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When you have completed a badge, you will request it in this thread. List them in numerical order, and do not link to the cover. If it's a cover task, you will reveal the cover in your personal threads. You must also include a reasoning for your connections.
I will use my planned books as an example.

Start
1. Call the Canaries Home (type of bird in the title)
2. Crow Mary (type of bird in the title)
3. The Raven Spell (type of bird in the title)

Checkpoint 1
4. Summer of Night (genre is horror)
5. The Stroke of Winter (genre is horror)
6. Pet Sematary (genre is horror)

Checkpoint 2
7. Silent in the Sanctuary (author Deanna Raybourn
8. An Impossible Impostor (author Deanna Raybourn
9. A Sinister Revenge (author Deanna Raybourn

Checkpoint 3
10. Prince Lestat (Prince in the title.)
11. Prince of Fools (Prince in the title/author is Mark Lawrence)
12. Red Sister(author is Mark Lawrence)

Checkpoint 4
13. Iron and Magic (urban fantasy)
14. Dead Beat (urban fantasy)
15. Proven Guilty (urban fantasy)

Finish
16. All the Broken Places

It's not necessary that your connection is based on the same factor as it did with the Start, Checkpoint 1 & Checkpoint 2 grouping.

In Checkpoint 3, I switched between Prince in the title to the next 2 books having the same author. Note how I addressed that on book #10 - Prince in the title/author is Mark Lawrence. Each element is noted.

In your personal threads, report as you have in the years previously, but add in the connection requirement.

Requesting Badge 1 please.

WoF Almeta ~ My Precious Tomes

Start - Bag End Hobbiton.

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home (Home in the title)
Murder on the House (Haunted Home Renovation Mystery 3) (Home in the subtitle)
Home for the Haunting (Home in the title)
Connected by Published 2013

Checkpoint 1 - Bree
A Winter Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1) (1st book of a series of 4)
The Wolf in Winter by (Charlie Parker #12) (Winter in the title)
The Dragon Scroll by :I.J. Parker (author’s last name)
Connected by Historical Fiction

Checkpoint 2 - Rivendell
Valley of Shadows (with "Valley" in the title)
Mask of Shadows (published 2017)
The Devil's Bible (Bohemian Trilogy)
Connected because both are TRILOGIES

Checkpoint 3 - Moria
Santori by Maris Black (cover that is 75% black)
The Black Mask (black and mask in title)
The Man in the Iron Mask] mask and (iron in title)
Connected by Iron

Checkpoint 4 - Black Gate
The Iron Hand of Mars by Lindsey Davis ("Iron" in the title). (authors last names Davis)
Wanted: A Superhero to Save the World by Bryan Davis (“Save�� in the title)
God Save The Child (mpg Mystery Thriller)
Connected by main page of Mystery Thriller

Finish - Mount Doom
The River We Remember 421 pages (between 400 and 450 pages)

Hang tight, Almeta. I haven't created the badge yet.

Janice wrote: "Hang tight, Almeta. I haven't created the badge yet."

No problem!

Your badge has been awarded, Almeta. But I have to say, your reporting style was confusing. For example CP 3 says the books were connected by Iron. There's no connection there of Iron.

First book - Author name was Black
Second book - Black in the title/Mask in the title
Third book - Mask in the title.

There were the same kind of issues with CP 4.

I got it figured out, but it was a bit of a slog.

WOOT! Go Almeta!!!

Thanks Beth!

Way to go Almeta, you're a legend 👏

WoF Katrisa
Requesting Badge 1
1. Start - Bag End: Read a book with home, homeward, or homebound in the title. - Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
2. (long in title) Long After Midnight
3. (midnight to nighttime scene on cover) No One Can Know
4. Checkpoint Bree: Read a book that is the 1st book of a series of 4 - Hall of Smoke
5. (both books have bird on cover) Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
6. (both books have red and black cover) Don't Fear the Reaper
7. Checkpoint: Rivendell - Read a book with "Sanctuary" or "Valley" in the title, or subtitle. - Uncanny Valley
8. (both books have a single person on cover) The Testament of Loki
9. (both books have an MC that is is 17) The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
10. Checkpoint: Moria - Read a book with a cover that is 75% black - The Promise and the Dream: The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. And Robert F. Kennedy
11. (black cover to black in series name) Winter's Rise
12. (winter black series) Winter's Ghost
13. Checkpoint: Black gate - Read a book with "Iron" in the title - Iron Hearted Violet
14. (MPG fantasy) Sea of Tranquility
15. (MPG fantasy) After Dark
16. Mount Doom - Read a book with between 400 and 450 pages. - The Fox Wife

Congrats on badge 1, Katrisa! 🎉

Well done Katrisa!

Thanks!

Katrisa, your badge is posted.

WoFSharonBiskit

Requesting Badge 1: Frodo and Sam’s Route Through Middle Earth

BagEnd Hobbiton
1. Bring Her Home (Home in Title)
2. The Scholar (Takes place in Ireland)
3. A Perfect Evil (Crime Thriller or Police Procedural)

Bree
4. Fire Born (First in a series of 4)
5. Blood Bound (Urban Fantasy)
6. Book of the Dead (First name Patricia, Pat, Patty)

Rivendell
7. Sanctuary (Sanctuary or Valley in title)
8. Safe Haven (Synonym of Sanctuary)
9. The Kill Club: A Gripping Thriller with a Killer Twist (Window on cover)

Moria
10. Secret Legacy (Black cover)
11. Family Secrets (Secret in title)
12. An Unwanted Guest ( House/building in moonlight on cover)

Black Gate
13. Iron Kissed (Iron in title)
14. Moon Touched (Character on cover with tattoos)
15. Cry Wolf (Wolf on cover)

Mount Doom
16. Point Blank (Between 400-500 pp.)

Your badge is posted Sharon!

Janice wrote: "Your badge is posted Sharon!"

Thank you!

Requesting Badge 1

WOF: Beth

Start: BagEnd
1. The Home and the World (Home in title, Indian Author)
2. Shame (Indian Author/"Pakistanish" setting)
3. Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You ("Pakistanish" author)

Checkpoint 1 Bree
4. The Virgin in the Garden (First in Series of 4/Author went to Cambridge)
5. The Last Devil to Die (Author went to Cambridge/angels and demons)
6. Look Homeward, Angel (angels and demons)

Checkpoint 2 Rivendell
7. The Hanging Valley (valley or Sanctuary in title/Inspector Banks series)
8. Gallows View (Inspector Banks)
9. A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks)

Checkpoint 3 Moria
10. Out Loud: A Memoir (black cover, Out in title)
11. The Voyage Out (Out in title)
12. Out of the Deep I Cry (Out in title)

Checkpoint 4 Black Gate
13. The Iron Heel (Iron in title, Author LONDON)
14. A Necessary End (Detective moved from LONDON)
15. Past Reason Hated (Detective moved from LONDON)

Finish: Mount Doom
16. Innocent Graves (400 pages)

Congrats on your first badges, Sharon and Beth! 🎉

You are all awesome, Almeta, Katrisa, Sharon and Beth!
I just got to the first checkpoint. LOL

Congrats to all the first badge recipients!

WoF Marnie
Requesting Badge 1

1 Home Stretch ( Home in title/ Author TV Presenter)
2 The Last Devil to Die ( TV presenter author/ Devil in title)
3 The Devil's Company ( Devil in title)

Checkpoint 1
4 A Study in Charlotte ( tetralogies)
5 Old Bones ( tetralogies/ mpg mystery)
6 First Lie Wins ( Mpg mystery)

Checkpoint 2
7 The Sanctuary ( sanctuary in title/ mystery)
8 Only If You're Lucky ( mystery/ published 2024)
9 The Underground Library ( published 2024)

Checkpoint 3
10 The Atlas Six ( black cover/ mpg YA & Fantasy
11 Ruthless Vows ( MPG YA& Fantasy/ author initials RR)
12 If the Tide Turns ( author initials RR)

Checkpoint 4
13 The Iron Trial ( IRON in title/mpg fantasy)
14 The Neighbor Favor ( MC fantasy author/ POC author)
15 Watch Where They Hide ( POC author)

Finish
Touch & Go ( 400-450 pages)

Beth and Marnie, your badges are posted.

WoF Nix
Requesting Badge 1

Start
1- Home Before Dark - home in the title/Dark in the title
2- My Dark Vanessa - Dark in the title / Proper name in the title
3- The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot - Proper name in the title

Checkpoint 1
4- The Thursday Murder Club - 1st of 4 book series
5- The Man Who Died Twice - 2nd book of same series / Humor mpg
6- Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood - Humor mpg

Checkpoint 2
7- Montana Sanctuary - Sanctuary in title / mpg romance
8- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - mpg romance
9- When Gracie Met the Grump - mpg romance

Checkpoint 3
10- The Atlas Six - black cover
11- Run on Red - black cover / Title has 3 words with 2 words of 3 letter and one word of two letters
12- Fix Her Up - Title has 3 words with 2 words of 3 letter and one word of two letters

Checkpoint 4
13- Iron Widow - Iron in the title / Fantasy mpg
14- Coraline - Fantasy mpg / name of a person in title
15- Sula - name of a person in title

Finish
16- She Who Became the Sun - book between 400 and 450 pages

Congrats Marnie and Nix!

Requesting Badge 1
WOF Marie (UK)

Badge 1
1. Home
2. And Away...
3. Begars Abbey
4. Thief
5. Hunting the Mirror Man
6. The Personal Librarian
7. Sanctuary
8. The Italian Secretary
9. The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
10. Artificial Wisdom
11. Random in Death
12. Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
13. Ink, Iron, and Glass
14. The Face on the Milk Carton
15. Murder by Milk Bottle
16. The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt

Congrats, Marie!

Badges are posted for Nix and Marie. :)

Thank you!!

Congrats Marnie, Nix and Marie!

Boy you all are pretty creative with your connections. Mine seem to be mostly MPG.

That works too Jayme.

thanks everyone I tried to ge something different on connections but i don't think it is sustainable through all the badges

I managed to get a trio connected by type of bird in the title. And a planned "wings on the cover" - insect, bird, airplane. But the rest I'll have to resort to same author, same series, same genre.

WoF Name - Lanelle
May I have Badge 1, please?

Start
1. Ammie, Come Home (first name in the title)
2. Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (first name in the title)
3. Sylvester, or The Wicked Uncle (first name in the title)

Checkpoint 1
4. Bellfield Hall (1st in the series)
5. A Gentleman of Fortune (2nd in the same series)
6. A Woman of Consequence (3rd in the same series)

Checkpoint 2
7. Lily of the Valley (a flower in the title)
8. Poppy Done to Death (a flower in the title)
9. The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (a flower in the title)

Checkpoint 3
10. Encantado: A Myth (author uses two initials and a last name)
11. Pemberley Shades: Pride and Prejudice continues (author uses two initials and a last name)
12. The Garden of Eve (author uses two initials and a last name)

Checkpoint 4
13. Iron Kissed (3rd in its series)
14. A Grave Matter (3rd in its series)
15. The Dead Man's View (3rd in its series)

Finish
16. A Place of Confinement

Congrats on your first badge of 2024, Lanelle!!🎉

Marcus
Requesting Badge 1

Start: Bag End
1. "home" in title- Home Before Dark
2. horror genre- Night Shift
3. short story collection- Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror

Checkpoint 1: Bree
4. first in series of 4 The Emperor's Blades
5. someone on cover holding a sword- The Dragon Sword
6. next in same series- Oathsword

Checkpoint 2: Rivendell
7. valley or sanctuary in title How Green Was My Valley
8. Genre (historical fiction): The Whistling Season
9. Setting: american west (western) Below Zero

Checkpoint 3: Moria
10. 75% black cover Psycho
11. horror classics- The Exorcist
12. classics genre- The Picture of Dorian Grey

Checkpoint 4: The Black Gate
13. "Iron" in title Age of Iron
14. genre historical fiction: The Field of Swords
15. "sword/s" in title: Blood Sword

Finish: Mount Doom
16. 400-450 pages Last Bus to Wisdom

Well done all! I have one more book and then I'll also be claiming badge 1 ;-)

Badges have been posted for Lanelle and Marcus. :)

WofF TrudyAn
Requesting Badge 1

Start: Bag End
1. "home" in title Two Roads Home
2. MC goes by different name for significant part of book The Leavers
3. Two word title, the first word being "The" The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Checkpoint 1: Bree
4. First in series of 4 Justine
5. Writer born between 1900 and 1920 The Slaves of Solitude
6. Set during WWII Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

Checkpoint 2: Rivendell
7. valley or sanctuary in title Chemical Valley
8. Author with first name David The Theory of Crows
9. Published in 2022 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Checkpoint 3: Moria
10. 75% black cover In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
11. Literary award winner The Secret River
12. Writer has Masters degree in a fine arts field Songs for the End of the World

Checkpoint 4: The Black Gate
13. "Iron" in title The Theft of the Iron Dogs: A Lancashire Mystery
14. Writer's name includes initials The Provincial Lady in Wartime
15. Classic set in England The Gentlewomen

Finish: Mount Doom
16. 400-450 pages Mercury Pictures Presents

Wow, so many of you done badge 1 already 😳 way to go everybody 🎉

Your badge has been posted Trudy.

WOF Esther
badge 1
Start
1. The Home for Unwanted Girls (set in Quebec)
2. Les os de la Méduse (set in Quebec / set in Montreal)
3. book: Un ménage rouge ( set in Montreal)

Checkpoint 1
4. Magician: Apprentice (apprentice in title)
5. The Anatomist's Apprentice (apprentice in title/ historical mystery)
6. Stasi 77 ( historical mystery)

Checkpoint 2
7. The Sanctuary Seeker (MC named John)
8. The Last Colony(MC named John / SF with colonisation as a theme )
9. Goldilocks (SF with colonisation as a theme )

Checkpoint 3
10 La constellation du chat (black cover)
11. The Atlas Six (black cover / black)
12 Noir deux tons (black in title)

Checkpoint 4
13: Iron and Magic (urban fantasy)
14: Tangled Threads(urban fantasy)
15: The Wicche Glass Tavern (urban fantasy)

Finish
16: Battle of the Linguist Mages

Congrats to recent badge completers!!!

Your badge is posted Esther. :)

Janice wrote: "Your badge is posted Esther. :)"

thanks!

WOF MARGO

REQUESTING BADGE 1: 16 BOOKS

Start
1 The Road Home (home in title)
2 The Home Scar (home in title, Irish author)
3 The Year that Changed Everything (irish authors)

Checkpoint 1
4 Skyward (1st Skyward novel)
5 Starsight (2nd Skyward novel)
6 Cytonic (3rd Skyward novel)

Checkpoint 2
7 The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals sanctuary in title, (MPG fiction and contemporary)
8 Night Waking, MPG fiction and contemporary
9 Our Missing Hearts MPG fiction and contemporary

Checkpoint 3 - Moria
10. Ninth House 76.1% black, (MPG fantasy)
11. Defiant MPG fantasy, author (Brandon Sanderson initials B and S)
12. The Split Author Sharon J. Bolton, initials B and S

Checkpoint 4
13. Men of Iron IRON in title (MPG tag Historical Fiction)
14. Atalanta MPG tag Historical Fiction (published 2023)
15. The Trial Published 2023

Finish
16. How to Sell a Haunted House ,448pg

Your badge is posted Margo. :)

Just took a look at it Janice, it's perfect! Thanks :-))

WoF Suzanne

Requesting Badge 1: Frodo and Sam’s Route Through Middle Earth

BagEnd Hobbiton
1. Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of A Man, His Wife, and Her Alligator (Home in Title)
2. Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure (Animal in the title)
3.Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads (Travel Memoir)

Bree
4. An Ember in the Ashes (First in a series of 4)
5. The Rebels by Jakes, John Signet,2004 (Mass Market Paperback) Reprint Edition (character is a Rebel)
6. A Place of Greater Safety (A story of revolution)

Rivendell
7. The Last Green Valley (Sanctuary or Valley in title)
8. The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia (set in Soviet Russia)
9. The Underground Railroad (A book about migration)

Moria
10. The Wonder (Black cover)
11. Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back (young girl as a character)
12. The Cat Who Saved Books (Japanese characters)

Black Gate
13. Iron Lake (Iron in title)
14. We Are Not Ourselves (main character has Irish heritage)
15. Contest (Author's name is Matthew)

Mount Doom
16. Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine (Between 400-500 pp.)

Your badge is posted Suzanne.