Take It or Leave It Challenge - November 2018 - Page 1

those new to this challenge: More info and monthly index can be found in post #1 of this thread or this TIOLI FAQS wiki.

Simple directions for posting to the wiki can be found at the bottom of each month's wiki page.


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Your challenge for November, 2018, is to...

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Read a book which is tagged on LibraryThing as "horror”.

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Here's your horror tag link. You may leave the lights on while reading any of these books.

If you've never read Frankenstein or Dracula, either one of those books is a good place to start!

As an FYI, not all books tagged as "horror" are scary. Read the reviews. Some are simply sad but strange, such as Frankenstein or On the Road. My goal is not to scare you, but to teach you not to be afraid of this genre.

Have fun!

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Other Fun Stuff (not part of the TIOLI challenge):

1. The November 2018 TIOLI Meter - Optional page on which you may track your TIOLI reading. FYI: This is not meant to be competitive - only fun!
2. Morphidae's List of Previous TIOLI Challenges - You may use this reference (Do a control-F scan) to avoid repeating a previous challenge. If your idea is similar to a previous challenge, just make it unique by adding a new "twist" to it.
3. @FAMeulstee's 2108 TIOLI Sweeplette Meter - Use this page if you want to complete a sweeplette (all of the challenges on only one wiki page).

Wiki Index of Challenges:

Challenges #1-6
1. Read a book tagged on LibraryThing as "horror" - msg #1
2. Read a book with a character called 'Kara', or in which the title or the author's first name starts with 'K' - msg #7
3. Read a book with a World War 1 connection - msg #15
4. Read a book that has something to do with an election - msg #17
5. Read a book where the title contains a measure of something - msg #18
6. Read a book that you need to complete for a 2018 Challenge - msg #19

Challenges #7-12
7. Rolling challenge: Read a book that completes the sentence "I went to Grandma's house and I brought............"- - msg #21
8. Read a book that completes the phrase, "I am thankful for..." - msg #28
9. Read a book where a word in the title starts with the letters "In Flanders fields" in rolling order - msg #32
10. Read a book with a blurb by another author you have read - msg #48
11. Read a book where the title contains something illegal - msg #43
12. Read a book with stripes on the cover - msg #46

Challenges #13-17
13. Read a book to honor Mama Peggy: 11/15/21, 97 - msg #66
14. Read a book which starts with the same letter as your first name or LT handle - msg #67
15. Read a book which doesn't just contain text - msg #71
16. Read a book where the number of words in the title matches the numbers 867-5309 in rolling order - msg #72
17. Read a book with a word of the title or author matching a London Tube station, rolling challenge - msg #73
18. Read a book with a body part in the author's name - msg #79

Hold your challenge until the December TIOLI challenges are posted. Thank you!

Finally! I got it right!! Phew!

:D

I must be losing my touch. Every page I did tonight came out wrong! :(

Did you see that the previous page was called "LEAVE IT CHALLENGE"?! Was I trying to tell myself something...or is my challenge haunted?! :O

I did see that! I thought it was perfect, under the circumstances. :)

I wish I wasn't doing this, but---

As some of you know, I lost my cat Kara at the beginning of this month:





Please join me in this tribute to her memory:

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Challenge #2: In memorium: Read a book with a character called 'Kara', or in which the title or the author's first name starts with 'K'

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The character name must be spelled with a 'K', and only the author's first name qualifies. However, you may ignore articles in the title.

>6 lyzard: It's sad to hear about the loss of your cat. Cats are such sweet companions. I'm so sorry, Liz.

Thanks, Madeline. It's been a very tough month.

>9 lyzard: Would you like to post a picture here of Kara ? We'd love to see that cute face (if it isn't too heart-breaking for you). I love cats!

It is, but I'll do it anyway; thanks! (I'll edit my challenge-post.)

>2 SqueakyChu: When is the deadline for posting a November challenge? Currently, it says: Post your challenge through midnight November, 2108. Thank you!

>7 lyzard: Sorry to hear that. My doggie niece is having surgery on Friday--she has a mast cell tumor that needs to be removed and biopsied. Poor little thing.

>11 lyzard: Kara's so cute. I had a cat that looked like Kara, but she also had a black spot on her nose. Her name was Tammy. She lived to be 19 years old.

>12 lindapanzo: I'll go fix that as well. It's November 4th.

>12 lindapanzo: I hope the surgery goes well, and everything will turn out okay.

Challenge #3: Read a book with a World War 1 connection

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the end of the war, on November 11th.

>14 SqueakyChu: Thanks, Madeline. I don't currently have a dog myself but this big girl, a Yellow Lab, is the one that I love. We have a special bond, at least from my perspective, because she was born on my 50th birthday.

>7 lyzard: I'm so sorry. Losing a loved pet is a kick in the heart. I'm glad you had her as long as you did.
>12 lindapanzo: Wishing for a successful surgery and quick recovery for your birthday lab.

Challenge #4: Read a book that has something to do with an election
Changed my mind. With the very important election coming up November 6, my challenge is to read a book about an election.

Challenge #5: Read a book where the title contains a measure of something - started by helenliz

Any unit of measurment will count, be they scientific, imperial, ancient, informal etc. Please bold the unit of measure and include what is being measured in the wiki. These do not just have to be limited to the obvious distance, volume, mass, time, there are units of measure for all sorts of things. Some derived measurements have their own unit, and those will also be allowed. Power is a rate of consumption of energy and is, in SI units kg.m^2/s^3. That gets complicated, so it has its own unit, the Watt.

What will not count are the scientific prefixes if they are in the title on their own. kilo just means 1000, it is not a unit of measurement in it's own right. While in some populations, you may discuss a 10k (meaning 10 kilometers) or losing a kilo (meaning kilogram) in either case the measure relies on the inclusion of the unit, meter and gram, respectively.

Some links to help you out:
Scientific units
imperial units
past measurements
Medieval measurements
History of length

I realise that, having got quite technical in the explanation, I'm using an informal measure of volume, by reading A Handful of Dust. Just to be difficult!

Challenge #6: Read a book that you need to complete for a 2018 Challenge

Many of us are working on Reading Challenges that we hope to complete before year end. These can be LT challenges such as the Bingo Challenge or completing your Category Challenge, or it could be a challenge from another source such as the 2018 PopSugar Challenge that many of us are working on. You can also include any challenges that you have set for yourself, like the reading of one particular author's catalogue. If there is a book that you need to read during the month of November, you can list it here.

Please add what challenge you are working on to the Wiki.

>7 lyzard: So sorry to read about Kara's passing, Liz.

I thought this appropriate because the holidays begin with Thanksgiving (US & Canada) and many of us will be taking something somewhere.

Challenge #7: Read a book that completes the sentence "I went to Grandma's house and I brought............"

Keep titles in alphabetical order .
ie: A Man Called Ove
Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears
Churchill

>7 lyzard: RIP Kara - what a beautiful kitty

>17 Citizenjoyce: With the very important election coming up November 6
It's our municipal election in Charlottetown on the 5th and the first election my two oldest (21 and 18) get to vote in. A teacher-friend of mine is running for councillor in my ward.

>18 Helenliz: I love this idea! I teach science so I'm all about the measurement units. There are only 7 defined SI measurements, and the rest are derived or older versions. I start my physics classes with this discussion.

>21 Carmenere: Canada had Thanksgiving in October.

>23 raidergirl3: Glad you like it! I'm a science geek at heart too, degree & PhD in chemistry. Since then I seem to have drifted away from the science bench, but it never leaves you and I still use, every day at work, the ability to think critically about data.
I love how units have evolved to meet different needs, it's like looking at a social history. They started as being based on things that were local and avaliable, so lengths were based on the body and some areas of fields were based on what a team of oxen could plough in 8 hours, which meant that it varied, but was practical at each local level. As we've moved more and had to deal with more than just the family over the hill we've gradually adopted a more standard system. Although, I'm still that generation that can work in metric and live in imperial. Can't cook in grams, can't measure my height in meters!

> 24 Oh yes, Canadians are all about the mixed metric system. Although teaching science keeps me thinking in metric measurements, weights and heights are still imperial, and distances are measured in time. How far to Morell? About 30 minutes.
The evolution of measurement is exactly how I start my first day of classes. We need to do some 'science' discussion and it gives an interesting (to me at least!) way to have a discussion about science terms before we get into the course proper.
I lol-ed when I got to the end of your post and you used 'handful' as your word.

>18 Helenliz: This is fun!
My book translates "Still measured in morgens", where morgen (=morning) is the land area someone could do with an ox in a morning. See wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgen

> 23 Yes, Thanks, this I know but I did not want to exclude our friends up north when I mentioned thanksgiving.

Challenge #8: Read a challenge that completes the phrase, "I am thankful for..."

I haven't done this one every year, but often enough for it to be my "regular" November challenge.

Some responses are funny, some are heartfelt. All types are welcome. Enjoy!

>19 DeltaQueen50: Judy, I'm smacking my forehead. Why didn't I think of that? Every year, my main challenge is the category challenge. I seem to be a bit behind this year and need to finish a bunch of food-related books as well as some general nonfiction.

Filling in the blank challenges are fun. I like to see if I can fit some of my mystery books in there.

UPDATE: It seems that Ellie the Birthday Dog got through surgery OK. They removed one tumor. Won't know biopsy results for a few days though. My sister will be pick her up this afternoon. Last time, when she had knee surgery (or whatever you call ACL surgery for dogs), she was happy to see them and wagged her tail but didn't have enough strength to raise her head.

>1 SqueakyChu: Madeline, does the horror book have to be included on the list that you've linked or can it count for your challenge as long as it is tagged "horror" here on LT?

>29 lindapanzo: You're welcome, Linda! I am running behind in many of my challenges this year and hope this challenge will help me with all the others that I am lagging in. :)

Challenge #9: Read a book where a word in the title starts with the letters "In Flanders fields" in rolling order

In Flandres fields by John McCrae is one of the best known World War I poems, using the title for a rolling challenge.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

>31 DeltaQueen50:. Hi Judy. Challenges #7 requires titles to be in alpha order so the next one up should begin with a D. Yours are great just too soon 😀

>33 Carmenere: Whoops, sorry, Lynda, I have to learn to read these challenges a little more closely! I have removed my entries and will hope to add them later.

If it is already tagged horror, it is somewhere on that list although you do not have to find it as the list is very long. You may use that book as long as you did not add the “horror” tag yourself. :D

>35 SqueakyChu: Thanks, Madeline. I did add the tag "horror' when I added Into the Mist to LT but I am pretty sure that I am not the only one to classify it that way.

>36 DeltaQueen50: It's classified as "horror' elsewhere so I'm sure it was also tagged as "horror" prior to your tag entry here on LT. It's good.

ETA: Others, please see message 39 before adding any other questionable books to my challenge #1. Thanks!

>37 SqueakyChu: Thanks, Madeline!

>38 DeltaQueen50: I actually went back to see if anyone else here tagged it as horror, and you seem to be the only one. I'll let it slide as I've seen it tagged as horror elsewhere, and I already agreed to let you use it. Nobody else, though!!!!!!

Note to others: Please check the tag before you add your own tag of "horror". Your adding the tag by itself (the lone one!), unless it already had that tag added by someone else, will disqualify your book. In other words, be sure the tag is ALREADY there, before you choose your book.

>39 SqueakyChu: I haven't tagged my book yet, shall I wait until the end of November before tagging it with "horror"?

>12 lindapanzo:, >13 SqueakyChu:, >17 Citizenjoyce:, >20 DeltaQueen50:, >22 Carmenere:

Thank you very much for your kind wishes.

>29 lindapanzo:

Glad to hear that Ellie is doing well so far, Linda. :)

>40 FAMeulstee: Your book is fine. It already has the tag "horror'. You can tag your own book now.

Challenge #11 (Challenge 10 is on the wiki but not posted here yet) Read a book with something illegal in the title.
This can be the illegal act, or the one committing it. Murder will probably be the most common, but there are plenty of other crimes!

Examples:
Murder on the Orient Express
Kidnapped
Cocaine Blues
The Book Thief
The Great Train Robbery
B is for Burglar
Dark Assassin

>39 SqueakyChu: I think I will remove that book from Challenge #1, Madeline. I don't want to mess up the rules - I will try to fit it in somewhere else. Luckily I have another book already listed for your challenge.

>44 DeltaQueen50: Okay. Thanks!

Challenge #12: Read a book with stripes on the cover

Any kind of stripes will do--a flag with stripes like the American flag or any of the tricolors, a zebra or tiger, a person wearing a striped shirt, etc. The stripes can be on any part of the cover, front, back, or spine. Price scanner codes don't count, though--that'd make it way too easy!

I'm liking the challenges this month. My planned reads:

Challenge #1: Read a book tagged on LibraryThing as "horror" - started by SqueakyChu
✔Alice - Christina Henry (2.5)
Challenge #2: In memorium: Read a book with a character called 'Kara', or in which the title or the author's first name starts with 'K' - started by lyzard
*✔The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney (4)
Challenge #3: Read a book with a World War 1 connection - started by lindapanzo
✔A Place Called Winter - Patrick Gale (4)
Challenge #4: Read a book that has something to do with an election - started by Citizenjoyce
✔One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported - Jr. Dionne, E. J. (3)
Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics - Lawrence O'Donnell
Challenge #5: Read a book where the title contains a measure of something - started by helenliz
✔Moonlight Mile - Dennis Lehane (4)
Challenge #6: Read a book that you need to complete for a 2018 Challenge - started by DeltaQueen
*✔Fragile - Lisa Unger (4)
Challenge #7: Rolling Challenge (Alphabetical order): Read a book that completes the sentence "I went to Grandma's house and I brought............"- started by Carmenere
✔Free Air - Sinclair Lewis (2.5)
Challenge #8: Read a challenge that completes the phrase, "I am thankful for..." - started by Morphidae
✔Improvement - Joan Silber (3.5)
Challenge#9: Read a book where a word in the title starts with the letters "In Flanders fields" in rolling order - started by FAMeulstee
The Norsemen - Understanding Vikings and Their Culture (The Modern Scholar series) - Michael D. C. Drout
✔Red Clocks - Leni Zumas (5)
Challenge #10: Read a book with a blurb by another author you have read - started by quondame
✔The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin - Audiobook, RL Book Club (3.5)
*✔Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward (3)
Challenge #11: Read a book where the title contains something illegal - started by owlie13
✔How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People by D. L. Hughley (4.5)
Challenge #12: Read a book with stripes on the cover - started by susanna.fraser
✔The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer (4.5)
Challenge #13: Read a book to honor Mama Peggy: 11/15/21, 97 - started by LizzieD
✔Mama's Child: A Novel - Joan Steinau Lester (3.5)
Challenge 14: read a book which starts with the same letter as your first name or LT handle - started by wandering_star
✔Cave of Bones - Anne Hillerman (3.5)
Challenge 15: Read a book which doesn't just contain text (state the non-text element) - started by souloftherose
✔Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times - Rocky Wood (4)
Challenge 16: Read a book where the number of words in the title matches the numbers 867-5309 in rolling order
✔Invisible man, got the whole world watching : a young black man's education = Mychal Denzel Smith (3)
Challenge 17: read a book with a word of the title or author matching a London Tube station, rolling challenge - started by paulstalder
✔Don't Cross the Line! - Isabel Minhós Martins (5)
Challenge 18: read a book with a body part in the author's name - started by calm
✔The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague by Dorsey Armstrong (5)

Challenge #10: Read a book with a blurb by another author you have read

Sorry for the late post, I must not have hit post message earlier.

The blurb doesn't have to be on the copy of the book you are reading or listening to, just on a copy of the book. The blurb doesn't have to refer to the book - it can be for the author or the author's previous works, so a quote from an author who died before this book was written still qualifies.

>34 DeltaQueen50: No problem, Judy!
Thanks Madeline for cleaning up my Challenge on the wiki. Makes my challenge all the more clear.

Whoop, whoop, whoop!
I have a potential sweeplette for the very first time! I'm clearing all non-essential matters off my calendar to get this done!
Challenge #7: Rolling Challenge (Alphabetical order): Read a book that completes the sentence "I went to Grandma's house and I brought............"- started by Carmenere
A Man Called Ove
Challenge #8: Read a challenge that completes the phrase, "I am thankful for..." - started by Morphidae
A Spool of Blue Thread
Challenge #9: Read a book where a word in the title starts with the letters "In Flanders fields" in rolling order - started by FAMeulstee
November Road
Challenge #10: Read a book with a blurb by another author you have read - started by quondame
Less
Challenge #11: Read a book where the title contains something illegal - started by owlie13
A Thief of Time
Challenge #12: Read a book with stripes on the cover - started by susanna.fraser
Cape Cod in Color

>49 Carmenere: Rah! Rah! Rah! Sweeplettes can be fun. :D

>17 Citizenjoyce: Joyce, will you accept a set of short stories where one of them concerns an election?
I'm reading The time traveller's almanac part ii where the first story is The Buuterfly Effect, where the result of an election is changed by a time traveller stepping on a butterfly in the far distant past.

>49 Carmenere: Go, go!! I'm about a half a book away from an October sweeplette and a November one is possible if I can find a horror book, which I never read, to my liking. In the alternative, I could just hang out at Judy's challenge #6 and read all the books I was planning anyway, in order to finish my 2018 category challenge.

>51 Helenliz: That sounds fine.

>52 lindapanzo: I'm the same Linda, I'm trying to spread my books around but I could list most of them at my challenge!

>54 DeltaQueen50: I usually finish the challenge around Thanksgiving or a week after, say December 1st or so. This year, at this point, I have way more books I need to read to finish it. The last couple of reading months have been slow. For 2019, I may leave my categories open ended. At this rate, my December TIOLI challenge might be to read a Kindle single!!

Madeline, as mentioned, I rarely read horror books but I do appreciate your comment about your trying to teach us to not be afraid of this category. I was looking through the tagged books and found that I've read more in this genre than I'd realized, though many were non-scary Stephen King books like 11/22/63 or The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I'll keep looking for an optimal non-scary book for me.

>55 lindapanzo: Like oyu, I don't "do" horror either. By which I mean I don't enjoy blood & gore. I was planning on reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde next month, and it is tagged Horror, so I'm using it. I'm not sure it's reputaiton is what I would describe as horror, but that's not what Madeline asked for. I agree that it is good to sometimes dip your toe in unfamiliar waters (just beware of having them bitten off!).

>50 SqueakyChu: >52 lindapanzo: Thanks, Madeline and Linda for the rah, rahs and go, go's. I'm psyched!

>49 Carmenere: I've also got my eye on a 7-12 sweeplette!

Lots of November excitement going on.

>58 susanna.fraser: Yes! We can do this!

>60 Carmenere: yes we can. I’ll be aiming for a 1-6 sweeplette now that I’ve found a suitable, and thankfully short, horror work.

>61 lindapanzo: Let's do it! November is a looooong and bleak month. What else is there to do but read?!

>62 Carmenere: I’d you live in the US There’s cooking, eating and shopping too.

>62 Carmenere: HS swim season is over at the start of the month. Baseball season is over, though hockey season continues. I'll have a lot more free time to read, for sure, this month.

>63 Citizenjoyce: Though I love to eat, I am not a cook and don't like to shop so, for me, November is a dark and bleak month, perfect for reading. Those first few weeks of early sunsets always knock me out.

>63 Citizenjoyce: Hahaha, Ok, I will cut out a teeny bit of time to toss a turkey in the oven and mash a few potatoes on the 22nd but that's it ;0) Oh yeah, and pick up my son from college and take him back and take a few minutes to vote on the first Tuesday but honestly not too much more of importance

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Challenge #13: Read a book to honor Mama Peggy: 11/15/21, 97 - started by LizzieD
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I'm easy. The title may contain "mama" or "Peggy" or any of the four numbers (written out or as numerals) OR you may find the words or numbers on page 11 or 15 or 21 or 97.

Challenge 14: read a book which starts with the same letter as your first name or LT handle - started by wandering_star

Totally self-serving this one, as I have three library books which start with M (same letter as my first name) which don't fit anywhere else in this month's challenges...

I'm also thinking of adding a self-serving challenge but wanted to get some feedback first on possible ways to make it apply to audiobooks (as I'm not a regular audiobook listener). The challenge was going to be 'Read a book which doesn't just contain text' to include things like books with illustrations, maps, photos etc. But presumably audiobooks wouldn't include those?

>68 souloftherose: - Heather, some audio books provide a PDF download of photos and other illustrations included in the print/e-book versions, but not always. So I'm not sure that helps :-P

>68 souloftherose: I think some of those books can be found on Google books or on an Amazon preview just to glance at. All the challenger needs to find is at least one example of a picture or a map, etc. That should be fairly easy. I think it should be okay if the pictures are in the hard copy book but not necessarily in the audiobook. What do you think? Ask the challenger to list what the qualifying graphic is, though.

>69 katiekrug:, >70 SqueakyChu: Thank you both!

Katie - thank you for the tip. I had no idea some audio books provided that.

Madeleine - I don't know why I didn't think of that but of course I can just say that if the print version of the audio book has those features then the audio book would count.

Challenge #15: Read a book which doesn't just contain text started by souloftherose

Please list the non-text element of the book on the wiki (e.g. maps, illustrations, photos)

The non-text element of the book can be things like maps, photos/images contained at the front or the back of the book or illustrations and images that are contained within the text itself.

If listening to an audio book then if you can verify that the print book has some non-text elements this will count.

If one person has listed a work but you have an edition that doesn't contain the non-text element (e.g. one person is reading an illustrated version but you have just the text version) then you can still join in for a shared read.

Challenge #16: Read a book where the number of words in the title matches the numbers 867-5309 in rolling order

Around the November of 1981, if you had the phone number 867-5309 in any area code, you probably quickly came to hate the band known as Tommy Tutone after people started calling you asking for someone named Jenny. Thirty-seven years later, the song is still stuck in our heads thanks to many businesses that have this phone number and use the song's chorus as a jingle.

So here is my challenge:

Read a book that has the number of words in the title that corresponds to the number, in rolling order.

Rules:

1. You can include subtitles, or you can exclude them. Whatever helps the book fit.
   
2. Be sure to count words and not syllables.
   
3. The 0 is a wildcard. Any book can go there.
   
4. Symbols (such as the ampersand &) and numbers that you would read out-loud as a word counts as a word.
   
5. Initials count separately if they're generally thought of as independent (C. S. Lewis is 3 words), but together if it's a whole, such as an acronym (FBI is one word).

Here are examples based on the Amazon best seller list

8-The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
6-The Coddling of the American Mind
7-The Next Person You Meet In Heaven
5-I need a new butt
3-Ship of Fools
0-Any book.
9-Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

Challenge 17: read a book with a word of the title or author matching a London Tube station, rolling challenge

I like travelling and the London Tube is an interesting place to go around. Take any word from the title or the author's name of your book and check against the London Tube station's list, if such a word appears in a station's name. This new station must be on the same line as the previous station. I start at King's Cross and travel to Warren Street, both on Victoria line. So from Warren Street to may travel on the Victoria line or on Northern line. You may not change lines in order to reach your destinations. When reaching the destinations, you have to wait for another traveller to take you to another station, from there you may make another trip (so not two stations in a row). DLR can be used, too, but not the railway stations.

Editied to specify: apostrophed words must be equal, so if 'King's Cross' is aimed at, 'King's' must be in the title as well. The same with the full stop: St. must also appear as St. in the title or the author. Ampersands do not qualify.

Do not add a book to a station already mentioned (do this only if it is a shared read). Always travel to the station from the point our journey just happens to be. Always travel forward.

Got your tickets and your books ready?

homepage
https://tfl.gov.uk

list of stations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_London_Underground_stations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Docklands_Light_Railway_stations

the map of the Tube
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/London_Underground_full_map....

>73 paulstalder: ohhhhh, that's brilliant!

>74 Helenliz: AGREED!

Meanwhile, I'm not a happy poster. When I tried to add a book to my #13 challenge, I checked the capcha and got an ad for cars which would not go away or let me delete it or do anything else but cancel the entry. Off to report it to the de-buggers.
ETA: Reported
EAgainTA: Tried again and posted with no problem. Weird!

>73 paulstalder: So sad Un Lun Dun can't fit in this challenge. It is after all, kind of London Underground. I guess embedded words are out too?

>75 LizzieD: That Captcha weirdness has also happened to me in the past.

>74 Helenliz: >75 LizzieD: thanks. It's a bit tricky but fun.

>75 LizzieD: your guess is correct: no embedded words. But thanks for mentioning it. I put it on my wishlist, I like such weird titles.

Challenge 18: read a book with a body part in the author's name - started by calm

examples

Helen Oyeyemi

China Miéville

Patricia McKillip

>79 calm: - Do slang terms count? I have a book to read by Hannah Lillith Assadi.... :)

>80 katiekrug: That's fine. Anything goes as long as it is a common term for a body part :)

Cool! It's my book club book for the month and I wasn't finding a place for it anywhere else...

For some odd reason, I keep humming that old song, 8-6-7-5-3-0-9. I wonder why that is.

>79 calm: Are pseudonyms allowed for the authors?

I'm having too much fun with >79 calm: #18 - so far I've come up with Ear, arm, heel, and chin - although I'm not the only one and haven't entered the ear yet.

>83 lindapanzo: it gets into your head and refuses to leave

>84 quondame: I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

If the book was originally published with a pseudonym and later editions have another author name on the cover (like Richard Bachman/Stephen King - sorry can't think of an example with a body part at the moment) that is fine. But if an author writes under a number of different names and the one you want to use has not been associated with the title then no it is not allowed.

>85 quondame: It was just something that I noticed earlier this year and thought it would be a fun challenge, so I'm pleased to see that other people think so to:)

>83 lindapanzo: aaaaahhh, thanks for sharing? 8675..........

>86 neverstopreading: Yes it does!!

>88 Carmenere: I started listening to Christmas music on satellite radio. Now I've got those running through my head. The last one I heard was Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses.

>79 calm:

I don't suppose you'd accept 'wig' as a body part? :D

>66 LizzieD: does it need to be "mama" or will "mother" do as well?

Ugh! wouldn't you know I forgot about the 12 replacement windows we ordered. They were delivered on Oct 31st. We're doing the installing ourselves but I'm sure I can find some down time to achieve the sweeplette. I WILL find the down time!

>90 lyzard: Sorry no 'wig' as it is not actually a part of the body :)

>93 calm:

Rats! :D

Ok, I'm trying this for the first time ever...Got my to-read list (which probably won't be entirely completed) on my thread.

>95 The_Hibernator: Welcome, Rachel. Let us know if you have any questions.

>95 The_Hibernator: welcome on board! >:-)
Having a list of books that is longer than the month is entirely traditional. We all do that! The good thing about TIOLI is that you can change your mind about what to read, move the books around a bit (rolling challenges excepted) and not get round to some of them - all without guilt.

>95 The_Hibernator: woo Hoo ! Rachel's in the house!! Welcome!

>95 The_Hibernator: Hi Rachel, welcome!

>95 The_Hibernator: So nice to have you here!

>95 The_Hibernator: Welcome, welcome!

>92 Carmenere: Are your windows just general replacements, or are you putting in a special kind, like for better a/c efficiency, storm windows, etc?

>73 paulstalder: Please travel to the next station from the point our journey just happens to be. Do not add books to stations already touched (do this only if it is a shared read). So I moved the 2nd King's Cross entry forward, it fits the lines of the previous stop.

>103 paulstalder: thanks.

>102 neverstopreading: We're replacing 40 yo windows. 12 of them. Should be easy once we figure out what we're doing. LOL

>95 The_Hibernator: Whoo Hoo! Rachel is here!

Now, shhhh, everyone. We have to stop talking about her.

Oh, Rachel, you still here? Er...

>105 Carmenere: Getting to that "should be easy" part is the hardest part...

>79 calm: Does "lap" qualify as a body part? I'm adding it until you disqualify it.

I finished a challenge 1-6 sweeplette. Now I'm off to re-read one of my all-time favorites, A Civil Campaign, which will be my 100th book of 2018. This is the 5th time I've gotten over 100 books in the past 20 years.

I have completed a sweep.

>109 jeanned: Congratulations, Jeanne!

>110 quondame: Congratulations, Susan!

>108 thornton37814: - Yes I'll allow "lap"

>109 jeanned: Well done

>110 quondame: Congratulations, that was fast :)

>109 jeanned:, >110 quondame: Congratulations!

>109 jeanned: >110 quondame: way to go, Jeanne and Susan!

>112 calm: Thanks!

Congrats to @jeanned for a sweeplette and to @quondame for a sweep! Way to go! High five all around!!

>111 FAMeulstee: >112 calm: >113 Citizenjoyce: >114 Carmenere: >116 SqueakyChu: Thanks!

>91 Helenliz: Oh, Helen.... I think "mother" is just fine; I hadn't considered the question, so "mom" and "momma" should work too.

Sweeps and sweeplettes already, wow! I've been distracted with politics and only just now finished my third book of the month. Hopefully I'll be able to make up some lost time over this Veterans Day long weekend and then when we fly down to Oklahoma to spending Thanksgiving with my in-laws.

>118 LizzieD: thankyou.

>16 lindapanzo: Here's a little article about knitting spies to go along with your challenge
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii?utm_source=faceboo...

>121 Citizenjoyce: Thanks, Joyce

>73 paulstalder: I have absolutely no idea how this challenge works. I've never been on a subway and while I like maps, I can't figure out what happens next. From what I see, High Barnet, the last book, is at the end of a line. What happens next?

>123 raidergirl3: High Barnet is on the Northern Line. The next book has to include a word from any station that is on the Northern line. The next station can't be High Barnet. In the Wiki you list thebook, the station and underground line or lines that your station is on.
We change lines by the books chosen being an interchange, in which case the next book can be on ay of the lines that go through that station.

Any help?

>124 Helenliz: All I have to say is Lord o' mercy. That's nuts.

>125 Citizenjoyce: thanks :) it's a challenge

>123 raidergirl3: >124 Helenliz: Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_London_Underground_stations and search the last station mentioned (High Barnet) in the list, there you can see the line(s) the station belongs to (Northern), click on 'Northern' and there you have a list of stations on this line (from High Barnet till Morden). Now chose a station which matches a word from your book (you may find words like 'cross', 'green', 'street', 'castle', 'chalk', 'farm', 'crescent', 'square', 'waterloo', 'elephant', 'oval', 'wimbledon', 'tooting', 'north', 'south' -- lots of choices)

>125 Citizenjoyce: tube nuts

>124 Helenliz: >126 paulstalder: Ok, thanks, I (mostly) get it now.

I was on the subway in Toronto this summer, but I just followed the people I was with (14 girls on a field hockey team, plus parents and coaches).

>126 paulstalder: Thanks for the extensive explanation. I understood it correctly, but by the time I figured it out, you guys were on the wrong line! I’m still stranded in one of the stations waiting for a train. ;)

>129 SqueakyChu: I found it easier navigating the actual Underground.

>130 neverstopreading: Hahahaha!

>130 neverstopreading: yeah, sometimes real life is easier than lt life

>129 SqueakyChu: I decided it would be easier to reorganise pretty much every book I'd already entered in this month's challenge than wait for the right book to come up so I could enter mine!
I love this challenge so much that I wasn't going to miss entering a book.

>126 paulstalder: I'm determined to understand this challenge!

I just hopped aboard a train at Chalk Farm. Too bad that I missed Anita who had been at that same stop earlier. :) Now I just have to see if I ever get off. I guess that depends on if anyone else joins this challenge. Right, Paul?! :D

>128 raidergirl3: Heh! When I was in Toronto last year, I just followed my dear hostess @jessibud2. I didn't even have to know where I was going!

>135 SqueakyChu: We were staying pretty much downtown - we could walk to the Eaton Center, much to our teenagers' delight! The night we went to the CN Tower and the Aquarium, we took the subway. It was a little stressful going back to the hotel because the subway was packed and the girls were tired, but we got everyone home in one piece. Did you get to the CN Tower?

>134 SqueakyChu: I hope you visited Walden Books https://www.librarything.com/venue/50652/Walden-Books while waiting in Chalk Farm. But now it's too late, Amanda took us to Charing Cross now ...

>136 raidergirl3: I was there for Canada Day in 2017, and we did a mini LT meetup. Then we went to the Beaches and downtown for the Canada Day celebration. There we were in a downpour of rain, but that did not dampen our spirits. It was so much fun to be in Toronto with @jessibud2, @torontoc, @_Zoe_, @radicarian, my husband and another good friend. We’d love to go back!

>137 paulstalder: That’s okay. I really didn’t need to buy more books. Now I’m back in the Washington, DC, Metro area near my own Twinbrook Metro train station. Haha!

Wow, I've spent so much time within less than a mile (and sometimes a lot less) of Walden Books over the last 30+ years, as my aunt lives just up the road - Chalk Farm is her nearest tube station. I must make a trip some time.

TIOLI Question of the Month:

Which character in a book you've read so far this month earns your admiration? Why? In which book did this character appear?

>140 elkiedee: You should probably go there with @kidzdoc when he gets to England this winter! :)

>141 SqueakyChu: Stephanie's teacher in The Lily Pond. (Sorry, I don't know how the name is spelled since I listened to the audiobook. It was Swedish.) I think it's because she saw through the other German teacher's prejudice and encouraged Stephanie to come back, even making a trip out to the island to see Stephanie. She truly cared.

Finished a double sweep today! (16-11) :-)
Made it a triple sweep! (24-11)

#1: Het gruwelkabinet - Ivo de Wijs
#1: Het duistere pact - Rianne Lampers
#1: Het parfum (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) - Patrick Süskind
#2: Mensenjagers aan de Nijl - Karl May
#2: Mijn beesten staan er gekleurd op - Kees & Katja Stip
#2: Kelderkind - Kristien Dieltiens
#3: De velden van eer (Fields of Glory) - Jean Rouad
#3: De hondeneters - Marita de Sterck
#3: Met huid en haar - Marita de Sterck
#4: Conclaaf (Conclave) - Robert Harris
#4: Onderworpen (Submission) - Michel Houellebecq
#4: De nieuwe paus - Stijn Fens
#5: Nog in morgens gemeten - Koos van Zomeren
#5: Een handvol stof (A handfull of Dust) - Evelyn Waugh
#5: 20.000 mijlen onder zee, Oostelijk halfrond (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Part 1) - Jules Verne
#5: 20.000 mijlen onder zee, Westelijk halfrond (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Part 2) - Jules Verne
#6: Schuim en as - J. Slauerhoff
#6: Stella : ster van de zee - Gerda Dendooven
#6: Tin Toeval en het geheim van Tweebeens-eiland - Guus Kuijer
#7: Corso, het ezeltje - C.E. Pothast-Gimberg
#7: Karel Appel - G.J. de Rook
#7: Otje - Annie M.G. Schmidt
#8: Dit uitzicht - Rutger Kopland
#8: De hond die naar de sterren rende (A bridge to the stars) - Henning Mankell
#8: Liefdesliederen - Hadewijch
#9: Ik heb geen naam - Dagmar Hilarová & Miep Diekmann
#9: Het onbegonnen feest - Els Pelgrom
#9: Labyrint Europa : alle latere reizen by Cees Nooteboom
#10: Tsjaikovskistraat 40 - Pieter Waterdrinker
#10: De man die in rook opging (The Man Who Went up in Smoke) - Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
#10: De goede soldaat (The Good Soldier) - Ford Madox Ford
#11: Ali Baba en de veertig rovers - Willem Wilmink
#11: Absolutie voor moord (Absolution by murder) - Peter Tremayne
#11: De filosoof en de sluipmoordenaar - Simon Vestdijk
#12: Stem op de okapi - Edward van de Vendel
#12: Superguppie - Edward van de Vendel
#12: De vrouw van de dokter (The Doctor's Wife) - Sawako Ariyoshi
#13: De Pantheon getuige (The Sacred Cut) - David Hewson
#13: Vijftien honden (Fifteen dogs) - André Alexis
#13: Naar het noorden - Koos Meinderts
#14: Floddertje - Annie M.G. Schmidt
#14: Fausto Koppie - Anke de Vries
#14: Roodgevlamde zijde (Flame-colored taffeta) - Rosemary Sutcliff
#15: Kun je fluiten Johanna? (Can you whistle, Johanna?) - Ulf Stark
#15: Corneille, zijn wereld - Maarten Bertheux
#15: Verhalen van de spinnende kater - Harriet Laurey
#16: Diep in het bos van Nergana - Margriet Heymans
#16: We zijn allang begonnen, maar nu begint het echt - Joke van Leeuwen
#16: Tin Toeval en de kunst van het verdwalen - Guus Kuijer
#17: De boerderij der dieren (Animal Farm) - George Orwell
#17: Een brug naar Terabithia (Bridge to Terabithia) - Katherine Paterson
#17: Een kleine stad in Duitsland (A small town in Germany) - John Le Carré
#18: Er ging geen dag voorbij - Toon Tellegen
#18: Tuin van eetlust - Manuel Kneepkens
#18: Brieven aan niemand anders (Letters to Anyone and Everyone) - Toon Tellegen

>144 FAMeulstee: *faints*
*revives*

Congrats, Anita! :D

>145 SqueakyChu: Pfew, glad you revived ;-)
Thank you, Madeline.

>144 FAMeulstee: Double Congratulations!!

Congrats to the Sweepers!

I just finished The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison and although the main character wasn't extremely likeable, she was competant, strong and a survivor in a world where an unknown virus wiped out most of the women, children and babies. I am just glad that all I have to do is read about it, I wouldn't have lasted more than a couple of days if it were real!

>144 FAMeulstee: Wow, how can a person read so fast? Congratulations.
>148 DeltaQueen50: looks good.

>147 quondame: Thank you, Susan!

>148 DeltaQueen50: Thank you, Judy!

>149 Citizenjoyce: Thank you, Joyce.
I always have much time to read, usually I read about 6 hours a day, when I have no obligations that keep me from home. Last week I could not do anything but read, as I injured my right thumb, so reading time nearly doubled.

TIOLI Stats for October 2018:

For the month of October 2018, there were a total of 381 books read. Of these, 69 books (0r 18%) were shared reads.

The most popular books (4 of each were read) were the following:
Beartown - Fredrik Backman
Hallowe'en Party - Agatha Christie
Binti: Home - Nnedi Okorafor
Exit Strategy - Martha Wells

The most popular challenge, with 59 books read, was the one by Fameulstee to read a book with an odd number of letters in the title.

The challenge with the most TIOLI points (8) was also the one by Fameulstee to read a book with an odd number of letters in the title.

Soon to come...the October 2018 TIOLI Awards! :)

The October 2018 TIOLI Awards!:

The Bestsellers to Come Award go to @crazymamie and @raidergirl3 for reading When God was a Rabbit and to @Fameulstee and @quondame for reading The Witch's Brat for my (SqueakyChu's) challenge to read a book whose title changes meaning if exactly one letter is taken away. I'm eagerly anticipating these forthcoming novels: (1) When God was a Rabbi (obviously a new take on theology) and (2) The Witch's Bra (an attempt at Halloween fashion, perhaps).

The Who Has Time to Read Award goes to @quondame for reading West Wind's Fool: and Other Stories of the Devil's West for FAMeulstee's challenge to read a book with an odd number of letters in the title. That book had 43 letters in its title. After counting all those letters, I think it's time for a nap!

The Comfort Me With Food Award goes to @thornton37814 for reading A Gift from the Comfort Food Cafe for lyzard's challenge to read a book for comfort. Yeah. Food. Cafes. Those will always comfort me! :)

The Farmer's Helper Award goes to @paulstalder for the challenge to read a book that has a shepherd and/or sheep on the first page. Any farmer needing more sheep or someone to care for them can always visit this challenger. He may be of help! :)

The Title in a Title in a Title Award goes to @LizzieD for the challenge to read a book with a title in the title. I know this award makes little sense, but I just had to give it out to say the word "title" three times. Haha!

Congrats to our award winners! Feel free at this time to contribute awards of your own.

>152 SqueakyChu: I thought it was definitely comforting! Thanks for the award.

>141 SqueakyChu: My favorite character was all the characters in the little Portuguese children's picture book, Don't Cross The Line, which is a cheerful way to show children that people acting together can overcome tyranny. There's a guard with a machine gun on the first left-hand page. He stops all characters from moving on. He has orders to allow no one to occupy a right-hand page because the "general reserves the right to keep the page blank, so he can join the story whenever he feels like it." The characters don't riot or fight. They joyfully dance, float, creep and haunt as they get more and more crowded on the left-hand page asking why they can't advance and giving reasons they need to. And it turns out the guard is just as human as the rest of them.
I hated this challenge ( #17) because I found it too confusing, but I sure am glad I found this book.

.154 What a wonderful-sounding book! I'd love to see it. I will look for it.

>152 SqueakyChu: bääh (= a sheepish thanks)

> 152 say the word "title" three times -> does that give thrittle ?

>156 paulstalder: So cute!

>157 paulstalder: What is thrittle?

*looks it up*

*can't find it*

Did you just make up a new word?!

>152 SqueakyChu: thanks for the award. I had looked at the title (When God Was a Rabbi) so much before I started reading, I kept waiting for the Rabbi to show up while I was reading, lol.

>159 raidergirl3: That title made me laugh and laugh!

>158 SqueakyChu: thrittle (with an i as in little) or thritle (with an i as in title) is the LT librarian's definition of a book title or an book award which contains the same word three times

>144 FAMeulstee: Simply amazing! Congrats! with half a month to go, a quad sweep is certainly doable!!

>152 SqueakyChu: Congrats to all the award winners!

>161 paulstalder: LOL!

>141 SqueakyChu: I admire Dagmar Hilarová, who wrote Ik heb geen naam together with the Dutch author Miep Diekmann.
She surved camp Theresienstad. She was one of the child poets in this camp. For years she could not talk about her experiences (1943-1945). With the help Miep Diekman and the translator Olga Krijtová this book was written, telling how poetry and love pulled her trough.

>152 SqueakyChu: Thank you for the award, Madeline.
My idea was more of an enchanted bra, size automaticly adjusted to the likes of the man to be seduced ...

>162 Carmenere: Thanks Lynda. I won't make a quad, too many other obligations in the rest of November. I might make it to a triple again.

>164 FAMeulstee: An enchanted bra could be fun! How come no one thought of that before?! ;)

>152 SqueakyChu: Thanks for the awards!

>144 FAMeulstee: Congrats and congrats, too, to the award winners.

Alas, I think I will be hanging out in Judy's comfy challenge #6 the rest of the month. After I was hospitalized with pneumonia about this time last year, I somehow seem more prone to it so, when I got what I thought was just laryngitis last week (after yelling so much at my niece's sectionals swim meet) but turned out much, much worse, they treated it aggressively. Kept me out of the hospital, at least, but I was off from work all week and, sadly, I had no energy to read until about Fri-Sat. I was up for Rachel Ray, Hallmark Christmas movies, and music, though.

Back to work today but now I just want to curl up with a cozy, a blanket, and a hot chocolate this evening. Maybe put a nice cozy hockey game on TV. And repeat. And repeat. In fact, I've pretty much cancelled everything. Just feel very weary and run down.

>167 lindapanzo: OK you’ve used up all your sick coupons for the year. Nothing but smooth sailing from now on, please.

>167 lindapanzo: So sorry to hear you’re having such a rough time. Curl up with your comfort books and get well soon!

>168 Citizenjoyce: I sure hope so, Joyce.

>169 SqueakyChu: Thanks, Madeline.

As nasty as I felt, I was just glad they nipped this in the bud.

>167 lindapanzo: Thank you, Linda.
Sorry to read you had trouble with your health again, glad it wasn't as bad as last year.
I hope the cozy books are good company.

>144 FAMeulstee: Congratulations once again Anita.

and congrats to all the Oct Award winners.

>167 lindapanzo: You are more than welcome to spent your time in my challenge, Linda, I just hope you are feeling better and getting stronger every day!

>167 lindapanzo: Hope you feel better soon.

This is not the month to complete my first sweeplette. Too much going on to enjoy reading at long intervals. It will remain one of my life goals :0)

I finished my sweep with a few days to spare, so I've started a bit of a chunkster, The Witch Elm, a stand alone novel by Tana French. I love her Dublin Murder Squad series, so I'm hoping I'll like this too even though the main character, at least so far, is a man instead of a woman.

>175 Citizenjoyce: Congratulations on your sweep!

No sweeplette for me this month. I started on a series of books that I can't stop reading. That's almost unheard of for me! I'm on the seventh of nine books in the graphic novel series Preacher.

>175 Citizenjoyce: Congrats on your sweep, Joyce!

I completed my 7-12 sweeplette while in Oklahoma visiting in-laws for Thanksgiving.

>141 SqueakyChu: Miles Vorkosigan is one of my favorite characters of all time. I enjoy his development over the course of the Vorkosigan saga books, his emotional maturing, his ability to see people for who they actually are and not box them in for his own purposes, his wild adventures as he attempts to meld the various aspects of his personality into a coherent self. In the book I read this month, A Civil Campaign, he fleshes out what it means to him to be more than just a successful man, but an honorable one. Despite this weighty theme, A Civil Campaign is hilarious and my favorite (so far) in a series chock full of wonderful episodes.

>176 quondame:, >177 SqueakyChu: Thanks
>178 susanna.fraser: Congratulations
>177 SqueakyChu: I love when that happens.

>175 Citizenjoyce: Congratulations on your sweep, Joyce!

>178 susanna.fraser: Congratulations on your sweeplette, Susanna!

I finished the last book for my triple sweep today! :-)

I updated >144 FAMeulstee: with the books I finished.

>179 jeanned: The dinner party scene near the middle of that book is a masterpiece. As a writer I'm in awe of how Bujold brings all those characters, with all their trailing plot threads, into one room and bounces them off each other to sow such beautiful, hilarious, yet painful chaos.

>183 susanna.fraser: That is one of the great domestic scenes of all SF. Aside from being a comic masterpiece all on it's own.

>182 FAMeulstee: More congratulations.

>183 susanna.fraser: >184 quondame: Absolutely! I can't get anyone in my family to love that scene the way I do! Maybe when the children are a little older and have hosted more of their own gatherings.

>175 Citizenjoyce: Congratulations on your sweep, Joyce!!

>178 susanna.fraser: Congrats!

>182 FAMeulstee:

Really?!

*faints*
*revives (again)

Congrats, Anita!

>185 quondame: Thank you, Susan.

>188 SqueakyChu: Yes, Madeline, really.
Sadly November only has 30 days ;-)

Thanks all, for the congratulations.
>179 jeanned: Argh, I have 6 books to go before I can read the famed dinner scene. I’d best get going.

I've completed a second sweep with the completion of Conclave.

>191 quondame: Hurray! Congratulations on your second sweep!

>191 quondame: Yahoo! I think we're setting some world records here.

>191 quondame: Congratulations, Susan!

I hope it's just me or just temporary, but Search is returning "no results" for every book I search, so I cannot update my Completeds on the wiki before the deadline tonight. Shall I beg for an extension of time, Madeline, or input without links?

>195 countrylife: Put in the books without the links. I just need the info for the stats. The links are just extra so others can look at your book. If you need extra time anyway, just let me know.

I just tried Search and it seems to work for me.

Housekeeping Day!

Please remove from the wiki any book you do not finish by midnight unless it's a rolling challenge (in which case just mark it DNF - did not finish).

On to December...

This year went by so fast!

I just had to reinstate a completed book on challenge 15 which I am sure I entered - Sovereign by C J Sansom - wondering if someone else accidentally deleted. If you read anything with a title near the end of the alphabet on this one you might want to check your own.

It looks like someone did accidently remove the bottom entries. I am trying to re-enter them.

I think all entries are back now.

I didn't manage to add one of the books I read this month to a TIOLI challenge - it could have gone into the Flander's Field or Underground challenges but I missed the letters in the first and the Underground seemed to stall on the Northern Line. Oh well.

I did manage a 7 - 12 sweeplette

>198 elkiedee: >200 FAMeulstee:. Thanks @elkiedee, for reporting this. Thanks, Anita, for fixing it.

>201 calm: Congrats on the sweeplette!

Dejah_Thoris also finished a sweep this month. Congratulations!

Congrats sweepletters.
I sure hope I’m not the one who messed up the challenge.

>203 FAMeulstee: Congrats on your sweep, Dejah_Thoris!

>198 elkiedee: >199 FAMeulstee: >200 FAMeulstee: It looks like everything I entered on that challenge is there.