Richard’s Comments (group member since Oct 23, 2023)

Richard’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

✅ 4. Queen of the Elves
a. 200-299 pages
A Woman in the Polar Night - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Author's initials in MORRIS DANCING
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? - ⭐️⭐️
c. UNICORN mentioned in text
Video Game of the Year: A Year-by-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. silver text on cover
101 Places Not to See Before You Die - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. set in a country with a monarchy
Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra - The Irresistible Story of an Irrepressible Woman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 5. Ardent & the Deep-Downers
a. 200-299 pages
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big - ⭐️⭐️
b. a character has followers
Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. tagged RACE at least 5 times
Agent You: Show Up, Do the Work, and Succeed on Your Own Terms - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. a card game in text
Lucy & Desi: The Legendary Love Story of Television's Most Famous Couple - ⭐️⭐️
e. A bearded person on the cover
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 6. Abominations Unto Nuggan
a. 350-450 pages
Chasing We-ness: Cultivating Empathy and Leadership in a Polarized World - ⭐️⭐️
c. stationery on the cover
The Little Book of Slow: Live Mindfully and Enjoy the Simple Things - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. NO chocolate OR garlic in the text
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. A book with a cover you consider to be an abomination
You Can't Have It All: The Basic B*tch Guide to Taking the Pressure Off - ⭐️

✅ 7. Mr Pin & Mr Tulip
a. 200-299 pages
Floral Estrangements: Taunt Your Rivals & Vanquish Your Enemies through the Language of Flowers - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Flower in the title
The Complete Guide to Adaptogens: From Ashwagandha to Rhodiola, Medicinal Herbs That Transform and Heal - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. POTATO in text
The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. tagged Journalism at least 5x
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear - ⭐️⭐️
e. character has a profession related to the fine arts
Identities Through Fashion: A Multidisciplinary Approach - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 8. Dromes
a. 100-175 pages
Best Dump and Freeze Treats: Frozen Fruit Salads, Pies, Fluffs, and More Retro Desserts - ⭐️⭐️
b. SPIN in text
No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus explains how the world works - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Character is trapped
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Book setting is an imaginary land
e. letters DREAM in title
Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 9. Dios
a. 200-299 pages
Twelve Years in the Grave - Mind Control with Electromagnetic Spectrums, the Invisible Modern Concentration Camp. - ⭐️
b. features a religious figure
Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations - ⭐️⭐️
c. book has a significant character who is over 70 years old
Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People - ⭐️⭐️
d. the word VEGETARIAN in the text
Little Book of Jewish Sweets - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. something shaped like a triangle on the cover
Memory Palaces and Masonic Lodges: Esoteric Secrets of the Art of Memory - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 10. Findee Swing
a. 350-450 pages
Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. a character works in law enforcement
We Just Got On With It: Changes Before, During and After the Second World War in Northern Ireland - ⭐️⭐️
c. Author initials found in RIOT
A New Science of Heaven: How the new science of plasma physics is shedding light on spiritual experience - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. a unit of measurement in the title
The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. character has a silly name
She Memes Well - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 11. Prince Cadram
a. 200-299 pages
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America - ⭐️⭐️
b. MC is royalty
Overtaken by the Night: One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Letters in DESERT in the title
100 Must-read Historical Novels - ⭐️⭐️
d. features an assassination
Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist - ⭐️⭐️
e. a character needs to be diplomatic
The Tilted Playing Field: Is Criminal Justice Unfair? - ⭐️

✅ 12. Wintersmith
a. 350-450 pages
The Freedom Model for Addictions: Escape the Treatment and Recovery Trap - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Season in the title
Best Salty Sweet Snacks: Gooey, Chewy, Crunchy Treats for Every Craving - ⭐️⭐️
c. character lives in a palace
When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. all letters in SMITH found in the title
Your Soul Had a Dream, Your Life Is It: How to Be Held by Life When It Feels Like Everything Is Falling Apart - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 13. The Lavish Family
a. 200-299 pages
Being Bad: Breaking the Rules and Becoming Everything You're Not Supposed to Be - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Mental Health MPG
The Awesome Autistic Go-To Guide: A Practical Handbook for Autistic Teens and Tweens - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. MC is very rich
Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond -- The Story of Rock's Greatest Manager - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. tagged family at least 10x
For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son's Search for Norwegian Happiness - ⭐️⭐️
e. ring on the cover
Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 14. The Summoning Dark
a. 651+ pages
Energy Harvesting and Energy Efficiency: Technology, Methods, and Applications - ⭐️⭐️
b. a character is guarding someone
Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I - ⭐️⭐️
c. letters DWARF in title
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. person in story has "marked" skin
The Ozempic Revolution: A Doctor's Proven Plan for Success to Help You Reverse Obesity, End Yo-Yo Dieting, and Protect Yourself from Disease - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. Edition read has a dark cover
Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 15. Vorbis, the Exquisitor
a. 200-299 pages
Babylon's Legacy: Unlocking Financial Freedom with Ancient Principles - ⭐️⭐️
b. An Q in the title
The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order - ⭐️
c. word TORTOISE in text
2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. there is character development in the plot
Jonathan Swift - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 16. Wolfgang von Überwald
a. 350-450 pages
90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience, and Authenticity - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. A reference is made to a real author
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest to Reveal the True Source Behind the World's Greatest Plays - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. BATH in text
Beyond the Throne: Epic Journeys, Enduring Friendships, and Surprising Tales - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. Any kind of device is used for communication
Anxiety for Beginners: A Personal Investigation - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

URBAN LEGENDS MONSTERS 2

✅ 8. Cactus Cat
a. 100 to 175 pages
How to Organize Inherited Items: A Step-by-Step Guide for Dealing with Boxes of Your Parents' Stuff - ⭐️⭐️
b. MC gets drunk
Healing the Shame that Binds You, John Bradshaw - ⭐️⭐️
c. Setting is somewhere dry
Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Two words in title start with the same letter
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 9. Mothman
a. 350 to 450 pages
Born Both: An Intersex Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. light source on cover
23/1 - A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food, Ben Gazur - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Author identifies as male
Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Published in September
On Freedom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 10. Hodag
a. 200 to 299 pages
Our Changing Menu: Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Green cover
Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales - ⭐️⭐️
c. Author has E or S in initials
Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History - ⭐️⭐️
d. HOAX in title
Is There Life Outside the Box?: An Actor Despairs - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 11. El Duende
a. 350 to 450 pages
This Time for Me - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. hat on cover
Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Set in Latin and South America
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. MC is under 18
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 12. Teke Teke
a. 200 to 299 pages
The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Cover shows half of something
From Under the Truck: A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 13. Jackalopes
a. 200 to 299 pages
My Autistic Fight Song: My Battle into Adulthood and the Workplace - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. whiskey in text
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Title starts with letter in WYOMING
Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting - ⭐️⭐️
d. 30 in page count
The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 14. Jersey Devil
a. 500 to 650 pages
The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning: Reconceiving Roles for Planning, Plans and Planners - ⭐️⭐️
b. Author initials in PINE BARRENS
Undoing Urgency: Reclaim Your Time for the Things that Matter Most - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. LEEDS in title
The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning - ⭐️⭐️
d. MPG Humor
Literally, the Best Language Book Ever: Annoying Words and Abused Phrases You Should Never Use Again - ⭐️

✅ 15. Snipe
a. 100 to 175 pages
Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. bird on cover
Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. MC is looking for something
26/1 - Creating Your Best Life: The Ultimate Life List Guide - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Goodreads rating < 3.6
Anubis―Ancient Egypt’s Lord of Death and Protection - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 16. Barguest
a. 350 to 450 pages
The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct - ⭐️⭐️
b. Char death important to plot
The Language of Loss: Poetry and Prose for Grieving and Celebrating the Love of Your Life - ⭐️⭐️
c. Only colours on cover are black, red, & white
Sex by Numbers: What Statistics Can Tell Us About Sexual Behaviour - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 17. Loup-Garou
a. 350 to 450 pages
Satisfaction Guaranteed: How to Have the Sex You’ve Always Wanted - ⭐️⭐️
b. Moon on cover
Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. silver text on cover
Meditations on Intention and Being: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga, Mindfulness, and Compassion - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 18. Rolling Calf
a. 500 to 650 pages
I Never Knew There Was a Word for It - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Page number in ascending order
Yes! You Are Good Enough - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Black cover
Open Book - ⭐️⭐️
d. -ing word in title
I'm So Effing Tired: A Proven Plan to Beat Burnout, Boost Your Energy, and Reclaim Your Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 19. La Llorona
a. 500 to 650 pages
Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MC is a mother
Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. TEARS in title
Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life: How to Use Feng Shui to Get Love, Money, Respect, and Happiness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Blue text on cover
Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 20. Chupacabra
a. 500 to 650 pages
Man and His Symbols - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. GOAT in title
How to Eat a Lobster: And Other Edible Enigmas Explained - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Animal on cover
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 21. Drop Bear
a. 500 to 650 pages
Lonely Planet Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Read a book set in Australia
Is That Thing Diesel?: One Man, One Bike and the First Lap Around Australia on Used Cooking Oil - ⭐️⭐️
c. Read a book with a carnivore on the cover
Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy: Read and Gain Advantage on All Wisdom Checks - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Read a book with author initials found in VEGEMITE
Royal Mysteries of the Tudor Period - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

DISC WORLD MONSTERS

✅ 1. Mr Salzella
a. 100-175 pages
The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. features a theatre or Opera performance
The Secrets of Italy: People, Places, and Hidden Histories - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Word SALT in the text
The P.R.I.M.E.R. Goal Setting Method: The Only Goal Achievement Guide You'll Ever Need! - ⭐️⭐️
e. mask on cover
It All Began With A Scream - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 2. Lily Weatherwax
a. 200-299 pages
How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home - ⭐️⭐️
b. Story features sisters
Atlas of Paranormal Places: A Journey to the World's Most Supernatural Places - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. reflective surface on the cover
Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre - ⭐️⭐️
e. A character uses an alias
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company - ⭐️

✅ 3. Shadowing Lemma
a. 100-175 pages
Freedom, Equality, Community: The Political Philosophy of Six Influential Canadians - ⭐️
b. tagged Science 10x
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Author's initials in CANNIBALISM
Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman - ⭐️⭐️
d. some kind of shadow on cover
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. MATH in text
How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 26. Mandrake
a. 500 to 650 pages
Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MC experiences increased dizziness
Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Purple cover
The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 27. Bergmonch
a. 200 to 299 pages
Digital vs Human: how we'll live, love, and think in the future - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Mountains on cover
400 Personal Growth Hack Puzzles: Guess Positive Words, Manifest your Destiny Today, Unlock Happiness and Success - ⭐️
c. Stubborn MC
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens - ⭐️⭐️
d. "pit" in text
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 28. The Iron Man
a. 500 to 650 pages
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Chemical element in the title
Read to Lead - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 29. Golem
a. 651+ pages
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MUD (any order) in title
The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want - ⭐️⭐️

GREEK MONSTERS

✅ 1. Minotaur
a. 651+ pages
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. map in book
The Great Polar Fraud: Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Goodreads rating 4.0+
Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 2. Mares of Diomedes
a. 200 to 299 pages
Blade Runner - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Fire on the cover
Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things - ⭐️⭐️
c. Title contains all the letters of HERA
Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 3. Cretan Bull
a. 350 to 450 pages
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. white cover
Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask! - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. where something physical is destroyed
Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers - ⭐️
d. 7 in the page count
Unwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 4. Griffin
a. 300 to 349 pages
Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. set in United States
Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. red cover
Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation - ⭐️⭐️
d. cross on cover
Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 5. Lernaean Hydra
a. 651+ pages
Lonely Planet Provence & the Cote d'Azur 11 - ⭐️⭐️
b. gold text on cover
Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. MC has a sister
Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 6. Centaurs
a. 300 to 349 pages
After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. character who is considered wise
Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway - ⭐️

✅ 7. Manticore
a. 500 to 650 pages
BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System - ⭐️⭐️
b. letters MAN EATER in title
You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass): Embracing the Emotions, Habits, and Mystery That Make You You - ⭐️⭐️
c. 3 in the publication date
Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Transform Your Life - ⭐️

✅ 8. Lamia
a. 200 to 299 pages
Birdman of Alcatraz - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. night sky on cover
Get Your Spark Back: How to Find Happiness and Reignite Your Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 9. Colchian Dragon
a. 200 to 299 pages
How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation - ⭐️⭐️
b. music instrument on cover
Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah - ⭐️⭐️
c. yellow cover
Words That Hurt, Words That Heal, Revised Edition: How the Words You Choose Shape Your Destiny - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 10. Polyphemus (Cyclops)
a. 500 to 650 pages
The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore - ⭐️⭐️
b. character engages in some sort of trickery
The Hurt Artist: My Journey from Suicidal Junkie to Ironman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

ASIAN MONSTERS 2

✅ 9. Bakekujira
a. 100 to 175 pages
Edible Flowers: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Author initials in WHALE
Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer - ⭐️⭐️
c. Birds on cover
Opening the Door of Your Heart and Other Buddhist Tales of Happiness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Setting is costal
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 10. Ningyo
a. 200 to 299 pages
Put Anxiety Behind You: The Complete Drug-Free Program - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. FISH in title
Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Tagged war
Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 11. Tambuakar
a. 200 to 299 pages
North to Paradise: A Memoir - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Water body in title
Women from Another Planet? Our Lives in the Universe of Autism - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Book set in the 1900s
The Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making and Marketing of Atoll K - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 12. Aoyin
a. 350 to 450 pages
How To Tell Fate From Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Animal with hooves on cover
Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. white cover
Trigger Point Therapy for Myofascial Pain: The Practice of Informed Touch - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 13. Kappa
a. 350 to 450 pages
Garden to Table Cookbook: A Guide to Preserving and Cooking What You Grow - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Green cover
What You Think of Me Is None of My Business - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Cucumber in text
Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Strong MC
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 14. Santu Sakai
a. 500 to 650 pages
My Anti-Stress Year: 52 Weeks of Soothing Activities and Wellness Advice - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Mouth on cover
Get a Life: A Roadmap to Rule the World - ⭐️
c. Letters KL in title
Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 15. Penanggalan
a. 651+ pages
Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law - ⭐️⭐️
b. set in Southeast Asia
Land of a Thousand Eyes: The Subtle Pleasures of Everyday Life in Myanmar - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. author identifies as non-binary
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. word "vinegar" in text
The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 12. Jinmenju
a. 350-450 pages
No Apologies: Ditch Diet Culture and Rebuild Your Relationship with Food - ⭐️⭐️
b. "laughing" in text
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Human head on cover
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. MPG Humour
I Only Roast the Ones I Love: Busting Balls Without Burning Bridges - ⭐️
e. Set in India
Leading Consciously: A Pilgrimage Toward Self-Mastery - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 13. Devil's Snare
a. 100-175 pages
Prisoners of Geography, Children's Ed.: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps - ⭐️⭐️
b. A character can't handle light
Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian's Guide to Autism - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. 'Devil' in title
The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Title starts with a letter in SNARE
Remembering Whitney: My Story of Life, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped - ⭐️⭐️
e. Black cover
Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 14. Pulgasari
a. 500-650 pages
Sugar: A Bittersweet History - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Tagged Korea
How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. "bear" in text
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Fire important to the plot
LOST: Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to The Classic TV Series - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. Weapon on cover
100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Eluding Pursuers, Evading Capture, and Surviving Any Dangerous Situation - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 15. Whomping Willow
a. 651+ pages
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Body of water on the cover
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Two words starting with the same letter in title
Beyond Getting By: The Financial Diet's Guide to Abundant and Intentional Living - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Author uses initials
Colloquial Mongolian: The Complete Course for Beginners - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. A form of transportation is destroyed
Jurassic Park and Philosophy: The Truth Is Terrifying - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 16. Hungry Grass
a. 100 to 175 pages
Rejection Reset: Restore Social Confidence, Reshape Your Inferior Mindset, and Thrive In a Shame-Free Lifestyle - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Title starts with letter in GRASS
The Grief Cure: Looking for the End of Loss - ⭐️⭐️
c. Someone finds a corpse
100 Headlines That Changed the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 17. Vampire Pumpkins
a. 100 to 175 pages
Unlock Your Resilience: Strategies for Dealing with Life’s Challenges - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Orange item on cover
One Day Smarter: Hilarious, Random Information to Uplift and Inspire - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Title starts with letter in BLOOD
Open, Honest, and Direct: A Guide to Unlocking Your Team's Potential - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 18. Kobold
a. 100 to 175 pages
Maybe This Will Help: How to Feel Better When Things Stay the Same - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Interior scene on cover
Baking Basics and Beyond: Learn These Simple Techniques and Bake Like a Pro - ⭐️⭐️
c. Title starts with a K
Kraftwerk: I Was a Robot - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 19. Alicanto
a. 350 to 450 pages
On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service - ⭐️⭐️
b. Author initials in ENTIERRO
Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Item with wings on cover
The Boy Who Did Not Sign : How I Failed Physics at Age 18 and yet became a Scientist at both India's Nuclear and Space Programs by 24. - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. "treasure" in text
Coconut: A Global History - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 20. Irrwurz
a. 500 to 650 pages
Scotland Yard: A Bloody History - ⭐️⭐️
b. Shoe on cover
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Author initials in IRRWURZ
Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups - ⭐️

✅ 21. Gingerbread Man
a. 100 to 175 pages
Homeless: The Untold Story of a Mother’s Struggle in Crazy Rich Singapore - ⭐️⭐️
b. An ingredient in title
Einstein's Beets - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Three "R"s in title
A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Set in the 1500s or 1600s
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 22. Gremlin
a. 200 to 299 pages
Magnetic Marketing: How To Attract A Flood Of New Customers That Pay, Stay, and Refer - ⭐️⭐️
b. Trickster character
If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By - ⭐️
c. Author first or last name starts with R, A ,or F
Tea and Cake with Demons: A Buddhist Guide to Feeling Worthy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 23. Waq Waq Tree
a. 350 to 450 pages
Bringing Out the Best in Everyone You Coach: Use the Enneagram System for Exceptional Results - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. gold words on cover
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Book has a map inside
Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Theory Exposed: Accessing the Nervus Vagus and the Power of a Healthy Brain-Gut Connection, Ease Gastroparesis, Trauma and Complex ... Records, Empath and Vagus Nerve Book 2) - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 24. Chervona Ruta
a. 350 to 450 pages
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography - ⭐️⭐️
b. Author initials in FERN FLOWER
No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidden Lives and Secret Loves - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Night scene on cover
A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. MC choice has unintended consequences
Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 25. Cherufe
a. 350 to 450 pages
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food - ⭐️
b. Title starts with a letter in MAPUCHE
Unlocking German with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. A sacrifice is important to plot
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Hot object on cover
Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 20. Edward Rochester (Jane Eyre)
a. 200 to 299 pages
A Year of Mystical Thinking: Make Life Feel Magical Again - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MC gets gaslighted
The Culprit - ⭐️
c. MC has a teaching profession
Do It! Speaking: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Market, Monetize, and Maximize Your Expertise - ⭐️⭐️
d. purple cover
Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and Mental Illness - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 21. Heathcliff & Catherine (Wuthering Heights)
a. 350 to 450 pages
The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MC bent on revenge
The True History of Merlin the Magician - ⭐️⭐️
c. author initial EB
1000 Ways to Ask Why: Introduction to Dramaturgical Thinking - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 22. David McCall (Fear)
a. 350 to 450 pages
A Fork in the Road: Tales of Food, Pleasure and Discovery on the Road - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. character is stalked
Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. one word title
Judy: The Life, Legend, and Tragedy of an American Icon - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 23. Cal Hockley (Titanic)
a. 500 to 650 pages
Endless Highway - ⭐️⭐️
b. takes place on ship
I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior: Memoirs of an American Soldier - ⭐️⭐️
c. character is an artist
1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half - ⭐️⭐️

VEGI-MIGHT MONSTERS

✅ 1. Yateveo
a. 651+ pages
1001 Inventions That Changed the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Someone dies in the first chapter
China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy - ⭐️⭐️
c. Set in Africa
Transformed: A Navy SEAL’s Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds - ⭐️⭐️
d. String like object on cover
Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs: The Simple Truth About Food, Weight, and Disease - ⭐️⭐️
e. Title starts with a Y
Yinsights: A Journey Into the Philosophy & Practice of Yin Yoga - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 2. Vegetable Lamb
a. 200-299 pages
Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of (Nearly) Perfect Information - ⭐️⭐️
b. Author initials in BORAMETZ
Chinese Philosophy A–Z - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Book set in Central Asia
Daemons are Forever: Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium - ⭐️⭐️
d. 436 - two of three numbers in page count
Anxiety Rx: A Revolutionary New Prescription for Anxiety Relief―from the Doctor Who Created It - ⭐️⭐️
e. Ruminant on cover
Ice Cream Social: The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 3. Madagascar Tree
a. 500-650 pages
The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MPG Adventure
The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Set on a tropical island
Cuban Cocktails: 100 Classic and Modern Drinks - A Cocktail Book - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. A hoax is important to the plot
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. "sacrifice" in text
The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 4. Hundred Knot Bamboo Tree
a. 200-299 pages
Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Number in title
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Book where workers rights is central to the plot
Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. Tagged Asia
Bangkok: Stories and Recipes from the Heart of Thailand - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. Yellow & green cover
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 5. Triffid
a. 200-299 pages
Invisible Influence: The Power to Persuade Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Plot involves something that usually doesn't move moving
Japan from Anime to Zen: Quick Takes on Culture, Art, History, Food . . . and More - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. Three of something on cover
Canary In a Covid World: How Propaganda and Censorship Changed Our World - ⭐️⭐️
d. "decompose" in text
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. Disabled MC
The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 6. Audrey Jr.
a. 500-650 pages
Prince: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MC kills someone
Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II - ⭐️⭐️
c. Red cover
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. 'Little' in title
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry - ⭐️⭐️
e. Standalone book
Approaching Disability: Critical issues and perspectives by Mallett Rebecca Runswick-Cole Katherine (2014-06-25) Paperback - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 7. Carbuncle
a. 200-299 pages
Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. set in Central America
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance - ⭐️⭐️
c. Something metal on cover
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. "ruby" in text
Crazy from the Heat - ⭐️
e. "bi" in title
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 8. Troll
a. 651+ pages
Lonely Planet Germany, Austria & Switzerland's Best Trips - ⭐️⭐️
b. Earth tones on cover
City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
c. "dungeon" in text
Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to Happiness - ⭐️
d. Title starts with a letter in TROLL
The Little Prince & Letter to a Hostage - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. Tagged Environmental
Imperfect Environmentalist: How to Reduce Waste and Create Change for a Better Planet - ⭐️⭐️

✅ 9. Ent
a. 100-175 pages
The Zürau Aphorisms - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Tree on cover
The Billionaire and The Monk: An Inspirational Story About Finding Extraordinary Happiness - ⭐️⭐️
c. Tall MC
Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life - ⭐️⭐️
d. "shepherd" in text
The Instant Pot Bible: More than 350 Recipes and Strategies: The Only Book You Need for Every Model of Instant Pot - ⭐️⭐️
e. An MC you would describe as "chaotic good"
A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 10. Galatea
a. 350-450 pages
Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. MPG Mythology
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization - ⭐️⭐️
c. White cover
American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. 5 in page count
Introduction to Clinical Psychology - ⭐️⭐️
e. Page number is a multiple of 50
Overcoming Imposter Anxiety: Move Beyond Fear of Failure and Self-Doubt to Embrace Your Worthy, Capable Self - ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 11. Tipua
a. 350-450 pages
Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
b. Set in Australia
Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey - ⭐️⭐️
c. Plant on cover
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
d. At least three vowels in one word in title
Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
e. Author initials in MAORI
Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Well done team & well done to our amazing logisticians!

How to Not Give a F*ck at Christmas: A No F*cks Given Guide to Surviving the Holidays

Good for an under-50-page book.

I've enjoyed playing with you all as well. Half the fun for me is finding a book that fits multiple challenges over different groups. I'm sure we'll cross paths again, in other games. 🤓

On row 109, I added details for G110 on the Mini, as it also includes the bonus word

I've got 2 big books coming in the next few hours, which will complete my cap for this round.

Melindam wrote: "We need 1 more U-book, Teamies.

Apart from the ones that were used for the obvious U-slots, could any of your already read books work for U maybe?"

I'm on it

Elisabeth wrote: "Richard, you might like it because it’s basically factual."

Thanks for the rec.

Melindam wrote: "Adding to what Karen says and this concerns us all: at this point if you need to choose bw a book that fits the mini, but with a much lower page point vs a chunkier book that would probably bring u..."

Okay. Heard.

I can complete the 4 unclaimed books for the Food Mini today:

Lentil, Turkey, Nigeria & Jamaica.

As other people still have books to finish on the Mini, I can have the 2 remaining Relaxing Mini tasks done in the next few hours.

I found the JP books interesting, but AK dragged on a lot. But that's just because I prefer N-F books.

Melindam wrote: "We can only use books we finish after we restart the mini."

Okay, thank you for explaining. All good. Plenty more where that came from. 🤓

Melindam wrote: "we can only swap books for Mini tasks that are being read for this round"

Ah that's fair enough. Maybe it can be used when we can restart the minis

The book I just entered at row-63 has the bonus word of vinegar, so I found an entry of mine on the Mini that didn't have the bonus word, & used that. Just letting you know.

Also, good news, I found a book that works for 'yam'.

Melindam wrote: "Seems that the "character who drives an electric vehicle" may turn out to be the trickiest of tasks,"

I can do that one. Yes, know...in fiction.

I've added my book for "out of your comfort zone".

It's a high scoring one! Will finish it in a few days.