratings as of 6/20/18. My rating=3 stars
9. The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston- 29 ratings as of 6/28/18. My rating=2 stars.
10. The Curriculum Vitae of Aurora Ortiz by Almudena Solana 30 ratings as of 2/16/19. My rating= 3 stars.
11. Skinswaps by Andrej Blatnik 2/25/19 29 ratings as of 2/25/19. My rating= 2 stars.
12. The Private Dining-room and Other Verses by Ogden Nash 4/9/19. 40 ratings as of 4/9/19. My rating= 3 stars.
13. Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 5/27/19
14. Time and Tide: The Islands of Tuvalu by Tony Wheeler 6/1/19. 7 ratings as of 6/1/19. My rating=3 stars.
15. Afghanistan's Blue Treasure: Lapis Lazuli by Lailee McNair Bakhtiar 6/22/19- 1 rating as of 6/22/19. My rating= 1 star
16. Toubab by Rob Coughlin 6/23/19 - 2 ratings as of 7/2/19. My rating= 3 stars.
17. In Search of a Smile by Keegan Longueira 6/27/19 3 ratings as of 6/27/19. My rating= 2 stars.
18. My Car in Managua by Forrest D. Colburn 6/30/19. 55 ratings as of 6/30/19. My rating- 4 stars.


Books with Less than 500 ratings:
1. An Unobstructed View: A Personal Journey from Illinois to Arizona by John Marston 194 ratings as of 4/8/18; My rating=3 stars
2. Marigolds and Murder by London Lovett 336 ratings as of 8/6/18. My rating=3 stars
3. The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius by Andrew Robinson 173 ratings as of 10/22/18 My rating=2 stars
4. Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt 1/11/19; 453 ratings as of 1/11/19. My rating=4 stars.
5. A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll 3/17/19. 174 ratings as of 3/17/19. My rating=1 star.
6. Sergeant Getúlio by João Ubaldo Ribeiro 3/24/19 204 ratings as of 3/25/19. My rating= 2 stars.
7. An Unobstructed View: A Personal Journey from Illinois to Arizona by Mark Johnson 5/13/19
8. Yasmina Khadra- Morituri 6/2/19- 189 ratings. My rating = 3 stars.
9. The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo by Germano Almeida 7/10/19
311 ratings as of 7/10/19. My rating= 4 stars.
10. An Ideal Husband; A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde 7/12/19-
171 ratings as of 7/12/19. My rating=3 stars.

Books With Less Than 1,000 Ratings
1. So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance by Gabriel Zaid 709 ratings. My rating=3 stars completed 1/30/18
2. Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces by Wendy Beckett 544 ratings as of 2/8/18
3. Atala / René by François-René de Chateaubriand 729 ratings as of 2/15/18 completed 2/15/18 My rating 2 stars
4. A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh 511 ratings as of 12/27/18. My rating=4 stars.
5. Collected Stories by Ivan Bunin- 4 stars
6. What Is Man? by Mark Twain 732 ratings as of 4/9/18 My rating=2 stars
7. Take Me Out: A Play by Richard Greenberg 868 ratings as of 5/8/18 My rating =3 stars
8. In a German Pension: 13 Stories by Katherine Mansfield 611 ratings as of 6/21/18. My rating=3 stars.
9. See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid 852 ratings as of 7/21/18 My rating=1 star
10. Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman-557 ratings as of 7/26/18. My rating=3 stars.
11. Maru by Bessie Head 881 ratings as of 8/12/18 My rating=2 stars
12. Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story by Christina Thompson 726 ratings as of 8/15/18. My rating= 4 stars.
13. Achilles by Madeline Miller-628 ratings as of 8/23/18. My rating=1 star.
14. A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg 692 ratings as of 9/20/18. My rating= 4 stars.
15. The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Alexandre Dumas 944 ratings as of 1/22/19. My rating=4 stars.
16. The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble 912 ratings as of 1/26/19. My rating=4 stars.
17. In Morocco by Edith Wharton 1/27/19 ; 540 ratings as of 1/27/19. My rating = 2 stars
18.The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde 5/18/19 -596 ratings as of 5/18/19. My rating= 1 star.
19.Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé 6/29/19-911 ratings as of 6/29/19. My rating=4 stars.
20.Xala by Ousmane Sembène 7/1/19. 601 ratings as of 7/1/19. My rating =3 stars.

Challenge #37 Completion Post Part 2:

Books With Less Than 5,000 Ratings
1. The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih 2232 ratings. My rating: 3 stars. Finished 1/26/18
2. Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters by John Waters 2117 ratings My rating=4 Finished 1/27/18
3. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel 4,153 ratings my rating= 4 stars Finished 1/27/18
4. Blue of Noon by Georges Bataille 1,531 ratings as of 2/25/18 My rating=3 stars
5. The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton -2278 ratings. My rating=2 stars.
6. The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd 4111 ratings as of 3/19/18 My rating=3 stars.
7. The Changeling by Thomas Middleton My rating=2 stars
8. Rain and Other South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham 1344 ratings as of 4/10/18 My rating=4 stars
9. Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill: 3963 ratings as of 4/11/18. My rating=4 stars
10. Three Tall Women by Edward Albee: 2137 ratings as of 4/16/18. My rating 3 stars.
11. My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul-2344 ratings as of 4/26/18. My rating=4
12. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan 4755 ratungs as of 5/10/18. My rating=2
13. Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse 3928 ratings as of 5/11/18 My rating=4
14. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 4526 ratings as of 5/28/18. My rating=3
15. The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley 1413 ratings as of 6/20/18. My rating=3 stars.
16. Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker 2821 ratings as of 7/2/18. My rating=3
17. No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late by Ayun Halliday 3337 ratings as of 7/9/18. My rating=4 stars
18. The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia 4540 ratings as of 7/12/18. My rating=2.
19. Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr 3521 ratings as of 7/25/18. My rating=3 stars
20. Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto 1236 ratings as of 8/4/18. My rating=3 stars.
21. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories by Alice Munro 2623 ratings as of 8/28/18. My rating=2 stars
22. The Sinners by Yusuf Idris 3,302 ratings as of 9/5/18. My rating = 2 stars
23. Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli 2304 ratings as of 8/16/18. My rating=4 stars.
24. The Marseille Caper by Peter Mayle 2,216 ratings as of 9/25/18. My rating= 1 star.
25. Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente 3,189 ratings as of 9/27/18. My rating=1.
26. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon 3,952 ratings as of 10/19/18 My rating+ 3 stars.
27. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 4,630 ratings as of 10/17/18. My rating= 2 stars
28. Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee 1,238 ratings as of 11/30/18. My rating=3 stars.
29. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch 12/11/18; 4419 ratings as of 12/11/18. My rating =3 stars.
30. The Green Man by Kingsley Amis 12/20/18 1587 ratings as of 12/21/18 My rating = 3 stars
31. Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike 1920 ratings as of 12/31/18. My rating=3 stars.
32. Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver 2081 ratings as of 1/10/19. my rating = 4 stars.
33. Felicia's Journey by William Trevor 2937 ratings as of 1/24/19. My rating= 5 stars
34. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain 2/13/19 - 2094 ratings as of 2/14/19. My rating=3 stars
35. How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays by Umberto Eco 2/19/19. 4,924 ratings as of 2/19/19. My rating= 3 stars.
36. Concrete by Thomas Bernhard 2/22/19. 2041 ratings as of 2/22/19. My rating= 3 stars.
37. Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan 3/26/19
38. The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck 4/7/19. 2009 ratings as of 4/7/19. My rating= 3 stars.
39. Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan 4/20/19. 3234 ratings as of 4/21/19. My rating= 3 stars.
39. The Map Thief by Michael Blanding 4/23/19. 2518 ratings as of 4/23/19. My rating= 3 stars.
40. A Lost Lady by Willa Cather 5/6/19 4364 ratings as of 5/6/19.My rating= 4 stars.
41. Loitering with Intentby Muriel Spark 5/22/19- 2,435 ratings as of 5/23/19. My rating= 5 stars.
42. Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell 6/11/19-2693 ratings as of 6/26/19- My rating=3 stars
43. Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth 7/7/19 - 3,567 ratings as of 7/7/19. My rating= 4 stars.
Books With Less Than 10,000 Ratings
1. An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine: 7948 ratings as of 2/23/18 My rating=5 stars
2. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood 6735 ratings as of 5/1/18 My rating=4 stars
3. The Cid by Pierre Corneille 9141 ratings as of 5/3/18. My rating = 4stars.
4. Carsick by John Waters 6091 ratings as of 5/31/18. My rating=4 stars.
5. Rain of Gold by Victor Villaseñor 5858 ratings as of 7/20/18 My rating=5 stars
6. July's People by Nadine Gordimer 5419 ratings as of 7/21/18. My rating=2 stars.
7. A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr 5654 ratings as of 7/31/18. My rating=4 stars.
8. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh 9869 ratings as of 9/14/18. My rating= 4 stars
9. Coming Up for Air by George Orwell 9,563 ratings as of 12/4/18- My rating=5 stars
10. A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny 5752 ratings as of 12/23/18. My rating= 1 star
11. The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna 3/22/19 8085 ratings. My rating=3 stars
12. Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag 3/29/19 - 5923 ratings as of 3/29/19. My rating=3 stars.
13. Xinran- The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices 4/11/19
14. Shame by Salman Rushdie 5/1/19; 9729 ratings as of 5/1/19;My rating=1 star
15. Wise Children by Angela Carter 5/11/19. 6581 ratings as of 5/12/19. My rating=3 stars.

Challenge #38
Audiobook Narrator Challenge see post 80 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Started 1/26/18 (No deadline)
at 10/26
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Challenge #39
Around the World Random Travel Challenge- see post #306 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Begun 1/1/18.
*****COMPLETED 3/21/25*****

20/20

✔Argentina- Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
✔Thailand - Bangkok 8 by John Burdett -7/23/20
✔Ivory Coast - Aya of Yop City by Marguerite Abouet-3/24/21
✔ Palau- The Palauan Arts by David Ramarui-8/27/23-
✔Congo- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
✔Ecuador- Beyond the Islands by Alicia Yánez Cossío
✔Algeria - Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar- 1/5/18
✔Peru- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 10/5/18
✔Qatar - No Place for Women by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar-6/21/20
✔ Libya- Tea in Tripoli by Bernadette Nason-5/30/24
✔Zambia- Mrs. Pollifax on Safari by Dorothy Gilman -6/14/21
Laos- Lao Folktales by Steven Jay Epstein-10/6/23
✔Tuvalu- Time and Tide: The Islands of Tuvalu by Tony Wheeler 6/1/19
Nigeria- Restless City and Christmas Gold, with Other Stories by Cyprian Ekwensi
✔ Cambodia- Battambang by Ron Poulton-3/21/25
✔ Haiti- All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell- 8/26/24-
✔ Sri Lanka- Trouble in Nuala by Harriet Steel- 3/20/23
✔Australia- Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan 3/26/19
✔Ukraine - Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein-11/21/19
✔ Antigua and Barbuda- Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid-11/20/23

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Challenge #40
Audiobooks Challenge...see post #369 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Started 2/28/18...but can add from 1/1/18
No Deadline
Level 1: 250 hours of listening-completed 6/19/19
Level 2: 500 hours of listening
Level 3: 750 hours of listening
Level 4: 1000 hours of listening

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***COMPLETED 7/19/18***
Challenge #41
Hot Springs National Park challenge at post # 4 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Begins 4/1/18- No end date.
Currently 6/10

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***Challenge #42-COMPLETED 7/11/18***
Ohio Spell Challenge 04/01/18 - 06/30/18. See post#7 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Date: 04/01/18 - 06/30/18

Possible Options:
1. Cincinnati-Covington Suspension Bridge-CATEGBP
2. Cincinnati Music Hall-CATMH
3. Cleveland Arcade-CLEARADE
4. Fallen Timbers Battlefield-FAE TMBER BTTFD
5. Hawthorn Hill-HATORH
6. James A. Garfield Home-JAME A GRFE
7. Jay Cooke House-JACOEE
8. Longaberger Company Headquarters-GABER MPA HDT
9. Plum Street Temple-PM TRET MEL
10. Thomas A. Edison Birthplace-THOMA A D BRTP

Fire and Fury by Michael Wolf
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
What is man by Mark Twain
Rain and Other South Sea Stories by M.Somerset Maugham
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar
The Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding
The Way of the World by William Congreve
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
How They Met and Other Stories by David Levitahn
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
A Passage to India by E.M. Foster
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra

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✔✔✔ TASK #43-COMPLETED 5/26/18
Historical Landmarks of Ohio challenge see post 16 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
4/1/18 to 6/30/18
10/10

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***COMPLETED***

Challenge #44
The ELLIE challenge. 04/01/18 - 06/30/18 See post #5 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Currently at 4/5 on Round 1.

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*****COMPLETED 6/19/21***** UNTIMELY

Challenge #45
ACATT: 2018 TBR Authors, A to Z
Date: 04/01/18 - 03/31/19

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/...

ACATT: 2018 TBR Authors, A to Z
Date: 04/01/18 - 03/31/19
26/26Completed at end of the time period...will continue until I finish.

***Author & Book must have been on my TBR prior to 04/01/18.

1. A(3)-Martin Amis-Time's Arrow; Anthony Marra- The Tsar of Love and Techno; Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice
2. B-(2)-Anne Brontë-The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Thomas Bernhard- Concrete 2/22/19
3. C(4)- William Congreve-The Way of the World;Pierre Corneille- The Cid; Joseph Conrad- Heart of Darkness; Agatha Christie- And Then There Were None 1/7/19
4. D (5)-Daphne du Maurier- My Cousin Rachel; Dashiell Hammett-The Thin Man; Douglas Preston- The Lost City of the Monkey God; Margaret Drabble- The Radiant Way 1/26/19
5. E (3)- E.M. Forster- A Passage to India; George Eliot- Daniel Deronda 1/19/19; Edith Wharton- In Morocco 1/27/19
6. F-(3)-George Farquhar- The Recruiting Officer; Henry Fielding- Joseph Andrews; Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan 3/26/19
7. G(5)-Richard Greenberg-Take Me Out: A Play; Nadine Gordimer-July's People; Guy de Maupassant- Bel-Ami; Arthur Golden-Memoirs of a Geisha; Gabriel García Márquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude
8. H(5)-Howard Cruse- Stuck Rubber Baby; Ayun Halliday- No Touch Monkey!: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late; S.E. Hinton- The Outsiders; Thomas Hardy- The Return of the Native; Thomas Hardy- Tess of the D'Urbervilles 2/5/19
9. I-(2)-Christopher Isherwood-Goodbye to Berlin; Yusuf Idris- The Sinners
10. J-(3)-John Steinbeck-Travels with Charley: In Search of America; Jane Austen- Emma; Jane Austen- Sense and Sensibility
11. K-(4)-Kathy Acker- Blood and Guts in High School; Jamaica Kincaid-See Now Then; Kingsley Amis- The Green Man 12/20/18; Rudyard Kipling- Kim
12. L (4)- Louisa May Alcott-Little Women; Erik Larson- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America 12/28/18; Lewis Carroll- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll-Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There 3/9/19
13. M(3)- Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman;Sándor Márai- Embers ; Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid's Tale
14. N (3)-Gloria Naylor-The Women of Brewster Place; Nina George- The Little Paris Bookshop12/15/18; A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny 12/22/18
15. O (2)-Eugene O'Neill- Mourning Becomes Electra; George Orwell-Coming Up for Air
16. P(4)- Pamela Paul- My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues; The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley; Peter Høeg- Smilla's Sense of Snow; Arto Paasilinna- The Year of the Hare 3/22/19
17. Q-George Farquhar- The Beaux' Strategem
18. R-(3) Jean Rhys- Wide Sargasso Sea; Meg Rosoff- How I Live Now 3/2/19; Sergeant Getúlio by João Ubaldo Ribeiro 3/24/19
19. S(5)- George Bernard Shaw- Pygmalion; John Steinbeck- Cannery Row; Dai Sijie- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress; Matthew J. Sullivan-Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore 12/17/18; José Saramago The Double- Another Morocco: Selected Stories;
20. T (4) Thornton Wilder- The Bridge of San Luis Rey ; Toni Morrison-Song of Solomon ; Truman Capote-Breakfast at Tiffany's 1/20/19; Kim Thúy- Ru 3/15/19
21. U- Rabbit at Rest by John Updike-6/19/21
22. V-(4)- Jules Verne- Around the World in Eighty Days; Victor Villaseñor- Rain of Gold; Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente; Vera Cleaver- Where the Lilies Bloom 1/9/19
23. W(4)-John Waters-Carsick; Evelyn Waugh- Decline and Fall; Jeanette Winterson- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ; William Trevor- Felicia's Journey 1/24/19
24. X- Alexandre Dumas- The Forty-Five Guardsmen 1/22/19
25. Y- Alicia Yánez Cossío- Beyond the Islands (Note- "Yanez" is the beginning of the author's surname.)
26. Z- (2)-Elizabeth Strout- My Name Is Lucy Barton; J.M. Coetzee- Dusklands

Virtual Vacations Report #20

April 19, 2024- East Flanders Province of Belgium- Cuberdons- a cone-shaped candy from Ghent...also known as "Ghent nose".
April 21- East Flanders Province of Belgium- Ghent Waterzooi- a stew with a soup-base of egg yolk, cream, and thickened vegetable broth. The stew itself contains fish or chicken, vegetables including carrots, onions, celery, leeks, potatoes and herbs such as parsley, thyme, bay-leaves and sage. Ramiro had the chicken variety and I had the fish.
Belgium- Cornet beer.
April 22- Antwerp Province of Belgium- Duvel beer.
Belgium- Koninginnenhapje- a Belgian chicken fricassee.
April 23- Belgium- Croky Sweet Indian Curry chips.
East Flanders Province of Belgium- Kwak beer.
April 25- Antwerp Province of Belgium- Bolleke de Konninck beer.
Belgium- Moules-frites- Mussels served with fries- the NATIONAL Dish. Mine were prepared in a delicious garlic broth.
April 27- German state of Baden-Wurttemberg- Spaghettiieis- a sundae designed to look like a portion of spaghetti- vanilla ice cream is extruded through a modified Spätzle press or potato ricer, giving it the appearance of spaghetti. It is then placed over whipped cream and topped with strawberry sauce (to simulate tomato sauce).
Turkey- Lahmacun (also known as Turkish, Armenian or Lebanese pizza)- a Middle Eastern flatbread topped with minced meat (most commonly beef or lamb), minced vegetables, and herbs including onions, garlic, tomatoes, red peppers, and parsley, flavored with spices such as chili pepper and paprika
April 28- Rhineland-Palatinate State of Germany- Bitburger Beer
Germany- Spargelsuppe- a white asparagus soup.

***COMPLETED 8/4/18***

Challenge #46
WRC: Characters, A to Z (2018)
Date: 04/01/18 - 03/31/19 See post 5 at https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

WRC: Characters, A to Z (2018)
Date: 04/01/18 - 03/31/19
26/26 Completed

1. A-Aimwell in The Beaux' Strategem by George Bernard Farquhar
2. B-Brigita- Beyond the Islands by Alicia Yánez Cossío
3. C-Christine - Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
4. D-Doc- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
5. E-Emma Woodhouse- Emma by Jane Austen
6. F-Fogg, Phileas in Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
7. G-Galina in The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
8. H- Henry Fielding in The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding
9. I-Christopher Isherwood in his own Goodbye to Berlin
10. J-Joseph Andrews in Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding
11. K-Kite in The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar
12. L-Loman, Willy in Death of a Salesman
13. M-Mirabell- The Way of the World by William Congreve
14. N-Nigel Butler in Revenge and the Wild by Michelle Modesto
15. O-Frau Oberregierungsrat in In a German Pension: 13 Stories by Katherine Mansfield
16. P- Pamela Paul in her memoir My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
17. Q-Quested, Adela- A Passage to India
18. R-Raines, Ginger in Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
19. S- John Steinbeck- Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
20. T- Taia, Abdellah- in memoir-ish short stories- Another Morocco: Selected Stories by Abdellah Taïa
21. U-Unverdorben, Odilio in Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
22. V-Volodya Vlashkin in The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
23. W-John Waters-Carsick
24. X- Alexandra Bergson- in O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
25. Y-Philip AshleY- in My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
26. Z -EliZa Doolittle-main character in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

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