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Ridiculously Random Prompt #57: Underwater Hockey





Underwater Hockey, also known as ‘Octopush,' is essentially a game of hockey at the bottom of a swimming pool.


The aim of the game is to push the puck into the opposing team’s goal using a small pusher. The game involves 2 teams of up to 10 players with players using diving masks, fins, and snorkel gear.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🏊🏻‍♀️ 1. Read a book with a body of water on the cover.
🏊🏻‍♀️ 2. Read a book with between 2 and 20 MAJOR characters.
🏊🏻‍♀️ 3. Read a book with all the letters of HOCKEY found in the title.
🏊🏻‍♀️ 4. Read a book with the words SMALL and PUSH found in the text.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #57: Underwater Hockey





Underwater Hockey, also known as ‘Octopush,' is essentially a game of hockey at the bottom of a swimming pool.


The aim of the game is to push the puck into the opposing team’s goal using a small pusher. The game involves 2 teams of up to 10 players with players using diving masks, fins, and snorkel gear.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🏊🏻‍♀️ 1. Read a book with a body of water on the cover.
🏊🏻‍♀️ 2. Read a book with between 2 and 20 MAJOR characters.
🏊🏻‍♀️ 3. Read a book with all the letters of HOCKEY found in the title.
🏊🏻‍♀️ 4. Read a book with the words SMALL and PUSH found in the text.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #57: Underwater Hockey





Underwater Hockey, also known as ‘Octopush,' is essentially a game of hockey at the bottom of a swimming pool.


The aim of the game is to push the puck into the opposing team’s goal using a small pusher. The game involves 2 teams of up to 10 players with players using diving masks, fins, and snorkel gear.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🏊🏻‍♀️ 1. Read a book with a body of water on the cover.
🏊🏻‍♀️ 2. Read a book with between 2 and 20 MAJOR characters.
🏊🏻‍♀️ 3. Read a book with all the letters of HOCKEY found in the title.
🏊🏻‍♀️ 4. Read a book with the words SMALL and PUSH found in the text.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #56: Largest Sand Castle





The largest sand castle in the world measured 54 feet high.


It took 168 trucks over a week to deliver enough sand for this carefully sculpted masterpiece.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🏝 1. Read a book with sand visible on the cover.
🏝 2. Read a book with a 5 OR a 4 in the page count.
🏝 3. Read a book with a 1, 6, AND 8 in the publication date.
🏝 4. Read a book that took place over more than a week's time.

If nobody has one they've already read, I can cover this one. I can start and finish the audiobook today.

Here's our first prompt:


🔐 Week 1 Prompt: What You Bring With You
Some locks don’t need a key—they open for what you carry.
Choose a book that reflects something you bring to this partnership:
a personality trait, a past experience, a strength, a flaw—anything that shapes how you read and relate.

Each of you will choose your own book and explain what you're bringing to the box.

Prompt #9E: Dark Roasts





This roast produces shiny black beans with an oily surface and a pronounced bitterness. The darker the roast, the less acidity will be found in the coffee beverage. Dark roast coffees run from slightly dark to charred, and the names are often used interchangeably — be sure to check your beans before you buy them!


High
Continental
New Orleans
European
Espresso
Viennese
Italian
French


Complete ONE of the following:

☕️ 1. Read a book with a heart on the cover.
☕️ 2. Read a book set in Italy, France, or New Orleans.
☕️ 3. Read a book where the title does NOT start with a letter in ESPRESSO.
☕️ 4. Read a book where someone or something is described as DARK.

AWESOME!!


You may now read for Chapter 4's tasks!

Prompt #7B: How Is Coffee Decaffeinated?





Like regular coffee, decaf coffee begins as green, unroasted beans. The hard beans are warmed and soaked in liquid to dissolve and remove the caffeine in one of four ways: using water alone, using a mixture of water and solvents (most commonly methylene chloride or ethyl acetate) applied either directly or indirectly, or using water and “supercritical carbon dioxide.”


All four methods are safe, and once the caffeine is removed (well, at least 97% of it), the beans are washed, steamed, and roasted at temperatures that evaporate all the liquids used in decaffeination.


Complete ONE of the following:

☕️ 1. Read a book with a mostly green cover.
☕️ 2. Read a book with the word HARD OR the word BEANS found in the text.
☕️ 3. Read a book with a question mark in the title.
☕️ 4. Read a book where a character is faced with more than one option to solve a problem.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #63





The House of Wolves
Published: January 2023


Joe Wolf applies a cutthroat determination to his life’s work, from to building a California business empire to parenting three sons and a daughter. Kill or be killed. So when the patriarch takes a deadly cruise on San Francisco Bay, Joe Wolf’s bloodline becomes SFPD’s lifeline.

Detective Ben Cantor trails the “pack of wolves” as the siblings vie for control of their legacy of power and assets. All four have the means and the motive to commit murder, but only one of them is most like Joe Wolf. Only one of them earned their father’s love.

Lurking in the shadows is the real alpha wolf. That creature survives on instinct. And desire. To kill all the wolves dead.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with a plural word in the title.
2. Read a book with a group of at least four siblings.
3. Read a book where the word HOUSE is found in the text.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #22





Toys
Published: March 2011


Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course, they do -- they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans and their toys!

The one with the most toys -- dies.

The top operative for the Agency of Change, Hays has just won the fiercest battle of his career. He has been praised by the President, and is a national hero. But before he can savor his triumph, he receives an unbelievable shock that overturns everything he thought was true. Suddenly Hays is on the other side of the gun, forced to leave his perfect family and fight for his life.

Now a hunted fugitive, Hays is thrown into a life he never dreamed possible--fighting to save humans everywhere from extinction. He enlists all of his training to uncover the truth that will save millions of lives--maybe even his own.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with an MPG of DYSTOPIA.
2. Read a book with something yellow on the cover.
3. Read a book with a plural word in the title.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #36: Parkour





Parkour is the act of running, jumping, swinging, climbing, etc. based on military obstacle course training techniques.


It is often practiced in urban environments with the aim of getting from one point to another as quickly and as efficiently as possible without the use of specialized equipment.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🏃🏼‍♀️ 1. Read a book with a character who is in the military.
🏃🏼‍♀️ 2. Read a book set in an urban environment.
🏃🏼‍♀️ 3. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in PARKOUR.
🏃🏼‍♀️ 4. Read a book with any of these words in the text: running, jumping, swinging, climbing. {variations accepted}

Ridiculously Random Prompt #36: Parkour





Parkour is the act of running, jumping, swinging, climbing, etc. based on military obstacle course training techniques.


It is often practiced in urban environments with the aim of getting from one point to another as quickly and as efficiently as possible without the use of specialized equipment.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🏃🏼‍♀️ 1. Read a book with a character who is in the military.
🏃🏼‍♀️ 2. Read a book set in an urban environment.
🏃🏼‍♀️ 3. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in PARKOUR.
🏃🏼‍♀️ 4. Read a book with any of these words in the text: running, jumping, swinging, climbing. {variations accepted}

Ridiculously Random Prompt #36: Parkour





Parkour is the act of running, jumping, swinging, climbing, etc. based on military obstacle course training techniques.


It is often practiced in urban environments with the aim of getting from one point to another as quickly and as efficiently as possible without the use of specialized equipment.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🏃🏼‍♀️ 1. Read a book with a character who is in the military.
🏃🏼‍♀️ 2. Read a book set in an urban environment.
🏃🏼‍♀️ 3. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in PARKOUR.
🏃🏼‍♀️ 4. Read a book with any of these words in the text: running, jumping, swinging, climbing. {variations accepted}

Ridiculously Random Prompt #42: Running of the Bulls





The Running of the Bulls takes place in the summer in Pamplona, Spain.


The event involves patrons running in front of 6 bulls that have been let loose in the town’s streets. Every year between 50-100 injuries are reported with 15 deaths reported since 1910.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🐂 1. Read a book with an animal on the cover.
🐂 2. Read a book where multiple characters die.
🐂 3. Read a book with between 50,000 and 100,000 Goodreads ratings.
🐂 4. Read a book set mostly in the summer.

OUTSTANDING!!


You may now read for Chapter 9's tasks!

Great!