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This review is for the graphic novel or illustrated version of Booked. As with Alexander‘s Crossover, it‘s about much more than sports. In this one, Nick deals with some difficult situations while also playing soccer. He has a great support system in his family, best friend, and the school librarian. There are also a lot of literary references and interesting vocabulary with definition footnotes.

#NetGalley #MiddleGrade #BookedGraphicNovel

In 2022, I‘m going to focus my #bookspin and #doublespin efforts on the books that are 1/2 finished and have been skipped over (for what feels like) many years! I love a list!

And with these books read in the second half of the year…. I‘m all done with #booked2021
Thank you so much for organizing this fun challenge… can‘t wait to start on 2022!

I‘m done!
I‘m in the process of trying to switch over from Goodreads to StoryGraph, and actually having some luck now that they have an app. 🤞🏼 for next year to be properly recorded on StoryGraph. In the process of switching I realized one of the things I really like about StoryGraph is the way they record challenges, and I found that really helpful for finishing up #Booked2021 That‘s one of my goals for #WrapItUpReadathon completed!

Yay!! I‘m finished with #BOOKED2021!!! I loved this challenge. It pushed me out of my comfort zone and led me to genres I never knew I would enjoy! Thank you to all of the hosts. I‘m ready for 2022!

#Booked2022 My #Autumn choices:

19 dark academia: In the Freud archives
20 a coming out story: At swim, two boys
21 hopepunk: The Anthropocene reviewed
22 mythology retelling: A thousand ships
23 adapted for small screen: Vanity Fair
24 MC living with aids: Splendor

#Booked2022 My #Summer choices:

13 includes a recipe: Green fried tomatoes at the…
14 set in Canada: The tenderness of wolves
15 involves an exploration: An African in Greenland
16 about sisters: The Makioka sisters
17 new in 2022: The trees
18 set in a hotel: The diver‘s clothes lie empty

#Booked2022 My #Spring choices:

7 about a royal: She would be king
8 written by a journalist: Blood river
9 author born in Africa: We need new names
10 own prompt (Dutch): Dit is mijn hof
11 nautical: And the sea will tell
12 murder mystery: The Aosawa murders

I‘ve finally come up with my plans for #Booked2022. They will no doubt change completely but I think it‘s fair to assume a lot of them will be used for #ReadingAfrica2022 as well.

Here are my #Winter choices:

1 about religion: Matrix
2 title repeats itself: What is the What
3 set in China: Land of Big Numbers
4 weather term in title: Empire of the Sun
5 black-owned publisher: Baho!
6 eco-feminist: Wij zijn licht (Dutch)

Lastly, #Fall #Booked2021 Another list with some hard prompts!
#19-Dark Academia: The Secret History
#20-a coming out story: Fun Home
#21-HopePunk: We Set the Dark on Fire
#22-mythology retelling: The Witch‘s Heart
#23-adapted for small screen: Lost Girls
#24-MC/Author with AIDS/about the AIDS epidemic: Nobody Ever Said AIDS

Initial proposed list for #Booked2022 #Summer
#13-include a recipe: The Diva Runs Out of Thyme
#14-set in Canada: The Matchmaker‘s List
#15-involves exploration: The Arctic Fury
#16-about sisters: The Once and Future Witches
#17-New in 2022: Sloth Sleeps Over
#18-set in an inn, lodge, or hotel: Jamaica Inn

#Booked2022 #Spring These were a little less challenging, except I got stuck on the difference between a journalist, contributing writer, etc.
#7-about a Royal: The Summer Queen
#8-by a journalist: Evicted
#9-Five Nights Before the Summit
#10-Make Your Own Prompt “Related to things I make (quilts)”: Quilt or Innocence
#11-nautical novel: The Deep
#12-murder mystery: The Decagon House Murders

I‘ve got my list together for #Booked2022 #Winter. For the record, some of these were really hard! I‘ll be interested to see how close the reality comes to this, because it will change. 😂
#1-about cult/religion: Behold
#2-repeating title: The City & The City
#3-set in China: The Firemaker
#4-weather term: The Storm Runner
#5-Black-owned publisher: Sweet Dreams Young Savage
#6-non-patriarchal society: Herland

And finally #fall ideas for #booked2022 💕📚

#summer #booked2022 ideas…. Subject to many changes along the way…. 😉💕📚

And the planning continues…. Spring for #booked2022 is looking like this so far…. Obviously subject to MANY changes! 😉

Started some #booked2022 planning…… which of course means these are all likely to change! 😉📚

Summer 2021 is complete (I read four of these this quarter. The others were completed earlier). I actually only have three prompts left on the Fall list and I will have finished the entire challenge. I‘m really excited about that!

#booked2021

Guess it's time for a quarterly update of my #Booked2021 reads!

🏄Set in Australia - Terra Nullius
📚Title Includes Library or Librarian - The Invisible Library
🎼 Musical Instrument on Cover - Piranesi
🍯 🍎Jewish Author or MC - The Museum of Extraordinary Things
✨Underrated or Lesserknown Book - The Union of Smokers
❤#Blackjack21 Heart, Club, Spade, Diamond in Title - Every Heart a Doorway

6 for me in the 3rd, 14 total, 10 to go!

#Spring is finished for #Booked2021! I read a couple of the Summer and Autumn prompts this quarter, too, but I‘ll post those in the correct quarter.
7. The Body in the Library (Library in title)
8. The Memory Police (translated)
9. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (UN Peacekeepers)
10. The Golden Thread (audiobook)
11. Piranesi (musical instrument on cover)
12. I‘m Still Here (anti-racism)

Here are my Spring choices for #Booked2021

7. Library/Librarian in the title- The Body in the Library
8. Translated into your 1st language- Pain
9. Set in county w/ UN Peacekeeping- I Remember Beirut
10. Here/Hear Audio book or set where you live- The Interpreter from Java
11. Musical Instrument on cover- Belcanto
12. Anti-racism book - The Conservationist

Moving on to Summer!

My recent book spree 😁 I think I read To Kill A Mockingbird years ago .. a vague memory with me .. so that one is for #Spring #Booked2021..

My first quarter #Booked2021 progress! (And, yes, I filled out the Google form. ☺)

This is my first time participating & it's so much fun! Thanks @BarbaraTheBibliophage, @cinfen, & @4thhouseontheleft !

I filled out my first quarter form for #Booked2021 today, but I had to do a post, too. In 3 months I have gotten through half of the prompts by reading all over the place 😅 this is what I get for not planning my reading. I have a feeling the last half of the prompts will take a good while longer to get through, but that is part of the fun 🙌

Here‘s my #Booked2021 summary for Winter- finished in the nick of time!
📖Set in Australia- The Survivors by Jane Harper
📖Nonfiction Science Written by a Woman- Spook by Mary Roach
📖Baked Goods on Cover- Spring House by Mary Ellen Taylor
📖#COVIDHEROES- The Tiger‘s Wife by Tea Obreht
📖Mustache on Cover- The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris
📖Author‘s First Name Starts With A- Lore by Alexandra Bracken

How did it take me so long to read these? This series would appeal to a lot of kids, probably even those who don‘t really like reading. You don‘t have to be an athlete to enjoy.

#MGMarch book 24

#Booked2021 #Winter Done 👍🏻❤️

1. #SetinAustralia Too Much Lip
2. #NonFictionScisnce Henrietta Lacks
3. #BakedGoodsOnCover Lamb to the Slaughter
4. #CovidHeroes Cereus Blooms At Night
5. #MustacheonCover Less Than Angels
6. #AuthoresfirstnamestartswithABorC Carola Oman , Somewhere in England

Has anyone read this yet

I‘m way behind in my #Booked2021 challenge... I can read Henrietta Lacks for #nonfictionscience right ?
And I have my mustache man on the Pym ( well , he has a mustache & long beard )

I better get cracking .... 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

#booked2021 @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft
Completed 13 so far (and submitted my form too) 😊📚💕

I finished the first quarter of #Booked2021. I am happy to have read all of these books. On to Spring 🌸 🌺 🌹

Hi #Booked2021 Friends! Don‘t forget we are now tallying completed prompts with a form submission🖥📚💻Every book read, earns you a chance 💕 You have until midnight, April 3 to fill out the first quarter form to be entered in our drawing 🎉
https://bit.ly/3b7rK1E

Keep posting and tagging us ~ we LOVE seeing your posts #Inspiration 🙌🏻❤️

Just signed up for this year's #booked2021 challenge - here's hoping I can knock this one out in 2021!

@Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

I‘m all finished with #Booked2020 ! So I thought I‘d post all my finished 4 seasons...
I really enjoyed this years 24 prompts, which have led me to read so many great books....(and only a couple of duds!😂)

Thanks again to our lovely hosts.... @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft and @BarbaraTheBibliophage for taking the time to organize this fun challenge!

Woohoo! Finished up #summer #Booked2020 today.... (which means I‘m done with all 4 seasons!)

Really liked 5 of the 6 books I read (unfortunately Eight Hundred Grapes was a bit of a dud!)

Thank you so much to the lovely hosts.... Great prompts, and so many wonderful books...💕📚

@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

My choices for #booked2020 #summer!

1. Red, white, or blue type on cover 2. Eccentric MC 3. YA novel by a POC 4. Wine or whine 5. Banned book 6. Armchair travel

Even though it‘s just about summer (or winter) depending on your region, there is still 29 days left for #Booked2020 #SpringQuarterDrawing 🌷
Feel free to start posting your quarterly challenge progress 😁Just remember to tag @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft and @Cinfhen so we can enter you for #SecondQuarterDrawing 📚💜🦋
We love seeing your book choices❣️❣️❣️
Drawing will be July 3 🥳

So, I finished #booked2020 #spring...in just one month! That‘s never happened before and probably never will again!
1. Makes you LOL 2. Parent and child memoir 3. Tartan noir 4. About genocide 5. Pan Asian author 6. Animal on the cover

#booked2020 #Spring
I just realized I completed this season last week and didn‘t post about it....
Enjoyed everything, but my favorites were easily Fleabag and Trust Exercise....

Thanks again to @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft and @BarbaraTheBibliophage for all the fun prompts and helping me tackle that TBR mountain... I‘d had a couple of these on my TBR for years! 💕

I just remembered to post, but I did read some Winter #Booked2020 books!

Updated #Booked2020 I actually read a few #MillennialAuthors I just didn‘t realize it. So if you are looking for something Catch & Kill by Ronan Farrow, Crash Override by Zoe Quinn, and G Willow Wilson‘s Ms Marvel series were all Millennial Authors...all three were great reads.

Updated #Booked2020 I actually read a few #MillennialAuthors I just didn‘t realize it. So if you are looking for something Catch & Kill by Ronan Farrow, Crash Override by Zoe Quinn, and G Willow Wilson‘s Ms Marvel series were all Millennial Authors.

My #Booked2020 update... first six done, not necessarily all in winter though. I have to do some research on Millennial Authors, I don‘t even know who is in that group without some research.🤷‍♀️

@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

Friendly Reminder 🎉 #FirstQuarter #Booked2020 ends on March 31. You have until April 5 to post a wrap-up of all prompts completed between January 1 - March 31, 2020 in order to qualify for the drawing. Every book read counts as one entry😁

Just tag @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft & @Cinfhen using #Booked2020 hashtag so we can record your responses 📚💕📚💕📚💕

Thanks to all who have already shared their wrap-up posts 🙌🏻

Friendly Reminder 🎉 #FirstQuarter #Booked2020 ends on March 31. You have until April 5 to post a wrap-up of all prompts completed between January 1 - March 31, 2020 in order to qualify for the drawing. Every book read counts as one entry😁Just tag @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft & @Cinfhen using #Booked2020 hashtag so we can record your responses 📚💕📚💕📚💕
Thanks to all who have already shared their wrap-up posts 🙌🏻

So, here are my planned reads for #spring #booked2020. Of course, they are subject to change!
1. Makes you LOL 2. Parent & child memoir 3. Tartan noir 4. About genocide 5. Pan Asian author or silkpunk
6. Animal on cover

My #winter #booked2020 is now complete! Now to plan for spring!
1. Hat on cover 2. Read in a day 3. Set in Hollywood 4. Cover crush 5. Live and learn 6. Millennial author

There‘s still one more month left before we complete the first quarter of #Booked2020 but I have finished #Winter ☃️and #Spring🌷🌻🌹Sharing my reads ~ I‘ve been enjoying all of your posts❣️❣️❣️

I‘ve read just over a quarter of “Booked”, and I have to say it is very engaging. Few characters which allows you to connect and understand each and every person. It is about Nick Hall, the “star” of his team. Everything‘s going great, about to ask out the girl he likes. When he hears life changing news, everything falls apart.