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

Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

Congrats, Bonita!

Congrats, Amanda!

LOL, I was just thankful it worked this time! Thanks!

Mary-Megan wrote: "Next guess:

C6 - The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center [336 pages] (4/4)"

C6 is a miss.

☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ wrote: "Next guess: D-8

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Read: 9/22
Pages: 338"

D8 is a hit.

Michelle wrote: "GUess # 27

SUSPECT - ScieNtist (SN) - The Vines by Shelley Nolden - 4/13/25
CAUSE OF DEATH - Shot - Urgent Justice by John Etzil..."

Congrats! You have solved the murder! Would you like to play again?

Great job, Barb!

🎼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)

🎼8. Afterlife, Evanescence

✔ A - Queen Margot | Alexandre Dumas ★★ (06/06/25)
✔ F - The Fifth Petal | Brunonia Barry ★ (06/23/25)
✔ T - Women Talking | Miriam Toews ★★ (06/19/25)
✔ E - The House at Sea's End | Elly Griffiths ★★ (06/11/25)
✔ R - Revan | Drew Karpyshyn ★★ (06/03/25)
✔ L - The Last Colony | John Scalzi ★★★ (05/28/25)
✔ I - Consider Phlebas | Iain M. Banks ★★★★ (06/01/25)
✔ F - Redemption Point | Candice Fox ★★★ (06/25/25)
✔ E - A Cold, Cold World | Elena Taylor ★★★ (06/15/25)

✔ E - Enemy Women | Paulette Jiles ★★ (06/21/25)
✔ V - Designer Dirty Laundry | Diane Vallere ★★ (06/28/25)
✔ A - Death by a Honeybee | Abigail Keam ★★★ (06/19/25)
✔ N - Kale to the Queen | Nell Hampton ★★ (06/14/25)
✔ E - The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language | Mark Forsyth ★★★★★ (06/27/25)
✔ S - Death at the Manor | Katharine Schellman ★★ (05/29/25)
✔ C - Sisters in Science | Olivia Campbell ★★★ (06/16/25)
✔ E - Endling | Maria Reva ★★★★★ (06/29/25)
✔ N - Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford ★★ (06/15/25)
✔ C - Brownsville: Stories | Oscar Cásares ★★★★ (06/24/25)
✔ E - Murder in an English Glade | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)

🎼9. Sugar, Sleep Token

✔ S - The Satapur Moonstone | Sujata Massey ★★ (07/22/25)
✔ U - Nine Lessons | Nicola Upson ★★ (08/17/25)
✔ G - Booked for Death | Victoria Gilbert ★★★ (07/27/25)
✔ A - The Decagon House Murders | Yukito Ayatsuji ★★★ (07/24/25)
✔ R - Curses, Boiled Again! | Shari Randall ★★★ (07/25/25)

✔ S - Against the Claw | Shari Randall ★★★★ (07/25/25)
✔ L - Live and Let Chai | Bree Baker ★★★★ (07/27/25)
✔ E - Death in a Blackout | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)
✔ E - Death at the Dinner Party | Ellie Alexander ★ (07/26/25)
✔ P - The Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron ★★★ (08/11/25)

✔ T - The Burning Issue of the Day | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/22/25)
✔ O - The Orchid Thief | Susan Orlean ★★ (08/14/25)
✔ K - Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse ★★★ (09/02/25)
✔ E - Charlotte’s Web | E.B. White ★★★ (07/29/25)
✔ N - No Good Tea Goes Unpunished | Bree Baker ★★★ (08/03/25)

For some reason I have had trouble opening this thread when I finished a song, so I didn't update it for a bit. Finished 3 more since my last update:

🎼4. American Pie, Don McLean

✔ A - Rockin' Around the Chickadee | Donna Andrews ★★★★ (11/05/24)
✔ M - Murder in Murray Hill | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (10/25/24)
✔ E - The Examiner | Janice Hallett ★★★★ (10/28/24)
✔ R - Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody | Barbara Ross ★★★ (10/29/24)
✔ I - We'll Prescribe You a Cat | Syou Ishida ★★★★ (11/04/24)
✔ C - Berried at Sea | Peg Cochran ★★ (10/30/24)
✔ A - The Last Word | Taylor Adams ★★ (11/07/24)
✔ N - Drowning | T.J. Newman ★★ (11/05/24)

✔ P - The PMS Murder | Laura Levine ★★★★ (10/29/24)
✔ I - I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom | Jason Pargin ★★★★★ (11/09/24)
✔ E - The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story | Olga Tokarczuk ★★★ (10/28/24)

✔ D - Doctor Sleep | Stephen King ★★★★ (10/27/24)
✔ O - One of the Girls | Lucy Clarke ★★ (01/03/25)
✔ N - Murder Under a Red Moon | Harini Nagendra ★★★ (11/06/24)

✔ M - Murder on Amsterdam Avenue | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (10/25/24)
✔ C - The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates ★★★★★ (11/04/24)
✔ L - Lowcountry Bonfire | Susan M. Boyer ★★★ (10/30/24)
✔ E - Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret | Benjamin Stevenson ★★★★ (11/10/24)
✔ A - Dumb Witness | Agatha Christie ★★ (11/09/24)
✔ N - The Children of Jocasta | Natalie Haynes ★ (11/23/24)

🎼5. The Final Countdown, Europe

✔ T - Thread on Arrival | Lea Wait ★★ (01/04/25)
✔ H - Mothers and Sons | Adam Haslett ★★★ (01/09/25)
✔ E - Egg Drop Dead | Vivien Chien ★★★ (01/07/25)

✔ F - You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist | Kari Ferrell ★★★ (01/10/25)
✔ I - Murder at the Grand Hotel | Isabella Bassett ★★ (01/11/25)
✔ N - Paint the Town Dead | Nancy Haddock ★★★ (01/25/25)
✔ A - Murder on a Girls' Night Out | Anne George ★★★ (01/03/25)
✔ L - Lowcountry Boughs of Holly | Susan M. Boyer ★★★ (01/04/25)

✔ C - Fall of a Philanderer | Carola Dunn ★★★ (01/09/25)
✔ O - The Owl Killers | Karen Maitland ★★★ (01/06/25)
✔ U - London Rain | Nicola Upson ★★ (01/10/25)
✔ N - The Lost Future of Pepperharrow | Natasha Pulley ★ (01/30/25)
✔ T - The Lost Heir | Tui T. Sutherland ★★★ (01/07/25)
✔ D - Later Gator | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (01/06/25)
✔ O - Death of the Author | Nnedi Okorafor ★★ (02/02/25)
✔ W - The Waste Lands | Stephen King ★★★ (01/13/25)
✔ N - Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson ★ (02/16/25)

✔ E - End of Watch | Stephen King ★★ (01/20/25)
✔ U - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi | Boyce Upholt ★★★★★ (01/13/25)
✔ R - Death in an English Cottage | Sara Rosett ★★★ (01/16/25)
✔ O - Old School | Gordon Korman ★★★★ (02/03/25)
✔ P - Darkly | Marisha Pessl ★★ (01/08/25)
✔ E - Murder at an Irish Castle | Ellie Brannigan ★★★ (01/23/25)

🎼6. Best of You, Foo Fighters

✔ B - Big Sky | Kate Atkinson ★★ (02/17/25)
✔ E - Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don't Manage You | Ethan Kross ★★★★ (03/04/25)
✔ S - The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies | Susan Wittig Albert ★★ (02/18/25)
✔ T - Murder on Trinity Place | Victoria Thompson ★★ (03/06/25)

✔ O - Old Soul | Susan Barker ★★★★ (03/11/25)
✔ F - Murder Buys a T-shirt | Christy Fifield ★★★ (03/06/25)

✔ Y - Southern Sass and a Battered Bride | Kate Young ★ (02/19/25)
✔ O - The Oligarch's Daughter | Joseph Finder ★ (03/25/25)
✔ U - The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf | Isa Arsén ★★ (02/21/25)

✔ F - Fatal Fudge Swirl | Meri Allen ★★★ (03/12/25)
✔ O - Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism | Eve L. Ewing ★★★★ (03/26/25)
✔ O - Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger ★★ (04/13/25)

✔ F - Fagin the Thief | Allison Epstein ★★★ (03/17/25)
✔ I - Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People | Imani Perry ★★★★★ (03/10/25)
✔ G - Murder at Mabel’s Motel | G.A. McKevett ★★★ (02/17/25)
✔ H - Hop 'Til You Drop | J.M. Griffin ★★★ (02/24/25)
✔ T - A Troubling Tail | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (03/08/25)
✔ E - Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future | Jason F. Stanley ★★★ (03/05/25)
✔ R - Royal Flush | Rhys Bowen ★ (03/03/25)
✔ S - Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home | Harry Kemelman ★★★ (02/28/25)

Jennifer, I've got a question for you. I know the rules say the first word is the maker - does it mean that in the A Makers American is the maker and not American Austin or American Bantam etc.?

Jan wrote: "BL/HR : April 12, 2025: Read the FIFTH book on your TBR whose author’s first name begins with an N:

Constable on the Prowl | Nicholas Rhea
[bookcover:Constable on t..."

Ooh thanks for reminding me about this series. I read the first book long ago and completely forgot about it!

Congrats, Jimena!

Great job, Bonita!

Congrats, Cats!

Welcome Mary!

Congrats, Michelle!

Congrats, Taleisin!

Thanks Barb!

Meg wrote: "Computer programmer ==> Emily Organ - Death in Soho 04/05

Vehicle ==> Death in Soho, Emily Organ 04/05

Field of Dreams ==> [book:..."

The murder was not by vehicle.

Mary-Megan wrote: "Next Guess:

R0 - Go as a River by Shelley Read [320 pages] (4/2)"

R0 is a miss.