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C’s comments from the Hooked on Books group.

We should probably have a secret group... Also, should we spin for team name since we haven't chosen yet?

Yeah, this MPG is hard. Travel I feel like is all Nonfiction, which not sure if that fits prompts; I am a rare Nonfiction reader, so not looking that way. Maybe a fiction that takes place on a road trip or plane or boat or something? We can read YA and Middle Grade if we halve the page count I think...? I'm struggling with C books too; I have a couple from the library but idk if they work for anything since these prompts I sometimes can't tell if a book will work from the synopsis. My strategy is to read what I want to, and then hope it fits. When I'm down to a few prompts, I'll see if I can find a book specifically, but sometimes it's just nothing on my radar.

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Lol, I cannot even tell you how much I want to nap at work...

Lolol! I don't think GR will allow usernames to be the same, but yes, I am also on HOB! ;) You sound like me and are reading too late into the night instead of sleeping lol. :D

I have one prompt left, and it's not looking good for it lol. I haven't stumbled over a social movement book, and I'm not likely to with what I have upcoming. :P

Ooh, I do know some books off the bat that would work for these tasks! But the genre is gonna be hard for me too... Hopefully some will have picked up enough tags for that, but that's always a shot in the dark.
Thanks Julia!! I swear I miss the new prompts every month lol.

Yay, no rushing for you!! I figured Ashley would be chill about that since that would be kinda crazy to throw that at you last minute. And I'm not sure anyone has loved it, so we would totally be recommending something we're maybe averaging three stars with. A five star, I'd be, yeah, read it anyway, but it's very meh, unfortunately. Hopefully our August prompts drop soon (or did they drop and I missed it?); I'm hoping some of my title initial books work in August because the mood reading never got there in July. Although my reading plans got shot to heck because my library system is undergoing imminent changes with like two weeks notice, so everything is kafuffle. :P

I feel like that was the title because we would immediately associate the story with San Francisco. Maybe also juxtaposing the beauty and achievement that is the bridge with the prejudicial undercurrent in the city at the time. The dark side of the bridge building was briefly present, but yeah, there's not much about the bridge itself in the book, just in passing. If it wasn't in the book, we probably wouldn't miss it lol.

Godspeed, Vicki! I knew there would be at least one procrastinator lol! It just makes it more fun to feel the pressure, right? ;) I made myself pick up this book early so I wouldn't save it for the end, since I have book club next week and I haven't started that yet, and I can't do two pressure reads at once lol.

I'm not sure how the scoring is for group book. I'm not even sure if all of us got it finished, since it's two teams reading the same book. It is The Golden Gate by Amy Chua, if you're interested, but we've all been giving it mixed reviews lol. Ashley might comp that since three days left in the month, and you weren't here to vote. :)

Completed Books: 0/1
Completed Pages: 0/100

Completed Books: 5/3
Completed Pages: 872/300

The Maid's Secret
Icing on the Case
Wires and Nerve
Gone Rogue
A Fatal Yarn

Completed Books: 10/5
Completed Pages: 2124/500

The Baker and the Wolf
Can You Solve the Murder?
The Hitchcock Hotel
A Fateful Sentence
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
The Dark King and the Eternal Dance
Red Lipstick Kisses and Small Town Wishes
Wolf Cure
Retreat
Batter Royale

Completed Books: 30/15
Completed Pages: 6421/1500

The Maid's Secret
Icing on the Case
Wires and Nerve
Gone Rogue
A Fatal Yarn
Night of Secrets
The Fox Wife
Still Pumped from Using the Mouse
Silver Linings
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Assassin of Fire and Sacrifice
Animal Farm
Five Nights
Read Between the Crimes
From Fable to Grave
The Baker and the Wolf
Can You Solve the Murder?
The Hitchcock Hotel
A Fateful Sentence
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
The Dark King and the Eternal Dance
Red Lipstick Kisses and Small Town Wishes
Wolf Cure
Retreat
Batter Royale
Cajun Kiss of Death
Captains Courageous
Around the World in Eighty Days
A Christmas Tale of Santa Claus and Grace: A faith-filled novella about the magic of Christmas
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

Completed: 34/35

🐝 1. Read a book published in August of any year.
Just Desserts
🐝 2. Read a book that starts with the letter B.
The Baker and the Wolf
🐝 3. Read a book with the word HONEY found in the text.
Assassin of Fire and Sacrifice
🐝 4. Read a book with all the letters of HIVES found in the title.
Five Nights
🐝 5. Read a book where a purchase is made.
Icing on the Case
🐝 6. Read a book with flowers on the cover.

🐝 7. Read a book where someone's survival is a key plot element.
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
🐝 8. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in THREAT.
Red Lipstick Kisses and Small Town Wishes
🐝 9. Read a book where a character has something sweet to drink or eat.
Cloak and Grammar
🐝 10. Read a book that seems to move slowly in your opinion.
The Hitchcock Hotel
🐝 11. Read a book where the publisher's name starts with a letter in POLLINATION.
A Fatal Yarn: Secrets of the Castleton Manor Library
🐝 12. Read a book that you think has a variety of characters.
Wires and Nerve
🐝 13. Read a book with a lavender or an orange cover.

🐝 14. Read a book that you "replace" from your typical genres.
Captains Courageous
🐝 15. Read a book where someone gives or receives a gift.
The Dark King and the Eternal Dance
🐝 16. Read a book that has its own hashtag on social media - many popular books do!
Can You Solve the Murder?
🐝 17. Read a book published in 2009.

🐝 18. Read a book where the environment is mentioned in any way, shape, or form. Be creative!
All Systems Red
🐝 19. Read a book where the author's first initial is NOT found in APIARIST.
Gone Rogue
🐝 20. Read a book where a character has some type of disease.
From Fable to Grave
🐝 21. Read a book with between 20,000 and 60,000 Goodreads ratings.
The Maid's Secret
🐝 22. Read a book where the author's LAST initial is found in NECTAR.
A Fateful Sentence
🐝 23. Read a book where it rains.
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
🐝 24. Read a book with less than 200 Goodreads reviews.
Read Between the Crimes
🐝 25. Read a book where a character dies
Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder
🐝 26. Read a book where there are major characters that are male and female.
Wolf Cure

🐝 Optional Spell-Out: Title, AFN, ALN, CFN, CLN 🐝
🐝 27. H: A Dark Turnover for character Hunter
🐝 28. O: Animal Farm by George Orwell
🐝 29. N: A Lost Clause for character Ned
🐝 30. E: Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron
🐝 31. Y: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
🐝 32. B: Miss D and Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis for character Bette
🐝 33. E: The Wicked Ones for character Ella
🐝 34. E: Dear Mrs. Bird for character Emy
🐝 35. S: The Sorcerer and the Swan Princess

Welcome Julia!! Check with Ashley whether you're on for July or starting in August, since there are only a few days left. You would have had no planning time, and it would have been a minor miracle to have gotten the group book. :)

The biggest pluses to me for the historical fiction aspects was hearing that some Japanese escaped internment, and I didn't know that there were deportations to Mexico during the Depression, so there were some good learning moments. I'm still unsure whether the history added anything to the story though, because it did feel like a lot of distractions cum red herrings.

Lol, Eunice, that opinion could be my spirit animal for this book lol. *chef's kiss* One thing I will say: hold on, it gets weirder. ;)

Prompt # / Name: 46: Triskaidekaphobia
Book: The Time Machine
Author: H.G. Wells
Date Read: 7/26
Pages: 125
Task: Read a book where someone has a great fear of something.
How it Fits: the Eloi fear the darkness of night