BookLizard's Pathetic 2021 Category Challenge

The challenge is to read 20 Children's/YA books this year. The other goal will be to read 21 adult books.

Children's/YA:

1. Crave by Tracy Wolff
2. The Royal Ranger: The Missing Prince by John Flanagan
3. A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah Maas
4. Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger
5. An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
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Adult:

1. The Alto Wore Tweed by Mark Schweizer
2. The Dark Archive by Genevieve Cogman
3. A Warm Heart in Winter by J.R. Ward
4. Checking Out Crime by Laurie Cass
5. Meant to Be Immortal by Lynsay Sands
6. Midnight Library by Matt Haig
7. Duke Effect by Sophie Jordan
8. Kingdom of Shadow and Light by Karen Marie Moning
9. Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs
10. Broken (in the Best Way Possible) by Jenny Lawson
11. The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
12. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
13. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
14. Magic Misled by Keri Arthur
15. The Big Kitty by Claire Donally
16. The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
17. The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
18. Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
19. The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris
20. Custom Baked Murder by Liz Mugavero
21. Purring around the Christmas Tree by Liz Mugavero

I'm currently reading The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris.

Hurray, you're here with a thread! :D Missed you! Hope you're doing well.

>1 BookLizard: Good luck with your reading!

Nothing pathetic about it! Good luck with your reading!

Good luck with your challenge!

Happy Reading!

>3 rabbitprincess: Good to see you! I have a new coworker who loves rabbits, so she reminded me of you. I'm on the computer almost all day at work, so I haven't been on LT much. I have your thread starred, but 185 posts are intimidating!

>4 spiralsheep: Thanks, you too! Interesting screen name.

>5 Tess_W: Thank you. Compared to the 12 in 12 Challenge which I almost completed (135 out of 144), 2 categories and 41 books is pathetic. LOL.

>6 MissWatson: Thanks. You have so many challenges, I don't know how you can keep them all straight. I couldn't even read through all the lists.

>7 MissBrangwen: Thanks, reading usually makes me happy, or at least lets me escape from reality.

1. Nature or environment: Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder by Julia Zarankin
2. Title describes you: Broken (in the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson
3. Contains a love story: Meant to Be Immortal by Lynsay Sands
4. You heartily recommend: Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
5. Impulse read!: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
6. Suggested by another generation:
7. About time, or time word in the title: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
8. By or about marginalized group: The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
9. 20 or fewer LT members: The Russian Cage by Charlaine Harris (It was under 20 when I finished it.)
10. Classical element in title:
11. Set somewhere you'd like to visit: The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
12. Dark or light word in title: Kingdom of Shadow and Light by Karen Marie Moning
13. Read a CAT or KIT:
14. New-to-you author:
15. Arts and recreation:
16. Senior citizen protagonist: Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
17. Type of building in title: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
18. Less than 200 pages:
19. 2 or more authors:
20. Character you'd be friends with:
21. One-word title: Crave by Tracy Wolff
22. About history or alternate history: The Dark Archive by Genevieve Cogman
23. Made you laugh: The Alto Wore Tweed by Mark Schweizer
24. Southern hemisphere: Magic Misled by Keri Arthur
25. About or contains magic: The Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger

Y'all inspired me to try the BingoDOG. I'm going to have to go back and see what fits each category. Some could fit multiple squares. Would Dark Archive count for Alternate History? It's more like multiverses - alternate worlds that are based on our world.

>10 BookLizard: I think Dark Archive would probably count as "alternate history." But if you don't want to use it for that square, it would definitely work for "dark or light word in the title"!

>11 christina_reads: Thanks. I just saw that alternate history is one of the tags, so I'm going with it.

I like the way you set up your challenge!

>13 thornton37814: Thanks. The real challenge will be reading children's books. I regularly read YA fantasy, but I find many children's books to be too childish, if that makes any sense. I love a lot of picture books, but recent novels for children just don't interest me. I did manage to read The Keeper of Lost Cities which I regularly recommend to kids who like fantasy because I had so many other kids who liked it, but for me, it's a one and done. I liked it well enough while I was reading it, but don't feel the need to read any more books in the series.

I need to update my list and my bingo card, but I'm too tired right now. I had Covid last month and I'm still feeling run down. Wasn't serious enough to put me in the hospital, thank God, but I was out of work for 2 weeks. I haven't been that sick since I was a kid and never for that long. I still don't know how I got it. I'm guessing it might have been one of the more contagious variants because I wasn't doing anything differently than I had been since we came out of lockdown last June. Social distancing, wearing a mask, handwashing, etc. I have to wait a few months now before I can get vaccinated, but I've got antibodies! I feel like I'm on prison furlough. I've eaten out at a restaurant 3 times and went to IKEA! Woo-hoo! LOL.

Sorry to hear that you caught it. I hope things will improve for you now.

>14 BookLizard: I can understand your concerns about recent children's books. They don't appeal to me as much as older ones did.

>14 BookLizard: Sorry to hear you got COVID, but glad you are on the road to recovery!

Echoing Christina's sentiments, and hoping that to compensate, the antibodies are nice and strong to tide you over until you can get vaccinated.

>15 MissWatson: >17 christina_reads: >18 rabbitprincess: Thanks for all the well-wishes.

>16 thornton37814: I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Added a few more books to my bingo card.

Nature or environment: Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder by Julia Zarankin
You heartily recommend: Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
About time, or time word in the title: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
Impulse read!: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

I'm reading more "grown-up" books lately. I usually read genre fiction because I like to escape reality. Meet Me in Another Life is really science fiction, and In Five Years has some magical realism. I put Trust Exercise as an impulse read because the title caught my attention and I saw it had won some award, so I borrowed it.

I wonder if "wind" counts for the classical element bingo square.

I'm holding on to The Personal Librarian for now since it has 2 authors but could also be used for the Arts & Recreation square.

>21 BookLizard: I'd consider "wind" to work for that square :)