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Congrats, Kathy!
Part 2: Planting✔ 1. No Frost: Read a book that takes place in a warm climate (tell us where).
Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson ★ (02/16/25)
Mostly set in Philippines.
✔ 2. Get Soil Ready: Read a book whose cover is more than 50 percent brown (post the cover).
The Fated Sky | Mary Robinette Kowal ★ (03/19/25)
✔ 3. Fertilize: Read a book with a character you think is full of fertilizer, so to speak (tell us who and why you think that).
The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies | Susan Wittig Albert ★★ (02/18/25)
Liz’s mom, a manipulative POS.
✔ 4. Research: Read a book where at least one scene takes place in a bookstore or library (tell us which).
Murder Buys a T-shirt | Christy Fifield ★★★ (03/06/25)
Bookstore.
✔ 5. New Garden Gloves: Read a book with hands visible on the cover (post the cover).
The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf | Isa Arsén ★★ (02/21/25)
✔ 6. New Trowel: Read a book with any hand-held implement or tool on the cover (post the cover).
Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause | Naomi Watts ★★★ (02/19/25)
✔ 7. Tall plants: Read a book with a character who is described as tall (tell us who).
Big Sky | Kate Atkinson ★★ (02/17/25)
Crystal, described as a tall blonde.
✔ 8. Showcase a Specimen: Read a book whose main character is an only child.
The Wind Through the Keyhole | Stephen King ★★★★ (02/12/25)
Roland.
✔ 9. Shady Spots: Read a book with a character you think is "shady" or not trustworthy (your interpretation, tell us who and why you think that).
London Calling | James Ponti ★★★★★ (02/13/25)
Clementine, she’s at least a double agent, but probably has her own agenda.
✔ 10. Alkaline or Acidic: Read a book with a character with a very down-to-earth personality (your interpretation, tell us who and why you think that).
Murder at Mabel’s Motel | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (02/17/25)
Most of Granny Reid’s circle, including Granny Reid herself, are down-home, aw shucks personalities.
✔ 11. Striking Effect: Read a book with a cover you think looks striking (post the cover).
Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie ★★★ (02/20/25)
✔ 12. Hanging Containers: Read a book with a character who needs a lot of attention (your interpretation, tell us who and why you feel that way).
Gunpowder Plot | Carola Dunn ★★★ (02/18/25)
Adelaide, who is so needy.
✔ 13. Add Visual Interest: Read a book with an item you think is more decorative than useful visible on the cover (if not obvious, tell us what, and post the cover).
Sleight of Paw | Sofie Kelly ★★ (03/09/25)
The window boxes and possibly the cats.
✔ 14. Sunlight for Flowers: Read a book with a sunny outdoor scene visible somewhere on the cover (post the cover).
Hop 'Til You Drop | J.M. Griffin ★★★ (02/24/25)
✔ 15. Catnip for Cats, Rosemary for Dogs. Read a book with a dog or cat on the cover (post the cover).
Summer of a Thousand Pies | Margaret Dilloway ★★★ (03/03/25)
Part 3: Maintaining (and enjoying!)
You will do all the tasks in this section, for a total of 10 books.
✔ 1. Water Your Plants: Read a book with water visible on the cover (post the cover).
The History of Sound | Ben Shattuck ★★★★ (03/24/25)
✔ 2. Aphids: Read a book with a character you think is a pest (your interpretation, tell us who and why you think that).
Wolves of the Calla | Stephen King ★★★★ (03/29/25)
Andy. He’s annoying, smug, the narrator gives him the worst voice and it turns out he’s a (view spoiler).
✔ 3. Butterflies & Hummingbirds: Read a book with a beautiful cover (your interpretation, post the cover).
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales | Heather Fawcett ★★★★ (03/26/25)
✔ 4. Spiderweb Dance: Read a book where a character has a strong reaction to a sudden stimulus (tell us who, and if the latter, tell us what the character was reacting to).
Stone Yard Devotional | Charlotte Wood ★★★ (03/23/25)
The nuns and the people using the convent as a refuge deal with a mouse plague all summer, where they find mice in unexpected places at unexpected times, sometimes half-eaten by other mice – they react as expected.
✔ 5. Deadhead: Read a book where someone dies (tell us who and how).
Black Woods Blue Sky | Eowyn Ivey ★ (03/19/25)
(view spoiler) .
✔ 6. Ladybugs & Preying Mantis: Read a book with something red or green on the cover (post the cover).
The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen ★★ (03/23/25)
The sweaters.
✔ 7. Sunhat to Weed: Read a book with a hat of some kind on the cover (post the cover).
Miss Kopp Investigates | Amy Stewart ★★★★ (03/23/25)
✔ 8. Mow the Lawn: Read a book with a green lawn of some kind visible on the cover (post the cover).
How to Seal Your Own Fate | Kristen Perrin ★★★ (06/02/25)
✔ 9. Stop and smell the flowers: Read a book where someone pauses to really enjoy something (tell us who, and what).
Deserts, Driving, & Derelicts | Tonya Kappes ★★★ (04/19/25)
Mae, appreciating the beauty of Daniel Boone National Park.
✔ 10. Cooling Weather: Read a book set in a cold climate (tell us where).
Perfect Storm | Paige Shelton ★★ (04/16/25)
Alaska.
*** Completed (06/02/25) ***
✔ PinkP - Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void | Mary Roach ★★★★ (07/11/24)
I - In the Time of Love: A Modern Arabic Novel | Naguib Mahfouz ★★ (07/18/24)
N - Read on Arrival | Nora Page ★★★ (09/02/24)
K - Dolores Claiborne | Stephen King ★★★★★ (09/04/24)
✔ White
W - Waterland | Graham Swift ★★ (08/01/24)
H - The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language | Mark Forsyth ★★★ (07/13/24)
I - All My Mother's Lovers | Ilana Masad ★★ (08/04/24)
T - The Last Continent | Terry Pratchett ★★★★ (07/31/24)
E - Erasure | Percival Everett ★★★★ (09/05/24)
✔ Blue
B - Bridge of Souls | Victoria Schwab ★★★★ (09/09/24)
L - HHhH | Laurent Binet ★★★★★ (08/11/24)
U - Urchin of the Riding Stars | M.I. McAllister ★★★★ (07/03/24)
E - There Are Rivers in the Sky | Elif Shafak ★★★★ (09/15/24)
✔ Lavender
L - Anagrams | Lorrie Moore ★★ (08/13/24)
A - Assassins Anonymous | Rob Hart ★★★ (07/08/24)
V - Tunnel of Bones | Victoria Schwab ★★★ (09/09/24)
E - The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry | Ransom Riggs ★★ (09/25/24)
N - Now You See It | Carol J. Perry ★ (09/03/24)
D - Dark Matter | Blake Crouch ★ (09/03/24)
E - The Everafter War | Michael Buckley ★★★ (10/12/24)
R - Work Like Any Other | Virginia Reeves ★ (07/05/24)
✔ Purple
P - The Dead Cat Tail Assassins | P. Djèlí Clark ★★★★ (08/24/24)
U - Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World | Tom Zoellner ★★★★ (07/10/24)
R - The Ring of Solomon | Jonathan Stroud ★★★★ (08/14/24)
P - The Loch Ness Papers | Paige Shelton ★★ (08/26/24)
L - The Last Dragonslayer | Jasper Fforde ★★★ (08/23/24)
E - Murder Cuts the Mustard | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (10/12/24)
✔ Red
R - The Girl from the Well | Rin Chupeco ★★★ (09/10/24)
E - The Examiner | Janice Hallett ★★★★ (10/28/24)
D - Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Madeleine Thien ★★★★ (08/08/24)
✔ Scarlet
S - The Shining | Stephen King ★★★ (07/20/24)
C - Greenwitch | Susan Cooper ★★★★ (08/02/24)
A - All My Puny Sorrows | Miriam Toews ★★ (07/19/24)
R - Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories | Raymond Carver ★★★ (09/28/24)
L - Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life | Laura James ★★ (09/17/24)
E - The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story | Olga Tokarczuk ★★★ (10/28/24)
T - To Catch a Storm | Mindy Mejia ★★★ (08/03/24)
✔ Peach
P - Once the Shore | Paul Yoon ★★ (09/17/24)
E - Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret | Benjamin Stevenson ★★★★ (11/10/24)
A - All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy ★★★ (08/05/24)
C - The Colossus of New York: A City in 13 Parts | Colson Whitehead ★★ (08/04/24)
H - My Calamity Jane | Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows ★ (07/16/24)
✔ Green
G - We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels | Gary Janetti ★★ (08/11/24)
R - We Solve Murders | Richard Osman ★★ (10/02/24)
E - Judgment at Santa Monica | E.J. Copperman ★★★★ (11/16/24)
E - Eggs on Ice | Laura Childs ★★ (11/17/24)
N - No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories | Gabriel García Márquez ★★★ (10/05/24)
✔ Fuchsia
F - A Wee Murder in My Shop | Fran Stewart ★★★ (09/02/24)
U - Under the Surface | Diana Urban ★★ (10/01/24)
C - The Mercy of Gods | James S.A. Corey ★★ (08/20/24)
H - The Goose Girl | Shannon Hale ★★ (09/13/24)
S - We Others: New and Selected Stories | Steven Millhauser ★★ (08/02/24)
I - Incidents Around the House | Josh Malerman ★ (08/08/24)
A - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams ★★★ (08/10/24)
✔ Cream
C - Our Kind of Game | Johanna Copeland ★★ (08/26/24)
R - Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody | Barbara Ross ★★★ (10/29/24)
E - A Murder at the Movies | Ellie Alexander ★★★ (11/19/24)
A - Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Madeleine Thien ★★★★ (08/08/24)
M - Death at Morning House | Maureen Johnson ★★★★ (09/08/24)
✔ Violet
V - Murder on Marble Row | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (08/29/24)
I - House of Bone and Rain | Gabino Iglesias ★★ (09/01/24)
O - Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card ★ (08/22/24)
L - Guide Me Home | Attica Locke ★★★★ (09/29/24)
E - The Mighty Red | Louise Erdrich ★★ (11/21/24)
T - Thyme of Death | Susan Wittig Albert ★★★ (09/07/24)
✔ Vowels
✔ Yellow | E&O: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon ★★ (08/28/24)
✔ Orange | OA&E: “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People | Aubrey Gordon ★★★★ (08/30/24)
✔ Pink | I: Children of Memory | Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★ (09/01/24)
✔ White | I&E: A Sorceress Comes to Call | T. Kingfisher ★★★★ (09/08/24)
✔ Blue | U&E: Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★★ (07/12/24)
✔ Lavender | A&E: What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust | Alan Bradley ★★★★★ (09/14/24)
✔ Purple | U&E: The Spoiled Heart | Sunjeev Sahota ★★ (09/13/24)
✔ Red | E: Once Upon a Crime | Michael Buckley ★★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ Scarlet | A&E: The Problem Child | Michael Buckley ★★★ (09/18/24)
✔ Peach | E&A: The Golden Hour | Beatriz Williams ★★★ (09/22/24)
✔ Green | E: The Castle of Llyr | Lloyd Alexander ★★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ Fuchsia |UI&A: Silence of the Grave | Arnaldur Indriðason ★★ (09/11/24)
✔ Cream | EA: The Tale of Hill Top Farm | Susan Wittig Albert ★★★ (10/03/24)
✔ Violet | IO&E: The Purity of Vengeance | Jussi Adler-Olsen ★★★★ (09/24/24)
Rainbow themes :
✔ Sunrise: Red, Orange, Yellow: Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game | Chris Grabenstein ★★ (07/22/24)
✔ Autumn: Red, Green, Gold: Checking Out Crime | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (08/07/24)
✔ Cool: Blue, Green, White: Count Zero | William Gibson ★★★ (07/26/24)
✔ Romantic Roses: Red, Pink, White: Fishing for Trouble | [athor:Elizabeth Logan|19982049] ★★★ (08/03/24)
✔ Springtime Pastels: Peach, Pink, Lavender: The Castleton Affair | Benedict Brown ★★★★★ (09/26/24)
✔ Dramatic Blues: Blue, Purple, Violet: Murder Can Frost Your Doughnut | Rose Pressey ★★ (08/04/24)
✔ Primaries: Blue, Red, Yellow: Murder in the Mews | Agatha Christie ★★★ (07/23/24)
✔ Jewel Tones: Red, Green, Purple: Comic Sans Murder | Paige Shelton ★★★ (08/12/24)
✔ Elegant: White, Cream, Gold: A Glimmer of a Clue | Daryl Wood Gerber ★★ (02/11/25)
✔ Wild: Fuchsia, Orange, Purple: A Witch Before Dying | Heather Blake ★★★ (08/31/24)
I'm finished.How Does Your Garden Grow?
Duration: Jul 01, 2024 - ?
Completed: 3/3
Part 1: Planning
I. What kind of garden are you going to have?
C. A mix of the two: do a combination of tasks in A and B above to equal five books but you must do task #5 from each section (both A and B) as part of your five books for the combined formal and informal choice.
Formal:
✔ 1. One with a geometric, formal or very straight-line or rectangular-shape heavy cover image. (Your interpretation, post the cover.)
Vida | Patricia Engel ★★★ (07/14/24)
✔ 2. One with an even-numbered page count (tell us the page count).
- Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money | Rebecca Curtis ★★ (07/07/24)
272 pages.
✔ 3. One that was first published in an even-numbered month (February, April, June, August, October, December) of any year. (Tell us the publication date.)
- Presumed Innocent | Scott Turow ★★ (07/08/24)
August 1987.
✔ 4. One that was first published in an even-numbered year (tell us the year).
- Thunderstruck | Erik Larson ★★ (07/06/24)
2006.
✔ 5. One with a main character you think of as very proper or rule-oriented (your interpretation, tell us who).
The Fangs of Freelance | Drew Hayes ★★★★ (10/14/24)
Fred, very proper.
Free-form:
✔ 1. One with an abstract, cluttered cover or a cover with lots of curves in the artwork. (Your interpretation, post the cover.)
Alien Clay | Adrian Tchaikovsky ★★★★★ (10/11/24)
✔ 2. One with an odd-numbered page count (tell us the page count).
Reputations | Juan Gabriel Vásquez ★★ (07/15/24)
193 pages.
✔ 3. One that was first published in an odd-numbered month (January, March, May, July, September, November) of any year. (Tell us the publication date.)
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities | Amy Stewart ★★★ (07/14/24)
May 2009.
✔ 4. One that was first published in an odd-numbered year (tell us the year).
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper | Hallie Rubenhold ★★★★ (07/14/24)
2019.
✔ 5. One with a main character who is involved in a love-triangle (give us the names of all three characters).
Black Diamond | Martin Walker ★★★ (10/23/24)
Bruno, Isabel & Pamela.
II. What kind of plants are you going to have?
20 books, any combination
A. Flowers
✔ 1. Read a book with a flower or flowers clearly visible on the cover (post the cover).
Death Over Easy | Maddie Day ★★ (10/08/24)
✔ 2. Read a book with a character named for a flower (Rose, Daisy, etc., tell us the name).
Death at the Salon | Louise R. Innes ★★ (10/19/24)
Daisy.
✔ 3. Read a book where flowers figure prominently somehow (book is flower- or flower-garden-themed, character is a florist or gardener, a major scene takes place in a flower garden, your interpretation, using spoiler tags if necessary, tell us how your book fits. Note that this is specifically about flowers: if your victim dies in a vegetable garden, that won't fit.).
Arsenic in the Azaleas | Dale Mayer ★★★ (11/27/24)
There’s a body in the flower garden. There’s a body in a flower garden in every book of this series.
B. Shrubs/Greenery
✔ 1. Read a book with a green (more than 50%) cover (more than one shade of green is fine, post the cover).
Jingo | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (07/29/24)
✔ 2. Read a book with green plants on the cover (not JUST trees, but other green plants are fine and it is also fine if you have trees in addition to green plants. Green grass, like a lawn, doesn't count because we have a grasses section below, post the cover).
State of Paradise | Laura van den Berg ★★★★ (08/12/24)
✔ 3. Read a book with a main character whose job has them outdoors a great deal of the time (tell us who and what the job is).
Firestorm | Nevada Barr ★★★ (07/26/24)
MC Anna is a park ranger.
C. Bees/Butterflies/Hummingbirds
✔ 1. Read a book with a character who keeps bees (tell us who).
The Beekeeper's Apprentice | Laurie R. King ★ (07/21/24)
A retired Sherlock Holmes.
✔ 2. Read a book with a bird, moth or butterfly on the cover (post the cover).
The Book of Goose | Yiyun Li ★ (07/04/24)
✔ 3. Read a book where someone hums or sings (tell us who).
The Whistling Season | Ivan Doig ★★★★★ (07/19/24)
Rose.
D. Ornamental Grasses
✔ 1. Read a book with a nice green lawn or grass field on the cover (post the cover), OR
- The Hurtwood Village Murders | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (07/07/24)
✔ 2. Read a book where someone plays or watches a sport traditionally played on a grass lawn surface (golf, baseball, soccer, football, croquet, etc., tell us who and what sport).
In the Market for Murder | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/10/24)
Florence and Lady Hardcastle watch rugby.
✔ 3. Read a book with a character who owns, works at, or employs a lawn-cutting or landscaping service (tell us who).
Between a Flock and a Hard Place | Donna Andrews ★★★★★ (08/13/24)
One of the Shiffleys.
E. Herbs
✔ 1. Read a book where a spice shop, bakery or restaurant figures prominently, tell us which and how).
Biscuits and Slashed Browns | Maddie Day ★★★ (09/13/24)
Robbie owns the Country Store, a restaurant. Most of the action takes place there.
✔ 2. Read a book with food on the cover that is typically cooked with herbs or spices (Italian food yes, popsicles or scrambled eggs not so much... (post the cover).
Six Feet Deep Dish | Mindy Quigley ★★★★ (08/02/24)
Deep dish pizza.
✔ 3. Read a book with a character who grows his or her own herbs (tell us who).
The Queen of Poisons | Robert Thorogood ★★ (07/21/24)
Sophia de Castro is a wellness guru and grows her own herbs, including poisonous ones.
F. Vegetables
✔ 1. Read a book with vegetables on the cover (post the cover).
Farm to Trouble | Amanda Flower ★ (02/01/25)
✔ 2. Read a book with a character who is trying to eat healthy foods (tell us who).
Winter Counts | David Heska Wanbli Weiden ★★ (07/11/24)
Marie.
✔ 3. Read a book with a character who
Egg Drop Dead | Laura Childs ★★ (09/30/24)
Suzanne gets produce for Cackleberry Club from local farmers and vendors.
G. Annuals or perennials
✔ 1. Read a book where something occurs that is typically celebrated annually (holiday, anniversary, birthday etc., tell us which).
All Hallows | Christopher Golden ★ (08/06/24)
All the plot is set during Halloween.
✔ 2. Read a book where something occurs that usually doesn't happen to the same person every year, such as graduating from college, or celebrating a 50th wedding anniversary, or buying a new car, etc., (your interpretation, tell us who and what).
The Nursing Home Murder | Ngaio Marsh ★★★ (07/25/24)
O'Callaghan gets operated on for peritonitis and then he dies.
✔ 3. Read a book whose action takes place in less than a year (tell us how much time elapses during your book).
Thread Herrings | Lea Wait ★★ (07/09/24)
About a week.
✔ 4. Read a book whose action spans at least two years. (tell us how long/how your book fits)
Joan | Katherine J. Chen ★★ (07/24/24)
She's about 7 or so when the book starts and 17 when the book ends.
H. Will you plant using seeds, bulbs, or seedlings?
✔ 1. Read a book with a cluster of tiny similar items on the cover (think seeds) (post the cover).
Sugar and Spite | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (09/30/24)
The candy.
✔ 2. Read a book with an electric light of some kind on the cover (think bulbs) (post the cover).
Scorched Eggs | Laura Childs ★★ (09/07/24)
✔ 3. Read a book where someone takes over an already-existing situation from someone else (Your interpretation, tell us who and what.)
All We Buried | Elena Taylor ★★★ (08/06/24)
Bet takes over from her father as sheriff of Collier for the remainder of his term.
III) What colors would you like to have in your garden?
Do at least 25 books in this section. If you choose a word to spell out, you must complete the whole word, even if it puts you at more than the 25-book minimum.
Options:
1) You can pick out some colors from the below list and do them as spell-outs, OR
2) You can choose some colors and read a book by an author whose first and/orlast names contain all the vowels found in the color you chose (for example, if I chose "blue" I could read a book by Joanne FlUkE.) The vowels don't have to all be in either the first or last name: if you chose "scarlet," for example, you could read a book by Ann Rule and spread the vowels across both names that way. OR
3) You can choose one or more of the "rainbow" color theme options below for your garden and read three books that each have all three colors on the cover (post the covers).
✔ Spell Out:
✔ Yellow
Y - You Like It Darker | Stephen King ★★★ (07/03/24)
E - The Body in the Bookstore | Ellie Alexander ★★★ (08/11/24)
L - No Parm No Foul | Linda Reilly ★★ (07/05/24)
L - Dinosaurs | Lydia Millet ★★★ (07/09/24)
O - Out of Circulation | Miranda James ★★ (07/01/24)
W - Flora's Dare | Ysabeau S. Wilce ★★★ (07/18/24)
✔ Orange
O - The Fishermen | Chigozie Obioma ★★ (07/01/24)
R - Fur Love or Money | Sofie Ryan ★★★★ (07/09/24)
A - Annie John | Jamaica Kincaid ★★ (07/06/24)
N - Sparks Like Stars | Nadia Hashimi ★★ (07/04/24)
G - Gallatin Canyon | Thomas McGuane ★★★ (07/22/24)
E - Pageboy | Elliot Page ★★★ (08/31/24)
✔ Gold
G - The God of the Woods | Liz Moore ★★★★ (08/01/24)
O - Other Minds | Peter Godfrey-Smith ★★★ (08/03/24)
L - Lost Hours | Paige Shelton ★★★★ (07/15/24)
D - Fortune Hunter | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (07/02/24)
I'm finished and I think I'm going to call this done.COLORS COUNT, A NEW SHADE
Duration: Jul 05, 2024 - ?
Rainbow 6
Red
Cherry Hill
✔ C - Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money | Rebecca Curtis ★★ (07/07/24)
✔ H - The Hurtwood Village Murders | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (07/07/24)
✔ E - Thunderstruck | Erik Larson ★★ (07/06/24)
✔ R - Work Like Any Other | Virginia Reeves ★ (07/05/24)
✔ R - Fur Love or Money | Sofie Ryan ★★★★ (07/09/24)
✔ Y - Flora's Dare | Ysabeau S. Wilce ★★★ (07/18/24)
✔ H - Assassins Anonymous | Rob Hart ★★★ (07/08/24)
✔ I - In the Market for Murder | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/10/24)
✔ L - No Parm No Foul | Linda Reilly ★★ (07/05/24)
✔ L - Dinosaurs | Lydia Millet ★★★ (07/09/24)
Orange
Bright Mango
✔ B - The Beekeeper's Apprentice | Laurie R. King ★ (07/21/24)
✔ R - The Queen of Poisons | Robert Thorogood ★★ (07/21/24)
✔ I - The Whistling Season | Ivan Doig ★★★★★ (07/19/24)
✔ G - Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game | Chris Grabenstein ★★ (07/22/24)
✔ H - HHhH | Laurent Binet ★★★★★ (08/11/24)
✔ T - All My Puny Sorrows | Miriam Toews ★★ (07/19/24)
✔ M - The Nursing Home Murder | Ngaio Marsh ★★★ (07/25/24)
✔ A - Murder in the Mews | Agatha Christie ★★★ (07/23/24)
✔ N - In the Time of Love: A Modern Arabic Novel | Naguib Mahfouz ★★ (07/18/24)
✔ G - Gallatin Canyon | Thomas McGuane ★★★ (07/22/24)
✔ O - Other Minds | Peter Godfrey-Smith ★★★ (08/03/24)
Yellow
Citrus Spice
✔ C - Comic Sans Murder | Paige Shelton ★★★ (08/12/24)
✔ I - House of Bone and Rain | Gabino Iglesias ★★ (09/01/24)
✔ T - Murder on Marble Row | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (08/29/24)
✔ R - The Ring of Solomon | Jonathan Stroud ★★★★ (08/14/24)
✔ U - Under the Surface | Diana Urban ★★ (10/01/24)
✔ S - State of Paradise | Laura van den Berg ★★★★ (08/12/24)
✔ S - Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card ★ (08/22/24)
✔ P - The Dead Cat Tail Assassins | P. Djèlí Clark ★★★★ (08/24/24)
✔ I - Silence of the Grave | Arnaldur Indriðason ★★ (09/11/24)
✔ C - The Mercy of Gods | James S.A. Corey ★★ (08/20/24)
✔ E - Pageboy | Elliot Page ★★★ (08/31/24)
Green
Emerald Ring
✔ E - The Everafter War | Michael Buckley ★★★ (10/12/24)
✔ M - Once Upon a Crime | Michael Buckley ★★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ E - Murder Cuts the Mustard | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (10/12/24)
✔ R - We Solve Murders | Richard Osman ★★ (10/02/24)
✔ A - The Tale of Hill Top Farm | Susan Wittig Albert ★★★ (10/03/24)
✔ L - Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye | Victoria Laurie ★★★ (10/04/24)
✔ D - Death Over Easy | Maddie Day ★★ (10/08/24)
✔ R - Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody | Barbara Ross ★★★ (10/29/24)
✔ I - The Island of Dr. Moreau | H.G. Wells ★★★ (10/13/24)
✔ N - Drowning | T.J. Newman ★★ (11/05/24)
✔ G - No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories | Gabriel García Márquez ★★★ (10/05/24)
Blue
Blueberry Muffin
✔ B - Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret | Benjamin Stevenson ★★★★ (11/10/24)
✔ L - The Last Word | Taylor Adams ★★ (11/07/24)
✔ U - London Rain | Nicola Upson ★★ (01/10/25)
✔ E - The Mighty Red | Louise Erdrich ★★ (11/21/24)
✔ B - Lowcountry Boughs of Holly | Susan M. Boyer ★★★ (01/04/25)
✔ E - Judgment at Santa Monica | E.J. Copperman ★★★★ (11/16/24)
✔ R - Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures | Katherine Rundell ★★★★ (12/02/24)
✔ R - The Raven Thief | Gigi Pandian ★★★ (01/01/25)
✔ Y - The Stardust Grail | Yume Kitasei ★★★★ (11/22/24)
✔ M - Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King ★★ (11/09/24)
✔ U - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi | Boyce Upholt ★★★★★ (01/13/25)
✔ F - The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth ★★★★ (01/02/25)
✔ F - Fall of a Philanderer | Carola Dunn ★★★ (01/09/25)
✔ I - I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom | Jason Pargin ★★★★★ (11/09/24)
✔ N - Murder Under a Red Moon | Harini Nagendra ★★★ (11/06/24)
Purple
Brandywine
✔ B - Death Waits in the Dark | Julia Buckley ★ (01/15/25)
✔ R - Death in an English Cottage | Sara Rosett ★★★ (01/16/25)
✔ A - All the Water in the World | Eiren Caffall ★★ (01/30/25)
✔ N - Paint the Town Dead | Nancy Haddock ★★★ (01/25/25)
✔ D - Death Around the Bend | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (01/13/25)
✔ Y - Southern Sass and a Battered Bride | Kate Young ★ (02/19/25)
✔ W - The Shadow of Death | Jane Willan ★★★ (01/14/25)
✔ I - A Match Made for Murder | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (02/08/25)
✔ N - The Lost Future of Pepperharrow | Natasha Pulley ★ (01/30/25)
✔ E - End of Watch | Stephen King ★★ (01/20/25)
Pink
Cherry Blush
✔ C - The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern | Lilian Jackson Braun ★★★★ (02/27/25)
✔ H - Hop 'Til You Drop | J.M. Griffin ★★★ (02/24/25)
✔ E - Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don't Manage You | Ethan Kross ★★★★ (03/04/25)
✔ R - Royal Flush | Rhys Bowen ★ (03/03/25)
✔ R - Rewire | Nicole Vignola ★★★ (03/07/25)
✔ Y - Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us | Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross ★★ (03/10/25)
✔ B - Along the Saltwise Sea | A. Deborah Baker ★★ (02/26/25)
✔ L - Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie ★★★ (02/20/25)
✔ U - The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf | Isa Arsén ★★ (02/21/25)
✔ S - Summer of a Thousand Pies | Margaret Dilloway ★★★ (03/03/25)
✔ H - Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home | Harry Kemelman ★★★ (02/28/25)
Pot of Gold Task
♣ Read a book with the author's name printed in gold; remember to post the cover.
A Body at a Boarding School | Benedict Brown ★★★★★ (05/09/25)
*** Completed (05/09/25) ***
Finished.Old, Obsolete and Obscure Words #3: Clothing & Accessories
Duration: Mar 01, 2025 - ?
Completed: 26/26
✔ A is for ANTIGROPELOS: Read a book in which someone dresses for the weather (bonus for rain or mud) (tell us who and the weather).
Perfect Storm | Paige Shelton ★★ (04/16/25)
Tex and Beth, rain.
✔ B is for BEAVER HAT: Read a book that is set in Canada (tell us where).
Sweetland | Michael Crummey ★★ (05/11/25)
✔ C is for CLOGGER, CORDWAINER, and COBBLER: Read a book in which there is confusion about someone’s role or identity (tell us who).
Old Soul | Susan Barker ★★★★ (03/11/25)
The old soul in question is a sort of a vampire who keeps changing her identity as she goes through her victims.
✔ D is for DOLMAN: Read a book that has at least two of these digits: 0, 1, 8, 7, or 9 in its original publication year (tell us the year).
Murder on Trinity Place | Victoria Thompson ★★ (03/06/25)
Pub. 2019
✔ E is for ENGAGEANTES: Read a book in which someone or something is, or could be called, ‘false’ (using spoilers if needed tell us what or who).
A Body at the Grand Hotel | Benedict Brown ★★★★★ (03/11/25)
Two suspicious individuals lurking around the grand hotel right around the time the body is found turn out to be (view spoiler).
✔ F is for FEAXPREON: Read a book that has an author who has a compound word in their name (e.g. Sally ARMSTRONG).
Shadow Of Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★ (04/06/25)
✔ G is for GIGOT SLEEVES: Read a book that is set in a French-speaking place (tell us where).
The Club Dumas | Arturo Pérez-Reverte ★ (03/05/25)
Half of the book is set in Paris.
✔ H is for HEALSBEAG and HEALSMENE/HEALSMYNE: Read a book that has a circle or ring shown clearly on its cover (for either option post the cover).
Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don't Manage You | Ethan Kross ★★★★ (03/04/25)
✔ I is for IMTHUIGE, IMM-TUIGETHAR, and INDUITIO/INDUERE: Read a book in which someone is said to get dressed/put on clothes (cite the sentence).
Case of the Bleus | Korina Moss ★★★ (03/14/25)
I changed out of my work clothes and threw on eans and shirt with a drawing of a hunk of blue cheese on it… Page 79.
✔ J is for JUPON: Read a book in which a main character is involved in something ‘over’ or ‘under’; it could be literal such as swimming underwater or figurative such as overcoming a challenge (tell us who and briefly how they are ‘over’ or ‘under’).
National Security | Marc Cameron ★★ (03/01/25)
Jericho and Jacques have to figure out the identity of a terrorist before they wreak havoc.
✔ K is for KENDAL: Read a book that has a predominantly green cover (post the cover).
Fagin the Thief | Allison Epstein ★★★ (03/17/25)
✔ L is a LAMPAS: Read a book that is set in a place, or has an important scene in a place, that could be described as luxurious, sumptuous, rich, or intricate (tell us where).
Royal Flush | Rhys Bowen ★ (03/03/25)
Balmoral.
✔ M is a MANTUA: Read a book in which someone changes roles during the book (tell us who).
Black Woods Blue Sky | Eowyn Ivey ★ (03/19/25)
Arthur – he’s just a weird guy to begin with but midway through the book he (view spoiler).
✔ N is for NETHER STOCKS: Read a book that is set in the United Kingdom (tell us where).
Murder at the Spring Ball | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (03/06/25)
Surrey.
✔ O is for OUCH: Read a book whose title starts with A or AN (ALL words count).
A Troubling Tail | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (03/08/25)
✔ P is for PET-EN-L’AIR: Read a book in which a speaking character behaves crudely or rudely in some way (tell us who).
Babylonia | Costanza Casati ★★ (03/09/25)
The prince of Babylon towards Semiramis.
✔ Q is for QUAINTISE: Read a book in which someone is noted as being well dressed (tell us who).
Fatal Fudge Swirl | Meri Allen ★★★ (03/12/25)
Diantha.
✔ R is for RATIONAL DRESS MOVEMENT: Read a book that can be called a feminist work.
Cantoras | Carolina De Robertis ★★★ (03/18/25)
✔ S is for STAYS: Read a book in which someone supports someone else in some way (tell us who).
The Fated Sky | Mary Robinette Kowal ★ (03/19/25)
Everyone supports Elma for everything. It’s annoying.
✔ T is for TOGEMAN/TOGMAN: Read a book that has an important character who is homeless, unemployed, or a wanderer (or nomadic-type of traveler) or who is a thief (tell us who).
Summer of a Thousand Pies | Margaret Dilloway ★★★ (03/03/25)
Cady’s father is homeless and unemployed.
✔ U is for UNWÆDED: Read a book whose author has a name containing a prefix(es), e.g. Kyo MAClear or Guy VANDERhaeghe; the prefix could also be included with an apostrophe or space in the name, e.g. Sara O’Leary or Simone ST. James) (link to the author).
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot | Robert Macfarlane ★★★ (05/24/25)
✔ V is for VEST/VESTURE: Read a book that has a main character whose religious practice is important to them or to the plot (bonus for a religious leader) (tell us who).
Stone Yard Devotional | Charlotte Wood ★★★ (03/23/25)
The unnamed MC goes to a convent to find herself.
✔ W is for WALLET: Read a book in which someone
Unhallowed Halls | Lili Wilkinson ★★ (03/17/25)
Page makes the journey from Florida to the Scottish moors to go to school.
✔ X is for XEROPELLINA (SERAPELINA/SERAPELLINA/SEROPELLINUS, XEROPRELLINUS): Read a book by an author who writes under more than one name (link to the author).
Sleight of Paw | Sofie Kelly ★★ (03/09/25)
Sofie Kelly writes as Darlene Ryan & Sofie Ryan.
✔ Y is for YARE: Read a book that has a verb in its title.
Murder Buys a T-shirt | Christy Fifield ★★★ (03/06/25)
✔ Z is for ZONE: Read a book that has a cover that is ‘zoned’ in some way (in the current sense of the word) (post the cover).
We Do Not Part | Han Kang ★★ (03/03/25)
*** Completed (05/24/25) ***
I've finished my song. I'll be doing Afterlife by Evanescence next.🎼7. Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin
✔ S - Perfect Storm | Paige Shelton ★★ (04/16/25)
✔ T - Deserts, Driving, & Derelicts | Tonya Kappes ★★★ (04/19/25)
✔ A - Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind | Ann B. Ross ★★★ (04/17/25)
✔ I - I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine | Daniel J. Levitin ★★★★ (04/15/25)
✔ R - Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson ★★ (05/03/25)
✔ W - A Lethal Lesson | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (05/16/25)
✔ A - An American in Scotland | Lucy Connelly ★★★ (05/18/25)
✔ Y - Yeast of Eden | Sarah Fox ★★ (04/24/25)
✔ T - The Hidden Kingdom | Tui T. Sutherland ★★★ (04/24/25)
✔ O - Kill 'Em with Cayenne | Gail Oust ★★ (04/20/25)
✔ H - The Hour of Death | Jane Willan ★★★★ (04/27/25)
✔ E - James | Percival Everett ★★★★ (04/26/25)
✔ A - Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death | M.C. Beaton ★★ (05/26/25)
✔ V - Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) | Jesse Q. Sutanto ★★★★ (05/05/25)
✔ E - The Return of Ellie Black | Emiko Jean ★ (04/28/25)
✔ N - No Paw to Stand On | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (04/28/25)
✔ L - Solaris | Stanisław Lem ★★ (04/17/25)
✔ E - The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot ★★ (05/02/25)
✔ D - A Drop of Corruption | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★★ (05/14/25)
✔ Z - Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald | Therese Anne Fowler ★ (04/30/25)
✔ E - Chapter and Curse | Elizabeth Penney ★★ (05/03/25)
✔ P - A Midnight Puzzle | Gigi Pandian ★★★ (04/18/25)
✔ P - The Fifth Elephant | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (05/28/25)
✔ E - Shot Through the Book | Eva Gates ★★★ (05/24/25)
✔ L - The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir | Sarah Kendzior ★★★ (04/25/25)
✔ I - Suite Française | Irène Némirovsky ★★★ (05/22/25)
✔ N - Read or Alive | Nora Page ★★★ (05/04/25)
May I get another set please?Round 43
✔ I - A Lethal Lesson | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (05/16/25)
✔ P - James | Percival Everett ★★★★ (04/26/25)
✔ S - The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir | Sarah Kendzior ★★★ (04/25/25)
✔ B - A Body at a Boarding School | Benedict Brown ★★★★★ (05/09/25)
✔ A - The Sayers Swindle | Victoria Abbott ★★★ (05/04/25)
✔ D - A Drop of Corruption | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★★ (05/14/25)
✔ G - Untrue till Death | Graham Brack ★★★ (04/27/25)
Congrats, Michelle and Anne! Michelle, I've moved your link. :)
Welcome Mary! Please do choose your main genres before you start.
Congrats, Frankie!
Round 5, Picking for AgnieszkaI've read one book from your TBR and loved it:
The other three are titles that jumped out at me:
Great job, Connie!
Thanks Barb!
Congrats, OM, Patrizia, Meg, Joann and Bonita!
Congrats, Meg!
Welcome to the challenge, Bonita and Kathy!
Mabeelle wrote: "Guess #13Location: The Secret Garden (ACDS)
Au cœur du silence by Graham Joyce - 5/25/2025
Suspect: Postal Worker (AW) + Cause of Death: Stabbing (scissors)
[book:In My Dreams I ..."
The murderer is not the postal worker.
Ruth wrote: " Guess 21Suspect: Computer Programmer ....The Amish Groom by Mindy Starns Clark.....May 27, 2025 Author initials....M, C
Cause of Death: Fall.... [book:Chocolate ..."
Murder was not by fall.
Thanks ladies! Congrats, OM!
