You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

I have just joined the group and trying to figure out the fun reading challenges. I would ideally like to earn at least a badge on this one. Creating the topic here to stay organized (as I always tend to read unplanned). Think this would be a great way for me to explore books in a way that I have never done before.


Challenge link

Puzzle 1
1- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau ✔
2- Clockwork Prince✔ ⍟
3- Babel: An Arcane History ✔
4-Nine Liars✔
5-Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe✔ ⍟
6-The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There ✔
7-Call Me By Your Name✔
8-Duncan's Bride✔ ⍟
9- Book Lovers✔ ⍟
10- The House in the Cerulean Sea✔ ⍟

Puzzle 2
1-The End of Men✔⍟
2- I, Claudius✔
3-A Man Called Ove ✔ ⍟
4- Where the Crawdads Sing ✔
5-Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow ✔ ⍟
6- The Christmas Fair Killer ✔
7-Over Your Shoulder ✔
8- ✔
9- ✔
10-The Night Circus ✔ ⍟

Puzzle 3
1-The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times✔
2- City of Thieves✔
3- Finlay Donovan Is Killing It✔
4- The Chestnut Man✔
5- The Bodyguard✔
6-It Ends with Us✔
7-That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon✔ ⍟
8- Act Your Age, Eve Brown✔ ⍟
9- Death Comes at the End✔
10- Lock Every Door . ✔ ⍟

Puzzle 4
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2- The Maid / The Downstairs Girl
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4-Shantaram - TBC
5-Riley Sager
6-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / Eleanor & Park - TBC
7-Shadow and Bone
8- Bunny✔ ⍟
9-The Bitter Past
10-

Puzzle 5
1-Carrie Soto Is Back✔ ⍟
2- All Your Perfects
3- Cards on the Table
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5- Jussi Adler-Olsen
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7-Kaikeyi
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9-
10- - TBC

Puzzle 6
1-Borrow My Heart/ A Nose for Mischief / Flop Dead Gorgeous
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3- Strange Sally Diamond
4- Slaughterhouse-Five✔
5-Lessons in Chemistry
6- If We Were Villains✔
7-Project Hail Mary✔⍟
8- William Martin / Martha Wells -> The Tale of Indigo and Cloud / Fugitive Telemetry
9-The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ✔
10- The Good Sister✔ ⍟

Puzzle 7
1-The A.B.C. Murders - ✔
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4-A Terrible Kindness/ The Fortune Men / A Shadow On The Lens
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7- The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
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10-Stephen King Agatha Christie Dean KootzMadeleine Wickham

Puzzle 8
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2- In Five Years - measure of time
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4-This is How You Lose the Time War ✔ ⍟
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7- The Diviners
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10- / /

Puzzle 9
1-The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue✔ ⍟
2- It Happened One Summer ✔ ⍟
3- The Girls I've Been✔ ⍟
4-A Court of Thorns and Roses. ✔ ⍟
5-The Last House on Needless Street ✔ ⍟
6-The Gates✔ ⍟
7- Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute✔
8-Our Wives Under the Sea✔
9-I Kissed Shara Wheeler✔
10-Arsenic and Adobo✔

Puzzle 10
1- Moon Called
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3- Fourth Wing / The Priory of the Orange Tree
4- Cards on the Table✔
5- Float Plan✔
6- My Sister, the Serial Killer - The main character is an unmarried woman whose love of life is taken away by her sister ✔
7- November 9✔
8-The Gunslinger✔
9-The Night Swim ✔ ⍟
10- Beartown✔ ⍟

Puzzle 11
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3- Hamnet✔ ⍟
4-Happy Place / I Have Some Questions for You
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7-It Starts with Us
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Puzzle 12
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5-Shattered Mirror
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10- A Little Life - published 2015 ✔ ⍟

Welcome to the group Nistha. I hope you enjoy the challenges. House in the Cereleun Sea and A Man Called Ove are excellent choices, both favourites of mine.

Thanks a lot Janice. I thoroughly enjoyed A Man called One, can't wait to figure out the remaining puzzle and read some great books this year!

WoF Nix

Badge 1, Book 1
Puzzle 2 Task 3
A Man Called Ove
Read the ebook, 305 pages
The cover has Ove in the cover with both the arms showing, absolutely loved this book.

My review here.

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Badge 1, Book 2
Puzzle 3 Task 10
Lock Every Door
Read the ebook, 359 pages
The book has a large door (or maybe 2 doors) on the cover.

My review here.

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Badge 1, Book 3
Puzzle 9 Task 4
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Read the book, 416 pages
Title has Thorns
My review here.

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Badge 1, Book 4
Puzzle 4 Task 8
Bunny
Read the ebook, 337 pages
Title starts with B
My review here.

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When a task involves a cover, please post links to both the cover and the title.

Thanks.

Janice wrote: "🔆

When a task involves a cover, please post links to both the cover and the title.

Thanks."

Offcourse, added now :)

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Badge 1, Book 5
Puzzle 10 Task6
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Read the ebook, 242 pages
The book's main character Korede (a nurse), is a bachelorette who is in love with the doctor in the hospital. But her stunning sister Ayoola steals the love of her life through her stunning look and outgoing personality. As Ayoola has a strange habit of killing her lovers, Korede struggles to protect between family and love. She remains unmarried throughout.
My full review here.

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Badge 1, Book 6
Puzzle 12 Task 10
A Little Life
Read the ebook, 740 pages
Book was published in 2015
My review here.

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Badge 1, Book 7
Puzzle 1 Task 9
Book Lovers
Read the book, 373 pages
Book has 2 boats on the cover, in the edition I own

My review here.

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Badge 1, Book 8
Puzzle 8 Task 4
This is How You Lose the Time War
Read the ebook, 209 pages
There are back-and-forth letters between 2 rivals - Red & Blue, which turn into something very profound. But the letters pose the risk to their lives. This book explores letters in a way I have never seen before.
My review here.

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Badge 1, Book 9
Puzzle 7 Task 1
The A.B.C. Murders
Read the ebook, 232 pages
The book is set between 1901 and 1946
Chapter 1 "In June 1935 I came back to Britain for six months on business while my wife stayed in South America to manage the farm. I didn't know that, during that time, I was going to work with my old friend Poirot again"

My review here

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Badge 1, Book 10
Puzzle 6 Task 2
Love on the Brain
Read the book, 368 pages
The girl is wearing jeans in the cover

My review here

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Badge 1, Book 11
Puzzle 5 Task 1
Carrie Soto Is Back
Read the e-book, 369 pages
The book takes place across matches 4 places- Australia (Melbourne), US, UK (Wimbledon), France
My review here

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Badge 1, Book 12
Puzzle 11 Task 3
Hamnet
Read the e-book, 372 pages
Book is based in 16th century, years mentioned even in the desc. "Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet. "
My review here

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Congrats on earning the first badge.

Yayy! Thanks Janice

Badge 1 books
1. Puzzle 1, Task 9, Book Lovers
2. Puzzle 2, Task 3, A Man Called Ove
3. Puzzle 3, Task 10, Lock Every Door
4. Puzzle 4, Task 8, Bunny
5. Puzzle 5, Task 1, Carrie Soto Is Back
6. Puzzle 6, Task 2, Love on the Brain
7. Puzzle 7, Task 1, The A.B.C. Murders
8. Puzzle 8, Task 4, This is How You Lose the Time War
9. Puzzle 9, Task 4, A Court of Thorns and Roses
10. Puzzle 10, Task 6, My Sister, the Serial Killer
11. Puzzle 11, Task 3, Hamnet
12. Puzzle 12, Task 10, A Little Life


Badge 2 - Complete lists puzzle 2 and puzzle 3

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Badge 2, Book 1
Puzzle 2 Task 10
The Night Circus
Read the hardcover, 387 pages
Book is in the first page of the list, and has "adult" tag on main page.
My review here

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Badge 2, Book 2
Puzzle 2 Task 4
Where the Crawdads Sing
Read the ebook, 384 pages
Book rated 4.4 on Goodreads (>4.1)
My review here

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Badge 2, Book 3
Puzzle 2 Task 6
The Christmas Fair Killer
Read the ebook, 224 pages
Book on Christmas -> The book is a cosy Christmas thriller - set around the holiday period. The whole act takes around Christmas time with the ending on Christmas Day

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Badge 2, Book 4
Puzzle 3 Task 7
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
Read the ebook, 182 pages
Book where the main character sets on journey ->
Cinnamon, our main character, gets drunk and saves a demon, Fallon. Then they both set out on a journey with a mission (in spoilers) (view spoiler)[ When it seems that the fake goddess has stolen powers of demons and made them feel like monsters, she must be stopped. So they have to go on a journey and adventure to destroy her powers in 3 other locations. On the way, they free monsters, fall in love and make a lot of demon friends. (hide spoiler)]

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Badge 2, Book 5
Puzzle 2 Task 7
Over Your Shoulder
Audiobook, 9 hours 12 mins
Book has "shoulder" in the title

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Badge 2, Book 6
Puzzle 2 Task 2
I, Claudius
Read the ebook, 468 pages
Book on Roman empite -> The story is about the journey of Claudius to become the king of the Roman empire a fictionalized autobiography and talks about the kings before him.

My review here

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Badge 2, Book 7
Puzzle 3 Task 4
The Chestnut Man
Listened to the audiobook, paperback is 519 pages
Book with name of tree in title -> The book has "Chestnut" in the title

My review here

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Badge 2, Book 8
Puzzle 3 Task 8
Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Read the ebook, 400 pages
3rd or 9th in series -> The book is the third book of the "The Brown Sister" series, which is about the youngest Brown sister, Eve Brown!

My review here

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Badge 2, Book 9
Puzzle 3 Task 1
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Listened to the audiobook, the hardcover is 272 pages
Book on the environment - Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist and Doug Abrams, an internationally-bestselling author speak throughout the book on hope with a focus on the environmental challenges the world is facing. They speak of many anecdotes of her past, the "Roots and Shoots" initiative, how we should think about what we are leaving for the future generation, and animal behaviour which leaves us with the urge to act now on the issues.

My review here

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