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Book: How to Run with a Naked Werewolf ~ Molly Harper
Pages: 352
Date Read: 10.23 ★★★★
Sins:
Vanity ~ MPG Contemporary
Mini - wolf on cover

Need location/pg number and sentence for Maddy and sentence for Chris

Re-posted for your pleasure ;D


Bookcover:
Title/ Author: In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Date Read:10/23/19
Pages: 343
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria

Sloth - - •Books that have been on your TBR for at least 2 years. - On my tbr since December 13, 2016 – Shelved
Vanity - - • Only Award-Winning Books - Any Award as long as it can be linked or appears on Goodreads book page. --- Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime (1966)
wrath - brown cover?


Sloth mini

Farm animals featured - horse Bebe, several cats ( Courthouse Pete, Evinrude ) a dog, sailfish that Perry caught in Mexico

Horse- "We used to ride double on Nancy's horse, Babe" (page 94)
"It was Nancy's Babe, the obedient dappled old mare" (page 207)

"a few milking cows, Nancy's cats and Babe, the family favorite, an old fat workhorse" (page 12)

Cat - "And I have Nancy's cat - Evinrude" (page 95)
"Nancy's cat frolicked among them" (page 40)

Dog - "Teddy, the dog" rushed forward roaring out a challenge"(page 40)

Sailfish - "sailfish, it leaped, arched like a rainbow, dived, sank deep, tugged the line taut, rose, flew, fell, rose" (page 120)

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Accepting His Animal - Charlie Richards
Date Read:10/24/19
Pages: 107
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria

Gluttony - - •Books in a very long series (12+ books). - -- 49 books in series
Vanity - LGBT, MM rom


Sloth mini

Elephant, tiger

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Chasing His Cottontail - A.R. Barley
Date Read:10/24/19
Pages: 111
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria

Vanty - lgbt, mm rom
Wrath - brown?


Sloth mini

Rabbit - "The rabbit was staring at him" (6.3%)
"The rabbit had white fur and fawn colored markings around his face" (6.4%)
"After taking a few bites, the rabbit paused to lick his paws clean" (6.6%)

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Princess in Training by Meg Cabot
Date Read:10/24/19
Pages: 294
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
gluttony - pink cover
vanity - contemporary MPG
envy - young adult MPG

BOM: n/a

Sloth mini challenge:
p. 16 - cat "(not counting my cat, Fat Louie)"

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers by Michael Connelly
Date Read:10/24/19
Pages: 375
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
sloth - blue cover

BOM: n/a

Sloth mini challenge:
p. 279 dog, horse "He shot and killed a dog and a horse and then fired several shots at arriving police officers."

Title/Author: Save the Date / Annabeth Albert
Date read: October 24, 2019
Pages: 153
BOM: Yes
DQs: DQ1, DQ2, DQ3, DQ4, DQ5.
Interactions with others: Msg 253, Msg 255, Msg 298, Msg 345.

Sin: Vanity (top shelf Contemporary)

Mini: dog — "They had two sleeping dogs with them." (9%, loc 180 of 1993)

Book/Author: City of Fallen Angels / Cassandra Clare
Date read: October 25, 2019
Pages: 425

Sin: Envy (top shelf Young Adult), Vanity (top shelf Contemporary)

Mini: dog, owl, fish

dog - "Bloody-eyed, the dog crouched, ready to spring." pg. 379
owl - "Often I visited him in the form of an owl." Pg. 345. (FYI, I was a little iffy on this one based on the rules, but I figured since the person speaking -- a demon -- transformed herself into an owl that it would maybe work?)
fish - "Right now she was wearing a dress tie-dye printed with dolphins and waves, and a pin that had once been a live fish, dipped in resin." - pg 31

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Book: Tempting Her Best Friend ~ Gina L. Maxwell
Pages: 172
Date Read: 10.24 ★★★
Sins:
Vanity ~ MPG Contemporary

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Book: Save the Date ~ Annabeth Albert
Pages: 153
Date Read: 10.22 ★★★
Sins:
Vanity ~ MPG Contemporary

BOM
DQ 1
DQ 2
DQ 3
DQ 4
DQ 5

Update Amy & Kaley if covers are agreed on

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Alpha's Prerogative - Charlie Richards
Date Read:10/25/19
Pages: 154
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria

Gluttony - - •Books in a very long series (12+ books). 49 books in series
Sloth - blue?
Vanity - lgbt, mm rom


Sloth mini

Antelope

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Date Read:10/26/19
Pages: 144
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
avarice - anything goes

BOM: n/a

Sloth mini challenge:

Book: Death & Honey by Kevin Hearne, Chuck Wendig & Lila Bowen
Date: 21.10.19
Pages: 212

Tricky
Quoll - It’s difficult to stay focused, honestly, because in the course of chasing a wombat, for example, you might startle a tiger quoll or a barred bandicoot. - 5%
Bandicoot - It’s difficult to stay focused, honestly, because in the course of chasing a wombat, for example, you might startle a tiger quoll or a barred bandicoot. - 5%
Water Buffalo - Who deserve a water buffalo for all this public service we’re doing. - 11%
Honeybee - Some were honeybees, but also little hovering bees and a few wasps whose waists were as thin as pins... - 72%

Easy
Bumble Bee - A handful of puffball bumblebees ping-ponged about too, tapping into flowers drunkenly.... - 72%
Kangaroo - Let me tell you an ill-kept secret: kangaroos are delicious. - 17%
Wombat - I am not kidding: the air smelled of wombats and adventure - 28%
Wallaby - Or you might run into a bunch of wallabies and they’re loads of fun - 5%
Tasmanian Devil - Atticus has been healing Tasmanian devils every day for like five trillion days, ... - 5%
dog, cat, horse, wasps....

Book: Whales and a Watery Grave by Ruby Loren
Date: 25.10.19
Pages: 244

Tricky
Killer Whale - on the cover
Tiger Shark - This tank contained sand tiger sharks, who looked scary, but were fairly docile. - 73%

Easy
Great White Shark - He was fishing for a comment on the great white shark they’ve rescued. - 25%
Lemur - A fan bought it for me as a gift after I finished recording a show on lemurs in Madagascar. - 18%
Penguin - Other than the penguins, and a few fish tanks, we don’t have a lot in the way of marine animals. - 8%
Sea Lion - It’s the same with the seals and sea lions… we do our best to give them stimulating activities, but we would never put on shows. - 76%
Seal - It’s the same with the seals and sea lions… we do our best to give them stimulating activities, but we would never put on shows. - 76%

Book: The Anteater of Death by Betty Webb
Date: 25.10.19
Pages: 270


Tricky
Anteater - title & cover (& text if needed)
Capybara - After I’d fed the squirrel monkeys, the capybaras, and the Chacoan peccaries, I waited by Lucy’s fence for the head keeper to turn up. - 5%
Macaw - Macaws squawked for joy. - 5%
Aardvark - Especially not with that nasty aardvark. - 6%
Ocelot - Let’s walk over to the ocelots. They sleep all day so they don’t collect much of a crowd. - 16%


Easy
Otter - ...and began to list all the beauties remaining in the world: sunrises, sunsets, birds, otters, the Pacific lapping ... - 19%
Bear - I stopped my cart in front of the Andean spectacled bear exhibit, where a boisterous crowd had gathered. - 48%
Wallaby - ...or the toddler who ducked under the rope at Down Under and was knocked over by a passing wallaby. - 17%
Giraffe - Fortunately for the vet, giraffes were among the gentlest of animals ... - 23%

whale, dolphin, lion, wolf, cat, dog, magpie, orangutan, kangaroo, baboon, pelican, cheetah, koala, panda,... and lot more (some of them not on the list like red panda!)

Book: A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean
Date: 26.10.19
Pages: 368

Sins
Lust - Sin Bingo - red cover, guilty pleasure tag, gorgeous cover

Gluttony - historical romance tag

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: A Tempting Distraction - Stephani Hecht
Date Read:10/26/19
Pages: 154
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria

Gluttony - - •Books in a very long series (12+ books). - 32 books in series
Vanity - LGBT, mm rom

Sloth mini

- tiger

Amy "the book-bat" wrote: "Bookcover:
Title/ Author: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Date Read:..."

adding as Wrath - really hateful characters

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Book: Fool Me Once ~ Mona Ingram
Pages: 180
Date Read: 10.25 ★★★
Sins:
Vanity ~ top shelf Contemporary
Mini - magpie - A magpie landed in the tree above them, (loc 262.6)

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Book: The Marriage Promise ~ Sandra Edwards
Pages: 174
Date Read: 10.25 ★★★
Sins:
Vanity ~ MPG Contemporary

Author: Rosemary's Baby
Date Read: 10/26/
Pages: 308
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria: Avarice (anything goes?)
BOM: N/A

The Silence of the Snakes by Ruby Loren
Date Read: 10/24
Pages: 228

Sin:
Sloth - Blue Cover

Mini Challenge
Echidna - p8 “...My greatest success was with the echidnas, who’d given birth to puggles a year previously..”




To Tame a Scoundrel's Heart by Collette Cameron
Date Read: 10/25
Pgs: 262

Sin:
Gluttony: MPG Historical Romance


We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee
Date Read: 10/25
Pages: 261

Mini:
Tapir - pg42 “...Our first Stop was Ronnie the Tapir..”

The Captain's Bluestocking Mistress by Erica Ridley
Date Read: 10/25
Pages: 206

Sin:
Gluttony - MPG Historical Romance


Murder is a Monkey's Game by Ruby Loren
Date Read: 10/25
Pages: 258

Sin:
Sloth - Blue Cover
Mini - Ocelot pg92 “...If you handle the tigers, the ocelots and the servals...”

Update Hannah

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Save the Date - Annabeth Albert
Date Read: Oct 26
Pages: 153
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria

Vanity - LGBT
Wrath - brown

BOM: YES

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Book: The Lying Game by Sara Shepard
Date Read: 10/23
Pages: 307
Sin: Envy - young adult
Mini: no


Book: The Breakdown by B.A. Paris
Date Read: 10/25
Pages: 328
Sin: Avarice - anything goes
Mini: no


Book: To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
Date Read: 10/26
Pages: 355
Sin: Envy - young adult
Mini: Akita - "Immediately Kitty says, 'An Akita. Red fur with a cinnamon-bun tail. Or a German shepherd." (loc. 2942)

A Lady's Guide to Improper Behavior by Suzanne Enoch
date complete: 10/27
pages: 372

Sins: Sloth/blue cover; Gluttony/historical romance

Sloth mini challenge:
p. 6 - a slew of dogs, pigeons and street urchins.
p. 16 - “Grandmama Agnes is after another cat,”
p. 17 - “Oh, and Stephen’s purchased me a horse,”
p. 216 - "A lion among sheep."

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Levi - Bailey Bradford
Date Read: Oct 27
Pages: 197
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria

Gluttony - •Books in a very long series (12+ books). 12 books series
Vanity -LGBT, mm rom
Wrath - brown

Sloth mini

- cougar on cover

Book: Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson
Date: 27.10.19
Pages: 960

Sins
wrath - brown cover

sloth - dark fantasy tag

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Book: Home for the Holidays ~ Jeaniene Frost
Pages: 150
Date Read: 10.27 ★★★★ (finished after Wk 3 start time)

Sins:
Sloth ~ Books that have been on your TBR for at least 2 years

Mini:
~Read a book with a haunted place as part of the setting - there are ghost that flit in and out of Cat and Bone's home
~Read a book where one of the (side) characters is a ghost - Fabian is a side character and a ghost
~Read a book where someone is defenestrated - the demon that possessed Wraith was defenestrated from his body

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Book: Hard Sell ~ Lauren Layne
Pages: 247
Date Read: 10.27 ★★★★ (finished after Wk 3 start time)

Sins:
Sloth ~ blue cover
Vanity ~ MPG Contemporary

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Spectacle by Jodie Lynn Zdrok
Date Read:10/27/19
Pages: 368
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
envy - young adult MPG
lust - red cover
lust - Books that you lust after - published 2019

BOM: n/a

Wrath mini challenge:

Read a book with "Supernatural" on the first page of the book's Top Shelves

Read a book where more than 5 people die in the book (must be named - in a war or in an explosion doesn't count) - The serial killer kills 6 girls and a few others also die.

Read a book with a bloodred cover - maybe?

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Young Adult" - MC is 17

Read a book where an important character faints - MC Natalie faints - p. 172 "'You fainted. How do you feel?'"

Read a book with blood on the cover - maybe?

Read a book with a serial killer - there is a serial killer called the "Dark Artist"

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense set in 1800AD - 1900AD - MPG mystery, set in Paris 1887

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Serial Killer" - MPG mystery, has a serial killer

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that is 300 - 399 pages - 368 pages

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus by John Glatt
Date Read:10/27/19
Pages: 400
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
wrath - Books that enrage you - Ariel Castro was evil incarnate, the Cleveland police could have saved the girls way earlier if they had investigated tips properly

BOM: n/a

Wrath mini challenge:
Read a book with a character who is always angry - Ariel Castro is always angry and channels his anger into abuse

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Young Adult" - the girls were all teenagers when kidnapped

Read a book with a fight in the book (upclose & personal) - Castro gets into several fist fights

Read a book containing the phrase "into a rage" - p. 32 "...he flew into a rage and refused to allow it."

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "True Crime" - MPG nonfiction

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Setting - Isolated Locale" - the girls are kept in a basement with no way to communicate with the outside

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Missing Person Mystery" - three kidnapped girls

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that is 400 - 499 pages - (400 pages)

Read a book where someone receives a black eye - Castro's common law wife, Nilda, gets beaten regularly and has several black eyes (black eye shows up on page 232, but isn't showing on Amazon)

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense set since 2000 - most of the book is set in the 2000's

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Book: Buns ~ Alice Clayton
Pages: 336
Date Read: 10.27 ★★★★
Sins:
Wrath ~ brown cover
Vanity ~ MPG Contemporary
Mini:
~Read a book where the main character has red hair - Archie is a redhead: He wore tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses, the tones mimicking the reddish-blond hues in his hair,
~Read a book where two or more characters get into a screaming match - MCs get into a screaming argument after racing/hiking up the mountain
~Read a book where an important character faints - Clara faints with a fever from a bout of flu

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Book: Fall Fast ~ Zoe York
Pages: 174
Date Read: 10.27 ★★★
Sins:
Wrath ~ brown cover
Vanity ~ MPG Contemporary
Mini:
~Read a book where the main character has red hair - Emme is a redhead: The pretty redhead in front of him had the same idea,

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: Cop Killer - Maj Sjöwall
Date Read: Oct 27
Pages: 288
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria

Avarice - anything goes



Wrath mini

•Read a book where no more than 2 people die - Sigbrit and one cop die in this book
Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Setting - Isolated Locale" - set in small village in Sweden
Read a book with a (human) detective as the main character - Detective Martin Beck
Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Missing Person Mystery" - Sigbritt is missing until her body is found around 40% in
Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that is 200 - 299 pages
Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense set in 1960s - 1990s - Set 1973

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Date Read:10/27/19
Pages: 272
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
avarice - dystopia
lust - red cover
vanity - lgbtq+, Only Award-Winning Books - Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2018), Locus Award for Horror Novel (2019),
wrath - Books that enrage you (characters were terrible people

BOM: n/a

Wrath mini challenge:
Read a book with a bloodred cover

Read a book with a fight in the book (upclose & personal) - there was a fight that ended in a death

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Setting - Isolated Locale" - a cabin in the woods

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that is 200 - 299 pages - 272 pages

Read a book where a religious crime takes place - the 4 people who attacked the family in the cabin claimed that it was because God told them to

Read a book where one of the main characters dies - Wen dies

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Thriller"

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: The Escape Room by Megan Goldin
Date Read:10/28/19
Pages: 368
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
vanity - contemporary
lust - Books that you lust after - new releases- published 2019

BOM: n/a

Wrath mini challenge:
Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Locked Room / Puzzle" - 4 people trapped in an elevator

Read a book where there is a car accident - Sylvie had been in a car accident (which was shown in a flashback), Cathy was killed by a hit and run driver

Read a book with a fight in the book (upclose & personal) - Vincent and Sam get into a fight, Sam and Jules get into a fight

Read a book where an important character faints - Sam faints after receiving a head injury during a fight

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that is 300 - 399 pages - 368 pages

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Book: Xavier's Loving Arms ~ K.T. Grant
Pages: 258
Date Read: 10.28 ★★★

Sins:
Gluttony ~ Books that have covers you want to eat - glass of wine;

Mini:
~40. Read a book with a fight in the book (upclose & personal) - Xavier and Dev get into a fistfight
~60. Read a book where two or more characters get into a screaming match - Dev and Becca get into shouting match when he tries to force her to kiss him

Bookcover:
Title/ Author: The Whisper Man by Alex North
Date Read:10/28/19
Pages: 355
Sin: Cover/ Top Shelf Genre/ Criteria
lust - Books that you lust after - new releases- published 2019
vanity - contemporary

BOM: n/a

Wrath mini challenge:
Read a book where the title contains all the letters of "wrath"

Read a book with a fight in the book (upclose & personal) - George and Tom get into a fight

Read a book with a fingerprint on the cover

Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that is 300 - 399 pages

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Book: Not a Hero ~ Cherise Sinclair
Pages: 281
Date Read: 10.29 ★★★★
Sins:
Vanity ~ MPG Contemporary
Mini:
~51. Read a book with a police officer on the cover - officer in the cover
~81. Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Setting - Isolated Locale" - set in small isolated town of Rescue, AK
~94. Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that is 200 - 299 pages - 281 pp
~112. Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense set since 2000 - set in 2019
~133. Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Romantic Suspense" - shelved as RS

Book: Marry in Haste by Anne Gracie
Date: 29.10.19
Pages: 320 (default edition since mine doesn't have pages)

Sins
gluttony - historical romance

Mini-challenge
107. Read a book where someone receives a black eye
Rose had a burgeoning black eye, and Lily—the side of Lily’s face was red and swelling. ~20%