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Michelle's Empty Nest’s comments from the Hooked on Books group.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #26: Baby Puffins





A baby puffin is called a "puffling."


To feed its chick, a puffin parent will carry around 10 fish in its beak at one time, but the biggest recorded haul is a whopping 62 fish, according to Audubon Project Puffin.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🐠 1. Read a book with a bird on the cover.
🐠 2. Read a book where the MC is a parent.
🐠 3. Read a book with a 6 and a 2 in the page count.
🐠 4. Read a book with all the letters of PUFFIN found in the title/subtitle.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #26: Baby Puffins





A baby puffin is called a "puffling."


To feed its chick, a puffin parent will carry around 10 fish in its beak at one time, but the biggest recorded haul is a whopping 62 fish, according to Audubon Project Puffin.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🐠 1. Read a book with a bird on the cover.
🐠 2. Read a book where the MC is a parent.
🐠 3. Read a book with a 6 and a 2 in the page count.
🐠 4. Read a book with all the letters of PUFFIN found in the title/subtitle.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #21: Extreme Ironing





Extreme Ironing is considered a ‘danger sport’ in which people take ironing boards to various, often remote, locations to iron clothes and take a picture.


Some of the locations have included cliff tops, underwater, in the middle of a motorway, and also while skiing and parachuting.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🧺 1. Read a book where the MC has a dangerous career/hobby.
🧺 2. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in EXTREME.
🧺 3. Read a book set at least partially in a remote location.
🧺 4. Read a book where a character irons or does other household chores.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #24: Giant Pumpkin Kayaking





Giant Pumpkin Kayaking is quite simply the sport of kayaking inside of a giant, hollowed-out pumpkin.


The most famous race takes place on Lake Pesaquid in Nova Scotia at the annual Windsor Pumpkin Regatta. The course is a half-mile long and competitors often decorate their pumpkins with paint and flags.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🎃 1. Read a book set at least partially in Canada.
🎃 2.Read a book with all the letters of KAYAK in the title. {2 As, 2 Ks}
🎃 3. Read a book with something painted or flags on the cover.
🎃 4. Read a book with the word PUMPKIN found in the text.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #22: The Oscars





The Oscars used to give out an award to child performers.


The award show discontinued the Academy Juvenile Award in 1960 after famous names like Shirley Temple and Judy Garland nabbed the honor. Also no longer on the ballot? Best Dance Direction and Best Title Writing.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🏆 1. Read a book with something gold on the cover.
🏆 2. Read a book that has won an award.
🏆 3. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in OSCARS.
🏆 4. Read a book where a character acts, dances, or writes.

Prompt Name / #: Non-Fiction #12





Walk the Blue Line: They Walk the Line Between Life and Death
Published: February 2023


They risk their lives every day to protect and serve our homes, families and communities. Here are their most dramatic true stories, in their own unforgettable words.

From the police academy to the precinct, Walk the Blue Line is a first-person tour through the days and nights of American policing.

PROTECT

These men and women are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge, doing their best to help people.

SERVE

These officers serve their community. They serve their country. They’re in the business of saving lives—even at the risk of their own.

DEFEND

These patrol officers and K9 handlers, sheriffs and detectives, reveal what it’s really like to wear the uniform, to carry the weight of the responsibility they’ve been given.

This is a calling. This is the job.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with a hat on the cover.
2. Read a book with all the letters of BLUE in the title.
3. Read a book where the author's first AND last initials are found in PROTECT SERVE DEFEND.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #67





Confessions of the Dead
Published: July 2024


The dead tell no tales…unless they swam in Cemetery Lake.

Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate -- zero -- is a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett. The day the stranger shows up is when the trouble starts. The sheriff and her deputy investigate the mysterious teenage girl. None of the locals can place her. She can’t—or won’t answer any questions. She won’t even tell them her name. While the girl is in protective custody, the officers are called to multiple crime scenes leading them closer and closer to a lake outside of town that doesn’t appear on any map…


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book set in a New England state.
2. Read a book published in 2024.
3. Read a book with an MPG of PARANORMAL.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #46





1st Case
Published: July 2020


A computer genius pulls off her greatest hack yet -- and her skill might just get her killed.

Angela Hoot's government career begins with an ending. Her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT's graduate school and into the Bureau's cyber-forensics unit.

A messaging app with sophisticated tracking capabilities surfaces. Its beta users, all young women, are only identified as they turn up dead in their bedrooms. As Angela races to crack the killer's digital code, their technical rivalry escalates. She must deny the killer access to her personal life, or risk losing her life to the underbelly of the Internet.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book where the MC works with computers in some way.
2. Read a book with the word INTERNET found in the text.
3. Read a book with a mostly black and white cover. {Your discretion.}
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

🤣

Prompt Name / #: Non-Fiction #6





The House of Kennedy
Published: April 2020


Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel. Their name is synonymous with American royalty. Their commitment to public service is legendary. But, for all the successes, the family has been blighted by assassinations, fatal accidents, drug and alcohol abuse and sex scandals.

To this day, the Kennedys occupy a unique, contradictory place in the world's imagination: at once familiar and unknowable; charmed and cursed. The Kennedy Curse is a revealing, fascinating account of America’s most famous family, as told by the world's most trusted storyteller.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book where a character seems cursed.
2. Read a book where a character is "famous," either in real-life or the book world.
3. Read a book where a character is involved in sexual relations or drug abuse.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #23: Royal Flush





The odds of getting a royal flush are exactly 1 in 649,740.


Poker fiends have a slightly better chance of laying down a straight flush: Try 72,192 to 1. Out of the 7,462 distinct five-card poker hands, you have a 42% chance of getting a single pair though.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🃏 1. Read a book where a character plays a hand of cards.
🃏 2. Read a book with a bathroom scene.
🃏 3. Read a book with the word ROYAL found in the text.
🃏 4. Read a book with more than 649,740 ratings.

CONGRATULATIONS!! You did it! You completed all 72 Ridiculously Random prompts in this challenge. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you again soon!

Ridiculously Random Prompt #47: $1 Bill





A $1 bill doesn't live as long as you'd think.


According to the Federal Reserve, each buck lasts about 6.6 years, and there's about $1.79 trillion of U.S. currency in circulation right now.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

💵 1. Read a book with money on the cover.
💵 2. Read a book you got for no money.
💵 3. Read a book with a title that starts with a letter in MONEY.
💵 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in MONEY.

Great! Thank you!

Ridiculously Random Prompt #53: Stardust





We're all stars.


Okay, technically we're all made of stardust, but that's still pretty cool. Recent research found that humans and the galaxy share 97% of the same kind of atoms.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🌌 1. Read a book with a nighttime scene on the cover.
🌌 2. Read a book where the word STAR is found in the text.
🌌 3. Read a book with a 9 OR a 7 found in the page count.
🌌 4. Read a book with an MPG of NON-FICTION.

Magnificent!





I'm glad you enjoyed it, Geri!

Congratulations! You did it! You completed all 20 images and created some awesome tasks along the way. I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you again soon! 😊

Ridiculously Random Prompt #64: Moon Time Zones





The moon has its own time zones.


An astronomer even designed a special watch that relies on "lunations," or the amount of time it takes for the moon to revolve and rotate around the Earth.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🌙 1. Read a book with a moon, watch, or clock on the cover.
🌙 2. Read a book with the word REVOLVE or ROTATE found in the text.
🌙 3. Read a book where the MC's first name ENDS with a letter in EARTH.
🌙 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in LUNATIONS.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #64: Moon Time Zones





The moon has its own time zones.


An astronomer even designed a special watch that relies on "lunations," or the amount of time it takes for the moon to revolve and rotate around the Earth.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🌙 1. Read a book with a moon, watch, or clock on the cover.
🌙 2. Read a book with the word REVOLVE or ROTATE found in the text.
🌙 3. Read a book where the MC's first name ENDS with a letter in EARTH.
🌙 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in LUNATIONS.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #64: Moon Time Zones





The moon has its own time zones.


An astronomer even designed a special watch that relies on "lunations," or the amount of time it takes for the moon to revolve and rotate around the Earth.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🌙 1. Read a book with a moon, watch, or clock on the cover.
🌙 2. Read a book with the word REVOLVE or ROTATE found in the text.
🌙 3. Read a book where the MC's first name ENDS with a letter in EARTH.
🌙 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in LUNATIONS.