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YTLO Goes on a Roadtrip Badge 1: Site 2, The USSR Enterprise, Vulcan, Alberta, Canada
✔--Location: Room
✔--About: Leviathan Falls
✔--Souvenir: Klara and the Sun
Site 4, Narcisse Snake Den Sculpture, Inwood, Manitoba, Canada
✔--Location: The Eye of the World
✔--About: The Blue-Ribbon Jalapeno Society Jubilee
✔--Souvenir: Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek
Site 6, Poppy Memorial, Parc des Pionniers, Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada
✔--Location: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
✔--About: The Ladies of the Secret Circus
✔--Souvenir: Return to Tradd Street
Site 14, Shoshone Ice Caves, Shoshone, Idaho, USA
✔--Location: Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
✔--About: Girl in Ice
--Souvenir: Gilead
Side Trip #1: Jolly Green Giant in Blue Earth, MN.
✔--Location: Once Upon a River
✔--About: The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
✔--Souvenir: The Inheritance Games
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Completed 12/5/2022
PopSugar 2022 Challenge:✔1. Book Published in 2022 Black Cake
2. Book Set on a Plane, Train, or Cruise Ship
✔3. Book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society Matrix
4. Book with a tiger on cover or "tiger" in the title Beasts of a Little Land
5. A Sapphic book
✔6. Book by a Latinx author The Five Wounds
✔7. Book with an onomatopoeia in title Under the Whispering Door
8. Book with a protagonist who uses a mobile aid
✔9. Book about a "found family" The Nature of Fragile Things --completed 1/7/22
10. An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
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✔11. A #Booktok Recommendation Book Lovers
✔12. Book about the afterlife The House on Tradd Street
✔13. Book set in the 1980's Malibu Rising--completed 1/3/22
✔14. Book with cutlery on the cover or in the title In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
✔15. Book by a Pacific Islander author Daughter of the Moon Goddess
✔16. Book about witches The Witch's Heart
✔17. Book that is becoming a TV series or movie in 2022 Pachinko
18. Romance Novel by a BIPOC Author
✔19. Book that takes place in your favorite season The Guncle
✔20. Book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read The Girl On Legare Street
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21. Book about a band or musical group
✔22. Book with a character on the Ace spectrum Acts of Violet
✔23. Book with a recipe in it Taste: My Life through Food
✔24. Book you can read in one sittingHook, Line and Blinker
✔25. Book about a secret In the Woods--completed 1/15/22
✔26. Book with a misleading titleFinlay Donovan Is Killing It
27. A Hugo Award Winner His Majesty's Dragon
28. Book set during a holiday
✔29. A different book by an author you read in 2021 The Diamond Eye
30. Book with the name of a board game in the title
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✔31. Book featuring a man-made disaster The Four Winds
✔32. Book with a quote from your favorite author on cover or Amazon page Leviathan Falls
--completed 1/12/2233. Social-horror book
✔34. Book set in Victorian time David Copperfield
✔35. Book with a constellation on cover or in title The Calculating Stars
✔36. Book you know nothing about Galdoni
37. Book about gender identity
✔38. Book featuring a party The Strangers on Montagu Street
39. #ownvoices SFF (science fiction and fantasy) book
✔40. Book that fulfills favorite prompt from previous Pop Sugar challenge Once Upon a River
27/40 books
January Plans:January:
YLTO--2021 award winner
SBCO--
Yearly Challenge Book:
✔Leviathan Falls (Audio)
--Popsugar prompt: 32. Book with a quote from your favorite author on cover or Amazon page (quote by George RR Martin on cover)
--YTLO prompt: Site 2, About
✔Malibu Rising
--Popsugar prompt: 13. Book set in the 1980's (completed 1/3/22)
✔The Nature of Fragile Things
--Popsugar Prompt: 9. Book about a "found family" (completed 1/7/22)
✔In the Woods
--Popsugar Prompt: 25. Book about a secret (completed 1/15/22)
✔The House on Tradd Street
--Popsugar Prompt: 12. Book about the afterlife (completed 1/22/22)
✔The Girl On Legare Street
--Popsugar Prompt: 20. Book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read (completed 1/30/22)
✔Hook, Line and Blinker
--Popsugar Prompt: 24. Book you can read in one sitting (completed 1/31/22)
Library books:
Malibu Rising
The Nature of Fragile Things
In the Woods
The House on Tradd Street
The Girl On Legare Street
Hook, Line and Blinker
Total read for month: 7 books
February:YTLO--"Cat Theme"
SBCO--Romantic comedy or Dark Romance
✔Red, White & Royal Blue
Yearly Challenge Books:
✔Room(Audio)
--YTLO prompt: Site 2, Location (completed 2/1/22)
✔The Strangers on Montagu Street
--Popsugar prompt: 38. Book featuring a party (completed 2/6/22)
✔Klara and the Sun
--YTLO prompt: Site 2, Souvenir (completed 2/9/22)
✔The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
--YTLO prompt: Site 4, Souvenir (completed 2/14/22)
✔In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
--YTLO prompt: Site 6, Location (completed 2/18/22)
✔Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
--Popsugar Prompt: 26. Book with a misleading title (completed 2/22/22)
✔Black Cake
--Popsugar Prompt: 1. Book published in 2022. (completed 2/24/22)
✔The Five Wounds
--Popsugar Prompt: 6. Book by a Latinx author
Buddy Read: The Eye of the World
Library books:
✔Change of Fortune
✔Red, White & Royal Blue
✔The Strangers on Montagu Street
✔Reel of Fortune
✔In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
✔Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
✔Black Cake
✔The Five Wounds
Total read for month: 9 books
March:YLTO--"Three Word Titles" ✔The Four Winds
SBCO--A book in your favorite series ✔Return to Tradd Street
Yearly Challenge Books:
✔The Eye of the World
--YTLO prompt: Site 4, Location (completed 3/8/22)
✔Return to Tradd Street
--YTLO prompt: Site 6, Souvenir (completed 3/11/22)
✔The Four Winds
--Popsugar Prompt: 31. Man-made disaster (completed 3/15/22)
✔Pachinko
--Popsugar Prompt: 17. Book that is becoming a TV series or movie in 2022 (completed 3/19/22)
✔ Under the Whispering Door
--Popsugar Prompt: 7. Book with an onomatopoeia in title (completed 3/19/22)
✔The Witch's Heart
--Popsugar Prompt 16. Book about witches (completed 3/28/22)
Library Books:
✔As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
✔Sterling
✔Return to Tradd Street
✔The Four Winds
✔ Pachinko
✔Twist
✔ Under the Whispering Door
Impulse
Beautiful Ruins
✔The Witch's Heart
Total read for month: 9 books
April:YLTO--Humor as main page genre ✔The Guncle
SBCO--Takes place in Spring or has Spring in title
Bookshelf bookclub: ✔The Swimmers
Yearly Challenge Books:
✔The Blue-Ribbon Jalapeno Society Jubilee
--YTLO prompt: Site 4, About
✔The Guncle
--Popsugar prompt: 19. Book that takes place in your favorite season
✔Matrix
--Popsugar Prompt: 3. Book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society
✔Girl in Ice
--YTLO Prompt: Site 14, About
Library Books:
✔The Blue-Ribbon Jalapeno Society Jubilee
✔Impulse
✔Gravity
✔Shine
✔Matrix
Total read for month: 8 books
May:YTLO-- Magical Creatures ✔ Dragonflight ✔Dragonquest
SBCO --nonfiction about travel ✔In a Sunburned Country
YTLO monthly challenge (Back to the Gallery): ✔Galdoni
Yearly Challenge Books:
✔YTLO Prompt: Site 6, About The Ladies of the Secret Circus
✔YTLO Prompt: Site 14, Location Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
✔Popsugar Prompt: 29. A different book by an author you read in 2021 The Diamond Eye
✔Popsugar Prompt: 36. Book you know nothing about Galdoni
Buddy Read: The Great Hunt
Library Books:
✔The Diamond Eye
Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays--DNF
✔Dragonquest
✔In a Sunburned Country
✔Gilead
✔The White Dragon
Total Books Read: 8 books
June YTLO: Lone human figure on cover
SBCO: Poll Pick Book Lovers
Yearly challenge books:
✔11. A #Booktok Recommendation Book Lovers
Orphans:
✔Lessons in Chemistry
✔Sea of Tranquility
✔Final Girls
Buddy Read: The Great Hunt--DNF
Library Books:
Survive the Night--DNF
✔Sea of Tranquility
✔Final Girls
Total Books Read: 4 Books
JulyYLTO--City/State/Country in Title The Paris Apartment--finished in August
✔SBCO--Summer (Takes place in Summer or has a character named Summer) All the Pretty Things
Yearly Challenge Books:
Library Books:
✔All the Pretty Things
✔Nora Goes Off Script
✔The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death
Total Books Read: 3 books
AugustYTLO--Cover with more than 4 colors The Vanishing Half
SBCO--Self-Help/Nonfiction Taste: My Life through Food
Yearly challenge books:
✔Popsugar #23. Book with a recipe in it Taste: My Life through Food
Library books:
✔Taste: My Life through Food (actually finished in July, but for August topic)
✔Rabbit Cake
✔The Appeal
✔The Paris Apartment
The Candy House
The Vanishing Half
Total books read: 4 books
OctoberThe Count of Monte Cristo (Conquer a classic yearly read completed)
Bookshelf bookclub: Acts of Violet
Total books read: 2 books
NovemberBookshelf bookclub: The Book of Goose
Yearly challenge:
YTLO prompt: Side Trip #1: Souvenier The Inheritance Games
YTLO prompt: Side Trip #1: Location Once Upon a River
Monthly prompts:
SBCO: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
YTLO: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Popsugar:
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
Total books read: 6 books
DecemberYearly challenge:
YTLO prompt: Side Trip #1: About The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
YTLO yearly challenge completed.
Monthly prompts:
SBCO: The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
YTLO: Hamnet
Popsugar:
David Copperfield
Beasts of a Little Land
Monthly challenge:
YTLO: Holiday Romance
Total books read:
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Hamnet (other topics)
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Reading Goal: 52 books
Yearly Challenges:
YTLO Yearly Challenge: YLTO Goes on a Road Trip
--Badge 1: 15 books
2022 Pop Sugar Yearly Challenge: 40 books
Monthly Themes: YTLO and SCBO
January:
YLTO--2021 award winner
SBCO--Set in Winter or "winter" in title
February:
YLTO--Cat themed
SBCO--Romantic comedy or dark comedy
March:
YLTO--"Three Word Titles"
SBCO--A book in your favorite series
April:
YLTO--Humor as main page genre
SBCO--Takes place in Spring or has Spring in title
May:
YLTO-- Magical Creatures
SBCO--Non-fiction or a fiction book about a character who travels
June:
YLTO--Lone human figure on cover
SBCO--Poll Pick (Post five books you want to read and your SBCO friends choose for you or the oldest book on your TBR)
July:
YLTO--City/State/Country in Title
SBCO--Summer (Takes place in Summer or has a character named Summer)
August:
YLTO-- Cover with more than 4 colors
SBCO--Self-Help/Nonfiction
September:
YLTO--
SBCO--Fall (Takes place in Fall or has a clumsy character)
October:
YLTO--
SBCO--Mythology (Original or Retelling, including fairytales)
November:
YLTO--Nonfiction
SBCO--Dark Academia
December:
YLTO--
SBCO--Historical (Non-fiction or Historical Fiction)