The Other Sandy

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Put your mp3 player/phone/streaming collection on shuffle and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results.


Just as I thought it was goin' alright
Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk?
I don't want to spend the rest of my life
I like where we are
I know a place

Well, you can't place faith in material things
Following every time
I've got a lot of thoughts
Joey
Here we go

Lady, when you're with me I'm smiling
There's a new dance that's going around
Okay what is it tonight?
If she wants to dance and drink all night
Panic on the streets of London

When I die and they lay me to rest
Sorrow found me when I was young
If you think I'm magical
Maybe I've forgotten
Time, time, time

( List of songs )

I swear I have songs newer than 1990, but this is what kept coming up on shuffle.

This challenge is being run by BooksandLala. The challenges don't have to be completed in order or in the month they're assigned.

There is a color version of this card, but it's a shade of pink that is going to clash wildly with the covers of all my books, so I grabbed the black and white option instead.




JANUARY: "Before" & "After" -- Nothing Good Happens After Midnight by Phillip Tomasso III
FEBRUARY: Keyboard keys -- Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
MARCH: "This" & "That" -- This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
APRIL: Ordinal numbers -- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
MAY: "Make" -- Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up by Dave Barry
JUNE: One-word title -- Embedded by Dan Abnett
JULY: Occupations -- The Last Bookseller by Gary Goodman
AUGUST: Groups & clubs -- The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
SEPTEMBER: "Me" & "My" -- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
OCTOBER: Parts of a house -- Come Through Your Door by Carlene O'Connor
NOVEMBER: Instructional title -- Be True by Stella Starling
DECEMBER: Superlatives -- I'm Your Biggest Fan by Kate Coyne

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This week I'm reading: Embedded by Dan Abnett

My favorite book of all time: I have no idea. How would I even judge such a thing? How could I even pick one favorite book from a single series? (I read a lot of series books.)

My current favorite book (read or re-read in the last 3 months): The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett

The last book I bought: Platform Decay by Martha Wells

The first book I bought with my own money: No clue. The first book I remember buying with my own money was a novelization of the Battlestar Galactica episode "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero" (The Cylon Death Machine by Glen A. Larson and Robert Thurston), which I still have, but I was 12, so I can't swear that it was actually the first.

( Moar meme )

This challenge is being run by BooksandLala. The challenges don't have to be completed in order or in the month they're assigned.

There is a color version of this card, but it's a shade of pink that is going to clash wildly with the covers of all my books, so I grabbed the black and white option instead.




JANUARY: "Before" & "After" -- Nothing Good Happens After Midnight by Phillip Tomasso III
FEBRUARY: Keyboard keys
MARCH: "This" & "That" -- This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
APRIL: Ordinal numbers -- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
MAY: "Make" -- Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up by Dave Barry
JUNE: One-word title
JULY: Occupations -- The Last Bookseller by Gary Goodman
AUGUST: Groups & clubs -- The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
SEPTEMBER: "Me" & "My" -- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
OCTOBER: Parts of a house -- Come Through Your Door by Carlene O'Connor
NOVEMBER: Instructional title -- Be True by Stella Starling
DECEMBER: Superlatives -- I'm Your Biggest Fan by Kate Coyne

This challenge is being run by BooksandLala. The challenges don't have to be completed in order or in the month they're assigned.





JANUARY: Body part (internal) -- Written in Bone by Sue Black
FEBRUARY: Silhouette -- Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
MARCH: Action/movement -- Patient Care by Paul Seward
APRIL: Accessories -- Subtle Bodies by Jordan Castillo Price
MAY: Border
JUNE: Wings
JULY: A metallic element -- Copper Script by K.J. Charles
AUGUST: Damage
SEPTEMBER: Fire & smoke -- The Circus Fire by Stewart O'Nan
OCTOBER: Doors/keys/locks -- Come Through Your Door by Carlene O'Connor
NOVEMBER: Reflection
DECEMBER: Music

This challenge is being run by kingstoken, and the master post is here.

Two substitutions One more substitution and two wild cards allowed.

Squares: 17 ~ Bingos: 2





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This challenge is being run by BooksandLala. The challenges don't have to be completed in order or in the month they're assigned.

There is a color version of this card, but it's a shade of pink that is going to clash wildly with the covers of all my books, so I grabbed the black and white option instead.




JANUARY: "Before" & "After" -- Nothing Good Happens After Midnight by Phillip Tomasso III
FEBRUARY: Keyboard keys
MARCH: "This" & "That" -- This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
APRIL: Ordinal numbers
MAY: "Make"
JUNE: One-word title
JULY: Occupations -- The Last Bookseller by Gary Goodman
AUGUST: Groups & clubs -- The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
SEPTEMBER: "Me" & "My"
OCTOBER: Parts of a house
NOVEMBER: Instructional title -- Be True by Stella Starling
DECEMBER: Superlatives -- I'm Your Biggest Fan by Kate Coyne

I never should have learned how to add book cover images to reading challenge cards. I think I like it a little too much. 🙃

If you happen to know of any other ones, please link me in the replies.

This challenge is being run by BooksandLala. The challenges don't have to be completed in order or in the month they're assigned.

There is a color version of this card, but it's a shade of pink that is going to clash wildly with the covers of all my books, so I grabbed the black and white option instead.




JANUARY: "Before" & "After" -- Nothing Good Happens After Midnight by Phillip Tomasso III
FEBRUARY: Keyboard keys
MARCH: "This" & "That" -- This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
APRIL: Ordinal numbers
MAY: "Make"
JUNE: One-word title
JULY: Occupations
AUGUST: Groups & clubs
SEPTEMBER: "Me" & "My"
OCTOBER: Parts of a house
NOVEMBER: Instructional title -- Be True by Stella Starling
DECEMBER: Superlatives -- I'm Your Biggest Fan by Kate Coyne

This challenge is being run by BooksandLala. The challenges don't have to be completed in order or in the month they're assigned.





JANUARY: Body part (internal)
FEBRUARY: Silhouette
MARCH: Action/movement
APRIL: Accessories
MAY: Border
JUNE: Wings
JULY: A metallic element
AUGUST: Damage
SEPTEMBER: Fire & smoke
OCTOBER: Doors/keys/locks
NOVEMBER: Reflection
DECEMBER: Music