#Tori Rye

[dizziesims]

I'm back babayyy :D

[itsfunnybcuzitstrue]

in part 1, chapter 10 of 'solitaire' tori falls asleep and says

"in my dreams i'm running around in circles atop a cliff, but there's a boy in a red hat catching me every time i try to jump off."

in 'the catcher in the rye'- the book that alice oseman has repeatedly said 'solitaire' is inspired by- the main character holden caulfield wears a red hunting hat throughout the book. in chapter 22, holden says

"anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around— nobody big, I mean— except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I’d really like to be."

it seems that to pay homage to the catcher in the rye massively influencing solitaire, alice oseman wrote that tori spring literally dreamt about being caught by holden caulfield- the catcher in the rye himself

i could write a long analysis on the common themes of the catcher in the rye and solitaire here, but the full post of comparisons is coming very soon

edit: click here for the full post on the catcher in the rye and solitaire <3

[isaacbookclub]

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

From Solitaire

[this-big-field-of-rye-and-all]

Depression is over or am I repressing myself as usually?

[tearsonthepage]

i kinda get the same vibe i got from solitaire when reading the catcher in the rye 😭

maybe its cause the review on the cover called it "the catcher in the rye of the digital age" or smth but i cant shake the feeling of tori spring while reading holden caulfield

[a-dash-in-the-middle]

imagine we get a solitaire film, i would die

[ryegarden]

Hey gang! Some of you might have just heard about the election results in the UK - we got the Tories out! Woo! Unfortunately the situation we're left in is no more safe for trans people. The Labour party continue to use trans people as political pawns - Starmer has said he doesn't believe trans women should be allowed in women's bathrooms, their proposed reforms would require a 2 year wait for a GRC, and have called transness "contested ideology".

Quite frankly, it makes me nervous! Labour plan to implement the recommendations of the Cass review, and I cannot imagine getting through my 20s without top surgery. It becomes a risk management thing, if anything - if I'm forced off of testosterone, top surgery will be life saving. So here's my fundraiser! It's a lot of fucking money to get a doctor to take a cleaver to your tits, apparently? So anything helps!

[aliceosemansolos]

I JS REALIZED ION HAVE A INTRO POST SO IMMA MAKE ONE.

MY NAME IS FRIDAYY!! IDC ABT PRONOUNS TBH. PERO LIKE THEY/THEM IF U CARE. IM A MINOR SO IF UR 18+ DONT BE WEIRD. IM WRITING A PODCAST CALLED GHOST TOWN, COMING OUT AT SOME POINT!! ON YOUTUBE!!

FAV SHOWS: SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF, HEARTSTOPPER, OHSHC (OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB), SOUTH PARK, NANA, I AM NOT OKAY WITH THIS, BROOKLYN NINE NINE, SHOUJO ANIMES, DOCTOR WHO, BOJACK HORSEMAN, YOUNG ROYALS

FAV MOVIES: HEATHERS, BUT IM A CHEERLEADER, IT (BOTH OF THEM), FEAR STREET (THE 2ND MOVIE TO BE EXACT PERO I LOVE THEM ALL), BRING IT ON ( ALL OF THEM OBVI), SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE UNIVERSE, JUNO, UP THE ACADEMY, TEACHERS, SPEAK, KARATE KID, GOOD WILL HUNTING, THE OUTSIDERS, I SAW THE TV GLOW, DEAD POETS SOCIETY

FAV BOOKS: SOLITAIRE, THE OUTSIDERS, HOW IT FEELS TO FLOAT, GIRL IN PIECES, SUICIDE NOTES, THE HEARTSTOPPER BOOKS, RADIO SILENCE, IT, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, IF HE HAD BEEN WITH ME, IF ONLY I HAD TOLD HER, HATE LIST, YOUD BE HOME NOW, SPEAK, ACT COOL, A BREATH TOO LATE

RANDOM THINGS I LIKE: VINYLS, MUSIC, CDS, BAGGY CLOTHES, ALICE OSEMAN, DUMPLINGS, FASHION, ART, COLLAGES, MUSICALS, SWEET FOODS, BAKING, THE COLOR PURPLE ND RED, BLACK NAILS, POLISH MOVIES, MOVIE THEATRES, 80S AND 90S FILMS

FAV CHARATERS: TORI SPRING, ALED LAST, MICHAEL HOLDEN, KIM PINES, KNIVES CHAU, RICHIE (IT), BIZ (HOW IT FEELS TO FLOAT), HOLDEN CAULFIELD, TARA JONES, RAYNE SEPGUTA (IDK HOW TO SPELL HER LAST NAME), WENDY (SOUTH PARK), KENNY MCORNICK, EMILY (CLASS OF 09), SAL FISHER, JOHNNY (THE OUTSIDERS), LARRY JOHNSON, HACHI, NANA, SHINICHI, JACK MURPHY, FINNY SMITH(IF I HE HAD BEEN WITH ME-IF ONLY I HAD TOLD HER), CHOOCH BAMBALAZI, DANIEL LARUSSO, EDDIE PALIKINIKN(IDK HOW TO SPELL HIS LAST NAME), TODD ANDERSON, NEIL PERRY, MAX CAULFIELD

FAV GAMES: CLASS OF 09(THE RE-UP IS MY FAV), UNPACKING, OUR LIFE GAMES, BAD END THEATRE, SALLY FACE, RANDOM ITCH.IO GAMES, RHYTHM DOCTOR, STARDEW VALLEY, LAST SEEN ONLINE, OMORI, LIFE IS STRANGE

FAV MUSIC: RADIOHEAD, MITSKI, TV GIRL, ALEX G, THE SMITHS, ANY MIDWEST EMO, MSI, KIMYA DAWSON, THE MOLDY PEACHES, THE CURE, THE BEATLES, SUBLIME, FOO FIGHTERS, MOST DEATH METAL BANDS, CHELSEA GRIN(THATS METAL PERO WHATEVA), KORN, NIRVANA, THE POLICE, BAUHAUS, SIOXIES AND THE BANSHES, ALL GARAGE PUNK

FANDOMS IM IN: CLASS OF 09, SALLYFACE, STARDEW VALLEY, OSEMANVERSE OBVI, OMORI, SCOTT PILGRIM, BLUE PERIOD, FRUIT BASKET, TOKYO REVENGERS, KIMI NO TODOKE, NANA, PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING WITH MICHAEL CERA INVOLVED, AND PROB MORE I JS FORGOT

FAV PODCASTS: WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE, HELLO FROM THE HALLOWOODS, AND UNIVERSE FRIDAY

GO FOLLOW MY INSTAGRAM: ALICEOSEMANSOLOS‼️‼️

[confessionsofareindeer]

Not to like totally rant but like let's get this out of the way, Season 3 Heartstopper Spoilers:

They kind of ruined the show a little for me with this sad ace rep., the carnival scene takes out the depth of Tori and Micheal's relationship, it makes it look like they're just dating, it cuts out their queerness and just makes them look like a messy straight couple. They barely had any screen time, which is fair, they're just Charlie's sister and the guy that's always around her, (no one even seems to know Micheal despite them having had class with him in the comics, but whatever, Solitaire erasure it is) I wasn't expecting to see all of Solitaire played out on my laptop for me, but I wanted some sort of complexity around aceness and maybe a reference to its existence. But instead, you're telling me a group of queer teenagers needed a fish analogy to understand aromanticsm? Really? In school I only had to tell the cis boys and the girls who stared at me funny what it meant, not my friend group that is majority LGBTQ. I thought this was supposed to be a dreamscape to actually show me and my friends, not-a-water-everything-down-for-the-straights-and-alloscape, that comes with every other story, this was made by a queer person who is aro/ace so why did we end up like this, why did I bother having hope?

I really respect how the storyline made room for Darcy and Elle had trans and non binary identities and that they were expanded upon in the show, I love it really and I think that it felt like things my friends would actually talk about. We have a slight reference to Darcy having an unlabeled gender but even this feels wrapped up as they come out as non binary, I wish it was just all less clean cut, less perfectly fit so that everything works out, do their's and Tara's sexualities shift to reflect changing Lesbian identity in a more inclusive world? Do they decide to be unlabled or does the idiotic queer discourse not exist for them? Can we have people who don't particularly lean one way or the other, or who reject this modern idea that we should fit into the straight designed trap of conformity for the heads to comprehend something outside their simple world of the nuclear family? I want sexualities nuances to be explained like gender's was. Micheal talks about it, so why is there not a large discussion or plot around it? WHy does it end up a somewhat hollow scene?

Maybe my friends and I are weird and philosophical, but we'd spend lunch arguing about this sort of stuff, so I really wish they'd show it, I have the backing of the kids who loved Perks of Being a Wallflower and Catcher and the Rye (don't ask me about that one I haven't actually read it, on principle) that found Solitaire, and all the depressed outsider protaganists a little too relatable for our own good, that maybe Tori and Micheal shouldn't have even kissed in the book because people are only ever going to misinterpret it. So now looking at the show, I guess of course this happened. Tori and Micheals story meant something to me and so yeah, I'm going to be a melodramatic whiner on Tumblr about it.

(1/2)

[itscubetime]

Honestly, I fee like a lot of Osemanverse fans treat the books rather unequally. Let me explain.

I'm going to make a ranked list of all of Alice Oseman's books/series in order from most loved to least loved (based on my observations in social media and the availability of different books). I hold no biases in this list, since I have read/watched all of them. Only observations and some opinions.

Heartstopper. I'm pretty sure most people who have heard of the Osemanverse heard about Heartstopper first. You can find elements of this series everywhere, from all the webcomic platforms like Webtoon and Tapas, to the physical books in bookstores and libraries, to reposts of favourite moments, to the piles upon piles of fan-art and, of course, to the Netflix adaptation, which had immaculate casting and has already been green-lighted for two more seasons. I think this series deserves to be high up on the list - after all, the representation is casual and exemplified in the right places, nothing feels forced, the love story is healthy, but no so perfect that it's entirely unrealistic and the characters all have their spotlight moments. However, I feel like the series sometimes overshadows the other books, which I find interesting, considering this is the only book/series that is centred around a romantic love story.

Solitaire. This is probably the most well-known YA novel for a couple of reasons. One, it is the debut novel, the one that is praised in the front cover of every other Oseman novel, with the familiar phrase 'The Cather in the Rye for the digital age', so most Osemanverse fans have heard of it. Two, it's the novel that ties in with the Heartstopper story the most, by far, especially considering that the main character of Solitaire, Tori Spring, is the older sister of Charlie Spring, one of the main characters in Heartstopper. Three, its depiction of mental health issues, particularly Tori's implied depression, is healthy, realistic and educational. Overall, it deserves the love it gets, especially considering how dark it can get compared to Heartstopper.

Radio Silence. Honestly, I think that this could be tied with Solitaire in some cases - it was, after all, the book that first introduced me to the Osemanverse. It doesn't link with the Heartstopper universe as much as Solitaire, but it does focus more on Aled Last, one of the side characters in Heartstopper, and one of Charlie's friends, although it appears that the two drift off before the events of Radio Silence. I absolutely love this book for two reasons. One, the amazing relationship between Frances and Aled, the two main characters, never goes beyond anything platonic, showing that a boy and a girl don't have to be in a romantic relationship to thrive together. Two, it's the first book in the Osemanverse that shows explicit ace rep - better yet, demi rep - for Aled, which was so nice to read even before I began questioning if I was aspec. I love the cameos it gets in Heartstopper too, especially with Aled in the same shot lol.

Loveless. I'm so mad that this book is so far down the list, but I understand that's because it's the latest one. Firstly, PLEASE READ IT!!!! It follows the first-person perspective of Georgia Warr on her journey to discovering that she is aroace. This book has done wonders for the aspec community in giving them awesome representation and increased attention from the rest of the community, because yes! we exist and yes! us being aspec doesn't mean our lives are sad and lonely and YES! not all love has to come in romantic form!!!!! The fact that Oseman was alluding to their own uni experience in this story is just so amazing! Secondly, it deserves so much more attention in the Osemanverse fandom. Oseman put her whole heart and soul into this book and we are gonna love it like it deserves!!!

I Was Born for This. And now, we come across the book with the least amount of copies sold, available in the least amount of places and talked about the least in the fandom, despite it literally being about the fandom (eyyyy). This was the only novel I had to buy because it wasn't at my library (edit: it is now but it wasn't before) and none of my friends had it, but it is so good and criminally underrated. I understand every other story has something going for it. Heartstopper has impactful rep, Solitaire is the debut novel, Radio silence has Aled and the Universe City and Loveless has aroace rep. However, this book deserves love too!!! It focuses on the chaotic mess of fandoms and the impact it can have on the* artists behind the content, because gaining fame doesn't automatically make everything better, in fact it can make thing worse, like with Jimmy's anxiety. The story also having a muslim MC is also really awesome to see, especially since I haven't read many books with prominent muslim MCs (should probs change that soon lol). Anyway, this book is so so good and you need to read it somehow aaaaaaa!

Anyway, this has been sitting in my drafts for a year now and everything beyond the *asterix has been written today, but most ideas in this still stand. Most of the low-ranked books focus on queer people just existing without the plot being carried by a love story (no hate to the latter but i would like to see more of the former too). Anyway, it's time for the post to be brought into the world, especially considering Heartstopper season 2 coming up in August (yayyy!!!).

What did we learn today, kids?

Give all of a creator's work a chance, not just the most popular one! You will discover many gems!

[redd956]

58 Books Reading List

Originally made for myself; decided to post it (Have already read several, and some I added many for others to look into because I read them and they were fire)

CW: Primarily depressing????

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. Mannix

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

Dune by Frank Herbert

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

The Liar's Club by Mary Karr

Felidae by Akif Pirinçci

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Aeon Legion: Labyrinth by J. P. Beaubien

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Night by Elie Wiesel

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker

Beloved by Tori Morrison

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Shadow of the Conqueror by Shad Brooks

Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[dizziesims]

"but I see her in the back of my mind, all the time"

[everythingsbetterunderthestars]

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this!!!!

the full post on the catcher in the rye and solitaire including: references, similarities and some analyses

notes:

'holden caulfield' is the main character's name in the catcher in the rye

i am not saying that any of these similarities (both the minor and major ones) were intended by alice- they're just things that i noticed!

major references to the catcher in the rye that i noticed in solitaire, the first one was confirmed by alice herself:

michael holden's name is inspired by the main character of the catcher in the rye- holden caulfield

holden caulfield wears a red hunting hat and tori dreams about being caught by a boy wearing a red hunting hat every time she tries to jump off a cliff in her dream (click here for the full explanation)

in part 1, chapter 23 of solitaire ben hope punches charlie. michael holden rushes to charlie's side and asks him if charlie knows who he is, and tori narrates that he says ' “Michael Holden.” Then he grins manically. “Holden . . . funny . . .” ' -> i am 100% sure that this is a reference to catcher in the rye due to the first bullet point

this one isn't really a reference, but in 'after' in solitaire charlie tells his parents what happened, to which his dad responds that this is probably because he read the catcher in the rye too many times when he was a teenager. becky then says 'jesus. can't any teenager be sad and, like, not be compared to that book?' but it's quite funny that despite this quote solitaire is labelled as 'the catcher in the rye for the digital age' by critics

major similarities i noticed between the two books:

both books take place in a snowy, wintery setting

holden caulfield and michael holden are around the same height (holden is 6'2.5", michael 6'3")

both holden's roomate- stradlater- and tori's best friend- becky allen- give holden and tori slaps/pats on the cheek which both holden and tori hate

in chapter 11 of solitaire at becky's party, tori hides in the bathroom bc she feels uncomfortable and washes her hands 3x. in chapter 3 of the catcher in the rye when holden is in the bathroom with his roomate, he turns the tap on and off which he says is a 'nervous habit' he has

holden and tori both get bloody wounds which they both decide they like the look of

holden and tori's school environment saddens them

holden and tori are both atheists

holden and tori both go ice skating with a friend, and they are both bad at ice skating

holden and tori are both good at english

minor similarities i noticed between the two books:

holden and tori both have quite hostile relationships with their parents

holden's teacher 'spencer' is notable for his nods, and tori's teacher mr kent is notable for his long pauses- both teachers have a defining characteristic

both tori and holden write bad essays about a topic they have no interest in, both of which get read out to them by their disappointed teachers

the main characters of both books- holden, tori and michael- are all excellent liars

holden and tori can be quite sarcastic

both holden and tori encounter people that their sibling used to date- i know charlie and ben didn't exactly date, it's just the only word i can think of to summarise these relationships- and neither of them like said people

holden and tori are both very close to their younger sibling of the opposite sex- the reason this isn't in major similarities is because alice oseman has said tori and charlie's relationship was based off of her own relationship with her brother

holden and tori are both insomniacs

a farewell to arms and the great gatsby are mentioned in both books

both holden and tori have younger siblings who are more intelligent than you’d expect

analyses:

this analysis isn't as coherent as the next one, but holden says that he really likes 'the great gatsby' and in solitaire, lucas ryan tells tori that 'the great gatsby' is about being in love with a dream. in the catcher in the rye it's clear that holden is in love with his dream of preserving the innocence of childhood and youth as a whole (click here for a full analysis on the theme of childhood in the catcher in the rye) -> similarly in solitaire lucas ryan is obsessed with this image of tori that he has created in his head based off of their shared childhood history

both holden and tori yearn for the past- holden wants to preserve the innocence of childhood (see the link above), and i think it's safe to say that the two of them both want to preserve the ease of childhood too -> the first example i can think of for tori is when she says in part 1, chapter 6 'if I could swap bodies with someone for a day, I would choose oliver'. the next when charlie relapses in part 1, chapter 13 and she says 'i'm glad that he's [oliver's] never understood what's wrong with charlie.' and the final example being when she has a breakdown in part 2, chapter 7 and says to charlie 'my life was so normal before. i used to hate being so bored, but i want that back. i didn't care about anything before [...] but before solitaire, everything was fine. i was fine. i used to be fine'

if you liked solitaire then you should definitely read the catcher in the rye

[this-big-field-of-rye-and-all]

I'm reporting from planet Earth, an obvious statement perhaps, but it never hurts to specify.

Things have been a roller coaster in the past few months. Today wasn't particularly tough, but I'll blame any melancholy on the fact that it's Sunday, even if it's about to end.

I embrace people, but I don't feel satisfied. Why? Am I perhaps being too ambitious?

[thessalian]

Thess vs Consequences

Also, on a less cheerful note... Chickens are coming home to roost in this country in some of the scariest ways.

For one thing, there's this Rwanda thing. As anyone with half a brain could have predicted, and several news outlets did predict, the refugees who were tangled in the NIMBY mess that is our asylum system at the moment heard about the intent to round up all the refugees in preparatio for sending them to Rwanda, and they ran. They went into hiding. Because they don't really want to be grabbed by shock troops when attending their mandatory appointments with the asylum office and incarcerated (because yes, that was the term used, and they're making sure they've got the space to do so) and then stuffed in a plane and sent to Kigali. They have been building lives here against all odds, and they don't want those lives torn from them. So they're hiding. And of course, the Tories are getting all hard-line about "We will find them, and we will incarcerate them, and anyone who is found hiding them will face repercussions".

Does this sound familiar to anyone else?!?

So, yeah. Just ... yeah.

And then there's the other thing that's biting us in the arse - Brexit. See, another round of checks between the UK and the EU have been put into practice, and that's looking at adding an awful lot to our food bills, because obviously the grocery stores aren't going to want to give up a single penny of their ever-increasing profits and the small local business can't afford to do anything else if they want to stay in business (most of them having already been hit so hard by Brexit already, and by the Covid lockdowns).

"So just buy British!", I hear some of these yahoos say. Weeeeeeell ... that's gonna be a problem this year. Apparently we had some unprecedented rainfall this winter, and it's fucked up the spring planting badly. Some people's crops are failing. Some failed entirely. Others can't plant their spring crops at all because the soil's too wet. Potatoes have been hit pretty hard, but harder still are wheat, oats, rye, and barley. Which they mostly talk about how that'll seriously raise the prices of bread, beer, and biscuits (cookies to you North Americans; this apparently lends better to alliteration, which is what headline writers want), I notice they haven't mentioned how many cheap tinned foods - the kinds of foods that keep the average family going in this cost of living crisis - are thickened with wheat flour, and thus are also going to have their prices skyrocket.

And you'd think, wouldn't you, that I should be cool about this because I don't do wheat anyway. Except ... I'm reminded of the first lockdown, when everyone was panic-buying and the shelves were empty. When they ran out of wheat pasta, they denuded the gluten-free pasta aisle. Same with the bread (with the added advantage that some gluten-free breads actually don't go stale as fast as wheat breads). So if the price of wheat products starts skyrocketing, what's going to stop them taking the gluten-free stuff instead? Which I normally would not care about, except for how they don't stock gluten-free foods in any real quantity, so they run out real fast, and it'll probably take awhile for the grocery stores to react to any increased demand. Which means I'll miss out anyway.

That or the grocery stores will just jack up the prices on the gluten-free stuff as well; use the excuse to boost their profit margins a bit more. I'm fucked either way.

I am so very, very depressed right now. I cling to my small victories, but it's hard going, and it gets harder and harder every time I turn around, it seems. Gods, I hate this fucking country.

[afieldofheather]

regular 1. a book with the word "leap" in the title | A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie 2. a bildungsroman book | Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire 3. a book about a 24-year-old | Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister 4. a book about a writer | Kindred by Octavia E. Bulter 5. a book about K-pop | Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go by Cleo Qian 6. a book about pirates | Two Roads by Geonn Cannon 7. a book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete | The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie 8. a book by a blind or visually impaired author | The Color Purple by Alice Walker 9. a book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author | Not A Sound by Heather Gudenkauf 10. a book by a self-published author | The Seventh Bride by T Kingfisher 11. a book from a genre you typically avoid | In Mercy, Rain by Seanan McGuire 12. a book from an animal's POV | Cold Clay by Juneau Black 13. a book originally published under a pen name | Twilight Falls by Juneau Black 14. a book recommended by a bookseller | The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie 15. a book recommended by a librarian | Murder Road by Simone St James 16. a book set 24 years before you were born | When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton 17. a book set in a travel destination on your bucket list | In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire 18. a book set in space | Behind Enemy Lines by Sally Malcolm 19. a book set in the future | Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire 20. a book set in the snow | Bryony and Roses by T Kingfisher 21. a book that came out in a year that ends with "24" | Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire 22. a book that centers on video games | Homeworlds by Sally Malcolm 23. a book that features dragons | His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik 24. a book that takes place over the course of 24 hours | Orbital by Samantha Harvey 25. a book that was published 24 years ago (2000) | P is for Peril by Sue Grafton 26. a book that was turned into a musical | Mary Poppins by PL Travers 27. a book where someone dies in the first chapter | 4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie 28. a book with a main character who's 42 years old | None of this is True by Lisa Jewell 29. a book with a neurodivergent main character | Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire 30. a book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary | Points of Origin by Sally Malcolm 31. a book with a title that is a complete sentence | A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie 32. a book with an enemies to lovers plot | Violet in Bloom by Julia Quinn 33. a book with an unreliable narrator | The Winter Spirits by Bridget Collins 34. a book with at least 3 POVs | Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker 35. a book with magical realism | Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire 36. a book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person | The Four Million by O Henry 37. a book written during NaNoWriMo | Shady Hollow by Juneau Black 38. a cozy fantasy book | Mirror Lake by Juneau Black 39. a fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author | A Quiet Afternoon by Grace Seybold 40. a horror book by a BIPOC author | The Cutting Season by Attica Locke 41. a memoir that explores queerness | How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler 42. a nonfiction book about Indigenous people | Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 43. a second-chance romance | Something Wilder by Christina Lauren 44. an autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll | Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage by Tori Amos 45. an LGBTQ+ romance novel | Female of the Species by Geonn Cannon

advanced 1. a book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours | Thornhedge by T Kingfisher 2. a book with 24 letters in the title | Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire 3. a collection of at least 24 poems | the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur 4. the 24th book of an author | Rolling in the Deep by Seanan McGuire 5. a book that starts with the letter "X" | X by Sue Grafton

completed | May 11, 2024