The Procrastinators Book Club discussion

Title: Maisie Dobbs
Author: Jacqueline Winspear
Start Date: 05.01.22
Finish Date: 05.02.22
Category and task: Jingle Bell Rock 3 - won an Alex Award in 2004
Graphic Novel?: no
Buddy Read?: no
Group Read?: no
Pages: 292
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I'm not sure why, but on the Categories page in the spreadsheet it's not showing the prompt I completed. Not sure if it will update later or who to mention this to in regards to correcting it.

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Title: An American Marriage
Author: Tayari Jones
Start Date: 1 May 2022
Finish Date: 2 May 2022
Category and task: Army Pants and Flip Flops 5. Read a book that features a love triangle
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 308
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Brianna wrote: "I'm not sure why, but on the Categories page in the spreadsheet it's not showing the prompt I completed. Not sure if it will update later or who to mention this to in regards to correcting it."

Weird, I don't see anything wrong. Maybe write a note on the sign-up and questions thread?

Jen K wrote: "Brianna wrote: "I'm not sure why, but on the Categories page in the spreadsheet it's not showing the prompt I completed. Not sure if it will update later or who to mention this to in regards to cor..."

Yeah it's showing the prompt that you completed on that last page. Oh well! It's showing the points which is truly the important part. lol

Brianna wrote: "I'm not sure why, but on the Categories page in the spreadsheet it's not showing the prompt I completed. Not sure if it will update later or who to mention this to in regards to correcting it."

I fixed it! Your points should be good now :)

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Title: Nowhere But Here
Author: Katie McGarry
Start Date: 05.02.22
Finish Date: 05.04.22
Category and task: Ex-Wives 3 - nominee for YA Fiction in 2015
Graphic Novel?: no
Buddy Read?: no
Group Read?: no
Pages: 445
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: The Spanish Love Deception
Author: Elena Armas
Start Date: 1 May 2022
Finish Date: 4 May 2022
Category and task: So Fetch 3: Read a Vivian Award, RITA , or Swoon Award winner or nominee 2021 Debut
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? Yes
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? No
Pages: 487
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: Year of the Reaper
Author: Makiia Lucier
Start Date: 1 May 2022
Finish Date: 4 May 2022
Category and task: Vintage 4. Read a book with less than 5,000 GR ratings
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? Yes
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? No
Pages: 336
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: The Spanish Love Deception
Author: Elena Armas
Start Date; May 1, 2022
End Date: May 4, 2022
Category: Ex Wives 3. Good Reads Winner/Nominee
Graphic Novel: No
Buddy Read: Yes

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

Group Read: Yes
Pages: 482
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

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Title: Vesper Flights
Author: Helen Macdonald
Start Date: 2 May 2022
Finish Date: 5 May 2022
Category and task: Army Pants 1. Read a book with an animal in title or on the cover
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 304
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Spanish Love Deception
Author: Elena Armas
Start Date: May 1st
Finish Date: May 4th
Category and task: Ex-wives 3 - Goodreads choice winner/nominee
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? yes https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? no
Pages: 448
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Spanish Love Deception
Author: Elena Armas
Start Date: 05.01.22
Finish Date: 05.05.22
Category and task: So Fetch 3 - nominated for debut romance Swoon Award in 2021
Graphic Novel?: no
Buddy Read?: yes (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...)
Group Read?: no
Pages: 487
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: The Spanish Love Deception
Author: Elena Armas
Start Date: May 1st
Finish Date: May 6th
Category and task: So Fetch 2/#ownvoices by Latine(x/a/o) author
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? yes https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? no
Pages: 487
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: The Housekeeper and the Professor
Author: Yōko Ogawa
Start Date: 5 May 2022
Finish Date: 6 May 2022
Category and task: So Fetch 1. Read a book with flowers in the title or cover

Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 180
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: They Both Die In The End
Author: Adam Silvera
Start Date: May 2, 2022
Finish Date: May 6, 2022
Category and task: Pink Polo Shirt 5. Dystopian
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 389
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: The Moonlight Child
Author: Karen McQuestion
Start Date: May 3, 2022
Finish Date: May 6, 2022
Category and task: Pink Polo Shirts 1 Celestial Title/Cover
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 343
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Anatomy: A Love Story
Author: Dana Schwartz
Start Date: May 7th
Finish Date: May 7th
Category and task: Vintage 5/Gothic book
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? yes https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Pages: 338
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Year of the Reaper
Author: Makiia Lucier
Start Date: May 2nd
Finish Date: May 7th
Category and task: Army Pants 2 - Pacific Islander author
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? yes https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? no
Pages: 336
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Iron Widow
Author: Xiran Jay Zhao
Start Date: May 3rd
Finish Date: May 8th
Category and task: Army Pants 3 - award
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? yes https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? no
Pages: 363
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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SPRING FLING update 8 May 2022

We try to post updates each Sunday of this challenge for teams and solo participants. It might not be Sunday yet in some parts of the world but this is for consistency purposes.

TEAMS:
Full of Secrets: 79
We're a Mouse, Duh!: 23
The Plastics: 66
You Go Glen Coco: 29
Personally Victimized by Regina George: 35

You Can't Sit With Us!

Laurel: 9
Rosky: 4
Allyson: 10

It's our first weekly update! Woohoo!

If you're feeling a little behind, that's okay! In the past it's not always the groups that jump ahead in the beginning that win in the end. Points can change dramatically from week to week—the goal is to keep reading, keep posting updates, and rack up those bonus points!

Four housekeeping notes as we roll past our first week:
1. Please plan for your Buddy Reads to start at least 3 days after you request them.
2. Don't forget to put the prompt category and number in your completion post. It helps us out a lot!
3. If you are participating in a Group or Buddy Read, don't forget to post in that thread!
4. Have a question? Ask in the sign-up thread (because other folks might have the same question)...and check to see if anyone else has asked the question before :)

Happy Spring Fling

❤︎ From the Procrastinator Mods

We are 1 prompt away from completing our first category! And just a couple away from another!

What has been y'alls favorite read so far?

Army Pants and Flip Flops
✓ 1. Read a book with an animal in title or on the cover: 2
✓ 2. Read an #ownvoices book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author: 1
✓ 3. Read a Hugo, Locus or Nebula winner or nominee: 1
✓ 4. Read a book that's been on your TBR over 4 years: 1
✓ 5. Read a book that features a love triangle: 1

Pink Polo Shirts
✓ 1. Read a book with a celestial title or cover (stars or moon): 1
✓ 2. Read an #ownvoices book by a trans or nonbinary author: 1
3. Read a book on Rory Gilmore's reading list: Brianna
4. Read a book that was published when you were 9: Anna
✓ 5. Read a dystopian book: 1

Jingle Bell Rock
1. Read a book with a crown in title or on cover (tiaras count too): mina | Anna
2. Read an #ownvoices book by a Black or biracial author: Brianna | Jen K | Cat
✓ 3. Read an Alex Award or William C Morris Award winner or nominee: 1
4. Read a book over 700 pages: mina
5. Read a cozy mystery: Anna | Jen K | Alicia | Asia

Ex-Wives
1. Read a book with "bone" in title or on cover: Jen K
2. Read an #ownvoices book by an asexual or aromantic author: Anna | mina | Asia
✓ 3. Read a Goodreads choice winner/nominee: 3
4. Read a book published before 1900: Brianna | Elysian
5. Read a book set in space: Brianna | mina

So Fetch
✓ 1. Read a book with flowers in the title or cover (or a type of flower in the title): 1
✓ 2. Read an #ownvoices book by an Indigenous or Latine(x/a/o) author: 1
✓ 3. Read a Vivian Award, RITA, or Swoon Award or nominee: 2
4. Read a book with a 4.5 or higher GR rating: Brianna | mina | Asia
5. Read a fairy tale or mythological retelling: Anna | mina

Vintage...so adorable
1. Read a book with blood in title or on cover: Anna | Asia
2. Read an #ownvoices book by a neurodivergent or disabled author: mina | Asia
3. Read a Stonewall Book Award or Lambda Literary Award winner or nominee: Brianna
✓ 4. Read a book with less than 5,000 GR ratings: 1
✓ 5. Read a gothic or dark academia book: 1

Thanks Brianna! Why are some italicized?

The team is doing great! So many buddy reads! I hope everyone has found something good to read.

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Title: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Author: Gretchen Rubin
Start Date: 6 May 2022
Finish Date: 9 May 2022
Category and task: Army Pants 4. Read a book that's been on your TBR over 4 years (Amazon wishlist)
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 301
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Jen K wrote: "Thanks Brianna! Why are some italicized?

The team is doing great! So many buddy reads! I hope everyone has found something good to read."

Italics indicate that at least one person has a book they are for sure/most likely going to read for that prompt. Non italics are those prompts that people are *hoping* to get to. At least based on the first list like that I made when it first started. Haven't really updated it to remove anything. lol

Title: Red, White and Royal Blue
Author: Casey McQuiston
Start Date: May 3, 2022
Finish Date:May 7, 2023
Category and task: Ex Wives 3. goodreads nom
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read?No
Group Read? No
Pages:421
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Author: Alan Bradley
Start Date: 05.05.22
Finish Date: 05.09.22
Category and task: Army Pants 1 - has an animal on the cover
Graphic Novel?: no
Buddy Read?: no
Group Read?: no
Pages: 370
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Brianna wrote: "Jen K wrote: "Thanks Brianna! Why are some italicized?

The team is doing great! So many buddy reads! I hope everyone has found something good to read."

Italics indicate that at least one person h..."

Ahhh!!! Thanks!! We are looking good!

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Title: The Sparrow (this is the edition that I actually read vs the edition I reviewed)
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Start Date: 4 May 2022
Finish Date: 10 May 2022
Category and task: Pink Polo 1. Read a book with a celestial title or cover (stars or moon)

Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 516
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Asia wrote: "Title: Red, White and Royal Blue
Author: Casey McQuiston
Start Date: May 3, 2022
Finish Date:May 7, 2023
Category and task: Pink Polo 2. Non Binary Author
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read?No
Group Read..."

I can't count this under this prompt because it needs to be #ownvoices. Neither of the main characters in the story are nonbinary. But there are lots of other categories this book can fall under! Just let me know and I'll update the spreadsheet.

@laurel ohhh I see!! I thought just the author had to be!! Thanks!! I’ll look at prompts and change it

Asia wrote: "@laurel ohhh I see!! I thought just the author had to be!! Thanks!! I’ll look at prompts and change it"

No worries, just let me know <3

@laurel can we switch it to so fetch 5. Fairy tale retelling??? Boy falls in love with a prince. Happily ever after?? Lol lol

Asia wrote: "@laurel can we switch it to so fetch 5. Fairy tale retelling??? Boy falls in love with a prince. Happily ever after?? Lol lol"

I can do Ex Wives 3?

Let’s do itttt lol thank you!

Asia wrote: "Let’s do itttt lol thank you!"

No worries!

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Title: Loveless
Author: Alice Oseman
Start Date: May 7, 2022
Finish Date: May 11,2022
Category and task: Ex Wives 2: Own Voices ASexual
Graphic Novel?: no
Buddy Read?: no
Group Read?: yes
Pages: 433
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: The Mere Wife
Author: Maria Dahvana Headley
Start Date: 9 May 2022
Finish Date: 11 May 2022
Category and task: So Fetch 5. Read a fairy tale or mythological retelling
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 308
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: Northanger Abbey
Author: Jane Austen
Start Date: 11 May 2022
Finish Date: 14 May 2022
Category and task: Ex-Wives 4. Read a book published before 1900
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 260
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: Skin of the Sea
Author: Natasha Bowen
Start Date: 8 May 2022
Finish Date: 13 May 2022
Category and task: Jingle Bell 2. Read an #ownvoices book by a Black or biracial author
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? Yes
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? No
Pages: 336
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Merciful Crow
Author: Margaret Owen
Start Date: May 7th
Finish Date: May 14th
Category and task: Army Pants 1 - animal on cower
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? yes https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? no
Pages: 369
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Guys you are doing amazing 🥳🥳🥳

I'm feeling a bit slumpish on top of still adjusting to work and being tired.. and the books I've been reading are definitely not helping 😅

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Title: Nettle & Bone
Author: T. Kingfisher
Start Date: 14 May 2022
Finish Date: 14 May 2022
Category and task: Ex Wives 1. Read a book with "bone" in title or on cover
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 243
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

mina wrote: "Guys you are doing amazing 🥳🥳🥳

I'm feeling a bit slumpish on top of still adjusting to work and being tired.. and the books I've been reading are definitely not helping 😅"

@Mina, I feel you. I have had some not so great picks this month which are hard to pick up when work is so exhausting. Luckily I have also found some that I really enjoyed and thankful for the balance. I hope that you pick up some good ones soon!

Hope everyone is finding some good reads!! It is so great that so many have managed to finish a book and the number of buddy/ group reads is super impressive!! Go team!