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Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

Ruth wrote: " Guess 21
Suspect: Computer Programmer ....The Amish Groom by Mindy Starns Clark.....May 27, 2025 Author initials....M, C
Cause of Death: Fall.... [book:Chocolate ..."

Murder was not by fall.

Thanks ladies! Congrats, OM!

Congrats, Jimena!

✔️February
Chosen List: Best Historical Mystery

1. #1,851. A Picture of Murder | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (02/06/25)
2. #1,427. A Match Made for Murder | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (02/08/25)
3. #1,810. Gunpowder Plot | Carola Dunn ★★★ (02/18/25)
4. #1,793. The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies | Susan Wittig Albert ★★ (02/18/25)
5. #950. Royal Flush | Rhys Bowen ★ (03/03/25)
6. #79. The Club Dumas | Arturo Pérez-Reverte ★ (03/05/25)

✔️March
Chosen List: What to Read Next

1. #607. National Security | Marc Cameron ★★ (03/01/25)
2. #1499. The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen ★★ (03/23/25)
3. #4296. Wolves of the Calla | Stephen King ★★★★ (03/29/25)
4. #8,765. The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford ★★ (04/13/25)
5. #494. James | Percival Everett ★★★★ (04/26/25)
6. #4374. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald | Therese Anne Fowler ★ (04/30/25)

✔️April
Chosen List: I Picked It Up Because of the Title

1. #65. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains | Max Solomon Bennett ★★★★ (04/04/25)
2. #947. Appointment with Death | Agatha Christie ★★ (04/09/25)
3. #2,439. Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger ★★ (04/13/25)
4. #1,165. Solaris | Stanisław Lem ★★ (04/17/25)
5. #4,751. The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot ★★ (05/02/25)
6. #5,339. Song of Susannah | Stephen King ★★★ (05/08/25)

*** Completed (05/08/25) ***

Finished.

Only moderator's list, 6 books a month.

Listopia 2024

Duration: May 01, 2024 - Apr 30, 2025
Completed: 72/72

✔️May
Chosen List: Best Crime and Mystery Books

1. #247. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle ★★★ (05/15/24)
2. #767. Now You See Me | Sharon J. Bolton ★★ (05/18/24)
3. #6648. The Venetian Betrayal | Steve Berry ★★ (05/25/24)
4. #6045. Firekeeper’s Daughter | Angeline Boulley ★ (06/10/24)
5. #20. Presumed Innocent | Scott Turow ★★ (07/08/24)
6. #689. Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★★ (07/12/24)

✔️June
Chosen List: Best Epic Fantasy Fiction

1. #24. Prince of Thorns | Mark Lawrence ★★★ (06/03/24)
2. #56. The Dark Is Rising | Susan Cooper ★★★★ (06/05/24)
3. #840. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll ★★ (06/14/24)
4. #740. Age of Myth | Michael J. Sullivan ★★★★ (06/30/24)
5. #935. Jingo | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (07/29/24)
6. #545. The Castle of Llyr | Lloyd Alexander ★★★★ (10/04/24)

✔️July
Chosen List: Microhistory – Social Histories of Just One Thing

1. #24. Thunderstruck | Erik Larson ★★ (07/06/24)
2. #110. Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World | Tom Zoellner ★★★★ (07/10/24)
3. #21. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void | Mary Roach ★★★★ (07/11/24)
4. #265. The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language | Mark Forsyth ★★★ (07/13/24)
5. #357. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper | Hallie Rubenhold ★★★★ (07/14/24)
6. #473. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities | Amy Stewart ★★★ (07/14/24)

✔️August
Chosen List: I Wish I Could Read It Again For The First Time

1. #3,605. Greenwitch | Susan Cooper ★★★★ (08/02/24)
2. #5,296. Other Minds | Peter Godfrey-Smith ★★★ (08/03/24)
3. #6,305. All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy ★★★ (08/05/24)
4. #1,826. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams ★★★ (08/10/24)
5. #4,972. HHhH | Laurent Binet ★★★★★ (08/11/24)
6. #3,018. Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card ★ (08/22/24)

✔️September
Chosen List: Best Book Titles

1. #1,281. Dark Matter | Blake Crouch ★ (09/03/24)
2. #5,198. Dolores Claiborne | Stephen King ★★★★★ (09/04/24)
3. #4,793. Silence of the Grave | Arnaldur Indriðason ★★ (09/11/24)
4. #1,110. The Goose Girl | Shannon Hale ★★ (09/13/24)
5. #2,622. The Purity of Vengeance | Jussi Adler-Olsen ★★★★ (09/24/24)
6. #9,671. Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories | Raymond Carver ★★★ (09/28/24)

✔️October
Chosen List: Books That Blew Me Away and that I Still Think About

1. #2,235. Taran Wanderer | Lloyd Alexander ★★ (10/07/24)
2. #2,903. Confessions | Kanae Minato ★★ (10/07/24)
3. #4,455. The Island of Dr. Moreau | H.G. Wells ★★★ (10/13/24)
4. #1,068. Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell ★★★★ (10/17/24)
5. #1,080. Doctor Sleep | Stephen King ★★★★ (10/27/24)
6. #601. Drowning | T.J. Newman ★★ (11/05/24)

✔️November
Chosen List: Best Books to Read When Snow is Falling

1. #3,953. The Breakdown | B.A. Paris ★★ (11/05/24)
2. #1,454. Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King ★★ (11/09/24)
3. #6,093. The Ghost Brigades | John Scalzi ★★★ (11/10/24)
4. #4,930. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle ★★★ (11/13/24)
5. #1,845. The Gunslinger | Stephen King ★★★ (11/16/24)
6. #328. Smilla's Sense of Snow | Peter Høeg ★★ (11/30/24)

✔️December
Chosen List: The Unknown, Hidden Gems of Historical Fiction

1. #139. The Owl Killers | Karen Maitland ★★★ (01/06/25)
2. #1,296. The Colour | Rose Tremain ★★ (01/26/25)
3. #1,841. A Conspiracy of Paper | David Liss ★★ (01/27/25)
4. #1,107. The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Elizabeth George Speare ★★★ (01/28/25)
5. #1,172. Baudolino | Umberto Eco ★★★ (01/29/25)
6. #720. The Lost Future of Pepperharrow | Natasha Pulley ★ (01/30/25)

✔️January
Chosen List: Books You Would Recommend to Strangers

1. #1,226. The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth ★★★★ (01/02/25)
2. #2,209. The Drawing of the Three | Stephen King ★★★★ (01/11/25)
3. #7,419. Carpe Jugulum | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (01/11/25)
4. #2,777. The Waste Lands | Stephen King ★★★ (01/13/25)
5. #1,535. Finders Keepers | Stephen King ★★★ (01/18/25)
6. #2,164. End of Watch | Stephen King ★★ (01/20/25)

Finished.

Chimichurri

Duration: Apr 01, 2025 - May 31, 2025
Completed: 17/17

✔ 1. Read a book with a double vowel in the title (as in fOOd or in grEEn).
Death Bee Comes Her | Nancy CoCo ★ (04/08/25)

✔ 2. Read a vast book (more than 450 pages; tell us how many pages).
The Fortress of Solitude | Jonathan Lethem ★★ (04/11/25)
528 pages.

✔ 3. Read a book with a red or a green cover (post the cover).
Appointment with Death | Agatha Christie ★★ (04/09/25)


✔ 4. Read a book with a cluttered cover (post the cover).
Deadly Assessments | Drew Hayes ★★★★★ (04/05/25)


✔ 5. Read a book whose title starts with a letter in CHIMICHURRI (ignore A, An, and The).
Come Hell or Highball | Maia Chance ★ (04/03/25)

✔ 6. Read a book with a character who is not what they seem; please explain, and use spoilers tags if needed.
Solaris | Stanisław Lem ★★ (04/17/25)
Harey on Solaris - (view spoiler)[she’s a replica of the real Harey projected into the station by the sentient ocean on the planet (hide spoiler)].

Spell

✔ C - Birnam Wood | Eleanor Catton ★★ (04/07/25)
✔ H - Tourist Season | Carl Hiaasen ★★ (04/01/25)
✔ I - I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine | Daniel J. Levitin ★★★★ (04/15/25)
✔ M - Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska ★★★★ (04/03/25)
✔ I - A Lethal Lesson | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (05/16/25)
✔ C - The English Breakfast Murder | Laura Childs ★★★ (04/10/25)
✔ H - The Hanging Hill | Chris Grabenstein ★★★ (04/12/25)
✔ U - Untrue till Death | Graham Brack ★★★ (04/27/25)
✔ R - Real Tigers | Mick Herron ★★★★ (04/02/25)
✔ R - Cat Got Your Killer | Sofie Ryan ★★★★ (04/08/25)
✔ I - Suite Française | Irène Némirovsky ★★★ (05/22/25)

*** Completed (05/22/25) ***

Finished.

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) ***

Finished.

Spring 2025 Spell

Duration: Mar 21, 2025 - Jun 20, 2025
Completed: 32/32

Madness in the Spring
(17)

✔ M - Come Hell or Highball | Maia Chance ★ (04/03/25)
✔ A - Miss Kopp Investigates | Amy Stewart ★★★★ (03/23/25)
✔ D - The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami ★★ (03/30/25)
✔ N - Shadow Of Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★ (04/06/25)
✔ E - Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales | Heather Fawcett ★★★★ (03/26/25)
✔ S - Stone Yard Devotional | Charlotte Wood ★★★ (03/23/25)
✔ S - The History of Sound | Ben Shattuck ★★★★ (03/24/25)

✔ I - I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine | Daniel J. Levitin ★★★★ (04/15/25)
✔ N - Death Bee Comes Her | Nancy CoCo ★ (04/08/25)

✔ T - Tourist Season | Carl Hiaasen ★★ (04/01/25)
✔ H - Real Tigers | Mick Herron ★★★★ (04/02/25)
✔ E - Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism | Eve L. Ewing ★★★★ (03/26/25)

✔ S - Gliff | Ali Smith ★★★ (03/24/25)
✔ P - Perfect Storm | Paige Shelton ★★ (04/16/25)
✔ R - The Antidote | Karen Russell ★★★★ (03/31/25)
✔ I - A Lethal Lesson | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (05/16/25)
✔ N - The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford ★★ (04/13/25)
✔ G - The Hanging Hill | Chris Grabenstein ★★★ (04/12/25)

Make My Heart Sing
(15)

✔ M - Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska ★★★★ (04/03/25)
✔ A - Ancillary Sword | Ann Leckie ★★★★ (03/31/25)
✔ K - Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger ★★ (04/13/25)
✔ E - Birnam Wood | Eleanor Catton ★★ (04/07/25)

✔ M - A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains | Max Solomon Bennett ★★★★ (04/04/25)
✔ Y - Yeast of Eden | Sarah Fox ★★ (04/24/25)

✔ H - Deadly Assessments | Drew Hayes ★★★★★ (04/05/25)
✔ E - The English Breakfast Murder | Laura Childs ★★★ (04/10/25)
✔ A - Appointment with Death | Agatha Christie ★★ (04/09/25)
✔ R - Cat Got Your Killer | Sofie Ryan ★★★★ (04/08/25)
✔ T - The Third Rule of Time Travel | Philip Fracassi ★ (04/12/25)

✔ S - Wolves of the Calla | Stephen King ★★★★ (03/29/25)
✔ I - Suite Française | Irène Némirovsky ★★★ (05/22/25)
✔ N - No Paw to Stand On | Laurie Cass ★★★★ (04/28/25)
✔ G - A Midnight Puzzle | Gigi Pandian ★★★ (04/18/25)

*** Completed (05/22/25) ***

Finished.

Table Settings

Duration: Apr 01, 2025 - Jun 30, 2025
Completed: 17/17

Tasks

✔ 1. Oyster Fork: Read a book with something metal on the cover in the *righthand half* of the cover, if you were to divide it vertically down the middle. Post the cover. It can't be in the middle and partly on the right side - it must be fully on the right side.
The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir | Sarah Kendzior ★★★ (04/25/25)


✔ 2. Bread Plate: Read a book where someone is sloppy (tell us who and how).
Tourist Season | Carl Hiaasen ★★ (04/01/25)
The cuban revolutionary – he wants to change the world by his revolutionary methods, but they don’t work for one reason or other – for example, his propaganda game is good but not his navigation, so the propaganda falls on completely different lands.

✔ 3. Wine glasses: Read a book with a character you think of as being fragile (tell us who).
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald | Therese Anne Fowler ★ (04/30/25)
Zelda.

✔ 4. Sherry glass: Read a book where the author's first and last initials can be found in the phrase "sherry glass".
Cat Got Your Killer | Sofie Ryan ★★★★ (04/08/25)

✔ 5. Salad fork: Read a book where every letter in either "salad" or "fork" can be found in the title.
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind | Ann B. Ross ★★★ (04/17/25)
miSs juLiA speAks her minD

✔ 6. Place card: Read a book with something made of paper on the cover (post the cover).
Deadly Assessments | Drew Hayes ★★★★★ (04/05/25)


✔ 7. Napkin: Read a book with something made of fabric on the cover (post the cover).
Shadow of a Bull | Maia Wojciechowska ★★★★ (04/03/25)

Cape, clothes.

✔ 8. Fish knife and fish fork: Read a book where a character eats seafood (tell us who and what).
The English Breakfast Murder | Laura Childs ★★★ (04/10/25)
Drayton, shrimp.


Spell

✔ C - Come Hell or Highball | Maia Chance ★ (04/03/25)
✔ H - Real Tigers | Mick Herron ★★★★ (04/02/25)
✔ A - Appointment with Death | Agatha Christie ★★ (04/09/25)
✔ M - A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains | Max Solomon Bennett ★★★★ (04/04/25)
✔ P - The Third Rule of Time Travel | Philip Fracassi ★ (04/12/25)
✔ A - The Sayers Swindle | Victoria Abbott ★★★ (05/04/25)
✔ G - The Hanging Hill | Chris Grabenstein ★★★ (04/12/25)
✔ N - Shadow Of Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★ (04/06/25)
✔ E - Birnam Wood | Eleanor Catton ★★ (04/07/25)

*** Completed (05/04/25) ***

June 2025 Spell

Duration: Jun 01, 2025 - Jun 30, 2025
Completed: 9/9

✔ U - Under the Midnight Sun | Keigo Higashino ★★★★ (06/05/25)
✔ S - Murder at Brighton Beach | Lee Strauss ★★★ (06/02/25)
✔ E - The House at Sea's End | Elly Griffiths ★★ (06/11/25)
✔ D - Revan | Drew Karpyshyn ★★ (06/03/25)

✔ B - Consider Phlebas | Iain M. Banks ★★★★ (06/01/25)
✔ O - Our Man in Havana | Graham Greene ★★★★ (06/12/25)
✔ O - Sisters in Science | Olivia Campbell ★★★ (06/16/25)
✔ K - How to Seal Your Own Fate | Kristen Perrin ★★★ (06/02/25)
✔ S - Heart: A History | Sandeep Jauhar ★★★★ (06/04/25)

*** Completed (06/16/25) ***

Res

Res

✔ 60-84. ⚡Spell CHARLES AUGUSTIN DE COULOMB

✔ C - Mr. Lemoncello and the Titanium Ticket | Chris Grabenstein ★★ (07/31/25)
✔ H - How to Find a Missing Girl | Victoria Wlosok ★ (07/29/25)
✔ A - Arsenic and Old Lies | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (07/28/25)
✔ R - Red Harvest | Joe Schreiber ★★★ (08/08/25)
✔ L - Like Trees, Walking | Ravi Howard ★★★ (08/07/25)
✔ E - Death in a Blackout | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)
✔ S - The Satapur Moonstone | Sujata Massey ★★ (07/22/25)

✔ A - I'll Be Right Here | Amy Bloom ★★ (08/03/25)
✔ U - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming | David Wallace-Wells ★★ (06/11/25)
✔ G - Booked for Death | Victoria Gilbert ★★★ (07/27/25)
✔ U - Nine Lessons | Nicola Upson ★★ (08/17/25)
✔ S - Silver On The Tree | Susan Cooper ★★★ (08/11/25)
✔ T - The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant | Liza Tully ★★ (08/11/25)
✔ I - A Body in the Villa | Isabella Bassett ★★★ (08/13/25)
✔ N - A Crime of Poison | Nancy Haddock ★★ (07/02/25)

✔ D - Death at the Dinner Party | Ellie Alexander ★ (07/26/25)
✔ E - Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View | Elizabeth Schaefer ★★★★ (08/01/25)

✔ C - Mistletoe and Murder | Connie Berry ★★ (08/12/25)
✔ O - Of Love and Shadows | Isabel Allende ★ (06/23/25)
✔ U - Undeading Bells | Drew Hayes ★★★★★ (09/02/25)
✔ L - Hour of the Bees | Lindsay Eagar ★★ (08/13/25)
✔ O - Brownsville: Stories | Oscar Cásares ★★★★ (06/24/25)
✔ M - Spook Street | Mick Herron ★★★★★ (08/03/25)
✔ B - Bran New Death | Victoria Hamilton ★★★ (07/02/25)

✔ 85. Electrons
⚡Read a book with SCIENCE on the main GR genre page.
Paper: Paging Through History | Mark Kurlansky ★★★★★ (06/17/25)

✔ 86. Matter
⚡Read a book with the author's first and last name in ATOMS; post a link to the author´s page.
Women Talking | Miriam Toews ★★ (06/19/25)

✔ 87. Insulators
⚡Read a book with siblings who stick together.
No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding | Catherine Mack ★ (07/04/25)
Eleanor & Harper.

✔ 88. Conductors
⚡Read a free book (a book with no cost for you for any reason; tell us why).
The Good, the Bad, and the Witchy | Heather Blake ★★★ (08/01/25)
Library.

✔ 89-94. ⚡Spell ATOMS.

✔ A - All That Consumes Us | Erica Waters ★★ (08/06/25)
✔ T - Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang ★★★★ (08/14/25)
✔ O - Killing State | Judith O'Reilly ★★ (07/20/25)
✔ M - Joe Country | Mick Herron ★★★★ (08/04/25)
✔ S - The Higher Power of Lucky | Susan Patron ★★★ (08/11/25)

✔ 95. Conductor
⚡Read a book with the author's first and last initials in one of these words: CONDUCTOR or GENERATOR (both in the same word); post a link to the author´s page.
Death at the White Hart | Chris Chibnall ★★★ (06/29/25)

✔ 96. Paper Clip & Magnet
⚡Read a book with a main character with a magnetic personality.
The Dark Tower | Stephen King ★★★★★ (06/10/25)
Roland, who gathers people to him.

✔ 97. Voltage
⚡Read a book with a main character who is called by a nickname, tell us the nickname.
Death on a Summer’s Day | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (06/12/25)
Christopher is Chrissy to everyone.

✔ 98. Michael Faraday
⚡Read a book from a Series with more than 19 books; tell us the series name and how many books it has.
Death by a Honeybee | Abigail Keam ★★★ (06/19/25)
Josiah Reynolds #1; series has 21 books.

✔ 99-105. ⚡Spell DYNAMO

✔ D - The Cat of the Baskervilles | Vicki Delany ★★★ (08/12/25)
✔ Y - The Decagon House Murders | Yukito Ayatsuji ★★★ (07/24/25)
✔ N - No Good Tea Goes Unpunished | Bree Baker ★★★ (08/03/25)
✔ A - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Anne Tyler ★★ (08/13/25)
✔ M - The Medusa Protocol | Rob Hart ★★★ (08/09/25)
✔ O - The Orchid Thief | Susan Orlean ★★ (08/14/25)

✔ 106. Battery or Fuel Cell
⚡Read a short story collection or anthology.
Music for Wartime | Rebecca Makkai ★★★ (06/23/25)

✔ 107-108. Terminals
⚡Read two books that are opposite to each other in some way, please explain.
* Futuristic sci-fi. Revan | Drew Karpyshyn ★★ (06/03/25)
* Historical fiction based on real events. Queen Margot | Alexandre Dumas ★★ (06/06/25)

✔ 109. Pushing Electrons
⚡Read a book with a pushy speaking character (your interpretation, tell us who).
The Diva Poaches a Bad Egg | Krista Davis ★★★★ (06/27/25)
Natasha.

✔ 110. Circuit
⚡Read a book with something metallic on the cover; post the cover.
Run for the Hills | Kevin Wilson ★★★★ (06/30/25)


*** Completed (09/02/25) ***

Electricity

Duration: Jun 01, 2025 - ?
Completed: 110/110

✔ 1-11. ⚡Spell Electricity

✔ E - A Cold, Cold World | Elena Taylor ★★★ (06/15/25)
✔ L - Locklands | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★ (07/17/25)
✔ E - Enemy Women | Paulette Jiles ★★ (06/21/25)
✔ C - Death Comes to the Village | Catherine Lloyd ★★ (07/10/25)
✔ T - Heir to the Empire | Timothy Zahn ★★★ (07/04/25)
✔ R - Redemption Point | Candice Fox ★★★ (06/25/25)
✔ I - Consider Phlebas | Iain M. Banks ★★★★ (06/01/25)
✔ C - Curses, Boiled Again! | Shari Randall ★★★ (07/25/25)
✔ I - The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks ★★ (07/09/25)
✔ T - The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans | Laura Trethewey ★★★★ (07/11/25)
✔ Y - Things in Nature Merely Grow | Yiyun Li ★★★ (06/21/25)

✔ 12. Ancient people
⚡Read a book with people on the cover.
Under the Midnight Sun | Keigo Higashino ★★★★ (06/05/25)


✔ 13. Thales of Miletus
⚡ Read the first book of the series; tell us the name of the series.
Path of Destruction | Drew Karpyshyn ★★ (06/08/25)
Darth Bane #1.

✔ 14. Amber & Fur
⚡ Read a book with a scientist speaking character, tell us who.
The House at Sea's End | Elly Griffiths ★★ (06/11/25)
The MC Ruth is a forensic archaeologist.

✔ 15. Electrostatics
⚡Read a nonfiction book.
Heart: A History | Sandeep Jauhar ★★★★ (06/04/25)

✔ 16-30 ⚡Spell ELECTROSTATICS

✔ E - The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language | Mark Forsyth ★★★★★ (06/27/25)
✔ L - London Rules | Mick Herron ★★★★ (08/04/25)
✔ E - Endling | Maria Reva ★★★★★ (06/29/25)
✔ C - A Fashionably French Murder | Colleen Cambridge ★★★★ (07/28/25)
✔ T - The Burning Issue of the Day | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (07/22/25)
✔ R - Rosemary and Rue | Seanan McGuire ★★ (07/03/25)
✔ O - Sisters in Science | Olivia Campbell ★★★ (06/16/25)
✔ S - Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil | V.E. Schwab ★★ (07/06/25)
✔ T - An Edible History of Humanity | Tom Standage ★★★ (08/05/25)
✔ A - Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★★ (07/14/25)
✔ T - Murder on Pleasant Avenue | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (08/06/25)
✔ I - If Walls Could Talk | Juliet Blackwell ★★ (07/20/25)
✔ C - Charlotte’s Web | E.B. White ★★★ (07/29/25)
✔ S - Shorefall | Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★ (07/12/25)

✔ 31. Greek elektron
⚡ Read a book with a foreign word in the title. (a word in a different language than the others in the title)
Live and Let Chai | Bree Baker ★★★★ (07/27/25)
Chai is from Hindi.

✔ 32. William Gilbert
⚡Read a book with the first letters of all the words in the title in WILLIAM GILBERT; (all words count, 3 words minimum).
Abide With Me | Jane Willan ★★★★ (07/07/25)

✔ 33. Electric
⚡ Read a book with HUMOR on the main GR genre page.
Our Man in Havana | Graham Greene ★★★★ (06/12/25)

✔ 34. Stephen Gray
⚡Read a book first published in a year containing two of these numbers: 1, 7, 2, 9; tell us the year.
Designer Dirty Laundry | Diane Vallere ★★ (06/28/25)
2012.

✔ 35. Fluid Analogy
⚡Read a book with a speaking character who builds something; tell us what.
Sin Eater | Megan Campisi ★★ (07/08/25)
The Instrument Maker (unnamed) who constructs musical instruments – from the description it sounds like bass.

✔ 36. Leyden Jar
⚡Read a book with a main character whose name begins with a letter in EWALD VON KLEIST; tell us their name.
How to Seal Your Own Fate | Kristen Perrin ★★★ (06/02/25)
Annie.

✔ 37. Workings
⚡Read a picture book; you don’t need to follow the 150-page rule this time.
I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman ★★★★★ (07/31/25)
66 pages.

✔ 38. Benjamin Franklin
⚡Read a book with two of these numbers in the number of pages: 1, 7, 5, 2; tell us the number of pages.
Murder at Brighton Beach | Lee Strauss ★★★ (06/02/25)
178 pages.

✔ 39-55. ⚡Spell BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

✔ B - Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World | Dan Koeppel ★★★ (06/26/25)
✔ E - Murder in an English Glade | Jessica Ellicott ★★★★ (07/21/25)
✔ N - Kale to the Queen | Nell Hampton ★★ (06/14/25)
✔ J - Hook, Line and Blinker | Jana Deleon ★★★★★ (07/23/25)
✔ A - Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie ★★★ (07/18/25)
✔ M - How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir | Molly Jong-Fast ★★★ (06/30/25)
✔ I - Death in the Garden | Isabella Bassett ★★★ (07/23/25)
✔ N - Baker's Coven | Nancy Warren ★★★ (06/17/25)

✔ F - Framed in Fire | Iona Whishaw ★★★ (08/18/25)
✔ R - The Readaholics and the Falcon Fiasco | Laura DiSilverio ★ (07/28/25)
✔ A - Against the Claw | Shari Randall ★★★★ (07/25/25)
✔ N - Beyond A Doubt | Nancy Cole Silverman ★★★ (06/28/25)
✔ K - Murder on the Rocks | Karen MacInerney ★★★ (06/25/25)
✔ L - The Drowned Woods | Emily Lloyd-Jones ★★★ (08/05/25)
✔ I - The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina | Zoraida Córdova ★ (08/07/25)
✔ N - Run on Red | Noelle W. Ihli ★★ (06/30/25)

✔ 56. Positive and Negative
⚡Read a book with positive and negative elements; your interpretation, please explain.
So Far Gone | Jess Walter ★★★ (07/06/25)
Positive: It’s fun, characters are likeable. Negative: It just stays very surface level.

✔ 57. Charles Augustin de Coulomb
⚡Read a book first published at least 30 years ago (1995 or before).
Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford ★★ (06/15/25)
1949.

✔ 58. Like Charges
⚡Read a difficult-to-read book; please explain why you find it difficult.
The Fifth Petal | Brunonia Barry ★ (06/23/25)
It was excruciating, it had too many irrelevant plot threads and it’s a mystery that’s really obvious. The MC was horrible also.

✔ 59. Electrostatic Force
⚡Read a book with MYSTERY on the main GR genre page.
L is for Lawless | Sue Grafton ★★★★ (06/18/25)

Dulce de Zapallo

Duration: Jun 01, 2025 - Jul 31, 2025
Completed: 15/15

✔ 1. Read a book set in a location beginning with a letter U or A (Tell us where).
Path of Destruction | Drew Karpyshyn ★★ (06/08/25)
Apatros.

✔ 2. Read a book set in a location beginning with a letter in URUGUAY; (tell us where).
The Diva Poaches a Bad Egg | Krista Davis ★★★★ (06/27/25)
Alexandria, Virginia.

✔ 3. Read a book with a main character whose first name begins with a letter in LATIN AMERICA (tell us the name).
How to Seal Your Own Fate | Kristen Perrin ★★★ (06/02/25)
Annie.

✔ 4. Read a #1 book in a series (Tell us the series name).
Consider Phlebas | Iain M. Banks ★★★★ (06/01/25)
Culture #1.

✔ 5. Read a book whose main character’s first or last name has a double consonant (as in aPPetizer), tell us the main character’s name.
The Dark Tower | Stephen King ★★★★★ (06/10/25)
Eddie, Susannah.

✔ 6. Read a book whose title starts with a letter in PUMPKIN (ignore A, An, and The).
Under the Midnight Sun | Keigo Higashino ★★★★ (06/05/25)

Spelling

✔ C - A Cold, Cold World | Elena Taylor ★★★ (06/15/25)
✔ A - Queen Margot | Alexandre Dumas ★★ (06/06/25)
✔ N - Kale to the Queen | Nell Hampton ★★ (06/14/25)
✔ E - The House at Sea's End | Elly Griffiths ★★ (06/11/25)

✔ S - Murder at Brighton Beach | Lee Strauss ★★★ (06/02/25)
✔ U - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming | David Wallace-Wells ★★ (06/11/25)
✔ G - Our Man in Havana | Graham Greene ★★★★ (06/12/25)
✔ A - Death by a Honeybee | Abigail Keam ★★★ (06/19/25)
✔ R - Revan | Drew Karpyshyn ★★ (06/03/25)

*** Completed (06/27/25) ***

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