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Annual Challenge

Shirley’s Reading Plans

Badge 1

Puzzle 1 Task 2The Kitchen Front
Puzzle 2 Task 4 The Romantic
Puzzle 3 Task 1.The Disaster Tourist
Puzzle 4 Task 8 Crows Nest
Puzzle 5 Task 8 The Ninth Child
Puzzle 6 Task 9 West with Giraffes
Puzzle 7 Task 10 Ithaca
Puzzle 8 Task 8 How High We Go in the Dark
Puzzle 9 Task 7 The Love of my Life
Puzzle 10 Task 4 Killers of a Certain Age
Puzzle 11 Task 4 Weyward
Puzzle 12 Task 4 Red Snow

Badge 2
Puzzle 4 Task 1 The Sun Walks Down
Puzzle 4 Task 2 Cicada
Puzzle 4 Task 3 A Children's Bible
Puzzle 4 Task 4 The Bird Hotel: A Novel
Puzzle 4 Task 5 Cold People
Puzzle 4 Task 6 Crow Lake
Puzzle 4 Task 7 Bone by Bone
Puzzle 4 Task 9 'Round Midnight
Puzzle 4 Task 10 Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Puzzle 6 Task 1 Good Dogs Don't Make it to the South Pole
Puzzle 6 Task 2 Into the Night
Puzzle 6 Task 3 Strange Sally Diamond
Puzzle 6 Task 4 This House Is Mine
Puzzle 6 Task 5 The Wintering Place
Puzzle 6 Task 6 At the Edge of the Orchard
Puzzle 6 Task 7 The Great Alone
Puzzle 6 Task 8 Precious Bane
Puzzle 6 Task 10 I’ll Leave You With This

WoF Shirley

1. Badge 1 Book 1
2. Puzzle 2 Task 4
3. The Romantic
4. 450 pages
5. Read a book with a higher than 4.1 average rating on Goodreads
6. This book has an average rating of 4.35

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 1 Book 2
2. Puzzle 7 Task 10
3. Ithaca
4. 400 pages
5. Read a book where the author writes under a pseudonym.
6. The author’s name is Catherine Webb. Claire North is her pseudonym.

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 1 Book 3
2. Puzzle 12 Task 4
3. Red Snow
4. I listened to the audiobook. The hardback is 400 pages
5. Types of monkeys - snow, bald, black, Barbary, spider, blue, emperor, Read a book with one of the aforementioned words in the title. Monkey is another word you may use.
6. The word Snow is on the title.

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WoF Shirley


1. Badge 1 Book 4
2. Puzzle 1 Task 2
3.The Kitchen Front
4. 432 pages
5. Read a book that is MPG Historical Fiction and set in England.
6. The book’s main page lists the genre of historical fiction first. The book is set in WW2 England.

WoF Shirley

1. Badge 1 Book 5
2. Puzzle 6 Task 9
3.
4. 372 pages
5. Read a book where the title is in a script font on the cover. - Cannot be fonts that are italics. It must look like handwriting.
6. The title is in a script that looks like handwriting.

West with Giraffes is task 9.

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Janice wrote: "West with Giraffes is task 9."
OK. Thanks for picking that up, Janice. Sorry for the mistake.

WoF Shirley


1. Badge 1 Book 6
2. Puzzle 3 Task 1
3. The Disaster Tourist
4. I read the ebook. The paperback has 200 pages.
5. Read a book about the environment.
6. This book is about a travel agent who specialises in “disaster tourism”, where she organised tours to places that have recently suffered a disaster in the natural environment, such as a tsunami or a volcanic eruption.

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 1 Book 7
2. Puzzle 4 Task 8
3.Crows Nest
4. 320 pages
5. Read a book where the first letter of the title (not including articles) starts with ABCDE.
6. The title of the book starts with the letter C

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 1 Book 8
2. Puzzle 9 Task 7
3. The Love of my Life
4. I listened to the audiobook. The hb is 385 pages
5. Read a book written by a British author.
6. The author lives in Bristol, UK.

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 1 Book 9
2. Puzzle 11 Task 4
3. Weyward
4. 368 pages
5. Read a book that was/is a new release in 2023.
6. This book was published in February 2023.

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WoF Shirley


1. Badge 1 Book 10
2. Puzzle 5 Task 8
3. The Ninth Child
4. 336 pages
5. Read a book with Child in the title or author's name is Child.
6. The word child is in the title.

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 1 Book 11
2. Puzzle 8 Task 8
3. How High We Go in the Dark
4. 322 pages
5. Read a book where the author's last name starts with an n, and whom you've never read before.
6. The author’s surname is Nagamatsu. It starts with the letter n. I haven’t read any other book by this author.

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 1 Book 12
2. Puzzle 10 Task 4
3.
. Killers of a Certain Age
4. 353 pages
5. Read a book with has a knife on the cover. Tableware not included. It must be a weapon.
6. The knife on the cover is used as a weapon to kill.

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Congrats on finishing the first badge.

Janice wrote: "🔆

Congrats on finishing the first badge."Thanks!

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2 Book 1
2. Puzzle 4 Task 3
3. A Children's Bible
4. 240 pages
5. Read a book with one or more of the following barnyard animals on the cover - Chickens, Cattle, Sheep, Ducks, Goats, or Pigs.
6. On the cover of this book is a sheep.

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 2 Book 2
2. Puzzle 4 Task 7
3. Bone by Bone
4. I read the ebook. Paperback has 336 pages.
5. Read a book with Bone(s) in the title.
6. The word BONE is in the title ….. twice🙂

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WoF Shirley


1. Badge 2 Book 3
2. Puzzle 6 Task 7
3. The Great Alone
4. I read the ebook. The hb has 448 pages
5. Read a book where there is a character that is a teacher.
6. This is the story of Lenora who, with her family, move to Alaska. Her teacher’s name there is Mrs Rhodes.

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 2 Book 4
2. Puzzle 4 Task 2
3. Cicada
4. I read the ebook. Paperback is 248 pages.
5. Read a book with a character who is a maid servant whose responsibilities would include ironing clothing.
6. This is the story of Emily, an Australian station owner’s wife and her Aboriginal maid, set in the years after the First World War. Ironing is not specifically mentioned, but it is known that Aboriginal servants in those days were expected to do the full range of household tasks. Ironing clothes would have been included.

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WoF Shirley


1. Badge 2 Book 5
2. Puzzle 4 Task 5
3. Cold People
4. 452 pages
5. Read a book where all the initials of the author are included in RSTU in any order.
6. The author’s name is Tom Rob Smith. The initials are TRS

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 2 Book 6
2. Puzzle 6 Task 10
3.
4. 336 pages
5. Read a book where the cover has flowers WITH stems
6. On the cover are flowers with stems.

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 2 Book 7
2. Puzzle 4 Task 10
3.
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
4. I read the ebook . HC has 207 pages
5. Read a book with a wreath of flowers or a hedge of flowers on it. There may also be a flower bed full of flowers.
6. There are garden beds full of flowers on the cover.

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WoF Shirley

1. Badge 2 Book 8
2. Puzzle 4 Task 1
3. The Sun Walks Down
4. 416 pages.
5. Read a book with a significant character who is a painter.
6. Set in the 1880s, this story is about a lost boy in the South Australian desert. A number of characters are involved in the search for him, including a Swedish artist and his wife who are travelling through the outback looking for inspiration from the landscape.

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WoF Shirley


1. Badge 2 Book 9
2. Puzzle 6 Task 3
3. Strange Sally Diamond
4. 320 pages
5. Read a book with the name of a gem in the title using the list.
6. Diamond is on the list. Diamond is in the title.

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How did you like this book? I have it on my wishlist.

Janice wrote: "🔆

How did you like this book? I have it on my wishlist."I thought it was brilliant - couldn't put it down. I was wavering between four and five stars, and ended up giving it 4 because of the way a small section of subject matter was dealt with. (view spoiler)[the way a son of the paedophile acted was horrific (hide spoiler)]

WoF Shirley
1. Badge 2 Book 10
2. Puzzle 4 Task 4
3. The Bird Hotel: A Novel
4. 432 pages.
5. Read a book with the theme of tourism.
6. This is the story of a young woman whose tragic life leads her to a run-down hotel in a beautiful but remote location in South America. She tries to forget her past, and she ends up owning the hotel, repairing it, living there, and employing local people. Her hotel becomes the subject of interest to various tourists, international hotel chains, and a few jealous locals trying to cash in on the hotel’s success.

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Thanks Shirley. I'm reading Tress of the Emerald Sea for that task, but I'll keep my eye out for a good deal on Strange Sally Diamond.