Take It or Leave It Challenge - December 2017 - Note Pad

Here is your NOTE PAD for the December 2017 TIOLI challenges.

Use it for your reading notes until the information can be moved to the new wiki pages when they return.

Here's your December 2017 MAIN PAGE.

My notes for December 2018:

Challenges I'm in:
***Challenge #1: Read a book with the word "the" at least twice in the title
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba - Reading*
***Challenge #12: Read a book where the author's name contains at least two consecutive alphabetical letters (N, O)
Outside the Dog Museum - Jonathan Carrol - COMPLETED

Udpate TIOLI Meter:
#SqueakyChu (12)

Running notes for December:

#1 THE Fish That Ate THE Whale: THE Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
#1 THE Sword and THE Cross by Fergus Fleming
#2 The LOST Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr - COMPLETED
#3 Ah, Wilderness! (The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) by Eugene O'Neill
#3 I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein (Psalms 23:4)
#4 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
#5 The Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry
#6 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
#6 Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose
#7 *Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann - COMPLETED
#8 *The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein - COMPLETED
#9 Justine by Laurence Durrell
#10 By the Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
#11 The Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell - COMPLETED
#11 Short Stories by Jesus: the Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi by Amy-Jill Levine
#12 *The News of the World by Paulette Giles - COMPLETED
#13 Spirals in Time: the Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells by Helen Scales
#14 The Devil's Feast (D) - M. J. Carter
#14 Travels with Epicurus (E) - Daniel M. Klein
#14 Bible Nation: the United States of Hobby Lobby (B) - Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden - COMPLETED

Challenges and running notes for December:

Challenge #2: Read a book that has a word in the title that describes how you feel when the wiki is not working
A Separation by Katie Kitamura - Reading

Challenge # 6: Read a book that features 12 something
The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt (12 letters in author's name) - COMPLETED

Challenge #7: Read a book on the 2017 New York Times Notable Book list
White Tears By Hari Kunzru


Challenge # 8. Finish a book which you started in October 2017 or earlier
Across Many Mountains Started in March 2017 - Reading

Challenge #9: Read a book with a one word title
Ties By Domenico Starnone - COMPLETED

Challenge #12: Read a book where the author's name contains at least two consecutive alphabetical letters
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (R,S & N,O x3)
Dark Fire by C J Sansom (M,N & N,O)

December challenges:
18 TIOLI books read (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 9, 10, 11, 12x3, 13, 14 14, sweep!)

#1: Read a book that has the word "the" at least twice in the title
- De weg van de wind - Hans Hagen - COMPLETED

#2: Read a book that has a word in the title that describes how you feel when the wiki is not working
- Abbatoir Blues / In the Dark Places (=Slachthuisblues) - Peter Robinson - COMPLETED
- I Miss You, I Miss You! (=Ik mis je, ik mis je!) - Peter Pohl

#3: Read a book with a title that is a quotation or a play on a quotation
- In de hemel zoals op aarde (on earth as in heaven, Math 6:10) - Jean Rouaud - COMPLETED

#4: Read a book you planned to read last December but didn't read or complete
- Sinterklaas en de struikrovers - Harriet Laurey - COMPLETED

#5: Read a Book That Appears on LibraryThings List of New York Times Bestsellers
- Independent people (=Onafhankelijke mensen, fiction 1946) - Haldór Laxness
- Into the wild (=De wildernis in, non-fiction 1996) - Jon Krakauer - COMPLETED
- The songlines (De gezongen aarde, fiction 1987) - Bruce Chatwin - COMPLETED

# 6: Read a book that features 12 something
- The golden shadow (=Slangen in de kinderkamer, 12 labors of Heracles) - Leon Garfield - COMPLETED

#7: Read a book on the 2017 New York Times Notable Book list
- A horse walks into a bar (=Komt een paard de kroeg binnen) - David Grossman - COMPLETED

#8: Finish a book which you started in October 2017 or earlier
- Sprookjes en verhalen (Complete Fairytales and stories, started September 2016) - Hans Christian Andersen - COMPLETED *sigh*

#9: Read a book with a one word title
- Dissus - Simon van der Geest - COMPLETED
- Homegoing (=Weg naar huis) - Yaa Gyasi - COMPLETED (shared read)
- Mariken - Peter van Gestel
- One (=Eén) - Sarah Crossan
- Piggy (=Big) - Mireille Geus - COMPLETED

#10: Read a book that mentions at least two body party or one body part more than once
- Oog in oog (oog=eye) - Jef Last - COMPLETED

#11: Read a book with a figure present at Jesus' birth in the title
- Red ons, Maria Montanelli - Herman Koch - COMPLETED
- The Blue Angel (=De Blauwe Engel) - Heinrich Mann

#12: Read a book where the author's name contains at least two consecutive alphabetical letters
- Children of the revolution (=Dankbare dood, DCI Banks 21; n, o , p) - Peter Robinson - COMPLETED
- De Cock en moord bij maanlicht (de Cock 45) by A. C. Baantjer (a, b, c) - COMPLETED
- De veteraan (a, b) - Johan Faber - COMPLETED
- Lieve Claire (r, s, t) - Peter van Gestel - COMPLETED

#13: Read a book with an invertebrate animal on the cover
- Spinder (insects) - Simon van der Geest - COMPLETED

#14: The DECEMBER SOLSTICE rolling challenge
- Joost, of de domme avonturen van een slim jongetje - Peter van Gestel - COMPLETED
- The velveteen rabbit - Margery Williams - COMPLETED (shared read)
- De Wadden een geschiedenis - Mathijs Deen - Reading

DeltaQueen's December TIOLI Notes:

Challenges:

Challenge #1: THE Bright Edge of THE World by Eowyn Ivey
Challenge #1: THE Boy on THE Bridge by M. R. Carey - Completed
Challenge #2: BITTER Greens by Kate Forsyth (feeling a little bitter towards the very few who messed up the Wiki's for everyone!)
Challenge #3: The Lake of Darkness by Ruth Rendell (from Shakespeare's King Lear)
Challenge #4: A Child's Christmas In Wales by Dylan Thomas
Challenge #4: The Christmas Chronicles by Jeff Guinn
Challenge #5: The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie (1947)
Challenge #5: Look to the Mountain by LeGrand Cannon (1942)
Challenge #5: The Checker Board by Nevil Shute (1942)
Challenge #6: Verdict of TWELVE by Raymond Postgate
Challenge #9: Genesis by Bernard Beckett
Challenge #11: Skin and Bones by Tom Bale
Challenge #12: News of the World by Paulette Jiles (S,T, U) - Completed
Challenge #12: As Good As Gone by Larry Watson (R, S, T) - Completed
Challenge #12: The Jaguar's Children by John Vaillant (H,I) (N,O) - Completed
Challenge #12: Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips (S,T) (O,P)

TIOLI challenges, December - PawsforThought

#1: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
#2: World's End (Sandman, vol. 8) by Neil Gaiman
#5 The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman (2008)
American Gods by Neil Gailman (2001)
A Storm Of Swords by George R. R. Martin
#9 Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Challenge #2: Your Guide to the Apocalypse by Matt Hagee (apocalypse)
Challenge #4: Silent Nights, Christmas Mysteries by Martin Edwards
Challenge #4: An Avalon Christmas by Darien Gee
Challenge #4: Remembering Christmas by Dan Walsh

Challenge #1: Read a book that has the word "the" at least twice in the title
The Babes in the Wood by Ruth Rendell

Challenge #2: Read a book that has a word in the title that describes how you feel when the wiki is not working
The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo (no one can see what I'm reading) - Reading
Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin (hard to see what anyone else is reading)

Challenge #3: Read a book with a title that is a quotation or a play on a quotation
*The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson (From Wikipedia: 'It has been in the English language at least since the 1846 translation of the 1845 French novel Mathilde by Joseph Marie Eugène Sue: "la vengeance se mange très bien froide", there italicized as if quoting a proverbial saying, and translated "revenge is very good eaten cold".' Also, 'Kind Hearts and Coronets', 1949; 'The Godfather', 1969; 'Star Trek II, The Wrath of Kahn', 1982) - COMPLETED

Challenge #4: Read a book you planned to read last December but didn't read or complete

Challenge #5: Read a Book That Appears on LibraryThings List of New York Times Bestsellers
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (2012) - Reading

Challenge #6: Read a book that features 12 something
Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day (12 letters in the author's name)

Challenge #7: Read a book on the 2017 New York Times Notable Book list
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah - COMPLETED

Challenge #8: Finish a book which you started in October 2017 or earlier
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin (read the first few pages in April 2017 but did not finish it) - COMPLETED
*The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (shared read with Dejah_Thoris)

Challenge #9: Read a book with a one word title
*Coraline by Neil Gaiman (shared read with PawsforThought) - Reading

Challenge #10: Read a book that mentions at least two body party or one body part more than once
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton

#11: Read a book with a figure present at Jesus' birth in the title
Fallen Angels by Larry Niven et al

Challenge #12: Read a book where the author's name contains at least two consecutive alphabetical letters
The Murderer in Ruins by Cay Rademacher (C D E)

Challenge #13: Read a book with an invertebrate animal on the cover
The Bethlehem Murders by Matt Rees

Challenge #14: The DECEMBER SOLSTICE rolling challenge
A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell

My plan for the month so far:

Challenge 1. Read a book that has the word "the" at least twice in the title -
✔ Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide by Joy-Ann Reid (4)
The Sleeper and the Spindle - by Neil Gaiman - Graphic Novel
Challenge 2. Read a book that has a word in the title that describes how you feel when the wiki is not working -
✔The Edge of Lost by Kristina McMorris (3.5)
Challenge 3. Read a book with a title that is a quotation or a play on a quotation -
*✔The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson (3)
Challenge 4. Read a book you planned to read last December but didn't read or complete -
*✔A Child's Christmas In Wales - Dylan Thomas (3)
The Good Lord Bird - James McBride
Challenge 5. Read a Book That Appears on LibraryThing's List of New York Times Bestsellers
*✔Katherine by Anya Seton (4)
Challenge 6. Read a book that features 12 something -
A Boy In Winter - Rachel Seiffert
Twelve Doctors of Christmas by Jacqueline Rayner
✔The Twelve Dogs of Christmas by David Rosenfelt (3.5)
Challenge 7. Read a book on the 2017 New York Times Notable Book list -
✔ New People by Danzy Senna (4)
Challenge 8. Finish a book which you started in October 2017 or earlier
*✔ The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (3.5)
Challenge 9. Read a book with a one word title
✔Vanish (fiction 2005) by Tess Gerritsen (3.5)
Challenge 10 Read a book that mentions at least two body party or one body part more than once
✔ The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye: A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsen's Millennium Series - David Lagercrantz (4)
Challenge 11 Read a book with a figure present at Jesus' birth in the title
✔Mary Coin by Marisa Silver (4)
Challenge 12 Read a book where the author's name contains at least two consecutive alphabetical letters
✔The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman (3.5)
✔Excellent Women - Barbara Pym (3.5)
✔Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden (4.5)
✔ Under the Skin by Michel Faber (3.5)
Challenge 13 Challenge #13: Read a book with an invertebrate animal on the cover
✔Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott picture book (4)
Challenge 14 Challenge #14: The DECEMBER SOLSTICE rolling challenge
✔Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman (4.5)
✔The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel by Dominic Smith
✔ Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman (4)

I just created a Google document making it a bit easier for us to see who has added what to each challenge. If some of you who have Google accounts want to edit it, send me a private message. I'd be delighted to have help keeping up with additions people make to the scratch pad.

Wow! I should have thought of that.

Any chance you'd like to move this document to our new wiki page whenever it goes up! *asks hopefully*

Here's what I've got so far. My focus is on finishing my category challenge and I haven't thought much beyond that.

Challenge #1

The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David E. Fishman

Challenge #2

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly--Reading

Challenge #7

Autumn by Ali Smith

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Challenge #8

The Loyal Son by Daniel Mark Epstein--Still reading, ugh

>12 SqueakyChu: Maybe we'll have enough volunteers to do it that it will go smoothly. We can do a lot of copy and paste, but we'll need to add the touchstones.

>14 thornton37814: I think it'll be fine. There is no need to rush through it. We'll take our time, be sure everything looks okay, and then I'll proceed with the stats and the December wiki. Come to think of it, I'll probably work on the December wiki first.

Planned reads for December:

Challenge #2:
Shortchanged by Tanya S. Osensky
The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth about Healthy Eating by Anthony Warner

Challenge #8:
Holy Bible, New Living Translation

Challenge #9:
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo

Challenge #12:
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (A, B; K, L)

I missed a planned read!

Challenge #12:
High Rising by Angela Thirkell (G, H, I; K, L)

My possible reads and notes:

#1: Read a book that has the word "the" at least twice in the title
The Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean
The Lady Who Broke the Rules by Marguerite Kaye
The War for All the Oceans by Roy Adkins

#2: Read a book that has a word in the title that describes how you feel when the wiki is not working
Be Not Afraid (that the wiki will never come back!) by Alyssa Cole
A Dreadful Deceit by Jacqueline Jones

#3: Read a book with a title that is a quotation or a play on a quotation

#4: Read a book you planned to read last December but didn't read or complete
The Perfect Horse by Elizabeth Letts

#5: Read a Book That Appears on LibraryThings List of New York Times Bestsellers

# 6: Read a book that features 12 something
Not Quite a Wife by Mary Jo Putney (12 letters in the author's name)

#7: Read a book on the 2017 New York Times Notable Book list
Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser

#8: Finish a book which you started in October 2017 or earlier
A Dance with Danger by Jeannie Lin

#9: Read a book with a one word title
Tamar by Mal Peet
Notorious by Nicola Cornick

#10: Read a book that mentions at least two body party or one body part more than once

#11: Read a book with a figure present at Jesus' birth in the title

#12: Read a book where the author's name contains at least two consecutive alphabetical letters
Hard Knocks by Ruby Lang (AB) - COMPLETED
The Highland Dragon's Lady by Isabel Cooper (ABC)

I moved all my notes to message #2 and will update that message throughout December until the wiki is back up.

I think I've managed to get things added to the Google Docs page. If you went back and edited your earlier entry, I may have missed something you added or deleted. Let me (or one of our other editors) know.

I added The Holy Bible, New King James Version to challenge 8. I'm glad Carrie remembered several of us will be completing year-long Bible reads this month. I marked it as a shared read even though the version is different.

Streamsong's currently reading's for wiki:

#1 The Beak of the finch - Weiner, Jonathan - reading
#2 A "Hiss" Before Dying - Rita Mae Brown - reading
#5 On Beauty - Zadie Smith (fiction 2005) - listening
#8 Bel Canto - Anne Patchett - reading
#12. Ten Days That Shook the World - John Re'''ed''' - reading

>21 streamsong: Added to Google Doc

Just added this to my post #4 ^ Challenge #12: Read a book where the author's name contains at least two consecutive alphabetical letters
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (R,S & N,O x3)

>23 Carmenere: Got it!

>22 thornton37814: Thanks, Lori!

ETA: To me one of the best parts is seeing what everyone else is reading for the challenges, so I really appreciate the Google doc!

>25 streamsong: It was just hard to figure out what people were reading without things in their usual fashion. It's not perfect, but it's at least "closer" and hopefully can function pretty well in the interim. I hope LT gets things back to working soon.

Added Egg Drop Dead by Laura Childs to Challenge 12 as completed.

countrylife's December Notes:

Planned Reads:
#1: The Path of the King by John Buchan
#2: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
#3: In the Dark Streets Shineth (hymn) by David McCullugh
#4: A Dog of Flanders by Maria Louise Ramé
#5: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2005)
#6: All the Winters After by Sere Prince Halverson (12 reviews at this posting)
#7: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann - reading
#8: Roseanna (probably spring 2017) by Maj Sjöwall
#9: Collared by David Rosenfelt
#10: Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian
#11: The Christmas Angel Project by Melody Carlson
#12: One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming (l, m, n)
#13: The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth (butterfly)
#14: The Christmas Angel by Jane Maas

COMPLETED:
#6: The Bookshop at Water's End by Patti Callahan Henry (12 blurbers inside) - countrylife - COMPLETED

>28 countrylife: Added

I also added The Country House Library by Mark Purcell to challenge 12.

1. I COMPLETED Outside the Dog Museum for Challenge #12: Read a book where the author's name contains at least two consecutive alphabetical letters (n, o)

2. Delete The Turn of The Screw from Challenge #1 and substitute The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

moved two books to the new challenges:

From #9 to #13: Spinder - Simon van der Geest
From #12 to #14: Joost, of de domme avonturen van een slim jongetje - Peter van Gestel

To add to #13: The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth (butterfly)
To add to #14: The Christmas Angel by Jane Maas

Next up in the rolling challenge: E

ETA: Lori - the google doc is the perfect interim solution for the wiki problem. It's so helpful to see things lined up right! Thank you!

Please delete The Hollow from Challenge #2 and replace it by moving up
A Separation from Challenge #7. They are not shared reads so won't effect anyone.

Also To Challenge #12 please add Dark Fire by C J Sansom (M,N & N,O)

Also I completed Challenge # 6 The Dark Dark

Thanks :0)

>30 SqueakyChu: >32 countrylife: >33 Carmenere: Added to the Doc!

ETA: I added Travels with Epicurus to Challenge #14 (the rolling challenge) for the E spot, so the next letter up is M.

ETA: Two more books have been added to the rolling challenge, so the next letter up is the third E in December

My December notes:

Planned Reads:
#1: The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
#5: Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
#6: Bella Poldark by Winston Graham (12th in series)
Verdict of Twelve by Raymond Postgate
Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta (12 letters in author's name)
#9: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - COMPLETED
#12: The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie (g, h, i) - COMPLETED
Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge (c, d, e, f, g, h, i) - COMPLETED

My December reads:

6. Read a book that features 12 something
That's Not My Penguin by Fiona Watt - has 12 pages - COMPLETED

9. Read a book with a one word title
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

12. Read a book where the author's name contains at least two consecutive alphabetical letters
Princess Smartypants by Babette Cole (a, b, c) - COMPLETED

13. Read a book with an invertebrate animal on the cover
The Illusionists by Rosie Thomas - COMPLETED
Left over from Paul's challenge to read a book with a butterfly on the cover.

14. Read a book for the DECEMBER SOLSTICE rolling challenge
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (R) - COMPLETED

>34 Dejah_Thoris: Thanks for catching all those for me. Yesterday was pretty busy for me. I spent most of the day at church. We had the program featuring our youth choir (and children's choirs). I had to be there early to rehearse with them since I help lead it. Then we had Living Christmas Tree rehearsal after evening services.

>35 souloftherose: I think I caught all of that! Congrats on finding an author with so many consecutive letters in her name!

>36 Helenliz: I think I got all those added and marked.

>34 Dejah_Thoris: I’ll take that E with Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman
So the next letter up in the rolling challenge is the R in December.

>38 Citizenjoyce: Added to Google Doc

>38 Citizenjoyce: thankyouthankyouthankyou
I will add The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams to the rolling challenge, the next letter up is the S in Solstice.

>40 Helenliz: Added to Google doc.

>39 thornton37814: Thank you for adding my book to the Solstice. challenge. I was trying to figure out how to edit Google Docs. I need to bold the E on Ellen.

>39 thornton37814: oops, I see you did it. Thanks again.

Have just finished 2 books.

>41 thornton37814: I've sent a message about Google docs, as I've just finished 2 books (and thanks for subsquent update). Sorry >42 Citizenjoyce: for original error in this post.

Challenge 14 - am taking the S of Solstice: Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine - Dervla Murphy

Finished reads

5: Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grown-Ups (2001)
14: Dervla Murphy, Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine

690 pages

>44 elkiedee: Hmm, the mail must be running slow today. I’ll keep checking.

>44 elkiedee: Added.
>45 elkiedee: Updated to completed and/or added.

>47 thornton37814: Thank you.

>46 Citizenjoyce: Sorry, I actually sent Lori (Thornton) a message and put the wrong number in there, not you. Apologies for causing confusion.

>48 elkiedee: I'm way too easy to confuse.

>37 thornton37814: No problem, Lori - that was the idea of giving others access, right? It's a busy, busy season and it sounds as though you have plenty going on! Many hands make light work - or something along those lines.

It'll be quite a project when the wikis go back up. It could still happen today.....

I've completed two books so far for December:

Challenge #12 - As Good As Gone by Larry Watson
Challenge #12 - News of the World by Paulette Jiles

>51 DeltaQueen50: Added - and I finished News of the World, too. Thanks for the nudge to read it!

Challenge 14: I will take the O in Solstice:
Holidays On Ice by David Sedaris

And I've finished:
Challenge 2 - A Hiss Before Dying

>50 Dejah_Thoris: Yes. I knew there would be times I would not be able to edit so I was hoping lots of folks would offer to help keep up! Thanks!

I think we are all caught up from above.

I added and marked completed The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley to challenge 12.

Thank you so much Lori, Dejah and all the helpers for keeping us updated. I love looking at the Google document and seeing how the challenges are shaping up.

To add to:
#6: The Bookshop at Water's End by Patti Callahan Henry (12 blurbers inside) - countrylife - COMPLETED

>56 countrylife: Added.

Ugh! I can't find a book I like enough to read. I'll try again.

Please delete The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and add The boy Who Harnessed the wind by William KamKwamba to Challenge #1 for me. Thank you so much!

>58 SqueakyChu: Done

I also marked An Avalon Christmas by Darien Gee in challenge 4 completed for me.

Thank you. I might end up not reading that book either, but I'll hold off on making any more changes for now. I just can't find a book that grabs me. I wanted to fit one in my own challenge, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

*looks through piles of books for anything that will grab me now*

>60 SqueakyChu: If I had not found a place for it in another challenge, I was going to ask if "the" could be embedded in one of the words. (e.g. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches). It fit in the one with the consecutive author letters though.

>61 thornton37814:. Let’s just stick to the word “the” (not embedded) since you found another challenge for your book.

Please substitute In The Country of The Young by Lisa Carey in place of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. This is the last change for challenge #1. I promise. :)

>63 SqueakyChu: Done.

Someone else may need to catch additions/updates/deletions until I get back online tomorrow.

I’ e been checking for the wiki edit button as often as others have checked for my new monthly TIOLI challenges. Now the joke’s on me!! :)

>64 thornton37814: I'll check a few more times tonight.

>65 SqueakyChu: Too funny!

I have completed another book:

Challenge #12 - The Jaguar's Children by John Vaillant

>67 DeltaQueen50: Added!

And in case anyone is interested, the next letter up on the rolling challenge is L.

Add to 9. Read a book with a one word title
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

It is the 200th anniversary of publication in January, so I'm thinking I might try and get ahead of the game. Might be my Christmas chunky. Not all that chunky, I know. I might need to revise the title to a Christmas classic.

>65 SqueakyChu: Thursday is the latest target for wiki revitalisation, according to an update on this Monday's bug crushing thread. Fingers crossed

>69 Helenliz: Added.

I also added The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse by Alan Bradley to challenge 1 and marked it completed.

>69 Helenliz: I just recently read Frankenstein myself for the first time in my life (at age 70!). It was great. I highly recommend this book for a shared read.

I was surprised that Frankenstein was not the monster, but only the doctor who created the monster. What I thought would be a horror book turned out to be a very sad story. I can understand this novel being a classic. I think it has a timeless story to tell.

It's not a chunkster at all. I read it very quickly.

Have I sold others on it yet? Go read it!

>70 Helenliz: Even if Thursday is the big day, I cannot promise that I'll get to all the corrections right away. This is a busy week for me. Keep up with what you're doing, and I'll squeeze the wiki updates in when I can. I plan to start with the December wiki and TIOLI meter to take relief off of Lori and those others who so kindly worked with her to keep the Google doc going. That was such a treat. Thank you again...and again!

I like Lisa Carey's* book so I'm not going to exchange that one for another one. :D

*For those who don't know, Lisa Carey is Tim Spalding's wife. :) She's a good writer, too!

finished
#11 Die Steinhauer Marie by Jakob Bührer.
#6 God in the shadows by Hugh Redwood - Redwood gives 12 Scrabble points (1 + 1 + 2 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 12)

Moving The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel by Dominic Smith from challenge 12 to the Solstice challenge. Next letter up is S

>74 paulstalder: and >75 Citizenjoyce: Updated (although I didn't see that title in challenge 12). It's in #14 now though.

>76 thornton37814: Thank you.

Challenge #9: Read a book with a one word title
Ties By Domenico Starnone - COMPLETED

Thank you :0)

>78 Carmenere: Updated

>79 FAMeulstee: Thanks, Anita!

>76 thornton37814: thanks, Lori

finished
#13 Der Kongress der Paläolepidopterologen by Urs Widmer

Another book completed:

TIOLI #1 - The Boy On The Bridge by M. R. Carey

>81 paulstalder: Added & marked completed

>82 DeltaQueen50: Updated to completed

Wiki issue update.

>11 thornton37814: Well shoot, I haven’t been posting new books added except for the Solstice challenge or books I’ve completed because I was just going to update the WIKI myself when it was fixed. However, if it’s going to be the end of the year, then I guess I should have you guys do it. Post #10 has all my planned books for each challenge. The ones with a ✔ have been completed. Will that work for you?

I’m hoping that all of our wiki pages going forward from July were saved. I’m pretty sure they were. If not, my priority will be to learn how to use the new wiki for our current challenges and then later figure out what else to do. It’s also not very cool that this spam attack happened or strengthened so close to the end of the year. :(

>85 Citizenjoyce: I can check it now, but it would help if you'll post updates on what to add/delete/mark completed in the thread after I get it caught up.

I marked Remembering Christmas by Dan Walsh completed in challenge 4.

>85 Citizenjoyce: I marked the 3 completions. I think I caught the additions, but you may want to check those.

My TIOLI:
#6: Bella Poldark by Winston Graham (12th in series) - Reading
#12: The collaborator by Gerald Seymour (d,e) (r,s) (l,m) - COMPLETED
#12: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (h,i), (l,m) - COMPLETED

Check out my message regarding the new wiki.

I have finished Dangerous Alphabet and am currently reading The Sleeper and the Spindle, if anyone wants to adjust the Google doc/wiki for me.

Challenges 1-6: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Take_It_or_Leave_It_Challenge_-_December...
Challenges 7-12: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Take_It_or_Leave_It_Challenge_-_December...
Challenges 13-14: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Take_It_or_Leave_It_Challenge_-_December...