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Prompt # / Name: 2: Chef's HatBook: Winter
Author: Marissa Meyer
Date Read: 6/15
Pages: 827
Task: Read a book with a 1 and 2 0s found in the publication date.
How it Fits: published 11/10/2015
Okay, since we got more words, I used Winter there, and set my letter books back to OG. I also put Fi's name on E, and took the V, but if someone else wants V, go ahead and take it! That book is two books from now and is a shorty.
I compared my owned books to Trisha's, and there were a few options that at least we two haven't read, but this one stood out the most:Murder Runs in the Family, which is intergenerational and I think small town. I know her other series was small town.
Others were
Worst Case Scenario (I doubt it fits anything, but this author is amazing!)
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: this could be a contender since I think it's historical fiction, but idk on it fitting prompts.
Expiration Dates
What Happened to the Bennetts
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Stars Turned Inside Out
The Busy Body
The Courting of Bristol Keats: I don't have this one since just ordered a beautiful sprayed edge copy from Book Outlet, but it better be here by July lol.
And I have no idea if/how any of the above fit prompts; they're just additional research into starting points.
I'm also gonna be getting An Amateur Sleuth’s Guide to Murder next Wednesday. My bookstore is doing a release party. That might be too soon to be available to all, but I don't think it will be overly cozy.
Plopping the tasks in so I don't have to keep referencing another page:📝 July’s Tasks:
Read a book that features a close-knit community.
Read a book about immigrants finding community in a new land.
Read a book about intergenerational relationships.
Read a book about a social movement.
Read a book that showcases friendships across different backgrounds.
Read a book set in a rural community.
Read a book where a character rebuilds their life after loss/displacement.
Read a book that addresses themes of exclusion.
Read a book featuring a cultural or artistic community.
Read a book that highlights diverse voices.
Hehe, if it's not a new release, I'm probably reading a really random book no one has ever heard of, and probably also can't find. 😂 But then I don't always get to new releases in a timely manner...
Does Retreat work for any of the prompts for sure? My strategy is to mood read and then see if something happens to fit lol. From the description, maybe Exclusion and Displacement? Perhaps also the two community prompts, but since it's set in a beach resort, I would assume that is probably large and a bit anonymous... Book goals: something we can all tolerate and find fairly easily, and hopefully not a chonker lol.
Trisha, I love how we're basically the same reader. 😂
Oh, I guess we have more words! I thought we were done since we ran out of spreadsheet template space. Lemme go update...
🎪 Team Name: Lion Tamer Librarians🎟️ Task Completed: 🎭 Genre Attraction: Wild Card Tent: Picaresque
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✨ Summoning the Carnival Master!
🎭 Genre Attraction: Wild Card Tent: PicaresqueWild Card Tent: Picaresque: Che Guevara as a revolutionary is a low-born hero, Date Completed: 06/08/2025, Page Count: 400
Wild Card Tent: Picaresque: Tagged picaresque 3 times, Date Completed: 06/10/2025, Page Count: 479
Wild Card Tent: Picaresque: Davy Crockett is a folklore hero, who had humble beginnings and fought for justice in politics and society, Date Completed: 06/10/2025, Page Count: 100
"Wild Card Tent: Picaresque: From blurb: ""A rebellious healer who refuses to bow to the system"", Date Completed: 06/15/2025, Page Count: 326"
Read the picaresque description again, and it does sound like it needs to be the main character who is the low-born hero, etc. The characters I would pick out in Winter have always been side characters, so I will just turn Picaresque in since I can't swap. I have replaced my L, since I couldn't swap into a 4th book.
🎪 Team Name: Lion Tamer Librarians🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: Midway Munchies
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✨ Summoning the Carnival Master for our next adventure!
🍿 Food Vendor: Midway Munchies"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Core
Book: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Date Completed: 06/05/2025
Page Count: 458
Location: pg 214
Sentence: ""beating at the core of me""
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"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Straightforward
Book: Unchecked by Rachael Bade
Date Completed: 06/02/2025
Page Count: 704
Location: p.159
Sentence: ""a simple, straightforward question.""
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"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Crucial
Book: Murder in the Bayou Boneyard by Ellen Byron
Date Completed: 06/02/2025
Page Count: 304
Location: pg 75
Sentence: ""The detective had only her word that she'd been sleeping during the crucial period""
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"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Central
Book: The King's Man by Anyta Sunday
Date Completed: 06/15/2025
Page Count: 326
Location: 0.43
Sentence: ""Akilah’s eyes widen as the central courtyard opens before us""
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"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Essential
Book: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Date Completed: 06/10/2025
Page Count: 479
Location: Ch. 1
Sentence: ""that it was essential he be ready to meet it""
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Oh awesome, let me go turn in Food, although we are done with that now, so no new prompts! :)
Will do! I'm hoping she's getting the book done today, since submission is tonight, but either way we should be able to use it. I need to reread the picaresque prompt, since I'm trying to finish Winter today, and there are some roguish side characters. And that page count...
Thanks to Trisha for sending me digging through threads to connect the Novel Navigators in. :)As far as books (and I don't represent my team here, just thinking about what books I know about in my "soon stack"):
The Chocolate Shoppe Mystery series (starts with Double Fudge Murder) works for close-knit community, rural community, and intergenerational relationships. I'd be willing to do a reread if anyone wanted that.
Not sure of all the themes in Stars Above, since I haven't read it and I'm just finishing Winter, but I think that could work for multiple prompts if we stretch them a bit...
As far as new releases (ish), I picked up Retreat but not sure from the blurb how it would work. Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies, No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding, Arsenic and Adobo for diverse voices and intergenerational?, Serial Killer Games, In Want of a Suspect, The Treasure Hunters Club, The Hitchcock Hotel, The Seven O'Clock Club, The Trip.
As you can see, I read a bit of most things, with mystery/thriller being main genre. I also read clean romance, usually combined with Historical Fiction or Fantasy, but most of those are series, so I don't really have recommendations there since idk there are any of those I'd want to reread, or the one I would reread doesn't fit prompts. A little sci-fi, some YA; no spicy romance or nonfiction, but everything else is kinda fair game. Page count usually maxes around 400 pages. Most of the books I linked are just new so more likely to be unread for all of us, but I'm not sure if they will fit prompts.
Looking forward to other book suggestions!
Oh, we are? I hadn't seen that announcement! Everyone from both teams has to read the same book? I hope not, since we haven't managed to read the same book just our team yet lol.
Hi Trisha, welcome aboard!! I'm hoping the prompts for July are a bit easier, since I am always stretching mine to the max lol.
Richard, I saw Fi's picaresque book works for one of the spellout letters I used, so unless that book works for WORD, I'll be giving her one of my letters. :) Waiting to hear how we can double that up to save her a book.
Just a reminder that I will be doing our Picaresque completion post Sunday night, since the timer runs out at Midnight Monday morning. 💖
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