The Procrastinators Book Club discussion

Title: The Preacher
Author: Camilla Läckberg
Start Date: June 15, 2024
Finish Date: June 20, 2024
Category and task: Enchanted Forest: 5. Read a book with a tree on the cover
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? YES https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? No
Pages: 419
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Spring Fling Update June 23rd 2024

We try to post updates each Sunday of this challenge for teams and solo participants. It might not be Sunday yet in some parts of the world but this is for consistency purposes.

TEAMS:
Anti-Prom Party Crashers: 307
The Life of the Party: 274
The Dancing Queens: 179
The Prettiest Girls at the Ball: 109
The Party Don’t Start Until They Walk In: 288

Didn’t Come With a Date:
Melissa: 0
Kristina: 0
Jess: 0
Becca: 0
Rosina: 32
Miranda: 41
Araceli: 0
Allyson: 28
Aikaterine: 2
Aless: 3
Edith: 17

It is officially the last week of the Spring Fling games y'all! Make sure to get those last minute reads in and submit them for points!

Happy reading!

❤︎ From the Procrastinator Mods ❤︎

Catherine wrote: "Hey Team, we should check our points - it looks like we're off by 20 points."

Okay, will check later.

Title: The Penelopiad
Author: Margaret Atwood
Start Date: June 22, 2024
Finish Date: June 23, 2024
Category and task: Carnival 2. Read a book with a red cover
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 198
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Eartheater
Author: Dolores Reyes
Start Date: June 23, 2024
Finish Date: June 24, 2024
Category and task: Carnival 1. Read a book written by an author from Central or South America
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 224
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Thanks Catherine! I see 2 books that Leslie read that aren't posted here. Once she posts them, it should match up again. Fingers crossed.

Title: Starter Villain
Author: John Scalzi
Start Date: June 22, 2024
Finish Date: June 23, 2024
Category and task: Luxe 3. Read a science fiction book
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? YES https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? No
Pages: 264
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

UPDATED

Title: The Ministry of Time
Author: Kaliane Bradley
Start Date: June 1, 2024
Finish Date: June 22, 2024
Category and task: Goth Prom 4 – black cover
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? Yes https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Pages: 352
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


Title: For the Love of Friends
Author: Sara Goodman Confino
Start Date: June 25, 2024
Finish Date: June 26, 2024
Category and task: Carnival 2 – red cover
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 364
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Tales from the Café
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Start Date: June 26, 2024
Finish Date: June 27, 2024
Category and task: Masquerade 3 - book was translated
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 255
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Starter Villain
Author: John Scalzi
Start Date: June 20, 2024
Finish Date: June 23, 2024
Category and task: Masquerade 5 – cover was redesigned
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? Yes https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? no
Pages: 256
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The House of Hidden Meanings
Author: RuPaul
Start Date: June 17, 2024
Finish Date: June 25, 2024
Category and task: Carnival 3 – about the performing arts
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 256
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The End of Drum-Time
Author: Hanna Pylväinen
Start Date: June 17, 2024
Finish Date: June 21, 2024
Category and task: Decades Dance 3. Read a book with a blue cover
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 368
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Lightlark
Author: Alex Aster
Start Date: June 20, 2024
Finish Date: June 22, 2024
Category and task: Luxe 5. Read a book with gold in the title (the word or the color)
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? YES https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Pages: 416
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Princess Bride
Author: William Goldman
Start Date: June 23, 2024
Finish Date: June 28, 2024
Category and task: Decades Dance 4 - author has died (d: 2018)
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 398
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Empire of Ivory
Author: Naomi Novik
Start Date: June 24, 2024
Finish Date: June 27, 2024
Category and task: Goth Prom 2. Read a book set or published in the 1800s
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 416
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Sword of Kaigen
Author: M.L. Wang
Start Date: June 15, 2024
Finish Date: June 25, 2024
Category and task: Luxe 2. Read a self-published book
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? YES https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Pages: 651
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Memnoch the Devil
Author: Anne Rice
Start Date: 5/4
Finish Date: 5/22
Category and task: decades dance 4 - author who died
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 354
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Feeling of Falling in Love
Author: Mason Deaver
Start Date: 6/6
Finish Date: 6/9
Category and task: luxe 4 - lgbt+ author
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 343
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Café Con Lychee
Author: Emery Lee
Start Date: 6/10
Finish Date: 6/15
Category and task: luxe 4 - lgbt+ author
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 320
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Borrow a Boyfriend Club
Author: Page Powars
Start Date: 6/16
Finish Date: 6/19
Category and task: masquerade 4 - own voices
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 352
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

UPDATED

Friendly reminder that there's a few more hours to go til we close the games so log in any books for last minute points!!

||FINAL REMINDER TO UPDATE YOUR READ BOOKS||
Books read/added after I post the last update WILL NOT count!!!!

Title: The Bottom of the Sky
Author: Rodrigo Fresan
Start Date: June 17, 2024
Finish Date: June 30, 2024
Category and task: Carnival 1 – author is from Central or South America (from Argentina)
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 245
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Red Notebook
Author: Antoine Laurain
Start Date: June 27, 2024
Finish Date: June 28, 2024
Category and task: Masquerade 3. Read a book that was translated
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 159
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Heartstopper: Volume Two
Author: Alice Oseman
Start Date: June 29, 2024
Finish Date: June 29, 2024
Category and task: Carnival 4. Read a graphic novel
Graphic Novel? YES
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 320/2 = 160
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Cheery Charms
Author: Bella Falls
Start Date: June 29, 2024
Finish Date: June 29, 2024
Category and task: Goth Prom 1. Read a paranormal romance
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 230
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Woman in Me
Author: Britney Spears
Start Date: June 29, 2024
Finish Date: June 30, 2024
Category and task: Carnival 3. Read a book about the performing arts
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 288
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Start Date: June 28, 2024
Finish Date: June 29, 2024
Category and task: Decades Dance 1. Read a book set in the 20th century (the 1900s)
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 182
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: High-Risk Homosexual
Author: Edgar Gomez
Start Date: June 29, 2024
Finish Date: June 30, 2024
Category and task: Luxe 4. Read a book written by an LGBTQ+ author
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 304
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

SPRING FLING FINAL UPDATE

TEAMS:

Anti-Prom Party Crashers: 373
Life of the Party: 362
The Dancing Queens: 236
The Prettiest Girls at the Ball: 148
The Party Don't Start Til They Walk In: 378

Soloists: Didn't Come With a Date
Melissa: 0
Kristina: 0
Jess: 0
Becca: 0
Rosina: 34
Miranda: 41
Araceli: 0
Aikaterine: 2
Allyson: 29
Aless: 3
Edith: 17

A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR OUR WINNERS:
The Party Don't Start Til They Walk In



That brings us to the end of Spring Fling!!! It's been lovely having you all this season. Let's do this again for our fall games (Fright Night) until then you can sign up for our first quarter game neighbor spelling bee here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
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