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

Chaitra’s comments from the Crazy Challenge Connection group.

Congrats, Amanda!

Congrats, Amanda!

Congrats, Michelle!

Great job, Moondance!

Congrats, Meg!

Finished.

Mine Your TBR 2024

Duration: Dec 01, 2024 - Nov 30, 2025
Completed: 0/36

⌛December

1. Added Dec 01, 2014. Murder on a Girls' Night Out | Anne George ★★★ (01/03/25)
2. Published Dec 10, 2014. Death in an English Cottage | Sara Rosett ★★★ (01/16/25)
3. Added Dec 30, 2016. End of Watch | Stephen King ★★ (01/20/25)



⌛January

1. Published Jan 2013. The Lost Heir | Tui T. Sutherland ★★★ (01/07/25)
2. Added Jan 10, 2017. Fall of a Philanderer | Carola Dunn ★★★ (01/09/25)
3. Added Jan 09, 2017. Carpe Jugulum | Terry Pratchett ★★★★★ (01/11/25)



⌛February

1. Added Feb 02, 2023. Aloha Alibi | Jasmine Webb ★★★★ (02/01/25)
2. Published Feb 23, 2021. Farm to Trouble | Amanda Flower ★ (02/01/25)
3. Added Feb 07, 2023. A Picture of Murder | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (02/06/25)



⌛March

1. Published Mar 01, 2021. Murder at the Spring Ball | Benedict Brown ★★★★ (03/06/25)
2. Published Mar 06, 2012. Murder Buys a T-shirt | Christy Fifield ★★★ (03/06/25)
3. Published Mar 02, 2023. Birnam Wood | Eleanor Catton ★★ (04/07/25)



⌛April

1. Added Apr 11, 2020. Yeast of Eden | Sarah Fox ★★ (04/24/25)
2. Published Apr 09, 2013. Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald | Therese Anne Fowler ★ (04/30/25)
3. Published Apr 04, 1860. The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot ★★ (05/02/25)



⌛May

1. Published May 12, 2020. Read or Alive | Nora Page ★★★ (05/04/25)
2. Published May 26, 2021. A Body at a Boarding School | Benedict Brown ★★★★★ (05/09/25)
3. Published May 15, 1994. K is for Killer | Sue Grafton ★★ (05/21/25)



⌛June

1. Added Jun 30, 2012. Queen Margot | Alexandre Dumas ★★ (06/06/25)
2. Published Jun 23, 2015. Music for Wartime | Rebecca Makkai ★★★ (06/23/25)
3. Added Jun 30, 2012. Brownsville: Stories | Oscar Cásares ★★★★ (06/24/25)



⌛July

1. Added Jul 05, 2012. The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks ★★ (07/09/25)
2. Added Jul 18, 2015. If Walls Could Talk | Juliet Blackwell ★★ (07/20/25)
3. Published Jul 31, 2018. Against the Claw | Shari Randall ★★★★ (07/25/25)



⌛August

1. Published Aug 16, 2022. The Drowned Woods | Emily Lloyd-Jones ★★★ (08/05/25)
2. Added Aug 03, 2019. The Cat of the Baskervilles | Vicki Delany ★★★ (08/12/25)
3. Added Aug 13, 2023. Aunt Bessie Finds | Diana Xarissa ★★★ (08/15/25)



⌛September

1. Published Sep 25, 2018. Chardonnayed to Rest | J.C. Eaton ★★★ (09/11/25)
2. Published Sep 16, 2004. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts | Julian Rubinstein ★★ (09/14/25)
3. Published Sep 02, 2014. Fat Cat At Large | Janet Cantrell ★ (09/16/25)



⌛October

1. Published Oct 25, 2022. Into the Windwracked Wilds | A. Deborah Baker ★★★★ (10/07/25)
2. Published Oct 1984. Shadows Linger | Glen Cook ★★★★ (10/22/25)
3. Published Oct 21, 1977. Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson ★★ (10/22/25)



⌛November

1. Published Nov 28, 2023. Ukulele of Death | E.J. Copperman ★★ (11/02/25)
2. Published Nov 01, 2005. Dead Giveaway | Leann Sweeney ★★★ (11/17/25)
3. Added Nov 11, 2021. Final Sentence | Daryl Wood Gerber ★★ (11/18/25)



*** Finished (11/18/25) ***

Finished.

November 2025 Spell Challenge

Duration: Nov 01, 2025 - Nov 30, 2025
Completed: 7/7

✔ G - Final Sentence | Daryl Wood Gerber ★★ (11/18/25)
✔ R - Katabasis | R.F. Kuang ★★ (11/01/25)
✔ A - Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories | Kate Atkinson ★★ (11/03/25)
✔ V - Murder on Bedford Street | Victoria Thompson ★★★ (11/18/25)
✔ I - To Track a Traitor | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (11/05/25)
✔ T - Death Beside the Seaside | T.E. Kinsey ★★★★ (11/05/25)
✔ Y - Saltcrop | Yume Kitasei ★★★★ (11/11/25)

*** Completed (11/18/25) ***

Finished.

Countries of the World #16 – Sao Tome and Principe

Duration: Nov 01, 2025 – Nov 30, 2025
Completed: 10/10


✔ Country: Sao Tome and Principe
🚩Read a book whose title starts with a letter in SAO TOME PRINCIPE (ignore A, An and The or equivalent if not English).
Ship of Smoke and Steel | Django Wexler ★★★ (11/04/25)

Stats

✔ Capital: Sao Tome
🚩Read a book whose author's first and last initials are in the word SAO TOME (letters can only be used as many times as they appear in the word).
Ripeness | Sarah Moss ★★★ (11/16/25)

✔ Population: 220,372 (2023 estimate)
🚩Read a book whose total number of pages contain at least 2 of the numbers in the population (tell us the page count).
Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories | Kate Atkinson ★★ (11/03/25)
224 pages.

✔ Area: 372 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).
To Track a Traitor | Iona Whishaw ★★★★ (11/05/25)
Pub. 2023.

Trivia

✔ 1. Eclipse Expedition
🚩Read a book whose cover shows stars in a night sky (post the cover).
The Wayfinder | Adam Johnson ★★★ (11/07/25)


✔ 2. Pico Cao Grande
🚩Read a book with a needle shaped object on the cover (post the cover).
One of Us | Dan Chaon ★★★ (11/02/25)

There’s a tiny pointy thing on the top of the big top.

✔ 3. Atlantic Slave Trade
🚩Read a book in which slavery exists (it could be real life or not).
Neverhome | Laird Hunt ★ (11/15/25)
It’s the middle of the Civil War.

✔ 4. Auto de Floripes
🚩Read a book in which something valuable is stolen (tell us what, use spoilers if needed).
Ukulele of Death | E.J. Copperman ★★ (11/02/25)
An overpriced ukulele.

✔ 5. Leve Leve
🚩Read a book that is light either in subject matter or the number of pages (if using number of pages, tell us the page count).
The Rhyme of the Magpie | Marty Wingate ★★ (11/03/25)
Cozy mystery.

✔ 6. Obo National Park
🚩Read a book whose page count is at least 150 pages higher than the average of the last 10 books you read (tell the average page count and that of the larger book).
Katabasis | R.F. Kuang ★★ (11/01/25)
Avg. page count of last 10 books = 327, this book: 560.

*** Completed (11/16/25) ***

Congrats, Barbara!

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Congrats, Meg and Alesha!

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Congrats, Frankie!

Congrats, Frankie and Lynn!

Great job, Karen!

Congrats, Meg!

Congrats, Cats!