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

Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

Congrats, OM and Birgitte!

Great job Barb!

argon

Congrats, Barb!

Congrats, Meg!

Congrats, Meg! Congrats, Barb!

ravel

Thanks!

Congrats, Nancy!

Meg wrote: "Scientist ==> Connie Shelton - Tricky Sweet 03/17

Vehicle ==> The Mystery of the Polite Man, C M Rawlins 03/14

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The murder was not at Wayne Enterprises.

Angel wrote: "Guess #7
Suspect: Short Order Cook (D.H.)
Cause of death: Arson (Candle)
Location: Bad Wolf Corporation (D&W)

A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness - 3/12/25

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The murder was not at Bad Wolf Corporation.

Mabeelle wrote: "Guess #6

Location: Silicon Valley (LC)
La Confession by John Grisham - 03/12/2025

Suspect: Computer programmer (GM)
Parce que je t'aime by Guillaume Musso - 03/13/..."

The murder was not at Silicon Valley.

May I get another set?

Round 41

✔ I - The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf | Isa Arsén ★★ (02/21/25)
✔ S - Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home | Harry Kemelman ★★★ (02/28/25)
✔ L - Ancillary Justice | Ann Leckie ★★★ (02/20/25)
✔ T - Murder on Trinity Place | Victoria Thompson ★★ (03/06/25)
✔ J - Hop 'Til You Drop | J.M. Griffin ★★★ (02/24/25)
✔ U - Unhallowed Halls | Lili Wilkinson ★★ (03/17/25)
✔ D - Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause | Naomi Watts ★★★ (02/19/25)

Hoping the timepiece works.

March 2025 Scavenger

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

✔ 1. War Simulation
♟️ Read a book with a wartime setting (let us know which war, a fantasy war works).
Babylonia | Costanza Casati ★★ (03/09/25)
Between Assyria and Babylon.

✔ 2. No Luck
♟️ Read a nonfiction book.
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future | Jason F. Stanley ★★★ (03/05/25)

✔ 3. Chaturanga
♟️ Read a book with the first letter of all the words in the title in CHATURANGA, (2 words min, all letters count).
Unhallowed Halls | Lili Wilkinson ★★ (03/17/25)


✔ 4. Pieces, Gameboard, Clock
♟️ Read a book with a clock, pieces of a game or a gameboard on the cover, (post the cover).
Fagin the Thief | Allison Epstein ★★★ (03/17/25)


✔ 5. Two Armies
♟️ Read a book with knights, bishops, queens, or kings as speaking characters.
Royal Flush | Rhys Bowen ★ (03/03/25)
King George & Queen Margaret.

✔ 6. White & Black
♟️ Read a white cover book, or Read a black cover book, (post the cover).
Shift: Managing Your Emotions—So They Don't Manage You | Ethan Kross ★★★★ (03/04/25)


✔ 7. Check & Mate
♟️ Read a book where the author's first and last initials are in CHECKMATE, please post a link to the author's GR page.
National Security | Marc Cameron ★★ (03/01/25)

*** Completed (03/17/25) ***

For some reason, author page for Nicole Vignola is really giving GR nightmares - it's not letting me update it the normal way, neither is a straight link working. Do let me know if it's a problem, I'll see if I can link it tomorrow, in case it's a temporary issue!

I'm finished.

Winter 2024 Spell Challenge

Duration: Dec 21, 2024 - Mar 20, 2025
Completed: 52/52

Unwieldy
8

✔ U - The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi | Boyce Upholt ★★★★★ (01/13/25)
✔ N - London Rain | Nicola Upson ★★ (01/10/25)
✔ W - Thread on Arrival | Lea Wait ★★ (01/04/25)
✔ I - Murder at the Grand Hotel | Isabella Bassett ★★ (01/11/25)
✔ E - Egg Drop Dead | Vivien Chien ★★★ (01/07/25)
✔ L - Lowcountry Boughs of Holly | Susan M. Boyer ★★★ (01/04/25)
✔ D - The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth ★★★★ (01/02/25)
✔ Y - You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist | Kari Ferrell ★★★ (01/10/25)

Indecipherable
14

✔ I - A Match Made for Murder | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (02/08/25)
✔ N - Paint the Town Dead | Nancy Haddock ★★★ (01/25/25)
✔ D - Aunt Bessie Enjoys | Diana Xarissa ★★★ (01/03/25)
✔ E - End of Watch | Stephen King ★★ (01/20/25)
✔ C - Fall of a Philanderer | Carola Dunn ★★★ (01/09/25)
✔ I - Isaac's Song | Daniel Black ★★★★ (02/09/25)
✔ P - Darkly | Marisha Pessl ★★ (01/08/25)
✔ H - Mothers and Sons | Adam Haslett ★★★ (01/09/25)
✔ E - Murder at an Irish Castle | Ellie Brannigan ★★★ (01/23/25)
✔ R - The Raven Thief | Gigi Pandian ★★★ (01/01/25)
✔ A - Murder on a Girls' Night Out | Anne George ★★★ (01/03/25)
✔ B - The Voyage Home | Pat Barker ★★ (01/22/25)
✔ L - Later Gator | Jana Deleon ★★★★ (01/06/25)
✔ E - The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare ★★★ (01/28/25)

Engineering
11

✔ E - Baudolino | Umberto Eco ★★★ (01/29/25)
✔ N - The Lost Future of Pepperharrow | Natasha Pulley ★ (01/30/25)
✔ G - The Black Country | Alex Grecian ★★ (01/08/25)
✔ I - In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some | Josh Gad ★★★★ (02/10/25)
✔ N - Death of the Author | Nnedi Okorafor ★★ (02/02/25)
✔ E - All the Water in the World | Eiren Caffall ★★ (01/30/25)
✔ E - Queen's Peril | E.K. Johnston ★★ (02/07/25)
✔ R - Death in an English Cottage | Sara Rosett ★★★ (01/16/25)
✔ I - The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf | Isa Arsén ★★ (02/21/25)
✔ N - Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson ★ (02/16/25)
✔ G - Old School | Gordon Korman ★★★★ (02/03/25)

Instructions
12

✔ I - Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People | Imani Perry ★★★★★ (03/10/25)
✔ N - Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause | Naomi Watts ★★★ (02/19/25)
✔ S - The Drawing of the Three | Stephen King ★★★★ (01/11/25)
✔ T - The Lost Heir | Tui T. Sutherland ★★★ (01/07/25)
✔ R - The Colour | Rose Tremain ★★ (01/26/25)
✔ U - First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers | Loung Ung ★★★ (02/07/25)
✔ C - The Blacktongue Thief | Christopher Buehlman ★★★ (01/17/25)
✔ T - Death Around the Bend | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (01/13/25)
✔ I - Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us | Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross ★★ (03/10/25)
✔ O - One of the Girls | Lucy Clarke ★★ (01/03/25)
✔ N - National Security | Marc Cameron ★★ (03/01/25)
✔ S - The Waste Lands | Stephen King ★★★ (01/13/25)

Profane
7

✔ P - Carpe Jugulum | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (01/11/25)
✔ R - A Tide of Black Steel | Anthony Ryan ★★★ (01/31/25)
✔ O - The Owl Killers | Karen Maitland ★★★ (01/06/25)
✔ F - Finders Keepers | Stephen King ★★★ (01/18/25)
✔ A - Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust | Mindy Quigley ★★★★ (01/11/25)
✔ N - Rewire | Nicole Vignola ★★★ (03/07/25)
✔ E - Murder Comes to Call | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (02/09/25)

*** Completed (03/10/25) ***

Congrats, Samantha!

Spring 2025 Scavenger Challenge

Duration: Mar 21, 2025 - Jun 20, 2025
Completed: 22/22

✔ 1. Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
🌸 Read a book with a cover that is almost entirely green; post the cover.
Gliff | Ali Smith ★★★ (03/24/25)


✔ 2. Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
- Gustav Mahler
🌸 Read a book with a main character who works primarily outdoors; tell us who and the job.
Birnam Wood | Eleanor Catton ★★ (04/07/25)
Maya and the rest of the Birnam Wood collective – they’re activist gardeners.

✔ 3. Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D’Angelo
🌸 Read a book with a sunny scene shown prominently on the cover; post the cover.
Stone Yard Devotional | Charlotte Wood ★★★ (03/23/25)


✔ 4. Sunshine and spring bring out the best in everyone.
- Kenny Chesney
🌸 Read a book by an author whose first and last initials can be found in SUNSHINE (a letter can only be used as many times as it appears in the word); ); post a link to the author’s GR page.
Shadow Of Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★ (04/06/25)

✔ 5. The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
- Henry Van Dyke
🌸 Read a book whose story lasts for at least one month; tell us how long.
The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen ★★ (03/23/25)
Summer to Christmas, with flashbacks to earlier years.

✔ 6. When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.
- John O'Donohue
🌸 Read a book with flowers shown prominently on the cover; post the cover.
Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death | M.C. Beaton ★★ (05/26/25)


✔ 7. In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
- Mark Twain
🌸 Read a book originally published in 2024; tell us the publication date.
The History of Sound | Ben Shattuck ★★★★ (03/24/25)
Jul 09, 2024.

✔ 8. Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
- L.M. Montgomery
🌸 Read a book with a negative word in the title.
No Paw to Stand On | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (04/28/25)

✔ 9. Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
- Vladimir Nabokov
🌸 Read a book set in a location that begins with a letter in RAIN; tell us where.
The Antidote | Karen Russell ★★★★ (03/31/25)
Nebraska.

✔ 10. The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.
- S. Brown
🌸 Read a book with a speaking character who is a musician of some sort; tell us who and their instrument.
James | Percival Everett ★★★★ (04/26/25)
Norman, drums.

✔ 11. Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
- Doug Larson
🌸 Read a book with HUMOR on its main GR page.
Tourist Season | Carl Hiaasen ★★ (04/01/25)

✔ 12. A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
- Emily Dickinson
🌸 Read a book with a speaking character who has a title (King, Queen, Lord, Lady); tell us who.
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales | Heather Fawcett ★★★★ (03/26/25)
Wendell, who is king, but is referred to as Lord.

✔ 13. Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
🌸 Read a book with a character who is reckless; using spoiler tags, tell us who and briefly explain
Real Tigers | Mick Herron ★★★★ (04/02/25)
River, tries to filch a top secret document from MI5 without thinking through the consequences, without actually coming up with a plan.

✔ 14. The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.
- Edwin Way Teale
🌸 Read a book with a main character whose first name begins with a letter in MAY; tell us the name.
Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska ★★★★ (04/03/25)
Manolo.

✔ 15. My favorite weather is bird chirping weather.
- Terri Gullemets
🌸 Read a book with a verb ending in -ING in the title.
The Hanging Hill | Chris Grabenstein ★★★ (04/12/25)

✔ 16. In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion and kisses whizzing by your head.
- Emma Racine Defleur
🌸 Read a book featuring a couple who is married throughout the entire book; tell us who.
The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami ★★ (03/30/25)
Sara & Elias.

✔ 17. Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's Party!'
- Robin Williams
🌸 Read a book with a party or celebration in the story; tell us what -and- a book with some sort of punctuation in the title.
The Oligarch's Daughter | Joseph Finder ★ (03/25/25)
Wedding, several parties for no particular reason.

✔ 18. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
- Margaret Atwood
🌸 Read the final book of a completed series; tell us the series name.
Miss Kopp Investigates | Amy Stewart ★★★★ (03/23/25)
Kopp Sisters #7 – this series seems to have ended.

✔ 19. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
- Helen Keller
🌸 Read a book with a compound word in the title.
Come Hell or Highball | Maia Chance ★ (04/03/25)

✔ 20. When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.
- Ernest Hemingway
🌸 Read a book in which some sort of false accusation is made; using spoiler tags, briefly explain.
Ancillary Sword | Ann Leckie ★★★★ (03/31/25)
Raughd and the rest of the station accuse Sirix of indirectly causing someone’s death (Sirix has nothing to do with it).

✔ 21. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
- Anne Bradstreet
🌸 Read a book by an author whose first and last initials are consecutive letters in the alphabet (ex. A.G. Barnett or Clara Benson); post a link to the author’s GR page.
Cat Got Your Killer | Sofie Ryan ★★★★ (04/08/25)

✔ 22. Spring: the music of open windows.
- Terri Guillemets
🌸 Read a book with at least one window shown prominently on the cover; post the cover (bonus points for an open window!)
Death Bee Comes Her | Nancy CoCo ★ (04/08/25)


*** Completed (05/26/25) ***

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Sure Kim!