Connie N.’s Comments (group member since Sep 03, 2013)

Connie N.’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Finished this spell-out just in time for Halloween this year!

Halloween
Timeframe: 10/1/18 to 10/17/19
158/158
26/26 Halloween-y Words

Afraid (6/6)
A - Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
F - Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs - 4/11/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rocky Mountain Angel by Vivian Arend - 10/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - 10/23/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - I Knew You Were Trouble by Lauren Layne - 11/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
D – Author Debbie Macomber - Silver Linings - 7/13/19 ♥♥♥♥

Boo (3/3)
B - Author Patricia Briggs - Silver Borne - 10/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - On the Line by Liz Lincoln - 10/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only a Promise by Mary Balogh - 10/29/18 ♥♥♥♥

Costume (7/7)
C - Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases by Cory Franklin - 10/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Olivia Dade - Hidden Hearts - 1/24/19 ♥♥♥
S - Snowflakes, Iced Cakes and Second Chances by Sue Watson - 1/25/19 ♥♥♥
T - Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb - 10/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
U - Unseen by Karin Slaughter - 1/15/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
M - Author Carol Madison - Serena's Plight - 10/12/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Emily March - Lover's Leap - 10/13/18 ♥♥♥

Doorbell (8/8)
D - Author Debbie Macomber - Love Letters - 5/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Karen E. Olson - Driven to Ink - 2/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie - 3/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Annie Rains - Welcoming the Bad Boy - 10/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
B - Beach Happens by Jamie K. Schmidt - 11/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran - 10/14/18 ♥♥♥
L - Author Jessica Lemmon - A Snowbound Scandal - 12/28/18 ♥♥♥

Eerie (5/5)
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Spider's Bite - 2/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Katy Evans - Real - 2/9/19 ♥♥♥
R - Author M.L. Rowland - Murder on the Horizon - 1/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Author Isobel Chace - To Marry a Tiger - 4/20/19 ♥♥
E - Author Emma Hart - Stripped Bare - 2/27/19 ♥♥♥♥

Fear (4/4)
F - For Kicks by Dick Francis - 6/25/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach - 11/10/18 ♥♥♥
A - Author Ellery Adams - Pecan Pies and Homicides - 10/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy - 11/29/18 ♥♥♥

Ghost (5/5)
G - Author Codi Gary - Don't Call Me Sweetheart - 11/11/18 ♥♥
H - The Hollow by Nora Roberts - 10/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - The Other Side by J.D. Robb - 3/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Lynsay Sands - A Bite to Remember - 3/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Trick or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier - 10/19/18 ♥♥♥♥

Halloween (9/9)
H - Home for the Holidays by Jeaniene Frost - 12/26/18 ♥♥♥
A - Animal Attraction by Jill Shalvis - 1/10/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Stacey Lynn - Fake Wife - 3/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Leanne Banks - The You-Can't-Make-Me Bride - 4/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Death, Nine Stories by Marc Aronson - 4/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
W - Wrangled and Tangled by Lorelei James - 3/11/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Eggs in Purgatory by Laura Childs - 2/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - The End of Everything by Megan Abbott - 3/31/19 ♥♥
N - Author Nancy Martin - Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds - 1/4/19 ♥♥♥♥

I - Magic (5/5)
M - Author Susan Mallery - Just One Kiss - 12/5/18 ♥♥♥
A - Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis - 11/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Gem & Dixie by Sara Zarr - 11/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - I Think I Love You by Lauren Layne - 12/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Counting Stars by Kathleen Long - 11/18/18 ♥♥♥♥

Jack-o'-lantern (12/12)
J - Author Julianne MacLean - A Curve in the Road - 6/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Jennifer AlLee - A Wild Goose Chase Christmas - 12/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - A Cowboy's Christmas Promise by Maggie McGinnis - 12/24/18 ♥♥♥♥
K - Killer Pancake by Diane Mott Davidson - 11/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Day in December by Josie Silver - 5/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Looking For Rachel Wallace by Robert B. Parker - 6/20/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil by Nancy Atherton - 1/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nurse Smith, Cook by Joyce Dingwell - 12/15/18 ♥♥♥
T - Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris - 11/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - An Ex for Christmas by Lauren Layne - 11/13/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Author Renita Pizzitola - Just a Little Kiss - 12/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Mine to Possess - 1/6/19 ♥♥♥♥

K - Dark (4/4)
D - Author Donna Douglas - The Nightingale Nurses - 5/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Allen Zadoff - Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin - 2/14/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Rugged Texas Cowboy by Lora Leigh - 2/11/19 ♥♥♥
K - Kiss Me Back by Sidney Halston - 2/23/19 ♥♥♥

Lurk (4/4)
L - Author Lorelei James - One Night Rodeo - 7/16/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unplugged by Lois Greiman - 3/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Festive in Death - 2/13/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
K - Kiss the Girls by James Patterson - 3/20/19 ♥♥♥♥

Mask (4/4)
M - Author Leslie Meier - Back to School Murder - 4/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Kristen Ashley - Rock Chick Revolution - 5/14/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Scored by Sloane Howell - 5/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
K - Author Kelly Jamieson - Back Check - 5/30/19 ♥♥♥♥

The Big Bang Theory - Part 3

Schrodinger's Cat (15/15)
S - A Snowbound Scandal by Jessica Lemmon - 12/28/18 ♥♥♥
C - A Cowboy's Christmas Promise by Maggie McGinnis - 12/24/18 ♥♥♥♥
H - Author Sloane Howell - Scored - 5/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - River Marked by Patricia Briggs - 1/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Karen E. Olson - Driven to Ink - 2/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - Author Debbie Macomber - Love Letters - 5/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Iceberg by Robyn Donald - 4/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nancy Martin - Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds - 1/4/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Donna Grant - The Christmas Cowboy Hero - 1/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - The End of Everything by Megan Abbott - 3/31/19 ♥♥
R - Rugged Texas Cowboy by Lora Leigh - 2/11/19 ♥♥♥
S - Snowflakes, Iced Cakes and Second Chances by Sue Watson - 1/25/19 ♥♥♥
C - The Christmas Star by Donna VanLiere - 12/31/18 ♥♥♥
A - Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage by M.C. Beaton - 3/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - 12 Rounds by Lauren Hammond - 2/17/19 ♥♥♥

Test Particle (12/12)
T - Ten Tiny Breaths by K.A. Tucker - 4/12/19 ♥♥♥
E - Author Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places - 4/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Lynsay Sands - A Bite to Remember - 3/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - To Marry a Tiger by Isobel Chace - 4/20/19 ♥♥
P - Author Ross Petras - You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--And Their Tangled Histories of Misuse - 5/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Marc Aronson - One Death, Nine Stories - 4/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rumor Has It by Jill Shalvis - 5/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Then Came You by Jill Shalvis - 6/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park - 5/18/19 ♥♥♥
C - Cancun by Kimberly Fox - 3/27/19 ♥♥♥
L - Author Leanne Banks - The You-Can't-Make-Me Bride - 4/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Tracy Ewens - Candidate - 4/28/19 ♥♥♥♥

Universe (8/8)
U - The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann - 4/30/19 ♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Mine to Possess - 1/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - I Knew You Were Trouble by Lauren Layne - 11/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
V - Author Vina Jackson - The Pleasure Quartet: Autumn - 8/24/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author E.L. Konigsburg - The View from Saturday - 5/4/19 ♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Regret by Kristen Ashley - 2/24/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Author Sidney Halston - Kiss Me Back - 2/23/19 ♥♥♥
E – Author Erin S. Riley - Odin's Shadow - 9/11/18 ♥♥♥♥

Vacuum (6/6)
V - Visions of Heat - Author Nalini Singh - 7/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Annette Blair - Cloaked in Malice - 6/16/19 ♥♥♥
C - Author J.H. Croix - Follow Love - 5/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity by Ross Petras - 6/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel - 7/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Max by Sawyer Bennett - 5/27/19 ♥♥♥♥

Wave String Theory (16/16)
W - Author William Wright - Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail - 7/6/19 ♥♥♥
A - Author Celia Aaron - Cleat Chaser - 4/10/19 ♥♥
V - Author Valerie Bowman - The Legendary Lord - 11/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Elizabeth Hoyt - Dearest Rogue - 6/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Stacey Lynn - Fake Wife - 3/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Take the Fall by Marquita Valentine - 3/19/19 ♥♥
R - Author Rebecca Zanetti - Fated - 3/4/19 ♥♥♥
I - Author Ilona Andrews - Magic Slays - 11/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nancy Martin - Some Like it Lethal - 1/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Roxane Gay - Difficult Women - 5/29/19 ♥♥♥
T - Author Tracy Wolff - Hot & Heavy - 3/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - How Forever Feels by Laura Drewry - 8/10/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Back to the Bedroom - 7/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie - 3/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Nora Roberts - The Pagan Stone - 3/9/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - You Will Be Mine by Natasha Preston - 9/18/18 ♥♥♥

X - Experiment (10/10)
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Web of Lies - 7/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
X - X Marks the Spot by Opal Carew - 8/17/18 ♥♥♥
P - Paw and Order by Spencer Quinn - 2/20/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Erin McCarthy - The Hookup - 8/11/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Rescue My Heart by Jill Shalvis - 3/26/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - I Think I Love You by Lauren Layne - 12/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
M - Meant to Be by Maggie McGinnis - 3/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Smitten - 8/23/19 ♥♥♥
N - Never Trust a Pirate by Valerie Bowman - 2/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Author Tracy Wolff - Royal Pain - 6/4/19 ♥♥♥

Young's Modulus (13/13)
Y - Author Yvonne Whittal - The Light Within - 11/30/18 ♥♥♥
O - The Other Side by J.D. Robb - 3/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - The Unwilling Executive by Miranda P. Charles - 7/25/19 ♥♥♥
N - No One to Trust by Katie Reus - 3/6/19 ♥♥♥
G - Author Greer Hendricks - The Wife Between Us - 6/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Stolen Kisses by Annie Rains - 4/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - My Addiction by Cassie Ryan - 3/22/19 ♥♥♥
O - One Day in December by Josie Silver - 5/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
D - Author Donna Douglas - The Nightingale Nurses - 5/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Untamed by Caitlin Crews - 8/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Leslie Meier - Back to School Murder - 4/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Under Control by Shannon Stacey - 9/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Ruta Sepetys - Out of the Easy - 5/24/19 ♥♥♥♥

Zeeman Effect (12/12)
Z – Author Rebecca Zanetti - Claimed - 6/17/19 ♥♥♥
E – Evelyn David - Zoned for Murder - 9/4/18 ♥♥♥
E - Edwards, Nicole - Bad Business - 9/10/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Madly by Ruthie Knox - 4/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Kristen Ashley - Rock Chick Revolution - 5/14/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Hostage to Pleasure - 5/31/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Breakup - 9/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
F - Far from the Tree by Robin Benway - 2/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
F - Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs - 4/11/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Venom - 9/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases by Cory Franklin - 10/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - To Have and to Hold by Lauren Layne - 7/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

*****CHALLENGE COMPLETE 9/21/19*****

The Big Bang Theory - Part 2

Kepler's First Law (15/15)
K - Kiss the Girls by James Patterson - 3/20/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
P - Playing with Fire by Kate Meader - 7/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Love without a Compass by Lindy Zart - 10/3/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Jill Alexander Essbaum - Hausfrau - 10/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rocky Mountain Angel by Vivian Arend - 10/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Sawyer Bennett - Hawke - 7/28/18 ♥♥♥
F - Festive in Death by J.D. Robb - 2/13/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses by Lisa Scottoline - 7/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Annie Rains - Welcoming the Bad Boy - 10/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Phoef Sutton - Fifteen Minutes to Live - 8/27/18 ♥♥♥
T - Trick or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier - 10/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran - 10/14/18 ♥♥♥
A - Author Jennifer AlLee - A Wild Goose Chase Christmas - 12/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
W - Author Frank Warren - PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives - 5/7/19 ♥♥♥

Lab (3/3)
L – Author Victoria Laurie - Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend - 8/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Ilona Andrews - Magic Rises - 5/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
B - Back Check by Kelly Jamieson - 5/30/19 ♥♥♥♥

Molecule (8/8)
M - Author Jael McHenry - The Kitchen Daughter - 5/28/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh - 6/4/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - 12/7/18 ♥♥
E - Author Ellery Adams - Pecan Pies and Homicides - 10/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Christmas in Kilts by Terri Brisbin - 7/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unlawful Contact by Pamela Clare - 5/11/18 ♥♥♥
L - Author Robert Lacey - The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium - 3/17/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass - 11/8/18 ♥♥♥

Neuroscience (12/12)
N - Author Nicole Michaels - Start Me Up - 8/16/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach - 11/10/18 ♥♥♥
U - Up from the Grave by Jeaniene Frost - 8/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy - 11/29/18 ♥♥♥
O - Only a Promise by Mary Balogh - 10/29/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - Someone like You by Lauren Layne - 9/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Chocolat by Joanne Harris - 7/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - Author Alexandra Ivy - When Darkness Comes - 8/31/18 ♥♥♥
E - An Ex for Christmas by Lauren Layne - 11/13/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nora Roberts - The Hollow - 10/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Author J.H. Croix - When Love Comes - 9/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Look Alive Twenty-Five - 12/19/18 ♥♥♥♥

Observe (7/7)
O - Author Olivia Dade - Hidden Hearts - 1/24/19 ♥♥♥
B - Author Pearl S. Buck - Three Daughters of Madame Liang - 6/8/19 ♥♥♥
S - Six Geese A-Slaying by Donna Andrews - 7/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Spider's Bite - 2/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Renita Pizzitola - Just a Little Kiss - 12/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
V - Author Valerie Bowman - The Accidental Countess - 6/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Katy Evans - Real - 2/9/19 ♥♥♥

Physics (7/7)
P - Author James Patterson - Lifeguard - 1/23/19 ♥♥♥
H - Hard Sell by Lauren Layne - 11/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
Y - You Can't Hurry Love by Lee Kilraine - 8/14/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Samantha Kane - Jacked Up - 9/20/18 ♥♥♥
I - I Dared the Duke by Anna Bennett - 9/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh - 9/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs - 10/2/18 ♥♥♥♥

Quantum State (12/12)
Q - Author Spencer Quinn - The Sound and the Furry - 8/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unseen by Karin Slaughter - 1/15/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Animal Attraction by Jill Shalvis - 1/10/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nurse Smith, Cook by Joyce Dingwell - 12/15/18 ♥♥♥
T - Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris - 11/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unplugged by Lois Greiman - 3/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Author Susan Mallery - Just One Kiss - 12/5/18 ♥♥♥
S - Serena's Plight by Carol Madison - 10/12/18 ♥♥♥
T - Top Shelf by Kelly Jamieson - 1/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil by Nancy Atherton - 1/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tangerine by Christine Mangan - 1/16/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Emma Hart - Stripped Bare - 2/27/19 ♥♥♥♥

Research (8/8)
R - Author J.D. Robb - Concealed in Death - 12/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Eggs in Purgatory by Laura Childs - 2/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Allen Zadoff - Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin - 2/14/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Author Sawyer Bennett - Bishop - 12/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Ilona Andrews and Jeaniene Frost - Magic Graves - 3/10/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author M.L. Rowland - Murder on the Horizon - 1/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Counting Stars by Kathleen Long - 11/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
H - Home for the Holidays by Jeaniene Frost - 12/26/18 ♥♥♥

All done with another spell-out! Thanks for the fun.

The Big Bang Theory
Timeframe: 5/1/18 to 9/21/19
240/240
26/26 Words

Atom (4/4)
A - Author Kristen Ashley - Rock Chick Reckoning - 8/28/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Trying It All by Christi Barth - 7/31/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - Author Molly O'Keefe - Can't Buy Me Love - 7/13/18 ♥♥♥
M - Make It Hurt by Jackie Ashenden - 7/12/18 ♥♥♥

Big Bang (7/7)
B - Body Shot by Kelly Jamieson - 5/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - The Illusion of Separateness by Simon Van Booy - 5/12/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Dorothy Gilman - The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax - 10/23/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
B - Beach Happens by Jamie K. Schmidt - 11/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - All Summer Long by Susan Mallery - 5/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - The Nightingale Sisters by Donna Douglas - 7/6/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author George Plimpton - The X Factor: A Quest for Excellence - 10/24/18 ♥♥♥

Cern Collider (12/12)
C - Author Agatha Christie - Mrs. McGinty's Dead - 6/10/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Emily March - Heartache Falls - 6/12/18 ♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Delusion in Death - 6/9/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
N – Author Nan Asquith - Only My Heart To Give - 6/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - The Crown Prince's Bride by Donna Alward - 6/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Karen E. Olson - Pretty in Ink - 8/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - The Last Suppers by Diane Mott Davidson - 7/7/18 ♥♥♥♥
L – Looking For Rachel Wallace by Robert B. Parker - 6/20/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life by Maria Shriver - 6/7/18 ♥♥♥
D – Down with Love by Kate Meader - 6/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Ellery Adams - Peach Pies and Alibis - 7/8/18 ♥♥♥
R - Author Annie Rains - Forbidden Kisses - 6/15/18 ♥♥♥

Dark Matter (10/10)
D - Author Kyra Davis - Sex, Murder And A Double Latte - 4/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Along Came a Spider by James Patterson - 9/12/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Calculated in Death - 8/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
K - Killer Pancake by Diane Mott Davidson - 11/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
M - Mystery of the Brass-bound Trunk by Carolyn Keene - 8/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch - 9/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Author Tess Gerritsen - Keeper of the Bride - 9/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Erin McCarthy - Dream Maker - 8/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author M.L. Rowland - Murder Off the Beaten Path - 8/11/18 ♥♥♥♥

Energy (6/6)
E - Enemy Lover by Pamela Kent - 7/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nora Roberts - Blood Brothers - 7/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Erin McCarthy - Love Taker - 8/30/18 ♥♥♥
R - Red Delicious Death by Sheila Connolly - 7/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Codi Gary - Don't Call Me Sweetheart - 11/11/18 ♥♥
Y - Author Sabrina York - Spurred On - 7/11/18 ♥♥♥♥

Facts (5/5)
F - The Final Score by Jaci Burton - 6/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Ilona Andrews - Magic Bleeds - 5/31/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - Author Megan Crane - Devil's Own - 5/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Take Me Deeper by Jackie Ashenden - 5/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie - 5/3/18 ♥♥♥♥

Gravity (7/7)
G - Gem & Dixie by Sara Zarr - 11/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Revenge by Kristen Ashley - 6/21/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - The Art of Hiding by Amanda Prowse - 6/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
V - Author Victoria Vane - Hell on Heels - 5/24/18 ♥♥♥
I - It Happened One Wedding by Julie James - 5/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tall, Dark & Hungry by Lynsay Sands - 6/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Author Beth Yarnall - Rush - 6/24/18 ♥♥♥

Hydraulic (9/9)
H - Hot Asset by Lauren Layne - 7/17/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour - 6/25/18 ♥♥♥
D - Death by the Dozen by Jenn McKinlay - 5/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Rochelle Alers - Sweet Silver Bells - 9/23/18 ♥♥
A - Author Donna Andrews - Cockatiels at Seven - 6/28/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until Trevor by Aurora Rose Reynolds - 5/4/18 ♥♥♥
L - Love Me Again by Jaci Burton - 5/7/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - Author Alyssa Rose Ivy - Soar - 5/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun - 6/18/18 ♥♥♥♥

Isotope (7/7)
I - It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot - 6/11/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Author Serena Bell - Do Over - 6/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
O – Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb - 6/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb - 10/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - On the Line by Liz Lincoln - 10/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
P - Author Patricia Briggs - Bone Crossed - 6/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Elin Hilderbrand - The Matchmaker - 9/27/18 ♥♥♥♥

Joule's Law (9/9)
J - Author J.D. Robb - Obsession in Death - 6/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - One Less Problem Without You by Beth Harbison - 6/3/18 ♥♥♥
U - The Unexpected Duchess by Valerie Bowman - 5/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Love Struck by Laurelin McGee - 5/9/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Author Emily March - Lover's Leap - 10/13/18 ♥♥♥
S - Author Sandra Brown - Breakfast in Bed - 6/6/18 ♥♥♥
L - L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton - 5/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis - 11/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
W - Wrangled and Tangled by Lorelei James - 3/11/19 ♥♥♥♥

ASTRONOMY - Part 3

Quasar (6/6)
Q - Author Spencer Quinn - The Sound and the Furry - 8/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - The Unsung Hero by Suzanne Brockmann - 4/30/19 ♥♥♥
A - The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - 10/23/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs - 10/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis - 11/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy - 11/29/18 ♥♥♥

Rings (5/5)
R - Author Nora Roberts - The Pagan Stone - 3/9/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - Iceberg by Robyn Donald - 4/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - No One to Trust by Katie Reus - 3/6/19 ♥♥♥
G - Author Donna Grant - The Christmas Cowboy Hero - 1/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Sex, Murder And A Double Latte by Kyra Davis - 4/5/19 ♥♥♥♥

Space (5/5)
S - Author Jill Shalvis - Rumor Has It - 5/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
P - Paw and Order by Spencer Quinn - 2/20/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Annie Rains - Stolen Kisses - 4/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Cancun by Kimberly Fox - 3/27/19 ♥♥♥
E - Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places - 4/3/19 ♥♥♥♥

Telescope (9/9)
T - Then Came You by Jill Shalvis - 6/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Tracy Ewens - Candidate - 4/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Leslie Meier - Back to School Murder - 4/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author E.L. Konigsburg - The View from Saturday - 5/4/19 ♥♥♥
S - Author Sawyer Bennett - Max - 5/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Author J.H. Croix - Follow Love - 5/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys - 5/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
P - Author Ross Petras - You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--And Their Tangled Histories of Misuse - 5/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
E – Author Erin S. Riley - Odin's Shadow - 9/11/18 ♥♥♥♥

Universe (8/8)
U - Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity by Ross Petras - 6/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nora Roberts - The Hollow - 10/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Slays - 11/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
V - Victoria Laurie - Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend - 8/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - An Ex for Christmas by Lauren Layne - 11/13/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Concealed in Death - 12/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - Serena's Plight by Carol Madison - 10/12/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Look Alive Twenty-Five - 12/19/18 ♥♥♥♥

Vacuum (6/6)
V - Vina Jackson - The Pleasure Quartet: Autumn - 8/24/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Jennifer AlLee - A Wild Goose Chase Christmas - 12/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
C - Counting Stars by Kathleen Long - 11/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel - 7/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - The Unwilling Executive by Miranda P. Charles - 7/25/19 ♥♥♥
M - My Addiction by Cassie Ryan - 3/22/19 ♥♥♥

Wavelength (10/10)
W - Author Frank Warren - PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives - 5/7/19 ♥♥♥
A - Author Kristen Ashley - Rock Chick Revolution - 5/14/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
V - Venom by Jennifer Estep - 9/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
E – Evelyn David - Zoned for Murder - 9/4/18 ♥♥♥
L - Love Letters by Debbie Macomber - 5/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Hoyt - Dearest Rogue - 6/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - The Nightingale Nurses by Donna Douglas - 5/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Roxane Gay - Difficult Women - 5/29/19 ♥♥♥
T - Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck - 6/8/19 ♥♥♥
H - Author Sloane Howell - Scored - 5/12/19 ♥♥♥♥

X - Galaxy (6/6)
G - Gem & Dixie by Sara Zarr - 11/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil by Nancy Atherton - 1/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Leanne Banks - The You-Can't-Make-Me Bride - 4/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Ilona Andrews - Magic Rises - 5/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
X - X Marks the Spot by Opal Carew - 8/17/18 ♥♥♥
Y - You Can't Hurry Love by Lee Kilraine - 8/14/18 ♥♥♥♥

Y - Observatory (11/11)
O - The Other Side by J.D. Robb - 3/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
B - Author Robin Benway - Far from the Tree - 2/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Nalini Singh - Mine to Possess - 1/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Back to the Bedroom - 7/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author M.L. Rowland - Murder on the Horizon - 1/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
V - Author Donna VanLiere - The Christmas Star - 12/31/18 ♥♥♥
A – Author Donna Andrews - Six Geese A-Slaying - 7/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris - 11/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Death, Nine Stories by Marc Aronson - 4/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rescue My Heart by Jill Shalvis - 3/26/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - You Will Be Mine by Natasha Preston - 9/18/18 ♥♥♥

Z - Azimuth (7/7)
A – Allen Zadoff - Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin - 2/14/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
Z – Author Rebecca Zanetti - Claimed - 6/17/19 ♥♥♥
I - I Think I Love You by Lauren Layne - 12/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
M - Madly by Ruthie Knox - 4/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Untamed by Caitlin Crews - 8/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Top Shelf by Kelly Jamieson - 1/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - Author Sidney Halston - Kiss Me Back - 2/23/19 ♥♥♥

*****CHALLENGE COMPLETE 9/18/19*****

ASTRONOMY - Part 2

Hypernova (9/9)
H - Hawke by Sawyer Bennett - 7/28/18 ♥♥♥
Y - You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour - 6/25/18 ♥♥♥
P - Playing with Fire by Kate Meader - 7/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Enemy Lover by Pamela Kent - 7/31/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Red Delicious Death by Sheila Connolly - 7/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Visions of Heat - 7/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Olivia Dade - Hidden Hearts - 1/24/19 ♥♥♥
V - Valerie Bowman - The Accidental Countess - 6/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Jackie Ashenden - Make It Hurt - 7/12/18 ♥♥♥

Interstellar (12/12)
I - I Dared the Duke by Anna Bennett - 9/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nicole Michaels - Start Me Up - 8/16/18 ♥♥♥
T - Tess Gerritsen - Keeper of the Bride - 9/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Ellery Adams - Pecan Pies and Homicides - 10/30/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rocky Mountain Angel by Vivian Arend - 10/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - Samantha Kane - Jacked Up - 9/20/18 ♥♥♥
T - Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb - 10/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass - 11/8/18 ♥♥♥
L - The Light Within by Yvonne Whittal - 11/30/18 ♥♥♥
L - Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - 12/7/18 ♥♥
A - Annie Rains - Welcoming the Bad Boy - 10/20/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rochelle Alers - Sweet Silver Bells - 9/23/18 ♥♥

Jet (3/3)
J - Author Kelly Jamieson - Back Check - 5/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Spider's Bite - 2/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tangerine by Christine Mangan - 1/16/19 ♥♥♥♥

Kepler's First Law (15/15)
K - Kiss the Girls by James Patterson - 3/20/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Katy Evans - Real - 2/9/19 ♥♥♥
P - Author James Patterson - Lifeguard - 1/23/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lora Leigh - Rugged Texas Cowboy - 2/11/19 ♥♥♥
E - Emma Hart - Stripped Bare - 2/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Regret by Kristen Ashley - 2/24/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Snowflakes, Iced Cakes and Second Chances by Sue Watson - 1/25/19 ♥♥♥
F - Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs - 4/11/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews and Jeaniene Frost - Magic Graves - 3/10/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rebecca Zanetti - Fated - 3/4/19 ♥♥♥
S - Stacey Lynn - Fake Wife - 3/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Take the Fall by Marquita Valentine - 3/19/19 ♥♥
L - Lauren Hammond - 12 Rounds- 2/17/19 ♥♥♥
A - Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage by M.C. Beaton - 3/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
W - Wrangled and Tangled by Lorelei James - 3/11/19 ♥♥♥♥

Lightyear (9/9)
L - Author Jessica Lemmon - A Snowbound Scandal - 12/28/18 ♥♥♥
I - I Knew You Were Trouble by Lauren Layne - 11/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
G - Author Codi Gary - Don't Call Me Sweetheart - 11/11/18 ♥♥
H – Author Greer Hendricks - The Wife Between Us - 6/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Trick or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier - 10/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Author Sabrina York - Spurred On - 7/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach - 11/10/18 ♥♥♥
A - Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Nora Roberts - Blood Brothers - 7/30/18 ♥♥♥♥

Moon (4/4)
M - Meant to Be by Maggie McGinnis - 3/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Karen E. Olson - Driven to Ink - 2/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie - 3/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nurse Smith, Cook by Joyce Dingwell - 12/15/18 ♥♥♥

Nebula (6/6)
N - Nancy Martin - Dead Girls Don't Wear Diamonds - 1/4/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Eggs in Purgatory by Laura Childs - 2/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
B - Author Valerie Bowman - Never Trust a Pirate - 2/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unplugged by Lois Greiman - 3/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Robert Lacey - The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium - 3/17/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Animal Attraction by Jill Shalvis - 1/10/19 ♥♥♥♥

Orbit (5/5)
O - One Day in December by Josie Silver - 5/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Royal Pain by Tracy Wolff - 6/4/19 ♥♥♥
B - Beth Yarnall - Rush - 6/24/18 ♥♥♥
I - Isobel Chace - To Marry a Tiger - 4/20/19 ♥♥
T - Ten Tiny Breaths by K.A. Tucker - 4/12/19 ♥♥♥

Planet (6/6)
P - Patricia Briggs - River Marked - 1/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lynsay Sands - A Bite to Remember - 3/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Celia Aaron - Cleat Chaser - 4/10/19 ♥♥
N - Nancy Martin - Some Like it Lethal - 1/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - The End of Everything by Megan Abbott - 3/31/19 ♥♥
T - Tracy Wolff - Hot & Heavy - 3/24/19 ♥♥♥♥

I finished up with another spell-out challenge. Thanks for another great theme!

ASTRONOMY
Timeframe: 6/1/18 to 9/18/19
210/210
26/26 Words

Astronomy (9/9)
A - The Art of Hiding by Amanda Prowse - 6/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Sandra Brown - Breakfast in Bed - 6/6/18 ♥♥♥
T - Tall, Dark & Hungry by Lynsay Sands - 6/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Delusion in Death - 6/9/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - One Less Problem Without You by Beth Harbison - 6/3/18 ♥♥♥
N - The Nightingale Sisters by Donna Douglas - 7/6/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh - 6/4/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
M - Author Susan Mallery - Just One Kiss - 12/5/18 ♥♥♥
Y – Author Yeonmi Park - In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom - 5/18/19 ♥♥♥

Black hole (9/9)
B - Beach Happens by Jamie K. Schmidt - 11/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Laura Drewry - How Forever Feels - 8/10/18 ♥♥♥
A - Author Kristen Ashley - Rock Chick Reckoning - 8/28/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - Author Carolyn Keene - Mystery of the Brass-bound Trunk - 8/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
K - Killer Pancake by Diane Mott Davidson - 11/21/18 ♥♥♥♥
H - Home for the Holidays by Jeaniene Frost - 12/26/18 ♥♥♥
O - Author Karen E. Olson - Pretty in Ink - 8/8/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Love without a Compass by Lindy Zart - 10/3/18 ♥♥♥
E - Author Erin McCarthy - Dream Maker - 8/21/18 ♥♥♥♥

Cosmos (6/6)
C - Chocolat by Joanne Harris - 7/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
O - Author Molly O'Keefe - Can't Buy Me Love - 7/13/18 ♥♥♥
S - Author Serena Bell - Do Over - 6/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
M - Author Maggie McGinnis - A Cowboy's Christmas Promise - 12/24/18 ♥♥♥♥
O – Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb - 6/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S – Author Nalini Singh - Hostage to Pleasure - 5/31/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Deep space (9/9)
D – Down with Love by Kate Meader - 6/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Elin Hilderbrand - The Matchmaker - 9/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Emily March - Lover's Leap - 10/13/18 ♥♥♥
P - Author Phoef Sutton - Fifteen Minutes to Live - 8/27/18 ♥♥♥
S - Someone like You by Lauren Layne - 9/2/18 ♥♥♥♥
P - Author Renita Pizzitola - Just a Little Kiss - 12/11/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Alexandra Ivy - When Darkness Comes - 8/31/18 ♥♥♥
C - Author J.H. Croix - When Love Comes - 9/5/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit - 10/21/18 ♥♥♥♥

Elliptical orbit (15/15)
E - Author Emily March - Heartache Falls - 6/12/18 ♥♥♥
L - Author Lilian Jackson Braun - The Cat Who Saw Red - 6/18/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - The Last Suppers by Diane Mott Davidson - 7/7/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - I've Been Thinking . . .Reflections, Prayers, and Meditations for a Meaningful Life by Maria Shriver - 6/7/18 ♥♥♥
P - Author Patricia Briggs - Bone Crossed - 6/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Author Terri Brisbin - Christmas in Kilts - 7/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet by James Herriot - 6/11/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - Author Agatha Christie - Mrs. McGinty's Dead - 6/10/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Donna Alward - The Crown Prince's Bride - 6/13/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Lauren Layne - Hot Asset - 7/17/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - On the Line by Liz Lincoln - 10/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Annie Rains - Forbidden Kisses - 6/15/18 ♥♥♥
B - Author Jaci Burton - The Final Score - 6/27/18 ♥♥♥♥
I - I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses by Lisa Scottoline - 7/25/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - Trying It All by Christi Barth - 7/31/18 ♥♥♥♥♥

Flare (5/5)
F - Festive in Death by J.D. Robb - 2/13/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Love Taker by Erin McCarthy - 8/30/18 ♥♥♥
A - Author Donna Andrews - Cockatiels at Seven - 6/28/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Revenge by Kristen Ashley - 6/21/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Author Ellery Adams - Peach Pies and Alibis - 7/8/18 ♥♥♥

Globular Cluster (15/15)
G - Author George Plimpton - The X Factor: A Quest for Excellence - 10/24/18 ♥♥♥
L - Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran - 10/14/18 ♥♥♥
O - Only a Promise by Mary Balogh - 10/29/18 ♥♥♥♥
B - Bishop by Sawyer Bennett - 12/3/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Up from the Grave by Jeaniene Frost - 8/15/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - The Legendary Lord by Valerie Bowman - 11/23/18 ♥♥♥♥
A - Along Came a Spider by James Patterson - 9/12/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Calculated in Death - 8/7/18 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases by Cory Franklin - 10/16/18 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Lauren Layne - Hard Sell - 11/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unseen by Karin Slaughter - 1/15/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Author Nalini Singh - Caressed by Ice - 9/19/18 ♥♥♥♥
T - The 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch - 9/9/18 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jill Alexander Essbaum - Hausfrau - 10/26/18 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author M.L. Rowland - Murder Off the Beaten Path - 8/11/18 ♥♥♥♥

Pizza - Part 3

Sausage (7/7)
S - Saving Grapes by J.T. Lundy - 5/13/20 ♥♥
A - Ally Carter - Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy - 8/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unmanageable by Lavinia Kent - 8/5/20 ♥♥♥
S - Storm Front by Jim Butcher - 6/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Andrews, Ilona - Gunmetal Magic - 8/23/20 ♥♥♥♥
G - Gerritsen, Tess - The Surgeon - 6/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - 6/18/20 ♥♥♥

Tomato (6/6)
T - Trish McCallan - Forged in Smoke - 5/20/20 ♥♥♥
O - Once Upon a Valentine's by Holly Jacobs - 4/7/20 ♥♥♥
M - Mail Order Outlaw by Cynthia Woolf - 5/3/20 ♥♥♥
A - All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark - 8/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Ten Things I Love About You by Julia Quinn - 8/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - The Other Woman by Sandie Jones - 4/28/20 ♥♥♥♥

U - Mushrooms (9/9)
M - Misconduct by Samantha Kane - 8/8/20 ♥♥♥♥
U - Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley - 8/16/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz - 7/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
H - Huge Deal by Lauren Layne - 10/5/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rosenfelt, David - First Degree - 7/13/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - On September Hill by Leigh Michaels - 7/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Opal Carew - Stroke of Luck - 8/14/20 ♥♥♥
M - Madeleine L'Engle - A Wind in the Door - 8/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shannon Stacey - Flare Up - 7/25/20 ♥♥♥

Veggies (7/7)
V - Valerie by Debbie Macomber - 7/26/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - The English Assassin by Daniel Silva - 7/16/20 ♥♥♥
G - The Girl in the Corner by Amanda Prowse - 7/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
G - Gornall, Louise - Under Rose-Tainted Skies - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ice Hot by Tracy Goodwin - 8/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Erma Bombeck - Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession - 7/23/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty - 9/17/20 ♥♥♥

Wood Fired (9/9)
W - What Happens in London by Julia Quinn - 5/10/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - Olivia Drake - Stroke of Midnight - 9/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only Beloved by Mary Balogh - 9/19/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
D - Dallen, Maggie - Her Leading Hero - 8/10/20 ♥♥♥
F - Fishing with RayAnne by Ava Finch - 9/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - If the Slipper Fits by Olivia Drake - 7/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Richard Yancey - The Highly Effective Detective - 8/12/20 ♥♥♥
E - Evanovich, Janet - Twisted Twenty-Six - 6/20/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Danielle Steel - Loving - 9/13/20 ♥♥♥♥

X - Extra Cheese (11/11)
E - Ewens, Tracy - Taste - 7/31/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
X - X, Monique - Sugar: My Life as a Sugar Babe - 4/9/20 ♥♥♥
T - Taking a Chance by Maggie McGinnis - 9/12/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Reborn by Kristen Ashley - 8/30/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ashley, Kristen - Rock Chick Reawakening - 5/12/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - Cowboy Stole My Heart by Soraya M. Lane - 9/10/20 ♥♥♥♥
H - The Heartbreaker by Carly Phillips - 6/23/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Elliott Roosevelt - The Hyde Park Murder - 8/15/20 ♥♥♥
E - Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin - 8/20/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Secrets in Death by J.D. Robb - 5/5/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Elle Casey - Wrong Place, Right Time - 9/26/20 ♥♥♥♥

Yummy (5/5)
Y - The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders - 9/14/19 ♥♥♥
U - Under Control by Shannon Stacey - 9/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Marie Force - Fatal Justice - 10/9/19 ♥♥♥
M - My Kind of Wonderful by Jill Shalvis - 10/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Yoerg, Sonja - The Middle of Somewhere - 7/10/20 ♥♥♥

Z - Mozzarella (10/10)
M - The Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene - 2/12/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - The Other Side of the Dale by Gervase Phinn - 11/17/19 ♥♥♥
Z - Zo White and the Seven Morphs by Barbara Silkstone - 11/12/19 ♥♥♥
Z - Zachary, Mia - 9 1/2 Days - 5/6/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - All I Want by Jill Shalvis - 2/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D.17065 - Leverage in Death - 9/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Hoyt - Sweetest Scoundrel - 2/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Lisa Jackson - You Don't Want To Know - 7/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lawrence Block - Burglars Can't Be Choosers - 8/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alexander, Lacey - French Quarter - 12/8/19 ♥♥♥

*******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 10/5/20********

Pizza - Part 2

K - Steak (5/5)
S - Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning - 10/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tribute by Nora Roberts - 1/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Chase - Sustained - 11/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Anne Hampson - Eternal Summer - 11/14/19 ♥♥♥
K - Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline - 9/4/20 ♥♥♥♥

L - Meatball (8/8)
M - My Favorite Cowboy by Donna Grant - 3/24/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Spann Craig - A Body in the Backyard - 4/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Archer, Gillian - Reluctantly Royal - 5/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center - 3/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
B - Below Deck by Tara Sivec - 5/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Archer, Gillian - Resilient - 5/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lavinia Kent - Unsuitable - 4/18/20 ♥♥♥
L - Lynne Reid Banks - Tiger, Tiger - 5/27/20 ♥♥♥♥

Marinara (8/8)
M - Maureen Johnson - 13 Little Blue Envelopes - 6/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alcott, Kate - The Daring Ladies of Lowell - 6/4/20 ♥♥♥
R – Robin McKinley - Water - 9/24/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Into the Fire by Amanda Usen - 5/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - N.L. Wilson - The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen - 5/28/20 ♥♥♥
A - Andrews, Ilona - Magic Shifts - 6/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Dark in Death - 6/12/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Brashares - Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood - 7/27/20 ♥♥♥♥

N - Onion (5/5)
O - One Pink Line by Dina Silver - 3/21/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nobody But You by Jill Shalvis - 6/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Isabella Bradford - When You Wish Upon a Duke - 3/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt - 4/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Nancy Brophy - Hell On The Heart - 8/27/20 ♥♥♥

O - Black Olives (11/11)
B - Blackmail by Anna James Watson - 7/18/20 ♥♥♥
L - A Lover's Secret by Bethany Bloom - 3/16/20 ♥♥
A - Appealed by Emma Chase - 2/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
C - Circe by Madeline Miller - 5/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
K - Kilraine, Lee - Bringing Delaney Home - 11/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Old Enough to Know Better by Vicki Lewis Thompson - 12/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Laura Lippman - Sunburn - 6/27/20 ♥♥♥
I - I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter - 3/7/20 ♥♥♥
V - Valentine, Marquita - Hard to Fall - 4/23/20 ♥♥
E - Ever After by Phyllis A. Whitney - 1/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn - 12/16/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Pineapple (9/9)
P - Paige Shelton - Fruit of All Evil - 5/16/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Bag by Kate Klise - 5/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - Nathan Belofsky - Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages - 9/21/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Douglas - A Season of You - 5/24/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ava Dellaira - Love Letters to the Dead - 7/30/20 ♥♥♥
P - Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie - 9/2/20 ♥♥♥
P - Poor Little Daddy's Girl by Normandie Alleman - 9/27/20 ♥♥
L - Louise Penny - A Fatal Grace - 7/9/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Douglas - No Place Like You - 6/2/20 ♥♥♥♥

Q - BBQ Sauce (8/8)
B - Braun, Lilian Jackson - The Cat Who Played Brahms - 7/21/20 ♥♥♥♥
B - Braun, Lilian Jackson - The Cat Who Played Post Office - 8/4/20 ♥♥♥♥
Q - Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion - 11/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shel Silverstein - Falling Up - 11/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Angel in Scarlet by Lavinia Kent - 12/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unscrewed by Lois Greiman - 10/24/19 ♥♥♥
C - Cold Heart, Warm Cowboy by Caitlin Crews - 6/8/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs by Mark Brown - 11/21/19 ♥♥♥

Roasted Red Pepper (16/16)
R - Roman by Sawyer Bennett - 1/26/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Oke, Janette - When Comes the Spring - 3/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 2/26/20 ♥♥♥
S - Still the One by Jill Shalvis - 12/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Then Came You by Kate Meader - 4/26/20 ♥♥♥
E - Educated by Tara Westover - 1/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Dear Santa by Karen Templeton - 4/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Reid, Henrietta - Sister of the Bride - 3/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - 1/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Darynda Jones - The Trouble with Twelfth Grave - 6/22/20 ♥♥♥♥
P - The Playboy by Carly Phillips - 4/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Hart - Stripped Down - 2/4/20 ♥♥♥♥
P - Patricia Briggs - Fire Touched - 4/20/20 ♥♥♥♥
P - Private by James Patterson - 4/30/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Echoes in Death by J.D. Robb - 2/23/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Rena Young - Catch A Falling Star - 4/15/20 ♥♥♥

Yummy! I'm going for 26 different toppings.

PIZZA!
Timeframe: 9/1/19 to 10/5/20
200/200
26/26 Pizza Words

Artichoke (9/9)
A - Aunt Dimity: Detective by Nancy Atherton - 9/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Brotherhood in Death - 10/30/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Troutte, Kimberley - Forbidden Lovers - 9/7/19 ♥♥♥
I - Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson - 9/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Caitlin Crews - A True Cowboy Christmas - 10/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
H - Halston, Sidney - What About Us - 9/17/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once a Moretti Wife by Michelle Smart - 9/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
K - Kellam, Latesha - The Match Disaster - 6/6/20 ♥♥
E - Edwards, Nicole - Bad Business - 9/10/19 ♥♥♥♥

Bacon (5/5)
B - Bolt by Dick Francis - 10/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Marie Walker - Black Tie Optional - 9/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Crystal Green - When the Sun Goes Down... - 11/7/19 ♥♥♥
O - Olivia Drake - His Wicked Wish - 9/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - No Interest in Love by Cassie Mae - 11/22/19 ♥♥♥

Chicken (7/7)
C - Cristin Cooper - Until Now - 1/12/20 ♥♥♥
H - Heir to a Dark Inheritance by Maisey Yates - 2/20/20 ♥♥♥
I - The Inherited Bride by Rebecca Stratton - 11/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - 2/9/20 ♥♥
K - Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue - 8/2/20 ♥♥♥
E - Emily March - Nightingale Way - 12/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nancy Naigle - Dear Santa - 12/27/19 ♥♥♥

Deep Dish (8/8)
D - Dark Heritage by Yvonne Whittal - 11/11/19 ♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Breakup - 9/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Venom - 9/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
P - Playing Hurt by Kelly Jamieson - 10/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - Disintegration by Richard Thomas - 3/8/20 ♥♥♥
I - In the Mood Fur Love by Eve Langlais - 10/17/19 ♥♥♥
S - Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris - 9/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - Holt, Desiree - Fourth Down - 3/27/20 ♥♥♥♥

Eggplant (8/8)
E - Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 10/25/19 ♥♥
G - Grafton, Sue - M is for Malice - 2/13/20 ♥♥♥♥
G - Gallant, Jannine - Wilde One - 2/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
P - Patricia Briggs - Night Broken - 2/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
L – Leslie Meier - Valentine Murder - 9/9/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Archer, Gillian - Rebellious - 10/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Blaze of Memory - 4/2/20 ♥♥♥
T - Tina Wainscott - Falling Free - 11/28/19 ♥♥♥♥

Feta (4/4)
F - Forged in Ember by Trish McCallan - 7/4/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones - 3/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - Treading Water by Marie Force - 3/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood - 3/5/20 ♥♥♥♥

Garlic (6/6)
G - Grant, Donna - A Cowboy Like You - 4/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Anita Hughes - Christmas at the Chalet: A Novel - 12/20/19 ♥♥♥
R - Rodriguez, Deborah - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - 12/19/19 ♥♥♥
L – Lucas by Sawyer Bennett - 9/20/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass - 12/9/19 ♥♥♥
C - Center, Katherine - What You Wish For - 4/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Ham (3/3)
H - How to Walk Away by Katherine Center - 5/19/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Alex Michaelides - The Silent Patient - 3/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
M - The Marrying Kind by Jean Carew - 3/10/20 ♥♥♥♥

I - Broccoli (8/8)
B - Bonecrack by Dick Francis - 11/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - R.A. Scotti - Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa - 1/5/20 ♥♥♥
O - Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley Okines - 10/4/19 ♥♥♥
C - The Clue in the Old Stagecoach by Carolyn Keene - 11/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - 5/9/20 ♥♥♥
O - Only a Kiss by Mary Balogh - 11/4/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers - 11/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - In a Marrying Mood by Raye Morgan - 11/3/19 ♥♥♥♥

Jalapeno (8/8)
J - Julianne MacLean - The Color of Heaven - 9/22/20 ♥♥♥
A - Apprentice in Death by J.D. Robb - 1/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Lynsay Sands - Bite Me If You Can - 3/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Andrews, Ilona - Magic Breaks - 1/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
P - Password to Larkspur Lane by Carolyn Keene - 3/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Tangled Threads - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Normandie Alleman - Daddy's Game - 5/23/20 ♥♥♥
O - One of These Nights by Susan Sizemore - 12/14/19 ♥♥♥♥

THE BEACH - Part 2

N - Snorkle (7/7)
S - Sandie Jones - The Other Woman - 4/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - 9 1/2 Days by Mia Zachary - 5/6/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Oke, Janette - When Comes the Spring - 3/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Roman by Sawyer Bennett - 1/26/20 ♥♥♥♥
K - Katherine Center - What You Wish For - 4/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Lavinia Kent - Unsuitable - 4/18/20 ♥♥♥
E - Ever After by Phyllis A. Whitney - 1/14/20 ♥♥♥♥

Ocean (5/5)
O - One Pink Line by Dina Silver - 3/21/20 ♥♥♥♥
C - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - 5/9/20 ♥♥♥
E - Echoes in Death by J.D. Robb - 2/23/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 2/26/20 ♥♥♥
N - Normandie Alleman - Daddy's Game - 5/23/20 ♥♥♥

Pier (4/4)
P - Private by James Patterson - 4/30/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Bag by Kate Klise - 5/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones - 3/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Reid, Henrietta - Sister of the Bride - 3/3/20 ♥♥♥♥

Q - Tranquil (8/8)
T - Then Came You by Kate Meader - 4/26/20 ♥♥♥
R - Rodriguez, Deborah - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - 12/19/19 ♥♥♥
A - Alexander, Lacey - French Quarter - 12/8/19 ♥♥♥
N - N.L. Wilson - The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen - 5/28/20 ♥♥♥
Q - Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion - 11/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until Now by Cristin Cooper - 1/12/20 ♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Shifts - 6/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Lundy, J.T. - Saving Grapes - 5/13/20 ♥♥

Radio (5/5)
R - Rosenfelt, David - Open and Shut - 4/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Archer, Gillian - Reluctantly Royal - 5/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Dear Santa by Karen Templeton - 4/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - If the Slipper Fits by Olivia Drake - 7/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once Upon a Valentine's by Holly Jacobs - 4/7/20 ♥♥♥

Sand (4/4)
S - Storm Front by Jim Butcher - 6/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Archer, Gillian - Rebellious - 10/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nobody But You by Jill Shalvis - 6/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Dark in Death by J.D. Robb - 6/12/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Towels (6/6)
T - Tara Sivec - Below Deck - 5/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - One of These Nights by Susan Sizemore - 12/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
W - When the Sun Goes Down... by Crystal Green - 11/7/19 ♥♥♥
E - Emma Chase - Sustained - 11/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Lynne Reid Banks - Tiger, Tiger - 5/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shel Silverstein - Falling Up - 11/25/19 ♥♥♥♥

Umbrella (8/8)
U - Unmanageable by Lavinia Kent - 8/5/20 ♥♥♥
M - Mail Order Outlaw by Cynthia Woolf - 5/3/20 ♥♥♥
B - Bonecrack by Dick Francis - 11/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Secrets in Death - 5/5/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Douglas - A Season of You - 5/24/20 ♥♥♥♥
L - Latesha Kellam - The Match Disaster - 6/6/20 ♥♥
L - Laura Lippman - Sunburn - 6/27/20 ♥♥♥
A - Archer, Gillian - Resilient - 5/31/20 ♥♥♥♥

V - Waves (5/5)
W - Wilde One by Jannine Gallant - 2/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - All I Want by Jill Shalvis - 2/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
V - Vicki Lewis Thompson - Old Enough to Know Better - 12/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Hoyt - Sweetest Scoundrel - 2/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Shelton, Paige - Fruit of All Evil - 5/16/20 ♥♥♥♥

Water (5/5)
W - What Happens in London by Julia Quinn - 5/10/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Alcott, Kate - The Daring Ladies of Lowell - 6/4/20 ♥♥♥
T - Trish McCallan - Forged in Smoke - 5/20/20 ♥♥♥
E - Emma Douglas - No Place Like You - 6/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Reawakening by Kristen Ashley - 5/12/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

X - Relax (5/5)
R - Rena Young - Catch A Falling Star - 4/15/20 ♥♥♥
E - Evanovich, Janet - Twisted Twenty-Six - 6/20/20 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lisa Lutz - The Spellmans Strike Again - 7/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Amanda Prowse - The Girl in the Corner - 7/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
X - X, Monique - Sugar: My Life as a Sugar Babe - 4/9/20 ♥♥♥

Y - Fly a kite (8/8)
F - Fforde, Jasper - The Eyre Affair - 6/18/20 ♥♥♥
L - Leigh Michaels - On September Hill - 7/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Yvonne Whittal - Dark Heritage - 11/11/19 ♥♥♥
A - Anita Hughes - Christmas at the Chalet: A Novel - 12/20/19 ♥♥♥
K - Katherine Center - How to Walk Away - 5/19/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Gunmetal Magic - 8/23/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson - 6/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs by Mark Brown - 11/21/19 ♥♥♥

Z - Lazy Days (8/8)
L - Louise Penny - A Fatal Grace - 7/9/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood - 3/5/20 ♥♥♥♥
Z - Zo White and the Seven Morphs by Barbara Silkstone - 11/12/19 ♥♥♥
Y – Yoerg, Sonja - The Middle of Somewhere - 7/10/20 ♥♥♥
D - Donna Grant - My Favorite Cowboy - 3/24/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alex Michaelides - The Silent Patient - 3/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Yates, Maisey - Heir to a Dark Inheritance - 2/20/20 ♥♥♥
S - The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn - 12/16/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 8/23/20******

I'm still hanging on to summer for a little longer! I'm going to do my usual A-Z spell-out, with an open-ended competion date.

THE BEACH
Timeframe: 9/1/19 to 8/23/20
154/154
26/26 Words

A - Tan (3/3)
T - Troutte, Kimberley - Forbidden Lovers - 9/7/19 ♥♥♥
A - Aunt Dimity: Detective by Nancy Atherton - 9/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - No Interest in Love by Cassie Mae - 11/22/19 ♥♥♥

Bathing Suit (11/11)
B - Bolt by Dick Francis - 10/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Marie Walker - Black Tie Optional - 9/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - A True Cowboy Christmas by Caitlin Crews - 10/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
H - Halston, Sidney - What About Us - 9/17/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson - 9/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nightingale Way by Emily March - 12/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Grafton, Sue - M is for Malice - 2/13/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris - 9/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Under Control by Shannon Stacey - 9/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Mood Fur Love by Eve Langlais - 10/17/19 ♥♥♥
T - Tina Wainscott - Falling Free - 11/28/19 ♥♥♥♥

Chair (5/5)
C - Carly Phillips - The Playboy - 4/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
H - Hart, Emma - Stripped Down - 2/4/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Apprentice in Death by J.D. Robb - 1/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Breaks - 1/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - R.A. Scotti - Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa - 1/5/20 ♥♥♥

Drinks (6/6)
D – Darynda Jones - The Trouble with Twelfth Grave - 6/22/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Brotherhood in Death - 10/30/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - In a Marrying Mood by Raye Morgan - 11/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nancy Naigle - Dear Santa - 12/27/19 ♥♥♥
K - Kelly Jamieson - Playing Hurt - 10/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shalvis, Jill - My Kind of Wonderful - 10/28/19 ♥♥♥♥

E - Beach (5/5)
B - A Body in the Backyard by Elizabeth Spann Craig - 4/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Edwards, Nicole - Bad Business - 9/10/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Anne Hampson - Eternal Summer - 11/14/19 ♥♥♥
C - The Clue in the Old Stagecoach by Carolyn Keene - 11/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 - 2/9/20 ♥♥

Fish (4/4)
F - Fatal Justice by Marie Force - 10/9/19 ♥♥♥
I - The Inherited Bride by Rebecca Stratton - 11/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning - 10/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
H – The Heartbreaker by Carly Phillips - 6/23/20 ♥♥♥♥

Gull (4/4)
G - Grant, Donna - A Cowboy Like You - 4/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unscrewed by Lois Greiman - 10/24/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lee Kilraine - Bringing Delaney Home - 11/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers - 11/23/19 ♥♥♥♥

High Tide (8/8)
H - Holt, Desiree - Fourth Down - 3/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass - 12/9/19 ♥♥♥
G - Gerritsen, Tess - The Surgeon - 6/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
H - Hard to Fall by Marquita Valentine - 4/23/20 ♥♥
T – Trish McCallan - Forged in Ember - 7/4/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter - 3/7/20 ♥♥♥
D - Dorothy Gilman - The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax - 1/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Venom - 9/18/19 ♥♥♥♥

Island (6/6)
I - Isabella Bradford - When You Wish Upon a Duke - 3/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Still the One by Jill Shalvis - 12/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Louise Gornall - Under Rose-Tainted Skies - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Appealed by Emma Chase - 2/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Night Broken by Patricia Briggs - 2/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Disintegration by Richard Thomas - 3/8/20 ♥♥♥

Jetty (5/5)
J - Jean Carew - The Marrying Kind - 3/10/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Breakup - 9/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tribute by Nora Roberts - 1/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders - 9/14/19 ♥♥♥

Kelp (4/4)
K - Keene, Carolyn - The Mystery at Lilac Inn - 2/12/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 10/25/19 ♥♥
L - Lynsay Sands - Bite Me If You Can - 3/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
P - Password to Larkspur Lane by Carolyn Keene - 3/15/20 ♥♥♥♥

Lotion (6/6)
L - A Lover's Secret by Bethany Bloom - 3/16/20 ♥♥
O - Once a Moretti Wife by Michelle Smart - 9/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tara Westover - Educated - 1/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Into the Fire by Amanda Usen - 5/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Olivia Drake - His Wicked Wish - 9/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Blaze of Memory - 4/2/20 ♥♥♥

Motorboat (9/9)
M – Madeline Miller - Circe - 5/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley Okines - 10/4/19 ♥♥♥
T - Treading Water by Marie Force - 3/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Only a Kiss by Mary Balogh - 11/4/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R – Rosenfelt, David - First Degree - 7/13/20 ♥♥♥♥
B - Briggs, Patricia - Fire Touched - 4/20/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - The Other Side of the Dale by Gervase Phinn - 11/17/19 ♥♥♥
A - Angel in Scarlet by Lavinia Kent - 12/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center - 3/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Farm to Table - Part 2

Nutrient (8/8)
N - 9 1/2 Days by Mia Zachary - 5/6/20 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unsuitable by Lavinia Kent - 4/18/20 ♥♥♥
T - Treading Water by Marie Force - 3/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rena Young - Catch A Falling Star - 4/15/20 ♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Breaks - 1/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Educated by Tara Westover - 1/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - N.L. Wilson - The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen - 5/28/20 ♥♥♥
T - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center - 3/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Okra (4/4)
O - The Other Woman by Sandie Jones - 4/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
K - Katherine Center - How to Walk Away - 5/19/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Secrets in Death - 5/5/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Alleman, Normandie - Daddy's Game - 5/23/20 ♥♥♥

Pitchfork (9/9)
P - Private by James Patterson - 4/30/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter - 3/7/20 ♥♥♥
T - A True Cowboy Christmas by Caitlin Crews - 10/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - Carolyn Keene - The Mystery at Lilac Inn - 2/12/20 ♥♥♥♥
H - Holt, Desiree - Fourth Down - 3/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
F - Fatal Justice by Marie Force - 10/9/19 ♥♥♥
O - The Other Side of the Dale by Gervase Phinn - 11/17/19 ♥♥♥
R - Rock Chick Reawakening by Kristen Ashley - 5/12/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
K - Karen Marie Moning - Shadowfever - 10/22/19 ♥♥♥♥

Q - Squash (6/6)
S - Shalvis, Jill - My Kind of Wonderful - 10/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
Q - Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion - 11/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - All I Want by Jill Shalvis - 2/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shel Silverstein - Falling Up - 11/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - The Heartbreaker by Carly Phillips - 6/23/20 ♥♥♥♥

Rake (4/4)
R - Reluctantly Royal by Gillian Archer - 5/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood - 3/5/20 ♥♥♥♥
K - Katherine Center - What You Wish For - 4/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Hart - Stripped Down - 2/4/20 ♥♥♥♥

Soil (4/4)
S - The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn - 12/16/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - Oke, Janette - When Comes the Spring - 3/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Isabella Bradford - When You Wish Upon a Duke - 3/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lynne Reid Banks - Tiger, Tiger - 5/27/20 ♥♥♥♥

Tractor (7/7)
T - Then Came You by Kate Meader - 4/26/20 ♥♥♥
R - Resilient by Gillian Archer - 5/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alex Michaelides - The Silent Patient - 3/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
C - Carew, Jean - The Marrying Kind - 3/10/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - Templeton, Karen - Dear Santa - 4/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Pink Line by Dina Silver - 3/21/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Dark in Death - 6/12/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

U - Cultivator (10/10)
C - Carly Phillips - The Playboy - 4/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unmanageable by Lavinia Kent - 8/5/20 ♥♥♥
L - Latesha Kellam - The Match Disaster - 6/6/20 ♥♥
T - Tara Sivec - Below Deck - 5/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Into the Fire by Amanda Usen - 5/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
V - Valentine, Marquita - Hard to Fall - 4/23/20 ♥♥
A - Alcott, Kate - The Daring Ladies of Lowell - 6/4/20 ♥♥♥
T - Trish McCallan - Forged in Smoke - 5/20/20 ♥♥♥
O - Once Upon a Valentine's by Holly Jacobs - 4/7/20 ♥♥♥
R - Rosenfelt, David - First Degree - 7/13/20 ♥♥♥♥

Vegetable (9/9)
V - Venom by Jennifer Estep - 9/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Hoyt - Sweetest Scoundrel - 2/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
G - Gerritsen, Tess - The Surgeon - 6/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones - 3/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson - 6/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
A – Ally Carter - Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy - 8/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
B - Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh - 8/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Laura Lippman - Sunburn - 6/27/20 ♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Spann Craig - A Body in the Backyard - 4/19/20 ♥♥♥♥

Water (5/5)
W - Watson, Anna James - Blackmail - 7/18/20 ♥♥♥
A - Amanda Prowse - The Girl in the Corner - 7/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich - 6/20/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Douglas - No Place Like You - 6/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Richard Yancey - The Highly Effective Detective - 8/12/20 ♥♥♥

X - Pickaxe (7/7)
P - Patricia Briggs - Fire Touched - 4/20/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Bag by Kate Klise - 5/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - 5/9/20 ♥♥♥
K - Karen Templeton - Yours, Mine... or Ours? - 8/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Anne Hampson - Eternal Summer - 11/14/19 ♥♥♥
X - X, Monique - Sugar: My Life as a Sugar Babe - 4/9/20 ♥♥♥
E - Emma Douglas - A Season of You - 5/24/20 ♥♥♥♥

Yield (5/5)
Y - Yoerg, Sonja - The Middle of Somewhere - 7/10/20 ♥♥♥
I - If the Slipper Fits by Olivia Drake - 7/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - 6/18/20 ♥♥♥
L - Lisa Lutz - The Spellmans Strike Again - 7/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Darynda Jones - The Trouble with Twelfth Grave - 6/22/20 ♥♥♥♥

Z - Fertilizer (10/10)
F - Fruit of All Evil by Paige Shelton - 5/16/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Chase - Sustained - 11/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Roosevelt, Elliott - The Hyde Park Murder - 8/15/20 ♥♥♥
T - Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Shifts - 6/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Leigh Michaels - On September Hill - 7/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Gunmetal Magic - 8/23/20 ♥♥♥♥
Z - Zo White and the Seven Morphs by Barbara Silkstone - 11/12/19 ♥♥♥
E - Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs by Mark Brown - 11/21/19 ♥♥♥
R - Rebecca Stratton - The Inherited Bride - 11/30/19 ♥♥♥♥

******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 8/29/20***********

Since it's been a few years, I'm going to do this one again.

FARM TO TABLE
Timeframe: 8/10/19 – 8/29/20
173/173
26/26 Words

Agriculture (11/11)
A - Aunt Dimity: Detective by Nancy Atherton - 9/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Gilman, Dorothy - The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax - 1/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rebellious by Gillian Archer - 10/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Illegally Yours by Kate Meader - 8/25/19 ♥♥♥
C – Cold Heart, Warm Cowboy by Caitlin Crews - 6/8/20 ♥♥♥♥
U - Untamed by Caitlin Crews - 8/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Liz Lipperman - Beef Stolen-Off - 8/17/19 ♥♥♥
T – Trish McCallan - Forged in Ember - 7/4/20 ♥♥♥♥
U - Under Control by Shannon Stacey - 9/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Brotherhood in Death - 10/30/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Hookup - 8/11/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Barley (6/6)
B – Butcher, Jim - Storm Front - 6/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Marie Walker - Black Tie Optional - 9/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rodriguez, Deborah - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - 12/19/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lee Kilraine - Bringing Delaney Home - 11/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
E – The English Assassin by Daniel Silva - 7/16/20 ♥♥♥
Y - Yvonne Whittal - Dark Heritage - 11/11/19 ♥♥♥

Crops (5/5)
C - Crystal Green - When the Sun Goes Down... - 11/7/19 ♥♥♥
R - R.A. Scotti - Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa - 1/5/20 ♥♥♥
O - Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie - 8/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
P - Playing Hurt by Kelly Jamieson - 10/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Slap Shot by Kelly Jamieson - 8/15/19 ♥♥♥♥

Dig (3/3)
D - Dick Francis - Bonecrack - 11/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
I – Ice Hot by Tracy Goodwin - 8/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
G - Grafton, Sue - M is for Malice - 2/13/20 ♥♥♥♥

Edger (5/5)
E - Emily March - Nightingale Way - 12/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - Donna Grant - A Cowboy Like You - 4/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
G - Gallant, Jannine - Wilde One - 2/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Ever After by Phyllis A. Whitney - 1/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Apprentice in Death - 1/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Farmer (6/6)
F - Fatally Frosted by Jessica Beck - 8/26/19 ♥♥♥
A - Angel in Scarlet by Lavinia Kent - 12/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Roberts, Nora - Tribute - 1/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
M - Mail Order Outlaw by Cynthia Woolf - 5/3/20 ♥♥♥
E - Edwards, Nicole - Bad Business - 9/10/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Roman by Sawyer Bennett - 1/26/20 ♥♥♥♥

Grow (4/4)
G - Grant, Donna - My Favorite Cowboy - 3/24/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Echoes in Death - 2/23/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - One of These Nights by Susan Sizemore - 12/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
W - What Happens in London by Julia Quinn - 5/10/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Hydroponic (10/10)
H - Halston, Sidney - What About Us - 9/17/19 ♥♥♥♥
Y - The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders - 9/14/19 ♥♥♥
D - Dick Francis - Bolt - 10/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Reid, Henrietta - Sister of the Bride - 3/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once a Moretti Wife by Michelle Smart - 9/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
P - Patricia Briggs - Night Broken - 2/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Olivia Drake - His Wicked Wish - 9/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
N – Nobody But You by Jill Shalvis - 6/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson - 9/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Cassie Mae - No Interest in Love - 11/22/19 ♥♥♥

Irrigation (10/10)
I - In the Mood Fur Love by Eve Langlais - 10/17/19 ♥♥♥
R - Richard Thomas - Disintegration - 3/8/20 ♥♥♥
R - Rosenfelt, David - Open and Shut - 4/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - In a Marrying Mood by Raye Morgan - 11/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
G - Grant, Donna - Cowboy, Cross My Heart - 8/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alexander, Lacey - French Quarter - 12/8/19 ♥♥♥
T - Troutte, Kimberley - Forbidden Lovers - 9/7/19 ♥♥♥
I - I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass - 12/9/19 ♥♥♥
O - Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley Okines - 10/4/19 ♥♥♥
N - Nancy Naigle - Dear Santa - 12/27/19 ♥♥♥

Jalapenos (9/9)
J - Jill Shalvis - Still the One - 12/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Anita Hughes - Christmas at the Chalet: A Novel - 12/20/19 ♥♥♥
L - Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers - 11/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Appealed by Emma Chase - 2/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
P - Password to Larkspur Lane by Carolyn Keene - 3/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Smitten - 8/23/19 ♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Blaze of Memory - 4/2/20 ♥♥♥
O - Only a Kiss by Mary Balogh - 11/4/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Author Jill Shalvis - White Heat - 8/22/19 ♥♥♥♥

Kale (4/4)
K - Kristina McMorris - Sold on a Monday - 9/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 2/26/20 ♥♥♥
L - Lynsay Sands - Bite Me If You Can - 3/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Breakup - 9/15/19 ♥♥♥♥

Lettuce (7/7)
L - A Lover's Secret by Bethany Bloom - 3/16/20 ♥♥
E - Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 10/25/19 ♥♥
T - Tina Wainscott - Falling Free - 11/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Thompson, Vicki Lewis - Old Enough to Know Better - 12/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Unscrewed by Lois Greiman - 10/24/19 ♥♥♥
C - The Clue in the Old Stagecoach by Carolyn Keene - 11/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
E – Erma Bombeck - Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession - 7/23/20 ♥♥♥♥

Mulch (5/5)
M - Madeline Miller - Circe - 5/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until Now by Cristin Cooper - 1/12/20 ♥♥♥
L - Lundy, J.T. - Saving Grapes - 5/13/20 ♥♥
C - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - 2/9/20 ♥♥
H - Heir to a Dark Inheritance by Maisey Yates - 2/20/20 ♥♥♥

Reserved - not needed

PICNICS - Part 2

Napkin (6/6)
N - Night Broken by Patricia Briggs - 2/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood - 3/5/20 ♥♥♥♥
P - Private by James Patterson - 4/30/20 ♥♥♥♥
K - Kate Meader - Illegally Yours - 8/25/19 ♥♥♥
I - Ilona Andrews - Magic Breaks - 1/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - 9 1/2 Days by Mia Zachary - 5/6/20 ♥♥♥♥

Outdoors (8/8)
O - Olivia Drake - His Wicked Wish - 9/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Untamed by Caitlin Crews - 8/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Troutte, Kimberley - Forbidden Lovers - 9/7/19 ♥♥♥
D - Donna Grant - A Cowboy Like You - 4/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley Okines - 10/4/19 ♥♥♥
O - Only a Kiss by Mary Balogh - 11/4/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Rosenfelt, David - Open and Shut - 4/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Shalvis, Jill - My Kind of Wonderful - 10/28/19 ♥♥♥♥

Picnic (6/6)
P - Phillips, Carly - The Heartbreaker - 6/23/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter - 3/7/20 ♥♥♥
C - Carew, Jean - The Marrying Kind - 3/10/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Normandie Alleman - Daddy's Game - 5/23/20 ♥♥♥
I - Isabella Bradford - When You Wish Upon a Duke - 3/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
C - Carolyn Keene - Password to Larkspur Lane - 3/15/20 ♥♥♥♥

Q - Barbeque (8/8)
B - Author Jessica Beck - Fatally Frosted - 8/26/19 ♥♥♥
A - Aunt Dimity: Detective by Nancy Atherton - 9/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rena Young - Catch A Falling Star - 4/15/20 ♥♥♥
B - Blaze of Memory by Nalini Singh - 4/2/20 ♥♥♥
E - Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs by Mark Brown - 11/21/19 ♥♥♥
Q - Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion - 11/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Under Control by Shannon Stacey - 9/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Echoes in Death by J.D. Robb - 2/23/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Relish (6/6)
R - Rock Chick Reawakening by Kristen Ashley - 5/12/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Douglas - No Place Like You - 6/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lundy, J.T. - Saving Grapes - 5/13/20 ♥♥
I - Into the Fire by Amanda Usen - 5/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Secrets in Death by J.D. Robb - 5/5/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
H - Hard to Fall by Marquita Valentine - 4/23/20 ♥♥

Sandwich (8/8)
S - Silver Linings by Debbie Macomber - 7/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Marie Walker - Black Tie Optional - 9/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth - 7/17/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
D - Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb - 8/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
W - William Wright - Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail - 7/6/19 ♥♥♥
I - In a Marrying Mood by Raye Morgan - 11/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - The Clue in the Old Stagecoach by Carolyn Keene - 11/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - Holt, Desiree - Fourth Down - 3/27/20 ♥♥♥♥

Table (5/5)
T - 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson - 6/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Andrews, Ilona - Magic Shifts - 6/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
B - Buck, Craig Faustus - Go Down Hard - 8/8/19 ♥♥♥
L - Laura Lippman - Sunburn - 6/27/20 ♥♥♥
E - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - 6/18/20 ♥♥♥

U - Lunch (5/5)
L - A Lover's Secret by Bethany Bloom - 3/16/20 ♥♥
U - Unscrewed by Lois Greiman - 10/24/19 ♥♥♥
N - No Interest in Love by Cassie Mae - 11/22/19 ♥♥♥
C - Carly Phillips - The Playboy - 4/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
H - Holly Jacobs - Once Upon a Valentine's - 4/7/20 ♥♥♥

Volleyball (10/10)
V - Valerie by Debbie Macomber - 7/26/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - The Other Side of the Dale by Gervase Phinn - 11/17/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lavinia Kent - Unsuitable - 4/18/20 ♥♥♥
L - Lynne Reid Banks - Tiger, Tiger - 5/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Hoyt - Sweetest Scoundrel - 2/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
Y - Yvonne Whittal - Dark Heritage - 11/11/19 ♥♥♥
B - A Body in the Backyard by Elizabeth Spann Craig - 4/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alex Michaelides - The Silent Patient - 3/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
L - Latesha Kellam - The Match Disaster - 6/6/20 ♥♥
L - Lisa Lutz - The Spellmans Strike Again - 7/2/20 ♥♥♥♥

Watermelon (10/10)
W - What Happens in London by Julia Quinn - 5/10/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Archer, Gillian - Resilient - 5/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center - 3/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Evanovich, Janet - Twisted Twenty-Six - 6/20/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Dark in Death - 6/12/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
M - Madeline Miller - Circe - 5/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - The English Assassin by Daniel Silva - 7/16/20 ♥♥♥
L - Lauren Layne - To Have and to Hold - 7/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - One Pink Line by Dina Silver - 3/21/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - N.L. Wilson - The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen - 5/28/20 ♥♥♥

X - Excursion (9/9)
E - Emma Chase - Appealed - 2/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
X - X, Monique - Sugar: My Life as a Sugar Babe - 4/9/20 ♥♥♥
C - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - 5/9/20 ♥♥♥
U - Unmanageable by Lavinia Kent - 8/5/20 ♥♥♥
R - Rosenfelt, David - First Degree - 7/13/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shelton, Paige - Fruit of All Evil - 5/16/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Bag by Kate Klise - 5/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - On September Hill by Leigh Michaels - 7/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nobody But You by Jill Shalvis - 6/14/20 ♥♥♥♥

Y - Shady (5/5)
S - Storm Front by Jim Butcher - 6/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
H - How to Walk Away by Katherine Center - 5/19/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Alcott, Kate - The Daring Ladies of Lowell - 6/4/20 ♥♥♥
D - Darynda Jones - The Trouble with Twelfth Grave - 6/22/20 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Yoerg, Sonja - The Middle of Somewhere - 7/10/20 ♥♥♥

Z - Gazebo (6/6)
G - Gerritsen, Tess - The Surgeon - 6/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Amanda Prowse - The Girl in the Corner - 7/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
Z - Zo White and the Seven Morphs by Barbara Silkstone - 11/12/19 ♥♥♥
E - Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones - 3/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
B - Below Deck by Tara Sivec - 5/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Oke, Janette - When Comes the Spring - 3/14/20 ♥♥♥♥

******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 8/5/20*****

Great theme! I'm going to make this a long-term challenge, however, and spell out one word per letter of the alphabet, starting on the 4th of July!

PICNICS
Timeframe: 7/4/19 to 8/5/20
190/190
26/26 Picnic Words

Al fresco (8/8)
A - Author Gillian Archer - Ruthless - 7/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Liz Lipperman - Beef Stolen-Off - 8/17/19 ♥♥♥
F - Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs - 4/20/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rebellious by Gillian Archer - 10/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Back to the Bedroom - 7/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis - 7/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - A Cry In The Night by Mary Higgins Clark - 7/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Perfect Kiss by Jaci Burton - 7/12/19 ♥♥♥♥

Basket (6/6)
B - Bitter Sweets by G.A. McKevett - 7/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Agatha Christie - The Clocks - 8/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Carla Swafford - Full Heat - 7/31/19 ♥♥♥
K - The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter - 8/3/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Author Erin McCarthy - The Hookup - 8/11/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T – Trish McCallan - Forged in Ember - 7/4/20 ♥♥♥♥

Cooler (6/6)
C – Cold Heart, Warm Cowboy by Caitlin Crews - 6/8/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Night Rodeo by Lorelei James - 7/16/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once Upon A Christmas by Holly Jacobs - 8/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Lee Kilraine - Bringing Delaney Home - 11/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Web of Lies - 7/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Brotherhood in Death - 10/30/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Dessert (7/7)
D - Dick Francis - Bonecrack - 11/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Emily March - Nightingale Way - 12/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shel Silverstein - Falling Up - 11/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn - 12/16/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Tangled Threads - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rodriguez, Deborah - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - 12/19/19 ♥♥♥
T - Tina Wainscott - Falling Free - 11/28/19 ♥♥♥♥

Eats (4/4)
E - Emma Douglas - A Season of You - 5/24/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Archer, Gillian - Reluctantly Royal - 5/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - Then Came You by Kate Meader - 4/26/20 ♥♥♥
S - Sandie Jones - The Other Woman - 4/28/20 ♥♥♥♥

Fried Chicken (12/12)
F - Forged in Smoke by Trish McCallan - 5/20/20 ♥♥♥
R - R.A. Scotti - Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa - 1/5/20 ♥♥♥
I – If the Slipper Fits by Olivia Drake - 7/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Smitten - 8/23/19 ♥♥♥
D - Dick Francis - Bolt - 10/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Cowboy, Cross My Heart by Donna Grant - 8/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - Halston, Sidney - What About Us - 9/17/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson - 9/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Cait Flanders - The Year of Less - 9/14/19 ♥♥♥
K - Katherine Center - What You Wish For - 4/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Edwards, Nicole - Bad Business - 9/10/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Branded by Fire - 8/19/19 ♥♥♥♥

Games (5/5)
G - Gallant, Jannine - Wilde One - 2/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Angel in Scarlet by Lavinia Kent - 12/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
M - Marie Force - Fatal Justice - 10/9/19 ♥♥♥
E - Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 10/25/19 ♥♥
S - Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning - 10/22/19 ♥♥♥♥

Horseshoes (10/10)
H - Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 - 2/9/20 ♥♥
O - Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie - 8/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Roman by Sawyer Bennett - 1/26/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Slap Shot by Kelly Jamieson - 8/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Breakup - 9/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Jill Shalvis - White Heat - 8/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - Heir to a Dark Inheritance by Maisey Yates - 2/20/20 ♥♥♥
O - Once a Moretti Wife by Michelle Smart - 9/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Venom - 9/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris - 9/5/19 ♥♥♥♥

Iced Tea (7/7)
I - The Inherited Bride by Rebecca Stratton - 11/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Cristin Cooper - Until Now - 1/12/20 ♥♥♥
E - Ever After by Phyllis A. Whitney - 1/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Dear Santa by Nancy Naigle - 12/27/19 ♥♥♥
T - Treading Water by Marie Force - 3/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Educated by Tara Westover - 1/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alexander, Lacey - French Quarter - 12/8/19 ♥♥♥

Juice (5/5)
J - Jamieson, Kelly - Playing Hurt - 10/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel - 7/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Mood Fur Love by Eve Langlais - 10/17/19 ♥♥♥
C - Caitlin Crews - A True Cowboy Christmas - 10/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Eternal Summer by Anne Hampson - 11/14/19 ♥♥♥

Ketchup (7/7)
K - Karen Templeton - Dear Santa - 4/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Chase - Sustained - 11/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Author Karen Templeton - Yours, Mine... or Ours? - 8/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Crystal Green - When the Sun Goes Down... - 11/7/19 ♥♥♥
H - Hot Response by Shannon Stacey - 7/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - The Unwilling Executive by Miranda P. Charles - 7/25/19 ♥♥♥
P – Penny, Louise - A Fatal Grace - 7/9/20 ♥♥♥♥

Lemonade (8/8)
L - Louise Gornall - Under Rose-Tainted Skies - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - 1/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
M - M is for Malice by Sue Grafton - 2/13/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - One of These Nights by Susan Sizemore - 12/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty - 11/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Anita Hughes - Christmas at the Chalet: A Novel - 12/20/19 ♥♥♥
D - Disintegration by Richard Thomas - 3/8/20 ♥♥♥
E - Emma Hart - Stripped Down - 2/4/20 ♥♥♥♥

Macaroni Salad (13/13)
M - Mail Order Outlaw by Cynthia Woolf - 5/3/20 ♥♥♥
A - Apprentice in Death by J.D. Robb - 1/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - Carolyn Keene - The Mystery at Lilac Inn - 2/12/20 ♥♥♥♥
A – Anna James Watson - Blackmail - 7/18/20 ♥♥♥
R - Reid, Henrietta - Sister of the Bride - 3/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Old Enough to Know Better by Vicki Lewis Thompson - 12/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nora Roberts - Tribute - 1/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass - 12/9/19 ♥♥♥
S - Still the One by Jill Shalvis - 12/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 2/26/20 ♥♥♥
L - Lynsay Sands - Bite Me If You Can - 3/11/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - All I Want by Jill Shalvis - 2/29/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Donna Grant - My Favorite Cowboy - 3/24/20 ♥♥♥♥

National Cheese Day - Part 2

Neufchatel (10/10)
N - Nancy Naigle - Dear Santa - 12/27/19 ♥♥♥
E - Emma Chase - Sustained - 11/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
U - Untamed by Caitlin Crews - 8/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
F - Fatally Frosted by Jessica Beck - 8/26/19 ♥♥♥
C - The Clue in the Old Stagecoach by Carolyn Keene - 11/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
H - Holt, Desiree - Fourth Down - 3/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Apprentice in Death by J.D. Robb - 1/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Troutte, Kimberley - Forbidden Lovers - 9/7/19 ♥♥♥
E - Emergency!: True Stories From The Nation's ERs by Mark Brown - 11/21/19 ♥♥♥
L - Lynsay Sands - Bite Me If You Can - 3/11/20 ♥♥♥♥

Operetta (8/8)
O - Only a Kiss by Mary Balogh - 11/4/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
P - Password to Larkspur Lane by Carolyn Keene - 3/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emily March - Nightingale Way - 12/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rena Young - Catch A Falling Star - 4/15/20 ♥♥♥
E - Ever After by Phyllis A. Whitney - 1/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - Tina Wainscott - Falling Free - 11/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Treading Water by Marie Force - 3/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Andrews, Ilona - Magic Breaks - 1/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Parmesan (8/8)
P - The Playboy by Carly Phillips - 4/3/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Appealed by Emma Chase - 2/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Secrets in Death - 5/5/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
M - The Mystery at Lilac Inn by Carolyn Keene - 2/12/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Educated by Tara Westover - 1/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - Still the One by Jill Shalvis - 12/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 2/26/20 ♥♥♥
N - Night Broken by Patricia Briggs - 2/19/20 ♥♥♥♥

Q - Roquefort (9/9)
R - Rock Chick Reawakening by Kristen Ashley - 5/12/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
O - Once a Moretti Wife by Michelle Smart - 9/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
Q - Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own by Doreen Orion - 11/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Under Control by Shannon Stacey - 9/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman - 1/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
F - Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs - 4/20/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' Life with Progeria by Hayley Okines - 10/4/19 ♥♥♥
R - Resilient by Gillian Archer - 5/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
T - A True Cowboy Christmas by Caitlin Crews - 10/19/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Ricotta (7/7)
R - Robb, J.D. - Dark in Death - 6/12/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - The Inherited Bride by Rebecca Stratton - 11/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Cristin Cooper - Until Now - 1/12/20 ♥♥♥
O - The Other Side of the Dale by Gervase Phinn - 11/17/19 ♥♥♥
T - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center - 3/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - Then Came You by Kate Meader - 4/26/20 ♥♥♥
A - All I Want by Jill Shalvis - 2/29/20 ♥♥♥♥

Swiss (5/5)
S – Shalvis, Jill - Nobody But You - 6/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
W - William Wright - Jailhouse Doc: A Doctor in the County Jail - 7/6/19 ♥♥♥
I - In a Marrying Mood by Raye Morgan - 11/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Author Karin Slaughter - The Kept Woman - 8/3/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
S - Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris - 9/5/19 ♥♥♥♥

Trelawny (8/8)
T - Templeton, Karen - Dear Santa - 4/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rosenfelt, David - First Degree - 7/13/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Hart - Stripped Down - 2/4/20 ♥♥♥♥
L - A Lover's Secret by Bethany Bloom - 3/16/20 ♥♥
A - Ann Brashares - Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood - 3/5/20 ♥♥♥♥
W - White Heat by Jill Shalvis - 8/22/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Blaze of Memory - 4/2/20 ♥♥♥
Y - Yours, Mine... or Ours? by Karen Templeton - 8/31/19 ♥♥♥♥

Urda (4/4)
U - Unscrewed by Lois Greiman - 10/24/19 ♥♥♥
R - Richard Yancey - The Highly Effective Detective - 8/12/20 ♥♥♥
D - Debbie Macomber - Silver Linings - 7/13/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Andrews, Ilona - Magic Shifts - 6/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥

Valencay (8/8)
V - Valerie by Debbie Macomber - 7/26/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ally Carter - I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You - 3/7/20 ♥♥♥
L - Lavinia Kent - Unsuitable - 4/18/20 ♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Hoyt - Sweetest Scoundrel - 2/28/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
N - 9 1/2 Days by Mia Zachary - 5/6/20 ♥♥♥♥
C - Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - 2/9/20 ♥♥
A - Amanda Usen - Into the Fire - 5/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
Y - Yvonne Whittal - Dark Heritage - 11/11/19 ♥♥♥

Wagon Wheel (10/10)
W - Wilde One by Jannine Gallant - 2/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alleman, Normandie - Daddy's Game - 5/23/20 ♥♥♥
G - Grant, Donna - Cowboy, Cross My Heart - 8/29/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One of These Nights by Susan Sizemore - 12/14/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - N.L. Wilson - The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen - 5/28/20 ♥♥♥
W - What You Wish For by Katherine Center - 4/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
H - Haddon, Mark - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - 5/9/20 ♥♥♥
E - Emma Douglas - No Place Like You - 6/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - 6/18/20 ♥♥♥
L - Lundy, J.T. - Saving Grapes - 5/13/20 ♥♥

X - Oaxaca (6/6)
O - Oke, Janette - When Comes the Spring - 3/14/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alcott, Kate - The Daring Ladies of Lowell - 6/4/20 ♥♥♥
X - X, Monique - Sugar: My Life as a Sugar Babe - 4/9/20 ♥♥♥
A - Amanda Prowse - The Girl in the Corner - 7/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
C - Cynthia Woolf - Mail Order Outlaw - 5/3/20 ♥♥♥
A - Anna James Watson - Blackmail - 7/18/20 ♥♥♥

Yeo Lake (7/7)
Y - Yates, Maisey - Heir to a Dark Inheritance - 2/20/20 ♥♥♥
E - Evanovich, Janet - Twisted Twenty-Six - 6/20/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once Upon a Valentine's by Holly Jacobs - 4/7/20 ♥♥♥
L - Lynne Reid Banks - Tiger, Tiger - 5/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Brashares - Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood - 7/27/20 ♥♥♥♥
K - Kelly Jamieson - Playing Hurt - 10/31/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Eve Langlais - In the Mood Fur Love - 10/17/19 ♥♥♥

Zwitser (7/7)
Z - Zo White and the Seven Morphs by Barbara Silkstone - 11/12/19 ♥♥♥
W - What Happens in London by Julia Quinn - 5/10/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass - 12/9/19 ♥♥♥
T - Trish McCallan - Forged in Smoke - 5/20/20 ♥♥♥
S - Shel Silverstein - Falling Up - 11/25/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - The English Assassin by Daniel Silva - 7/16/20 ♥♥♥
R - Roosevelt, Elliott - The Hyde Park Murder - 8/15/20 ♥♥♥

*******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 8/15/20*****

I'm turning this into a long-term challenge and spelling out 26 cheeses, one for each letter of the alphabet. Thanks for the great idea (and the link).

National Cheese Day
Timeframe: 7/1/19 to 8/15/20
183/183
26/26 Cheeses

Alverca (7/7)
A - Author Agatha Christie - The Clocks - 8/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
L – Latesha Kellam - The Match Disaster - 6/6/20 ♥♥
V - Vicki Lewis Thompson - Old Enough to Know Better - 12/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Jennifer Estep - Web of Lies - 7/20/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Author J.D. Robb - Devoted in Death - 8/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - A Cry In The Night by Mary Higgins Clark - 7/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Agatha Christie - Ordeal by Innocence - 8/12/19 ♥♥♥♥

Brie (4/4)
B - Below Deck by Tara Sivec - 5/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rosenfelt, David - Open and Shut - 4/6/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - Isabella Bradford - When You Wish Upon a Duke - 3/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Elizabeth Spann Craig - A Body in the Backyard - 4/19/20 ♥♥♥♥

Cheddar (7/7)
C – Circe by Madeline Miller - 5/25/20 ♥♥♥♥
H - Hot Response by Shannon Stacey - 7/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Evanovich, Janet - Back to the Bedroom - 7/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - The Diva Takes the Cake by Krista Davis - 7/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - Drake, Olivia - His Wicked Wish - 9/27/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Gillian Archer - Ruthless - 7/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Rebellious by Gillian Archer - 10/12/19 ♥♥♥♥

Derby (5/5)
D - Dick Francis - Bonecrack - 11/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Breakup - 9/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Brotherhood in Death - 10/30/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
B - Bolt by Dick Francis - 10/7/19 ♥♥♥♥
Y - The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders - 9/14/19 ♥♥♥

Edam (4/4)
E - Eleventh Grave in Moonlight by Darynda Jones - 3/19/20 ♥♥♥♥
D - Dina Silver - One Pink Line 3/21/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Alex Michaelides - The Silent Patient - 3/31/20 ♥♥♥♥
M - The Marrying Kind by Jean Carew - 3/10/20 ♥♥♥♥

Feta (4/4)
F - Full Heat by Carla Swafford - 7/31/19 ♥♥♥
E - Erin McCarthy - The Hookup - 8/11/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
T - To Have and to Hold by Lauren Layne - 7/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
A - Aunt Dimity: Detective by Nancy Atherton - 9/3/19 ♥♥♥♥

Gouda (5/5)
G - Go Down Hard by Craig Faustus Buck - 8/8/19 ♥♥♥
O - One Night Rodeo by Lorelei James - 7/16/19 ♥♥♥♥
U - Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel - 7/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - Donna Grant - My Favorite Cowboy - 3/24/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Ann Marie Walker - Black Tie Optional - 9/29/19 ♥♥♥♥

Harbison (8/8)
H – The Heartbreaker by Carly Phillips - 6/23/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Anne Hampson - Eternal Summer - 11/14/19 ♥♥♥
R - Rodriguez, Deborah - Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil - 12/19/19 ♥♥♥
B - Bitter Sweets by G.A. McKevett - 7/21/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - Illegally Yours by Kate Meader - 8/25/19 ♥♥♥
S - Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis - 7/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
O - One Perfect Kiss by Jaci Burton - 7/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth - 7/17/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Inverness (9/9)
I - Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson - 9/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - No Interest in Love by Cassie Mae - 11/22/19 ♥♥♥
V - Valentine, Marquita - Hard to Fall - 4/23/20 ♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Venom - 9/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - R.A. Scotti - Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa - 1/5/20 ♥♥♥
N - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty - 11/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Everything Under by Daisy Johnson - 10/25/19 ♥♥
S - Sidney Halston - What About Us - 9/17/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning - 10/22/19 ♥♥♥♥

Jarlsberg (9/9)
J - Jones, Sandie - The Other Woman - 4/28/20 ♥♥♥♥
A - Anita Hughes - Christmas at the Chalet: A Novel - 12/20/19 ♥♥♥
R - Roberts, Nora - Tribute - 1/13/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
L - Louise Gornall - Under Rose-Tainted Skies - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
S - The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn - 12/16/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
B - Butcher, Jim - Storm Front - 6/15/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Estep, Jennifer - Tangled Threads - 1/2/20 ♥♥♥♥
R - Roman by Sawyer Bennett - 1/26/20 ♥♥♥♥
G - Grafton, Sue - M is for Malice - 2/13/20 ♥♥♥♥

Kefir (5/5)
K - Katherine Center - How to Walk Away - 5/19/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
E - Emma Douglas - A Season of You - 5/24/20 ♥♥♥♥
F - Fruit of All Evil by Paige Shelton - 5/16/20 ♥♥♥♥
I - In the Bag by Kate Klise - 5/30/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
R - Reluctantly Royal by Gillian Archer - 5/29/20 ♥♥♥♥

Limburger (9/9)
L - Lee Kilraine - Bringing Delaney Home - 11/8/19 ♥♥♥♥
I – If the Slipper Fits by Olivia Drake - 7/7/20 ♥♥♥♥
M - Marie Force - Fatal Justice - 10/9/19 ♥♥♥
B - Beef Stolen-Off by Liz Lipperman - 8/17/19 ♥♥♥
U - The Unwilling Executive by Miranda P. Charles - 7/25/19 ♥♥♥
R - Robb, J.D. - Echoes in Death - 2/23/20 ♥♥♥♥♥
G - Grant, Donna - A Cowboy Like You - 4/17/20 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Janet Evanovich - Smitten - 8/23/19 ♥♥♥
R - Reid, Henrietta - Sister of the Bride - 3/3/20 ♥♥♥♥

Mascarpone (10/10)
M - My Kind of Wonderful by Jill Shalvis - 10/28/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Angel in Scarlet by Lavinia Kent - 12/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
S - Slap Shot by Kelly Jamieson - 8/15/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Crystal Green - When the Sun Goes Down... - 11/7/19 ♥♥♥
A - Alexander, Lacey - French Quarter - 12/8/19 ♥♥♥
R - Richard Thomas - Disintegration - 3/8/20 ♥♥♥
P – Private by James Patterson - 4/30/20 ♥♥♥♥
O - Once Upon A Christmas by Holly Jacobs - 8/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Nalini Singh - Branded by Fire - 8/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Edwards, Nicole - Bad Business - 9/10/19 ♥♥♥♥

World Oceans Day
Timeframe: 6/1/19 to 12/9/19
35/35
5/5 Oceans

Pacific (7/7)
P – Author Ross Petras - Unusually Stupid Americans: A Compendium of All-American Stupidity - 6/6/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Autumn Song by Margaret Pargeter - 6/26/19 ♥♥
C - Claimed by Rebecca Zanetti - 6/17/19 ♥♥♥
I - Illegally Yours by Kate Meader - 8/25/19 ♥♥♥
F - For Kicks by Dick Francis - 6/25/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - Ink Flamingos by Karen E. Olson - 9/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - A Curve in the Road by Julianne MacLean - 6/24/19 ♥♥♥♥

Indian (6/6)
I - In the Mood Fur Love by Eve Langlais - 10/17/19 ♥♥♥
N - Author Nan Asquith - Only My Heart To Give - 6/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
D - Down with Love by Kate Meader - 6/18/19 ♥♥♥♥
I - In a Marrying Mood by Raye Morgan - 11/3/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Jane Arbor - The Other Miss Donne - 6/27/19 ♥♥♥
N - Author Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth - 7/17/19 ♥♥♥♥♥

Atlantic (8/8)
A - Author Gillian Archer - Ruthless - 7/9/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Then Came You by Jill Shalvis - 6/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
L - Author Lorelei James - One Night Rodeo - 7/16/19 ♥♥♥♥
A - Author Agatha Christie - The Clocks - 8/2/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nalini Singh - Branded by Fire - 8/19/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Author Tracy Wolff - Royal Pain - 6/4/19 ♥♥♥
I - The Inherited Bride by Rebecca Stratton - 11/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
C - Cloaked in Malice by Annette Blair - 6/16/19 ♥♥♥

Southern (8/8)
S - Second Chance Summer by Jill Shalvis - 7/5/19 ♥♥♥♥
O – One Perfect Kiss by Jaci Burton - 7/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
U – Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel - 7/24/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck - 6/8/19 ♥♥♥
H - Author Greer Hendricks - The Wife Between Us - 6/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
E - Author Elizabeth Hoyt - Dearest Rogue - 6/30/19 ♥♥♥♥
R - Author Robert B. Parker - Looking For Rachel Wallace - 6/20/19 ♥♥♥♥
N - Author Nancy Atherton - Aunt Dimity: Detective - 9/3/19 ♥♥♥♥

Arctic (6/6)
A - Author Agatha Christie - Ordeal by Innocence - 8/12/19 ♥♥♥♥
R – Author J.D. Robb - Obsession in Death - 6/7/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
C - A Cry In The Night by Mary Higgins Clark - 7/23/19 ♥♥♥♥
T - To Have and to Hold by Lauren Layne - 7/29/19 ♥♥♥♥♥
I - I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass - 12/9/19 ♥♥♥
C - Author Miranda P. Charles - The Unwilling Executive - 7/25/19 ♥♥♥

******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 12/9/19*****