Michelle's Empty Nest’s Comments (group member since Oct 31, 2021)

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

Congrats on the Blackout!!

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #48





The Coast-to-Coast Murders
Published: September 2020


A detective and an FBI agent join forces on what seems like an open-and-shut case—but a new rash of killings sends them on a pulse-pounding race against time in this intense thriller.
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Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are siblings who share a terrifying past. Both adopted, and now grown—Michael is a long-haul truck driver, Megan a college student majoring in psychology—they trust each other before anyone else. They've had to. Their parents are public intellectuals, an Ivy League clinical psychologist and a renowned psychiatrist, and they brought up their adopted children in a rarefied, experimental environment. It sheltered them from the world's harsh realities, but it also forced secrets upon them, secrets they keep at all costs.

In Los Angeles, Detective Garrett Dobbs and FBI Agent Jessica Gimble have joined forces to work a murder that seems like a dead cinch. Their chief suspect is quickly identified and apprehended—but then there's another killing just like the one they've been investigating. And another. And not just in Los Angeles—the spree spreads across the country. The Fitzgerald family comes to the investigators' attention, but Dobbs and Gimble are at a loss—if one of the four is involved, which Fitzgerald might it be?

From coastal California to upstate New York, Dobbs and Gimble race against time and across state lines to stop an ingenious and deeply deranged killer—one whose dark and twisted appetites put them outside the range of logic or experience.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book where a word is repeated in the title.
2. Read a book where there are no people on the cover.
3. Read a book with sibling characters.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #71: Two-Buck Chuck





Two-Buck Chuck once won a top wine award.


Trader Joe's 2002 Charles Shaw Shiraz beat out 2,300 other wines to win a prestigious double gold medal at the 28th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition, so don't feel bad stocking up on the bargain brand.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🤑 1. Read a book with rhyming words in the title.
🤑 2. Read a book published in 2002.
🤑 3. Read a book where a store of any type is mentioned.
🤑 4. Read a book with a 2 and an 8 in the publication date.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #71: Two-Buck Chuck





Two-Buck Chuck once won a top wine award.


Trader Joe's 2002 Charles Shaw Shiraz beat out 2,300 other wines to win a prestigious double gold medal at the 28th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition, so don't feel bad stocking up on the bargain brand.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🤑 1. Read a book with rhyming words in the title.
🤑 2. Read a book published in 2002.
🤑 3. Read a book where a store of any type is mentioned.
🤑 4. Read a book with a 2 and an 8 in the publication date.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #71: Two-Buck Chuck





Two-Buck Chuck once won a top wine award.


Trader Joe's 2002 Charles Shaw Shiraz beat out 2,300 other wines to win a prestigious double gold medal at the 28th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition, so don't feel bad stocking up on the bargain brand.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🤑 1. Read a book with rhyming words in the title.
🤑 2. Read a book published in 2002.
🤑 3. Read a book where a store of any type is mentioned.
🤑 4. Read a book with a 2 and an 8 in the publication date.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #71: Two-Buck Chuck





Two-Buck Chuck once won a top wine award.


Trader Joe's 2002 Charles Shaw Shiraz beat out 2,300 other wines to win a prestigious double gold medal at the 28th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition, so don't feel bad stocking up on the bargain brand.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🤑 1. Read a book with rhyming words in the title.
🤑 2. Read a book published in 2002.
🤑 3. Read a book where a store of any type is mentioned.
🤑 4. Read a book with a 2 and an 8 in the publication date.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #71: Two-Buck Chuck





Two-Buck Chuck once won a top wine award.


Trader Joe's 2002 Charles Shaw Shiraz beat out 2,300 other wines to win a prestigious double gold medal at the 28th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition, so don't feel bad stocking up on the bargain brand.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🤑 1. Read a book with rhyming words in the title.
🤑 2. Read a book published in 2002.
🤑 3. Read a book where a store of any type is mentioned.
🤑 4. Read a book with a 2 and an 8 in the publication date.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #66: Wood Chopping





In a Wood Chopping competition, the aim of the game is to be the first “axeman” to chop or saw through a log or block of wood.


These sorts of competitions are often found at places such as state fairs and agricultural shows and have been around since 1870.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🪚 1. Read a book where the MC goes to a state fair or a similar place.
🪚 2. Read a book with at least two of these numbers in the page count: 1870.
🪚 3. Read a book with the word CHOP or SAW found in the text.
🪚 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in AXEMAN.

Excellent!

Great job!

Ridiculously Random Prompt #66: Wood Chopping





In a Wood Chopping competition, the aim of the game is to be the first “axeman” to chop or saw through a log or block of wood.


These sorts of competitions are often found at places such as state fairs and agricultural shows and have been around since 1870.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🪚 1. Read a book where the MC goes to a state fair or a similar place.
🪚 2. Read a book with at least two of these numbers in the page count: 1870.
🪚 3. Read a book with the word CHOP or SAW found in the text.
🪚 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in AXEMAN.

Nice tasks!

Ridiculously Random Prompt #66: Wood Chopping





In a Wood Chopping competition, the aim of the game is to be the first “axeman” to chop or saw through a log or block of wood.


These sorts of competitions are often found at places such as state fairs and agricultural shows and have been around since 1870.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🪚 1. Read a book where the MC goes to a state fair or a similar place.
🪚 2. Read a book with at least two of these numbers in the page count: 1870.
🪚 3. Read a book with the word CHOP or SAW found in the text.
🪚 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in AXEMAN.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #66: Wood Chopping





In a Wood Chopping competition, the aim of the game is to be the first “axeman” to chop or saw through a log or block of wood.


These sorts of competitions are often found at places such as state fairs and agricultural shows and have been around since 1870.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🪚 1. Read a book where the MC goes to a state fair or a similar place.
🪚 2. Read a book with at least two of these numbers in the page count: 1870.
🪚 3. Read a book with the word CHOP or SAW found in the text.
🪚 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in AXEMAN.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #39





The 13-Minute Murder
Published: April 2019


Sometimes it only takes a few minutes for the perfect murder to take place. Here are two fast-paced thrillers that will have you reading for just a minute longer.

13-MINUTE MURDER: He can kill anybody in just minutes – from the first approach to the clean escape. His skills have served him well, and he has a grand plan: to get out alive and spend his earnings with his beloved wife, Maria.

An anonymous client offers Ryan a rich payout to assassinate a target in Harvard Yard. It’s exactly the last big job he needs to complete his plan. The precision strike starts perfectly, then somehow explodes into a horrifying spectacle. Ryan has to run and Maria goes missing. Now the world’s fastest hit man sets out for one last score: Revenge. And every minute counts.

113 MINUTES: Molly Rourke’s son has been murdered – and she knows who’s responsible. Now she’s taking the law into her own hands. Never underestimate a mother’s love.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with the number 13 intact in the page count or publication date.
2. Read a book with a clock or watch on the cover.
3. Read a book that you also used for one of Ashley's challenges.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Excellent!

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #57





The Horsewoman
Published: January 2022


Mother and daughter, both champion riders—but only one can make Olympic history. James Patterson’s first book with hall-of-fame sportswriter Mike Lupica.

When the buzzer sounds, twenty-one-year-old Becky McCabe takes one last look around. What she’s feeling right now is why riders do this. Young or old. Man or woman. Mother or daughter.
The toughest combination comes early, a tight one, hardly any time to react after the first jump.

Just like that they’re into it. Big-time. Horse and rider take a killer inside turn on the rollback two jumps later. No choice but to go inside if they’re here to win. And Becky sure isn’t here to finish second.

How could anyone go faster than this?

No one can. Except the rider who’s up next...


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book tagged SPORTS any number of times.
2. Read a book with more than 400 pages.
3. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in HORSEWOMAN.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #20: Blue Whale





You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than 2 miles away.


The world's largest animal's heart weighs about 400 pounds — approximately the size of a small piano.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🐳 1. Read a book with a blue cover.
🐳 2. Read a book where someone plays a piano.
🐳 3. Read a book with all the letters of HEART found in the title.
🐳 4. Read a book with a 2 in the page count.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #20: Blue Whale





You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than 2 miles away.


The world's largest animal's heart weighs about 400 pounds — approximately the size of a small piano.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🐳 1. Read a book with a blue cover.
🐳 2. Read a book where someone plays a piano.
🐳 3. Read a book with all the letters of HEART found in the title.
🐳 4. Read a book with a 2 in the page count.

Way to go!