MN Lisa’s Comments (group member since Jul 20, 2023)

MN Lisa’s comments from the Hooked on Books group.

If you have finished your books for the week, don't forget to check in!

I'll have your new prompt later this evening.

16 Teams, 9 have checked in.

🗝️ Week 1 Response
This box doesn’t open on its own.
It opened because you showed up as yourself.

What did you learn about each other through these picks?

This message is yours to unlock together. Keep the responses flowing between you; nothing else needs to be checked in.

I am horrible at strategy. I'll go along with whatever everyone else decides. :)

🧩 Prompt #9: Burn It Down / Build It Up

Type: Split Prompt

What this means:
This is a Split Prompt, so each of you will choose one half of the prompt to interpret in your own way. You're reading different books, but they should both reflect transformation — through destruction or creation.

For this one:
Burn It Down might mean rebellion, revenge, breaking free, tearing down systems, or choosing chaos.
Build It Up could be about healing, starting over, creating something new, or rebuilding after loss.

📌 Once you’ve both finished reading, post your Story Stitch (your connection blurb) in the Check-In Thread to unlock your next prompt.

There’s more than one way to light a match — or lay a foundation. 🔥🧱

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I read Excavations. It is about women who are digging up a site in Greece and the find a statue that is actually a successful women athlete from ancient times and she was eliminated from history.

So...Bridge....books about wrong things that happen to women?

Team Name: The Final Cut - Chapter 4
Link to Team Thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Link To Team Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

🧩 Prompt #11: Saint / Sinner

Type: Split Prompt

What this means:
This is a Split Prompt, which means each of you will choose one side of the theme and pick a book inspired by it. You're reading different books, but building a connection between your contrasting choices.

For this one:
One of you picks Saint — a story with a morally upright, idealistic, or self-sacrificing protagonist. Think healers, heroes, or people just trying to do the right thing no matter what.

The other picks Sinner — a book featuring a morally gray, selfish, chaotic, or outright villainous main character. Think antiheroes, con artists, dark lords, or loveable disasters.

📌 Once you’ve both finished reading, post your Story Stitch (your connection blurb) in the Check-In Thread to unlock your next prompt.

Saints and sinners come in many forms. 😇😈

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Fats the Dummy is the disturbing ventriloquist’s doll from the 1978 psychological horror film Magic, based on the novel by William Goldman.

Fats is the wooden partner of Corky Withers, a struggling magician turned ventriloquist. With his slicked-back black hair, bulging eyes, wide grin, and weathered, lifelike features, Fats looks unsettling even when silent. But it’s when he speaks, voiced by Corky himself in a raspy, mocking tone, that his presence becomes deeply unnerving.

Unlike many horror dolls, Fats never walks or acts on his own. The terror comes from the psychological unraveling of his owner. Corky begins to lose control, and Fats seems to gain more personality, will, and aggression, speaking dark truths, manipulating his master, and ultimately pushing him toward madness and violence. The question becomes whether Fats is truly alive… or simply the fractured voice of Corky’s split psyche.

Fats stands out in the horror genre not for supernatural antics, but for embodying the descent into insanity, blurring the line between puppet and puppeteer. His dead eyes and cruel wit make him one of the most quietly terrifying dolls in film history.

Fats doesn’t walk. He doesn’t blink. He doesn’t need to. His power isn’t in movement—it’s in manipulation. As Corky’s ventriloquist dummy, Fats slowly takes over the act… and then the mind behind it. His voice cuts deep, mocking and commanding, until it’s unclear who’s speaking—and who’s listening.

Now the dummy’s whispering again. And we need your help to shut him up before he finds a new voice to borrow.

Complete the following tasks:
Mind the Split
If you talk to yourself… make sure it’s actually you.
Read a chain of 3 books that include mental health themes, identity crises, or characters with unreliable inner voices or split selves.

Painted on a Smile
The makeup never cracks. The eyes never move.
Read a chain of 3 books with white or bone-colored covers (at least 50%).

Say Nothing
The worst words are spoken without a mouth.
Read a chain of 3 books where the word “ventriloquist” or “dummy” appears somewhere in the text.

🗝️ Week 1 Response
This box doesn’t open on its own.
It opened because you showed up as yourself.

What did you learn about each other through these picks?

Each unlock is an invitation. What matters now is how you respond and continue the conversation—nothing more is needed.

6. The Lantern Flickers: Read a book published in a year that ends in 3 or 7

Janeylou wrote: "Can anyone look at my points on SS please ..the highest is 4 ..they not all adding up for whatever reason"

It wasn't recognizing your dates as dates. if you enter 9/10 (for Sept 10) it should format correctly.

I fixed the ones that were there.

🗝️ Week 1 Response
This box doesn’t open on its own.
It opened because you showed up as yourself.

What did you learn about each other through these picks?

This message is yours to unlock together. Keep the responses flowing between you; nothing else needs to be checked in.

I'm liking this better than #2.

I'm just where they are flying to the surface. interesting that lange knows zinnia and not lives with her. can't wait til they make that connection.

I went into this kinda blindly because Kirsten recommended it and would read it with me. :)

And I needed and MPG Time Travel book.

I'm starting this tomorrow.

danielle wrote: "Not sure if this is right...

Your Team Name C: The Cursed Jacks
Your Gamble Style The Bold Bet
Your Roll(s) - we originally rolled a 16? Not sure if that's what needed here?
https://docs.google.c..."

Responded in your thread.

danielle wrote: "Ok, we're a tad confused... for the mini game dead man dice.. where are the dice (1 or 2) that we are to roll? Is it just another spin of the toy chest of dread?"

Responded in your thread.