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

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

WILD CARD ROULETTE: Individual Completion


📚 Book: A Disguise to Die For by Diane Vallere
📝 Justification: The MC wears costumes as her everyday clothes. There is also a detective costume party in the story.
🔢 Page Count: 304 pages
👤 Your Name and Team Name: Michelle ~ Read-iculous Rollercoaster Readers


*posted in Check-In Thread

Verse Velocity is checked in.

🎪 Team Name: Read-iculous Rollercoaster Readers
🎟️ Task Completed: 🎡Reading Rides: Verse Velocity


🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✨ Summoning the Carnival Master for our next adventure!

🎪 Team Name: Read-iculous Rollercoaster Readers
🎟️ Task Completed: 🎡Reading Rides: Verse Velocity


🔗 Proof of Completion: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✨ Summoning the Carnival Master for our next adventure!

🎡Reading Rides: Verse Velocity


V: Title starts with V, Date Completed: 05/03/2025 Page Count: 338
E: Title Starts with E, Date Completed: 05/09/2025 Page Count: 548
R: title starts with R, Date Completed: 05/08/2025 Page Count: 344
S: Author surname starts with S, Date Completed: 05/04/2025 Page Count: 373
E: Title starts with E, Date Completed: 05/08/2025 Page Count: 421

V: ALN Starts with V, Date Completed: 05/12/2025 Page Count: 304
E: Co-author's LN starts with E, Date Completed: 05/06/2025 Page Count: 832
L: Co-author first name Lincoln, Date Completed: 05/05/2025 Page Count: 480
O: title starts with O, Date Completed: 05/03/2025 Page Count: 331
C: Title starts with C, Date Completed: 05/03/2025 Page Count: 215
I: Title starts with I, Date Completed: 05/05/2025 Page Count: 400
T: Title starts with T, Date Completed: 05/11/2025 Page Count: 272
Y: title starts with Y, Date Completed: 05/06/2025 Page Count: 325

Ridiculously Random Prompt #50: Guinness World Records





There's a world record for the most world record titles.


It belongs to Brooklyn, New York resident Ashrita Furman, who's held more than 700 Guinness World Records in his lifetime, ranging from heaviest shoes walked in (323 pounds) to most baseballs held in a baseball glove (26).


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🥇 1. Read a book with at least 323 pages.
🥇 2. Read a book with at least 26 chapters.
🥇 3. Read a book with at least 700 ratings.
🥇 4. Read a book of your choice.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #50: Guinness World Records





There's a world record for the most world record titles.


It belongs to Brooklyn, New York resident Ashrita Furman, who's held more than 700 Guinness World Records in his lifetime, ranging from heaviest shoes walked in (323 pounds) to most baseballs held in a baseball glove (26).


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🥇 1. Read a book with at least 323 pages.
🥇 2. Read a book with at least 26 chapters.
🥇 3. Read a book with at least 700 ratings.
🥇 4. Read a book of your choice.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #50: Guinness World Records





There's a world record for the most world record titles.


It belongs to Brooklyn, New York resident Ashrita Furman, who's held more than 700 Guinness World Records in his lifetime, ranging from heaviest shoes walked in (323 pounds) to most baseballs held in a baseball glove (26).


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🥇 1. Read a book with at least 323 pages.
🥇 2. Read a book with at least 26 chapters.
🥇 3. Read a book with at least 700 ratings.
🥇 4. Read a book of your choice.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #50: Guinness World Records





There's a world record for the most world record titles.


It belongs to Brooklyn, New York resident Ashrita Furman, who's held more than 700 Guinness World Records in his lifetime, ranging from heaviest shoes walked in (323 pounds) to most baseballs held in a baseball glove (26).


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🥇 1. Read a book with at least 323 pages.
🥇 2. Read a book with at least 26 chapters.
🥇 3. Read a book with at least 700 ratings.
🥇 4. Read a book of your choice.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #50: Guinness World Records





There's a world record for the most world record titles.


It belongs to Brooklyn, New York resident Ashrita Furman, who's held more than 700 Guinness World Records in his lifetime, ranging from heaviest shoes walked in (323 pounds) to most baseballs held in a baseball glove (26).


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🥇 1. Read a book with at least 323 pages.
🥇 2. Read a book with at least 26 chapters.
🥇 3. Read a book with at least 700 ratings.
🥇 4. Read a book of your choice.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #50: Guinness World Records





There's a world record for the most world record titles.


It belongs to Brooklyn, New York resident Ashrita Furman, who's held more than 700 Guinness World Records in his lifetime, ranging from heaviest shoes walked in (323 pounds) to most baseballs held in a baseball glove (26).


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🥇 1. Read a book with at least 323 pages.
🥇 2. Read a book with at least 26 chapters.
🥇 3. Read a book with at least 700 ratings.
🥇 4. Read a book of your choice.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #43





Revenge
Published: August 2018


From the World's #1 Bestselling Author, comes a story of revenge as a former SAS soldier is ready to settle into civilian life when he's hired to solve the mysterious death of a daughter, diving into a seedy world that a parent never expects to see their child in.

Former SAS soldier David Shelley was part of the most covert operations team in the special forces. Now settling down to civilian life in London, he has plans for a safer and more stable existence. But the shocking death of a young woman Shelley once helped protect puts those plans on hold.

The police rule the death a suicide but the grieving parents can't accept their beloved Emma would take her own life. They need to find out what really happened, and they turn to their former bodyguard, Shelley, for help.

When they discover that Emma had fallen into a dark and seedy world of drugs and online pornography, the father demands retribution. But his desire for revenge will make enemies of people that even Shelley may not be able to protect them from, and take them into a war from which there may be no escape.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with the word REVENGE found in the text.
2. Read a book where the MC often goes by their last name.
3. Read a book set in London.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #29





Truth or Die
Published: Jue 2015


The truth will set your free - if it doesn't kill you first.

New York attorney Trevor Mann's world shatters when he receives a phone call telling him his girlfriend has been shot dead in a mugging. But the circumstances point to something more calculated than a random attack.

Claire was a New York Times journalist and Trevor is convinced she had unearthed a secret so shocking that she was murdered to keep it from coming to light. Chasing Claire's leads, Trevor will risk everything to discover what exactly she was killed for.

It's time to find out the truth, or die.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book where the title is a play on words.
2. Read a book with a mostly red cover. {Your discretion.}
3. Read a book where the MC has a girlfriend.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Prompt #6F: 10 Steps from Seed to Cup - Exporting the Beans





The milled beans, now referred to as green coffee, are loaded onto ships in either jute or sisal bags loaded in shipping containers, or bulk-shipped inside plastic-lined containers.


World coffee production for 2015/16 is forecast to be 152.7 million 60-kg bags, per data from the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service. {This website was a little outdated. 😬}


Complete ONE of the following:

☕️ 1. Read a book published in 2015 or 2016.
☕️ 2. Read a book that takes place at least partially on a ship.
☕️ 3. Read a book with less than 60 chapters.
☕️ 4. Read a book where some type of government agency that is known by initials is mentioned, like the USDA.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #29: The Lyrebird





The lyrebird can mimic almost any sounds it hears — including chainsaws.


Wildlife watchers have recorded the Australian species copying not only other birds but other animals, like koalas, and artificial sounds such as car alarms and camera shutters.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

📸 1. Read a book set in Australia.
📸 2. Read a book where one book seems to mimic another in plot or design.
📸 3. Read a book with a piece of machinery on the cover.
📸 4. Read a book with the word CAR or CAMERA found in the text.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #29: The Lyrebird





The lyrebird can mimic almost any sounds it hears — including chainsaws.


Wildlife watchers have recorded the Australian species copying not only other birds but other animals, like koalas, and artificial sounds such as car alarms and camera shutters.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

📸 1. Read a book set in Australia.
📸 2. Read a book where one book seems to mimic another in plot or design.
📸 3. Read a book with a piece of machinery on the cover.
📸 4. Read a book with the word CAR or CAMERA found in the text.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #16: M&Ms





M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.


Forrest Mars (son of the Mars Company founder) first spotted the British confection Smarties during the Spanish Civil War and noticed the candy shell prevented the chocolate from melting. He teamed up with Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey Chocolate's president) and the company later trademarked the "Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand" slogan.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🔴 1. Read a book with an alliterative title.
🔴 2. Read a book with at least two men on the cover.
🔴 3. Read a book tagged SPACE any number of times.
🔴 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in HERSHEY.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #3: Axe Throwing





Popular at lumberjack competitions, Axe Throwing is a sport in which players throw an axe at a target, attempting to reach the bulls-eye.


On the target, the outside ring is worth 1 point, the second ring is worth 2 points, and so on with the bulls-eye worth 5 points. In a game, each player is allowed 5 throws with a maximum of 25 points possible.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🪓 1. Read a book with all the letters of AXE in the title.
🪓 2. Read a book with a 25 intact in the page count or publication date.
🪓 3. Read a book a round object, like a target, on the cover.
🪓 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in LUMBERJACK.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #3: Axe Throwing





Popular at lumberjack competitions, Axe Throwing is a sport in which players throw an axe at a target, attempting to reach the bulls-eye.


On the target, the outside ring is worth 1 point, the second ring is worth 2 points, and so on with the bulls-eye worth 5 points. In a game, each player is allowed 5 throws with a maximum of 25 points possible.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🪓 1. Read a book with all the letters of AXE in the title.
🪓 2. Read a book with a 25 intact in the page count or publication date.
🪓 3. Read a book a round object, like a target, on the cover.
🪓 4. Read a book where the MC's first initial is found in LUMBERJACK.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #53





The Noise
Published: August 2021


In this cinematic thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, two sisters must fight for their survival after a natural disaster in the Pacific Northwest.

In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the sound only gets worse . . .


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with a silhouette, reflection, or shadow on the cover.
2. Read a book with all the letters of NOISE found in the author's first AND last names.
3. Read a book published in 2021.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.