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#Booked2023 Second quarter wrap-up

I completed six more prompts this season. I‘m one of the rebels who reads out of order. 😆 I only have 5 more to complete!

I completed the form for this round. Thank you @Cinfhen and @BarbaraTheBibliophage

I just filled in my form for second quarter‘s #booked2023. Yes I am reading out of order, call me a rebel 😆. Don‘t forget to do your entry if you‘re participating in this challenge! Find the form on the host‘s pages: @Cinfhen and @BarbaraTheBibliophage 🙂📚.

8 #writtenbyajournalist
24 #mclivingwithaids
12 #murdermystery
11 #nauticalnovel
16 #aboutsisters (and brothers!)
15 #setinahotellodgeorinn (vacation lake house? 🤷🏼‍♀️)
#Booked2022

❄9 Spring Set in a country where UN Peacekeepers are: I Am Malala

🌞13 Summer Color in title: The House in the Cerulean Sea
🌞15 Summer Appalachian Noir: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
🌞17 Summer Under 150 pages: The Fire Next Time

🍁19 Fall Characters are frenemies: The Hunting Party
🍁24 Fall #BlackJack21 Club/Diamond/Heart/Spade in title: The Joy Luck Club

Ladies I'm behind on reviews but will do them over the next couple of days.

These are what I read for #BOOKED2021 SUMMER. Actually I‘m still reading “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”. May I use that again on the FALL list for the Jewish Author and/or MC?

Hi #Booked2021 Friends! Don‘t forget that we are now tallying completed prompts with a form submission???Every book read, from April 1- June 30th earns you a chance to win our quarterly drawing? You have until midnight, **July 3** to fill out the second quarter form? ?
https://bit.ly/3b7rK1E

?If you read books from January 1-March 31 and never submitted them , you can submit those as well?
Thanks for posting & sharing ?

My #BOOKED2021 - WINTER! I made it! That was fun. I‘m off to start planning for SPRING!

My final #Booked2020 round up. I didn‘t finish all the prompts this year, but considering I didn‘t plan my reading very much, I‘m happy that I got as many as I did 🙌

#SetInIndia: Burnt Sugar
#ParentChildMemoir: Braving It
#GothicHorror: Tha Haunting of Hill House
#EccentricMC: Mit Arbejde

Didn‘t get to Tartan Noir and Set in Hollywood 🤷‍♀️

Now I‘m ready for #Booked2021!

Finishing up my #booked2020 just under the wire. 1. Pan-Asian - Aru Shah #1
2. Think Pink - The Switch
3. Bookclub - Normal People
4. New in 20- Vanishing Half
5. Bottom of Tbr- When a Croc Eats the Sun
6. Gothic Horror - Mexican Gothic

These are my tentative plans for #booked2021 #winter @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft @Cinfhen

Going to attempt this yearly challenge again! @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage #booked2021

All signed up for #Booked2021 Woo Hoo! (And I'm currently reading my last book for #Booked2020 🎉🎉🎉)

Excited for another great year 😁 @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

Unlike the previous quarters, I did not wait until the waning hours to finish #Booked2020! Here‘s my fourth quarter reads, so I have now finished the year! Thanks for the fun challenge, ladies.

Almost forgot to post my Q3 reads for #Booked2020, but here they are, all over the place as usual ?

? #BottomofTBR: Contact
? #Armchairtravel: The one & only Harry Potter ❤️
? #Aboutgenocide: Tvillingenes dagbok/The Notebook ❤️❤️❤️
? #Bluetypeoncover: Frøya
? #Gothichorror: The Vampyre
? #Hatcoveringoncover: The Guernsey Literary.. ❤️

Many good ones, my absolute favourite was; Tvillingens dagbok/The Notebook. Clever writing indeed!

Here‘s my #summer #booked2020 completed list! I almost forgot to post.

Here are my picks for fall #booked2020! Of course, they are subject to change!

1. #thinkpink 2. Gothic horror 3. Set in India 4. #bookclubworthy 5. New in 2020 6. Bottom of my TBR

I have finished my summer #Booked2020!! Here‘s my summary post!
📖Red, White or Blue Type= Wonderland - Zoje Stage
📖Eccentric MC= What You Wish For - Katherine Center
📖WineOrWhine= One By One - Ruth Ware
📖BannedBook= The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
📖Armchair Travel= One Last Child- Anni Taylor

And I have finished my #Booked2020 reads for summer! I swapped in one fall prompt, as my banned book just doesn‘t want to get read at the moment. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I was in my slump, when it was time to post our reads for the second quarter of #Booked2020. However, better late than never 😅 I‘m reading complete out of season, because my reading is all about mood, and very little planning 👍

#ThinkPink: And Now We Have Everything
#HeadCoveringOnCover: Girl, Woman, Other
#WineOrWhine: We‘re Going to Need More Wine
#LiveAndLearn: How the Pill Changes Everything

Completed the third quarter for #Booked2020 #Summer
#RedWhiteorBluetypeoncover One Good Deed
#EccentricMC The Rosie Project
#YANovelbyPOC The Sun is also a Star
#WineorWhine The Ice Twins
#BannedBook I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
#ArmchairTravel Eat Pray Love
@Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Another successful quarter for #Booked2020 with me jumping all over the seasons 👌🏻

📗 Lady Chatterley‘s lover: #BannedBook
📗 S&S: #WineOrWhine with the #Pemberlittens
🎧 Educated: #Parentandchildmemoir
📗 Normal People: #MillennialAuthor
🎧 A Deep Hole: #TartanNoir
🎧 To All the Boys..: #YAbyPOC

#Booked2020 #Spring is completed!

Makes you LOL - When You Find Out The World Is Against You - Kelly Oxford
Memoir, parent + child - Blood: A Memoir - Allison Moorer
Tartan Noir - His Bloody Projct - Graeme McCrae Burnet
Book About Genocide - The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyle
Pan Asian Author - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki - Haruki Murakami
Animal on Cover - Freshwater - Akwaiki Emezi

@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

Here‘s the books that I read for #booked2020 #spring.

Thanks for hosting Cindy, Barbara and Alisia- as ever I enjoyed this season; now onto Summer!

#Booked2020 I finished the six books for Spring!
🍀 Makes you LOL: Open mic night in Moscow
🍀Parent & Child Memoir: Inheritance
🍀 Tartan Noir: The Black Dahlia
🍀 About genocide: Frankenstein in Baghdad
🍀 Pan Asian Author: America for Beginners
🍀 Animal on Cover: The Enchanted

I had a good time reading them, with The Enchanted as the favorite of this quarter. On to Summer!

Completed #Booked2020 #Spring
7. Maybe you Should Talk to Someone
8. Letter to Louis
9. The Long Drop
10. Girl at War
11. Zen the Art of Simple Living
12. Lawyer for the Dog
@BarbaraTheBibliophage @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft

#booked2020 #spring
7 - Period- Emma Barnett
8- Skint Estate - Cash Carraway
9 Hide and Seek - Ian Rankin
10 The World That we Knew - Alice Hoffman
11 Q and A- Vikas Swarup
12 Case Histories - Kate Atkinson

I checked off 13 of the prompts for #Booked2020 in the first quarter. This is the first time I have knocked out so many, so early. 😊

1. Millennial Author - An Unkindness of Ghosts
3. #LiveAndLearn : Subject Mostly New To You - The Red Market
4. Set in Hollywood - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
5. #CoverCrush - The Sun Down Motel
6. Finish In A Day - Stillhouse Lake
7. Makes you LOL - I‘m Judging You

Here are the reads I completed for #Booked2020 winter! I‘m following a strict plan of reading the books just during each quarter ‘cuz that‘s the way I am. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I finished 5/6 for the Winter section. I really enjoyed everyone of these books too. #booked2020 I did not get to Set In Hollywood- although the book is on my shelf.

The books I read for #Booked2020 so far. My picks have been from all of the seasons 😁

#MillenialAuthor: The Priory of the Orange Tree
#CoverCrush: The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
#FinishedInADay: Kingdom of Needle and Bone
#PanAsianAuthor: On Earth We‘re Briefly Gorgeous
#YAbyPOC: Color Me In
#AnimalOnCover: The Starless Sea
#ArmchairTravel: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
#BookClubWorthy: A History of Loneliness

My #booked2020 #firstquarter #wrapup: I actually finished all categories! Well, once I changed Persepolis to #liveandlearn instead of #readwhiteblueletters. (Though I‘m still waiting for Midnight in Chernobyl from the library... which was my planned #liveandlearn book). Congrats to all participants!

Phew- finished with a day to spare!! Here‘s my Winter summary for #Booked2020!
📖Set in Hollywood- The Library Book/Susan Orlean
📖Millennial Author- The Better Liar/Tanen Jones
📖Hat on Cover- When We Were Vikings/Andrew David MacDonald
📖#LiveandLearn- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane/Lisa See
📖Finish in a Day- The Other People/ C. J. Tudor
📖#CoverCrush- Saint X- Alexis Schaitkin

Like @BarbaraTheBibliophage I was all over the place for my Q1 reads for #Booked2020, quite the #rebelreader.

📚 Kniv/(Knife): #EccentricMC
🎧 The Martian: #MadeMeLol
🎧 Interview with the Robot: #NewIn2020
📚 Troubling Love: #ThinkPink
🎧 The Dispossessed: #BookClubWorthy
📚 En shopoholiker i Hollywood: #SetInHollywood

#WinterWrapUp

Finished #winter prompts for #booked2020 clockwise from the top left. Of these 6 my favorite was Ayesha at Last. Such a fantastic novel!
#read2020

Millennial Author - The Six
#CoverCrush - All My Colors
Hat/Headcover - The Unforgotten
Set in Hollywood - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
#LiveandLearn - The Aztec News
Finish in a Day - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
#Booked2020 #FirstQuarter #Winter @cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

Hi Alisia, Cindy and Barbara, here are my Winter reads for #Booked2020!

🍀 Millennial author: Oval
🍀 Showing a hat: Mary Toft
🍀 Live and learn: Saudade
🍀 Set in Hollywood: Woman no. 17
🍀 Cover crush: Made for Love
🍀 Finish in a day: Ways to Hide in Winter

Looking forward to planning my Spring reads!

I can‘t believe how far I am into this year‘s #booked2020 challenge! I might have read more this year than last year already!!

A little late to the party, but will try to join in on the fun!! Looking forward to it 🤩 #Booked2020
#ReadingChallenges

Nearly finished the winter section of the #Booked2020 reading challenge 😊 I know which books I'm reading for the final two prompts aswell👍🏼

Would you look at that? I actually completed a reading challenge. That‘s not likely to ever happen again. Thanks for a year of great prompts, ladies! #booked2019

Trying a new challenge! #booked2020

Excited to attempt this challenge for year 3!! Quick question for @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage Is there a goodreads group for this challenge yet? #booked2020

Signed up for the #Booked2020 challenge again! Thanks @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft for organizing and hosting this awesome reading challenge. 💕📚🏆

@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft
Just signed up for #Booked2020! So excited for this coming year! If you think you might want to participate too, here's the link to the Google Form:
https://tinyurl.com/y62p9fxs
This is gonna be fun!

All signed up and planning out books for the prompts! Hopefully I can stay more on track with this one.🤦🏻‍♀️ #booked2020

Repost for @Cinfhen :

We‘re SO excited to share our 3rd annual reading challenge #Booked2020❣️
As usual, there are 24 prompts broken into 4 quarters/seasons. You are free to read in any order you wish. Just one book per prompt, please.

*New this Year* the last week of each quarter you MUST post & tag us with your completed prompts in order to be eligible for the quarterly drawing.

Questions ~ ask away
Sign up: https://tinyurl.com/y62p9fxs

Exercised this morning, attended my local Moms Demand Action rally, then a soccer festival with my little family (though not for long, it‘s ungodly hot out). Now, I‘m booked! 🤓📚🍺 #booked #cheers

I finished up the spring prompts for #Booked2019 yesterday! 🙌🏻

- #NightOrientedTitle: The Saturday Evening Girls Club
- #CliFi: Oryx and Crake
- #IndigenousAuthor: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- #FeaturesAMusician: Sing a New Song
- #SocialMediaFocus: You
- #FoodOrBeverageOnCover: The Cupcake Queen

Yes! I finished my Spring reads for #Booked2019!

🔹 Night oriented: Nothing holds back the night
🔹 Cli-Fi: The Wall
🔹 Indigenous Author: Moon of the crusted snow
🔹 Musician: Daisy Jones and the Six
🔹 Social Media: Mrs Fletcher
🔹 Food or beverage: Seating arrangements

The Summer quarter will be an out of my comfort zone one, but I am looking forward to it!