Chaitra’s Comments (group member since Apr 29, 2012)

Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

Welcome to the JoAnne, Robin and Amanda!

Guess #1: CHUTE

✔ C - Change of Fortune | Jana Deleon ★★★★★ (09/21/25)
✔ H - The Harlem Charade | Natasha Anastasia Tarpley ★★★★ (09/22/25)
✔ U - The Unconsoled | Kazuo Ishiguro ★ (09/23/25)
✔ T - This Old Homicide | Kate Carlisle ★★ (09/25/25)
✔ E - The Elephant Whisperer | Lawrence Anthony ★★★ (09/29/25)

Nancy wrote: "I can take S A L M with Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Next: H A R L"

I'm reading The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony, so I'll take H A R L.

Next: S C Y T

Finished.

2024 Connections

Duration: Oct 01, 2024 - Sep 30, 2025
Completed: 60/60

✔ ⇒ October
Matching words: There, No, Season, When, Such, Pleasant, Sunny, Spots, May, Lighted, Produce, Effect, Feelings, Now, October, Nathaniel, Hawthorne

- Matching No. No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories | Gabriel García Márquez ★★★ (10/05/24)
- Matching No. No Virgin Island | C. Michele Dorsey ★★★ (10/13/24)
- Matching Island. The Island of Dr. Moreau | H.G. Wells ★★★ (10/13/24)
- Matching Island. Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell ★★★★ (10/17/24)
- Matching Blue. Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color | Kai Kupferschmidt ★★★★★ (10/19/24)

✔ ⇒ November
Matching words: Fall, Has, Always, Been, My, Favorite, Season, Time, When, Everything, Bursts, With, Its, Last, Beauty, Nature, Saving, Up, All, Year, Grand, Finale, Lauren, DeStefano

- Matching Last. The Last Word | Taylor Adams ★★ (11/07/24)
- Matching Last. The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door | H.G. Parry ★★★ (11/12/24)
- Matching Last. Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution | Helen Zia ★★★ (11/21/24)
- Matching Out. Murder on a Girls' Night Out | Anne George ★★★ (01/03/25)
- Matching Murder. Murder at the Grand Hotel | Isabella Bassett ★★ (01/11/25)

✔ ⇒ December
Matching words: In, Winter, She, Curls, Up, Around, Good, Book, Dreams, Away, Cold, Ben, Aaronovitch

- Matching Around. Death Around the Bend | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (01/13/25)
- Matching Death. The Shadow of Death | Jane Willan ★★★ (01/14/25)
- Matching Death. Death Waits in the Dark | Julia Buckley ★ (01/15/25)
- Matching Death. Death of a Mad Hatter | Jenn McKinlay ★★ (01/15/25)
- Matching Death. Death in an English Cottage | Sara Rosett ★★★ (01/16/25)

✔ ⇒ January
Matching words: I, Love, Beginnings, If, Were, Charge, Calendars, Every, Day, Would, January, Jerry, Spinelli

- . The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth ★★★★ (01/02/25)
- Matching Day. Strangled Eggs and Ham | Maddie Day ★★★ (01/20/25)
- Matching Maddie Day. Murder on Cape Cod | Maddie Day ★★★★ (01/23/25)
- Matching Murder. Murder at an Irish Castle | Ellie Brannigan ★★★ (01/23/25)
- Matching Murder. Murder at a Scottish Social | Traci Hall ★★★ (01/24/25)

✔ ⇒ February
Matching words: There, Always, February, Some, One, Day, Least, When, Smells, Yet, Distant, But, Surely, Coming, Summer, Gertrude, Jekyll

- Matching Day. Murder at the Taffy Shop | Maddie Day ★ (02/05/25)
- Matching Murder. A Murder Most French | Colleen Cambridge ★★★ (02/06/25)
- Matching Murder. A Picture of Murder | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (02/06/25)
- Matching Murder. A Match Made for Murder | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (02/08/25)
- Matching Murder. Murder Comes to Call | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (02/09/25)

✔ ⇒ March
Matching words: March, Gives, Perfect, Message, Hold, On, Never, Give, Up, Because, Spring, Will, Come, Life, Get, Warmer.

- Matching Spring. Murder at the Spring Ball | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (03/06/25)
- Matching Murder. Murder on Trinity Place | Victoria Thompson ★★ (03/06/25)
- Matching Murder. Murder Buys a T-shirt | Christy Fifield ★★★ (03/06/25)
- Matching Murder. The Wagtail Murder Club | Krista Davis ★ (03/11/25)
- Matching Murder. The English Breakfast Murder | Laura Childs ★★★ (04/10/25)

✔ ⇒ April
Matching words: Our, Spring, Has, Come, At, Last, With, Soft, Laughter, April, Suns, Shadow, Showers, Byron, Caldwell, Smith

- Matching Come. Come Hell or Highball | Maia Chance ★ (04/03/25)
- Matching Maia. Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska ★★★★ (04/03/25)
- Matching Shadow. Shadow Of Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★ (04/06/25)
- Matching Nancy. Death Bee Comes Her | Nancy CoCo ★ (04/08/25)
- Matching Death. Appointment with Death | Agatha Christie ★★ (04/09/25)

✔ ⇒ May
Matching words: When, Sun, Out, Wind, Still, You're, One, Month, Middle, May, Robert, Frost

- Matching Robert. Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson ★★ (05/03/25)
- Matching Robert. Conclave | Robert Harris ★★★ (05/09/25)
- Matching Robert. A Drop of Corruption | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★★ (05/14/25)
- Matching Robert Jackson Bennett. Foundryside | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★ (05/23/25)
- Matching Robert. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot | Robert Macfarlane ★★★ (05/24/25)

✔ ⇒ June
Matching words: I, Wonder, What, Would, Be, Like, World, Where, Was, Always, June, Montgomery

- Matching World. A Cold, Cold World | Elena Taylor ★★★ (06/15/25)
- Matching Cold. Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford ★★ (06/15/25)
- Matching Nancy. Baker's Coven | Nancy Warren ★★★ (06/17/25)
- Matching Nancy. Beyond A Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★★ (06/28/25)
- Matching Nancy. A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)

✔ ⇒ July
Matching words: There, Comes, Time, When, People, Get, Tired, Being, Pushed, Out, Glittering, Sunlight, Life's, July, Left, Standing, Amid, Piercing, Chill, Alpine, November, Martin, Luther, King, Jr.

- Matching Comes. Death Comes to the Village | Catherine Lloyd ★★ (07/10/25)
- Matching Death. Death in a Blackout | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)
- Matching Death. Death in the Garden | Isabella Bassett ★★★ (07/23/25)
- Matching Death. Death at the Dinner Party | Ellie Alexander ★ (07/26/25)
- Matching Death. Booked for Death | Victoria Gilbert ★★★ (07/27/25)

✔ ⇒ August
Matching words: August, Slow, Gentle, Month, That, Stretches, Out, Longest, Across, Span, Year, It, Yawns, Lingers, With, Light, Its, Palms, Victoria, Erickson

- Matching Victoria. Murder on Pleasant Avenue | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (08/06/25)
- Matching Murder. Mistletoe and Murder | Connie Berry ★★ (08/12/25)
- Matching Murder. Murder on Wall Street | Victoria Thompson ★★ (08/23/25)
- Matching Murder. Nacho Average Murder | Maddie Day ★★★ (08/24/25)
- Matching Murder. Murder in the Mystery Suite | Ellery Adams ★★ (08/28/25)

✔ ⇒ September
Matching words: There, Clarity, About, September, Sun, Seems, Brighter, Sky, More, Blue, White, Clouds, Take, Marvelous, Shapes, Moon, Wonderful, Apparition, Rising, Gold, Cooling, Silver, Stars, So, Big, Faith, Baldwin

- Matching White. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide | Carol Anderson ★★★ (09/12/25)
- Matching White. Murder in the Lincoln White House | C.M. Gleason ★★★ (09/17/25)
- Matching Murder. A Mumbai Murder Mystery | Meeti Shroff-Shah ★★★ (09/17/25)
- Matching Murder. Murder under Cover | Kate Carlisle ★★ (09/22/25)
- Matching Kate Carlisle. This Old Homicide | Kate Carlisle ★★ (09/25/25)

*** Completed (09/25/25) ***

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Welcome to the challenge, JoAnne!

Congrats, Vanessa!

Great job, Joy!

Lali & Michelle wrote: "Thanks! I like this one even though I struggle to find the books."

I always end up with Death or Murder no matter which word I start with. :D

Congrats, Jonquil, Barb, Richard and L&M!

Congrats, BC!

Congrats, BC! Great job, Anne!

boast

Welcome to the challenge, Patrizia, OM and Mary!

Welcome to the challenge, OM, Kathy and Mary!

Welcome to the challenge, Amy, Meg and OM!

☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ wrote: "Next guess: F-3
Much Ado About a Latte by Kathleen Fuller
Pages: 336
Read: 6/17/25"

F3 is a miss.

Congrats, OM!

Welcome Christina!

Congrats, Karen!