Take It or Leave It Challenge - December 2023 - Page 1

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


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For the month of December, 2023, your TIOLI challenge is to...

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Read a book with a word, phrase, clause, prefix or suffix of negation in its title
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Rules:
1. Use this link as a guide to what words you may use.
2. If you use a word (ex. no, not, never), it may be embedded in or across title words.

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Other Stuff (not part of the TIOLI challenge):
1. @FAMeulstee's 2023 TIOLI Sweeplette Meter
2. @FAMeulstee's Our TIOLI Sweeps
3. Morphidae's List of Previous TIOLI Challenges (2010-2016) - A reference (Do a control-F scan) to avoid repeating a previous challenge. If your idea is similar to a previous challenge, make it unique by adding a new "twist" to it.
4. The December 2023 TIOLI Meter - Optional page on which you may track your TIOLI reading. Not competitive--- just fun!

Index of Challenges:

Challenges #1-6
1. Read a book with a word, phrase, clause, prefix or suffix of negation in its title - msg #1
2. Read a book you mean to get to earlier in 2023 - msg #3
3. Read a sequel to a book you read earlier in the year - msg #4
4. Read a book that is a re-telling, remix or is based on a previous story or character - msg #6
5. Read a book with a connection to the number 3 - msg #9
6. Read a book connected to this season of the year - msg #10

Challenges #7-12
7. Read a book that it's easy to dip in and out of - msg #11
8. Read a book that fits any of the "page 2" challenges for 2023 - msg #13
9. Read a book with a musical instrument in the title or author's name - msg #14
10. Read a book with "tomorrow" or "future" in the title - msg #19
11. Read a book with at least three letters of "December" in the title - msg #21
12. Read a book with some connection to 12 - msg #30

Challenges #13-16
13. Read a book with a variant of death in the title - msg #31
14. Read a book whose title or subtitle or author’s name includes the word “men” - msg #32
15. Read a book for Santa's Reindeer Genre rolling challenge - msg #33

Hold your challenge, please, until the January, 2024, TIOLI challenges are posted. Thank you!

I'm the first one to find the thread?! That's a...first.

Challenge #2: Read a book you mean to get to earlier in 2023

A challenge to let you catch up on planned reading before the new year.

Challenge #3: Read a sequel to a book you read earlier in the year. Please name the original book.

Pretty self-explanatory, but if you have any questions just ask!

>3 susanna.fraser: My list for that particular challenge would take me all month to read!

Challenge #4: Read a book that is a re-telling, remix or is based on a previous story or character

- Please include the name of the original book on the Wiki

>3 susanna.fraser: Could this include books that you meant to finish earlier in 2023 as well? If so, this and challenge #3 are basically the same as the challenge I intended to post, so thank you both! Now I can think up another challenge which I can fit interesting books into (since I should finally have a bit more reading time in December).

>7 wandering_star: Yes, I'll allow that.

Challenge #5: Read a book with a connection to the number 3

Every year, at the end of the year, I think about "there goes the year" which, this year, I call a 3 year, since the year ends in a 3. So, please read a book with a connection to 3 and list what the 3 connection is.

A few things I've thought of: The word "three" or the number 3 in the title. Three words in the title. Three names shown in the author's name. The third book in a series. Probably lots of others I haven't thought of.

#Challenge 6: Read a book connected to this season of the year
Do I have it right that for us in the Northern Hemisphere Christmas and Hanukkah are winter holidays but in the Southern Hemisphere they're summer holidays? That's a weird idea.

Since this time of year can be particularly busy or rushed, Challenge #7: Read a book that it's easy to dip in and out of

Obvious choices here would be a book of short stories, poetry, or essays, but also a photo book, recipe book, guide book - or whatever works for you!

My planned reads:
Challenge #1: Read a book with a word, phrase, clause, prefix or suffix of negation in its title - started by SqueakyChu
✔Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism - Rachel Maddow (5)
✔You Won't Feel a Thing!: The Drama, Tragedy, & Comedy of Nursing - Sonja Mitrevska, DNP, CRNA (3)
Challenge #2: Read a book you mean to get to earlier in 2023 - started by susanna.fraser
*✔Bookshops and Bonedust - Travis Baldree (3.5)
*✔Immortal Longings - Chloe Gong (3.5)
✔Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System - Ryan J. Reilly (4)
Challenge #3: Read a sequel to a book you read earlier in the year. Please name the original book. - started by AlcottAcre
✔Adulthood Rites - Octavia E. Butler (5)
*✔Iron Flame - Rebecca Yarros (3)
Challenge #4: Read a book that is a re-telling or based on another story or character - started by DeltaQueen
✔ Clytemnestra - Costanza Casati (4.5)
*✔Thorn - Intisar Khanani (4)
Challenge #5: Read a book with a connection to the number 3 - started by lindapanzo
✔Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll (4.5)
Challenge #6: Read a book connected to this season of the year - started by Citizenjoyce
*✔A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (4)
✔Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins - Eric A. Kimmel (5)
*✔Hercule Poirot's Silent Night - Sophie Hannah (3.5)
✔A Lot Like Christmas: Stories - Connie Willis (4.5)
Challenge #7: Read a book that it's easy to dip in and out of (short stories, poetry, essays, photo book, recipe book etc) - started by wandering_star
✔I'm Waiting for You: And Other Stories - Bo-young Kim (3)
Challenge #8: Read a book that fits any of the "page 2" challenges for 2023 - started by helenliz
✔The Goose Girl - Jacob Grimm (4)
*✔Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (4.5)
A Gathering of Shadows - V.E. Schwab
Challenge #9: Read a book with a musical instrument in the title or author's name - started by bell7
*✔The Black God's Drums - P. Djèlí Clark (3.5)
Challenge #10: Read a book with "tomorrow" or "future" in the title - started by Chatterbox
✔Tomorrow's Kin - Nancy Kress (4)
Challenge #11: Read a book with at least three letters of "December" in the title - started by FAMeulstee
✔Death Valley - Melissa Broder (3.5)
✔The September House - Carissa Orlando (4)
Challenge #12: Read a book with some connection to 12 - started by quondame
✔Counting the Cost - Jill Duggar (4)
Challenge #13: Read a book with a variant of death in the title - started by lyzard
✔I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy (3.5)
Challenge #14: Read a book whose title or subtitle or author’s name includes the word “men” - started by dallenbaugh
*✔The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History - Margalit Fox (4)
✔Now That You Mention It - Kristan Higgins (3)
*✔Hill Women - Cassie Chambers (5)
Challenge #15: Read a book for Santa's Reindeer Genre rolling challenge - started by Morphidae
✔Leslie F*cking Jones - Leslie Jones (3.5)
✔Whale - Cheon Myeong-Kwan (4)

Challenge #8: Read a book that fits any of the "page 2" challenges for 2023

I'm often struck by a book that could fit multiple challenges. Or how the book I'm reading would fit last month and seems to be a struggle to fit into this month. So I wondered how many challenges could a book fit into over the year.

There are rather too many if we take all challenges posted in 2023 to date, so I thought, as I'm on page 2, we'll just take the page 2 challenges (7 to 12) for each of the preceding 11 months. That gives you 66 challenges to try and fit into. Your book only needs to fit into 1 previous challenge, but if it fits into more than one, list them all. Use month number/challenge number to identify the challenges, no need to type them all in. I may offer a small prize to the book that fits the most challenges. >:-)

Rolling challenges, assume that a slot would fall open for you.

The challenges you have available are listed below.
1: January
7. Read a book where the author uses initials instead of a first and second name - msg #9
8. Read a book with the name of a famous leader in the title or author's name - msg #11
9. Read a book where at least TWO title words and/or author names start with R - msg #15
10. Read a book for the Life Balance Wheel Semi-Rolling Challenge - msg #17
11. Read a book set in, or about, the 1920s - msg #20
12. Read a book on a best of 2022 list - msg #21
2: February
7. The Stendahl Challenge - Read a book with either the word “Red” or “Black” in the title proper - msg #11
8. Read a classic whose adaptation into a movie or play you've seen - msg #14
9. Read a book with an animal in its title AND that animal on its cover - msg #15
10. Read a book with something you'd find on Old MacDonald's Farm in the title or author's name - msg #17
11. Read a book translated from the Portuguese or written in Portuguese - msg #21
12. Read a book where the first two words in the title begin with the same letter - msg #22
3: March
7. Read a book whose title or author's name includes the words green, white or orange - msg #10
8. Read a book with a title containing two opposite ideas, actions or places - msg #9
9. Read a book that is the basis of a lesser-known film OR a lesser-known book that is the basis of a film - msg #11
10. Read a book set in the nineteenth century or before with characters of colour - msg #12
11. Read a book where the title sounds naughty but isn't - msg #15
12. Read a book that has been criticised, banned or burnt - msg #18
4: April
7. Read a book that shares at least one word with the first listed title (which was The Case of the Late Pig) - msg #8
8. Read a book that involves sports - msg #12
9. Read a book with a word/phrase first used in the year you were born in the title, author's name, text, or tag - msg #13
10. Read a book by a female author with a female protagonist - msg #17
11. Read a book by an author of whose oeuvre you have already read 23% - msg #19
12. APRIL SHOWERS rolling challenge (word in author's name or title) - msg #21
5: May
7. Read a book that has a judgemental adjective in the title - msg #13
8. Read a book in honor of fishing opener - msg #15
9. Rolling challenge: read a book with a colour of the rainbow in the title or that colour cover - msg #18
10. Read a book that would have fit into a Jan to April TIOLI challenge that you participated in - msg #21
11. Read a book about a group of childhood friends - msg #25
12. Read a book with 2 or more words of exactly 5 letters in the title - msg #40
6: June
7. Read a book with the number 35 in either in the title (subtitles allowed!) or the ISBN - msg #13
8. Read a book that fits one of the categories of the 2023 Seattle Public Library Summer Book Bingo card - msg #16
9. Read a book (F or NF) about the experiences of indigenous/First Nations peoples in the Americas or Australia/NZ - msg #19
10. Read a book for Morphy's favorite subgenres semi-rolling challenge - msg #20
11. Read a book written by a transgender and/or nonbinary (or any other gender non-conforming identity) author - msg #23
12. Read a book with a title starting with "S" - msg #29
7: July
7. Read a book for the White Elephant Book Award challenge - msg #19 - thread
8. Read a book by an author who is published in fiction and nonfiction (identify by F or NF and provide an example of the other genre) - msg #31
9. Read a book with an 8 in the total number of pages, or use all numbers of this total to get to 8 - msg #32
10. Read a 'time' book (time slip, time travel, multiple timelines etc) - msg #36
11. Read a book that is at least the 7th book in a series - msg #37
12. Read a book with a potentially offensive word or phrase in the title - msg #39
8: August
7. Read a book with a title that includes a contranym - msg #19
8. Read a book with an eating utensil on the cover or in the title - msg #22
9. Read a book with one or more wings on the cover - msg #26
10. Read a book with a word in the title suggesting death - msg #27
11. Read a book (F or NF) about espionage or the Cold War - msg #35
12. Read a book that shares its name with another piece of creative art (not another book) - msg #37 - thread
9: September
7. Read a book about contact with extraplanetary aliens or alien abduction - msg #22
8. Read a book you were planning to read for one of the August 2023 challenges - msg #29
9. Read a book with a place name in the title - msg #30
10. Read a book, fiction or nonfiction, about a war that took place before you were born - msg #35
11. Read a book with 5 or more words in the title, at least two of them the same length - msg #46
12. Read a book, F/NF, where either the word libraries or librarians is included in the initial tags section - msg #47
10: October
7. Read a book where adding or removing a letter makes a new title - msg #13
8. Read a book where the main character performs one of the top 10 most popular Halloween activities - msg #14
9. Read a book with a title containing at least 2 of the following - a religious title, a royal title, and/or a political title - msg #18
10. Read a book by an author you've read at least three books by in the past, but none so far in 2023 - msg #30
11. Read a book with 300 pages or more - msg #32
12. Read a book that qualifies as a "saga" - msg #35
11: November
7. Read a book you've been eagerly awaiting - msg #12
8. Read a book where a main character is at least 50 years old - msg #13
9. Read a book with a female detective character - msg #21
10. In honor of Louisa May Alcott’s birthday on November 29th, read one of her novels, a biography of her, a pastiche or homage to her - msg #28
11. Read a book written by a Nobel Prize winner - msg #29
12. Read a book to escape your current situation - msg #31

Challenge #9: Read a book with a musical instrument in the title or author's name

Completely self-serving, as I'm reading The Violin Conspiracy for book club. Here's a list to get you started (doesn't have to be limited to this, but I won't accept "voice"). Embedded words are allowed.

>13 Helenliz: Thank you for that challenge, Helen. I missed 2 months of challenges this year due to extenuating circumstances, so I am going to try and choose from those months :)

>4 alcottacre: Can this be a next book in a series?

>13 Helenliz: Wow, that was a lot of work. Thanks for the challenge.

>16 FAMeulstee: Anita, I would prefer that you not read a book in a series for this challenge but rather a direct sequel.

Challenge #10: Read a book with the word "tomorrow" or "future" in the title

Pretty self explanatory. Yes, embedded is fine, as are plurals. And also subtitles. But no synonyms; just these two words.

Because in December we really start looking forward to a new year.

>15 alcottacre: that's an interesting way to view the challenge that I'd not thought of.
>17 Citizenjoyce: I've not yet finished adding all the message links. Aim to do that over the next few days.

Challenge #11: Read a book with at least three letters of "December" in the title

Three letters of b, c, d, e, m, r. The e can be used three times.

>13 Helenliz: How perfect that the library book I am not going to get finished in November is a page 2 challenge. So easy to pop it over to December and still feel like I completed the November challenge and December challenge. Multi-tasking!

>22 raidergirl3: you & me both! My current book would have fitted into 2 November categories, had I been able to finish it before tomorrow night.

>18 alcottacre: Stasia, I'm struggling a bit with this one. I've read one or two books that have sequels -- but then I've promptly read the sequel as well! Or else I've read the first book -- but not in 2023. On the other hand, with a mystery series, I'll read one and then move onto the next. Does "prefer not" represent a veto on this??

>16 FAMeulstee: >24 Chatterbox: I did not realize that this "challenge" would be so challenging. Sorry about that! I will allow series since this seems to be the case. Of course, this means that I can promptly add about half a dozen books to my list for this challenge too :)

Is anyone else having issues proving you're human tonight? I seem stuck in an endless click-ons.

>26 quondame: I have not yet had any issues with that, Susan. Sorry you are experiencing the trouble!

>26 quondame: I have to prove more often than usual, Susan.

>26 quondame: I just finished System Collapse. She couldn't have proved she was human with that book.

#12: Read a book with some connection to 12

A 12 in the ISBN will do. The 12th book in a series will do. December, even though it means 10th month, will do. I'm sure there are more but if it's really obscure, please ask (written by the 12th son of X) Baker's Dozen counts, just cause.

>28 FAMeulstee: Yeah, way more often.

>29 Citizenjoyce: Well, they don't want to, so there's that.

To anti-celebrate the end of a really difficult year:

Challenge #13:

Read a book with a variant of death in the title

Death, dead, die, dying, deceased... If I've missed one let me know. Plurals and embedded words okay, but I'm not looking for synonyms or causes of death. Just the D-word. :)

Challenge #14: Read a book whose title or subtitle or author’s name includes the word “men”

The word can be embedded.

Challenge #15: Read a book for Santa's Reindeer Genre rolling challenge

Still finishing up my post but the basics are in the wiki so people can get started.

A new set can be started once there are only two (2,) open slots. No more than three (3) open sets at a time.

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HELP?

I have a question about the rolling challenge set up on the wiki. Right now I have the names and genres separated like...

# DASHER -
# DANCER -
# PRANCER -

DASHER - YA/Children's OR family/parenthood

DANCER - Comedy OR entertainment

PRANCER - Fantasy or fairy and folk tales/myth


But it feels cumbersome.

I thought that including both for each book like the following might be too much...

# DASHER (YA/Children's OR family/parenthood) -
# DANCER (Comedy OR entertainment) -
# PRANCER (Fantasy or fairy and folk tales/myth) -

Preference? Thoughts?

>33 Morphidae: Personally, I think the way it's laid out in the wiki now makes sense. I like having the key at the bottom and think it makes the list of books look less cluttered.

>33 Morphidae: Yes, I agree with >34 bell7: about having the key shown separately underneath the listings.

>34 bell7: >35 elkiedee: I am with Mary and Lucy, Morphy.

Reminder for Challenge #15 Santa's Reindeer Genre challenge...

A new set can be started once there are only two (2) open slots. No more than three (3) open sets at a time.

TIOLI Question of the Month:

So it's holiday and gift-giving time. What book that you've read for any 2023 TIOLI challenge do you think would be a great gift for someone you know? What is the book? For whom would it be? Why would you choose that book for that particular individual?

>38 SqueakyChu: I've already sent The Hands of the Emperor to almost everyone I think might enjoy it.

I would send my grandson Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros because it has dragons and fighting - just his type of book, but he hates to read. I did give him 2 books for his birthday in October - The Boys in the Boat and Murder Your Employer. He is about half way through Murder Your Employer so maybe I can get him reading a little more. It helps that he and his girlfriend just moved in together, and she's a big reader. Maybe there's hope.
ETA writing this changed my mind. I ordered it for the two of them. Maybe they'll read it together.

Interesting question - most of my top reads of the year are not books that I think everyone would like (I only marked two books as five-star, The Hundred-Year House and The Employees - the first has an awkward structure which got a number of grumpy reviews on LT, and the second is quite experimental/odd). But I do think that almost everyone would enjoy Remarkably Bright Creatures - I passed it on to my mum and she read it at quite a personally stressful time and really enjoyed the warmth and humour.

>41 wandering_star: Remarkably Bright Creatures seems to be universally praised. It feels good to read a book about good, interesting people.

>38 SqueakyChu: I think I would pass my copies of Taylor Branch's Civil Rights trilogy, Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan's Edge on to Paul, if I could, since he has expressed an interest in reading them. I believe all three of them I read for various TIOLI challenges throughout the year. I did not rank any of them below 4.5 stars and two of them I gave 5 stars.

>31 lyzard: Not sure what it says that I'm adding multiple books to this challenge...
2 in there (may not finish one of them, of course) and I could well add a third.

>44 Helenliz:

Perfectly natural this time of year. :D

I had visions of multiple book-addings for that too but I have just (yet again) been Crushed By A Book...for your challenge, my dear. :)

TIOLI Stats for November, 2023

The stats are holding steady. In November, 2023, we read a total of 334 books for 16 challenges. Of these 57 (or 17%) were shared reads. We collected 30 TIOLI points for a YTD November total of 343 points.

The most popular book, read by 5 challengers, was System Collapse by Martha Wells.

The most popular challenge, with 52 books read, was the one by @lindapanzo to read a book where the author's name consists of 11 or fewer letters.

The challenge with the most TIOLI points (five) was the one by @lyzard to read a work of 100 pages or less.

Wishing everyone here a happy and safe holiday season.

I am probably not going to get a full sweep this month (family is visiting this weekend, making for much less reading than would normally occur), but I did get a sweeplette of Challenges 7 - 12 today!

>47 bell7: Congratulations, Mary!

>47 bell7: Hurray for your sweeplette, Mary!

>47 bell7: Good for you.

>47 bell7: Congratulations, Mary!

Sorry, I forgot to put the December sweeplette meter up. I have done so now, and put your name in it.

Thanks, all!

Congrats, Mary (bell7)

>53 Kristelh: Thanks, Kristel!

The November 2023 TIOLI Awards

The Special Thankfulness Award goes to @Matke for reading Reading in Bed for the challenge by Morphidae to read a book where the title completes the phrase, "I am thankful for...". Even in this chaotic year for me, reading in bed quietly still brings me the same pleasure it always has.

The You Knew My Colors Award goes to @FAMeulstee for reading The Red and the Black for the challenge by DeltaQueen to read a book where a color is part of the title. Red and black are not just part of this book's title, but they are also the team colors of my favorite and local professional soccer team, DC United, based in Washington, DC. Rah! Rah Rah! Go, team, go!

The Food of Choice Award goes to @lindapanzo for reading Double Grudge Donuts for the challenge by dallenbaugh to read a book whose title includes some kind of food. Why? Well, because of all the foods listed for this challenge, donuts would be my food of choice to eat this very minute!

The Hats off to Seniors Award goes to @Chatterbox for the challenge to read a book where a main character is at least 50 years old. I've always been intrigued by how older characters are described in books by younger authors. Sometimes it's not very flattering. However, at least everyone gets to peek into the life of an older character in this challenge. That's pretty nice, I think.

The Skinny Minnie Award goes to @antqueen for reading Feedback for the challenge by @lyzard to read a work of 100 pages or less. The book chosen by this challenger contains only 27 pages. That makes for pretty quick reading!

The Positive People Award goes to @antqueen for reading The Other Side of Yesterday and to @Alcottacre for reading Smoke Gets in Your Eyes for the challenge by AnneDC to read a book that has either "yes" or "no" in the title. Out of 14 books read for this challenge, these were the only two books that contained the word "yes" instead of the word "no".

I hope everyone is enjoying a meaningful holiday season, and I wish all of you the best for the coming New Year.

Congratulations Award winners.

>55 SqueakyChu: Thank you, Madeline! The mental oasis provided by reading, and especially reading in bed, is something I’ve always treasured.

Sending you sincere wishes for a better year in 2024, and many thanks for running TIOLI. Even when I don’t participate, I enjoy reading every entry in the threads, and truly poring over the challenge lists.

There now. My nerdiness is exposed to all.

>55 SqueakyChu: Thank you for the award, Madeline!

I wish you the best for your holiday season as well! Looking forward to more TIOLI in the new year.

>>59 SqueakyChu:

…and the TIOLI challenges will forge ahead, unstopped, into 2024! Cheers!!

I, too, want to say thank you for the TIOLI challenges and hope you have a good holiday season.

>59 SqueakyChu: Yay!!

>55 SqueakyChu: Thanks, Madeline! Two awards this month!

I lurk, but I haven't missed a TIOLI month in a long time. Thanks for keeping it going!

>55 SqueakyChu: Thank you for the award, Madeleine!

Wishing everyone happy holidays!

>1 SqueakyChu: Would you consider the word "against" to be a negation?

>64 Citizenjoyce: Hmmm? Okay. I'll let that one pass.

>65 SqueakyChu: Thanks.

And a sweep! Woohoo! My first ever!

And Happy New Year to everyone!

>67 antqueen: Congratulations, antqueen!

Well, with just about two hours to spare I managed to finish a book! Hoping to be able to contribute more to the TIOLI next year.

Hope you all have a very happy new year!

Congratulations! and Happy New Year

Happy New Year, all. I'm looking forward to a great TIOLI year in 2024.

>67 antqueen: Good going!

>69 PawsforThought: Congratulations, Paws!

I just finished my last TIOLI book for 2023 myself. It has been a great year for reading off my own shelves and TIOLI has helped me quite a bit with that goal. I cannot wait to see what 2024 brings! Thank you so much for keeping us going, Madeline!

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2024 is good to you.

>67 antqueen: Congratulations!

Happy New Year, everyone! Now I'm off to the January thread to log the two books I read in the last few days, but saved the epilogues for this morning because they met January challenges. :-)

>74 susanna.fraser: I did the same. It's too exciting to get started on the next year's challenges.

Congratulations to Citizenjoyce, quondame, and Chatterbox for completing sweeps each month this year!

And for Susan (quondame) it was the fifth year in a row, an amazing accomplishment!!!

>76 FAMeulstee: Wow! Congrats to Joyce, Susan and Suz on your accomplishments!

Yes, that is quite an achievement. Congratulations Joyce, Susan, and Suz

I did promise a small prize to whoever read a book that fitted into the most challenges for my challenge this month. That would be The Sacrifice of Lester Yates, by Robin Yocum, which fitted into 9 different categories across the year. JeanneD, I'll donate a sum to an educational, environmental or health charity of your choice. Message me details of your choice.

>79 Helenliz: Oh wow, that's amazing! Thank you.

>76 FAMeulstee: Thank you!

I had to count on my fingers -- it doesn't seem like more than 3 years since I joined.....

>76 FAMeulstee: Thanks. Every month I say I'm not going to do it then it pulls me back in.

>81 quondame: You are very welcome, Susan.
Time flies when you are having fun :-)

>82 Citizenjoyce: I know the feeling, Joyce, but have been able to withstand it lately ;-)

It's past Housekeeping Day!

Yes, that happened last night...so just be sure that any books left on the wiki for December 2023 are removed if you have not completed them by 12 midnight last night. Rolling challenges can simply be marked DNF. Thanks!