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

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

Nice work!





Love your tractor/agriculture task, Sammy!

Ridiculously Random Prompt #35: Pumpkins, Squash, and Gourds...Oh My!





Pumpkins, squash, and gourds are all technically the same species.


That's right, your zucchini and Jack o' lanterns are one and the same: Cucurbita pepo, a species that originated in Mexico more than 10,000 years ago. Farmers have since developed the many cultivars we know and use today.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

👩🏽‍🌾 1. Read a book with some type of vegetable on the cover.
👩🏽‍🌾 2. Read a book with at least 10,000 ratings.
👩🏽‍🌾 3. Read a book set in Mexico.
👩🏽‍🌾 4. Read a book where the author's first AND last initials are found in CUCURBITA PEPO.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #35: Pumpkins, Squash, and Gourds...Oh My!





Pumpkins, squash, and gourds are all technically the same species.


That's right, your zucchini and Jack o' lanterns are one and the same: Cucurbita pepo, a species that originated in Mexico more than 10,000 years ago. Farmers have since developed the many cultivars we know and use today.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

👩🏽‍🌾 1. Read a book with some type of vegetable on the cover.
👩🏽‍🌾 2. Read a book with at least 10,000 ratings.
👩🏽‍🌾 3. Read a book set in Mexico.
👩🏽‍🌾 4. Read a book where the author's first AND last initials are found in CUCURBITA PEPO.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #33: Outhouse Racing





In Outhouse Racing, an outhouse (outdoor toilet) is kitted with wheels, brakes, and a steering system, and is raced down hills with competitors sitting on the toilet seat inside.


Competitors decorate their outhouses with clever names like “Royal Flush” and the first outhouse to make it across the finish line wins.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🚽 1. Read a book where a character decorates something.
🚽 2. Read a book with all the letters of OUTHOUSE in the title and/or subtitle.
🚽 3. Read a book with something with a steering system on the cover.
🚽 4. Read a book where a character sits down.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #33: Outhouse Racing





In Outhouse Racing, an outhouse (outdoor toilet) is kitted with wheels, brakes, and a steering system, and is raced down hills with competitors sitting on the toilet seat inside.


Competitors decorate their outhouses with clever names like “Royal Flush” and the first outhouse to make it across the finish line wins.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🚽 1. Read a book where a character decorates something.
🚽 2. Read a book with all the letters of OUTHOUSE in the title and/or subtitle.
🚽 3. Read a book with something with a steering system on the cover.
🚽 4. Read a book where a character sits down.

Awesome!





Nice variety of tasks, Geri!


Perfect, Catsalive....and I love the pendant task!


Melanie, great job on the "diabolical" one! 😅

Ridiculously Random Prompt #33: Outhouse Racing





In Outhouse Racing, an outhouse (outdoor toilet) is kitted with wheels, brakes, and a steering system, and is raced down hills with competitors sitting on the toilet seat inside.


Competitors decorate their outhouses with clever names like “Royal Flush” and the first outhouse to make it across the finish line wins.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🚽 1. Read a book where a character decorates something.
🚽 2. Read a book with all the letters of OUTHOUSE in the title and/or subtitle.
🚽 3. Read a book with something with a steering system on the cover.
🚽 4. Read a book where a character sits down.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #32: Coca-Cola





Coca-Cola consumers will pay more to drink less ounces.


Coca-Cola consumers prefer smaller packaging of their beverage and are willing to pay more per ounce. While soda consumption is declining in the U.S., Coca-Cola had a net revenue of $33 billion worldwide last year. Talk about vanity sizing!


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🥤 1. Read a book with a dashed word in the title.
🥤 2. Read a book where someone drinks a cola, soda, pop, whatever you call it where you're from.
🥤 3. Read a book with two 3s in the publication date.
🥤 4. Read a book you were willing to pay for.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #33: Outhouse Racing





In Outhouse Racing, an outhouse (outdoor toilet) is kitted with wheels, brakes, and a steering system, and is raced down hills with competitors sitting on the toilet seat inside.


Competitors decorate their outhouses with clever names like “Royal Flush” and the first outhouse to make it across the finish line wins.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🚽 1. Read a book where a character decorates something.
🚽 2. Read a book with all the letters of OUTHOUSE in the title and/or subtitle.
🚽 3. Read a book with something with a steering system on the cover.
🚽 4. Read a book where a character sits down.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #33: Outhouse Racing





In Outhouse Racing, an outhouse (outdoor toilet) is kitted with wheels, brakes, and a steering system, and is raced down hills with competitors sitting on the toilet seat inside.


Competitors decorate their outhouses with clever names like “Royal Flush” and the first outhouse to make it across the finish line wins.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🚽 1. Read a book where a character decorates something.
🚽 2. Read a book with all the letters of OUTHOUSE in the title and/or subtitle.
🚽 3. Read a book with something with a steering system on the cover.
🚽 4. Read a book where a character sits down.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #33: Outhouse Racing





In Outhouse Racing, an outhouse (outdoor toilet) is kitted with wheels, brakes, and a steering system, and is raced down hills with competitors sitting on the toilet seat inside.


Competitors decorate their outhouses with clever names like “Royal Flush” and the first outhouse to make it across the finish line wins.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🚽 1. Read a book where a character decorates something.
🚽 2. Read a book with all the letters of OUTHOUSE in the title and/or subtitle.
🚽 3. Read a book with something with a steering system on the cover.
🚽 4. Read a book where a character sits down.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #33: Outhouse Racing





In Outhouse Racing, an outhouse (outdoor toilet) is kitted with wheels, brakes, and a steering system, and is raced down hills with competitors sitting on the toilet seat inside.


Competitors decorate their outhouses with clever names like “Royal Flush” and the first outhouse to make it across the finish line wins.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🚽 1. Read a book where a character decorates something.
🚽 2. Read a book with all the letters of OUTHOUSE in the title and/or subtitle.
🚽 3. Read a book with something with a steering system on the cover.
🚽 4. Read a book where a character sits down.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #32: Coca-Cola





Coca-Cola consumers will pay more to drink less ounces.


Coca-Cola consumers prefer smaller packaging of their beverage and are willing to pay more per ounce. While soda consumption is declining in the U.S., Coca-Cola had a net revenue of $33 billion worldwide last year. Talk about vanity sizing!


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🥤 1. Read a book with a dashed word in the title.
🥤 2. Read a book where someone drinks a cola, soda, pop, whatever you call it where you're from.
🥤 3. Read a book with two 3s in the publication date.
🥤 4. Read a book you were willing to pay for.

Congratulations on all the BINGOs and Blackouts so far!!!

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #37





The First Lady
Published: December 2018


"Sir, the First Lady ... has gone rogue."

President Tucker is caught up in a media firestorm. The scandal of his affair has sent shockwaves through his re-election campaign, and threatens to derail everything he has worked for. To win the vote, he needs the First Lady to stand by his side.

But Grace Tucker has a mind of her own.

After years of compromise, unfulfilled promises, deception and betrayal, Grace refuses to give in to her husband's demands. Escaping the city and her Secret Service agents, she is officially off the radar.

But did the First Lady run away? Or is she in far greater danger than anyone could have imagined?


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book where someone is missing.
2. Read a book published in December of any year.
3. Read a book that you also used for any of Donna's challenges.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #31





Humans, Bow Down
Published: February 2017


Hu-bots – robots that humans created as perfect versions of themselves – now control the world. They seized power in a war that almost wiped humankind off the face of the earth. The humans that remain are forced to either work as servants or live in prison camps.

But one teenage girl, Six, has a device that could change everything. Her Q-comp, a computer onto which the memories of her murdered family have been downloaded, contains information that could save humankind.

Six is unaware of the power she holds, but the ruling hu-bots are not. Forced to flee from those sent to kill her, can Six discover the secret that could save her life, and the future of the human race?


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book published in February of any year.
2. Read a book with something round on the cover.
3. Read a book with a robot or a teenage character.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Way to go!





Nice work, Sally...good tasks!


My only suggestion is to click on the tab at the bottom for the image you are checking in, and then grab that link to post here. {Each tab actually has its own individual link.} That way, your link will take me right to the correct tab. Thanks! 😊

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #30





The Murder House
Published: September 2015


No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multi-million-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty, and rumored to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance.

Detective Jenna Murphy used to consider herself a local, but she hasn't been back since she was a girl. Trying to escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career on the rocks, the former New York City cop hardly expects her lush and wealthy surroundings to be a hotbed of grisly depravity. But when a Hollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned Murder House, the gruesome crime scene rivals anything Jenna experienced in Manhattan. And what at first seems like an open and shut case turns out to have as many shocking secrets as the Murder House itself, as Jenna quickly realizes that the mansion's history is much darker than even the town's most salacious gossips could have imagined. As more bodies surface, and the secret that Jenna has tried desperately to escape closes in on her, she must risk her own life to expose the truth -- before the Murder House claims another victim.

Full of the twists and turns that have made James Patterson the world's #1 bestselling writer, The Murder House is a chilling, page-turning story of murder, money, and revenge.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with an outdoor scene on the cover.
2. Read a book with all the letters on HOUSE in the title.
3. Read a book with an MPG of CRIME.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #25: Detroit





If you drive south from Detroit, you'll hit Canada.


Head north from Windsor, Ontario, crossing the Detroit River, and you'll reach the good ol' US of A.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🇨🇦 1. Read a book set in Michigan.
🇨🇦 2. Read a book with a cityscape on the cover.
🇨🇦 3. Read a book with a directional word in the title.
🇨🇦 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in WINDSOR.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #25: Detroit





If you drive south from Detroit, you'll hit Canada.


Head north from Windsor, Ontario, crossing the Detroit River, and you'll reach the good ol' US of A.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🇨🇦 1. Read a book set in Michigan.
🇨🇦 2. Read a book with a cityscape on the cover.
🇨🇦 3. Read a book with a directional word in the title.
🇨🇦 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in WINDSOR.