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

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

Ridiculously Random Prompt #6: Bog Snorkelling





Bog Snorkelling takes place in a 55-metre-long water-filled trench carved out of a peat bog (comprised of dead plant material).


Competitors wear snorkels and flippers and cannot use traditional swimming techniques, but rather must rely solely on flipper power to get across and back. Kirsty Johnson set the record back in 2014 with a time of 1 minute and 22.56 seconds.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🤿 1. Read a book published in 2014.
🤿 2. Read a book with a title that starts with a letter in SNORKELLING.
🤿 3. Read a book with some type of plant material on the cover.
🤿 4. Read a book that does not follow a "traditional" style. {dual-timelines, epistolary, etc.}

Prompt #12A: Central America - Guatemala





While perhaps not as well-known as some of its Central and South American neighbors, Guatemala's coffee has a distinctive taste quality favored by many for its rich flavor. There are three main growing regions — Antigua, Coban and Huehuetanango — each with a breathtakingly rugged landscape and rich volcanic soil. Microclimates strongly influence the quality and flavor of the “strictly hard beans” (grown at altitudes 4500 feet/1370 meters or higher). This medium-to-full bodied coffee has a depth and complexity of taste that is almost spicy or chocolatey.


Complete ONE of the following:

☕️ 1. Read a book with a landscape on the cover.
☕️ 2. Read a book that takes place in thee or more locations.
☕️ 3. Read a book that you find to be spicy.
☕️ 4. Read a book with a word in the title which has more vowels than consonants, like HUEHUETANANGO does.

Carousel of Flavors is checked in.

🎪 Team Name: Read-iculous Rollercoaster Readers
🎟️ Task Completed: 🍿 Food Vendor: Carousel of Flavors


🔗 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: 🍿 Food Vendor: Carousel of Flavors


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

🍿 Food Vendor: Carousel of Flavors


🍿 Food Vendor Word: Blend
Book: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling
Date Completed: 05/06/2025
Page Count: 896
Location: Pg 227
Sentence: "Sick wizards could come and go and just blend in with the crowd"

🍿 Food Vendor Word: rotation
Book: The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss
Date Completed: 05/02/2025
Page Count: 320
Location: Page 266
Sentence: "shift rotation all next week"

🍿 Food Vendor Word: dynamic
Book: High Noon by Nora Roberts
Date Completed: 05/06/2025
Page Count: 492
Location: p 173
Sentence: "a chance to get to know each other,dynamics ith others, before we lose ourselves in wild sweaty sex."

🍿 Food Vendor Word: Eclectic
Book: Lark! The Herald Angels Sing by Donna Andrews
Date Completed: 05/02/2025
Page Count: 292
Location: p. 50
Sentence: "and just gone in for a good old-fasioned eclectic tree."

🍿 Food Vendor Word: multitude
Book: Kindred Spirits at Harling Hall by Sharon Booth
Date Completed: 05/02/2025
Page Count: 362
Location: Page 28
Sentence: "with a multitude of stone mullioned windows"

Ridiculously Random Prompt #9: Bossaball





Originating in Spain, Bossaball comprises elements of volleyball, football (soccer), gymnastics, and capoeira, which is an Afro-Brazilian cultural practice simultaneously involving a fight and a dance.


The game is played on an inflatable course with inbuilt trampolines on each side. The teams consist of 4 - 5 players with the aim of getting the ball over the net without the other team being able to return it.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

🏐 1. Read a book that you rated 4 - 5 stars.
🏐 2. Read a book where a character fights or dances.
🏐 3. Read a book set at least partially in Spain.
🏐 4. Read a book where the MC's first name does NOT start with a letter in BOSSABALL.

Fable Finders may need a replacement for Holly. She hasn't responded to a message since 5/5 and she was missing last month.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #2: Chef's Hat





The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent 100 ways to cook an egg.


Yes, that tall, pleated white hat that chefs wear — technically called a toque — has 100 folds for a reason! According to Reluctant Gourmet, the pleats used to signify a chef's level of experience, like the number of ways he or she knew how to prepare eggs.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

👩🏼‍🍳 1. Read a book with a mostly white cover. {Your discretion.}
👩🏼‍🍳 2. Read a book where the MC is described as being tall.
👩🏼‍🍳 3. Read a book with a 1 and 2 0s found in the publication date.
👩🏼‍🍳 4. Read a book where the author's first AND last initials are found in RELUCTANT GOURMET.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #2: Chef's Hat





The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent 100 ways to cook an egg.


Yes, that tall, pleated white hat that chefs wear — technically called a toque — has 100 folds for a reason! According to Reluctant Gourmet, the pleats used to signify a chef's level of experience, like the number of ways he or she knew how to prepare eggs.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

👩🏼‍🍳 1. Read a book with a mostly white cover. {Your discretion.}
👩🏼‍🍳 2. Read a book where the MC is described as being tall.
👩🏼‍🍳 3. Read a book with a 1 and 2 0s found in the publication date.
👩🏼‍🍳 4. Read a book where the author's first AND last initials are found in RELUCTANT GOURMET.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #14





Beach Road
Published: May 2006


Tom Dunleavy has a one-man law firm in America's wealthiest resort town: legendary East Hampton. But his job barely keeps him in paper clips. His clients make a living serving the rich. The billionaires and celebrities swarming the beaches already have lawyers on their payroll.

Very Expensive

Then a friend of Tom's is arrested for a triple murder near a movie star's mansion. Tom knows in his gut that Dante Halleyville is innocent. Dante asks him to represent him in what could be the Trial of the Century.

Very Exclusive

Tom recruits Manhattan superlawyer Kate Costello to help. She's a tough hire, because Kate is his ex-girlfriend, but she agrees. In their search to find who really executed three locals, Tom orchestrates a series of revelations to expose the killer, and what emerges is staggering.

Very Explosive

The final scenes of this book unveil a truth that will leave readers gasping in shock. Written with the precision that has made James Patterson "a master of his genre" (USA Today), Beach Road is his wildest, most thrilling novel ever.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with one person on the cover.
2. Read a book where there is an ex-girlfriend/ex-boyfriend character.
3. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in BEACH.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #61





The Ninth Month
Published: August 2022


In this action-packed thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Midwife Murders, a mother-to-be sees the women in her social circle start to disappear—and she could be next . . .

Emily Atkinson leads a complicated life in New York City. She’s a successful marketing executive who lives in a luxury apartment and enjoys a glamorous existence until she lands in the hospital with a double diagnosis: she parties too much—and she’s pregnant. Her nurse and new best friend, Betsey, helps Emily rediscover how much she loves morning runs in the park and quiet nights at home. But as a series of women in her wealthy social circles go missing, Emily’s pregnancy becomes decidedly high-risk.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with a pregnant character.
2. Read a book with more than one font on the cover.
3. Read a book that you also used for one of Amanda's challenges.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #48: Toe Wrestling





Like Arm Wrestling or Thumb Wrestling, Toe Wrestling involves two competitors who lock bare feet in an attempt to pin the other person’s foot to the ground for at least 3 seconds.


There tends to be 3 rounds played with the winner having the best 2 out of 3.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

👣 1. Read a book where a character does something you think is gross.
👣 2. Read a book where toes/feet are visible on the cover.
👣 3. Read a book you would rate between 2 and 3 stars.
👣 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in TOE and ends with a letter in WRESTLING.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #48: Toe Wrestling





Like Arm Wrestling or Thumb Wrestling, Toe Wrestling involves two competitors who lock bare feet in an attempt to pin the other person’s foot to the ground for at least 3 seconds.


There tends to be 3 rounds played with the winner having the best 2 out of 3.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

👣 1. Read a book where a character does something you think is gross.
👣 2. Read a book where toes/feet are visible on the cover.
👣 3. Read a book you would rate between 2 and 3 stars.
👣 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in TOE and ends with a letter in WRESTLING.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #42





Lost
Published: January 2020


Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami.

The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable.

Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to combat international crime. Moon's investigative team discovers that the opportunistic "Blood Brothers" -- Russian nationals Roman and Emile Rostoff -- have evaded authorities while building a vast, powerful, and deadly crime syndicate throughout Europe and metropolitan Miami.

Moon played offense for U of M, but he's on the other side of the field this time. And as the Rostoffs zero in on a target dear to Tom, they're not playing by anyone's rules.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book where all the letters of LOST are found in the title.
2. Read a book with red and white letters on the cover.
3. Read a book set anywhere in Florida.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #28





Mistress
Published: August 2014


James Patterson's scariest, sexiest stand-alone thriller since The Quickie.

Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone is out to stop Ben from uncovering the truth about Diana's illicit affairs. In his most heart-pumping thriller yet, James Patterson plunges us into the depths of a mind tortured by paranoia and obsession, on an action-packed chase through a world of danger and deceit.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book where the MC is obsessed with someone or something.
2. Read a book with at least 3 Ss in the title.
3. Read a book with a photograph on the cover.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Prompt Name / #: Thrillers #60





Shattered
Published: July 2022


Nothing could tear Detective Michael Bennett away from his new bride—except the murder of the woman who was his partner, his best friend, and more.

NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett and top FBI abduction specialist Emily Parker have a history.

When Emily is found strangled in Washington, DC, only Bennett knows her well enough to find the perpetrator -- or so he thinks. At every turn, Bennett discovers that she was a woman as adept at keeping secrets as she was at forging powerful connections. And that those closest to her had both the means and the motives to permanently silence her.

Bennett aches to return home to his new wife and the familiar chaos of his family. Yet he's driven to perform the most brilliant detective work of his career, even as the dangerous shadows in Emily's past are closing in around him.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with blue writing on the cover.
2. Read a book with an -ED word in the title.
3. Read a book where the MC's first initial is NOT found in WASHINGTON.
4. Read any James Patterson novel.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #48: Toe Wrestling





Like Arm Wrestling or Thumb Wrestling, Toe Wrestling involves two competitors who lock bare feet in an attempt to pin the other person’s foot to the ground for at least 3 seconds.


There tends to be 3 rounds played with the winner having the best 2 out of 3.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

👣 1. Read a book where a character does something you think is gross.
👣 2. Read a book where toes/feet are visible on the cover.
👣 3. Read a book you would rate between 2 and 3 stars.
👣 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in TOE and ends with a letter in WRESTLING.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #48: Toe Wrestling





Like Arm Wrestling or Thumb Wrestling, Toe Wrestling involves two competitors who lock bare feet in an attempt to pin the other person’s foot to the ground for at least 3 seconds.


There tends to be 3 rounds played with the winner having the best 2 out of 3.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

👣 1. Read a book where a character does something you think is gross.
👣 2. Read a book where toes/feet are visible on the cover.
👣 3. Read a book you would rate between 2 and 3 stars.
👣 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in TOE and ends with a letter in WRESTLING.

Ridiculously Random Prompt #48: Toe Wrestling





Like Arm Wrestling or Thumb Wrestling, Toe Wrestling involves two competitors who lock bare feet in an attempt to pin the other person’s foot to the ground for at least 3 seconds.


There tends to be 3 rounds played with the winner having the best 2 out of 3.


Complete ONE of the following tasks:

👣 1. Read a book where a character does something you think is gross.
👣 2. Read a book where toes/feet are visible on the cover.
👣 3. Read a book you would rate between 2 and 3 stars.
👣 4. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in TOE and ends with a letter in WRESTLING.