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May IdiomsDuration: May 1- May 31, 2016
Level: Easy Breezy - 3 to 4 books
Read: 9/4
• “April showers bring May flowers.” - Read a book with flowers or rain on the cover.
• ✔ “Be that as it may.” The Rithmatist 5/21/16
• “Cinco de Mayo.” - Read a book that is fifth in a series, or has five words or letters in the title.
• “Come what may!” - Read a book with a futuristic setting.
• ✔ “Devil-may-care attitude.” For I Have Sinned 5/25/16
• ✔ “He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day.” The Serpent King 5/26/16
• “How may I help you?” - Read a book where the protagonist helps someone out.
• “If I may be so bold...” - Reader’s Choice.
• “I may be crazy, but...” - Read a book where the protagonist gets “Gaslighted”... or a little crazy, paranoid, spooked, or rattled.
• ✔ Mae West. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 5/10/16
• “May the better man win!” - Read a book where a competition takes place.
• “May Day!” - Read a book that is first in a series. Or where the protagonist attends a fair.
• “May the force be with you.” - Read a book with stars on the cover. Or is set in outer space.
• ✔ “May he rest in peace.” First Grave on the Right 5/15/16
• “May I be excused?” - Read a book that is written in the first person POV. (Point of View.)
• “May I count on you?” - Read a book with a number in the title. (Examples found on listopia’s Nothing But Numbers.)
• ✔ “May you live in interesting times...” The Girl on the Train 5/12/16
• ✔ “Maybe, maybe not.” - The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories 5/2/16
• “Mayday! Mayday!” - Read a book where the protagonist works as some type of emergency personnel: fireman, policeman, paramedic. Or someone makes or receives a distress call. Or where someone uses a radio. Since this word may derive from the French expression “venez m'aider” - which translates to “come help me” - we’ll also take any book set in France. Also, in The Handmaid's Tale, they used “Mayday” as a code to identify themselves as part of the resistance - so, we’ll take a protagonist that is part of one, or any plot involving some hidden code.
• ✔ “The merry month of May.” Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things 5/23/16
• ✔ “Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.” Through the Zombie Glass 5/11/16
• “Seven Days in May.” - Read a book that is seventh in a series. Or has the word “day(s)” in the title, series, author, or character name. We will take the alternate spelling of “Daye,” as in the series October Daye.
• “Terms & conditions may apply.” - Read a book that fits another challenge.
• “Things may look good on the surface...” - Read a book with an attractive cover.
• “To whom it may concern.” - Read a book with a stand-alone “letter” in the title. Or by an author with a stand-alone “letter” in their name. Or read a book of memoirs. Or one that has a letter or envelope on the cover. (Examples: C, by Tom McCarthy; author J.R. Ward; All Creatures Great and Small; or maybe something like these found on this listopia .)
• “Try as I may.” - Read a book that was published any day in May, of any year.
Circus and Carnival CYOADuration: May 3, 2016 - April 13, 2022
Option 3
Level: Ringmaster: 25+ books
Read: 73/73
🎪 animals 🎪
◈ a Awfully Appetizing
◈ n Natalie D. Richards - Five Total Strangers
◈ i In the Garden of Spite
◈ m Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
◈ a Ana Fuentes - From the Dragon's Mouth: 10 True Stories that Unveil the Real China
◈ l Lawson, Jenny Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
◈ s Showalter, Gena Through the Zombie Glass
🎪 carousel 🎪
✺ c C. Gockel Monsters
✺ a Adam Croft - Tell Me I'm Wrong
✺ r The Rithmatist
✺ o The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
✺ u Under a Graveyard Sky
✺ s The Serpent King
✺ e Enclave
✺ l The Lost Village
🎪 fire eater 🎪
❂ f First Grave on the Right
❂ i Iturbe, Antonio - The Librarian of Auschwitz
❂ r Richelle Mead - Frostbite
❂ e Eileen
❂ e Ex-Heroes
❂ a A Spindle Splintered
❂ t They Went Left
❂ e Emma Shortt - Waking Up Dead
❂ r Ring Shout
🎪 gymnast 🎪
⌛ g The Girl on the Train
⌛ y Yūsei Matsui - Assassination Classroom, Vol. 1
⌛ m Marrs, John (The Passengers)
⌛ n Nothing But Blackened Teeth
⌛ a The Assassin Game
⌛ s Stephen Graham Jones - My Heart Is a Chainsaw
⌛ t Tim Meyer - Paradise Club
🎪 horse 🎪
🦄 h Hill, Joe - Full Throttle
🦄 o Ophie's Ghosts
🦄 r Richard Bachman - The Long Walk
🦄 s Sara Gran - Come Closer
🦄 e Ex-Patriots
🎪 knife thrower 🎪
⌲ k Kepnes, Caroline - You
⌲ n Noelle Mack - Wicked
⌲ i Isaac Young (char) There's Someone Inside Your House
⌲ f For I Have Sinned
⌲ e Ed Talbot (char) Mail Order Outlaw
⌲ t The Sanatorium
⌲ h The Hawthorne Legacy
⌲ r Rachel Hollis - Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be
⌲ o One by One
⌲ w Wilde, Max - Vile Blood
⌲ e Ellie (char) The Dead Girls Club
⌲ r Rock Paper Scissors
🎪 petting zoo 🎪
🐓 p Pretty Things
🐓 e Erik Larson - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
🐓 t Trevor Noah - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
🐓 t Tufo, Mark - Zombie Fallout
🐓 i Iain Rob Wright - The Housemates
🐓 n Night
🐓 g Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects
🐓 z Zombie, Ohio
🐓 o The October Faction, Vol. 1
🐓 o One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
🎪 thrill ride 🎪
🎢 t Tender Is the Flesh
🎢 h How the Dukes Stole Christmas
🎢 r R.L. Stine - Stay Out of the Basement
🎢 i Iris Banks (char) The Kaiju Preservation Society
🎢 l Lewis, John March: Book One
🎢 l Lore Olympus: Volume One
🎢 r Rowling, JK Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
🎢 i The Intern's Handbook
🎢 d Devil's Night
🎢 e EdwardNigma (char) Kingdom Come
🎪 tiger 🎪
🐯 t Twice Bitten
🐯 i I Hunt Killers
🐯 g The Graveyard Book, Volume 1
🐯 e Emma in the Night
🐯 r R.L. Wood - Dark Little Women: Girl Power!
Why do I do this to myself? If I'm going to do it, might as well go all out, right? Let's hope this brings Detroit some luck this year!MLB Challenge
Duration: April 1, 2016 - September 30, 2016
Levels: MVP 25+ books
Read: 14/48ish
Select one or more of the following options:
1. Spell out the name of your favorite baseball team, or the one you predict will make it to the World Series.(view spoiler)
⌂ T Travis (character) - The Serpent King ★★★☆☆ 5/26/16
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⌂ r Room ★★☆☆☆ 4/22/16
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2. Read books with titles, covers, or themes based on team names.
Example: (view spoiler)
3. Spell out a favorite player's name
⌂ Marina Keegan - The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories ★★☆☆☆ 5/2/16
⌂ i I Bring the Fire (series) - Monsters ★★★★☆ 5/25/16
⌂ g The Girl on the Train ★★★★☆ 5/12/16
⌂ u Uglies ★★★☆☆ 4/30/16
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⌂ l Lawson, Jenny - Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things ★★★☆☆ 5/23/16
⌂ C Charley Davidson (character) - For I Have Sinned ★★★★☆ 5/25/16
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⌂ r The Rithmatist ★★★★☆ 5/29/16
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⌂ r Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ★★★☆☆ 5/10/16
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4. Play the 1st: 9th innings by reading series books that correspond with the inning
Example: (view spoiler)
⌂ 1. First Grave on the Right ★★★★☆ 5/15/16
⌂ 2. Through the Zombie Glass ★★★★☆ 5/11/16
⌂ 3. Passion Unleashed ★★★★☆ 4/21/16
⌂ 4. The Deadly Real Estate Affair ★☆☆☆☆ 4/7/16
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5. Playoffs:Using the Number Generator, generate the number of points the opposing team has. Read that number of books, plus one.
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7. Home run! Finish a four-book series.
208 pgsCurrent total: 866,732
425 pgsCurrent total: 841,359
Where is everyone on the detour book? I saw two others that had entered theirs as of today.
Read 71 pages putting me on page 215. It is now time for bed. Happy reading!
Me too, just as soon as I finish this sprint. I'm chaperoning Chuck E Cheese tomorrow too. :)Starting on pg. 144
I know I'm early, but checking in for my sprint at 2 AM. I will be reading Uglies which is a library book.It's been a long day. So tired, heh.
I have 7 or 8 books going at the moment. Audio can be hard for me unless the narrator is really engaging. My goal is to finish a couple of these this weekend if possible.
I read multiple books at the same time. I have ADD and found pretty early on in life that if I don't give myself a chance to start have a wandering moment, I can actually read more than if I try to read on book at a time.
Read 37 pages putting me on page 167 (27%). I'm going to finish this chapter and probably switch books.
Read 13 more pages of
putting me on page 93.
I am
I read 30 more pages of
. I'm actually really enjoying this one already. I think this will be my official sprint book tomorrow (today technically) since it's a library book and set on Earth, even if it's zombie apocalypse future Earth.On page 80.
I didn't, but that works for me!
321 pgs.Current total: 791,971
The bowling event isn't until 6 EST so I can maybe cover something before then but we won't be home until after 10.
I'm up for a sprint for 30-45 minutes or so if anyone's on and not already sprinting.
