Benedicte’s Comments (group member since Mar 23, 2025)

Benedicte’s comments from the Hooked on Books group.

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📢 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢

After a good discussion between the mods, we have decided to shut down our sister site Booked For Life over at Library Thing due to the lack of activity and engagement it has received since we created it. BFL was originally created in October when there was talk about GR meeting its end. We wanted a place that our members could migrate to if the worst was to happen. However, this does not seem to be relevant anymore. If worries about this arise in the future, we may re-open BFL.

This is what we believe will be best for this community as we will be able to give HOB our full attention. The mod team always tries to make decisions based on what we think is best for our members, so we would love to hear your opinion on this matter. Feel free to post any thoughts or questions in this thread. 🥰

The ongoing challenges and engagement threads from BFL are currently being moved over to HOB.

Happy reading as always,
~ your HOB mod team ~ ❤️

YES! Jenny, Claire and C coming in with them power hits! 💥💦 Way to go, team! 😈🥳

Hi! Would it be possible to add the Ridiculously Random Reading Challenge for bonus points?

My most dreaded enemy 🤣

Will be adding the books I have already finished this month right now 💦💥

Hi all! Thank you for checking in on me! I really thought I had turned on the notifications for the thread, but apparently not 😅

Book 2 and 3 are ready for me to pick up at the library 🥳 Will go there on Tuesday, and then I plan on reading them back to back 😁

Prompt #44/ Name: 700 Grapes
Book: Paper Towns
Author: John Green
Date Read: June 6th 2025
Pages: 307
Task: 🍇 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in UNCORK

MC's name is Quentin

🎪 Team Name: The Misfit Readers
🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: Tightrope Tacos
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✨ Summoning the Carnival Master for our next adventure!

🍿 Food Vendor: Tightrope Tacos

🍿 Food Vendor Word: Darling
Book: The Ritual by Shantel Tessier
Teammate: Prinsesspint
Date Completed: 06/02/2025
Page Count: 606
Tickets: 6
Location: 154
Sentence: This is fun fun, DARLING.

🍿 Food Vendor Word: Folded
Book: Paper Towns by John Green
Teammate: Benedicte
Date Completed: 06/06/2025
Page Count: 305
Tickets: 3
Location: pg 174
Sentence: Someone had folded down the corners of seemingly random pages

🍿 Food Vendor Word: Perilous
Book: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Teammate: Bernadette
Date Completed: 05/20/2025
Page Count: 435
Tickets: 4
Location: pg 44
Sentence: ice bloomed in its depths in perilous spikes

🍿 Food Vendor Word: Delicate
Book: The Night Birds by CHristopher Golden
Teammate: Sharon Book Dragon
Date Completed: 05/26/2025
Page Count: 304
Tickets: 3
Location: location 2548
Sentence: "But the ecosystem of the floating forest was delicate and vulnerable..."

🍿 Food Vendor Word: Crisp
Book: The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Teammate: Bernadette
Date Completed: 05/23/2025
Page Count: 435
Tickets: 4
Location: pg 99
Sentence: the crisp swoosh of turning pages

Great! I have now read through the whole story and I think I understand better how this challenge works 😁

For the Step 3, do we have to use the whole title of the book or is it allowed to use one word from it?

I have never played D&D before so you will have to bear with me haha. I just skimmed through this thread to catch up on what you have done. Finished



earlier today. It has a robot on the cover. Would that fit as a weapon? Or is it too modern for D&D?

Hi all! Checking in 😊 Super excited to be playing with you 😃

Prompt #68/ Name: Green Eggs and Ham
Book: A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Author: Becky Chambers
Date Read: June 4th 2025
Pages: 147
Task: 🍳 1. Read a book where a character eats a meal.

🎪 Team Name: The Misfit Readers
🎟️ Task Completed: 🎡Reading Rides: Cover Carousel
🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✨ Summoning the Carnival Master for our next adventure!

🎡Reading Rides: Cover Carousel

🎡C:
Book: The Staircase in the Woods
Qualifies: Author: Chuck Wendig
Teammate: Sharon Book Dragon
Date Completed: 05/10/2025
Page Count: 400
Tickets: 4

🎡O:
Book: Where the Crawdads Sing
Qualifies: Author: Delia Owens
Teammate: Sharon Book Dragon
Date Completed: 05/19/2025
Page Count: 384
Tickets: 4

🎡V:
Book: Vera Wrong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)
Qualifies: Title
Teammate: Bernadette
Date Completed: 05/07/2025
Page Count: 336
Tickets: 3

🎡E:
Book: Into the deep #1
Qualifies: Author ~ Erin Bruckus
Teammate: Prinsesspint
Date Completed: 04/28/2025
Page Count: 240
Tickets: 2

🎡R:
Book: Threaded #1
Qualifies: Author ~ Tay Rose
Teammate: Prinsesspint
Date Completed: 04/26/2025
Page Count: 602
Tickets: 6

🎡C:
Book: A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Qualifies: Author: Becky Chambers
Teammate: Benedicte
Date Completed: 06/04/2025
Page Count: 147
Tickets: 1

🎡A:
Book: Heartwood
Qualifies: Author: Amity Gaige
Teammate: Bernadette
Date Completed: 04/28/2025
Page Count: 320
Tickets: 3

🎡R:
Book: The Floating World
Qualifies: title
Teammate: Prinsesspint
Date Completed: 05/06/2025
Page Count: 637
Tickets: 6

🎡O:
Book: Up in Smoke
Qualifies: Author's Last Name starts with O
Teammate: Sharon Book Dragon
Date Completed: 05/26/2025
Page Count: 368
Tickets: 4

🎡U:
Book: Up in Smoke
Qualifies: Title of the Book starts with U
Teammate: Sharon Book Dragon
Date Completed: 05/26/2025
Page Count: 256
Tickets: 3

🎡S:
Book: Isla and the Happily Ever After
Qualifies: Author: Stephanie Perkins
Teammate: Bernadette
Date Completed: 04/30/2025
Page Count: 339
Tickets: 3

🎡E:
Book: Be Still My heart
Qualifies: Author ~ Emily McIntire
Teammate: Prinsesspint
Date Completed: 04/27/2025
Page Count: 452
Tickets: 5

🎡L:
Book: A Very Merry Bromance
Qualifies: Author: Lyssa Kay Adams (finished after previous ride was posted as complete)
Teammate: Bernadette
Date Completed: 04/26/2025
Page Count: 359
Tickets: 4