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

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BADGE 1 COMPLETE: 12/12
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1. Card 10, ArtLit Yay, The Line Between
2. Card 13, ArtLit Yay, Dread Nation
3. Card 19, ArtLit Nay, A Darker Shade of Magic
4. Card 29, History Yay, One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
5. Card 15, Sport Yay, Between Shades of Gray
6. Card 24, ArtLit Yay, Normal People
7. Card 1, Geo Nay, The Things They Carried
8. Card 12, ArtLit Nay, Big Lies in a Small Town
9. Card 14, Ent Nay, The Green Mile
10. Card 30, Sc Nay, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
11. Card 11, Sport Nay, Dear Edward
12. Card 8, His Nay, Children of Virtue and Vengeance

Hey Anne - would you like to do a monthly buddy read with me for this challenge? We could just choose one task we have have in common a month and find a book we both want to read. I feel like it would be fun since we often read similar books. then we could chat about the books!

Katrisa wrote: "Hey Anne - would you like to do a monthly buddy read with me for this challenge? We could just choose one task we have have in common a month and find a book we both want to read. I feel like it wo..."

That's a great idea, Katrisa!! Let's do that for sure!! I'm about to add all the tasks to my thread now!

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BADGE 2 COMPLETE: 18/18
1. Card 18, His Nay The Round House
2. Card 2, His Nay The Women of the Copper Country
3. Card 4, A/L Yay This Shattered World
4. Card 9, A/L Nay, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
5. Card 23, Spo Nay, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
6. Card 21, Ent Nay, Severance
7. Card 28, Sci Nay, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
8. Card 5, Spo Nay, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
9. Card 20, Sci Nay, The Ice Princess
10. Card 3, Ent Nay, The Body: A Guide for Occupants
11. Card 27, Geo Nay, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
12. Card 22, Ent Nay, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
13. Card 16, His Nay, The Bell Jar
14. Card 26, His Nay, You Know When the Men Are Gone
15. Card 6, His Yay Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
16. Card 7, His Yay, The Fox Hunt: A Memoir of Yemen and My Odyssey to America
17. Card 25, Ent Nay, Pretty Things
18. Card 17, Yay Geo, The Brutal Telling

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BADGE 3 PROGRESS: 20/25
(complete 5 cards - 1, 8, 12, 13, 18)

Card 1, Art/Lit Yay, The Nowhere Child
Card 1, Ent Yay The Last Wish
Card 1, His Yay How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Card 1, Sport Nay, The Cruelest Month

Card 8, Geo Nay, Who Fears Death
Card 8, Ent Nay, The Feather Thief
Card 8, ArtLit Yay The Crossing Places
Card 8, Sci Y, The Split
Card 8, Sport Nay Bury Your Dead

Card 12, Geo Nay, The Garden of Small Beginnings
Card 12, Sci Nay, Their Fractured Light
Card 12, Sport Nay, A Single Light

Card 13, Geo Yay, Burial Rites
Card 13, Ent Nay, Dark and Deepest Red
Card 13, His Yay, A Fatal Grace
Card 13, Sci Nay, Terminus

Card 18, Geo Nay, Christmas at Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop
Card 18, Ent Nay, The Wife and the Widow
Card 18, Sci Nay, The Sun Down Motel
Card 18, Sport Yay, Malice

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BADGE 4 PROGRESS: 10/50
(complete 10 cards - 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 21, 23, 24, 29)

Card 2, ArtLit Yay, The End of October
Card 2, Sci Yay, Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
Card 10, History Nay, Children of God
Card 11, Sci Nay, The Getaway Girls
Card 16, Ent Nay, A Rule Against Murder
Card 19, Sci Nay Anansi Boys
Card 21, ArtLit Yay On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
Card 24, Ent Nay, These Broken Stars
Card 29, Ent Yay, Ninth House
Card 29, Sport Nay, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

Badge 5 - Complete the final 15 cards. This badge will have you reading 75 books.

Reminders to me:
Order of Books read: no requirement re: order books are read. You can read badges out of order. ie. if you've read a book for Geography in Card 1 and counted it for Badge 1, you may read another book that fits another task for that card and count it for Badge 3 even though you have not finished badge 1. You just need to clearly mark it when you track your books.

Awesome! I made us a thread to chat about our reads in the member area. Here is the link to our chat

I think it's great that we have another duo. We'll have to call you "YLTO Tag Teams".

Are you going to buddy read The True Story of Hansel and Gretel with Katrisa? I have had that book on my wishlist forever.

Janice wrote: "Are you going to buddy read The True Story of Hansel and Gretel with Katrisa? I have had that book on my wishlist forever."

Yes, we are! Do join us buddy reading it!!!!! 😃

Anne ✨ wrote: "Janice wrote: "Are you going to buddy read The True Story of Hansel and Gretel with Katrisa? I have had that book on my wishlist forever."

Yes, we are! Do join us buddy reading it!!!..."

Just let me know when. Will you be setting your buddy reads up in the buddy read folder, or in your joint thread?

Janice wrote: "Anne ✨ wrote: "Janice wrote: "Are you going to buddy read The True Story of Hansel and Gretel with Katrisa? I have had that book on my wishlist forever."

Yes, we are! Do join us budd..."

Not sure, but that's a good idea - maybe we can organize/figure out all the reads in our joint thread, and then we could create a buddy read thread each month for the chosen book, for any others who'd like to join in!

Why not do them all in the buddy read folder. That has two advantages - others can join in (the more the merrier), and it keeps your joint thread clean.

And here we go..... my first read of the challenge 🙌

Badge 1, Book 1

1. Card 10 - Art/Lit Yay
2. Link - The Line Between
3. Pages - Audiobook (HC = 384 pg)
4. Task - Dystopian genre (virus/illness), show main page
5. An extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. Dystopia shows on the main page.

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Awesome, Anne! Yours is the first challenge book that I have seen posted.

Cherie wrote: "Awesome, Anne! Yours is the first challenge book that I have seen posted."

Marie UK beat her to it. She posted New Years Day.

Janice wrote: "Cherie wrote: "Awesome, Anne! Yours is the first challenge book that I have seen posted."

Marie UK beat her to it. She posted New Years Day."

Way to go, Marie!!! I fell asleep listening to my book last night, so had to finish it up this morning! hahaha!

Katrisa posted a book today too :)

Badge 1, Book 2

1. Card 13 - Art/Lit Yay
2. Link – Dread Nation
3. Audiobook (HC = 455 pg)
4. Read a book that is about zombies
5. Book is an alternate history of the Civil War, where the dead began to rise - the zombies are called Shambles in this book.
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Badge 1, Book 3

1. Card 19 - Art/Lit Nay
2. Link – A Darker Shade of Magic
3. Audiobook (HC = 400 pg)
4. There is a globe or map on the cover.
5. Cover has two circular maps, one black and one red
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I enjoyed this a lot - great worldbuilding, characters, storyline. I loved the dynamics between Kelle and Delilah - she was a real firecracker! The magical piece was really well done.

Badge 1, Book 4

1. Card 29 - History Yay
2. Link – One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
3. Audiobook (HC = 272 pg)
4. Read a book set in Modern Day China
5. Published in 2016, author documents the 'one-child' policy's repercussions on every sector of Chinese society, from implementation to today to the future.

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I thought this book was really fascinating, the author spent many years investigating and documenting this issue. I learned so much! There are such far-reaching consequences that were not foreseen at the time the policy was implemented.

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Wow, 4 books down already! Good work 😃

Margo wrote: "Wow, 4 books down already! Good work 😃"

Thanks, Margo! I had lined up quite a few books ahead of time, so it's fun racing through them now!! Can't....get....enough... 😄

Badge 1, Book 5

1. Card 15 - Sport Yay
2. Link - Between Shades of Gray
3. Audiobook (HC = 344pg)
4. Read a book set between 1939 and 1949
5. Book is set between 1941 and 1945, during WWII, when thousands of Lithuanians (mostly women and children) were deported to Siberian labor camps/forced settlements.

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powerful, emotional... a read that really sticks with you! A difficult subject matter, but expertly handled by the author, crafting a book that's appropriate for YA audience, but doesn't shy away from the grim realities of these tragic human injustices. Strong emotional connections with the characters, all the feels!

What did you think of the story Anne? I found it rather haunting.

Janice wrote: "What did you think of the story Anne? I found it rather haunting."

I rated it 5 stars! It was definitely haunting!

Badge 1, Book 6

1. Card 24 - ArtLit Yay
2. Link - Normal People
3. Audiobook (HC = 273pg)
4. Read a book is set in Ireland, or is written by an Irish author.
5. The book is set in Dublin, Ireland, AND the author is Irish.

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I didn't think I was going to like this but I did! I got drawn into all the angst of the two MC's Marianne and Connell! I loved the audio narration by Aoife McMahon, that made it for me!

I have Normal People for the same task. Glad you liked it!

I really didn't like it! I quite liked Conversations with Friends. I've heard that if people who like the one they won't like the other.....

Jayme wrote: "I have Normal People for the same task. Glad you liked it!"

Margo wrote: "I really didn't like it! I quite liked Conversations with Friends. I've heard that if people who like the one they won't like the other....."

It was a polarizing book for sure, I can see how it could be liked or disliked... I will definitely give Conversations with Friends a go too, Margo! That's interesting that they're both so different and that readers tend to like one OR the other! hmmm we shall see, I'm curious now!

Badge 1, Book 7

1. Card 1 - Geo Nay
2. Link - The Things They Carried
3. Audiobook (HC = 256pg)
4. Read a book is set in Vietnam/ Vietnemese author.
5. More than 50% of the book is set in Vietnam during the Vietnam war. It's a historical fiction of vignettes/stories of soldier's experiences during the war. A few stories recount experiences once back in the US.

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Anne - I think you left off the Card # on line 1.

I have wanted to read this book for a long time and it has been on my TBR forever. I got the answer correct, so I have to read a book set in France or by a French author though.

Cherie wrote: "Anne - I think you left off the Card # on line 1.

I have wanted to read this book for a long time and it has been on my TBR forever. I got the answer correct, so I have to read a book set in Franc..."

oops, you're right... fixed.. card 1

I hope you get a chance to read this one, maybe there's another task that would work!

The Things They Carried is one of my all time favorite books. It is so powerful.

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Badge 1, Book 8

1. Card 12 - ArtLit Nay
2. Link - Big Lies in a Small Town
3. Audiobook (HC = 400pg)
4. Read a book set in a small town.
5. The book is set in the small town of Edenton, NC during two different timeperiods

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This author is a wonderful storyteller! This one has a dual timeline between 2018 and 1940 in small town North Carolina. I found both the past and the present equally engaging, with an interesting cast of characters. I thought the story wove the threads together nicely by the end - a satisfying read!

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Hey Anne - Kindle has On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous on sale today $1.99!

Katrisa wrote: "Hey Anne - Kindle has On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous on sale today $1.99!"

Thanks for posting, that's certainly a good deal, and I would have jumped on that for sure except that I already have a paperback copy on its way to me (from Paperback Swap)... so didn't need the kindle this time - I can imagine that was a popular deal though!

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Badge 3, Book 1

1. Card 13 - His Yay
2. Link - A Fatal Grace
3. Audiobook (HC = 311pg)
4. A book that's a prize winner in 2007 (any prize)
5. The book won an Agatha Award Best Novel in 2007

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I love the Canadian/Quebec small town setting with the quirky unique characters. It was a complex mystery that unraveled bit by bit, lots of characters and side stories to keep you guessing. This series is growing on me.. looking forward to reading more...

Wow, Anne, thanks for posting the book above. I had a few books in my spread sheet to use for the award task, but I started the Louise Penny series last year and still have to read A Fatal Grace. I even own it!

Cherie wrote: "Wow, Anne, thanks for posting the book above. I had a few books in my spread sheet to use for the award task, but I started the Louise Penny series last year and still have to read [book:A Fatal Gr..."

I'm glad that works for you too, Cherie! And I hope you enjoy the story. Jayme and I were figuring out how many books of the series we could fit into tasks... here's more ideas for you if you keep going with this series and have these tasks...
book #3 - set in April (Card 1, Sport Nay)
book #4 - pub. in 2008 ( Card 16, Sport Yay)
book #5 - book in series of 12 or more (Card 16 Ent Nay)
book #6 - pub. in 2010 (Card 8 Sport Nay)
book #7 - set in Canada/Canadian author ( Card 17 Geo Yay)

Our book club read the first book a few years ago and I've wanted to continue the series but never quite got to book 2!

Badge 1, Book 9

1. Card 14, Ent Nay
2. Link - The Green Mile
3. Audiobook (HC = 399pg)
4. Read a book with genre of horror
5. The book has horror genre listed main page

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I had only ever seen the movie of this (which I loved). I can now say I love the BOOK and the MOVIE. Both great in my opinion. The audiobook narration by Frank Muller made for a great listening experience. It's such a powerful story all the way through, and what a fascinating cast of characters.

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I only own 1-4 and weirdly, #8, but I found places for #2, #3 and #4 on my challenge, thanks to you for pointing them out to me. They are not the same as yours, but I found places for them. Thanks!

OMG! I never thought about The Green Mile as horror! I own it in print, and like you, have only ever seen the movie! Yay! - thanks again!