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C’s comments from the Hooked on Books group.

Prompt # / Name: 20: Blue Whale
Book: A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Author: Timothy Egan
Date Read: 5/1
Pages: 432
Task: Read a book with all the letters of HEART found in the title
How it Fits: Heartland in the title solves this... Although it's late and took me way too long to realize that I didn't need to search all the words for the letters... 😳

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #25
Book: A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Author: Timothy Egan
Date Read: 5/1
Pages: 432
Task: Read a book where the MC stays in a hotel
How it Fits: Steve stays in a hotel in Hammond, Indiana

Completion Post
Team Sport: Water Polo
Book: A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Author: Timothy Egan
Date Read: 5/1
Task: Read a book with at least seven important characters.
How it Fits: so many important characters across the Klan leadership, politics, law enforcement, and opposition

Hi Eunice and Rachel, just checking if you have books to log. :) I'm not sure when April's sheet becomes unavailable.

Book: A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Task: nominated for or won a Goodreads Choice Award
How it fits: Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite History & Biography (2023)

I think the Dungeon Crawler Carl series might work for parallel universes? This is kinda off the wall, but I think fantasy that jumps between fae and human realms may also work for that...

Completed Books: 1/1
Completed Pages: 265/100

Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store

Completed Books: 3/3
Completed Pages: 443/300

A Matter of Honor
Simple Assault & Buttery
My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files

Completed Books: 7/5
Completed Pages: 1225/500

Murder Most Persuasive
Labyrinth of Lies and Sacrifice
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga) Part 3 Volume 3
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga): Part 3 Volume 4
The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen
Pearls of Salt and Sacrifice
Wolf Claw

Completed Books: 27/15
Completed Pages: 5976/1500

Ink or Swim
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
A Matter of Honor
Simple Assault & Buttery
My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files
八雲さんは餌づけがしたい。 1 Yakumo-san wa Edzuke ga Shitai. 1
Sowing Malice
Forest of Scarlet
Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store
Mask of Deception and Sacrifice
His Orphaned Bride
Empire of Shadows
The Sultan and the Storyteller
Five For A Dollar
Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus
Thin Air
Tell No Tales
Mistress of All Evil
Submarine Rendezvous
Murder Most Persuasive
Labyrinth of Lies and Sacrifice
The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga) Part 3 Volume 3
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga): Part 3 Volume 4
Pearls of Salt and Sacrifice
Wolf Claw

Book: Ink or Swim
Task: MPG Mystery
How it fits: MPG Mystery

Prompt # / Name: 1: Octothorpe
Book: Ink or Swim
Author: Catherine Dilts
Date Read: 5/1
Pages: 205
Task: Read a book with an MPG of MYSTERY
How it Fits: MPG Mystery

I just turned in our Genre completion.

🎪 Team Name: Lion Tamer Librarians
🎟️ Task Completed: 🎭 Genre Attraction: The Mystery Maze
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✨ Summoning the Carnival Master for our next adventure!

🎭 Genre Attraction: The Mystery Maze
The Mystery Maze: MPG Mystery, Date Completed: 04/26/2025, Page Count: 258
The Mystery Maze: MPG True Crime, Date Completed: 04/23/2025, Page Count: 356
The Mystery Maze: MPG Mystery, Date Completed: 04/26/2025, Page Count: 408
The Mystery Maze: MPG Mystery, Date Completed: 04/28/2025, Page Count: 368
The Mystery Maze: MPG Cozy Mystery , Date Completed: 05/01/2025, Page Count: 205

Okay, food is posted, and I should be posting Genre later tonight since it's just waiting on me, and it should be done tonight... 👀

🎪 Team Name: Lion Tamer Librarians
🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: The Juggler's Juice Bar

🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✨ Summoning the Carnival Master for our next adventure!

🍿 Food Vendor: The Juggler's Juice Bar

"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Spirited
Book: Game of Thrones Psychology by Travis Langley
Date Completed: 04/15/2025
Page Count: 306
Location: p.215
Sentence: ""Game of Thrones inspires such spirited argument.""
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Blend
Book: Blow by Bruce Porter
Date Completed: 04/15/2025
Page Count: 341
Location: p.203
Sentence: ""Richard’s special blend of Maxwell House""
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Toss
Book: An Arrangement of Sorts by Rebecca Connolly
Date Completed: 04/17/2025
Page Count: 255
Location: pg 129
Sentence: ""and she looked just as tossed about as he felt""
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Whirl
Book: Hired by the enemy by Jax Calder
Date Completed: 04/28/2025
Page Count: 178
Location: 0.9
Sentence: ""I whirl around.""
"
"🍿 Food Vendor Word: Vibrant
Book: The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields
Date Completed: 04/15/2025
Page Count: 359
Location: Ch. 6
Sentence: ""streaks of vibrant orange and pink""
"

Anna, awesome! I will have a look at the spreadsheet. Work was crazy today, so just getting a chance to have a good look at GR. And still have two books to finish today lol. I'm worried May is gonna be too busy lol. We shall see... I might not be as fast getting through books, but I will still be reading.

Total Points: 49

Ink or Swim BONUS
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
A Matter of Honor BONUS
Simple Assault & Buttery BONUS
My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files
八雲さんは餌づけがしたい。 1 Yakumo-san wa Edzuke ga Shitai. 1
Sowing Malice
Forest of Scarlet BONUS
Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store
Mask of Deception and Sacrifice
His Orphaned Bride
Empire of Shadows
The Sultan and the Storyteller
Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus
Thin Air
Tell No Tales
Mistress of All Evil
Submarine Rendezvous
Murder Most Persuasive BONUS
Labyrinth of Lies and Sacrifice
The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga) Part 3 Volume 3
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga): Part 3 Volume 4 BONUS
Pearls of Salt and Sacrifice
Wolf Claw