Challenges:

BL/GR: 98/100

2018 Pop Sugar: 35/50 prompts filled

Halloween Bingo: 12/25 boxes read

1. Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright - 3.5 stars (Flat Book Society; Halloween Bingo)

2. The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage by Bill Miles and Walter Dean Myers - 1 star (WWI Reading List)

3. Rockets Dead Glare (Tourist Trap #9.25) by Lynn Cahoon - 3.5 stars (Halloween Bingo)

4. A Deadly Brew (Tourist Trap #9.5) by Lynn Cahoon - 4 stars (Halloween Bingo)

5. Nancy Drew, Detective Girl #1: The Demon of River Heights by Sho Murase and Stefan Petrucha - 1 star (Halloween Bingo)

6. Miss Frost Solves a Cold Case (Jayne Frost #1) by Kristen Painter - 4 stars (Halloween Bingo)

7. Wolves at the Door (Shifters of the Glen #1) by Skye Jones - 2 stars (Halloween Bingo)

8. The Siren by Kiera Cass - 3 stars (Halloween Bingo)

9. Presumed Guilty by Tess Gerritsen - 2 stars (Halloween Bingo)

10. On Call in Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story by CDR. Richard Jadick - 3.5 stars

My friend talked me into this challenge again this year. Prompts filled are in bold.

2018 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge

• Book made into a movie you have already seen - The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman
• True Crime - American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
• Next book in the series - The Jade Temptress (Pingkang Li #2) by Jeannie Lin
• A book involving a heist
• Nordic noir
• Novel based on a real person
• Set in a country that fascinates me - The Lotus Palace (Pingkang Li #1) by Jeannie Lin
• Time of day in the title - Evening Stars (Blackberry Island #3) by Susan Mallery
• Book about villain or anti-hero - 
• Book about death/grief - The Great Silence 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicolson
• Female author/male pen name - Wonderment in Death (...In Death #41.5) by J.D. Robb
• LGBT+ MC - George by Alex Gino
• Author with a different ethnicity than me - Ms Marvel Volume 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
• Book that is also a stage play or musical
• Book about Feminism - The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace by Lynn Povich
• Book about mental health - It's in His Kiss (Lucky Harbor #10) by Jill Shalvis
• Book that was borrowed or gifted to you
• Book by two authors 
• Book about or involving sport
• Local author
• Favorite color in title
• Alliteration in the title - Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics by Kathryn J. Atwood
• Time Travel - Paper Girls (Book One) by Brian K. Vaughn et al
• Weather Element in Title - When Snow Falls (Whiskey Creek #2) by Brenda Novak
• Book set at sea - The Siren by Kiera Cass
• Book with animal in title - Wolves at the Door by Skye Jones
• Book set on a different planet
• Book with song lyrics in the title - One Wish (Thunder Point #7) by Robyn Carr 
• Book set on or about Halloween - A Deadly Brew by Lynn Cahoon
• Book with a set of twins - Three Sisters (Blackberry Island Novel #2) by Susan Mallery
• Book mentioned in another book - Miss Frost Solves a Cold Case by Kristen Painter
• Book from a celebrity book club
• Childhood classic you’ve never read - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Entengle
• Book published in 2018 - Dark in Death (In Death #46) by JD Robb
• Past Good Reads winner
• Book set in the decade you were born
• Book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t - Love is Love anthology by Various Authors
• Book with an ugly cover - White Witch (Texas Devlins #1) by Lyn Horner
• Book that involves bookstore or library - Trinity Falls (Finding Home #1) by Regina Hart
• Book set in your home state (prompt from 2016 reading challenge) - The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

Advanced List

1. Bestseller from the year you graduated high school
2. Cyberpunk book
3. Book read by a stranger in public - I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
4. Book tied to your ancestry - The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
5. Book with a fruit in title - Barefoot Season (Blackberry Island #1) by Susan Mallery
6. Allegory
7. Author with same first name as you - Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family #1) by Melissa de la Cruz 
8. Microhistory - Dark Tide: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo
9. Book about a problem facing today - AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America’s Upper Classes from Military Service - and How It Hurts Our Country by Kathy Roth Douquet and Frank Schaffer 
10. Book recommended by someone else doing the challenge

Awful month for reading. My participation in COYER and Bob23 was bare minimum at best. I am hoping Halloween Bingo helps me pull through this slump and gets me to the magic number of 100 so I can be done with the last of reading obligations. Here's what I did read:

1. The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough - 4 stars

2. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson - 4 stars

3. A Match Made in Spell by Regina Welling and Erin Lynn - 3.5 stars

4. The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage by Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles - 2.5 stars

COYER and my library's Summer Reading Program are now live. I want to continue or finish some of my series reads and get through that one WWI book that is a door stopper. I want to read all the books I borrowed from Prime Lending so I can cancel my subscription over the summer (I just don't feel like the benefits are worth the ever increasing price). 

TBR:

1. Winds of Salem (The Beauchamp Family #3) by Melissa de la Cruz

2. One in a Million (Lucky Harbor #12) by Jill Shalvis

3. Wishing Lake (Finding Home #3) by Regina Hart

4. When Summer Comes (Whiskey Creek #3) by Brenda Novak

5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

6. Café Au Lait by Liane Spicer

7. Welcome to Last Chance (Last Chance #1) by Cathleen Armstrong

8. The Spirit of '76 by David Browne

9. Submerged (Alaskan Courage #1) by Dani Petry

10. The Bounty (Malloy Family #1) by Beth Williamson

11. The Ice Cutter's Daughter (Land of Shining Water #1) by Tracie Peterson

12. All I Am (Farmers Market #2) by Nicole Helm

Bout of Books 22 jolted my reading and my NOOK is feeling lighter. Worked my way through some series and knocked out one WWI reading list book. I challenged myself to read 100 pages a day from Memorial Day to Labor Day (99 days if my math works); so far, so good. 

One week to the start of COYER Big Summer Birthday Bash (June 9th) and my base library's Summer Reading Program starts the 19th, but reading from the first of the month counts. 

Challenges:

BL/GR: 61 / 75

Pop Sugar: 3/50

BoB 22: 12; 607 pages read

SBTB GR Quarterly Challenge: 15/15 prompts filled a month before the challenge ends!

Read:

1. The Miner's Lady (Land of Shining Water #3) by Tracie Peterson - 3 stars

2. Harmony Cabins (Finding Home #2) by Regina Hart - 3.5 stars

3. When Snow Falls (Whiskey Creek #2) by Brenda Novak - 3.5 stars

4. He's So Fine (Lucky Harbor #11) by Jill Shalvis - 4 stars

5. To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild - 5 stars

6. Serpent's Kiss (The Beauchamp Family #2) by Melissa de la Cruz - 3 stars

7. White Witch (Texas Devlins #0.5) by Lyn Horner - 3 stars

8. Stardust (Circus Macabre #1) by Kristen Strassel - 2.5 stars

9. Katie and the Marshal (Montana Women #1) by Nancy Pirri - 3.5 stars

10. Pride of Africa (Hotel Safari #1) by Tori Knighwood - 1 star

11. Hunter of the Night (Lark Nation #0.5) by Clara Coulson - 3 stars

12. A Bride for Carlton (Sun River Brides #1) by Karla Gracey - 1 star

13. Mail Order Bride Amelia (Silver River Brides #1) by Karla Gracey - 4 stars

14. Valentine's Day at the Star and Sixpence (Star and Sixpence #1.5) by Holly Hepburn - 2 stars

15. Alejandro's Sorceress (Cardinal Witches #1) by Alyssa Day - 4 stars

16. Dialing Dreams (Sweethearts and Jazz #1) by Jessica Eissfeldt - 1 star

17. The Case of the Missing Cross (Justice and Miss Quinn #1) by Felicia Rogers - 4 stars

18. The Locked Room Murder (Bluebell Knopps #1) by Nancy McGovern - 2 stars

 19. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara - 4 stars

DNF: None this month