Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

2025 Summer Reading Challenge

☀️Points: 1300 ☀️

☀️ Prompts ☀️

🍟 Chips and Dip - 100 points 🍟
✔️1a. A book in a series: A Very Lively Murder
1b. A book with water on the cover
1c. A book released in 2024 or 2025
✔️1d. A book by a new to you author: Time and Time Again
1e. A humorous book

🍹 Drinks Station - 200 points 🍹
Author's initials are in:
2a. FRESH-SQUEEZED LEMONADE
2b. UNSWEETENED ICED TEA
2c. ROOT BEER SODA
2d. FRUIT PUNCH
✔️ 2e. SPARKLING WATER: Seven Days in June

🍔 Burger and Hotdog Toppings - 300 points 🍔
3a. Ketchup: A book with red on the cover
3b. Relish: A book by a favorite author
3c. Mustard: A book with a military character (serving, retired, or adjacent)
3d. Pickles: A book title that includes a word starting with the letter P
3e. Cheese: A sentimental book

🧁 Desserts - 400 points 🧁
4a. A book with a child main character
4b. A book with a wedding
✔️ 4c. A book that has been nominated for an award: The Queen of Nothing
4d. A book with a cafe, bakery, or restaurant as an important setting
4e. A book originally written in a language other than English

🍉 The Sides - 500 points 🍉
✔️ 5a. Potato salad - A book with more than one point of view: Icebreaker
5b. Mac n' cheese - A book by an author with 10 or more books
5c. Corn bread - A book originally published before 1900
5d. Deviled eggs - A book with challenging subject matter
5e. Watermelon - A book over 500 pages

☀️ TBR ☀️

🌈 June 🌈
🌈 The Bachelorette Party
🌈 Every Step She Takes
🌈 I Am Still Alive
🌈 Not Quite Dead Yet
🌈 I'll Have What He's Having
🌈 I Am the Swarm
🌈 Last Dance Before Dawn
🌈 Listen to Your Sister
🌈 Make Me Famous
🌈 Natural Beauty
🌈 The Monster of Elendhaven
🌈 The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses
🌈 Seven Lively Suspects
🌈 Shadow Sister
🌈 Sharp Objects
🌈 A Sharp Endless Need
🌈 Slow Burn Summer
🌈 Who Will Remember
🌈 You Belong Here
🌈 Murder by Degrees
🌈 Behind Frenemy Lines

🏖️ July 🏖️
🏖️ James


🍹 August 🍹
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☀️ Read ☀️

🌈 June 🌈
🌈 The Queen of Nothing
🌈 Icebreaker
🌈 Seven Days in June
🌈 A Very Lively Murder
🌈 Time and Time Again

☀️ Currently Reading ☀️

🌈 The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
🌈 The Will of the Many
🌈 The Gentleman and His Vowsmith
🌈 All Paths Lead to Paris
🌈 Every Step She Takes
🌈 Backhanded Compliments
🌈 The Influencers

☀️ Notes/Plans ☀️

🍟 Chips and Dip - 100 points 🍟
1a. A book in a series: The Rushworth Family Plot
1b. A book with water on the cover: A Letter from the Lonesome Shore
1c. A book released in 2024 or 2025: You Belong Here
1d. A book by a new to you author: Backhanded Compliments
1e. A humorous book: Dating and Dragons

🍹 Drinks Station - 200 points 🍹
Author's initials are in:
2a. FRESH-SQUEEZED LEMONADE: Shadow Sister
2b. UNSWEETENED ICED TEA: Seven Days in June
2c. ROOT BEER SODA: Olivie Blake
2d. FRUIT PUNCH: Notes from a Regicide
2e. SPARKLING WATER: Seven Lively Suspects

🍔 Burger and Hotdog Toppings - 300 points 🍔
3a. Ketchup: A book with red on the cover: Listen to Your Sister
3b. Relish: A book by a favorite author: Behind Frenemy Lines
3c. Mustard: A book with a military character (serving, retired, or adjacent): Who Will Remember
3d. Pickles: A book title that includes a word starting with the letter P: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses
3e. Cheese: A sentimental book: Swept Away

🧁 Desserts - 400 points 🧁
4a. A book with a child main character: Lunar Boy: A Children's Graphic Novel of Self-Discovery from the Moon and Back―a Stonewall Book Award Winner
4b. A book with a wedding: The Bachelorette Party
4c. A book that has been nominated for an award:
4d. A book with a cafe, bakery, or restaurant as an important setting: I'll Have What He's Having
4e. A book originally written in a language other than English: The Vegetarian

🍉 The Sides - 500 points 🍉
5a. Potato salad - A book with more than one point of view
5b. Mac n' cheese - A book by an author with 10 or more books: (or Who Will Remember here instead)
5c. Corn bread - A book originally published before 1900
5d. Deviled eggs - A book with challenging subject matter: The Starving Saints
5e. Watermelon - A book over 500 pages: The Will of the Many or Gifted & Talented