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

Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

Congrats, L&M!

Congrats, Frankie!

Congrats, Ellen!

Congrats, Lesley!

Congrats, OM!

Congrats, OM!

Congrats, Kris!

Welcome to the challenge, Sandy! Your thread is set up and the link is in the participants' post!

For Sandy

Thanks Barb for the links!! I had unexpected visitors this weekend!

This took a lot longer than anticipated.

Round 3: H

✔ Author Name: Annie Hartnett
Unlikely Animals | Annie Hartnett ★★★★ (05/17/22)

✔ Book Title: The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher
The Hollow Places | T. Kingfisher ★★★★ (05/16/22)

✔ City: Hyderabad
H - How to Raise an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi ★★★★ (06/21/22)
Y - You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories | Gabrielle Union ★★★★ (06/17/22)
D - Dragon on Trial | Tui T. Sutherland & Kari Sutherland ★★★★ (06/08/22)
E - Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens | Eddie Izzard ★ (06/05/22)
R - Aru Shah and the Song of Death | Roshani Chokshi ★★★ (07/19/22)
A - The Argonauts | Maggie Nelson ★★★ (05/19/22)
B - Dead Beat | Jim Butcher ★★ (06/27/22)
A - Before They Are Hanged | Joe Abercrombie ★★★★ (06/03/22)
D - The Winter Garden Mystery | Carola Dunn ★★★★ (06/23/22)

✔ Drink: Hot Apple Cider
Rotten to the Core | Sheila Connolly ★★ (06/10/23)

Apple on cover

✔ Entertainment: Hockey
H - Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths | Natalie Haynes ★★★★★ (06/29/22)
O - Murder at an Irish Wedding | Carlene O'Connor ★★ (05/20/22)
C - The Masked City | Genevieve Cogman ★★ (07/01/22)
K - Nettle & Bone | T. Kingfisher ★★★ (05/23/22)
E - Finding Dorothy | Elizabeth Letts ★★ (06/09/22)
Y - Maizy Chen's Last Chance | Lisa Yee ★★★★ (06/30/22)

✔ Food: Haggis
Murder in a Scottish Shire | Traci Hall ★★★ (12/20/22)
Set in Scotland

✔ Girl's Name: Hannah
Danger at the Cove | Hannah Dennison ★★★ (07/20/22)

✔ Historic Event: The Holocaust
A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Short Stories | Primo Levi ★★★★ (06/24/22)
Primo Levi was an Auschwitz survivor and a few of the stories in the collection also deal with the Holocaust.

✔ Ice Cream: Hazelnut
H - The Hacienda | Isabel Cañas ★★ (07/04/22)
A - Rebel in the Library of Ever | Zeno Alexander ★★★ (06/10/22)
Z - Zuckerman Unbound | Philip Roth ★★ (07/09/22)
E - Elektra | Jennifer Saint ★★ (06/11/22)
L - Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man | Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic ★★★★★ (07/23/22)
N - Norse Mythology | Neil Gaiman ★★★★★ (06/07/22)
U - Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases | Paul Holes ★★★★ (06/01/22)
T - This Time Tomorrow | Emma Straub ★★★★ (06/11/22)

✔ Jewel: Heliodor
The Measure | Nikki Erlick ★★ (08/01/22)


✔ Kid's Game: Hopscotch
Beyond the Page #1. Murder by the Book | Lauren Elliott ★ (05/17/22)
Antique Bookshop #2. Murder by the Bookend | Laura Gail Black ★★★ (05/18/22)
Bookmobile #3. Borrowed Crime | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (07/14/22)
Johannes Cabal #4. The Brothers Cabal | Jonathan L. Howard ★★★ (07/18/22)
Bookmobile #5. Cat with a Clue | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (01/25/23)
Haunted Guesthouse #6. Inspector Specter | E.J. Copperman ★★★★ (07/03/22)
Haunted Guesthouse #7. Ghost in the Wind | E.J. Copperman ★★★★ (11/22/22)
Witch City #8. Final Exam | Carol J. Perry ★★★ (07/29/22)
Lighthouse Library #9. Death by Beach Read | Eva Gates ★★ (10/28/22)
Witch City #10. Murder, Take Two | Carol J. Perry ★★★ (05/04/23)

✔ Landmark: Hadrian's Wall
Dangerous Deception at Honeychurch Hall | Hannah Dennison ★★★ (05/29/22)

Set in England, wall on cover.

✔ Movie: Heathers: 3 Heathers and a Veronica
- MC Heather. The Island | Adrian McKinty ★★ (06/19/22)
- Yours Truly | Heather Vogel Frederick ★★ (06/28/22)
- South of the Buttonwood Tree | Heather Webber ★★ (02/15/23)
- Major Character Veronica Garcia. Act of Terror | Marc Cameron ★★ (08/31/25)

✔ National Park: Haleakala National Park
Aloha Alibi | Jasmine Webb ★★★★ (02/01/25)
Set in Hawaii.

✔ Occupation: Hairstylist
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil | Deborah Rodriguez ★★ (06/16/22)
Deborah Rodriguez is a hairstylist who went to Afghanistan and opened a beauty school.

✔ Plant: Holly
Dashing Through the Snowbirds | Donna Andrews ★★★★★ (11/13/22)
Christmas book.

✔ Reason to *Q*uit Your Job: Hostile Environment
Notes on an Execution | Danya Kukafka ★★ (06/14/22)
Saffy works as one of the few WOCs in law enforcement and faces an extremely hostile environment. She doesn't quit though.

✔ Road Trip: Hollywood
The Road | Cormac McCarthy ★★ (05/22/22)
Book made into a movie.

✔ Spice: Herbs de Provence
Death in the Clouds | Agatha Christie ★★★ (12/18/22)
Major part of the plot is set in France.

✔ TV Show: Home Improvement
Tagged for Death | Sherry Harris ★★ (01/22/23)
The MC organizes yard sales to get rid of clutter in her clients' house.

✔ Under the Sea: Humpback Whale
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures | Sabrina Imbler ★★★★ (01/08/23)
One of the sea creatures is a whale.

✔ Video Game: Halo
A Desolation Called Peace | Arkady Martine ★★★ (06/26/22)
Science Fiction, with a rapacious alien race intent on destroying everything.

✔ Word with Double Letters: Hill
The Children on the Hill | Jennifer McMahon ★★ (07/20/22)

✔ Jukebo*x*: Hotel California
Fatal Brushstroke | Sybil Johnson ★★ (07/07/22)
Set in California.

✔ Yard Sale: Halloween Costume
Skulduggery Pleasant | Derek Landy ★★★★ (07/29/22)

Skull!

✔ Zoo Animal: Hippopotamus
H - The House Across the Lake | Riley Sager ★ (07/26/22)
I - It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War | Lynsey Addario ★★★ (05/29/22)
P - Northwind | Gary Paulsen ★★★ (05/30/22)
P - Feet of Clay | Terry Pratchett ★★★★ (07/07/22)
O - The Book of Form and Emptiness | Ruth Ozeki ★★★ (05/26/22)
P - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy | Becky Chambers ★★★★★ (08/12/22)
O - The Cat's Table | Michael Ondaatje ★★ (05/27/22)
T - The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien ★★★★ (07/29/22)
A - American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century | Maureen Callahan ★★★★ (06/12/22)
M - My Year of Rest and Relaxation | Ottessa Moshfegh ★★ (06/28/22)
U - Upgrade | Blake Crouch ★★★ (08/09/22)
S - Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward ★★★★ (05/22/22)

*** Completed (08/31/25) ***

For Cats.

Welcome to the challenge, Helen and Cats!

Congrats, Jonquil!

Congrats, Mary!

Congrats, Barbara!

Congrats, OM!

Congrats, BC!

Congrats, OM!

Great job, Vickie!