Showing posts with label GoodReads. Show all posts
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Friday, March 29, 2024

2024 Bookworm Catch-Up Challenge (GoodReads)


2024 Bookworm Catch-Up Challenge
Duration:01.01.24 - 12.31.24


2024 Bookworm Catch-Up Challenge -  There are 19 On my TBR List (below)
Duration:01.01.24 - 12.31.24

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Pick a task number and Read as many Previous Bookworm Bitches Selections that you did not read. Check the bookshelf for previous selections: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...

Current monthly book selections are not eligible for this challenge.

DON'T FORGET TO POST YOUR COMMENT IN THE APPROPRIATE BOOK DISCUSSION THREAD WHEN YOU FINISH!

Rules
~Books must be read during the selected time period.
~Post the date you finished the book.
-Absolutely NO REREADS (this is obvious)
~At the end of the challenge, it will be closed for commenting and moved to the archives folder.
~Books MUST be a previous Club Selection!!!

Copy the blank template below and paste into a new comment to start your challenge. Update as necessary.

want to read:
6/2013 - One Hundred Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez
8/2013 - Bel Canto - Patchett
1/2015 - Big Little Lies - Moriarty
11/2015 - Mr. Mercedes - King
7/16 - A Thousand Splendid Suns - Hosseini
11/16 - The Outsiders Hinton
11/16 - Salt to the Sea - Sepetys
3/17 - The Butterfly Garden - Hutchison
1/18 - A Court of Thorns and Roses - Maas
2/18 - The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
9/19 - Before We Were Yours - Wingate
3/21 - The House in the Cerulean Sea - Klune
10/22 - Lessons in Chemistry - Garmus
6/23 - Fairy Tale - King
9/23 - Mad Honey - Picoult
12/23 - Demon Copperhead - Kingsolver
10/23 - Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches - Mandanna - on hold TPPL
2/24 - The Seven Year Slip - Poston
5/24 - The Women - Hannah

already read:
8/2009 selection:  Time Traveler's Wife (my rating 2 **)
5/2011 selection:  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (5)
8/2011 selection:  The Island - Hildebrand (2)
8/2011 selection:  The Forgotten Garden - Morton (5)
10/2011 selection:  The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Howe (4)
11/11 selection:  Juliet - Fortier (2)
1/12  Shiver - Stiefvater (3)
5/12  The Hunger Games - Colllins (5)
6/12 - Fifty Shades of Gray - James (3)
7/12 - To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee (5)
8/12 - The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Edwards (4)
8/12 - Divergent (#1) - Roth (4)
9/12 - Gone Girl - Flynn (3)
10/12 - A Discovery of Witches #1 - Harkness (4)
12/12 - The Thirteenth Tale - Setterfield (4)
4/13 - Wonder - Palacio (5)
6/13 - Looking for Alaska - Green (4)
7/13 - Gone with the Wind - Mitchell (4)
8/13 - Ready Player One - Cline (3)
11/13 - Flight Behavior - Kingsolver (4)
12/13 - The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood (3)
1/14 - Where'd You Go Bernadette - Semple (5)
2/14 - Eleanor and Park - Rowell (4)
3/14 - The Maze Runner (31) - Dasher (4)
4/14 - Fallen (#1) - Kate (1)
5/14 - The Rosie Project - Simsion (5)
6/14 - Miss Peregrine's Home for Wayward Children - Riggs (1)
6/14 - Orphan Train - Kline (4)
8/14 - Between Shades of Gray - Sepetys (5)
10/14 - The Cuckoo's Calling - Galbraith (4)
11/14 - The Bone People - Hulme (1)
12/14 - The Language of Flowers - Diffenbaugh (5)
2/15 - The Age of Miracles - Walker (2)
3/15 - We Were Liars - Lockhart (3)
3/15 - Cinder (#1 Lunar Chronicles)) Meyer (4)
4/15 - Station Eleven - Mandel (3)
5/15 - City of Bones (#1) - Clare (4)
6/15 - Scarlet (#2 Lunar Chronicles) Meyer (4)
7/15 - Fangirl - Rowell (5)
9/15 - The Life of Never Letting Go - Ness (1)
12/15 - Legend (#1) Wu (5)
1/16 - A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens (4)
3/16 - The Red Queen (#1 Red Queen) Aveyard (5)
4/16 - The Secret Keeper - Morton (2)
6/16 - The 5th Wave (#1) Yancy (4)
8/16 - The Secret Garden - Burnett (4)
2/17 - The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne (1)
4/17 - My Sister's Grave (#1 Tracy Crosswhite) Dugoni (3)
7/17 - Glass Sword (#2 Red Queen) Aveyard (4)
10/17 - Girls with the Dragon Tattoo - Larsson (5)
10/17 - Dark Matter - Crouch (5)
1/18 - The Hate You Give - Thomas (5)
3/18 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Honeymoon (4)
11/18 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Reid (5)
12/18 - Educated - Westover (5)
3/19 - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Berendt (3)
4/19 - Shadow of Night (#2) Harkness (2)
4/19 - Stillhouse Lake - Caine (2)
5/19 - Catcher in the Rye - Salinger (2)
5/19 - Nine Perfect Strangers - Moriarty (4)
5/19 - Love and Other Words - Lauren (5)
8/19 - Flowers for Algernon - Keyes (5)
10/19 - The Kiss Quotient - Huong (5)
2/20 - The Death of Mrs. Westaway - Ware (2)
5/20 - Where the Crawdads Sing - Owens (5)
7/20 - Then She Was Gone - Jewell (5)
7/20 - The Bride Test - Hoang (5)
6/21 - American Dirt - Cummins (5)
8/21 - Beach Read - Henry (4)
12/21 - Project Hail Mary - Weir (5)
3/22 - Rock, Paper, Scissors - Feeney (5)
9/22 - The Book of Cold Cases - St. James (3)
11/22 - Remarkably Bright Creatures - Van Pelt (5)
12/22 - Book Lovers - Henry (4)
4/24 - Weyward - Hart (5)

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

June GoodReads Postcard & Question of the Month

  
Question:  To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Rings, Pride and Prejudice, The Wizard of Oz, The Princess Bride, and Harry Potter... All started as books and were made into movies!

What was the last book you read that ended up as a movie? Book better or Movie better? Always read the book before the move?? (No way! I've not read The Princess Bride, yet! And The NeverEnding Story was my favorite movie for decades before I got around to reading the book. You?) What's your most anticipated / exciting book to movie? What book do you wish was a movie? What movie have you seen that you didn't know was a book?

My Answer:  My #2 favorite thing to do after reading is to see a movie on the "big screen."  I have decided to dispel any preconceptions and just enjoy the director's interpretation. Of course I end up with preferences - liked the Twilight movies, disliked the books - loved the Hunger Games books, not-so-much the movies -  love any interpretation of Harry Potter - and so on!

The cards I received:
2074.  GR PC June 2021
The book is ALWAYS better!  I haven't seen many books be successfully turned into movies.  And if I see the movie first, I have a hard time going back to read the book.  It's a weird thing for me.  Drives my reading friends crazy!  I'm trying to get Malibu (words obliterated by postal markings) read before the xxx starts on xxxx.  Jill

2072.  GR PC June, 2021
I just finished A Dog's Way Home by W. Bruce Cameron and last month read Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan.  I haven't seen the movies which is typical of me.  I generally think the book is better than the movie.  If I want to enjoy a movie, I try not to read the book first.  I have a friend who watches more movies than reads, so she has an opposite approach to movies/books.  Happy Reading - Jenny T.

Monday, May 10, 2021

May GoodReads Postcard and Question of the Month

 Question:  
Dear Beautiful Readers,
What are your thoughts about Self-Help books? Love them? Hate them? Do you read them? Have any changed your life? Or do you avoid them? Why?

2079.  GR PC May 2021
Wood Ducks
Dear Chris,  Oh, I used to be such a sucker for self-help books!  Creativity and how-to-draw books and how-to-be-happy books ... and habits of productive people and hot-ot-be tidy and how-to-not procrastinate! *laughs*
     My favorite creativity-type self-help book is Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher.  I re-read this many times, and over the years I have managed to smush many of my favorite hobbies into several great projects like this one! (Nature, Photography, Computers, Writing, Reading, Mail, woohoo!)
A few years ago I read some Stephanie Bennett Vogt, and I have also taken her year-long online class for Space Clearing.  I must have done some de-cluttering during that year ... but I am back to making piles of junk, so the clearing def didn't stick!  Ha!
I'm currently reading The Power of Daily Practice.  I don't know why.  I've already got several daily practices in place.  I guess I just want to see how and why other people do it? :)
Ha - I don't think I'll ever cure the procrastination.  But ... maybe the next self help book I read...?! Happy day, Rift

2065.  GR PC May 5, 2021
Oak Park, Illinois
Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Museum
I live around the corner from Hemingway's birthplace.  I don't subscribe to self-help books, or read a lot of nonfiction in general, but when I do it's usually a science book a la Mary Roach.  I really liked Phallacy by Emily Willingham and Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz.  Hope you are well and safe.  Take care - Amanda

2045.  GRPC May 2021
11 May 2021
I loved your Amish postcard!  I am reading my 2nd book by Emma Maas.  Both were Amish based and both were good!  I'm not into self-help books either.  The only nonfiction books I read are autobiographies, books about urban legends & paranormal, and true crime books.  I too love children's books, fairy tales, and cozy mysteries.  Hope your visit with your sister was great.  Happy Reading, Sandye