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

Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

Mary-Megan wrote: "Next guess:

A0 - Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater [304 pages] (5/8)"

A0 is a miss.

☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ wrote: "Next guess: U-8
Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark
Pages: 298
Read: 5/3/25"

U8 is a miss.

Laila Jane wrote: "Guess #47 - T1 - Tahira in Bloom by Farah Heron (04/16/25) - 318 pgs"

T1 is a miss.

Congrats, Jimena!

Congrats, Jimena!

Congrats, OM!

Congrats, Karin!

I just had to go to #22 before encountering Dashiell Hammett. I'm reading

Today's callout!

BL/HR : May 10, 2025: Read the FOURTH book on your TBR whose author’s first name contains double consonants (maGGie).

Congrats, Jimena!

dream

Congrats, Jimena!

LOL. I know right, I barely have any on my TBR. (Thanks!)

Thanks Jimena and Barb!

Congrats, Barb!

Congrats, Connie!

Welcome to the challenge, Claire!

Mary-Megan wrote: "Next Guess:

G2 - Fate of the Jedi: Omen by Christie Golden (276 pages) (5/7)"

G2 is a miss.

Apparently, I don't read too many Z titles.

A-Z Book Titles 2024

Duration: Jan 01, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024
Completed: 26/26

✔ A - The Absolutist | John Boyne ★ (01/04/24)
✔ B - The Book of Three | Lloyd Alexander ★★★★ (01/06/24)
✔ C - Chocolate à la Murder | Kirsten Weiss ★★★ (01/01/24)
✔ D - The Dark Vineyard | Martin Walker ★★★ (01/03/24)
✔ E - Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands | Heather Fawcett ★★★ (01/24/24)
✔ F - The Fallen Star | Claudia Gray ★ (01/23/24)
✔ G - The Gods of Gotham | Lyndsay Faye ★★★ (01/22/24)
✔ H - House of Odysseus | Claire North ★★★★ (01/13/24)
✔ I - I, Juan de Pareja | Elizabeth Borton de Treviño ★★ (01/27/24)
✔ J - Julia | Sandra Newman ★★ (05/17/24)
✔ K - Killing Floor | Lee Child ★ (02/08/24)
✔ L - Loki Modern Era Epic Collection: Journey Into Mystery | Kieron Gillen ★★★ (01/27/24)
✔ M - Mistletoe and Murder | Carola Dunn ★★★ (01/01/24)
✔ N - Nona the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir ★★★★★ (01/20/24)
✔ O - Off Kilter | Hannah Reed ★★ (02/27/24)
✔ P - Pnin | Vladimir Nabokov ★★★★ (01/10/24)
✔ Q - A Quiet Life in the Country | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (02/25/24)
✔ R - A Royal Pain | Rhys Bowen ★★★ (02/09/24)
✔ S - A Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle ★★ (01/29/24)
✔ T - 10:04 | Ben Lerner ★ (01/21/24)
✔ U - An Unsuitable Job For A Woman | P.D. James ★ (01/31/24)
✔ V - Void Star | Zachary Mason ★★★ (01/29/24)
✔ W - Whose Body? | Dorothy L. Sayers ★★★ (02/02/24)
✔ X - X-Men Epic Collection, Vol. 9: The Brood Saga | Chris Claremont ★★ (03/19/24)
✔ Y - Yes, I Can Say That: When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble | Judy Gold ★★ (02/01/24)
✔ Z - Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald | Therese Anne Fowler ★ (04/30/25)

*** Completed (04/30/25) ***

I finished earlier but didn't get around to updating.

April 2025 Scavenger Challenge

Duration: Apr 01, 2025 - Apr 30, 2025
Completed: 10/7+

✔ 1. Ancient Egypt
🎁 Read a book in which a major royal is a character.
The Hidden Kingdom | Tui T. Sutherland ★★★ (04/24/25)
Magnificent is a dragon queen.

✔ 2. Ancient Greeks
🎁Read a book with candles or a moon on the cover (post the cover).
The Hanging Hill | Chris Grabenstein ★★★ (04/12/25)


✔ 3. Pagan Rituals
🎁Read a book first published in the same month as your birthday (tell us the month).
Birnam Wood | Eleanor Catton ★★ (04/07/25)
Pub. Mar 02, 2023.

✔ 4. Saint’s Day
🎁Read a book where a birthday is celebrated, (tell us whose).
The Third Rule of Time Travel | Philip Fracassi ★ (04/12/25)
Beth’s. Incidentally it’s the same day as my birthday.

✔ 5. Rome
🎁Read a fiction book in which a real-life celebrity makes an appearance (tell us who).
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald | Therese Anne Fowler ★ (04/30/25)
Zelda, F. Scott, Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and a bunch of Hollywood types.

✔ 6. Kinderfeste
🎁Read a book marked "Children's" or "Middle Grade" on the main GR page.
Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska ★★★★ (04/03/25)

✔ 7. China
🎁Read the first book in a Series (tell us the Series name).
Come Hell or Highball | Maia Chance ★ (04/03/25)
Discreet Retrieval Agency #1.

✔ 8. Coming of Age Day
🎁Read a book with an intact 20 in the page number, (tell us the number of pages).
Death Bee Comes Her | Nancy CoCo ★ (04/08/25)
320 pages.

✔ 9. Mitzvah
🎁Read a book with a title starting with a letter in MITZVAH (ignore A, An, and The).
Tourist Season | Carl Hiaasen ★★ (04/01/25)

✔ 10. Quinceañera
🎁Read a book with a female main character.
Shadow Of Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★ (04/06/25)
Carol.

*** Completed (04/30/25) ***