The Procrastinators Book Club discussion

RULES
✧ Members will be broken out into up to 3-5 separate teams (or go solo) before the start date (June 1st). You will work together to complete a series of tasks together and complete as many of them as you wish.
✧ Books must be read and reviewed from June 1st through July 31st. Any books or audiobooks started before June 1st or finished after July 31st will not count.
✧ If you read an Audiobook version of a book convert the hours to pages using this site: https://alamantus.itch.io/time-to-page or use the print equivalent on Goodreads.
✧ Graphic/Manga novels are accepted but will only count for half of the listed page count. They have to be on the Goodreads database. (view spoiler)[Recent changes to the Goodreads database rules restrict webcomics from being on the site unless they have a printed edition. (hide spoiler)]
✧ You must post at least 3 status updates OR a review. It doesn't have to be super detailed but try to not just say "this was good" for the book to count.
✧ For prompts: if it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit, and it will not count.
✧ Minimum Lengths:
• Books: 150 pages
• Graphic Novels: 200 pages (halved=100 pages)
• Audiobooks: 150 pages (use GR print equivalent length)

POINT SYSTEM
+1 point for every book that has been read and reviewed that correlates with a category
+2 points for participating in a buddy read (must take place in the group)
+3 for one completed category
+4 points for reading/participating in a group read (must take place in the group)
+5 points for every 1,000 pages read
Note 1: Mods keep track of all points in a shared Google Sheets spread to keep everything as organized as possible.
Note 2: You must actively participate in a buddy or group read for the points to count. Lack of participation means no points! This means commenting your updates in the designated thread for that book.

THE CHALLENGES

Stop, Rock, and Roll
1. Read a book with a red cover
2. Read a book written by a neurodivergent author
3. Listen to an audiobook
4. Read a book that won an award
5. Read a book about music

Jazzercise
1. Read a book set in or written during the Great Depression (1929-1939)
2. Read a book with a black and white cover
3. Read a book written by a Black author
4. Read a book with a strong friendship (platonic)
5. Read a book set in a big city

Country Music Is Just Farm Emo
1. Read a book that has 500 pages or more
2. Read a book set in the Wild West
3. Read a book with a horse on the cover
4. Read a book written by an author who identifies as gay or lesbian
5. Read a romance book

I Listened to Alternative Rock Before It Was Cool
1. Read a book with fewer than 10,000 ratings on GR
2. Read a book whose title takes up the majority of the cover
3. Read a book that merges two or more different genres
4. Read a book written by a nonbinary author
5. Read a banned book

The Return of the Synth
1. Read a science fiction book
2. Read a book that an AI recommends to you (ChatGPT, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.)
3. Read a book that features a scientist
4. Read a book written by an author who uses a pseudonym
5. Read a book with a blue cover

If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It
1. Read a book written by an author who is indigenous to their homeland (Native American, First Nation, Aborigine, etc.)
2. Read a book from Reader’s Digests’ list of classics everyone should read: https://www.rd.com/list/classic-books/
3. Read a dark academia book
4. Read a book set or written in or before the 1800s
5. Re-read a book from your childhood

LINKS TO SPREADSHEET AND DISCORD
To help track your team points, strategize and communicate, we've created individual team spreadsheets and team discord channels. Any errors within it are mine—please let me know if you spot anything wonky.

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Discord: https://discord.com/channels/79136091...

Reminder: Mods will NOT use your spreadsheet to record points. This is for your team purposes only! Please make sure to post an accurate completion post or we will not count it!

PARTICIPANTS
Lexus
Christene Paula✨
LiteraryCryptid
Bujo_bellel
Leslie
Sarah
Gaea
Katie
Melissa

COMPLETION POST:
The mods are going to be needing this from every participant for every book they finish for us to be able to track everything better. Only books that have a completion post will be considered for scoring points. Here is the template:

Title:
Author:
Start Date:
Finish Date:
Category and task: (only one task per book read)
Graphic Novel? (Yes or no)
Buddy Read? (Yes or no)
Group Read? (Yes or no)
Pages: (if a graphic novel, please post original and halved numbers; ex: 244/122)
Review: [link of your review]

Please ensure you include the category and task number. It really helps us when we input into our master spreadsheet <3

Hi everyone! Looks like I'm in an apt team as I am definitely a part of the Napster generation. looking forward to starting this challenge

Greetings!
I too find this group appropriate for myself, as I am napping quite often (mainly because I work 2 jobs and have an unofficial 3rd).
Can't wait to start!

Hi everyone! Looking forward to this challenge

Hello! Looking forward to reading all sorts of books with you guys~

Do you already have plans for which books/prompts you want to tackle first?

that sounds like the kind of organisation I should -probably- do! might try and put together a loose possible TBR later

Hi everyone! I love these games, they always motivate me to read a ton! I usually just read whatever I want and the vast majority of the time, I can find a prompt that fits the book :D

Some of my tentative plans for this summer include:

I already have a buddy read for this in June, so if anyone else wants to join, we can double up on BR points!





These are just a few of my top priorities for the next few months. I am a big mood reader so I never know what I may feel like reading next!

ooh my copy of this arrived today! happy to buddy read it

sorry I meant to say Yellowface. read Happy Place a couple of weeks ago and loved it ☺️

I'd love to jump on a buddy read for Yellowface

I can say I used Napster for a brief moment in the very early 2000's but stopped as I am a huge Metallica fan (who are very much not friends of Napster). So while it is a dubious team to be on in terms of name, it looks like we have good people here. :)
I have a tentative reading plan and know some of the categories I will cover. More on that later.
Curious on Yellowface - what category/ies will you be putting it in? I want to read it too, but couldn't figure out where it fit in the challenges.
So I have books that I plan on reading in the following categories/challenges: Rock - 1, 2, 3 and 4 (several choices in each); Jazz - 1 (couple of C.S. Forester books), 2 (Blackout), and 3 (The Stone Sky); Country - 1 (Island in the Sea of Time), 2 (Lone Women), 3 (Against the Tide of Years) and 5 (lots of choices here so I will see what floats my boat later); Alternative - 1 (Nigerians in Space) and 2 (Doomsday Book); Synth - 1 (Golden Son), 2 (The Name of the Wind), 3 (Lessons in Chemistry), 4 (another C.S. Forester book), and 5 (Mr. Midshipman Hornblower); Baroque - 2 (Frankenstein: The 1818 Text), 4 (several choices) and 5 (The Last Unicorn). I'm planning obviously to go on a Horatio Hornblower (C.S. Forester) reading spree as I now have the whole series, as well as a couple of other series. If there's a hole that needs to be filled for the team, I will see if I can find something in my huge TBR to fulfill it.
June will be busy for me so I might start out slow, but July should be prime reading time.

@Leslie - we appear to both have Frankenstein on our lists... 👀

I've got quite a few buddy reads going on over the next couple of months, though unfortunately most of them are happening in another Goodreads group... But so far I've got these prompts filled out:

Rock #4 - The Prison Healer
Jazz #2 - Seven Faceless Saints
Jazz #4 - Witch King?
Country #1 - Fourth Wing
Alternative #3 - Mountains Made of Glass
Synth #2 - Anne of Green Gables
Synth #4 - A House with Good Bones
Baroque #1 - Elatsoe
Baroque #2 - Frankenstein
Baroque #3 - Ninth House

And I still need to somehow possibly fit The Last Sun, The Fellowship of the Rings, The Two Towers, For the Wolf, Air Awakens, and The Foxglove King on there somehow... >.>

Ok so I just went through my books on the shelves and these are the prompts I can complete with those. There are probably more but I just didn't make the links and I haven't included anything for the more generic ones like 'read a romance book' because I'll just choose that on the day. I tend to find with me, if I make my reading lists too prescriptive I just don't want to read them so those prompts give me a little bit of flex with what I can read

@Leslie I'm putting Yellowface on 'Books under 10,000 reviews as it's currently hovering at 7k. It obviously won't stay there long but it meets the prompt for now :)


Stop, Rock, and Roll
2. The Kiss Quotient – Helen Hoang
4. This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone


Jazzercise
3. How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

Country Music Is Just Farm Emo
4. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong


I Listened to Alternative Rock Before It Was Cool
1. Yellowface by RF Kuang
2. This Wide Night by Sarvit Hasin
4. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Return of the Synth
3. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow


If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It
3. If We Were Villains by ML Rio
4. A Ruin of Witches by Malcolm Gaskill

Some reviews have mentioned that Yellowface (at least largely) takes place in Washington DC, so it will count for Jazzercise 5. Surprisingly, it seems like that is the only one it will fit! And depending on how quickly you finish it, it may count for having less than 10,000 ratings as well ;)

I had already discussed a buddy read schedule, so that will be in the buddy read thread!

I have a short list of books I want to read, and a couple that could be buddy reads if anyone wants:

Stop, Rock, and Roll
1. Read a book with a red cover
Queen Takes Rose
Empire of the Vampire
2. Read a book written by a neurodivergent author
3. Listen to an audiobook
Sweet Berries
Girls Weekend
4. Read a book that won an award
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
5. Read a book about music

Jazzercise
1. Read a book set in or written during the Great Depression (1929-1939)
2. Read a book with a black and white cover
Haunting Adeline
3. Read a book written by a Black author
4. Read a book with a strong friendship (platonic)
Hooky Volume 2
5. Read a book set in a big city
Yellowface

Country Music Is Just Farm Emo
1. Read a book that has 500 pages or more
2. Read a book set in the Wild West
3. Read a book with a horse on the cover
Stranded with a Cowboy
4. Read a book written by an author who identifies as gay or lesbian
The House in the Cerulean Sea
5. Read a romance book
The Beast
The Gargoyle's Captive

I Listened to Alternative Rock Before It Was Cool

1. Read a book with fewer than 10,000 ratings on GR
The Imposters
After Dark: Second Coming Book 1
2. Read a book whose title takes up the majority of the cover
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed
3. Read a book that merges two or more different genres
The Awakening
4. Read a book written by a nonbinary author
In Deeper Waters
5. Read a banned book
American Gods

The Return of the Synth
1. Read a science fiction book
Artificial Condition
Fractal Noise
2. Read a book that an AI recommends to you (ChatGPT, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.)
3. Read a book that features a scientist
Girlfriend on Mars
4. Read a book written by an author who uses a pseudonym
Shameless Mate: A Small Town Second Chance Shifter Romance
5. Read a book with a blue cover
The Kraken's Sacrifice

If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It
1. Read a book written by an author who is indigenous to their homeland (Native American, First Nation, Aborigine, etc.)
2. Read a book from Reader’s Digests’ list of classics everyone should read: https://www.rd.com/list/classic-books/
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
3. Read a dark academia book
A Deadly Education
4. Read a book set or written in or before the 1800s
Bloodlust & Bonnets
5. Re-read a book from your childhood
The Eyre Affair

LiteraryCryptid wrote: "I'm also hoping to read:
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
Roll for Initiative
American Gods
(Just don't know where to put them)

Haven't read these but at a glance, I think American Gods can fit in either Rock #4, Country #1 or Alt Rock #3, or maybe even Alt Rock #5 (if I'm understanding the definition of "banned" properly). Roll for Initiative could be Jazz #4 or Alt Rock #1. Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World could be Rock #4, Country #1, Alt Rock #3, os possibly Synth #5.

Marking my spot for tracking books read here:

Stop, Rock, and Roll
1. Read a book with a red cover The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic by F.T. Lukens (post 133)
2. Read a book written by a neurodivergent author: Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis (post 95 )
3. Listen to an audiobook: Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez (post 95 )
4. Read a book that won an award: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (post 125)
5. Read a book about music The Final Revival Of Opal & Nev

Jazzercise
1. Read a book set in or written during the Great Depression (1929-1939) Flight of Dreams: A Novel by Ariel Lawhon (post 153)
2. Read a book with a black and white cover Artemis by Andy Weir (post 148)
3. Read a book written by a Black author Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb (post 133)
4. Read a book with a strong friendship (platonic): Happy Place by Emily Henry (post 82)
5. Read a book set in a big city: Love Buzz by Neely Tubati Alexander (takes place in New Orleans and Seattle) (post 82)

Country Music Is Just Farm Emo
1. Read a book that has 500 pages or more The Reckoning by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti (post 150)
Shadow Princess by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti (post 150)
Island In The Sea Of Time
2. Read a book set in the Wild West Lone Women by Victor LaValle (post 148)
3. Read a book with a horse on the cover
4. Read a book written by an author who identifies as gay or lesbian: In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune (post 62)
5. Read a romance book: The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren (post 82), Blindsided by Amy Daws (post 125), Blind Side by Kandi Steiner (post 125)

I Listened to Alternative Rock Before It Was Cool
1. Read a book with fewer than 10,000 ratings on GR: Mountains Made of Glass by Scarlett St. Clair (post 125)
2. Read a book whose title takes up the majority of the cover: Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas (post 125)
3. Read a book that merges two or more different genres: Once & Future by A.R. Capetta and Cory McCarthy (post 125)
4. Read a book written by a nonbinary author The One True Me and You by Remi K. England (post 133)
5. Read a banned book All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson (post 150)

The Return of the Synth
1. Read a science fiction book Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (post 133)
2. Read a book that an AI recommends to you (ChatGPT, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.) The Hating Game by Sally Thorne (post 150) (I used Chat GPT to look for "a funny contemporary romance")
3. Read a book that features a scientist Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood (post 133)
4. Read a book written by an author who uses a pseudonym: Scandalized by Ivy Owens (post 125)
5. Read a book with a blue cover: The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams (post 62)

If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It
1. Read a book written by an author who is indigenous to their homeland (Native American, First Nation, Aborigine, etc.) Firekeeper's Daughter
2. Read a book from Reader’s Digests’ list of classics everyone should read: https://www.rd.com/list/classic-books/ Frankenstein
3. Read a dark academia book The Awakening by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti (post 148)
Ruthless Fae by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti (post 150)
4. Read a book set or written in or before the 1800s: Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester (post 95 )
5. Re-read a book from your childhood: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (post 125)

Good idea!

Stop, Rock, and Roll
1. Read a book with a red cover
2. Read a book written by a neurodivergent author
3. Listen to an audiobook
4. Read a book that won an award
5. Read a book about music

Jazzercise
1. Read a book set in or written during the Great Depression (1929-1939)
2. Read a book with a black and white cover
3. Read a book written by a Black author
4. Read a book with a strong friendship (platonic)
5. Read a book set in a big city

Country Music Is Just Farm Emo
1. Read a book that has 500 pages or more
2. Read a book set in the Wild West
3. Read a book with a horse on the cover
4. Read a book written by an author who identifies as gay or lesbian
5. Read a romance book

I Listened to Alternative Rock Before It Was Cool
1. Read a book with fewer than 10,000 ratings on GR
2. Read a book whose title takes up the majority of the cover
3. Read a book that merges two or more different genres
4. Read a book written by a nonbinary author
5. Read a banned book

The Return of the Synth
1. Read a science fiction book
2. Read a book that an AI recommends to you (ChatGPT, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.)
3. Read a book that features a scientist
4. Read a book written by an author who uses a pseudonym
5. Read a book with a blue cover

If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It
1. Read a book written by an author who is indigenous to their homeland (Native American, First Nation, Aborigine, etc.)
2. Read a book from Reader’s Digests’ list of classics everyone should read: https://www.rd.com/list/classic-books/
3. Read a dark academia book
4. Read a book set or written in or before the 1800s
5. Re-read a book from your childhood

Stop, Rock, and Roll
✔️ 1. Read a book with a red cover
The True Love Experiment
2. Read a book written by a neurodivergent author
✔️ 3. Listen to an audiobook
Paper Names
✔️ 4. Read a book that won an award
The House in the Cerulean Sea
5. Read a book about music

Jazzercise
✔️ 1. Read a book set in or written during the Great Depression (1929-1939)
The Four Winds
✔️ 2. Read a book with a black and white cover
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
3. Read a book written by a Black author
✔️ 4. Read a book with a strong friendship (platonic)
The Gilded Wolves
✔️ 5. Read a book set in a big city
Yellowface BR

Country Music Is Just Farm Emo
✔️ 1. Read a book that has 500 pages or more
A Crown of Ivy and Glass
2. Read a book set in the Wild West
Upright Women Wanted
3. Read a book with a horse on the cover
Dancing on Coals
✔️ 4. Read a book written by an author who identifies as gay or lesbian
The House in the Cerulean Sea
✔️ 5. Read a romance book
Adelaide

I Listened to Alternative Rock Before It Was Cool
✔️ 1. Read a book with fewer than 10,000 ratings on GR
My Word Against His
✔️ 2. Read a book whose title takes up the majority of the cover
Beware the Woman
✔️ 3. Read a book that merges two or more different genres
The Handmaid’s Tale
✔️ 4. Read a book written by a nonbinary author
Red, White & Royal Blue BR
5. Read a banned book
The Golden Compass

The Return of the Synth
1. Read a science fiction book
Camp Zero
✔️ 2. Read a book that an AI recommends to you (ChatGPT, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.)
Delicates
✔️ 3. Read a book that features a scientist
Lessons in Chemistry
4. Read a book written by an author who uses a pseudonym
5. Read a book with a blue cover

If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It
1. Read a book written by an author who is indigenous to their homeland (Native American, First Nation, Aborigine, etc.)
2. Read a book from Reader’s Digests’ list of classics everyone should read: https://www.rd.com/list/classic-books/
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
✔️ 3. Read a dark academia book
The Awakening GR
4. Read a book set or written in or before the 1800s
5. Re-read a book from your childhood

Hello everyone! Happy to be here :) I see quite a few books that I have also been wanting to read that I might be able to Buddy Read, tho I don't think I can commit to so many BRs (also not sure how that works in the first place, nvr done one before)

Stop, Rock, and Roll
1. Read a book with a red cover Where Dreams Descend
2. Read a book written by a neurodivergent author
3. Listen to an audiobook Fourth Wing-completed 5 stars
4. Read a book that won an award
5. Read a book about music

Jazzercise
1. Read a book set in or written during the Great Depression (1929-1939)
2. Read a book with a black and white cover
3. Read a book written by a Black author
4. Read a book with a strong friendship (platonic) Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow -completed 3 stars
5. Read a book set in a big city

Country Music Is Just Farm Emo
1. Read a book that has 500 pages or more The Name of the Wind
2. Read a book set in the Wild West
3. Read a book with a horse on the cover
4. Read a book written by an author who identifies as gay or lesbian
5. Read a romance book

I Listened to Alternative Rock Before It Was Cool
1. Read a book with fewer than 10,000 ratings on GR
2. Read a book whose title takes up the majority of the cover
3. Read a book that merges two or more different genres
4. Read a book written by a nonbinary author
5. Read a banned book

The Return of the Synth
1. Read a science fiction book
2. Read a book that an AI recommends to you (ChatGPT, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.)
3. Read a book that features a scientist
4. Read a book written by an author who uses a pseudonym
5. Read a book with a blue cover

If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It
1. Read a book written by an author who is indigenous to their homeland (Native American, First Nation, Aborigine, etc.)
2. Read a book from Reader’s Digests’ list of classics everyone should read: https://www.rd.com/list/classic-books/
3. Read a dark academia book A Deadly Education
4. Read a book set or written in or before the 1800s
5. Re-read a book from your childhood

Bujo_bellel wrote: "Hello everyone! Happy to be here :) I see quite a few books that I have also been wanting to read that I might be able to Buddy Read, tho I don't think I can commit to so many BRs (also not sure ho..."

Welcome! :D

Buddy reads can be lots of fun! You can have as many or as few as you'd like~ It's an easy process too: you start off by posting what books you'd like to buddy read with other people (or by looking at what other people have listed as options in their own posts), and once you have someone also interested in reading the same book as you, you decide together when you want to start reading it and at what pace (1 chapter a day, 3 chapters a day... etc). And while you read, you discuss it/share your thoughts about it with your reading buddy.

It's easy to overwhelm yourself with buddy reads; I've definitely signed up for waaaaaay too many in the past because I'm so excited! This month I am currently signed up for 2 that only have one day of overlap, so it is much more manageable. Buddy reads + participating in group reads are really where a lot of points come from, so I try to do as many as I can during the games while trying not to go overboard.

Gaea wrote: "Bujo_bellel wrote: "Hello everyone! Happy to be here :) I see quite a few books that I have also been wanting to read that I might be able to Buddy Read, tho I don't think I can commit to so many B..."

ohhh, thank you for informing me!

Katie wrote: "It's easy to overwhelm yourself with buddy reads; I've definitely signed up for waaaaaay too many in the past because I'm so excited! This month I am currently signed up for 2 that only have one da..."

I see, that makes sense. Thanks for the advice!

Hey, starting off my reading tonight with:
Artificial Condition
Hooky Volume 2
The Kraken's Sacrifice
If anyone wants to do a buddy read. . . I'll probably knock all 3 out in 1 day but just in case

Title: The Kraken's Sacrifice
Author: Katee Robert
Start Date: June 1, 2023
Finish Date: June 1, 2023
Category and task: The Return of Synth - 5
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 175
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

LiteraryCryptid wrote: "Title: The Kraken's Sacrifice
Author: Katee Robert
Start Date: June 1, 2023
Finish Date: June 1, 2023
Category and task: The Return of Synth - 5
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Page..."

You're the first person to complete a book for this challenge!! 😮🎉

UPDATED

The bonus of a bad sleep schedule! Read most of it right at midnight, just finished on my lunch break ☺

LiteraryCryptid wrote: "The bonus of a bad sleep schedule! Read most of it right at midnight, just finished on my lunch break ☺"

lol not me literally not sleeping last night 🙃

Just saving this here ready for when I can fight my way out of my slump!

THE CHALLENGES

Stop, Rock, and Roll
1. Read a book with a red cover
2. Read a book written by a neurodivergent author
3. Listen to an audiobook
4. Read a book that won an award
5. Read a book about music

Jazzercise
1. Read a book set in or written during the Great Depression (1929-1939)
2. Read a book with a black and white cover
3. Read a book written by a Black author
4. Read a book with a strong friendship (platonic)
5. Read a book set in a big city

Country Music Is Just Farm Emo
1. Read a book that has 500 pages or more
2. Read a book set in the Wild West
3. Read a book with a horse on the cover
4. Read a book written by an author who identifies as gay or lesbian
5. Read a romance book

I Listened to Alternative Rock Before It Was Cool
1. Read a book with fewer than 10,000 ratings on GR
2. Read a book whose title takes up the majority of the cover
3. Read a book that merges two or more different genres
4. Read a book written by a nonbinary author
5. Read a banned book

The Return of the Synth
1. Read a science fiction book
2. Read a book that an AI recommends to you (ChatGPT, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.)
3. Read a book that features a scientist
4. Read a book written by an author who uses a pseudonym
5. Read a book with a blue cover

If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It
1. Read a book written by an author who is indigenous to their homeland (Native American, First Nation, Aborigine, etc.)
2. Read a book from Reader’s Digests’ list of classics everyone should read: https://www.rd.com/list/classic-books/
3. Read a dark academia book
4. Read a book set or written in or before the 1800s
5. Re-read a book from your childhood

LiteraryCryptid wrote: "The bonus of a bad sleep schedule! Read most of it right at midnight, just finished on my lunch break ☺"

Sorry you didn't sleep well but congratulations on finishing the first book!!! I also peeped your review since I read the first book in that series and didn't totally love it. You've convinced me to keep going with the others :)

Title: The Gargoyle's Captive
Author: Katee Robert
Start Date: June 1, 2023
Finish Date: June 2, 2023
Category and task: Country Music is just Farm Emo - 5
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 192
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: My Word Against His
Author: Lauren North
Start Date: June-1-2023
Finish Date: June-1-2023
Category and task: Alt Rock 1: Read a book with fewer than 10,000 ratings on GR
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 329
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Friendly reminder to use our google spreadsheet to keep track of your reads and points in addition to any individual tracking you're doing on your own :) It makes it easy for everyone to see what everyone else has read and make strategic choices to complete categories

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

I don't have a column for the categories so can someone help me to add my points to one of yall's columns? Thanks in advance :))

Title: Hooky Volume 2
Author: Miriam Bonastre Tur
Start Date: June 1, 2023
Finish Date: June 2, 2023
Category and task: Jazzercise - 4
Graphic Novel? yes
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 368 - 184
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just updating my reads, moving on to:

Sweet Berries (audio book - about halfway done)
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed (about halfway done)
Yellowface (starting today)
Artificial Condition (starting today)

I might also start The Imposters today, but it depends on mood and what I finish

Bujo_bellel wrote: "I don't have a column for the categories so can someone help me to add my points to one of yall's columns? Thanks in advance :))"

Sorry Bujo_bellel, that was another oof on my part! You have one now

UPDATED

Ahh thanks Faith!

I'm wanting to read Her Majesty's Royal Coven. has anyone read it to know which prompt(s) it might fit?

Title: This Wide Night
Author: Sarvat Hasin
Start Date: 1st June
Finish Date: 3rd June
Category and task: Alt Rock 1
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 312
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Delicates
Author: Brenna Thummler
Start Date: June-2-2023
Finish Date: June-2-2023
Category and task: Synth 2: Read a book that an AI recommends to you (ChatGPT, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.)
Graphic Novel? Yes
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 320 (160)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Handmaid’s Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Start Date: June-2-2023
Finish Date: June-3-2023
Category and task: Alt Rock 4 : Read a book that merges two or more different genres
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 325
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: What Lies in the Woods
Author: Kate Alice Marhsall
Start Date: 6/1/23
Finish Date: 6/3/23
Category and task: Alt Rock 2 - title takes up most of the cover
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 322
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Hi friends :) There is some awesome reading happening so far!

If you're using the spreadsheet to track books you are currently reading or plan to read, can you wait to enter in the page number until you complete it? It will still add up the page number points even if you don't have anything entered as a completion date and give us an inaccurate count on our points so far.

Thanks for the heads-up on that!! Will keep in mind.