The Procrastinators Book Club discussion

Welcome to our third quarter challenge!

Like all of our challenges, this one is about you choosing your own path.

The rules are simple, but following them will be a little...difficult...depending on how hard or easy you make it for yourself.

1. Pick a 4, 5 or 6-letter word of your choice (yes, it needs to be a word in English)
2. Choose books with titles that start with each letter, to spell out your word. For example:
My word is BOOK
B Bitten
O Oona Out of Order
O One Last Stop
K King of Scars
3. Read your books and update!

The total books you'll need to read to complete the challenge is between 4 to 6.

If you want to be a little extra, you're more than welcome to complete multiple words or spell out a phrase in book titles (level 4).

The levels:

1. Four Letter Furies
2. Five Letter Fantastics
3. Six Letter Superstars
4. Multiple Word Marvels

As always, there are no page limits for our quarterly challenges.

This challenges runs from July 1st to September 30th

Participants:

Furies

Fantastics

Superstars
Panthea (11) 3/6
Rahcel 1/6

Marvels
Abigail (13) 8/12
Bopeep (12) 8/10
Brianna (5) 1/24
Halina (9) 1/4; 1/7
June (7) 9/17
Maria (4) 4/13


Finishers
May (6) Fury
Louisa Fantastic
Melanie (8) Fantastic
Halina Fury
Tari (3) Marvel
Isabella (10) Marvel

Completion Post Template:

Level:
Completed: X/X

WORD:
W
O
R
D

Pick Your Word, Q3
Jul 1-Sept. 30, 2021
I think I'm gonna pick books ahead-keeps me on track better-books/authors linked when read

Level: Four letters for starters

Completed: 4/4

Trim

T Two Wicked Desserts Lynn Cahoon 7/26/21
R The Rocky Road to Ruin Meri Allen 7/24/21
I If Fried Chicken Could Fly Paige Shelton 8/19/21
M Murder at the Lakeside Library Holly Danvers 7/7/21

Hoping to do this 5-letter too:

Scone
Completed 5/5

S A Scone of Contention Lucy Burdette 8/2/21
C The Chocolate Raccoon Rigmarole JoAnna Carl 7/29/21
O One for the Hooks Betty Hechtman 8/5/21
N No Grater Crime Maddie Day 8/23/21
E Eclairs and Escapes Ramona Ransom 7/12/21

Level 4: Multiple Word Marvels
Completed: 4/13

Stephen King described books as a uniquely:

P
O
R
T
A
B
L
E - Escaping Exodus

M - Million Dollar Demon
A
G - Gods of Jade and Shadow
I
C - Children of Earth and Sky

Taking a look at what books I *hope* to plan in July, I'm going to go for level 4 and do multiple words. I decided to choose 5 characters from the Mario franchise and spell out their names.

books read: 01 | 24

Peach
P: The Poet X
E: European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
A: At the End of the Matinee
C: The Crying of Lot 49
H: Hild

Yoshi
Y:
O:
S: The Starless Sea
H: Half Sick of Shadows
I: Internment

Mario
M: The Maidens
A: All That Glitters
R:
✓ I: If I Was Your Girl
O:

Toad
T: Tokyo Ever After
O:
A:
D: Dress Codes for Small Towns

Luigi
L: The Lies of Locke Lamora
U:
I: If We Were Villains
G:
I: If I Never Met You

Level: Four Letter Furies
Completed: 4/4

Hats
H: Heir of Fire ✅
A: Aru Shah and the End of Time ✅
T: The Box in the Woods ✅
S: The Selection ✅

Level: 4
Completed: 11/17


WATCHES

W: The Woods
**A: Arcadia- July 23
**T: Truly Devious Sept 12
C: Cibola Burn
**H: Heir of Novron- August 7
**E: European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman- July 31
**S: The Sword of Kaigen- July 13

GASH

**G: The Gilded Ones July 27
A: Akata Witch
**S: Suite Française- August 10
H: Holy Sister

SPRING
**S: The Snow Child- July 9
**P: Project Hail Mary- Sept 22
R: Revelation Space or Ruin and Rising
I: I Am Pilgrim
**N: Never Die -July 2
**G: Glory in Death- July 25

I'd like to sign up. I think I'm going to pick the word

Completed 5/5 - Five Letter Fantastics


G: Gods of Jade and Shadow
I: If the Creek Don't Rise
R: Rules of Civility
L: Love in a Nutshell
S: Summer of '69

I am not sure what books I'll read, but I'm needing a Pro-Women Summer, so as soon as I know what I'm reading. I'll fill in these letters.

DONE!

Level 4 - 18/18 ☑
W: Witches Steeped in Gold ☑
R: A River of Royal Blood ☑
I: Incarnate ☑
T: This Vicious Cure ☑
E: Every Last Breath ☑
R: Rise ☑
S: Sister ☑

B: Blackout ☑
L: Little Peach ☑
O: Ones and Zeroes ☑
C: Cruel Crown ☑
K: Killing Kate ☑

I: If We Were Villains ☑
S: The Song of Achilles ☑

O: One for Sorrow ☑
V: Vanishing Girls ☑
E: Eight Perfect Murders ☑
R: Ruin and Rising ☑

Level: Six Letter Superstars
Completed: 3/6
Word: Planet
P
L Little Women ✓
A The Alchemist ✓
N Ninth House
E
T Taming the Star Runner ✓

Level: Multiple Word MArvels
Completed: 8/10

WORD:
G - The Gilded Ones ☑ 30/07/21
O - On a Sunbeam ☑ 14/07/2021
L - The Lies of Locke Lamora ☑ 28/07/21
D -
E - En las montañas de la locura
N - Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang ☑ 09/07/21

C - Ciudad de ceniza ☑ 13/07/2021
A - Antártida: Estación Polar ☑ 09/08/2021
R - Red Seas Under Red Skies ☑ 26/09/2021
T - This Golden Flame ☑ 18/7/2021

Okay I've been wanting to do a phrase and I thought of an absolutely stupid one so here goes

8/12

B:
E: The Extraordinaries

G: The Gilded Ones
A: Any Way the Wind Blows
Y:

D:
O: The Outsiders

C: Clap When You Land
R:
I: Internment
M: Mosquitoland
E: Elatsoe

Abigail wrote: "Okay I've been wanting to do a phrase and I thought of an absolutely stupid one so here goes

1/12

B:
E:

G:
A:
Y:

D:
O:

C:
R:
I:
M: Mosquitoland
E:"

I love it!

UPDATED

Welcome all! Good luck on your challenges and a reminder to those who haven't joined and are looking that you can join until September 30th (when the challenge closes)

I would like to join even though i'm a little late (: ~rachel


Level: six letter superstars
Completed: 1/6

coffee:
c:
o:
f: Final Girls
f:
e:
e:

Updated msg. 3 Finished 2 words, Trim (4/4) and Scone (5/5)

Three weeks left to finish our hardest challenge of the year!

I am loving all of your words/sentences!

Message 8 Updated.

I probably should have picked a longer word or more inspired word, but at the time I really was in kind of a reading slump and trying to push through it. But something about sorting my reading list by alphabet was really an interesting exercise. I ended up struggling to find an R title, so I turned to my Audible wish list and found Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. Wowser! I loved the language and the experience of reading this book so much. So even though my word GIRLS may have been uninspired, that book alone made this challenge worth it. Through June I had only read 22 books toward my 75 book goal for 2021. But something about this challenge finally lit my reading spark again, and I've been able to get myself back on schedule having now read 54 titles and feeling much more inpsired. So thanks for this challenge.

laurel [the suspected bibliophile] wrote: "Three weeks left to finish our hardest challenge of the year!

I am loving all of your words/sentences!"

I'd love to see more of this challenge down the road, it was really fun and helped me get through some ARCs as well as a book I'd been wanting to read for a long time.

BOATS

B: Bridge to Terabithia
O: One of Us Is Lying
A: Anne of Green Gables
T: The Outsiders
S: Soldier X

Haha I actually did it!
(I am not finished with one of us is lying or soldier x yet but I am planning on finishing them this month)

Abigail wrote: "Okay I've been wanting to do a phrase and I thought of an absolutely stupid one so here goes

8/12

B:
E: The Extraordinaries

G: The Gilded Ones
A: [book:Any Way th..."


what a phrase LOL im digging it

Message 6 updated

UPDATED

Three more days! So many of you are very close!

Congrats to our finishers!

Furies: May and Halina

Fantastics: Louisa and Melanie

Marvels: Isabella and Tari!

Tari wrote: "laurel [the suspected bibliophile] wrote: "Three weeks left to finish our hardest challenge of the year!

I am loving all of your words/sentences!"

I'd love to see more of this challenge down the ..."

Okay! I can definitely make that happen!

Melanie wrote: "Message 8 Updated.

I probably should have picked a longer word or more inspired word, but at the time I really was in kind of a reading slump and trying to push through it. But something about so..."

I'm glad this helped you get out of your reading slump!

Updated message 7- completed 11 of 17 books. September was not a good month so my reading fell off. But I finished some good books.

June wrote: "Updated message 7- completed 11 of 17 books. September was not a good month so my reading fell off. But I finished some good books."

I'm sorry September wasn't good. Hopefully October is better <3

Well done everyone!