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The Cure 2023 Reading Challenge
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Supermod's The Cure Reading Challenge
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Three Imaginary Boys
“Grinding Halt” – Take credit for a book you DNFd
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Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
“Just Like Heaven” – Read a book that you anticipate will become a year-end favorite
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The Cure
“(I Don’t Know What’s Going) On” – Read a book that has amazing twists and turns that you couldn’t predict
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Seventeen Seconds
“Secrets” - Read a book that you’d consider a guilty pleasure
The Top
“Bananafishbones” – Read a bizarro book
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The Top
“Bird Mad Girl” – Read a book with a nonsensical title
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The Top
“Wailing Wall” – Read a book with a title that contains the same first letters
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The Head on the Door
“A Night Like This” – Stay up late reading a book and take credit for it here
Wish
“Trust” – Read a book a close friend recommended to you
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Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
“Icing Sugar” – Read a book that you’d classify as “brain candy”
Wild Mood Swings
“Mint Car” – Read a book while on a road trip and take credit for it here
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Pornography
“One Hundred Years” – If you read a book that felt like it took ages to finish, take credit for it here
4:13 Dream
“Underneath the Stars” – Read a book outside at night
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Wish
“Apart” – Read a book in which the cover doesn’t match the content
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4:13 Dreams
"Freakshow” – Read a book you’d be embarrassed to have people see you read
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Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
“How Beautiful You Are” – Read a book that you think is visually gorgeous (cover, illustrations, French flaps, sprayed edges, whatever!)
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Pornography
“The Hanging Garden” – If you read a book that creeped you out, take credit for it here
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The Top
“The Empty World” – Read a post apocalyptic book
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Wish
“To Wish Impossible Things” – Give a new genre a try and take credit for it here
Wild Mood Swings
“Gone!” – Read a book in which magic is heavily featured
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Bloodflowers
“Bloodflowers” – Read a book that you know will haunt you for some time to come
Wish
“High” – If you read a book that’s left you feeling all the feels, take credit here
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Bloodflowers
“There Is No If…” – Read a book you that strongly loved or strongly hated and take credit for it here
“Maybe Someday” – Read a book that you keep meaning to pick up and take credit for it here
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Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
“Hot Hot Hot!!!” – Read a book that everyone’s talking about
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The Head on the Door
"The Baby Screams” – Read a book that features creepy babies (or baby dolls) or in which the main character is pregnant
Wish
“Doing the Unstuck” – Read a science fiction book
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413 Dream
“The Scream” – Read a book that pissed you off so badly you wanted to throw it across the room
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413 Dream
“The Only One” – Read a book by your favorite author
Seventeen Seconds
“At Night” – Read a book that’s too scary to read at night
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Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
“Like Cockatoos” – If you read a book that feels familiar, take credit for it here
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Wild Mood Swings
“It Used to Be Me” – Read a book that’s been on your TBR for a super long time, that a much younger you bought, but you realize you aren’t into anymore.
Wish
“Open” – Read a book that you’ve been putting off
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Wild Mood Swings
“The 13th” – Read a ‘feel good’ book and take credit for it here
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The Cure
“Truth, Goodness, and Beauty” – Read a book that blew you away
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Wish
“Wendy Time” – Read a book that’s written by someone who identifies as female
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Head on the Door
“Six Different Ways” – Read a book in a different format than you normally do (digital instead of print, audiobook, graphic novel instead of traditional)
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“It’s Over” – Read a book that convinces you to never read another book by that author again
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Disintegration
“The Same Deep Water as You” – If you read a book that has left you just as confused as everyone else, take credit here
“Closedown” – Take credit here if you let your true introvert shine, and read a book during a social event
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Three Imaginary Boys
“Accuracy” – Read a book that required the author to do a lot of research to get right
Book 80: Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
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Disintegration
“Disintegration” - Read a badly beat up used book (bonus points if you show us how bad a condition it was in!)
It was dog eared pretty heavily, posted the pic to twitter when I got it : (
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Bloodflowers
“The Last Day of Summer” - Read a book that is set in the summer time
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The Cure
“Lost” – Read a book that made absolutely no sense to you
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The Cure
“The Promise” – Read a book that you kept promising someone you would get to, but kept putting off
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Wild Mood Swings
“Numb”- Read a book for so long, in the same position, that your arms or legs go numb, and take credit for it here
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(not on goodreads yet, releases in October)
Book 91: Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler
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4:13 Dreams
“This. Here and Now. With You” – Carry a book around with you and read it wherever you go, whenever you can, then take credit for it here
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(not on goodreads yet, coming out next year)
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Bloodflowers
“39” – Read a book with a number in the title
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4:13 Dreams
“The Perfect Boy” – Read a book that was absolutely perfect, a 5 star read
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Disintegration
“Homesick” – Read a book that’s set in your hometown, or written by an author from your hometown
Book 99: Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by EM Roy
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Pornography
“A Strange Day” – Read a book that was just plain weird
Bloodflowers
“Watching Me Fall” - Read a new to you author that you’ve instantly fallen in love with
Seventeen Seconds
“The Final Sound” – Read a book that still resonates with you after you’ve finished it
Wild Mood Swings
“Trap” – Read a book that you literally could not put down