Hooked on Books discussion

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H R R E E L

E: 12/1 - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress - 2018 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

H: 12/1 - How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation - 2016 - ⭐️⭐️

E: 14/1 - Edible Flowers: A Global History - 2016 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

L: 16/1 - The Let Them Theory - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

R...!!

Sorry I've lost my desire to read and do things. I didn't mean to let you down.

You haven't let me down. Look after your mental health hun.

Thank you Richard.

I have read R!!

Do you want to start a new one now? xx

Sounds good. I'm currently watching a show on Disney Plus called Tracker. That isn't many letters, so I'll look for AFN & ALN as well as Title.

You're welcome to just do it by Title, given my speed.

✅ Me: Tracker

Title
T: 27/1 - Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century - 2022 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 25/1 - The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans and Planners - 1993 - ⭐️⭐️
A: 27/1 - Anubis―Ancient Egypt’s Lord of Death and Protection - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 25/1 - Crucial Influence, Third Edition: Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 14/2 - Kiin: Recipes and Stories from Northern Thailand - 2020 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 31/1 - Everything is Figureoutable - 2019 - ⭐️⭐️
R: 2/2 - Royal Mysteries of the Tudor Period - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

AFN
T: 27/1 - Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir, Terry Gilliam - 2015 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 25/1 - My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace, Rosie Weldon - 2020 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 26/1 - This Time for Me, Alexandra Billings - 2022 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 26/1 - Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By, Cary Siegel - 2013 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 26/1 - Unstoppable Brain: The New Neuroscience that Frees Us from Failure, Eases Our Stress, and Creates Lasting Change, Kyra Bobinet - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 25/1 - The Long Covid Self-Help Guide: Practical Ways to Manage Symptoms, Emily Fraser - 2022 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 26/1 - Undoing Urgency: Reclaim Your Time for the Things that Matter Most, Ryan Matt Reynolds - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

ALN
T: 1/2 - Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food… and Why Can't We Stop?, Chris van Tulleken - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 29/1 - The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us, Alice Roberts - 2014 - ⭐️⭐️
A: 26/1 - Creating Signature Stories: Strategic Messaging that Persuades, Energizes and Inspires, David A. Aaker - ⭐️⭐️
C: 29/1 - All Tangled Up in Autism and Chronic Illness: A guide to navigating multiple conditions, Charli Clement - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 8/2 - Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad - 2019 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 26/1 - The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience, Jules Evans - 2017 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 30/1 - Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything, Aly Raisman - 2017 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Jazzy: Wrong Kind of Black

W: 10/2 - Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - 2017 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 5/2 - Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting - 2021 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 30/1 - Open Book - 2020 - ⭐️⭐️
N: 30/1 - No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth - 2007 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 3/2 - Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick - 2019 - ⭐️⭐️

K: 14/2 - The Keane Edge: Mastering The Mindset For Real, Lasting Fat Loss - 2022 - ⭐️⭐️
I: 28/1 - The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food - 2017 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
N: 9/2 - No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus explains how the world works - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
D: 9/2 - Do Bigger Things: A Practical Guide to Powerful Innovation in a Changing World - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️

O: 31/1 - The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves - 2016 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
F: 28/1 - Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

B: 8/2 - The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - 2007 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 1/2 - The Laughter Effect: How to Build Joy, Resilience and Positivity in Your Life - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️
A: 4/2 - Atlas of Paranormal Places: A Journey to the World's Most Supernatural Places - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 3/2 - Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West - 1990 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 14/2 - The Key to Study Skills: Simple Strategies to Double Your Reading, Memory, and Focus - 2015 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Richard
7/7

⛸️ T : Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (2009) - Jake Adelstein 335pp 30/1/25 5❄️
⛸️ R : Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories (2006) - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 320pp 31/1/25 5❄️
✅ A : Gogglebook: The Wit and Wisdom of Gogglebox (2015) - Andrew Collins 248pp 10/2/25 5🩷
✅ C : The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday (2017) - Woojeong Joo
353pp 4/2/25 5🩷
✅ K : Kurosawa's Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films (2016) - Paul Anderer 256pp 1/2/25 5🩷
✅ E : Every Contact Leaves a Trace (2012) - Elanor Dymott 416pp 7/2/25 5🩷
✅ R : Road to Eternity (1958) - Junpei Gomikawa 22/2/25 5🩷

✅

Jazzy
13/16

✅ W : A Man in Full (1998) - Tom Wolfe 704pp /2/25 5🩷
✅ R : Rashomon and Other Stories (1915) - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 110pp 15/2/25 5🩷
✅ O : Offermakaren (2020) - Viveca Sten 476pp 16/2/25 5🩷
✅ N : No Greater Love (1958) - Junpei Gomikawa 21/2/25 5🩷
⛸️ G : Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer(2019)-Sunil Gupta 208pp 27/1/25 5❄️

⛸️ K : Trial by Fire: The Tragic Tale of the Uphaar Fire Tragedy (2016) - Neelam Krishnamoorthy 264pp 28/1/25 5❄️
⛸️ I : In a Grove (1922) - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 46pp 31/1/25 5❄️
✅ N : The Death of Stalin (2010) - Fabien Nury
✅ D : Demon Seed (1973) - Dean Koontz 201pp 9/2/25 5🩷

✅ O : One Day (2009) - David Nicholls 435pp 27/2/25 5🩷
F - Thanks Richard!

⛸️ B : Maybe Tomorrow (1998) - Boori Monty Pryor 240pp 26/1/25 5❄️
✅ L : 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion (1998) - Morgan Llywelyn 576pp 23/2/25 5🩷
✅ A : Seven samurai: A film (1970) - Akira Kurosawa 224pp 2/2/25 5🩷
✅ C : Cassandra (1983) - Christa Wolf 320pp 8/2/25 5🩷
✅ K : You Should Have Known (2014) - Jean Hanff Korelitz 439pp 14/2/25 5 5🩷

✅ _ N _ F _

Jazzy wrote: "what does AFN & ALN mean? (I can delete this post later :))"

AFN = Author's First Name
ALN = Author's Last Name

Going by the first initial of each.

In some challenges, I also use AMN (Author's Middle Name).

OOH okay thanks. I am also watching Black Warrant and it's also very good!

I finished watching Tracker. I'm now watching The Night Agent.

I watched that too, excellent! And a new series as well, although the new series isn't based on the book.

I'm watching The Recruit!

That's a fun show

I am watching Cassandra now. I also finished Wrong Side of the Tracks.

and now i'm watching Rebellion :)

I'm rewatching Boston Legal

That sounds good, I might give it a look in! I'm watching Rebellion.

Jazzy wrote: "That sounds good, I might give it a look in!"

It stars James Spader, William Shatner, & a whole plethora of great actors. It's like a cross-between Suits & Brooklyn 99. Give it a couple of episodes for it to get into its funny groove.

I couldn't watch it on netflix but I could order it from CEX, so may do that next month x

I watch it on Disney Plus

Sorry I had a sugar overload and got pretty poorly so have to give up sugar (again) and done 4 days so far, yay.

Oh sorry to hear that. Take care.

Six days no sugar and i'm feeling better!
I'm watching Outnumbered :)

How was your appointment?

I've got 3 left NOF!

I get my diagnosis results next Wednesday

I hope the best for you xx

having a hard time finding the last two letters

I can do the F

F: 4/3 - Anxiety: Using Depth Psychology to Find a Balance in Your Life, Fritz Riemann - 1961 - ⭐️⭐️

ooh thank you

I never found an N :*(

but not reading much lately at all. I am so sorry x

That's okay. You haven't let me down at all. Be kind to yourself, Jazzy. Hugs.

Thank you so much for the lovely hugs and Hugs to you too!
I got the N now, do you want to start another one? x

Yes, sounds good

I'm rewatching Black Mirror, in anticipation of the next season coming out next week.

Again, I'll be reading for Title, AFN, & ALN for both of our tasks. You can choose what you want to do.

What are you watching or wanting to watch?

✅ Richard: Black Mirror

Title
B: 9/4 - Basic Nursing: Concepts, Skills & Reasoning - 2012 - ⭐️⭐️
L: 6/4 - The Little Prince - 1943 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A: 10/4 - The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, 50th Anniversay Edition - 1952 - ⭐️⭐️
C: 7/4 - Clever as a Fox: Animal Intelligence and What It Can Teach Us about Ourselves - 2001 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 7/4 - Keep Your Love On: Connection Communication And Boundaries - 2013 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

M: 7/4 - Memoirs of a Geisha - 1997 - ⭐️⭐️
I: 10/4 - An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine - 2012 - ⭐️⭐️
R: 8/4 - Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916 - 1990 - ⭐️⭐️
R: 22/4 - A Rage to Conquer: Twelve Battles That Changed the Course of Western History - 2025 - ⭐️⭐️
O: 17/4 - Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism, Vol. 2 - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 26/4 - Rapport: The Four Ways to Read People - 2020 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

AFN
B: 12/4 - 30-Second Quantum Theory: The 50 most important thought-provoking quantum concepts, each explained in half a minute, Brian Clegg - 2014 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 9/4 - Female Camp Guards: In the Sights of the Investigators in East and West Germany, Lorenz Ingmann - 2024 - ⭐️
A: 20/4 - Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free from Old Patterns and Transform Your Life, Annie Zimmerman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 6/4 - Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk - 1996 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 10/4 - Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering, K.F. Riley - 1998 - ⭐️

M: 6/4 - David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire, Martha P. Nochimson - 2013 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 15/4 - Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives, Isaiah Hankel - 2014 - ⭐️⭐️
R: 8/4 - Strategies of Genius, Volume Three, Robert B. Dilts - 1995 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 8/4 - The Monkey Is the Messenger: Meditation and What Your Busy Mind Is Trying to Tell You, Ralph De La Rosa - 2018 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 25/4 - Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History, Owen Davies - 2003 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 11/4 - Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury - 1953 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

ALN
B: 9/4 - The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature’s Hidden Rules, Tim Blackburn - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 13/4 - Life Skills: How to Cook, Clean, Manage Money, Fix Your Car, Perform CPR, and Everything in Between, Julia Laflin - 2020 - ⭐️⭐️
A: 10/4 - Attitude: Vision, Change, Learning, Fear & Boldness, Adam Ashton - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
C: 10/4 - Between Earth and Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community, John P. Clark - 2019 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
K: 18/4 - The Triumph of Empire: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine, Michael Kulikowski - 2016 - ⭐️⭐️

M: 12/4 - 8 Secrets to Powerful Manifesting: How to Create the Reality of Your Dreams, Mandy Morris - 2022 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I: 9/4 - Aflame: Learning from Silence, Pico Iyer - 2025 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 13/4 - Level Up: Your Mental Toughness Boot Camp, Michelle Ribeiro - 2021 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 14/4 - How To Present To Absolutely Anyone: Confident Public Speaking and Presenting in Every Situation, Mark Rhodes - 2018 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 25/4 - After Disney: Toil, Trouble, and the Transformation of America's Favorite Media Company, Neil O'Brien - 2025 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
R: 20/4 - 10 Days to a Sharper Memory, Russell Roberts - 2001 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ Jazzy: Gogglebox

Title
G: 14/4 - Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved - 2020 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 20/4 - Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️
G: 15/4 - Game of Thrones Psychology: The Mind is Dark and Full of Terrors (Volume 4) - 2016 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 24/4 - Games People Played: A Global History of Sport - 2021 - ⭐️⭐️
L: 12/4 - Leveling Up: How To Master The Game of Life - 2021 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
E: 14/4 - eSCAPE: The 4 Stages of Becoming A Successful Entrepreneur - 2018 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 13/4 - Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones - 2002 - ⭐️⭐️
O: 27/4 - Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking - 2022 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
X: 18/4 - Xi Jinping: ---What Does Xi Want? - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️

AFN
G: 8/4 - Lost Knowledge of the Imagination, Gary Lachman - 2017 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 25/4 - Fatty Liver Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, Olivia Fontana - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 9/4 - Witch's Halloween: A Complete Guide to the Magick, Incantations, Recipes, Spells, and Lore, Gerina Dunwich - 2007 - ⭐️⭐️
G: 22/4 - 52 Random Weekend Projects: For Budding Inventors and Backyard Builders, Grant Thompson "The King of Random" - 2020 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
L: 23/4 - Money Magic: An Economist’s Secrets to More Money, Less Risk, and a Better Life, Laurence J. Kotlikoff - 2022 - ⭐️
E: 9/4 - Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire, Eckart Frahm - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️
B: 12/4 - Nettle Power: Forage, Feast & Nourish Yourself with This Remarkable Healing Plant, Brigitte Mars - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️
O: 27/4 - Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change, Olga Khazan - 2025 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
X: 17/4 - Emoti-coms: A marketing guide to communicating through emotions., Xavier Quattrocchi-Oubradous - 2011 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

ALN
G: 11/4 - Five Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner - 2005 - ⭐️
O: 12/4 - 1984, George Orwell - 1949 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 11/4 - Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go, Amy Wright Glenn - 2017 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
G: 17/4 - The Pursuit of Happyness, Chris Gardner - 2006 - ⭐️⭐️
L: 19/4 - Activate Your Life: 50 Transformational Exercises From Coaches Around The World, Derek Loudermilk - 2018 - ⭐️⭐️
E: 25/4 - Go to Hell: A Traveler's Guide to Earth's Most Otherworldly Destinations, Erika Engelhaupt - 2024 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
B: 11/4 - Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words, Josefa Heifetz Byrne - 1960 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
O: 25/4 - A Therapist’s Guide to Consensual Nonmonogamy: Polyamory, Swinging, and Open Marriage, Rhea Orion - 2018 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
X: 19/4 - Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China, Jin Xu - 2017 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Oh i'm going to watch the new series of Black Mirror when it comes out too!

I'm currently watching Gogglebox so i'll put that one!

Richard: Black Mirror
8/10

🐇 B: Crippen (2004) - John Boyne 368pp 21/4/25 4🐰
🐇 L: The Kray Madness: The shocking truth about Reg and Ron from the East End gangster they almost destroyed (2016) - Chris Lambrianou 374pp 20/4/25 4🐰
A:
🐇 C: Caught (2010) - Harlan Coben 388pp 17/4/25 5🐰
🐇 K: Kindergarten Cop - Murray Salem 6/4/25 5🐰

🐇 M: The Silent Twins (1986) - Marjorie Wallace 7/4/25 5🐰
I:
🐇 R: Naked Gun 33: The Final Insult (2012) - Jesse Russell 168pp 14/4/25 4🐰
🐇 R: The Founder (2015) - Robert Siegel 116pp 12/4/25 5🐰
O:
🐇 R: Naming Jack the Ripper (2014) - Russell Edwards 296pp 19/4/25 4🐰

A _ I O

Jazzy
1/9

🐇 G: The Graveyard Book (2008) - Neil Gaiman 312pp 15/4/25 4🐰
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Take your time with the books...I've given myself a lot of work to do. 😆

Heyo Jazzy and Richard! Popping by to let you know that the mods have decided to let the Name Game end and be archived on June 30th, due to Amanda stepping away from being a mod. I hope that's all right with you 😊

That's ok with me. Thank you for letting us know.