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Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

Thanks ladies! Congrats, Cats!

Congrats, Cats!

Congrats, Frankie!

July 2025 Scavenger Challenge

Duration: Jul 01, 2025 - Jul 31, 2025
Completed: 7/7

✔ 1. El Niño and La Niña
🌎 Read a book with “girl” or “boy” in the title (plurals are OK).
How to Find a Missing Girl | Victoria Wlosok ★ (07/29/25)

✔ 2. Spanish Etymology
🌎 Read a book with a Spanish character (Tell us who).
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil | V.E. Schwab ★★ (07/06/25)
MC Sabine/Maria.

✔ 3. Warming
🌎 Read a book with a warm setting, (tell us where).
Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★ (07/14/25)
Nigeria

✔ 4. Ocean Temps
🌎 Read a book whose title begins with a letter in RAIN, (ignore a, an and the).
Rosemary and Rue | Seanan McGuire ★★ (07/03/25)

✔ 5. Coral Reef Stress
🌎 Read a book with a vibrant colors cover, please post the cover.
A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)


✔ 6. Food Chain
🌎 Read a nonfiction book.
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans | Laura Trethewey ★★★★ (07/11/25)

✔ 7. Winter Olympics Fail
🌎 Read a book first published in a year ending in zero (post the publication year).
Abide With Me | Jane Willan ★★★★ (07/07/25)
Nov 17, 2020.

*** Completed (07/29/25) ***

Reading Roulette 2025

Duration: Jul 01, 2025 - Jun 30, 2026
Completed: 0/26

BL/HR : July 5

HR : July 19

BL/HR : August 2

HR : August 16

BL/HR : August 30

HR : September 13

BL/HR : September 27

HR : October 11

BL/HR : October 25

HR : November 8

BL/HR : November 22

HR : December 6

BL/HR : December 20

HR : January 3

BL/HR : January 17

HR : January 31

BL/HR : February 14

HR : February 28

BL/HR : March 14

HR : March 28

BL/HR : April 11

HR : April 25

BL/HR : May 9

HR : May 23

BL/HR : June 6

HR : June 20

Congrats, everyone!

Great job, Moondance!

July 2025 Spell Challenge

Duration: Jul 01, 2025 - Jul 31, 2025
Completed: 9/9

✔ T - Heir to the Empire | Timothy Zahn ★★★ (07/04/25)
✔ R - Rosemary and Rue | Seanan McGuire ★★ (07/03/25)
✔ A - Abide With Me | Jane Willan ★★★★ (07/07/25)
✔ D - Death Comes to the Village | Catherine Lloyd ★★ (07/10/25)
✔ E - Murder in an English Glade | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)

✔ W - So Far Gone | Jess Walter ★★★ (07/06/25)
✔ I - The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks ★★ (07/09/25)
✔ N - A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)
✔ D - The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans | Laura Trethewey ★★★★ (07/11/25)

*** Completed (07/21/25) ***

Name That Dog!

Duration: Jul 01, 2025 - Dec 31, 2025
Completed: 25/25

✔ 1. 4 4 2 7: List 2, #68, Oliver: Read a book whose main character is the same gender as the dog name you picked.
Heir to the Empire | Timothy Zahn ★★★ (07/04/25)
Luke Skywalker.

✔ 2. 8 8 5 7: List 2, #72, Loki: Read a book whose main character is the same gender as the dog name you picked.
Arsenic and Old Lies | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (07/28/25)
Marius Quin.

✔ 3. 2 4 2 1: List 2, #67, Hazel: Read a book where the last letter of the title (subtitles do not count) is the same as the last letter in the dog's name you chose.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil | V.E. Schwab ★★ (07/06/25)

✔ 4. 2 8 2 5: List 2, #83, Bandit: Read a book set in a location whose name starts with the same letter as your chosen dog name.
The Burning Issue of the Day | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/22/25)
Bristol.

✔ 5. 4 7 6 8: List 2, #1, Zeus: Read a book whose author's gender is *opposite* of the gender of the dog name you picked.
Rosemary and Rue | Seanan McGuire ★★ (07/03/25)

✔ 6. 1 5 8 7: List 1, Male, 2018, Carter: Read a book whose main character is the same gender as the dog name you picked.
Killing State | Judith O'Reilly ★★ (07/20/25)
Michael North.

✔ 7. 6 6 3 7: List 2, #55, Stella: Read a book whose main character is the same gender as the dog name you picked.
Abide With Me | Jane Willan ★★★★ (07/07/25)
Sister Agatha.

✔ 8. 8 9 2 4: List 2, #32, Shadow: Read a book whose title has all the vowels in your dog's name, in the same uninterrupted order in which they appear in the dog's name. (The title can have more vowels, but the ones in the dog's name must be in the same order with no other vowels between).
So Far Gone | Jess Walter ★★★ (07/06/25)
fArgOne.

✔ 9. 5 7 1 9: List 1, Male, 2011, Hachi: Read a book that has a dog on the cover and whose title has at least one letter that can be found in the dog name you picked.
If Walls Could Talk | Juliet Blackwell ★★ (07/20/25)

If wAlls Could.

✔ 10. 5 1 7 2: List 1, Male, 2017, Mango: Read a book where the third word in the title has the same number of letters as the dog's name you chose (all words count).
Bran New Death | Victoria Hamilton ★★★ (07/02/25)

✔ 11. 3 4 6 9: List 1, Female, 2016, Panda: Read a book that has a dog on the cover and whose title has at least one letter that can be found in the dog name you picked.
A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)

A, P and N.

✔ 12. 2 8 3 3: List 2, #66, Apollo: Read a book where the author's first and last initials are both found in the dog name you chose.
Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie ★★★ (07/18/25)

✔ 13. 3 9 2 8: List 1, Male, 2012, Django: Read a book whose author's gender is *opposite* of the gender of the dog name you picked.
Death Comes to the Village | Catherine Lloyd ★★ (07/10/25)

✔ 14. 5 4 5 8: List 1, Female, 2015, Kiwi: Read a book whose author's gender is *opposite* of the gender of the dog name you picked.
Shorefall | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★ (07/12/25)

✔ 15. 4 7 8 7: List 2, #47, Ginger: Read a book whose main character is the same gender as the dog name you picked.
Sin Eater | Megan Campisi ★★ (07/08/25)
Assuming Ginger is female like Ginger Rogers. MC is May.

✔ 16. 8 2 3 6: List 2, #59, Leo: Read a book whose title has every letter in it that appears in your dog name (any order, but each letter must appear as often as it appears in the dog's name, so if the dog's name is Waffles, your title must have two occurrences of the letter "F" to count).
The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks ★★ (07/09/25)
pLayEr Of.

✔ 17. 9 5 4 9: List 1, Male, 2014, Spartacus: Read a book that has a dog on the cover and whose title has at least one letter that can be found in the dog name you picked.
Murder in an English Glade | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)

muRder engliSh glAde.

✔ 18. 1 9 9 8: List 1, Male, 2019, Snow: Read a book whose author's gender is *opposite* of the gender of the dog name you picked.
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans | Laura Trethewey ★★★★ (07/11/25)

✔ 19. 1 8 8 6: List 1, Female, 2018, Bowie: Read a book whose title has every letter in it that appears in your dog name (any order, but each letter must appear as often as it appears in the dog's name, so if the dog's name is Waffles, your title must have two occurrences of the letter "F" to count).
The Good, the Bad, and the Witchy | Heather Blake ★★★ (08/01/25)
thE gOod Bad WItchy.

✔ 20. 8 2 4 5: List 2, #92, Hank: Read a book set in a location whose name starts with the same letter as your chosen dog name.
Death in a Blackout | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)
Hull.

✔ 21. 4 7 8 1: List 2, #9, Princess: Read a book where the last letter of the title (subtitles do not count) is the same as the last letter in the dog's name you chose.
Locklands | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★ (07/17/25)

✔ 22. 6 8 9 8: List 2, #89, Roscoe: Read a book whose author's gender is *opposite* of the gender of the dog name you picked.
Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★ (07/14/25)

✔ 23. 6 9 1 3: List 2, #35, Harley: Read a book where the author's first and last initials are both found in the dog name you chose.
The Decagon House Murders | Yukito Ayatsuji ★★★ (07/24/25)

✔ 24. 3 7 8 4: List 1, Male, 2018, Calvin: Read a book whose title has all the vowels in your dog's name, in the same uninterrupted order in which they appear in the dog's name. (The title can have more vowels, but the ones in the dog's name must be in the same order with no other vowels between).
No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding | Catherine Mack ★ (07/04/25)
At thIs.

✔ 25. 9 2 9 7: List 1, Female, 2019, Arya: Read a book whose main character is the same gender as the dog name you picked.
The Satapur Moonstone | Sujata Massey ★★ (07/22/25)
Perveen.

*** Completed (08/01/25) ***

Thanks ladies!

Congrats, OM!

Congrats, Mabeelle!

NEW CHALLENGE ALERT!!!

This month's crazy challenge is the new version of Wonderful World of Disney with a few old and a few new movies and music to spell. Check it out!

NEW CHALLENGE ALERT!!!

The 12th country we will visit is a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, one that might be the first to disappear due to rising oceans. Here is Tuvalu.

NEW CHALLENGE ALERT!!!

If you're experiencing a heat wave like I am, here's a beachy challenge for you to cool off. Visit Outer Banks!

Countries of the World #12: Tuvalu

Duration: Jul 01, 2025 - Jul 31, 2025
Completed: 10/6+


✔ Country: Tuvalu
🚩Read a book whose title starts with a letter in TUVALU (ignore A, An and The or equivalent if not English).
Abide With Me | Jane Willan ★★★★ (07/07/25)

Stats

✔ Capital: Funafuti
🚩Read a book whose author's first and last initials are in the word FUNAFUTI (letters can only be used as many times as they appear in the word).
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Anne Tyler ★★ (08/13/25)

✔ Population: 11,900 (2021 estimate)
🚩Read a book whose total number of pages contain at least 2 of the numbers in the population (tell us the page count).
Killing State | Judith O'Reilly ★★ (07/20/25)
400 pages.

✔ Area: 10 sq mi
🚩Read a book whose year it was first published has at least 2 of the numbers in the area (tell us the year published).
Death Comes to the Village | Catherine Lloyd ★★ (07/10/25)
2013.

Trivia

✔ 1. Te Ano
🚩Read a book in which a game involving a ball is played (tell us which).
No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding | Catherine Mack ★ (07/04/25)
Tennis.

✔ 2. Fatele
🚩Read a novel in verse or a book of poetry (book may be less than 100 pages for this option).
I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman ★★★★★ (07/31/25)
66 pages.

✔ 3. Coconuts
🚩Read a book whose cover shows any of the objects mentioned above (post the cover).
A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)

Food and furniture.

✔ 4. Fire Caves of Nanumanga
🚩Read a book mainly set within a large house (or mansion).
Bran New Death | Victoria Hamilton ★★★ (07/02/25)
Winter Castle.

✔ 5. Atolls and Islands
🚩Read a book whose cover shows an island, an ocean or a reef (post the cover).
The Decagon House Murders | Yukito Ayatsuji ★★★ (07/24/25)

The house is on an island as well.

✔ 6. .tv
🚩Read a book in which the internet is important to the plot (tell us how).
Live and Let Chai | Bree Baker ★★★★ (07/27/25)
The MC Everly’s business has been called out by an internet blogger after a body is found clutching Everly’s iced tea.

*** Completed (08/13/25) ***

Reserved for PARTICIPANTS
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♦♦ Finishers ♦♦

Lali & Michelle🚩(07/07/25)
Joann 🚩(07/17/25)
Frankie 🚩(07/19/25)
Patrizia 🚩(07/20/25)
Angel 🚩(07/20/25)
Olivermagnus 🚩(07/22/25)
Meg 🚩(07/22/25)
Robin 🚩(07/24/25)
Vanessa 🚩(07/28/25)
Mary! 🚩(07/31/25)
Chaitra 🚩(08/13/25)

♦♦♦♦

Amanda K
Jimena
Marie-Anne
Mary
Ruth

Countries of the World #12: Tuvalu
Duration: Jul 01, 2025 - Jul 31, 2025

To finish, you will have to complete a total of six tasks, choosing at least four of the tasks from the Trivia section of the challenge. You do not have to choose the tasks beforehand; you can fill in as you go. You may choose to do all 10 tasks if you wish also. Happy reading!


TUVALU
An island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.
🚩Read a book whose title starts with a letter in TUVALU (ignore A, An and The or equivalent if not English).

Stats

- Capital: Funafuti
🚩Read a book whose author's first and last initials are in the word FUNAFUTI (letters can only be used as many times as they appear in the word).

- Population: 11,900 (2021 estimate)
🚩Read a book whose total number of pages contain at least 2 of the numbers in the population (tell us the page count).

- Area: 10 sq mi
🚩Read a book whose year it was first published has at least 2 of the numbers in the area (tell us the year published).

Trivia

1. Te Ano, literally “the ball”, is a national sport of Tuvalu. It is a bit like volleyball, except with two balls in simultaneous use between two teams that face each other. Each team tries to score points by forcing the grounding of the ball in the other team’s court. Using their hand, a player hits a ball to another member of the team who needs to stop the ball from falling to the ground without catching it and needs to hit it to another member of the team. When either ball falls to the ground, the other team scores a point, and the first team to reach 10 points wins.
🚩Read a book with a ball shaped object on the cover (post the cover) -or- read a book in which a game involving a ball is played (tell us which).

2. The fatele is a traditional dance song of Tuvalu. Dancing songs are the most common type of traditional Tuvaluan song. Fatele dancers wear coconut leaf skirts, and such as fau (floral) head wreaths. The traditional fatele was performed in the sitting or kneeling position by five or six young unmarried women, who while singing, moved their arms, hand and upper body.
🚩Read a novel in verse or a book of poetry (book may be less than 100 pages for this option) -or- read a book whose cover shows a person sitting or kneeling (post the cover).

3. Due to the abundance of salt water and poor soil, Tuvalu is only able to grow one major food crop – coconuts. Coconuts are a symbol of Tuvaluan life, and it has many uses in the everyday life of its residents. The husks are used for brushes, ropes and mattresses; the flesh is used as food; the leaves are used to make baskets; the trunks are used to make canoes and furniture; and the roots can be used as a toothbrush.
🚩Read a book set in a tropical country (tell us where) -or- read a book whose cover shows any of the objects mentioned above (post the cover).
Note: for tropical countries, use this list: https://worldpopulationreview.com/cou... . For the purpose of this task, only fully tropical countries work).

4. Fire Caves of Nanumanga is an underwater cave off the northern shore of Nanumanga. A local legend spoke of a “large house under the sea”, which led to an expedition by two scuba divers in 1986. The cave is deeply submerged under water, but its walls and roofs are turned black with coral fragments, which point at the use of fire, suggesting it was once above sea level.
🚩Read a book with fire or smoke prominently shown on the cover (post the cover) -or- read a book mainly set within a large house (or mansion).

5. Tuvalu comprises nine low-lying coral atolls and islands. The country’s average elevation is less than 10 feet above sea level, which puts it at the forefront of the climate crisis. It will be one of the first nations to disappear if the seas continue to rise because of global warming. Tuvalu is currently dealing with more frequent and severe weather events such as cyclones, storm surges and king tides.
🚩Read a book in which climate (and its change) is important -or- read a book whose cover shows an island, an ocean or a reef (post the cover).

6. The domain name .tv is the Internet country code domain for Tuvalu. The domain name is popular, and thus economically valuable, because TV also happens to be an abbreviation of the word television. In 1998, the government of Tuvalu sought to capitalize on the .tv suffix, later signing with the International Telecommunication Union, Information.CA, Idealab, Verisign, and currently GoDaddy to expand the domain. Except for reserved names like com.tv, net.tv, org.tv and others, anyone may register second-level domains under .tv. By 2019, 8.4% of the revenue of the government of Tuvalu came from .tv royalties, with hundreds of thousands of websites registered under the domain.
🚩Read a book in which the internet is important to the plot (tell us how) -or- read a book that has been made into a tv series or episode (tell us what it is if not obvious).


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❖ If you want to participate in a challenge, sign up by posting at least a partial list of the challenge requirements. This gives us a post to link you to, which you can use to update your books as the challenge progresses.

❖ Books must be at least 150 pages long (unless they are graphic novels, see below) and may only be used for one task in this challenge, but cross-challenge posting is encouraged.

❖ Graphic novels must be at least 300 pages long, but two books can be combined to make up the page count as long as they both meet the same criteria.

❖ For each book you read, please post a link to the title and mention the author and the date you finished reading it. If a challenge task gives several options, make it clear which option you’ve chosen. If the task calls for an item/color on the cover, include a link to the book cover.* If it’s not obvious from the book title or cover, be sure to explain how your book fits the task. If you don’t, you won’t get credit for completing that task.

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❖ When you complete the challenge, please post your entire list as a new message to make it easier for everyone to see what you’ve read :) If you don’t repost your list, your name will not be added to the list of those who have completed the challenge.

❖ Rereads are allowed, as long as you read the entire book and not just skim the best portions! :)

* If you don’t know how to post a link to the book title, cover or author, see the instructions HERE.

Outer Banks

Duration: Jul 01, 2025 - Sep 30, 2025
Completed: 14/14

✔ 1. Outer Banks
🌊Read a book in which the main character is either protected from danger or protects someone else from danger (tell us how your book fits).
Bran New Death | Victoria Hamilton ★★★ (07/02/25)
Merry protects (view spoiler)[Melvin (hide spoiler)] and Beckett protects her from the killer.

✔ 2. Wild Horses of Corolla
🌊Read a book with horses used as a common mode of transportation (tell us how your book fits).
Sin Eater | Megan Campisi ★★ (07/08/25)
Set in Tudor England.

✔ 3. Virginia Dare
🌊Read a book marked Mystery in its main GR page.
A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)

✔ 4. Graveyard of the Atlantic
🌊Read a book with a graveyard or tombstone on the cover (post the cover).
Death at a Scottish Wedding | Lucy Connelly ★★★ (08/18/25)


✔ 5. Blackbeard
🌊Read a book whose title or author's name contains one of the following words: Queen, Anne or Revenge (for queen and revenge: plurals okay, no other variations; for Anne, Ann or Anna are fine, no other variations).
Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie ★★★ (07/18/25)

✔ 6. U.S. Lifesaving Service
🌊Read a book in which a speaking character goes on a search and rescue mission (tell us who and who or what they're rescuing).
Locklands | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★ (07/17/25)
Berenice, Sancia, Clef, Claudia and Diella go on a search for Crasedes Magnus who is imprisoned in an unknown location.

✔ 7. Richard Etheridge
🌊Read a book in which the main character is a veteran (any branch any country any period, just not active duty during the time the book is set; tell us where and when they served).
Death Comes to the Village | Catherine Lloyd ★★ (07/10/25)
Robert Kurland served in the British military during Waterloo.

✔ 8. Radio Communications
🌊Read a book set in a location that begins with a letter in BUXTON (tell us the location).
Shorefall | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★ (07/12/25)
Tevonne.

✔ 9. U.S. Weather Bureau Station Hatteras
🌊Read a book in which a major adverse weather event occurs (tell us what).
No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding | Catherine Mack ★ (07/04/25)
Hurricane.

✔ 10. Orville and Wilbur Wright
🌊Read a book with siblings as main characters.
Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★ (07/14/25)
Olanna & Kainene.

✔ 11. Cape Hatteras National Seashore
🌊Read a book that is set in a location by the beach (tell us the location and the sea/ocean it borders).
Rosemary and Rue | Seanan McGuire ★★ (07/03/25)
San Francisco, Pacific Ocean.

✔ 12. Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge
🌊Read a book in which the main character encounters an uncaged wild animal (tell us what they see).
Heir to the Empire | Timothy Zahn ★★★ (07/04/25)
Luke encounters a vornskr, a wild canine like beast on the planet Myrkr.

✔ 13. Sea Turtles
🌊Read a book whose cover shows something cute and adorable (your interpretation; post the cover).
Abide With Me | Jane Willan ★★★★ (07/07/25)


✔ 14. Shows and Books
🌊Read a book set in the Outer Banks.
Live and Let Chai | Bree Baker ★★★★ (07/27/25)

*** Completed (08/18/25) ***

Reserved for PARTICIPANTS
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♦♦ Finishers! ♦♦

Lali & Michelle 🌊(07/24/25)
Meg 🌊(08/07/25)
Chaitra🌊(08/18/25)
Angel🌊(08/26/25)
Jonquil🌊 (08/28/25)
Frankie 🌊(08/29/25)
Patrizia 🌊(09/06/25)
Olivermagnus 🌊(09/16/25)
Robin P 🌊(09/19/25)

♦♦♦♦

Amanda K
Amy
Bubbles
Frankie
Jimena
Kathy
Mary
Meg
Ruth
Vanessa