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August 2021 Stand Alone
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Solitary: Read 5-6 books
My List:
1. One Bride for Five Mountain Men Jess Bentley 8/3/21
2. The Cocktail Waitress James M. Cain 8/11/21
3. Big Summer Jennifer Weiner 8/14/21
4. How to Eat: All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered Mark Bittman 8/16/21
5. Eat Better, Feel Better: My Recipes for Wellness and Healing, Inside and Out Giada De Laurentiis 8/20/21
6. All the Missing Girls Megan Miranda 8/22/21
August Stand Alone Duration: Aug. 1st, 2021 - Aug. 31st, 2021
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
5/6
1. Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol - Aug. 4th
2. Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth - Aug. 11th
3. Me Funny edited by Drew Hayden Taylor - Aug. 26th
4. The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek - Aug. 27th
5. Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society by Judy Christie & Lisa Wingate - Aug. 31st
UTTER FAILUREStand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
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Challenge Rules
*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.
*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge
(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)
Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over.
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August Stand AloneDuration: Aug. 1st, 2021 - Aug. 31st, 2021
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
8/6
1. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir. Natasha Trethewey. 8.1.21
2. Dreams of Falling. Karen White. 8.6.21
3. Incantation. Alice Hoffman. 8.7.21
4. The Patchwork Bride. Sandra Dallas. 8.8.21
5. The Stepsisters. Susan Mallery. 8.13.21
6. The Reading List. Sara Nisha Adams. 8.13.21
7. The Masterpiece. Fiona Davis. 8.23.21
8. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris. Jenny Colgan. 8.24.21
Mod
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
My List:
1. I Thought You Said This Would Work by Ann Wertz Garvin 8/18/2021
2. The Little Red Schoolhouse by Eric Sloane 8/19/2021
3. It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider by Jim Henson 8/21/2021
4. Emily's Blue Period by Cathleen Daly 8/21/2021
5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Maggie Blossom 8/21/2021
6. Yellow Submarine by The Beatles 8/21/2021
August Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeSolo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
6 /6
1. Ian McEwan, Saturday (Aug. 4th)
2. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aug. 9th)
3. Charles Portis, True Grit (Aug. 10th)
4. Matt Haig, How to Stop Time (Aug. 12th)
5. Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Aug. 13th)
6. Thomas Christopher Greene, The Headmaster's Wife (Aug. 19th)
August Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeSolitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Past Is Red | Catherynne M. Valente - Aug 10
2. Scarlet Stone | Jewel E. Ann - Aug 12
3. The Unknown Ajax | Georgette Heyer - Aug 22
4. Cole | Tijan - Aug 28
5. Cat Problems | Jory John - Aug 29
Solitary: Read 5-6 books1. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 8/2/21
2. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon 8/3/21
3. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks 8/4/21
4. The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark 8/5/21
5. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 8/11/21
6. Entwined by Heather Dixon Wallwork 8/13/21
August Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeSolo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
My List:
Piecing Me Together-Renée Watson 8/28
STANDALONE MONTHLY CHALLENGEDuration: August 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
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August Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeSolitary: Read 5-6 books
COMPLETED
1.) I Loved Jesus in the Night: Teresa of Calcutta—A Secret Revealed by Fr. Paul Murray 8/8/2021
2.) The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor 8/12/2021
3.) In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire by Peter Hellman 8/15/2021
4.) Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedman 8/16/2021
5.) M for Murder by Keri Beevis 8/20/2021
Mod
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: August 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
Goal: 3/6
Single: Read 3-4 books
1. Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid - 08/19/21
2. The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle - Laura Coleman - 08/22/21
3. Golden Girl - Elin Hilderbrand - 08/25/21
August Standalone1. You Have a Match by Emma Lord 8/5
2. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz 8/11
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Completed challengeSolo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. When Life Gives You Mangos by Getten Kereen
2. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution By Nathaniel Philbrick
3. Dynasty by Robert S. Elegant
4. Aleph by Paulo Coelho
5. Russka by Edward Rutherfurd
6. The Good Book by Deron Spoo
I’m Finished! August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration August 1-31, 20021
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
17/6+
My List:
1. The Dead Fathers Club Matt Haig 08/07/21
2. Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling 08/08/21
3. Getting Rid Of It: Eliminate the Clutter in Your Life Betsy Talbot 08/09/21
4. Dilema B.A. Paris 08/10/21
5. Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi 08/13/21
6. Happiness for Beginners Katherine Center 08/13/21
7. Piranesi Susanna Clarke 08/15/21
8. A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow Laura Taylor Namey 08/17/21
9. Run Ann Patchett 08/18/21
10. Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi 08/18/21
11. Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 08/19/21
12. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Mindy Kaling 08/20/21
13. The Push Ashley Audrain 08/21/21
14. We Were Never Here Andrea Bartz 08/24/21
15. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family Robert Kolker 08/28/21
16. Summer of '69 Elin Hilderbrand 08/29/21
17. Red, White & Royal Blue Casey McQuiston 08/31/21
August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
August Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeGoal: Single: Read 3-4 books
Books:
1. Emma's Story by Nils Odlund (8/2/2021)
2. Don't Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health by Kelly Jensen (8/14/2021)
3. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (8/28/2021)
4. The Girl Who Talks to Ashes by Rachel Rener (8/30/2021)
Covers:
Level: Single: Read 3-4 books
Progress: 3/3
1. Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job by Willo Davis Roberts (8/25/21)
2. The Sitter by R.L. Stine (8/9/21)
3. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (8/10/21)
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: August 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
sl-book-arts-font
Challenge Rules
*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.
*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge
Mod
FINISHED August 28, 2021Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Tarantino, Quentin - Es war einmal in Hollywood (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) (August 03, 2021)
2. Allen, Carrie S. - Michigan vs. the Boys (August 10, 2021)
3. Pang, Camilla - Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships (August 12, 2021)
4. Hanif, Mohammed - Eine Kiste explodierender Mangos (A Case of Exploding Mangoes ) (August 16, 2021)
5. Vap, Sarah - Arco Iris (August 19, 2021)
6. Haig, Matt - The Dead Fathers Club (August 21, 2021)
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeAugust 2021
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Book of Sorrel by Jennifer Peel (8/24/21)
Quick question for the mods, do books that are in a series but are all stand alone books count for this. Right now I'm reading Macbeth by Jo Nesbø. It's technically book 7 in the Hogarth Shakespeare Project, which has contemporary authors do retellings of Shakespeare's plays.
Mod
Boy, this is a tough one! Yes, it's considered a series but they're not a series. I will allow it.
JoAnne wrote: "Daniel wrote: "Quick question for the mods, do books that are in a series but are all stand alone books count for this. Right now I'm reading Macbeth by Jo Nesbø. It..."Thanks, JoAnne!
Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeDuration: August 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. Wild Women and the Blues by Denny S. Bryce- 8/5/2021
2. Infinite Country by Patricia Engel- 8/7/2021
3. 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard- 8/10/21
4. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens- 8/14/21
5. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum- 8/17/21
6. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner- 8/26/21
FINISHED!Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
August 2021
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan (finished 21st August)
2. The Survivors by Jane Harper (finished 23rd August)
3. The Perfect Nanny by Amanda Brittany (read 27th August)
4. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (read 30th August)
5. Fall Girl by Toni Jordan (read 31st August)
FINISHED!Solitary: Read 5-6 books
1. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 8/2/21
2. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon 8/3/21
3. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks 8/4/21
4. The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark 8/5/21
5. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 8/11/21
6. Entwined by Heather Dixon Wallwork 8/13/21
August Stand Alone Monthly ChallengeSolitary: Read 5-6 books
COMPLETED
1.) I Loved Jesus in the Night: Teresa of Calcutta—A Secret Revealed by Fr. Paul Murray 8/8/2021
2.) The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor 8/12/2021
3.) In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire by Peter Hellman 8/15/2021
4.) Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedman 8/16/2021
5.) M for Murder by Keri Beevis 8/20/2021
Mod
August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
My List:
1. I Thought You Said This Would Work by Ann Wertz Garvin 8/18/2021
2. The Little Red Schoolhouse by Eric Sloane 8/19/2021
3. It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider by Jim Henson 8/21/2021
4. Emily's Blue Period by Cathleen Daly 8/21/2021
5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Maggie Blossom 8/21/2021
6. Yellow Submarine by The Beatles 8/21/2021
Finished!Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
Goal: 3/6
Single: Read 3-4 books
1. Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid - 08/19/21
2. The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle - Laura Coleman - 08/22/21
3. Golden Girl - Elin Hilderbrand - 08/25/21
CHALLENGE COMPLETED!
Level: Single: Read 3-4 books
Progress: 3/3
1. Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job by Willo Davis Roberts (8/25/21)
2. The Sitter by R.L. Stine (8/9/21)
3. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (8/10/21)
Hello, I also have a quick question about what qualifies as a standalone. I've just realised that one of my books (Meet me in London by Georgia Toffolo) actually kicks off a so-called "series" of "Meet me in..." books. They have nothing to do with each other, totally different characters etc, and are only related by having the same author and similar titles, presumably for marketing reasons. To me this is not a series, but happy to be corrected! Thank you :)
Complete!August Stand Alone
Duration: Aug. 1st, 2021 - Aug. 31st, 2021
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
8/6
1. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir. Natasha Trethewey. 8.1.21
2. Dreams of Falling. Karen White. 8.6.21
3. Incantation. Alice Hoffman. 8.7.21
4. The Patchwork Bride. Sandra Dallas. 8.8.21
5. The Stepsisters. Susan Mallery. 8.13.21
6. The Reading List. Sara Nisha Adams. 8.13.21
7. The Masterpiece. Fiona Davis. 8.23.21
8. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris. Jenny Colgan. 8.24.21
Mod
I can understand why you think it's not a series but it is. There are a lot done this way now.
Sorry!!
FINISHED!!August Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
6 /6
1. Ian McEwan, Saturday (Aug. 4th)
2. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aug. 9th)
3. Charles Portis, True Grit (Aug. 10th)
4. Matt Haig, How to Stop Time (Aug. 12th)
5. Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Aug. 13th)
6. Thomas Christopher Greene, The Headmaster's Wife (Aug. 19th)
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Stand Alone Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021
Do you like standalone books? Want to read more? Tired of cliffhangers or series books? Take a break and read a standalone!
Solo: Read 1-2 books
Single: Read 3-4 books
Solitary: Read 5-6 books
Challenge Rules
*Please post a partial list of the challenge when you sign up.
*For each book that you read please post a link to the book, the author and the date you finished it.
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter
*To count a book towards a challenge you must read the majority of it after the start date of the challenge.
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.
*Please update your original post as you go.
*When you have finished, please re-post your whole challenge as a new message and MARK AS FINISHED or you will not be considered to have completed the challenge and we will not be able to award your Hall of Fame badge
(Even if you don't hit the level you were aiming for by the deadline, please re-post your challenge anyway as you may still be eligible for a lower level badge.)
Please use the TLC STANDARD RULES when participating in this challenge.
If you are not familiar with these rules, please click on the link and read them over.