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Ridiculously Random Prompt #13: Mickey & Minnie





The voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.


Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor were married for 18 years until Allwine's death in 2009.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🐭 1. Read a book where someone dies.
🐭 2. Read a book published in 2009.
🐭 3. Read a book with a 1 and an 8 in the page count.
🐭 4. Read a book with some type of animal on the cover.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #13: Mickey & Minnie





The voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.


Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor were married for 18 years until Allwine's death in 2009.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🐭 1. Read a book where someone dies.
🐭 2. Read a book published in 2009.
🐭 3. Read a book with a 1 and an 8 in the page count.
🐭 4. Read a book with some type of animal on the cover.

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Ridiculously Random Prompt #59: A Fruit?





Chocolate is (kinda) a fruit.


In more great chocolate news, the cocoa powder that goes into our fave best dark chocolate bars comes from the "beans" — or fruit of the cacao tree.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

❓1. Read a book with a brown cover. {Your discretion.}
❓2. Read a book with all the letters of CACAO found in the title.
❓3. Read a book with the word BEANS found in the text.
❓4. Read a book where a character gets great news.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #65: ENIAC





A team of six women programmed the first digital computer.


While historians have only recently recognized their achievements (or female discoveries credited to men), the female mathematicians participated in a World War II program coding instructions into the revolutionary Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC).


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

⌨️ 1. Read a book with a strong female lead.
⌨️ 2. Read a book with all the letters of ENIAC found in the title.
⌨️ 3. Read a book set during World War II.
⌨️ 4. Read a book where a character uses a computer.

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Prompt #6G: 10 Steps from Seed to Cup - Tasting the Coffee





Coffee is repeatedly tested for quality and taste. This process is referred to as cupping and usually takes place in a room specifically designed to facilitate the process.


First, the taster — usually called the cupper — evaluates the beans for their overall visual quality. The beans are then roasted in a small laboratory roaster, immediately ground and infused in boiling water with carefully-controlled temperature. The cupper noses the brew to experience its aroma, an essential step in judging the coffee's quality.


After letting the coffee rest for several minutes, the cupper breaks the crust by pushing aside the grounds at the top of the cup. Again, the coffee is nosed before the tasting begins.


To taste the coffee, the cupper slurps a spoonful with a quick inhalation. The objective is to spray the coffee evenly over the cupper's taste buds, and then weigh it on the tongue before spitting it out.


Samples from a variety of batches and different beans are tasted daily. Coffees are not only analyzed to determine their characteristics and flaws, but also for the purpose of blending different beans or creating the proper roast. An expert cupper can taste hundreds of samples of coffee a day and still taste the subtle differences between them.


Complete ONE of the following:

☕️ 1. Read a book with a nose visible on the cover.
☕️ 2. Read a book with an -ing word in the title, like tasting.
☕️ 3. Read a book with a title that starts with a letter in CUPPER.
☕️ 4. Read a book where a character smells or spits out food or drink.

Prompt Name / #: General Fiction #1





Woman of God
Published: September 2016


St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. Is it possible that the new Pope...is a woman?

The world is watching as historic crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new Pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in the Church's history. Some followers are ecstatic, but the leading candidate has made a legion of powerful enemies.

From a difficult childhood with drug addled parents, to a career as a doctor on the front lines in Sudan, to a series of trials that test her faith at every turn, Brigid Fitzgerald's convictions and callings have made her the target of all those who fear that the Church has lost its way -- dangerous adversaries who abhor challenges to tradition. Locked in a deadly, high-stakes battle with forces determined to undermine everything she believes in, Brigid must convert her enemies to her cause before she loses her faith...and her life.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book tagged RELIGION any number of times.
2. Read a book where a female holds a job typically considered to be a male-dominated job.
3. Read a book with an outdoor scene on the cover.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #39: Quidditch





Quidditch was invented by J.K. Rowling in her Harry Potter series and involves 2 teams of 7 players mounted on broomsticks with 4 different balls and goals on either side of the pitch.


The game has since been adapted for the real world with the ultimate goal being to score more goals than the other team before the ‘snitch’ is caught.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🧹 1. Read a book where one character snitches on another.
🧹 2. Read a book that is part of a series.
🧹 3. Read a book where the author uses initials in their name.
🧹 4. Read a book with a storyline that could be adapted into a board game or a real-life game.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #40: Wine Major





You can major in wine at Cornell University.


Technically it's a degree in "Viticulture and Enology" (a.k.a. the cultivation of grapes and the science of winemaking), but we're still sending in our applications.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🍷 1. Read a book at least partially set on a university campus.
🍷 2. Read a book where a character consumes wine.
🍷 3. Read a book with some type of fruit or alcoholic beverage on the cover.
🍷 4. Read a book where the author's first AND last initials are found in VITICULTURE ENOLOGY.

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